Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

This is an interesting case study on some #cooperatives in Georgia (the country, not the US state), their (limited) success, and the financially unsustainable state they are in now (and will remain in) without third party subsidies, or changes to financing laws. 🇬🇪

https://energy-democracy.net/cooperatives-promote-gender-equality-and-combat-energy-poverty-in-rural-georgia/

Looks like the Dill Pickle Co-op has filed a complaint against the IWW with the NLRB for bad faith negotiating.

https://www.nlrb.gov/case/13-CB-292140

If you're concerned about inclusiveness in finance, crypto is not the way to achieve it.

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2022/03/progressives-fall-for-crypto-bros-intelligence-insulting-claim-of-inclusiveness.html

Has anybody checked in on the Humboldt Sheriff’s Department in California? In response to a records request, it redacted its own press releases from years earlier. We’re concerned on so many levels. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/03/foilies-2022#humboldt

NEWS: We are launching Librem SIMple, an affordable cellular plan that protects your privacy 🎉 https://puri.sm/posts/announcing-librem-simple-an-affordable-cellular-plan-that-protects-your-privacy/

When your white supremacist document invalidates the very existence of your white supremacist state.

374 Ratified Indian Treaties now available online: digitreaties.org

#LandBack

#solarpunk

A win on the US healthcare front, for once.

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2022/03/eileen-appelbaum-and-rosemary-batt-score-important-win-against-private-equity-as-surprise-billing-laws-slam-kkr-grifter-envision-healthcare.html

New Hampshire courts thought the name of a law enforcement vendor was so secret, they tripped over themselves keeping it out of the public record. We found the company’s name with a Google search. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/03/foilies-2022#concord https://t.co/oMo0RHny50

With $1.158M, you could buy oceanfront property in Florida. Or you could pay the Pasco County Sheriff’s Department—this year’s winner of highest fee estimate—to produce records about a controversial policing program. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/03/foilies-2022#pasco

*sigh* yesterday I saw that a young band I was really impressed with have allowed one of their songs to be used by Microsoft to advertise the "Surface"... Too bad. Sorta ruins their music for me. :(

Don’t ask forgiveness, radiate intent - Elizabeth Ayer: https://scribe.rip/@ElizAyer/dont-ask-forgiveness-radiate-intent-d36fd22393a3 (Medium via Scribe)