Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

In 2020 two academics published a paper looking at how The Guardian has been mainstreaming the Far Right. At the core there is one problem (this is my simplification): the conflation of Far Right concerns with 'the people'. By default whatever the Far Right says has be taken more seriously than anything even left of center (let alone further left) which is also why the Guardian often uses 'populism' and 'the far right' interchangeably.

Something I really like about Forgejo is how seriously they are taking software freedom.
- They use Forgejo itself as their git forge, not GitHub
- No reliance or linking to proprietary corporate services such as Patreon, Twitter, Facebook etc. They use Mastodon and Liberapay.
- No Dockerhub, their OCI images are on Codeberg.
- No Discord! (really hate how many FOSS projects use it)
- Their documentation does not recommend proprietary developer tools such as VSCode or Sublime Text.
- They recently switched to a copyleft license

Very refreshing, considering how many other popular git forges are either proprietary or "open-core"

#Forgejo #Codeberg #FOSS #Git #GitHub

Microsoft has confirmed that Windows 11 users will not be able to uninstall the controversial “Recall” feature, despite earlier reports suggesting otherwise. Recall, part of the Copilot+ suite announced in May, automatically captures screenshots of user activity on the operating system including sensitive information such as passwords or financial data https://digitalmarketreports.com/news/25091/microsoft-recall-feature-on-windows-11-not-removable-after-all/ Do yourself a favor and get rid of Windows from your life—enough of these greedy companies. #privacy #security

Moving closer to usable cameras. https://gitlab.com/megapixels-org/Megapixels/-/merge_requests/29

Breaking News: Water is Wet!

https://archive.is/SLMtR

when you let money into politics — or when you fail to either break or nationalize monopoly — you get government of the sociopaths, by the sociopaths, for the sociopaths.

The mosquitos in our dense Massachusetts neighborhood are very intense. It's not *obvious* where they are breeding, but a very plausible hypothesis is in the same clogged gutters that the neighborhood birds use as bird baths.

Getting up there to clean the gutters is not at all straightforward, though.

I feel like a topic that should be discussed but that I never hear about is user-serviceable housing.

@ttpphd By democratizing environmental destruction, AI finally allows any one of us to pollute on the level of a billionaire with a private jet

Hearing an Amazon delivery truck's backup noise on Labor Day is a crime. You don't need that thing today. Let that person not piss in a bottle for one day.

@waldoj
My work is connected to plastics recycling. It does happen, but what's useful for recycling is pure truckloads of all the same type and color of plastic.
Which means mostly post-industrial waste: the leftovers from a manufacturing plant. Or you can do stuff like collect all the clear stretch-wrap from retail shipping and compress that and recycle it.
But post-consumer is hard because it tends to be many different kinds mixed together. Sorting them all out is necessary and expensive.

So I see the org that runs NaNoWriMo is coming out in support of "AI" theft, just in time for Labour Day. And they're dressing it up as defense of marginalised folks, which is even more rancid.

Guess I'm not doing NaNo this year, OR highlighting the organization, OR ever trusting that org again.

I have an old laptop with an unusable screen. It has 2GB of RAM. I don't really need another desktop computer, so I want to turn it into a home server.

Things I'd like a server for: an instance of #Friendica or #Streams, host my own website, an IMAP server, a Euphoria/#Heim instance (https://github.com/CylonicRaider/heim).

Friendica's hardware specs say 2GB is the minimum for full functionality.

I want to do all these things, but maybe on different servers.

What should I do?

(boosts welcome)

Happy #LaborDay! In this piece from 2020, our staff investigates #bossware– tech that bosses use to surveil and control their workers, and how to protect yourself.https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/06/inside-invasive-secretive-bossware-tracking-workers

We have begun work on the first episode of InterRebellium which we hope to release this fall. We’re beyond stoked to be making these connections and collaborating with anarchists around the globe for this project.

We’re still looking for collaborators with videography skills in all of the countries so please don’t stop sharing within your trusted networks or if this sounds like you get in touch through crew [at] sub [dot] media or on any of our social media accounts.

This project seeks to tell the story and examine the lessons learned from the global wave of uprisings from late 2018 through 2020. We hope to interview participants in these struggles to elevate the voices most qualified to tell these stories. It’s our hope that by spreading this knowledge on a global platform and to a new generation of militants we can be better prepared for the next one.

With the money raised we have already purchased some gear for comrades on location and in the diaspora of the country of the first episode and they will be filming some interviews this week. In the meantime we’ll be compiling footage.

We want to say a huge Thank You to everyone who liked, shared and donated already. Without you this project simply would not be possible.

Privacy isn't just a feature, it's a right. The Librem 5: A secure smartphone that puts you in control. No tracking, no data mining, just pure freedom. #Librem5 #PrivacyFirst
https://puri.sm/products/librem-5/

I’m a 18‐year‐old transgirl from Eastern Germany. My parents are right‐wing extremists and have a problem with trans people. I am currently staying with my grandma, but she wants me out by 8 September latest.

I am going to stay with a friend from 9 to 10 September, but I still need a place to crash from 8 to 9 September, and also a more permanent solution for the time after. I am not bound to any particular place, but I would like to stay in Germany for now.

I am also looking for a job in IT, preferably in systems operations. I have been working with Linux in my free time for a few years now and I am really into NixOS. CV upon request.

#aid
#MutualAidRequest
#mutualaid
#mutualaidboost

Interesting - RNZ's apparent advertorial for 'Kami' - educational software that's just got US VC funding - include the statement from a founder that their software's 'available for all platforms'... I see a lot of Google & Microsoft. All proprietary. Just signed up for a look & am told to install a browser extension for 'Google Chrome or Microsoft Edge'... is FF supported I wonder? All platforms? Hmmm. All the investment by edtech providers in integration with #bigtech... and nothing else.

Sometimes you say “yes” to a project on the spur of the moment, and it serendipitously turns out to be exactly what you need.

Several months ago, Steven at @pmpress asked me to write a foreword for what will be a book in the @workingclasshistory series: “Be Gay, Do Crimes: Everyday Acts of Queer Resistance and Rebellion,” edited by Zane McNeil, Riley Clare Valentine, and Blu Buchanan. Since then, my writer’s bloc and “anarchism of despair” have both only worsened, and the idea of trying to pen a 1,000-word foreword felt unimaginable.

I sat myself down daily in the same spot—a picnic table outside a big communally owned building in Montreal filled with co-op-y, radical, artsy, and/or queer spaces, won after being squatted decades ago—and read all the “on this day in history” entries in calendrical order. Around that time, I happened on a free showing of a powerful documentary about ACT-UP being shown for free in another neighborhood community center. I also joined in an anticapitalist and anticolonialist trans pride march that was inseparable from its Palestinian solidarity. And I thought repeatedly of the critique of the slogan “protect trans kids“ that a 15-year-old queer anarchist pal recently gifted me: “We can defend ourselves.”

And we have. Over centuries. And we’ll continue to—always criminalized, defiant, and prefiguring lives that the-powers-that-kill can never comprehend.

You won’t get to read my now-finished foreword (nor the fabulous “Be Gay, Do Crimes”) for many months, but suffice it to say, this book is “like a bolt cutter. Each entry snaps open another padlock, allowing us to steal back what is ours. To reappropriate the many
scraps of our bottom-up legacies of good troublemaking that otherwise would be ‘lost’ to top-down histories, and use those glorious remnants, those fag ends, to figuratively craft our own amulets of mutualistic protection.”

Reading it did that for me. I remembered that resistance is a long, long journey with no end, just many rebellious ancestors and messy beautiful experiments, even if I feel stuck. What feels unimaginable is what sparks possibilities.

(photos: wheatpastes, fresh & attacked, Montreal/Tioh’tia:ke/Mooniyang, summer 2023)

Now I have 35 bags of toys plus some odds and ends to give away. I meet kids at the food shelf every week and #poverty sucks for them. Their parents can't afford toys. I would have killed for these toys when I was a kid.

The Arivaca Fire Department Chief admits that she ordered the wall to be cut to rescue the man in this article, so I guess now there is a bunch more of the story I can tell.

It's killing me that I only shot a couple quick phone snaps of the cutting operation, since it was super dramatic. I SOOOOOO wanted to be filming it, but being super illegal, I had assumed I wouldn't be able to publish them anywhere for a decade anyway.

Unfortunately, Border Patrol tracked the man down to the hospital in Tucson where he had his surgery and has detained him. It's infuriating that BP had the time and effort to search hospitals for injured people, but not the inclination to help when they could've. Like I said in an earlier post, there are agents in the field with good hearts, but the core of the agency is rotten and cruel.

People are working on getting the injured man a lawyer now.

https://azluminaria.org/2024/08/30/small-town-firefighters-sawed-through-arizona-border-wall-to-rescue-an-injured-man-who-waited-24-hours-for-help/