Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

In Britain, agriculture arrived about 6,000 years ago with those Neolithic farmers. As at Blätterhöhle, they intermarried with the local hunter-gatherers, eventually absorbing that community.

But, several centuries after agriculture arrived, the evidence for farming starts to drop off in the archeological record and doesn’t reappear for almost another thousand years. Chris Stevens and Dorian Fuller argued in the journal Antiquity in 2012 (sorry, no full text link) that “cereal cultivation was abandoned throughout many parts of the British Isles in favour of increased reliance on pastoralism and wild resources during the Middle to Late Neolithic.”

People seem to have abandoned the growing of crops like wheat in favor of gathering wild hazelnuts, the shells of which show up in large quantities at sites throughout this period, and herding domesticated animals. Stevens and Fuller note that this period also coincides with population decline, which they suggest was driven by a worsening climate but which I wonder might not have been a product of the plague (genetic evidence for which shows up all across Europe around this time).

But the authors also note that this is the period during which monumental stone architecture, like Stonehenge, was constructed. So clearly the people of Britain were still able to coordinate and mobilize for massively complex undertakings, even if they had abandoned agriculture for a long while. It’s hard to square a thousand-year abandonment of agriculture by a sophisticated and energetic society with a teleological story about agriculture’s inevitable advance and structural advantages over foraging.

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/antiquity/article/abs/did-neolithic-farming-fail-the-case-for-a-bronze-age-agricultural-revolution-in-the-british-isles/DDC019088534FB8D35AF356D346842E1

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Uber is a long con disguised as an "app", to monopolise and enshittify the taxi industry, exploiting drivers and ripping off customers. This was obvious to me from day 1. I've never used Uber (willingly) and I never will.

The Chinese equivalent, Didi, makes it just as easy to hail a real taxi as a private car. Regulating to make Uber and its imitators do this in their apps is the MVR (Minimal Viable Regulation) anywhere they start to operate.

#enshittification #RideHailing #Uber #Didi #MVR

The Heritage Foundation has a tax-exempt status that depends upon their not engaging in political action. They of course do just that, with their project 2025.

Here's the form to report them to the IRS:
https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/f13909.pdf

If you want to learn more about that alternative, see https://mautic.org

The "we're going to take our ball home because you dare constrain or question us in any way" vibes from the Silicon Valley VC / big tech crowd are getting tedious. To the degree that threat has any teeth, it just demonstrates how much concentrated power these folks have, and therefore the need to constrain and question it.

At the moment:

US health care: disabled people aren't allowed to get married.
EU health care: immigrants can't use our system.

State park restoring natural flood plain in California:
https://www.npr.org/2024/07/25/nx-s1-5049899/california-state-park-dos-rios-flooding-climate-change

here's a case study on a #libre alternative to Mailchimp that I wrote base on our own experience: https://www.irrodl.org/index.php/irrodl/article/view/5763/5600 - search the page for 'Case Study'...

Register your Software Freedom Day event to be part of the worldwide celebration of free software on September 21: https://digitalfreedoms.org/sfd

Have you listed your local event on the OSM 20th Birthday wiki and the website yet?

👉 20th anniversary event wiki: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OpenStreetMap_20th_Anniversary_Birthday_party
👉 20th anniversary event map, timeline and birthday card:
http://birthday20.openstreetmap.org

If the Harris campaign wants someone to punch-up their insults, I'm available. https://www.dailykos.com/story/2024/7/26/2257885/-Cartoon-Kamala-Harris-s-roast-of-Donald-Trump

The history of the West is not quite what you learned in school
Josephine Quinn’s new book re-examines what people think they know about civilisations
https://archive.ph/PalvN

"The idea of civilisation, Ms Quinn points out, is relatively recent. The word was first used only in the mid-18th century and did not take hold of Western imaginations until the late 19th century..."

Latest comic: JD Vance is an anti-abortion extremist

#cartoon #politics #uspol #2024election #jdvance #abortion

Our secondary project repositories (website, hacks, api-scripts etc...) have now been migrated to @Codeberg. The old GitHub projects have been archived.

https://codeberg.org/bookstack

The titles below are at different stages of production and we're sharing sample previews with all of you! Order any of these books now and get 20% off. Use the coupon code: Preorder through 8/15. Shop the sale here: https://blog.pmpress.org/2024/06/01/take-a-sneak-peek-of-our-titles-available-for-preorder-and-take-20-off-until-8-15/

#books #bookstodon

Our worker co-op might be looking for support in writing copy in English/Spanish about our climate planning work.

We'd love to hire a co-op if possible. We imagine there'd be a bunch of work to start and would then be a consistent trickle moving forward.

Any and all suggestions are welcome!

Libs, I am begging you to understand that this whole fedi thing exists as a loose cooperative endeavor between open-source software techies, gay furry programmers, star trek nerds, and pinko queer shitposters.

It's not an Act Blue chat room, it's not the comments section at Daily Kos, it's not "Bluesky but with a bigger character limit."

Post whatever you want to post, but stop telling the locals how to behave out here for your comfort and acceptance.

Three companies control the market for school lunch payments. They take as much as 60 cents out of every dollar poor kids' parents put into the system to the tune of $100m/year. They're literally stealing poor kids' lunch money.

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If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2024/07/26/taanstafl/#stay-hungry

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@polotek @jrconlin @lightweight

The core point remains: Orgs will have teams that will "accept" a risk, but who do not provide budget for re-engineering to minimize that risk, and who do not bear any consequences for when the inevitable outages happen. They in effect outsource accountability for their requirements.

Those above them believe FUD and let them (try to) get away with it.