@GuerillaOntologist One large corporations I worked for decided they could mandate innovation by giving everyone a goal of producing a patent.
#DumbAllOver
"People under time pressure don't think faster." - Timothy Lister
Great film. Amazing how established this looks for a ten year old project.
Meet Illa: A 10 Year Old Forest Garden Tour -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JiyP9NYEMX4
Just FYI a gay dude born in a Japanese internment camp went on to participate in just about every major social movement from the 1960s to 1990s and co-wrote a book with Buckminster Fuller and babysat MLK Jr's kids and generally lived a life of fun and crime and yet no one has made a single movie about the guy:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiyoshi_Kuromiya
I especially enjoy his Fuck the Draft ad, which could be sent to a select group of "mother__s" if you ordered 5 or more posters.
#KiyoshiKuromiya
RT @IGD_News@twitter.com
#Alabama prison officials are attempting to break a strike by thousands of prisoners across the state, in what one described as, a "revolution taking place right under your noses." We talked to abolitionist @jaybeware@twitter.com about the strike and its importance. https://itsgoingdown.org/alabama-prison-strike-report/
RT @kitelineradio@twitter.com
#ShutdownADOC2022 ⚡️ URGENT PHONE ZAP ⚡️ On 9/29, Robert Earl Council (aka Kinetic Justice) was assaulted by guards and placed in solitary at Limestone CF as retaliation for exposing the ADOC & participating in the AL prison strike. Call and DEMAND Robert Earl Council’s Release!
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/kitelineradio/status/1575881876153434112
Meet the Military Contractor Running Fare Collection in New York Subways — and Around the World
https://theintercept.com/2022/10/03/cubic-military-public-transit-mta-omny/
Corporations Are Spending a Ton to Stop Low-Wage Workers From Unionizing
https://truthout.org/articles/corporations-are-spending-a-ton-to-stop-low-wage-workers-from-unionizing/
"In 2021, the typical paycheck for a full-time union employee was $194 higher each week than that of a full-time nonunion employee, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics."
GEICO Is Trying to Crush Workers’ Attempts to Form an Independent Union
https://truthout.org/articles/geico-is-trying-to-crush-workers-attempts-to-form-an-independent-union/
They need to get the Geico Gecko a Mr Monopoly hat.
Recent headlines from techrights.org:
"Open Source Initiative Controlled (Infiltrated) by Microsoft GitHub: Microsoft Bribes OSI to Justify GPL Violations Under the Guise of ‘AI’, Even Writes the OSI’s Material"
"Software Freedom Conservancy (SFC) is Facilitating a Hostile Takeover by Corporations (Privatising Free Software)"
"No Protection for Linux Offered by the So-called ‘Linux’ Foundation"
Hello @conservancy - been spending a bit of time in the WordPress (GPLv2+) plugin/theme ecosystem & am amazed how most have "pro/premium licenses" (they use that term) on their code *in addition to the required GPL license*. They're all 'open core' rather than FOSS, from what I can see, contravening the GPL with an additional license. Is this something you're already aware of? Am I right that its a widespread contravention of the GPL? If so, is anything being done to redress it?
@GuerillaOntologist I see this too on a different hosting provider. Mail doesn't even show up on the web mail access for 5-10 minutes. I have antivirus, SpamAssassin, and email filtering enabled at the server. Wondered if any of those are the bottleneck.
@lightweight "Affected people" in climate change scenarios tends to disproportionately be the poor, and poor people suffering has never been real enough to the rich to effect change.
@lightweight If you have a FOSS project that you don't want to self host then @codeberg@mastodon.technology looks like a good choice.
#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