Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

🕵🏽 "The Rise of Luxury #Surveillance isn’t just imposed on people: Many of us buy into it willingly.

💬 "Taken as a whole, the #Amazon suite of consumer products threatens to turn every home into a fun-house-mirror version of a fulfillment center. Ultimately, we may be managed as consumers the way the company currently manages its workers—the only difference being that customers will pay for the privilege."

#SurveillanceCapitalism #privacy

More from "The Atlantic":

https://web.archive.org/web/20221108180524/https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2022/10/amazon-tracking-devices-surveillance-state/671772/

Yesterday I posted about how SPD swept a squatted mutual aid station in #Seattle at Cal Anderson Park that has been assisting unhoused folks for weeks. In response to this sweep, community members went to the nearby East Precinct later that night, threw a couple dozen bags of garbage they had collected from around the park over the fortified wall around the precinct, and then molotov'd it before quickly dispersing. This message was left in their wake. #StopTheSweeps #SweepThis #FTP #ACAB #1312

Please boost

Which #universities are on #Mastodon / Fediverse?
Welche #Universitäten sind im #Fediverse?

Official:
• @unihohenheim Uni #Hohenheim, #Germany
• @unijena Uni #Jena, Germany

Own server:
• https://mastodon.utwente.nl/about @utwente #UTwente, #Netherlands
• https://metu.life/about/ @Tuan #Metu, #Turkey
• https://mastodon.mit.edu/about @maxj @dukhovni #MIT, #USA
• https://mastodon.ocf.berkeley.edu/about @staff UC #Berkeley, USA

Students’ Committee:
• @astatu #AStA #TUBerlin #Berlin, Germany.

Any missing?

Well, people who want to criminalise trans children are winning political power, but at least US leftists didn't have to compromise their values by participating in a corrupt process.

This viewpoint is uniquely american. Y'all have been played by propaganda, which you'll defend to the death before examining critically the effects of your (in)action.

In like every other country, anarchists vote. Not because they believe liberal nonsense, but to mitigate harm and give themselves the best possible footing on which to fight for a better world. That's what people do when they care about winning rather than about posing or about their precious purity.

(Yes I know, this is actually the fault of people who voted republican, but those people usually aren't pretending to be on my side while discouraging my allies from trying to mitigate harm.)

Turns out that Mastodon instances are seeing a major uptick in system requirements even if their user numbers haven't gone up much, just due to the massive spike in Fediverse activity in the past week or so. Also turns out it's easy to increase the capabilities of a Docker-based Mastodon instance like the 4 I run (hadn't had to confront that sort of problem previously!). I'll write something up about it on https://tech.oeru.org...

I would love to support Māori to set up dedicated instances; digital marae where you are in charge of the kawa and kaitiakitanga of your own data. You decide who can speak in the wharenui (join the instance) and on the marae atea (Federated timeline). You can even host an instance on a computer in your rohe if you want to. Not something you can do with Titter or TikTak ;)

#MāoriTwits #MaoriTwits #Maori #Māori

A Boston area organization that a friend of mine have helped incubate and launch is seeking a contract community organizer who lives in the Boston area.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/11S52QZbur-MjZzPxUXFo5bcisN5nzkMrK0jcZcBvEIQ/edit

Spread the word?

Hello Mastodon!

Small #introduction: Home Assistant is a free and open-source software for home automation designed to be a central control system for smart home devices with a focus on local control and privacy.

Powered by a worldwide community of tinkerers and DIY enthusiasts, Home Assistant integrates with over a thousand different devices and services.

For more information, check out our website at https://www.home-assistant.io/

#homeassistant #openhome #homeautomation

I wonder if this service named after the great confession of Bertie Wooster’s: “As a rule, you see, I'm not lugged into Family Rows. On the occasions when Aunt is calling Aunt like mastodons bellowing across premieval swamps … the clan has a tendency to ignore me.”

#introduction - now that you've untied yourself from the bird site with their algorithms and bots, how about doing that with your desktop? @gnome and @kde are here to replace your proprietary option with the same sense of community and thought that went into mastodon!
#gnome #kde #FreeSoftware #LinuxApps #linux

618 Users (Contributors), 300 Locations (in 10 countries) and 206 Experiences in Agroecology

Agroecology Map is an independent Open (and Free) Platform that aims to map initiatives in Agroecology (Agroforestry and Permaculture) to help bring them together. #Agroecology #Agroforestry

So I decided not to do any interviews regarding my Elon musk beef. I feel my work there is done. 💅

👇WORKSHOP DETAILS 👇

(please booooost!)

🗓 This SUNDAY November 13th at 11am ET we're presenting our workshop "Alternative Social Media for Anarchists - An Anarchist Introduction to the Fediverse"

The workshop is ONLINE on zoom, as part of the Boston Anarchist Bookfair: https://bostonanarchistbookfair.org/2022-workshops/

🤓 First we will explain what the Fediverse is, how it works, and why anarchists should embrace it.

Then we will invite participants to register for an account at an instance and do a guided walkthrough/tutorial of how to use Mastodon! 🐘🤔

Please BOOST! 🗣 and share far and wide both on and off Fedi. This will be a great way for new or curious users to understand the Fediverse and how to get started on here! It will be a very nice and safe hand holding workshop! If you just got here and are lost and confused, come! And bring a friend who is curious!

✅ You need to register in advance with the bookfair to get a link to the zoom on Sunday. Registration link: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0pdeqtpj4iH9yKSngS_fb5eklLt6SMj8gx

👉 (please do not reply complaining about how the workshop is on zoom! The Boston Anarchist Bookfair is the host, and so we are beholden to their choice of platform. They are running their bookfair as they see fit to reach and accommodate their audience. We already know why zoom is evil. Don't bother @ ing us to tell us. We will happily give the workshop again on Jitsi or another platform if another org would like to host and promote it, so just get in touch!)

Hi everyone! This is my first time tooting over here (is tooting a word?) 😆

Do you recommend a native mastodon client for Linux? Preferably GTK and distributed as a Flatpak.

👁️ Remixing Linux for #blind and visually impaired users: #Vojtux, a @fedora project, is an unofficial #Linux distribution aimed at visually impaired users.

💬 "When building products or creating content, your choices have a huge effect on #accessibility and how easy it is for us to engage with the end result. Know that we are here, we love to use computers and technology, and we're often willing to help you test it, too."

https://opensource.com/article/22/9/linux-visually-impaired-users

#FOSDEM devrooms announced! https://fosdem.org/2023/news/2022-11-07-accepted-developer-rooms/

At the risk of blowing up my week, I have started a new server for #journodons, #press members, and others who believe in the ethics of journalism. https://federated.press/

There are a few of these now, each with a slightly different take on the concept. I think there's room for many more—so don't all sign up here at once. 😅 Feel free to request an invite if this resonates, though, and we'll see how it goes.

#journalism #journalists #mastodon #news #media #photojournalism #twittermigration

I hope you’re following the work David Wengrow and team are doing on the ancient Ukrainian city of Nebelivka. Fully the size of medieval London by *3200BC*, comprised “of self-governing districts…with assemblies for decision making,” Nebelivka is forcing us to rewrite the history of cities, and to question especially the standard narrative of primordial state formation. The state just isn’t as central to our experience as we were taught it was. #anarchism #municipalism #urbanism #archaeology

#Cooperative advocates who are also into DAOs: can you provide me with at least one (ideally more) example of a DAO that is 1) doing something cool and useful; 2) has at least a bit of a track record; and 3) couldn't be done in some way that does not rely on the blockchain.

I've been looking for examples that fit this description and have come up with nothing. @ntnsndr @Stacco or somebody help me out here?

Welcome to archaeo.social, a new @Mastodon instance for decentralised, scholarly communication about #archaeology, #history, and related fields.

Registration is open to anyone interested in the human past and willing to abide by our code of conduct (https://archaeo.social/about/more#code-of-conduct). If you are new to Mastodon, simply open archaeo.social and create an account. Existing Mastodon users can also easily move their account here from another instance: https://docs.joinmastodon.org/user/moving/.

An #introduction...