Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

This is your twice-annual reminder that, contrary to a popular and easily falsified myth, essentially all of New England is in the idealized -5 (US Eastern) zone.

If someone tries to tell you that we "should" be in the -4 (Atlantic) time zone purely due to geography, you can show them any time zone map. Here's a handy one for reference.

#DST

Just learned about a new NSF program to research a "Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace": https://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2024/nsf24504/nsf24504.htm?WT.mc_ev=click&WT.mc_id=&utm_medium=email&utm_source=govdelivery

This is well outside my realm of expertise, but perhaps the link is useful to other U.S. scientists on Fedi?

Solidarity and love to my comrades in #Tacoma who showed up in this nasty weather to stop the ship bringing arms to Israel at the Port. Thank all.

#freepalestine #ceasefirenow

https://news.yahoo.com/pro-palestinian-demonstrators-block-port-142636464.html

Our new snazzy DisCO website is here! ✨

Lots of new content to learn and understand how DisCO combines feminist economics, cooperativism, the commons and P2P practices to open paths towards a fairer, more distributed future of work!

Check it out! 👇

https://www.disco.coop/2023/11/all-aboard-the-new-disco-website-is-live/

Good morning! There's 11 days left to pledge to the SFAM Book 5: Crab City Nights Kickstarter! And we need about $11k more in support to meet our publishing goal. It's going to be a photo finish! Reserve your copy today: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/jonrosenberg/sfam-book-five-crab-city-nights

I live across the street from 2 homeless encampments and I want to post this over every inch of my apartment

I can't forget that #FreeAsInFreedom software was called "a cancer".

When #Linux Spooked #Microsoft: Remembering 1998's Leaked '#HalloweenDocuments'

https://linux.slashdot.org/story/23/11/05/046247/when-linux-spooked-microsoft-remembering-1998s-leaked-halloween-documents

And I still can't forgive.

"Israelis for ceasefire"
In Tel Aviv and Jerusalem protesters have gathered in angry anti-government protests, with many urging prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu to resign. https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2023/nov/04/israel-hamas-war-live-blinken-set-to-meet-with-middle-east-foreign-ministers-in-jordan-airstrike-on-gaza-ambulance-kills-15?page=with:block-6546ad6c8f08af73b5ca8aff#block-6546ad6c8f08af73b5ca8aff

Nobody talks about the "rules based international order" when the US loses a UN vote 185-2. It's almost as if that's just a bunch of PR mumbo-jumbo that our political leaders have never taken seriously, but only used as a rhetorical bludgeon to attack our geopolitical enemies.

136,000 books from the 18th Century.

ONE HUNDRED THIRTY SIX THOUSAND OF THEM.

That would be a point of pride in any library. Making it readable from the Internet, browsable, and downloadable? A pipe dream.

Anyway, here they are.

https://archive.org/details/pub_eighteenth-century?tab=collection

These can no longer be dismissed as fluke or one-off incidents. It’s increasingly common for cops, prosecutors and judges all around the US to be either ignorant of or unconcerned with the Fourth Estate’s role in our democracy. It needs to stop.

This week's comic: The things Mike Johnson has said are so over the top that I thought I might place him in the role of my flaming conservative character (hence the flames, in case anyone was wondering about that). It’s almost impossible to exaggerate this man’s theocratic worldview, so I tried to use actual quotes where I could.

#uspol #politics #cartoon #democracy #authoritarianism #republicans #theocracy #lgbtq

Someone asked if a clerk has a law degree.

Yes. Not only that, but they are extremely difficult jobs to get and generally go to the stop students from the top law schools.

There are career clerks (that's their permanent job) and clerks who cycle though out of law school for a few years. Getting one of those clerkships means you were a top student.

People fresh out of law school are the best at legal research because they just did lots of it.

I don't know this clerk's employment status.

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Simon/e Van Sarloos (UC Berkeley Department of Rhetoric) and I read excerpts from our Non-Monogamy letters yesterday at the #AmericanStudies meeting in Montreal to an attentive audience who asked good questions and made fun provocations. The letters have been published by Arts Everywhere.

I also write about going beyond settler monogamy or non-monogamy to less rigid ideas of what are supposed to be the most important relationships in our lives.

https://www.artseverywhere.ca/series/the-non-monogamy-letters/

I think a lot of people mistake being clever, or cunning, or devious, for being intelligent. The problem with our society (and the world more generally) is that we have a lot of clever, cunning, and devious people in charge of things, and they are nearly all idiots.

Side neither with nations nor with parties. Be neither Russians, Poles nor Slavs. Rather, be men who hunger for truth, free from any thoughts of particular interests, and from speculative ideas concerning the Chinese, Africans or Europeans. The patriot always ends up hating the foreigner, and loses the sense of justice that once kindled his enthusiasm.
-- Elisee Reclus

#anarchism #quote #bot

I got a #dynamo .

Problem: "USB chargers" are expensive.

Solution: Build an #OpenSource 5V power supply.

(Older #Forumslader is open but ineffective. Ask me how I know...)

Parts seem to cost under 50EUR!

#project #openhardware #cycling #electronics #BikeTooter #bicycle #ACDC #SMPS #KiCAD

Attorney General Bonta confirms what we've been saying: it is against the law for police to share data from license plate readers with out-of-state or federal agencies. This is a victory for immigrants, abortion seekers, protesters, and everyone who drives a car. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/10/victory-california-department-justice-declares-out-state-sharing-license-plate

Hey, #Massachusetts folks who get your #HealthInsurance through the #HealthConnector!

Big, big changes this open enrollment.

If you make between 300% and 500% of the FLP – so between $43,740 and $72,900 for an individual (or $59,160 to $98,600 for a 2-person family, other ranges for bigger families), most of your choices for health plans have gone away. No bronze, gold, or platinum plans for you. There's a limited set of eight silver plans you have to choose from.

If you were planning on continuing on with the plan you were on, and it's not one of those eight, well, you won't get to, apparently. I'm thinking of giving them a call and asking if I can some how opt out of this and shop like a richer person, but as of right now, the MAHealthConnector is enforcing this without opt out.

Want to hear a wild stat?

Nearly a thousand $1 million+ earners didn't file tax returns for at least one year from 2017 to 2020. Just didn’t bother.

And the GOP is trying to help them by slashing IRS funding. When the IRS is defunded, rich tax cheats make out like bandits.