Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

The current firefox/browser overall issue once again has me wishing for stand-alone clients for things. (I have been wanting one for DW and pretty much all "social media" since LJ...)

"A pattern emerges: subsequent repression draws only a fraction of the concern that the broad left had earlier put into interrogating the legitimacy of an action. This is one of the most insidious functions of badjacketing and disavowal – it aids the state project of disappearing people. Speculation about false flags, made exponentially worse by social media and algorithms that egg on endless engagement, steals away energy that could be spent preparing for the repression to come. It turns actions into abstractions ripe for every person to project their own arguments. That abstraction removes militants’ humanity from the picture, enjoining us to forget that real people, putting their lives on the line for the movement, must have lit the match or thrown the brick. The collective failure to adequately show up for each defendant and prisoner in this section – and many more not named – goes beyond a culture of disposability. It is a mass forgetting that makes each of us who partakes in it complicit in the work of the police, prisons, and the carceral state to not only extinguish our resistance but also erase our memory of its very possibility – and our memory and connection to the people who’ve sacrificed to keep that possibility alive."

https://north-shore.info/2024/10/04/not-liking-someone-doesnt-mean-theyre-a-cop-on-bad-jacketing/

if I can't violate labor laws and dump toxic heavy metal wastewater into coastal wildlife preserves all human progress will immediately end

In today's Help Desk, Mark obviously needs coffee.

https://www.eviscerati.org/comics/hd/2024/10/not-quite-there/

Mozilla’s downfall into shittiness is a lesson as to why public needs cannot be fulfilled by for-profit entities. We need a public internet infrastructure. No CEO and no corporate board will ever work for it.

Cooperatives and socially-owned institutions. Only way to go.

From: @jwz
https://mastodon.social/@jwz/113246768350299784

The last 20 odd years or so of my being politically aware have often felt to me like what I imagine people must feel like who are stuck in dysfunctional, abusive families. I point to the horrible things being done by the people in power (Dem, Repub, doesn't matter), and am met by denials, downplaying, and justifications. Maybe now though, things have gotten so transparently f-ed up that more people are realizing that even though mommy is less abusive than daddy, she's still an abuser.

Palante Technology Cooperative is seeking a new Web Developer to join the cooperative!

https://palantetech.coop/jobs

#getFediHired #techCoop

Persistent, stealthy Linux malware has infected thousands since 2021

The ability to remain installed and undetected makes Perfctl hard to fight.

https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/10/persistent-stealthy-linux-malware-has-infected-thousands-since-2021/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

A really annoying thing that absolutely needs to stop:

- "More info in the discord!" / "Changelog in the Discord!"

STOP THAT.

Discord is a closed, proprietary platform. Post your stuff on the actual open web where more people will see it.

My close friend @iris_meredith published this on corporate norms around "Who is allowed to know things" at companies. Tech debt isn't real unless someone in power affirms it in a PowerPoint.

https://deadsimpletech.com/blog/epistemology

I love it and have made the same point. On Hackernews, it was accused of being "extreme left wing content" and the author is trying to "seed violent ideas into the minds of mentally unstable people".

Read it, and if you liked it, please send Iris some positive vibes.

Today's completely random thought, genuinely unconnected with anything I'm actually working on:

"Oh look over there. It's CapsLock America."

"HEY GUYS WHAT'S UP"

You don't get to accountable tech by making Mark Zuckerberg be better. You get there by not having Mark Zuckerbergs.

For the longest time, back when doing Help Desk was my main thing for 20+ years, I always assumed the vague dissatisfaction I felt was that I chafed from my lack of artistic ability. But it turns out that the real thing is that I just really dislike drawing.

WAIT HEAR ME OUT 1/?

One of the things I have wanted to do since the early 2000s was find a way to do a parody of The Prisoner in Help Desk. But The Prisoner, aside from being an outstanding show just in general, was also a very visually _interesting_ show, which requires doing the thing I really dislike doing. 6/?

Which brings me to today. I'm finally doing The Prisoner parody. And now I have to draw.

Fucking Windmills, I Swear To God

The first early review of The Toxic Avenger #1 is out and—they claim—it is great. In comic shops next Wednesday!
https://boingboing.net/2024/10/01/the-new-toxic-avenger-comic-book-is-great.html

Nuclear power plant owner wants $1.6 billion "loan guarantee" -- this means, in the end, a gift form the taxpayers -- to supply power to tech monopolist Microsoft.

This stinks in every conceivable way..

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2024/10/03/nuclear-microsoft-ai-constellation/