Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Some good stuff in this interview with cooperator and attorney Neil Helfman #WorkerCoops

"...worker cooperatives are paying money into the unemployment insurance fund and have no possibility of ever collecting. So what do we do?"

https://geo.coop/articles/labor-law-co-ops-and-innovation

copied from the Union-Coop Council listserv: "For anyone who is an REI member, consider adding your voice to these threads in the Co-op Members section of the REI website. There may be other threads, these are just the ones I found:
https://www.rei.com/conversations/ask-an-rei-employee/soho-union-drive/td-p/48340
https://www.rei.com/conversations/new-york-city/labor-rights-for-our-awesome-rei-employees/td-p/48363

One person in the thread recommended that REI members email the Board of Directors at board@rei.com and let them know as a member that you:
" #unioncoops #cooperative #rei

The first Union Coops Council call of the year is on their calendar for Friday, February 11 at 1800 UTC! We'll be hearing from Rebecca Lurie about the Union Coops Council toolkit, having some space for discussion. Register here and/or look out for attendance information coming on the listserv later on. Union Coops Council Feb 11 Registration Link: https://info.usworker.coop/civicrm/event/info?reset=1&id=541#cooperatives #unioncoops

#TerryPratchett estate backs Jack Monroe’s idea for #VimesBoots #poverty index | #Books | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/jan/26/terry-pratchett-jack-monroe-vimes-boots-poverty-index

Excellent reporting today from #ProPublica as #DataPrivacyWeek continues. From the author:

"Companies are leaving so much data exposed online with little or no security that stealing sensitive personal info is becoming the equivalent of grabbing jewels from the seat of an unlocked car in a high-crime neighborhood."

#privacy #infosec #cybersecurity

https://www.propublica.org/article/identity-theft-surged-during-the-pandemic-heres-where-a-lot-of-the-stolen-data-came-from

The US Federation of Worker Co-ops weighs in on the REI unionization attempt in NYC: https://www.usworker.coop/blog/co-ops-and-labor-unions-work-hand-in-hand-usfwc-supports-rei-workers-right-to-unionize/

Politico: Microsoft heads for second big EU showdown.
https://www.politico.eu/article/microsoft-activision-eu-showdown-video-game/ Microsoft has over the past years reappeared on the radar of EU antitrust officials following complaints from communications platform Slack and German file-hosting service Nextcloud

EU to fund bug bounty programs for LibreOffice, Mastodon, three others https://therecord.media/eu-to-fund-bug-bounty-programs-for-libreoffice-mastodon-three-others/

This is why I'm so supportive of 3rd party services like #Mycroft. This app isn't even required. It's a shortcut, and it still has a billion installs. Google listens to billions of people, all the time. The amount of data this allows them to gather on everyone, not just users of their devices, is unfathomable.

https://www.androidpolice.com/google-assistant-app-installs-double-to-1-billion-in-just-7-months/

I'm proud to announce the release of #Squeekboard 1.16.0 . Squeekboard is part of the #phosh shell originally built for the #Librem5

https://gitlab.gnome.org/World/Phosh/squeekboard/-/merge_requests/522

Copyleft trolling • Greedy lawyers exploit a foible of Creative Commons licensing to demand payments. Absolute bad faith, the exact opposite of what CC is about. https://doctorow.medium.com/a-bug-in-early-creative-commons-licenses-has-enabled-a-new-breed-of-superpredator-5f6360713299 #linkblog #licensingcopyrightcopyleftcreativecommonslegaltootme

phosh 0.15.0 is out 🚀 :

More improvements for every day use: Swipe notification frames, initial VPN support (indicator, authentication and quick setting), support for non-numeric password, first parts of a style refresh and more.

Check out the full release notes https://gitlab.gnome.org/World/Phosh/phosh/-/tags/v0.15.0 for details.

#phosh #librem5 #purism #gnome #linux #mobile

From the Digital Fourth:
About Fusion Centers and your data/information.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eHhmXYYluls

Low volume at the start but gets better. crank the volume when Emma, the first speaker starts.

The UK government's new ad campaign makes a ridiculous assertion: that privacy is just a cover for criminality. No one is buying it. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/01/uk-paid-724000-creepy-campaign-convince-people-encryption-bad-it-wont-work

Eight Bills Construct an Authoritarian Legal Infrastructure
https://bylinetimes.com/2022/01/24/enabling-acts-citizenship-of-quarter-of-britons-at-risk-as-conservatives-construct-an-authoritarian-legal-infrastructure/

"the state and the private interests with which it is entwined will have newfound powers to limit and control politics, education, media, culture, and health – while being capable of deploying covert political violence to silence dissent."

The East Bay Permanent Real Estate #Cooperative is hiring a Co-ownership and Education Facilitator.

https://ebprec.org/blog/hiringcoownershipfacilitator

@GuerillaOntologist @bhaugen @datatitian @Matt_Noyes @ntnsndr @aral @Framasoft @tierra_comun

CommunityBridge.com offers free BBB video chat rooms and there is US dial-in capability. We help by offering tech support but it is rarely needed as the interface is clear and zoom-ish https://communitybridge.com/faq
easy to get a dedicated room up https://communitybridge.com/hosting

@bhaugen
Welcome to Global Rebirth Group on Signal: https://stevebosserman.micro.blog/2022/01/23/signal-membership.html

The Appalachian Staple Foods Collaborative is interesting to me as it overlaps with what we are trying to build (a CSA for staples and other produce that stores well)
The combination of ag production, IT skills and alternative economics made me think of you. But maybe you are already aware?
This also from Steve gives further overview https://greeneracresvaluenetwork.wordpress.com/
Doesnt look like @steveb is very active on Mastodon

@bhaugen @bonfire @lynnfoster @disco_coop @GuerillaOntologist @datatitian @ntnsndr @aral @FreeScholar @Framasoft @tierra_comun

1) I will copy and paste all of these toots, since there is good material here.
2) Case in point - look at the required skills... https://www.idealist.org/en/consultant-job/b3e6a8f3f19d4fbab456fb07e73f4e03-project-coordinator-upside-down-consulting-llc-chicago

CommunityBridge.com - Privacy Workshop: Intro to Basic Security Tools
How to Check what information is coming in and out of a system, using netstat, tcpdump and nmap
Join us at 3pm - Wednesday the 26th of January
See more detail here https://communitybridge.com/privacyworkshop