Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

The so-called "Constitutional Sheriffs" are among the most dangerous people in America -- and their malign influence is growing. Here's some great student reporting from ASU's Cronkite School (I work there) and the Arizona Center for Investigative Journalism. https://azcir.org/cspoa/

This trom one of my favourite economists - not that that list is very long.
“It is a patrician fantasy to create a global economic system whereby the poor perpetually pay real compound interest to the rich.”
https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO2308/S00213/financial-literacy-compound-interest-and-the-veneration-of-money.htm

Police officers in Ohio and Wisconsin are the latest to exploit a victims’ rights law to shield their names from the public when they wound or even kill people in the line of duty, making it harder for the public and press to hold them to account. https://freedom.press/news/police-use-victims-rights-law-to-hide-from-scrutiny/

Many people think that being a good facilitator is a trait one is born with. "Some people are born facilitators." But facilitation is more like a craft - it's learnable. Get facilitation practice in our next course👉 https://t.co/2Cf7VdqInX

#sociocracy https://t.co/K5vs97dh03

Source sadly unknown.

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/