Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Important thread by @Teri_Kanefield, who wrote a fact-filled but cautionary post about the Trump ballot bans and got hammered by lazy thinkers for her trouble. https://mastodon.social/deck/@Teri_Kanefield/111717432190139189

Looks like this strip is already making the rounds. Fun with ethno-nationalist dog whistles!

#politics #cartoon #fascism #authoritarianism #democracy #comic

Florida’s surgeon general is lying to an elderly population about an entirely fictional and ungrounded “DNA contamination” risk from mRNA COVID vaccines. This will lead to unnecessary and preventable death, especially in a state that skews older. He’s a menace, and DeSantis needs to fire him (but of course, he won’t). https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/03/health/covid-vaccines-florida.html?unlocked_article_code=1.L00.M3dx.btHWU51xzHS8&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

Man who is married to a multi billionaire says he will make those who are on benefits and disabled pay for the tax cuts he wants to bribe the electorate with before an election.

He fails to acknowledge impact of years of his party’s austerity on people’s incomes and mental health (most benefit claimants are in work) and there has been a pandemic that has massively impacted the long term health of those aged 50+.

#ToriesOutNow
#GeneralElectionNow
#EatTheRich

http://tinyurl.com/yhxpazdd

Vote Leave broke the Law, and was fined £60,000. Matthew Elliot, former Chief Executive of Vote Leave, has been made a Legislator for Life by #Sunak in the New Year's Honours, by being appointed to the House of Lords.
Sunak also broke the Law, attending parties during Covid lockdown, and was fined for it.

When Lawbreakers appoint Lawbreakers to make UK Laws, what should the the rest of the World conclude from that, about the state of the Rule of Law in our country?

#EnglishNationalistsOut

FreeBSD Release Engineer Emeritus Glen Barber has had a rough few years.

He managed the last several major FreeBSD releases. If you've run FreeBSD any time in the last few years, it's because of him.

Now he's out of work and his car is busted. Can't get one without the other. Throw him a couple bucks towards getting some wheels?

https://www.gofundme.com/f/outofwork-and-need-transportation

Still opposed to ethnic cleansing, btw. Sorry no one in US government follows me.

#Breaking: #Trump's campaign directly orchestrated the filing of the #Michigan fake electors certificate, according to internal campaign emails

The docs =part of AG Nessel's ongoing investigation.

"The revelations provide further proof that the false elector certif’s advanced in 7 battleground states, incl Michigan, were not organic efforts by local GOP officials to ques election results in their states, but part of larger scheme by Trump's campaign to maintain power"

https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/politics/2024/01/04/donald-trump-campaign-emails-guided-michigan-false-elector-bid-kenneth-chesebro-boris-epshteyn/72097051007/

My Citation Needed newsletter is no longer on Substack!

https://citationneeded.news/citation-needed-has-a-new-home/

#substack #SubstackMigration

Important departure from the Nazi bar as @molly0xfff moves her indispensable newsletter, previously on Substack, to a self-hosted (open-source) Ghost setup. If you already subscribe and pay, as I do, it should just work for you with no visible change.

Kudos, and I look forward to more current Substack users making the same ethical decision. https://mollywhite.substack.com/p/citation-needed-has-moved?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=1109312&post_id=140394052&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=qs4z&utm_medium=email

Our University of Alberta Faculty of Native Studies Indigenous Technoscience Microcredential series, a fully online course series in three parts and accessible to the public, launches April 2, 2024. Part 1 runs April 2-June 3, 2024.

Are you a professional working in science, policy, and ethics fields who wants to understand the role of science and technology in colonialism in order to help change those patterns? This course is also open to anyone with interest.

https://www.ualberta.ca/native-studies/programs/continuing-education/indigenous-technoscience-microcredential/indigenous-people-as-subjects-objects.html

Meet the cryptid candidates! https://brianmcfadden.org/2023/12/29/republican-primaries-cryptid-candidates/

In 2023, Cargill jacked up the price of Diamond Crystal Kosher Salt

Their goal: increase annual revenue more than 10-fold, from $3 million to $50 million.

How? REDESIGN THE BOX + Jack prices

Early 2020
~$3.49 for 3# box.

Today, Diamond Crystal store price on Amazon:
- $108.95, case of nine 3# boxes, delivered ($12.11 per box)
- $13.29, 3# box delivered
- $8.99, 1# box delivered

I am #CrowdSourcing price info:
https://forms.gle/ncvBB34tXwFBTmY1A
Form does not track!

TIA for help/boost!

Signal boosting this fundraising campaign from a technology co-op which has members in #Gaza. It was posted on the CoTech forum.

https://community.coops.tech/t/fundraising-appeal-for-gaza/3753

The video on the gofundme is worth a watch.

https://www.gofundme.com/f/9qf6nz-hope-beyond-borders-yallas-gaza-crisis-fund

More context: https://www.yallacooperative.com/story-and-team

Boosts welcome.

#Coops #Coop #TechCoop #Cooperatives

Consider the possibility that all the articles that assure you running your own #libre services (i.e. self-hosting or hosting on a rented VPS) is "too hard"... are writing for media organisations funded by advertising from proprietary SaaS providers or are, in many cases, SaaS providers themselves. Yes, it's unethical, but it's in their interest to do that. You can always try it and decide for yourself. Here're a bunch of our recipes: https://tech.oeru.org Trying them'll cost you approx $0.

Watching all the different levels of proprietary OS & software hand wringing going on about 'not owning my own computer', lost privacy, CoPilot, ads on the desktop, etc. evident even here in the very #libre-heavy Fediverse, I thank my lucky stars that I dumped proprietary for a fully #libre computing experience back in **checks notes... 1994. Yup. I missed Win95 and later. I've never owned an Apple product. Never used Adobe or Microsoft anything. Chuffed as.

I'd love to hear she had a road to Damascus moment and deeply regretted taking the job... But short of evidence of that, I do think less of people who work for them, especially those who do so knowingly. I feel bad for those who do so unwittingly, because they're dangerously oblivious (some willfully so).

The Republican party is one big crime syndicate

Clarence Thomas Is Committing Tax Fraud

https://jacobin.com/2023/12/clarence-thomas-is-committing-tax-fraud

Car makers are relentlessly spying on you, and if you use their apps you are helping them -- and stalkers and abusive partners -- do even worse.

Car makers are completely indifferent to the harm they assist.

Lawmakers are completely indifferent to the harm.

Don't install the app, period. The car maker will still spy on you, but at least an abusive partner will have more difficulty doing it.

https://archive.md/7lhOw

If this is true, I am so disappointed in Wordpress (where I used to work). They were the leader in customer support, keeping it all in-house and requiring all employees to spend time doing support. If they really just hooked a LLM bot up to their email support, they're ruining their own reputation, and I've lost my last example of a company doing support right.
https://social.panic.com/@cabel/111692900717018267