Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Because our local news outlets have gotten in the habit of only covering stuff that pops up on a listserv, stuff the cops say, and the weather, I started a sort of local news publication with me and my friends volunteering our efforts.

Indigenous affairs coverage is particularly awful in this area, so this article by Ken Wolkin gives an update on the Gayogo̱hó:nǫˀ sovereignty struggle.

#Ithaca #Journalism #LocalJournalism #MovementJournalism

https://striking-distance.com/indepth/feb2024-gayogohono-update

An Air Canada "AI"-powered chatbot gave a customer bogus information. Then the airline said it wouldn't honor what it had told the customer, claiming the bot wasn't actually part of the airline (despite being run from its website).

A court said "give me a break" and ordered the airline to honor what the bot said.

https://bc.ctvnews.ca/air-canada-s-chatbot-gave-a-b-c-man-the-wrong-information-now-the-airline-has-to-pay-for-the-mistake-1.6769454

This needs to become the rule for all such things.

NEW: The Texas Observer and @Bellingcat identified the leader of "white nationalist fight club" in Parker County who distributed antisemitic and racist flyers in Weatherford, Mineral Wells, and Eagle Pass. He blurred his face but forgot to scrub his socials. From Special Investigative Correspondent @stevanzetti. https://www.texasobserver.org/rhett-murry-loftis-white-nationalist-active-club?utm_campaign=mastodon

#news #politics #USpol #Texas #racism #extremism #WhiteSupremacy #NorthTexas

Well, RIP nginx, long live freenginx: http://freenginx.org/pipermail/nginx/2024-February/000000.html

i and my sweetie, both horror film lovers, are watching tonight the vampire film "only lovers left alive" for our not-Hallmark #valentines night. i highly recommend it. he's a film guy and said he heard it wasn't great. i personally heard one of the most profound nuggets of wisdom i've ever heard in this film that is about an unorthodox relationship. i'm interested to hear what he thinks as someone trained in film. I hope some of you will enjoy it too.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkeWhokaPPs

it's time to fork #Firefox and turn it into a cooperative-owned project.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/02/mozilla-lays-off-60-people-wants-to-build-ai-into-firefox/

cooperative membership is the element missing from FLOSS.

fuck the non-profit's faux neutrality when in truth it's just a broke doppelganger of the top-down structure of the corporatist kleptocracy.

make the project a cooperative where members --users and developers-- get to vote on the future of the project with their paid memberships and contributed labor.

Are you weary of Hallmark settler-scripted holidays? Looking for a different take on valentine's day? Please enjoy my essay, Love in the Promiscuous Style: Unsettling Settler Love. Available in both text and audio. Cheers to you today. 🥂 ☕
https://kimtallbear.substack.com/p/love-in-the-promiscuous-style-026#details

From the U.S. Press Freedom Tracker: Journalist Reed Dunlea was arrested while reporting on a pro-Palestinian protest in Brooklyn on Saturday.

Police threw Dunlea to the ground, damaging his equipment, and held him for 10 hours before releasing him with a charge of resisting arrest: https://pressfreedomtracker.us/all-incidents/podcaster-arrested-assaulted-at-nyc-protest/

I was teasing this scoop last week, and only held publication of it until the company confirmed it had addressed the problem:

The Minnesota-based Internet provider U.S. Internet Corp. has a business unit called Securence, which specializes in providing filtered, secure email services to businesses, educational institutions and government agencies worldwide. But until it was notified last week, U.S. Internet was publishing more than a decade's worth of its internal email -- and that of thousands of Securence clients -- in plain text out on the Internet and just a click away for anyone with a Web browser.

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2024/02/u-s-internet-leaked-years-of-internal-customer-emails/

Healthcare in this country has always been a disaster, but that doesn't mean it can't get worse.

[Hospitals Deny Immunocompromised Patients’ ADA Requests For Masks]
https://www.forbes.com/sites/judystone/2024/02/13/hospitals-deny-immunocompromised-patients-ada-requests-for-masks/?sh=1bd9370bf796

Was sad to have experienced a meet.coop fail today :(

I was really hoping to showcase the platform as a great alternative but there were a few too many glitches for folks to buy-in.

I'm going to have to switch to zoom or else face mutiny. I wish I had more capacity to devote to supporting these projects.

my co-op (soon-to-be cafe/bar that is building community for queer women) just put in an offer to buy a bar! everyone send good coop vibes into the universe for us!! 🌠 💸

Wow, just found disks containing the first (and only) season of Firefly. It's been years since I watched this great -- and far too short-lived -- story.

“When HIPAA was designed, nobody really anticipated what the world was going to look like," EFF’s Lee Tien told @engadget — lawmakers couldn't have anticipated how much data we would be sharing about ourselves online. https://www.engadget.com/hipaa-protects-health-data-privacy-but-not-in-the-ways-most-people-think-184026402.html

Tiny Mastodon Tip for Job Seekers 💼​ ​ :

If you too are looking for work
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#TinyMastodonTip #Mastodon #Fediverse #JobSearch

Today is a book birthday.

Yes, I know it's cheesy.

I sent out birth announcements for my first book in 2001 and I've been doing birth announcement for each one since.

I published an excerpt of this book on my blog last year. It's here: https://terikanefield.com/the-power-of-disinformation/
(An excerpt of the text, of course. The illustrations are Pat Dorian's)

"[T]here is no other area of life in which the person supplying weapons that he knows will be used to commit mass violence would be taken seriously if his buddies told reporters that he was privately unhappy about the whole thing. Only American foreign policy gets that kind of pass."

Every person with a grasp on reality can see that #GenocideJoe is a weak, spineless leader with no moral compass.

https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/biden-upset-israel-netanyahu/

Here's a reminder that MS VSCode is *not open source* despite Microsoft marketing it that way. I wouldn't use it. https://itsfoss.com/vs-code-vs-codium/

Via @emptywheel:

1 reason why #Trump's comments about abandoning #NATO matter are, 1st & foremost, bc he ordered GOP to abandon #Ukraine which virtually all near-Ukraine allies think makes them next

He is, in front of our faces, delivering Ukraine up to Putin as a gift.

But the other reason it matters is bc we SAW this call-and-response in '16 & '20, when Trump got help from Russian spies

This is more of same. Stop letting Trump play dumb. Stop playing dumb yourself. https://www.emptywheel.net/2024/02/12/call-and-response-putin-is-demanding-greater-russia/