Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Meanwhile, the company calling itself AT&T admits that that the data it held about basically EVERY MOBILE CUSTOMER was taken by hackers.

Executives belong in jail, but they'll get even bigger amounts of loot because there is no accountability. Zero.

And Congress -- you can mostly blame the Republicans for this -- does absolutely nothing to protect us or punish this kind of willful incompetence.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/07/nearly-all-att-subscribers-call-records-stolen-in-snowflake-cloud-hack/

Yes, Windsor deceived Alito by posing as a religious conservative.

But Alito deceives America by posing as a principled originalist. Bottom line: The deception Windsor helped expose is far more consequential than the deception she carried out.

Read more:

https://freedom.press/news/revisiting-the-undercover-alito-recording-post-trump-v-united-states/

Journalistic ethicists condemned filmmaker Lauren Windsor's secret taping of Justice Samuel Alito.

But the alarming Supreme Court decision immunizing Donald Trump from prosecution shows why it's actually a prime example of when surreptitious reporting is justified.

https://freedom.press/news/revisiting-the-undercover-alito-recording-post-trump-v-united-states/

Chase Bank Smashes Its Own Windows
by Some anarchists

Multiple locations of Chase Bank ceased operations due to lockout in a coordinated attack as a result of war profiteering in #Gaza. Chase staff were forced to break their own windows in order to gain entry to the building.

This week, multiple locations of Chase Bank in Oakland had their operations temporarily halted in a coordinated effort to push for full divestment from Israel's genocidal occupation in Palestine. Bank employees and customers found door locks and ATMs disabled, and statements permanently fused to glass doors and windows. These actions were undertaken in order to expose and indict Chase for its financial participation in genocide through its remaining investments in military contractors, including Elbit Systems and Israel's economy.

The statements were adhered to glass doors and windows using a quick drying epoxy, resulting in a bond that cannot be removed. This caused Chase to have to remove and replace their own windows and doors. The method is similar to wheat-pasting: Glass is coated with epoxy, the message is applied, and then another layer of epoxy is added. Additionally, a thick layer of epoxy was applied over the buttons of the ATM, disabling the machine. Using this method is more discreet than breaking windows and results in the same amount of repair needs and financial damage to Chase. We value human lives over the capitalist's private property and see these damages as a justified response to Chase's complicity in genocide.

👀Read full communique:
https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2024/07/11/18867944.php

#Palestine #Israel #ChaseBank #Sabotage
@CrimethInc @subMedia @igd_news

Last year at San Diego Comic-Con I approached Lloyd Kaufman about an idea I had to revive The Toxic Avenger as a comic book. This year at Comic-Con we’re on a panel together to talk about the new series.
https://sdccblog.com/2024/07/ahoy-comics-makes-landfall-at-comic-con-with-panel-for-the-toxic-avenger/

PureOS: Now with optional subscription tiers to accelerate innovation. Support the future of privacy-focused, convergent computing. Your choice, your impact.
https://puri.sm/posts/pureos-optional-subscription-added-to-advance-development/
#PureOS #OpenSourceFunding #Purism

BREAKING: U.S. phone giant AT&T confirmed Friday it will notify millions of consumers about a fresh data breach that allowed cybercriminals to steal the phone and text records of "nearly all" of its customers, a company spokesperson told TechCrunch.

AT&T confirmed the breach was linked to a data theft at cloud data giant Snowflake. AT&T said the data breach affects at least 110 million AT&T customers.

More: https://techcrunch.com/2024/07/12/att-phone-records-stolen-data-breach/

I really like this manifesto/pep talk from Movement Voter Project.

I like how it shifts the framing toward *us* and *our* power, not just the people at the top of the ballot, whether or not they do or should get replaced. Smart way to think about the election and avert hopelessness

https://movement.vote/blog/batsignal3/

Now thinking about creating a movement to promote "hobbit software". Pretty chill, keeps to itself, tends to its databases, hangs out with other hobbit software at the pub, broadly unbothered by the scheming of the wizards and the orcs, oblivious to the rise and fall of software empires around them.

Oh, the Electron empire is going to war with the Reacts? Sounds ghastly, sorry to hear that. Me and the lads are off to the pub to run some cronjobs, wanna come along?

I'm thinking of migrating blog platforms. Folks like Ed Zitron have suggested something that at least tells me how many UNIQUE views I get, and the ability to have a subscribe button that isn't miniscule/hidden at the bottom of the page would be amazing.

Other aesthetic stuff is nice, but I've done fine with boring HTML.

Unfortunately, I can't find anything that has Mataroa's respect for privacy, and self-hosting isn't preferred given traffic volume. Any suggestions from Mastodon friends?

Musk is inviting his red-state pals to prosecute people who dare advise advertisers to stay away from his toxic swamp.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/07/elon-musk-calls-for-criminal-prosecution-of-x-ad-boycott-perpetrators/

This is what right-wing extremists like Musk actually think about free speech. (They hate it when it's directed, unfavorably, at them.)

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/07/elon-musk-calls-for-criminal-prosecution-of-x-ad-boycott-perpetrators/

Is there a list of current deadbird site advertisers? I want to stay current on businesses to avoid in my shopping.

Did you know 501(c)(3) tax exempt organizations are not allowed to engage in political activities, but Heritage Foundation (organization behind Trump's Project 2025) does and knows they shouldn't?

IRS form 13909 PDF: https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/f13909.pdf

#project2025 #HeritageFoundation #TaxFraud #501c3 #election #politics #political #USpol

We’re hiring again! The Mastodon team is looking for a part-time #Finance / #Ops Associate to support @mellifluousbox + @Gargron.

This is a #remote position and requires working proficiency in #German. Ideally:

› You have experience in #accounting + #bookkeeping
› Understand German #legal frameworks + systems
› Are great with MS #Excel!

Could also work as a long-term paid #internship. Can you refer anyone to us? More info/to apply:

https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/mastodon/f38df483-da29-4bab-9f0c-5d1b11e7c1d0

#FediHire #GetFediHired #hiring

I just used the money formerly used to subscribe to The NYT and WaPo to subscribe to ProPublica, The Philadelphia Inquirer and the LA Times.

I doubt a single journalist, if put before the snarling White House press corps, would pass the absolute-perfection-in-diction test they're now demanding from Biden -- and routinely don't care about when it comes from word-salad Trump.

Such hypocrisy.

Microsoft is suspending email and skype accounts of Palestinians who call home to Gaza. Multiple Palestinians mention buying Skype credits in order to make international calls home. But when they used those credits to call family in Gaza their entire decades old Skype and hotmail accounts were suspended.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cger582weplo

#FreePalestine #Skype #microsoft #msft #USPol

If Democrats don't get behind AOC's articles of impeachment for Thomas and Alito, even if it can't succeed, then they are profoundly unserious about addressing the corruption of this court.

Giving up is not a strategy.

@lightweight show them the UK where raw sewage is flowing into the streets while water companies pay out billions in dividend and demand hundreds of pounds extra in rates from citizens.

The fact that NASA operates an official youtube account that doesn't also provide direct download links for all videos, and isn't mirrored anywhere non-proprietary should be illegal.

I shouldn't have to make money for google in order to view NASA content. I shouldn't have to subject myself to youtube DRM in order to watch NASA content. I should be able to download any video NASA produces, since NASA can't own a copyright on them.

The #Forgejo maintainers are preparing for the next release - v8.0. Thank you so much for the effort you spend, we are excited to deploy the improvements for the benefit of our users.

Part of the work in Forgejo is paid for by Codeberg, thanks to the financial support of our non-profit members and voluntary donations.

Learn how you can chip in your money to liberate code hosting: https://docs.codeberg.org/improving-codeberg/donate/

#GiveUpGithub #BreakMonopoly