Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one
#ShlaerMellor, #FunctionPointAnalysis, #punk, #environmentalist, #unionAdvocate, #anarchosocialist
"with a big old lie and a flag and a pie and a mom and a bible most folks are just liable to buy any line, any place, any time" - Frank Zappa
Joined May 2019
Urban dwellers are the dupes of the ruling classes. They are always faced with the edifices of power. Easier to control dependencies of those without direct access to necessary resources. In rural areas, strong policing is required to limit access to resources, but ownership of resources not contained in walls and spread over a large area suffers from appearances of legitimacy and is much harder to police.
Money only has value, if it is the only access to necessary resources.
Old Fucking Punk
boosted
When stores refuse to take cash, they discriminate against people who lack access to payment methods like credit cards. Unbanked and underbanked people are disproportionately people of color. That’s why Congress must pass the Payment Choice Act. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/09/pass-payment-choice-act
Old Fucking Punk
boosted
Old Fucking Punk
boosted
Old Fucking Punk
boosted
Aaaaaand, it's gone
Apple Flinched
https://gizmodo.com/apple-flinched-1844948031
Old Fucking Punk
boosted
I lent £150 to the New Leaf Food #Coop when it began in early 2012. Not loads, but a significant sum for me then and now.
It was a workers coop, where all employees equally own the business. Their aim was to supply local and/or ecological foods with as little packaging as possible: they were ahead of the curve back then
Today, ~9 years later, the coop is doing fine and paid me back the £150!
Worth visiting if in #Edinburgh
Greystone Nursing Homes, Whose Executives Gave 00,000 to Trump, Are Epicenters of Covid-19 Deaths https://theintercept.com/2020/09/04/nursing-homes-coronavirus-deaths-greystone/
Police and Affordable Housing Collide in Charleston - The South's most picturesque city reckons with race and gentrification. https://inthesetimes.com/article/charleston-south-carolina-police-affordable-housing-race-gentrification
Decided to grab "Introducing Python" by Bill Lubanovic as a reference. In reading the "sell the language" chapter, I'm amazed at some outright falsehoods. Perpetuation of the terse language means more productivity myth and network wait times obviate the need for processing efficiency myth are two prominent ones.
The "look how much cleaner this looks in my language" thesis always cracks me up as well in comparing 3GLs.
Old Fucking Punk
boosted
Old Fucking Punk
boosted
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.
Old Fucking Punk
boosted
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
Old Fucking Punk
boosted
New episode of @reality2cast featuring @kyle of @purism talking about #DigitalConvergence and more!
Python appears to be one of those languages I'm going to be forced to learn, even though it really doesn't add anything to my development abilities.
#sigh More #boredcoding
Old Fucking Punk
boosted
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/
Old Fucking Punk
boosted
🇳🇿
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.
Old Fucking Punk
boosted
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)...
Old Fucking Punk
boosted
"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/
Old Fucking Punk
boosted
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/
Old Fucking Punk
boosted
#Seattle "labor day" march against police unions. COPS ARENT WORKERS!
#ShlaerMellor, #FunctionPointAnalysis, #punk, #environmentalist, #unionAdvocate, #anarchosocialist
"with a big old lie and a flag and a pie and a mom and a bible most folks are just liable to buy any line, any place, any time" - Frank Zappa
Joined May 2019
