Class War - We are manipulated to disagree and argue things we cannot control. CooperationHumboldt.com in concert with many networks is shining a light on massive cooperation - you can join to Build and Resist. This conference will change you.
https://tinyurl.com/noclasswar
Striking spectrum workers launch #WorkerCoop ISP in NYC
@cooperatives https://gizmodo.com/revenge-spectrum-workers-on-strike-build-their-own-isp-1846678437
New studies show you should work your ass off as a young adult, so you can live to be old enough to be feeble. #fuckthat #enjoylife
The Fediverse should get rid of the addictive dark patternes that were copied from Twitter & co
Went into *two* restaurant+bars recently & was told "we have no paper menus due to COVID; use your phone to get the web menu". It's disturbing that a B&M business just assumes everyone has a smartphone & they're willing to marginalize those who do not. One of the bars outsourced to a site that outsourced to #Cloudflare so the online menu discriminated further against Tor users.
Journalist @johnpilger@twitter.com has a long track record of speaking truth to power. And as a former guest editor of New Internationalist, here's what he had to say about why you should join our 3600 co-owners, and help #SaveOurStories:
Oh yeah, use the robot dog to police public housing. O brave new world, That has such creatures in it!
"N.Y.P.D.’s Robot Dog Returns to Work, Touching Off a Backlash
Deployed at a public housing building, the device drew condemnation as a stark example of police power and misplaced priorities."
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/14/nyregion/robot-dog-nypd.html
""People's Choice Communications is an employee-owned social enterprise launched by members of IBEW Local #3 to bridge the digital divide and help our neighbors get connected to the Internet during the COVID-19 pandemic," the ISP's website says. (...) "After we build out a network in your building, it transfers to cooperative ownership, so profits are returned to users," the People's Choice website says. "We are able to provide high-speed service in most cases for $10-$20/month. No more cable company ripping you off, and as an owner, you have a vote in policies like data privacy."
Please, tell me again how we need capitalists to "create jobs" and "innovate" lest we all starve to death. Entertain me.
Did your data get breached by Facebook in its vast, ghastly, 500,000,000 person valdez? The lovely folks at Digital Rights Ireland are suing Facebook under the GDPR for money damages and they'd like to sign you up to be part of the lawsuit.
https://www.digitalrights.ie/facebook/
You're eligible if you live in the EU and your data was leaked. And, thanks to the GDPR, your participation in the legal action could result in Facebook being on the hook for real cash damages.
https://digitalfreedomfund.org/the-power-of-class-and-mass-action-for-digital-rights/
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"Droning On" https://thenib.com/droning-on/
War without end...You didn't really believe a neoliberal Democrat would end an oil war, did you? :-(
"Out of Print" https://thenib.com/out-of-print/
How news media works now. :-(
Humans Have Destroyed 97% Of Earth's Ecosystems
https://earther.gizmodo.com/humans-have-destroyed-97-of-earths-ecosystems-1846691917
PSA: #MAILSPRING / #NYLASMAIL HAS *NOT* GONE OPEN SOURCE
Beware the #openwashing claims of this company about removing the need for a MailspringID and #opensourcing #MailSync. These make it sound like this #email project has gone #FOSS / #opensource, getting many to pay for a subscription for #privacy focused #email. The server though is (and is planned to remain) closed, #proprietary, #centralized and owned by a US corporation (Foundry 376 LLC).
Details:
https://community.getmailspring.com/t/a-free-open-source-future-for-mailspring/484/20
Please boost.
"D.C. Guard misused helicopters in low-flying confrontation with George Floyd protesters, Army concludes"
Just 3% of world’s #ecosystems remain intact, study suggests | #Wildlife | The Guardian
#Biodiversity #Ecology #Conservation #Deforestation #GlobalWarming #ClimateChange
I can’t believe I’m having to write this code in a fucking web server. What a mockery of the web, human rights, and the GDPR.
Fuck you, Google!
Is The GOP Becoming More Supportive of Direct Cash Payments? https://basicincometoday.com/is-the-gop-becoming-more-supportive-of-direct-cash-payments/
The GOP will embrace welfare as long as they can use it to control people more tightly. You can be sure a GOP populist trend won't include enabling unionization or extending protest rights; in fact, GOP support for direct payments will surely come with receipt conditions. Of course, neoliberal Dems will be in agreement.
‘It’s a historic moment’ — Pete Buttigieg on EV chargers, lead pipes, and the promise of infrastructure https://grist.org/politics/its-a-historic-moment-pete-buttigieg-on-ev-chargers-lead-pipes-and-the-promise-of-infrastructure/
Good answers by Buttigieg to questions about what the term, infrastructure, entails. GOP trying to limit the term to fossil fuel supports (roads, pipelines, ...).
The Delaware River Basin paradox: Why fracking is so hard to quit https://grist.org/politics/the-delaware-river-basin-paradox-why-fracking-is-so-hard-to-quit/
That is a really bad title for the article, which basically describes a win against fracking in the Delaware River basin, but a potentially larger loss for the same region due to a new fossil fuel shipping port.
Biden Looks to Extend Trump’s Bolstered Mandatory Minimum Drug Sentencing https://theintercept.com/2021/04/12/fentanyl-drug-sentencing-biden/
#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