Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Microsoft employees in the Fediverse - you might want to block me now, because I'm never going to make you feel good about your employment decisions.

(Just got blocked by an MS bro breathlessly promoting some Microsoft self-congratulatory hype session. Ignite or something. I replied that I couldn't imagine attending anything less exciting, meaningful, or flammable.)

@lightweight Precisely this. What is the lure of a billionaire's walled garden that captivates so many? Classic honey trap. Hook the users on the "open + distributed (yeah right)" marketing and then proceed with enshittification as and when the majority shareholders demand payback.

I find myself having zero interest in BlueSky. It's distributed (theoretically?) but it's still owned by profit motivated people, and it can be sold. It will be. After people are committed to it. It's a future train smash, like Twitter. I'm banking on the Fediverse. No need for the also-rans.

I've had a few conversations that go like this: I carefully explain what fascism is. The other person gets progressively more uncomfortable. Then they say something like "but that goes against everything I've ever been taught is right!"

And I'm sort of left wondering what they were expecting.

So for anyone who needs it, this is reminder that if you find fascism horrifying, abhorrent, and contrary to everything you've ever heard, this says *good* things about you and your upbringing.

Keeping the global consumption within the planetary boundaries

by Peipei Tian, Honglin Zhong, Xiangjie Chen, Kuishuang Feng, Laixiang Sun, Ning Zhang, Xuan Shao, Yu Liu & Klaus Hubacek
Nature, 2024.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-08154-w

#Forgejo v9.0.2 and v7.0.11 were just released! They are security releases.

We recommend that all installations are upgraded to the latest version as soon as possible.

Check out the release notes and download it at https://forgejo.org/releases/. If you experience any issues with this release, please report to https://codeberg.org/forgejo/forgejo/issues.

I have backup strips between each chapter of Justice Warriors: Vote Harder focusing on media reaction to the election. Here is the first one.

@lwriemen yeah, there's a non-trivial part of me that believes absolutely nothing ever gets truly deleted if it's in digital form. Except for that ONE THING you want to recover...

The easiest, assuming they have the storage for it, is just to make a copy of everyone's tweets in preparation for the training. That way it doesn't matter what I delete in my own account, they'd still have everything. But I'm not sure how practical it would be to do that, and at the very least they might want to wait until today (when the new agreement goes into effect) to start making copies.

At the end of the day it probably doesn't make much difference. Still deleting it though!

You can now call your Senator — via @fight's new tool that makes it super easy — and implore them to pass the PRESS Act!

Time is running out and your voice can make a difference.

https://www.fightforthefuture.org/actions/tell-your-senator-pass-the-press-act-now/

phosh-osk-stub got <ctrl> and <alt> modifiers (https://fosstodon.org/@agx@librem.one/113330530148536143) ➕ supports accent colors (https://social.librem.one/@agx/113344650488590519) ➕ handles overlapping key presses better

n/n

@libcamera The actual #code is on #codeberg (error: toot too long).

https://codeberg.org/libobscura/libobscura

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V0UkNC_Ioh8

Nothing hits like a barbecue, especially when it’s about good salmon and even better company. That’s why I came thousands of miles to Coast Salish Territories, aka Seattle, to get a taste of some freshly caught Coho from the Quilcene River, grilled to perfection. This isn’t your average cookout. This is the Salish Sea Assembly, an unapologetic, hard-hitting gathering of land defenders, artists, and radicals from across Turtle Island, hosted by Savage Fam’s Ant-Loc and fearless land defender Kanahus Manuel.

Check out my video report to see what went down.

#DefendTheSalishSea #LandBack #SalishSeaAssembly #IndigenousResistance #NoTransMountain #BigOilResistance #AmplifierFilms #WarriorUp #ProtectOurWaters #SavageFam #TurtleIsland

Are We All Suffering From the 2020 Post Bernie Malaise?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZoiaDiEpREw

I don't know who needs to hear this, but the US President is not able to create new government agencies by fiat. Musk's DOGE is a "presidential advisory commission," i.e. without any power of it's own. Congress creates administrative agencies, not the President. So please stop freaking out, you're just giving your political opponents what they want (to see you having a tizzy fit over what is essentially a PR move).

@aral Yes, the religion of growth based economics is a cancer.

The cultural disease is terminal https://autcollab.org/2024/11/10/healing-resisting-internalised-ableism/.

The WEIRD indoctrination system makes sure that all children are indoctrinated in Homo Economicus® from a very young age, before we learn anything substantial about Gaia and the living world. This is possibly the most cruel, dehumanising, and life denying part of WEIRD cultures.

@sam Bring back blogrolls!

On the main page of my blog I have a list of blogs I follow—title, link, blurb, feed URL. They're grouped by category. Used to be very, very common.

(I should probably go through and freshen the list.)

https://petergelderloos.substack.com/p/hope-in-hopeless-times

If you liked our recent video in collaboration with Peter Gelderloos, check out his substack, catch him on these tour dates in the midwestern so-called US or buy his books from plutobooks.com