Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Please help spread the word: EFF is seeking an experienced media strategist or journalist to run our press team. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/11/dream-job-alert-media-relations-director-eff

Hey, it turns out that it is in fact possible for values-driven companies to stop participating in practices that are known to cause people harm, even when it may impact revenue.

Now, where are the nonprofits?

https://mashable.com/article/lush-quit-facebook-instagram-tiktok-snapchat-social-media-harms

The Rise of Netflix Competitors Has Pushed Consumers Back Toward Piracy - Karl Bode @ VICE (2018): https://www.vice.com/en/article/d3q45v/bittorrent-usage-increases-netflix-streaming-sites

Gives me some hope that if people have to give up "must see" movies/TV anyways (or resort to piracy), that gives free culture an opportunity to get a foothold...

This Microsoft Windows RCE Vulnerability Gives an Attacker Complete Control https://www.synack.com/blog/this-microsoft-windows-rce-vulnerability-gives-an-attacker-complete-control/

TL;DR it's still worst practice to use Remote Desktop for anything other than running a honeypot.

Amazon rainforest destruction 2020

It's currently 60 degrees F here in NW Montana. We've had maybe an 1/8 inch of snow so far this year. Last year, Winter didn't ever really arrive, and it's starting to look like we're gonna have a repeat this year. Starting to think Winter just isn't going to be a thing anymore. 😧

If you need to blow off some steam today, might I suggest calling up your congressional representatives and giving them an earful about allowing Medicare to be privatized one piece at a time. Go ahead and let loose. Scream as loud as you like, it's 100% justified. And if they're a Dem, make sure to accuse them of supporting Trump's policy unless they demand an immediate end to this "Direct Contracting" BS.

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2021/12/congress-asleep-at-the-switch-as-biden-continues-trump-era-ploy-to-privatize-medicare.html

Dec 6, 9am PST: Join this virtual discussion on how platform coops provide a viable alternative to the gig economy, and how policymakers, governments & communities can cultivate a strong ecosystem for platform coops through policy & structural changes. 💜

https://www.berggruen.org/events/building-cooperative-ownership-in-the-digital-economy-what-policy-can-do/

Every co-op conference & webinar I've ever attended with simultaneous translation includes a plea from the translator to the (English) speakers to please slow down to provide adequate time for the translation. And every f'n time the English speakers say "Ok" and then proceed to speak at their normal rate. It drives me up the wall. I find I can't pay attention to what's being said because I'm internally screaming "Slow down! Aaaargh!" 🤬

Get ready for a mass post of biomaterial and bioplastic recipes.

Tech enthusiast: "I want smart lights, smart tv, everything, and connect them all to my digital assisstant!"

Tech worker: *looks wistfully into distance* "I should get a small place in a little town, with a garden, make my own furniture."

World's first Living Robots can now reproduce, scientists say

https://www.cnn.com/2021/11/29/americas/xenobots-self-replicating-robots-scn/index.html

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I wonder if you can also use the climate emergency as an argument to reduce landfill etc with right to repair. Make the arguments for data sovereignity with local data centres built in an ecological way. https://openuk.uk/patchworkkilt/
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