Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

A Major Ocean Current May Be Hurtling Towards Collapse
https://earther.gizmodo.com/a-major-ocean-current-may-be-hurtling-towards-collapse-1846337333 #climatechange #climatecrisis #leadonclimate

Important call for experimentation from @democracypolicy:

Alternative Voting Methods | Democracy Policy Network - https://democracypolicy.network/agenda/open-country/open-government/alternative-voting-methods

For those who have read Octavia Butler's Parable of the Sower/Parable of the Talents books: any thoughts about "the Destiny"?
@emi @cadwellsocialcoop

Cecosesola is an amazing 'educational process' based in Venezuela. Picture the Utopian anarchists of Anarres from The Dispossessed in a community on Earth.

With 23000 members, 1300 full time employees, a turnover of ~$100 million USD annually, they supply food, healthcare, funeral and financial services for 55,000 families in the states of Lara and Trujillo.

I'm hosting a reading group session during office hours on the following paper on 3/3/2021!

https://issuu.com/cecosesolaorganismo/docs/_ltima_version_collective_mind_

People with extremist views less able to do complex mental tasks, research suggests | #Psychology | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2021/feb/22/people-with-extremist-views-less-able-to-do-complex-mental-tasks-research-suggests

#Science

Copyright should not be a fast-track to getting speech removed that you do not like. The law is meant to encourage creativity by giving artists a limited period of exclusive rights to their creations. It is not a loophole to be exploited by authorities. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/02/cops-using-music-try-stop-being-filmed-just-tip-iceberg

It sounds unconstitutional because it is. The government should not be able to buy geolocation data gathered by the apps on your phone. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/12/law-enforcement-purchasing-commercially-available-geolocation-data

For years, we've watched with increasing horror as @HP pioneered new dystopian ways of abusing tech users. One bright spot: this inspired @planetmoney's outstanding reportage on the infosec, consumer rights and human costs of the scam.
https://www.npr.org/2021/02/17/968704526/why-printers-are-the-worst

Dear Fediverse! A friendly designer created a very lovely leaflet for us to be used in our spring campaign #ConnectingGardens (attached).

Unfortunately, the design is in a private format... can anyone here please help us in creating a similar leaflet (we give you the sources) in Inkscape, Scribus or other open formats? Please DM

Besides our digital hugs and presumably good karma, you will also receive your very personal starter kit from us - full of #Open #Source #Seeds and <3

Instead of charity that is indistinguishable from capitalist firms, big and old #coops should use the money to invest in small and new ones.

Instead of giving money away they would get a return, which would help the bottom line.

Instead of treating symptoms, it would foster structural change tackling the root causes.

If this resonates with you, consider joining Members For Cooperation - we organise within cooperatives to increase cooperation between cooperatives.

https://www.members4cooperation.org/

Police "could use any instance in the area—of a car break-in, a window being smashed, a trash can being turned over—in order to request 12 hours of protest footage," says EFF's @mguariglia. This is absolutely what chills people from exercising their rights.https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-02-16/lapd-sought-private-ring-footage-as-they-investigated-crimes-around-george-floyd-protests

Call to apply for FSFE support for your local project

If you currently look for financial funding for your FSFE activity, we are happy to support you: https://fsfe.org/news/2021/news-20210219-01.html

Deadline: 18.April 2021

“Why do we have a space program when X is going on?”
Listen, the NASA budget is not a problem, DoD paid Lockheed Martin over $400 BILLION for the F-35, a fighter jet so bad they have to rig the field tests in its favor. That program started in 2001, so roughly $25 billion per year of existence. NASAs budget for 2020 was $22 Billion, and its average budget per year over its 63 years of existence was $19 billion. The ENTIRE APOLLO PROJECT cost, adjusted for inflation, $156 billion. Yeah, going to the moon cost us less than a shitty airplane. Amazon could buy multiple Apollo projects per year.

We have military contractors committing literal theft of our tax dollars, and you’re worried about NASA? What’s your next worry, the less than half a billion that goes to public television?