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Jonathan Lethem’s The Collapsing Frontier–the newest edition in our Outspoken Authors series–is out now.

This collection compiles Lethem’s intensely personal thoughts on the most interesting and deplorable topics in post-postmodern America.

https://pmpress.org/index.php?l=product_detail&p=1463

#books

#Forgejo v1.21.7-0 was just released! This is a security release.

We recommend that all installations are upgraded to the latest version as soon as possible.

Check out the release notes and download it at https://forgejo.org/releases/. If you experience any issues with this release, please report to https://codeberg.org/forgejo/forgejo/issues.

"It's not easy being an anti-DRM activist, especially heading into 2024. Not content with locking down software and streaming media, the massive corporations peddling this unjust technology have even extended their reach into the world's libraries. OverDrive is the worst of these offenders..." Read the full article about IDAD 2023: https://u.fsf.org/421 #LearnLibre #EndDRM #Libraries #ebooks #DayAgainstDRM

TL;DR when EU law references a harmonised standard, that standard MUST be made available to every citizen of the EU. For free. As it is considered to be part of the law. And thus public interest is a given.

I CANNOT OVERSTATE HOW BIG THIS DECISION OF EUCJ IS!

Press release:
https://curia.europa.eu/jcms/upload/docs/application/pdf/2024-03/cp240041en.pdf

Decision text:
https://curia.europa.eu/juris/document/document_print.jsf?mode=req&pageIndex=0&docid=283443&part=1&doclang=EN&text=&dir=&occ=first&cid=6475952

Do you work at Google or Facebook or other $TECH?

Have you considered doing some intentional corporate sabotage?

Throw some sand in the gears

Add a few terabytes of difficult-to-spot noise to a few big datasets

Put peanut butter in some critical infrastructure and then release some animals that won't be harmed by infesting it

Start out small, but scale it up until you finally get fired for it

Will it be fun? Yes

But is it the right thing to do? Also, yes

Creative Commons joins the Digital Public Goods Alliance - https://creativecommons.org/2024/03/04/cc-joins-dpga/ "DPGA is a multi-stakeholder initiative with a mission to accelerate the attainment of the sustainable development goals in low- and middle-income countries by facilitating the discovery, development, use of, and investment in digital public goods" #cc #pd

Ente just announced open sourcing their full backend.

It’s an end-to-end encrypted “alternative to Google or Apple photos”, licensed as AGPL.

Their client code had always been open source, this completes making the entire service available.
#opensource #e2ee #photos https://ente.io/blog/open-sourcing-our-server/

Regarding U.S. electoral politics...

Taking a moment to lay aside how much support Joseph Biden does or doesn't deserve, you know what I would like to see?

A progressive and/or supermajority in the United States Congress and the legislature of every state. A left-leaning mayor for every town in America. School boards that support kids' eduction and emotional development instead of getting in the way.

*Vote*

It matters.

Hey kiwis, if you know a market fundamentalist who still thinks commercialising healthcare makes it more "efficient", please get them to read this;

"... PE-backed hospital chain Steward Health, a company that bought and looted hospitals up and down the country, starving them of everything from heart valves to prescription paper, ripping off suppliers, doctors and nurses, and callously exposing patients to deadly risk."

https://pluralistic.net/2024/02/28/5000-bats/

#health #privatization #PrivateEquity

Here's the first of several interviews with members of San Francisco #WorkerCoops by @storiedSF that we're making transcripts for 👇 First up: Celia from Other Avenues Grocery Cooperative tells the story of how the co-op grew out of the People's Food Conspiracy, experimented with a multi-stakeholder model for a decade or so, and finally settled on worker-ownership. Don't miss this one!

https://geo.coop/articles/other-avenues-grocery-cooperative

Let's talk about the Publishing Industrial Complex, "Returns", and how you can get 70% off of radical books.

According to wasteful capitalist logic, damaged books are unsellable. They belong in a landfill.

Every year, millions of books are pulped and discarded after they’re returned by major retailers.

At PM, we buy back our “damaged” books before they are pulped and discarded.

This March, take 70% off returned books with coupon code DINGED.

https://pmpress.org/index.php?l=product_list&c=186&show=50

#books #anarchism #FuckAmazon

Today's pro-tip:

If you have to do a Google search, use “before:2023" at the beginning of your search string. You get a completely different (and IMO much more usable) set of results.

The web has died.

New Zealand's health care system isn't the best in the world but it's not terrible. Got an appointment immediately with my local doctor. Got tests done and got a prescription. The whole thing took an hour and cost $19.
Let's just say it's very different to when I lived in the USA...

If you love radical publishing, we should be friends...
Become a new Friend of PM at the Print Plus ($30) level in March and get this Always Antifascist Football Scarf and all of our newest titles sent straight to your door each month!

#anarchism #antifa #books #football #soccer

Very excited for the forthcoming book "DIY Or Die! Do-It-Yourself, Do-It-Together, & Punk Anarchism," which I have a chapter in. It's volume two of a three-part series on anarchism and punk published by Active Distribution.

Check out volume one (Smash the System! Punk Anarchism as a Culture of Resistance) from @pmpress here: https://pmpress.org/index.php?l=product_detail&p=1524

#anarchism #punk #DIY #books

Latest cartoon on Alabama decision that IVF embryos are people

#theorcracy #reproduction #ivf #health #medicine #science

Limitarianism The Case Against Extreme Wealth by Ingrid Robeyns

"A powerful case for limitarianism—the idea that we should set a maximum on how much resources one individual can appropriate. A must-read!"
—Thomas Piketty, bestselling author of Capital in the Twenty-First Century
An original, bold, and convincing argument for a cap on wealth by the philosopher who coined the term "limitarianism."

@bookstodon
#books
#nonfiction
#limitarianism
#wealth

Hot Shots Racing on Steam just went on sale for $2, so I picked it up and gave it a go last night. Definitely worth the price, especially if you're into flat-shaded polygons (i.e. grew up in the 90s) and drifting. If anyone wants to put together a little online multiplayer action, I'd definitely be down.
#FediRacing

I couldn't believe it so I checked Google's AI (Gemini) myself

#Google #Gemini #Israel #Palestine #Gaza

I like #Forgejo more than #Gitea.
#FreeSoftware #development #Git #forge #meme #doge