Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

In their book “The Dawn of Everything,” David Graeber and David Wengrow provide multiple accounts by early European settler colonists of the indigenous societies they encountered in the woodlands of northeastern North America.

Over and over, these Europeans noted that these societies were well and truly stateless, lacking rulers, laws, courts, police, prisons, or anything like what they were used to in Europe.

They quote one Jesuit, writing in 1644 about the Wendat:

“I do not believe that there is any people on earth freer than they, and less able to allow the subjection of their wills to any power whatever – so much so that Fathers here have no control over their children, or Captains over their subjects, or the Laws of the country over any of them, except in so far as each is pleased to submit to them. There is no punishment which is inflicted on the guilty, and no criminal who is not sure that his life and property are in no danger…”

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And don't get me started on their effective altruism bullshit. You know what's effective? Eisenhower-era tax rates on corporations and the wealthy. That would be so effective it would make your ketamine-addled heads spin, you dinguses.

Here are some photos of the Librem 11 that just arrived today. I ordered on day 1, hopefully this helps people understand the scale of the device -- see #steamdeck comparison.

My initial impressions are extremely impressed but I am pretty easy going considering I really like the pioneering in the #linux space by Purism. I'll write upore on my other account soon.

#purism #librem11 #librem5 #linuxtablet #linuxmobile #linuxphone

Can we please stop Hillary from speaking in public? If the Dems want to stand a chance in the upcoming elections, they should make sure to keep her well away from the cameras. Seriously suggesting that your political opponents need "formal deprogramming" is fucking wild. Talk about handing a box of ammo to Republicans. Is she out to stoke a civil war? If a Repub were seriously suggesting Biden backers be "formally deprogrammed" how would you react?

When Mastodon first enabled search of posts I'd interacted with, I started diligently bookmarking posts that I thought I might want to find later.

As of today, when I try to search for posts I've bookmarked for that reason, my search is flooded with every indexed post by anyone that ever used the same words I'm trying to search for.

It was a nice idea while it lasted?

Latest catastrophic data breach involves a company storing some of the most sensitive possible information about individuals. There will be no consequences apart from damaging those people's lives, of course -- because there is no accountability for any of this.

This is a government failure in the end -- and there's little sign that our leaders care at all.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/genetics-firm-23andme-says-user-data-stolen-in-credential-stuffing-attack/

Retailers close stores, blame shoplifters, but the data proves they're lying. Another solid report from @juddlegum and company at Popular Information https://popular.info/p/target-says-its-closing-9-stores?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=1664&post_id=137675685&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=false&r=qs4z&utm_medium=email

Not a lot of responses to my question about the best non-Mastodon ActivityPub platforms.

To elaborate a bit, I'm specifically interested in information about the best-designed alternatives to Mastodon.

Mastodon, being Twitter-like, was always rather clunky, but I'm not getting good vibes from the newest features, and I'm wondering if there are better ActivityPub platforms that are developed with a coherent design philosophy.

Journalists: if you're not writing about Tim Burke's case but you would write about an FBI raid of an NYT reporter, ask yourself why and reconsider

We recently wrote about the media's failure to cover arrests of independent journalists. Same applies here. https://freedom.press/news/arrests-of-independent-journalists-should-make-headlines-too/

Reading the late, great #Dakota scholar Elizabeth Cook-Lynn's memoir, "In Defense of Loose Translations: An Indian Life in an Academic World." I'm going to share choice passages.

"If you write about Indians, please write about praying to the Great Spirit or how drunk we all are since Lewis and Clark came....not about genocide, invasion, racist law and the hideously righteous and narrow-minded Christians who came and built schools all over the West to capture the young." (34)

What are the best non-Mastodon Activity Pub platforms, and why?

(boosts welcome)

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@gwynnion

I mean, it's right there in the concept... have you ever voted for your boss? How about your bosses' boss? How about anyone at the company you work for? Ever voted for any of them?

Businesses are NOT democracies. They are dictatorships. Anyone who says they want to run the government "like a business" is saying they want a dictatorship.

So fun to find this resource buried in the USFWC membership package. https://www.usworker.coop/shopcoop/

Along with @coopartisans marketplace, there's no reason to NOT shop co-ops for gift giving!

https://artisans.coop/

This is the Facebook playbook: you lure in publishers by promising them a traffic funnel ("post excerpts and links and we'll show them to people, including people who never asked to see them"), and then the rug-pull: "Post everything here, don't link to your own site. "Become a commodity supplier to our platform. Abandon all your own ways of making money. Become entirely subject to the whims of our recommendation system."

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Gotta love Michael Lewis embarrassing himself defending SBF. His explanation of the '08 crash, The Big Short, was wildly off base too, but that was too complicated for most people to sus out. This one though is a little too obvious...to everyone except Lewis. Thankfully, Coffeezilla read his book, so we don't have to.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B2z8ikGLRh8

The anti-science movement is "organized, it’s well-financed, and it’s politically motivated. It’s doing a lot of damage to the country and to American science and scientists. And now it’s become a lethal force." https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/vaccine-scientist-warns-antiscience-conspiracies-have-become-a-deadly-organized-movement/

Fascinating: I just received a response from the Min of Ed related to my OIA request - details here: https://fyi.org.nz/request/23870-rationale-for-funding-google-microsoft-software-for-public-schools-in-new-zealand?nocache=incoming-91607#incoming-91607 - they effectively refused almost all my questions, many of them because the requested "documents are listed in the
Ministry’s record management system as missing as at 2015". Whoa. Dodgy.