Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

This is your regular reminder that data brokers, especially Fog Data Sciences, which sells location data from cell phones to cops, must be destroyed: https://www.404media.co/location-data-firm-offers-to-help-cops-track-targets-via-doctor-visits/

Meet the new KOSA, same as the old KOSA

Unsurprising that police tip rewards are in fact a scam that require jumping through all manner of hoops to collect. All the more reason to not snitch.

https://www.unilad.com/news/us-news/luigi-mangione-ceo-shooting-mcdonalds-worker-reward-333982-20241210

⚠️“The state of the Arctic: High temperatures, melting ice, fires and unprecedented emissions

The Arctic tundra has switched from a carbon sink to a source of emissions, according to a NOAA report.” #ClimateCrisis
https://www.nbcnews.com/science/climate-change/arctic-ice-melting-high-temperatures-fires-emissions-rcna183464 https://www.nbcnews.com/science/climate-change/arctic-ice-melting-high-temperatures-fires-emissions-rcna183464?cid=mob_npd_nn_ios_mar

Bad news for all the Pokemon Go players out there...and probably the rest of us too 😕
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EVmZy95vMUc

The Toxic Avenger #3 hits comic shops tomorrow. This early review is raving about how it is coming together, with a new character pulled from franchise deep freeze and major revelation about where this story is actually headed.
https://aiptcomics.com/2024/12/10/the-toxic-avenger-3-review/

222666 is your lucky number: It marks issues in #Forgejo that allow you to help improve the software and thus #Codeberg.

If you are interested in picking up a task, I'm happy to help and mentor where I can. Let me know if you prefer #coworking or at least a code reading session via screenshare.

https://codeberg.org/forgejo/forgejo/issues?labels=222666

#GoodFirstIssues #freesoftware #contributing

"Soon after the ACA was passed, Democrats started calling it ‘universal healthcare.’ If it weren’t for the 30% – 40% of claims that don’t get paid because there is no entity with the power to make insurance companies do so, they might have an argument. What is particularly galling about the effort is that the long history of predatory behavior by the insurance industry was available to anyone who cared to look."

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2024/12/rob-urie-politics-by-other-means-health-insurance-industry-edition.html

There are not many things in this world that myself and Jamie Dimon agree on, but apparently the reality that WWIII has already started is one of them. Hope you were all paying attention to that Fallout series.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/brycehoffman/2024/12/08/world-war-iii-has-already-begun--and-businesses-need-to-take-note/

Monk abused children for decades on Welsh island ‘in plain sight’, review says - https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/dec/09/monk-abused-children-for-decades-on-welsh-island-in-plain-sight-review-says "A headteacher raised the girl’s ordeal but the abbot asked the head not to report the matter to the police" oh, look: another one #religion

When asked to vote on who was the country's single "greatest" citizen, Canadians didn't say Wayne Gretzky or some celebrity or even some prime minister - they gave the award to the guy who led the battle for universal single-payer health care. https://buff.ly/3VTTZIb

‘A Valuable And Generous Ally’: How Exxon and Atlas Network Worked to Block Global Climate Action - DeSmog
https://www.desmog.com/2024/12/09/a-valuable-and-generous-ally-how-exxon-and-atlas-network-worked-to-block-global-climate-action/

I am disproportionately sad that the new oven has a clock on it. Don't get me wrong, as an oven it is a huge improvement over the old oven. But, I liked having a kitchen with zero always on displays. *glares suspiciously at the 7-segment VFD*

#luddite

Achieving #DigitalSovereignty is a no-brainer for every country that isn't the US (it's too late for them, plus they're the home of the worst digital colonists).

https://ostechnix.com/german-state-schleswig-holstein-migrates-30000-pcs-to-libreoffice/

Eviscerati Theater Presents: new audiobook podcast!

The Points Between, Episode Four: "The Tower"

https://eviscerati.libsyn.com/the-tower

🚨 Syria: Erasing an Inconvenient Revolution 🚨

After starting in 2011 the Syrian Revolution fell into an all-out civil war.

Read a comic focusing on aspects lost & erased from the discussion of the Syrian revolution like the local councils, Omar Aziz & the Douma 4: https://unicornriot.ninja/2022/revolution-in-every-country-episode-1-syria-erasing-an-inconvenient-revolution/

The best piece of art all year.

[Via @/sugarbombingworld on IG]