Inside the Endless Nightmare of Indefinite Detention Under “Civil Commitment” - After serving their criminal sentence, these men discover their punishment may never be over. https://inthesetimes.com/article/civil-commitment-rushville-treatment-detention-facility-prison-indefinite-detention
"when it comes to risky behaviors, such as drug use, teenage sex and socializing during a pandemic, the \“just say no\” approach has been proven not to work."
Social Abstinence Is Not a Sustainable Pandemic Response https://inthesetimes.com/article/harm-reduction-covid-19-pandemic-public-health-abstinence-drug-education
It’s Not Just Trump: The Neoliberal Roots of the Postal Service https://inthesetimes.com/article/its-not-just-trump-the-neoliberal-roots-of-the-postal-service-crisis
Banks Have Made $18 Billion From "Paycheck Protection Program" https://inthesetimes.com/article/paycheck-protection-program-covid-relief-fees-banks
A Pricey Private School Says “Quaker Values” Justify Aggressive Campaign to Destroy Its Union https://inthesetimes.com/article/a-pricey-private-school-says-quaker-value
@fribbledom If you ignore insider trading and the many ways to hide it.
@john@liberdon.com @fribbledom Every time a new player comes to the table. ;-)
Early example from Sweden of #coops being used for anti-trust purposes.
From "A Global History of Consumer Co-operation Since 1850".
I have some great news about Boston Public Schools and free software. You may know that my Co-op has been hosting some Boston Public School courses over the summer using free software.
Assessments of student progress shows that the teachers that stuck with BBB had better assessment scores for their students!! Especially the Math teachers. Scores were SIGNIFICANTLY higher by about 10-15 percentage points and it is believed that is because BBB allowed for student engagement more than Zoom did.
@LeoSammallahti The Green New Deal introduced to Congress wasn't the same as the GND of the Green Party. Nuclear power avoidance was dropped by the Democrats.
@fatboy Using Microsoft? Yes, you're being silly. #stupidsilly
HBO Go has been replaced with HBO Max, which you cannot watch on 70% of TV devices. Somehow, this is even worse than the original situation. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/06/streaming-laying-bare-how-big-isps-big-tech-and-big-media-work-together-against
@clacke SufficientlySmartCompiler (SSC) should be plural. In xtUML, the analysis model compiler generates a lower-level code, like C, and let's the lower-level code's compiler generate the platform required output.
In Model Driven Architecture (MDA) terms, you have a Platform Independent SSC and a Platform Specific SSC.
No student should be forced to make the choice to either hand over their biometric data and be surveilled continuously, or to fail their class.
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/08/proctoring-apps-subject-students-unnecessary-surveillance
#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