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Just got confirmation from T1J that the Nebula video platform is legit. Owned by the creators and they get surplus payouts every month (based on watch time). And he was totally psyched about collective ownership. Glad I signed up.

A coop owned patreon alternative with only 2.5 percent fee. Might be of interest ro @rek and @neauoire, and to everyone really

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Mexico rushed through new copyright as part of its #USMCA trade deal, copy-pasting the worst of US copyright. This law undermines Mexicans' fundamental rights and burdens Mexican businesses in so many ways. eff.org/deeplinks/2020/07/mexi

I'm excited to announce that our Librem 14 laptop will now feature BIOS and EC flash chip write protection via a dip switch on the motherboard: puri.sm/posts/librem-14-featur

Investing in Real Convergence

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"Real convergence means bringing your desktop computer with you wherever you go."

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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. theregister.com/2020/07/23/g_s

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. scheduler.hope.net/hope2020/ta

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. fall2020.iu.edu/return-to-camp

I discovered cardgames.io games work great on my 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.

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.

Microsoft accused of sharing data of Office 365 business subscribers with Facebook and its app devs • The Register 

@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.

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