Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Lula vows to win ‘war’ against illegal miners invading Indigenous lands - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/jan/09/lula-brazil-indigenous-illegal-miners-yanomami "#Brazil president hosts summit amid criticism that easing of crackdown had allowed outsiders to return to forest areas"

Regulators aren’t convinced that Microsoft and OpenAI operate independently

EU is fielding comments on potential market harms of Microsoft's investments.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/01/regulators-arent-convinced-that-microsoft-and-openai-operate-independently/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

Out now!

Riding More with Less by seasoned wrench and rider Sam Tracy is the bike repair manual for everyone else.

Learn more and save 20% on the book and e-Book with coupon code JANUARY until 2/1 at https://pmpress.org/index.php?l=product_detail&p=1543

Our next interview is with the co-editor of this new anthology of writings by sex workers (out from
@pmpress We talk about sex work, the labor movement, and what solidarity means. Check in later this week.

Emissions from #Israel’s war in #Gaza have ‘immense’ effect on climate catastrophe - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/jan/09/emissions-gaza-israel-hamas-war-climate-change "First months of conflict produced more planet-warming gases than 20 climate-vulnerable nations do in a year, study shows"

Libraries will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no libraries. - Anne Herbert

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The Workers’ Way to Freedom and Other Council Communist Writings by Anton Pannekoek & edited by Robyn K. Winters.

“The most brilliant theoretician of libertarian communism.” —Mike Davis

Learn more & save 20% with coupon code JANUARY til 2/1 at https://pmpress.org/index.php?l=product_detail&p=1503

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

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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