Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Billionaire claims to know how to help poor people. Fails miserably. No one surprised.

https://usrtk.org/bill-gates-food-tracker/gates-foundation-agriculture-project-in-africa-flunks-review/

The Safe Connections Act has passed the Senate. Tell your House Representative to support this common sense bill to help survivors of domestic abuse remove their cell phone plan and information from the control of abusers. https://act.eff.org/action/tell-congress-to-pass-the-safe-connections-act-and-make-it-easier-for-survivors-to-escape-domestic-violence

Someone posted on Nextdoor asking for recommendations for dentists who would take new Medicaid patients. There followed half a dozen or so recommendations for individual dentists as well as for the public clinic, and then two days later, the OP came back with this:

📣 A new issue of #ThisWeekInGNOME is now online!

#35 Software Reviews
https://thisweek.gnome.org/posts/2022/03/twig-35/

#GNOME #TWIG

Google will be sunsetting the current version of #GoogleAnalytics and will move to #Google Analytics v4, which will stop storing IP addresses.

Don’t be fooled: nowadays IPs are less relevant than other metrics collected (think of #Apple Relay or wider #VPN usage worldwide).

#privacyMatters #privacy

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