Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

It's easy, tempting even, for us #decentralisation / free software nerds to say ha! Serves you right. But most people who depend on bigtech never had any meaningful choice in the matter. A great many people are working to change that.

If you're inspired today to look for alternatives to google services, check out ethical.net.

#fuckgoogle

https://rhiaro.co.uk/2020/12/easy-tempting

Looks like Amazon is retiring the Goodreads API, which just another step towards basically abandoning Goodreads and folding it into some other Amazon service I guess: https://joealcorn.co.uk/blog/2020/goodreads-retiring-API

My advice? Get off Goodreads while you still can (ie export your content) and move over to StoryGraph: https://beta.thestorygraph.com

A black-owned startup finally developing a viable alternative to Goodreads. Fuck yeah!

(Why not LibraryThings? Because, guess what.. it’s also owned by Amazon!)

The Replay Foundation, my employer, announced their liquidation today. This means no more Pinburgh. It also means I'm Officially out of a job for the forseeable, so if y'all wouldn't mind boosting a link to my other source of income Improbable Island, that'd be just super.

https://www.improbableisland.com

It's a silly online game and it doesn't pay as much as fixing pinball machines but heck it's what I've got right now, and this winter's probably gonna be a hairy one.

Angry Workers collective came on to talk about their book, "Class Power On Zero-Hours" (PM Press, 2020) lessons learned over 6 years of labour/labor organizing in far west London and revolutionary strategy. Plus, a message from Sean Swain!

https://thefinalstrawradio.noblogs.org/post/2020/12/13/class-power-on-zero-hours-a-chat-with-angry-workers/

“Cellebrites and Stingrays started out in... U.S. military or federal law enforcement, and then made their way into state and local law enforcement, and also eventually make their way into the hands of criminals or petty tyrants like school administrators."https://gizmodo.com/u-s-schools-are-buying-phone-hacking-tech-that-the-fbi-1845862393

Five senators are investigating remote proctoring apps: invasive, faulty, and biased surveillance tools that threaten the privacy of the students who are required to use them. We have some thoughts. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/12/senators-express-privacy-concerns-over-proctoring-apps

You deserve to live without shame

RT @Rohan_Naidu@twitter.com

Deeply unappreciated fact: the most "impactful" person in science right now is this Kazakhstani hacker queen. She is the one-woman bridge to the largest repository of scientific knowledge ever collected.

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/Rohan_Naidu/status/1298020215805169665

#USSupremeCourt rejects Trump-backed #Texas #lawsuit aiming to overturn #election results | #US elections #2020 | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/dec/11/supreme-court-rejects-trump-backed-texas-lawsuit-aiming-to-overturn-election-results

#Law #Politics

"And what we really have now is a whole bunch of people who no longer are in a relationship with reality..." https://billmoyers.com/story/podcast-democracy-on-the-edge-cox-richardson/

Would the most cost-effective form of organising for socialism be to campaign in workers pension fund trustee elections, push them to borrow money now when the interest rates are low, and use it to buy ownership in big corporations?

Trustee elections seem to have low turnout, so would be easier to gain a majority than in other elections.