Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

An Israeli tank killed Reuters reporter Issam Abdallah in Lebanon last year by firing two 120 mm rounds at a group of "clearly identifiable journalists" in violation of international law, a U.N. investigation into the Oct. 13 incident has found. https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/israeli-tank-strike-killed-clearly-identifiable-reuters-reporter-un-report-2024-03-13/

Dev-focused tools that solve generic problems exclusively working with either GitHub or GitLab repos is really saddening. The software development world does not revolve exclusively around these two platforms. It is entirely possible to build most of these awesome tools in a platform-agnostic ways. The creators choose not to because it's easier and they don't care about those platforms, even though they end up excluding large swathes of the software development ecosystem.

As someone who played SxSW multiple times and mostly enjoyed it, I would like to say bands should drop out of SxSW because it is in Texas and Greg Abbott is the governor and his party literally voted to greenlight alliances with Texas neo-Nazis because they, his party, are fucking neo-Nazis.
https://www.austinchronicle.com/daily/music/2024-03-12/sxsw-responds-to-artist-dropouts-following-tweet-from-greg-abbott/

#ClimateDiary

“In a drastic attempt to protect their beachfront homes, residents in Salisbury, Massachusetts, invested $500,000 in a sand dune to defend against encroaching tides. After being completed last week, the barrier made from 14,000 tons of sand lasted just 72 hours before it was completely washed away”

#massachusetts #CoastalErosion

https://www.thedailybeast.com/dollar500k-dune-designed-to-protect-massachusetts-homes-last-just-3-days

How easy it is to create your own instance of Docsify-this using @Codeberg Pages? As easy as:

1️⃣ Create a new repository called pages
2️⃣ In the template drop-down select @paulhibbitts docsify-this-app
3️⃣ Tick Git content and click Create Repository

https://harlows.codeberg.page/

Urge your representative to vote no on the “Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act,” the #TikTok ban bill.

We shouldn’t waste time on a law that will get thrown out for silencing the speech of millions of Americans. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/03/congress-should-give-unconstitutional-tiktok-bans

@tess I think decentralized networks are what we're going to be living with, is the thing. They're here and the central platforms desperately want out of the game of dealing with all of the big liabilities.

So if I take that as a given, then identifying, say, covert coordinated genocidal campaigns and communicating that out to humans and offering protective interventions is actually the whole ballgame. (Mastodon hosts all kinds of horrors, too, they're just shunned by mainstream coalitions.)

Update on Newton, the Wayland-native accessibility stack I'm developing for GNOME and (eventually) other desktops: I have an end-to-end prototype, using a Wayland protocol extension for the connection between applications/toolkits and the compositor, and D-Bus for the AT-to-compositor interface. I have an experimental branch of Orca with basic focus announcement and mouse review working. 1/?

This is big news from the Department of Education. The Department of Education is starting a program to inform high school students about the importance of voting and promote voter registration.

This is getting no attention in the media and Laura Brill from the Civics Center (an organization I’ve volunteered with) is asking for help getting the word out. Please share this information where you can.

U.S. Department of Education Promotes High School Voter Registration:
https://thecivicscenter.substack.com/p/us-department-of-education-promotes

Happy Sunshine Week! Grab your popcorn and enjoy the "winners" of The Foilies, our annual faux awards that name and shame the agencies that thwarted the public's right to government information. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/03/foilies-2024

Today I'm finding myself in the awkward position of being resentful that 99% of human society is founded on what I'm quite sure are fundamental lies.

https://www.teenvogue.com/story/what-is-solidarity

"Right now, our society is awash in various things that resemble #solidarity but fall short of the real thing. Appeals to benevolence, altruism, deference, or “allyship” are widespread, and invite us to be empathetic and kind; but they all place the onus on individual action rather than larger collective engagement, and on activating pity or guilt, rather than a sense of shared responsibility or shared fate"

“No one involved in this shift towards encrypted NYPD communications has ever bothered to recognize the cognitive dissonance that says protecting private people’s communications is a net loss for society while protecting cop communications is a net gain.”
https://www.techdirt.com/2024/03/11/nyc-mayor-eric-adams-says-that-if-police-radio-transmissions-arent-encrypted-the-terrorists-will-win/

For decades, software developers have relied on the settled view that a work is not derivative under copyright law unless it is “substantially similar” to a preexisting work in both ideas and expression. We’re asking the Ninth Circuit to uphold that view. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/03/eff-ninth-circuit-theres-no-software-exception-traditional-copyright-limits

to the surprise of absolutely no one who's been paying attention -- but nonetheless good to know that the data prove it -- the hedge fund and private equity looters are much worse for local news coverage than "regular" capitalists. https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3939405

Boeing whistleblower's concerns are finally getting some traction and he decides to off himself in between testimonies...Yup, that checks out. Nothing sus here at all.

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-68534703.amp

My story about how telematics data from people's cars unexpectedly raised their insurance rates is on the front page today...

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/11/technology/carmakers-driver-tracking-insurance.html?unlocked_article_code=1.b00.DzhQ.GXkvg-kgWebx&smid=url-share

... and this is where it started: me lurking on car forums and seeing comments like this.

If this story doesn't convince lawmakers we need a strong federal privacy law, I'm not sure what will.

My #smashbysmashwest talk is in less than 24 hours! <3 Please share widely! I'll be discussing the intersection of #teen liberation and #trans #anarchy, and how #radical spaces can be more inclusive of #youth. It'll be gay, bro.

Flyer reads:

queer youth liberation workshop
@ Smash By Smash West
this discussion-based workshop on youth liberation, recently presented at Queers Bash Back 2023, will explore the intersection of anti-queerness and ageism, how radical spaces can be more inclusive to young organizers, and what it means to be, well, an angry queer teenager. organizers of all ages welcome.
facilitated by trans teen organizer mk zariel (they/them) of Debate Me Bruh, THE CHILD AND ITS ENEMIES, and the Anarchist Review of Books.
7PM to 8:30 PM CT, March 12
jitsi.anarchy.chat/YouthLiberationSXSW
& in-person at Monkeywrench Books