Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

@dangillmor The current Tory government's polcies overlap almost exactly with the policies of the National Front (a fascist party) from 1975. From 2017 on, the Conservatives have succumbed to entryism by the far right (much like the US Republicans).

Getting Our Tech Together: Montréal's growing community of IT #cooperatives.

https://www.solidarityeconomy.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/V3_EN_Tech-Coop-Report.pdf

I want to add that this comic is intended not so much as a statement on centrist Democrats vs. the Left in the US, but how the media always blames the Dems/progressives/left for Republican misbehavior and Trumpism. As another commenter mentioned here, this phenomenon is known as Murc's Law. https://whereofonecanspeak.com/2023/03/02/youve-probably-never-heard-of-murcs-law-but-youve-seen-it-in-action-lots-of-times/

Just saw that the Synagogue in Missoula had a dozen or so white supremacists "protesting" outside yesterday. Not seeing any mention of it in the local news today though. Also didn't see any mention of counter-protestors, which is surprising as there's an active antifa group in town, last I checked.

Reminder to stand in solidarity with your Jewish neighbors, regardless of whether or not you agree about Israel.

Israeli lawmaker is urging her government to use 'everything in its arsenal,' including 'doomsday' weapons, against Hamas

https://www.businessinsider.com/israeli-lawmaker-urged-government-to-use-nuclear-weapons-against-hamas-2023-10

At around 2am this morning, I heard these two spikey but enthusiast characters cavorting beneath our bedroom window. Because they were both noisy & incompatible with our lizard sanctuary, I put on some gloves, got a bin, and collected them for release in the reserve across the road in the morning... Keen to keep them out of the yard.

The privatization of public services and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race.

Proposed North Yorkshire fracking site becomes source of clean, #geothermal energy - https://news.sky.com/story/proposed-north-yorkshire-fracking-site-becomes-source-of-clean-geothermal-energy-12988955 fab idea: I wonder how many fracking sites could be converted like this...

Neglected to post this cartoon from a couple weeks ago: Always blame the left!

#uspol #media #journalism #authoritarianism #democracy

Next November 10-12 in Naples there will be the 2nd edition of the Reclaim The Tech festival! We're thrilled to contribute in a laboratory exploring "Participatory, Inclusive, and Community-centered Technologies as alternatives to capitalist platform".
Kudos to the great community bringing all of this to life! See you in Naples - Ci vediamo a Napoli! 🎉 Check out the agenda: https://reclaimthetech.it/programma-lab/"

@themarkup has 15K followers around here, but they deserve many more.

The Markup is a nonprofit journalism site that publishes investigations and and tools to hold technology firms to account.

E.g., you can use their tool https://themarkup.org/blacklight to investigate exactly how a site is tracking you.

Or you can read investigations like this one into the police-industrial surveillance complex:

https://themarkup.org/neighborhood-watch/2023/10/11/accidental-spies-amazon-ring-owners-may-be-unknowingly-emailing-police

Beyond following, consider donating if you value their work!

#FollowFriday

A few months ago I got pretty annoyed with Gmail. The motivating event was noticing ads interspersed among my emails. It maybe wasn’t a super big deal, but it spurred me to realize that, while Gmail was the best-of-class email platform for many years, that moat has narrowed or disappeared. It’s now possible to pay for a service better incentivized to make product decisions for users rather than business clients. I opted to switch to Fastmail.

#email #web

https://chromamine.com/2023/10/switching-to-fastmail/

"While the university’s enrollment numbers reflect 87 self-identified first-year Native students, Logan said the number of engaged students with ties to their culture and communities is closer to 35..."

It's not only universities that did land grabs, but individual settler state citizens want even more. They'll check boxes and play Indian to get it. Self-identification alone is an open invitation to fraud.

https://nativenewsonline.net/sovereignty/cornell-university-says-it-will-work-with-tribes-to-mend-the-history-of-its-massive-land-grab?

“It’s easy to understand that when people arrived on this landscape, that it was a landscape that was shaped and maintained by fire and that it was exquisitely beautiful,” White says.

“It’s easy to understand that traditional knowledge of #fire should be integrated into fire management practices today, but, man, that’s hard to achieve.”

#forests #wildfires #forestry #books #california

https://www.rewildingmag.com/indigenous-forest-management-a-culture-of-burning/