Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Good morning!

Things that are still true:

There are millions of Black registered voters, that want to vote for Biden, and plan to vote for him in November.

1) If 100% of these Black voters *are able* to vote for Biden, then Biden can't lose!

2) If 0% of these Black voters *are able* to vote for Biden, then Biden can't win.

Like every US POTUS election before this one, it all comes down to Black turnout. Which means it all comes down to suppression. Which means it comes down to racism.

1/N

Victory! Supreme Court correctly rules that social media platforms have First Amendment rights to curate and edit the speech of others they deliver to their users.

The Supreme Court’'s ruling is a big win for users and the First Amendment. It recognizes that the government has a very limited role in dictating what social media platforms must and must not publish. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/07/platforms-have-first-amendment-right-curate-speech-weve-long-argued-supreme-1

Your wind and solar projects are ending up in the landfill.

Maybe we should think about reducing consumption at some point, ya know?

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/05/13/recycling-end-of-life-solar-panel-wind-turbine-is-big-waste-business.html

Remember, there is one and only one way to not be labeled a conspiracy theorist, and that is to accept uncritically whatever narrative of events NPR is reporting. It you do not uncritically accept everything the talking head tells you, you are a conspiracy theorist by definition. It doesn't matter whether or not you are actually claiming anything - simply raising possibilities other than those put forth by the approved authorities marks you out as a whacko.

We have gotten lots of lovely answers with lots of lovely software projects hosted on various lovely forges! Thank you!

From BSDs to IRCs, developed using Git, DARCS or Mercurial, we love the responses so far! Keep them coming! 💙

Or, perhaps take a look at the responses, you will definitely find something new! (100% money-back guarantee if you don't! 😉)

The Amazon River basin is covered with rain forest that many people mistake for a primordial sort of natural reserve, lightly peopled and untouched until recent deforestation.

On the contrary, we now know that the Amazon was once densely peopled as archeologists continue to discover the remains of city after sprawling city. The Amazon forest we see today is the remains of what was once a vast garden, cultivated to supply food to those cities.

Indigenous land use was once so pervasive and intensive that the forest’s soils, normally fairly poor, are pockmarked with patches of terra preta de Índio—“black earth of the Indians”—which are particularly fertile and self-sustaining soils produced by human activity.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-022-31064-2

This process—of successfully and sustainably managing ecosystems to enhance biodiversity—was hardly the product of scarce humans living with a light touch in an empty landscape, as someone just suggested to me.

From Charles Mann’s “1491”:

“Rather than domesticate animals for meat, Indians retooled ecosystems to encourage elk, deer, and bear. Constant burning of undergrowth increased the numbers of herbivores, the predators that fed on them, and the people who ate them both. Rather than the thick, unbroken, monumental snarl of trees imagined by Thoreau, the great eastern forest was an ecological kaleidoscope of garden plots, blackberry rambles, pine barrens, and spacious groves of chestnut, hickory, and oak. The first white settlers in Ohio found woodlands that resembled English parks—they could drive carriages through the trees. Fifteen miles from shore in Rhode Island, Giovanni da Verrazzano found trees so widely spaced that the forest ‘could be penetrated even by a large army.’ John Smith claimed to have ridden through the Virginia forest at a gallop.

Incredible to imagine today, bison roamed from New York to Georgia. A creature of the prairie, Bison bison was imported to the East by Native Americans along a path of indigenous fire, as they changed enough forest into fallows for it to survive far outside its original range.”

Just finished recording an interview with Sergei for the new CODEPINK podcast he's doing. Really great conversation. I think it goes live next week.

https://www.codepink.org/sergeifired

https://davefleischer.substack.com/p/biden-anxiety-and-how-to-cope-with
"So the first thing you can do to be less depressed and stressed is to stop reading multiple pundits a day, stop fulminating, and get off the sidelines. Start doing the political work that works."

I must not reply. Replying is the mind-killer. Replying is the little-death that brings total obliteration.

I will face the bad take. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the take has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.

What's your favourite #FreeSoftware that is #NotOnGitHub (or on other proprietary code forges like #GitLab.com)?

Let us know in the comments! Feel free to also share code from other #Forgejo instances, #Sourcehut or other platforms.

#FreeLibreSoftware #LibreSoftware #Opensource #FLOSS #FOSS #GiveUpGithub

Anyone from the US who has ever spent a considerable amount of time in a country with a more "traditional" culture will know exactly what this guy is talking about. Those who have spent their entire lives in first world, Western societies though, may have a hard time understanding this. Pretty much any time I've tried to point out the downsides of being WEIRD to a fellow American leftist, they react hella defensively.

https://musaalgharbi.substack.com/p/weird-symbolic-professions

We release today a full english version of our video about the floods in south of the territories occupied by the brazilian state: Disaster Has a Name: Capitalism, narrated by @franklinlopez

https://kolektiva.media/w/5g566YDQrRyQmypp4eink1

All of us who blocked Threads when they announced fediverse integration saw this.

We told you so.

https://www.macstories.net/stories/lgbt-and-marginalized-voices-are-not-welcome-on-threads/

Latest comic: A second Revolution?
#uspol #elections #fascism #authoritarianism #democracy #election2024

Another great farm day, farmer Dan made an effort to teach us new things like how to operate his Jang precision seeder and how to make compost tea from worm casings, kelp, and rock phosphorous. Good conversation about C Factor, too, and the importance of drawing on our accumulated experiences of solidarity.

The chief dingus has some amendments to his cronies' Project 2025. https://www.dailykos.com/story/2024/7/12/2253492/-Cartoon-Trump-s-project-2025

Garry Tan, a literal Christofascist, is a top sponsor of the "new" San Francisco Democrats. https://missionlocal.org/2024/07/see-how-they-run-london-breed-gets-glitzy-at-gala-for-sf-dems-the-new-sf-dems/ #sfPol

Read more in Peter Marshall's "Demanding the Impossible: A History of Anarchism," which Noam Chomsky says "is the book I always recommend when asked—as I often am—for something on the history and ideas of anarchism.” https://pmpress.org/index.php?l=product_detail&p=148