Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

I'm at the age where if someone says "Go big or go home," I'm usually fine with going home.

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Join PM Press at a book launch for "Smash the System! Punk Anarchism as a Culture of Resistance" at Autumn Leaves Books in Ithaca, featuring talks from co-editor Caroline Kaltefleiter and author (and Autumn Leaves employee) @spencerbeswick. Friday May 5th at 6pm. #punk #anarchism #books

As previously noted, the UK's blocking of the blatantly anti-competitive Microsoft buyout of Activision was a great development. For much more context, read this wonderfully incendiary piece from @doctorow https://pluralistic.net/2023/04/27/convicted-monopolist/#microsquish

Dwyane Wade and the toll of anti-trans rhetoric

Former Miami Heat star Dwyane Wade moved his family out of Florida because of the state’s increasing hostility to LGBTQ people — including Wade’s daughter, Zaya

That revelation emerged in an interview Wade gave reporter Rachel Nichols: “I have to make decisions for my family, not just personal, individual decisions,” Wade told Nichols

#usa #gop #freedom

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/04/27/dwyane-wade-transgender-florida-desantis/

I'm not interested in having Fedi 'splained to me. I'm just saying why more Black folk are on BlueSky:

1. It should be almost impossible for a new, non-technical user to onboard onto the Fediverse and accidentally join a server where they will receive racist death threats.

2. It should not be possible for racists to reply to a Black user's post with hateful gore images, without other users on the server knowing it.

3. It should be easy for a new admin to default into a safe, general denylist.

Are there any #shotwell devs here in the #Fediverse? I'm wondering if anyone's working on 'publish to Peertub instance' functionality...

Another of my information streams on the subject of lithium is the #VisionZero #urbanists I follow here on Mastodon, who note that one of the many benefits of compact urban design, public transit, and a cultural focus on smaller lighter vehicles would be a dramatically smaller societal demand for lithium compared to a continued focus on individual ownership of midsized to large automobiles.

I just completed a thread about my reactions to an interview on PRX's _The World_ about how the Chilean government is trying to manage lithium extraction in the country.

The thread is meant for general consumption, but most of the posts in the thread are followers-only, in an attempt to evade scraping.

The top of the thread is here:
https://social.coop/@dynamic/110275490833637976

Veteran health benefits to be cut by 22%. Stand Up against the Fascist Right.

#SocialFabric #Veterans

Periodic reminder: public corporations are the problem. They're not the solution. They're not even part of the solution. The solution is a world without them. That is the lesson we must take to heart.

Many of us are, often through no fault of our own, totally dependent on corporations. We need to break those dependencies as a top priority. Until then, we won't make much progress at making the world better.

The fact that Bernie Sanders is endorsing Biden doesn't bother me in the slightest.

Progressives in the U.S. need to focus on local and state government, not to mention the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate. Better yet, work on engaging voters.

The kind of big change we want is never going to come from the top in this country.

Revealed: most of EU delegation to crucial fishing talks made up of fishery lobbyists - https://www.theguardian.com/global/2023/apr/26/revealed-most-of-eu-delegation-to-crucial-fishing-talks-made-up-of-fishery-lobbyists appalling and unacceptable behaviour by @EU_Commission #overfishing

Brooklyn Public Library Offers Free eCards to Teens Nationwide Facing Book Bans in Local Communities

BPL is launching a new campaign “Books UnBanned”, to help teens combat the negative impact of increased censorship and book bans in libraries across the country. For a limited time, young adults ages 13 to 21 nationwide, will be able to apply for a free eCard from BPL, unlocking access to its collection of eBooks

#usa #freedom

https://www.bklynlibrary.org/media/press/brooklyn-public-library-94

Listen to Professor John Womack and Peter Olney discuss supply chain chokepoints and their new book and commentaries, Labor Power and Strategy, on Wade's World podcast. https://blog.pmpress.org/2023/04/20/wades-world-john-womack-and-peter-olney/

Neil Gorsuch Has Joined the Supreme Court Ethics Scandal Party

The head of a law firm that practices before the court bought property from the conservative justice nine days after he was confirmed

Thomas is not alone. Supreme Court Justice Gorsuch has also benefitted financially from parties with an interest in the high court’s business while neglecting to disclose it

#usa #scotus #law

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/neil-gorsuch-supreme-court-ethics-scandal-1234723374/

This sums up @1Password and Big Tech so well

Microsoft's Edge browser appears to be sending all the URLs you visit to its Bing API website.

Reddit users first spotted the privacy issues with Edge last week, noticing that the latest version of Microsoft Edge sends a request to bingapis.com with the full URL of nearly every page you navigate to. Microsoft tells The Verge it's investigating ...

*cough*

"Oh did we accidentally write code and put it in our browser that collects info on everything you do, again?

https://yro.slashdot.org/story/23/04/25/209254/microsoft-edge-is-leaking-the-sites-you-visit-to-bing

Another must-read newsletter post from the consistently excellent @msifry -- this one's about some of AI's prominent attackers and insiders:

"Clowns to the Left, Jokers to the Right"

https://theconnector.substack.com/p/clowns-to-the-left-jokers-to-the

"While self-styled tech ethicists Tristan Harris and Aza Raskin warn that AI is about to end human agency, a Biden AI advisory panel stacked with industry reps avoids the hard calls."