Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

CNN is fascinating because one week they'll fire a high profile anchor on the basis of being difficult to work with and the next week they'll carve out generous primetime coverage to a disgraced former president who is under criminal indictment separate from his rape trial.

Most of the population serves some purpose, whether in a job or not. Capitalism could not function without unhoused people being there as a 'threat' of future to the workers. All those serve capitalism do so by degradation. And the rest spend their days trying to forget what they are doing. There is literally nothing positive here. All serves to it, and it rots.

The Republicans' corruption of the judicial system includes funding a law school that lavishes expensive gifts on -- you guessed it -- Supreme Court justices. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/30/us/supreme-court-scalia-law-school.html

Hey Mastodonians, Eviscerati.Org has updated - a new chapter of The Points Between!

https://www.eviscerati.org/fiction/tpb/2023/05/the-points-between-chapter-16/

Chapter 16: Missing Days

Apparently over 600 court cases in Hawaii have been conducted entirely under seal since 2005, often for no reason other than because a litigant requested secrecy. This flagrantly unconstitutional practice must stop immediately. https://www.civilbeat.org/2023/05/the-problem-with-hawaiis-secret-court-files/

Happy Death to Capitalism Day to all who celebrate

@ferrisffalcis @RD4Anarchy @teledyn

Violence is assuredly the bedrock of capitalism, but there aren’t enough cops in the world to enforce it. Capitalism requires more than just violence to survive; it also requires ignorance of better possibilities, or even the idea that things could be better.

We are at a tipping point. Let’s learn from our history to continue to inspire our future.

International Workers’ Day Sale. 40% off labor and May Day books with coupon code WORKERS until 6/1 at https://blog.pmpress.org/2022/04/29/international-workers-day-of-may-day-sale/

every video essay should have a transcript

1. it's better for citations
b. it's an accessibility issue
iii. i don't want to have to listen to annoying video essayist voice when i could be listening to post-rock and reading

the fundamental issue of "the State has no right dictating anything about my gender or the steps i choose to take to alter my biological sex characteristics" doesn't change under the Dems. it just gets entrenched in medical establishment gatekeeping and i have little to no faith that the average voter gives even a fraction of a flying fuck about this

You know what really grinds my gears about American political discourse? So many people are so naive about how our system actually functions, and the amount of corruption and bribery that goes on at every level of government. So many people seem convinced that only the party they don't vote for is dirty. But guess what? That SC justice you love so much, who you hold in such high esteem - they are definitely taking bribes. No question.

https://ohiocapitaljournal.com/2023/04/26/u-s-supreme-court-justices-take-lavish-gifts-then-raise-the-bar-for-bribery-prosecutions/

Good news. Indiana to drop ban on cameras in court.

Prediction: nothing bad will happen and the public will be better informed. All studies show that hypothetical harms from courtroom cameras never materialize. https://www.wrtv.com/news/delphi/wrtv-digital-special-indiana-supreme-court-lifting-ban-on-courtroom-cameras-heres-what-that-means?_amp=true

Elsevier and other academic publishers have pivoted from oligopolistic publishers to researcher-surveillance vendors. They track everything you do and sell the analysis back to your employers.

It's about time that academics became more aware of this.

https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/yu34t/

Can someone recommend to me a cell phone that supports 4g and 5g but ISN'T a smartphone with apps -- I'm talking old school cellphone and texting only. I'd prefer one without a camera as well, but I figure that's pushing it.

https://iowacapitaldispatch.com/2023/04/26/bill-restricting-state-auditors-access-to-information-heads-to-governors-desk/ right-wing state dictatorships springing up in Republican controlled states...