Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

HELLO PARTY (Chicago area) PEOPLE!!!

I will be at Women & Children First Bookstore THIS FRIDAY to talk about my book PERIOD with the amazing Heather Corinna of Scarleteen.

Spread the word! Come yourself! Buy a book or seven!

(AND for my fellow covid safe girlie pops* - masks required!)

https://www.womenandchildrenfirst.com/event/person-event-period-kate-clancy

*My teen son swears girlie pop is gender neutral

Our provider confirmed the network outage and is still investigating the cause.

There might be another short interruption due to maintenance work in order to permanently fix the problem.

Thank you for your patience, we are back online.

Hi all, our server is currently unreachable, not even via VPN and the network of our provider does not respond to pings, too.

Drink something, test your work again, and push it once we're back online 🧉

Hey Social.coop braintrust: I've got someone who is interested in doing a #WorkerCoop conversion in New Jersey with a small manufacturing firm - who should they be talking to? Who are the co-op associations/developers/professionals in the area they should be reaching out to?

I've said it before and I'll say it again: there is no way to technology our way out of our unsustainable economic system. Going electric isn't going to help - it will just adjust how and where we are pillaging the planet. This is why you never hear electric car enthusiasts talking about all the mining (and associated environmental destruction) our electrical gadgets require. It takes a special kind of privilege to remain obtuse to these things.

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2023/09/dangerous-scramble-for-renewable-energy-resources.html

@linmob @s31bz @bradlinder Yeah, the #librem5 is the one phone that most mobian developers currently recommend and use. Both purism and mobian devs are quite active with migrating things into @debian proper. We are aware of the price tag, but would like to reiterate that this actually includes salaries for mobile Linux developers.

Environmental policy in the UK has reverted to "let it burn" -- https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-66857551

Generative "AI" chatbots are good for one purpose, in my experience: suggestions.

Any "writing" that I have to relentlessly fact-check is otherwise a near-complete waste of my time.

It never ceases to amaze me how people can see the same evidence and jump to entirely different conclusions based on their preconceptions and prejudices and their ability to distinguish anecdote from statistic. Democracies do best in egalitarian societies where people value education. They're not doing well in most currently (precariously) democratic societies because of increasing inequity and hostility toward education.

UK Government ‘Concession’ On Breaking End-to-End #Encryption In The Online Safety Act (Just Passed) Turns Out Not To Be One - https://www.techdirt.com/2023/09/19/uk-government-concession-on-breaking-end-to-end-encryption-in-the-online-safety-act-just-passed-turns-out-not-to-be-one/ this would be entertaining if it weren't so awful...

"The report titled Indigenous Identity Fraud within NCNS and obtained by APTN News, was submitted to the Native Council of Nova Scotia (NCNS). It says that more than 300 members should be removed due to the author’s research which found they do not have Indigenous ancestry." #pretendianism
https://www.aptnnews.ca/national-news/author-of-report-alleges-native-council-of-nova-scotia-proposing-by-laws-that-will-impact-organization/

Forty years of #GNU and the free software movement - https://www.fsf.org/news/forty-years-of-gnu-and-the-free-software-movement "On September 27, the Free Software Foundation (FSF) celebrates the 40th anniversary of the GNU operating system and the launch of the free software movement."

Some of the most interesting stuff I got from the talk, though, was during the Q & A, and chatting with Groot afterward. I asked her to compare the politics on long distance transmission lines (generally a plus for climate mitigation) with the politics on long distance pipelines (generally a minus for climate mitigation), and she said that one important difference is that here in the U.S., the FERC can permit pipelines at the national level, but they can't do that for power lines.

Today I saw Maddy Groot's STS talk "Decarbonization vs. Democratization? Participatory Politics and the New England Grid", which was a fascinating talk on her preliminary findings about the political framing around impediments to renewable energy transmission lines in New England.

Really interesting stuff.

Have you heard these claims?

“AGI is imminent!”

or

“At current rate of progress, AGI is inevitable!”

We explain why, and present a formal proof that, such claims are false and misleading.

https://irisvanrooijcogsci.com/2023/09/17/debunking-agi-inevitability-claims/

Wow, every time I'm forced to use a Microsoft technology (the bloody VisionFive2 RISC-V Debian image is held on OneDrive), I puke in my mouth a little. It all seems so pointlessly complicated and yet functionally primitive at the same time. 🤢

Welfare for billionaires in Oklahoma City -- yet another example of the way the ultra wealthy, with the connivance of politicians, rip off the public via lies and threats. https://popular.info/p/the-oklahoma-city-boondoggle?utm_campaign=email-post&r=qs4z&utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email Fine reporting, as usual, by @juddlegum

fascists work to divert your attention from the people who are robbing you to people they can make disgust you.

https://www.treehugger.com/environmental-impact-flying-vs-driving-5116489
"For instance, according to 2019 data from the U.K. Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS), a domestic flight will emit about 22% less carbon dioxide per person, per mile than a diesel car with one passenger. But, when you also factor in contrail clouds, a domestic flight generates 49% more emissions overall."

Uh, like, so Burning Man isn't my kink either, but I really hope that everyone who's grousing about people driving out to the middle of the desert don't do recreational air travel, because impact-wise, that's really kind of similar.