Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Summer's just starting and the climate records are already being shattered. https://brianmcfadden.org/2024/06/14/2024s-climate-records/

Check out the ongoing Purism Differentiator Series! From Our Operating System to baked-in Convergence, Purism has its own way of doing things. Stay tuned as we explore the diverse facets of Purism's unique offerings! #DifferentiatorSeries #PureOS #Purism #Librem5
https://puri.sm/posts/purism-differentiator-series-part-1-summary/

Microsoft knows I'm turning 53 in two weeks and is really committed to getting a little payback for all the comics. :-D

‘It felt like bad news after bad news’: why record numbers are leaving #NewZealand - https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/jun/21/it-felt-like-bad-news-after-bad-news-why-record-numbers-are-leaving-new-zealand amazing: used to be regarded as some kind of paradise...

Britain’s millionaires are fleeing. Good night and good luck, I say - https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/jun/21/britain-millionaires-leave-tax-havens-uk good riddance, I say: if all you care about is maximising your wealth through tax avoidance, you poison our society, rather than enhancing it...

This take, by @timbray
on Wikipedia, reliability, and sourcing is excellent.

https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2024/06/15/Wikipedia-Pain

It turns out that a five sentence letter to the editor published by the New England Journal of Medicine back in 1980 helped fuel the #Opioid crisis. https://www.truthdig.com/articles/how-a-letter-to-the-editor-enabled-the-opioid-crisis/

@mattblaze The way the Mastodon web UI copies ALT into TITLE is horrible. And the spec specifically says you should not do that. I reported a bug about it that I expect to be given... "all due consideration".

https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/30016

Fossil fuel companies are literally spending billions to try to find any way to suppress shareholder oversight. The current initiative is the absurd claim that the foundational basis of capitalism somehow is a violation of antitrust laws. My response:

"Having failed to persuade anyone last year that there was some improper behavior that might be violating securities laws[1], the same forces have persuaded a subcommittee of the Judiciary Committee to try to find a violation of the antitrust laws. At this point, they are just throwing darts at a list of federal legislation to see if they can find a way to explain that it is illegal for shareholders to raise concerns about corporate strategy and conflicts of interest. When the attempt to find a fit with antitrust law fails, they may come back next year with a claim that the FDA should look into shareholder requests for information because they cause queasiness and weak knees in corporate executives."

https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/2024/06/20/shareholders-are-not-an-antitrust-problem/

It's not your imagination: tech really *is* underregulated. There are plenty of avoidable harms that tech visits upon the world, and while some of these harms are mere negligence, others are self-serving, creating shareholder value *and* widespread public destruction.

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If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2024/06/20/scalesplaining/#administratability

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https://ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/i-will-fucking-piledrive-you-if-you-mention-ai-again/ has done such a staggering amount of traffic that I have been asked to be in an honest-to-God documentary, I believe as an anti-AI-hype expert, and I think I may need a new job on Monday because there is NO WAY I fly under the radar this time.

Pray for me 🙏 (Or better yet, network me with cool people)

Sigh. Comforting lies and apathy over accepting the truth and actively working to adapt. https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/520144/kapiti-coast-residents-demand-council-throw-out-report-on-sea-level-rise People are strange.

"I would increasingly argue that the challenge that we need to address in order to move forward in the best way to build resilience is not through ‘building community’ (a subject I have addressed previously), or through a crash course of community reskilling, but rather through issues of governance and social entrepreneurship, areas where the green movement has fallen short for many years..."

#RobHopkins, 2010

https://www.transitionculture.org/2010/08/31/why-green-wizards-get-us-nowhere-new/

Also true for software freedom IMHO

#SocialEntreprise

Just gonna leave this here...😕

https://denniskucinich.substack.com/p/america-prepares-for-global-war-and

"Young people would have fewer spaces to share their opinions, connect with others, and find community — something that’s sorely needed when offline spaces where young people can interact are, sadly, shrinking," EFF's @jgkelley writes for Teen Vogue https://www.teenvogue.com/story/section-230-sunset-act-young-people