Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

I've been drawing strips for years about attacks on students' right to protest, yet strangely I've never been invited to give a TED Talk, speak at an "ideas festival," or pen a column for the Atlantic.

This is from 2016.

#uspol #cartoon #protest #college #firstamendment

#Social.coop has been discussing whether to disable images on May 16 and October 10 for #WorldSightDay, as suggested here https://stefanbohacek.online/@stefan/112275637561897034.

One concern raised about this proposal is that it is symbolic and might not do anything to improve the lives of people with visual impairments.

I would like to hear perspectives from people with visual impairments on whether this kind of action is helpful.

(boosts welcome; please only reply if you rely on alt text)

#accessibility
#a11y
#AltText

Human rights and civil liberties should be protected on the internet—even in times of conflict and war. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/10/internet-access-shouldnt-be-bargaining-chip-geopolitical-battles

Again for people (racists), complaining about falling birth rates:

The birth rate for women over 40 is not falling. The birth rate for women over 30 is not falling.

What's happening, is girls 15 to 17 are having fewer babies. Kids are having fewer kids.

Also, this is an interesting way of saying that "Teen pregnancy is down, due to sex education and contraception."

In 1991 25% of 15 year olds gave birth before they turned 21. That's bad. Now it's 6%. That's better.

https://npr.org/2023/01/08/1147737247/teen-pregnancy-rates-have-declined-significantly

https://kolektiva.media/w/f1kXi1z9ELDb6knogGyMSC

SCHOOL'S OUT!🏴🏴🏴

https://kolektiva.media/w/aDk64FRqpmdf9o6vh1aH8t

In light of the recent resurgence of student organizing in the US and elsewhere in solidarity with Palestine we're rewatching our Trouble episodes, 9 & 10 "Learning to Resist" and "School's Out".

“Protests that are going to disrupt our courses … if that happens in any classroom whatsoever, faculty should call the police.”

Kenneth Lutcheon, @BU_Tweets provost, 2024 faculty assembly.

#shell #trick with which I surprised greybeards at the local hackerspace (which was surprising cause I'm the opposite of a #bash expert):

mv photo{tocheck,supercool}.jpg

is the same as

mv phototocheck.jpg photosupercool.jpg

The shell copies an argument with {,} inside, and each resulting argument has a different part of what's in {}.

rm plan.{md,svg,png,odt}

Have fun!

#linux #unix #sh #tip

Been thinking a lot lately about this 2016 podcast: https://radioopensource.org/democracys-dark-side/

Every city is held hostage by the dumbest guys you knew in high school. https://www.dailykos.com/story/2024/4/26/2237354/-Cartoon-A-conversation-with-the-boot-on-your-face

Everybody saying this is some kind of mask-off moment for American politics must be too young to remember the WTO protests, the Occupy protests, Standing Rock, and BLM. They must not have been around to hear Madelaine Albright say killing 500K Iraqi children with our sanctions was "worth it to send a message." They must not have been around for Obama's kill lists and Bush's black sites.

So either I'm surrounded by children or ya'll have the memories of fucking goldfish. Just sayin'.

The Forgejo team invites to the release party in a few hours (12.00 UTC): https://codeberg.codeberg.page/Events/events/2024/04-27-forgejo-event/

If your project on #Codeberg has similar events to share, make sure to publish them to the Codeberg Event Calendar: https://codeberg.org/Codeberg/Events/

#Forgejo v7.0.1 was just released! This is a bug fix release.

We strongly recommend that all installations are upgraded to the latest version as soon as possible.

It fixes a LFS data corruption when running forgejo doctor check --all --fix or when [cron.gc_lfs].ENABLED=true is set (the default is false).

Check out the release notes and download it at https://forgejo.org/releases/. If you experience any issues with this release, please report to https://codeberg.org/forgejo/forgejo/issues.

The most personal data from more than 13 million people who have healthcare from Kaiser Permanente was given to Microsoft, Google and others. How? Looks like Kaiser's web/mobile applications went all in with the spyware Big Tech seeds into everything it can.

https://www.theregister.com/2024/04/26/kaiser_patient_data/

The people who run Kaiser should lose their jobs for this. They won't. They'll blame some underlings who won't be held accountable in any real way.

Ad-tech is cancer on privacy. And it's everywhere. Use blockers!

Columbia University’s President was so bad at basic strategic comms that now we’ve got police snipers on the roofs of campuses around the country.

I got a little mad about it in my latest post.

https://open.substack.com/pub/davekarpf/p/the-only-thing-university-administrators?r=eeyg&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

It’s #STFUfriday!

When cops ask you questions, ask for a lawyer and then STFU:

- I am not discussing how I’m doing or where I’m going.

- Am I free to leave?

- I am not answering any questions.

- If they ask to search anything: "I do not consent to a search."

- I want to speak to a lawyer.

Cops are only REQUIRED to give you Miranda warnings if you are “in custody.” “Not free to go” is an oversimplification.

Remember you can always invoke your rights even when you aren’t in custody.🧵

The fediverse has deep issues when it comes to environmental sustainability.

I wrote a thing https://thedabbler.patatas.ca/pages/slow-fedi.html that looks at why that is, and suggests some practical steps we can take to improve things.

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@lwriemen
I've heard it a fair bit watching fighting games, but honestly as much from POC content creators as white ones. I've heard it used as both a derogatory term for gear elitists, and as a boast from...well, gear elitists...but usually in a self-aware, tongue-in-cheek manner. The opposing term is "console peasant." Apart from the obvious reference, it doesn't have anything to do with the third reich.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_SGU4NH79Y