Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

A reminder that the mainstream media is here to keep you in line and not thinking any thoughts that might be bad for our overlords.

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2024/12/tom-neuburger-the-medias-bizarre-treatment-of-the-mangione-case.html

When I am an employee, employers are like "you have to accept Scrum". When I'm consulting, employers are like "oh, you must be elite, you're using something that isn't Scrum"

This industry has brain worms

And yes of course it is literally the paper that gives us this incredible FIGURE 1, which you have CERTAINLY seen if you have ever heard ANYONE talk about ANY "decentralized" or "distributed" system ever

CENTRALIZED DECENTRALIZED DISTRIBUTED

You know this image. You could never forget this image

In my previous blogpost I had expressed worry about moving the goalposts of "decentralization". That is *exactly* what's happening here, and what's being said is "if we weaken the definition dramatically, then Bluesky qualifies"

This is, IMO, not a very compelling look I've gotta say

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‘Unprecedented risk’ to #life on Earth: #Scientists call for halt on #MirrorLife #microbe #research | #Science | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2024/dec/12/unprecedented-risk-to-life-on-earth-scientists-call-for-halt-on-mirror-life-microbe-research

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And I know, I know, this sounds like some kind of hoax. Surely, it's a hoax.

No. No, my friends, this is an actual thing UCLA is doing. I can't even...

https://newsroom.ucla.edu/stories/comparative-literature-zrinka-stahuljak-artificial-intelligence

This is an actual cover for an actual text book at an actual university (and one that you have likely heard of is you're a USian). WTAF is going on, people? I don't think the "AIs" are the only ones hallucinating, because someone must have been on some extremely hard substances to think THIS 👇 was a good idea. And it would be bad enough if the AIification stopped at a book cover, but no, they AIed the whole course. If this stuff isn't stopped, higher ed is cooked, imho.

https://lithub.com/uclas-new-ai-designed-literature-course-has-the-worst-looking-textbook-cover-ive-ever-seen/

Glad someone went through the trouble of debunking the insurance industry apologists.

https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/its-time-to-break-up-big-medicine

I've got a feeling this might be a FAFO moment for the China hawks in Washington.

https://www.crisisinvesting.com/p/the-red-dragon-strikes-back

“One place suits one person, another place suits another person. For my part I prefer to live in the country, like Timmie Willie.” ~Beatrix Potter

https://www.neh.gov/article/beatrix-potters-quiet-rebellion

New In These Times comic from Ben Passmore on being sent to a reform school

https://inthesetimes.com/article/comic-burn-the-system-comics-reform-ben-passmore

@interfluidity @keubiko As the economic statistics are calculated, when a crash makes you spend a lot of money on health care & auto repairs, you have a higher standard of living.

Remember kids, "maximizing shareholder value is a made up economists’ creed, first promulgated by Milton Friedman in a New York Times op-ed. It is not a legal duty, as management touts regularly and falsely assert. Legally, equity is a residual claim. All other obligations, like payments to employees, suppliers, creditors, landlords, tax authorities, successful litigants, regulatory fines, come first." ~Y. Smith

"While it is welcome to see Elizabeth Warren using a quixotic bill to call attention to the fact that Corporate America is increasingly in the business of looting companies...one has to wonder at the timing. During the Biden almost lame duck phase? Note she first introduced this legislation in 2018, as in under Trump, so this is a rerun. That makes the timing even odder..."
https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2024/12/warren-bill-would-stop-companies-from-placing-shareholder-paydays-over-worker-rights.html

Trump Floats Plan to Let Billionaire Polluters 'Bribe Their Way' Past Regulations - https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-billion-investment #trump: the gangster-president... #bribery

Friendica vs. Hubzilla

Description of the Friendica experience after 2 months primarily using Hubzilla (166 words) https://friendica.myportal.social/display/e65e1095-1067-5ba7-a513-6c2513847562

@alcinnz @lightweight
> its predominantly the old farts who have the time & spoons to work towards change

Them (us?), and people like me, who are able and willing to live on the smell of an oily rag. Sacrificing any ability to live a "normal" life, so we can do fulltime, unpaid voluntary work on stuff we think matters.

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