Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

"We should probably be a bit more worried than we are.”

That's a climate scientist in a story this week about global warming causing a “massive surge in wetlands methane”.

Just "a bit more worried"!? The cautious impartiality that's drummed into scientists is not what the world needs now. Perhaps the journalist didn’t quote the expletives?

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/534034/tropical-wetlands-are-releasing-a-methane-bomb-threatening-climate-plans

#ClimateCrisis #ClimateChange #methane

Nothing hits like a barbecue, especially when it’s about good salmon and even better company. That’s why I came thousands of miles to Coast Salish Territories, aka Seattle, to get a taste of some freshly caught Coho from the Quilcene River, grilled to perfection. This isn’t your average cookout. This is the Salish Sea Assembly, an unapologetic, hard-hitting gathering of land defenders, artists, and radicals from across Turtle Island, hosted by Savage Fam’s Ant-Loc and fearless land defender Kanahus Manuel.

Check out this video report by Amplifier Films’ @franklinlopez to see what went down.

https://kolektiva.media/w/htX7sfBA4T6SCWiqunjCKK

Why am I here and not on #Bluesky or #Threads? Because here I am on my own instance, hosted in the EU, and not on a centralised service from the US (which both Bluesky and Threads are) where soon a Trump government is installed that can easily force both Bluesky and Threads to hand over full access to all my data. That's my personal risk calculation. Yours might be very different. And that's perfectly fine!

I've had a few programmers from third-world countries reach out, and a persistent problem is "buying even a used laptop is $500, which is extremely expensive in my local currency".

Anyone have any giga-brain ideas on the cheapest possible development environment that doesn't freeze up? We'll not stress about the availability of parts in different parts of the world for now.

Ah yeah, I was trying to get @subMedia to bid on #AlexJones' properties. I guess the Onion is more flush. Whatever... these are some good fuckin news!

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/parody-website-onion-buys-alex-jones-infowars-out-bankruptcy-court-documents-2024-11-14/

@lightweight I think it's a variation on the embrace extend strategy - back in the day, MS software would read your format but not export it, and Threads syndicating your posts but not letting people reply seems like the same kind of one-way gate to bleed people off.

Crazy, too, that it's not used much more widely when you realise that with NextCloud + OnlyOffice you
- host your own data, so *no* data sovereignty issues, and
- you can control the interface, language, etc. (it's all #libre software!) so this platform undermines digital colonisation as is aggressively perpetrated by 'bigtech'. You know: the folks pushing the software *all* our kiwi kids have to use *every day at every public school in NZ* - see https://davelane.nz/explainer-digitech-risks-school-boards. The MoEd is complicit.

Wow, just collaboratively editing a document in OnlyOffice, wrapped by NextCloud (with a 'chat' window next to it for discussion among the authors. This is a very sophisticated system - I don't see anything Google Docs does better. (Never used MSO 365, so hard to compare, but suspect it's certainly 'as good'). People need to realise that we can run these systems at breathtakingly low costs (~$10/month for a suitable VPS) for a small org. It would scale beautifully with gov't support.

Over 130 civil liberties and other organizations oppose a bill that would allow any administration to target nonprofits without due process. Tell your Representative they must vote no on this dangerous expansion of executive power. https://act.eff.org/action/tell-congress-not-to-weaponize-the-treasury-department-against-nonprofits

The Atlanta Police Department is surveilling the freedom to protest, online and off.  https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/08/atlanta-police-must-stop-high-tech-spying-political-movements

I've seen the stats that queer people overwhelmingly voted for Kamala Harris, does anyone know if there's a breakdown of race with that stat?

Must watch interview with two former Biden administration officials who resigned over the war crimes being committed with US complicity and support.

https://youtu.be/w88XdpvBhbw?feature=shared&t=2173

Where was all this pro-immigrant sentiment a few months ago when Biden and Harris kept bragging about how much they'd reduced "illegal" border crossings?

It occurs to me that the parallels with the modern world are profound, with so many people deluded by things they see and read about on the Internet that they live out their lives in a similar fantasy.

My take as well.

"What happened in this year’s election was not some kind of flowering of American fascism, but a rebellion against a hated, out-of-touch Democratic Party elite...Harris abandoned a raft of progressive policies that are wildly popular, some of which were featured on ballot initiatives that won by big margins in states that went for Trump. "

https://scheerpost.com/2024/11/16/the-democrats-deserved-to-lose-1000-times-over/

1/There is nothing more embarrassing than watching hordes of liberals willingly herd themselves into a pen funded by Russian capital. Blue sky’s principal funder Blockchain Capital LLC is run in part by Kirill Dorofeev, who also works for VK, Russia’s state social network.

Oh, look. the Mozilla Foundation is asking for community feedback about what folk want them to focus on.

Anyone have opinions?

https://mozillafoundation.tfaforms.net/100

Liberalism is unable to meet our needs, because it is based upon the idea of the rational self-interested individual, rather than human beings as fragile vulnerable creatures. That political actor has no needs that they cannot meet themselves. Why should we expect its language to be different? If we have no language of need or of frailty, then it would seem we cannot escape. However, we do have a language of need. We find that language in care ethics, in human fragility.

Scientific American's editor -- who believes in, you know, science -- told some truth about the looming dark ages of the Trump regime.

She "resigned" soon afterward.

https://www.nbcnews.com/science/science-news/scientific-american-editor-chief-leaves-anti-trump-comments-rcna180400

@laurahelmuth's tenure at SciAm was honorable and important. She deserved better, but of course so do we all.