Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

@anarchistbicycleclub

Troy Vettese has an answer for this: https://kpfa.org/episode/against-the-grain-may-6-2020/

It has to do with consolidation of power by factory owners. Because of course it does.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/oct/21/farmers-dont-have-to-contribute-to-the-environmental-crisis-we-can-solve-it
Quote:
"We also need to think about less and better livestock. As a farmer I produce meat and cheese from cows and sheep that graze beneath the apple trees in my orchard on diverse, carbon-sequestering grasslands. Livestock plays an important role in traditional land management, but there is no doubt that we must produce less intensively and stop eating factory-farmed meat completely if we are to halt the destruction of Earth’s ecosystems."

via @localfutures_

This worker's perspective analysis of the problems with the U.S. shipping supply chain is really alarming: https://medium.com/@ryan79z28/im-a-twenty-year-truck-driver-i-will-tell-you-why-america-s-shipping-crisis-will-not-end-bbe0ebac6a91

I wonder what capacity there is for labor organizing and government intervention to fix any of this. It's a clear case where capitalism is not merely being evil but completely falling on its face. But can we fix it?

In 2020, the EU led the world in reining in Big Tech with the excellent proposals in the #DigitalServicesAct. Today, EU lawmakers are turning the DSA into a regime where US tech platforms’ algorithms decide when and how Europeans may express themselves.
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/10/europes-digital-services-act-collision-course-human-rights-0

find paper. click button. read paper. have paper. auto-update .bib-liographies. share annotations. talk. build knowledge together. remember this is the floor of what's possible, constantly crushed by information monopolies. wonder why it has to be so hard, how we become complicit

End-to-end encryption is what makes a digital message truly private, read only by its intended recipient. https://ssd.eff.org/en/node/50

The net-zero pledges are dubious. Burning fossil fuels for economic growth remains the priority
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/commentary/article-the-net-zero-pledges-are-dubious-burning-fossil-fuels-for-economic/ #COP26 #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #LeadOnClimate

Student's shouldn't be trapped by a system of automatic textbook billing. They deserve the quality and freedom of Open Educational Resources. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/10/inequitable-access-anti-competitive-scheme-textbook-publishers

@tickfoot @gardening

One potentially important factor is that commercial broccoli is most likely grown in monoculture, which increases the susceptibility to both microbes and insects. One way that plants defend themselves from attack is by mobilizing valuable resources (including the nitrogen in chlorophyll) to move them out of threatened tissue and ensure that the plant can continue to invest them in further growth. Organic broccoli grown in field conditions is going to have particularly high risk of pest and pathogen exposure because the farmers will have fewer chemical tools for fighting off an attack. Broccoli grown at home has the advantage of being surrounded by only a few conspecific plants.

Capitalism is killing the planet – it’s time to stop buying into our own destruction
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/oct/30/capitalism-is-killing-the-planet-its-time-to-stop-buying-into-our-own-destruction?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other #COP26 #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #LeadOnClimate #Let’sGetReal

The latest DMCA 1201 exemptions mostly improve previous exemptions and represent a victory for security research, accessibility, education, preservation, and repair. However, Congress should do away with this unnecessary and harmful law altogether. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/10/copyright-regulator-eases-restrictions-research-education-and-repair-0

For #OpenAccessWeek, we highlight a project from the @internetarchive that is doing extraordinary work promoting access to knowledge. The bad news: that project is also under legal threat. The good news: the Archive is fighting back. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/10/internet-archive-transforms-access-books-digital-world

Important and useful article.

""Peer review, especially when conducted at pandemic speed, does not exert the rather boring scientific scrutiny needed to identify the problems described above. Forensic work like ours is not organized by scientific journals. We do not get paid. We are not employed by universities, hired by governments, or supported by private money to do this. We do it because we feel it should be done."

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2021/10/ivermectin-research-problems/620473/

Are you aware of the Indigenous-led protests outside the White House that have been occurring daily since Indigenous Peoples Day on the 11th? There's been more than 400 arrests, some violence from police, but in asking folk, I realized literally no one around me knows that there's essentially an Indigenous-led, climate-focused, Occupy, in DC, right now.

Thought of the moment:
I'm frustrated with Joe Manchin too, but he is *not* single-handedly ruining U.S. climate policy. He has the help of 50 Republican Senators for one thing, and that's just the Senate. There's also all the institutions that funded the political campaigns of those Senators, all the people who voted for those Senators, and I'm pretty sure a bunch of people in the military industrial complex. There's plenty of blame to go around.

https://going-medieval.com/2021/10/28/on-looking-in-the-past-for-a-better-future%ef%bf%bc/

Leftist medieval historian describes two times that free peasants formed self-sufficient communes with no class hierarchy, one of which lasted longer than the United States has existed. Both only failed when the landlord class decided it wasn't right for there to be land with no lords and invaded with armies, and even then one of the collectives held out for a very, very long time.

Global Money Laundering Watchdog Says Uh, Yeah, Better Regulate Cryptocurrency
https://gizmodo.com/global-money-laundering-watchdog-says-uh-yeah-better-1847956545 #Cryptocurrency

Exploding digital textbooks don't belong on your tuition bill. #OAWeek https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/10/inequitable-access-anti-competitive-scheme-textbook-publishers

Protect developer freedom. Abolish software patents. Learn why software patents are unjust by checking out the new design of our #endsoftwarepatents initiative. https://u.fsf.org/3f-

Test the new PureBoot feature that extend the tamper detection to the next level. Existing PureBoot users can download the R19-pre1 .rom file that corresponds to their Librem computer and flash it like any other PureBoot release. More here ➡️ https://puri.sm/posts/new-pureboot-feature-scanning-root-for-tampering/