Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

I wanted to rent some CPU power from Hetzner to calc better text prediction data for #LinuxMobile.

Created account via VPN so they wanted additional ID information which I sent with passport number removed. Resulting in:

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After reviewing your updated customer information, we have decided to deactivate your account because of some concerns we have regarding this information. Therefore, we have cancelled all your existing products and orders with us.
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I can't recommend this service.

"It turns out big companies engaged in predatory behavior towards lower-income consumers by increasing prices of less costly goods by a higher percentage than more expensive offerings...Better off voters and the Democratic party elites in particular seem baffled about (which is a polite cover for unsympathetic to) the continuing complaints of price pain from lower and middle income consumers."

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2024/09/cheapflation-and-the-rise-of-inflation-inequality-in-2021-2023.html

For the government to take a hatchet to the public sector, then follow it up with barking "GET BACK TO WORK" just screams of the utter ignorance not only of current evidence on workplace productivity, but the absolute contempt with which they see the employee relationship generally.
They are exemplifying that 1950s "good capitalist resource" attitude that has fundamentally failed to adapt to a new, modern work environment.

This bill would re-open the door to the worst software patents, and even patents on human genes. https://act.eff.org/action/tell-congress-we-can-t-afford-more-bad-patents

The Hamilton Anarchist Bookfair is next Saturday! And they have released the workshop schedule.

10am-6pm at the Workers Arts and Heritage Centre on Stuart St

For a text version of the program, visit this link:

https://hamiltonanarchistbookfair.noblogs.org/workshops/

#HamOnt #Ontario

1/3

I wrote some 7,000 words about #Hezbollah. Enjoy.

https://www.hauntologies.net/p/hezbollah-10-things-you-need-to-know

#Lebanon #Israel #Palestine

I just thought of an amazing story arc for Help Desk and DAMMIT ALL TO HELL

Republican Stuntman dares to do what no other Republican can! https://www.dailykos.com/story/2024/9/20/2271658/-Cartoon-Republican-stuntman-confronts-his-fears

Latest comic: Don't take the bait

#uspol #election #cartoon #politics #election2024

Just in case you missed it: Microsoft is pimping its weaponised bullshit generation to oil companies in order to help them find new places to drill.

That's right. Using insane amounts of energy right here in the present to make it easier for the climate wreckers to wreck the climate even harder in the future.

A gentle reminder to just say no to any and all companies that peddle this snake oil.

It's normal to sit up and take notice when someone you hardly know and who is in a position of authority baselessly accuses you of doing something dishonest or unethical, because it's hard to shake the notion that the bad thing you're being accused of is something they are already well acquainted with.

Early in my solo career, I spent a lot of time talking to businessmen in Russia, who invariably would at some point accuse me of taking bribes to write unflattering things about them or their businesses. I soon learned that those individuals were accustomed to paying journalists in their country to write unflattering stories about others.

This reminds me of behavior in various state and federal GOP efforts to "secure" the vote, which has led to a flood of state proposals that effectively make it harder for people to vote, register, or have their vote count. "We can't let them steal this election again" is the refrain, even though it was never stolen in the first place. But it might very well be this time.

Wow. Thanks to the stall in sales of EVs in AU, and cars sitting unpurchased in car yards, the price of the car we got (with clean tech rebate) for $40k last year (an MG4 BEV) is now selling for $30k there (new car). We knew the prices would come down. Those are great buying at that price! They have a 10 year warranty on everything.

Ars is seeking a seasoned senior reporter for all things Google

Got feelings about the future of AI and/or phone bezel width? Come apply!

https://arstechnica.com/staff/2024/09/ars-is-seeking-a-seasoned-senior-reporter-for-all-things-google/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

In a recent fundraising drive for the vitally important @ProPublica investigative journalism outlet, people donating via Mastodon contributed more than from all other social media platforms put together.

I just made a new donation and hope you will join me.

https://mastodon.social/@ProPublica@newsie.social/113171129559729781

I got to help launch a newspaper!

The Rivertowns Dispatch, covering towns on the Hudson River, sent out its first print edition earlier this month, thanks to the vision of Allison Schulte, a former data savant for Bloomberg who wanted to use the paper to build community.

My company/cooperative @Outpost got to help make it all work seamlessly on @ghost

https://outpost.pub/rivertowns-dispatch-newspaper/

Long live print!

The Toxic Avenger #1 and #2 will now be available polybagged with trading cards https://bleedingcool.com/comics/toxic-avenger-polybagged-trading-card/#google_vignette

In 2017, 150k people paid Cards Against Humanity to protect a pristine plot of border land from Trump’s racist wall. But then an even richer, more racist billionaire—@ElonMusk—stole their land and dumped his shit all over it.

Lawsuit time --

https://ElonOwesYou100Dollars.com

They should bring back literal penal treadmills to power A.I. and make its role in society explicit.

More goodness concerning Microsoft - just hearing on RNZ news that 3 Mile Island nuclear plant (near where my mum lives in Pennsylvania) will be re-ignited to generate power.. for a Microsoft computing facility. What an unworthy motivation for a rather bad idea... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Mile_Island_accident