Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

@freakazoid @yogthos

I'm also quite a bit more pragmatic than you are, I think. Anarchism resonates pretty deeply for me, but it's not the only ideology that resonates. And, even at my most anarchistic, I still see some forms of state as preferable to others. I see clear advantages of liberalism over fascism, for example, if for no other reason than that a liberal state is less likely to engage in direct violence against people trying to build non-state structures.

@freakazoid @yogthos

When you put people into an oppressive system, there are many who will work to find ways of doing good while still being able to feed themselves. In our capitalist-state system, the choices largely are "work for the government or work for for-profit industry." And a whole lot of the jobs that will support positive work are working for the government.

Taking those jobs away would mean making people dependent on the for-profit sector, which is generally worse.

I don't know who needs to hear this, but Ghost now has import tools for Substack, Medium and Mailchimp content.

#Indieweb

Trump is worse! With dementia, war crimes, and sex crimes. Still, usetabee you could criticize a sitting president without qualifications.

No one in my deceased uncle's memory care facility supported another state's war crimes and genocide. So I can say with confidence that Biden doesn't have dementia. He just sucks.

Meta is downranking/hiding political content on Threads. The company says Threads will “not recommend any content/accounts that post about politics.”

Here’s the issue: what counts as “politics” is often any news abt people who have had their whole existence politicized, such as news about Black people, LGBTQ people, disabled ppl, women, etc. Climate scientists, public health experts etc also considered “political” https://www.axios.com/2024/02/09/meta-political-content-moderation-threads

Economist Paul Krugman: 'Disgusting' obsession with Biden's age ignores Trump's 'incoherent' rambling

#counsel #economist

https://www.alternet.org/trump-2667227342/

"If sanctions are thought of as an economic siege, then Indorca has been “sanctioned” since 2015, when we took control of the factory. That created a situation in which the former clients did all they could to take the oxygen out of Indorca...Then came the US blockade that is attempting to asphyxiate the Venezuelan economy as a whole. It is all the same thing, but the scale is different." ~José Cedeño
#WorkerCoops #Venezuela
[How Workers Bypass the Blockade]
https://geo.coop/articles/how-workers-bypass-blockade-voices-indorca-part-iii

Commons and Commoning: A Progressive Vision of a Good Society - an address by David Bollier at the Oxford Real Farming Conference.

https://geo.coop/articles/commons-and-commoning-progressive-vision-good-society

#Sony is erasing digital libraries that were supposed to be accessible “forever” - https://arstechnica.com/culture/2024/02/funimation-dvds-included-forever-available-digital-copies-forever-ends-april-2/

MiniDebCamp Hamburg 2024 will happen from Sun March 3rd until Sun March 10th, one month from now: good times and hacking together on Debian & FLOSS. On site food and accomodation, perfect for Debian Sprints. Still room for more sponsors, and for some registrations: see https://wiki.debian.org/DebianEvents/de/2024/MiniDebCampHamburg.

Semi-regular Fediverse question: is anyone from the NZ Ministry of Education here? If so, let me know (DM is fine if you want to keep a low profile).

Broader question: is anyone from *any country's* Min of Ed or Dept of Ed in the Fediverse?

"We found out today that the Supreme Court is not at all serious about its own Ethical Code.

Ginni Thomas was directly involved in the plot to overturn the 2020 election. The same plot that got Trump kicked off the ballot in Colorado.

Clarence Thomas is hearing the case. Hello?"

Motherboard found that firms linked to a16z and general partner Chris Dixon bought numerous copies of his new book promoting cryptocurrencies, which became an NYT Best Seller.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/n7emkx/chris-dixon-a16z-read-write-own-nyt-bestseller

#ChrisDixon #andreesenhorrowitz

Pretty active exchange happening now on a popular #highered, #edtech discussion forum about unexpected (mid-contract) and exorbitant price (105%) increases from Zoom.

I guess "pitching in" (https://www.fool.com/investing/2020/03/14/zoom-is-helping-schools-closing-due-coronavirus-fo.aspx) is now locking in!

Check out @bigbluebutton for a better option. Yes, this is an endorsement.

It's angry aro seed time!
This seed pack was put together for valentines day and for aromantic awareness week (the week after valentines)
Romance is a tool that can often work to isolate us and obscure our broader connections. So spend Valentines celebrating your connection to land, soil, seeds, plants, pollinators and more.
This is a blend of native seeds that can do okay if sown in february or march. Pearly everlasting, fairwell to spring, woolly sunflower, gumweed and yarrow.
If you're on Coast Salish lands in 'Canada', message me! I'll mail seeds to you for free!

#asaw2024 #beekeepingvalentines

Still hunting for a job.
I'm an experiennced web developer, using PHP (Laravel, Symfony, Silverstripe Slim4) or Python (Django), as well as experience with SaaS/PaaS, CI/CD, server architecture, security engineering and software architecture.
Preferably permanent role, if available in Wellington, NZ, but I'm happy to work remote.
#GetFediHired

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Google is too big to fail, and yet they seem to be failing at basic things they used to do well (like search) while removing useful features (like cache) and adding a bunch of crap nobody needs or wants.

Want to know if a given domain name shows up anywhere in search? Well screw you, we're not going to tell you that anymore, but here's 1,400 completely useless and irrelevant results that could possibly have some info (but don't). When the search engine could have done what it's done for years, and admit that it doesn't know WTF you're talking about and say "no results found." Now it just makes shit up if it doesn't know the answer.

Hey cool! My search result shows the term I was looking for is present on 7 website. Shoot! None of them are online anymore. How about showing us your cached version of the site, you know the one that was used to create this search result? Oh wait, no, you can't see that anymore. Why? Here's Danny Sullivan's dismissive and mystifying explanation: "“It was meant for helping people access pages when way back, you often couldn’t depend on a page loading,” Sullivan wrote on X. “These days, things have greatly improved. So, it was decided to retire it.”

Want software? Great, Google will serve a malicious ad on top that looks a lot like an organic search result but which is paid for by scammers and installs malware.

Racism is the policy of the Florida state government and -- given this official mandate -- the policy of countless local jurisdictions in that increasingly retrograde state.

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/florida-school-requires-permission-slip-for-kids-to-participate-in-black-history-month-events

Jim Crow wasn't eliminated, just hidden.