Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

#Librem5 users waiting for #PureOS Crimson: Giving money to Purism is not the only option:

https://liberapay.com/devrtz-PureOS_crimson

I (Peter) for one definitely trust @devrtz more than a company distracted by building a robot ;-)

Prosecuting journalists is characteristic of authoritarian regimes, not American democracy — especially in New Mexico, where the state Constitution expands on the First Amendment.

https://www.abqjournal.com/opinion/opinion-dismissed-cases-show-unm-should-not-have-arrested-journalists-during-encampment-clearing/article_f0b38138-49f8-11ef-8cd0-5f495cc2c53c.html

"We should all be concerned when we hear about unproven technologies like Rapid DNA being promoted for criminal justice purposes, especially given how few protections currently exist around DNA collection in the U.S.," EFF’s Hudson Hongo told @Salon https://www.salon.com/2024/08/05/as-a-lobbyist-dave-reichert-pushed-dna-technology-that-could-enable-mass-surveillance/

There is a hidden history in the US.

It is the history of ordinary people standing up to fight the injustice of a capitalist system that is willing to use extraordinary violence to protect profits.

In the early twentieth century, strikes and union battles were common in industrial centers throughout the US. But nothing compared to the class warfare of the West Virginia mine wars.

The origins of this protracted rebellion were in the dictatorial rule of the coal companies over the proud, multiracial, immigrant and US-born miners of Appalachia.

Help us publish Black Coal and Red Bandanas: An Illustrated History of the West Virginia Mine Wars on Kickstarter here:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/wrkclasshistory/black-coal-and-red-bandanas-a-graphic-novel

#books #history #labor #Appalachia

This is a wild story that says a lot about right-wing evangelicalism:

1) Matt Bevin, the Republican former Kentucky governor, adopted a boy from Ethiopia for PR purposes
2) Bevin and his wife decided they don't like the boy so they ship him off to an abusive "troubled teen" facility in Jamaica
3) Jamaican government shuts down the horrible group
4) Bevin family abandoned the boy in Jamaica after the facility was closed

https://kentuckylantern.com/2024/08/04/former-ky-gov-matt-bevins-adopted-son-reportedly-removed-from-abusive-facility-in-jamaica/

Hey @Matt_Noyes, is this something your Farm Club peeps have discussed?
https://coloradosun.com/2024/08/04/lower-arkansas-valley-water-rights/

So the Free Market galaxy brains of the coalition didn't just guarantee Rio Tinto a rock-bottom price on our cleanest electricity (thereby making it harder and more expensive to decarbonise the rest of the grid), they gifted them a whole bunch of carbon credits that had been taken away for really good reasons.

We pay double for this level of corruption. The bills will come due when we fail to meet our Paris commitments.

https://newsroom.co.nz/2024/08/02/smelter-sought-assurances-about-46m-carbon-subsidy-before-signing-power-deals/

SCAM ALERT: Data centers bring practically zero local jobs. They are a tax break scam everywhere they operate.

"Washington lawmakers approved a tax break for data centers to create more jobs in rural Washington, but they can’t say how many jobs the state actually got. Repeated expansions turned a modest program to bring a budding industry to rural areas into one of the biggest corporate tax giveaways in the state."

https://www.propublica.org/article/washington-data-centers-tech-jobs-tax-break

I am proud to annouce that the Gstreamer GTK4 plugin is now available in #Debian. This will allow to directly offload the load of video decoding to hardward via dmabuf, thus greatly reducing CPU load.
#Gstreamer #Rust #Debian

Becoming a nudist only to reduce the amount of laundry I'm sweating through this summer.

ABC No Rio, a Home for Anarchist Artists, Rises Again on the Lower East Side

Years after its demolition, ABC No Rio will get a new energy-efficient headquarters on the same site of its famous Rivington artists’ hub.

Long live ABC No Rio! https://blog.pmpress.org/2024/08/03/abc-no-rio-a-home-for-anarchist-artists-rises-again-on-the-lower-east-side/

#mastodon social removed a post today.

It was a map showing the drastic shrinking of Palestinian territory since 1946.

I challenged it - and mastodon social agreed they were in error.

It seems some bad actor is going around taking down anything that highlights Israel's crimes - 75 years of crimes.

To that bad actor I say -- "The world is waking up to what Israel is, you can't stop that."

Here's the map again because the post was not restored.

#freepalestine, #BDS end the #genocide

VET YOUR NEWS SOURCES
if you cannot vet an account pushing "news", no matter how legit they might seem, DO NOT USE THEM AS A NEWS SOURCE.

it's one thing if the account is just posting links to corporate or indy media. it's a completely different thing when they're supposedly live-blogging from places of conflict.

there's a lot of stuff i ignore from Gaza, Ukraine and now Venezuela because i cannot vet the sources.

thousands or millions of followers mean nothing, btw 🧵

Latest comic: Weirdo Welfare

#2024election #uspol #vance #democracy #fascism #billionaires #extremism

John Holloway: "Hope lies not in building the party, not in winning control of the state, an institution absolutely integrated into capitalism that cannot be used to overcome it. Hope now lies in the millions and millions of us who say: No we will not accept your destruction and your mines and your dams and your guns and your wars. We will not accept the rule of money. We shall do things in different ways, connect to one another in different ways. We do not want your totality of death. We do not want any totality. . .

And now we say No. We break away from the totality of capital-death in a million different ways. We communise, fight to take control of the earth before they destroy it completely. We fight to open a gap between the future of capitalism, which can only be death, and the future of humanity, which can still be life."

Read more in "We Are the Crisis of Capital: A John Holloway Reader" (2019) https://pmpress.org/index.php?l=product_detail&p=827

Copyright must not be used as a tool to control public access to the law. Stop the Pro Codes Act! https://act.eff.org/action/tell-congress-don-t-let-anyone-own-the-law

Republicans' instructions for acting normal. https://www.dailykos.com/story/2024/8/2/2260023/-Cartoon-The-Republicans-manual-for-acting-normal

Democratic admin continuing the USian tradition of attempting to overthrow South American governments 🤡

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1KCDj-alHbg

Elon Musk is running a fake voter registration website that tricks US voters into thinking they have registered to vote.

I think if anywhere there are #infosec security experts here on Mastodon who know how to confuse and overwhelm Musk's website trickery.

https://www.popsci.com/technology/elon-musk-voter-registration/