Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Congratulations to those in São Paulo who burned the statue of Borba Gato, a 17th-century perpetrator of colonial violence.

To quote our comrades in Brazil, "If monuments still honor slavers and rapists, it is because the system they built is still standing." Let's take it down.

https://cwc.im/statues

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#MastoTips #FediTips #Mastodon

‘Seriously ill’ young people in current #Covid-19 admissions, expert warns | #Coronavirus | The Guardian

What a good idea it was to drop all legal restrictions last Monday. Which bunch of libertarian idiots thought that one up, I wonder?

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jul/25/seriously-ill-young-people-in-current-covid-admissions-expert-warns

#Pandemic

Is anyone out there involved in a mutual aid tool sharing library, current or past? I'm talking with some folks about organizing one and we have some logistical questions. (please boost!)

I’m getting real sick of a certain small group hammering on the absolutely false assertion that criticizing Israel is always anti-Semitic. They’re relying on people conflating antisemitism couched in political analysis (which is indeed a thing that happens) with sober criticism

Given that my family fled the Holocaust, and I grew up with those stories and lessons, I am very aware that antisemitism is a real thing and a serious problem. But:

It’s not antisemitic (or even “anti-Israel”) to have a problem with how the Israeli State is conducting its affairs

It’s not antisemitic to call out Israel’s apartheid policies or the need for the Palestinian people to be treated justly

Calling all cooperators with as security background: our I-D "Channel Bindings for TLS 1.3" could use your final reviews! https://opencollective.com/mellium/updates/security-reviews-of-channel-bindings-for-tls-1-3-i-d-needed

Plans of four #G20 states are threat to global #climate pledge, warn scientists | #ClimatChange | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/jul/25/plans-of-four-g20-states-are-threat-to-global-climate-pledge-warn-scientists

#Environment #GlobalWarming #China #Australia #Brazil #Russia

I'm sadly unsurprised that the striking miners in AL & KY have gotten very little acknowledgement from the so-called left. They're rural, they work in a polluting industry, they probably watch NASCAR, and look they might have voted for Trump...so fuck 'em, amiright?

The difference in coverage between the Warrior Met strike and the Amazon union drive is, to my mind, very telling. Amazon is hip, coal mining not so much...& we wonder why we're so politically impotent, smh.

Online Community Governance: Six Case Studies
Howard Rheingold on Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/posts/online-community-47388851

Interesting post, includes a list of tools at the end.

Well, looks like I'm going to try organizing a housing co-op. If all goes well, it will be co-located with a kombucha worker co-op I helped some friends start. Feeling a little nervous...and excited. Wish us luck.

@GuerillaOntologist

Give a shout to the Chair of Sanford Housing Co-op.

They're always happy to share about the problems that they had, and, how they fixed them. :D

https://sanford.coop/ :D

That’s why the U.S. needs comprehensive data privacy regulation more than ever. This kind of abuse is not inevitable, and it must not become the norm. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/06/effs-recommendations-consumer-data-privacy-laws

Another piece of the puzzle is the ad ID, another so-called “anonymous" label that identifies a device. Apps share ad IDs with third parties, and an entire industry of “identity resolution” companies can readily link ad IDs to real people at scale. https://www.vice.com/en/article/epnmvz/industry-unmasks-at-scale-maid-to-pii

In particular, there’s no such thing as “anonymous” location data. Datapoints like one’s home or workplace are identifiers themselves, and a malicious observer can connect movements to these and other destinations. In this case, that includes gay bars and private residences.

The fact that so many people (most recently Jen Psaki in talking about Bezo's ride on the cock-rocket) still use the term "American exceptionalism" -- and appear to actually believe that the US is exceptional (like, in a good way) -- is proof positive to me that I live in a country that is ruled by sociopathic nut-jobs. The fact that they have (D) behind their name and they pay lip-service to anti-racism does absolutely nothing to make that fact more palatable.

Libadwaita 1.0.0-alpha.2 is out!

It comes with a brand new flat and stylesheet whose accent color is settable by the app devs! 🌈

See our alpha.1→alpha.2 guide: https://gnome.pages.gitlab.gnome.org/libadwaita/doc/main/migrating-between-development-versions.html

Or start porting from GTK 3 and libhandy: https://gnome.pages.gitlab.gnome.org/libadwaita/doc/main/migrating-libhandy-1-4-to-libadwaita.html

Trying to find scholarly papers on the fragility of software monocultures... there were a few early papers that pointed out the huge vulnerability of massive institutional networks (e.g. the UK's NHS, brought to its knees by Wannacry!), and then there's a huge glut of papers saying that "monoculture's aren't necessarily the problem"... with authors from/ funded by the Microsoft Corporation... they've successfully clouded the waters to neutralise this attack vector on their global dominance.

Tired: Akamai brings down half of the Internet with their outage.

Wired: Federated applications (like @Mastodon) and distributed ones (like @matrix) chug along without a flinch.

you know folks in Baltimore keep giving me advice about mugging to which I say - friend, I don't go anywhere with anything I would be sad about losing or if that thing exists it's a book.
No one is mugging me for the hot new Hegelian take on neoliberalism, but to the mugger who would - I salute you.

What could possibly go wrong? https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2021/07/18/bill-gates-soros-join-buyout-uk-covid-testing-company/