Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

"If you want to see change, you need to incentivize change... if you want to see Microsoft have a heart attack, talk about the idea of defining legal liability for bad code in a commercial product. If you want to give Facebook nightmares, talk about the idea of making it legally liable for any and all leaks of our personal records that a jury can be persuaded were unnecessarily collected. Imagine how quickly Mark Zuckerberg would start smashing the delete key."
- Snowden

https://edwardsnowden.substack.com/p/ns-oh-god-how-is-this-legal

Note to schools that have a BYOD policy (for the record, I'm against them, as they amplify inequity), if my child brings a Linux-powered computer to your school, it will be sufficient. If it isn't, it's your systems that have to change, not our computer. If you don't know what I'm talking about, consider this: https://davelane.nz/explainer-digitech-risks-school-boards (relevant even for those outside NZ).

Any smart cryptocurrency regulation should safeguard privacy, innovation, and decentralization. This fast-moving provision fails those standards. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/08/cryptocurrency-surveillance-provision-buried-infrastructure-bill-disaster-digital

Here are 6 reasons we hate the new cryptocurrency surveillance provision buried in Biden's infrastructure bill:

Less than $15/hour...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6CP5SKQjzg

https://weblog.elkner.net/blog/33/This is fantastic work - getting your phone set up to protect your privacy using MayFirst tools and free software on LineageOS https://weblog.elkner.net/blog/33/

#ClimateCrisis: Siberian #heatwave led to new #methane #emissions, study says | #ClimateChange | The Guardian

Of course methane is a much more potent #GreenhouseGas than carbon dioxide.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/aug/02/climate-crisis-siberian-heatwave-led-to-new-methane-emissions-study-says

#Environment #GlobalWarming

Working on a new #platformcoop - a marketplace for coops to buy, sell & exchange promotions in each others email newsletters.

Instead of paying surveillance capitalists for ads, a bicycle coop could pay for an ad in a local food coops email newsletter.

Or they can cross-promote - the food coop promotes the bicycle coop in its newsletter, the bicycle coop promotes the food coop in its newsletter.

It could help build a coop ecosystem with ethical & effective marketing.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1sNTYn2HZBgyAuUP39FrUuB3otrRrdwua5N7tbh_b-AE/edit?usp=sharing

HomeTown is a fork of Mastodon which lets you make instance-only posts, adjust character limits and read long form rich text blog posts.

It's still part of the Fediverse, and HomeTown users can interact with Mastodon users totally fine.

Tech people can get self-hosting instructions here:

https://github.com/hometown-fork/hometown

Non-tech people can use a managed hosting service to start their own HomeTown instance:

https://federation.spacebear.ee

#HomeTown #Mastodon #MastoTips #FediTips #Fediverse

For those of you following along at home, Hubert Horan has just released part 25(!) of his series on Uber being a trash business model with no reasonable path to profitability. This episode takes readers to China for a look at Didi the "Uber of China," which is just as unprofitable as its US counterpart...despite having a 90% market share! If you can't turn a dollar with those numbers, you can't turn one at all.

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2021/08/hubert-horan-can-uber-ever-deliver-part-twenty-five-didis-ipo-illustrates-why-ubers-business-model-was-always-hopeless.html

We should be concerned when government or media gets tasked with determining what is “disinformation.” https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/07/disentangling-disinformation-not-easy-it-looks

Asset forfeiture, corporate kickbacks, wealthy benefactors. These are just some of the other ways that police find to fund their surveillance efforts. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/09/how-police-fund-surveillance-technology-part-problem

If we privilege digital identification over traditional paper or plastic identification, we will disadvantage people already at society’s margins. DHS’s plan for mobile driver’s licenses (mDLs) doesn’t do enough to avoid this. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/07/dhss-flawed-plan-mobile-drivers-licenses

"David Cameron met vaccines minister before firm he advises won health contracts" https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/dark-money-investigations/david-cameron-met-vaccines-minister-firm-he-advises-won-health-contracts/?utm_campaign=Weekly%20flagship%20newsletter%20%28Week%2028%2C%202021%29%20%28RaEGMQ%29&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Newsletter%3A%20oD%20weekly&_kx=uz4a2q9WDArUKQxp2aRKL6-8xP17jnQZAzUpTF7JzjA%3D.YjCYwm #uk #corruption

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)