Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

I would say FB should pay every single person $5000
http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/mpD9_RWMCvI/facebook-adds-100-million-to-landmark-facial-recognition-settlement-payout

This article explains all the reasons why we should actively shun Microsoft products and kindly but firmly refuse to collaborate with people who use them, polluting the world with their effectively proprietary formats... this is a teaching opportunity. Microsoft are a bad actor - people should avoid being sullied by association. And Google is only slightly better. https://www.theregister.com/2020/07/23/g_suite_javier_soltero_interview/

Join representatives of the Electronic Frontier Alliance this Sunday at @hopeconf for a panel discussion on community-based advocacy for digital privacy, creativity, security, free expression, and access to knowledge. https://scheduler.hope.net/hope2020/talk/7VQNDR/

#Plastic #waste entering #oceans expected to triple in 20 years | #Environment | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/jul/23/plastic-waste-entering-oceans-triple-20-years-research

#pollution

Indiana University is requiring returning students to sign a Student Commitment regarding COVID-19. This includes a mandate for diagnosed students to download "any app if one is required by IU." This is inappropriate. https://fall2020.iu.edu/return-to-campus/student-commitment-form.html

I discovered http://cardgames.io games work great on my #Librem5 as a Gnome Web local app with its own launcher icon. While I already had solitaire and other games, this adds games like cribbage that don't have a native Linux app.

Announcing New Anarchist Publication from So-Called Vancouver, ‘No More City’ https://itsgoingdown.org/announcing-new-anarchist-publication-from-so-called-vancouver-no-more-city/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

Massachusetts' House of Representatives are considering a complicated set of amendments to a much-needed police reform bill. While there is much to like in the bill, amendments 67, 70, 162, 187, and 149 would weaken the bill’s regulation of biased face surveillance technology.

A great read from Monthly Review:

https://monthlyreview.org/2020/07/01/race-is-about-more-than-discrimination/

https://www.theregister.com/2020/07/20/microsoft_office_data_facebook/

Once again, it's time for the GEO Weekly Newsletter:

https://mailchi.mp/65b67103ead9/cooperating-through-crisis-enkindle-village-school-geo-weekly-newsletter

@LeoSammallahti To be fair, a) coops haven't had the constant corporate propaganda campaign against them that unions have, and b) if a lot of credit unions are like the one I belong to, where the members only get to vote on who's on the board of directors and nothing else, they're pretty much coops in name only and certainly don't act or feel like coops.

Accounts from the Battle of Grant Park : How Chicago Demonstrators Pushed Back the Police and Nearly Toppled a Statue https://crimethinc.com/2020/07/21/accounts-from-the-battle-of-grant-park-how-chicago-demonstrators-pushed-back-the-police-and-nearly-toppled-a-statue?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

Do you want to work on free and open source software as a full-time job? People ask me all the time how to find companies who might hire you for this, and I share this command line snippet:

git log -n100000 --format="%ae" | cut -d@ -f2 | sort -u | less

This will produce a list of email domains who are committing in a given git repo, which often corresponds pretty closely with the list of companies willing to hire you to work on that project and others like it.

The Canadian Civil Liberties Association (CCLA) is suing the city of Ontario for sharing COVID-19 testing data with police. CCLA says sharing the data is “not necessary, and in fact undermines an effective public health approach to this pandemic.” We agree.https://toronto.ctvnews.ca/groups-launch-legal-action-against-ontario-for-sharing-covid-19-data-with-police-1.5028583

Research shows that roughly half of the agencies that now partner with Ring also have been responsible for at least one fatal encounter in the last five years. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/07/amazons-ring-enables-over-policing-efforts-some-americas-deadliest-law-enforcement

https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/transgender-facebook-content-dominated-right-wing-sources-study-finds-n1234252

Margaret Kimberley on why defunding the police, by itself, is not a solution:

https://www.blackagendareport.com/freedom-rider-police-defunding-con-game

"Cutting police budgets without establishing public control over their behavior doesn’t solve the problem, and invites politicians to shuffle budget numbers around like a three-card monte swindle."

We should be considering our RMA alongside the identified failings of AU's environment standards - because humanity can't afford to screw this up. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/jul/20/australias-environment-in-unsustainable-state-of-decline-major-review-finds