Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

The inevitable result of every AI project.

On the anniversary of the Stonewall uprising, listen to Scott Branson discuss Anarchism, Queers, and Mutual Aid and their new books, Surviving the Future: Abolitionist Queer Strategies & Practical Anarchism, on the Sad Francisco podcast. https://blog.pmpress.org/2023/06/26/anarchism-queers-and-mutual-aid-f-scott-branson-on-sad-francisco/

How Often Do Health Insurers Say No to Patients?
No One Knows.
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Insurers’ denial rates are a critical measure of how reliably they pay for customers’ care. But they remain mostly secret to the public.

There’s nowhere a consumer or employer can go to look up all insurers’ denial rates.

Federal and state regulators have done little to change that.

#Health #HealthCare #Insurance #Obamacare #AffordableCareAct #Hospitals #Doctors #Patients

https://www.propublica.org/article/how-often-do-health-insurers-deny-patients-claims?utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

What to do if your phone is seized by the police?

Read our guide and know your rights. https://freedom.press/training/mobile-security-for-activists-and-journalists/

Uploaded the audio version of Chapter 2 of @luisrazeto's #Cooperative Enterprise & Market Economy this morning.

https://soundcloud.com/user-961707688/cooperative-enterprise-market-economy-chapter-2

Instances differ in moderation policies and approaches, and the experience of the Fediverse is very different depending on just the size of your home instance.

There are curated lists of instances that host bad actors, and many instances already refuse to federate with the large instances. And yet it all more-or-less works.

The fact that this system basically works while being fragmented is one of its beauties.

#federation #defederation

https://world.hey.com/dhh/we-have-left-the-cloud-251760fb leaving the cloud and saving a bundle...

Thanks to @yojimbo for having given us the nudge to leave the RHEL ecosystem and move to the Debian/Ubuntu one all those years ago (2004?). Never regretted the move. And now with RHEL poking their #LibreSoftware community in the eye with their idiotic (typical corporate) licensing/policy shenanigans, I'm doubly glad that it's not a problem for me and mine.

hell of a flow chart from an FTX bankruptcy filing, showing commingled funds

"Under current land-use regulation, carbon dioxide emissions from biofuel production exceed those from fossil diesel combustion. Therefore, international agreements need to ensure the effective and globally comprehensive protection of natural land before modern bioenergy can effectively contribute to achieving carbon neutrality."

Notable: These authors have published their policy recommendations as #OpenAccess, meaning they're not uselessly advising in private.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-023-01711-7

There are no queer friendly cops. #Pride means abolish the police, abolish prisons, and queer liberation.

Surviving the Future: Abolitionist Queer Strategies is a collection of the most current ideas in radical queer movement work.

Cast off progressive narratives of liberal hope & build mutual networks of rebellion and care.

Save 20% w/ code JUNE til 7/1 at https://pmpress.org/index.php?l=product_detail&p=1296

@enkerli the almost compete erosion of value in the term "open source" (to mean 'weak open source licenses but, unlike its original meaning, *not* including #Copyleft or '#libre' licenses) thanks to bad corporate actors has forced the #FreeSoftware community to reinforce its long-time use of the term #libre to refer to share-alike #open licensing. #LibreWashing is an emerging insidious problem.

@LibreTexts

FedEx is not content to just underpay their workers. They've also decided to start scamming their delivery drivers by selling them trucks with doctored odometers.

My gawd, don't you just love this country?

https://jalopnik.com/fedex-named-in-what-could-be-one-of-the-largest-odomete-1850570768

There's a sneaky strawman argument that is used against #degrowth and other efforts that call for scaling back harmful activities for #environmental or other reasons. You should watch for it.

It goes like this:
Environmentalist: "#Plastic pollution is a huge, and society is altogether too focused on single-use disposable plastic products. We should fix that."
Pollution apologist: "Here are a zillion medical innovations that would be impossible without plastic. You're trying to kill people."

The milkweeds that we grow for Monarch butterflies attach packets of pollen, or pollinia, to visiting #pollinators, but not all insects are strong enough to carry them. In effect, the milkweed is putting a thumb on the scale for large #bees like #bumblebees.

Sometimes, pollination is perilous!

https://mgnv.org/beneficial-insects/the-perils-of-pollinia-and-more-about-milkweed/

If you care about labour or infrastructure in the US, you probably know that the Biden administration refused to let freight rail workers strike for sick days, citing the economic impact.

You might (also) have missed the announcement that the administration then did exactly what they promised: helped to make sure the workers got them.

http://www.ibew.org/media-center/Articles/23Daily/2306/230620_IBEWandPaid