Jeremiah Lee @jeremiahlee@librem.one

A teacher in Sverige (Sweden) shared how their school’s horrible handling of #COVID19 caused them to quit.

Teachers and students should be permitted to wear masks if they fucking want to. Why is this so controversial… 😷

https://www.tes.com/news/coronavirus-school-scared-risk-health-quit-job

[opens an article posted on Medium in a private window because of the paywall]

#OwnYourShit
#UseWebMonetizationInstead

Friendly reminder on this #IndigenousPeoplesDay:

Unless you’re a member of the Sherpa ethnic group, you are not any kind of “Sherpa”.

Sherpa was the name of 18 clans long before English-speaking people decided to reduce a culture to a single job.

https://reclaimingsherpa.wordpress.com/fighting-back/

I miss the regular optimistic speeches President Obama gave during the 6 years congressional Republicans blocked him from making any lasting progress.

He failed to deliver much change, but at least he gave us hope.

~“Universal Basic Income is not a welfare policy, but an economic policy.” —South Korea

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EbWv_1NbWyw

✅ Another 20 letters hand written to registered-but-unlikely voters in the swing state of North Carolina!

45% of eligible Americans did not vote in 2016. Hopefully a kind note from a fellow American nudges them into action.

💥 Still time to write more: https://votefwd.org/

Another 20 letters hand written to registered but unlikely voters, this time in Pennsylvania.

My middle finger writing callus is reforming. Also, 🖕 to Trump.

💌 ✍️ Finished writing and prepping my first 20 letters to registered but unlikely voters in Florida!

Join me! https://votefwd.org/

iCloud drive has now lost changes twice for me today and I no longer trust it.

The iPad cannot be taken as a serious creation device until it has dependable storage and methods of syncing.

Disregard the polls. We need people to actually vote.

Something you can do to help is to handwrite letters to unlikely voters in swing states.

Join me: https://votefwd.org/

I went to Systembolaget today (state alcohol monopoly). A new requirement is to remove your mask during checkout because kids have been using them to buy alcohol.

Sverige has a public policy to remove PPE when buying alcohol, but not to wear it anywhere except elderly homes. 🤦‍♂️

Microsoft announces “10 app store principles to promote choice, fairness and innovation” aligned with Coalition for App Fairness (CAF). This is another example of why markets always need at least viable 3 competitors.

https://blogs.microsoft.com/on-the-issues/2020/10/08/app-store-fairness-caf-interoperability-principles/

The best feature of Chrome 86 is that you can use it to download Firefox 81.

Change your browser, change the world.

I dislike the new alarm editing UI in iOS 14. The easily thumb swipeable UI was replaced with tiny scrollers or a keypad that requires more effort.

Chat-ops assumes Slack doesn’t go down, which is a bad assumption.

Just realized 30 days have passed since I deleted my Facebook account, which means Facebook has really, actually (allegedly) deleted my account.

I hesitated for so long, but I have not regretted the decision once in the last month. #DeleteFacebook

https://www.jeremiahlee.com/posts/delete-facebook/

Megan Thee Stallion’s performance was the best part of last night’s SNL.

What is a pandemic/protest related song getting you thru these times?

@robey@mastodon.technology My interactions with Gitlab employees online indicate it is not run by adults, but am curious of there is other evidence of such.