Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Happy World Happiness Day, to those who celebrate. And as a PSA, the World Happiness Report is bogus and everyone involved should be embarrassed and issue an apology. Newsflash: asking one question that doesn't mention happiness to a bunch of people is not going to tell you anything statistically meaningful about happiness.

There are some useful thoughts in this Kate Wagner piece, subtitled "We need to destroy the phone":
#^https://www.late-review.com/p/the-eternal-present

"Still, many are asking: where are the ordinary people? Where are the normies who showed up in the streets the first time around when the threat of Trump was — in retrospect rightfully — recognized for what it was? In the first Trump administration, when “the Resistance” blew up, it did so on social media. Millions of people were exposed for the first time to protest movements, Left organizations, the labor movement, and other forms of direct and organized action. We were not yet aware at that time that this was a short-lived window in which the master’s tools could be wielded by us to achieve these moments of mass, collective outrage."

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"While in phoneworld, it suddenly occurred to me that I was only seeing images of protests and other forms of public outrage after they had happened. It didn’t matter which social media site I used — BlueSky, X, or Instagram (the platform where I mostly follow people I know in meatspace.) Calls to action beyond, like, dialing up one’s senator always reached me too late, even when the protests and gatherings in question took place a few miles away in my own city. Hence, there is, I think, a broader feeling that no one is doing anything not only because of a very real defeat and the resulting protest fatigue that lasted up until the last year of the Biden era, but because when something is done, when calls to action are made, we are not seeing it."

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"The smartphone has deskilled seemingly everything, even something as fundamental to human life as reading. But it’s especially deskilled political organizing. Perhaps a subconscious reason why the Left puts so much hope in the labor movement is because organizing one’s workplace is a largely offline endeavor. It takes place face to face in a spatially and temporally anchored place where everyone, despite all that may divide them, is subjected to the same material conditions, the same injustices."

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"One of the imminent questions of our moment is: what would it take to relearn how to do political work offline, to recognize that there will perhaps be a time — in the very near future — where online work will be rendered impossible for those of us not in favor of the administration? The old ways are already crumbling now in this moment of highly siloed algorithms, where no two people’s internet is the same. Hence, we must quickly abandon the 2010s idea that our content, concepts, and actions will, through the internet, find the masses."

AI hallucinations: #ChatGPT created a fake child murderer - https://noyb.eu/en/ai-hallucinations-chatgpt-created-fake-child-murderer "By knowingly allowing ChatGPT to produce defamatory results, the company clearly violates the #GDPR’s principle of data accuracy." will become common #noyb

#DOGE cuts to #USDA may open door to invasive species, higher food prices - https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/03/doge-cuts-to-usda-may-open-door-to-invasive-species-higher-food-prices/ " Food inspectors and disease-sniffing dog handlers remain out of work as food spoils. " self-harming stupidity from #musk and #trump

#Greenpeace must pay at least $660m over Dakota pipeline protests, says jury - https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/19/greenpeace-lawsuit-energy-transfer-dakota-pipeline "Non-profit, which will appeal decision, says lawsuits like this are aimed at ‘destroying the right to peaceful protest’" absurd finding by biased jury

The #VernalEquinox (in the #NorthernHemisphere) will occur in about an hour and half’s time of positing at 09:01Z. The #Sun will be precisely overhead at noon on the #Equator just off the coast of #Somalia when this happens. For the whole planet, #day and #night will be of equal length (as makes no odds) and #Sunrise will be due #East and #Sunset will be due #West. Roll on #Spring.

#Equinox

What do you notice about the comments on this post?

https://piefed.social/post/555259

The post was made in the news@lemmy.world #Lemmy community and other posts linking to the same news article were made in technology@lemmy.world and in askusa@discuss.online. 3 different posts in 3 different communities.

#PieFed de-duplicates them and only shows the post once in your timeline and when viewing the post all the comments on those 3 posts are shown in the same list.

Fedi fragmentation = solved

#fediverse

Huh, this looks like it could be interesting for folks into #libre software... https://www.hbs.edu/ris/Publication%20Files/24-038_51f8444f-502c-4139-8bf2-56eb4b65c58a.pdf

These are dangerous times for everyone in and around the US, but many times more so for those without the protections of US citizenship. Those of us who are privileged enough to be able to speak freely and without the immediate threat of draconian consequences have a special obligation not to be silent right now.

French scientist denied #US entry after phone messages critical of #Trump found. So much for free speech. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/19/trump-musk-french-scientist-detained

Microsoft can't keep basic Office 365 services running for like a solid week anymore. https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-exchange-online-outage-affects-outlook-web-users/

http://www.memeorandum.com/250319/p132#a250319p132 kangaroo court in North Dakota

Important statement from the Columbia Journalism School Faculty on how critical it is to defend press freedom on campus:

https://journalism.columbia.edu/news/cjs-faculty-press-freedom-statement-2025

Listening to RNZ right now, hearing about Trumps insinuations about Ukraine's power plant ownership (by the US) is quite well aligned with the approach Naoim Klein described in 2007 in Shock Doctrine. In that book, she perfectly characterised the world we're in today. It's insightful and terrifying. Too few people in our democracies understand this stuff.

@debian Have fun there!

Notice a type in the URL: The link in the mail goes to https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2025/03/msg00005.html while the actual page is https://wiki.debian.org/DebianEvents/de/2025/MiniDebConfHamburg (captial C).

Registration and the Call for Proposals for Debian MiniDebConf Hamburg 2025, April 30 to May 5, are now open! The deadline for submitting proposals is April 13. Sponsors Wanted! https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2025/03/msg00005.html #debian #debconf #MiniDebConfHamburg

I am in Bangkok, Thailand! I am attending this #DeltasUNite Summit #DeltaSummit25 for the preparation of the United Nations Convention on the Conservation of River Deltas (#UNCCRD), on behalf of the Transboundary Water InCooperation Network (TWIN). I gave a talk on:
“The potential of #CommunityScience and
#cooperatives in building resilience and food-water-energy security in delta communities”
I spoke about the #SolidarityEconomy !
#TransboundaryWater #BenningtonCollege