Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

DOJ Antitrust Lawsuit- Google extends its control over the search engine market to include Apple iOS end users who may believe they are avoiding Google surveillance business practices by using Apple iOS devices instead of Google Android devices.

Read: https://puri.sm/posts/doj-antitrust-lawsuit-apple-sells-access-to-ios-end-users-to-google/

At this point, it is widely understood that Benjamin Netanyahu helped to support the rise of Hamas. “Anyone who wants to thwart the establishment of a Palestinian state has to support bolstering Hamas,” Netanyahu said in 2019.

But there is less discussion about how US foreign policy also set the stage for the events of October 7, 2023.

In an article published in 2006, we suggested that one way to make sense of the Bush administration's otherwise incomprehensible decisions in Iraq was to assume that they were not trying to suppress jihadism, but rather to create an environment in which it could proliferate.

At the time, the text was received as imaginative speculation. Seventeen years later, it looks prescient. It foretells the rise of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, predicts the extension of the label “terrorist” to ordinary activists in the United States, and foresees how the situation in Palestine foreshadows other ethnic conflicts and forms of mass repression.

https://crimethinc.com/2006/09/11/mission-accomplished-why-bush-is-counting-on-the-islamic-resistance

"By a process of natural selection, they have come to pursue policies that tend to get their supporters shot down, blown up, and kidnapped, because these unfortunate effects drive more supporters into their arms."

#FakeNews: Trump vs Biden 1-1

For all of us living outside #US, Republicans or Democrats…it’s the same destructive colonial policies we very well know…
The bombing is the same, the killing is the same.

Learn from #Cohousing, #Coliving and #IntentionalCommunities around the world at the #Sociocracy in Intentional Communities Conference
The conference will explore how sociocracy supports #ecovillages, cohousing projects and housing cooperatives to meet social needs through resilient, equitable and regenerative self-governance practices.

https://www.sociocracyforall.org/ic2023

We (@freerange) have started work on a new, co-operatively owned music platform https://jam.coop. We want to give musicians, fans and the people who work on the platform control, a share of the (eventual) profits and the confidence that we won't be enshittified by external investors.

I'm going to share some things here as we build it. If you're interested, especially if you're a musician willing to try it out, sign up for info at jam.coop - or contact me here!

#music #coop #rails

If anyone has any leads for how to tap into, or start, a conversation about what a #co-op run music platform like bandcamp could look like please let me know!

It seems like there must be a very large number of people who would be supportive of a cooperatively run AND FUN site like Bandcamp, that was self sustaining, supported artists, supported its workers, and had a clear governance model.

NoTrace Project
No trace, no case. A collection of tools to help anarchists and other rebels understand the capabilities of their enemies, undermine surveillance efforts, and ultimately act without getting caught.

https://www.notrace.how/

#Surveillance #Data #Privacy #DataSecurity

I asked my university co-learners to co-teach in teams. Each team presented a mindmap of their session -- posted with their permission.

#learning #ToolsForThought

https://www.evernote.com/shard/s13/sh/9b31fe7b-a8c2-4d0c-8032-31af000a871c/e8de2b264d6fa5adc71ccb20e8a9ede0

YouTube is blocking people who dare to insist on a modicum of privacy. The arms race heats up with a new plug-in that blocks Google's blocking: https://lifehacker.com/use-this-extension-to-block-sponsored-ads-on-youtube-1850932708

We are hiring contractors to work on #GNOME and the #Linux Desktop

Do you have experience working on Linux desktop technologies? Get in touch with your resume or portfolio stf@gnome.org ✉️

Some areas we are interested in hiring for:

• Flatpak
• Linux desktop accessibility
• Freedesktop / XDG services and components
• Desktop security
• GNOME services and components

@XOrgFoundation @kde @gnome

Boosts welcome!

#freedesktop #KDE #getFediHired #jobs #FLOSS #OpenSource #FreeSoftware

When faced with a problem, some people "solve for no" (think of obstacles/reasons it can't be done) and some "solve for yes" (think of ways to do it).

While it's true that some folks default to one or the other approach regardless of the problem, I've found one of the best ways to tell whether someone actually wants to do something (and more accurate than what they claim to want), is whether they solve for no or solve for yes.

He spent more than 16 years for a crime he didn't commit. On Monday, he was pulled over for speeding, and a deputy shot him dead. It's under investigation. No paywall. https://nyti.ms/45B0O3g

The game puts you in charge of a trust & safety team at a rapidly scaling social media startup. You have to make a bunch of tough calls on moderation decisions, but also make decisions about policies and resource allocation, all while trying to keep the site from descending into a cesspool.

New MailChimp TOS just dropped.

"We may suspend the Service to you at any time, with or without cause. We won’t refund or reimburse you in any situation."

That's encouraging...

Is there any good alternative to Patreon other than just making your own website and hoping people donate through that? I had some ideas for projects I could put on Patreon but I'm just not sure they'd get enough interest for the cost/time of running my own website to be worth it for me 🙃

Quick report on my first foray into Friendica. It definitely has some things going for it, but I'm not sure how I feel, on balance.

:thread: (1/?)

Attn #Poneke #TeWhanganuiATara #Wellington #NZTwits

Talk on what to do about the #ClimateCrisis while #NACTional is at the helm, tonight and tomorrow.

Plz boost for reach

People are annoyed by Youtube ads. Instead of spending too much energy to disable ads, start to upload your videos on Peertube:

https://joinpeertube.org/en

Peertube is to Youtube what Mastodon is to Twitter. But better because people don’t need to create an account, they can subscribe to your videos channel directely with their Mastodon account (or other Fediverse tool).

My video channel: @oneploumshow

Let’s raise awareness about Peertube:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37906699

Welp, almost 50% of #Bandcamp staffers were laid off today. The #enshittification button push was inevitable as I said. https://nitter.unixfox.eu/modernistwitch/status/1713962311579234428

Hacker News discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37903172

More reactions:
https://social.lol/@stefan/111245993557957559
https://spaceballs.masto.host/@nedraggett/111245861885056429
https://www.gamedeveloper.com/business/epic-games-cuts-almost-half-of-bandcamp-pre-songtradr-sale

It surely didn't take too long for #EpicGames and #Songtradr to say "Fuck the Bandcamp workers for our bottom lines!"

I'm sure @bandcampunited has tons to say about this in due time.

Support them!!

"About half of Bandcamp was laid off today"
https://twitter.com/modernistwitch/status/1713962311579234428
C: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37903172
posted on 2023.10.16 at 13:25:33 (c=0, p=5)