Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Looking at the concerns over the energy cost of Bitcoin mining... https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/saturday/audio/2018804363/dr-tara-shirvani-on-the-environmental-cost-of-crypto-we-have-to-find-solutions - why not do as Kim Stanley Robinson suggests in The Ministry for the Future and create a new crypto currency where a full coin is awarded for proven sequestration of each ton of carbon (or prorated values) instead. That'd reward, for example, oil producing countries and petro-chem corps for keeping their carbon in the ground.

If you want to support an musician, buy their album and go to their shows. If you want to support a writer, buy their book. Speaking from personal experience, subscription services that let you use content w/o buying it (like streaming), rips off creators. https://entertainment.slashdot.org/story/21/07/18/1922249/music-streaming-inquiry-finds-pitiful-returns-for-performers

One has to wonder where humanity would be now if not for the incredible retarding effect of organised religion and the dark age it perpetrated (and its continued influence against scientific thought). The religious establishment has so many injustices (beyond just stifling science) to answer for.

Huge data leak shatters the lie that the innocent need not fear surveillance https://www.theguardian.com/news/2021/jul/18/huge-data-leak-shatters-lie-innocent-need-not-fear-surveillance

It's strange that we are solving the problem that people use the same passwords everywhere, by replacing passwords with unrevokable biometrics, that *have* to be the same everywhere to work.

Debian bullseye reaches final milestone and is now fully frozen! https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2021/07/msg00002.html

A win for #union #democracy at the Teamsters Union! Woo hoo!

https://labornotes.org/2021/07/convention-no-other-teamster-challengers-turn-corner

I invested in The Drivers Cooperative (@TheDriversCoop@twitter.com) on @wefunder@twitter.com and you should too!

https://wefunder.com/driverscoop

My new article: "More Leisure Should Be Coupled With Making Leisure Better".

https://www.mutualinterest.coop/2021/07/more-leisure-should-be-coupled-with-making-leisure-better

Reductions in working hours should be combined with policies that enable and encourage people to use their spare time in ways that are beneficial to themselves and others, like exercising or editing Wikipedia.

We should also stop our obsession with measuring success with GDP and shareholder value.

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Even though it's a Friday, feeling despondent today listening to people invoking 'whataboutism' to justify doing frickin' nothing about their impact on our biosphere. As a result, we continue to accelerate towards a brick wall, and the most precious and vulnerable (life, not just humans) will be the first to suffer. Our institutions and gov'ts are not suited to dealing with this existential crisis. At best, they're deck chair-rearrangers.I'm struggling to see any cause for optimism.

"Many eyes make bugs shallow" doesn't apply to security bugs. You need the *right* eyes auditing the code. Until then, backdoors like this can hide in plain sight. https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/07/for-years-a-backdoor-in-popular-kiwisdr-product-gave-root-to-project-developer/

Means TV is offering a pay-what-you-can option, if $10/month is too steep for you. Now you can watch a #WorkerOwned streaming service for $0-9/month. It's enough to make a capitalist cry. Email CONTACT@MEANS.MEDIA for their sliding scale subscriptions.

https://means.tv

"From 2015 to 2019, #Iceland ran the world's largest trial of a shorter working week. An analysis of the results was finally published this week, and surprise! Everyone was happier, healthier, and more productive. Please pretend to be surprised."
https://mashable.com/article/iceland-four-day-work-week-trial

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How many strikes were there in 2020? Depends on who you ask: either 8 or >1,200...

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2021/07/bureau-of-labor-statistics-non-reporting-tallies-8-strikes-in-2020-versus-payday-reports-1200.html

Amazon rainforest now emitting more CO2 than it absorbs
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/jul/14/amazon-rainforest-now-emitting-more-co2-than-it-absorbs?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
#climatechange #climatecrisis #leadonclimate

Very good: just heard a proposed better name for people engaging in ransomware attacks: 'technical-debt collectors'. Oh snap! (h/t @menn0 and https://www.risky.biz/RB629/ at about 9min). To me, it seems fair to call them collectors of a special tax on organisations unable to control their own tech.

I googled that thing about how long medieval peasants worked, and one of the top results is some chode from the "Adam Smith Institute" getting butthurt about people learning about this

There has been an alarming increase in the use of unchecked high-tech tools that cops use to collect biometric records, photos, and videos of people in their communities, locate and track them via their cell phones, and purport to predict where crimes will be committed. https://t.co/tk0ONwmhCF

@vbd
Hey 😀

"It's all about money

Before it was barter"

apparently thats a widely held misconception.

You should have a look at Debt - its an epic book
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debt:_The_First_5000_Years

I'm more fond of doing stuff together than DIY

I think Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) farms are a move in the right direction

The German CSAs (solawi) operate in an interesting way
https://urgenci.net/another-food-system-is-possible/

In some solawi people 'pay' their share by doing a load of the growing / tending /cropping

The Facial Recognition and Biometric Technology Moratorium Act bans federal use of face surveillance and withholds some federal tax dollars from paying for it at the state and local level. Tell your elected officials now to co-sponsor this bill! https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/06/now-time-tell-congress-ban-federal-use-face-recognition