Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

This comprehensive, clear and useful graph made it into today's IPCC synthesis report. Kudos to Ecofys co-founder, TU Delft professor, and friend Kornelis Blok!

Florida considers ban on discussion of menstruation before sixth grade - https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/mar/20/florida-considers-ban-on-discussion-of-periods-menstruation-before-sixth-grade #murica has gone mad

We’re going to court TOMORROW to defend the digital rights of all libraries! Library Futures will be hosting a live blog during oral argument and a live discussion afterwards. Here's how to participate: http://blog.archive.org/2023/03/17/heres-how-to-participate-in-mondays-oral-arguments/

The Republican Party's war on voting (for Democrats) escalates across many fronts, but Big Journalism deigns to notice only sporadically -- doing business as usual in the face of the imminent threat. https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/idaho-removes-student-ids-from-list-of-acceptable-voter-id/

Again, @molly0xfff nails it:

"Faced with the choice between the more communal, cooperative choice and the self-serving, every-man-for-himself choice destined to end in a bank run, it should be no surprise which option [the venture capitalists] picked. As the Titanic sank, they were the ones pushing people out of the lifeboats."

https://newsletter.mollywhite.net/p/the-venture-capitalists-dilemma

Susan Kare
https://www.moma.org/artists/38483
https://www.moma.org/collection/works/188382?artist_id=38483&page=1&sov_referrer=artist
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_Kare

"Susan Kare is an American artist and graphic designer best known for her interface elements and typeface contributions to the first Apple Macintosh from 1983 to 1986. She was employee #10 and Creative Director at NeXT."

via
https://www.readjpeg.com/

#Marchintosh

Nate Silver's brain seems to be broken. The "data guy" is literally citing a Twitter poll as if it's meaningful in a political context.

No wonder ABC News is trying to sell off FiveThirtyEight.

Cory @doctorow is appropriately livid about the way Big Telecom and Rupert Murdoch's minions slimed Gigi Sohn, lying relentlessly about her and her policy beliefs, to successfully keep from becoming an FCC commissioner. The Internet -- all of us -- lost hugely as a result.

https://doctorow.medium.com/culture-war-bullshit-stole-your-broadband-4ce1ffb16dc5

I have a theory that people with a 'liberal' outlook are better able to imagine themselves into the position of other people than 'conservatives'. And I wonder if that ability hinges on reading books (esp speculative fiction). I wonder about the correlation of political leaning for avid scifi readers (for instance). Similarly I wonder that about those who don't read books (a substantial majority of adults, I'm led to understand). Anyone know of credible research in this area?

RT @Britain_People
BORIS JOHNSON doesn't want this shared now his "good friend" FSB agent Sergey Nalobin is safely back home in Russia.

Please don't share this.

#RussiaReport

‘We have money and power’: older Americans to blockade banks in climate protest - https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/mar/19/climate-crisis-protest-environment-third-act-bill-mckibben more like this, please... #ClimateCrisis

The #UK has been downgraded in the #global index of civic #freedoms.

Hell #country.

The Hungarian Entomological Society recently posted this image highlighting the importance of diverse yards and the decline in insect diversity when shifting to monoculture

#solarpunk #nolawns

Hundreds of NHS hospitals have been ordered to share people’s confidential medical records with the American spy-tech company, Palantir. Read the investigation from openDemocracy. #dataprotection #privacy #NHS https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/palantir-peter-thiel-nhs-england-foundry-faster-data-flows/

Anybody in the MA area, this might be a good place to meet some like-minded #coop and #union people.

https://buildingworkerpower.com/

New #GameDev #WorkerCoop just launched! 🎮

http://cubefruitgames.com/

When I graduated in '04, we were assured that there would never be another financial crisis, a la the Great Depression, as the Federal Reserve had learned how to stabilize the macro-economy through the use of interest rate policies, and that deposit insurance had put an end to the days of bank runs.

Then we had the Great Recession. Then the Fed engaged in QED which goosed asset prices and enriched the wealthy, who's hot money flows are now causing bank runs.

Starting to think I was lied to...

Bits from the Release Team: #bookworm in hard freeze https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2023/03/msg00004.html

If you want to know why I've pretty much given up on the idea that journalists give a damn about protecting democracy and, by extension, freedom of speech, here's data from a survey of 2,200 of them:

"About half of journalists considered leaving Twitter, but only 28% say they plan to spend less time on the social network this year."

So, the huge majority will continue to support someone who hates (honest) journalism and supports anti-democracy extremists. Pathetic.

https://info.muckrack.com/state-of-journalism-2023