Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

@mattcropp @Zee @Matt_Noyes @Greg
For anybody who's interested in discussing this (odd) CA Worker Co-op Federation bill and it's implications: I'll be hosting an open forum this Sunday, starting at 4 pm PT / 7 pm ET and going until whenever.
https://socialcoop.meet.coop/jos-gvw-ile-ixu

article that describes the roots of car-sharing in Switzerland as two bottom-up neighbour-based initiatives that developed into cooperatives

User-led Innovation Processes: The Development of Professional Car Sharing by Environmentally Concerned Citizens, in Innovation: The European Journal of Social Science Research
DOI: 10.1080/13511610304517

https://doi.org/10.1080/13511610304517

I'm so so fortunate in life to have found a fulfilling job working with people I respect, who are unapologetically outspoken and whose principles are well aligned with mine, as I solve interesting problems helping us sustainably make the world a better place for those with the least but who need what we're providing the most.

It sucks when one realises that one has few if any values in common with most of the people in ones chosen industry. And that most people hate the values one holds because they threaten the unethical market distortions on which the profit others have (or, more to the point, have failed to get, but desperately desire) depend.

It used to be that "If you aren't paying for something, you are the product" but now you are the product regardless. https://puri.sm/posts/data-double-dipping-when-companies-mine-paying-customers/

It is utterly heartbreaking to hear about these shitstains in Brazil destroying land for profit and murdering indigenous people who have historically lived there and those keen to protect them and their way of life. Some of humanity is beautiful, but the most powerful seem to be a disgrace. chttps://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/5/12/brazil-judge-provides-a-lifeline-for-threatened-indigenous-tribe

Why is it so hard for people to have #privacy? Because a TV company can make almost as much profit selling customer data as it can selling the TVs. https://www.engadget.com/vizio-q1-earnings-inscape-013937337.html

Here's a collection of youtube videos on ways to use plants that are invasive to the pnw. (I haven't included medicine and food in this list, just other stuff)

Splitting and debarking english ivy for weaving: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VEaJkEN_oX4

Getting fibre out of blackberries: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3SJdWjSEN6g

Two styles of blackberry woven baskets:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIL4tRoEqTc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpJXpkhWHyg

Weaving with scotch broom:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLaQtTV5cjw

Weaving with cattails (some cattails are native to the pnw, some are considered invasive): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=edT0bb26Y4Y

Dyeing with queen anne's lace: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDC1dfCH_2Y

Ivy laundry detergent: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MyPgStaMDV8

Dyeing with dyer's woad: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKQK39ST_oM

Police using civil asset forfeiture money to fund a secret drone program is just one example of how surveillance funding methods are part of the problem.

Learn more:
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/09/how-police-fund-surveillance-technology-part-problem https://twitter.com/Suntimes/status/1392517680545026049

#Climate #emissions shrinking the #stratosphere, scientists reveal | #GreenhouseGas emissions | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/may/12/emissions-shrinking-the-stratosphere-scientists-find

#Environment #GlobalWarming #ClimateChange #FossilFuels

To understand infiltration of compounds into groundwater, the sampling site's geology is important 👇 Nice comprehensive modelling study for an entire continent

"Risk of groundwater contamination widely underestimated because of fast flow into aquifers"
https://www.pnas.org/content/118/20/e2024492118

My first attempt at cordage! this is made out of fiber from blackberry branches
Here's the video I used to figure out how to separate the fiber from the branch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3SJdWjSEN6g&t=3s

The patent system is an unethical exploitative anachronism and needs to be dismantled. https://the.ink/p/doses-are-charity-knowledge-is-justice