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
They should outlaw K-cups, et al, or at least require manufacturers to have a viable (i.e., easy as throwing in the trash can) recycling infrastructure in place in order to sell these one-use-disposable items.
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Analysis of the decline of social democracy focuses too much on policies and not enough on organising methods.
The analysis of organising methods focuses too much on unions and not enough on the equally important role that cooperative and mutual businesses used to play.
The three pillars of Labour organising, that were most successfully implemented in the Nordic countries consisted of organising:
- Workers into unions
- Consumers into cooperatives
- Voters into social democratic parties
Mitt Romney Just Proposed a Permanent Basic Income Guarantee for Families of at Least 50 a Month and Up to 5,000 a Year https://basicincometoday.com/mitt-romney-just-proposed-a-permanent-basic-income-guarantee-for-families-of-at-least-250-a-month-and-up-to-15000-a-year/
This is of course more 'be fruitful and multiply' garbage, and coming from a Republican has to be balanced by cutting existing child welfare. However it might provide some data to be used in a UBI plan that isn't tied to number of children.
This article has an interesting look at how the auto makers are actually increasing their carbon footprint by making electric vehicles. 'When it comes to green cars, efficient is just as important as electric' https://grist.org/fix/when-it-comes-to-clean-cars-efficient-is-just-as-important-as-electric/
Graph of prior top 5 tech companies is interesting. I remember the anti-IBM sentiment in the 80s and 90s stated for acceptance of Microsoft's monopoly misdeeds. It was the antitrust actions against IBM that enabled Microsoft's existence. After remedies against Microsoft got thrown out, it took FOSS to crack it's shell. #powertothepeople
Is big tech now just too big to stomach? https://www.theguardian.com/business/2021/feb/06/is-big-tech-now-just-too-big-to-stomach
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The government can't dictate what speech private social
media companies should host or take down -- that violates the First Amendment, says EFF's @aaron_d_mackey. https://www.nationaljournal.com/s/712421/gop-crusade-against-section-230-shifts-to-the-states/?unlock=69M3IB5CHIF45R3P
https://www.nationaljournal.com/s/712421/gop-crusade-against-section-230-shifts-to-the-states/?unlock=69M3IB5CHIF45R3P
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Dream Defenders is hiring.
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Anarchist prisoner Sean Swain could use letters of support for his clemency bid. Please consider checking out the script at https://cutt.ly/Hkph3KY
New documentary explores arguments for and against creating a Universal Basic Income https://basicincometoday.com/new-documentary-explores-arguments-for-and-against-creating-a-universal-basic-income/
How Poverty Makes Workers Less Productive https://basicincometoday.com/how-poverty-makes-workers-less-productive/
How steel might finally kick its coal habit https://grist.org/energy/boston-metal-taking-coal-out-of-steel/
Democrats Actually Learned From the Failures of 2009 https://theintercept.com/2021/02/03/democrats-covid-stimulus-obama-lessons/
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RT @MathematicsUCL
The Cistercian monks invented a numbering system in the 13th century which meant that any number from 1 to 9999 could be written using a single symbol
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Wow, cracking good article. "Mayflower" or "John-Bob" mouth. https://the.ink/p/kamala-versus-daenerys I've always been obsessive about getting people's names pronounced the way *they* pronounce them. It's a simple demonstration of respect.
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RT @parismarx@twitter.com
Oxford University was going to open source its vaccine, then the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation stepped in and convinced them to sell exclusive rights to AstraZeneca.
Now AstraZeneca is failing to deliver and poor countries are struggling to access vaccines.
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/parismarx/status/1353330538292121602
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After our investigation uncovered that police used Business Improvement District cameras to spy on protests in real time, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors has signaled that the surveillance must be reigned in.
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Huh, looks like some OpenSource folks are noticing that an open-source non-copyleft license does not protect from lock-in, and that lock-ins are bad:
https://fosdem.org/2021/schedule/event/open_source_under_attack/
> Open source was never designed or planned to be used as "Gateway Drug" to move people to a proprietary locked in software, but more and more this is happening.
No, actually, it was designed specifically to allow just that, to be more "business-friendly": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_source#Origins
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Free screening of the documentary Shift Change happening now! 
Reasons why the centrist President can't be pushed left just yet. https://thenib.com/why-cant-biden-be-pushed-left-yet/
Mandatory rah-rah, bullshit, CEO presentations. #capitalismsucks
#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
