Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one
#ShlaerMellor, #FunctionPointAnalysis, #punk, #environmentalist, #unionAdvocate, #anarchosocialist
"with a big old lie and a flag and a pie and a mom and a bible most folks are just liable to buy any line, any place, any time" - Frank Zappa
Joined May 2019
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Logical fallacies explained by robots!
By Michele Rosenthal. Source:
https://michelerosenthal.com/portfolio/logical-fallacies/
Really glad I chose to put 'toot' and 'newsboat' on my Debian system. It really makes for a good CLI social experience.
Trump’s Pick to Manage Public Lands Has Four-Decade History of “Overt Racism” Toward Native People https://theintercept.com/2020/08/01/william-perry-pendley-blm-native-americans/
Looking at the CDC excess death numbers versus the mortality rate, it looks like COVID-19 is saving lives as well as taking lives. Excess death percentages greater than the mortality rate percentage mean less people are dying of other causes (probably due to less social contact).
Of course the excess death numbers only account for death due to contracting COVID-19, and not due to side effects of the government and media handling of COVID-19 (suicides, starvation, exposure, etc.).
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If this trend continues, we might be without Firefox soon....
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"The revolution cannot be controlled by a vanguard of activists; if it is, it will fail. The revolution must be controlled by its participants, because only then will we learn how to claim agency over our own lives and futures."
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The 4 Most Secure Phones for Privacy
https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/best-phone-privacy/ #privacy #security #purism #librem5
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Cleveland, OH: Banner Drop in Solidarity with Portland https://itsgoingdown.org/cleveland-oh-banner-drop-in-solidarity-with-portland/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter
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In a big win for student free speech, the Third Circuit ruled that a public school can't discipline a student for posting "off-campus" social media speech. In this case, saying “fuck cheer” on Snapchat.
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/07/historic-opinion-third-circuit-protects-public-school-students-campus-social-media
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What if board members of US credit unions would not be unpaid volunteers, but the pay would depend on how large proportion of members vote in board elections.
Most board elections are uncontested, with low voter participation.
It would incentivise an engaging contest. Votes for candidates who did not get elected would still mean more pay for those elected.
To be paid more, one would be encouraged to encourage members to hold one accountable.
Will donate 500$ to 1st CU that wants to do it.
It's hard to reach a reckoning between my environmental view of overpopulation and the social view of pandemic spread.
On one hand people dying is a good thing, and on the other hand people dying is a bad thing.
"Maybe partying will help." - Minutemen
Can't believe how long I've owned this Lillingtons/Nothing Cool split and never noticed there was a booklet with the lyrics inside. #braindead
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This spring, EFF helped stop the sale of the .ORG domain registry to private equity. At 9:30 AM PT, join EFF's Cara Gagliano and others from @accessnow, @NTENorg, and @article19org for a @rightscon panel on the #SaveDotOrg campaign and .ORG's future. https://www.eff.org/event/rightscon-future-civil-societys-online-home-org
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Microsoft is about to shut off its ebook DRM servers: "The books will stop working" https://boingboing.net/2019/06/28/jun-17-2004.html
I have a lot of trouble with focus, so once I gain focus I hate to lose it. According to Peopleware by DeMarco and Lister, lost focus is one of the biggest productivity wasters in knowledge work. That's why I never turn on notifications an my office computers. I also will always advocate for offices with doors. Instead of a standing desk, give me an isolation chamber desk please.
There's nothing funnier than an office chat program in an agile organization. Must actually be an "agile" organization. ;-)
I despise out of the office replies. What a time waster! I refuse to turn them on. What's the use of having a visible calendar if people are too lazy to look at it?
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Thanks to #outsourcing, #England's #TestAndTrace system is in chaos | Allyson Pollock | Opinion | The Guardian
This is what happens when you try to get private companies to do what #government should do.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jul/31/outsourcing-england-test-trace-nhs-private
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Customers are asking us about the recent GRUB2 vulnerability so I wrote a quick post explaining how it works and why @purism hardware isn't affected. For even more details, check out Dan Goodin's excellent Ars Technica article I link in my post.
https://puri.sm/posts/why-the-grub2-secure-boot-flaw-doesnt-affect-purism-computers/
#ShlaerMellor, #FunctionPointAnalysis, #punk, #environmentalist, #unionAdvocate, #anarchosocialist
"with a big old lie and a flag and a pie and a mom and a bible most folks are just liable to buy any line, any place, any time" - Frank Zappa
Joined May 2019
