Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

I am sick and tired of people thinking being a "businessman" in any way qualifies you to be a public servant.

Councils and governments ARE NOT BUSINESSES that should be run for profit. They are there to serve the public and provide services.

@lightweight Chomsky commented about why funding goes to fighter jets, nukes. No one knows how much they should cost so it's easy to run political machines off them. Money for local infrastructure would have a lot more knowledgeable people paying attention to the graft? The regime here loves cementing and damming rivers but can't make sidewalks nice for all the electric wheelchair old people. My guess is that it's the same dynamic. Unnecessary tunnels keep democracy at bay and the corps rich.

Looks like ol' Martin finally found his people -- the place where his particular skill-set and outlook on life are appreciated, and rewarded, instead of reviled and punished.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-08-12/crypto-plunge-pharma-bro-shkreli-s-coin-drops-more-than-90

Nuclear or not, classified or not, #Mar-a-Lago files spell out jeopardy for #Trump | #DonaldTrump | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/aug/13/nuclear-or-not-classified-or-not-mar-a-lago-files-spell-out-jeopardy-for-trump

#US #Politics #Law

RT @CarolineLucas@twitter.com

Privatised water firms are screwing us over & compounding #ClimateCrisis. £72bn dividends for shareholders - rest of us get water leaks, under-investment & raw sewage. If now's not time to bring water back into public hands, when is?

Me for @guardian@twitter.com 👇

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/aug/12/drought-uk-england-privatised-water-climate-emergency-government

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/CarolineLucas/status/1558110163395026945

Any artist (preferably involved with the coop movement) who would be interested in drawing this for me?

The concept would be the same, but I would need to make a few versions with different texts.

Working on a project on how coops can resolve conflicts of interest in referral marketing.

I will prioritise those who have the time to do it asap.

Will pay.

What crazy thing will we be asked to believe today? What part of the recent past will we be asked to forget? 👇

https://scheerpost.com/2022/08/11/patrick-lawrence-so-far-as-i-can-make-out/

Better a late announcement than no announcement:

Calls 43.beta.0 got released a couple of days ago

you can read more ⬇️
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/calls/-/tags/v43_beta.0

@purism #gnome #mobile #foss #mobilelinux #debian

Cars continue to copy the smartphone business model, now have mandatory pre-installed services and apps (and the tracking that comes with them): #privacy https://www.thedrive.com/news/gm-makes-1500-onstar-subscription-mandatory-on-gmc-buick-cadillac-models

The platform coop movement should create cooperative alternatives to capitalist platforms. Perhaps more importantly, it should also create cooperative platforms that capitalists cannot provide an alternative to.

Wikipedia is a non-profit with democratic user governance similar to a cooperative and without any competing alternatives. Despite being one of the most popular websites in the world, there is no venture capital flowing to start-ups that seek to “disrupt Wikipedia” by replacing it.

#Meta injecting code into #websites visited by its users to track them, research says | Meta | The Guardian

Probably not news to many here.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/aug/11/meta-injecting-code-into-websites-visited-by-its-users-to-track-them-research-says

#Facebook #Instagram #SurveillanceCapitalism

This is why I can't take national politics seriously. We're given things that are practically indistinguishable from nothing, and told that we should celebrate.

It insulting, frankly, & I'm sick of it. And what's really disappointing is how many people seem to be happy to play along & pretend that their political party of choice is actually legitimately concerned about making the 🌍 a better place (rather than just raking n as much 💰 as possible). smh.

In 2003 I lobbied on the hill with Consumer Fed. of Amer. trying to convince Congress not to include a "we will never negotiate for a better deal with drug companies" clause in Medicare Part D. We were not successful (maybe we should have brought some briefcases filled with cash).

20 years later, we're being told that allowing CMS to negotiate on the prices of 10 whole drugs (and not until 4 years from now) is some kind of victory.

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2022/08/the-ira-drug-price-victory.html

EN:
Only 10 Days left until the next #FrOSCon starts and we need YOU.
Register at https://helfer.froscon.org/ and book some shifts.
#FrOSCon woulnd't be the same without you.

"...all you have to do is look at the sluggish recovery of Western Kentucky after the devastating tornadoes of last year and observe for yourself: rebuilding is just the hot new buzzword for running out the clock until the next disaster hits—at which point you can start the same cycle all over again."

https://thebaffler.com/latest/flooding-in-the-sacrifice-zone-ray

4th Euro heatwave, by the looks of it

TIL that Malaysia has a "Special Task Force on Jihad Against Inflation." (and check out that shirt on Minister Musa)

https://www.malaymail.com/news/malaysia/2022/08/06/cooperatives-can-be-used-as-medium-to-fight-middlemen-minister-says-in-fight-against-inflation/21450

Meanwhile, US Federal Reserve has announced the convening of the "Committee on Continuing the Beatings Until Moral Improves"...

ICYMI: #Twitter exposed phone numbers linked to 5,000,000 accounts #privacy

https://privacy.twitter.com/en/blog/2022/an-issue-affecting-some-anonymous-accounts