Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

If the US bans TikTok because of its Chinese ownership, what’s stopping future administrations from banning foreign news sites or public media outlets? The government should address privacy concerns with privacy laws, not mass censorship. https://freedom.press/news/unconstitutional-tiktok-ban-would-open-the-door-to-press-censorship/

Fascinating: the "#Mayacene" era might've resulted in the society collapsing due to mercury poisoning https://blog.frontiersin.org/2022/09/23/frontiers-environmental-science-maya-cities-polluted-with-ancient-mercury/

Yes, I think TikTok should be banned.

I also think Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, LinkedIn, Snapchat, Pinterest, YouTube, and Reddit should be banned.

Anything that requires surveillance capitalism should be banned.

If Utah's new law is upheld, it marks the end of the open Internet -- a new era of massive spying on, and grossly degraded security for, everyone using what's left of it.

All in the name of protecting children, naturally...

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/social-media/social-media-law-utah-parent-consent-age-verification-curfew-rcna76178

Yes, the restrictions will be porous -- but watch for new laws banning encryption, including VPNs.

Dog whistle to English dictionary:

Soros - Jews
Coastal elites - Jews
New York values - Jews
Hollywood liberals - Jews
Globalists - Jews
International bankers - Jews
American Jews - Jews who dare question Israel’s government

I hope you enjoyed this week’s Jews Clues

Musk's pal David Sacks is one of the worst of the worst in Silicon Valley. https://pluralistic.net/2023/03/23/small-nonprofit-school/ #pitchforks

How fake news is created. To protect its market share, Facebook has hired a lobbying firm to demonize TikTok.

A company called Targeted Victory pays people to write op-eds in prominent newspapers; and recruits pay-for-play politicians to hype security threat of the “Communist China”.

https://archive.ph/DtU7h

"Yeah, I *do* have a “gender ideology” and that is: it is *ridiculous* that our society has all these rules about gender and I am *opting out*."
https://pervocracy.com/essays/what-ought-a-woman/

The Tracking Pixel Violates #GDPR and the EU Ban on Transatlantic Data Transfers - https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/blog/tracking-pixel-violates-gdpr/ the tracking pixel must go #privacy

It's remarkable, and sad, to see a journalist I once respected disintegrate so completely. This, by @mmasnick, will help you understand Taibbi's descent: https://www.techdirt.com/2023/03/22/matt-taibbi-cant-comprehend-that-there-are-reasons-to-study-propaganda-information-flows-so-he-insists-it-must-be-nefarious/

"n a normal world, the level of just outright nonsense and mistakes in Taibbi’s work would render his credibility completely shot going forward. Instead, he’s become a hero to a certain brand of clueless troll."

#journalism #censorship

It is everyone's duty to recognize that generative AI is creating a flood of new BS, as if we didn't already have enough. https://www.theverge.com/2023/3/22/23651564/google-microsoft-bard-bing-chatbots-misinformation

More details about this release can be found in our release notes: https://release.gnome.org/44/

And on our announcement: https://discourse.gnome.org/t/gnome-44-released/14606

#GNOME44 #GNOME #ReleaseDay

It's expensive to be poor. It's ironic but true. You get charges and fees for everything. Higher interest rates. Overdraft fees. Late fees. Having only enough to buy what you need right now instead of buying in bulk. Losing your job because you can't afford to get your car fixed. Losing your car because you don't have a job. Even your mental faculties are drained, as you are forced to continually eat low-nutrition foods, "sleep" in miserable conditions, and be exposed to toxins and lack of medical treatment. The lack of liquidity wipes you out. Life really does kick you while you're down.

You can't tell someone trapped in that vicious cycle to "just" get a job or "just" make responsible decisions. Sometimes, no amount of good decision-making can stop the vortex sucking them down. So the next time you are tempted to place moral judgment on someone who lives in poverty, think twice.

Signed, someone who has been both a Have and a Have-Not.

What a great talk by @mako describing how #FOSS' brilliance is sometimes co-opted by the proprietary world where they succeed creating a (self-interested) market for things that communities do gratis out of kindness & trust... https://invidious.snopyta.org/watch?v=vBknF2yUZZ8

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