Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Here is the latest update on the fulfilment of the Librem 5 #phones.

As the number of Librem 5 customers grow, we look forward to greater community participation to develop new #software for it!

https://puri.sm/posts/where-is-my-librem-5-part-3/?mtm_campaign=status_update&mtm_source=organic&mtm_medium=librem_social&mtm_content=ls-where-is-my-librem-5-part-3

My latest at WIRED: Today the FBI admitted to buying cellphone location data that US companies claimed was gathered to personalize online ads -- data the bureau would've otherwise required a warrant to obtain

Dir. Wray says it was purchased for a classified pilot program "some time" ago

https://www.wired.com/story/fbi-purchase-location-data-wray-senate/

If you ever wonder what a corporation values... it's the shareholder's interest. Nothing else matters. Everything else is expendable, without regret. https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/business/485606/xero-announces-plan-to-cut-up-to-800-jobs

Time to dump Discord

https://social.coop/@nano@yiff.life/109989197959070614

A combined deficit of infrastructure, suitable housing, accessibly health care, and environmental protection that stretches back over 35+ years.

All because we were told that markets would do a better job.

Bullshit.

The only thing markets do well is concentrate wealth, and even that is a fickle one since they are so bad at managing risk.

So we get ever-increasing inequality, spiraling costs of living, and a wrecked planet so the billionaires can party like it's 1999.

Oversight GOP won’t sign Democrats’ statement denouncing white supremacy https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/oversight-republicans-great-replacement-theory-b2295295.html

If one of my former students went to work for the Murdoch family's Fox "News" I would count that as a profound failure on my part.

Fascinating: https://invidious.snopyta.org/watch?v=jN7mSXMruEo or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jN7mSXMruEo The history of why #SUVs emerged form the US and how messed up it is.

Progressive liberal & leftist American Jews have been getting yelled at for nearly two decades for speaking up about Israel’s ongoing rightward shift & embrace of the intolerant & we have been marginalized & pushed out of the communal tent. Suddenly, liberals sound like we did.

Are there freelancers in the @FlatpakApps community who can be contracted for a few days' work bundling an (Electron) app as a #Flatpk and submitting it to #Flathub? I'm looking to make an introduction to another organisation that's not so familiar with the platform.

Part 6 already in the phone camera series :D

https://blog.brixit.nl/mobile-linux-camera-pt-6/

What passes for "left" politics in this country are so utterly bankrupt that people actually felt good about voting for this douche, thought he was a good guy who was going to save us from...something. What? I dunno. A less prettied-up fascism? Oppression with a snear, instead of a smile?

When this idgit the best option you have on the ballot, your democracy is a sham.

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2023/03/snap-benefits-food-stamps-biden-welfare-poverty.html

"Durglo repeatedly heard from people who were 'sick and tired' of being told to adapt to a changing environment when they bore little responsibility for those changes. That’s why the plan focuses on climate mitigation, not adaptation, and embracing Indigenous customs and stewardship. Eight tribal elders were invited to share recollections of how the land has changed, and their insights helped shape mitigation projects."

https://nextcity.org/urbanist-news/indigenous-community-wrote-its-own-climate-action-plan

Did you see Glass Onion & get curious about hydrogen? Did you know the utilities want to start blending it into your gas stove? Did you know it’s more NOx-polluting in your house than methane? Find out more March 16, 7 pm, with two walking encyclopedias on the topic:

https://greennewton.org/event/hydrogen-versus-electricity-for-heating-buildings/

On the heels of this major report released yesterday: https://www.gastransitionallies.org/hydrogen-report