Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

A few weeks ago I was like “Hey, what do I do with an old bike helmet?”

The answer is now clear, save it for the protests… we’ll need them.

#bikeTooter #ResistFascism #FightBack

Short article on what Trump might and might not be able to do to change U.S. climate policy.
#^https://theconversation.com/what-trump-can-do-to-reverse-us-climate-policy-and-what-he-probably-cant-change-243129

The newest edition of the biennial
@cijournalism Symposium, Source! brings together leading investigative journalists and advocates from around the world to engage in a series of talks and presentations about digital security, whistleblower protection, and much more.

#CIJLogan24

If the court rules against Catherine Herridge, every potential whistleblower in DC during Trump 2.0 will think twice before coming forward.

We’ll all know less about waste, corruption and malfeasance.

This case is important. The court can’t hear it in secret.

https://freedom.press/issues/crucial-transparency-case-may-be-heard-in-secret/

I’m a farmer – and I’m glad to see tax loopholes closing for cynical investor landowners - https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/nov/08/farmer-glad-tax-loopholes-investor-landowners-inheritance "It could have been better designed, but Rachel Reeves’s inheritance tweak will help farmers with mud on their boots" exactly: ignore the whining super-rich

I think if Biden, Harris, et al actually believed that Trump was going to usher in full-blown fascism, cancel elections, put everyone in camps, etc., as they have been claiming for over a year, they would be reacting somewhat differently to their loss. Before the election it's all, "He's Hitler! The world ends if he wins!" and then after the election they're all, "Shoot, I guess he won. Well, back to business as usual." Kinda sends mixed messages, no?

I wanna say something to people who work in tech-related jobs in America: this is still a field where most people hate the rise of fascism and want to stop it. I know the media & amplification of the tycoons makes it seem like that’s the whole industry. But it’s not. And we still have power.

Now we have people like David Brooks saying, well, hold up, maybe, just maybe, a Bernie Sanders like movement could have won here. Maybe that's the direction we need to go!

But we know that if we try to go in that direction, legacy media, the Democratic Party machine, and many MSNBC-pilled liberal rank and file folks will tell us to fuck off into the sun.

I am going to go in that direction anyway. Centrists failed. Left populists have work to do

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When you are #biking on the sidewalk or side of the road
Please use caution
And be prepared to
STOP abruptly
because seniors can not
Hear you approaching
Nor
Move as fast as you might expect.
While on a walk I looked up and a biker came around a tight curve and was suddenly in front of me.
I moved as fast as possible to avoid a collision, tripped over my husband's walker wheels, fell and cracked a bone in my wrist, hurt my knee, and pulled muscles in my back and neck. At my age I am very fortunate to not have a broken hip.
Of course the biker didn't notice and was long gone by the time I sat up.
I am not looking for sympathy replies, only asking you all take some care while riding around, even in the countryside.
Thank you for reading my post.
Watch out for those crazy motorists.

#Cycling #Bicycle #Transportation

I was reviewing a consultancy's work two days ago. I said something like "Well, it's not quite up to my standard, but it's actually adequate. Not sure what we'd add here."

Five minutes later, it became apparent that while the code was okay, they hadn't set a seed for any of their training runs (data science project), hadn't used version control, and had deleted all the models when they left when they shut down their EC2 instances.

The government client had already signed off on it.

YIKES.

Continually stating that things were "back to normal" as many were continuing to struggle with their health, to pay their bills, to afford the essentials etc., was a complete messaging failure.

Anybody know anything about Fare.coop?
Looks like they are based in Canada.

We are humbled and extremely grateful to the good humans of @SocialCoop who have decided to make [a huge donation](https://opencollective.com/socialcoop/expenses/226852) of £500 GBP to support our project 🎉🎉🎉

We intend to put this to good use in our participatory budgeting process, funding federation members and allies to work on improving our software and self-management processes.

Thank you so much 💝💝💝

-- @decentral1se

I have a comic in EC's Cruel Universe #4 about an election that gives rise to authoritarianism and tears the country apart. It's, uh, out now.

More here:
https://mattbors.substack.com/p/this-next-president-isnt-great

"Such logic renders the billions of people around the world whom the US dominates and oppresses, directly or indirectly, as insignificant or at least utterly irrelevant to these American intellectuals' political calculus. The fate of these billions is effectively exchanged for a few possible reforms in domestic policies that would affect parts of middle-class and wealthy America..."

https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/why-liberal-leftist-us-voters-america-firsters

Crisis is opportunity. I absolutely do not want to celebrate the fact that we are in crisis. It is not good. But it affords certain opportunities, ones that we need to engage with. What we do in the coming three months, what we do in the coming year, will have enormous impact on, well, the fate of the entire world, the people who live on that world, and the ecosystems that are woven across its surface. I know this sounds hyperbolic, but we live in hyperbolic times.

https://margaretkilljoy.substack.com/p/the-sky-is-falling-weve-got-this

History Repeats Itself: First as Farce, Then as Tragedy

https://crimethinc.com/FightTrump2024

Donald Trump has won the 2024 election. That means that we will have to fight many of the battles of 2017-2020 all over again.

But first, in order to understand the scale of what we’re up against, let’s look at how we got here. In many ways, the Democrats are responsible for Donald Trump’s return to power.

New 2022 body cam footage shows Atlanta PD cops manufacturing felonies to arrest Cop City protesters. When local officers say there were no felonies, APD Major says, "help us out…I know it's a reach." Those charges were then used for RICO charges against bail fund leaders.

Atlanta Police Major caught on...

I'll add that prob the single most politically impactful event of my life was the 2016 Alaska democratic caucus in my rural town of 3K people (which now votes trump 2-1). The line to caucus for bernie was out the door and down the stairs. it was a collection of rural people who will never again caucus in the same room, given covid and trump etc. But at that time we were so happy to be together, speaking up and out against corruption. We were something like 100+ for Sanders and 12 for Clinton

Could this election be a blessing in disguise? Perhaps a Harris victory would've removed the urgency for the dramatic fundamental reset the broken US system desperately needs. Maybe the extreme cognitive dissonance of the situation in which we find ourselves will provide the necessary provocation for the small number of dedicated, motivated, wise (and, I hope, lucky) individuals (who're always the agents of real changes in the world) to step up where they might otherwise not have. Here's hoping.