Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

The audience award of this year's #BigBrotherAwards goes to … #Doctolib for their appointment scheduling portal for medical doctors which leaks personal information to third parties, breaking patient–doctor confidentiality.
Full laudation: https://bigbrotherawards.de/en/2021/health-doctolib

It is closely followed by #Google who received the award in the new #WhatMakesMeReallyAngry category for recently exposed large-scale manipulations of the Internet #adtech market, for starving creators and the media, and for dispossessing our digital personalities.
Full laudation: https://bigbrotherawards.de/en/2021/what-really-makes-me-angry-google
#BBA21

I've been saying for awhile now that anything that can be weaponized, will be weaponized...

"FROM: BLACK ANONYMOUS

TO: 6.12.2021 Summit for Accountability in Social Justice Movements.

RE: TIMELINE & ANALYSIS"

https://abolitionjournal.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/Black-Anonymous.-_Timeline_-6.12.2021-Summit-for-Accountability-in-Social-Justice-Movements.docx.pdf

Meanwhile, so many aspects of cities government and law enforcement were intentionally designed to prevent labor unrest.

For a long time I thought it was just kind of sad and unfortunate that property taxes and similar create massive barriers to subsistence living. What I'm starting to learn is that a lot of the policies that make it harder to create alternative societies were intentionally designed to dismantle the alternative societies that existed in North America before Europeans arrived with their own ideas about land ownership, labor, and virtue.

Setting down some partially developed ideas here. Others are welcome to play with them. (Boosts are okay!)

Last night I listened to this interview with criminal justice scholar Emily Brissette, about Occupy Oakland: <https://kpfa.org/episode/against-the-grain-june-9-2021/>

The focus of the conversation is on the use of Stay-Away orders by the city, to keep specific Occupy activists away from certain public spaces, in an effort to dismantle the movement, but there's also some really interesting discussion of alternative viewpoints on what Occupy Oakland was trying to do.

As I understand it, Emily Brissette takes issue with the view put forward by the ACLU and others (in an effort to defend Occupy), that what Occupy was engaged in, through actions such as provision of free meals and first aid in public space, was a case of free speech. She particularly objects to the idea that Occupy Oakland's goal was to change state policy.

"Fosshost discontinues partnership with freenode"

No one blames you for receiving a donation from Andrew Lee. If you turn the entire thing into one huge PR stunt however, it becomes hard to believe that it's just another donation of purely philanthropic nature.

Take the money, say thank you privately. There's no need to have a press release and announce a partnership.

https://fosshost.org/news/freenode-partnership-to-be-discontinued

The California legislature has been handed what might be their easiest job this year, and they are refusing to do it. Speak up today before the legislature decides to give in to big telcos and leaves $7b for public broadband sitting on the table. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/06/1000-californians-have-asked-their-representatives-fix-our-broken-broadband-system

Webinar Series: Cooperating to Enhance Native American Food Economies

https://www.cdf.coop/native-american-food-economies

So #debian 11.0 #bullseye has a tentative release date of July 31. On June 17 we will have a confirmed release date.

https://lists.debian.org/debian-release/2021/06/msg00199.html

Landmark Report Links Earth’s 2 Biggest Existential Threats for the First Time
https://gizmodo.com/landmark-report-links-earth-s-2-biggest-existential-thr-1847067725 #climatechange #climatecrisis #leadonclimate #extinction