Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

The Ju/’hoansi protocol

Hunter-gatherer societies are highly expert in group deliberation and decision-making which respects both difference and unity

https://aeon.co/essays/what-the-ju-hoansi-can-tell-us-about-group-decision-making

Mozilla’s system only measures the success rate of ads—it doesn’t help companies target those ads—and it’s less susceptible to abuse, EFF’s Lena Cohen told @FastCompany. “It’s much more privacy-preserving than Google’s version of the same feature.” https://www.fastcompany.com/91167564/mozilla-wants-you-to-love-firefox-again

Jem Bendell - Breaking together Part 2

https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/podcast42124/episodes/2024-08-02T11_07_49-07_00

My political statment for the day: If toilet paper is free in schools and elsewhere, tampons and sanitary napkins should be free.

[New video] Massacre in Douradina and the Kaiowá Guarani Resistance

https://kolektiva.media/w/b3RMXGiXcpvuG9rDpgoKJQ

In July and August 2024, the Kaiowá Guarani villages and reclaimed territories in the Panambi - Lagoa Rica Indigenous Land, in the territories occupied by the state of Mato Grosso do Sul, suffered armed attacks at the behest of landowners. Dozens of people have been seriously injured. But no government will be able to stop the genocide of indigenous peoples.

At last night’s Lifehouse talk I was once again asked a question some version of which seems to be cropping up just about everywhere I do this: “All of this sounds great, but how can we *scale* it?”

I know I court puzzlement in answering that I’m not interested in scale. I’m interested in propagation: in the transmission of a set of guiding principles & agreements from place to place, for people to interpret as they will & make whatever use of that they can. The difference seems critical to me.

Reddit kicks its volunteer moderators and users in the teeth again, as it moves toward putting up paywalls on popular subreddits.

This is a company that consistently demonstrates contempt for the people who made it succeed.

We need genuine alternatives.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/08/reddit-mulls-showing-ads-in-more-places-paywalled-subreddits/

Hello! We are a small independent bookshop in Stow, in the Scottish Borders. We are no longer using Twitter, for obvious reasons, but could use some new followers on Mastodon and other social media channels - where our presence is smaller than on Twitter. Please help / share this is you can! Thank you.

Scam of the moment: "obituary content mills" https://elgan.com/scam-of-the-moment-obituary-content-mills

Braving the heat for #BlackHat2024? Come find EFF in the Business Hall! We’re in the 4400 section in the AI Zone 🤖 https://www.eff.org/event/eff-black-hat-usa-0

Week three of Republicans' "Act Normal" Initiative is a resounding failure. https://brianmcfadden.org/2024/08/02/republicans-manual-for-acting-normal/

Guy Debord: "The first stage of the economy's domination of social life brought about an evident degradation of being into having––human fulfillment was no longer equated with what one was, but what one possessed.

The reigning economic system is a vicious circle of isolation. Its technologies are based on isolation, and they contribute to that same isolation. From automobiles to television, the goods that the spectacular system chooses to produce also serve it as weapons for constantly reinforcing the conditions that engender "lonely crowds."

The spectacle was born from the world's loss of unity, and the immense expansion of the modern spectacle reveals the enormity of this loss."

Debord's The Society of the Spectacle (PM Press Edition) is available now! https://pmpress.org/index.php?l=product_detail&p=1655

#books #bookstodon

Why am I not surprised?

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2024/08/democrats-vp-choice-tim-walz-has-a-history-of-working-on-the-side-of-monied-interests-against-workers.html

I know it sounds paranoid but I'm beginning to suspect some sites are just deliberately fucking with Firefox in retaliation for its privacy controls.

Dice.com automatically redirects from the front page to the sign in prompt and then just continuously reloads the page. It doesn't matter if I have my addons enabled or disabled. Doesn't matter if I have tracking protection turned on or off. The only time it doesn't do it is if I'm browsing in private mode.

Loads fine in Chromium, though! :-/

"Gaza is a method. A Western method. Fascist, Zionist, apartheid, sadistic Israel is a pioneer, a trailblazer into yet more evil to be done from those above to those below. That is why those above will shield Israel. They are shielding themselves and their future deeds." ~Tarik Cyril Amar

The answers, without a shadow of the doubt, are that the people who owned the data before "AI" was applied still own the data.

As for a breach of Te Tiriti, I am considerably more concerned about the intended outcome of the research being a treaty breach in itself, than in the vendor breaching the treaty in a nuanced way.

The basic competence of everyone involved is the concern. This is central government advising Police, and they're framing the discussion as if data ownership is in doubt.

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We've written before about how the NYPD appears to already be disregarding its commitment to stop violating journalists' rights in a recent settlement agreement over past abuses.

This is yet another giant step in the exact opposite direction.

https://freedom.press/news/settlement-hasnt-stopped-nypds-press-abuses-at-protests/

This is my favor #Walz victory photo. Mar 18, 2023
Within a week of one another, Minnesota Governor Tim #Walz signs law guaranteeing free school breakfast & lunch for all kids in the state, & Arkansas Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders signs law loosening child labor laws.
The two parties are NOT the same.
#HarrisWalz2024

NEWS: Twitter/X wants to force people to advertise there, and they're going to court. Elon and Linda went forum-shopping, filing this case in Wichita Falls Division so that Judge Reed O'Connor was guaranteed to be assigned the case. Here's the complaint: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.txnd.393003/gov.uscourts.txnd.393003.1.0_1.pdf