Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Obviously never actually used any modern Linux distro 🙃
ChannelLife New Zealand: New Zealand firm unveils eco-friendly OS for older computers
https://channellife.co.nz/story/new-zealand-firm-unveils-eco-friendly-os-for-older-computers

This is very cool to see this from #GNURadio... a case study of a sensible (principled - for all the right reasons) move from Slack to Matrix: https://www.gnuradio.org/news/2020-04-27-moving-to-the-matrix/ And it happened 4 years ago...

I just contemplated for a minute how awesome it is that @Codeberg exists. I was reformatting the link to codeberg on my (these days empty-ish) github profile and it felt like the most normal thing that most of my repositories now live on an independent, community-led platform ... but it's totally not!

Some people set out to make it happen and put in so much energy and personal time and resources, and they made it happen! And still every day there's a few incredibly dedicated core volunteers behind the scenes, keeping things running for us all, and hundreds of members providing funds and oversight, and devs building forgejo and so on ... what a marvel of the free software movement. Also love the political energy behind it and that people are mostly very clear on the mission: Tech is political. Code is political. And we better make damn sure we make it good politics!! (•̀ᴗ•́)و

Is it just me, or when you hear someone talk about something being 'impactful', do you think... what happened to excellent words like 'important', 'vital', or 'profound', among many others? To me that word is vacuous corporate/government-speak. Yuck.

Last call to get a PM Press/Autumn Leaves tote when you become a Friend of PM in the month of August: https://pmpress.org/index.php?l=product_detail&p=1

Our GoFundMe has been up for just over a week now and we’d like to extend out most sincere Thank You to everyone who liked, shared and donated. If you haven't seen it yet check it out at gofundme.com/interrebellium

We have begun work on the first episode of InterRebellium which we hope to release this fall. We’re beyond stoked to be making these connections and collaborating with anarchists around the globe for this project.

@NanoRaptor Check on those pawpaws every day, because they're riper than you think.

(Not a lot of critical decisions this month.)

To answer the headline’s question: No, it's not even close to legal.

Journalists can record police up close and cops can't get around that by declaring an encampment a crime scene.

It's not the first time we've seen this tactic, and it needs to stop.

https://amp.sacbee.com/news/local/article291551465.html

May First is working with the DIA Design Guild to redesign our website <https://mayfirst.coop/en/>.

Will you help us by leaving comments to improve it? The survey is over here https://s.42l.fr/MFsurvey

You can now reserve tickets for the Los Angeles run of our documentary, Vigilantes Inc: America's New Vote Suppression Hitmen

Where: Cinelounge | #Hollywood
When: Friday, Sept 6 - Thursday, Sept 12
Info: http://bit.ly/vigilantesinla

#VotingRights | #Documentary | #VigilantesMovie

Corporate greed screws up the military when soldiers want to repair their gear -- maybe Congress will care?

https://www.404media.co/email/5650ce6e-7df9-4887-a02a-cfdb4244f8bc/?ref=daily-stories-newsletter

Donald Trump’s campaign forced its way into a restricted area of Arlington National Cemetery on Monday, physically assaulting cemetery staff and staging a political event in violation of federal law.

[fixed your lede, NYT]

Because this is the internet, I should be clear, this is irony. Satire of a certain brand of war hawk argument

Scientific American is the oldest continuous publication in the U.S. and it's our birthday! We're 179 years old. Here's a gif showing how our logo has evolved from 1845 to today:

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Cookies that "New Statesman" refuses my requests to turn off:

Your data can be used to monitor for and prevent unusual and possibly fraudulent activity (for example, regarding advertising, ad clicks by bots), and ensure systems and processes work properly and securely. It can also be used to correct any problems you, the publisher or the advertiser may encounter in the delivery of content and ads and in your interaction with them.

From @KarlBode at TechDirt, re abandonment of subsidies to help poorer Americans get Internet access:

"The GOP killed this popular program. Yet in two different stories this week, both CNET and the Associated Press fail to clearly communicate that to readers. At CNET, the program simply “ran out of money”

It feels hopeless sometimes to believe journalism will ever even recognize, much less fix, its longstanding flaws.

https://www.techdirt.com/2024/08/28/press-struggles-to-explain-how-the-gop-killed-a-popular-broadband-discount-program-driving-millions-of-poor-americans-off-the-internet/

Is money real?

Somebody give me a "Fact Check" column to launder my opinions as irrefutable facts. https://brianmcfadden.org/2024/08/23/newspaper-nit-picker-fact-checks-this-comic/

By enacting comprehensive data privacy laws, “we take a bite out of a whole host of problems.” EFF’s Cindy Cohn discusses privacy, competition, decentralization, AI and more with Mark Oppenheim on The Nonprofit Report. https://moppenheim.org/digital-privacy-with-electronic-frontier-foundation-nonprofit-report/

This is a much better take on Gus Walz and his family than what's been running around the Internet. I appreciate the heads-up from someone here who shared it privately. https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2024-08-26/gus-walz-shows-what-the-left-gets-wrong-on-disability-rights