Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

On Friday (12/15) at 7 PM, @subMedia's 20-year screening tour is stopping at Iffy Books. Come out if you can! It's at our new location: 404 S. 20th St., PHL https://iffybooks.net/event/submedia-dec-15

> Join the subMedia crew this December as we celebrate two decades cranking out anarchist propaganda. That’s right, subMedia has finally made it through its angsty teenager years. Before you know it, we’ll be setting riot porn to soft jazz! So before that happens and to mark this auspicious milestone, we’re throwing a series of screening events in select cities. A riot porn jamboree, if you will – culminating in a livestream screening party, where current and former crew members will be on hand to introduce some of our favourite videos, shoot the shit, and answer all your most burning questions.

> So grab some popcorn, a crowbar and a gasmask to celebrate the way only subMedia can… with a two hour cavalcade of riot porn, direct from our projector to your eyeballs.

A rare but welcome example of the federal government saying no to Elon Musk's endless grifting off the US taxpayer: https://www.reuters.com/technology/space/us-agency-will-not-reinstate-900-mln-subsidy-spacex-starlink-unit-2023-12-13/

This looks like a clear case of using AI to do plagiarism. I hope the companies whose work is being lifted sue the site out of existence. https://www.semafor.com/article/12/10/2023/a-financial-news-site-uses-ai-to-copy-competitors-wholesale

The year is 2003, and I’ve just made one of the most consequential decisions of my life. To throw away any chances at a respectable career in the film industry, and dedicate my skills to spreading that most amazing philosophy of liberation... #Anarchism! Yep, it’s been 20 years since I steered @subMedia into the creation of anarchist films, movement support videos, and lot’s and lot’s of #RiotPorn. It’s been 4 years since I left the collective, but the good folks running the shop are doing multiple events this month to celebrate this milestone. So big ups to the submedia crew for keeping the flame of anarchist films alive, and a shoutout to all the freedom fighters who kept us inspired throughout these two decades.

https://itsgoingdown.org/the-two-decades-of-subversion-riot-porn-jamboree/

Wow. https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/504617/us-edtech-deeply-embedded-in-nz-school-system-with-discounted-prices-additional-benefits Seems our Min of Ed is entirely unaccountable in their tech decisions. Their position is fundamentally negligent and cavalier in the extreme in my opinion. This should be a major scandal within the gov't.

NOT NEWS: Stanford epidemiologist who wrote 324 papers from 2020-2022 expresses grave concern about the proliferation of "extremely productive authors" who wrote a mere 180 or more papers during the same period, suspects fraud is at play, blames global South.

NEWS: Nature sees fit to cover it.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-03865-y

Media Nation (dankennedy-dot-net), which I've been writing since 2005, is a free source of news and commentary about #journalism, #LocalNews and more. I hope you'll consider becoming a supporter for $5 a month by clicking here: https://patreon.com/dankennedy

American pharmacies are handing private information about their customers over to the police without even a warrant. Contempt for privacy -- with potential "criminal" consequences in anti-abortion states -- has never been more blatant, or dangerous.

As usual, Congress can't be bothered to give a damn.

https://www.theverge.com/2023/12/12/23998869/cvs-kroger-and-rite-aid-will-hand-over-your-medical-data-to-the-police-without-a-warrant

Tune in this Thursday and Friday, Dec 14 & 15 to Unsettling Genealogies 2, a two-evening online symposium hosted by Michigan State University | a second annual Leslie Chair's Meeting on American Indian literature, art, and social justice. #SelfIndigenization #Pretendianism Zoom Registration:
https://bit.ly/3tRDgWV

Powley, Rights Recognition, and the Rise of “Métis Denialism”: A Response to First Nations’ Calls for Accountability #Metis #Indigenous rights
https://yellowheadinstitute.org/2023/12/07/metis-response-to-first-nations-calls-for-accountability/

Holiday recipes from me to you: https://www.gocomics.com/brian-mcfadden/2023/12/12

"Comprehension"

Good that Google lost, but kinduv a shame that Epic had to be the one's winning.

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2023/12/google-loses-on-every-count-in-antitrust-suit-by-epic-games.html

We are still looking for help with organizing our community events: https://codeberg.org/Codeberg/Contributing/issues/31

If you want to support our goals (making development of Free/Libre Software with libre tools easier), and do not want to contribute on a technical level, your help with events is very appreciated.

NewsMatch.inn.org is a wonderful idea -- matching donations to non-profit news organizations -- that is massively hampered by a dreadful user interface. Among other drawbacks:

-- It doesn't remember your previous donations, so you're starting from scratch on each one.

-- If you support more than a few, the process is tedious and repetitive.

-- Related: You can't make a batch (i.e. to more than one org at a time) gift.

-- You can search on only one category at a time.

We're organizing a small in-person workshop about federated/decentralized social media at Princeton.

https://dsmw.cs.princeton.edu/

We're interested in bringing folks who develop fediverse tech or admins that manage active Mastodon instances. We have some travel funding.

Ping me if interested, and please boost 🚀 to reach more people.

#fediverse

There's the saying "You can be a good example, or you can be a cautionary tale," and this is not the story of a good example

https://www.themarysue.com/cait-corrain-goodreads-controversy-explained/

As the brilliant Matt Levine shows, the ownership structure of "Open"AI is an absolute sham. https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2023-12-11/openai-s-investors-don-t-own-it?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJTdWJzY3JpYmVyR2lmdGVkQXJ0aWNsZSIsImlhdCI6MTcwMjM0NjQyOCwiZXhwIjoxNzAyOTUxMjI4LCJhcnRpY2xlSWQiOiJTNUlOTlZUMEcxS1cwMCIsImJjb25uZWN0SWQiOiJBQjUxRjdCOUYxODk0NjBCOEE2RDU3NUM5QUQzOUUzQyJ9.h0QchEUERk-PdyYZ5ScB61foGB-75rZfLATa0h8wjog

This Gift Guide Kills Fascists.

Knowledge is power, so let's arm ourselves to fight the far-right more effectively.

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See them all at https://conta.cc/41j4gPs

But I thought they had to raise prices to combat revenue loss due to inflation and wage increases. Does this mean—wait, no, but maybe corporations are lying to us?