Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

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I've been intrigued by the idea of something like a city council by lottery for a while now. Government by a random selection of the populace for a fixed interval of time, after which they would be replaced by a different random selection of the populace. Being able to make safeguards for representation of minorities might make this idea even more interesting.

I don't have a lot of perspective on how this kind of thing would actually play out, but it seems to me that even a year of needing to make decisions about the kinds of complicated tradeoffs that a government needs to handle would give the selected people a very different perspective from what you would expect if the same people just met a few times in a citizens' assembly to hash out a narrowly defined question.

This piece on citizen's assemblies is fascinating: https://newint.org/features/2021/02/08/defibrillating-democracy

Citizen's assemblies are described as groups of ~100 people put together to be representative of the diversity of a particular place (city, country, etc.), which are brought together to discuss a difficult or contentious issue.

Tories accused of corruption and NHS privatisation by former chief scientist - https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2021/apr/13/tories-accused-of-corruption-and-nhs-privatisation-by-former-chief-scientist "King contrasted the success of the vaccination programme, carried out by the NHS, with the failure of the government’s test-and-trace operation"

#World's #wealthiest ‘at heart of #climate problem’ - BBC News

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-56723560

#Environment #GlobalWarming #ClimateChange

Since that article was written there's been additional research on using other sensors (ambient light, gyroscope, etc) for tracking, which is why we implemented lockdown mode in the Librem 5 so you have an option to turn it all off.

This guide from Grugq is a great overview for phone privacy and applies even if you have a phone with hardware kill switches for the modem, or a user-swappable modem like in the Librem 5. While those things might make certain steps easier, you still have to keep all the correlation in mind.

https://grugq.github.io/blog/2014/02/10/a-fistful-of-surveillance/

We found consistently that both liking others’ content and clicking links significantly predicted a subsequent reduction in self-reported physical health, mental health, and life satisfaction."

https://hbr.org/2017/04/a-new-more-rigorous-study-confirms-the-more-you-use-facebook-the-worse-you-feel

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28093386

A great promo for meet.coop https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZaQXDIVxLJc

I recently discovered that there's a new #WorkerCoop doing visual special effects for film and television: Nexodus. I talked with two of their worker-owners about their kick-ass #cooperative

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYTL_tGb-Kk

Since closing on the #RealEstateCoop deal at the end of March, I've had a #Vermont food co-op and a #WorkerCoop reach out about possible projects that could use the model.

This is feeling promising... :D

Police continue to kill. PPD here killed someone in the Logan neighborhood a couple days ago. In the suburbs of Minneapolis they killed 20 year old Duante Wright and people are rioting about it.

#France to ban some domestic #flights where #train available | Air France/KLM | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2021/apr/12/france-ban-some-domestic-flights-train-available-macron-climate-convention-mps

#Environment #GreenhouseGases #Pollution #Transport #TransportPolicy

In case anyone wants to try out receiving MMS messages on their #librem5 I just wrote down the steps needed for that here, still unofficial and hacky but it does work: https://source.puri.sm/Librem5/chatty/-/issues/30#note_151962 #GNU #Linux #ModemManager #libqmi #mmsd #chatty #freesoftware

I volunteer as 'IT person' for a museum in its early days, (https://www.eicas.nl - @EICAS).

I would love to connect with other "museum people" and "museum IT people", here and elsewhere.

Any boosts/recommendations welcome!

I've just had a good recommendation for a fully #FOSS Client Relationship Management system (CRM) - EspoCRM: https://www.espocrm.com/self-hosted-vs-cloud-crm/ They can host your data, or you can. You choose. Any web service that doesn't give you that option is effectively ransomware, holding your data hostage.

"People want more relevant ads" sounds reasonable, until you realise that "more relevant" means "tailored to influence your specific behaviour".

For example, showing you articles about the futility of voting if you're likely to vote a certain way.