Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Boom. Yes. We need to drop patents and paywalls (and 'IP' in general). They don't 'drive' innovation like we've been told. Quite the opposite. https://theconversation.com/why-we-need-open-source-science-innovation-not-patents-and-paywalls-192484

What computer operating system are you driving? If it is not GNU/Linux, you are probably paying extra for some cool defects. Is the machine broken or are you really at fault by using it incorrectly? The power of marketing is amazing.
https://youtu.be/AUaJ8pDlxi8

@joelleichty @FreeScholar You may find this handbook useful: https://geo.coop/articles/how-create-solidarity-enterprise

The Trolley Problem is that we have roads and cars and we don't have any fucking trolleys.

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How Walgreens manufactured a media frenzy about shoplifting
Via @JuddLegum
https://open.substack.com/pub/popularinformation/p/how-walgreens-manufactured-a-media?r=bpx3&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email

THE SEVEN HABITS OF HIGHLY SUCCESSFUL PEOPLE
1. Private School
2. Legacy Ivy admission
3. Nepotism hire
4. Seed capital from family money
5. Club memberships
6. Personal assistant, nanny, ghostwriter
7. Journalists who ask “what’s your secret?” and uncritically publish the lame answer

@kevlin @cwebber described ChatGPT as Mansplaining As A Service, and honestly I can’t think of a better description. A service that instantly generates vaguely plausible sounding yet totally fabricated and baseless lectures at an instant with unflagging confidence in it’s own correctness on any topic, without concern, regard or awareness even of the level of expertise of it’s audience.

@nathanpboston I think it's helpful to put this in perspective on a map (42.3836, -71.21455 if you want to look for yourself).

Here's a satellite view of the plot, with outline and annotations added. You can see that the area is mostly covered in fields. There's a community garden and BACE in the NW, and WFCF's infrastructure is all in the N, NE, and E sides (hard to see).

The contaminated area is the little yellow circle far in the south.

Anyone know if it's possible to buy paper bags (not tiny ones) made of butcher paper?

The staggering greed -- and indifference to global public health -- of the covid vaccine companies is only a surprise if you haven'[t paid attention to Big Pharma's record over the years: https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/01/moderna-may-match-pfizers-400-price-hike-on-covid-vaccines-report-says/

This is also on governments, notably ours, that socialize R&D (and in the case of vaccines, production) and privatize the profits for executives and shareholders.

Shopping online and the site says, "Get FREE Shipping when you pick up your order in store."

Um...

Pundit says the guy who lied his way into Congress, faking out many of the people who voted for him, deserves to keep his seat until they vote for someone else.

Hence, a two-year freebie for defrauding the electorate.

Gives punditry a bad name...

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2023-01-08/george-santos-doesn-t-deserve-to-be-kicked-out-of-congress?fromMostRead=true

EFF's @jgkelley tells NPR's All Things Considered that Louisiana's age verification law could lead to risks like blackmail: "Porn is already used to trick [people] into downloading malware. Now these sites have a legal basis for asking a person to upload their identity info." https://www.npr.org/transcripts/1147762020