Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

In France, over a million people have opened a "solidarity economy savings account" that invests in solidarity enterprises, many of which are cooperatives. The popularity of the accounts is booming.

Here is my article about this promising phenomenon - it is an issue of a weekly newsletter that covers existing success stories & exciting new ideas about the future of the cooperative movement.

Consider subscribing, every new subscriber makes me very happy :)

https://www.getrevue.co/profile/coop_exchange/issues/solidarity-economy-saving-accounts-are-booming-in-france-985961

Big shout out to our dev teams. Thanks to their efforts, we have a free software mobile platform and vibrant third party app ecosystem based on the GNOME stack. And because
we are upstreaming improvements the GNOME experience on desktop has gotten much better at the same time! Read more by @tbernard https://puri.sm/posts/how-to-be-upstream-first/

When we created ODF 20+ years ago, Microsoft first laughed at the committee at OASIS, then made OOXML to render it moot, then rigged ISO to make OOXML a standard, then implemented ODF and now participates in the ODF committee and helps fund its work through COSM.

#Bluesky is Twitter's OOXML to #ActivityPub and it's at the "rigging ISO" stage.

One of the most important feature requests we've heard from you is "WHERE THE HECK IS MY #THUNDERBIRD MOBILE APP?"

Here's a straight answer:

YES, we're excited to announce that an Android version of Thunderbird is coming!

We'll have more details to share with you in a few weeks. We'll talk to you about it here, and over on our blog at https://blog.thunderbird.net.

MyCoolClass is a #platformcoop owned by the teachers to facilitate online teaching.

It that has a crowdfunding campaign that seeks investors. People from outside the UK can invest too - the platform is global, with teachers using it around the world.

I am not involved with it but have invested £200 and warmly suggest you do the same, retoots also appreciated :)

https://www.mycoolclass.com/community-shares/

Tell your young people not to give their spare energy to employed work. Their employers will take it if they give it but all that happens is the young folk burn out. Teach them “no” and “pay me”

....https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/08/illinois-bought-invasive-phone-location-data-banned-broker-safegraph https://twitter.com/auren/status/1521587027564765187

Battling disinformation and protecting journalists who expose the truth is vital to ensure #pressfreedom🔎!

On #WorldPressFreedomDay explore our Exposing the invisible Kit that will provide you with skills, tools and resources https://kit.exposingtheinvisible.org/en/index.html

Conduit, https://conduit.rs.

Conduit is a simple, fast and reliable chat server powered by @matrix.

#matrix #decentralized #communication #protocol #server #rustlang

Access to safe #abortion protects #health and promotes #humanRights.

https://www.who.int/health-topics/abortion

Means-testing (i.e. "prove you're poor before we'll help you") has always been about denying help to those who need it, not keeping out those who don't. Demand concrete, universal, material benefits from your congresscritters today.

https://www.levernews.com/the-means-test-con/

We have informed Apple of our preliminary view that it abused its dominant position in markets for mobile wallets on iOS devices.

Our preliminarily findings show that Apple may have restricted competition, to the benefit of its solution Apple Pay.

ℹ️ http://europa.eu/!QFBpnV

@ItsMeChrisWade There's a great list in this article: https://www.thecut.com/article/donate-abortion-fund-amy-coney-barrett-how-to-help.html

📰 It's #WorldPressFreedomDay.

🔎 #Politicization, #disinformation, #censorship, #harassment, and #violence toward the #press are greater threats than ever to #democracy.

📣 Democratizing #SocialMedia platforms like #Mastodon can help, so spread the word and do your part to help grow the #Fediverse.

https://invidious.snopyta.org/watch?v=25fJTgcFLDc

This is a cool resource for wouldbe Mastodon bot authors seeking inspiration: https://botwiki.org/bot/?networks=fediverse&opensource=true

What do those of us using the open decentralised #Fediverse see as unique opportunities we have that those still on closed centralised social media lack?

I'll start: at https://OERu.org, we provide courses to help people learn to learn in a 'digital age'. That includes learning how social media works. We don't dump them into Twitter or Facebook, we offer a Mastodon instance where they experiment safely. When confident, they can expand their horizons effortlessly.

#AllAcrossTheFediverse

Days ago, I had a strategy session with marketing. She recommended to nourish my #linkedin persona. And recommended to grow a community there.
I told her that the platform gives me headache from the timeline & bad visuals.

This week I learned about yet another data breach:
https://newswwc.com/2021/04/09/linkedin-announces-data-breach-of-over-500-million-users/

I want to keep & grow my professional network. But not this way.

How do I explain them the concept of @flockingbird ?

btw, #ms365 now searches your contacts on #linkedin from #msoutlook (no opt-out)

Framasoft are one of the few no-bullshit, non-Silicon Valley organisations working to protect your freedoms online and they’ve been hugely supportive of us since the very beginning.

Please support them if you can.

https://soutenir.framasoft.org/en/

#freedom #tech #privacy #humanRights