Company refused to give raises last year that kept up with inflation and now announced our cost of benefits was increasing 16.4%.
When is the USA going to wake up and socialize medicine?
🇬🇧 🔐On #GlobalEncryptionDay, Members of the European Parliament across party lines point out that the EU‘s #ChatControl #CSAM scanner proposal threatens to end secure communication.
Read on and take action: http://www.ChatControl.wtf
Wow.
"...The white supremacists... at the Malheur Refuge... were occupying federal land. The water protectors at Standing Rock, were being arrested for trespassing on private land. The issue wasn't that white people were being treated differently than Indians. I think to maintain that us, them, Indian White, Cowboys and Indians, discourse is to miss the larger point that the federal government privileges private property above almost everything else. That's the problem."
https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm/episodes/heartbeat-wounded-knee-on-the-media#ember1065
This interesting presentation, https://invidious.snopyta.org/watch?v=eqSi8ojaO44 or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eqSi8ojaO44 , from the 2022 Shlaer-Mellor Days conference, demonstrates the advantages of using data-centric vs state-centric models.
MS Outlook is the ultimate in brain dead email apps.
Envoy Slams White House Plan for Armed Intervention
https://theintercept.com/2022/10/19/haiti-armed-intervention-dan-foote-interview/
@GuerillaOntologist How he failed to hold up Microsoft Windows as his example boggles my mind. Maybe it's because he is obviously a Windows user, and doesn't want to expose his own limitations.
'People Will Lose Their Jobs': Expert Chorus Against Fed Rate Hikes Grows
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/10/18/people-will-lose-their-jobs-expert-chorus-against-fed-rate-hikes-grows
Opinion | We Can—And Must—Stop Carbon Capture In Its Tracks | Jorge Aguilar
https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/10/18/we-can-and-must-stop-carbon-capture-its-tracks
The FSFE’s technical infrastructure is 100% Free Software. New in the game are our Peertube instance and Matrix server. Read about our system in our yearly report: https://fsfe.org/news/2022/news-20220928-01.html#technical-infrastructure
mstdn.social has 6170 active users
With so many users it should be easy to cover the costs of the server
@stux has repeatedly been asking for donations, but people don't donate enough
A 'tragedy of the commons' seems to happens on donation-based servers
Here's Stux latest call for donations: https://mstdn.social/@stux/109183555565416074
Think of it, 6000 people should be able to cover the missing 257 € in a second - but they don't
The funding-model of the #Fediverse is broken. We must do something to fix it.
Watch the excellent documentary FOOD COOP, about NYC's Park Slope Food Co-op, and join the GEO Collective for a discussion about the film!
#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