Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

“A research study in 2005 by Centro Gumilla, a #Jesuit Center, found that 80 percent of the #cooperatives that function in #Venezuela did not receive any financial support from the government. This is a situation where receiving money from the government seems to have a detrimental effect on the strength and determination of the cooperative workers.”

https://venezuelanalysis.com/analysis/11034

PureOS 10 is our latest OS release and is shipping on Librem 14s and Librem Minis today, and will ship on Librem 5s in the future. Find out what's new about PureOS 10 including convergence and container features in this post: https://puri.sm/posts/whats-new-in-pureos-10/

In case you're wondering how Freenode is doing, just take a look at their latest policy update:

https://github.com/freenode/web-7.0/pull/513/files#diff-0e382b024f696a3b7a0ff3bce24ae3166cc6f383d059c7cc61e0a3ccdeed522cL87

In other news, if you enjoy political, racial, ethnic, religious or gender-related invectives, Freenode is now the network of your choice! 😬

WAT?! You're telling me there has been a team at Facebook designing and implementing this feature, and not one person has stood up and asked:

"Uhm, isn't that super creepy, even for us?"

One more reason why we can't have nice things:

https://labornotes.org/2021/05/breaking-draft-legislation-new-york-would-put-gig-workers-toothless-unions

We are proud that mobian developer kop316 has now gone for a real fork of the unmaintained mmsd and will be trying to get it into Debian. Also @purism will be using his code on the Librem5. It goes both ways! This will hopefully become the basis for The Next Generation of mmsd:
https://gitlab.com/kop316/mmsd

G7 commits to end support for coal-fired power stations this year | Euronews
https://www.euronews.com/2021/05/21/g7-commits-to-end-support-for-coal-fired-power-stations-this-year #climatechange #climatecrisis #leadonclimate

Could the 125 million members strong US credit union movement reprogram the economy through data coops?

Alex Pentland, one of the most cited computer scientists in the world believes they could.

My article:

"One of the world’s most cited computer scientists wants cooperatives to be the future of how data is owned"

On Mutual Interest, a free online media #coop owned by readers & writers.

https://www.mutualinterest.coop/2021/05/one-of-the-worlds-most-cited-computer-scientists-wants-cooperatives-to-be-the-future-of-how-data-is-owned

Join Mutual Interest and become a member-owner here:

https://opencollective.com/mutual-interest-media

Richest nations agree to end support for #coal #production overseas | Coal | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/may/21/richest-nations-agree-to-end-support-for-coal-production-overseas

#Environment #GlobalWarming #ClimateChange #FossilFuels #GreenhouseGases #Emissions #Pollution

Over an 18-month period, Landmark Technology sent identical demand letters to 1,176 small businesses around the U.S., demanding $65,000 for running basic e-commerce websites. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/05/washington-state-has-sued-patent-troll-violating-consumer-protection-laws

Redditors Launch A 'Rescue Mission' For Embattled Sci-Hub, With The Ultimate Aim Of Building A Decentralized Version - https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20210519/06365746826/redditors-launch-rescue-mission-embattled-sci-hub-with-ultimate-aim-building-decentralized-version.shtml help needed...