Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

I don't have any inside knowledge but it strikes me that all these ransomware attacks on various health (and fuel line) systems around the world have a common denominator that's never ever mentioned: Microsoft Windows. If people (especially running critical infrastructure) didn't use it... I'm confident we wouldn't have ransomware attacks.

“Current trends in the automotive industry point to a future with you locked in a remote control car, your vendor holding the remote." https://puri.sm/posts/locked-in-a-remote-control-car/

If public health funds are subsidizing the research on new medicines, why are corporations still being allowed to use patents to monopolize production and increase their profits from distribution?

Intercepted: Big Pharma's Deadly Covid Vaccine Monopoly
https://play.acast.com/s/intercepted-with-jeremy-scahill/bigpharma-sdeadlycovidvaccinemonopoly

#podcast #PublicHealth #patents

Jonas Salk declined to patent his polio vaccine. "There is no patent," he said, "Could you patent the sun?"

Before there was IMDb, there was rec.arts.movies. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/05/enclosure-public-interest-internet

"Leading Deaf figures are supporting a new co-operative that is developing an online platform that they hope will “revolutionise” the booking of interpreters, “take control” from profit-making agencies and deliver “real and long-lasting social change”."

https://www.disabilitynewsservice.com/new-bsl-co-operative-could-transform-the-future-of-interpreting/

Rich people are, by and large, evil. If they weren't evil before getting rich, they become evil afterwards. That's because (as you know) power corrupts. Of course they don't think they're evil. They think they're "exceptional," "outstanding," or "heroic." An effective social democracy puts a cap on how evil they can be. And that's why they hate (real) social democracies, and government in general.

The meat industry is doing exactly what Big Oil does to fight climate action
https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/the-meat-industry-is-doing-exactly-what-big-oil-does-to-fight-climate-action/2021/05/14/831e14be-b3fe-11eb-ab43-bebddc5a0f65_story.html #climatechange #climatecrisis #leadonclimate

Hey teacher … how #SydBarrett’s artistic genius flowered at #school | Syd Barrett | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2021/may/16/hey-teacher-how-syd-barretts-artistic-genius-flowered-at-school

#PinkFloyd #History #Art

Made a bot that scrapes the Forbes list and puts billionaires on blast:

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@eatrich
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(Boosts would be appreciated)

Also - the very talented @CGanimated1227 helped with making a dictionary full of colorful adjectives describing the rich.

#EatTheRich
cc @subMedia

This is your regular reminder to join a union if you can
The union is the reason my employer #1 has to pay me for 4 hours work even when they only need 2.5 hours done, and then pay for my cab home if it’s scheduled to end past end of public transport hours.

Authoritarian regimes influence on agricultural soils, the coming sand crisis— a commodity of which huge amounts are traded globally, composting humans, Bill Gates owns more land in the USA than the Native American nations and more!

All in the Soil Network newsletter
https://www.soilcarenetwork.com/2021-april

How co-ops across the US weathered covid-19 by prioritizing their workers. Event (15 May) and report.

https://therealnews.com/how-co-ops-across-the-us-weathered-covid-19-by-prioritizing-their-workers

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/worker-co-ops-vs-covid-a-real-news-special-report-tickets-152892119445

We applaud President Biden's revocation of the “Executive Order on Preventing Online Censorship,” which threatened internet users’ ability to obtain truthful information online. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/05/president-biden-revokes-unconstitutional-executive-order-retaliating-against

Interesting article that directly compares Tesla's lock-in and remote control tactics to Apple's: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/05/14/tesla-apple-tech/

You hate how computers don't work? That's capitalism, hubris, skewed incentives and impatience on the part of us people who make the software and the people who tell those people what to make.

It affects proprietary software, corporate-driven open source and community-driven free software or cooperative software/technology, but in decreasing severity as you go toward the cooperative/free software end of the scale.

Proprietary software has anti-features, especially VC-driven or megacorp software. Cooperative software might have them, but only if it mistakenly copies them from proprietary software or if it needs to adapt to proprietary software. There is no incentive to add them otherwise.

Just fleshed this out a bit more at https://davelane.nz/aperitif