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#ShlaerMellor, #FunctionPointAnalysis, #punk, #environmentalist, #unionAdvocate, #anarchosocialist
"with a big old lie and a flag and a pie and a mom and a bible most folks are just liable to buy any line, any place, any time" - Frank Zappa
Joined May 2019
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Wow, I get really frustrated when I see FOSS communities falling for Microsoft's "pro open source" PR spin - note, they never say anything positive about Copyleft (the "F" in #FOSS). They are no friends of FOSS - they're a parasite. Microsoft loves OSS like a tapeworm loves a healthy digestive system - exploiting what others produce for their own (proprietary) self-interest.
@daniel_bohrer @EpicKitty I see it too, as yellow. The top circle is not very distinct. I have trouble seeing red. How does a non-color blind person see this image?
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I've detected a certain incongruity in thought cycles that seem to take the form of: 1) "we live in an entrenched system with evils built into it and nothing is going to disrupt it", combined with 2) "serious disruption always favors consolidation of power."
There's a certain "we can't win, we can't break even, and we can't get out of the game" fatalism to all this that I find profoundly frustrating.
@dynamic To beat a dead horse, the pandemic has also put the minimum wage raise back in the forefront. Hourly jobs are competing for workers right now, and laying waste to many of their "I can't afford to pay more" arguments.
@dynamic Another aspect the pandemic brought (in the USA) was the extended unemployment. This has opened the UBI and health care conversation more. Eliminating health insurance would produce a huge economic change to individuals and businesses in the USA.
Anyway, we don't really want pandemic driven change, but change seems to require disruption to reach the average person. Disruption captures attention and provides an opportunity for education.
@dynamic Employer surveillance of remote employees was happening before the pandemic. The pandemic didn't give time for employers not already using it to adopt it.
Zoom is often a choice by those who just don't care about fighting corporate power. It's not like Windows that was forced upon users, but even the latter is met with apathy.
There are a lot of hourly jobs that moved to remote. e.g., call centers
Small cracks...
Magical Thinking, Democratic Style https://rall.com/comic/magical-thinking-democratic-style #rall
Keystone XL is history. What about the other pipelines? https://grist.org/politics/keystone-xl-is-history-what-about-the-other-pipelines/
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It seems that hydrogen can be used to replace coking coal for smelting steel. If that hydrogen is made from surplus energy from renewable generation, that's a huge potential reduction in carbon emissions:
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/441832/tiwai-point-eyed-up-for-hydrogen-production
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#Linux shell redirection:
>: STDOUT, overwrite
>>: STDOUT, append
2>: STDERR, overwrite
2>>: STDERR, append
&>: STDOUT/STDERR, overwrite
&>>: STDOUT/STDERR, append
<: read file to STDIN
<<: read multiline string to STDIN (heredoc)
<<<: read single line string to STDIN
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The audience award of this year's #BigBrotherAwards goes to … #Doctolib for their appointment scheduling portal for medical doctors which leaks personal information to third parties, breaking patient–doctor confidentiality.
Full laudation: https://bigbrotherawards.de/en/2021/health-doctolib
It is closely followed by #Google who received the award in the new #WhatMakesMeReallyAngry category for recently exposed large-scale manipulations of the Internet #adtech market, for starving creators and the media, and for dispossessing our digital personalities.
Full laudation: https://bigbrotherawards.de/en/2021/what-really-makes-me-angry-google
#BBA21
@dynamic Our economic system is built upon the idea that there is a need for vertical power structures. This allows the wealthy to maintain control of the working class. It's very medieval. Remote working (where possible) gives workers a bit more freedom, which can lead to the pursuit of more freedom. It's just a small crack in the power hierarchy.
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us pol / social justice / accountability
@dynamic A pandemic? ;-) Seriously, one thing that
the pandemic removed was the illusion of a centralized office as necessary for many jobs. Many businesses are planning to go back to a centralized office, because workers in such jobs experience freedoms that make it easier to leave the job.
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Meanwhile, so many aspects of cities government and law enforcement were intentionally designed to prevent labor unrest.
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For a long time I thought it was just kind of sad and unfortunate that property taxes and similar create massive barriers to subsistence living. What I'm starting to learn is that a lot of the policies that make it harder to create alternative societies were intentionally designed to dismantle the alternative societies that existed in North America before Europeans arrived with their own ideas about land ownership, labor, and virtue.
@dynamic For the ruling class, the not easy to ignore aspect is an unfortunate side effect of the advantages that cities give them. Cities allow workers to be grouped into easily managed spaces, so the ruling class can employ smaller control (e.g., policing) measures and breed the workforce. Cities enable exploitation of the environment by shielding people from it and providing the illusion that it can be minimized by confining people to smaller land spaces.
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Setting down some partially developed ideas here. Others are welcome to play with them. (Boosts are okay!)
Last night I listened to this interview with criminal justice scholar Emily Brissette, about Occupy Oakland: <https://kpfa.org/episode/against-the-grain-june-9-2021/>
The focus of the conversation is on the use of Stay-Away orders by the city, to keep specific Occupy activists away from certain public spaces, in an effort to dismantle the movement, but there's also some really interesting discussion of alternative viewpoints on what Occupy Oakland was trying to do.
As I understand it, Emily Brissette takes issue with the view put forward by the ACLU and others (in an effort to defend Occupy), that what Occupy was engaged in, through actions such as provision of free meals and first aid in public space, was a case of free speech. She particularly objects to the idea that Occupy Oakland's goal was to change state policy.
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"Fosshost discontinues partnership with freenode"
No one blames you for receiving a donation from Andrew Lee. If you turn the entire thing into one huge PR stunt however, it becomes hard to believe that it's just another donation of purely philanthropic nature.
Take the money, say thank you privately. There's no need to have a press release and announce a partnership.
https://fosshost.org/news/freenode-partnership-to-be-discontinued
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The California legislature has been handed what might be their easiest job this year, and they are refusing to do it. Speak up today before the legislature decides to give in to big telcos and leaves $7b for public broadband sitting on the table. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/06/1000-californians-have-asked-their-representatives-fix-our-broken-broadband-system
#ShlaerMellor, #FunctionPointAnalysis, #punk, #environmentalist, #unionAdvocate, #anarchosocialist
"with a big old lie and a flag and a pie and a mom and a bible most folks are just liable to buy any line, any place, any time" - Frank Zappa
Joined May 2019
