Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

OK this is neat, a protocol for hosting a website around the globe that distributes traffic based on which server has the most solar energy: http://solarprotocol.net/

Rightwing extremists defeated by Democrats in US school board elections - https://www.theguardian.com/education/2023/apr/21/school-board-elections-illinois-wisconsin-republicans-lose

“I did not sacrifice 21 years of my life to stand idly by, while religious fanatics try to impose fascism on my country”

My hero this week is former Navy Commander John Wessley Rexrode, who goes to the podium at a local schoolboard meeting to speak the truth about the new book ban laws. 🔥 🔥 🔥 🔥 🔥 🔥

https://youtu.be/CXr9YcMU_WU

I've only recommended one VPN service, ever (and no, I don't have any financial relationship to them): Mullvad. They have always seemed to be one of the few entities that practices the mantra, "You don't have to protect what you don't collect."

This quite a press release:

"Mullvad VPN was subject to a search warrant. Customer data not compromised
20 April 2023 NEWS

On April 18 at least six police officers from the National Operations Department (NOA) of the Swedish Police visited the Mullvad VPN office in Gothenburg with a search warrant.
They intended to seize computers with customer data.

In line with our policies such customer data did not exist. We argued they had no reason to expect to find what they were looking for and any seizures would therefore be illegal under Swedish law. After demonstrating that this is indeed how our service works and them consulting the prosecutor they left without taking anything and without any customer information.

If they had taken something that would not have given them access to any customer information.

Mullvad has been operating our VPN service for over 14 years. This is the first time our offices have been visited with a search warrant."

Source: https://mullvad.net/en/blog/2023/4/20/mullvad-vpn-was-subject-to-a-search-warrant-customer-data-not-compromised/

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2022/07/a-deep-dive-into-the-residential-proxy-service-911/

NYT and AP differ on whether it took cops a whole day or nearly a week to return and arrest the Jan. 6 defendant who OPENED FIRE ON THEM. Admirable restraint. They should try it on brown people sometime. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/20/us/politics/jan-6-defendant-texas-pelham.html https://apnews.com/article/capitol-jan-6-arrest-texas-b3e8146f3aab32afee6752238c8643d9

#Biden pledges $500 million to curb #Amazon deforestation - https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2023/04/20/biden-amazon-deforestation-us-aid/ good news; now other governments need to do the same...

Anybody who wants to become a better facilitator, this training from @SociocracyForAll might be for you:

https://www.sociocracyforall.org/events/category/classes/advfacilitation/

There will come a day when you're gonna wanna know this stuff...

https://par.nsf.gov/servlets/purl/10056559

Well-educated idiots vs. Uncredentialed geniuses

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2023/04/hoisted-from-comments-a-tale-of-two-sciences.html

In a conversation on reddit today someone asked if other languages have phrases like "rightie tightie, leftie loosie" to remember which way to turn screws/lids/etc. And one person answers that in Spanish, the phrase is:

"La derecha oprime, la izquierda libera."

or:

"The right oppresses, the left liberates."

(Now I kind of want to put this on a t shirt)

I don't understand why a user would want engagement-based sorting at all.

Why would you want to only read what is popular? That sounds like the kind of thing that a low-self-esteem teenager victimized by the fashion industry would worry about.

‘Don’t fool yourself’: billions more needed to protect tropical forests, warns new report - https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/apr/19/dont-fool-yourself-billions-more-needed-to-protect-tropical-forests-warns-new-report-aoe a tiny price to pay for the stability forests bring to the planet

How a New UN Cybercrime Treaty Could Lead to the Repression of Civil Liberties - https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/blog/un-treaty-spyware/ we need to keep an eye on this... #privacy

"lack of sustainability of Chromebooks provided for schools is hurting the Environment"

https://www.pcgamer.com/heres-another-e-waste-crisis-for-the-e-waste-crisis-pile-chromebook-churn/

I spend way too much time feeling Weltschmertz. I know many other people feel helpless about the direction our world is taken. Others have decided 'the hell with everyone else, I'm in it for myself & my family'. Others are willfully oblivious.= & still others are plain ignorant. I spread a bit of derision at the selfish & willfully oblivious. I try to conserve enough energy to have empathy for those in the first & last categories... hard when the momentum is almost all going the wrong way.

The best thing that Dominion could do with their infusion of cash from Fox - for both their reputation and for the good of democracy - would be to invest it into developing more robust, auditable election technology, such as optical scan systems with features to facilitate Risk-Limiting Audits.

"Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media by Noam Chomsky and Edward Herman provides an effective framework to analyse the functioning of the media... Manufacturing Consent explains in detail the ‘propaganda model’. Despite being written in the ’90s, the five filters of the model that affect editorial bias still function even today, in the 21st century."

#MehakNeel

https://www.sociologygroup.com/mass-media-as-a-power-institution/

#media #MediaBias #NoamChomsky #EdHerman #ManufacturingConsent

#DRM isn't just an annoyance -- it's a violation of your right to use the items you own as you see fit. Learn more about our Defective by Design campaign at http://defectivebydesign.org, and follow our campaign account at @endDRM

So a southeastern Oklahoma sheriff and others were caught on tape literally plotting to murder journalists, and now they say *the person who recorded the conversation* is the one who will face felony charges. Our statement is below: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/mccurtain-county-sheriff-kevin-clardy-illegal-recording_n_643ebeb7e4b011a819bd6016