Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Accessibility Question: Are there screen readers that do a good job with mathematics by reading, for example, LaTeX source code or MathML code? Plain text? #Accessibility #Mathematics

Very, very happy that our proposal for adding #cellbroadcast support to #ModemManager and #Phosh was accepted by @NGIZero : https://nlnet.nl/project/SMS-CB 🗼 〰️ 📱

#LinuxMobile

PEOPLE, I BEG YOU
post links directly to the source, don't use Apple News or Bitly or other links hijackers. if they decide to change the service or go out of business, we have lost link to the original source.

keep the web as open as possible. say no to link shorteners and traffic hijackers 👍🏾

The reauthorized FISA 702 was a clear dereliction of Congress’ duty to oversee the intelligence community in order to protect all of the rest of us from its demonstrated overreach. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/04/us-senate-and-biden-administration-shamefully-renew-and-expand-fisa-section-702-0

➡️ It's a Big Freaking Deal when we can move any #UnitedNations organization away from #Microsoft.

The system-wide IT shop UNICC has announced its move to #Matrix:

https://www.techradar.com/pro/the-united-nations-ditches-big-tech-in-a-bid-for-security

Notable that the UN has moved to Element (Matrix protocol) as the basis of its messaging.

I'd like to see tech journalists do some serious coverage of Element, which seems to be a genuine alternative to the centralized, rapacious tech giants that spy on their customers for a living.

https://www.techradar.com/pro/the-united-nations-ditches-big-tech-in-a-bid-for-security

THEY DID IT!!!!

My local library built the seed library!

The local Master Gardeners provided a lot of the intitial seeds (oh my gosh we are stocked!!!). They used an old card catalogue to store them. Today's the kickoff!

The idea is you "check out seeds" from the library, plant/grow/harvest, let some go to seed, then "return the seeds" back to the library!

Free seeds for everyone!

#solarPunk #postScarcity #gardening #mutualAid

Yes, this is good to see! https://activitypub.ghost.org Read all the way down...

ICYMI: Last night, students at #Emerson, #MIT, and #Tufts started #Palestine solidarity encampments.
https://mastodon.social/@ifnotnowboston/112311845322640669

@palestine

My #jewish socialist #ttrpg A Great Miracle Happened Here is in the #itchio Palestinian Relief Bundle. Chag pesach sameach.

https://itch.io/b/2321/palestinian-relief-bundle

Fortune to readers:

You want privacy? Up yours.

Only one choice: Accept.

Well, no, I'll just keep using an ad/tracker blocker, thanks.

Who killed Britain?
This Danish article has the correct answer: Thatcher.

"Around two-thirds of Britons believe the country is in decline, and it's not hard to see why. Real wages are lower than 15 years ago. A third of British children grow up in poverty, many millions have to skip meals every single week. The UK is not just significantly poorer than France, let alone Germany or Denmark. The poorest 10% of Britons now also earn less than the poorest 10% in Slovenia...

"A particular story of decay still plagues the country... and it goes something like this: the 1960s and 70s were a dark time... Then Thatcher came and saved it all with economic common sense, tax cuts and a necessary showdown with unions... But that narrative is fundamentally wrong... Margaret Thatcher did not increase the growth of the British economy... The post-war period, including the 1970s, was the time of high growth and major transformations... an economic model reminiscent of the one found in the rest of Western Europe was established... In the 1980s many countries lowered taxes, removed regulation, encouraged deindustrialization and privatized public enterprises. But Britain took exceptionally radical action. Today, it is Europe's most financialized economy, with very high inequality - and a very low level of both public and private investment in the economy.

"Four criminal acts have destroyed the economy.... Monetarism in the 1980s, deregulation in the 80s, the austerity policy of the 2010s and Brexit. All motivated by the same economic thinking... free market fundamentalism."

https://www.information.dk/udland/2024/04/hvem-slog-storbritannien-ihjel?kupon=eyJpYXQiOjE3MTM1MjQ5MzUsInN1YiI6IjIyMjUyMDo4MTkwMzUifQ.9_7QOpyn65Fg3-8EP-Enfg

Taxpayers covered a lot of the cost of developing this wildly expensive drug, which has enriched UCLA and a Big Pharma company to the tune of billions of dollars.

And this publicly funded university is now bitterly opposing all efforts to price the drug reasonably.

Disgusting, but sadly routine.

From @thelever https://www.levernews.com/universities-are-making-billions-gatekeeping-your-meds/

@emaytch The thing that is interesting to me about it is that being "federated" means being recognized by a single central authority (the VC-backed company). That doesn't sound like decentralization and sort of doesn't sound like a federation for that matter

"I serve with some real scumbags. Matt Gaetz, he paid minors to have sex with him at drug parties. Bob Good endorsed my opponent, a known neo-Nazi. These people used to walk around with white hoods at night. Now they’re walking around with white hoods in the daytime.” - Rep. Tony Gonzales (R-Texas) on CNN today https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2024/04/21/sotu-gonzalez-during-panel.cnn

Freedom of the Press Foundation (FPF) and the Society of Environmental Journalists (SEJ).

“The Intersections of Press Freedom and the Environment,” a virtual discussion and Q&A on Thursday, May 2, 12 p.m. ET

https://www.sej.org/calendar/sej-webinar-intersections-press-freedom-and-environment

Moderated by FPF’s Adam Glenn with Caitlin Vogus, who will be joined by freelance journalist Carlos Berríos Polanco and Halle Parker, journalist and SEJ board member.

@freedomofpress @SEJ
#Journalism #Environment #Climate

“Prisons show us how businesses would treat us if they could get away with it.” - @pluralistic 🏴

A bill in Louisiana, HB 777, would make it a crime for librarians to use public funds to join the American Librarian Association or attend an ALA conference, punishable with prison time and hard labor for up to two years.

#libraries #education #books #librarians #theocracy

The fight for Palestinian freedom cannot be won through symbolic action. The actions taken on April 15th cost hundreds of millions, if not billions of dollars to an economy that profits off of colonialism and war. Escalation has just begun. Palestine must be free in our lifetime.

https://kolektiva.media/w/3Tt1dEM3zpWuBwiHCRKkqW