Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

In case you haven't gotten sick of hearing me talk about this issue, I was on CBC-Yukon this morning talking about satellite pollution: https://www.cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-393-yukon-morning/clip/16034585-the-story-one-astronomers-battle-satellites

The short version: satellites are super annoying for astronomy, but are completely terrifying for what they might do to the atmosphere as they deorbit in large numbers.

Shaping a Syllabus for Indigenous Podcast Studies (ep 338)

This episode is a live audience recording taped at the ICA 2023 Pre-conference, “20 Years of Podcasting: Mapping the Contours of Podcast Studies” (May 24-25 in Toronto)

This four-person roundtable brought together Rick Harp, Brock Pitawanakwat, Kim TallBear and Candis Callison to explore how producing for a primarily Indigenous audience compares to addressing a mass audience.
https://podfollow.com/1092220986/episode/398f6ca142cfac14ddcad7d6a3d873e18ab54dc4/view

@RollingStone should have written:

"ExxonMobile left #NewYork in 1989, three decades before #LetitiaJames assumed the role of attorney general.

Yet today, during a break in the closing arguments of his New York civil #fraud trial, Donald #Trump claimed that James was responsible for forcing the oil and gas conglomerate ExxonMobil to leave the state and move to #Texas."

#FactsFirst #LeadWithTheTruth #TruthSandwich
#TrumpLies #Journalism #Journalists #Press #Media #News #USA

Rest in power, Klee Benally, author, activist, musician, filmmaker, and indigenous anarchist.

He was a driven organizer with Indigenous Action Media, Kinlani Mutual Aid, Indigenous Mutual Aid, and Haul No.

Support and keep the fire burning: https://www.indigenousaction.org/donations-accepted-for-the-family-of-klee-benally/

« #AaronSwartz planned to publish millions of scientific articles, financed by public money and on which the authors received nothing. Prosecuted before he had published anything, he risked 35 years in prison. Facing this prospect, he committed suicide on 11 January 2013. 11 years ago.

In 2024, #OpenAI will apply its algorithms to any document, online or offline, without the consent of the authors. No one is likely to be prosecuted.

#IntellectualProperty is just a tool of oppression. »

@ploum

It's easy to fault the founders for all the things they got wrong. Once in a while, we should note when they got something right.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/ohio-woman-miscarried-home-will-not-criminally-charged-grand-jury-says-rcna132093#

A grand jury refused to charge the Ohio woman who miscarried in her bathroom.

Grand juries were added to the Fifth Amendment to check a potentially tyrannical government.

‘The wildlife that has come is phenomenal’: the UK farmers holding off floods the natural way
- https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/jan/11/uk-farmers-holding-off-floods-the-natural-way good farmers show how it's done

‘Astounding’ ocean temperatures in 2023 intensified extreme weather, data shows - https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/jan/11/ocean-warming-temperatures-2023-extreme-weather-data "Record levels of heat were absorbed last year by Earth’s seas, which have been warming year-on-year for the past decade" #2024 is going to very hot...expect lots of disasters and deaths...

"Adopting rightwing policies on issues such as immigration and the economy does not help centre-left parties win votes, according to new analysis of European electoral and polling data."

"..the analysis shows that centre-left parties promising, for example, to be tough on immigration or public spending are unlikely to attract potential voters on the right, and risk alienating existing progressive supporters."

Will they cut this shit then?

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/jan/10/adopting-rightwing-policies-does-not-help-centre-left-win-votes

Today, I'm very grateful we put solar panels on - and heatpumps under - the roof of the place. Enjoying carbon-free cooling right now. Yes, it's toasty in Ōtautahi.

Help is out there if you or your organisation are wanting to transition off of dangerous and socially irresponsible (and sometimes downright evil) corporate web services! Regain autonomy of your data, and stop supporting #capitalistDestruction at the same time!

We can help you transition away from:

- Substack
- Twitter
- Facebook/Instagram
- Dropbox, iCloud, etx
- Amazon/Audible
- Google
- Almost anything else!

You're in the right place already! Just pop up your hand and let us know what you need!

Let us help empower you *and* your community!

#fediHelp #cutTheCord #deCorporatise

Coming soon!

A new edition of P is for Palestine: A Palestine Alphabet Book by Golbarg Bashi and Illustrated by Golrokh Nafisi.

Until then, pick up & distribute the 6th edition: https://pmpress.org/index.php?l=product_detail&p=1666

“A book for ourselves that sings without apology." —Noura Erakat

I'm Aotearoa Wikipedian at Large Jan–July this year, based in Ōtautahi Christchurch. First up will be accompanying the UC Biology students as they take a week-long field trip to Cass in the South Island high country. I'll be showing them iNaturalist photography, Creative Commons licences, and Wikipedia editing, and improving the history of the local area, it's biology, and this iconic (and out of copyright in NZ) painting. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:GLAM/AoWPAL_2024

Announcing: A Field Guide to Police Surveillance!

We've updated and overhauled our Street Level Surveillance hub so it has all the basic facts you need to know about the 16 most common types/categories of surveillance that local PDs use.

https://sls.eff.org/

Had to revisit this nearly 5-year-old comic to make sure I didn't repeat any Boeing 737 jokes this week. https://brianmcfadden.org/2019/03/23/boeing-737-max-8-safety-guide/

Keep the fire burning.

All books & e-Books on Indigenous Resistance are 40% off with coupon code RESISTANCE until 2/1 at https://pmpress.org/index.php?l=product_list&c=48&sortby=num_sold:desc

#BigPharma #Patents #IP: "Rather than prioritizing long-term investment in research and development, they focused on protecting their intellectual property. The pharmaceutical industry gutted research and development of new drugs. They got rid of all of many parts of that process that they could contract out or buy from others. What they were left with were drug monopolies and that really changed how they behaved.

Today, by and large, the pharmaceutical industry does little to research and develop drugs. They buy up other companies that have done that research, often with huge amounts of taxpayer funding. As a consequence, if you are a company that profits primarily from intellectual property, what’s important to you is not doctors and medical researchers but lobbyists and lawyers, because they are the people who are going to extend and deepen your patents.

You have no interest in medicines that would treat diseases primarily suffered by poor people in poor countries; you have no interest in dealing with pathogens that could cause the next pandemic, because in all likelihood, a pandemic won’t be caused by that specific pathogen. They have very little interest in curing disease, because their ultimate blockbuster is lifelong treatment for chronic disease — that’s where enormous amounts of their time and energy are spent."

https://jacobin.com/2024/01/big-pharma-profit-public-research-patents-intellectual-property

Oh good. Score one for the Native Americans.

[Peregrine moon lander carrying human remains doomed after 'critical loss' of propellant]
https://www.livescience.com/space/space-exploration/peregrine-moon-lander-may-be-doomed-after-critical-loss-of-propellant?

2024's a big year for Congress if you like them on vacation or doing coups. https://www.gocomics.com/brian-mcfadden/2024/01/10