Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Hundreds of NHS hospitals have been ordered to share people’s confidential medical records with the American spy-tech company, Palantir. Read the investigation from openDemocracy. #dataprotection #privacy #NHS https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/palantir-peter-thiel-nhs-england-foundry-faster-data-flows/

Anybody in the MA area, this might be a good place to meet some like-minded #coop and #union people.

https://buildingworkerpower.com/

New #GameDev #WorkerCoop just launched! 🎮

http://cubefruitgames.com/

When I graduated in '04, we were assured that there would never be another financial crisis, a la the Great Depression, as the Federal Reserve had learned how to stabilize the macro-economy through the use of interest rate policies, and that deposit insurance had put an end to the days of bank runs.

Then we had the Great Recession. Then the Fed engaged in QED which goosed asset prices and enriched the wealthy, who's hot money flows are now causing bank runs.

Starting to think I was lied to...

Bits from the Release Team: #bookworm in hard freeze https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2023/03/msg00004.html

If you want to know why I've pretty much given up on the idea that journalists give a damn about protecting democracy and, by extension, freedom of speech, here's data from a survey of 2,200 of them:

"About half of journalists considered leaving Twitter, but only 28% say they plan to spend less time on the social network this year."

So, the huge majority will continue to support someone who hates (honest) journalism and supports anti-democracy extremists. Pathetic.

https://info.muckrack.com/state-of-journalism-2023

"@emilymbender a Professor of Linguistics at the University of Washington, tweeted that this secrecy did not come as a surprise to her. “They are willfully ignoring the most basic risk mitigation strategies, all while proclaiming themselves to be working towards the benefit of humanity,” she tweeted."

https://www.vice.com/en/article/ak3w5a/openais-gpt-4-is-closed-source-and-shrouded-in-secrecy

This is why Meta should never be trusted.

Not only have European regulators found their tracking to be downright illegal, but they also blatantly lie about it too.

Further, if it's not already obvious to you, Meta sends its tracking data to the NSA.

If Meta does any of these shenanigans when they join the Fediverse, then they absolutely should be Fediblocked.

https://techcrunch.com/2023/03/16/meta-tracking-gdpr-data-transfer-breach/

"The licenses for most software and other practical works are designed to take away your freedom to share and change the works. By contrast, the GNU General Public License is intended to guarantee your freedom [...]" Read the full answer: https://u.fsf.org/3kz #GNUGPLFAQ

We are Bandcamp United - a union of workers across all departments at Bandcamp committed to advocating for a better Bandcamp for all, including our international colleagues and the artists, labels, and fans who use the platform as well as ourselves.

NEW: Google's Project Zero has found a lot of high severity vulnerabilities in certain Samsung chips included in dozens of Android models.

Samsung has had more than 90 days to patch, but hasn't done it yet, according to Google's @maddiestone

https://techcrunch.com/2023/03/16/google-warning-samsung-chips-flaws-android/

we have chosen to put most of our research into documents in PDF format.

PDFs are a huge pain to make accessible.

most scientists write their papers in Latex, overleaf, etc., which cannot produce accessible PDFs.

to make such PDFs accessible, one uses Adobe Acrobat, which is expensive and proprietary.

increasingly, we post our PDFs to arXiv, which ~forbids accessible PDFs b/c they can't be compiled from source.

~none of our science is accessible.

artifacts (and file formats) have politics.

As we look back at Bush/Cheney lying the country into war in Iraq 20 years ago, don't forget the credulous D.C. press corps were complicit enablers. Believe it or not, the most compelling critique came from Scot McClellan, who repented for dishing it out.
https://authory.com/DanFroomkin/A-refresher-on-how-the-press-failed-the-people-a9b522e98ea1f4fcca08d7c1a03a5a367

From Linux magazine: "Consumer Guide to Preinstalled Linux"

https://www.linux-magazine.com/Online/Features/Linux-Ready-to-Go

Report from #NYC rally in solidarity with #anarchist prisoner

Read Here: #AlfredoCospito

https://itsgoingdown.org/report-from-nyc-rally-in-solidarity-with-alfredo-cospito/

1. Fox News' @JesseBWatters@twitter.com told millions of viewers that Silicon Valley Bank "donated $74 million to Black Lives Matter."

Similar claims went viral on Twitter

Some "facts" are too good to check

The actual amount that SVB donated to BLM is ZERO

Follow along for receipts 🧾

@dangillmor
Cheating against what standard? The old educational model of memorization versus using tools well to find accurate information? The old model of parroting lectures with one right answer rather than creative thinking? The old model of meeting one standard for literacy? I think there are ways to use LLMs to expand education, including teaching students how they--thanks to us--are biased and often wrong. https://medium.com/whither-news/writing-and-exclusion-16d4d98a27a

Boosting a homecoming fundraiser for a beloved comrade and abolitionist organizer who is coming home on parole! Please boost and share with your networks!

cashapp: $Allegheniesab
paypal: @ AllegheniesA

#solidarity

Great @propublica reporting on "exquisite timing" of execs' stock trading -- of competitors' shares. https://www.propublica.org/article/secret-irs-files-trading-competitors-stock

The simplest explanation, of course, is corruption. But will law enforcement investigate to find out? Stop laughing...