Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Now this is amusing. https://newsthump.com/2018/07/04/homosexuals-call-for-conversion-therapy-to-cure-christianity/

Thomas: "...[P]laying copyrighted music as a deterrent to the First Amendment-guaranteed right to openly film police is, if not BHPD official protocol, at least a technique that has been deployed by more than one officer."

Back in 2019, anti-racist activists experimented with playing copyrighted music at Nazi rallies to make them unpostable on social media. At the time, I warned that this would end badly.

https://memex.craphound.com/2019/07/23/clever-hack-that-will-end-badly-playing-copyrighted-music-during-nazis-rallies-so-they-cant-be-posted-to-youtube/

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Has anyone had experience implementing Shleepay? https://github.com/shleeable/shleepay It's a Docker-supporting fork of Drew Devault's Fosspay open source patronage/micropayment app (uses Stripe to accept one off and repeating payments)... thinking I might fire up an instance as a live demo for tonight's NZ-based FOSS meetup. What could possibly go wrong?

Out of interest, are there any representatives of the Software Freedom Law Center on the Fediverse? Given that this flagrant violation (i.e. relicensing) of the GPL in the WordPress marketplace is more the rule than the exception, I'm wondering if anyone else has taken issue with it previously - what's the precedent?

Microsoft repo secretly installed on all Raspberry Pi's Linux OS - nixCraft https://www.cyberciti.biz/linux-news/heads-up-microsoft-repo-secretly-installed-on-all-raspberry-pis-linux-os/

Just dashed off a quick email to one of the thousands of WordPress plugin/theme mills that's trying to force users to buy "premium" licenses for their plugins. I suggested that their entire business model is a flagrant violation of the GPL under which WordPress and its dependencies (all plugins and themes) is licensed. See https://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0.en.html section 4-6 for starters. We need to help these folks understand the licenses they've implicitly accepted and professional violate every day.

Everywhere on social media I see US "conservatives" throwing shade on "leftist" viewpoints... I think to myself: if you replace the term leftist with it really means, "compassionate, informed, & rational", then I can see why they're feeling aggrieved, with their flaws being pointed out like that.

How it started: How it's going: https://t.co/jGfpywBHXA

Analysis of the decline of social democracy focuses too much on policies and not enough on organising methods.

The analysis of organising methods focuses too much on unions and not enough on the equally important role that cooperative and mutual businesses used to play.

The three pillars of Labour organising, that were most successfully implemented in the Nordic countries consisted of organising:

- Workers into unions
- Consumers into cooperatives
- Voters into social democratic parties

The government can't dictate what speech private social
media companies should host or take down -- that violates the First Amendment, says EFF's @aaron_d_mackey. https://www.nationaljournal.com/s/712421/gop-crusade-against-section-230-shifts-to-the-states/?unlock=69M3IB5CHIF45R3P
https://www.nationaljournal.com/s/712421/gop-crusade-against-section-230-shifts-to-the-states/?unlock=69M3IB5CHIF45R3P

Dream Defenders is hiring.

https://dreamdefenders.org/jobs/

Anarchist prisoner Sean Swain could use letters of support for his clemency bid. Please consider checking out the script at https://cutt.ly/Hkph3KY