Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Germans are stopping Oculus sales?
http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/E8PCHAYttOk/facebook-halts-oculus-quest-sales-in-germany-amid-privacy-concerns

A study suggesting there's evidence that automation creates jobs. Might explain why countries like Japan and Singapore that have gone very far with automation have one of the lowest unemployment rates in the world.

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm

Due to FB and app developer pressure, Apple changed their mind about mandating apps ask permission before tracking users in iOS 14. That lobbying power should tell you everything you need to know about how much money is made through tracking in iOS apps: #privacy

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/09/facebook-complains-apple-responds-ios-14s-big-privacy-change-gets-postponed/

New episode of @reality2cast featuring @kyle of @purism talking about #DigitalConvergence and more!

https://reality2cast.com/38

#podcast #technology #mobile #hardware #purism

Three simple ways to increase voter participation in credit union board elections.

Let's revitalise this under-utilised mechanism of economic democracy.

The American credit union movement is a 120 million members strong mass movement.

In the largest branch of the 2 million members strong Finnish OP coop bank around 17% of members vote in the board elections.

If the same was true in US credit unions, it would be a massive democratic exercise of 20 million people.

https://chipfilson.com/2020/09/from-the-field-ideas-for-increasing-voter-participation/

And I should say, not "just as bad" as Trump - there's nothing good about him, but the Democrats reinforce the same broken structure in the US, and Sanders (or Warren) would've been a step in the right direction, whereas Biden is just as broken and corrupt although less vulgar.

Holy crap - this is so desperately spot-on. https://www.salon.com/2020/04/28/pulitzer-winner-chris-hedges-these-are-the-good-times--compared-to-whats-coming-next/ especially the stuff about the Democrats being just as bad (and Obama having been a more dignified face on corrupt corporate rule)...

"Google is a popular target for this kind of request because almost everyone uses Google products in one way or another ... Moreover, Google frequently has GPS data that places a user's phone to within a few meters" #privacy https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/09/feds-cant-ask-google-for-every-phone-in-a-100-meter-radius-court-says/

Both the Librem 14 & Librem 15 are still $200 off!

Laptops designed to respect your rights to #privacy , #security , and #freedom

Librem 14: https://puri.sm/products/librem-14/

Librem 15: https://puri.sm/products/librem-15/

#Seattle "labor day" march against police unions. COPS ARENT WORKERS!

This panel on worker coops and #Socialism features some of my favorite radicals,

Jessica Gordon Nembhard
Camila Piñero Harnecker
Richard Wolff

Sept 28 6:30-8:30pm ET

https://bit.ly/CJWorkerCoOp

Facebook to Censor Anything it Deems Necessary to Avoid 'Adverse Legal or Regulatory Impacts'
https://sociable.co/social-media/facebook-to-censor-anything-it-deems-necessary-to-avoid-adverse-legal-or-regulatory-impacts/

Reading about data #coops and came across this, planning to write an article about them.

Not sure if I'm wrapping my head around this part.

Anyone able to explain it to me like I'm 12 years old? Ideally with a hypothetical real life example.

Here's the whole study.

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1905.08819.pdf

We love PureOS so much, we wrote about it! https://librefree.me/i-lied-pureos-is-my-new-home
@purism hope you enjoy the read @todd You get a special mention too
#librefree.me #OpenSource #PureOS #Purism #GhostBSD #Distro #Braillynn

The GEO Weekly Newsletter is out:

https://mailchi.mp/d6b2a6d72b9d/black-economic-lives-matter-too-key-facilitation-skills-geo-weekly-newsletter

#Coops #SolidarityEconomy #Facilitation

This Week in Fascism #72: Police Giving Free Reign to Far-Right Leads to Multiple Deaths https://itsgoingdown.org/this-week-in-fascism-72-police-giving-free-reign-to-far-right-leads-to-multiple-deaths/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

The RNC, the Push Towards Open Fascism, and the Path Ahead https://itsgoingdown.org/rnc-fascism-path-ahead/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

Two federal judges have ruled that a geofence warrant violates the Fourth Amendment, offering a detailed constitutional analysis that aligns with arguments EFF + others have made over the past couple years. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/08/new-federal-court-rulings-find-geofence-warrants-unconstitutional-0