Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Boebert defends anti-semitism as a conservative value - https://boingboing.net/2023/05/26/boebert-defends-anti-semitism-as-a-conservative-value.html

WisCon, the feminist and social justice science fiction convention, is happening this weekend in Madison, WI. If you're here, come check out the tables. To celebrate, we're offering 40% off all Outspoken Author Series books with coupon code OUTSPOKEN until 5/29. Learn more and check them all at https://pmpress.org/index.php?l=product_list&c=77

And remember, folks: "Good for the economy" means "causes stock and other asset prices to increase," i.e. serves to transfer wealth into the hands of the already wealthy.

"Good for the economy" ALWAYS means this, whether you are hearing the phrase on NPR or reading it in the WSJ. If some media person uses that phrase non-ironically, odds are high that they are not your friend (much less your comrade).

How it started/How it's going - Inflation edition

Toronto folks -- Marcelo Vieta, @emi, and I will be presenting and discussing our book at two conferences in Toronto next week...

https://cooperativesatwork.wordpress.com/2023/05/25/cooperatives-at-work-at-congress-in-toronto/

@cstross

“That's libertarians for you — anarchists who want police protection from their slaves.”

-Kim Stanley Robinson

@lightweight @strypey
There is a lot to be said for "as simple as possible, but as complex as necessary".

The interfaces I have the most trouble with tend to be those that have been grossly oversimplified, by someone who has made assumptions about a user's needs that don't match up at all with what I'm actually trying to do.

In honor of a whistleblowing legend: Announcing the
Daniel Ellsberg Chair on Government Secrecy. https://freedom.press/news/in-honor-of-a-whistleblowing-legend-announcing-the-daniel-ellsberg-chair-on-government-secrecy/

Attackers are now using encrypted RPMSG attachments sent via compromised Microsoft 365 accounts to steal Microsoft credentials in targeted phishing attacks designed to evade detection by email security gateways.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/microsoft-365-phishing-attacks-use-encrypted-rpmsg-messages/

Outcry as #Brazil congress moves to gut environment and Indigenous ministries - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/may/25/brazil-congress-environment-indigenous-ministry-powers utterly disgusting

What should I be using instead of Audacity to record audio narration on Linux? I swear it has gotten buggy as all heck in the last couple years...

I have a question for any Mastodonian with DNS, email, and Thunderbird experience.

I don't have any definitive proof of this, but it _appears_ that when I send email using the Mozilla Thunderbird email client that email is more likely to be flagged as spam on the other end than if I use some other email client. Does anyone know if this is actually true, and if so, if anything can be done to stop that?

There are no other good Win/Linux cross platform email client solutions that I know of.

'Britain therefore has a monstrous problem. Before Sunak turned up in Downing Street, it was just about possible to explain the collapse of integrity after 2019 in terms of Johnson’s incorrigible personal dishonesty. But Sunak appears to be yet another compulsively dishonest prime minister. This suggests a deep-rooted structural problem not just in the Conservative party but also in the House of Commons.'

A good piece from the always interesting Peter Oborne.

#politics

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/may/23/boris-johnson-rishi-sunak-truth-integrity

Invasion of Ukraine ‘has fuelled funding boom for clean energy’ - https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/may/25/invasion-of-ukraine-has-fuelled-funding-boom-for-clean-energy "International Energy Agency says investment will hit $1.7tn this year, well ahead of fossil fuels". that's good, much more needed

It turns out that the Sixth Mass Extinction event is not only well underway, but happening at a scale and pace far worse than previously thought.

New research has found that "48% of [all] species have declining populations and just 3% have rising populations. They also found evidence showing that 33% of species currently classified as nonthreatened on the IUCN Red List are actually spiraling toward extinction."

https://phys.org/news/2023-05-anthropocene-sixth-mass-extinction-event.html

Oh nos! https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/490642/nz-warned-after-chinese-hackers-target-critical-us-infrastructure-intelligence-agencies Imagine that, our gov't is taking its cues from Microsoft. Best way to limit the threat: purge Microsoft software from the Aotearoa NZ gov't stack. Plus, we'll be a lot richer.

PSA, if someone asks you for contact info (e.g. a phone number) of someone you know, the correct response is "I can't give that to you, but I can give them yours".

It's efficient and adds no round-trips, it's privacy friendly, it's non-awkward and it's social engineering resistant. It's a universally good rule.

And the corollary, of course: Don't ask someone for another person's contact info - ask them to pass on yours.

@dans_root @davidho sewage sludge is spread on fields in some countries, but most of the nitrogen was removed from it (at great cost) and it's been mixed with a lot of undesired chemicals and metals so it's really not the best thing to grow food.
You can check a recent talk of mine on the subject if you want more information (it's 20 min but you can just watch the first 5-10 min): https://video.ploud.fr/videos/watch/a21f2438-fd03-4ceb-833a-f70a0a04f208