Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

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"...all you have to do is look at the sluggish recovery of Western Kentucky after the devastating tornadoes of last year and observe for yourself: rebuilding is just the hot new buzzword for running out the clock until the next disaster hits—at which point you can start the same cycle all over again."

https://thebaffler.com/latest/flooding-in-the-sacrifice-zone-ray

4th Euro heatwave, by the looks of it

TIL that Malaysia has a "Special Task Force on Jihad Against Inflation." (and check out that shirt on Minister Musa)

https://www.malaymail.com/news/malaysia/2022/08/06/cooperatives-can-be-used-as-medium-to-fight-middlemen-minister-says-in-fight-against-inflation/21450

Meanwhile, US Federal Reserve has announced the convening of the "Committee on Continuing the Beatings Until Moral Improves"...

ICYMI: #Twitter exposed phone numbers linked to 5,000,000 accounts #privacy

https://privacy.twitter.com/en/blog/2022/an-issue-affecting-some-anonymous-accounts

Facebook Gave Police Teenager's DMs in Abortion Prosecution

Link: https://www.forbes.com/sites/emilybaker-white/2022/08/08/facebook-abortion-teen-dms/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32401381

The coop movement maybe focuses a bit too much on how coops can best solve the biggest problems in society and not enough on identifying problems that coops are best suitable for solving.

There are many big problems that coops cannot do much about.

There are many boring but consequential problems that receive little attention and that coops could be an ideal fix to.

Yes, this is a real worry: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/472515/data-specialist-questions-where-his-personal-data-went-after-job-application our gov't is reckless with our data, and no one is holding them to account. Thanks for going public with this Dr Taiuru. I think we need a big dose of sunlight in the gov't IT sector, as I think there's some very very slip-shod/sloppy work going on there. And we NZers are paying handsomely for it. Not good enough.

Luxon has his head up his arse if he thinks being young and poor is easy. I was a beneficiary from the age of 16 until my early 20s through no choice of my own.

I’m grateful for the welfare state, it saved my sorry arse. But it was a grind every single day to get by. #nzpol #NZTwits

Many very good points. But I disagree with one thing: I seriously doubt that Bill Gates is a 'software genius'. https://www.climateandcapitalmedia.com/bill-gates-dumbest-idea-ever/ #nuclearfolly.

The question isn't whether people "care" about #privacy or not. Everyone does. The question is if they understand that less privacy is a #social issue, not just a #personal one. The question is if they understand what it actually means to be on commercial social media; who they're feeding & how. The question is if they have any other option.

It's the #capitalists we're fighting - not the "workers". So be kind, & keep #fighting, #thinking, #making, #feeling, #saying, #doing.

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