Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

What if I help you and then a whole bunch of other drowning people come along? | #FirstDogOnTheMoon | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/jul/31/what-if-i-help-you-and-then-a-whole-bunch-of-other-drowning-people-come-along

#Politics #Satire #Refugees

I'm interested in hearing some different perspectives on Peter Turchin's idea that overproduction of elites breeds social unrest: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elite_overproduction

What do you think?

(boosts are fine)

Corporate America Is Building Its Own Surveillance State. Will the FTC Stop It?
https://gizmodo.com/corporate-america-is-building-its-own-surveillance-stat-1847389626 #privacy #security #purism

there are some extremely interesting and could be relevant presentations for social.coop coming up at the scholar.social #SummerSchool - see https://scholar.social/@SummerSchool/106602742858349984

Reports that ShotSpotter alters data to make police cases stronger and has high rates of inaccuracy are more than enough reasons to demand that police stop the use of audio gunshot detection technology.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/07/its-time-police-stop-using-shotspotter

talking to kids who are genuinely interested in how linux works is really cool. i just had one ask me about what the output of ls -l means and we wound up talking about filesystem permissions and privilege escalation

The FSF is announcing a funded call for white papers to address Copilot, copyright, machine learning, and free software. Submit yours by Monday, August 23: https://u.fsf.org/3fi

The U.S. Postal Service’s law enforcement arm combed through people’s social media posts before street protests earlier this year. We filed a FOIA lawsuit to find out what's behind this surveillance program, which threatens our free expression and privacy. https://www.eff.org/press/releases/eff-sues-us-postal-service-records-about-covert-social-media-spying-program

Heard today that an old lady in town got a ticket from the cop (who's not a local) for driving her golf cart to do her errands...which she's been doing forever 😡. Now's she's struggling to get around with her walker in all the smoke. The town's up in arms. Petitions are being written. The Council is gonna get an earful.

Getting started with #Maxima in #Fedora #Linux - Fedora Magazine

https://fedoramagazine.org/getting-started-with-maxima-in-fedora-linux/

#GNU #Linux #Mathematics #SymbolicComputation #Numerics

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.