Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

From leaked #Facebook internal documents:

- It has no idea how much data it ultimately collects on its users
- Cannot control where all that data goes internally
- Ultimately does not know what happens with it

https://www.vice.com/en/article/akvmke/facebook-doesnt-know-what-it-does-with-your-data-or-where-it-goes

The most daunting thing for me about joining Mastodon/Fediverse was picking an instance.

Having joined one, a RL metaphor emerges for me: "it's like picking an apartment building."

You need to evaluate the management. Do they respect tenant rights? Is the desk clerk skeevy?

Do you want to live in a big impersonal complex? Or a little boarding house, where people share a lot and have house parties? You can even be a "home owner" and run your own instance (pay the bills, fix the plumbing).

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FOSTA is an unconstitutional, speech-chilling law that violates the First Amendment and harms sex workers. We're still fighting it in court on behalf of our clients. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/04/plaintiffs-press-appeals-court-rule-fosta-violates-first-amendment

#EU unveils plan for ‘largest ever #ban’ on dangerous #chemicals | #Environment | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/apr/25/eu-unveils-plan-largest-ever-ban-on-dangerous-chemicals

#Pollution #Waste #Plastics

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