Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

‘It’s not drought - it’s looting’: the Spanish villages where people are forced to buy back their own drinking water - https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2024/nov/23/spanish-villages-people-forced-to-buy-back-own-drinking-water-drought-flood "Spain is increasingly either parched or flooded – and one group is profiting from these extremes: the water-grabbing multinational companies forcing angry citizens to pay for it in bottles" madness

I'm becoming more inclined to believe my own somewhat whacky conspiracy theory regarding AI - the actual endgame is to have AI make everything it's incorporated into non-functional, so that those same companies can sell you the non-AI version that actually works. Let's see how long before Google starts offering AI-free search as a paid option.

An excellent example of a group of technologists using their reverse engineering skills to uncover malfeasance and turning their findings into action that helps workers.

https://algorithmwatch.org/en/glovo-tracking-riders-location-infringements/

We cannot let this one pass. New bathroom bill would essentially make it illegal for trans people to use bathrooms in American airports. Don't be surprised when it's followed by national bills preventing people from being trans in public. https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/nancy-maces-federal-trans-bathroom

Data brokers are selling the location of US soldiers in Europe to anyone who wants it. No problem, says Congress, which has refused for decades to give a damn about anyone's privacy (other than their own).

https://www.wired.com/story/phone-data-us-soldiers-spies-nuclear-germany/?utm_source=nl&utm_brand=wired&utm_mailing=WIR_PlaintextPaid_112224&utm_campaign=aud-dev&utm_medium=email&utm_content=WIR_PlaintextPaid_112224&bxid=5d38a1c8fc942d282359db8f&cndid=33481107&hasha=a57d3949484051fd7c962b7dd3735412&hashc=0db074aa21cbd7773ea150f5e7576a96e30aa98a3b747089e1874287c721e2fc&utm_term=WIR_StevenLevy_Paid

I think the question on our minds is whether, having gotten here, the popular vote will even still matter in the next election cycle, or the one after.  Which is to say, it is in fact a fair question.  If he's able to take away meaningful elections, we wouldn't be the first country in which an elected leader had done such a thing.

I think a lot of folks are going to be all geared and gussied up to fight fascism and then find that it has come in the night to beat up some folks in that *other* neighborhood (you know the one) and they at most heard some sirens in the night. I think folks are so focused on being prepared, on their own safety, on knowing how to react, on being the target that they’re going to miss the fact that fascism might not care about them all that much.

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https://www.eviscerati.org/articles/2024/11/a-remarkable-bird-the-norwegian-blue-epilogue/

It's finally done! I'm finally convinced I've deleted as much of my Twitter feed as I can, so today I deactivated the entire account. In 30 days I'll be gone.

Will I be replaced by some rando nazi indulging in ubersoft cosplay? Probably not, I'm not really high on any celebrity list. I suppose it's possible.

Our friends @pmpress got these double-sided antifascist scarves made as the ultimate winter fundraiser for The International Anti-Fascist Defence Fund!

Stay warm, look good, show solidarity with anti-fascists - what's not to like?

IT'S THE ULTIMATE HOLIDAY GIFT FOR THAT ANTIFA ON YOUR LIST!!!

Get it here: https://bit.ly/antifascarf

#antifa, #solidarity, #staywarmfightfascism

Hey fediverse tech brains... I've been trying to troubleshoot why Eviscerati.Org has been running out of space and the primary culprit seems to be /var/log/mysql:

In Toxic Avenger #2 I was able live out one of my dreams as a writer: creating my very own black ops squad of tight-knit buds with names like Harper, Dozer, and Big Bunny—then having a giant teen puke on them.

Reduce whale-ship strikes by making 2.6% of ocean surface safer, study says - https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/nov/21/reduce-whale-ship-strikes-ocean-surface-safer-study "Researchers identify collision hotspots around world but reveal almost all these lack preventive measures" hardly much to ask... #whales

I’m being told that the largest Mastodon instance - mastodon.social - is now hiding my profile.

One person telling me it’s because of German obsession with making up antisemitism where there is none.

Anyone who knows me and my work knows that I frequently platform critical Jewish voices. My MA thesis was on Yiddish and Hebrew, I do memory studies which includes Holocaust studies, and I am co-producing a Jewish podcast by three radical Jews.

So what’s up Mastodon? Am I too Arab for you?

Star Trek Picard is bad and for dummies, and you will have to fetch me the hemlock before I recant

This is as awful as it sounds. The House -- with a few Democrats in favor -- just voted to let Trump regime declare any nonprofit (e.g. university, civil-rights org, news startup, hospital and more) a terrorism supporter. No evidence required, but the penalty for the accusation is loss of nonprofit status. A financial death penalty.

School allows a pro-Palestinian protest? Nonprofit status gone. Watch for Planned Parenthood and ProPublica to be on the chopping block.

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/11/hr9495-nonprofit-killer-bill-passes-house-trump-palestine-protest/

Huh, this is interesting: https://sherwood.news/business/tesla-has-the-highest-rate-of-fatal-accidents-among-all-car-brands-report/ Teslas have the highest fatal accident rate of any car in the US (and SUVs in general are twice the average for all cars)...