Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

I read something like this and it's heartbreaking.

This is literally the guy in that XKCD comic that maintains a tiny piece at the bottom of a huge JavaScript stack that would fall over if he just stopped maintaining his open source library for free one day.

And because he's not a good self-promoter, whenever he tries to ask for money all he gets is hate and vitriol in response.

Open source, man. I love it, but the tech industry sucks.

https://github.com/zloirock/core-js/blob/master/docs/2023-02-14-so-whats-next.md

#ISONewEngland is focused on carefully incrementalizing change so that it doesn’t disrupt the basic business model, when what is needed is just the opposite: the ISO business model and the very architecture of the grid need disruption. Wealth distribution needs to replace wealth concentration, and distributed
control needs to counterbalance centralized control. We have the technical tools and the people power to do it.

#MastodonNews Mar 4, 2023

So, this is fun. We are their worst nightmare. Turn's out Mastodon "falls short for businesses" because it lacks "advertising support," says an ad industry publication.

CMSWire: Facebook Is Better for Business Than Mastodon. Here's Why >>> https://www.cmswire.com/digital-marketing/facebook-is-better-for-business-than-mastodon-heres-why/

"Social media has become one of the most powerful tools businesses can leverage for advertising... Mastodon, on the other hand, does not offer an advertising platform to businesses."

😂

#twittermigration

DeSantis could seize the newspapers and broadcast stations, send university professors and librarians to relocation camps, and restrict voting to white Christian men, and Patricia Mazzei and the New York Times would continue to laud his political smarts. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/05/us/ron-desantis-florida-legislature.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

Reminder: Billionaires are not “self-made.” They’re made via a combination of inherited wealth, government subsidies, tax loopholes, labor exploitation, and policy failures.

Can we stop perpetuating a myth that blames the wealth gap on the choices of everyday Americans?

Facebook and Google are handing over user data to help police prosecute abortion seekers https://www.businessinsider.com/police-getting-help-social-media-to-prosecute-people-seeking-abortions-2023-2

“The underlying #philosophy of unrestrained #capitalism is that
whatever is best for people with the most money is good for
people with the least. This is such a perversion of common sense that it would be laughable, were it not so obscenely unjust.

Only a fool would think that
capitalistic command-and-control
organizations could ever produce
an equitable, enduring free #society. Only a greedy man would create them. Only an arrogant man would run them.” —Dee Hock

https://www.mutualinterest.coop/2023/02/visas-founders-vision-of-a-global-mega-co-op

Wow, reading this: https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2023/my-daughters-school-took-over-my-personal-microsoft-account seems that Microsoft is even inept than I thought (and I thought they were heroically, indefatigably inept). Seems to me that they did you a favour, @geerlingguy@mastodon.socal - my life's definitely been much better (and about 1/15th the cost) without MSFT Azure in it. Seems like a good nudge to exit that (broken) monoculture.

2022's Emissions Tell the Story of a Hot, Violent Year
https://gizmodo.com/2022-emissions-iea-report-renewables-coal-russia-gas-1850178796
#ClimateChange #ClimateReality #ClimateCrisis

This is the #EU map of droughts. Orange means the soil is dry, red means the soil is dying.

We in northern and eastern Europe better be ready to help out this summer #climate
https://edo.jrc.ec.europa.eu/edov2/php/index.php?id=1052

#8M2023 #DeCloudify #CounterCloudActionDay https://autodefensa.online/8m

This image is a panel from EFF’s new comic, Coded Resistance: How Black Communities Fought Against Surveillance — a collaboration with Nib and comic artist Chelsea Saunders, based on a post by EFF’s Director of Engineering, Alexis Hancock. Check it out here: https://eff.org/codedresistance

I'm going to keep sharing this info until it sinks in.

Young voters do not get significantly more or less politically activated. Voter suppression gets more or less effective. Ballot drop boxes and mail-in voting, prevents suppression.

People do not become more conservative as they get older. There is not an increasing difference between white GOP and Dem voters as they get older.

Black people don't live long, and many brown voters aren't born yet.

Walgreens will never get another dollar of my money. Its refusal to sell a vital, legal product is disgusting. If CVS goes along with this, the pharmacy cartel will be lending its considerable weight to a policy that the vast majority of Americans reject -- a policy mandated by a minority party of extremists. https://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory/implications-walgreens-decision-abortion-pills-97617141

The Florida GOP is just comically fascist.

https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/3882068-florida-bill-would-require-bloggers-to-register-before-writing-about-desantis/

Plan to incinerate soil from Ohio train derailment is ‘horrifying’, says expert - https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/mar/04/east-ohio-train-derailment-soil insanity

2-year study yielded over 10,000 videos of birds at offshore wind farm, with no collisions or near-misses with wind turbines recorded.
Nearly all species of tracked seabirds avoided the zone of the wind turbine blades by adjusting their flight paths to fly in between turbines.
https://www.offshorewind.biz/2023/02/28/vattenfall-has-it-on-video-no-seabird-collided-with-aberdeen-offshore-wind-turbines-during-two-year-monitoring-campaign/

‘The most common response I get when I talk about dark matter is: “isn’t this just something physicists made up to make the math work out?”
The answer to that might surprise you: yes! In fact, everything in physics is made up to make the math work out.’

My latest for BBC Science Focus:

https://www.sciencefocus.com/news/everything-physics-made-up/