Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Media companies are pleading for presidential "debates" -- knowing perfectly well that these events would mostly be platforms for Trump's relentless lying and bluster on LIVE TV.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/biden-trump-major-news-outlets-joint-statement-presidential-debates/

What media orgs want above all else is money, and they are certain that they'll make money by putting on these programs and "covering" them.

Some changes ahead:

I'm leaving academia to "help people who are working to save democracy, and by extension freedom of expression, in part by helping journalism perform its most essential role."

More in my new blog post:

https://dangillmor.com/2024/04/14/whats-next-for-me/

#CommunitySpotlight: Are you concerned about #BigTech, but still cannot fully escape them? Do you use (or just learned about) alternative frontends for popular services?

Check out #LibRedirect on #Codeberg, a browser addon which redirects many proprietary sites to alternative viewers.

https://codeberg.org/LibRedirect/browser_extension

My new op Ed in @techpolicypress

AI is just today’s buzzword for “outsourcing,” and it comes with the same problems that have plagued outsourced companies and workforces for decades, writes Princeton University sociologist Janet Vertesi:

https://www.techpolicy.press/dont-be-fooled-much-ai-is-just-outsourcing-redux/

fence-sitters in the audience.

If your dunking on your opponents comes off as mean-spirited, or not in good faith, onlookers will be drawn to sympathize with your opposition out reflexive human compassion. If you're seen to be kicking people when they're down, or not giving them credit where it's due, the fence-sitters are going to be swayed as much by their distaste for your rhetoric as by the power of your logic.

(And I'm preaching to myself here, as much as anyone else). /fin/

It's just intrinsic to #ActivityPub that you can't share old locked (followers only, select list only, etc.) content with new followers / people newly added to your circles (etc.), isn't it?

Like, I think this isn't *just* a Mastodon problem, but I'd like confirmation.

Oklahoma's ruling -- and extremist -- Republican party is killing public education. This isn't happening by accident. It's by design.

https://kfor.com/news/local/she-couldnt-wait-to-work-for-ryan-walters-administration-now-shes-worried-public-schools-wont-survive-the-rest-of-his-term/

America's red states are tinpot regimes, where cruelty and racism are at the core of essentially all governing.

Latest comic: If media talked about the donor class the way it talks about college students

#uspol #cartoon #comic #college #protest #education

Starting over because I had the wrong link!

This week's blog post:

https://terikanefield.com/sex-lies-and-falsified-documents/

Last week I installed the cache plugin people recommended to prevent that error message when I first put the link on Mastodon. People still got the error messages and the plugin messed up my website, so deleted it and I'm back where I started.

If you get the message, lucky you! Wait a minute and try again.

(Okay, so there really isn't any sex, at least not on the page. FALSE ADVERTISING!)

The Microsoft-Dilemma - Europe as a Software Colony | Full Documentary https://kolektiva.media/videos/watch/cbb9f78a-9705-41f6-b7a3-e869e1a0e7f2

Nostalgia! At the Cineplex. https://www.dailykos.com/story/2024/4/12/2234745/-Cartoon-Nostalgia-movie-marathon

Aamer Rahman on Dems trying to shame him for refusing to vote for Biden:

"It think that a political system that ultimately makes you choose between GENOCIDAL DEMENTIA and CHEESEBURGER-POWERED FAKE TAN HITLER is a system worth overthrowing, okay? Maybe that is the conclusion you should be coming to instead of lecturing Black and brown people on why they don't worship the Democrats." [Caps in original, lol]

https://www.instagram.com/p/C5fBEmYp1VR/

- Why would you want #communism in Latin America ? Haven’t you seen how it ended in Russia ?

- Nope, we saw how it ended in Latin America with almost everyone who pushed for it getting locked up, tortured and murdered with 🇺🇸 support before being able to actually try it. So still want to try it, our way.

I fucking TOLD you. What'd I fucking tell you? THIS! I told you exactly FUCKING THIS.

When the predominant values and attitudes of Search as a Culture are all-in on consentless, wasteful, bullshit-proliferating "AI" garbage then "Just Don't Use Google" is NOT A MEANINGFUL SOLUTION.
https://www.osnews.com/story/139270/do-not-use-kagi/

The bike shop I work at, #REI, just got back to me to tell me that they are going ahead with their policy of installing cameras in the shop to monitor employees. They say these are not used to track productivity, but the CEO is a union busting ex-Amazon executive and he has given himself that power, so that's enough for me. My last day will be mid-May and I am now properly desperate to find a new job before I loose my house. Leads in the bike or software industry welcome in or around #Atlanta.

They wouldn’t get this courtesy if they didn’t have a union.
https://mstdn.social/@Mediagazer/112258864605905362

Good for Paul Waldman and Thomas Schaller. They are defending their book. And they are right.

https://newrepublic.com/article/180570/trump-rural-white-resentment-honest-assessment

"Spotify’s CEO is now a billionaire but it takes artists 334 streams to make $1. The company just enacted a plan to completely demonetize smaller artists. Under the new policy, tracks that get under a certain threshold of annual streams will receive no money from the company. Groups like United Musicians and Allied Workers (ig: weareumaw) are fighting to save their industry."

#Union #capitalism

Librarians -- among the most essential members of our communities -- are under increasing attacks from right-wing extremists.

lawmakers in Louisiana are contemplating a law that flouts librarians' freedom of expression and association (core parts of the First Amendment) -- which of course is the point.

https://bookriot.com/louisiana-hb-777/