Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

New MailChimp TOS just dropped.

"We may suspend the Service to you at any time, with or without cause. We won’t refund or reimburse you in any situation."

That's encouraging...

Is there any good alternative to Patreon other than just making your own website and hoping people donate through that? I had some ideas for projects I could put on Patreon but I'm just not sure they'd get enough interest for the cost/time of running my own website to be worth it for me 🙃

Quick report on my first foray into Friendica. It definitely has some things going for it, but I'm not sure how I feel, on balance.

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Attn #Poneke #TeWhanganuiATara #Wellington #NZTwits

Talk on what to do about the #ClimateCrisis while #NACTional is at the helm, tonight and tomorrow.

Plz boost for reach

People are annoyed by Youtube ads. Instead of spending too much energy to disable ads, start to upload your videos on Peertube:

https://joinpeertube.org/en

Peertube is to Youtube what Mastodon is to Twitter. But better because people don’t need to create an account, they can subscribe to your videos channel directely with their Mastodon account (or other Fediverse tool).

My video channel: @oneploumshow

Let’s raise awareness about Peertube:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37906699

Welp, almost 50% of #Bandcamp staffers were laid off today. The #enshittification button push was inevitable as I said. https://nitter.unixfox.eu/modernistwitch/status/1713962311579234428

Hacker News discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37903172

More reactions:
https://social.lol/@stefan/111245993557957559
https://spaceballs.masto.host/@nedraggett/111245861885056429
https://www.gamedeveloper.com/business/epic-games-cuts-almost-half-of-bandcamp-pre-songtradr-sale

It surely didn't take too long for #EpicGames and #Songtradr to say "Fuck the Bandcamp workers for our bottom lines!"

I'm sure @bandcampunited has tons to say about this in due time.

Support them!!

"About half of Bandcamp was laid off today"
https://twitter.com/modernistwitch/status/1713962311579234428
C: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37903172
posted on 2023.10.16 at 13:25:33 (c=0, p=5)

New York: Freelance journalist @taliaotg was harassed, assaulted and her press credentials snatched from her hand while she reported on a pro-Israel demonstration in Manhattan on Oct. 8.

One of her charging cords was also deliberately damaged. https://pressfreedomtracker.us/all-incidents/freelance-journalist-harassed-press-badge-briefly-stolen-at-pro-israel-rally/

EU abandons promise to ban toxic chemicals in consumer products - https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/oct/16/eu-abandons-promise-ban-toxic-chemicals-consumer-products shame on @EU_Commission

After MONTHS of contention to try to get #Ithaca's Common Council to reject a bad deal where "nonprofit" #Cornell ($10bn endowment) would effectively keep being subsidized by struggling working people, Cornell's Board of Trustees approved it on their end WITHIN 72 HRS of Common Council caving to Cornell.

Wealthy elites are more than happy to keep being subsidized by working people.

I uploaded a 4K video showing the struggle + links; pls share with prospective students.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x476D930cbw

#SUVs emit more #climate damaging gas than older #cars do, study finds | #AirPollution | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/oct/16/suvs-emit-more-climate-damaging-gas-than-older-cars-do-study-finds

#UK #Environment #GlobalWarming #ClimateChange #Pollution #Emissions #FossilFuels

Killing children anywhere is wrong. Killing civilians is wrong. Taking civilians hostage is wrong. Attacking music festivals is wrong. Shutting off food and water to millions of people is wrong. Apartheid is wrong

Apparently according to right-wingers this statement makes me (Ukrainian Jewish ancestry) an antisemite.

#Israel #Hamas #Palestine

A great explanation/take-down of one of my least favorite #economics concepts: efficiency.

https://lpeproject.org/blog/who-cares-about-efficiency/

When Foster #Parents Don’t Want to Give Back the Baby
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In many states, #adoption lawyers are pushing a new legal strategy that forces biological parents to compete for #custody of their #children.

#Families #Moms #Dads #Kids #Courts #News #colorado

https://www.propublica.org/article/foster-care-intervention-adoption-colorado?utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

Children's book publisher Scholastic is doing everything it can to please bigots, which is terrible for education: https://popular.info/p/scholastics-bigot-button?utm_campaign=email-post&r=qs4z&utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

“Probably the most influential novelist of the post-war period.” —The Times

Two new books by James Kelman (and all Kelman books) now available for 20% off with coupon code OCTOBER until 11/1.

See them all https://blog.pmpress.org/authors-artists-comrades/james-kelman/

The vision for Aotearoa New Zealand being touted by one of the new Government's coalition partners relies on the maintenance of an extensive underclass of perpetual desperation, forever struggling just to keep their heads above water. This article describes how a vision like this works out in reality. No-one wants to be the United States of America. https://www.residentcontrarian.com/p/on-the-experience-of-being-poor-ish

The EU’s position of fining companies if people lie on social media is bumping into the messy reality that no one knows what the truth is in the middle of a war.

If they actually follow through on fines, the only reasonable solution would be to block anyone from talking about Israel & Hamas. Even a sitting US congressperson has posted images from a different event claiming they were from Gaza over the past week.

You can’t trust any breaking news from a war zone.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/10/14/propaganda-misinformation-israel-hamas-war-social-media/

It's offensive that the next Internet Governance Forum will be held in Saudi Arabia, which may be the world's most pervasive censor of online speech (up there with China): https://www.wired.com/story/united-nations-igf-saudi-arabia-russia/