Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

For the record: I've never submitted a prompt to any GenAI service. I've never needed or wanted to, because I know the cost it exacts on our world and our societies. It's not worth it.

Josh talks with Kate "Sassy" Sassoon about her long history in co-ops of all different varieties and her current work as a co-op facilitator.

https://geo.coop/articles/interview-kate-sassy-sassoon

I'm working on putting together a list of U.S. advocacy organizations that coordinate campaigns to put pressure on legislators.  I've been using 5calls.org, but I feel like groups with more specific political agendas might have better scripts.

Any recommendations?

(boosts welcome)

Apparently hey don't have active shooter drills in business schools. https://www.gocomics.com/brian-mcfadden/2024/12/16

The Syrian revolution started off as a bottom-up, working class uprising from the peripheries organised through local coordination committees. They set up local councils throughout the liberated areas that coordinated to provide services in the absence of a state.

They actually experienced life without the state, and they thrived. They were the living proof that not only can it be done, but that it can be fun and meaningful.

🧵

I may be coming across as some academic computer science nerd. It's actually the opposite. I'm a humanities nerd who cares about the agency of users so much I've twisted myself into a shape where I can do a computer science thing.

But architecture matters. It affects the worlds we can have.

Holy moly. I just learned that only 27% of the German population bought at least a single book (including audio and ebooks) in 2023. I mean, not even ONE book in a year!?
https://www.handelsblatt.com/politik/deutschland/wahlprogramme-mit-diesen-versprechen-ziehen-die-parteien-in-den-wahlkampf/100094918.html

I’m embarrassed to admit that I left something off my CV because it wasn’t paid work. It was a big thing too! (Helping start a tenants union). The myth that only paid capitalist work is real is so ingrained that even I fell for it. (Don’t worry, I’ve added it now).

The enemy of your enemy is not necessarily your friend. This is important to remember. For instance, the Cheneys are enemies of Trump, but that shouldn't make them friends to everyone else who hates him. In the same way, Mr. Putin my be opposed to people who are not, however, folks you'd want to hang around with. It feels like a lot of people are getting taken in by this rn. "Some crappy person doesn't like X? Well fuck them, X is my new favorite person!" Don't fall for it.

Senate Democrats Might Vote Into Law the First Anti-LGBTQ National Legislation in Decades. Contact Your Senator Now.

https://www.madycast.com/p/senate-democrats-are-about-to-vote

#transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA

Those (not us) who thought they were escaping Twitter/X by joining BlueSky might usefully note that a third of the money raised so far to run it was raised as a cross investment from.... Twitter/X.

So while they might be 'safe' from Musk right now, behind the scenes he's hardly disconnected.... oh dear.

If you really want to be in the fediverse you need to be in the fediverse

#BlueSky #fediverse

This last-minute draft of KOSA, which its authors hope to wrap into a continuing spending resolution that must pass before the year’s end to avoid government shutdown, does not resolve the constitutional concerns raised by EFF and others. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/12/xs-last-minute-update-kids-online-safety-act-still-fails-protect-kids-or-adults

Latest comic. A British consumer rights group examined unnecessary data harvesting by “smart” devices, including air fryers connected to phone apps. While these devices may not pose the greatest privacy risk in our everyday lives, they are part of a growing Internet of Things capable of collecting data when and where we least expect it.

#comic #cartoon #technology #tech #privacy #surveillance #consumer #cooking #internet #internetofthings

#Lazyweb. Has anyone built a #Forgejo or #Gitea Action to run #Jekyll and put the generated files in a directory on a web server? I know about all the GitHub automation using their GitHub pages, but I want to #selfhost and already have the sources of my blog in a git repo on my local forgejo instance. Ideally a solution that runs completely locally, without downloading tons of stuff from docker repos :)

I am truly impressed. Within minutes I got files, advice and support from everywhere around the #fediverse. I now have no more excuses and will have to work hard to get it all up and running and report on teh HOWTO in an upcoming blog post which might already be after I moved my blog to my own server. The Fediverse is full of geeks that are happy to share. And that's not a bad thing in clickbait times! Thank you all :)

Actual anti-imperialists are a rare breed nowadays. Thankfully, we've still got Margaret Kimberley and Gerald Horne around to keep things real.

https://www.blackagendareport.com/gerald-horne-analyzes-collapse-syria-government

A reminder that the mainstream media is here to keep you in line and not thinking any thoughts that might be bad for our overlords.

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2024/12/tom-neuburger-the-medias-bizarre-treatment-of-the-mangione-case.html

When I am an employee, employers are like "you have to accept Scrum". When I'm consulting, employers are like "oh, you must be elite, you're using something that isn't Scrum"

This industry has brain worms

And yes of course it is literally the paper that gives us this incredible FIGURE 1, which you have CERTAINLY seen if you have ever heard ANYONE talk about ANY "decentralized" or "distributed" system ever

CENTRALIZED DECENTRALIZED DISTRIBUTED

You know this image. You could never forget this image

In my previous blogpost I had expressed worry about moving the goalposts of "decentralization". That is *exactly* what's happening here, and what's being said is "if we weaken the definition dramatically, then Bluesky qualifies"

This is, IMO, not a very compelling look I've gotta say