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Here’s What a Progressive Platform Looks Like

rall.com/2022/10/31/heres-what

Demand #1: The $30-per-hour Minimum Wage.
Demand #2: Free national healthcare.
Demand #3: Slash military spending by 80%.
That savings would easily cover…

Demand #4: Free four-year college.
Demand #5: Leadership to ban the most frightening weapons.

How Digital Systems Fail Our Institutions

gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2022/10/26/when-digital-systems-fail/

I'm campaigning hard for a tool, that I'm involved maintaining, to get off of Microsoft GitHub, but not gaining much traction. Too many people still tied to big Tech and not seeing a problem with it.

Seeking ideas for community support around a violent neighbor 

@Gargron wow, not wanting to add to your load... but I just saw that you've opted for Discord and Github Discussion for supporting #MastoAdmins. It's really disappointing that a FOSS paragon like Mastodon has snubbed the great FOSS support options, opting for such clangingly inappropriate closed technologies for its most crucial community members. Very bad optics. I won't use those tools on principle... but I would commit my time/$ to help you switch to & maintain suitable FOSS options.

@downey @offby1 @lightweight @swansinflight@mastodon.nz Went through with it, and doesn't get why it's a problem. :-(

I suppose it's time again for my monthly posting of "Free Software Needs Free Tools" by @mako:

mako.cc/writing/hill-free_tool

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Folks interested in the ongoing viability of our planet... (all of you, I would hope) if you don't know about Kate Raworth's "Doughnut Economics", you need to. Here's a very good interview in which she explains it quite well. planetcritical.com/p/the-most- She's also a big fan of FOSS and the open commons (she mentions Māori & Ubuntu)! And I'm *so* chuffed she explicitly cites Kim Stanley Robinson's "The Ministry for the Future"! Another essential read for anyone interested us having a viable future.

My first impression is that this is some kind of scam. Anybody know anything about them? #web3 #coop

c3alliance.co/index

@UffTaTa Yes. I keep seeing "unmaintained" as a reason for not choosing FOSS software, and it is an insufficient reason.

The goal of every software project should be to no longer be maintained. Maintenance means repairs are needed or requirements haven't been realized. i.e., the project isn't complete.

It's illogical to say you're anti-government or pro small government and still support the police.

Racist EU pols 

@lightweight There's more options to choose your "noise" in the Fediverse, especially nice is the ability to choose a new hosting instance without having to change tools and (mostly) keep your followers/follows.

@lightweight You can't call colonization complete, if you don't install all the oppressor traditions.

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