Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

I spent a good part of this year investigating Google's ad business. Today we published a story about trying to crack open its black box ad network.

Unlike its competitors, Google conceals nearly all publishers it works with and where billions of ad dollars flow. We found that Google's vast ad network contains manga piracy, porn, fraud and disinformation.

Give it a read: https://www.propublica.org/article/google-display-ads-piracy-porn-fraud

I am hiring a lead full-stack Web engineer to help build #OpenSource software to fight #ClimateChange.

If you've shipped 1-2 Web projects and been the tech lead for 1 software project: we need your help.

Please boost for reach! #fedihire

https://www.womenwhocode.com/jobs/14733

There is another option here between "live on a big instance that might get sold/shut down/whatever" and "run your own instance at your own cost and labor."

Social.coop is cooperatively funded and managed. Members of our server get a say in how it's run!

https://mastodon.social/@atomicpoet/109550897582887370

As you may recall:

• The W3C is in part hosted by MIT but MIT intends to withdraw on Dec 31.
• A new W3C nonprofit needs to take over on Jan 1.
• MIT needs to transfer assets (member dues, contracts, IP…) to the new W3C for it to operate.
• I was elected to the W3C Board and am part of the negotiations.

We're two weeks away from cutover and the negotiations are going… poorly. 🧵

This is absolutely insane. A mom was prevented from taking her daughter to a Christmas show at Radio City Music Hall because she works for a law firm litigating against the venue's parent company. They spotted her with facial recognition technology according to this report: https://www.nbcnewyork.com/investigations/face-recognition-tech-gets-girl-scout-mom-booted-from-rockettes-show-due-to-her-employer/4004677/

Digital Ocean, provider of some of the most helpful tech tutorials around, just published one for how to set up #mastodon !

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-mastodon-on-ubuntu-20-04

I wish this had existed before I stood up my own instance, but now it'll help others.

Protect developer freedom. Abolish software patents. Learn why software patents are unjust by checking out the new design of our #endsoftwarepatents initiative. https://u.fsf.org/3f-

Don Quixote is hundreds of years old, but the story of a man who becomes so immersed in media that he can no longer distiguish fantasy from reality, and is aided by people who indulge the fantasy while saving him from himself, seems so very modern.

Looking to up your systems-change game? Consider joining @synergia's upcoming online course on "Transition in a Perilous Century." These are top-notch guides to the cooperative commonwealth we need: https://synergiainstitute.org/mooc-overview/

Had this on in the background as I was upgrading systems just now: https://invidious.snoypta.org/watch?v=5mD3Iai4Adg Thought: the same way folks in the US always (reflexively) say "thank you for your service" when they find out someone served in the US military, we (globally) need to say "thank you for your ideals and service" to those who put themselves on the line as climate activists. We need all of us to be them. And yeah, we need to sack corrupt politicians. #scientistrebellion #extinctionrebellion #genuineemergency

"The June paper said cloud technologies mitigated many of the risks, but exponentially increased the number of software applications schools were using and created other problems.

'The increasing use of data-driven learning insights and adaptive learning applications is vastly increasing the amount of student data being held in such systems, and many hold data offshore, not necessarily subject to NZ jurisdictional protections'."

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/481106/new-zealand-made-software-putting-schools-at-risk-of-cyber-attack

#Aotearoa #NZ #schools #SMS #security

The new ~$850 billion defense budget would direct billions of taxpayer dollars to private contractors.

Let's call this what it is: a massive redistribution of wealth to the military-industrial complex.

This is while nearly two-third of Americans are living paycheck-to-paycheck.

Anarchafeminists in Miami dropped a banner in defense of trans kids. 
Fascists across the country are preventing trans kids from accessing healthcare. Often, transitioning before puberty is critical to reducing trans suicide rates. 
This as the war against the trans community in Florida, especially targeting trans kids, has finally turned the tide. DeSatan succeeded in banning nearly all gender affirming care for teens, but fascists continues to lose in the streets and our communities. Anarchists and antifascists are everywhere, we are powerful, and we will not stop. 
Thread 🧵 

#TheseQueersBashBack #Transtifa #ProtectTransKids #Florida #AntiFascism #Anarchism #Miami #TransCareIsHealthCare #BannerDrop #IfHRTIsNotSafeNeitherAreYou

So it's not even like we don't already know this is a problem. No one can, essentially, pretend to drive during 95 percent of a trip and then fully take over for the 5 percent of the time that random things happen the autopilot can't handle. You have to go straight from the human doing most things and the computer assisting to the computer doing it all, all the time. Trying to half-ass it like Tesla is doing is guaranteed to cause accidents.

Some Talk but Little Action on Private Policing in St. Louis

https://www.propublica.org/article/some-talk-little-action-private-policing-st-louis @jeremykohler @ProPublica