Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

I am already a white male so for Halloween, if I just carry a bible and quote Ayn Rand, I can go as the legit scariest fucking thing in America.

Republicans are lying when they say slashing IRS funds will lower the deficit. For each extra $1 the IRS spends auditing rich tax cheats, it can collect $12. Defunding the IRS will INCREASE the deficit.

They want to help their rich donors cheat, while the rest of us pay for it.

Season's greetings!

https://tochangeeverything.com/

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GoGuardian monitors millions of students. We analyzed actual websites that the student monitoring tool marked as “explicit,” and found that thousands of students are flagged every day for visiting sites that are benign, and often, educational. Learn more: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/10/how-goguardian-invades-student-privacy

I read recently an article about the school system run for service members' children by the US Department of Defense ( https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/10/briefing/defense-department-public-schools.html ) which left me with a bunch of questions, so I tracked down some doc about their curriculum, which I found (at least the part I've read so far) eyebrow raising. Not in a bad sense, but in a "Well THAT is certainly an interesting choice; it is hard to surprise me and you have succeeded, sir" sort of way.

It leaves me with a new question: anybody know how to surface any data that might exist on what the political leanings are of adults who went through this edu system as children? I'd particularly like to find out if there's any comparative study of the political affiliations of adults who went through these DoD schools vs adults who were service members' children but went to ordinary civilian American public schools.

Can anybody help me out?

Solar advocates have an uphill battle in traditional coal country. But the ones that are succeeding are doing some consistent things right. Invest in local people and local offices, pay young people to learn skills, sell it with relevant benefits for people's real lives.

Good piece by Hannah Wilson-Black in Grist:

https://grist.org/article/how-to-sell-solar-in-coal-country/

#solar #GreenEnergy #JustTransition

This is a late and unexpected, but welcome development: the #DNT header has been judged binding in #Germany https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38081633

#privacy #www #web #digitaleselbstbestimmung

Today, award-winning incarcerated journalist Christopher Blackwell announces that all his life's work has been wiped out by the prison communications company Securus.

I was the judge who selected Chris for his INN Nonprofit News Award this year. To know that one business profiting off incarcerated folks could decide to wipe out a respected journalist's lifelong work is infuriating. This is a shameful assault on freedom of the press

#prison #journalism #news

"With more data at hand than theoretical projection, the evidence is overwhelming: Universal #BasicIncome is working nearly universally."

"In city after city and cohort after cohort — old, young, single parents, ex-convicts — universal basic income has improved health outcomes, raised employment, and bolstered childcare opportunities (and recipients have had consistently better outcomes than control groups)."

UBI works. We know that. It will reduce other costs.

https://www.businessinsider.com/universal-basic-income-works-red-state-blue-state-2023-10

We at the Times Tech Guild are walking out this afternoon! Watch our rally live on Instagram: https://instagram.com/nytguildtech/live/

#Unions #UnionStrong #Strike #Solidarity

If you're interested in donating funds to the development and maintenance of MX Linux, help would be appreciated.

If for some reason you would prefer a different method than the default ones - please contact us.

=> https://mxlinux.org/donate

#donations #MXLinux #PayPal #creditcard #Linux #development

I have a new blog post ready:

https://terikanefield.com/can-democracy-work-in-america-part-1-there-are-no-yankees-here/ 

We all know that the current proliferation of misinformation is endangering democracy.

I plan to show that democracy-endangering conspiracy theories have also taken root among MSNBC / CNN / and left-leaning social media audiences.

At the end, I will answer the question: How can we solve the problem?

I've you've been a regular reader, you will find some of the ideas in this introduction familiar, but . . .

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#opsec is hard, so let's make it easier.

This time I describe how to set up two-factor #smartcard + #password #authentication on #Linux.

https://dorotac.eu/posts/2fa_login/

It's a bunch of work, but now you won't lose your usual password to snoopers and cameras!

#PGP #nitrokey #pam

Just listened to a new-to-me podcast, that I will not be naming here.

Instead, a word of advice, from someone who's been trained in the basics of diversity-sensitive teaching to anyone making or aspiring to make podcasts or other broadcast media:

Be very, very careful with any use of cultural references.

Drew this one just before an insurrectionist was elected Speaker of the House

#uspol #cartoon #politics #fascism #democracy #authoritarianism

Two journalists who were wrongly convicted for recording police at a public park need help paying for their trial transcript so they can appeal.

Please consider contributing if you’re able. Court costs shouldn’t stand in the way of press freedom. https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-journalists-appeal-police-persecution

One of the frequent things that was expressed in those circles was that whatever was happening in Wuhan would never be as bad as the flu, so if you wanted to be worried about an infectious disease, be worried about influenza.

Consequently, people took that in the direction of discussing how to protect oneself from the flu.

And that was the first thing to come to my attention. All these people sanctimoniously repeating "six feet apart".

To which I was of course responding in my head, "Six feet? No, at least ten. Dust and Lyons, 1918."

But that just piqued my curiosity: where the hell were people getting 6 ft from?

Well, I chased it down.

It was the CDC of course.

🧵

If you are curious about the future of the Linux desktop, I highly recommend you check out @jorge 's Bluefin.

I've been using an alpha version on a desktop PC for a few months and I've been pleased with just how seamless everything is. It's nice to have a proper balance between a stable OS, usable desktop, and the latest and greatest desktop applications (auto-updated!). This is going on my family's computers the next time they get new hardware.

https://projectbluefin.io

Last day to register for the next NASCO conference. #Cooperatives #Coops #Abolition

Affirming Institutions: Co-ops for Social Change

Inspired by the words of celebrated changemaker Ruth Wilson Gilmore: “Abolition is about presence, not absence. It's about building life-affirming institutions.”

At NASCO Institute 2023, we’ll explore the role of co-ops in this map of life-affirming institutions that light our way to a world beyond punishment and exploitation.

https://www.nasco.coop/institute