Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Google and Microsoft are breaking email for their own selfish reasons - to force everyone to use their services if they hope to have email delivered to anyone using those dominant platforms. http://www.igregious.com/2023/03/gmail-is-breaking-email.html Seems undeniable that they are actively trying to kill independent email providers in order to surveil all people who use email (and profit from selling the results to other capitalist dregs).

Save the Date and Spread the Word!

The new PM Press warehouse will be hosting the First Annual Upstate Anarchist Book Fair (UABF) on May 4th, 2024 in Binghamton, NY.

Get added to the mailing list or sign-up as a vendor, volunteer, panelist, workshop leader & more: https://forms.gle/4W2torunoGXyunwb9

The inevitable result of every AI project.

On the anniversary of the Stonewall uprising, listen to Scott Branson discuss Anarchism, Queers, and Mutual Aid and their new books, Surviving the Future: Abolitionist Queer Strategies & Practical Anarchism, on the Sad Francisco podcast. https://blog.pmpress.org/2023/06/26/anarchism-queers-and-mutual-aid-f-scott-branson-on-sad-francisco/

How Often Do Health Insurers Say No to Patients?
No One Knows.
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Insurers’ denial rates are a critical measure of how reliably they pay for customers’ care. But they remain mostly secret to the public.

There’s nowhere a consumer or employer can go to look up all insurers’ denial rates.

Federal and state regulators have done little to change that.

#Health #HealthCare #Insurance #Obamacare #AffordableCareAct #Hospitals #Doctors #Patients

https://www.propublica.org/article/how-often-do-health-insurers-deny-patients-claims?utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

What to do if your phone is seized by the police?

Read our guide and know your rights. https://freedom.press/training/mobile-security-for-activists-and-journalists/

Uploaded the audio version of Chapter 2 of @luisrazeto's #Cooperative Enterprise & Market Economy this morning.

https://soundcloud.com/user-961707688/cooperative-enterprise-market-economy-chapter-2

Instances differ in moderation policies and approaches, and the experience of the Fediverse is very different depending on just the size of your home instance.

There are curated lists of instances that host bad actors, and many instances already refuse to federate with the large instances. And yet it all more-or-less works.

The fact that this system basically works while being fragmented is one of its beauties.

#federation #defederation

https://world.hey.com/dhh/we-have-left-the-cloud-251760fb leaving the cloud and saving a bundle...

Thanks to @yojimbo for having given us the nudge to leave the RHEL ecosystem and move to the Debian/Ubuntu one all those years ago (2004?). Never regretted the move. And now with RHEL poking their #LibreSoftware community in the eye with their idiotic (typical corporate) licensing/policy shenanigans, I'm doubly glad that it's not a problem for me and mine.

hell of a flow chart from an FTX bankruptcy filing, showing commingled funds

"Under current land-use regulation, carbon dioxide emissions from biofuel production exceed those from fossil diesel combustion. Therefore, international agreements need to ensure the effective and globally comprehensive protection of natural land before modern bioenergy can effectively contribute to achieving carbon neutrality."

Notable: These authors have published their policy recommendations as #OpenAccess, meaning they're not uselessly advising in private.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-023-01711-7

There are no queer friendly cops. #Pride means abolish the police, abolish prisons, and queer liberation.

Surviving the Future: Abolitionist Queer Strategies is a collection of the most current ideas in radical queer movement work.

Cast off progressive narratives of liberal hope & build mutual networks of rebellion and care.

Save 20% w/ code JUNE til 7/1 at https://pmpress.org/index.php?l=product_detail&p=1296

@enkerli the almost compete erosion of value in the term "open source" (to mean 'weak open source licenses but, unlike its original meaning, *not* including #Copyleft or '#libre' licenses) thanks to bad corporate actors has forced the #FreeSoftware community to reinforce its long-time use of the term #libre to refer to share-alike #open licensing. #LibreWashing is an emerging insidious problem.

@LibreTexts

FedEx is not content to just underpay their workers. They've also decided to start scamming their delivery drivers by selling them trucks with doctored odometers.

My gawd, don't you just love this country?

https://jalopnik.com/fedex-named-in-what-could-be-one-of-the-largest-odomete-1850570768

There's a sneaky strawman argument that is used against #degrowth and other efforts that call for scaling back harmful activities for #environmental or other reasons. You should watch for it.

It goes like this:
Environmentalist: "#Plastic pollution is a huge, and society is altogether too focused on single-use disposable plastic products. We should fix that."
Pollution apologist: "Here are a zillion medical innovations that would be impossible without plastic. You're trying to kill people."