Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

It’s reprehensible for UW-Madison police to threaten a $10,000 fine for sharing public records with the media.

And it’s unconstitutional to penalize news outlets for making (very little) money.

https://tonemadison.com/articles/a-reporter-asked-for-body-camera-footage-uw-madison-police-threatened-her-with-a-fine/

We’re halfway there. Thanks for all the support so far.

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Kim Sherrell: “What’s the word for a guy who fears Trump is America’s Hitler but then a few short months later is working for America's Hitler?”

Steve Marmel: “Shillbilly.”

Holy shit; it’s perfect.

#ShillBilly #ShillbillyElegy #JDVance

Read the first five pages of THE TOXIC AVENGER comic I'm writing—where we drop you right into the story of an unfolding disaster.

https://www.thewrap.com/toxic-avenger-comic-book/

Tim Scott, Nimarata Nikki Haley, and Vivek Ramaswamy, finding out that sycophancy will not save them.

I mean, the GOP base wasn't subtle.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lumRQnf5qA8

It would be funny if it weren't so sad. First these candidates genuinely thought they could win the nomination of an alt-right party? No. I refused to pretend that those were serious campaigns. Then they thought that they could even have a seat at the table?

I said what I said: you can't hate Black people enough for them to like you.

Disappointing that Mozilla's CEO has chosen Reddit -- a platform that has grossly mistreated the volunteers who make it work -- as the venue to discuss the new anti-privacy tools that are turned on by default in the latest Firefox.

I hate to point to Reddit for that reason.

Mozilla has taken a bad turn, but you can (for now) turn off the latest on-by-default setting: In Settings / Privacy and Security un-check the “Website Advertising Preferences” checkbox.

At least a dozen organizations with domain names at domain registrar Squarespace saw their websites hijacked last week. Squarespace bought all assets of Google Domains a year ago, but many customers still haven’t set up their new accounts. Experts say malicious hackers learned they could commandeer any migrated Squarespace accounts that hadn’t yet been registered, merely by supplying an email address tied to an existing domain.

From the story:

"...an analysis released by security experts at Metamask and Paradigm finds the most likely explanation for what happened is that Squarespace assumed all users migrating from Google Domains would select the social login options — such “Continue with Google” or “Continue with Apple” — as opposed to the “Continue with email” choice.

Taylor Monahan, lead product manager at Metamask, said Squarespace never accounted for the possibility that a threat actor might sign up for an account using an email associated with a recently-migrated domain before the legitimate email holder created the account themselves.

“Thus nothing actually stops them from trying to login with an email,” Monahan told KrebsOnSecurity. “And since there’s no password on the account, it just shoots them to the ‘create password for your new account’ flow. And since the account is half-initialized on the backend, they now have access to the domain in question.”

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2024/07/researchers-weak-security-defaults-enabled-squarespace-domains-hijacks/

If you want access to free books, please get a library card.

In the US, the more people there are with library cards, the more funding libraries have access to.

Libraries provide more than books. They are a community resource.

As an author and reader, I support libraries!

#books #bookstodon #libraries

So, the Manage My Health system used by many (most?) doctors' surgeries in NZ (it's better than the alternative according to my doctor, just a few minutes ago)... stores all patient data in the US. I'm very curious how that's managed, and who else has access to *my* (and your!) health data? I wouldn't trust the proprietors of such a system - which stores my data overseas *without my opt-in* - at all. Not even a little bit.

Thinking about this: https://donellameadows.org/archives/leverage-points-places-to-intervene-in-a-system/

Good morning!

Things that are still true:

There are millions of Black registered voters, that want to vote for Biden, and plan to vote for him in November.

1) If 100% of these Black voters *are able* to vote for Biden, then Biden can't lose!

2) If 0% of these Black voters *are able* to vote for Biden, then Biden can't win.

Like every US POTUS election before this one, it all comes down to Black turnout. Which means it all comes down to suppression. Which means it comes down to racism.

1/N

Victory! Supreme Court correctly rules that social media platforms have First Amendment rights to curate and edit the speech of others they deliver to their users.

The Supreme Court’'s ruling is a big win for users and the First Amendment. It recognizes that the government has a very limited role in dictating what social media platforms must and must not publish. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/07/platforms-have-first-amendment-right-curate-speech-weve-long-argued-supreme-1

Your wind and solar projects are ending up in the landfill.

Maybe we should think about reducing consumption at some point, ya know?

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/05/13/recycling-end-of-life-solar-panel-wind-turbine-is-big-waste-business.html

Remember, there is one and only one way to not be labeled a conspiracy theorist, and that is to accept uncritically whatever narrative of events NPR is reporting. It you do not uncritically accept everything the talking head tells you, you are a conspiracy theorist by definition. It doesn't matter whether or not you are actually claiming anything - simply raising possibilities other than those put forth by the approved authorities marks you out as a whacko.

We have gotten lots of lovely answers with lots of lovely software projects hosted on various lovely forges! Thank you!

From BSDs to IRCs, developed using Git, DARCS or Mercurial, we love the responses so far! Keep them coming! 💙

Or, perhaps take a look at the responses, you will definitely find something new! (100% money-back guarantee if you don't! 😉)

The Amazon River basin is covered with rain forest that many people mistake for a primordial sort of natural reserve, lightly peopled and untouched until recent deforestation.

On the contrary, we now know that the Amazon was once densely peopled as archeologists continue to discover the remains of city after sprawling city. The Amazon forest we see today is the remains of what was once a vast garden, cultivated to supply food to those cities.

Indigenous land use was once so pervasive and intensive that the forest’s soils, normally fairly poor, are pockmarked with patches of terra preta de Índio—“black earth of the Indians”—which are particularly fertile and self-sustaining soils produced by human activity.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-022-31064-2

This process—of successfully and sustainably managing ecosystems to enhance biodiversity—was hardly the product of scarce humans living with a light touch in an empty landscape, as someone just suggested to me.

From Charles Mann’s “1491”:

“Rather than domesticate animals for meat, Indians retooled ecosystems to encourage elk, deer, and bear. Constant burning of undergrowth increased the numbers of herbivores, the predators that fed on them, and the people who ate them both. Rather than the thick, unbroken, monumental snarl of trees imagined by Thoreau, the great eastern forest was an ecological kaleidoscope of garden plots, blackberry rambles, pine barrens, and spacious groves of chestnut, hickory, and oak. The first white settlers in Ohio found woodlands that resembled English parks—they could drive carriages through the trees. Fifteen miles from shore in Rhode Island, Giovanni da Verrazzano found trees so widely spaced that the forest ‘could be penetrated even by a large army.’ John Smith claimed to have ridden through the Virginia forest at a gallop.

Incredible to imagine today, bison roamed from New York to Georgia. A creature of the prairie, Bison bison was imported to the East by Native Americans along a path of indigenous fire, as they changed enough forest into fallows for it to survive far outside its original range.”

Just finished recording an interview with Sergei for the new CODEPINK podcast he's doing. Really great conversation. I think it goes live next week.

https://www.codepink.org/sergeifired