Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

6 ways of thinking about social transformation

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_1zRblqMrI

I gave a talk on #cooperatives and #FreeSoftware at the general assembly of the @fsfe. The very very very short of it is the philosophies of cooperatives and Free Software share an uncanny amount of fundamental values, such as #freedom, #sharing, #community, #democracy, #autonomy, #learning, and #cooperation.

They both even have a litmus test: the seven cooperative principles and the four essential freedoms of Free Software.

https://www.ica.coop/en/cooperatives/cooperative-identity

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.en.html

If you're thinking of starting a Free Software company, why not extend your values into the social realm and found a new #cooperative?

I ever so often close the 🎵- player and when grabbing the 📱 I'd have to unlock it to just start the 🎵 player and then 🔒 the 📱 right away again (as there's #mpris controls on the 🔒-screen then anyway).

Hence I wrote a small #phosh plugin to add arbitrary "launchers" to the 🔒-screen via a desktop file.
This is very simplistic atm (as we e.g. don't track app-state) but gets the job done initially.

I only used it for that purpose but there's other potential use cases:

Our Newest #MediaIndigena episode 331 is out! "How might The Voice referendum echo for Indigenous peoples in Australia?" Plus three other topics from BC, Canada-wide, and X formerly known as Twitter. It's good to be back on the air with Rick Harp and Candis Callison after a several month hiatus. https://podfollow.com/1092220986/episode/7bf4860057294a5a20ce8d961ba796714352ec3e/view

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“Two activists from a Jewish-Arab peace movement were recently detained in #Israel for putting up posters with a message that the police deemed to be offensive. The message was: “Jews and Arabs, we will get through this together.””
#Gaza #Palestinians

‘An atmosphere of fear’: free speech under threat in Israel, activists say | Israel-Hamas war | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/oct/22/an-atmosphere-of-fear-free-speech-under-threat-in-israel-activists-say

Now that Business Success with Open Source is in beta and available for purchase in early release, I have the mental space available to start considering my next steps. The first one of those steps: find my next job.

What I'm looking for:

https://anonymoushash.vmbrasseur.com/2023/10/hire-me

#OpenSource #GetFediHired #plsBoost

Rapid ice melt in west Antarctica now inevitable, research shows - https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/oct/23/rapid-ice-melt-in-west-antarctica-now-inevitable-research-shows "The ice sheet of west Antarctica would push up the oceans by 5 metres if lost completely." #ClimateCrisis

Abolishing Surveillance: Digital Media Activism and State Repression offers the first study of how communities are resisting by integrating digital media into their actions against state surveillance.

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#books

@dangillmor The current Tory government's polcies overlap almost exactly with the policies of the National Front (a fascist party) from 1975. From 2017 on, the Conservatives have succumbed to entryism by the far right (much like the US Republicans).

Getting Our Tech Together: Montréal's growing community of IT #cooperatives.

https://www.solidarityeconomy.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/V3_EN_Tech-Coop-Report.pdf

I want to add that this comic is intended not so much as a statement on centrist Democrats vs. the Left in the US, but how the media always blames the Dems/progressives/left for Republican misbehavior and Trumpism. As another commenter mentioned here, this phenomenon is known as Murc's Law. https://whereofonecanspeak.com/2023/03/02/youve-probably-never-heard-of-murcs-law-but-youve-seen-it-in-action-lots-of-times/

Just saw that the Synagogue in Missoula had a dozen or so white supremacists "protesting" outside yesterday. Not seeing any mention of it in the local news today though. Also didn't see any mention of counter-protestors, which is surprising as there's an active antifa group in town, last I checked.

Reminder to stand in solidarity with your Jewish neighbors, regardless of whether or not you agree about Israel.

Israeli lawmaker is urging her government to use 'everything in its arsenal,' including 'doomsday' weapons, against Hamas

https://www.businessinsider.com/israeli-lawmaker-urged-government-to-use-nuclear-weapons-against-hamas-2023-10

At around 2am this morning, I heard these two spikey but enthusiast characters cavorting beneath our bedroom window. Because they were both noisy & incompatible with our lizard sanctuary, I put on some gloves, got a bin, and collected them for release in the reserve across the road in the morning... Keen to keep them out of the yard.

The privatization of public services and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race.

Proposed North Yorkshire fracking site becomes source of clean, #geothermal energy - https://news.sky.com/story/proposed-north-yorkshire-fracking-site-becomes-source-of-clean-geothermal-energy-12988955 fab idea: I wonder how many fracking sites could be converted like this...

Neglected to post this cartoon from a couple weeks ago: Always blame the left!

#uspol #media #journalism #authoritarianism #democracy

Next November 10-12 in Naples there will be the 2nd edition of the Reclaim The Tech festival! We're thrilled to contribute in a laboratory exploring "Participatory, Inclusive, and Community-centered Technologies as alternatives to capitalist platform".
Kudos to the great community bringing all of this to life! See you in Naples - Ci vediamo a Napoli! 🎉 Check out the agenda: https://reclaimthetech.it/programma-lab/"