Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

RT @SupportEricKing@twitter.com

Tuesday 4.19 Keep the calls and emails going!!!

Eric is still at USP Atlanta and en route to maximum security USP Lee in Virginia despite being threatened there by white supremacists. The Bureau of Prisons on every level is aware of this risk and is sticking to the

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/SupportEricKing/status/1516384891058929675

Are you still relying on a single infosec vendor? We live in an interconnected and interdependent world. Many people have realized over the past few years just how dependent they have been on outsourced infrastructure and supplies, and how unnerving it can be when those things are disrupted. In response, many people have changed their focus toward more self-sufficiency. Read how you can reduce dependence and increase your ability to manage your security. Read more at https://puri.sm/posts/security-self-sufficiency/

Everyone is welcome to believe what they like - legislating belief is pointless. That said, there're are lots of beliefs that are dangerous. Believing in comforting fictions might make some people happy, but when, on a societal level, it causes us to not take action to counter existential threats, it's ignorant and tragic in the extreme. And, as usual, it's not the 'believers' who bear the brunt. It's those whose words the believers chose to ignore.

This makes me despair at "the establishment" and its utter lack of intelligence, empathy, and conscience
https://invidious.snopyta.org/watch?v=nNyg1DhT5SI or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNyg1DhT5SI because of these selfish, principle-less people (everyone but the climate activist), humanity's going to hell in a handbasket.

During this time of rising tensions between the US and Russia, folks really need to be reminded:

Two bad things can be bad.

I'm really struggling to work out why I have such a hard discussing technology with blockchain folks. We actually share a lot of opinions!

I think I've worked out the root of the misunderstanding today. It's that when folks say things like, "Web3 is about decentralization" we both understand this statement in fundamentally different ways.

I accept it from the angle, "Web3 as a technology fundamentally tries to decentralize things." And I think, frankly, that statement is false.

But I think folks mean to say, "The technology I want to build with web3 is fundamentally decentralized" and that statement is both unfalsifiable (I guess without like a brain MRI or whatever, maybe) but also plausible. You *can* use web3 as a platform to build more decentralized systems than most people enjoy.

I also think they approach it with fundamentally less skepticism about financial tech than I do. But as someone who did a fintech startup and exited, I think I'm much more jaded and realistic about what's possible within the current economic frameworks they're trying to enter. Basically every cryptocurrency instantly re-invents brokerages, a faster payment network that is less anonymous than the actual ledger sheet, KYC variants, and ways for 3rd parties to not give all their data to the bank in ways that the bank can still trust.

These two things add up to a very hard-to-articulate culture divide between me and a lot of blockchain-positive folks.

Remember folks, **all the people in power are sociopaths,** including the ones in the US. Putting Dems back in power did not change that one iota.

https://mate.substack.com/p/siding-with-ukraines-far-right-us?s=r

#Køpiplatz resquatted. We are here to reclaim what is ours [#Berlin] - Read more: https://enoughisenough14.org/2022/04/16/kopiplatz-resquatted-we-are-here-to-reclaim-what-is-ours-berlin/ #Koepibleibt #KoepiPlatzBleibt #koepi #KoepiPlatz #B1504 #squat #antireport

Just had a great convo with a member of Earthworker cooperative in Australia, fascinating cooperative, labor union, social movement project with several cooperatives. Well worth checking out: https://earthworkercooperative.com.au/

Just for clarification, for anyone using Javascript or considering thinking about it: https://invidious.snopyta.org/watch?v=Uo3cL4nrGOk or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uo3cL4nrGOk

REUTERS: The company found itself on the EU competition enforcer's radar again after German software provider Nextcloud, France's OVHcloud and two other companies filed complaints about Microsoft's cloud practices.

https://www.reuters.com/business/microsofts-cloud-business-targeted-by-eu-antitrust-regulators-2022-04-01/

Was involved in a discussion recently looking at the levels of lustre that could be achieved when polishing a turd (those who know me can probably guess the inspiration) and someone posted this: https://www.dorodango.com/

Great to see the Metro New York Library Council exploring the many advantages of the decentralised, non-corporate Fediverse ... https://metro.org/events/goodbye-facebook-hello-decentralized-social-media-can-peer-peer-lead-less-toxic-online but is it too much to ask that they consider employing some of their tech people to set up a BigBlueButton rather than forcing people to endure the painful irony of using Zoom for the session?

#BenJennings on the #UK’s #CostOfLivingCrisis – #cartoon | Opinion | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/picture/2022/apr/12/ben-jennings-on-the-uks-cost-of-living-crisis-cartoon

#Politics #Satire