Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

VICTORY! Thanks to the passionate residents of the Bay Area and the leadership of Supervisors Preston, Ronen, and Walton, the Board today voted against SFPD use of deadly force with remote-controlled robots.
Should the Rules Committee revisit the issue, the community must come together to stop this dangerous use of technology. Huge thanks are due to the coalition of residents and groups who pushed back, and who we know will be ready if we must fight again. https://www.sfchronicle.com/news/article/San-Francisco-police-can-t-use-deadly-robots-for-17635949.php

Did you know Monopoly was invented by a woman named Elizabeth Magie in 1903?

Originally ‘The Landlord’s Game,’ it was designed as a protest against the big monopolists of her time like Carnegie & Rockefeller.

But it was Charles Darrow, an unemployed salesman, who eventually sold it to Parker Brothers after playing a version.

Parker Brothers credited Monopoly with saving their company. Magie died in 1948 without recognition. Darrow became very wealthy & his legend lives on. #history #women

LANGUAGE: It’s enslaved persons, not “slaves”. We are people who were ENslaved. When you say “enslaved”, you make clear that someone else did this to us. When you say “slave” you speak the language and mindset of the people who did this to us. This is important. It is not semantics. #history #language #enslavedpeople #Black #Mastodon #words

Neat snapshot of how UK cooperatives are performing.

Over past 5 years annual turnover has increased by 8% and number of employees has risen.

As compared to other small businesses coops are more resilient and more innovative.

Big question is why isn't more being done to support them?

#coops #cooperatives #unitedkingdom

#TrumpOrganization #guilty of #TaxFraud, #NewYork jury finds | #DonaldTrump | The Guardian

Popcorn time.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/dec/06/trump-organization-guilty-verdict-tax-fraud

#US #Politics #Law

We noticed some of our followers and fellow comrades are learning this platform too. The learning curve is in process behind these walls and it feels good to have a blank slate. Looking to make the most of it while we continue to struggle from the inside out. This platform or the next, its still

🔥 BURN THE PRISONS 🔥
🖕🏾 FK12
⛓️ ABOLITION AGAINST ALL ODDS
✊🏾 DARE 2 STRUGGLE, DARE 2 WIN
❤️ SOLIDARITY!!

Show your support for EFF today and get your donation matched! That means you're doubling your support! (つ•̀ᴥ•́)つ*:･ﾟ✧ https://eff.org/power-up

ATTN: Canadian #Coop scholars. Scholarships available for graduate and undergradute students from CASC

https://canada.coop/wp-content/uploads/CASC-Scholarships-ENG.pdf

Galileo from @ProSieben, one of Germany’s most popular television programs released a new episode covering #Nextcloud as a major challenger against Microsoft’s cloud services.

Watch for @fkarlitschek in the episode and read about it in our blog!

https://nextcloud.com/blog/galileo-presents-nextcloud-as-major-challenger-of-microsoft/

Good morning social.coop - my proposal to fix our missing privacy policy currently has 50 votes

https://www.loomio.com/p/qkE3BUsN/social-coop-should-have-a-privacy-policy

This is actually a historically very good participation rate! But is only 16% of our loomio group 😢 (and only 8% of our active members on social.coop 😱 )

I believe in social.coop's mission to model participatory decision-making, so please go vote!

#socialcoop #governance

Wireless Carriers Find That Nobody Cares About #5G Despite Years Of Hype - https://www.techdirt.com/2022/12/05/wireless-carriers-find-that-nobody-cares-about-5g-despite-years-of-hype/ just as many of us predicted...

This graph speaks for itself. It is factual, hard data about global temperature rise over the last 2019 years.

This graph is based on solid peer-reviewed #science. #Climate deniers hate on this "hockey stick" graph, but their objections have been thoroughly debunked.

Show a climate-denier this graph and link. Lead them to water, even if they won't drink.

Link Sauce : https://factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com.32KW973

#ClimateChange #ClimateEmergency #GlobalWarming

Question for recent folks joining the #Fediverse from #Twtitter... if you deleted your Twitter account, have you found yourself locked out of any non-Twitter services that you logged into using your Twitter credentials (using it as an OAuth or OpenID provider)? I suspect that could be an unexpected side-effect of the changing social media landscape. Good to get people considering the implications of their decisions made with their convenience as the only priority...