Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

For anyone in the US that is "unbanked" and on Social Security: if you are having troubles accessing your account, it's not just you.

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2022/12/links-12-2-2022.html#comment-3819797

Please forward.

There is conversation about a proposed gathering of collectively/cooperatively/democratically run Mastodon instances.

As @natematias has pointed out, this conversation needs to start with #bipoc, #lgbtqia+, and other people who have been (and continue to be) attacked in social media spaces.

If you are running a #Black, #BIPOC, #LGBTQIA+ or other instance, does a gathering of collective/cooperative instances seem useful to you?

#deij #jedi

https://app.element.io/#/room/#democratic-fediverse:matrix.org

Police are showing up at the doors of protestors in China who have demonstrated against the lockdowns there. They tracked them down using their phones and their faces: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/02/business/china-protests-surveillance.html

I'm thinking of trying out Last.fm as a way of keeping track of what I listen to while in the workshop because I thought it might be a fun thing to share. But maybe there is a better/simpler way of doing this that doesn't involve giving more data to an opaque corporation? Anyone have thoughts?

I'll be playing music off of my (android) phone, in case that matters.

"Schools are slowly becoming extremely reliant on a few large companies’ entire technological stacks in order to operate. In turn, these stacks are reshaping what schooling is and could be, and exercising unaccountable control over students, teachers, administrators and content providers alike".
This worries me quite a lot, actually. Read the whole essay. https://educationdatafutures.digitalfuturescommission.org.uk/essays/competing-interests-in-education-data/schools-must-resist-big-edtech
(via @garyackerman)

With all the new folks joining here, I thought I should lay out a couple guiding posts for #AltText. I hope it will give everyone something to consider going forward, and I strongly encourage everyone to use this tool. It engages those like me, who have been shut out of entire conversations in the past because we couldn't follow along due to an absence of described images.
#A11y #Advocacy

The Brewer's Advent calendar from Costco is a personal treat every holiday season. Each day there's a new obscure German beer I can't find locally. 23 more days of this! #beer #advent

#introductions Hi, we are Earth First UK, promoting green anarchism in this bit of the world (https://www.earthfirst.uk/).

Totally new to Mastodon, no idea how it works! Be great to link up with others involved ecological organising.

For the benefit of those who'd like a fuller explanation of the nature of the betrayal, there is now this video explanation:

https://youtu.be/mzgFZItk8MI

In the last 20 years, one third of all grassroots music venues in the UK have been forced to shut down.

Own Our Venues campaign by
Music Venue Trust offers a straightforward & simple solution; bringing music venues under community ownership.

You can invest here: https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/own-our-venues

Read more on Mutual Interest, an online publication owned by readers & writers as a coop.

https://www.mutualinterest.coop/2022/12/own-our-venues-campaign-has-a-solution-to-save-the-struggling-grassroot-live-music-industry

You can become a Mutual Interest member-owner here:

https://opencollective.com/mutual-interest-media

#coopshilling

Some people in the UK now reduced to eating pet food and trying to heat food up on a radiator. This is where we are in 2022 and the most sickening thing about this is that it's all completely unnecessary. What have we become?

https://www.msn.com/en-xl/news/other/people-eating-pet-food-says-community-worker/ar-AA14L1yN

#Poverty #PovertyAwareness #UKPolitics #EnoughIsEnough

"We are not theorizing a new way of living, we are weaving a new way of doing." ~Lizeth Vargas, Cecosesola

https://geo.coop/articles/alternative-capitalist-hierarchies