Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Well, Trump got indicted at my house, my house
I'll show you the cuffs kid, show you the cuffs
We'll take his prints and his picture at my house, my house
I'll show you the cuffs kid, show you the cuffs

We need to burn the ad-tech business to the ground and then pour salt on the ashes. These companies -- many owned, as in this case (Microsoft), by the tech giants -- have pure contempt for your privacy. They hoover up the most personal information and use it shamelessly to make money.

https://themarkup.org/privacy/2023/06/08/from-heavy-purchasers-of-pregnancy-tests-to-the-depression-prone-we-found-650000-ways-advertisers-label-you

Ford, and now GM, have decided to ditch a developing EV-charging standard in favor of the one owned and controlled by Musk's Tesla.

Best guessing: Either they're going to get monumentally screwed someday when he charges monopoly rents (after initial contracts expire) or they're working with him to create a cartel. Musk wins either way.

If you want to help fight the political shenanigans going on in Ohio, I recommend signing up to help with Vote Forward, who are gearing up for this: https://votefwd.org/

They are a highly-organized letter-writing organization, that mobilizes folks to write to likely and appropriate voters for key votes, to encourage them to come out to the polls. It's low-effort, worthwhile, well-run, and everyone can help!

To any New Yorkers contemplating moving to Montana (perhaps after watching the damned Yellowstone show): The smoke you're experiencing now is what we get for at least a month of every summer. Just sayin'...

Hamilton Nolan: “Worker-owned coops are the next and final evolution of media unions.”
https://www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/the-utopian-future-scenario-of-media

I like Wikipedia. I also like(d) StackExchange. In my opinion, they are both great examples of community-based information curation on the web.

Clearly not everyone agrees with me, though. Certainly got some pushback on my recent post on the idea of a federated StackExchante alternative. Also, during the whole LLM debate, I've seen people assert that Wikipedia is a terrible information source.

Where do you fall?
(boosts welcome)

Does a #federated alternative to #StackExchange exist? If so, how does it measure up?

If not, what are your thoughts on what it would take to create one? Could it be done on #ActivityPub, or would it require a different protocol?

(boosts welcome, as is generally true of public posts)

@georgetakei As much as I want to be happy about this, it doesn't stop the adult HRT ban. The only way to get HRT is through an MD or DO, and you have to fill out a form that literally doesn't exist (a consent form the medical board said they will eventually make, without any kind of indication as to when). This leaves something like 80% of adult trans people in Florida without any means to get their medications.

Where are you on the political scale? Please boost wildly!* 😃​

(*) Yes I mean Wildly not just widely

The agency that runs NY prisons "quietly handed down new rules severely curtailing what incarcerated writers and artists can publish — and forbidding them from getting paid for it." https://nysfocus.com/2023/06/06/doccs-prison-blocks-journalism-artists-creative-work

❗️ The censorship on antifascists continues...

After more then 5 requests by the german state to close our twitter account, they finally did it...Our account was suspended with no previous info by sharing antifascists content on this bs platform.

Follow our mastodon account as we appeal the decision.

Since I started using Codeberg, I've realised how centralised everything is around GitHub (which was buyout by Microsoft), ranging from CI support, identity providing (or both in the case of shuttle.rs), packages and third-party support.

It is worrying, considering the recent controversies with Copilot breaking open source licenses and using projects for learning.

The developer world should drive towards projects like @forgejo and @Codeberg that don't depend on private interests that can let you down at any given point.

Side discussion from the GNOME Mobile hackfest: @verdre has way too many open MRs to his name, and it'd be great if someone else could take over some of them so he can focus on other stuff (like upstreaming 2D gestures :P).

A relatively self-contained and very cool one is the transparent panel for GNOME Shell: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/-/merge_requests/404

We worked through most of the behaviors we want like a year ago, but someone needs to rebase and polish it. Volunteers very welcome :)

"Under Section 702...law enforcement and intelligence are gaining access to sensitive information about social justice activists, journalists, and politicians. Without fundamental changes to the law, there will surely be more of these abuses." https://www.foreignaffairs.com/united-states/coming-fight-over-american-surveillance

Many BPA-Free Plastics Are Toxic. More than 50 different chemicals are now pumped into consumer products in place of BPA. These BPA-free alternatives can be as bad as — or worse than — the original.

https://www.discovermagazine.com/health/many-bpa-free-plastics-are-toxic-some-are-worse-than-bpa

Check out 75% off well-traveled books!

As capitalism eats its own tail, here we are here with loads of ‘dinged’ over-orders from Amazon that we are offering to you at the heaping discount of 75% off!

See all the books & use coupon code DINGED til 7/1 https://blog.pmpress.org/2023/03/08/75-off-these-well-traveled-titles/

#books