Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Open Rights Group fights to protect digital rights in the UK 🦾

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#DigitalRightsAreHumanRights

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Our two video reports on the #Nehirowisiw in #Wemotaci as well as a bit of context. Thanks @igd_news

https://itsgoingdown.org/voices-from-the-land-amplifier-films-chronicles-the-nehirowisiw-fight-for-ancestral-territories/

EFF’s Joe Mullin joins the Firewalls Don't Stop Dragons podcast to discuss why censorship bills like the Kids Online Safety Act will do more harm than good, and why comprehensive data privacy laws would be better for everyone. https://podcast.firewallsdontstopdragons.com/2024/04/15/protecting-kids-online/

Those on the left are modular designs, by the way (the wires broke when straightening :(, so I had to join the pieces. I don not recommend doing that).

The leftmost one is clever: the two pieces make two complementary threaded parts. But it's also rather weak.

The middle one is much stronger, and still weighs less than half of the overkill commercial saw on the right.

They cost only two afternoons of work :P

#woodworking #metalworking

Do you want to learn #hacking ? Does your local #hackspace have the right tools, like the #hacksaw ?

If not, don't worry. You can build one from sources. Exploit a piece of thick wire to get the OneWire saw!

Watch out while #bootstrapping : hack off the ends with another saw.

It's lightweight but robust. The only holes are in the blade, and the blade is well secured.

It can't attack flat surfaces, but I fetched a good branch and did a #penetration test. It's as good as the legacy design!

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/