Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

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Veblen called these “industry” and “business.” Industry’s goal is efficiently meeting the material needs of the public; business’ goal is efficiently extracting profits. Business can only do this by sabotaging industry, but it has to be careful not to sabotage so much that you end up with situations like the one Boeing is in.

Censorship in the name of national security, if it’s ever permitted at all, requires a concrete, imminent and severe threat — not the mere prospect of one.

https://freedom.press/news/unconstitutional-tiktok-ban-would-open-the-door-to-press-censorship/

Now, Israel has escalated its efforts to silence Al Jazeera, raiding its West Bank newsroom and ordering it closed for 45 days.

At the same time, the U.S. expanded its targeting of foreign-owned platforms by taking aim at Russian media outlet RT.

https://apnews.com/article/israel-palestinians-al-jazeera-gaza-war-hamas-4abdb2969e39e7ad99dfbf9caa7bb32c

@lwriemen @piwakawaka For sure, but the point I was making wasn't that the US is unique, rather that Trump is a uniquely US version. It's the same way that Boris Johnson's upper-class coded dufferishness was the key to the English psyche, but wouldn't have worked elsewhere.

To outsiders it looks weird, "How could they fall for that?"

It’s done.

This is the moment Britains last remaining coal power station came off the electricity system for the final time, marking the end of 142 years of coal generating electricity in Great Britain.

HT National Grid ESO

Pro-tip: Write code for the reviewers. Helping them helps you.

A very specific case: Separate code movement from other changes to independent commits.

As a reviewer, checking code movement with 'git show --color-moved' takes mere seconds rather than minutes. Checking subsequent changes on top is easy as well. Combined, it's much, much harder.

And remember, it might be you looking at the same commits years down the line.

Join the team of chefs and developers of #HurryCurry tonight at 20.00 CEST to play a few rounds of the game and provide valuable feedback to them.

Check out the event in the Codeberg Event Calendar: https://codeberg.codeberg.page/Events/events/2024/10-01_hurrycurry_release/

“‘He lost everything, but he’s giving anything he’s got,’ she said. ‘That is the beauty of the people in the mountains.’”

It’s a problem that so many people think it’s only their community that normalizes the collective good after a disaster. It’s not just “people in the mountains” or whatever—this is just how people be! We all share these values! https://wapo.st/3XOffyS

Today's Help Desk is a shameless delaying tactic.

https://www.eviscerati.org/comics/hd/2024/10/sterner-stuff/

Really clarifying to see the lack of Federal response to Helene. Learn your lessons now, people: when the excrement hits the oscillator, your government is not going to be there to help you, whether it's a Dem administration in power or the other guys. Sad but true.

The Biden administration is, apparently, trying to throw the election to Trump. Else, why the lack of response to Helene? Hearing from people on the ground and everyone is saying the same thing: No FEMA anywhere to be seen. The election is right around the corner, neglecting swing states that just experienced a once-in-a-lifetime (hopefully) natural disaster is...well, politically it's dumb as a box of rocks. Libs will blame Stein for running, but it'll be on Biden for abandoning people.

You can tell this is an American cartoon. Where else would you find a calculation done solely in SI units and then the final answer is given in imperial units?

Pine martens return to Dartmoor after 150-year absence - https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/oct/01/pine-martens-return-to-dartmoor-after-150-year-absence "Studies have also shown the pine martens are effective predators of grey squirrels" excellent news #rewilding

Botanists identify 33 global ‘dark spots’ with thousands of unknown #plants - https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/oct/01/kew-botanic-gardens-study-33-dark-spots-plant-species-identification-unknown-biodiversity- "Kew study reveals areas with at least 100,000 undiscovered plant species – most likely to be under threat of extinction"

@lightweight For those interested, at @oeglobal we are running a live demo of Big Blue Button + H5P on Oct 9 https://www.oeglobal.org/event/wednesday-demos-live-h5p-in-big-blue-button/

Ooo - thanks to @cogdog for the pointer to this! https://yewtu.be/watch?v=byn3cYsmoSk or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=byn3cYsmoSk - #BigBlueButton 3 brings the ability to embed #H5P learning objects into video conference content which is very cool for instructional use cases! I honestly can't believe that *any* education provider still uses Zoom or (**shudders) MS Teams/Google Meet for this stuff.

Kudos to Pro Publica who exposed the nonsense of this Potemkin plastic recycling process back in June. It’s green-washing by ExxonMobil, which says they turn plastic back into oil, which can be used to make plastic again. But the process actually works terribly, with a 2–5% yield. Worse, the industry uses mathematical tricky known as “lying” to label that e.g. 30% recycled, or even 100%.

Plastic recycling: it’s as good as clean coal! https://www.propublica.org/article/delusion-advanced-chemical-plastic-recycling-pyrolysis

There is no vile promise Trump can make that will cause Big Journalism to take seriously the dire threat he poses to democracy and fundamental liberties.

Take his weekend Purge talk. He can't wait to unleash the worst police -- the racists and bullies who otherwise decent cops and public officials allow to operate with impunity. And standing beside those rogue cops will be his brownshirt brigades who can't wait to kill some of their neighbors.

This is real. But journalism just shrugs.

Support mutual aid recovery efforts in the wake of hurrican Helene in so-called western North Carolina here:

From the Dept of How-the-Sausage-is-Made : Today's comic is 450x7661 pixels. 450 is the width I decided on when I was playing around with making a webcomic that was compatible with smartphones. I never really had many readers who used smartphones to visit my site, but I don't have many vision impaired readers either and I still do a transcript, so... 1/?