Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Well, this is what it's come to people. This is the place our genius political leaders have brought us to - seriously asking where the safest place to be is during a nuclear strike. (The real answer, of course, is in some other timeline where the dumbest, most venial and malicious assholes don't get to make all the important decisions).

https://www.vice.com/en/article/5d3vjx/scientists-surviving-nuclear-explosion-in-house

ProPublica used Blacklight (https://themarkup.org/blacklight) to show that nine online abortion pill providers are sharing sensitive data with Google: https://www.propublica.org/article/websites-selling-abortion-pills-share-sensitive-data-with-google

The off-the-shelf e-commerce tools aren't built for privacy, and patients face new legal risks since overturn of Roe v Wade.

In July, Dara Kerr and I found online abortion pill provider Hey Jane sending visitor data to Meta, Google and others (now stopped), and found a reviewer's personal information: https://themarkup.org/pixel-hunt/2022/07/01/online-abortion-pill-provider-hey-jane-used-tracking-tools-that-sent-visitor-data-to-meta-google-and-others

So #Apple is scanning your local files on #macOS without consent according to Jeffrey Paul ( @sneak ) https://sneak.berlin/20230115/macos-scans-your-local-files-now/

Again folks, #Linux is the only way to go to be truly private and piece of mind.

I've been using NextCloud for years now (previously used OwnCloud, too)... but it's never been quite up to replacing the proprietary heavy hitters... but it's got a LOT better: https://tilvids.com/w/5219e88d-7de8-4dc8-97ca-e370744a05f5 Also, the "heavy hitters" have gotten a lot worse - the implications of having ALL your data in the hands of Apple, Microsoft, or Google should now be clear - and damning - to most people. The confluence of those things means people should jump to #FOSS and reclaim data sovereignty.

RT @froomkin
Good grief! These articles treat hitting the debt limit as something normal, when it’s a completely engineered crisis created by crazed Republicans https://apnews.com/article/biden-us-department-of-the-treasury-united-states-government-janet-yellen-business-6fe9b54dcdfea58bead0f4c5f9f89a64

Minneapolis police began shutting down roads at 5:30am.

Word around camp confirms Metro Transit is shutting down light rail at 9:00.

Intergovernmental cooperation at its finest. They can't coordinate to provide housing, but they sure can pull it together for an eviction.

One last-minute community outreach worker only offering useless temporary, night-to-night shelters.

These mf'ers are so dumb it makes my head hurt.

https://www.theblock.co/post/202589/3ac-zhu-davies-new-crypto-exchange

1. We've been told that the GOP will no longer cater to big business

Instead, Republicans have embraced populism and are at war with corporations, which they claim have gone "woke"

Corporate lobbyists are reportedly out of luck

NONE OF THIS IS TRUE

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@BrentToderian

Someone explained to me a key difference between countries like Canada/USA/UK versus Germany/Finland/Denmark is that the former are corporate cultures and the latter are community cultures.

Community cultures see someone living on the street and ask how to help that person get back on his feet. Corporate cultures say it’s the person’s own fault and they deserve to suffer - every person from him/herself.

Community cultures have #proportionalrepresentation

@BrentToderian In the US, we're not interested in housing the homeless. We need homeless people to perpetuate the national lie that the obscenely wealthy have earned their money, and the poor are morally inferior and so deserve their misery.

“In #Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment and counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back into a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.”

Make sure everyone understands this — It’s costing us far too much to NOT provide housing and supports to those who are homeless.

https://scoop.me/housing-first-finland-homelessness/

#homelessness #cities #housing #HousingFirst

Guardian cover story rn: looks like this year's El Niño is set to kick us past 1.5C, and into a cruel wave of floods, fires and drought.

"When [El Niño arrives], the extreme weather that has rampaged across our planet in 2021 and 2022 will pale into insignificance." - Prof Bill McGuire, at University College London

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jan/16/return-of-el-nino-will-cause-off-the-chart-temperature-rise-climate-crisis

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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