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
Gridlocked: These policies might put Biden’s transmission infrastructure plans on hold https://grist.org/energy/gridlocked-these-policies-might-put-bidens-transmission-infrastructure-plans-on-hold/
How Arizona’s attorney general is weaponizing climate fears to keep out immigrants https://grist.org/politics/how-arizonas-attorney-general-is-weaponizing-climate-fears-to-keep-out-immigrants/
New Documentary "Exterminate All the Brutes" Was 500 Years of Genocide in the Making https://theintercept.com/2021/05/02/exterminate-all-the-brutes-hbo/
According to Ben Franklin, I'm not white. #dontcallmewhite
Your Car Is Spying on You, and a CBP Contract Shows the Risks https://theintercept.com/2021/05/03/car-surveillance-berla-msab-cbp/
New Zealand treats animals inhumanely – but it could become a world leader in their welfare https://www.theguardian.com/world/commentisfree/2021/may/04/new-zealand-treats-animals-inhumanely-but-it-could-become-a-world-leader-in-their-welfare
‘Your mouth becomes a minefield’: the Americans who can’t afford the dentist https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/may/04/americans-dental-dentist-teeth-health-insurance
Why do Americans die earlier than Europeans? https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/may/04/why-do-americans-die-earlier-than-europeans #berniesanders
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Today, I'm unexpectedly reminded of how towering and fluent (and amazingly readable) this rant (in book form) is: https://web.archive.org/web/20051013072349/http://www.vanwensveen.nl/rants/microsoft/IhateMS_1.html - web-based bitrot means that's it's only available via archive.org, (thank goodness for their good work!).
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The lower 90% of US income earners have lost $50 trillion to the 1% since the 1950, with the rate about $2.5 trillion/year right now. https://time.com/5888024/50-trillion-income-inequality-america/ If income inequality had been kept at post-WW2 levels in the US, every income earner would be getting an extra $1140/month... That's no joke. That sounds like a great opportunity for UBI funded by massive increases in top-level corporate & billionaire taxation.
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#Non-NHS #healthcare providers given £96bn in a decade, says Labour | #NHS | The Guardian
The #Tories are so brazen about the #privatization of the NHS.
Strong management believes that the company needs you; weak management believes you need the company. #management
Performance review time is where weak managers want you to write your own reasons for why you're employed. "Another year of doing my job." for some reason doesn't seem sufficient justification. You have to have accomplishments, as if you really had autonomy, might be able to get paid more than average wages, or the company actually had non-management promotion paths. #notreality
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Apparently the future of clothing is "smart fabric": shirts that act like computer displays, microphones stitched into single strands of fabric, clothing full of sensors and semiconductors. All I can think of is how this will be abused. #privacy https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/05/03/smart-fabric-future-of-clothing/
Yoda is a caricature of ESL (English as a Second Language) speakers. Does that caricature add to Yoda's mystique, or is it just another prejudice inserted into the Star Wars universe? #romanticracism
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Interesting Twitter thread on the impact of silicon semiconductor / chip shortages on small hardware producers: https://twitter.com/_MG_/status/1388321639524229120
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#AirPollution spikes may impair #older #men’s #thinking, study finds | Air #pollution | The Guardian
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Big pharma doesn’t want us to expand #Medicare. We have to fight them | #BernieSanders | The Guardian
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Happy May Day everyone!
If you want to catch the wonderful panel put on last night by Forest City Anarchists (@FCA), and featuring Sima Lee (Marooncast), Klee Benally (Indigenous Action Network), and a friend from It's Going Down, the recording of the stream can be found here:
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SolarWinds hacking campaign puts Microsoft in the hot seat
https://ca-finance-yahoo-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/ca.finance.yahoo.com/amphtml/news/solarwinds-hacking-campaign-puts-microsoft-114218764.html #privacy #security #bigtech #purism
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A handful of billionaires control most of the UK’s national newspapers.
New Internationalist is owned by over 3,600 readers from all around the world. You can join the world’s largest media #coop & help New Internationalist through current economic troubles.
#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
