Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

This is very auspicious! Let's hope this is the start of a movement in education! https://www.rit.edu/news/rit-creates-openrit-university-wide-initiative-all-things-open (thanks for pointing this out @mackiwg ! )

Protesters advocating for indigenous rights are increasingly getting hit with bogus lawsuits. We need state and federal anti-SLAPP laws. https://protecttheprotest.org/2019/03/04/the-dakota-access-pipeline-company-is-abusing-the-judicial-system-to-silence-dissent/

Back in 1913, the mine workers #union was not f-ing around!

(via birdsite: https://twitter.com/postlexical/status/1315044312225181696)

One of the most useful leftist neologism is the "precariat" (precarious workers in low-paid and gig industries)--Ive seen statistics as high as 60% of new jobs created after 2008 were in the gig economy.

It's useful because these are *the* workers we should be organizing--these jobs are immovable (can't be outsourced) and, as service industry jobs, compose the majority of jobs; this is where we build a mass movement, not in the major unions (other than some of the more radical ones like ILWU).

Colonization and Decolonization - A Manual for Indigenous Liberation in the 21st Century

is one of the best resources I've found to learn and understand colonization and decolonization. It's a comic by Gord Hill. With his permission, I converted the PDF of it to the web, for those who prefer to read that way.

https://www.clayton.computer/colonization-and-de-colonization-by-zig-zag/

As my old boss used to say: "I don't get why programmers get paid that much. It's all just a bunch of for-loops!"

"Alphabet, Amazon, Facebook and Apple are among the top 10 contributors to Joe Biden’s candidate campaign committee in the 2020 cycle, according to OpenSecrets." https://variety.com/vip/house-antitrust-report-on-big-tech-less-would-have-been-more-1234796332/

#phosh 0.4.5 is out 🚀 : https://source.puri.sm/Librem5/phosh/-/releases/v0.4.5

This one adds a torch/flashlight quick setting, improves support for external screens and switches to structured logging. There's also a rather long list of internal fixes as well as translation updates (thanks a lot for that)!

#librem5 @purism #gnomeonmobile

We are in the first stages of a long anti-encryption march by the upper echelons of the European Union, headed directly toward Europeans’ digital front-doors. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/10/orders-top-eus-timetable-dismantling-end-end-encryption