Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

This 👆 explains this 👇 pretty well, I'd say.

https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20240802527568/en/Redfin-Report-America%E2%80%99s-Renter-Population-Is-Growing-Three-Times-Faster-Than-Its-Homeowner-Population-Amid-Rise-in-Homebuying-Costs

David Frum talking about how the Talking Heads slap is something else

So, apparently Peter Thiel is being driven away by taxation in his home state of California" and considering moving to nz
Lets do the same to him in NZ :)

"I am happy to say categorically that I have found no other country that aligns more with my view of the future than New Zealand," Thiel wrote - I fucking hope thats not the case...

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/525687/billionaire-peter-thiel-eyes-possible-permanent-move-to-new-zealand

This situation, which is not exclusive to AI-generated content, could overlap with publicity laws that protect people from unauthorized commercial use of their likenesses, EFF’s @davidgreene told @nbcnews. “This was just good old low-tech lying.”
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/internet/trump-shares-ai-generated-images-taylor-swift-fans-supporting-rcna167126

Long time Union Cab member and former USFWC board member Rebecca Kemble has written a very important piece of movement self-critique. Make sure to give this one a read.

https://geo.coop/articles/back-basics-aligning-our-national-organizations-co-op-principles

Calling for a ceasefire while supplying arms.
Naming climate goals while extracting oil.
Declaring war on cancer while allowing novel chemicals & plastics in food, water and air.
Spending billions on vaccine against a global infectious disease but not sharing it.

A federal appellate court rules that California’s Age-Appropriate Design Code violates the First Amendment, a victory for free speech and privacy.
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/08/court-california-try-privacy-law-not-online-censorship
#privacy #censorship

How 12,000 Tonnes of Dumped Orange Peel Grew Into a Landscape Nobody Expected to Find

‘"This is one of the only instances I've ever heard of where you can have cost-negative carbon sequestration," says ecologist Timothy Treuer from Princeton University.’

https://www.sciencealert.com/how-12-000-tonnes-of-dumped-orange-peel-produced-something-nobody-imagined

Special Livestream tonight!

The Democracy At Work Network (DAWN) was a peer-to-peer worker cooperative support organization that was conceptualized and run by worker-owners. Tonight, we are joined by @johnnymac and Jim Johnson, two of DAWN's co-founders, to discuss how the Network was founded, what it accomplished during it's existence, and how and why it was brought to an end without the input of the network's members.

https://newsletter.geo.coop/campaign/2711e409-07d2-4183-aaf9-e35b0d0dfb12/9cbfd9eb-1078-4508-b7a8-38f555c829b6

While memory is still fresh I summed up my gist from helping to organize/run this years #FOSSOnMobile devroom at #FrOSCon: (https://honk.sigxcpu.org/con/A_short_look_back_at_the_FOSS_on_Mobile_Devroom_at_FrOSCon_2024.html) in the hope that we can do another one next year (and there'd be people interested to participate again).

#LinuxMobile

How do you get US liberals to support far-right candidates attempting overthrowing democratic elections? Easy, just make sure it's all happening in South America and most US libs will go right along. Personally, I think it's mostly due to left over brain-rot from Cold War propaganda. Wild to see how people who think Jan. 6th was a travesty and put DJT on par with Satan himself, can be made to support the south-of-the-border version of the same politics.

https://orinocotribune.com/venezuela-far-rights-great-international-protest-fails-denting-opposition-narrative-of-massive-support/

Did you miss a talk at #FrOSCon? Some recordings are already available here: https://media.ccc.de/c/froscon2024 with more to follow
#froscon2024 #froscon19

#WealthTax on super-rich could raise £1.5tn globally, campaigners say - https://www.theguardian.com/news/article/2024/aug/19/wealth-tax-on-super-rich-could-raise-15tn-globally-campaigners-say "The Tax Justice Network said trillions could be raised with a ‘featherlight’ tax on the 0.5% of richest households, copying a current Spanish tax"

“Former Microsoft security architect showcases 15 different ways to break Copilot | Windows Central”

https://www.windowscentral.com/software-apps/former-security-architect-demonstrates-15-ways-to-break-copilot

LLM chatbot are notoriously hard to secure but MS's Copilot looks like a shit show completely in its own league.

"... a government which refuses to tax billionaires is a traitor to its people. And we should treat them as such."

@norightturnnz

https://norightturn.blogspot.com/2024/08/democracy-vs-billionaires.html

Word.

#tax #billionaires

Why and how to teach students about F(L)OSS? The recordings of my #FroSCOn talk about this topic are online now:

https://media.ccc.de/v/froscon2024-3130-making_open_source_education_an_integral_part_of_the_curriculum_in_computer_science_programs

Abstract and slides live here:

https://programm.froscon.org/2024/events/3130.html

Again, many thanks to all who made #FrOSCon19 possible!

"You don’t get a bill when a fire truck comes to your house. You do get a bill when an ambulance comes to your house. The only reason why this strikes anyone as normal is custom. Fire departments are publicly owned."

https://www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/public-ownership-of-public-goods