Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Folks in sustainability businesses, spread the word about this event to promote cooperative ownership models!

For anyone confused by the RWDSU's spectacular failure at Amazon, read this:

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2021/04/10/pers-a10.html

@tfardet @dynamic @lwriemen This is a great point -- "random" selection is not guaranteed to give a representative sample, so you may need to re-roll the dice until the sample is representative (along the categories you define....) I suppose that gets trickier with smaller assemblies, and you might need to do stratified random sampling or something.

@tfardet @lwriemen

I've been intrigued by the idea of something like a city council by lottery for a while now. Government by a random selection of the populace for a fixed interval of time, after which they would be replaced by a different random selection of the populace. Being able to make safeguards for representation of minorities might make this idea even more interesting.

I don't have a lot of perspective on how this kind of thing would actually play out, but it seems to me that even a year of needing to make decisions about the kinds of complicated tradeoffs that a government needs to handle would give the selected people a very different perspective from what you would expect if the same people just met a few times in a citizens' assembly to hash out a narrowly defined question.

This piece on citizen's assemblies is fascinating: https://newint.org/features/2021/02/08/defibrillating-democracy

Citizen's assemblies are described as groups of ~100 people put together to be representative of the diversity of a particular place (city, country, etc.), which are brought together to discuss a difficult or contentious issue.

Tories accused of corruption and NHS privatisation by former chief scientist - https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2021/apr/13/tories-accused-of-corruption-and-nhs-privatisation-by-former-chief-scientist "King contrasted the success of the vaccination programme, carried out by the NHS, with the failure of the government’s test-and-trace operation"

#World's #wealthiest ‘at heart of #climate problem’ - BBC News

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-56723560

#Environment #GlobalWarming #ClimateChange

Since that article was written there's been additional research on using other sensors (ambient light, gyroscope, etc) for tracking, which is why we implemented lockdown mode in the Librem 5 so you have an option to turn it all off.

This guide from Grugq is a great overview for phone privacy and applies even if you have a phone with hardware kill switches for the modem, or a user-swappable modem like in the Librem 5. While those things might make certain steps easier, you still have to keep all the correlation in mind.

https://grugq.github.io/blog/2014/02/10/a-fistful-of-surveillance/

We found consistently that both liking others’ content and clicking links significantly predicted a subsequent reduction in self-reported physical health, mental health, and life satisfaction."

https://hbr.org/2017/04/a-new-more-rigorous-study-confirms-the-more-you-use-facebook-the-worse-you-feel

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28093386

A great promo for meet.coop https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZaQXDIVxLJc

I recently discovered that there's a new #WorkerCoop doing visual special effects for film and television: Nexodus. I talked with two of their worker-owners about their kick-ass #cooperative

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYTL_tGb-Kk

Since closing on the #RealEstateCoop deal at the end of March, I've had a #Vermont food co-op and a #WorkerCoop reach out about possible projects that could use the model.

This is feeling promising... :D

Police continue to kill. PPD here killed someone in the Logan neighborhood a couple days ago. In the suburbs of Minneapolis they killed 20 year old Duante Wright and people are rioting about it.

#France to ban some domestic #flights where #train available | Air France/KLM | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2021/apr/12/france-ban-some-domestic-flights-train-available-macron-climate-convention-mps

#Environment #GreenhouseGases #Pollution #Transport #TransportPolicy

In case anyone wants to try out receiving MMS messages on their #librem5 I just wrote down the steps needed for that here, still unofficial and hacky but it does work: https://source.puri.sm/Librem5/chatty/-/issues/30#note_151962 #GNU #Linux #ModemManager #libqmi #mmsd #chatty #freesoftware

I volunteer as 'IT person' for a museum in its early days, (https://www.eicas.nl - @EICAS).

I would love to connect with other "museum people" and "museum IT people", here and elsewhere.

Any boosts/recommendations welcome!