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is something I've seen proven over and over, since the company came into existence. It always amazes me to see some very strong software engineers aligned with Microsoft, but to never see any proof of that in their products. This shows something is inherently broken in that company, and it'll never be fixed. Of course the obvious flaw is the approach to development, which values money over people (programmers and users), but something else must degrade the output. ...

@unlofl @lightweight the security community have been bitching recently about the 'attack surface' FOSS presents but that is minor compared to the attack surface MS has been for the last thirty years.
Moving the crap off the desktop into Azure has not made it any better... you might have removed the requirement to continually upgrade the local systems but when MS fucks up their routing tables half the planet goes offline.

I don't have any inside knowledge but it strikes me that all these ransomware attacks on various health (and fuel line) systems around the world have a common denominator that's never ever mentioned: Microsoft Windows. If people (especially running critical infrastructure) didn't use it... I'm confident we wouldn't have ransomware attacks.

“Current trends in the automotive industry point to a future with you locked in a remote control car, your vendor holding the remote." puri.sm/posts/locked-in-a-remo

If public health funds are subsidizing the research on new medicines, why are corporations still being allowed to use patents to monopolize production and increase their profits from distribution?

Intercepted: Big Pharma's Deadly Covid Vaccine Monopoly
play.acast.com/s/intercepted-w

#podcast #PublicHealth #patents

Jonas Salk declined to patent his polio vaccine. "There is no patent," he said, "Could you patent the sun?"

"Leading Deaf figures are supporting a new co-operative that is developing an online platform that they hope will “revolutionise” the booking of interpreters, “take control” from profit-making agencies and deliver “real and long-lasting social change”."

disabilitynewsservice.com/new-

Rich people are, by and large, evil. If they weren't evil before getting rich, they become evil afterwards. That's because (as you know) power corrupts. Of course they don't think they're evil. They think they're "exceptional," "outstanding," or "heroic." An effective social democracy puts a cap on how evil they can be. And that's why they hate (real) social democracies, and government in general.

The meat industry isn't the problem; all of industrial agriculture needs to clean up it's act. We can raise livestock in humane and climate friendly ways. What needs to happen is education and government regulation of agriculture. Get rid of the myth of corporate farm as family farm, and tax the shit out of large agriculture. No subsidies to mega-farms! People are going hungry; it's insane that grain is rotting in storage, and livestock is put through a wood chipper rather than being processed.

Made a bot that scrapes the Forbes list and puts billionaires on blast:

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@eatrich
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(Boosts would be appreciated)

Also - the very talented @CGanimated1227 helped with making a dictionary full of colorful adjectives describing the rich.

#EatTheRich
cc @subMedia

This is your regular reminder to join a union if you can
The union is the reason my employer #1 has to pay me for 4 hours work even when they only need 2.5 hours done, and then pay for my cab home if it’s scheduled to end past end of public transport hours.

Authoritarian regimes influence on agricultural soils, the coming sand crisis— a commodity of which huge amounts are traded globally, composting humans, Bill Gates owns more land in the USA than the Native American nations and more!

All in the Soil Network newsletter
soilcarenetwork.com/2021-april

We applaud President Biden's revocation of the “Executive Order on Preventing Online Censorship,” which threatened internet users’ ability to obtain truthful information online. eff.org/deeplinks/2021/05/pres

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