Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Somebody else should do something. Today's cartoon by Martyn Turner. More cartoons: https://cartoonmovement.com/search?query=&sort=created&order=desc

#climate #climateaction #climateprotest #indifference #inaction

This reflects my feelings.
“Titan and Adriana are two vessels recently lost at sea, four days and 4,000 miles apart. The five men who lost their lives on the Titan have been getting wall-to-wall coverage in the media worldwide. Meanwhile, the estimated 700 who died when the Adriana sank off the coast of Greece, mostly women and children, have been essentially forgotten.”
https://www.democracynow.org/2023/6/22/a_titanic_disparity_in_how_the

NEW: More than 100 artists including Rage Against the Machine, Wheatus, Jill Sobule, Anti-Flag, Speedy Ortiz, Deerhoof and Boots Riley have signed a pledge to boycott venues that use facial recognition.

We launched the letter with a Rolling Stone exclusive this morning. Still taking signers!
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/tom-morello-zack-de-la-rocha-facial-recognition-concerts-boycott-1234775909/

I'm laughing at memes about billionaires who can't pull themselves up to the surface by their own bootstraps, but in reality I'm furious.

I'm furious I was accused of human smuggling by FRONTEX (European border agency) for being part of a sea rescue operation that saved 1000+ lives of refugees fleeing war & terrorism.

I'm furious at the money and international effort being spent to rescue these billionaires when operations like ours cost so little and save so many lives, but are punished.

I have to repeat myself. Why isn't this on the headline of all newspapers?

The Greek shipwreck was a horrific tragedy. Yet it didn’t get the attention of the Titanic story | Arwa Mahdawi | The Guardian

Proof that the media view a few rich people as much more valuable or newsworthy than the many poor.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jun/22/the-greek-shipwreck-was-a-horrific-tragedy-yet-it-didnt-get-the-attention-of-the-titanic-story

Unrelated to our hardware failure, today the whole world (or maybe just some bad guys?) apparently want to access all our big repos like linux and FreeBSD source trees at once. We're currently tuning some configurations to allow better distribution of resources and keep normal queries unaffected.

It's important to note that more work is needed to improve the accessibility stack on Linux; if you want to contribute you can read the at-spi2-core developers documentation for an overview of the stack: https://gnome.pages.gitlab.gnome.org/at-spi2-core/devel-docs/index.html

We especially need more documentation on how ATs interpret the accessibility interfaces, and what kind of expectations should be satisfied by toolkits and apps.

#Climate impact of #shipping under growing scrutiny ahead of key meeting | Shipping #emissions | The Guardian

I’m not sure why shipping has got away with is damaging practices for so long.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jun/22/climate-impact-shipping-under-growing-scrutiny-imo-meeting-seascape

#Environment #GlobalWarming #ClimateChnage #Pollution

The Corporations behind Cop City - a map
https://framacarte.org/en/map/take-action-to-stopcopcity_149620#5/41.195/-103.184

The media missed the big one in the story about how Paul “The Vulture” Singer hooked Justice Alito. Singer’s big case, in which he invested millions, was Shelby v. Holder. Alito was the surprise deciding vote that destroyed the Voting Rights Act, Singer’s priority, key to GOP power.

https://youtu.be/LZ7k8uGp8N8

#SCOTUS #PaulSinger #JusticeAlito

Ugh. This will, no doubt, lead to more calls for "put everything in the [foreign owned] cloud!" https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/492437/it-outages-disrupt-hospitals-across-wellington-region-wairarapa Why are we so bad at managing IT? Could it be because all the wrong people are in charge?

The preventable -- and inexcusable -- shortage of chemotherapy drugs is only the latest evidence that US "health care" system is collapsing once and for all. https://arstechnica.com/health/2023/06/dire-shortage-of-cancer-drugs-in-us-forces-doctors-to-ration-doses/

The racist, counterproductive, and generally evil War on (Some) Drugs is back with a vengeance. We never learn. We just create more victims, and pretend we're fixing something that requires complex, not simplistic, solutions.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/21/health/fentanyl-overdose-crisis.html

The Murdoch family's Wall Street Journal editorial page is so often a forum for right-wing extremism (corporate branch) that it's not really surprising to see the Journal go all the way with Alito's risible alibis.

Two immediate thoughts:

-- He lives in a world where this kind of corruption is normal, so he can't imagine that what he did was wrong.

-- What we know about him and Thomas feels like tip-of-iceberg stuff. Maybe someday we'll know how deep it goes.

Scientists have been pounding the table warning about climate change for decades, often at the expense of their own careers, only to be ignored by politicians.
And now that the climate is spinning out of control, its somehow the fault of scientists??

I say this will all due respect to all those who promote this take: f#ck off.

Wouldn't it be funny if, with ChatGPT and Bard, Microsoft and Google have sowed the seeds of their own demise? 😂 https://twitter.com/immasiddtweets/status/1669721470006857729