Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one
#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
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Ransomware attack on a healthcare firm slowed clinical trials
https://www.engadget.com/ransomware-attack-slows-clinical-trials-161545599.html #privacy #security #ransomware #purism
Cost of college between 1978 and 2012 increased by 1120%.
Imagine if minimum wage had kept pace. That same minimum wage job at 2.65 would have paid 29.68 in 2012.
It's Cheap to Be Rich - What Donald Trump's tax heist reveals about the rot in our economic system. https://inthesetimes.com/article/donald-trump-tax-rich-cheap-wealth-inequality-capitalism
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New Episode! This week,
Doc Searls, @katherined, Petros Koutoupis, and @kyle talk Amazon drones, #adtech, The Social Dilemma, and more. https://reality2cast.com/42 #podcast #technology #privacy #surveillancecapitalism #newepisode
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The anti-speech, anti-security EARN IT Act has been introduced in the House of Representatives. We need your help to stop it. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/10/urgent-earn-it-act-introduced-house-representatives
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.
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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
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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/
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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.
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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/ 😒
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Huh. Just had quite a good experience with DigitalOcean support. Far more responsive than MS Azure support (we've stopped using Azure), and keen to help us sort the problem (system error updating payment methods), now resolved (system issue on their end).
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Click on just one moderately political youtube video...
Spend the next three days scrolling through angry rants the algorithm thinks it has a shot at making you binge watch. :/
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/
#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
