Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

For those of us who live in safety, it's easy to focus on the negative aspects of the internet and social media, and easy to forget the positive. Think of the most positive experience you've had on or as a result of digital communications.

Maybe it's a late night text exchange when you're feeling down. Or exchanging emails to coordinate lunch plans.

Then think about what it would mean for you if your access to that technology was controlled by someone who wanted to control or hurt you.

To everyone who thinks it's important to regulate young people's access to the internet:

Whatever policy or technological fix you imagine is the right solution, please---I am begging you---*please* carefully think through what the implications will be for a teenager experiencing active physical abuse at home.

My million dollar idea I want someone to steal and do, so I can be a customer.

"Dumb Stuff" we sell electronic appliances that aren't Internet connected. That's all.

That's it. That's the pitch. I would buy the <bleep> out of this company if their electronic gadgets were even half way decent, and repairable.

Electronic, no wifi, regular screws to open it up. That's it. Do those three things, and you can be sold by this store.

I will pay this business to curate and find these devices for me.

Shared by my Daughter
"I need privacy, not because my actions are questionable, but because your judgement and intentions are"

In response to "if you have nothing to hide you have nothing to fear"

Health insurers lie with impunity about who's in their provider networks. From Lever News: https://www.levernews.com/the-case-of-the-missing-health-care-providers/

The college rankings nonsense is getting worse: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/06/us/college-rankings-us-news.html?unlocked_article_code=1.L00.aBT_.3aBf3pGj7NuU&smid=url-share

Al Jazeera accuses #Israel of ‘targeted strike’ as two of its journalists killed in #Gaza - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/jan/08/al-jazeera-accuses-israel-of-targeted-strike-as-two-of-its-journalists-killed-in-gaza "Hamza Wael Dahdouh and Mustafa Thuria died after two rockets were fired at car they were travelling in, witnesses say"

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/