Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

“My hot take on “15 minute cities” is if you can get to the coffee shop within fifteen minutes, but the barrista who makes your drink can’t afford to live closer than a half-hour away, then you live in a theme park.” - Gareth Klieber #cities #urbanism

If you are interested in #OnlineCommunities, you probably know about The WELL http://well.com , a forum that has been in continuous operation since 1985. It turns out that https://bigthink.com/the-well/ is trying to steal the name and a very close approximation of the WELL's logo (the swirl).

@erlend @pluralistic I've come around to the opinion that we need a maximum wealth distribution: one order of magnitude between the poorest (hint: universal basic income) and the wealthiest (hint: 100% income tax above 10x UBI level—progressive taxation bands below it). Socialized education, healthcare, housing, and old age/disability support. Only by ensuring even the richest need the common services as much as the poor can we guarantee the services will be properly funded.

Asked for examples of sexual harassment at law schools, ChatGPT named a GW law prof accused of touching a student on a class trip to Alaska, citing a 2018 Washington Post story.

The law prof is real. The rest was made up.

We wrote about what happens when AIs lie about you: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/04/05/chatgpt-lies/

"Pharma did what pharma does."

How the drug industry uses fear of fentanyl to extract more profit from naloxone
https://www.statnews.com/2023/03/28/opioid-overdose-naloxone-industry-profits

#PhRMA #drugs #opioids

One person is dead and two volunteers with #Reno #FoodNotBombs are in “critical, but stable condition” after a 57 year old man drove into a group of people on Monday in what police are reporting is an "intentional" attack.

On Tuesday, members of Food not Bombs and the wider community held a vigil and a GoFundMe has been set up to cover medical and funeral costs.

Our report: https://itsgoingdown.org/reno-fnb-vehicle-attack/

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.