Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

“In this, the latest book from Ethan Marcotte, […] unions aren’t anachronisms but rather a set of structures for workers to practice mutual aid, solidarity, and democracy with each other and across their workplaces—practices which are necessary not only for improving working conditions but also for attending to the harms the industry continues to commit.”

As usual, Mandy says it better than I ever could’ve.

Thank you, @aworkinglibrary 💜 https://aworkinglibrary.com/reading/you-deserve-a-tech-union

#YDATUbook

“We believe at its core that #CreditUnions are the best type of organization to serve everyone in the community regardless of where they come from or the language they speak,” says René A. Vargas Martínez, Director of Inclusiv’s #PuertoRico Network.
#HispanicCommunities
#SolidarityEconomy

https://nextcity.org/urbanist-news/this-is-what-a-credit-union-designed-for-the-hispanic-community-looks-like

In case you're wondering how the spam problem on #Codeberg is going: There are improvements! Nuking users from orbit is now x10 times faster if they don't have any repositories (among other things).

https://codeberg.org/forgejo/discussions/issues/61#issuecomment-1258744

Learn More About the Secure and Private Librem 11 Tablet PC.

No Surveillance or Data Mining by Big Tech the Way a Tablet PC Should Be.

At Purism, we value our end users as paying customers rather than products to be exploited for profits.

https://puri.sm/posts/introducing-the-librem-11/

@pezmico
But won't it wreck the economy?

Ah yes, wrecking an economy that favours these rich elites and allows them to distort democracy and climate action so they can get bigger numbers on their bank account and push their ideologies. Then transforming the economy into something fair, equitable and healthy, and not based on exploitation of people, natural resources and the Earth? Seems good to me.

"If we tax the rich they will just leave."

So?
Let them leave.
Pretty much anywhere they go they'll need to pay taxes.
They can't take the land, houses, resources, or infrastructure they're hoarding.
They're not doing us a favour, Trickle down is a lie.
If they're only staying as long as they can avoid contributing their fair share, why would we want them here anyway?

Either they contribute to the society that benefits them or they leave and free up their stash.

Bye bye. We can do better.

@conny_asf_ggg @rgulick

That's what poor whites will never admit.

That the public policies of Republican-run states impact them nearly as badly as black & brown voters.

They overlook that GOP billionaire donors, & their minions like Trump, despise poor whites nearly as much as POC and women.

Idle musing: wonder what percentage of people from the wealthy world who backpack internationally and spend time in poorer countries vote progressive after they've returned to their native lands. I'd guess it's an overwhelming majority, but I'd love to see stats. Is that even a researched demographic?

That our society succumbs to 'populist' identity politics is an indictment on our society and its average level of education and perspective (provincial rather than globally informed).

I released a small update (version 0.4.2) to Satellite, my simple #GPS / #GNSS app for #MobileLinux: https://codeberg.org/tpikonen/satellite (also in #Flathub).

The visible changes are the addition of 'Geoidal separation' field to the display data and a more compact display of various DOP values. As usual, there are also some small bugs fixed, and an update to the Gnome SDK version 45 in the flatpak package.

#LinuxMobile #location #Codeberg

@afeinman

Death is so complicated.

I'm even less sure what to do with the above idea that recovery from brain death is a thing when juxtaposed with this article about the outcomes for patients who have received CPR / resuscitation.

(Content warning: this article reports on some really upsetting patient experiences, and raises some really uncomfortable questions about end-of-life.)
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2023/05/29/1177914622/a-natural-death-may-be-preferable-for-many-than-enduring-cpr

What.

"Although the brain flatlines after the heart stops, and that happens within seconds, it doesn't mean that it's permanently damaged and [has] died. It's just hibernating. [...]the brain can respond and restore function again, even after an hour later, which opens up a whole window of opportunity for doctors to start new treatments."

New study indicates window of survivability before brain death is much, much longer than expected.

https://nyulangone.org/news/patients-recall-death-experiences-after-cardiac-arrest

Naw, I figured it out; they absolutely don't care if AI doesn't work.

They really don't. They're pot-committed; these dudes aren't tech pioneers, they're money muppets playing the bubble game. They are invested in increasing the valuation of their investments and cashing out, it's literally a massive scam. Reading a bunch of stuff by Amy Castor and David Gerard finally got me there in terms of understanding it's not real and they don't care. From there it was pretty easy to apply a historical analysis of the last 10 bubbles, who profited, at which point in the cycle, and where the real money was made.

The plan is more or less to foist AI on establishment actors who don't know their ass from their elbow, causing investment valuations to soar, and then cash the fuck out before anyone really realizes it's total gibberish and unlikely to get better at the rate and speed they were promised.

Particularly in the media, it's all about adoption and cashing out, not actually replacing media. Nobody making decisions and investments here, particularly wants an informed populace, after all.

I read this article as #JosephBruchac admitting a couple of times has no evidence of Abenaki ancestry or relations. He also uses a not-well-thought out black belt analogy to claim Abenaki "cultural membership can be learned and earned with hard work and sincere attention." This is a settler replacement narrative. Bruchac and the reporter demonstrate clearly in this article Bruchac's appropriator positionality. #Pretendianism

https://www.timesunion.com/churchill/article/churchill-joseph-bruchac-truly-abenaki-18391772.php?IPID=Times-Union-Capital-Region-spotlight

Latest comic on a certain pundit's infamous $78 airport meal

(For those outside the US, the commentator David Brooks has made a career out of piously trolling liberals for their supposed decadence and lack of morals.)

#uspol #economy #journalism #media #socialmedia

Proposal for a Cooperative Model for Digital Infrastructure and Recommendations to Adopt It.

https://infraestructura.digital/index-en.html

-- d1, just signal boosting interesting report

#Coops

We're still here, and we have a rare announcement of a new blog post! https://blog.snowdrift.coop/state-of-the-snowdrift-2023/

It mentions progress updates, challenges, and links to recent #sustainoss podcast interview, and #fossy presentation video (and older 2022 #libreplanet presentation) with updated, clearer explanations of the economics of #publicgoods and discussion of #cooperation and #collectiveaction dilemmas.

Ebook pledge aims to protect libraries and authors from publishers’ growing abuse of #copyright - https://walledculture.org/ebook-pledge-aims-to-protect-libraries-and-authors-from-publishers-growing-abuse-of-copyright/

Awesome, informative article from @luxalptraum about why online ID check laws are bad for the adult industry -- and everyone else, too. https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2023/09/age-verification-laws-and-the-existential-fight-over-porn.html

I’ve signed an agreement to write a book about ActivityPub for O’Reilly Media. ActivityPub is the protocol for connecting social networks across the Web; it’s what currently underpins Mastodon and will be used by Threads.net. The book should be available sometime after summer 2024.

The book will be a developer guide that will help programmers connect existing software to the social web, as well as making brand new social applications. Currently, developers depend on reading the specifications themselves, forum posts, wiki pages, blog posts, and other content spread across the Web. I hope that a single book with practical step-by-step information will make learning about and building with ActivityPub easier.

O’Reilly is the best programming book publisher, hands down. I have a dozen O’Reilly titles on my shelf, all with the famous engraved animal covers, and I use them regularly. I appreciate that the O’Reilly team sees the potential for an ActivityPub book. I have had a great experience with the editors so far.

I’ll update my progress here. I have a pretty tight schedule, but I’ve rearranged some of my commitments like graduate school to accommodate the work. (I’ll be getting credits from Georgia Tech towards my CS degree for doing this book — a nice bonus!) This is the first book I’ve written, and it’s going to require working code for examples, so there will be a lot of learning and work to do. But I’m confident this will be a step forward.

https://evanp.me/2023/09/07/activitypub-book-for-oreilly-media/