Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

@Teri_Kanefield

I felt that Reagan allowing media consolidation was a much bigger problem.

Answering a question:

Do you think the end of the Fairness Doctrine played any part at all [in the rise of disinformation.]

I think the repeal of the fairness doctrine was part of the move toward partisan media (Reagan removed it and then right wing radio took off) so it's easy to think one caused the other and that restoring the Fairness Doctrine would help.

I don't think the Fairness Doctrine would solve the problems we have.

I don't think removing it caused the problems . . .

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A restaurant I used to love has lost its edge, due to huge price hikes. I said so in an online survey it asked me to fill out, and immediately was added to an annoyingly frequent mail list.

Not the best way to respond to a customer's issue...

Arkansas governor, Trump's former liar-to-the-press, refuses clemency for an obviously not guilty man who was railroaded by the state's disgusting criminal "justice" system.

Great reporting and context, as always, from @radleybalko https://radleybalko.substack.com/p/sarah-huckabee-sanders-denies-clemency

Is it time to revisit undercover journalism? -- By FPF Advocacy Director Seth Stern

https://freedom.press/news/is-it-time-to-revisit-undercover-journalism/

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Periodic reminder: if your organisation uses Citrix (or some other remote desktop system), you've got a badly flawed network architecture. Citrix is the solution to a problem no one should have. Similarly, MS Windows.

Fascinating both for what it says about dev & what it says about statistics:

A gamedev realized Linux users were just 5.8% of their sales, but represented 38% of bug reports.

Then they looked at those numbers closer, and realized. Linux users were not experiencing more bugs. Almost none of the Linux-user bugs were Linux-related. Linux users were simply *more likely to file bugs*.

Their conclusion: A linux port pays for itself bc it nerdsnipes ppl into giving u free QA

https://techhub.social/@ozone89/111337250473454154

SecureDrop is migrating its PGP backend from GnuPG (@GnuPG) to Sequoia (@sequoiapgp).

Learn why and how we stopped shelling out and started shipping Rust code instead:

https://securedrop.org/news/migrating-securedrops-pgp-backend-from-gnupg-to-sequoia/

#PGP #GPG #Sequoia #Rust #SecureDrop

I am already a white male so for Halloween, if I just carry a bible and quote Ayn Rand, I can go as the legit scariest fucking thing in America.

Republicans are lying when they say slashing IRS funds will lower the deficit. For each extra $1 the IRS spends auditing rich tax cheats, it can collect $12. Defunding the IRS will INCREASE the deficit.

They want to help their rich donors cheat, while the rest of us pay for it.

Season's greetings!

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GoGuardian monitors millions of students. We analyzed actual websites that the student monitoring tool marked as “explicit,” and found that thousands of students are flagged every day for visiting sites that are benign, and often, educational. Learn more: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/10/how-goguardian-invades-student-privacy

I read recently an article about the school system run for service members' children by the US Department of Defense ( https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/10/briefing/defense-department-public-schools.html ) which left me with a bunch of questions, so I tracked down some doc about their curriculum, which I found (at least the part I've read so far) eyebrow raising. Not in a bad sense, but in a "Well THAT is certainly an interesting choice; it is hard to surprise me and you have succeeded, sir" sort of way.

It leaves me with a new question: anybody know how to surface any data that might exist on what the political leanings are of adults who went through this edu system as children? I'd particularly like to find out if there's any comparative study of the political affiliations of adults who went through these DoD schools vs adults who were service members' children but went to ordinary civilian American public schools.

Can anybody help me out?

Solar advocates have an uphill battle in traditional coal country. But the ones that are succeeding are doing some consistent things right. Invest in local people and local offices, pay young people to learn skills, sell it with relevant benefits for people's real lives.

Good piece by Hannah Wilson-Black in Grist:

https://grist.org/article/how-to-sell-solar-in-coal-country/

#solar #GreenEnergy #JustTransition

This is a late and unexpected, but welcome development: the #DNT header has been judged binding in #Germany https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38081633

#privacy #www #web #digitaleselbstbestimmung

Today, award-winning incarcerated journalist Christopher Blackwell announces that all his life's work has been wiped out by the prison communications company Securus.

I was the judge who selected Chris for his INN Nonprofit News Award this year. To know that one business profiting off incarcerated folks could decide to wipe out a respected journalist's lifelong work is infuriating. This is a shameful assault on freedom of the press

#prison #journalism #news

"With more data at hand than theoretical projection, the evidence is overwhelming: Universal #BasicIncome is working nearly universally."

"In city after city and cohort after cohort — old, young, single parents, ex-convicts — universal basic income has improved health outcomes, raised employment, and bolstered childcare opportunities (and recipients have had consistently better outcomes than control groups)."

UBI works. We know that. It will reduce other costs.

https://www.businessinsider.com/universal-basic-income-works-red-state-blue-state-2023-10