bobgosane99 @bobgosane99@librem.one

ACLU: "Should You Buy a Ring Doorbell Camera?"

https://www.aclu.org/blog/privacy-technology/surveillance-technologies/should-you-buy-ring-doorbell-camera

This article presents a number of good, important issues with these devices. And to be clear on my position: no, you absolutely should not buy a Ring camera.

In my LibrePlanet 2017 talk, I asked surveillance camera owners to make sure that they are only recording their own property, not sidewalks or streets and such. Ring wasn't a thing back then, and it all but ensures that you capture passerbys (unless your doorbell isn't visible from the street). Now I consider it one of our greatest practical privacy threats.

RT @guardianopinion@twitter.com

Socialism used to be a dirty word. Is America now ready to embrace the ideology? https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/sep/06/socialism-used-to-be-a-dirty-word-is-america-now-ready-to-embrace-the-ideology?CMP=fb_cif

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/guardianopinion/status/1169856136918401025

I'm occasionally inspired to give a reasonably precise summary of what is wrong with free-market, property-based, capitalist economic systems.

This would be one such:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20869818

#capitalism #economics #freeMarket #propertyRights #risk #externalities #naturalResources #rents #labour

The Amazon Is Burning Because the World Eats So Much #Meat https://www.commondreams.org/views/2019/08/23/amazon-burning-because-world-eats-so-much-meat

"We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings."
- Ursula K. Le Guin

#anticapitalism #anarchism #feminism #IWD #IWD2019

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The New Wilderness

> The need to regulate online privacy is a truth so universally acknowledged that even Facebook and Google have joined the chorus of voices crying for change....

#Idlewords #privacy #surveillance #infoTech #MaciejCeglowski

https://idlewords.com/2019/06/the_new_wilderness.htm

#ParentsOfMastodon, I'm curious, from what age did you first let your #kid be watched over by just their grandparents or another adult you trust, for a day or even a weekend? Also, in your house, or theirs?

Ideally I'd also like to know what country you're from, as I have a feeling there are some cultural differences when it comes to this, but I can understand if you'd like to keep that private. :)

#parenting #parents #children #dadsOfMastodon #mums #fathersOfMastodon #kids

Indigenous people!

Please share this and reply and be my friend! Let's create a community on here where we know we have someone who gets it!

I'll start, I'm Ojibwe. Raised away from the tribe, but am a full member now as an adult.

(If not indigenous, please still share, I wanna reach others)

“The end times are here, and I am at Target - The Outline”

https://theoutline.com/post/7754/climate-change-doomsday-cults-prophecy?zd=2&zi=h26jjxxe

I’ve been having this very same thought a lot lately.