Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

For a small fee, the law is optional.

4/ snip "For a few years, part of my job was to do outreach with high school English teachers. So I drove around all over my state visiting high schools & observing classes. The rich kid schools had tablets & chrome carts. The poor kid schools had textbooks so old they were falling apart.

The rich kid schools had happy, well-rested teachers. The poor kid schools had tired, stressed, overworked teachers.

The same thing happens in higher education.

Hedge fund managers & CEOs have captured the boards of trustees of most public universities. They're funneling all the money to the top, away from smaller satellite schools like mine & away from the arts in general. They're directing all the cash & resources to business schools & STEM programs at their flagships, and they're letting everyone else wither & die. They don't want normal people to get an education, not anymore. They want normal people to do undesirable jobs, at least until the right robot comes along."

Maybe it’s just time to say “fuck it” and #GPL all the things?

The #OpenSource movement was a response to corporate skittishness around using #FOSS, and it focused on very permissive licenses to make corporations feel more comfortable using it. Maybe that turned out to be the wrong approach. Maybe the #OSI helped create the problem.

If the OSI helped create it, #GitHub encouraged and exacerbated it.

This is part of the reason I couldn’t get to a good place (mentally) in order to do a _real_ “Saving Open Source” talk at #PHPTek:

From @geerlingguy: “2024 is the year corporate open source died”

https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2024/corporate-open-source-dead

@alttexthalloffame My much older brother tells the story, from his childhood in the 1950s, of my mother driving the car through the countryside and narrating what she saw so that her blind (from diabetes) husband could enjoy the view. My brother would lie down on the back seat, close his eyes and see the world the way his father saw it.

I think of that every time there’s a request here to include ALT text descriptions on Mastodon. It’s such a small ask with such a huge upside.

Solar is now being installed faster than any technology in history | RenewEconomy https://reneweconomy.com.au/solar-is-now-being-installed-faster-than-any-technology-in-history/ “In 2023, #solar PV and #wind comprised about 80% of global generation capacity additions (and 99% in Australia). This is compelling market-based evidence that solar PV and wind are the best options for new #ElectricityGeneration capacity. New solar capacity is being installed faster than anything else in history“ #RenewableEnergy

Just wanted to point out that unfairly raising fares for public transport is not only short sighted and harmful to environmental goals, traffic congestion and cost of living; it has also historically been the trigger for mass popular revolt in places like Chile, Brazil and others.

It's yet another example of a policy that's a penny wise, a pound foolish.

I also don't boost opportunities for developing proprietary software, because I'm morally opposed to proprietary software. https://davelane.nz/proprietary And I've shown it's possible to have a career working exclusively with #libre software. The more talented people who insist on it, the fewer talented people will write proprietary software, and eventually, we can get real positive change.

I like to boost about job offers in the #Fediverse. I won't however, boost any posts that include LinkedIn links. Because Microsoft already has way more power than it's earned or deserves.

A zionist dressed up as a Palestinian suicide bomber and shot a video outside the camp in a pathetic attempt to discredit it. CBC reports that McGill is now coordinating with the provincial government on their response, with the public security minister fearing escalation. The SPVM has withdrawn nearly all presence from the vicinity.

These are signs that the encampment is winning. Keep growing the liberated zone and making material preparations for its defense!

Taxing big fossil fuel firms ‘could raise $900bn in climate finance by 2030’ - https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/apr/29/taxing-big-fossil-fuel-firms-raise-billions-climate-finance "Levy on oil and gas majors in richest countries would help worst-affected nations tackle climate crisis, says report"

Weekly GNU-like #MobileLinux Update (17/2024): Funding for Cell Broadcasting support

https://linmob.net/weekly-update-17-2024/

#Phosh #UbuntuTouch #SailfishOS #LinuxMobile #PinePhone #Librem5

Latest comic: No-so-silent Spring

#leafblowers #environment #climatechange #noisepollution #cartoon #comic #climate #climatecrisis #earthday

In solidarity with the students and faculty facing repression in the US to protest against the ongoing genocide in Gaza we repost this video, made in collaboration with @subMedia

https://kolektiva.media/w/xmDYZs4fpQ182A7V4oWTne

We are now finally using Forgejo v7. We will try to introduce the most important new features in the next days to you.

Feel free to look around, and: It's bug reporting time! Read on … ↓

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