Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

From @mjtsai: "The point is not that Apple should have caught this but that, in general, they can’t, so they should not be claiming to keep you safe."

https://mjtsai.com/blog/2023/02/21/scam-authenticator-app-steals-qr-codes/

Dying search engine #Bing (and its clones, like DDG, Ecosia, Neeva, Qwant, Yahoo, etc.) keeps putting some really old pages up top for site:lucire.com. This page is second. It was written in 1999 and hasn’t been linked by current pages for over two decades. Check out the Amazon logos!

Malcolm X was assassinated 58 years ago today. This remains as one of my favorite pieces of wisdom he shared. And now, they're making it illegal to even claim the knife is there.

"If you stick a knife in my back nine inches and pull it out six inches, there's no progress. If you pull it all the way out that's not progress. Progress is healing the wound that the blow made. And they haven't even pulled the knife out much less heal the wound. They won't even admit the knife is there." — Malcolm X

If you're using Mastodon on a computer, there's an optional "advanced" mode available on your server's website.

By default Mastodon uses a simple single column, but advanced mode is a Tweetdeck-style multicolumn interface that lets you add as many columns as you want. This includes a special pinned hashtag feed where you can combine, require or exclude particular tags within a single feed.

To find out how to activate and use advanced mode, click here:

➡️ https://fedi.tips/how-to-activate-mastodons-tweetdeck-style-advanced-web-interface

#Mastodon

Individual journalists can do their part by urging journalism trade organizations and associations in which they are members to ban Fox employees.

If the answer is no (or no answer), journalists should resign from those trade groups -- and say why.

Journalists should also lobby donors to those trade groups to apply pressure to keep Fox out.

Doing nothing is, at this point, more than just acquiescence. It borders on complicity.

Nativist militias have set up camp alongside the US-Mexico border to intercept migrants heading north. In recent years these groups' activities have become increasingly extreme — and ever more ambitious.

A series of videos indicates that members of one Arizona-based militia have even crossed into Mexico in a series of 'undercover operations'.

https://www.bellingcat.com/news/2023/02/21/borderless-vigilantism-the-nativist-us-militias-entering-mexico/

If Big Journalism doesn't start treating the Murdoch family's poison-spewing Fox "News" like the rogue propaganda-for-power-and-money outfit that it is, the craft will demonstrate its utter contempt for journalistic ethics.

The Fox-McCarthy partnership is one of the most egregious examples yet -- and simply covering it as just another story is not nearly enough.

The times grow more and more dangerous, and Big Journalism is not up to the job -- yet. https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/20/politics/kevin-mccarthy-tucker-carlson-january-6-footage/index.html

Every year, Americans spend billions on #TaxPrep services, paying a heavily concentrated industry of giant, wildly profitable firms to send the #IRS information it already has. Despite the fact that most other rich countries have a far more efficient process, many Americans believe that adopting this process here is either impossible, immoral, or both.

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This post from @rbreich (see screenshot) is a classic example of why we should stop using "earned" to describe "collected" or "made" in the context of income.

The word "earn" includes a value judgment -- that the money is deserved.

Little of vast loot being collected by the 0.1% is even remotely earned.

If I ran a journalism org, our policy would be to use neutral, not loaded, language in this and many other cases.

@jayrosen_nyu
You and I have been arguing this forever. Why, oh why have journalists and news organizations been so reluctant to (1) cover Fox as the malign political actor it is and (2) shun it by, e.g., refusing their people membership in professional organizations. The call about the end of journalistic integrity is coming from inside the house.

Useful write-up about #California bill AB 2273, yet another piece of legislation that claims to be about protecting children but that in fact harms online civil liberties by promoting censorship and requiring websites to practice surveillance on users:
https://dw-news.dreamwidth.org/41930.html

It’s like he put railroad profits over the lives of ordinary Americans…

#trump

Cop City protesters in Atlanta, Georgia are calling for a nation wide week of solidarity beginning February 19th 2023
https://www.stopcopcitysolidarity.org/

In 1979 Jimmy Carter installed solar panels on the White House roof. In the 80s' Ronald Reagan removed them.
Carter wanted renewables to generate 20% of U.S. energy needs by 2000. When Reagan was elected he scrapped the policy, eliminating tax breaks for renewable technologies in favour of oil and gas. Today the US produces just 7% of its energy from renewables, the majority from hydroelectric schemes.
A massive wasted opportunity which we and future generations will pay for.
#climatechange

A few years ago Social.Coop did a Reading Group session with @ntnsndr on his book, Everything for Everyone.

Would anyone be up for a discussion of Cooperatives at Work, which @emi @GeorgeCheney and I had a hand in writing?

The typical CEO of a company listed on the S&P 500 earned $18.8 million last year — up roughly 21% from 2021.

Meanwhile, people working full-time minimum wage jobs can’t afford a two-bedroom apartment anywhere in the United States.

Folks, this is what oligarchy looks like.

FBI rescues 28 children, arrests 59 pedophiles in a massive child trafficking/abuse crackdown in Texas.

Included in the arrests are 2 Christian church leaders, 1 Republican leader who proposed allowing driving while "a little drunk", and 0 drag queens

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