Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Piñata Economics, I like it, I will now dedicate my life and entire personality to it

This one weird trick allows you to benefit from inequality while still feeling morally superior.

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2023/09/on-not-thinking-like-a-liberal-in-the-21st-century.html

#UK fails to ban 36 harmful #pesticides outlawed for use in #EU | Pesticides | The Guardian

A real benefit of #Brexit: to be able to #poison the land for profit.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/sep/13/uk-fails-ban-pesticides-outlawed-use-in-eu

#Neonicotinoids

📣 BOOM: CDC advisory panel recommends updated COVID-19 vaccine for *everyone* 6 months or older: https://acasignups.net/23/09/12/breaking-cdc-panel-recommends-updated-covid-19-vaccine-everyone-6-mo

This is disturbing: https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/ninetonoon/audio/2018904768/tech-companies-are-evolving-into-military-contractors a #Google engineer (from near where I come from) who became #whistleblower and quit on ethical grounds... he explains the issue to Kathryn Ryan on #RNZ.

USENET, one of the original -- and always decentralized -- social networks, never completely went away. Now it may be on the verge of a comeback. https://www.theregister.com/2023/08/30/usenet_revival/

David Davis & Caroline Lucas MPs are supporting an amendment to the Online Safety Bill that would seek to protect the end-to-end encrypted services. Many parents rely on these apps to safely and securely share family pictures. #onlinesafetybill #encryption #privacy #E2EE

1/3 of the junior class at the school in NYC where my daughter works was out with #covid yesterday. Mask up, #boston: we're likely next.

The only legitimate use of privilege is to help bring about the kind of world where you would not have had it to begin with.

#privilege

Baltimore people, come to @redemmas on Wednesday at 7pm for a reading of my indigenous futurist science fiction book SORDIDEZ followed by a spicy revolutionary conversation led by fellow angry boricua Karlo Yeager Rodriguez. #BookTour #bookstodon #scifibooks #queerbooks #latinxbooks #latineauthor #readpuertorican #boricuadon #IndigenousFuturism #taino #tainofuturism #SFF #booklaunchevent #AuthorEvent #decolonial

@StelliformPress

https://redemmas.org/events/e-g-cond-presents-sordidez-in-conversation-w-karlo-rodriguez/

Dozens of fraudulent public comments urging the state of #Ohio to allow fracking in state parks were sent in the names of people without their knowledge or permission. One was a 9-yr-old girl.

Republicans did this.

The story gets even deeper from there. Great reporting by #Jake_Zuckerman

https://www.cleveland.com/open/2023/09/their-names-appeared-on-letters-urging-fracking-ohios-state-parks-they-dont-know-how.html

On September 11, 1973, Chile was robbed of its democracy in a CIA-backed coup

I still can't fucking believe we have a Department of Homeland Security, I mean, Jesus, that's sort of thing you catch a glimpse of in a headline in the background and immediately realize oh, yeah, this is an alternate timeline episode, wonder how they'll ever get back.

With the recent RICO indictments, those defending the Weelaunee Forest need our support more than ever.

All proceeds from these sliding scale benefit shirts designed by @nobonzo go to the Atlanta Solidarity Fund.

Learn more here https://pmpress.org/index.php?l=product_detail&p=1551 and donate directly at https://atlsolidarity.org/

@pluralistic 's narrative about how tech workers were exploited through "perks" and appeals to dreams of creation is like a speedrun of what has happened to academic faculty. They didn't think of themselves as "workers" as long as they had benefits that made infinite work possible and constant appeals to their own values and goals. Fewer and fewer get the perks, the values get lost, and then folks are begging to keep a grip on the lowest rung, making unions... difficult.

https://doctorow.medium.com/the-proletarianization-of-tech-workers-ad0a6b09f7e6

I enjoy watching the mix of athletes from different countries at the US Open, and I also admire the fact that the tournament is celebrating 50 years of equal pay. That said, the branding has gotten a bit out of control.

#usopen #advertising #sports #marketing #latecapitalism #cartoon

The English suffix "-ard" (as in "drunkard", "laggard", "braggard", and "sluggard") is used to make adjectives into deprecating nouns.

"He's drunk" is just a description.
"He's a drunkard" is a moral judgment that finds the subject lacking.

The same process turned "he's wise" into "he's a wizard".

"Wizard" was the medieval equivalent of "smartass".

“FIDE’s transgender policy is ridiculous and dangerous,” grandmaster and two-time US champion Jennifer Shahade said in a statement to Chess.com. “It’s obvious they didn’t consult with any transgender players in constructing it. It’s also sinister timing that this comes out just as chess is finally reckoning with sexual assault and harassment in chess highlighting the links between misogyny and transphobia.”

@thenation

https://www.thenation.com/article/society/trans-chess-ban-explainer/?ref=still-out-of-your-league.ghost.io