Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Don't "Back the Blue"—Push Back the Blue : An Account of a Clash between Police, Their Supporters, and Counter-Demonstrators in Brooklyn https://crimethinc.com/2020/07/18/dont-back-the-blue-push-back-the-blue-an-account-of-a-clash-between-police-their-supporters-and-counter-demonstrators-in-brooklyn?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

God knows how @sjvn managed to write a bunch of #zdnet pieces about stuff like #openstack and mention #microsoft #azure as if it's relevant. It's a major failure, propped up by lies/fraud. Microsoft shutting down datacenres and laying off Azure staff.

On Sunday, join Electronic Frontier Alliance member @FutureAda for an online workshop on offensive and defensive techniques to mitigate vehicle-based surveillance. https://www.eff.org/event/vehicle-based-surveillance-workshop

Where are the software trade unions? We're never going to get out from under VCs and flighty type-A stakeholders and being asked to write half-assed racist software without solidarity.

Sure, most startups will resist hiring union developers, for a while, but a) startups are mostly shitty and deserve shitty devs and b) despite the VC-driven lies to the contrary, developers still have most of the power in this industry. In my 16 years in the industry, I have never been at a company that was able to find enough developers to meet the workload.

I guess this is my biggest disappointment about zebra culture; they should be the ones pushing to hire only unionized developers.

EFF's new "Atlas of Surveillance" shows, city by city, how police departments across America use a variety of new surveillance tech to spy on their residents. What do your local police use? https://atlasofsurveillance.org

Real-time crime centers in coastal cities. Drones in rural towns. The pervasiveness of law enforcement surveillance must not be ignored. https://www.wired.com/story/atlas-of-surveillance-eff-law-enforcement-map/

#Pandemic shows #climate has never been treated as #crisis, say scientists | #ClimateChange | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/jul/16/pandemic-shows-climate-has-never-been-treated-as-crisis-say-scientists

#Environment #GlobalWarming

Don't militarize public health by sending the National Guard to hospitals to process COVID-19 data. https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2020/07/13/trump-administration-recommend-national-guard-an-option-help-hospitals-report-covid-19-data/?hpid=hp_hp-top-table-high_virus-nationalguard-330pm%3Ahomepage%2Fstory-ans.

Four States Are Sharing Driver's License Info to Help Find Out Who's a Citizen
https://www.npr.org/2020/07/14/890798378/south-dakota-is-sharing-drivers-license-info-to-help-find-out-who-s-a-citizen

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A coalition of labor unions with racial and social justice organisations will stage a mass walkout to highlight racism July 20. Groups include Service Workers (SEIU), Teamsters, Teachers, Farmworkers, Domestic Workers and the Movement for Black Lives.

https://portside.org/2020-07-09/strike-black-lives-highlight-racism-monday-july-20

RT @bini_adamczak@twitter.com

Eine neue Studie (DIW) zeigt, dass #Reichtum in Deutschland noch ungleicher verteilt ist als angenommen. Das reichste Prozent der Bevölkerung besitzt 35 %, den oberen zehn Prozent gehören 67 % und die ärmere Hälfte der Bevölkerung teilt sich 1,4 % des Gesamtvermögens. #Enteignung

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/bini_adamczak/status/1283283654920138755

Well, this is a positive development - Slack loses out to a Matrix (open messaging standard) EU-based privacy-focused competitor.https://sifted.eu/articles/element-germany-deal/ Let's see a whole lot more of this privacy and anti-Silicon Valley sensibility. This "adjustment" is long overdue.

Ok, now this is totally fascinating: http://www.foodtimeline.org/ (here's an intro: https://www.eater.com/2020/7/8/21271246/food-timeline-lynne-olver )

Guys, am I the only one who didn't know about #Twitter lending all of users' data to #Google?

https://cloud.google.com/twitter

One of the most damaging philosophies #infosec copied from IT is a belief in user inferiority. Too many security decisions are rooted in a patronizing notion that users are children and that trust and agency must be taken from them and given to infosec staff/vendors.

It blew his mind that a single deck of cards you can buy for $1 could mean a hundred different single and multiplayer games. I immediately taught him solitaire, and cribbage is next. Society would never invent such a thing today.

I'm a free software nerd because explaining what a deck of cards is to my son became an object lesson in open standards and vendor lock in.

For hundreds of years a new card game meant new rules but the same deck. Now everyone has to monetize w/ custom cards and expansion packs.

Police use face recognition, drones, automated license plate readers, and an arsenal of other invasive tech. Atlas of Surveillance is a searchable map containing thousands of datapoints that allows you to see what is deployed in your area.

https://atlasofsurveillance.org/