Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Huge SUVs and trucks should be taxed at a far higher rate than regular passenger cars, because they're doing by far the most damage to highways -- and they are deadly to people in smaller vehicles. https://slate.com/business/2024/02/car-safety-guardrails-bloat-electric-vehicles.html

The Linux desktop is a house owned by an amateur DIY home improvement person. Floor boards squeak, the back door doesn't latch unless you close it a certain way, you have to jiggle the toilet lever, and there's tape on a light switch controlling an outlet that needs constant power.

The homeowner doesn't fix these things, because they know to jiggle the lever, how to close the door. Working around these flaws has become second nature so they don't even realize they are doing it.

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Read this comic book. Then Pass it on. What’s the big deal about a comic book? This comic will save your vote…and your vote will save the nation. 

And it’s FREE! No foolin’. ▶️ https://gregpalast.com/free-steal-back-your-vote-comix/

#Comics

Check out Pulp Lit Bazaar in Salem, MA on March 22nd at Die With Your Boots On.

This book-centric event is part market, part stage show, part party, and 100% a killer time. FREE admission!

Join us and learn more at https://www.facebook.com/events/974873074364452/

As someone who lives in a rural, sometimes very cold, place hybrids always made more sense to me than full EVs. I'd never consider a Tesla, but I drool over a Prius.

https://www.thedrive.com/features/toyota-is-right-we-need-more-hybrid-cars-and-fewer-evs-heres-why

Trump, Populism, and the Republican Establishment: Two Graphs From New Hampshire

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2024/02/trump-populism-and-the-republican-establishment-two-graphs-from-new-hampshire.html

Folks promoting Bluesky on the fediverse is like the three little pigs doing public relations for the big bad wolf.

But, hey, clearly some folks still haven’t gotten the message that VC and billionaires are bad and that non-corporate spaces have to be protected from corporate ones.

I guess something has to keep the folks who write “what went wrong/if only we’d known” articles in business.

🤷‍♂️

Dear companies,

please don't make having access to Google's or Apple's app stores to use your products a requirement.

This locks so many of us out because we either don't have a compatible device or the device doesn't have the software to access these services (like google play services).

#WebNotApp

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Huh, who would've thought: https://www.pcworld.com/article/2223228/microsoft-edge-is-stealing-chrome-tabs-for-some-users.html the Microsoft Corporation acting entitled and a bit evil. Mostly because it's an entitled and evil corporation, as all corporations inevitably become if they last long enough (and aren't bought/hollowed out by Microsoft first).

Worker Power and Economic Democracy, the ASU Center for Work and Democracy’s Annual Conference with Kim Kelly, Kali Akuno, and Matt Meyer, on February 23 and 23, 2024 in-person in Tempe, AZ and online.

https://cwd.asu.edu/events/worker-power-and-economic-democracy-cwds-annual-conference

"The U.S.’s failure to live up to its own First Amendment’s values undermines its credibility as a supposed global leader on press freedom." https://thehill.com/opinion/congress-blog/4442351-why-political-rivals-can-and-should-come-together-for-press-freedom/

I don't know how many of you are on spoutible, but i suggest not being there anymore. And not just because their terrible API disgorged literally all of the user base's personal data and passwords in like a BUNCH of ways. No.

More because literally every tech aware person who was considering moving to spoutible tried to ask that cbouzy dude questions or point out potential problems to him the addressing of which could have prevented *Exactly This*, but he took each and every gentle (and, okay, after a while, not so gentle) suggestion as a personal attack 🤷🏾‍♂️
https://www.troyhunt.com/how-spoutibles-leaky-api-spurted-out-a-deluge-of-personal-data/

Yeah, I'll burn a #GiftArticle for WaPo dunking on Nextdoor: https://wapo.st/3ukb2Zg

"“Nextdoor taught me that my neighbors are bad people,” said one former subscriber online. “I really would have preferred not to know that.” It’s not entirely the fault of the people who run Nextdoor. They’ve got all kinds of reminders to be kind, to not be racist, to not overreact. But its very existence fosters exactly that. It’s like owning a roadside bar and telling people not to drink and drive."

Fantastic investigation by NPR into the racist, antisemitic, misogynist roots of “porn addiction” junk science — the very stuff being peddled by antiporn groups in order to pass age-verification bills and other forms of online censorship https://www.npr.org/2026/01/01/1198916105/mens-health-masturbation-abstinence

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.