Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Y Combinator CEO wishes death to SF supervisors.

"Die slow motherfuckers", says completely normal venture capitalist, having a completely normal day:

District 5 Supervisor Dean Preston, whom Tan has pledged $50,000 to unseat through a "Dump Dean"...
https://jwz.org/b/ykLj

San Francisco: Learn more about Proposition E—what it would do, why it's dangerous, and why you should vote No:
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/02/what-proposition-e-and-why-should-san-francisco-voters-oppose-it

Texas is inviting criminals to loot Medicare. Follow the money... https://www.propublica.org/article/ken-paxton-texas-civil-medicaid-fraud-unit-falling-apart

Semafor is an interesting news site that has decided to partner with Microsoft to generate "news" stories with AI.

So much for the site's credibility. (This is not from the Onion, I regret to say.)

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/02/microsoft-in-deal-with-semafor-to-create-news-stories-with-aid-of-ai-chatbot

If stadia are such great assets for cities, how come we never see private enterprise building them. Nor right leaning politicians selling them off?

Basically #FiscallyIrresponsible.

Wow. Paris just voted to triple the parking costs for SUVs.

A huge victory in the fight against car bloat.

https://www.bfmtv.com/paris/direct-votation-sur-le-stationnement-des-suv-a-paris-les-bureaux-de-vote-ont-ouvert_LN-202402040118.html

#paris #cars #safety #climate

Just added a new book to my list - Naomi Alderman's The Future: https://read.iridescent.nz/book/11127/s/the-future

If you are journalist who has been recently laid off, or if you know one, check this out!

Ghost, the superb, open source, newsletter platform (and rival alternative to Substack) is offering free subscriptions to help get started with self publishing.

Here's the link: https://teamghost.typeform.com/journalism?typeform-source=l.threads.net

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#ghost #substack

For this week's blog post, I thought I'd do some housekeeping and organize my blog.

I have law, history, and political book recommendations all over the place. Now they are (mostly) all on one page.

Come for a brief history of how the Party of Lincoln became the Party of the Ku Klux Klan.

Stay for a few heart felt mea culpas.

A Bunch of Good Books: https://terikanefield.com/a-bunch-of-good-books/

There's a huge disconnect for me rn in the IT space. Companies love to talk about an increasing deficit of smart, talented and skillful people available to help defend the cybers. Welp, a lot of those people are somehow now seeking gainful employment bc they've been laid off. Which is just nuts to me given the sheer scale, resources and effort our adversaries are throwing at everything now.

p.s. AI isn't going to fix anyone's security problems. If anything, it's going to compound them by orders of magnitude (at least in terms of data governance).

When a government attempts to discredit The Hague, it's a sign something has gone terribly wrong in that country. My latest:

#cartoon #comic #politics #war #humanrights #gaza

@owen @tsrandall

Why we are not hanging up fossil fuel executives by the ankles and letting the children of tomorrow beat them like piñatas is beyond me.

@lightweight Yes, that was a fun coincidence. Here's the kererū we saw:

https://inaturalist.nz/observations/198268156

I'm now downloading the 749 audio notes I made on my run so I can start the transcription. Each February I include Acer (sycamores), Agapanthus, and elderberry, (along with my regular birds, butterflies, etc.) so I have lot of observations to transcribe.

Curious what surveillance technologies law enforcement has in your area? Browse this map to find out: https://atlasofsurveillance.org

I detest Trump & his incessant lies beyond words. He's a loser who knows he can't accomplish ANYthing w/o cheating.

Via Ron Filipkowski:

New campaign finance reports reveal #Trump paid $20k to stage a rally of fake striking #union auto workers last September, with non-union people holding up ‘Union Members for Trump’ signs. The truth always comes out in the financial disclosures. https://www.meidastouch.com/news/trump-campaign-paid-20k-to-fake-a-union-rally

Free tip: if you're concerned about using AnyDesk or TeamViewer to provide remote support to clients/friends/family because those apps are essentially malware/nagware & you can't trust their servers, consider https://rustdesk.com - it's #libre/#FOSS & you can easily host your own server.

2/ "If you’ve ever wondered how Tesla makes money on EVs when nobody else can, the fact that it has a free pass to violate every environmental law on the books while receiving unprecedented subsidies for its ostensibly positive environmental impact should clear up any confusion" https://niedermeyer.io/2024/02/02/its-the-impunity-stupid/

@lightweight @Daojoan AWS is awful, isnʼt it? Got moved there in the early 2010s by a friend who specializes in IT and it was basically IT prison. Couldnʼt do a damned thing without him since it was so poorly designed. Price doubled over a decade. Eventually we moved to Hetzner (literally took years to find people who could do it), and like you, saved 80 per cent, and now we can do stuff again, like set up PHP and MySql ourselves. Lots of OSS as a result.

Climate protest is not a crime.

Or at least it SHOULDN'T be a crime. But in our capitalist, neoliberal world, it is.

Greta Thunberg and four other climate activists were put on trial today after being arrested at a protest outside a gathering of fossil fuel bosses in London last October.

Speaking about this, Thunberg said...

"Even though we are the ones standing here, climate and human rights activists all over the world are being prosecuted, sometimes convicted, and given legal penalties for acting in line with science."

"We must remember who the real enemy is. What are we defending? Who are our laws meant to protect?”

See -- https://www.euronews.com/green/2024/02/01/greta-thunberg-to-appear-in-uk-court-after-arrest-at-london-fossil-fuel-conference

#Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateAction

Most voters get their news from this crowd. https://brianmcfadden.org/2024/01/25/influencers-to-avoid/