Craig Cunningham @craigevil@librem.one

Announcing LearnAwesome.org - an open-source, ActivityPub-compliant alternative to GoodReads, Coursera etc.

The goal is to build humanity's universal learning map by tagging learning resources with rich metadata such as topics, format, length, cost etc. There's a companion browser extension, a mobile app and peer-groups for project-based learning, mentored by selected experts and more.

The webapp is built with Ruby, Rails and PostgreSQL. Inviting devs: https://github.com/learn-awesome/learn

No matter how embarrassing it is for a studio to take its own content down, it's not a rare event. https://www.eff.org/takedowns/star-trek-and-cbs-enterprising-takedown

Judge Blocks US Attempts to Ban WeChat
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-54223980

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MSM Welcomes "Whistleblowers" Reporting Partying College Students Breaking COVID Rules https://www.zerohedge.com/medical/msm-dubs-college-students-who-report-partying-covid-rule-breakers-whistleblowers

When politicians insist on using force to prevent consumption of drugs they don't like, bad things happen, starting with the violence that is required to enforce their pharmacological prejudices.

https://reason.com/2020/09/19/end-the-war-on-drugs/ https://twitter.com/reason/status/1307718704793296896 #reason

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Not only is Trump's plan an attempt to impose a curriculum on local school districts across the country with merely the president's pen and phone, but that curriculum sounds like the sort of propaganda we've come to expect from authoritarian regimes.

https://reason.com/2020/09/18/trumps-1776-commission-to-promote-patriotic-education-is-executive-overreach/ https://twitter.com/reason/status/1307726969233174535 #reason #Propaganda #Trump

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A Transhumanist Dream:
A #DARPA-Funded Implantable Biochip to Detect #COVID19 Could Hit Markets by 2021
by Raul Diego @hijodelcuervo
https://www.mintpressnews.com/darpa-covid-19-vaccine-implant-mrna/271287/ https://twitter.com/MintPressNews/status/1307711274583764992 #BehindTheHeadline

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The Future is Decentralized

https://modernconsensus.com/commentary/the-future-is-decentralized/
#newsbot

uMatrix development has ended

https://www.ghacks.net/2020/09/20/umatrix-development-has-ended/
#newsbot

GOP Sen. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska says she doesn't support taking up a Supreme Court nomination so close to the election. She's the second Republican senator to oppose confirming a justice before Nov. 3. Four Republicans could block confirmation. http://apne.ws/GrVAloS https://twitter.com/AP_Politics/status/1307731210723094530 #News #AP #Alaska #Election #GOP #Politics #Republican #Republicans

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“Hey EFF, can you recommend a specific VPN?” No, but… here’s a lesson plan on how to talk about VPNs (and why it’s hard to recommend a specific one) from the Security Education Companion. https://sec.eff.org/topics/VPN

US Gulf coast braces as Beta set to strengthen into hurricane https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/09/gulf-coast-braces-beta-set-strengthen-hurricane-200919205728614.html

Let’s call predictive policing what it is: racial profiling legitimized under the pretense of unbiased data. It’s time to ban it. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/09/technology-cant-predict-crime-it-can-only-weaponize-proximity-policing

Trump vows to nominate a woman for US supreme court vacancy within a week https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/sep/20/trump-vows-to-nominate-a-woman-for-us-supreme-court-vacancy-within-a-week #RuthBaderGinsburg #USelections2020 #USsupremecourt #DonaldTrump #USpolitics #Law(US) #USnews

“Do you think our republic is safe? It’s not safe. Politicians are not confronting and stopping the communist insurrections that are trying to overthrow our republic," @JudicialWatch President @TomFitton.
Watch more: http://jwatch.us/GSpuVC
https://twitter.com/JudicialWatch/status/1307356277358694407 #judicialwatch

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“#Voterfraud is more likely to occur with mail-in ballots. If you want your vote to count, the best way to do it is to vote in person," @JudicialWatch President @TomFitton.
Watch more:
#election2020
#vote http://jwatch.us/9AQTzs
https://twitter.com/JudicialWatch/status/1307363828175306752 #judicialwatch

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Mad Max issues her decree to Senate Democrats. https://trib.al/O6egKMJ https://twitter.com/BreitbartNews/status/1307358705332162566 #Democrats #Senate

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Because Justice Ginsburg needed the best clerks for the important work she needed done, so Supreme Court decisions against disparate impact discrimination, like 1972's Griggs, didn't apply to her.

Less crucial employers, like you, have to deal with affirmative action but not her

Ed Whelan: When you figure out why Ruth Bader Ginsburg has hired only one black clerk over four decades, get back to me.
https://mobile.twitter.com/isamuel/status/1017200513585172480 https://twitter.com/Richard_Ro..

Just dug up this clip of Obama in 2016:

"When there is a vacancy on the SCOTUS, the President is to nominate someone, the Senate is to consider that nomination... There's no unwritten law that says that it can only be done on off-years. That's not in the Constitution text."
https://twitter.com/CalebJHull/status/1307325966314864651 #Coulter #Constitution #Obama #Senate

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