Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

One of the things that I still carry baggage around from my time in higher ed is how difficult and lonely it is to be the one who speaks out while others thank you in private for your "bravery." It takes a massive unbelievable toll on people. Truth tellers do not want to be thanked for their bravery, they want you at their side also adding your voice to the mix. United we bargain, divided we beg.

This fall, we return to Bubble City for the most important comic book election of your life.

JUSTICE WARRIORS: VOTE HARDER

An original graphic novel out 9/10/24 —Check out some preview pages here:
https://comicbook.com/comics/news/matt-bors-ahoy-comics-justice-warriors-vote-harder-exclusive/#4

To avoid any possible misinterpretation I should clarify that I draw that comparison in the most demeaning way possible

#Chemtrail Legislation Is The New Normal In A Severely Abnormal America - https://www.techdirt.com/2024/04/17/chemtrail-legislation-is-the-new-normal-in-a-severely-abnormal-america/ "four years of Trump has resulted in a legislative dynamic where being seriously stupid is not only acceptable, but might actually be the best way to ensure re-election." fine, angry piece about spreading stupidity

Blog post: Once again, NY Times amplifies right-wing trolling, omits vital context. It's journalistic malpractice, and it's the norm in Times political coverage.

https://dangillmor.com/2024/04/17/again-ny-times-amplifies-right-wing-trolling-omits-vital-context/

Tell the U.S. Senate: RISAA does not reform mass surveillance, it greatly expands who can be surveilled and why.

https://act.eff.org/action/tell-the-u-s-senate-stop-risaa-the-fisa-mass-surveillance-expansion

#section702 #surveillance

Why are so many (legal) drugs in short supply? Because a cartel of pharmaceutical middlemen have rigged the market to ensure shortages.

Monopolies/oligopolies are killing people, deliberately, and the law -- including the lawmakers in Congress -- keeps letting them get away with it.

https://prospect.org/health/2024-04-17-our-uniquely-american-drug-shortages/

Fourth Amendment Is Not For Sale Act, a bill banning police agencies from purchasing Americans' location data, has passed by the House in a 220-to-197 vote.

Big victory for Team Ron Wyden

Purism Differentiator Series, Part 9: Quality of Product

It is not just important to deliver products that respect people and their rights to privacy, security, and individual freedoms, it is important to make sure those products are of high quality and long lasting.

We iterate our hardware versions and new products with a care for quality and component selection that we believe will make our customers proud to use and show off.

Read full story here: https://puri.sm/posts/purism-differentiator-series-part-9-quality-of-product/

Under the old Section 702, ordinary Americans could be spied on. Under the new version, they could be forced to spy.

Hard to believe, but true.

https://chicago.suntimes.com/letters-to-the-editor/2024/04/16/dick-durbin-surveillance-power-fisa-college-affordabilty-trump-letters

Name & shame America's oligarch traitors who place protecting their wealth over American🇺🇸interests & Americans' well being:

On Monday, the Trump 47 committee filed its first report with the FEC. The filing revealed 20 people have donated $800,000 or more.

Joe & Marlene Ricketts: $1.6M

Robert Bigelow: $824,600

Woody & Suzanne Johnson: $1,612,600

Geoffrey Palmer: $814,600

Steve Wynn: $806,300

Jose "Pepe" Fanjul: $814,600

#GOPTraitors #TFG #Greed

https://popular.info/p/meet-the-people-spending-800000-or

Hokitika Gorge and its blue water just surrealistic! Even more impressive under a white/grey cloudy sky.
Would be nice spot to sit and chill if it wasn't for the sandflies. Got approx. 15 seconds for being still and enjoy the view before getting eaten alive.
#HokitikaGorge #BlueWater #Hokitika #Westland #WestCoast #Aoteatoa #NZ

When I was dealing with gtk-rs, I thought #gVariant was a mess in #rust .

Now I know it's not just Rust. It's also a pain in C. Sigh.

#rustlang #glib #programming #linuxdesktop

Yesterday, I stopped to chat with some union contractors protesting a labor dispute with my university, and among other grievances they mention that the university isn't doing CORI checks on the non-union contractors that they've started hiring.

I just discovered e-invoices. Obvious idea! No one's using it.

Neither do I, and I want to change that. But there are so many formats!

Finvoice, EN-16931, XRechnung, the UBL and CII data representations...

Which one to implement? If you received or sent an e-invoice, what standard did it follow?
Does your #bank read e-invoices to automatically pay them?

#einvoice #invoice #finance #askfedi #askfediverse #programming #standards

My B4 #OLPC prototype, 15+ years old. Original battery. Still works and battery charging is no problem. Impressive little machine :)

Remember: Most billionaires are not “self-made.” They’re made via a combination of inherited wealth, government subsidies, tax loopholes, labor exploitation, and policy failures. Can we stop perpetuating a myth that blames wealth inequality on the choices of everyday Americans?

Today, organizations around the world call for metadata to be openly available to all. We just posted a news story about the milestone #BarcelonaDeclaration: https://sparcopen.org/news/2024/barcelona-declaration-pushes-for-open-default-to-research-information/

The #BarcelonaDeclaration is a collective commitment to making research information more open and transparent. "Ending the reliance on proprietary sources and closed infrastructures is in the best interest of everyone involved in the research enterprise” -@hjoseph
mastodon.social

The Reuters Institute, a journalism think tank, did a deep dive into tools that purport to detect "AI"-created content.

Bottom line: DO NOT rely on these tools for anything important. https://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/spotting-deepfakes-year-elections-how-ai-detection-tools-work-and-where-they-fail

"Detection tools should be used with caution and skepticism," they write.

"The US government has a long history of abusing its existing surveillance powers," Freedom of the Press Foundation writes in The Guardian. "It would be naive to think it wouldn’t abuse new ones."

Tell the Senate to vote NO on RISAA by calling 202-899-8938

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/apr/16/house-fisa-government-surveillance-senate