Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

@themarkup has 15K followers around here, but they deserve many more.

The Markup is a nonprofit journalism site that publishes investigations and and tools to hold technology firms to account.

E.g., you can use their tool https://themarkup.org/blacklight to investigate exactly how a site is tracking you.

Or you can read investigations like this one into the police-industrial surveillance complex:

https://themarkup.org/neighborhood-watch/2023/10/11/accidental-spies-amazon-ring-owners-may-be-unknowingly-emailing-police

Beyond following, consider donating if you value their work!

#FollowFriday

A few months ago I got pretty annoyed with Gmail. The motivating event was noticing ads interspersed among my emails. It maybe wasn’t a super big deal, but it spurred me to realize that, while Gmail was the best-of-class email platform for many years, that moat has narrowed or disappeared. It’s now possible to pay for a service better incentivized to make product decisions for users rather than business clients. I opted to switch to Fastmail.

#email #web

https://chromamine.com/2023/10/switching-to-fastmail/

"While the university’s enrollment numbers reflect 87 self-identified first-year Native students, Logan said the number of engaged students with ties to their culture and communities is closer to 35..."

It's not only universities that did land grabs, but individual settler state citizens want even more. They'll check boxes and play Indian to get it. Self-identification alone is an open invitation to fraud.

https://nativenewsonline.net/sovereignty/cornell-university-says-it-will-work-with-tribes-to-mend-the-history-of-its-massive-land-grab?

“It’s easy to understand that when people arrived on this landscape, that it was a landscape that was shaped and maintained by fire and that it was exquisitely beautiful,” White says.

“It’s easy to understand that traditional knowledge of #fire should be integrated into fire management practices today, but, man, that’s hard to achieve.”

#forests #wildfires #forestry #books #california

https://www.rewildingmag.com/indigenous-forest-management-a-culture-of-burning/

Curious to know where this stands, 11 years on.

Stallman and Mance on solidarity economy and FLOSS.

https://stallman.org/solidarity-economy.html

@cheyenna @GuerillaOntologist

Every Presidential briefing includes this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYz8tYPE4q4

I think having basic programming skills is useful for high school graduates, but justifying it by the rise of AI is like justifying metal shop class in the 1970s by pointing at the new welding robots starting to show up at factories.

Teach CS and metal shop because they are useful and interesting knowledge, but not because they will lead to a job.

https://news.slashdot.org/story/23/10/20/0018202/codeorg-presses-washington-to-make-computer-science-a-high-school-graduation-requirement

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“We don't want to enable our language to be mined for our cultural and scientific content, to create wealth for the very people that stole all the wealth and resources from our people in the first place.” — Peter-Lucas Jones

https://e-tangata.co.nz/comment-and-analysis/the-dangers-of-digital-colonisation/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=16Oct2023

DOJ Antitrust Lawsuit- Google extends its control over the search engine market to include Apple iOS end users who may believe they are avoiding Google surveillance business practices by using Apple iOS devices instead of Google Android devices.

Read: https://puri.sm/posts/doj-antitrust-lawsuit-apple-sells-access-to-ios-end-users-to-google/

At this point, it is widely understood that Benjamin Netanyahu helped to support the rise of Hamas. “Anyone who wants to thwart the establishment of a Palestinian state has to support bolstering Hamas,” Netanyahu said in 2019.

But there is less discussion about how US foreign policy also set the stage for the events of October 7, 2023.

In an article published in 2006, we suggested that one way to make sense of the Bush administration's otherwise incomprehensible decisions in Iraq was to assume that they were not trying to suppress jihadism, but rather to create an environment in which it could proliferate.

At the time, the text was received as imaginative speculation. Seventeen years later, it looks prescient. It foretells the rise of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, predicts the extension of the label “terrorist” to ordinary activists in the United States, and foresees how the situation in Palestine foreshadows other ethnic conflicts and forms of mass repression.

https://crimethinc.com/2006/09/11/mission-accomplished-why-bush-is-counting-on-the-islamic-resistance

"By a process of natural selection, they have come to pursue policies that tend to get their supporters shot down, blown up, and kidnapped, because these unfortunate effects drive more supporters into their arms."

#FakeNews: Trump vs Biden 1-1

For all of us living outside #US, Republicans or Democrats…it’s the same destructive colonial policies we very well know…
The bombing is the same, the killing is the same.

Learn from #Cohousing, #Coliving and #IntentionalCommunities around the world at the #Sociocracy in Intentional Communities Conference
The conference will explore how sociocracy supports #ecovillages, cohousing projects and housing cooperatives to meet social needs through resilient, equitable and regenerative self-governance practices.

https://www.sociocracyforall.org/ic2023

We (@freerange) have started work on a new, co-operatively owned music platform https://jam.coop. We want to give musicians, fans and the people who work on the platform control, a share of the (eventual) profits and the confidence that we won't be enshittified by external investors.

I'm going to share some things here as we build it. If you're interested, especially if you're a musician willing to try it out, sign up for info at jam.coop - or contact me here!

#music #coop #rails

If anyone has any leads for how to tap into, or start, a conversation about what a #co-op run music platform like bandcamp could look like please let me know!

It seems like there must be a very large number of people who would be supportive of a cooperatively run AND FUN site like Bandcamp, that was self sustaining, supported artists, supported its workers, and had a clear governance model.

NoTrace Project
No trace, no case. A collection of tools to help anarchists and other rebels understand the capabilities of their enemies, undermine surveillance efforts, and ultimately act without getting caught.

https://www.notrace.how/

#Surveillance #Data #Privacy #DataSecurity

I asked my university co-learners to co-teach in teams. Each team presented a mindmap of their session -- posted with their permission.

#learning #ToolsForThought

https://www.evernote.com/shard/s13/sh/9b31fe7b-a8c2-4d0c-8032-31af000a871c/e8de2b264d6fa5adc71ccb20e8a9ede0

YouTube is blocking people who dare to insist on a modicum of privacy. The arms race heats up with a new plug-in that blocks Google's blocking: https://lifehacker.com/use-this-extension-to-block-sponsored-ads-on-youtube-1850932708