Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

This is the Wall Street Journal's white wet-dream of a real America. Carmel is 2.8% Black, 4% Hispanic....
‘How Did I End Up in Indiana?’ Welcome to the Internet’s Favorite Small City https://www.wsj.com/real-estate/carmel-indiana-best-small-city-fb84885b?st=cq13cy44i69em1h

What the actual fuck. One of my favorite political commentators, Mehdi Hasan, has been speaking out very eloquently, with his usual evidence-based arguments, in favor of Palestinian rights. And as a result, MSNBC canceled his popular show. This is a terrifying sign that so-called free speech in this country is anything but free. https://presswatchers.org/2023/11/msnbc-cancels-mehdi-hasan-a-truth-teller-in-a-time-of-crisis/

On Top of Everything Else, Henry Kissinger Prevented Peace in the Middle East https://theintercept.com/2023/11/30/henry-kissinger-israel-egypt-soviet-union/

The GOP senators threatening @VOANews for its decisions about how to report on Hamas and the war in Gaza either don’t understand editorial independence and the First Amendment or, more likely, just don’t care.

Shame on them. https://www.washingtonpost.com/style/media/2023/11/29/voice-of-america-hamas-israel-terrorist-militant-hagerty/

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Hi, Fediverse friends,

I have been busy with a technical glitch. I needed to restore a backup of my author website, my backup service had a glitch, and to make a sad story short, I am currently rebuilding my author website.

I may shut down my private Mastodon server and move to an established server.

My server is more work and money than we anticipated.

After this past week, I’m inclined to spend less time on technical stuff.

I’ll let you know if I’m going to move.

The Real Cost of Bottled Water

#us

https://www.counterpunch.org/2023/11/30/the-real-cost-of-bottled-water/

The #Internet is Worse Than Ever – Now What? - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fuFlMtZmvY0

#Kurzgesagt #SocialMedia

What I dislike the most about LinkedIn is that they let people put me on mail lists for just about everything, and make the don't-allow-this setting extremely difficult to find.

I'd guess that one out of every 10 emails from that company is something that is even remotely worth opening.

Arizona's right wing has always disdained public education, and some lawmakers are using tendentious charges of "free speech" violations as a pretext to gut university funding.

https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/politics/arizona/2023/11/28/arizona-republicans-threaten-to-gut-state-university-funding/71722701007/?utm_source=azcentral-dailybriefing-strada&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=dailybriefing-greeting&utm_term=newsletter-greeting&utm_content=pphx-phoenix-nletter02

(Note: I'm employed by the Arizona university that they particularly hate.)

Or, It's difficult to define what a wiki is because rather than elaborating on a vocabulary of collaborative information systems, we got trapped in tarpits of isolated documents so deeply it's impossible to even describe anything beyond them.

The size of this effect can be measured in the revenue of organizational subscriptions to Microsoft 365 and Google Drive

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