Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Hello everyone.

There is a non-zero possibility that major US cities are about to get their civilian communications infrastructure turned off or significantly restricted. If this idea scares you too much to contemplate, please move on. I can't think of how to CW this appropriately, so my apologies for your anxiety, but this is important to my social circle, so I'll continue.

If you're worried about COVID-19 but you still want to make a positive impact, you can help to prepare for this eventuality.

The best way I can think to fight against comms being shut down is to use Dual Power Structure thinking: let's make our own network. This is not as unrealistic as it sounds. HAM Radio folks are already doing it. The software is open source, and runs on a massive number of surplus hardware. Check out the AREDEN Compatibility Matrix: https://www.arednmesh.org/content/supported-platform-matrix

If you work your local network and make a few fast Amazon orders, I bet you'd have several square miles of coverage ready to go in an instant, and ready to backhaul internet to people who need it to protest.

You might say, "But Endomain, I'm not a licensed ham operator!"

I am not telling you what to do, but a lot of folks are breaking a lot of laws just by protesting. Folks are rightfully afraid of COVID-19 and that's fair, but you know what's socially distant? Rooftops of boarded up or looted buildings that are empty but still have electricity. Maybe this is a risk folks, licensed or not, are willing to take to take to keep comms up for protesters.

We probably have to finally recognize that those who have been left out of the social contract, find no reason to adhere to a social contract, which is why you're seeing protests turning into riots.

Trump: "The United States of America will be designating ANTIFA as a Terrorist Organization."

🤦

I give up. What a shitshow.

Some regulations designed to curb Big Tech will come with costs that little tech can't possibly afford. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/05/how-big-tech-monopolies-distort-our-public-discourse

https://bgr.com/2020/05/30/minnesota-protest-contact-tracing-used-to-track-demonstrators/

The Day AppGet Died.
https://keivan.io/the-day-appget-died/

Last night, peeps in MN made history. During the highest peaks of the riots of the late 1960s, or the LA riots of 92, people weren't able to burn down a police station in a major US city. Thanks to all who took part in this powerful and heroic action. Y'all are legends.

#Fuck12

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