Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Does anyone know of a unions-centric Mastodon instance? Please boost for reach.

#SocialCoop friends, I've started a bit of a hackpad on sharing lessons from our experience for people building fediverse instances now. Want to join me in sharing our learnings?

https://cloud.medlab.host/s/dyZHePAzNA3PX3w

Teachers reveal scale of pupils’ hunger as 100,000 miss out on #FfreeSchoolMeals | School meals | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2022/nov/10/children-not-eligible-for-free-school-meals-going-hungry-say-teachers

#UK #England #Poverty #Education #Politics

TrustCor CA will be removed in the upcoming release of GrapheneOS. They've been proven to engage in malicious domain squatting and have close ties to backdoored software and surveillance operations.

https://groups.google.com/a/mozilla.org/g/dev-security-policy/c/oxX69KFvsm4

We won't be waiting for Google and Mozilla to act.

Reading this: https://www.rnz.co.nz/programmes/the-detail/story/2018866148/do-big-wheels-belong-on-beaches I think that people who consider '4WD' to be their hobby... need to find a more sustainable hobby.

@ReneMeadowbloom @winterkalte

🏴PROTEST TMRW IS STILL ON🏴

👉The tenants' union has received confirmation that the encampment eviction tmrw has been postponed thanks to the overwhelming public response.

Even with a postponed eviction, we will be going forward with a militant 9am protest. Postponened or not, we need total confirmation that campers will NOT be evicted ANYTIME in the future and that they will receive the services they need. We have received the encouragement of Resilience to make this decision.

We ask that people countinue to show support and to help coordinate a response by showing up tnight at the site of the encampment, 7:30pm, and showing up before the protest tmrw to check in on campers.

We will not allow the government to postpone the eviction so that a future eviction can have a more coordinated and heavy police response. We will also not allow public backlash to fizzle out. We're gonna keep up the pressure.✊️

AGAINST EVICTIONS!! HOUSING FOR ALL!!

For those not aware, the City of so-called "montréal" is planning yet another displacement of homeless people.

Fortunately the montréal Autonomous Tenants Union has called for a manifestation in protest
⬇️
https://nitter.net/i/status/1590160549224263681

For those local, try to get out there, or if you can't, alert those you know who might be in alignment.

The City has really been on some bullshit floating disinformation that they're helping unhoused people when all they may do is bus them to overcrowded (sometimes full), temporary "shelters" that are places of
(institutional) violence

#Tiotiake #Tiotiahke #Tiotáke #Mooniyang #montréal #montreal
#DefendTheUnhoused

Boosts OK. Feel free to publish translations.

A discussion about distributed federated systems else-network did bring up some concerning history that we should keep in mind:

#XMPP was, briefly, the dominant messaging system on the Internet. It was fully federated allowing hosting anywhere. Major extensions were being done by major companies (Apple adding voice and video for example). And it all fell apart because the three big providers (Apple, Google, Facebook) ditched it to have more control.

#mastodon (1/2)

With yesterday’s election, Illinois struck a decisive blow against the long U.S. trend to strip labor of organizing effectiveness under law in the name of a falsely-so-called ‘right to work.’ Here, the people have countered that trend and voted in an amendment to the state constitution that enshrines, rather, workers’ right to organized collective resistance and negotiation. And I was here for it. It feels good.

https://www.wjol.com/collective-bargaining-amendment-passes/

You can thank me later...

"We now demonstrate how Bob can extort Alice in the contract of Section II-A. Bob’s extortion strategy is quite simple."

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2110.09857.pdf

In the case of journalists who were put off by having been blocked for not CW'ing political posts, one thing I think that needs to be emphasized is that Mastodon is not one single community. Different instances and cross-instance social networks have different norms.

Just because one instance blocks your toots does not mean that Mastodon as a whole isn't interested in them.

France just legislated that every parking lot for 80 cars or more must be covered by solar panels
That’s 11GW of new solar (same as 10 new nuclear reactors) powering millions of home - zero new land needed
Climate action is happening, just not at #COP27
#climateaction https://www.publicsenat.fr/article/parlementaire/l-obligation-de-pose-de-panneaux-photovoltaiques-sur-les-grands-parkings

https://www.kernelmag.io/2/virtual-violence

FOOD COOP!
Streaming from Nov. 13-Nov. 15. Panel discussion on the film, food cooperatives, and the solidarity economy movement on Nov. 14th at 8 pm Eastern.

Tickets are available for $5-$50, and the movie can be viewed in English, Spanish, French and Italian.

Panelists:

The filmmaker, Tom Boothe.

Elizabeth Jesdale, UE Local 255 rep and food co-op worker.

Ben Sandel, of Columinate.

Moderator: @lauriewayne, Open Food Network.

Sponsored by GEO.Coop

https://geo.coop/articles/join-geo-and-friends-watch-and-discuss-food-coop

Here's some masto history

There was a period of severe #racism here on masto. And not just from the shitty nazi side.

Just a lot of white liberal "left" people who felt that they were God's Gift to Mankind.

Who knew how to walk the walk. But the moment you pushed even slightly at them. Pointed out how a statement could be read as inflammatory. Pointed out an outdated term.

They exploded. Shit the fucking bed. And then left in a huff.

It took a group of #BIPOC users getting together and agreeing to work together for a while in dealing with these "subtle" racists for anything to get done. Because, of course, these shitlords made themselves popular amongst the white population.

But, it has happened. there was a solid year of stress and daily racism at some pretty extreme levels.

but there has been a sharp decrease of racism. Not an ending, I ain't ignorant. But a step, and a big enough step that I know of several instances on here that I can reach out to whenever I feel racially targeted to help me out.

I worry about how many of those shitheads are going to sneak in with the current iteration of new users.

But it isn't hopeless. We just have to remain vigilant and reach out to our fellow BIPOC for backup.

"But what does the peer-reviewed science say about the potential of #soil #CarbonSequestration approaches? The principles behind soil carbon sequestration are sound and fairly well understood. To grasp its potential, we have to understand the depleted state of soils today. Soils are vast reservoirs of carbon: they hold three times the amount of CO, currently in the atmosphere, or almost four times the amount held in living matter. But over the last 10,000 years, agriculture and land conversion has decreased soil carbon globally by 840 gigatons, and many cultivated soils have lost 50 to 70 percent of their original organic carbon. Intensive crop cultivation can reduce soil carbon by 25 to 50 percent in just thirty to fifty years. The good news is that this can be reversed."

♿ #Disability #Justice and #Tech

📰 In this interview with Lydia X. Z. Brown from the #Privacy and Consumer Data Project at the Center for Democracy and Technology, read about the systematic #disenfranchisement that is coded into #technology, which is often used to further oppress people with #disabilities.

https://just-tech.ssrc.org/articles/disability-justice-and-tech-a-conversation-with-lydia-x-z-brown/