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Lucas' #etnaviv softpin work landed in #linux-next :
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/next/linux-next.git/commit/?id=ae4530062620561d24683b1bd3438b8397693429

This paves the way for gc7000 mainline mesa GPU support: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/merge_requests/1559

Great news for the #librem5 !

miniDebConf19 in Vaumarcus (CH), registration is open! https://blog.odyx.org/2019/08/minidebconf19-vaumarcus-oct-25-27-2019-registration-is-open/

Are Microsoft incorporating their code into the kernel to ensure their survival and relevance?

If All Public Services in America Worked Like Healthcare

Good luck getting that fire put out!

Trump Is Willing to Do Whatever It Takes to Get the Border Wall Built

The United States Army Corps of Engineers has built 60 miles of border fencing since President Donald Trump took office. But Trump wants to accelerate that to 440 more miles completed by the 2020 election, and he’s willing to bypass legal procedures to make it happen. Under the president’s direction, Trump’s aides have hurriedly awarded […]

Trump Attacks Puerto Rico Ahead of the Storm—When the Island Is More Vulnerable Than Ever

Hurricane Dorian is set to make landfall today in Puerto Rico, with the potential of winds up to about 75 mph and heavy rains. The storm will strike only weeks before the two-year anniversary of Hurricane Maria, which tore the island apart in September 2017. Even though Zoé Laboy, the governor’s chief of staff, told […]

New Video: Diablogato – “Too Far Gone”

Boston punks Diablogato are not only owners of the coolest name and logo (see above) in recent memory, but they also put out one of the damned-finest albums of the year. It’s called Old Scratch, and it officially dropped last Friday (August 23rd) on State Line Records. If you haven’t done so yet, you can […]

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Blink-155 Releases “Free Punk Lyrics” Compilation (not for free)

Blink-155, a podcast run by members of Junior Battles and Pre Nup, has released a 39-song compilation of artists using lyrics from a Tumblr page called Free Punk Lyrics. As explained on Bandcamp: “‘Free punk lyrics’ was a joke Tumblr started by Alex and Josiah in 2011 where they would write absurd punk lyrics in […]

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Teenage Bottlerocket stream new music video for “I Wanna Be a Dog”

Last week Fat Wreck mainstays Teenage Bottlerocket released a music video for “I Wanna Be a Dog” off of their eighth studio album Stay Rad!, released back in March 2019. This track is Teenage Bottlerocket at their best: no-frills pop punk and lyrics that answer the question, “how much easier would life be as a […]

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Video: Our CTO Nicole Faerber shares experiences and lessons from developing a mobile phone that respects your privacy https://media.ccc.de/v/Camp2019-10238-a_mobile_phone_that_respects_your_freedom#t=448 #Purism #Librem5 #privacy #security #linux #linuxmobile #linuxphone

EFF and Mozilla to Venmo: Clean Up Your Privacy Settings

Popular Payment App Reveals Sensitive Data by Default

San Francisco – The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and Mozilla have teamed up in an open letter to Venmo, telling the popular payment app to clean up its privacy settings, which leaves sensitive financial data exposed to the public.

Venmo is marketed as a way for friends to send and receive money, so people can easily split bills like restaurant checks or concert tickets. However, those transactions are public by default, which can reveal private details about who you spend time with and what you do with them. While users do have an option to hide their transactions if they dig into Venmo’s privacy settings, there is no way for users to hide their friend lists. That means that anyone can uncover who you pay regularly, creating a public record of your personal and professional community.

“Your bank doesn’t put details of your financial transactions into a public timeline, and Venmo shouldn’t either without your affirmative consent,” said EFF Associate Director of Research Gennie Gebhart. “Venmo is expanding, and becoming increasingly popular. As it grows, it should give its users the privacy they expect and deserve.”

EFF and Mozilla have both been concerned over Venmo’s policies for many months. EFF included Venmo in its Fix It Already campaign, which focuses on well-known problems and weaknesses in technology that, if fixed, could make a huge difference in people’s lives. And it was a Mozilla Fellow, researcher Hang Do Thi Duc, who demonstrated how public Venmo transactions laid bare users’ drug habits, fights with romantic partners, and more.

“Hang Do Thi Duc’s discoveries came as a shock to many Venmo users, proving that people do not expect the kind of public sharing that Venmo foists on them,” said EFF Tech Projects Director Jeremy Gillula. “It’s time for Venmo to show its commitment to its customers and make pro-privacy changes.”

For the full open letter:
https://www.eff.org/document/open-letter-venmo

Contact:  Jeremy Gillula Tech Projects Director jeremy@eff.org

For Incarcerated Workers, Summer Heat Can Be a Death Sentence

ABILENE, TEXAS—Temperatures reached 97 degrees on June 21 at the French Robinson Unit prison the day Seth Donnelly collapsed. The Texas Observer reported Seth passed out during his prison job of training attack dogs—running around in a 75-pound “fight suit” while the dogs tried to bite him. Seth’s internal body temperature was 106 when he reached the hospital, where doctors eventually took him off life support. He died on June 23, and his preliminary autopsy lists multiorgan failure following severe hyperthermia.

Europe warming faster than expected due to climate change

Climate change is increasing the number of days of extreme heat and decreasing the number of days of extreme cold in Europe, posing a risk for residents in the coming decades, according to a new study.

A 23-Year-Old Sunrise Movement Founder Says the “Adults in the Room” Aren’t Taking Climate Change Seriously

On Saturday, the Democratic National Committee officially decided that the party won’t be holding a debate focused entirely on climate change—and will continue to penalize any presidential candidate who takes part in an outside climate debate. Since the start of the election, the Democratic Party has said it wouldn’t allow candidates to participate in outside debates […]

"When C is your hammer, everything looks like a thumb"

Banned C standard library functions in Git source code:

https://github.com/git/git/blob/master/banned.h

A Worker’s Place Is in the Museum

Not many museums have mounted a collection of photographs and ephemera that chronicle the history of worker organizing and the labor movement. That’s not surprising. Museums and their special exhibits are underwritten by foundations, corporations and the very rich—funders that, by and large, are not known for their concern for those who toil for a living and seek to better their lives through union representation.

The annual Met Gala, the high-society benefit for the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute, has revolved around couturiers like Coco Chanel and Alexander McQueen or sartorial themes from camp to Catholicism. Television viewers have yet, however, to see celebrities like Lady Gaga done up in a McDonald’s uniform or other industrial-designed attire walk the red carpet across David H. Koch Plaza—the $65 million gift to the Met from David H. Koch.

All of which makes City of Workers, City of Struggle: How Labor Movements Changed New York a rare and radical gem of a show.

One enters this special exhibit at the Museum of the City of New York through a montage of photographs of demonstrators holding placards that read: “Abolish Slavery,” “We Want Respect for Workers,” “Put Black Men to Work or Stop Construction,” “Mt. Sinai Workers Can’t Live on $32 a Week—On Strike” and “Carwasheros al Poder” (Power to the Carwashers).

The exhibit begins with the enslaved people of New York (40% of New York households owned one or more workers in colonial days) and continues through today’s movement of minimum-wage slaves and the Fight for $15.

If the overarching theme of City of Workers is collective action—how New Yorkers formed unions and gained better working conditions and better pay—the subtext is that cooperation among black, brown and white workers made those advances possible. In the age of Trump, that message bears repeating.

In the book that accompanies the exhibit, labor historian Joshua B. Freeman writes, “The city of New York would not exist in anything like its current form without the struggles of working people over the past three centuries.” Similar stories could be told of any number of cities across the country—cities where labor history exhibits could be mounted, if not for want of museum space, cities where the struggle of workers continues to this day.

City of Workers, sponsored by the union-friendly Puffin Foundation of Teaneck, N.J., is on exhibit through Jan. 5, 2020, at the Museum of the City of New York, just one mile north of the Met and across from Central Park. While you are there, check out Activist New York, a permanent exhibit on the city’s history of political agitation in the Puffin Foundation Gallery.

All images courtesy of the Museum of the City of New York.

 

(A few of the New York shirtwaist workers, most of whom were Jewish women, went on strike in 1909 for better pay, working conditions and shorter hours. The strike, known as the Uprising of the 20,000, targeted more than 600 garment shops and factories.)

 

(Frank J. Ferrell, a black delegate of the New York City chapter of the Knights of Labor addresses the group at their 1886 convention in Richmond, Va. When Ferrell was denied a room at a local hotel where he and his New York colleagues had a reservation, they decamped en masse for less racist accommodations.)

 

(This poster advertises a 1912 Milwaukee talk by Rose Schneidermann, a socialist feminist who had worked in the garment industry. Rose is best known for her speech that same year to middle-class suffragettes in Cleveland: “What the woman who labors wants is the right to live, not simply exist … The worker must have bread, but she must have roses, too. Help, you women of privilege, give her the ballot to fight with.”)

(In 1882, members of the Knights of Labor and the Central Labor Union gathered in New York’s Union Square for the first-ever Labor Day parade.)

 

(In 1965, in front of Macy’s, members of the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union picket Judy Bond, a “runaway plant” that had moved to the South. The union’s multi-year campaign included shopping bags that read, “Judy Bond Inc., On Strike, Don’t Buy Judy Bond Blouses.” According to the union, strikers handed out more than 3 million bags in 1963.)

 

(“Filthy Tenement House Cigar Factories” postcard, circa 1885.)

 

Amalgamated Dwellings is the oldest limited-equity housing cooperative in the U.S. Founded in 1927 in the Bronx by the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, the co-op was established to provide affordable housing for workers. Today, Amalgamated is home to more than 1,400 families. 

 

(In 1936, in the Poconos, members of New York’s Communist-led Dressmakers’ Union (Local 22) relax at Unity House. Local 22 and Local 25 purchased the 750-acre retreat, which had formerly been a tony resort for German Jews, in 1919.)

The Wonderfully Queer World of Moomin

Amidst the backdrop of WWII Finland, artist Tove Jansson created a colorful world in black and white.