Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

🕵🏻 What could possibly go wrong?

🇬🇧 #UK Home Office and Ministry of Justice has hired a contractor to run a program that will require convicted migrants to take selfies via a #smartwatch 5 times per day.

#privacy #surveillanceCapitism

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/aug/05/facial-recognition-smartwatches-to-be-used-to-monitor-foreign-offenders-in-uk

☣️ 💧 "Atmospheric levels of toxic “forever chemicals” are so high that rainwater everywhere contains amounts that are unsafe for long-term human consumption according to safety guidelines, scientists say."

#climate #health #PFAS

https://www.vice.com/en/article/m7gban/rainwater-everywhere-now-considered-too-toxic-for-safe-consumption-study-finds

Yes, we've known about dangerous human-caused climate change from fossil fuels for over a hundred years, climate scientists have been ignored that entire time, and we're still being ignored even today

Yes, they'll have to be brave and weather the abuse from the entitled elite who think it's in the public interest (ticket prices guarantee it will not be patronised by a uniform cross-section of society, so it's effectively a publicly funded project for the benefit of the wealthy)... but all they need to do is point to the beautiful new (empty) Convention Centre, which should be dubbed the "Albatross Millstone Necklace" as that's what'll be for ratepayer for its lifetime. Why add another one?!

It also seems Apple's ad tracking rules exempt much of its own tracking behavior since it only shares the data it collects about you with itself and not third parties. At least according to this analysis: https://mobiledevmemo.com/att-advantages-apples-ad-network-heres-how-to-fix-that/

Interesting coincidence that after Apple added App Tracking Transparency to alert iPhone users to the data 3rd party apps collected for ads, adtech had to scramble for alternatives, such as Apple's own ad biz, which grew 238% to $3.7B in 2021 https://www.theverge.com/2022/8/14/23305200/iphone-more-ads-advertising-apple-maps-podcasts-books-mark-gurman-rumors

After many days of hot and dry weather, with temperatures in the 30s and feeling rather uncomfortable, today offered a respite and there were showers as well as some thunderstorms and lightning to cool things down again. The weather cleared up later in the afternoon and the day ended with this spectacular #sunset with #greys and #golds amongst the #clouds and #sky. Sort of reminiscent of #JMWTurner.

#MyWork #MyPhoto #CCBYSA #DSLR #Nikon #D7000 #Summer

I am sick and tired of people thinking being a "businessman" in any way qualifies you to be a public servant.

Councils and governments ARE NOT BUSINESSES that should be run for profit. They are there to serve the public and provide services.

@lightweight Chomsky commented about why funding goes to fighter jets, nukes. No one knows how much they should cost so it's easy to run political machines off them. Money for local infrastructure would have a lot more knowledgeable people paying attention to the graft? The regime here loves cementing and damming rivers but can't make sidewalks nice for all the electric wheelchair old people. My guess is that it's the same dynamic. Unnecessary tunnels keep democracy at bay and the corps rich.

Looks like ol' Martin finally found his people -- the place where his particular skill-set and outlook on life are appreciated, and rewarded, instead of reviled and punished.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-08-12/crypto-plunge-pharma-bro-shkreli-s-coin-drops-more-than-90

Nuclear or not, classified or not, #Mar-a-Lago files spell out jeopardy for #Trump | #DonaldTrump | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/aug/13/nuclear-or-not-classified-or-not-mar-a-lago-files-spell-out-jeopardy-for-trump

#US #Politics #Law

Any artist (preferably involved with the coop movement) who would be interested in drawing this for me?

The concept would be the same, but I would need to make a few versions with different texts.

Working on a project on how coops can resolve conflicts of interest in referral marketing.

I will prioritise those who have the time to do it asap.

Will pay.

What crazy thing will we be asked to believe today? What part of the recent past will we be asked to forget? 👇

https://scheerpost.com/2022/08/11/patrick-lawrence-so-far-as-i-can-make-out/

Better a late announcement than no announcement:

Calls 43.beta.0 got released a couple of days ago

you can read more ⬇️
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/calls/-/tags/v43_beta.0

@purism #gnome #mobile #foss #mobilelinux #debian

Cars continue to copy the smartphone business model, now have mandatory pre-installed services and apps (and the tracking that comes with them): #privacy https://www.thedrive.com/news/gm-makes-1500-onstar-subscription-mandatory-on-gmc-buick-cadillac-models

The platform coop movement should create cooperative alternatives to capitalist platforms. Perhaps more importantly, it should also create cooperative platforms that capitalists cannot provide an alternative to.

Wikipedia is a non-profit with democratic user governance similar to a cooperative and without any competing alternatives. Despite being one of the most popular websites in the world, there is no venture capital flowing to start-ups that seek to “disrupt Wikipedia” by replacing it.

#Meta injecting code into #websites visited by its users to track them, research says | Meta | The Guardian

Probably not news to many here.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/aug/11/meta-injecting-code-into-websites-visited-by-its-users-to-track-them-research-says

#Facebook #Instagram #SurveillanceCapitalism

This is why I can't take national politics seriously. We're given things that are practically indistinguishable from nothing, and told that we should celebrate.

It insulting, frankly, & I'm sick of it. And what's really disappointing is how many people seem to be happy to play along & pretend that their political party of choice is actually legitimately concerned about making the 🌍 a better place (rather than just raking n as much 💰 as possible). smh.

In 2003 I lobbied on the hill with Consumer Fed. of Amer. trying to convince Congress not to include a "we will never negotiate for a better deal with drug companies" clause in Medicare Part D. We were not successful (maybe we should have brought some briefcases filled with cash).

20 years later, we're being told that allowing CMS to negotiate on the prices of 10 whole drugs (and not until 4 years from now) is some kind of victory.

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2022/08/the-ira-drug-price-victory.html