Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Wow!
> Schleswig-Holstein, Germany's most northern state, is starting its switch from Microsoft Office to LibreOffice, and is planning to move from Windows to Linux on the 30,000 PCs it uses for local government functions.

via https://hub.netzgemeinde.eu/item/6cac43ff-a5b9-4c0d-8f6a-03fda8e722aa

@isonewengland #isonewengland did not like that psa AT ALL and *asked* to refrain from communications like that. I responded by doubling down asking for demand response data during yesterday’s eclipse. They apparently just fired up gas peakers at ratepayer expense & didn’t activate DR - or at least neglected to mention it. Our grid manager is failing us, it’s getting exposed, & they don’t like it. https://isonewswire.com/2024/04/09/new-england-power-grid-reliable-throughout-eclipse/

I finally got a chance to translate my latest video reports on the ongoing anti-logging blockades by #Nehirowisiw land defenders in so called "Quebec, Canada"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=boytGDPQXOw

Alabama: Property is cheap because life is too

We're going to kinda stop supporting this genocide...by and large...mostly...like, almost entirely stop. Kinda...

https://www.aa.com.tr/en/americas/days-of-blank-checks-for-israel-sort-of-done-former-us-army-officer/3187826

Technical question about words. Can an "app" be "integrated with ActivityPub"?

I feel like those words don't go together, but I might be misunderstanding some vocabulary.

Help!

My dear American friends: imagine if regardless of whether you voted for Biden for Trump, your family would die. Which would you vote for? Or would you do whatever you could to either convince Biden not to kill your family or find someone else to replace him who wouldn’t kill your family? And if that’s what you’d do, why aren’t you doing it when it’s not your family but someone else’s?

#biden #trump #uspol #usa #UnitedStates #Israel #Palestine #Gaza #genocide #ethnicCleansing #apatheid

Via Marcelo Vieta,

Request for international #solidarity:

The right-wing government of Argentina recently announced plans to shutdown over 11,000 #cooperatives. Cooperators and workers in #Argentina have been mobilizing to prevent these closures.

Please sign this open letter in support of Argentina’s more than 24,000 cooperatives that have been providing good and decent jobs to tens of thousands of Argentines.

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/12OtUyN-TgOdUPj6PJhcTrhAsix_2xII3mv5ToiVcXJI/edit?chromeless=1

Want to build your own lock screen widget or quick setting in #phosh? @arunmani explains how that works in https://phosh.mobi/posts/custom-plugins-dev/ 🛠️

#phosh #gtk #LinuxMobile #linux #mobile

Hey Fediverse! @workingclasshistory has a Kickstarter for a book about the Vermont AFL-CIO, to be published by @pmpress, with nine days and about 3.2k to go. I want to see this book published, so if you can pitch something in, please do!! Boost and share too!

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/wrkclasshistory/insurgent-labor-a-new-blueprint-for-worker-power

#1U #Union #UnionStrong #Labor #Organizing #AFLCIO #VermontAFLCIO #Vermont #WorkingClass #WorkingClassHistory #PMpress

The excellent @democracydocket site -- an assemblage of information and commentary about voting rights, elections and the perilous condition of American democracy -- is looking for a news editor.

https://www.democracydocket.com/careers/?utm_source=Democracy+Docket+Newsletters&utm_campaign=95a34fff6f-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2024_03_15_08_46_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-2029d74fb4-%5BLIST_EMAIL_ID%5D&mc_cid=95a34fff6f

Because of Arizona’s horrendous abortion ruling today, every event planner I know is going to cross another state off their list of “places we can hold conferences and offsites that support emergency healthcare procedures if they arise with any of our employees while they are there”.

Giant media companies' financially disastrous merger in the U.S. destroys a news operation in New Zealand.

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/513905/all-newshub-operations-to-be-shut-down-250-jobs-to-go

From Elsewhere:

DONT THROW AWAY YOUR ECLIPSE GLASSES‼️

stick your glasses in an evelope & mail to the address below so that kids in Latin America can use them Oct 2, to watch the South American Eclipse

Eclipse Glasses USA, LLC
PO Box 50571
Provo, UT 84605

An article published late last month connects Georgia Sons of Confederate Veterans spokesman Martin K. O’Toole to the circulation of a notorious piece of neo-Nazi propaganda.

The article--written by Spencer Sunshine and Hannah Gais, and published on the Southern Poverty Law Center’s “Hatewatch” blog--concerns the 2003 reprint of James Mason’s Siege. Siege was first released as a book in 1993. It has become a key text among neo-Nazis who favor terrorism to achieve their goals. A mass shooter who murdered three Black people in Florida last year cited Siege. The book also inspired “accelerationist” neo-Nazi groups such as Atomwaffen Division and The Base.

You can read Sunshine and Gais’ article here:
https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2024/03/28/how-mainstream-racist-group-revived-terroristic-tome-siege

According to the new article, Greg Johnson and Ryan Schuster operated Black Sun Publications, responsible for the 2003 Siege reprint. Schuster claimed that the venture was a publishing imprint of the Foundation for Human Understanding (FHU). FHU, founded in 1973, was a tax-exempt organization promoting racist pseudoscience which disbanded in the mid-2000s.

FHU’s Internal Revenue Service filings for 2001-2005 are available online:
https://beta.candid.org/profile/7749884

These filings show that Martin O’Toole was President of FHU at the time of the Siege reprint. Interestingly, the filings for the years when Johnson and Schuster arranged the reprint, claim that FHU had just over $200 in assets. The filings do not refer to Black Sun Publications or any new publishing venture.

The new findings about Black Sun and Siege suggest that FHU hid much of its true activity while O’Toole headed the organization.

This is not the first time that Martin O’Toole has been tied to unambiguous neo-Nazi propaganda. During the 1980s he produced and mailed newsletters for neo-Nazi Gary “Gerhard” Lauck:
https://atlantaantifa.org/2022/04/28/notes-on-martin-kenneth-otoole-and-white-supremacy-part-one/

The Sons of Confederate Veterans will yet again gather at Stone Mountain Park for “Confederate Memorial Day” on Saturday, April 27th. The SCV will predictably claim to be about “heritage, not hate.” However, their own Georgia spokesman gives the lie to this claim, through his long history in the white nationalist movement and his role promoting violent neo-Nazism.

#antifa #antifascist #StoneMountainGA #SonsOfConfederateVeterans

This week marks five years since Assange has been imprisoned in the U.K.

It’s time for the Biden administration to protect press freedom and drop this case.

Learn more and take action now.

https://freedom.press/assange

@aislerhq any chance for SEPA transfer payments? Having to rely on third parties to complete a transaction when we have fine p2p payments makes me want to shop somewhere else.

From the U.S. Press Freedom Tracker: Two LA Times journalists reached a $1.2 million settlement with the Minnesota State Patrol, dismissing a suit against the agency on Apr. 5, nearly four years after troopers shot them with rubber bullets and pepper-sprayed them during BLM protests.
https://pressfreedomtracker.us/all-incidents/reporter-struck-with-crowd-control-munitions-while-covering-minneapolis-protests/

We're hiring! Firmware/Software Engineer

https://jobs.lever.co/framework/36bcbf61-332d-4ab8-8c6d-20fffa1ef506

Thank you for your numerous participation. We're now particularly interested in input from underrepresented groups (i.e. people with disabilities of any kind and people who are not cis-male 😉)