Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

In case it isn't obvious, my desire to reside on a Mastodon instance that will proactively #defederate from the corporate internet and my desire to not have my ideas harvested for use by generative #AI aren't really separate things.

It's quite easy to create decent-looking unique fake background people, they're already in a lot of movies. The only reason studios would want this is in case a background actor later became famous, so they could misappropriate their likeness in perpetuity without pay.

https://www.theverge.com/2023/7/13/23794224/sag-aftra-actors-strike-ai-image-rights

@evacide https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/06/security-and-privacy-tips-people-seeking-abortion

"Eva," you ask, "What does good, practical digital privacy advice for abortion-seekers look like if I'm not supposed to tell them to download Tails?"

It looks like this: https://digitaldefensefund.org/ddf-guides/abortion-privacy

I'm just a girl, standing in front of the entire infosec community, asking them to give practical, simple digital security/privacy advice to people seeking abortions instead of describing outlandish Jason Bourne scenarios.

@dangillmor
I haven't had that problem with my credit union - yet.

The hedge fund / private equity business doesn't care in the slightest about the health of the people its growing number of doctors and nurses treat.

It cares solely about their money, and the American "health care system" becomes even more of scam every day.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/10/upshot/private-equity-doctors-offices.html?unlocked_article_code=ezXzn5GZwHgc0jvLOsPAWY9VOkXAs_FFXEQ8n5ZxsaGjUxSoTKWuFvYeoTEfCnNwCCCqHtbB6KsgHMdDDfPujElOIVk5SD2DaDZwJg3vnCkI37JyTzM48SxKdaYp09oupMSilvSXx5NKByHVyjRXK5Q_cGH9DsiT5uO2P6LiqZneAXPo3C9Opk7Z9m0WBDSVtGP9BhMdzDIsJ4cHNAt44kU7s8Qho9u8VSxtaR8rMsNqoSQxu_Rl3gcQl1PraCv5wP-2QHR1_fisdNZmpVWFdl6ZWa8PBFYtrqNQ9-RXBRd54TjGBXAp-Sd7DR8ACUd8BJlzvm9RlN0PSJ2dURowkmmz1CEW8us&smid=tw-share

Wait, calling it "duck tape" is actually correct and not just a branding thing?

https://hackaday.com/2023/07/13/how-duck-tape-became-famous/

#TIL

As intended by the racists in charge of Texas public higher education, job candidates who believe in social justice should look elsewhere. https://www.texastribune.org/2023/07/11/texas-a-m-kathleen-mcelroy-journalism/?utm_campaign=trib-social&utm_content=1689094487&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter

#UK poised to drop plans to replace home #gas #boilers with #hydrogen alternatives | #HydrogenPower | The Guardian

In my opinion, it was a silly idea to replace natural gas infrastructure with hydrogen burning, primarily because it is not produced in an environmentally friendly way and the current method pumps out lots of #GreenhouseGases and #Pollution, thus negating the supposed benefit of burning it.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jul/13/uk-poised-to-drop-plans-for-hydrogen-to-replace-natural-gas-in-homes

#Environment #EnergyPolicy #RenewableEnergy #Renewables

Better to heat houses with #HeatPumps powered from renewable sources.

Otto Richter (@fnetX) dives into Codeberg's (https://codeberg.org/) financial model, user sovereignty commitment, unique open-source hosting approach, and the challenges & triumphs of running a tech nonprofit.

Listen at 🎙️ https://podcast.sustainoss.org/189

Three of my favorite economists in conversation: Radhika Desai, Michael Hudson, and Ann Pettifor on the global financial system and how exploitative debt is used to oppress the world.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x13cSy8S8To

Text of my talk, "Self-indigenization, Genocide, and Native Resistance," and YouTube video from University of Vermont, April 28, 2023 #RaceShifting #Pretendians
https://youtu.be/7tYHqJhvg8c

It is frightening to see how #journalists (even those supposedly knowing about #media, like #MargaretSullivan @TheGuardian) realise how and why #Twitter failed them and us as a digital public space but entirely fail to draw any meaningful conclusions for themselves. Instead they willingly stumble into the next #platform dependency that will harm independent #journalism and degrade public discourse.

More corruption in Clarence Thomas world: "Lawyers with supreme court business paid Clarence Thomas aide via Venmo"

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jul/12/clarence-thomas-aide-venmo-payments-lawyers-supreme-court

Big Tech is part of the Hollywood-led cartel that aims to destroy film/TV unions. These companies aren't even pretending they care about fair contracts anymore. They want absolute, total control -- and the plan is to bankrupt the employees.

https://deadline.com/2023/07/writers-strike-hollywood-studios-deal-fight-wga-actors-1235434335/

"...Warner Bros Discovery, Apple, Netflix, Amazon, Disney, Paramount and others have become determined to 'break the WGA,' as one studio exec blatantly put it."

Mastodon is really starting to build a solid #News #USPolitics and #Legal analysis sector. Some who've been missing for a while are back, and others who've been here the whole time are in full stride:

Good follows: @emptywheel, @Teri_Kanefield, @wendysiegelman, @GottaLaff, @pbump, @dangillmor, @taylorlorenz, @w7voa, @chrisgeidner, @QasimRashid, @heidilifeldman, @rbreich, @lawfare, @maxkennerly, @fulelo, @marcelias, @uspolitics, @ProPublica, @icymi_law

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Have you shared a flyer in your local online groups yet? Today's challenge is to post a flyer or note about the co-op on a local list-serve or other online group.

Find ideas and shareable flyers here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1YgTd4ZMl-70p6J5KLyIK_rnN6v3kv8057HANqDMiaEg/edit?usp=sharing