Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Leading the charge! Can I make it from Land’s End to John o’Groats in an #ElectricCar? | Electric, hybrid and low-emission cars | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/jul/28/leading-the-charge-can-i-make-it-from-lands-end-to-john-ogroats-in-an-electric-car

#EV

Is it just me or do almost no cyclists bother to use hand signals for turning anymore? I feel like this was much more of a thing in my youth...

I'm seeing people hating on the #FOSS community, implying that it's exclusionary & lacking diversity. That it's only serves developers. I think that's quite ungrateful. #FOSS explicitly removes the artificial barriers between developers & users structurally present in any other form of software dev. #FOSS devs can't put knowledge & expertise in the heads of users. But, by using the GPL, they can create possibility for all. Permissionless participation. Inspiring people to want to learn. 1/2

A century of science fiction wasn’t enough warning. Now, we need legislation to prevent the very real threat of government’s deploying armed and automated robots. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/07/dont-let-police-arm-autonomous-or-remote-controlled-robots-and-drones

@sunflower_avenue

You are welcome to sit with your tensions. Do you have any ways of engaging with local indigenous groups? I've found it helpful for clarifying my own thinking here in Massachusetts.

My sense is that the members of local tribes that I've spoken to here are very glad to have people engaged in closer partnership with the land, as long as it doesn't directly interfere with native sovereignty. I don't think any of the people I've spoken to here would not have any kinds of objections to the descendents of colonists clearing away invasive species to make way for native species, but that answer doesn't necessarily apply everywhere, and of course different individuals might have different answers.

My understanding is that the Pacific Northwest has a much stronger subsistence culture across the board, and that might change dynamics, although I'm not sure in what way.

@sunflower_avenue

On the ecology side, you might adopt a practice of scattering seeds of important native species in areas where your weeding has disturbed the soil. For example, I've been considering a practice of carrying milkweed seeds and scattering them wherever I tear out some black swallow-wort.

In terms of immediate impact on this year's birds, you can also supplement their food sources more directly, either with a feeder or over the slightly longer term by tending plants that will serve as a food source.

Help end warrantless FBI surveillance of communications. Now it’s time to close the backdoor in Section 702 of FISA by telling your representatives to support @RepZoeLofgren @RepJayapal @RepThomasMassie @Davidson @WarrenDavidson’s amendment to H.R. 4505 https://act.eff.org/action/tell-congress-close-the-warrantless-backdoor-to-spy-on-communications

Congratulations to those in São Paulo who burned the statue of Borba Gato, a 17th-century perpetrator of colonial violence.

To quote our comrades in Brazil, "If monuments still honor slavers and rapists, it is because the system they built is still standing." Let's take it down.

https://cwc.im/statues

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‘Seriously ill’ young people in current #Covid-19 admissions, expert warns | #Coronavirus | The Guardian

What a good idea it was to drop all legal restrictions last Monday. Which bunch of libertarian idiots thought that one up, I wonder?

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jul/25/seriously-ill-young-people-in-current-covid-admissions-expert-warns

#Pandemic

Is anyone out there involved in a mutual aid tool sharing library, current or past? I'm talking with some folks about organizing one and we have some logistical questions. (please boost!)

I’m getting real sick of a certain small group hammering on the absolutely false assertion that criticizing Israel is always anti-Semitic. They’re relying on people conflating antisemitism couched in political analysis (which is indeed a thing that happens) with sober criticism

Given that my family fled the Holocaust, and I grew up with those stories and lessons, I am very aware that antisemitism is a real thing and a serious problem. But:

It’s not antisemitic (or even “anti-Israel”) to have a problem with how the Israeli State is conducting its affairs

It’s not antisemitic to call out Israel’s apartheid policies or the need for the Palestinian people to be treated justly

Calling all cooperators with as security background: our I-D "Channel Bindings for TLS 1.3" could use your final reviews! https://opencollective.com/mellium/updates/security-reviews-of-channel-bindings-for-tls-1-3-i-d-needed

Plans of four #G20 states are threat to global #climate pledge, warn scientists | #ClimatChange | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/jul/25/plans-of-four-g20-states-are-threat-to-global-climate-pledge-warn-scientists

#Environment #GlobalWarming #China #Australia #Brazil #Russia

I'm sadly unsurprised that the striking miners in AL & KY have gotten very little acknowledgement from the so-called left. They're rural, they work in a polluting industry, they probably watch NASCAR, and look they might have voted for Trump...so fuck 'em, amiright?

The difference in coverage between the Warrior Met strike and the Amazon union drive is, to my mind, very telling. Amazon is hip, coal mining not so much...& we wonder why we're so politically impotent, smh.

Online Community Governance: Six Case Studies
Howard Rheingold on Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/posts/online-community-47388851

Interesting post, includes a list of tools at the end.

Well, looks like I'm going to try organizing a housing co-op. If all goes well, it will be co-located with a kombucha worker co-op I helped some friends start. Feeling a little nervous...and excited. Wish us luck.