Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

The world is burning. The #climate is tipping into unprecedented territory, bringing catastrophic impacts to people and nature.

Oh look, the Australian Government just approved a new coal mine extension for another 50 years - to 2073.

Unforgivable.

Where are the Labor MPs calling this out?

TIL people are organizing to stop OAK airport expansion. Their reasons are very convincing:

"Passenger aviation accounts for 11% of SF Bay Area GHG emissions, but represents an even larger share of global warming contribution due to high altitude effects"

"California High Speed rail will service 4 of the 10 top Oakland airport departure destinations. Money allocated for OAK expansion could go towards enhancing Amtrak service and accelerating build-out of HSR"

https://www.stopoakexpansion.org/

@zzzeek And then, AGAIN: the fact that, if you draw, anything, write anything, create anything deemed "adult" by Mastercard's standards (??????????!!???), you then have to submit your face to a 3rd party company which retains the right to use it, FOR EVER, to train their facial recognition systems which they serve to multiple police departments for a variety of uses?

Yeah. Pretty damn bad.

30 years ago, Tories privatised water companies in England & Wales.

There were 36 companies at the time.

The entire sale raised £7.6bn.

The companies merged & now just 15 remain.

They're foreign owned & most avoid paying taxes.

...& we also pay them £5bn a year, every year.

#NeverTrustAToryPolitician
#NeverVoteConservative

Your #Fitbit is useless – unless you consent to unlawful data sharing - https://noyb.eu/en/your-fitbit-useless-unless-you-consent-unlawful-data-sharing #gdpr #privacy

Hi Fediverse! We're a collective of international workers at Red Hat organizing for fair working conditions.

We'll be using this platform to discuss a range of issues in our industry, strengthen solidarity between tech workers, and dispel myths when it comes to unionizing.

#RedHat #Union #WorkersRights #Tech #FOSS #OpenSource

You can't get more Google than selling a plan with two year device upgrades and them Google killing the plan before anyone gets a device upgrade. https://www.theverge.com/2023/8/30/23851107/google-graveyard-pixel-pass-subscription-phone-upgrades

Wells Fargo's unbelievably lame online operation does not allow the use of apostrophes in the bill payment field where you type in the person you are paying. So any person or company with an apostrophe (e.g. O'Connor) in their name is forbidden from being spelled accurately.

Well, it's only 2023, so I guess it's too early for the biggest financial institutions to do this right...

New from me (and a couple dozen experts):
A desperate appeal to newsroom leaders on the eve of a chaos election
https://presswatchers.org/2023/08/a-desperate-appeal-to-newsroom-leaders-on-the-eve-of-a-chaos-election/

Listening to Mark Pesce on RNZ... talking about yet another propruetary 'free' service (& those poor folks using it) exploited by ne'erdowells... that's now affecting 60million folks. Here's the thing: if you're taking advantage of a 'free' (of cost) proprietary service, the provider of that service owes you nothing. They might see it as perfectly reasonable to take advantage of you in interesting ways. What's more, they might be bad at security, enabling a *3rd party* to exploit you.

Two simple way to reduce the likelihood of semiconductor storages *and* reduce the volume of e-waste we have to deal with.

1) Oblige vendors to guarantee N years of useful life for electronic goods, and advertise price-per-year of life alongside purchase price. This could reduce the wastage of semiconductors in disposable electronics, and help people avoid being ripped off by the designer landfill that's misleadingly marketed as being cheaper.

#PolicyNZ #semiconductors #EWaste #RightToRepair

"A fake version of the private messaging app Signal has found a way onto Google Play and appears to be linked to a Chinese spy operation, researchers claimed on Wednesday." https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2023/08/30/malicious-signal-app-planted-on-google-play-by-china-linked-cyber-spies/

Preach it, sister! ✊

https://daily.jstor.org/now-we-can-begin-annotated/

Interested in co-op solutions in retrofit and renewalable energy? Check out these upcoming webinars https://prestoncoopdevelopment.org/events/ #coops

I was the victim of an extremely clever card fraud/social engineering hack.

Well, partly a victim since I managed to stop it.

I was called by my bank, as they wanted to “verify some suspect transactions on my account”.

Then things got weird…

🧵

Yesterday was the anniversary of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom...though you never seem to hear much about that first bit 🤔 Demands included a job guarantee, a right to housing, and a minimum wage.

https://theintercept.com/2023/08/28/march-on-washington-jobs/

Last chance to get radical education and parenting books for 40% off with coupon code Back2School until 9/1.

See them all at https://pmpress.org/index.php?l=product_list&c=42&sortby=num_sold:desc

Post by @lightweight asks if this is a digital dark age.

Yes! Think of all the learning possibilities that have just been ignored (cf. Kay, Engelbart...)

& Think of how corporate software leaves little decision-making space for users to craft it to their actual needs.

Post also encourages sharing whatever your own personal digital learning 'odyssey' [1] has taught you.

https://davelane.nz/current-digital-dark-age

[1] Word from my own work: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s42438-020-00188-3