Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

“Why do you use Signal and all this Encryption!
Do you have anything to hide? 😡“

Yes! I do!

- The color of my underwear
- My friends’ cats photos
- My failed gym class grades
- My first attempt at "portrait"
- The outcome of my last meal
- The weird mole on my left toe
- How much I cried watching Star Trek
- How much cheese there is in my fridge
- My failed knitting experiment
- The horrible poem I just wrote
- My bank card pin number
- My social security number
- My main password
- The web search history for your birthday gift

Privacy is a Human Right! ✊

Not sharing publicly what you do not wish to share is your right! 🔒✨

#Privacy #Encryption #E2EE #RootForE2EE 🎉

Hello, this is a doozie. ATL cops are using paypal transaction data to charge a bail fund with money laundering for reimbursing gas and covid test buys. #StopCopCity

Data-hungry fintech apps like PayPal and Venmo are a threat to the mutual aid funds that use them. Seems pretty damn dire to build and defend alternatives to help keep front line activists, abortion patients, gender affirming care patients, and others safe.

Signal, but for $, please.

More here: https://www.fightforthefuture.org/news/2023-06-05-statement-fight-for-the-future-condemns-the-arrest-of-bail-fund-organizers-in-atlanta-and-weaponization-of-paypal-data-to-oppress-dissent

Dan @froomkin has an appropriately scathing piece about Big Journalism's ongoing and relentless normalization of extremists. They've taken over one of the two major political parties and cowed news organizations into treating them as a moral equivalent to non-extremists. https://presswatchers.org/2023/06/during-pride-month-journalists-should-be-ashamed/

Asheville Police "scheduled their clearing of the Aston Park encampment, which they knew to be controversial and of great public interest, for 10pm on Christmas night specifically to weaponize the curfew against reporters." https://ncnewsline.com/2023/06/02/lawyer-asks-court-to-delay-dismiss-asheville-journalists-case-as-trial-nears/

"Stochastic parrot" doesn't sound nearly as exciting as "artificial intelligence," but it does have the great merit of actually being descriptive of the software.

https://joecostello.substack.com/p/the-politics-of-technology-stochastic

RFK Jr. gets presidential endorsement from Jack Dorsey, so bye, bye Bluesky.

And they were very impressed by BigBlueButton.

I must say, though, I do have some concerns about a cyber-security firm that uses MS Teams. Ouch.

High Prices Make Textbook ‘Piracy’ Acceptable to Most Students - https://torrentfreak.com/high-prices-make-textbook-piracy-acceptable-to-most-students-230604/ all textbooks should be free and #openaccess

Quote from above article 👆

"ChatGPT certainly can’t replace human thinking. Yet people project sentient qualities onto ChatGPT and feel like they are conducting meaningful conversations with another person. When they realize that’s a foolish claim, they say they’re sure that’s definitely coming soon!"

This dynamic (which reoccurs throughout our society) is how I know we live in the dumbest timeline.

Academia summed up in one photo:

@obtener
So I have confirmed that Morgan Freeman never said this, but
WE ALL CAN SAY IT!
I hate the word Homophobia
It's not a "phobia"
You are not scared
You're just a hateful asswipe
Better?
& this⬇️
#PrideMonth

I've known @jorge for almost twenty years. He lives in the future. Every time he is excited about something new, first I would shrug, then a few years later I would find myself using it (and loving it). Finally I learned that if I want to know the future of Linux, I should listen to him.

So when Jorge writes a blog post describing the future of the Linux desktop, you should read it.

https://www.ypsidanger.com/the-distribution-model-is-changing/

#linux #desktop #flatpak

Amazing things happened in America the last time we taxed billionaires at 90%. It’s an incredible story that every American should know!

https://hartmannreport.com/p/what-happens-when-you-tax-billionaires-fa3

New proposed @USPTO rules will bring more bogus software patents. They're a big threat to open source developers. We're standing together with @linuxfoundation insisting on a "fair and open system" of patent reviews. https://www.linuxfoundation.org/blog/stand-up-for-open-source-software-patent-defense

We live in a strange world, where we think we can buy or build our way out of a crisis that has been created by buying and building things.
Where a football game or a film gala gets more media attention than the biggest crisis humanity has ever faced.
Greta Thunberg

Ron DeSantis supports pastor who says gay people should be "put to death" https://boingboing.net/2023/06/02/ron-desantis-supports-pastor-who-says-gay-people-should-be-put-to-death.html such lovely people, these "christians"....

REI trying to do a little ethics washing after their anti-union shenanigans, smh.

https://www.thenews.coop/170288/sector/retail/rei-co-op-donates-us40m-to-nonprofits-working-for-a-more-equitable-outdoors/

"By an 8-to-1 vote, the [U.S. Supreme Court] ruled against unionized truck drivers who walked off the job, leaving their trucks loaded with wet concrete, but it preserved the rights of workers to time their strikes for maximum effect."

https://www.npr.org/2023/06/01/1179524247/supreme-court-ruled-against-a-union-but-left-strikers-rights-protections-untouch