Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

My #GPN22 talk about the hopelessness of organizing your files is up: https://media.ccc.de/v/gpn22-410-my-files-are-a-mess-why-the-past-and-future

The Washington Post is about to lurch sharply to the right politically as former Murdoch apparatchik solidifies his grip on the organization. Current editor Buzbee is out, and he's bringing in people from Murdoch's Wall Street Journal and the Telegraph (right-wing UK news org).

https://www.washingtonpost.com/style/media/2024/06/02/sally-buzbee-washington-post-steps-down/

Georgia’s politically-minded prosecution of Cop City defendants is fearmongering about online security services that are enjoyed by everyone, including Georgia officials and the public at large. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/05/georgia-prosecutors-stoke-fears-over-use-encrypted-messengers-and-tor

The new gov budget had an oversight mistake, where it reduced the income of some of our people already under the poverty line.

Rules as Code, with unit tests for what numbers come out of a bill/change (which is similar to a pull request) would have shown this. That, and treasury working in the open with their modelling. (but budgets are secret so we can't, but even on openly drafted bills with select committees we only get the output, not the code they used).

https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2024/06/budget-2024-nicola-willis-says-national-wasn-t-aware-tax-changes-would-result-in-9000-earning-less-income.html

Congress members call out the ShotSpotter product as inaccurate and discriminatory in letter to DHS to investigate the department’s subsidizing of the company for local police use. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/05/shots-fired-congressional-letter-questions-dhs-funding-shotspotter

Are you as tired as I am from people bringing up Munich’s Linux phase as a bad example?

Well, the European Commission's Open Source Observatory released a case study that comprehensively tells the whole story.

Instead of just sharing it like a reasonable person would I went full Charlie Day in a blogpost about how it applies to Open Souce in Public Administration efforts today: https://tarakiyee.com/lets-talk-about-open-source-in-munich-and-everywhere-else/

Can anyone give me examples of Western media that manage to *both* avoid white savior narratives *and* tell a story in which the more-than-human world is valued as something actually more-than human?

Kansas Supreme Court sides with edgy leftists, declares state not actually a democracy.

https://apnews.com/article/voting-rights-kansas-supreme-court-0a0b5eea5c57cf54a9597d8a6f8a300e

Everyone get your rotten veggies ready for throwin'! Internet village idiot Matt Yglesias has a take on self-driving cars and it is wild.

https://www.slowboring.com/p/self-driving-cares-are-underhyped

I shared an couple of article the other day about why the concept of sustainability is a trap. We need to lower consumption, massively and quickly. There is no sustaining the absurd levels of consumption we've come to expect as our gawd-given right in this country, no matter how many solar panels you put up.

https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2024-05-31/solar-project-to-destroy-thousands-of-joshua-trees

Happy birthday Nextcloud! Today 8 years ago 12 people founded Nextcloud to create a complete Free and Open Source alternative to centralise proprietary cloud services and open core competitors. Thanks to everyone! https://nextcloud.com/blog/eight-years-strong-happy-birthday-nextcloud/

We need your help to release the LibrePlanet 2024 videos. Some talks were not recorded due to a disk error. If you recorded the streams locally, you can help us complete the sessions we are missing and bring them to the rest of the community. #LibrePlanet

Albania, Bhutan, Nepal, Paraguay, Iceland, Ethiopia and the Democratic Republic of Congo now generate 100% of their electricity from renewable energy. A further 40 countries generated at least 50 per cent of their electricity from renewable sources. #ShareGoodNewsToo https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/renewable-energy-solar-nepal-bhutan-iceland-b2533699.html

You go, girl.
#IReadBannedBooks

We talked with McKenzie Jones about Tribeworks and The Worker Place.
#Coops #WorkerCoops

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ORxt6v8JWM

Alaska joins California, Hawaii, and Vermont in finding warrant aerial surveillance unconstitutional https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/05/alaska-supreme-court-takes-aerial-surveillances-threat-privacy-seriously-other

If you're wondering what #git forge to host your #opensource code project on, the right answer is probably going to be #forgejo. If the right answer was anything else, you probably wouldn't be wondering about it.

https://forgejo.org/

Don't want to host it yourself? Then #Codeberg is what you're looking for.

@forgejo @Codeberg

Latest comic on the looting of Red Lobster by private equity

#economy #business #corporations #PrivateEquity #RedLobster #cartoon #comic

Today in Labor History May 31, 1889: The infamous Johnstown Flood. 2,209 people died when a dam holding back a private resort lake burst upstream from Johnstown, Pennsylvania. It was the deadliest U.S. disaster to date. Bodies were found as far away as Cincinnati. It caused $17 million of damage (about $490 million in 2020 dollars).

Wealthy industrialists, like Andrew Carnegie and Henry Clay Frick owned and patronized the resort. (Carnegie also owned Homestead Steel, and Frick was the manager in charge of the butchering of striking workers that occurred there in 1892). They had built cottages and a clubhouse and created the South Fork Fishing and Hunting Club, an exclusive and private mountain retreat. They had also lowered the dam to build a road across it and installed a fish screen in the spillway that tended to trap debris. Investigators believe these alterations contributed to the disaster. Yet none of the members of the South Fork Fishing and Hunting Club were found guilty of any crimes. Furthermore, survivors repeatedly lost court cases in their attempts to recover damages due to the club members’ wealth and expensive legal team. However, public outrage did prompt changes in American law leading to one of strict liability in future cases.

The flood has been depicted repeatedly in American culture. Bruce Springsteen references it in “Highway Patrolman.” Rudyard Kipling talked about it in his novel “Captains Courageous.” The Paul Newman film, “Slapshot” takes place in Johnstown. It is also referenced in episodes of Star Trek, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and dozens of other poems, songs, plays, novels, and works of nonfiction.

#workingclass #LaborHistory #Johnstown #flood #disaster #classwar #liability #novel #books #fiction #poem #poetry #writer #author #homestead #strike #union #massacre