Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

☘️ #OpenSource friends: Come join us (virtually!) In Ireland to learn about #FLOSS in Government. My colleague Sherman will be speaking about our latest project GovStsck, and many other experts! 11 Nov at 1:30pm IST.

https://www.openirelandnetwork.com/events/open-source-in-government/

Join Electronic Frontier Alliance member @STOPSpyingNY next week for a discussion with labor organizers from @forrespect and @MaketheRoadNY on resistance to worker surveillance. https://www.eff.org/event/stop-x-radtech-worker-surveillance-age-covid

Feel like lack of awareness if overestimated as an explanation for why so few coops exist.

The US has less worker coops than Finland, even though US has 60x more population. I bet there is at least 10x more people in the US aware of worker coops.

Just looking at the huge variation in coop creation rates between areas, doubt lack of awareness is a key factor here.

Of course, its a problem and no one is saying that its everything. BUT it seems to be most cited reason by coop enthusiasts.

Worker-owners share more than a business. At #WorkerCoopWeek we’ll be sharing experiences, best practices, skills, resources and more. Share the virtual space with us by registering at conference.coop
#SharedProsperity

Does #copyright give companies the right to search your home and computer? - https://walledculture.org/does-copyright-give-companies-the-right-to-search-your-home-and-computer/

‘Super polluters’: the top 10 #publishers denying the #ClimateCrisis on #Facebook | #Technology | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/nov/02/super-polluters-the-top-10-publishers-denying-the-climate-crisis-on-facebook

#Misinformation #Disinformation #Propaganda

The Finnish public library system has a streaming service similar to Netflix. You can use it for free with your library card.

https://kirjastokino.fi/fi/

Following the #CarrieBourassa "Pretendian" controversy? Check out our interview with Tawinikay addressing questions of blood, kinship and race-shifting from an indigenous anarchist perspective.
https://fromembers.libsyn.com/settlers-on-the-red-road

@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