Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Listening to this guy talking about a 'sledgehammer' approach to emergency response radio/cellular networking, I'm struck by how cool it would be if those incredible communications devices (smart phones) most of us have in our pockets... could be untethered from their cell towers & so they could communicate directly with one another... they have the inherent capability, but then the telcos no longer control the interactions (& can't charge for them)... I think we need more forceful regulation.

I'm Tired of Pretending Tech is Making the World Better - Joan Westenberg:
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Anyone remember that 1988 John Carpenter movie "They Live"?

#ProtestArt in #Brazil riffing on #Trump and #Musk with that movie's central conceit, using lenticular printing (another image revealed from a different angle), no special sunglasses needed:

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If the Democrats make a deal with the Republicans that's as weak as Josh Marshall is suggesting it will be, I will vote for any Democratic challengers who run against the people who claim to represent me now in Congress.

Call your senators and House rep. Now.

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/red-alert-now-is-the-moment-folks

Any #tech #IT folks know of #Foss projects that need help with #ux writing or design?

Local game dev worker co-op in Los Angeles, Future Club, is about to drop their first game and they are launching a Kickstarter because they have no VC.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1355316302/part-time-hero-im-broke-but-i-have-to-save-the-world

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"People aren't crazy, people aren't stupid, they understand that this is an unjust world. That you can be filthy rich without working, and that you can work two jobs and still can't afford to find a home. That's the reality, for millions of people in the Western world, and if we don't fix that they'll never vote for us again."

#FransTimmermans, Leader of Dutch Labour party, 2025

https://alastaircampbell.org/2025/02/122-how-europe-can-survive-trump-frans-timmermans/

Hey US Democrats, are you taking notes?

#Labour #SocialDemocracy

https://dansinker.com/posts/2025-02-23-dale/

Fighting the Klan in the 20s... parallels to fighting fascism today.

Interested to hear Dr Taiuru and the Microsoft rep explain how moving Family Court data to the Microsoft cloud is acceptable... RNZ's Ninetonoon just after 9.

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Invest in me for the next tech bubble. I can make an app that makes everything worse too. https://www.gocomics.com/brian-mcfadden/2025/02/24

Some good historical perspective for the current moment

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2025/02/weve-been-here-before-a-review-of-thomas-franks-the-wrecking-crew.html

I'm going to go ahead and guess that Western media has largely ignored what is going on in Serbia and reduced it to "anti-corruption protests" because it's not a story that fits into the favourite Balkan narratives.

All major universities in #Serbia have been occupied. Higher education is practically paralysed. 80% of Serbian citizens support the rebellion of the students; no other political force, not the SNS, not the opposition has ever seen such popularity.

https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2025/2/23/the-protests-in-serbia-are-historic-the-world-shouldnt-ignore-them

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