Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Today!

Nourishing Resistance: Stories of Food, Protest, and Mutual Aid book launch in NYC with contributors Court Williams, Alyshia Galvez & Katie Tastrom hosted by Maurice Wilkins of The Stew.

Monday, May 22 at The Yard LES NYC at 6pm

Details & register: https://blog.pmpress.org/events/nourishing-resistance-stories-of-food-protest-and-mutual-aid-book-launch-in-nyc/

New technologies should increase transparency rather than enable stall tactics. The news cycle moves quickly and prompt access to court filings is essential. The First Amendment cannot tolerate unnecessary delays. https://www.courthousenews.com/iowa-courts-hit-with-first-amendment-action-over-delayed-access/

The Dems are getting ready to cave to the Republicans* on the debt ceiling BS. The fall-out will hit pretty hard. All you're going to hear about, though, is the brave bi-partisan effort to slash government spending, because something something indebting our grandchildren.

https://mikethemadbiologist.com/2023/05/18/a-cohort-of-scientists-is-about-to-be-crushed/

But what no one seems to ever talk about is the fact that the largest owner of US debt is the US gov't.

*because, let's admit it, that's about all they know how to do any more

It's on , sadly, but this stuff is important to know to I'm sharing it anyway. I found some of this out in my younger, wilder days, when I spent a couple of weeks illegally camping near the town I lived in to save on rent. It's amazing how easy it can be to hide in plain sight sometimes. The "people never look up" thing is something that wouldn't have occurred to me, however.

https://twitter.com/shagbark_hick/status/1659934818912616449

What does it take to keep fascists out of our communities?

In June we'll be hosting an online panel discussion that includes folks with first hand experience organizing to drive Nazi boneheads off the streets of Portland, OR during the 1980s and 90s! Register for free at https://firestorm.coop/events/3055-building-community-defense.html

Section 702 has become something Congress never authorized: a domestic spying tool. Congress should consider ending the program entirely, but shouldn't reauthorize it without critical reforms, including true accountability and oversight. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/03/section-702s-unconstitutional-domestic-spying-program-must-end

Signal: Journal of International Political Graphics and Culture is an ongoing book series dedicated to documenting graphics, art & cultural movements of international resistance & liberation struggles.

Help publish the new issue & get all previous issues http://tinyurl.com/SignalKS

A SUPERVILLAIN EXAMINES AI - I test Sudowrite using my own prose to try and see exactly what the hell is going on.

Prologue - https://www.eviscerati.org/articles/2023/05/a-supervillain-examines-ai-prologue/

Sudowrite - https://www.eviscerati.org/articles/2023/05/a-supervillain-examines-ai-sudowrite/

The prose I tested with - https://www.eviscerati.org/fiction/2023/05/the-band-of-broken-blades-chapter-one/

A lot of it is stating the obvious, but evidently it isn't obvious to everyone, so here's @BuildSoil's rant in response to have been asked to write a letter of approval for a grant to use LLM AI to guide environmental policy.

https://kolektiva.social/@BuildSoil/110397101965881240

Reasons to defederate from Mastodon.social and Mastodon.online: Eugen would open registrations without consulting or preparing his mod team at the time, after agreeing to keep them closed (this went on over and over after he had promised not to do it again).

He would, in the early days, insist that Mastodon.social was not a flagship instance, and then open a second server, still owned and run by him. (second server is Mastodon.online)

He would promise no algorithms and then create the explore page without input. And the trending hashtags without establishing it with the community.

He surrounds himself with yes sayers, and if you want to stay in his good graces you need to take a fair amount of abuse if you disagree with him.

He would (I have not recent data points on this) throw a disabled partner's, as in business, disability back in their face when not wanting to work with them any more.

The community asked for years for a Mastodon Nonprofit, so we'd be responsible together. He eventually created one with himself as the sole founder, and no other members (as far as I've been able to find.)

All hail the Benevolent Dictator For Life.

(rewrote because some faulty info, but added some stuff I know got sure, as I do not want to give reason to be called a liar.)

What's a revelation you had in the last three years that seems obvious now?

For me: I should repair things even if it costs the same or more than buying a new one (as much as my budget allows), because prices of "new" things don't account for ecological damage in their manufacture and eventual disposal.

I feel like there's recently been another uptick in the number images I'm seeing on here without any alt-text.

Please friends, encourage your friends to use alt-text.

@Codeberg (relatively urgently) needs more people helping to run the association behind the project. (Codeberg e.V. registered in Germany)

If you are looking for a *non-technical* opportunity to help running Codeberg please get in touch with us.

Step 1. would be joining the association, if you haven't already (https://join.codeberg.org/), step 2. write an email to contact@codeberg.org

Yes, this is a "pay some money for the chance to do unpaid work" opportunity, isn't it great? 🙂

tfw you realize the entirety of yr political analysis has degraded into pulling your hair out & screaming "I'M SURROUNDED BY IDIOTS!" 😱 ......I mean, it's not wrong*, but still.

*Being surrounded by idiots is part & parcel of being a human existing in society with other humans; which is to say the statement is exactly as true for the people I'm surrounded by as it is for me. An equivalent statement is simply "humans are idiots," which I think we can all agree on.

#transrights #gender

The thing about this corruption and criminality—George Santos, Clarence Thomas, Rudy Giuliani, Trump—is that it’s so obvious. So brazen. As if there’s no need to hide it.

We're bringing the noise to Pouzza Fest in Montreal this weekend! To celebrate, get 40% off all #punk books this weekend with coupon code PUNK. See them all at https://pmpress.org/index.php?l=product_list&c=150&sortby=num_sold:desc

Sale ends Sunday night.

Sam Altman's Worldcoin project incentivizes a black market for biometric data taken from people in developing nations

May 18, 2023
https://web3isgoinggreat.com/?id=sam-altmans-worldcoin-project-incentivizes-a-black-market-for-biometric-data-taken-from-people-in-developing-nations

@lightweight @emc2 Women's suffrage took a lot of domestic terrorism, it's not a pretty way to change things.

@LovesTha Yeah, I'm not enthusiastic about massive democracies. I grew up as a Quaker, and Quaker-led communities work on a good-faith consensus basis... but that doesn't scale well. Quakers are also big on literacy and education in general, so not as good with communities that don't have strong educational traditions. I keep feeling like we need a new Enlightenment. An appreciation of literacy - on many levels, not just the written word - has fallen by the wayside.