Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Every single organization i have ever participated in organizes their information in a series of immediately forgotten messages/emails and a set of google docs that nobody remembers the links to.

The idea of writing things down in places where one would expect information to be is simply unimaginable, and that lack defines the operational capacity of these organizations. Needing to forward the same link back and forth forever, nobody ever having the right permissions, and all daily organizing labor being invisible arent trivial inconveniences, they are devastating limitations to any organization that cant afford the administrative apparatus to overcome them.

It's not an accident or technological limitation: Strategic information disorganization is a massive profit vector.

A reminder that Spotify continues to find new ways to not pay smaller artists while simultaneously paying hundreds of millions of dollars to white supremacists like Joe Rogan.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/masonbissada/2022/02/17/joe-rogans-spotify-deal-allegedly-worth-200-million-doubling-initial-report/?sh=4de75c9c2c39

https://loudwire.com/spotify-payouts-less-smaller-artists/

Please consider other ways of getting your music.

Faculty Position Available in Social, Political, and Ethical Dimensions of Technology in Development, Department of Global Development, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Cornell University
https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/26353

Interesting. In his current @revkin newsletter, Andy points to a piece about agriculture, that includes a bit about what swung the Dutch election = angry farmers. I hadn't linked that together...

"Far-right Dutch politician Geert Wilders’ recent electoral success probably has as much to do with his promise to reverse the #nitrogen reduction laws as the rest of his platform."

https://tamingcomplexity.substack.com/p/merchants-of-despair

#agriculture

Read Solidarity Economy Roads by @luisrazeto (transl. by @Matt_Noyes )

"The central objective is to present solidarity economy as a phenomenon which comes into existence (or returns to life) through the action of people and groups who have set out to discover new ways of doing things."
#SolidarityEconomy #Reading

https://geo.coop/story/solidarity-economy-roads-chapter-1

More new excellent stuff from @pmpress Class, Race, and Gender by Michael Zweig https://weightlessbooks.com/class-race-and-gender/

#ReadPalestine Week begins today, November 29 on the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People.

Learn more and support at http://publishersforpalestine.org

#FreePalestine

@Zee I'll just put in a plug for Big Blue Button right here:

https://bigbluebutton.org/

They have optimised for educational use cases, but it's an excellent online meeting platform as well.

BREAKING: Politico reports that Senator Cantwell says she will delay hotlining the Kids Online Safety Act (#KOSA) because of ongoing concerns around LGBTQ rights and the need for further changes.

This is an important win for human rights. But we have so much more to do

@lightweight

"LaTeX can save about
two months formatting time
off the average 3–4 year PhD writing cycle."
-- Peter Flynn

@yojimbo @loke @A11yAwareness

Use the 'new' Microsoft Outlook and share your information with 766 third-party companies.

Don't forget, if you add a non-Microsoft email account, *all* of your email, contacts, calendar events, and other data will be stored at Microsoft.
https://godforsaken.website/@Shrigglepuss/111482466182637440

https://tuta.com/blog/outlook-shares-passwords-with-microsoft

#microsoft #privacy #outlook #MicrosoftOutlook #MicrosoftOffice

Do any of our readers live near the big empty lot in #Somerville's Gilman Square Green Line station? I'd love to talk with neighbors for a story I'm working on – give me a call at 207-310-0728.

phosh 0.33.0 is out 🚀📱:

Allows to toggle password visibility on/off in all modal dialogs, new
🔒-screen plugin to launch tasks, improved support for Indic languages ➕ UI and troubleshooting tab improvements in mobile settings.

Check out the full release notes at https://phosh.mobi/releases/rel-0.33.0/

#phosh #librem5 #gnome #linux #mobile #LinuxMobile #MobileLinux #gnomemobile

Almost a million #children in the #UK do not own a book | #Books | The Guardian

This is shameful but it’s also linked to #poverty.

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/nov/28/almost-a-million-children-in-the-uk-do-not-own-a-book-national-literacy-trust

#Literacy #Illiteracy #Education

🚨 This #GivingTuesday, we have great news!

A few generous supporters have pledged to match donations, dollar-for-dollar, up to $150,000, to help your gift to Freedom of the Press Foundation go even further.

Donate today!

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You can judge these books by their covers. That's all I drew. https://www.gocomics.com/brian-mcfadden/2023/11/28

I think the idea of millions of servers with 100 members who pay $1 a month is a highly sustainable model of decentralized social media. It’s been really easy to manage my duties as an admin this past year and anyone who is thinking of running a server next year, I’m happy to chat. I think launching more smaller instances is the way to go and grow because the federation actually works when it works.

The brilliant Molly White (@molly0xfff) has given us the best coverage of the scam-ridden cryptocurrency "marketplace" -- a public service in a time when tech journalism resembles fanzines.

In a new piece, she turns her attention to deeply unattractive but central tenets of Silicon Valley's current mania, AI.

https://newsletter.mollywhite.net/p/effective-obfuscation

Savor every word.

When using Microsoft Word or Google Docs, don't just make text bigger and bolder to make it a heading. That will work for sighted users, but screen reader users will miss that and just hear it as normal paragraph text. Use actual heading styles, like level 1 through 6.