Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

If the Harris campaign wants someone to punch-up their insults, I'm available. https://www.dailykos.com/story/2024/7/26/2257885/-Cartoon-Kamala-Harris-s-roast-of-Donald-Trump

The history of the West is not quite what you learned in school
Josephine Quinn’s new book re-examines what people think they know about civilisations
https://archive.ph/PalvN

"The idea of civilisation, Ms Quinn points out, is relatively recent. The word was first used only in the mid-18th century and did not take hold of Western imaginations until the late 19th century..."

Latest comic: JD Vance is an anti-abortion extremist

#cartoon #politics #uspol #2024election #jdvance #abortion

Our secondary project repositories (website, hacks, api-scripts etc...) have now been migrated to @Codeberg. The old GitHub projects have been archived.

https://codeberg.org/bookstack

The titles below are at different stages of production and we're sharing sample previews with all of you! Order any of these books now and get 20% off. Use the coupon code: Preorder through 8/15. Shop the sale here: https://blog.pmpress.org/2024/06/01/take-a-sneak-peek-of-our-titles-available-for-preorder-and-take-20-off-until-8-15/

#books #bookstodon

Our worker co-op might be looking for support in writing copy in English/Spanish about our climate planning work.

We'd love to hire a co-op if possible. We imagine there'd be a bunch of work to start and would then be a consistent trickle moving forward.

Any and all suggestions are welcome!

Libs, I am begging you to understand that this whole fedi thing exists as a loose cooperative endeavor between open-source software techies, gay furry programmers, star trek nerds, and pinko queer shitposters.

It's not an Act Blue chat room, it's not the comments section at Daily Kos, it's not "Bluesky but with a bigger character limit."

Post whatever you want to post, but stop telling the locals how to behave out here for your comfort and acceptance.

Three companies control the market for school lunch payments. They take as much as 60 cents out of every dollar poor kids' parents put into the system to the tune of $100m/year. They're literally stealing poor kids' lunch money.

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If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2024/07/26/taanstafl/#stay-hungry

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@polotek @jrconlin @lightweight

The core point remains: Orgs will have teams that will "accept" a risk, but who do not provide budget for re-engineering to minimize that risk, and who do not bear any consequences for when the inevitable outages happen. They in effect outsource accountability for their requirements.

Those above them believe FUD and let them (try to) get away with it.

The long-term way to fix this is to eat the rich and destroy the power of capitalists. Absolutely. But in the meantime, we cannot just surrender the space to monied interests.

I strongly believe in a two-pronged approach - elect people who are progressive and hold their feet to the fire and build non-electoral alternative structures (worker co-ops, unions, etc) to attack the stranglehold monied interests have on the means of production.

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By the end of today, we still need about 30 people to preorder "Taking the State out of the Body: A Guide to Embodied Resistance to Zionism" to help get it funded, into the world, and into more hands.

Learn more and thanks in advance for the support! https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ww3/taking-the-state-out-of-the-body

#books #bookstodon

This is what I'm talking about, btw.

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2024/07/scandal-erupts-in-germany-as-leaked-documents-confirm-that-former-governments-pandemic-of-unvaccinated-claim-was-a-complete-lie.html

You cannot be both an advocate of Generative AI and an environmentalist. The one is fundamentally opposed to the other. You can have your AI toys, or you can give a shit about the environment, but you can't do both at the same time. It's the planet, or your stochastic plagiarism engines - pick a fucking side.

You know, just a thought.

We desperately need to start a Slow Software movement. High quality, intentionally designed, low defect software done at a quarter of the pace for the same price. Because we've been destroying the mental health of developers for the last quarter century, and what do we have to show for it but a giant mess?

Judge tosses out "Gateway Pundit" bad-faith bankruptcy, calling it a ploy to hide assets from the people the extremist site defamed.

Abuse of bankruptcy law is a tool widely used by right-wing and corporate wrongdoers.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/07/25/judge-throws-out-gateway-pundits-bankruptcy-claim/?pwapi_token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJyZWFzb24iOiJnaWZ0IiwibmJmIjoxNzIxODgwMDAwLCJpc3MiOiJzdWJzY3JpcHRpb25zIiwiZXhwIjoxNzIzMjYyMzk5LCJpYXQiOjE3MjE4ODAwMDAsImp0aSI6ImFkZmJlYTJjLTQ5MjEtNDg3Yy04ODQ0LWRjNDMxMjAxM2JhNiIsInVybCI6Imh0dHBzOi8vd3d3Lndhc2hpbmd0b25wb3N0LmNvbS9wb2xpdGljcy8yMDI0LzA3LzI1L2p1ZGdlLXRocm93cy1vdXQtZ2F0ZXdheS1wdW5kaXRzLWJhbmtydXB0Y3ktY2xhaW0vIn0.w-3lo68b3MMxV8ABadaJv7QxyYPrtTfzUr1uYl0QgbA