.@senjudiciary is currently discussing the Online Content Modernization Policy Act. We urge them to reject this unconstitutional mess of a bill. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/10/online-content-policy-modernization-act-unconstitutional-mess
It’s shocking that politicians pushing for a more exclusionary Internet are doing so under the banner of free speech; it’s even more shocking that the president has dubbed it a matter of national security. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/12/its-not-section-230-president-trump-hates-its-first-amendment
Looking forward to working with colleagues at COL in progressing open courses for technical and vocational skills development. #CTVSD2
This: "Software? Fusion360, Adobe Creative Cloud, John Deere tractors- a tradesperson can’t even own their own tools anymore. We’re all sharecroppers. Everything is rented." ... "Every single thing we own is being taken, put in the cloud, and rented back to us. Willingly. Because no one wants to know how to do anything beyond a narrow scope. We’re a world of carpenters willing to rent sharp chisels and saws rather than learn to sharpen them ourselves." https://xyzdims.com/2020/12/08/infinite-z-cr-30-aka-3dprintmill-creality-acknowledges-prior-development-commits-to-open-source-2020-12/
Congress can't trump your right to criticize elected officials. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/12/its-not-section-230-president-trump-hates-its-first-amendment
Technologies for Liberation:
CUNY is offering a #Cooperative Management course:
https://slu.cuny.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Cooperative-Management-for-a-Changing-World-r2.pdf
Netflix documentary, Kiss the Ground, wants to fix our food system with capitalism. A documentary on food sovereignty, ‘Gather’, argues that’s how it broke. https://grist.org/food/netflix-kiss-the-ground-vs-gather/
Most of America’s dirty power plants will be ready to retire by 2035 https://grist.org/energy/most-of-americas-dirty-power-plants-are-old-enough-to-retire-by-2035/
Effort to Take On Surprise Medical Billing in Coronavirus Stimulus Collapses https://theintercept.com/2020/12/08/surprise-medical-billing-neal-covid/
State-Sanctioned Killers: As Trump Expedites Executions at Home, Biden Builds Team for Wars Abroad https://theintercept.com/2020/12/09/intercepted-trump-executions-biden-national-security/
As Covid surges in the US, is the NBA ready to step outside of its bubble? https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2020/dec/09/nba-new-season-covid-rules-coronavirus
Billionaires made tn since Covid-19. They can afford to protect their workers https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/dec/09/billionaires-ceos-essential-workers
Biden's HHS Pick Will Be In a Position to Finally Take On the Healthcare Industry https://inthesetimes.com/article/biden-hhs-xavier-becerra-medicare-for-all-healthcare-progressive
Biden’s Defense Secretary Pick Shows the Revolving Door for Military Contractors Remains https://inthesetimes.com/article/joe-biden-defense-secretary-general-lloyd-austin-raytheon-pine-island-capital
In the we'll buy anything they're selling us department, it looks like the company I work for is moving from TFS to Azure DevOps, which appears to be TFS in a new wrapper. #microsoftsucks
Saw an article on trust and autonomous devices that stated, 'hence, why we're supposed to keep our hands on the wheel of self-driving cars and follow traffic laws'. Considering how oversteering probably makes most accidents worse, this sounds like a bad premise. Maybe just having a steering wheel as placebo is the better tactic. On 'follow traffic laws', shouldn't a self driving car already do that?
Five of 2020's Top Climate Grifters
https://earther.gizmodo.com/five-of-2020s-top-climate-grifters-1845803712 #climatechange #climatecrisis #leadonclimate
#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