Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

This is absolutely insane. A mom was prevented from taking her daughter to a Christmas show at Radio City Music Hall because she works for a law firm litigating against the venue's parent company. They spotted her with facial recognition technology according to this report: https://www.nbcnewyork.com/investigations/face-recognition-tech-gets-girl-scout-mom-booted-from-rockettes-show-due-to-her-employer/4004677/

Digital Ocean, provider of some of the most helpful tech tutorials around, just published one for how to set up #mastodon !

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-mastodon-on-ubuntu-20-04

I wish this had existed before I stood up my own instance, but now it'll help others.

Protect developer freedom. Abolish software patents. Learn why software patents are unjust by checking out the new design of our #endsoftwarepatents initiative. https://u.fsf.org/3f-

Don Quixote is hundreds of years old, but the story of a man who becomes so immersed in media that he can no longer distiguish fantasy from reality, and is aided by people who indulge the fantasy while saving him from himself, seems so very modern.

Looking to up your systems-change game? Consider joining @synergia's upcoming online course on "Transition in a Perilous Century." These are top-notch guides to the cooperative commonwealth we need: https://synergiainstitute.org/mooc-overview/

Had this on in the background as I was upgrading systems just now: https://invidious.snoypta.org/watch?v=5mD3Iai4Adg Thought: the same way folks in the US always (reflexively) say "thank you for your service" when they find out someone served in the US military, we (globally) need to say "thank you for your ideals and service" to those who put themselves on the line as climate activists. We need all of us to be them. And yeah, we need to sack corrupt politicians. #scientistrebellion #extinctionrebellion #genuineemergency

"The June paper said cloud technologies mitigated many of the risks, but exponentially increased the number of software applications schools were using and created other problems.

'The increasing use of data-driven learning insights and adaptive learning applications is vastly increasing the amount of student data being held in such systems, and many hold data offshore, not necessarily subject to NZ jurisdictional protections'."

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/481106/new-zealand-made-software-putting-schools-at-risk-of-cyber-attack

#Aotearoa #NZ #schools #SMS #security

The new ~$850 billion defense budget would direct billions of taxpayer dollars to private contractors.

Let's call this what it is: a massive redistribution of wealth to the military-industrial complex.

This is while nearly two-third of Americans are living paycheck-to-paycheck.

Anarchafeminists in Miami dropped a banner in defense of trans kids. 
Fascists across the country are preventing trans kids from accessing healthcare. Often, transitioning before puberty is critical to reducing trans suicide rates. 
This as the war against the trans community in Florida, especially targeting trans kids, has finally turned the tide. DeSatan succeeded in banning nearly all gender affirming care for teens, but fascists continues to lose in the streets and our communities. Anarchists and antifascists are everywhere, we are powerful, and we will not stop. 
Thread 🧵 

#TheseQueersBashBack #Transtifa #ProtectTransKids #Florida #AntiFascism #Anarchism #Miami #TransCareIsHealthCare #BannerDrop #IfHRTIsNotSafeNeitherAreYou

So it's not even like we don't already know this is a problem. No one can, essentially, pretend to drive during 95 percent of a trip and then fully take over for the 5 percent of the time that random things happen the autopilot can't handle. You have to go straight from the human doing most things and the computer assisting to the computer doing it all, all the time. Trying to half-ass it like Tesla is doing is guaranteed to cause accidents.

Some Talk but Little Action on Private Policing in St. Louis

https://www.propublica.org/article/some-talk-little-action-private-policing-st-louis @jeremykohler @ProPublica

Notice that we are meeting "the man" trying to stop Tesla from beta testing their so-called self-driving software on public roadways, and not "the Regulatory Agency."

https://www.euronews.com/next/2022/12/15/meet-the-campaigner-trying-to-stop-elon-musk-from-putting-unsafe-self-driving-teslas-on-th

“I do not believe civilization as we know it will make it out of this century,” said climate scientist Andrew Weaver, “Resilient humans will survive, but our societies that have urbanized and are supported by rural agriculture will not.”
#ClimateEndgame
https://phys.org/news/2022-08-chances-climate-catastrophe-scientists.html

I said awhile back that given that the US has had far more people die of covid than China, despite our much smaller population, that I would trust the Chinese gov't to handle covid much more than I trust my own gov't to. Well, it looks like I was being a bit too optimistic, as the Chinese authorities have apparently decided to ape our disastrous policies and public health messaging. No matter how pessimistic I get, it's impossible to keep up.

A billionaire Silicon Valley venture capitalist setting up a fediverse account isn’t the win you might think it is.

Who do you think funds and benefits from the Twitters and Facebooks of the world?

We can’t stop these folks from setting up their own servers but please don’t feel a need to federate with them or subsidise their existence on servers you pay for and maintain.

And remain vigilant against embrace, extend, and extinguish.

#billionaires #vc #SiliconValley #mastodon #capitalism

Forest defenders (this means everyone everywhere who wants to defend Atlanta's Weelaunee Forest and stop Cop City): follow the Atlanta Solidarity Fund on Mastodon!

https://kolektiva.social/@AtlSolFund@social.coop

@AtlSolFund

#DefendTheAtlantaForest #StopCopCity #Atlanta

"On Saturday the 17th we hung a banners in solidarity with our friends jailed in #Atlanta for defending the Weelaunee Forest against developers and cops. We hope that our action although small, inspires others to act in solidarity with the arrested and against the system that arrests free life." #StopCopCity https://itsgoingdown.org/banners-dropped-in-philadelphia-in-solidarity-with-fight-to-stop-cop-city/

There is no humanist billionaire, no philanthropic billionaire.

No-one gets one thousand million dollars who has a molecule of humanity in their body.

I don't know why I have to say this.

Do you know what a billion dollars is?

A little less than $1m per week every week for 20 years.

That is ONE billion dollars.

Given that all wealth is created by labour & your average billionaire has no concept of the word then whose wealth do you think it is that they have accrued? Not theirs obviously.

Just think on it.

Then the NRA came along...