Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Friendly Reminder to #2FA users: Imagine your primary machine fails today. How will you restore your access to your online accounts?

Please ensure you saved your scratch token somewhere and have working backups of your TOTP app or a backup hardware key.

Thank you!
#Backup

Mourning the closure of Sports Illustrated by mailing myself old magazines spritzed with weird colognes.

@mekkaokereke What’s the point of grades? Is it:

FORMATIVE FEEDBACK: “You’re good at this, not so good at that. You did well enough at prereq X to take class Y.”

RANKING: “Hey, employers, grad schools, you suck at interviewing, but don’t worry, we’ll tell you: this student is better™ than that student.”

MOTIVATION: “Work hard or the institution will punish you”

CREDIBILITY: “We only grant degrees to people who actually did something”

These are all in •direct• mutual tension.

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I am fed up with trying to track down where I saved the most recent slideshow documents and other course materials (across three computers + 1 cloud storage file system), and I'm finding myself once again thinking that I really ought to put all this crap into a git repo.

So, I'm looking for thoughts on how I ought to format the relevant documents.

Poll below. Boosts welcome.

This weekend!

Book talks on Working It with Matilda Bickers and It Did Happen Here with Mic Crenshaw, Moe Bowstern, Erin Yanke, Jonathan Mozzochi & Pete Normal as part of the Heart of the Valley Anti-Capitalist Book Fair.

Learn more at http://hotvbookfair.noblogs.org

Is anybody #hiring for a contract, part time or full time remote designer/illustrator? I have lots of work on currently, but I am actively looking for longer term projects!

As usual, mostly everything you need to know about me is on my portfolio @ https://andycarolan.com - Let me know if you would like to see my Résumé, and I will get it across to you!

Boosts appreciated! #fedihired

The next time, the so-called tech leaders throw up their hands, asking, "What more could we have done?" I'll point to bullshit like this - where inclusion takes a backseat, and even the fucking girls' club is run by the boys' club.

To Blackbird let me just say this: the standard you walk past is the standard you accept.

When you read this investor memo, were you proud of where your money is going?

https://joanwestenberg.com/blog/dear-blackbird-women-in-tech-are-not-corporate-girlies

Excited to expand my freelance journalism portfolio in 2024

With bylines in Wired, The Next Web, the SF Chronicle etc, I'm ready to bring analytical and engaging storytelling to new audiences.

Editors seeking fresh perspectives, I'm keen to connect!

Found out the hard way that the wheels on the trollies at the local Woollies lock up before you get to the bike racks. I had 25kg of groceries too! I did appreciate the irony of the "Pushing for a greener future" printing on the cart actively preventing me from doing my shopping by bike though.

#cycling #woolworths #groceries

Support the International Anti-Fascist Defence Fund by getting this ALWAYS ANTIFASCIST – NO PASARÁN Football Scarf on the project to publish The Hands That Crafted the Bomb: The Making of a Lifelong Antifascist by Josh Fernandez.

Learn more at tinyurl.com/handsbomb

I will always support continuous and open dialogue about the limits of free speech and the responsibilities that come with it. I will never advocate for abandoning free speech. But we must commit to its true purpose: to facilitate a diversity of ideas, mutual understanding, and the common good.

In this light, an absolutist intolerance of Nazism is not an offence against free speech. It's the only way to protect and preserve it.

https://joanwestenberg.com/blog/nazis-dont-deserve-free-speech

I think it may finally be time to throw in the towel on all things tech and just start a ska band who's in

This is not great

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-are-alaskas-rivers-turning-orange/

BREAKING: PRESS Act unanimously passes the House https://freedom.press/news/press-act-unanimously-passes-the-house-now-on-to-the-senate/

Prosecutors have an expression for the rampant fraud enabled by Walmart's crappy security practices and loathing of consumer-protection regulations: "The Walmart scheme".

@ProPublica reports on an ongoing scandal.

Bottom line: Do NOT buy gift cards from Walmart. And if you have them, don't fall for scammers' tricks.

https://www.propublica.org/article/walmart-financial-services-became-fraud-magnet-gift-cards-money-laundering

I'm about to retire (again...) in a few weeks. I'm looking out for opportunities to give back. I'm interested in either speaking/teaching/workshops (very willing to travel) or any #OpenSource or #NonProfit groups that would like some UX help. I'd appreciate a boost!

One year ago today on January 18, 2023, Tortuguita–Manuel Esteban Paez Terán–was murdered by Atlanta cops.

In honor of Tort and to #StopCopCity, support the Atlanta Solidarity Fund @AtlSolFund if you can http://atlsolidarity.org.

Art by @nobonzo via Just Seeds

Once again, Teen Vogue is the place to go for quality political analysis. NYT and WaPo need to take some notes.

https://www.teenvogue.com/story/covid-isnt-going-anywhere-masking-up-could-save-my-life

My favourite item of transphobia from my mentions today has to be the dude insisting transgender women shouldn't get free menstrual products

Tampons and pads should be free and easy to access for all.
They're not a luxury item. They're a basic need.