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Debian MountainCamp in #innsbruck: an informal #debian hack meeting:
https://wiki.debian.org/DebianEvents/de/2025/MountainCamp

Hello, world! We are Bunk Computer Cooperative -- a worker-owned technology #coop in Western North Carolina. We're building local computing infrastructure that's of and for Western #northcarolina

We're still getting off the ground, but we've been hard at work the last eight months and we're ready to introduce ourselves. We wrote an #introduction blog post that you can read at the link in our bio, and we'd be thrilled if you did! Boosts Appreciated!

Yours in bits and bytes,
Bunk Cooperators

In one respect -- and in only one respect -- this whole tariff thing is an unintentionally brilliant maneuver (absolutely unintentionally) because it's so fucking insane it's forcing even diehard leftists to explain how Trump is doing Capitalism wrong. It's almost like the Overton window got pushed so far to the right the left has to move right just to start the conversation about moving left.

If any of you want to do just one thing to make your life better - and improve the world - here's a very very simple thing you can do (and encourage your friends)... maybe, like me, some of you already do heaps of it... great, it appears you're on the right track: https://yewtu.be/watch?v=BV2PQjXbtXA or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BV2PQjXbtXA

#ReadingBooks #LongFormReading

Feeling some serious Weltschmertz today. Especially for the folks who're so busy scraping by that they don't even know what's going in the world - they won't have the chance to 'brace themselves' before the wave hits them. I encourage everyone to do what they can to protect & insulate themselves and those around them.

Gary is bringing on the heavy hitters.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Shz3mSMqW04

Congress is pushing website-blocking bills that would let private companies erase sites from the internet—based on nothing but a hollow promise not to abuse this new power. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/04/congress-reviving-site-blocking-and-its-just-dangerous-ever

I heard Trabant, the crown jewel of nationalist economic protectionism, is planning to start heavily subsidised automotive manufacturing again, but this time, in the US. I look forward to a time when USians eagerly await, sometimes for years, the delivery of their 'legendary' Trabant, the storied pinnacle of 80s eastern European automotive technology.

“For more than two decades, surveillance towers at the border have proven to be a boondoggle, and adding AI isn’t going to make it any less of a boondoggle — it will just be an AI-powered boondoggle,” EFF’s Dave Maass told @theintercept. https://theintercept.com/2025/04/03/google-cbp-ai-border-surveillance-ibm-equitus/

From the U.S. Press Freedom Tracker:

Rep. Ronny Jackson of Texas introduced a bill March 27 that would strip all government funding for NPR and PBS, a move that the public broadcasters say would lead to the closure of hundreds of local radio and television stations nationwide:

https://pressfreedomtracker.us/all-incidents/rep-ronny-jackson-targets-press-as-member-of-congress/#March%2027

Get 20% off the new title with code APRIL thru 5/1: https://pmpress.org/index.php?l=product_detail&p=1769

VICTORY: Judge Rejects Government’s Attempt to Dismiss EFF Lawsuit Against OPM, DOGE, and Musk https://www.eff.org/press/releases/judge-rejects-governments-attempt-dismiss-eff-lawsuit-against-opm-doge-and-musk

Climate crisis on track to destroy capitalism, warns top #insurer - https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/apr/03/climate-crisis-on-track-to-destroy-capitalism-warns-allianz-insurer "The world is fast approaching temperature levels where insurers will no longer be able to offer cover for many climate risks" #ClimateCrisis

Now that the Repubs are in charge of the intelligence agencies, maybe people will finally start taking Yasha seriously.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1US6sxgKrc

EFF has been documenting DMCA takedown abuse for decades, EFF’s Corynne McSherry told Callan Quinn’s Scamurai. “A DMCA claim is one of the few and far too easy ways to use U.S. law to get material taken down quickly, with no prior judicial review." https://www.scamurai.io/p/the-dmca-censorship-tactic-scrubbing

Mike and Ramsey from PM recently did an interview with IWW Ypsilanti on radical publishing and the IWW. Listen at the link in our bio!

🔔 Heads up: There will be scheduled hardware maintenance today starting around 19.00 CEST / 17.00 UTC.

We expect no significant impact on service availability (in fact we already simulated the maintenance without issues by rebooting the affected machines today), but please keep in mind that there could be a period of degraded performance or short outage during this time (e.g. try to avoid long-running migrations today and postpone if you can).

If your criticism of "big tech" is merely a result of the unhappiness about the fact that Meta, Google and Microsoft aren't EU-corporations you are missing the point.

There is nothing that indicates that SAP or Deutsche Telekom would hesitate a second at the chance of becoming the same violent and exploitive forces.

The solution to Big Tech isn't EU Big Tech. It's de-commercialisation and democratization of tech.

Guess where they got their weird trade deficit math from?