Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Officials in Columbus, Ohio -- including a county judge -- need remedial education on the First Amendment. https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/08/city-of-columbus-sues-man-after-he-discloses-severity-of-ransomware-attack/

EXCLUSIVE — For this year’s International Anarchist Prisoner Solidarity Week, Freedom interviewed the Anarchist Black Cross-Moscow to discuss their long history in Russia supporting imprisoned Russian anarchists, the challenges they face under Putin’s regime and their work during the war on Ukraine. https://freedomnews.org.uk/2024/08/30/through-war-despotism-and-social-change-russias-anarchist-black-cross/ #anarchism #rupol #russia #prison

https://kolektiva.media/w/2BoF68SfvpVWj3iQkQtdBK

Oh, so you like bookfairs, eh?

Well it sounds like there will be 3 of em in the settler colonial project known as Canada in the coming month.

Check out

The Halifax Anarchist Bookfair August 31st, 2024 10am-6pm
https://halifaxanarchistbookfair.noblogs.org/

The Victoria Anarchist Bookfair September 21st 11am-6pm and September 22nd 11am-5pm
https://victoriaanarchistbookfair.ca/

And

The Hamilton Anarchist Bookfair September 28th 2024
https://hamiltonanarchistbookfair.noblogs.org/

US students arrested in #Gaza campus protests face academic and legal woes - https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/aug/30/us-campus-protests-gaza "As classes restart, many of the 3,000 students detained are navigating legal system and disciplinary proceedings" this is vindictive bullying, nothing else

Not even the Onion could have come up with something this absurd (though directly on point):

"Right-Wing Media Carries Out Emergency Investigation Into Kamala Harris’ McDonald’s Job"

https://www.jezebel.com/right-wing-media-carries-out-emergency-investigation-into-kamala-harris-mcdonalds-job

https://www.npr.org/2024/08/29/nx-s1-5090895/teens-school-college-poll
"What’s concerning is that students say they feel much less engaged in school than they did just last year, compared to Gallup’s 2023 Gen Z survey."

The survey indicates a very large (up to 10%, depending on the metric used) increase in student disengagement in the U.S. between 2023 and 2024. That's a huge change, and very recent.

Pat answers about problems with education that go back decades or short term changes due to lockdowns will not explain this.

Kendra Allenby, https://www.kendraallenby.com/

And it's exactly as I expected, bots and low effort accounts that post "content"

Anyone interested in staring at the night sky ? I think I'll make a session tonight.

#hackmas2024 #hackmas

Went to https://molten.org.nz this arvo hoping to buy a recycled case, powersupply, and basic graphics card (expecting to pay about $100-$150 for those three) so I could then drop ~ $2-300 for an Aliexpress X99 (Intel Xeon CPU) + motherboard + RAM kit (e.g. 32 GB RAM). I came home with a recycled HP workstation, with a high-end AMD graphics card, 16GB RAM (expandable to 256, 8 slots!), a Xeon processor (in a suitable Motherboard) tested & running (Mint USB) for $130. Wow.

In my recent experience ringing businesses & organisations in the US these days, *no one* picks up their phone. It all goes to answerphone. I seldom get call backs (suspect most USians can't work out international calling). Left wondering why people bother having phones there.

It looks like Purism finally got around to deleting my WordPress account, which unfortunately means the years of articles I wrote there no longer list my byline. It's a shame. I admit I'm pretty proud of some of those articles. End of an era I guess...

Due to the way the site is generated, the static copy of my WordPress author page still provides some sort of index to the articles I wrote for those of you who are interested.

https://puri.sm/posts/author/kyle-rankin/

@civillibertynz opposes the Land Transport (Drug Driving) Amendment Bill as an unwarranted intrusion on our civil liberties.

The bill allows search and detention without reason. The roadside tests used only show the presence of a drug and those tests are not reliable.

We do not have the technology to meet the standards of evidence in the principal act. Rather than accepting that, this act seeks to lower our standards for justice to match the available technology.

https://nzccl.org.nz/submission-land-transport-drug-driving-amendment-bill/

@stevesilberman wrote this: "When I die, please don't say that I've crossed over into the spirit realm, gone to the Other Side, moved on to a better place, rejoined my ancestors, or any other of those comforting fables. Just selfishly or selflessly use my own impermanence to WAKE UP to your own."