Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Don't militarize public health by sending the National Guard to hospitals to process COVID-19 data. https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2020/07/13/trump-administration-recommend-national-guard-an-option-help-hospitals-report-covid-19-data/?hpid=hp_hp-top-table-high_virus-nationalguard-330pm%3Ahomepage%2Fstory-ans.

Four States Are Sharing Driver's License Info to Help Find Out Who's a Citizen
https://www.npr.org/2020/07/14/890798378/south-dakota-is-sharing-drivers-license-info-to-help-find-out-who-s-a-citizen

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A coalition of labor unions with racial and social justice organisations will stage a mass walkout to highlight racism July 20. Groups include Service Workers (SEIU), Teamsters, Teachers, Farmworkers, Domestic Workers and the Movement for Black Lives.

https://portside.org/2020-07-09/strike-black-lives-highlight-racism-monday-july-20

RT @bini_adamczak@twitter.com

Eine neue Studie (DIW) zeigt, dass #Reichtum in Deutschland noch ungleicher verteilt ist als angenommen. Das reichste Prozent der Bevölkerung besitzt 35 %, den oberen zehn Prozent gehören 67 % und die ärmere Hälfte der Bevölkerung teilt sich 1,4 % des Gesamtvermögens. #Enteignung

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/bini_adamczak/status/1283283654920138755

Well, this is a positive development - Slack loses out to a Matrix (open messaging standard) EU-based privacy-focused competitor.https://sifted.eu/articles/element-germany-deal/ Let's see a whole lot more of this privacy and anti-Silicon Valley sensibility. This "adjustment" is long overdue.

Ok, now this is totally fascinating: http://www.foodtimeline.org/ (here's an intro: https://www.eater.com/2020/7/8/21271246/food-timeline-lynne-olver )

Guys, am I the only one who didn't know about #Twitter lending all of users' data to #Google?

https://cloud.google.com/twitter

One of the most damaging philosophies #infosec copied from IT is a belief in user inferiority. Too many security decisions are rooted in a patronizing notion that users are children and that trust and agency must be taken from them and given to infosec staff/vendors.

It blew his mind that a single deck of cards you can buy for $1 could mean a hundred different single and multiplayer games. I immediately taught him solitaire, and cribbage is next. Society would never invent such a thing today.

I'm a free software nerd because explaining what a deck of cards is to my son became an object lesson in open standards and vendor lock in.

For hundreds of years a new card game meant new rules but the same deck. Now everyone has to monetize w/ custom cards and expansion packs.

Police use face recognition, drones, automated license plate readers, and an arsenal of other invasive tech. Atlas of Surveillance is a searchable map containing thousands of datapoints that allows you to see what is deployed in your area.

https://atlasofsurveillance.org/

State and Police Violence Against Protesters Escalates As Demonstrator Shot in Head with Impact Munition https://itsgoingdown.org/portland-police-violence-escalates/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

Whenever you think or someone says to you that your good idea can't be good because if it was, someone else would've already done it remember this.

The Dutch ministry of justice paid for a #privacy test of Office 365, finding a series of issues. Just one of these: 6 different companies receive user data including file names, without even a privacy policy.
https://www.privacycompany.eu/blogpost-nl/onderzoek-naar-microsoft-office-365-for-the-web-en-apps-microsoft-belooft-nieuwe-maatregelen-om-hoge-privacyrisicos-te-verlagen

California's Attorney General began enforcing the California Consumer Privacy Act on July 1. Here are answers to 10 common questions about the CCPA and what it means for you: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/01/ten-questions-and-answers-about-california-consumer-privacy-act

They also took the streets to remind people of the ongoing targeted and systematic state violence that is carried out by the police against Black, Indigenous and People of Color.
#BlackLivesMatter #Fuck12 #fuckthepolice

Librem 5 Dogwood: Update 3

"The Librem 5 Dogwood batch has finished our manufacturing and is finalizing testing and fulfillment all from Purism headquarters before shipping to those who are part of this batch."

https://puri.sm/posts/librem-5-dogwood-update-3/

#freedom #privacy #librem5

The "non-commercial" (NC) option in the Creative Commons suite of licenses introduces more confusion than it eliminates. I wrote a short essay to sum up the main problem, as I see it. This core problem can get lost in discussion of more technical issues. I'm hoping this short statement will be useful to share with well-intentioned copyright owners considering NC. But this "first draft" could probably use your edits or comments! https://freedomdefined.org/The_non-commercial_provision_obfuscates_intent

For those who want a written summary of the discussion, RNZ have since published this: https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/saturday/audio/2018754514/anand-giridharadas-beware-of-billionaire-do-gooders

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