Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Shadowy agreements between police departments and tech companies may be directing the actions of police. “You want a police officer who has the best interests of their specific community at heart. You don’t want a police officer who’s brand loyal.” https://www.citylab.com/equity/2020/05/nextdoor-local-partnerships-police-government-privacy-app/611827/

A Letter From the Other Front : On Rural Anarchist Participation in the Uprising of June 2020 https://crimethinc.com/2020/06/20/a-letter-from-the-other-front-on-rural-anarchist-participation?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

https://www.namecheap.com/blog/the-secret-fight-for-your-personal-information/?utm_source=Iterable_Marketing&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=MKTG_PrivacyNewsB3_20200619

Washington DC: Confederate Monument Toppled https://itsgoingdown.org/washington-dc-confederate-monument-toppled/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

Mapping the State’s Strategy of Repression Against the Rebellion https://itsgoingdown.org/mapping-the-states-strategy-of-repression-against-the-rebellion/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

When a federal court forced the NYPD to stop its biased stop-and-frisk campaign, the department merely started a surveillance version. https://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/ny-oped-a-long-overdue-curb-on-nypd-spying-20200618-cnxvkmmrwjfvlclhteut7b365y-story.html

Our car radio does not do #bluetooth so after fixing up headphone detection in device tree and finishing #phosh's mpris MediaPlayer2 interface i can now feed sound via a 3.5mm audio cable from my l5 to the car radio via #mpd and #mpDris2 . Will show up on a #librem5 near you soon.

RT @eff: 🚔 Learn to identify police surveillance devices commonly used at protests. 🚔 https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/06/how-identify-visible-and-invisible-surveillance-protests

Facebook's deactivation of accounts of journalists and activists, while allowing similar content from politicians, is clear and continuing evidence that it dangerously privileges and creates exemptions for those already in positions of power https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/facebook-doesn-t-care-activists-say-accounts-removed-despite-zuckerberg-n1231110

this is cool! Try it :)

https://ncase.me/trust/

Let me be clear here: I'm all for getting rid of master/slave in the context of disks, databases, DNS, ... the list is very, very long.

But when it comes to git, I always considered the term "master" in the same context as we use it in "master degree" or "master tournament".

There is no "git slave" after all, and that analogy wouldn't make much sense there.

While the transition phase may be a bit rocky, I'll happily switch to "main", though 🙂

Facebook makes a Slack competitor called "Facebook Workplace," with marquee customers like the government of Singapore, Walmart, Discovery Communications, Starbucks, and Campbell Soup Corporation.

On Wednesday, the company demonstrated a new suite of features for Workplace, including the ability to censor certain words or topics from the system. The example they chose? "Unionize."

https://theintercept.com/2020/06/11/facebook-workplace-unionize/

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Hot take: We should aim for 'decentralized' networks that are simple enough that they can be understood and improved by lots of people.

The 'fully distributed, but only fully understood by a few people' pattern is unsustainable and tends toward a society where software developers are not representative of software users.

ISPs, media companies, and tech companies work together to eliminate your choices online. HBO Max is just the best example of it. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/06/streaming-laying-bare-how-big-isps-big-tech-and-big-media-work-together-against

Great article @GuerillaOntologist !

https://geo.coop/articles/making-worker-co-ops-antifragile

Have you come across Worker Coop Solidarity Fund?

https://solidfund.coop/

#Climate worst-case scenarios may not go far enough, #cloud data shows | #ClimateChange | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/jun/13/climate-worst-case-scenarios-clouds-scientists-global-heating

#Environment #GlobalWarming #Clouds