Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

@lightweight Yep Bernard Hickey yesterday pointed out that National's tax policy is a huge gift to landlords and will cost beneficiaries $17k over 4 years. Magnified Trickle up.
https://thekaka.substack.com/p/wednesdays-chorus-tax-cuts-for-mega

I'm not a great interviewer, but fortunately Rachel and Travis were pretty good at answering my rambling questions about their conversion to a #WorkerCoop and their work in #ProjectManagement training.

[Turning Up the Cooperation with Louder Than Ten]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JNTbDjG61h0

"When I look at the Crazy Horse Memorial a few miles from where I live, I know that the colonial power of Euro-Americans is directed to invent their own sculpture, art, literature, and history of a Lakota man who defended his lands and people from enforced prison. When they blow up a mountain to honor him, their action sustains the theft that killed him." (209) #ElizabethCookLynn

DRM ruins efforts at historical preservation. If all of our media is locked up in digital streaming platforms -- which will go under eventually -- how will it be preserved for future generations? Live DRM-free instead: https://u.fsf.org/1aj #EndDRM #DRM

It's an exciting week here in #OpenSource author land. Yesterday was the fifth birthday of my first book, and today my second is available in beta/early release! 🎉

Introducing Business Success with Open Source!

Is your company using open source in any way? (yes, it is)

Does it want to do that in a way that improves the #business while also being good for the #FOSS ecosystem? (yes, it does)

Then this is the book for you! Check it out!

https://pragprog.com/titles/vbfoss/business-success-with-open-source/

#plsBoost

This has @pluralistic written all over it: Google is bragging about enshittifying search. https://www.thinkwithgoogle.com/intl/en-gb/consumer-insights/consumer-journey/the-consumer-decision-making-process/

Fuck Gary Bettman.

However, it is nice to see a corporation go full mask off and admit that all of their stupid Pride initiatives were just pandering bullshit.

It took seven whiny snowflakes to get the NHL to *ban rainbow tape on sticks during warmups*.

If I was an NHL coach, I wouldn't want someone that weak on my team. Get back in the locker room, wimp. You can't handle rainbow tape, you can't handle a body check.

What's going on with inflation and unemployment? Not what the mainstream economists are telling you, that's for sure.

[In the Footsteps of Ptolemy: The ‘Science of Monetary Policy’ and the Inflation of 2021-2023]

https://www.ineteconomics.org/perspectives/blog/in-the-footsteps-of-ptolemy-the-science-of-monetary-policy-and-the-inflation-of-2021-2023

"To write or create art without acknowledging that hate borne of historical experience is a genuine thing is to...abandon political matters, forget the tremendous pressures of tribal histories in this country, and move on into metaphysics, fantasy, cyberspace, or other opportunistic attitudes that will get the writer or researcher or professor tenure, three cars in the garage, and a lifetime academic chair...Better yet, a seat at the tribal council table." (#ElizabethCookLynn, 111)

More from #ElizabethCookLynn:

"The forming of Israel...was an act of courage and salvation, some have said. Others, including myself, suggest that it was an act of aggressive colonization...it has engendered acts of resistance that have been long and devastating and that, some say, should have been anticipated. Much of my writing...has [tried] to understand not only colonization but the resistance to it." (60)

i'm not here to argue, but to share insights of a too-little-known Dakota scholar.

Entries will be accepted until December 6 for the 2023 Shaufler Prize in Journalism. The prize honors #journalism that reports on #underrepresented communities. The first-place winner in the professional media category will receive $10,000. Second and third place will receive $3,000 and $2,000, respectively. Entries must consist of work published or aired on #print, #digital, #audio or #broadcast platforms between Sept. 1, 2022, and Sept. 1, 2023. https://cronkite.asu.edu/news/2023/shaufler-prize-in-journalism-recognizing-reporting-to-advance-understanding-of-underserved-communities-now-accepting-entries/

Got an email from a respected researcher who's heard that Gannett has been quietly closing more weekly print papers in Eastern Mass. Has anyone heard anything? Any insiders have a memo? Discretion assured - dkennedy56 at gmail dot com. #LocalNews #journalism

Some folks are organizing a #Codeberg user meetup in #Dusseldorf, Germany on 2023-10-22.

Read all about it on our calendar: https://codeberg.codeberg.page/Events/events/2023/22-10-duesseldorf-user-meetup/

Our contributors are looking forward to meeting with you.

📽️ Reality Winner, a new documentary about the NSA whistleblower, premieres on Wednesday, Oct. 11, 8 pm at IFC Center in NYC.

The screening will be followed by a Q&A with director Sonia Kennebeck.

Get your tickets here: https://tickets.ifccenter.com/websales/pages/ticketsearchcriteria.aspx?evtinfo=404485~8722a542-64c1-4c0b-af02-c3e8a239d769&_ga=2.239744074.87516370.1696956735-1461751318.1696956735

Some boycotts are hard. Some are easy.

The NHL: Your officially homophobic professional sports league.

The NHL has banned Pride Tape, creating its own ‘Don’t Say Gay’ policy
The NHL has banned Pride Tape and Pride jerseys, in addition to issuing a disaster memo regarding LGBTQ initiatives. Hockey is not for everyone.

https://www.outsports.com/2023/10/9/23907582/nhl-gay-lgbtq-pride-tape-drag-queen-national-anthem-player-boycott

Today and tomorrow are Amazon Crime Big Steal Days where the behemoth continues to bleed indies dry.

Support indies, communities, and local businesses instead.

Save 40% on all PM Press books & e-books on October 10th and 11th with coupon code CRIME at http://pmpress.org.

Reading liberal takes on Palestine rn is like being transported back to the old West, listening to my ancestors talk abt what to do about all these Indians, hand-wringing over their resistance to displacement and attempted genocide; growing morally indignant about violent responses to ethnic oppression. Seriously, I could take a number of posts from my feed, change a few words, & you would have no way of knowing if it was about Palestinians today or Native Americans circa 1870.

Vermont's Green Mountain Power is going to equip every customer with a backup battery, since that's cheaper than making their power grid more resilient. This is the first half of a good idea. The remaining half would be to provide customers with heavily-subsidized solar panels (amortized over a decade's power bills), creating a distributed power-generation system that can serve customers even when disconnected from the grid. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/09/business/energy-environment/green-mountain-home-batteries.html?unlocked_article_code=LeKDfU8q__Ways4PG2VyNTDvV6LLU5JNc5L7H_qb312SZnm9OaYuY573BIxiljZ3L55mi6HAWbKGEhmVrH-jIKJnEl6G6t-8FQxeMxe_HZwRtuDnLZeKjkJxgwym5CKHNMWQ23ZrHZ8Zvg3DQwG9Te1D2nLCwW7ixhHUoqUMB7Of3RMrFAS5Y80nHGWd1X8KFKIboUuhOHllGyZ7UHSNNtG6yBOAdPphYFkw1YycDthyDatHwumZki5-XcUEf4yxBv55nlOb0FrwJqhCt17gFpPXgqWUqK5dbsUOHY7eVd799Nd113qS21tX0eiIS3YWXBzfpWimAhK6PbfgbSfGVqktp52RLdkdSvnY2BkhhOzhuTHcE19JHaAG&smid=url-share

We firmly support the right of collective self-determination.

#FreePalesine #RiseuUp4Rojava

To support Kurdish movement sign here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1sicioup8TW8hrAfewnx0PJEmwj3jGirLh0xZktTJ-Rk/edit

To read more about Palestinian struggle: https://democraticmodernity.com/blog/democratic-confederalism-and-the-palestinian-experience

Recent weeks have seen a sizable uptick in the number of phishing scams targeting U.S. Postal Service (USPS) customers. Here’s a look at an extensive SMS phishing operation that tries to steal personal and financial data by spoofing the USPS, as well as postal services in at least a dozen other countries.

I like to show my work, and went pretty far down the rabbit hole with this one:

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2023/10/phishers-spoof-usps-12-other-natl-postal-services/