Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

A chuckle from Borowitz satire:

"DeSantis Hopes to Seem Like Normal Person by Appearing Next to Elon Musk"

"According to an aide, the campaign considered a shortlist of other foils, including Mickey Rourke, Dennis Rodman, and Ginni Thomas."

The CEO of the company that absurdly calls itself OpenAI -- it's about as open as Fort Knox -- is campaining for government regulation of AI. The appropriate reaction is: Oh, sure.

The only transparent thing about "Open"AI is its desire to be protected from competition. Captive regulation (there's rarely any other kind) has that effect.

https://openai.com/blog/governance-of-superintelligence#SamAltman

The @gnome Foundation is looking for an Executive Director. Please pass it on to people who might be interested in it and help an important organisation for #SoftwareFreedom to further fulfil their mission:

https://foundation.gnome.org/careers/

Support the Atlanta Solidarity Fund with this benefit shirt! The Solidarity Fund supports defenders of the Weelaunee Forest & others. The #StopCopCity benefit shirt is designed by @nobonzo and is available in small to 5XL.

https://pmpress.org/index.php?l=product_detail&p=1551

Crazy to me that the Dems didn't even try to do anything about this situation during the (official) pandemic. Biden literally said he would veto single-payer. If I didn't know better (which I don't), I'd think this is exactly the kind of outcomes our political leaders want, D & R alike.

https://www.axios.com/2023/05/23/medical-costs-american-healthcare

Yes, Google Analytics is free.

Free, as in you are a 🐖 in a shed, being fed 🌽 to become 🥓

Use Matomo, or for all I care a log analyzer, for your analytics.

Tag Manager is horrible and introduces a lot of security issues, so GTM is bad, okay?

A group of "Scared Scientists" has created a website. Here is what one of them has to say...
________________________

PETER MACREADIE
Marine Ecologist
University of Technology Sydney, Deakin University

STATEMENT:

IPCC predicts that the impacts of climate change will be catastrophic. This affects everybody. Nobody is safe. We're going to lose low-lying countries, there will be a loss of livestock, potential widespread famine, and species extinction.

One thing people need to remember is that scientists are the biggest skeptics on Earth. We're constantly trying to disprove each other. This is the one thing we agree on. The evidence is endless. We're not making this up, this is really serious, we're very concerned, and there's not enough being done about it. We really need to be pushing our governments. Let's not look back and regret what we've done.

MORE HERE -- https://cargocollective.com/scared_scientists

#ClimateCatastrophe #Extinction

Tech speakers, it's 2023. Stop using moms as your example of a non-technical audience. It's wrong, its not funny, and whatever you were saying, now most of your audience is not thinking about it.

Just use the exec team as an example instead and get on with your life.

@maarteuh
It's funny, folks worry a lot more about the feelings of the folks with power over them than the folks without it.

I say this because I think that if we took a more holistic approach, many of the world's mass social (and commercial!) movements would've been nipped in the bud far sooner by peer pressure.

This is why I'm unapologetic about calling out people who, for example, opt to work for/on behalf of rapacious corporations (or gov'ts/militaries) who screw customers/users/competitors (citizens/residents) daily.

We don't, however, judge harshly (or even negatively) those entities who act unjustly in lesser ways (but which still lead to suffering/loss of autonomy|dignity) even if their behaviour affects millions or even billions of people. How do we reconcile our, in my opinion, irrational judgement & negative perception of those who do serious harm to the few, vs. those who harm the masses but to a somewhat lesser extent? 2/2

Point to ponder... we quite rightly judge harshly anyone (individuals/institutions/gov'ts/corporations) who acts unjustly/cruelly to others, e.g. depriving them of life, safety, bodily autonomy, dignity or other human rights/freedoms, largely depending on the severity of those offences, even if only against a few people. 1/2 #DogWalkingThought

Free and Open Source Content Circle is hosting an event next week and I'd like to invite you!

Exploring Self Governance in the Fediverse: A discussion about decision making among a federated ensemble
--> May 29th 15:00 - 16:30 UTC

We're a circle within @SociocracyForAll , so I'll be interested to find out how sociocracy can support you. There will also be time to chat about common governance models and tensions that arise.

https://www.sociocracyforall.org/event/self-governance-in-the-fediverse/

#sociocracy #foss #governance #fediverse

Journalists who would not consider putting their work on the Murdoch family's Fox "News" are still supporting Musk at Twitter.

That's why it's (sadly) easy to predict that they'll keep right on supporting Twitter after DeSantis "announces" his presidential candidacy in a team event with Musk.

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The largest yearly gathering of #anarchists in North America takes place this weekend in #Montreal.
The Montreal Anarchist Bookfair!
For anarchists and those curious about anarchism.
And for the 10th year in a row, @subMedia has a film screening on saturday followed by some riot inducing #hiphop by @leereed and #TestTheirLogik.
Not to be missed!
https://www.anarchistbookfair.ca/

That seems pretty important, donchathink? That ~1/3 of the debt is simply an artifact of intra-governmental accounting, and that most of the rest of the debt is an important asset (every debt is simultaneously an asset, by definition) for the citizens of the country and the financial institutions they depend on, like banks and insurance companies.

It's called context, and it matters, and neither side of the political isle seems real keen on providing it.

Today at 7pm! Agitating through Art: a book launch for Mr Block: The Subversive Comics and Writings of Ernest Riebe in Brooklyn, NY at the Interference Archive with Julia Smith, Sean Carleton, Sabrina Jones & Annabelle Heckler.

See more here: https://blog.pmpress.org/events/the-graphic-history-collective-celebrates-mr-block-at-interference-archive-in-brooklyn-ny/

I totally support this petition to establish a NZ Anti-Corruption Commission. But to sign it, I'm asked to put my name, email address and phone number into a web form that is infested with third-party JavaScript. Much of it from corporations known for DataFarming (including Goggle, FB and Titter). Ironically, this anti-corruption petition has been corrupted.

https://www.top.org.nz/petition_establish_an_anti-corruption_commission

#corruption #AntiCorruptionCommission #DataFarms

Yesterday, while feeling somewhat braindead, I started a public Zotero library of digitised historic map collections.

It's mostly Australian at the moment, and mostly the stuff I am always sending my family history students to, plus a few other places I use regularly for my own research, but I have grand intentions of adding to it over time – I keep a 'resources' folder in my own Zotero after all.

Feel free to shout your thoughts and additions at me here!

https://www.zotero.org/groups/5068384/map_collections_online/items/9GJ29ZGC/library

#zotero #histodons #history #cartography #hgis #maps #archives #Genealogy #FamilyHistory