Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

One million species may go extinct, and one nation may be the cause
https://www.dailykos.com/story/2020/5/25/1946478/-One-million-species-may-go-extinct-and-one-nation-may-be-the-cause #biodiversity #extinction

Back Starbucks Baristas Losing Hazard Pay: Phone-Blast Now Until Monday https://itsgoingdown.org/back-starbucks-baristas-losing-hazard-pay-phone-blast-now-until-monday/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

No one, least of all the President of the U.S., should use specious copyright or trademark claims to silence a critic. And platforms shouldn’t play along when they get a claim like this. Redbubble should stand up for its users and restore this political cartoon immediately. https://twitter.com/CBLDF/status/1265389225744060416

https://www.hackread.com/hacker-selling-500-million-facebook-user-data/

Bill aims to ban microtargeting of political ads. I'd argue the same reasoning to ban targeted manipulation for political ads should apply to *all* ads. The Internet (and society) would be much healither w/o microtargeting. #privacy https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/05/proposed-bill-would-ban-microtargeting-of-political-advertisements/

That's how the Librem 5 performs with all the GPU acceleration in place :) @purism #librem5 #phosh

While politicians are focused on expanding higher education, labor union apprenticeships are a proven alternative path to prosperity.

Mastering blue collar skills shouldn't be seen as any less worthy of respect than the learning that happens in universities.

A new article "America needs more union apprenticeships – not just university graduates" on Mutual Interest, an online media #coop owned by the readers and writers.

https://www.mutualinterest.coop/2020/05/america-needs-more-union-apprenticeships-not-just-university-graduates

Become a member here:
https://opencollective.com/mutual-interest-media

Librem 5 Timeline:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2HIcwP6zVEQ

Find out more about the Librem 5:
https://puri.sm/products/librem-5/

#linux #privacy #security #freedom

Recently the .org domain was almost sold to a private equity firm.

Internet heavyweights, like the head of Wikimedia, fought to have the domain owned as a #platformcoop instead.

They blocked the sale and now plan to democratise large parts of the internet.

My new article on #CoopExchange blog.

https://coop.exchange/blog/7062477b-9e8d-11ea-b711-06ceb0bf34bd/the-co-op-that-blocked-the-sale-of-the-org-domain-to-private-equity-has-a-plan-to-democratise-large-parts-of-the-internet

Oh snap - Google gets a-schoolin'. https://skarnet.org/text/google.html As one who's also fended off a few Google hiring overtures, this is satisfying to see. I wish, too, that Google's exploitation of #FOSS & hypocrisy of employing exclusively proprietary software that creates an in-built power imbalance (that they have frequently abused) despite being built upon FOSS is the only key point that's missing.

A patent with generic claims on transmitting data is being used to sue companies that make water meters, modems, and even ventilators. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/05/new-low-bad-patent-patent-troll-sues-ventilator-company

https://robertheaton.com/2020/02/05/wacom-drawing-tablets-track-name-of-every-application-you-open/

It Hit 80 Degrees in the Arctic This Week
https://earther.gizmodo.com/it-hit-80-degrees-in-the-arctic-this-week-1843606717 #climatechange #climatecrisis

We moved libhandy from Purism's infra to GNOME's infra! Learn more here: https://adrienplazas.com/blog/2020/05/22/handy-1-alpha-1-migrating-to-gnome.html.

Repo: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libhandy
Doc: https://gnome.pages.gitlab.gnome.org/libhandy

@lwriemen

Yes, recently I've been a big fan of thinking around "proportional regulation" . Currently proportionally the regulatory burden is biggest for smallest businesses. This should be reversed.

Here is an article about the topic I wrote:

https://www.mutualinterest.coop/2020/05/small-banks-are-massacred-by-disproportionate-regulation

Lake Effect EF! Statement About the 2020 Earth First! Summer Gathering https://itsgoingdown.org/earth-first-statment-2020-summer-gathering/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

I think the people who help us define the post-COVID "new normal" are not those with influence prior. We need the folks who're happy with less to call the shots. Equating influence & "success" & credibility with wealth is what got us into all these messes to start with. I suspect wealth is inversely correlated with happiness, satisfaction, and kindness. We want to be sustainably prosperous, not wealthy.