Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Even after court ruled that spying on students at home a constitutional violation, California universities keep doing it. https://calmatters.org/education/higher-education/college-beat-higher-education/2023/02/remote-proctoring-california-colleges/?mc_cid=d8dbcc2c61&mc_eid=5ad401b380

If you are a member of a food co-op using Foodsoft or you maintain a deployment of this software, help spread the word!

There will be a community call held on 2023-03-03 10:00 (CET).

More info on https://forum.foodcoops.net/t/foodsoft-meetup-on-2023-03-03-10-00/573

Recipe: https://git.coopcloud.tech/coop-cloud/foodsoft

#foodsoft #food #coops

My team and I so excited to finally launch THE CARTOONIST COOPERATIVE, a community-based organization meant to help comics-makers sustain themselves through shared promotion, educationals resource, skill trades, and career assistance!

Check out our beautiful website (designed by
@itsnero) to learn about how to join! Anyone making comics, is invited to be a member, including artists, writers, colorists, and letterers.

https://cartoonist.coop

I'll let Inkling and Nibford explain more:

Uber still can't turn a profit, which makes me pretty sure that no one else is going to be able to make the (moronically named) "ride-sharing" model work either.

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2023/02/hubert-horan-can-uber-ever-deliver-part-thirty-two-losses-top-33-billion-but-uber-has-avoided-the-equity-collapse-most-tech-startups-experienced.html

Coincidentally, a friend recently went to an ER in France. They spent all day there getting treated, were handed a month of antibiotics to take after for healing and let go.

The entire bill was around $35.

We recently did an ER visit with four hours of observation, and everything was fine. A couple months later, the bills came up to around $1,200 for one ER visit with full family PPO insurance coverage at an in-network hospital.

No, the Murdoch family's Fox "News" is not going to cover the news about its slimy behavior.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/fox-news-media-anchor-howard-kurtz-says-network-wont-let-him-cover-fox-dominion-lawsuit

Quite liking (self-hosted, via Docker-Compose) Forgejo! Very pretty, and quite complete. Imported a bunch of repos from my Gitlab (Community Edition) repos...

Big Journalism bans racist cartoonist from its own media but continues to support an extremist who defends him racism. Media hypocrisy has no upper boundary when it comes to confronting -- that is, not confronting -- what it means to stay on Twitter.

Some folks will say "that's okay, it's just linking, it's free speech!" or whatever. Depending on your jurisdiction, maybe that's true.

But we should be aiming for better here. Respecting whether someone wants to be quoted in a potentially-hostile context. Letting them know it's happened. Honoring their wishes if they block the person who quoted them. Etc.

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