Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Dear devs,

It's NEVER ok to lock people out of a webapp because their User-Agent doesn't match your predefined list. 😡

Especially webapps they need to manage their healthcare.

(I am in fact using one of the browsers on this list, your code just isn't able to tell.)

Please boost for basic education.

#webdev

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⚠️ PSA: If you see tech giants trying to wedge themselves in to serve as a global "home" for public goods, while at the same time they're stealing many billions from your fellow citizens ...

... raise hell. 🔥

I'm looking at you, #Microsoft.

🏷️ #OpenSource #publicGoods #digitalPublicGoods #GitHub #GiveUpGitHub

In case you missed it . . . my weekend blog post "Rogue Prosecutors."

You know all of those Hot Takes about how the proposed Georgia legislation is to shut down Fani Willis as she is on the verge of indicting Trump?

From Bill 231:

"The commission shall commence by October 1, 2023, and the rules and regulations promulgated by such commission shall be established no later than April 1, 2024. No complaint shall be filed before April 1, 2024."

My blog post is here:
https://terikanefield.com/rogue-prosecutors/

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Seems like the Venture Cooperative is #coopwashing.

It's not an actual coop.

https://www.venturecooperative.org/

Spotify: 25000 people listened to your album, we’ll never tell you who they are and how they found you! Here’s $1.74.

Bandcamp: 30 people bought your album and left a comment! Here’s $250.

#DeathSantis appointed this quack in Sept. 2021. The FDA is very concerned about the disinformation he spews, increasing vaccine hesitancy, endangering vulnerable Floridians. A federal letter was sent to FL SG Lapago Friday, signed by FDA Commissioner Califf & CDC Director Walensky rebuking him for undermining public health:

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/mar/12/florida-surgeon-generals-covid-vaccine-claims-harm-public-health-agencies-warn

Scientists warn of ‘phosphogeddon’ as critical #fertiliser #shortages loom | #Pollution | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/mar/12/scientists-warn-of-phosphogeddon-fertiliser-shortages-loom

#Phosphorus #Agriculture #Farming #Environment #GlobalWarming #ClimateChange

Libertarians are the antivaxxers of economic regulation: having never lived in a world without it, they've deluded themselves into thinking stability is naturally occurring.

Study of the Co-operative Movement is an important part of the activity of https://www.principle5.coop/
I would like to share the first 'Principle 5 Study Special'. This first edition focusses on The Co-operative Party

https://www.principle5.coop/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/Co-operative-Study-Special.pdf
#coops
#cooperative

All the stuff that happened after the election was a circus but I don't think people outside of Brazil realize how close Bolsonaro came to stealing the election on election day. He had the federal highway police blockade the roads to stop Lula supporters from voting. If Lula had lost by a small margin I was absolutely ready to take to the streets...this song about not being afraid is everything I needed to hear that night 🌟

How did Facebook convince every journalist to go along with the renaming of the company to "Meta" while almost all journalists call Alphabet "Google"?

RT @Noshu4me
The Atlanta Police stripped the original audio to this video but I was able to find it 🧐

I also wonder, when the big players start federating (Tumblr and Insta are both supposedly on the way) and flooding the fediverse, if it'll make Gargon rethink his aversion to local-only posting. The fediverse is poised to get a lot bigger and a lot more noisy very quickly. When that happens, it's going to force a lot of changes.
https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/pull/8427#issuecomment-415969018

So it's looking like the crash of Silicon Valley Bank isn't (at least directly) fallout from the cryptocurrency scams, but rather an old-fashioned, greed-and-panic bank run.

5 years ago, @SenWarren said: “I’m concerned about the negative impact of increased consolidation caused by S.2155.”
Within a year we were seeing the impact. (see link)
Today a bank whose growth was facilitated by the weakening standards in S.2155 failed.
https://theintercept.com/2019/02/08/elizabeth-warren-was-right-new-law-is-already-making-banks-bigger/

U.S. government mustn’t be allowed to do an end run around the 4th Amendment by buying private data about the precise movements of hundreds of millions of people collected without their knowledge or meaningful consent, EFF’s Adam Schwartz told Ars Technica. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/03/fbi-finally-admits-to-buying-location-data-on-americans-horrifying-experts

Atlanta Cop City Protesters Charged With Domestic Terror for Having Mud on Their Shoes

"In an aggressive and indiscriminate arrest sweep on Sunday, police stormed a music festival held in the Atlanta forest by activists protesting Cop City, a vast police training facility under construction atop forestland. Twenty-three of the activists arrested in the raid now
face domestic terrorism charges for their participation in the Defend the Atlanta Forest movement."

https://theintercept.com/2023/03/08/atlanta-cop-city-protesters/

#StopCopCity #defendtheatlantaforest #DefendWeelaunee #policeviolence #antireport #DomesticTerrorism

Most of the deposits in Silicon Valley Bank were from high fliers, not regular people. You can be sure they're working hard to get the rest of us to bail them out. The sad part is they'll probably succeed, since government policy since 2008 has been to further enrich the already rich and screw everyone else.

If you are discussing your abortion and you live in a place where abortion is now essentially illegal, please remember to speak only to people you trust and remember to use end-to-end encrypted comms with disappearing messages turned on.

https://www.texastribune.org/2023/03/10/texas-abortion-lawsuit/