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
Ridiculous political, scaremongering, email about Trump winning Nobel Prize; like I really give a shit about any kind of societal awards. #dumballover
A little over a week before her first scheduled vaccine shot, my wife gets COVID-19. The rest of the household has tested negative, so she's quarantined to the our bedroom. At least she has her own TV and bathroom. (Funny how I still consider TV in this age of internet.) More fortunately the symptoms are about the same as a head cold for her. I get my first vaccine shot tomorrow.
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just had a worrying "covid in context" leaflet through the door. the usual risible anti-science nonsense, but what's striking is that neither the leaflet, nor the associated Web site, has any info about who is behind this. just pathetic cowards, or something more sinister...?
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There's another pandemic under our noses, and it kills 8.7m people a year https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/apr/02/coronavirus-pandemic-climate-crisis-air-pollution
Matrix status page, https://status.matrix.org/, Has a banner at the top proclaiming, "Some systems are experiencing issues", but all the listed statuses are green (Operational). ???
Finally saw a reason why I ended up with five different covers in my OFF! First Four EPs set. It seems that one of the original covers not released to the general public, let's call it Pedophile Cop, was deemed too controversial. My set (general public release) had two copies of the 7" that had the aforementioned cover and the general release cover, but was missing one of the other 7". (I got four, but only 3 different vinyls.) Writing to the band got me the missing 7" with it's cover. #score
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Another surprisingly good article about worker co-ops in Bloomberg.
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A year ago we said it was troubling that the so-called predictive policing program created by Banjo used “artificial intelligence” hidden inside a black box. A state audit has now revealed that the company had no AI to speak of. https://www.vice.com/en/article/pkd7pk/banjo-ai-surveillance-utah-contract
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PEN America's new report, No Excuse for Abuse, suggests some concrete ways that social media companies can help vulnerable populations cope with abuse by empowering users: https://pen.org/report/no-excuse-for-abuse/
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Who is attracted to discourse about individual liberties? Libertarians, unsurprisingly.
Name and location has changed but important site I found here:
https://social.city-of-glass.net/@cidney/105974774235934383
New location is: https://cooperativetechnology.codeberg.page/
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Bill Gates continuing to do evil under the guise of philanthropy.
"When Oxford University began work on its covid vaccine, it promised that the resulting work would be patent-free, with an active tech-transfer assistance program so that developing nations could manufacture their own supplies....
....That promise was broken. The Gates Foundation pushed the racist lie that poor people can't make safe vaccines - despite world-leading production facilities in the Global South - and convinced the university to sell exclusive rights to Astrazeneca...."
https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1377290915987918849
"When Oxford University began work on its covid vaccine, it promised that the resulting work would be patent-free, with an active tech-transfer assistance program so that developing nations could manufacture their own supplies....
....That promise was broken. The Gates Foundation pushed the racist lie that poor people can't make safe vaccines - despite world-leading production facilities in the Global South - and convinced the university to sell exclusive rights to Astrazeneca...."
https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1377290915987918849
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Biden plan eliminates billions in fossil fuel subsidies - https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/03/biden-plan-eliminates-billions-in-fossil-fuel-subsidies/ sounds a good start
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Would anyone be interested in having a call to discuss starting a software development co-op?
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#phosh 0.10.0 is out 🚀 : https://source.puri.sm/Librem5/phosh/-/releases/v0.10.0
Besides plenty of fixes #phosh can now be a #geoclue agent (so location services can work) and has support for reboot/shutdown dialogs (which are used when e.g. gnome-software wants to reboot or when you shut down the system from the menu).
See above release notes for the full list of changes and contributors.
Trump's EPA Helped Erase Records of Almost 270,000 Pounds of Carcinogenic Pollution https://theintercept.com/2021/03/31/intercepted-ethylene-oxide-trump-cancer-epa/
If the term, "class", is superior, then why isn't the term, "class-oriented", in common use?
#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
