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"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
Joined May 2019
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This has been bugging me for ages: how can we fix social and climate brokenness when lots of 'good' people's job hang in the balance? How can we broach the subject "Your role in that corporation is actively bad for the world. The better you do, the worse you make the world." It's not something anyone wants to hear... but highly paid folk voluntarily absorb incredible cognitive dissonance to justify how they pay their mortgage. Stuff like "if I didn't do it, someone else less ethical would"...
@lightweight I like this Jim Hightower quote, "Most of our (USA) super rich were born on third base and think they hit a triple."
United for a Fair Economy has used this baseball analogy to state that 95 percent of Americans were born in the batter's box. https://ips-dc.org/the_self_made_hallucination_of_americas_rich/
@lightweight "most wealthy people now have to hustle if they want to retain their privilege and avoid sinking into the lower classes."
I have to call bullshit on that statement, otherwise it makes long term savings strategies, like retirement planning, a joke.
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EFF and @ACLU_NorCal recently discovered the San Francisco police unilaterally deployed a surveillance camera network against protesters marching in defense of Black lives. Now we're asking a court to hold them accountable for breaking the law.
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/09/eff-court-stop-sfpd-spying-protestors-black-lives
@kyle can you 3D print one? (He says, totally ignorant of 3D printing and the stress factors involved.)
@starwall In USA terms, "true south" makes the top of the flag look too much like a hood. :-(
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While several other courts have held that long-term pole camera surveillance is constitutionally acceptable, two recent rulings, including a recent ruling by the Colorado Supreme Court, have found otherwise. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/09/colorado-supreme-court-rules-three-months-warrantless-video-surveillance-violates
Heh. Considering IU's strong reputation in the field of AI, hosting the Atlas of Surveillance seems prophetic.
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We’re pleased to share that the Atlas of Surveillance will be featured in the @IndianaUniv’s Places & Spaces exhibit, which highlights powerful uses of maps in sharing knowledge. You can browse our growing collection of data on police surveillance tools at http://www.atlasofsurveillance.org
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Before assessing the value of synthestic starch, I really want to see a full life cycle analysis comparing this technology to traditional production. That seems to be where "vat meat" starts to look a lot more questionable (https://biobeef.faculty.ucdavis.edu/2019/12/15/cultured-meats-and-lca-statistics-what-do-the-data-say-2-of-4/).
In the meantime, it would be really nice if they provided units for this 8.5x efficiency number that all the science journalists are tossing around. Efficiency is usually calculated as units of product divided by units of some kind of input, but the results are very different depending on what kind of input goes in the denominator. Almonds are pretty efficient with regard to land, but a nightmare with regard to water inputs. Grassfed beef is extremely efficient with regard to fossil fuels, but a nightmare with regard to methane emissions. The journalistic coverage on this research doesn't specify, and at the moment I'm unable to put my hands on the _Science_ article, so the 8.5x number is basically meaningless.
I'm out of sync with my bar today.
We're going to need Sharknados in the Midwest before people start taking climate change seriously.
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The "10 Year Smartphone" initiative aims for a sustainable mobile ecosystem
https://tuxphones.com/10-year-smartphone-initiative-right-to-repair-lifecycle/ #righttorepair #opensource #10yearphone
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Interoperability is tech's superpower! With it, new tech can unseat powerful incumbents. But decades of pro-monopoly laws have given Big Tech a veto over who can plug into its products. https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2021/10/255710-competitive-compatibility/fulltext
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In line with a recent opinion from the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, Colorado’s Supreme Court has found that warrantless, continuous, long-term video surveillance via pole camera violates violates reasonable expectations of privacy. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/09/colorado-supreme-court-rules-three-months-warrantless-video-surveillance-violates
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Will we teach AI to program as poorly as we do?
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Wow! Scottish Parliament introduced free bus travel for 5 - 18 year olds this March, and will be extending it up to 21 year olds the beginning of next year!
https://www.transport.gov.scot/concessionary-travel/young-persons-free-bus-travel-scheme/
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Local governments should only give tax breaks to companies, if there is a demonstrated benefit in the local economy. If the standard of living increases, then jobs created have been beneficial. Tax breaks should be given in the form of community stock options, whose redemption value is tied to local economic gains. Local harms must also be accounted. e.g., environmental harms, traffic difficulties, etc.
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1. Browsing the internet will never be secure as long as web pages can execute arbitrary JavaScript.
2. For security reasons, a password manager should never integrate with a web browser.
The following website shows why these two points are true.
#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
Joined May 2019
