Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

It is not a "culture war." Do not spread their bile. It is right-wing authoritarian manipulation of you, media. Do not fall for it.
Red states quit nation’s oldest library group amid culture war over books https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2023/09/15/american-library-association-book-bans/

Me just now boarding my first flight abroad since 2019:

Boarding Agent: Stand in front of the face scan.

Me: I decline.

Agent: You must.

Me: No, I don't.

Supervisor: (to agent) Just board her. (to me) You'll have to do this eventually.

Me: I'm a lawyer who fights these things. Not on my watch.

Just a little notice for pro-gun US politicians!

Here in Europe we play the same games, watch the same movies and read the same books and browse the same internet but we do not have daily mass shootings

"Daily deaths by gun" is not something normal and should not be accepted

Please stop finding excuses and start protecting your people

The "Free" Market Will Not Fix The World.

Highlights

• Data on real wages suggests that, historically, extreme poverty was uncommon and arose primarily during periods of severe social and economic dislocation, particularly under colonialism.

• Where progress has occurred, significant improvements in human welfare began only around the 20th century. These gains coincide with the rise of anti-colonial and socialist political movements.

#Socialism #Communism

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0305750X22002169

If you have videos of talks or other #SoftwareFreedomDay related multimedia you've created with CC licensing, we started a wiki page to share them:
https://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/SFDtalks
Feel free to add your own links there or send them to us as well. #FOSS #FLOSS #OpenSource #FreeSoftware #SFD #SoftwareFreedomDay2023

👉 https://www.letcubalive.info/

I've seen a lot of "I've spent years learning this tool and now it's wasted". Majority of that gamedev knowledge is transferable, it's not gone. It might be different on a new tool but you'll know how to do it, it's easier to search the equivalent then not knowing at all.

@junocomputers
You get a completely free operating system, please support us in developing it with detailed
reports rather than pushing end user support upstream.

At the very minimum check with the communities upfront how to best interact and supply them with hardware.

2️⃣ /2️⃣

Dear @junocomputers if you sell computers and use Free Software Operating systems it is not o.k. to assume you can free ride on community support.

It makes me sad to have mails from users in my inbox that are stuck with an unusable device on a Sunday and are seeking help to get it going again. This is your job.

Please listen to your customer's issue. If it's a software issue in the latest upstream version forward it with a good description.

Screenshot is from https://junocomputers.com/product/juno-tablet/

1️⃣ /2️⃣

This past week, I had the good fortune of going to a talk by Shannon Clay, one of the coeditors of the must-read anthology “We Go Where They Go: The Story of Anti-Racist Action” (@pmpress). There was only a small number of us, but that made it all that much better, as Shannon let the thoughtful and provocative questions steer the evening. And that meant that the talk and conversation, because of who showed up, revolved heavily around looking back at this antifascist history through today’s lens of queer, trans, and feminist anarchism as well as how Anti-Racist Action’s (ARA) tactics did or didn’t carry forward to the past or make sense for where Christo-fascism is at in 2023/5784.

So many points have stuck with me theoretically—the sign of a good, generative event—but one in particular already came to life in practice. Shannon had noted how most of the ARA chapters weren’t in big cities; they were basically four people in a small town, yet like ARA in general, they succeeded in kicking fascists out of their communities.

Little did I know that two nights later, I’d being going to a small, lifeless suburb. Yet a precocious, absurdly well-read and well-spoken, upbeat queer+trans young anarchist—just barely past being a preteen—invited me to their trans youth distro there, precisely to “go where they go”—in this case, a TERF, who’d been asserting their presence via stickering.

Our numbers mostly hovered around four or five—but between us all, there were hundreds of colorful, binary-smashing, bodily autonomy affirming, genderqueer-anarchic stickers, posters, patches, and even a tiny pink-and-black flag. I’ve no idea if we scared away the TERF, nor had any sort of pro-trans impact on this sleepy little town. What I do know is: the two middle schoolers who were there, both newish to anarchism and their queer+transness relative to the rest of us, got to share their hopes, enthusiasm, and dreams, and offer me hope in return, and as one said, got to feel at home and fully seen with their chosen family: us, other queer+trans anarchists.

#BeGayDoDistros
#MakeMediaMakeGenderTrouble
#KidsAreAllRight
#QueerYouthLiberation

(photos: some of the distro goodies)

At some point, our public service will realise that, if it's suggested by Microsoft, Amazon, Google, Oracle, Salesforce, Adobe, Apple, Facebook, etc. it can be discounted immediately as a Very Bad Idea [R]. Until our bureaucrats understand that fact, they should be prohibited from making any digital policy or procurement decisions.

Not to jinx it, but there's a perfect weather forecast for the NYC Anarchist Bookfair tomorrow -- come say hi at the @pmpress table! More info available here: https://anarchistbookfair.net/

Cool! Got a #Kbin instance up and running for the #FOSSDLECommons... That's me done for the week. https://fedidevs.org/projects/kbin/ and https://kbin.pub/en

10 Build something on a proprietary platform

20 Get pushed out by the platform's money grabbing stunt

30 Learn about awesome free and open platforms that could full the void

40 Ignore all that and find new proprietary platform

50 goto 10

NONPROFIT JOB ALERT:

We're hiring a Senior Security Engineer!

Help strengthen our security posture across our infrastructure, and partner with our software development teams (e.g., @dangerzone and @securedrop) to protect journalists and whistleblowers.

Remote; 4 hour overlap with NYC business hours required. Salary range $125K-$140K.

https://grnh.se/cacbf6065us

Solidarity with French comrades against state repression! – An International call for a week of action! https://www.anarchistfederation.net/solidarity-with-french-comrades-against-state-repression-an-international-call-for-a-week-of-action/

The Swiss Government has officially launched their Mastodon server at https://social.admin.ch/

In their official press release the Government confirms it is a trial for one year. They state that "Mastodon has several characteristics that make it fundamentally attractive for government communications", such as being beyond the control of others, as well as it being privacy friendly.

Official press release: https://www.admin.ch/gov/de/start/dokumentation/medienmitteilungen.msg-id-97696.html

Speaker of the Swiss Government: @gov