Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

John Cusack is tweeting out some of the dirty secrets of Hollywood accounting -- and it's pretty illuminating.

#sagaftra #strike #wga

@mattcropp or other #cooperative historians out there have any suggestions for this museum curator on r/cooperatives?

https://www.reddit.com/r/cooperatives/comments/14zkwy4/cooperatives_best_brand_cans/

So about a month ago I got this idea to make a parody of "Daft Punk is Playing at My House" called "Trump Got Indicted at My House" and I cobbled something together and now that it's done I realize I can't actually do anything with it because it's NOT parody, it's satire, and satire isn't considered fair use the same way parody is.

Sigh.

There are a few other issues too, but that alone sort of kills the project for me.

Fun tune though.

Movie idea of the day:

A sensationalistic, conservative podcaster visits the thriving socialist city of Omelas, trying to discredit socialism. He tours the city looking for things to be outraged about, but has trouble finding them. (The trains run on time! Mostly! And when they don't, no one is mad about it, because none of them will be punished for being late to work, and they understand that the engineers are doing their best, and –)

(1/7)

In case it isn't obvious, my desire to reside on a Mastodon instance that will proactively #defederate from the corporate internet and my desire to not have my ideas harvested for use by generative #AI aren't really separate things.

It's quite easy to create decent-looking unique fake background people, they're already in a lot of movies. The only reason studios would want this is in case a background actor later became famous, so they could misappropriate their likeness in perpetuity without pay.

https://www.theverge.com/2023/7/13/23794224/sag-aftra-actors-strike-ai-image-rights

@evacide https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/06/security-and-privacy-tips-people-seeking-abortion

"Eva," you ask, "What does good, practical digital privacy advice for abortion-seekers look like if I'm not supposed to tell them to download Tails?"

It looks like this: https://digitaldefensefund.org/ddf-guides/abortion-privacy

I'm just a girl, standing in front of the entire infosec community, asking them to give practical, simple digital security/privacy advice to people seeking abortions instead of describing outlandish Jason Bourne scenarios.

@dangillmor
I haven't had that problem with my credit union - yet.

The hedge fund / private equity business doesn't care in the slightest about the health of the people its growing number of doctors and nurses treat.

It cares solely about their money, and the American "health care system" becomes even more of scam every day.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/10/upshot/private-equity-doctors-offices.html?unlocked_article_code=ezXzn5GZwHgc0jvLOsPAWY9VOkXAs_FFXEQ8n5ZxsaGjUxSoTKWuFvYeoTEfCnNwCCCqHtbB6KsgHMdDDfPujElOIVk5SD2DaDZwJg3vnCkI37JyTzM48SxKdaYp09oupMSilvSXx5NKByHVyjRXK5Q_cGH9DsiT5uO2P6LiqZneAXPo3C9Opk7Z9m0WBDSVtGP9BhMdzDIsJ4cHNAt44kU7s8Qho9u8VSxtaR8rMsNqoSQxu_Rl3gcQl1PraCv5wP-2QHR1_fisdNZmpVWFdl6ZWa8PBFYtrqNQ9-RXBRd54TjGBXAp-Sd7DR8ACUd8BJlzvm9RlN0PSJ2dURowkmmz1CEW8us&smid=tw-share

Wait, calling it "duck tape" is actually correct and not just a branding thing?

https://hackaday.com/2023/07/13/how-duck-tape-became-famous/

#TIL

As intended by the racists in charge of Texas public higher education, job candidates who believe in social justice should look elsewhere. https://www.texastribune.org/2023/07/11/texas-a-m-kathleen-mcelroy-journalism/?utm_campaign=trib-social&utm_content=1689094487&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter

#UK poised to drop plans to replace home #gas #boilers with #hydrogen alternatives | #HydrogenPower | The Guardian

In my opinion, it was a silly idea to replace natural gas infrastructure with hydrogen burning, primarily because it is not produced in an environmentally friendly way and the current method pumps out lots of #GreenhouseGases and #Pollution, thus negating the supposed benefit of burning it.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jul/13/uk-poised-to-drop-plans-for-hydrogen-to-replace-natural-gas-in-homes

#Environment #EnergyPolicy #RenewableEnergy #Renewables

Better to heat houses with #HeatPumps powered from renewable sources.

Otto Richter (@fnetX) dives into Codeberg's (https://codeberg.org/) financial model, user sovereignty commitment, unique open-source hosting approach, and the challenges & triumphs of running a tech nonprofit.

Listen at 🎙️ https://podcast.sustainoss.org/189

Three of my favorite economists in conversation: Radhika Desai, Michael Hudson, and Ann Pettifor on the global financial system and how exploitative debt is used to oppress the world.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x13cSy8S8To

Text of my talk, "Self-indigenization, Genocide, and Native Resistance," and YouTube video from University of Vermont, April 28, 2023 #RaceShifting #Pretendians
https://youtu.be/7tYHqJhvg8c

It is frightening to see how #journalists (even those supposedly knowing about #media, like #MargaretSullivan @TheGuardian) realise how and why #Twitter failed them and us as a digital public space but entirely fail to draw any meaningful conclusions for themselves. Instead they willingly stumble into the next #platform dependency that will harm independent #journalism and degrade public discourse.