Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

If a coop wants to grow big, most members will always join mainly or only because of economic benefits. Nothing wrong with that.

It's what makes unions and coops so unique social movements - people who don't care or even disagree with the social goals join them.

Coops can gain competitive advantage by having members who want to participate more than is required to engage in activities that increase the economic value of membership for those who participate only to access economic benefits.

The growing use of automated license plate readers in neighborhoods, by homeowner’s and neighborhood associations, is a step in the wrong direction. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/09/flock-license-plate-reader-homeowners-association-safe-problems

#Sacramento: CHP, and other fascists, are driving through protestors.

RT @marinylf@twitter.com

CHP just ran over a protester. Abolish the Police now.

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/marinylf/status/1305599762352103424

YouTube unlawfully violates kids’ privacy, new $3.2B lawsuit claims | Ars Technica
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/09/google-faces-3-2b-lawsuit-over-claims-it-violated-childrens-privacy/

Last year a record number of mobile home communities (often known as "trailer parks") converted into resident owned cooperatives.

Not a single resident owned cooperatives has ever gone insolvent and research shows the model can provide many benefits.

https://coop.exchange/blog/9be361d4-f6a0-11ea-b711-06ceb0bf34bd/a-boom-in-trailer-parks-converting-into-community-owned-cooperatives

Without anonymous speech, some lies powerful people tell would go unchecked.
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/03/right-anonymity-vital-free-expression-now-and-always

"I’m hearing too much “recycle, compost, go vegan!” and not enough “100 corporations cause 71% of emissions”"

Amazon Spent $24,000 To Kill Portland's Facial Recognition Ban
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/g5p9z3/amazon-spent-dollar24000-to-kill-portlands-facial-recognition-ban?

Predictive policing cannot predict crime, it can only weaponize a person’s proximity to policing. EFF is calling for a ban of police use of predictive policing technology. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/09/technology-cant-predict-crime-it-can-only-weaponize-proximity-policing

DOJ's unprecedented expansion of DNA collection to include individuals in immigration detention brings us one step closer to genetic surveillance of the entire population. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/03/doj-moves-forward-dangerous-plan-collect-dna-immigrant-detainees

Debunked 'Antifa' Wildfire Rumors Cause Death Threats, Overloaded 911
https://gizmodo.com/debunked-antifa-wildfire-rumors-spread-on-facebook-over-1845029629

Facebook: Privacy Is Cool, but Have You Guys Heard of Money? https://gizmodo.com/facebook-privacy-is-cool-but-have-you-guys-heard-of-m-1845025587 #facebook #bigtech #privacy #purism

I did finally get my new site to a manageable skeleton of a framework. Looks a little bare, but I think it communicates well enough for now.

https://anarchobook.club

CSS Grid is fun!

Also... fuck JavaScript.

Corporations love to talk about empowering people of colour, while crushing their attempts to unionise.

Unionisation reduces racist sentiments, but the elites prefer cosmetic changes that blame the workers.

New article: "Corporations love minorities – unless we try to unionise" on Mutual Interest, a free online media #coop owned by readers & writers.

https://www.mutualinterest.coop/2020/09/corporations-love-minorities-unless-we-try-to-unionise

Become a member here, members distribute our funds using participatory budgeting:

https://opencollective.com/mutual-interest-media