Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

April is Earth month🌎 . Thanks to the strength and bond of the Purism community as well as the resilience of a local economies we have been able to cross the chasm and pursue a better way of contributing to a planet built on purposeful actions. Read more about the why and how: https://puri.sm/posts/purism-cares-about-environmental-impact/

“Co-operatives and mutuals are ideally suited to the provision of aged care and broader care services because they place those being cared for, as well as those providing the care, at the heart of the solution. In a co-op, people not profits are the beginning, middle and end purpose of the business."
#Coops

https://www.thenews.coop/161665/sector/health/australian-government-funds-national-scheme-to-develop-social-care-co-ops/

Congress passed the Video Privacy Protection Act in 1988 after a reporter showed you could get video rental records of anyone (by publishing rental records of a Supreme Court nominee): “When Congress’ own privacy is at risk, they somehow find a way to act.”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqn3gR1WTcA&t=1300s

Want to know more about how government officials use this sort of data? Illinois' IDOT purchased access to precise geolocation data about over 40% of the state’s population from Safegraph, a controversial data broker that was banned from Google’s app store.https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/08/illinois-bought-invasive-phone-location-data-banned-broker-safegraph

ICE used broad administrative subpoenas to collect over 6 million financial records from money transfer services. This is a blatantly illegal exploitation of government subpoena power–and an all too familiar one that must stop. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/03/heres-how-ice-illegally-obtained-bulk-financial-records-western-union

KOSA would allow individual state attorneys general to decide what topics pose a risk to a minor, and allow them to force online services to remove and block access to that material everywhere, by default. Tell the Senate: this isn’t safety—it’s censorship.https://act.eff.org/action/tell-the-senate-the-solution-to-kids-privacy-isn-t-more-surveillance

Imagine you've been arrested. An officer hands you a digital tablet for communication. It seems like a lifeline—until you try to use it. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/04/catalog-carceral-surveillance-tablet-advertising-can-also-issue-discipline

Etsy sellers are striking and asking for a boycott.

No matter what Librem device you own, you’ll now have a quick and easy way to find your how-to videos without too much digging around🔔
https://puri.sm/posts/definitive-guide-to-user-documentation-for-librem-devices/

"Walk away from the activist way of thinking, where you need dozens to hundreds of people, massive signal chats, a FB group, endorsement by local celebrities, & a snack committee, to do anything. You don’t need permission!" - Starting Autonomous Direct Action [Madison, Wisconsin] -> https://enoughisenough14.org/2022/04/11/starting-autonomous-direct-action-madison-wisconsin/ #antireport

For those thinking that chapter 5 is about the same old carbon footprint we've heard for years, Amy Westervelt breaks down here how the research is much more systemic and powerful.

https://www.drilledpodcast.com/debunking-demand-ipcc-mitigation-report-part-1/

Remember Twitter's super uber-secret project Bluesky? They finally explained what they're up to, and it's spicy 🌶️

So spicy that I had to write a 1,200 blog post one what exactly it entails. Key learning: Twitter doesn't like Mastodon. 🧵 https://blog.peerverse.space/lets-talk-about-project/

Just set up a new Wekan production system (via Docker Compose) in a very short space of time. Nice. It's come a LONG way since I last ran one. If you're not familiar with it: https://github.com/wekan/wekan

I would dearly love to see this case succeed! https://www.newsroom.co.nz/sustainable-future/supreme-court-agrees-to-hear-climate-case

Much of the US is completely, fundamentally broken. https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/464755/oklahoma-passes-near-total-abortion-ban-with-threat-of-jail-for-providers Many states seem committed to making the US' world's richest 3rd world country.

The Kids Online Safety Act would require platforms to create systems for parents to spy on—and control—the conversations young people are able to have online, turned on by default. Tell the Senate to vote no on this bill. https://act.eff.org/action/tell-the-senate-the-solution-to-kids-privacy-isn-t-more-surveillance

Gag orders can silence companies that receive government data requests for any period that a court deems appropriate—even indefinitely, sometimes with no fixed end date at all. This is a problem, and we’re glad Congress is trying to fix it. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/04/ndo-fairness-act-important-step-towards-transparency