Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

BREAKING: Police raid Northants community fridge
At 11am this morning, police swooped on a community mutual aid project in Northampton in a raid allegedly linked to the Just Stop Oil campaign.

The Racecourse Community Fridge is a recently established mutual aid project focusing on repurposing commercial and domestic foods which might otherwise go to waste, p
https://freedomnews.org.uk/2022/04/24/breaking-police-raid-northants-community-fridge/
#JSO #JustStopOil #Police #Protest #Raid

This is a cooperative that any cooperative and person in the world with an email can join.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1azxkmocBVPOZ5c3lNk2x8Fz9qwDLQbcN/view?usp=sharing

The presentation is quite detailed but the first 5 slides should be enough to get the basic idea.

If you or a coop you are involved in would be interested in joining you can do so here:

www.coopdata.club

This is great: "stable" coin project relies on community governance, so a hacker borrows $1b, uses it to get a 67% voting stake, votes that the project should wire them $182m, then pays back the huge loan and exits -- all in the space of 13 seconds. The "stable" coin immediately crashes.
https://www.theverge.com/2022/4/18/23030754/beanstalk-cryptocurrency-hack-182-million-dao-voting

Hello again in honor of Earth Day here are some sketched notes on various fellows and how they communicate and use language, a topic I've gotten fascinated with from time to time

#earthday #animals #intelligence #language #sketchbook #whales #bears #cuttlefish #elephant #drawing #creativetoots #mastoart

Available at http://tfsr.wtf/zines as transcripts or easily printable booklets, alongside many others, you can find our most recent additions: a 2020 interviews with Lorenzo Komb'oa Ervin & Bomani Shakur from Ohio Death Row; an anarchist from Avtonom.Org on resistance to the Ukraine war & repression in Russia; comrades from Lviv & Kharkiv about displacement & resistance to the Russian invasion!

Call for tester.

We plan to release Tails 5.0 on May 3 or May 31. It will be the first version of Tails based on Debian 11 (Bullseye). It brings new versions of most of the software included in Tails and some important usability improvements.

You can help Tails by testing the beta for Tails 5.0 before the end of April.

https://tails.boum.org/news/test_5.0-beta1/

help Nosotrxs fund repairs to their new space!

Nosotrxs is an Afrofeminist queer cultural center that organizes workshops, skillshares, movie screenings, performances, drag shows, carework, and vegetarian/vegan meals for afrodescended and queer populations in the Caribbean. They are currently fundraising for repairs on their new permanent location: the estimated cost of repairs is USD $16,000.

How can you Help?
1. Contribute to our repair costs via PayPal.
2. Share our campaign with your friends and networks.
3. Learn more: tinyurl.com/nosotrxsEnglish
4. Follows NOSOTRXS on Facebook: tinyurl.com/nosotrxsFB

PayPal: @Maco428
www.paypal.me/maco428

note: please write "NOSOTRXS Repairs" in the memo line

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.