Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Brihana Joy Gray sums it up pretty succinctly over on that other site.

I know it's hard to keep track of this after a couple decades of indoctrination by Twitter and others that public posts necessitate public dialog and that the commenters own their comments, but there really are other ways to do this.

#Livejournal / #Dreamwidth had/has an entirely different model. The original poster owns the reply thread and has total control over not just reactive moderation but pro-active screening. The person who started a conversation curates what other people see.

For the record, the US Government does not dispute that there is an on-going genocide in Gaza. Let that sink in. In a court of law, under oath, on the record - and they do not even try to dispute that what's happening in Palestine is a genocide.

https://truthout.org/articles/palestinians-ask-federal-court-to-rule-biden-is-complicit-in-israeli-genocide/

We're getting ever closer to the date in this comic, which I drew in 2012. Very cool.

Does anyone know of an explanation why exactly the wrong #needle on a #sewing #machine will cause dropped stitches?

When I run fast over jeans, it skips on the seam.

When I run it slowly, it doesn't happen.

#askfedi

Our weekly newsletter is out!
#WorkerCoops #SolidarityEconomy #Technology #Housing

https://newsletter.geo.coop/archive/cf24ddc5-49af-4be4-82c6-38bc75ba2013

@theconversationau Oh. Guess I'll take a break from reading The Conversation.

In "Things we doubt would happen in the U.S. these days"

My son's school has decided to close for the next few days because there is a respiratory bug happening. (In this case, Flu.) They are recommending consulting with local systems regarding vaccination. (There was just recently vaccinations for updated MMR)

I....am pleasantly impressed.

Well now I can't stop thinking about this https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2024/06/11/why-curl-closes-prs-on-github/

Thanks @bagder ! Now I don't want to use GitHub anymore! Or to work with my teammate (and myself sometime) that writes poor commit messages because nobody cares since GitHub hides them...

I also know why sometime I feel stupid writing commit messages that nobod will look at xD

😩 when reading blog post makes me sad! 😅

Between surveillance capitalism, indecipherable user interfaces, and digital technologies whose primary function is to increase electricity expenditure, it's easy to forget that there actually have been some worthwhile advances in software over the past 20 years or so.

What are your favorite examples of useful software, programming languages, and tools that didn't exist 20 years ago?

Age verification systems are surveillance systems. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/06/california-lawmakers-should-reject-mandatory-internet-id-checks

Wholesale bans on public employees talking to the press are blatantly unconstitutional.

People are entitled to know more about their government than PR.

Hopefully, other agencies will rescind similar policies without the need for more lawsuits.

https://www.voanews.com/a/reporter-s-lawsuit-secures-rights-for-us-jail-staff-to-speak-with-media/7656304.html

Introducing ProPublica’s 527 Explorer
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#Nonprofits known as 527s can raise unlimited sums for #political spending.

ProPublica is releasing a new database that will allow #journalists, #researchers and others to more easily search these organizations’ finances.

#News #DataJournalism #Journalism #Nonprofit #Politics

https://www.propublica.org/article/search-527s-finances-pacs-database-political-spending

One bullshit artist on Georgetown’s faculty, with the help of some pro-gun organizations that exist only on paper, appears to provide a major pillar of evidence that judges use to justify eliminating gun restrictions. His research is nonsense and his work is funded by the gun lobby. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/18/us/gun-laws-georgetown-professor.html?unlocked_article_code=1.0k0.2FGZ.X-6pzJp9ecZN&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=c-cb

The job of the press in a society like ours is mostly, I believe, to carefully curate those things which the public is allowed to know and which dots the public should be encouraged to connect, whether the connection is there or not. This is what always frustrates me about listening to NPR or reading the NYT: if you have any context to draw on for many of their stories, it's easy to see the lies by omission - but that can be hard to explain to ppl who lack that context.

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2024/06/nyt-studiously-ignores-elephant-in-room-in-article-on-nigerias-crumbling-economy-the-central-banks-cbdc-experiment.html

And that ends this thread on OpenStreetMap.

In summary

- Underlying OpenStreetMap is a database

- The OpenStreetMap website is a demo only

- To a lot of folks it's not obvious that the OpenStreetMap website is just a demo showcasing what could be accomplished with the data. Even here on Mastodon in our nerd bubble this is not obvious.

- Communication around that could be improved; and communication around vandalism and what it means if you see it on the website's map could be improved.

6/6

Right-wing state supreme court secretly refused to punish right-wing lower-court judges who violated their judicial oaths.

Just another day in the Republican firmament.

https://www.propublica.org/article/north-carolina-supreme-court-republican-judges-violations

Congress continues to push for censorship bills to "protect the kids" online rather than passing comprehensive privacy laws that would protect all users from predatory data gathering and sales that target us for advertising and abuse.

We detail what a comprehensive data privacy law should look like here at https://eff.org/privacyfirst

Still, with all that going on, we released a new episode of our A is For Anarchy series, ‘What is Dual Power?’ which was a look at moments in history where 2 or more competing political frameworks existed in the same time and space. We focused on anti-state moments of Dual Power and explored lessons from history about how to avoid them being co-opted by authoritarian reactionaries.

https://sub.media/a-is-for-anarchy-what-is-dual-power/

Another unexpected item on our docket has been the major flooding in the south of so-called Brazil. One of our core members was directly impacted by the floods, and many in their extended community were hit even harder, with some losing their homes. In the face of this disaster, we launched a fundraiser to support the Anarchist, Indigenous and Quilombola communities in and around Porto Alegre. A huge thanks to everyone who donated and shared within their networks! Work has already begun on cleaning up the wreckage and donations are already having an impact. If you missed our the original social media push, there is still time to contribute to the fundraiser here https://www.gofundme.com/f/espaco-mutual-aid