Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

@ian

8675309 (as in, Jenny's number from the Tommy Tutone song) is a prime number. What's more, it's the bottom half of a twin prime pair: add 2, and you get 8675311, which is ALSO prime.

If you're writing software that implements number-theoretic algorithms, it can be problematic to test it using small primes like 7 or 11, because small primes tend to have a lot of weird properties tend to trigger exceptions and edge cases. Having a pair of easy-to-remember, "big enough" prime numbers like the Jenny primes is really useful.

The US News and World Report just released their annual College Rankings — and you should ignore them.

A reminder that last year their "Chief Data Strategist" somehow admitted in public that every year they screw around with the ranking algorithm until it gives results they like.

Source: https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-news-college-rankings-yale-law-fe24f0b2

@jhavok @sofiav @HeavenlyPossum @RD4Anarchy @jameshowell @breadandcircuses @emmreef I'm just gonna leave this here.

Look at the year it was written.

Let that sink in.

Just keep following @breadandcircuses and think about how much time we've already wasted playing these games.

Lancaster's Music #Coop is coming back after signing a 99 year lease with the city and getting funding for repairs.

https://www.aol.com/lancaster-music-co-ops-future-172052561.html

Native American tribes are joining together to create a hemp #cooperative consortium!

https://www.buffalosfire.com/native-hempsters-follow-global-cooperative-consortium-example/

#Maine has a new #WorkerCoop!

https://cdi.coop/odonals-nursery-is-maines-newest-worker-owned-cooperative/

Subscribe to the GEO Newsletter and get #Cooperative and #SolidarityEconomy goodness delivered to your inbox every Tuesday!

https://mailchi.mp/0c347ad90893/geo-newsletter-subscribe

Welcome to the co-op fam Louder Than Ten! https://louderthanten.com/coax/introducing-the-louder-than-ten-workers-cooperative #canada #workercoop

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."