This image is a panel from EFF’s new comic, Coded Resistance: How Black Communities Fought Against Surveillance — a collaboration with Nib and comic artist Chelsea Saunders, based on a post by EFF’s Director of Engineering, Alexis Hancock. Check it out here: https://eff.org/codedresistance
Indiana currently has state representatives that own or have financial interest in home construction, that are creating bills designed to increase their personal income.
Why am I not surprised that they are all Republicans?
Public Policy | Fair Housing Center of Central Indiana | Indianapolis Indiana
https://www.fhcci.org/programs/public-policy/
Walgreens will never get another dollar of my money. Its refusal to sell a vital, legal product is disgusting. If CVS goes along with this, the pharmacy cartel will be lending its considerable weight to a policy that the vast majority of Americans reject -- a policy mandated by a minority party of extremists. https://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory/implications-walgreens-decision-abortion-pills-97617141
The Florida GOP is just comically fascist.
Plan to incinerate soil from Ohio train derailment is ‘horrifying’, says expert - https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/mar/04/east-ohio-train-derailment-soil insanity
2-year study yielded over 10,000 videos of birds at offshore wind farm, with no collisions or near-misses with wind turbines recorded.
Nearly all species of tracked seabirds avoided the zone of the wind turbine blades by adjusting their flight paths to fly in between turbines.
https://www.offshorewind.biz/2023/02/28/vattenfall-has-it-on-video-no-seabird-collided-with-aberdeen-offshore-wind-turbines-during-two-year-monitoring-campaign/
‘The most common response I get when I talk about dark matter is: “isn’t this just something physicists made up to make the math work out?”
The answer to that might surprise you: yes! In fact, everything in physics is made up to make the math work out.’
My latest for BBC Science Focus:
https://www.sciencefocus.com/news/everything-physics-made-up/
It's confirmed; Windows is a virus.
BlackLotus UEFI bootkit: Myth confirmed | WeLiveSecurity
https://www.welivesecurity.com/2023/03/01/blacklotus-uefi-bootkit-myth-confirmed/
Kici Anishinabek Kananakachiwewat Community Service Co-operative
Elders from Cote First Nation have formed a #cooperative to better support youth in their community and help preserve their traditions and language.
#FirstNations #Language #Coops
One of my pet peeves is people who tell you that you should do something for your own health (get screened for <x>, hydrate, quit eating <x>, wear a helmet, ...), as if they know what kind of death wish you have.
Things that affect society are another matter. One should be told if they're being an asshole to the environment or others.
@post @lightweight Star Writer 1985; Word 1983. Word's the app I hate the most, so ...
Saw something to be proud of the USA about...while Windows desktop share is approaching 70% worldwide, the USA is under 60%. https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/united-states-of-america#monthly-202202-202303
Critics Decry “Fascist” GOP Bill That Would Dismantle Florida Democratic Party
https://truthout.org/articles/critics-decry-fascist-gop-bill-that-would-dismantle-florida-democratic-party/
This could be a good thing if a progressive party filled the void and started winning races.
@Jdreben #BlueSky is to #ActivityPub like #MSFTOOXML is to #OpenDocumentFormat. Or, in other words, it's like a massive, self-interested world power introducing #ImperialUnits for measurement in a world where the #MetricSystem is already well entrenched with a claim that "diversity in standards" is useful.
Which, of course, is one of the reasons the rest of us can't have nice things.
@schizanon I want to say VSCode is a used Trojan, found in an alley.
@lightweight OneNote is every bit as horrible as SharePoint from a user perspective.
I hope Nextcloud's SharePoint alternative has a better UI design. One thing I've always disliked about LibreOffice is how much it emulates the MS Office products. Of course, my first exposure to office tools came before MS Office, so I got to see a better world.
#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