Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Something about Al-Aqsa must be understood. Yes it's the 3rd holiest place in Islam, but it's also the last open space for Palestinians in JLM. Students go there to study, families have picnics in its courtyard, youths hang out in Bal Al-'Amoud. Outside of it, their neighborhoods are ghettos, they are threaten with eviction by fanatic settlers, and fascist gangs attacking them when go to work in the Jewish part of town. Protecting it is a big priority.
#antireport

Video via @/theIMEU
BREAKING: Israeli police are invading Al Aqsa Mosque for the second day in a row, shooting at Palestinian worshippers inside.

State senator blames mass shootings on lack of god in schools, forgetting Nashville shooting was, um, at a Christian school - https://boingboing.net/2023/04/04/state-senator-blames-mass-shootings-on-lack-of-god-in-schools-forgetting-nashville-shooting-was-um-at-a-christian-school.html #awkward

It seems to me that the small matter of “are the allegations supported by the known facts?” deserves at least a tiny bit of attention from the media. The answer is overwhelmingly yes. https://presswatchers.org/2023/03/coverage-of-trump-indictment-should-stick-to-the-facts/

I just called my senators to ask them to do what they can to prevent the RESTRICT Act, which would allow the executive branch to make it illegal to download and use whatever software they feel like banning: https://act.eff.org/action/stop-the-restrict-act-and-pass-real-privacy-legislation

Here's what I said:

« Hello, I'm [NAME], a resident of [CITY, STATE]. I'm calling to ask Senator [NAME] to push back hard against Senate Bill 686, aka the "RESTRICT Act". If TikTok is violating people's privacy, then there needs to be privacy legislation aimed at the corporations themselves. Instead, this bill would criminalize individuals for installing software banned at the whim of the executive branch, a massive violation of freedom of speech and right to association. This unconstitutional bill must not be allowed to pass. [LEAVE NUMBER AND ADDRESS IF YOU WANT] Thank you. »

Find phone numbers here: https://www.senate.gov/

The New York Times homepage includes this headline, which is not at all biased: "Biden tries to project calm as Trump vaults back to the center of attention."

Chromebooks foisted on students? Teachers monitoring what children do outside of the classroom via nonfree software? Surveillance of children is common, and it's at your child's school, too. Support #FreeSoftware https://u.fsf.org/32h

Breaking, exclusive: Several domain names tied to Genesis Market, a bustling cybercrime store that sold access to passwords and other data stolen from millions of computers infected with malicious software, were seized by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) today.

Sources tell KrebsOnsecurity the domain seizures coincided with "dozens" of arrests in the United States and abroad targeting those who allegedly operated the service, as well as suppliers who continuously fed Genesis Market with freshly-stolen data.

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2023/04/fbi-seizes-bot-shop-genesis-market-amid-arrests-targeting-operators-suppliers/

Please, journalists, get the context: Trump and his henchmen were feverishly working to prevent voters from learning about relevant facts. They broke a lot of laws in suppressing those facts. It was all to influence a presidential election. They succeeded.

The nation will be suffering from these crimes -- just a few of the countless crimes they have committed before, during, and after his presidency -- for decades to come.

That's if the nation survives, which is hardly a given at this point.

Update. This fear is coming true.

We tested a new ChatGPT-detector for teachers. It flagged an innocent student.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/04/01/chatgpt-cheating-detection-turnitin/

"Five high school students helped our tech columnist test a #ChatGPT detector coming from #Turnitin to 2.1 million teachers. It missed enough to get someone in trouble."

#AI #NotHypothetical #Plagiarism
@academicchatter

We talked about the issue of "worker co-ops" with substantial investor ownership on the last GEO livesteam.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zUcHfErgwc

Next livestream 4/10 @ 7 pm Eastern.

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2023/04/the-tragic-u-s-choice-to-prioritize-war-over-peacemaking.html

Important reporting from @juddlegum and colleagues on what looks like malign political subterfuge -- a supposedly "moderate" presidential campaign that would siphon votes from the Democratic candidate and put Trump back in the White House. The organizers refuse to say who's funding them, which tells you a great deal. https://popular.info/p/the-opaque-70-million-scheme-that?publication_id=1664&post_id=112535714&isFreemail=false

Wow, only halfway through this, https://invidious.snopyta.org/watch?v=ro130m-f_yk or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ro130m-f_yk but so far it's all spot on based on what I know. He's not charitable, but he's not wrong.

Tennessee Republicans are turning their anti-democracy beliefs into an astoundingly brazen policy: tossing out Democratic members who dared to join protesters who want to end the gun massacres. https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/politics/2023/04/03/tennessee-republicans-file-resolutions-to-expel-three-democrats-who-led-gun-reform-chants-on-house-f/70078002007/

Today Elon changed the birdhouse on Twitter's homepage to a doge meme and everyone has a joke ready but almost no one seems ready to leave. There is simply no amount of punishment that Twitters are not prepared to absorb

Some might find it interesting that all of the work to turn a bunch of disparate articles into a properly-formatted book, from the additional writing and formatting work (VIM + LaTeX plugin), digital page proof review (Evince), LaTeX research and integration with the self-publishing platform (Firefox), cover photo tweaks (GIMP), happened not only with FOSS tools, but all on my personal computer, which happens to be a Librem 5 phone attached to a lapdock.

#Librem5 #lapdock #convergence #foss

Quick story:

I had a client once who told me, "I am going in there and telling the judge a thing or two."

I explained the rule of power struggles

Rule of power struggles: Never get into a power struggle with someone who has more power than you do.

Teenagers can also benefit from this advice.

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When we bitch about "out-of-staters" here in Montana (and boy, do we), this is the reason:

https://inthesetimes.com/article/displaced-montana-workers-luxury-housing-2

Pretty wild to watch my entire state (or at least the entire Western half of it) becoming gentrified at such a rapid rate.