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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This is very interesting - credit union members form a cooperative to bargain their energy costs down by doing group purchasing.
Any other examples of credit unions helping their members form these sort of buying clubs?
https://www.nasafcu.com/personal/membership/special-offers/reduce-your-home-energy-costs
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In cancelling classroom events featuring Leila Khaled, Zoom adopts an overly broad reading of U.S. anti-terrorism laws and thus steps into the role of government censor https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/11/when-academic-expression-depends-internet-tech-infrastructure-companies-must-find
Over 500 MPs, lords, and local councilors in UK say UBI pilots are urgently needed https://basicincometoday.com/over-500-mps-lords-and-local-councilors-in-uk-say-ubi-pilots-are-urgently-needed/
Trump’s Rural Health Adviser Fiddles While the Heartland Burns https://theintercept.com/2020/11/02/jeff-colyer-coronavirus-rural-areas/
ICE Medical Misconduct Witness Slated for Deportation Is a U.S. Citizen, Says Lawyer https://theintercept.com/2020/11/02/ice-medical-misconduct-us-citizen-deportation/
Progressive Challengers Could Shatter a Washington Narrative on Tuesday https://theintercept.com/2020/11/02/progressives-house-races-election/
Hong Kong TV journalist arrested 'over report on police misconduct' https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/nov/03/hong-kong-tv-journalist-arrested-over-report-on-police-misconduct
Shell’s climate poll on Twitter backfires spectacularly https://www.theguardian.com/business/2020/nov/03/shells-climate-poll-on-twitter-backfires-spectacularly
The real reason Trump is terrified of losing the presidency: fear of prosecution https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/nov/03/donald-trump-fear-lose-election-prosecution
Supreme court to hear Obamacare case that may lead to 20m losing insurance https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/nov/03/supreme-court-to-hear-obamacare-case-20-million-may-lose-insurance
Trump's Online SNAP Program Helps Amazon and Walmart, But Leaves Rural People Behind https://inthesetimes.com/article/snap-rural-food-benefits-independent-grocers
A little voting levity.(?)
https://thenib.com/2020-election-stickers/
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Zoom's cancellation of several university events shows the dangers of infrastructure-layer takedowns https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/11/when-academic-expression-depends-internet-tech-infrastructure-companies-must-find
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Don’t tell people to “Google it.” That’s your job, not theirs
https://thelogicofscience.com/2016/09/27/dont-tell-people-to-google-it-thats-your-job-not-theirs/
(submitted by anoncake)
"Older workers often face age discrimination"
For the first time in nearly 50 years, workers over 55 face higher unemployment than those 35-54 https://basicincometoday.com/for-the-first-time-in-nearly-50-years-workers-over-55-face-higher-unemployment-than-those-35-54/
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Growing numbers of ‘newly hungry’ forced to use #UK #FoodBanks | #Society | The Guardian
#overpopulation #oldnews #dumballover
https://www.independent.com/2019/01/21/we-have-population-problem/
One thing that is too often missing from COVID-19 (and other natural disaster) discussions is #ecology. The difficult question is how to factor fairness into human ecology discussions. The state of the world right now means the rich get to decide who should be culled from the population.
The key to creating software that is easy to understand and maintain is to clearly define and encapsulate the functional and non-functional subject matters in your system under development. I was first exposed to this concept about 28 years ago, and the method for doing it was already quite mature at that time.
https://xtuml.org
https://xtuml.github.io/xtuml.github.io/xday/xday2020.html
#FOSS at the next level.
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@jordan31 @Matter @plausible
It's unfriendly to developers who want to take away other people's rights. That's a feature, not a bug.
I mean, you might as well argue that commercial software licenses are unfriendly to developers. After all, they don't let you sell copies of the software as part of your own bundles.
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Law enforcement agencies in the United States are notoriously secretive. That’s why we need @PCLOB_GOV to investigate what, where, and how surveillance was done against protestors this summer. Thank you, @RonWyden, @RepAnnaEshoo, and @RepBobbyRush. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/10/members-congress-join-fight-protest-surveillance-transparency
#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
