Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Last night, peeps in MN made history. During the highest peaks of the riots of the late 1960s, or the LA riots of 92, people weren't able to burn down a police station in a major US city. Thanks to all who took part in this powerful and heroic action. Y'all are legends.

#Fuck12

One million species may go extinct, and one nation may be the cause
https://www.dailykos.com/story/2020/5/25/1946478/-One-million-species-may-go-extinct-and-one-nation-may-be-the-cause #biodiversity #extinction

Back Starbucks Baristas Losing Hazard Pay: Phone-Blast Now Until Monday https://itsgoingdown.org/back-starbucks-baristas-losing-hazard-pay-phone-blast-now-until-monday/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

No one, least of all the President of the U.S., should use specious copyright or trademark claims to silence a critic. And platforms shouldn’t play along when they get a claim like this. Redbubble should stand up for its users and restore this political cartoon immediately. https://twitter.com/CBLDF/status/1265389225744060416

https://www.hackread.com/hacker-selling-500-million-facebook-user-data/

Bill aims to ban microtargeting of political ads. I'd argue the same reasoning to ban targeted manipulation for political ads should apply to *all* ads. The Internet (and society) would be much healither w/o microtargeting. #privacy https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/05/proposed-bill-would-ban-microtargeting-of-political-advertisements/

That's how the Librem 5 performs with all the GPU acceleration in place :) @purism #librem5 #phosh

While politicians are focused on expanding higher education, labor union apprenticeships are a proven alternative path to prosperity.

Mastering blue collar skills shouldn't be seen as any less worthy of respect than the learning that happens in universities.

A new article "America needs more union apprenticeships – not just university graduates" on Mutual Interest, an online media #coop owned by the readers and writers.

https://www.mutualinterest.coop/2020/05/america-needs-more-union-apprenticeships-not-just-university-graduates

Become a member here:
https://opencollective.com/mutual-interest-media

Librem 5 Timeline:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2HIcwP6zVEQ

Find out more about the Librem 5:
https://puri.sm/products/librem-5/

#linux #privacy #security #freedom

Recently the .org domain was almost sold to a private equity firm.

Internet heavyweights, like the head of Wikimedia, fought to have the domain owned as a #platformcoop instead.

They blocked the sale and now plan to democratise large parts of the internet.

My new article on #CoopExchange blog.

https://coop.exchange/blog/7062477b-9e8d-11ea-b711-06ceb0bf34bd/the-co-op-that-blocked-the-sale-of-the-org-domain-to-private-equity-has-a-plan-to-democratise-large-parts-of-the-internet

Oh snap - Google gets a-schoolin'. https://skarnet.org/text/google.html As one who's also fended off a few Google hiring overtures, this is satisfying to see. I wish, too, that Google's exploitation of #FOSS & hypocrisy of employing exclusively proprietary software that creates an in-built power imbalance (that they have frequently abused) despite being built upon FOSS is the only key point that's missing.

A patent with generic claims on transmitting data is being used to sue companies that make water meters, modems, and even ventilators. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/05/new-low-bad-patent-patent-troll-sues-ventilator-company

https://robertheaton.com/2020/02/05/wacom-drawing-tablets-track-name-of-every-application-you-open/

It Hit 80 Degrees in the Arctic This Week
https://earther.gizmodo.com/it-hit-80-degrees-in-the-arctic-this-week-1843606717 #climatechange #climatecrisis

We moved libhandy from Purism's infra to GNOME's infra! Learn more here: https://adrienplazas.com/blog/2020/05/22/handy-1-alpha-1-migrating-to-gnome.html.

Repo: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libhandy
Doc: https://gnome.pages.gitlab.gnome.org/libhandy

@lwriemen

Yes, recently I've been a big fan of thinking around "proportional regulation" . Currently proportionally the regulatory burden is biggest for smallest businesses. This should be reversed.

Here is an article about the topic I wrote:

https://www.mutualinterest.coop/2020/05/small-banks-are-massacred-by-disproportionate-regulation

Lake Effect EF! Statement About the 2020 Earth First! Summer Gathering https://itsgoingdown.org/earth-first-statment-2020-summer-gathering/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter