Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Big Mobile telecoms want your online activities to run on their "5G" control-freak networks, where they can muck with traffic, spy on users even more, and work more effectively to wreck the open Internet.

In the US, instead of installing fiber, AT&T is giving millions of DSL customers no choice in the matter. Those customers will be second-class Internet citizens.

https://www.lightreading.com/broadband/fixed-wireless-access-(fwa)/atandts-internet-air-looks-to-be-its-fwa-replacement-for-dsl-connections/d/d-id/784499

We don’t need more laws that weaken the privacy of communications online. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/04/your-messaging-service-should-not-be-dea-informant

"A month ago I went out with St John’s Ambulance to see how things played out for them late night Friday. I saw first hand what “ramping” means – holding ambulances in the hospital carpark to care for patients who can’t squeeze into our overcrowded and underfunded emergency rooms.

This is what happens when we run our collective well dry. When we snip away at our social fabric to keep rates and taxes artificially low. When we privatise profit and socialise cost."

https://thespinoff.co.nz/politics/24-04-2023/chloe-swarbrick-there-was-an-excellent-auckland-flood-response-just-not-from-those-paid-to-do-it

It will take me a while to link to Barbara Johns, so meanwhile, here is how I see the progression of history:

https://terikanefield.com/three-views/

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An article about the fediverse and ActivityPub by @pierce is on the front page of The Verge right now!
https://www.theverge.com/2023/4/20/23689570/activitypub-protocol-standard-social-network #FediNews

George Santos looks more and more like a model Republican at this point: https://www.businessinsider.com/george-santos-refuses-disclose-salary-donation-info-lies-2023-4

An Arizona judge issued a restraining order against a journalist investigating if a state senator violated residency rules. The conduct alleged (ringing doorbells, asking questions) is standard investigative reporting. A chilling press freedom violation. https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/politics/arizona/2023/04/20/arizona-judge-bars-reporter-from-contacting-sen-wendy-rogers-at-home/70136781007/

OK this is neat, a protocol for hosting a website around the globe that distributes traffic based on which server has the most solar energy: http://solarprotocol.net/

Rightwing extremists defeated by Democrats in US school board elections - https://www.theguardian.com/education/2023/apr/21/school-board-elections-illinois-wisconsin-republicans-lose

“I did not sacrifice 21 years of my life to stand idly by, while religious fanatics try to impose fascism on my country”

My hero this week is former Navy Commander John Wessley Rexrode, who goes to the podium at a local schoolboard meeting to speak the truth about the new book ban laws. 🔥 🔥 🔥 🔥 🔥 🔥

https://youtu.be/CXr9YcMU_WU

I've only recommended one VPN service, ever (and no, I don't have any financial relationship to them): Mullvad. They have always seemed to be one of the few entities that practices the mantra, "You don't have to protect what you don't collect."

This quite a press release:

"Mullvad VPN was subject to a search warrant. Customer data not compromised
20 April 2023 NEWS

On April 18 at least six police officers from the National Operations Department (NOA) of the Swedish Police visited the Mullvad VPN office in Gothenburg with a search warrant.
They intended to seize computers with customer data.

In line with our policies such customer data did not exist. We argued they had no reason to expect to find what they were looking for and any seizures would therefore be illegal under Swedish law. After demonstrating that this is indeed how our service works and them consulting the prosecutor they left without taking anything and without any customer information.

If they had taken something that would not have given them access to any customer information.

Mullvad has been operating our VPN service for over 14 years. This is the first time our offices have been visited with a search warrant."

Source: https://mullvad.net/en/blog/2023/4/20/mullvad-vpn-was-subject-to-a-search-warrant-customer-data-not-compromised/

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2022/07/a-deep-dive-into-the-residential-proxy-service-911/

NYT and AP differ on whether it took cops a whole day or nearly a week to return and arrest the Jan. 6 defendant who OPENED FIRE ON THEM. Admirable restraint. They should try it on brown people sometime. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/20/us/politics/jan-6-defendant-texas-pelham.html https://apnews.com/article/capitol-jan-6-arrest-texas-b3e8146f3aab32afee6752238c8643d9

#Biden pledges $500 million to curb #Amazon deforestation - https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2023/04/20/biden-amazon-deforestation-us-aid/ good news; now other governments need to do the same...

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)