Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Wealth of Elon Musk
2012: $2,000,000,000
2023: $248,900,000,000

Wealth of Jeff Bezos
2012: $18,400,000,000
2023: $153,100,000,000

Wealth of Mark Zuckerberg
2012: $17,500,000,000
2023: $104,900,000,000

Federal Minimum Wage
2012: $7.25
2023: $7.25

Three words: tax the rich.

How #Copyleft licenses (like the #GPL) and #LibreSoftware aka #FOSS aka #FreeSoftware can help us all avoid #DigitalColonisation by proprietary US Big Tech & protect our #DigitalSovereignty via the founder of #NextCloud https://video.resolutions.it/w/4d5c5b1d-9613-4201-8d55-9e7906f42518 We need to break the cycle we're currently in. It's expensive, disempowering, & *brittle*. And it's unfit for purpose.

[tech notebook] Getting started with Jitsi https://tech.interfluidity.com/2023/08/21/getting-started-with-jitsi/index.html

A small but notable change on Codeberg? References to #Twitter are now gone.

We believe in independent networks. Drop #GitHub, drop #Twitter, drop all the #proprietary clouds and embrace true freedom.

a capitalist would look at the doujin art scene that has sprung up around Touhou, encouraged and cultivated by its author with his permissive licensing, and say that, despite ZUN being famous/beloved and easily making enough to live off of, that he's a failure, as he hasn't turned Touhou into a paperclip maximizer

but if your goal is the enrichment of culture and the arts, upholding storytelling traditions and inventing new ones, of inspiring and bringing together the next generation around a shared medium, then Touhou and ZUN have succeeded beyond all expectations, in its own niche way

capitalism is a thought-terminating cliche that cannot fathom people valuing things other than monetary growth

Professional news! 🚨

Today's my first day @STAT in my new role as a full-time reporter covering everywhere $ meets healthcare.

Dumb $ reason people aren't getting innovations or the best care? Screaming up the wall about ridiculous rules? Labor issues? 🤯⁉️ fees?

hmu: brittany.trang@statnews.com or 231-818-8189 on Signal

#MedMastodon #medicine #healthcare #health #doctors #healthpolicy #insurance

Strange that Reuters fails to mention that the University was not shut down, but was actually just turned in a public institution with free tuition. Strange that...it's almost like they are just running anti-leftist propaganda.

https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/us-sanctions-100-nicaraguan-municipal-officials-over-rights-abuses-2023-08-19/

Seeing a lot of "doomer" posts about how #GenerativeAI is going to destroy the internet.

Where are the stories about how the current #AI revolution will prompt a turn away from the centralized corporate internet of Facebook and Google, and toward something more private, and more person-to-person.

If you've seen articles about this kind of scenario, I invite you to share them.

If you (yes you) have ideas for what we could build on the ashes, I encourage you to post them.

(boosts welcome)

BREAKING | TX Leaving American Library Association https://dallasexpress.com/state/breaking-tx-leaving-american-library-association/

#ALA #Libraries #Texas

The problems with our media in one headline

“Climate activist Tom Steyer.”

While Reuters doesn’t call Manchin or Koch or Uihlein or Wilks or Murdoch activists for fossil fuels.

Just endless headlines attacking people trying to do good, while coddling corrupt actors who do selfish things. It’s maddening.

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/bidens-staying-lake-tahoe-home-climate-activist-tom-steyer-2023-08-19/

Now the Washington lawyers want to destroy digital collections of scratchy 78rpm records, 70-120 year old, built by dedicated preservationists online since 2006.

Who benefits?

https://www.reuters.com/legal/music-labels-sue-internet-archive-over-digitized-record-collection-2023-08-12/

Some exciting news:

With the help of a tester (thanks kyeh!), #mobilelinux though vvmd/vvmplayer ( https://gitlab.com/kop316/vvmplayer ) finally supports Visual Voicemail on all major US carriers!

If you have an MVNO on any of the major carrier, you should be able to easily check if the parent settings work for you. If they do, *please* make an MR in https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mobile-broadband-provider-info so we can officially support more carriers!

This is a weird request, but I figure the worst I can get for it is silence. I'm totally #blind and have very bad hearing. To set up a device through its inaccessible software, I'm in need of a sighted person for about an hour and a half to two hours who can access a computer remotely, speaks and reads English, and can describe images and graphs. The person needs to be quite patient with follow-up questions, needs to be willing to repeat if needed, as well as be able to click on items and describe what happens on the screen. The person needs to be fairly detail oriented because some of the images appear to have arrows and other ways to expand them, according to the manual. Though I'm happy to be reasonable, I have no clue how much to offer as payment, this is my first request of this kind. I'm posting it because I know we have some blind people here who may be able to point me towards someone who has done this before and may be willing to do it for such a short period. Boosts welcome, indeed, they're appreciated. #hearingimpaired #software #A11Y #accessibility #remote

Talking to my dad this morning about how my aunts and cousins are living together on the grand-parents old place, two of them in tiny-houses. He said he just read an AARP article that reported that apparently what the aunties are up to is something of a trend among older folks.

*screencaps from NYT opinion piece "Our Economy Thrives on Bad Feelings"

https://archive.li/YUuWv

And here I though I already knew the (considerable) dark side of #crypto, but oh no...it gets much, much worse. But I'm sure a little slavery won't be enough to put off the true believers, smh.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2023-08-17/crypto-text-message-scams-lead-back-to-cambodia-slave-labor

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The thing everyone talks about when Windows 11 comes up is telemetry. But, as someone who uses Windows 11 as a secondary device, what I really notice is the inundation of right wing news that most non-technical users don't even know how to get away from.

You can just click the little weather icon and it immediately wants to tell you about "wokeness in the military" or the latest thing Trump said. It's on their personal device, it's on their work device, it's all opt out, and most folks don't know how to.

It's social media rage farming built straight into your OS.