A Brief History of the Police (And an Argument for their Abolition):
Massachusetts: Join us in urging state legislators to stand with the people of Massachusetts and against government use of this civil liberty and public safety threatening technology. 2/2 https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/12/massachusetts-legislators-should-stand-their-communities-and-restore-face
GTK 4.0 is here! After four years of hard work from our dedicated developers, GTK 4.0 was released today. Some highlights from this release include media playback, drag-and-drop, and scalable lists and grids. Learn more about what's new in GTK 4.0: https://blog.gtk.org/
The Debian web updates its homepage and prepares for a major renewal https://bits.debian.org/2020/12/debian-web-new-homepage.html
It's the time of year for holiday fun.
https://angrysnowmans.bandcamp.com/
https://blackholerecs.bandcamp.com/album/cashing-in-on-christmas-volume-3 <- Linked this one due to local band The Gestalts
A New Satellite Can Peer Inside Buildings, Day or Night
https://futurism.com/new-satellite-buildings-day-night
Universal Basic Income has been a ‘lifesaver’ to families during coronavirus pandemic: California mayor https://basicincometoday.com/universal-basic-income-has-been-a-lifesaver-to-families-during-coronavirus-pandemic-california-mayor/
A group of 17 progressive Democrats is pushing for ,000 stimulus checks to be in the next coronavirus relief https://basicincometoday.com/a-group-of-17-progressive-democrats-is-pushing-for-2000-stimulus-checks-to-be-in-the-next-coronavirus-relief-package/
[Full-time] Site Reliability Engineer at Wikimedia Foundation https://www.fossjobs.net/job/10310/site-reliability-engineer-at-wikimedia-foundation/ #jobs
"Help NYC drivers launch a platform cooperative"
https://ioby.org/project/help-nyc-drivers-launch-platform-cooperative#.X9Yjx4K9LgI.facebook
Who had "US Air Force launches SkyNet" on their 2020 bingo card? https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/12/16/air-force-artificial-intelligence/
SolarWinds, whose software was backdoored to allow hackers to breach U.S. government agencies, was warned last year that anyone could access its update server using the password "solarwinds123", per @Bing_Chris and @razhael.
Hackers at center of sprawling spy campaign turned SolarWinds' dominance against it
How many times has #Trump #lost the #election ahahahaha | #FirstDogOnTheMoon | Opinion | The Guardian
French Film Company Somehow Trademarks 'Planet', Goes After Environmental NGOs For Using The Word - https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20201215/09492645887/french-film-company-somehow-trademarks-planet-goes-after-environmental-ngos-using-word.shtml remember that Canal Plus doesn't care about saving this planet...
☘ American journal of botany
Lancaster, Pa.: Published in cooperation with the Botanical Society of America by the Brooklyn Botanic Gardens, 1914-
https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/47137777
What is Technology for Liberation?
Palantir, for example, produces software for ICE agents to profile and arrest families of undocumented status, playing a direct role in taking migrant children away from their
parents and caging them in privately run detention facilities.75
Keytap2 - acoustic keyboard eavesdropping based on language n-gram frequencies:
Want to take a COVID test at home? You must install an app to get the results: "Ellume’s test requires users to download an app on their smartphone to learn their test result. That app automatically sends data by Zip code to the cloud"
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2020/12/15/covid-home-rapid-test/
Visa and Mastercard, acting together, are currently a chokepoint for online payments. This means their arbitrary policies often decide what you can read - or watch - online. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/12/visa-and-mastercard-are-trying-dictate-what-you-can-watch-pornhub
#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