Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

While I get it, I hate that we measure success as "adding jobs".

Fewer jobs but with improved standards of living for everyone would be great!
https://journa.host/@pbump/113005808516868057

The Chicago police said they didn’t need training on journalists’ rights at protests to prepare for the DNC. But their “abysmal failure” this week proves otherwise.

Officers who threaten and arrest journalists for doing their jobs should lose their own.

https://freedom.press/news/chicago-police-ignore-warnings-about-press-freedom-at-dnc-protests/

California drivers have functionally one choice for a digital license plate vendor. AB 3138 would hand that vendor more data, even though it has failed in the past to secure location data and to meet basic contractual obligations with a state agency. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/08/digital-license-plates-and-deal-never-had-chance

The time has come: call your local comic shop and pre-order THE TOXIC AVENGER #1 and get in on the entirely new story we are telling.

"it would take between 44 and 104 years for new trees to absorb as much CO2 as the amount generated by #wood #bioenergy that displaces #coal."

“Our conclusion is [replacing coal with wood to generate electricity] actually makes #climate change worse”.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-02676-z

Do you see anarchism as more of an affirmative vision of what should be or a resistance to a status quo that shouldn't be?

Do you think of yourself mostly as anarchistic or not anarchistic?

The doctors who want to tell the DNC about the hell they saw in Gaza

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/08/dnc-palestine-gaza-doctors-uncommitted-israel-kamala-harris/

"We’ve seen the images on social media and elsewhere of the scale of the destruction in Gaza. How did that compare with what you saw firsthand?"

Dr. Rana: There are no words, pictures, or videos that can really capture what’s happening. As soon as we got to the other side of the Gaza border crossing, it was like this dystopian image out of a movie. I mean it was just dust. It was an annihilation of the entire land. It’s not just buildings that were destroyed. There were things that looked like dirt fields, but I was told, That was an orchard. That was this farm."

Join us next Wednesday 28th for two must-see talks at the GDG monthly meetup 🤩 !. Nikhil Suresh, author of Lucidity - Mataroa Blog (@ludicity), will give `A talk about the skills that programmers need to defend both their code and their careers from the reality that the industry has real incentive problems and bad actors’.
Maksim Lin @maks will dive into the Maestro testing framework, the awesome testing tool you’ve never heard of!.
RSVP https://www.meetup.com/gdg-melbourne/events/302732707/

@lightweight I became rather unpopular at our primary school (where my wife was also a teacher) when I suggested that the 'free' software they were using in class to collect all of the kids' learning data, year on year, might actually be a rather poor idea. My explanations earned a number of "No one really cares about that, do they?" type responses.

Ugh. Listening to this woman talking about this 'info gathering' tool that she's using. I wonder how much she knows how that software is funded? I suspect it's by 'advertising' - monetising children's data. I wish Jesse Mulligan would ask that sort of thing. And yeah, the use of of these tools and social media by school kids are both fraught. She's calling the tool - which is spying on the kids, somehow, to gather data - 'easier'/less intimidating than actually talking to them.

I'm assuming this Chick-fil-a initiative (if it's true) is about injecting more US-style Christianity into the media there. Wow, blech. https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/08/chick-fil-a-cooking-up-new-family-friendly-video-streaming-service/

The fact check pedants can't say these are fake until they publish the real ones. https://brianmcfadden.org/2024/08/15/leaked-emails-from-the-trump-campaign/

Join us playing #HurryCurry together: Check it out from https://codeberg.org/hurrycurry/hurrycurry and have some fun with us (playing now, live).

(We tested the flatpak version, feel free to ping if you have trouble joining)

#Codeberg #LibreGaming #linuxgaming #Godot #Gaming #foss_gaming #CommunitySpotlight

@mike_hales tells me that volume three of Stephen Yeo's 3 vol. history of socialism and cooperativism is now out:

A Useable Past

The History of Association, Cooperation and un-Statist Socialism in 19th and early 20th century Britain. ​

Volume 3. Class Conflict and Co-operation in 19th and 20th Century Britain. Education for Association: re-membering for a new moral world.

“A revolution on a world scale will take a very long time. But it is also possible to recognize that it is already starting to happen. The easiest way to get our minds around it is to stop thinking about revolution as a thing - “the” revolution, the great cataclysmic break - and instead ask “what is revolutionary action?” We could then suggest: revolutionary action is any collective action which rejects, and therefore confronts, some form of power or domination and in doing so, reconstitutes social relations - even within the collectivity - in that light. Revolutionary action does not necessarily have to aim to topple governments. Attempts to create autonomous communities in the face of power (using Castoriadis’ definition here: ones that constitute themselves, collectively make their own rules or principles of operation, and continually reexamine them), would, for instance, be almost by definition revolutionary acts. And history shows us that the continual accumulation of such acts can change (almost) everything.”

― David Graeber, "Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology"

We warned Chicago police in the Chicago Sun-Times that the First Amendment doesn’t permit dispersing law-abiding journalists covering protests. Even the DOJ agrees.

It’s a shame officers didn’t listen, but we can’t say we’re surprised. They must be held accountable.

https://chicago.suntimes.com/other-views/2024/08/02/democratic-national-convention-dnc-2024-journalists-coverage-police-abuse-first-amendment-seth-stern-op-ed

We’re currently raising funds for our upcoming documentary series InterRebellium. We aim to raise about $2000 CAD per episode. Funds will be used to purchase gear and cover travel expenses for anarchist film crews collaborating on this ambitious project.

Check out out fundraiser at https://www.gofundme.com/f/interrebellium