Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Meet the Military Contractor Running Fare Collection in New York Subways — and Around the World
https://theintercept.com/2022/10/03/cubic-military-public-transit-mta-omny/

#BigBrotherIsWatching

Corporations Are Spending a Ton to Stop Low-Wage Workers From Unionizing
https://truthout.org/articles/corporations-are-spending-a-ton-to-stop-low-wage-workers-from-unionizing/

"In 2021, the typical paycheck for a full-time union employee was $194 higher each week than that of a full-time nonunion employee, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics."

#WorkersOfTheWorldUnite

GEICO Is Trying to Crush Workers’ Attempts to Form an Independent Union
https://truthout.org/articles/geico-is-trying-to-crush-workers-attempts-to-form-an-independent-union/
They need to get the Geico Gecko a Mr Monopoly hat.

Recent headlines from techrights.org:
"Open Source Initiative Controlled (Infiltrated) by Microsoft GitHub: Microsoft Bribes OSI to Justify GPL Violations Under the Guise of ‘AI’, Even Writes the OSI’s Material"

"Software Freedom Conservancy (SFC) is Facilitating a Hostile Takeover by Corporations (Privatising Free Software)"

"No Protection for Linux Offered by the So-called ‘Linux’ Foundation"

@GuerillaOntologist I see this too on a different hosting provider. Mail doesn't even show up on the web mail access for 5-10 minutes. I have antivirus, SpamAssassin, and email filtering enabled at the server. Wondered if any of those are the bottleneck.

@lightweight "Affected people" in climate change scenarios tends to disproportionately be the poor, and poor people suffering has never been real enough to the rich to effect change.

I expect the Fed to continue to crash the US economy. There'll soon be blood on the pickle ball courts as citizens are unable to contain their rage.

@lightweight If you have a FOSS project that you don't want to self host then @codeberg@mastodon.technology looks like a good choice.

@lightweight the percentage of software companies that can reliably measure their software development effort is very, very low, therefore the state of software development is an inability to predict quality. Until the software community (devs and management) accepts metrics and measurement as an integral piece of the development process, this will continue to be true. Software is science, but software development ignores the scientific method.
#DumbAllOver

Corporations’ Price-Gouging May Hurt Them in the Long Run, Says Economist
https://truthout.org/audio/corporations-price-gouging-may-hurt-them-in-the-long-run-says-economist/

"And so what that means is that for every dollar that these corporations are earning, a larger percentage of that is going to corporate profits, rather than paying off input costs or paying wages, than what we’ve seen since the 1950s. So not only are corporations making a lot of money, they’re actually squeezing consumers for more than they have in 70 years. "