Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Virginia seeks to strip transgender school students of protections - https://www.theguardian.com/education/2022/sep/19/virginia-transgender-students-schools-glenn-youngkin the cruelty of republicans is astonishing; I don't know how they live with themselves...

Liberal hypocrisy is really a thing to behold.

https://theintercept.com/2022/09/18/biden-trump-border-wall/

And in case you're wondering, yes, the Biden admin is still keeping immigrant kids in cages, but they did do a remodel job on the cages, so all good!

At least Trump was upfront about his sociopathy and/or too dumb to hide it. Personally, I think that may be preferable to Biden who does the same terrible shit, just while claiming to care about the environment and the people that get stepped on.

GPS Jammers are being used to hijack trucks and down drones

https://www.zdnet.com/article/criminals-are-using-gps-jammers-to-hijack-trucks-and-down-drones/

Realization: the main utility of blockchain tech is that it presents an irrefutable argument for a wealth tax. If there’s enough bored money rattling around out there to fund obviously negative-sum nonsense like this, we can as a society choose to spend that money on public education, health care and clean running water instead.

A part of a new blog article I am writing about open source and the cooperative movement.

Let me know if you have some thoughts or links relevant about the topic!

Criticism intensifies after big oil admits ‘gaslighting’ public over green aims | #ClimateCrisis | The Guardian

This has been know for decades.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/sep/17/oil-companies-exxonmobil-chevron-shell-bp-climate-crisis

#Environment #GlobalWarming #ClimateChange #Politics #US #FossilFuel

The Democratic Party has got to be one of the most ironically named political organizations in history.

https://theintercept.com/2022/09/14/dnc-overrule-convention-bylaws/

Decolonization begins at home.

https://www.blackagendareport.com/decolonizing-mind

This makes me very angry: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/474816/potentially-a-billion-dollars-to-clean-up-tiwai-point another example foreign corporations running roughshod over foreign lands and regulation and not taking responsibility for the horrible mess they've created.

I will be livid if either a single cent of taxpayer money is spent to clean this up completely - it's on Rio Tinto, as majority owner and majority profiteer, or if they get away with anything less than a complete clean up.

Daybreak is a cooperative board game about stopping climate change. Can you and your friends build a sustainable future where everyone can thrive as well as survive? https://bit.ly/daybreakgame

Are you working at the intersection of #OpenSource and open standards in the EU? Apply for a grant for your work now! https://www.standict.eu/standicteu-2023-8th-open-call

Chapter 1 of Cooperative Enterprise and Market Economy by @luisrazeto (transl. by @Matt_Noyes) is up now on GEO! #cooperatives #economics #SolidarityEconomy

https://geo.coop/articles/cooperative-enterprise-and-market-economy-chapter-1

Australia elected a Labor PM in 1972 and briefly became independent, abolishing royal patronage and expressing solidarity with non-aligned countries.

Then MI6, the CIA, Nixon and the queen used "coupmasters" who previously worked on the coup against Indonesia's anti-colonial president Sukarno AND Chile's socialist leader Salvador Allende to trigger a "constitutional crisis" in Australia and simply fired the PM using "reserve powers."

They're figureheads until they're not