Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Angry Workers collective came on to talk about their book, "Class Power On Zero-Hours" (PM Press, 2020) lessons learned over 6 years of labour/labor organizing in far west London and revolutionary strategy. Plus, a message from Sean Swain!

https://thefinalstrawradio.noblogs.org/post/2020/12/13/class-power-on-zero-hours-a-chat-with-angry-workers/

“Cellebrites and Stingrays started out in... U.S. military or federal law enforcement, and then made their way into state and local law enforcement, and also eventually make their way into the hands of criminals or petty tyrants like school administrators."https://gizmodo.com/u-s-schools-are-buying-phone-hacking-tech-that-the-fbi-1845862393

Five senators are investigating remote proctoring apps: invasive, faulty, and biased surveillance tools that threaten the privacy of the students who are required to use them. We have some thoughts. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/12/senators-express-privacy-concerns-over-proctoring-apps

You deserve to live without shame

RT @Rohan_Naidu@twitter.com

Deeply unappreciated fact: the most "impactful" person in science right now is this Kazakhstani hacker queen. She is the one-woman bridge to the largest repository of scientific knowledge ever collected.

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/Rohan_Naidu/status/1298020215805169665

#USSupremeCourt rejects Trump-backed #Texas #lawsuit aiming to overturn #election results | #US elections #2020 | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/dec/11/supreme-court-rejects-trump-backed-texas-lawsuit-aiming-to-overturn-election-results

#Law #Politics

"And what we really have now is a whole bunch of people who no longer are in a relationship with reality..." https://billmoyers.com/story/podcast-democracy-on-the-edge-cox-richardson/

Would the most cost-effective form of organising for socialism be to campaign in workers pension fund trustee elections, push them to borrow money now when the interest rates are low, and use it to buy ownership in big corporations?

Trustee elections seem to have low turnout, so would be easier to gain a majority than in other elections.

Goodbye CentOS, hello Rocky Linux | ZDNet
https://www.zdnet.com/article/goodbye-centos-hello-rocky-linux/#ftag=RSSbaffb68

#SouthAfrica's chief justice unrepentant for linking #Covid-9 #vaccines to satanism | South Africa | The Guardian

This guy seems to be a moron. He should resign or be sacked immediately for endangering the population.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/dec/11/south-africa-chief-justice-unrepentant-link-vaccines-satanism-coronavirus

Precursor - What’s the Value of Hackable Hardware, Anyway? | Crowd Supply
https://www.crowdsupply.com/sutajio-kosagi/precursor/updates/whats-the-value-of-hackable-hardware-anyway

@lwriemen yes - I think communities have to wise up regarding the "nature" of the corporate beast. I've characterised it here: https://davelane.nz/megacorps