Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Anybody who wants to become a better facilitator, this training from @SociocracyForAll might be for you:

https://www.sociocracyforall.org/events/category/classes/advfacilitation/

There will come a day when you're gonna wanna know this stuff...

https://par.nsf.gov/servlets/purl/10056559

Well-educated idiots vs. Uncredentialed geniuses

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2023/04/hoisted-from-comments-a-tale-of-two-sciences.html

In a conversation on reddit today someone asked if other languages have phrases like "rightie tightie, leftie loosie" to remember which way to turn screws/lids/etc. And one person answers that in Spanish, the phrase is:

"La derecha oprime, la izquierda libera."

or:

"The right oppresses, the left liberates."

(Now I kind of want to put this on a t shirt)

I don't understand why a user would want engagement-based sorting at all.

Why would you want to only read what is popular? That sounds like the kind of thing that a low-self-esteem teenager victimized by the fashion industry would worry about.

‘Don’t fool yourself’: billions more needed to protect tropical forests, warns new report - https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/apr/19/dont-fool-yourself-billions-more-needed-to-protect-tropical-forests-warns-new-report-aoe a tiny price to pay for the stability forests bring to the planet

How a New UN Cybercrime Treaty Could Lead to the Repression of Civil Liberties - https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/blog/un-treaty-spyware/ we need to keep an eye on this... #privacy

"lack of sustainability of Chromebooks provided for schools is hurting the Environment"

https://www.pcgamer.com/heres-another-e-waste-crisis-for-the-e-waste-crisis-pile-chromebook-churn/

I spend way too much time feeling Weltschmertz. I know many other people feel helpless about the direction our world is taken. Others have decided 'the hell with everyone else, I'm in it for myself & my family'. Others are willfully oblivious.= & still others are plain ignorant. I spread a bit of derision at the selfish & willfully oblivious. I try to conserve enough energy to have empathy for those in the first & last categories... hard when the momentum is almost all going the wrong way.

The best thing that Dominion could do with their infusion of cash from Fox - for both their reputation and for the good of democracy - would be to invest it into developing more robust, auditable election technology, such as optical scan systems with features to facilitate Risk-Limiting Audits.

"Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media by Noam Chomsky and Edward Herman provides an effective framework to analyse the functioning of the media... Manufacturing Consent explains in detail the ‘propaganda model’. Despite being written in the ’90s, the five filters of the model that affect editorial bias still function even today, in the 21st century."

#MehakNeel

https://www.sociologygroup.com/mass-media-as-a-power-institution/

#media #MediaBias #NoamChomsky #EdHerman #ManufacturingConsent

#DRM isn't just an annoyance -- it's a violation of your right to use the items you own as you see fit. Learn more about our Defective by Design campaign at http://defectivebydesign.org, and follow our campaign account at @endDRM

So a southeastern Oklahoma sheriff and others were caught on tape literally plotting to murder journalists, and now they say *the person who recorded the conversation* is the one who will face felony charges. Our statement is below: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/mccurtain-county-sheriff-kevin-clardy-illegal-recording_n_643ebeb7e4b011a819bd6016

A statement from Freedom of the Press Foundation director of advocacy Seth Stern on the conviction of Asheville Blade journalists for documenting a homeless encampment sweep at a public park after closing time on Christmas night of 2021:

The Best of Hack and /: Linux Admin Crash Course is published!

This book doesn't aim to be an exhaustive guide to everything you need to know to be a system administrator. Instead, this book allows me to act as a remote mentor to someone starting out in IT or system administration whether as a full-time job or as a full stack developer.

It's available in premium hardcover, paperback, and ebook forms here:
https://www.lulu.com/spotlight/kyle_rankin

#writing #SelfPublishing #linux #publishing