Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Think I'm going to start using wording "Republican controlled areas" in place of dismissive terms like "red states". Same way our media would talk about areas under control of "warlords" or similar in other parts of the world.

We've been a mining colony for a long time, out here in MT. Some things just never change, I guess.

https://www.hcn.org/articles/mining-inside-the-epas-close-relationship-with-a-montana-mining-company

The "Beers family of Canton, Ohio" is beyond contemptible. Read this detailed and infuriating ProPublica piece, on a sordid scheme that law enforcement refuses to care about, to see why. https://www.propublica.org/article/liberty-healthshare-healthcare-sharing-ministries-obamacare

#BreakingNews: Atlanta Activists Say Prosecutors Plan to Indict them on RICO Charges: https://unicornriot.ninja/2023/atlanta-activists-say-prosecutors-plan-to-indict-them-on-rico-charges/

Community organizations involved in the ongoing campaign to defend the South River Forest outside Atlanta, Georgia and ‘Stop Cop City’ say state prosecutors are planning on releasing indictments in the coming weeks charging them as a “criminal organization” under RICO statutes.

These last weeks many energy and financial corporations have been announcing their huge profits while most of their costumers have to choose between heating or eating. It should be illegal but it's not.

Luckily we have a solution to the problem and that's moving from #corporations to #cooperatives. I'm a proud co-owner of my bank, electricity supplier, internet and phone supplier,...

The question is, how can we scale up faster and reach those who need it the most? #Coop #EnergyPoverty

Right-wing slime organizations use lies to persuade rural residents that solar power is bad. https://www.npr.org/2023/02/18/1154867064/solar-power-misinformation-activists-rural-america?utm_source=pocket-newtab Fine reporting from NPR.

Thanks to #AI like #ChatGPT, welcome to “zombie #newspapers”:

“Minneapolis neighborhood newspaper the Southwest Journal shuttered at the end of 2020, but its web domain continues to post fresh content under the auspices of a Delaware ‘SEO company’ whose leader lives in Serbia.”

A few legacy articles under fictitious bylines still appear but recent posts are “junk content…to manipulate search engines.”

The new owner has “no interest in the #news business.”

#Journalism

https://www.minnpost.com/twin-cities-business/2023/02/zombie-newspaper-sites-including-minneapolis-southwest-journal-rise-from-grave/

#GOP scumbag Jim Inhofe, former Senator who voted against COVID relief packages and railed against #vaccine mandates in the military, admits that he retired because of #LongCOVID. #USpolitics https://www.huffpost.com/entry/gop-ex-sen-inhofe-retired-due-to-long-covid-after-opposing-covid-aid_n_63f8e9b7e4b0735bf8777e81

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