alex-esc's old account @alexesc@librem.one

"I'm not saying you're wrong, I'm saying you're not the kind of person who can know. I'm just saying that you've commited the Cartesian mistake of supposing that the subject can come to knowledge a priori. What I'm getting at is that you lack the ethical education, the technology of the self, that allows you to understand or say anything."

I like it when Shrek says donkey

The Queen did her speech to the nation while wearing green

This has resulted in exactly what you'd expect

(collection of images follows, all showing the Queen photoshopped to be wearing various t-shirts)

#TIL about opendesktop.org:
"a libre platform providing free cloud storage, online office editing, contacts & calender tools, personal chat and messaging, as well as project development and product publishing to anyone who values freedom and openness."

#OpenDesktop

nationalized minecraft

I got the No WiFi Blues

Oh no.

"Spain is to roll out a universal basic income (UBI) “as soon as possible” as it looks to mitigate the impact of coronavirus.

Minister for economic affairs Nadia Calvino told Spanish broadcaster La Sexta on Sunday night that the move was intended to help families during the pandemic.

But Ms Calvino, who is also deputy prime minister, said the government's ambition was that UBI could become something that “stays forever, that becomes a structural instrument, a permanent instrument”."

(Hopefully in conjunction with rent controls to prevent landlords from simply soaking up the extra. Quite why renting properties for profit is even /permitted/..)

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/coronavirus-spain-universal-basic-income-europe-a9449336.html

#Zoom banned from New York City schools due to #privacy and #security flaws

A few weeks ago, New York City’s 75,000 teachers scrambled to learn how to use videoconferencing services like Zoom as novel #coronavirus cases began to rise and schools prepared to close their doors and institute remote learning.
https://www.fastcompany.com/90486586/zoom-banned-from-new-york-city-schools-due-to-privacy-and-security-flaws