Even though Trump's age puts him in a higher risk category for both hospitalization and death, people still have to realize that the percentages in those categories still aren't very high. Trump may come out of this thinking COVID-19 is no worse than the flu, and set policy based on that.
People also have to realize that mortality numbers are skewed higher due to the vast majority of people are unable to afford timely care.
There are serious problems with platforms’ moderation practices, but the problem isn’t liberals silencing conservatives. The problem is the powerful silencing the powerless. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/10/online-content-policy-modernization-act-unconstitutional-mess
Anyone know about, have connections to this?
Wind River Food Sovereignty Project
A project to promote the production, distribution and marketing of healthy, affordable, fresh, food for the Native people of the Wind River Reservation.
Andrew Yang: Young people are the new corps of engineers the US has been waiting for https://basicincometoday.com/andrew-yang-young-people-are-the-new-corps-of-engineers-the-us-has-been-waiting-for/
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Does saving for the future matter when there may not be a future? https://grist.org/ask-umbra/does-saving-for-the-future-matter-when-there-may-not-be-a-future/
The University of Cambridge just raised the bar on fossil fuel divestment https://grist.org/climate/the-university-of-cambridge-just-raised-the-bar-on-fossil-fuel-divestment-harvard-yale/
The true #hacktoberfest challenge: submit a PR on any platform OTHER than github (@codeberg or #gitlab) and as a reward, you can boast about supporting truly open source platforms and none of that corporate surveillance crap.
Kick-off for Hacktoberfest: https://hacktoberfest.digitalocean.com
Unfortunately people seem to spam projects with invalid PRs a lot this year: https://blog.domenic.me/hacktoberfest/ 😒
With the writing on the wall, I respectfully decline the offer to train my replacement. #corporateswill
Unredacted FBI Document Sheds New Light on White Supremacist Infiltration of Law Enforcement https://theintercept.com/2020/09/29/police-white-supremacist-infiltration-fbi/
Did the White House Stop the EPA From Regulating PFAS? https://theintercept.com/2020/09/29/epa-white-house-pfas-pfoa-pfos/
Neo-Fascist Proud Boys Exult Over Trump Telling Them to Stand By, Not Stand Down https://theintercept.com/2020/09/30/neo-fascist-proud-boys-exult-trump-telling-stand-not-stand/
I'm sorry, but watching this debate is unbearable. They have the debating skills and attitude of a bunch of 10 year olds.
“Has anyone started having discussions with their CIO/CEO about moving back to an in-house mail server? I advocate for it” https://www.cbronline.com/opinion/microsoft-outage Heh heh. Yup.
The only desktop-(tablet)-phone convergence I want is for applications to work on both. (where it makes sense to use the same application on both.) I don't want my phone to look like my desktop and I don't want my desktop to look like my phone.
Radically different screen sizes justify different user interface designs.
BUT...the real bottom line is that the user should be able to make whichever device appear in a manner that pleases them.
#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