Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

I think the biggest adjustment people who're deeply invested in the proprietary software world experience when moving into the Fediverse is that people here confront them and their underlying assumptions. And that's entirely as it should be. Because this is the parallel universe that #FOSS built. This place exists without need for the rationalisations and expedience that allows otherwise good people to divide & the subjugate the world primarily for their benefit.

So... last night I pointed out that @filieesposito@mastodon.social, the editor for 9to5Mac made some pretty embarrassing factual errors in an article about Bluesky... and rather than fix those factual errors... he (1) blocked me on mastodon and (2) left the story as is.

In the past I had always considered 9to5Mac and its related publications to be credible sources of news, but now I feel the need to re-evaluate that.

Reporters make mistakes. We all do. It's how you *respond* that matters.

What these right-wing Catholics did here -- buying location information on priests they suspected were gay -- is not just a moral outrage. It is the proof that our lawmakers have pure contempt for privacy.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2023/03/09/catholics-gay-priests-grindr-data-bishops/

What will it take before the public recognizes how dangerous it is that slimy companies are collecting and selling our most personal information to slimy third parties?

🚨 one week left to apply to table or give a workshop at the bookfair!🚨

send us your pitch! we would love to see you there
https://www.anarchistbookfair.ca/application-forms-2023/

Great read:
https://ploum.net/2023-03-09-losing-signal.html

> #Signal published a blog post on how we were all different and they were trying to adapt to those differences. Signal was for everyone, told the title. Ironically, that very same day, I’ve lost access to my account.

> I’ve suddenly been excluded from all the conversations with my friends because I very slightly but unacceptably deviated from the norm.

> 3yrs ago, I thought having a black and white screen on my own phone was more comfortable for my eyes.

This article has a little bit of everything: “The Battle for the Soul of Buy Nothing”

https://www.wired.com/story/the-battle-for-buy-nothing/

“The scale of local news destruction in Gannett’s markets is astonishing” #journalism #publishing https://www.niemanlab.org/2023/03/the-scale-of-local-news-destruction-in-gannetts-markets-is-astonishing/

#Greece in turmoil and pain – 8 days of rage

"Greece: a country in mourning, still in shock, following the death of 57 people in a train crash at Tempe, the deadliest in the country and one of the worst in Europe.
For 8 days now, almost all protests in #Athens have been brutally attacked by the so-called “mourning” riot police, under the orders of Mitsotakis government that pretends to care, while they even close down all metro stations around a protest’s starting point to deter people from joining them."

https://actforfree.noblogs.org/post/2023/03/09/218-853-greece-in-turmoil-and-pain-8-days-of-rage-protests-and-riots-for-the-57-dead-of-the-train-crash/

#traincrash #policeviolence #Riot #antireport

Legally binding global #treaty needed to tackle #SpaceDebris, say experts | #Space | The Guardian

It’s hazardous enough up there.

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/mar/09/global-treaty-space-debris-earth-orbit-junk

#Science #Technology

Do not -- do not -- buy a printer (or anything else) from HP. Unfortunately, since Congress refuses to make illegal what is flagrantly unfair and unethical, that is your only option. Such a sleazy, arrogant company. https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/03/customers-fume-as-hp-blocks-third-party-ink-from-more-of-its-printers/

Here is the latest update on the fulfilment of the Librem 5 #phones.

As the number of Librem 5 customers grow, we look forward to greater community participation to develop new #software for it!

https://puri.sm/posts/where-is-my-librem-5-part-3/?mtm_campaign=status_update&mtm_source=organic&mtm_medium=librem_social&mtm_content=ls-where-is-my-librem-5-part-3

My latest at WIRED: Today the FBI admitted to buying cellphone location data that US companies claimed was gathered to personalize online ads -- data the bureau would've otherwise required a warrant to obtain

Dir. Wray says it was purchased for a classified pilot program "some time" ago

https://www.wired.com/story/fbi-purchase-location-data-wray-senate/

If you ever wonder what a corporation values... it's the shareholder's interest. Nothing else matters. Everything else is expendable, without regret. https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/business/485606/xero-announces-plan-to-cut-up-to-800-jobs

Time to dump Discord

https://social.coop/@nano@yiff.life/109989197959070614

A combined deficit of infrastructure, suitable housing, accessibly health care, and environmental protection that stretches back over 35+ years.

All because we were told that markets would do a better job.

Bullshit.

The only thing markets do well is concentrate wealth, and even that is a fickle one since they are so bad at managing risk.

So we get ever-increasing inequality, spiraling costs of living, and a wrecked planet so the billionaires can party like it's 1999.

Oversight GOP won’t sign Democrats’ statement denouncing white supremacy https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/oversight-republicans-great-replacement-theory-b2295295.html

If one of my former students went to work for the Murdoch family's Fox "News" I would count that as a profound failure on my part.

Fascinating: https://invidious.snopyta.org/watch?v=jN7mSXMruEo or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jN7mSXMruEo The history of why #SUVs emerged form the US and how messed up it is.