Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Strong unions raise the bar for everyone, including workers without a union.

As Heidi Shierholz writes, they establish “broad standards that employers must follow to get and keep the workers they need.”

That’s why union power is an affordability issue.

https://inthesetimes.com/article/affordabilitys-union-labor-pro-act-congress

An unusually large number of Apple users report they’ve received threat notifications from the company saying they’re targets of mercenary spyware. There’s a lot journalists can and should do to get ahead of this risk.

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https://freedom.press/digisec/blog/apple-mass-alerts-users-to-mercenary-spyware/

I don't think people understand the extent to which this has been a decade plus long billionaire funded campaign (obviously Thiel is involved). We've tried to ring the alarm about these eugenicists but it is too easy for them to get parroted by the mainstream media.

https://bylinetimes.com/2026/08/18/the-peter-thiel-linked-race-science-network-that-penetrated-cambridge-university-and-targeted-jason-arday/

RE: https://mstdn.social/@rysiek/117118246868644096

20 years ago, normal people avoided technology and techies would jump on the newest gadgets as soon as they could.

Now, normal people buy smart toasters & coffee mugs while every techie I know is on the verge of retreating to the forest

“Bastian Greshake Tzovaras · On 'scaling up' and being the right size”

https://tzovar.as/scaling-up-and-on-being-the-right-size/

> All of which is to say: In the context of your community-driven projects, you will very likely not be able to change the scale of it, without also changing some or even a large number of the organisational norms that affect it.