Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

"Adopting rightwing policies on issues such as immigration and the economy does not help centre-left parties win votes, according to new analysis of European electoral and polling data."

"..the analysis shows that centre-left parties promising, for example, to be tough on immigration or public spending are unlikely to attract potential voters on the right, and risk alienating existing progressive supporters."

Will they cut this shit then?

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/jan/10/adopting-rightwing-policies-does-not-help-centre-left-win-votes

Today, I'm very grateful we put solar panels on - and heatpumps under - the roof of the place. Enjoying carbon-free cooling right now. Yes, it's toasty in Ōtautahi.

Help is out there if you or your organisation are wanting to transition off of dangerous and socially irresponsible (and sometimes downright evil) corporate web services! Regain autonomy of your data, and stop supporting #capitalistDestruction at the same time!

We can help you transition away from:

- Substack
- Twitter
- Facebook/Instagram
- Dropbox, iCloud, etx
- Amazon/Audible
- Google
- Almost anything else!

You're in the right place already! Just pop up your hand and let us know what you need!

Let us help empower you *and* your community!

#fediHelp #cutTheCord #deCorporatise

Coming soon!

A new edition of P is for Palestine: A Palestine Alphabet Book by Golbarg Bashi and Illustrated by Golrokh Nafisi.

Until then, pick up & distribute the 6th edition: https://pmpress.org/index.php?l=product_detail&p=1666

“A book for ourselves that sings without apology." —Noura Erakat

I'm Aotearoa Wikipedian at Large Jan–July this year, based in Ōtautahi Christchurch. First up will be accompanying the UC Biology students as they take a week-long field trip to Cass in the South Island high country. I'll be showing them iNaturalist photography, Creative Commons licences, and Wikipedia editing, and improving the history of the local area, it's biology, and this iconic (and out of copyright in NZ) painting. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:GLAM/AoWPAL_2024

Announcing: A Field Guide to Police Surveillance!

We've updated and overhauled our Street Level Surveillance hub so it has all the basic facts you need to know about the 16 most common types/categories of surveillance that local PDs use.

https://sls.eff.org/

Had to revisit this nearly 5-year-old comic to make sure I didn't repeat any Boeing 737 jokes this week. https://brianmcfadden.org/2019/03/23/boeing-737-max-8-safety-guide/

Keep the fire burning.

All books & e-Books on Indigenous Resistance are 40% off with coupon code RESISTANCE until 2/1 at https://pmpress.org/index.php?l=product_list&c=48&sortby=num_sold:desc

#BigPharma #Patents #IP: "Rather than prioritizing long-term investment in research and development, they focused on protecting their intellectual property. The pharmaceutical industry gutted research and development of new drugs. They got rid of all of many parts of that process that they could contract out or buy from others. What they were left with were drug monopolies and that really changed how they behaved.

Today, by and large, the pharmaceutical industry does little to research and develop drugs. They buy up other companies that have done that research, often with huge amounts of taxpayer funding. As a consequence, if you are a company that profits primarily from intellectual property, what’s important to you is not doctors and medical researchers but lobbyists and lawyers, because they are the people who are going to extend and deepen your patents.

You have no interest in medicines that would treat diseases primarily suffered by poor people in poor countries; you have no interest in dealing with pathogens that could cause the next pandemic, because in all likelihood, a pandemic won’t be caused by that specific pathogen. They have very little interest in curing disease, because their ultimate blockbuster is lifelong treatment for chronic disease — that’s where enormous amounts of their time and energy are spent."

https://jacobin.com/2024/01/big-pharma-profit-public-research-patents-intellectual-property

Oh good. Score one for the Native Americans.

[Peregrine moon lander carrying human remains doomed after 'critical loss' of propellant]
https://www.livescience.com/space/space-exploration/peregrine-moon-lander-may-be-doomed-after-critical-loss-of-propellant?

SEC Twitter account compromised, used to falsely announce approval of bitcoin spot ETFs

January 9, 2024
https://web3isgoinggreat.com/?id=sec-twitter-account-compromised

@fleeky Literally we can't settle space - as a technical matter - until we develop technology that is substantially more advanced than what would be needed to permanently and definitively resolve the climate emergency.

We are *so far* from being able to settle space. It's possible that we could send a few people to Mars or establish a small Moon base, both scientifically useless and horribly dangerous, at a cost that would exceed the cost of resolving the climate emergency.

Lula vows to win ‘war’ against illegal miners invading Indigenous lands - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/jan/09/lula-brazil-indigenous-illegal-miners-yanomami "#Brazil president hosts summit amid criticism that easing of crackdown had allowed outsiders to return to forest areas"

Regulators aren’t convinced that Microsoft and OpenAI operate independently

EU is fielding comments on potential market harms of Microsoft's investments.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/01/regulators-arent-convinced-that-microsoft-and-openai-operate-independently/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

Out now!

Riding More with Less by seasoned wrench and rider Sam Tracy is the bike repair manual for everyone else.

Learn more and save 20% on the book and e-Book with coupon code JANUARY until 2/1 at https://pmpress.org/index.php?l=product_detail&p=1543

Our next interview is with the co-editor of this new anthology of writings by sex workers (out from
@pmpress We talk about sex work, the labor movement, and what solidarity means. Check in later this week.

Emissions from #Israel’s war in #Gaza have ‘immense’ effect on climate catastrophe - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/jan/09/emissions-gaza-israel-hamas-war-climate-change "First months of conflict produced more planet-warming gases than 20 climate-vulnerable nations do in a year, study shows"

Libraries will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no libraries. - Anne Herbert

Out now!

The Workers’ Way to Freedom and Other Council Communist Writings by Anton Pannekoek & edited by Robyn K. Winters.

“The most brilliant theoretician of libertarian communism.” —Mike Davis

Learn more & save 20% with coupon code JANUARY til 2/1 at https://pmpress.org/index.php?l=product_detail&p=1503