Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Weather tracker: Saudi Arabia hit by floods as temperature records broken in Canada - https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/jan/01/weather-tracker-saudi-arabia-hit-by-floods-as-temperature-records-broken-in-canada "Heavy rain and hailstorms affect large parts of Gulf state while temperatures in some parts of Canada could be 20C above normal" and so it begins in 2024

One of the things I am learning from this Frederick Douglass biography is that there wasn’t just one “abolitionist movement” before the Civil War, there were multiple abolitionist movements, and there were a lot of ideological and personal squabbles within and between them.

Which is totally unsurprising when you consider the state of contemporary progressive and leftist movements.

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When everyone is screaming that you have to do "strategic voting" to keep the greater evil out of office, but the "lesser evil" is literally going out of their way to assist in an ongoing genocide 🤮

Trying to square that circle is enough to drive a person mad...come to think of it, that may explain some things...

Friend and fellow community techie @FreeScholar was in a rad punk / new wave band called The Phantoms.

Here's a great write up of her contribution to the 70s and 80s punk scene and how that inspired her to become a free software activist.

#Punk #NewWave #FreeSoftware #CommunityTech

https://disappearingmedia.substack.com/p/the-black-punk-pioneer-boston-forgot

IMHO: #Mozilla is repeating the #OpenAI process. A growing conflict between community driven/focused products and greedy managers thinking more VC (Venture Capital) style as they become more and more decoupled from the humble origins. This conflict will explode (I mean — asking for donations while the managers take home millions has a weird smell to it) soon and money will win (again). It's really a shame in this case.

2023 was incredible, in that I don't believe how much it sucked. https://brianmcfadden.org/2023/12/22/incredible-global-news-2023/

What's up with this, I wonder? #DuckDuckGo

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‘Queen of trash’ and employees arrested over #Sweden’s ‘largest environmental crime’ - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/dec/28/queen-of-trash-arrested-sweden-largest-environmental-crime-nmt-think-pink "Bella Nilsson’s company NMT Think Pink accused of illegally dumping tens of thousands of tonnes of waste" appalling

For everyone at #37C3 into #LinuxMobile and more broadly free software on phones in general: This session should be interesting: https://events.ccc.de/congress/2023/hub/en/event/smartphones-freedom-status-in-2023/

Secure, Private, Plus No Surveillance Or Data Mining By Big Tech The Way Smartphones and Cellular Service Should Be.

Stop your wireless carrier from tracking you by way of ad tracking technology by switching to AweSIM private cellular service.

https://puri.sm/products/librem-awesim/

This is a bad path to go down, imo. Incommensurable values exist. You cannot simply reduce all values to dollars and think that you have somehow accounted for them. An unpolluted stream; a human life; time spent with loved ones -- these are not things which you can properly account for by putting a dollar value on them. To the contrary, putting a dollar value on these things denies their *actual* value, and so serves only to devalue them.

https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/12/26/1084603/gretchen-daily-economist-environment-accounting/

USB C fanboys making false claims again…

No, USB C is not "universal"

- There are litterally multiples charging protocols for each device brand, which are not necessarily retrocompatibles for a same brand. And there no compatibility between different brands. Only devices/chargers that use Qualcomm' QuickCharge (Qualcomm chipsets only but far from all Qualcomm based devices, as most use device's brand's protocol instead), or USB-PD are "interoperable" in terns of "fast charge".

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Your year's not complete until you taste Panera's deathmonade. https://brianmcfadden.org/2023/12/15/paneras-extreme-menu/

@mkwadee

They should ALL face the consequences personally.

#Brexit was created to shield the likes of Smogg & Sunak from the prying eyes of Europe's tax inspectors who were looking into businesses & individuals who made their money in Europe, but from countries registered in tax havens, meaning they paid little to no tax.

When the #Tories said "We want our country back", the "We" wasn't you & me the electorate, it was "Them", the Eton/Oxford elite who believe they were born to rule over us.

Ohio grand jury to decide whether to charge woman who miscarried for ‘abuse of a corpse’ - https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/dec/26/ohio-jury-woman-miscarriage-abuse-corpse #murica has gone mad

If you don’t get any gifts for Christmas, now you know why.

Holy Shit. It's a Punk Rock Christmas Playlist for the Rest of Us

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLM-Kw-LTtPsh6A52O0fthDptcxMpOIp2b&si=4tHPg4JLTxkCYpOe

Celebrate or don't with this selection of tunes. Curated by your friends here at PM Press.