Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Cambodia reports 2nd human case of H5N1 bird flu - https://bnonews.com/index.php/2023/02/cambodia-reports-2nd-human-case-of-h5n1-bird-flu/ as I said earlier, this is not good; actually, this is really not good now... #AvianInfluenza

Ecosystem collapse ‘inevitable’ unless wildlife losses reversed - https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/feb/24/ecosystem-collapse-wildlife-losses-permian-triassic-mass-extinction-study we humans are so stupid

It's the time of the year where most associations to their annual budgeting.

If you want to increase the allocation for your favourite projects, don't forget that your #donation helps.

Support your favourite Open Source projects and communites.

PS: For Codeberg, check out https://docs.codeberg.org/improving-codeberg/#donate-to-codeberg or consider becoming a member at https://join.codeberg.org/ :)

Right, dinner done, bedtime imminent. Thread watch escalating to thread warning.

And let's start with some sources:
Kenneth Carroll's "Maryland Quakers and Slavery" is dated in its language, but provides a thorough timeline of the subject. Page 215, here: https://archive.org/details/marylandhistoric4519mary/page/214/mode/2up

We've also got this, on the history of Quaker slavers in Brookville, MD, which uses Carroll as well as several primary sources: https://msa.maryland.gov/brookeville/slavery.html

Cool. That was surprisingly easy. I now have a personal Forgejo instance... starting to migrate repos from my Gitlabs...

Reddit: "My friend is in university and taking a history class. The professor is using ChatGPT to write essays on the history topics and the students need to mark up its essays and point out where ChatGPT is wrong and correct it."

https://old.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/117gtom/my_friend_is_in_university_and_taking_a_history/

Honestly, this is great! The students learn to check sources, discover that ChatGPT is unreliable, *and* can't use it to generate essay question answers for them, all at the same time!

Holy crap: Scott Adams goes full-bore racist. https://www.mercurynews.com/2023/02/23/dilberts-scott-adams-white-people-should-get-the-hell-away-from-black-people/

NEW: leaked chats show brandon russell, the founder of atomwaffen division, encouraging others to engage in infrastructure attacks in the several months prior to his arrest in early february.

from me and @jasonwilson

the chats range from july to november of 2022, and show three accounts that we tied to russell sharing maps of US infrastructure and PDFs with instructions on how to attack infrastructure to a tight-knit group of terroristic neo-nazis.
https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2023/02/23/leaked-chats-documents-show-atomwaffen-founders-path-terror-plot

There's a serious opportunity for #Mastodon and other #ActivityPub systems to implement properly secure DMs by integrating #Matrix from @matrix .

Just flashed my phone with an OS image that was created on the same phone a few minutes earlier 😜 It works! #librem5

Free webinar on #coop member democracy next week.

Will be speaking about my experience of campaigning in
elections of OP Group (biggest bank in Finland) and S Group (biggest grocery store in Finland) elections.

Will also be presenting ideas how to improve democracy in big consumer coops with idea competitions and coop incubators.

http://tiny.cc/ICAvalues

As the federal government looks expand solar development on public lands, 2 questions emerge: what are country’s public lands for, and are they the best places for utility-scale solar projects? https://insideclimatenews.org/news/19022023/solar-public-lands/

MSNBC working to ensure that everyone knows it's in Biden's pocket. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/21/business/media/jen-psaki-msnbc.html

Lots of comments on this thread, I'm not going to be able to respond to all of them, sorry. Stuff you can do:

Tell others what is happening! Most people have no idea of the terrible consequences of unregulated development of orbit will be in the very near future.

Don't buy satellite internet! Or if you have to, tell your provider that you care about safety and dark skies

Go enjoy the beautiful night sky! And bring a friend!

Join IDA https://www.darksky.org/ or CPS: https://cps.iau.org/

Here's an uncomfortable American history fact. While folks often point out that after Jesse Owens won 4 gold medals at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, Hitler refused to shake his hand.

But what happened next? Well, after returning home, Owens & 17 other Black Olympians were denied an invite to the White House. Instead, President Roosevelt only invited white Olympians. And it wasn't until 2016 that the White House finally apologized and invited their descendants to the WH.

2016.
#BlackHistoryMonth

The Swedish government advises against using Zoom in a recent report.

Sensitive information is at risk, and more secure solutions are available, like Nextcloud Talk.

Read about this development in our blog.

#privacy

https://nextcloud.com/blog/swedish-government-advises-against-zoom/

As @JosephMenn reports, Russian propagandists are eager buyers of Twitter Blue.

This is because Twitter Blue privileges their posts in Twitter's relevancy algorithm, ensuring their propaganda achieves more reach.

It also gives them a fancy blue badge.

Russian propagandists aren't the only bad hombres buying Twitter Blue. A few months ago, I discovered that the Taliban are also paying for the service.

Twitter Blue: loved by Putin and the Taliban!

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/02/22/russian-propagandists-said-buy-twitter-blue-check-verifications/

I warn my students about stories that are accurate but not true. Bret Stephens' anti-mask screed today is a good example of that — and what makes it accurate is a brief aside that he buries in order to cover his sorry ass. #journalism #covid My Media Nation post: https://dankennedy.net/2023/02/22/bret-stephens-wants-you-to-misunderstand-an-easily-misunderstood-report-on-masking/

This is HUGE.

"The National Labor Relations Board ruled Tuesday that employers can no longer demand laid-off employees avoid publicly disparaging the company as part of their severance agreements, nor can they stop affected employees from disclosing the terms of their exit packages. Doing so, the federal agency determined, would be a violation of the laid-off employees’ rights under the National Labor Relations Act."

https://www.vice.com/en/article/dy7a7x/companies-cant-ask-you-to-shut-up-to-receive-severance-nlrb-rules