Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

autism, ableism/disability discussion

This: "Software? Fusion360, Adobe Creative Cloud, John Deere tractors- a tradesperson can’t even own their own tools anymore. We’re all sharecroppers. Everything is rented." ... "Every single thing we own is being taken, put in the cloud, and rented back to us. Willingly. Because no one wants to know how to do anything beyond a narrow scope. We’re a world of carpenters willing to rent sharp chisels and saws rather than learn to sharpen them ourselves." https://xyzdims.com/2020/12/08/infinite-z-cr-30-aka-3dprintmill-creality-acknowledges-prior-development-commits-to-open-source-2020-12/

Congress can't trump your right to criticize elected officials. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/12/its-not-section-230-president-trump-hates-its-first-amendment

Technologies for Liberation:

https://www.astraeafoundation.org/FundAbolitionTech/

CUNY is offering a #Cooperative Management course:

https://slu.cuny.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Cooperative-Management-for-a-Changing-World-r2.pdf

Five of 2020's Top Climate Grifters
https://earther.gizmodo.com/five-of-2020s-top-climate-grifters-1845803712 #climatechange #climatecrisis #leadonclimate

The Old Arctic Is Gone
https://earther.gizmodo.com/the-old-arctic-is-gone-1845834100 #climatechange #climatecrisis #leadonclimate

Where can I buy DRM-free e-books?

If you're wondering where you can browse amazing e-books that don't need additional software, devices, or accounts to read, here's a list!

https://www.libreture.com/bookshops/

"We, as a society, need to stop criminalizing poverty, addiction, and mental health issues - we need to stop sending people into institutions that we know exacerbate these and other issues. We can come up with other systems that are not born out of racist ideologies and capitalistic strategies to profit off of mostly black and brown bodies in cages. That is part of the effort of The Compost #Cooperative"

https://geo.coop/articles/pathway-meaningful-work-former-inmates

Programming in 2020:

Can't wait to boot up my APPLE to open up my MICROSOFT text editor and GOOGLE for solutions to FACEBOOK's technical debt in my MICROSOFT repository so I can deploy to AMAZON and I'll pay GOOGLE and FACEBOOK for the privilege of getting site traffic to show my visitors ads.