Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Indiana University is requiring returning students to sign a Student Commitment regarding COVID-19. This includes a mandate for diagnosed students to download "any app if one is required by IU." This is inappropriate. https://fall2020.iu.edu/return-to-campus/student-commitment-form.html

I discovered http://cardgames.io games work great on my #Librem5 as a Gnome Web local app with its own launcher icon. While I already had solitaire and other games, this adds games like cribbage that don't have a native Linux app.

Announcing New Anarchist Publication from So-Called Vancouver, ‘No More City’ https://itsgoingdown.org/announcing-new-anarchist-publication-from-so-called-vancouver-no-more-city/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

Massachusetts' House of Representatives are considering a complicated set of amendments to a much-needed police reform bill. While there is much to like in the bill, amendments 67, 70, 162, 187, and 149 would weaken the bill’s regulation of biased face surveillance technology.

A great read from Monthly Review:

https://monthlyreview.org/2020/07/01/race-is-about-more-than-discrimination/

https://www.theregister.com/2020/07/20/microsoft_office_data_facebook/

Once again, it's time for the GEO Weekly Newsletter:

https://mailchi.mp/65b67103ead9/cooperating-through-crisis-enkindle-village-school-geo-weekly-newsletter

@LeoSammallahti To be fair, a) coops haven't had the constant corporate propaganda campaign against them that unions have, and b) if a lot of credit unions are like the one I belong to, where the members only get to vote on who's on the board of directors and nothing else, they're pretty much coops in name only and certainly don't act or feel like coops.

Accounts from the Battle of Grant Park : How Chicago Demonstrators Pushed Back the Police and Nearly Toppled a Statue https://crimethinc.com/2020/07/21/accounts-from-the-battle-of-grant-park-how-chicago-demonstrators-pushed-back-the-police-and-nearly-toppled-a-statue?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

Do you want to work on free and open source software as a full-time job? People ask me all the time how to find companies who might hire you for this, and I share this command line snippet:

git log -n100000 --format="%ae" | cut -d@ -f2 | sort -u | less

This will produce a list of email domains who are committing in a given git repo, which often corresponds pretty closely with the list of companies willing to hire you to work on that project and others like it.

The Canadian Civil Liberties Association (CCLA) is suing the city of Ontario for sharing COVID-19 testing data with police. CCLA says sharing the data is “not necessary, and in fact undermines an effective public health approach to this pandemic.” We agree.https://toronto.ctvnews.ca/groups-launch-legal-action-against-ontario-for-sharing-covid-19-data-with-police-1.5028583

Research shows that roughly half of the agencies that now partner with Ring also have been responsible for at least one fatal encounter in the last five years. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/07/amazons-ring-enables-over-policing-efforts-some-americas-deadliest-law-enforcement

https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/transgender-facebook-content-dominated-right-wing-sources-study-finds-n1234252

Margaret Kimberley on why defunding the police, by itself, is not a solution:

https://www.blackagendareport.com/freedom-rider-police-defunding-con-game

"Cutting police budgets without establishing public control over their behavior doesn’t solve the problem, and invites politicians to shuffle budget numbers around like a three-card monte swindle."

We should be considering our RMA alongside the identified failings of AU's environment standards - because humanity can't afford to screw this up. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/jul/20/australias-environment-in-unsustainable-state-of-decline-major-review-finds

Yup. America, unless you're ready to sink into the swamp, you need to listen to those who still have ideals and principles. https://pamplinmedia.com/pt/474091-383299-portland-protester-describes-beating-by-federal-officers- These folks are the best among us.

Pinterest is a disease. It steals images in order to flood search results with them, making it harder and harder to find the origin of the image and therefore the information that is the real object of the search.

Pimpterest is for losers. How in the hell this piece of crap cancer ever took off doesn't bear thinking about.

There will never, ever, be a "Pin" button on my website.

The FCC hasn’t updated its definition of broadband for five years and counting, and by sustaining relentlessly low expectations even by 2015’s standards the agency has concluded everyone has broadband access now. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/07/american-federal-definition-broadband-both-useless-and-harmful

Don't "Back the Blue"—Push Back the Blue : An Account of a Clash between Police, Their Supporters, and Counter-Demonstrators in Brooklyn https://crimethinc.com/2020/07/18/dont-back-the-blue-push-back-the-blue-an-account-of-a-clash-between-police-their-supporters-and-counter-demonstrators-in-brooklyn?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter