Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Not a lot of responses to my question about the best non-Mastodon ActivityPub platforms.

To elaborate a bit, I'm specifically interested in information about the best-designed alternatives to Mastodon.

Mastodon, being Twitter-like, was always rather clunky, but I'm not getting good vibes from the newest features, and I'm wondering if there are better ActivityPub platforms that are developed with a coherent design philosophy.

Journalists: if you're not writing about Tim Burke's case but you would write about an FBI raid of an NYT reporter, ask yourself why and reconsider

We recently wrote about the media's failure to cover arrests of independent journalists. Same applies here. https://freedom.press/news/arrests-of-independent-journalists-should-make-headlines-too/

Reading the late, great #Dakota scholar Elizabeth Cook-Lynn's memoir, "In Defense of Loose Translations: An Indian Life in an Academic World." I'm going to share choice passages.

"If you write about Indians, please write about praying to the Great Spirit or how drunk we all are since Lewis and Clark came....not about genocide, invasion, racist law and the hideously righteous and narrow-minded Christians who came and built schools all over the West to capture the young." (34)

What are the best non-Mastodon Activity Pub platforms, and why?

(boosts welcome)

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@gwynnion

I mean, it's right there in the concept... have you ever voted for your boss? How about your bosses' boss? How about anyone at the company you work for? Ever voted for any of them?

Businesses are NOT democracies. They are dictatorships. Anyone who says they want to run the government "like a business" is saying they want a dictatorship.

So fun to find this resource buried in the USFWC membership package. https://www.usworker.coop/shopcoop/

Along with @coopartisans marketplace, there's no reason to NOT shop co-ops for gift giving!

https://artisans.coop/

This is the Facebook playbook: you lure in publishers by promising them a traffic funnel ("post excerpts and links and we'll show them to people, including people who never asked to see them"), and then the rug-pull: "Post everything here, don't link to your own site. "Become a commodity supplier to our platform. Abandon all your own ways of making money. Become entirely subject to the whims of our recommendation system."

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Gotta love Michael Lewis embarrassing himself defending SBF. His explanation of the '08 crash, The Big Short, was wildly off base too, but that was too complicated for most people to sus out. This one though is a little too obvious...to everyone except Lewis. Thankfully, Coffeezilla read his book, so we don't have to.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B2z8ikGLRh8

The anti-science movement is "organized, it’s well-financed, and it’s politically motivated. It’s doing a lot of damage to the country and to American science and scientists. And now it’s become a lethal force." https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/vaccine-scientist-warns-antiscience-conspiracies-have-become-a-deadly-organized-movement/

Fascinating: I just received a response from the Min of Ed related to my OIA request - details here: https://fyi.org.nz/request/23870-rationale-for-funding-google-microsoft-software-for-public-schools-in-new-zealand?nocache=incoming-91607#incoming-91607 - they effectively refused almost all my questions, many of them because the requested "documents are listed in the
Ministry’s record management system as missing as at 2015". Whoa. Dodgy.

PRESS FREEDOM LEGAL UPDATE:

On Sept 27, Energy Transfer/DAPL appealed the MN District Court order finding UR & its journalists are protected by the Minnesota Free Flow of Information Act (MFFIA): https://donorbox.org/unicorn-riot-nodapl-legal-defense?t=updates#info

“An app built to flag people into binary filings of good or bad based on their (often completely legal) association with sex work is really, really, stupid,” making trafficking worse and consensual sex work more dangerous, EFF’s Daly Barnett told Forbes.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2023/10/04/iphone-app-promises-to-identify-human-traffickers-critics-say-it-endangers-victims/?sh=37e10b4b10d3
#sexwork #surveillance #security

It's official, the in-person #Codeberg User Meetup in Düsseldorf is happening. The event is open to the public and no registration is necessary.

The event will not have much of a structure, but expect discussions about Codeberg and project maintenance.

📅 Sunday, 2023-10-22, from 17:30 CEST (late arrivals welcome!)
📍 Chaosdorf / Chaos Computer Club Düsseldorf: https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/9864734572
😷 Please come with a mask and test for COVID / flu.
🕊️ Huge thanks to @chaosdorf for making this possible.

Announcing the "How do you use Co-op Cloud?" survey!

I'm trying to gather stories about how people use Co-op Cloud. With your consent, I will share these at the "Engineering for Digital Sovereignty" presentation during https://disco.si/speakers-and-programme/#conversation (@DISCOSlovenia) on the 24th of October. Images are very much appreciated, the more visuals the better (for the slides).

https://pad.riseup.net/p/UsjOrfdbxPoVjE-4pwiM-keep

Thank you! Signal boosts are very welcome!

-- @decentral1se

It's that time of year to cozy up with friends and take down fascists.

Sign up as a Friend of PM this month to get this ALWAYS ANTIFASCIST beanie as a FREE gift along with two new books!

Go to http://pmpress.org/fopm, choose "Print plus" & write "beanie" in the Order Comments.

Holy cats, somebody put together a conference for #therapists and #hackers about sex and tech/internet and security and mental health.

Securing Sexuality Conference
https://www.securingsexuality.com
Oct 19 & 20, 2023

(Yes, there's CEs.)

It looks incredible. (qv "Schedule")

I'm bummed I'm only learning about this now, and that I can't travel due to health reasons, and also there's still a pandemic ongoing. But while they're not live streaming it, they are making recordings which I'll probably buy.