Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

"Schools are slowly becoming extremely reliant on a few large companies’ entire technological stacks in order to operate. In turn, these stacks are reshaping what schooling is and could be, and exercising unaccountable control over students, teachers, administrators and content providers alike".
This worries me quite a lot, actually. Read the whole essay. https://educationdatafutures.digitalfuturescommission.org.uk/essays/competing-interests-in-education-data/schools-must-resist-big-edtech
(via @garyackerman)

With all the new folks joining here, I thought I should lay out a couple guiding posts for #AltText. I hope it will give everyone something to consider going forward, and I strongly encourage everyone to use this tool. It engages those like me, who have been shut out of entire conversations in the past because we couldn't follow along due to an absence of described images.
#A11y #Advocacy

The Brewer's Advent calendar from Costco is a personal treat every holiday season. Each day there's a new obscure German beer I can't find locally. 23 more days of this! #beer #advent

#introductions Hi, we are Earth First UK, promoting green anarchism in this bit of the world (https://www.earthfirst.uk/).

Totally new to Mastodon, no idea how it works! Be great to link up with others involved ecological organising.

For the benefit of those who'd like a fuller explanation of the nature of the betrayal, there is now this video explanation:

https://youtu.be/mzgFZItk8MI

In the last 20 years, one third of all grassroots music venues in the UK have been forced to shut down.

Own Our Venues campaign by
Music Venue Trust offers a straightforward & simple solution; bringing music venues under community ownership.

You can invest here: https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/own-our-venues

Read more on Mutual Interest, an online publication owned by readers & writers as a coop.

https://www.mutualinterest.coop/2022/12/own-our-venues-campaign-has-a-solution-to-save-the-struggling-grassroot-live-music-industry

You can become a Mutual Interest member-owner here:

https://opencollective.com/mutual-interest-media

#coopshilling

Some people in the UK now reduced to eating pet food and trying to heat food up on a radiator. This is where we are in 2022 and the most sickening thing about this is that it's all completely unnecessary. What have we become?

https://www.msn.com/en-xl/news/other/people-eating-pet-food-says-community-worker/ar-AA14L1yN

#Poverty #PovertyAwareness #UKPolitics #EnoughIsEnough

"We are not theorizing a new way of living, we are weaving a new way of doing." ~Lizeth Vargas, Cecosesola

https://geo.coop/articles/alternative-capitalist-hierarchies

A new US law makes it easier for #copyright #trolls to terrorise people with claims of alleged infringement - https://walledculture.org/a-new-us-law-makes-it-easier-for-copyright-trolls-to-terrorise-people-with-claims-of-alleged-infringement/ this is going to be bad, not least because so few people know about it...

Yeah, I know that it's not popular to point this stuff out, still...

https://fair.org/home/action-alert-nyt-has-found-new-neo-nazi-troops-to-lionize-in-ukraine/

@Codeberg Everybody who can afford it, be sure to donate to Codeberg, a non profit git forge hoster who are also developing the FLOSS #Forgejo #Gitea fork with future #Federation capability through #F3
https://forum.forgefriends.org/t/about-the-friendly-forge-format-f3/681

Lot's of love <3

If you're mad about what a billionaire is doing to destroy Twitter, wait until you hear what billionaires are doing to destroy the planet.

Mysterious root CA TrustCor dropped by Mozilla and Microsoft. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/11/30/trustcor-internet-authority-mozilla/

Off call w activist group arrested for peaceful action. Again, phones taken by forensics, accounts/chats compromised

Frontliners, ask if you truly need to take your phone & not a burner, cheap SIM. If yes

- Backup to local encrypted storage, stash
- Strong lockscreen passphrase
- Check disk encryption active, incl any MicroSD
- Disable USB debugging
- Logout platforms before action
- *Fully power off* before arrest
- Don't say "I won't give you access". Say nada

Abandon device/SIM if returned

Oh boy
https://blog.lastpass.com/2022/11/notice-of-recent-security-incident/

I am tired of *verbalisms* thrown at me with concepts such as "freedom of expression", "democracy", etc.
Idiots *think* in labels.