Xkcd for the win! #immunity
https://xkcd.com/
@baldur « NFTs seem to me just a way for artists to get a little piece of the action from global capitalism, our own cute little version of financialisation. How sweet - now artists can become little capitalist assholes as well. »
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"TikTok is accused of violating GPL with new live streaming software"
“Brian Eno on NFTs & Automatism”
“The idea that Ayn Rand, that Nietzsche-for-Teenagers toxin, should have had her whacky ideas enshrined in a philosophy about money is what is terrifying to me.” https://the-crypto-syllabus.com/brian-eno-on-nfts-and-automatism/
I don't know who writes the job ads for the Humanitarian Open-Street Maps Team, but...
"passionate" "hacktivists" "superstars" "ignite"
Sounds like they're looking for developers who like to have their egos tweaked in exchange for a work-life balance skewed toward work.
[Full-time] Tech Product Designer - REMOTE at Humanitarian OpenStreetMaps Team (HOT) https://www.fossjobs.net/job/10795/tech-product-designer-remote-at-humanitarian-openstreetmaps-team-hot/ #jobs
[Full-time] Open Innovation Facilitator - REMOTE at Humanitarian OpenStreetMaps Team (HOT) https://www.fossjobs.net/job/10796/open-innovation-facilitator-remote-at-humanitarian-openstreetmaps-team-hot/ #jobs
Needs repeating: world economic inequality is staggering, and trends for the better are very weak if exist at all.
In 2021 the richest 10% owns 76% of total wealth and bottom 50% just 2%.
"Inequality is a political choice, not an inevitability."
Source: https://wir2022.wid.world/
Following on my thread from June, here's an upsetting article about how self-governed publicly funded homeless tent villages in Portland were converted to a conventional governance model: https://www.portlandmercury.com/blogtown/2021/12/14/37410751/small-gestures-of-trust-what-was-learned-and-lost-in-creating-portlands-emergency-homeless-villages
(thanks for the link, @anarchistbicycleclub).
"Residents said they could tell that there was a change in leadership almost overnight. Villages suddenly saw their three daily meals reduced to two, locks placed on community storage units, and a restriction on giving away supplies to homeless people who weren’t residents. All Good brought on 60 staff to replace the work previously being done by volunteers and residents—and then some. Unlike the earlier iteration of C3PO villages, All Good hired case workers to work directly with residents to help them with anything from securing permanent housing to applying for health care. All Good informed all residents who had been employed by R2DToo that they could keep their jobs only if they agreed to move out of the village within six months."
RT @newint
Can employees be in full control of their enterprises? Amy Hall explores the possibilities and tensions of worker co-operatives.
Technology Pill: Tech Research: includes a free gift https://anchor.fm/technology-pill/episodes/Tech-Research-includes-a-free-gift-e1brjf6
The Data Interception Environment (DIE) is a tool released by @privacyint that you can use to analyse how your data is being used by app developers and third parties. It allows you to see how apps are sending your data from your device back to the company or to third parties
https://privacyinternational.org/learn/data-interception-environment
I wonder how many educators are on here.
There were thriving communities of educators on Tumblr and Twitter, but Tumblr's went to heck after moderated hashtags went away and Twitter is ... Twitter.
The fediverse has Scholar.social, but that's more of an instance for college/university level academics. I'd like to connect with other K-12 educators.
my kid just figured out how to put a full debian install on his school-issued locked-down chromebook. the first thing he did was install firefox which lets him bypass the school content blocker system (they did this as a browser extension rather than an OS-level firewall, oops). second thing was to put ublock origin on it, since somehow the school locked all the students out of installing ad blockers. (I know, right?)
anyway he's pretty stoked about it and wanting to learn more. he likes learning thru videos; can anyone recommend a video series for command-line basics? he's got some basic programming experience in Lua and knows HTML but has only very rudimentary shell exposure.
I was just thinking about how there's a lot of classical works, that I never would have known about, if not for cartoons and comic books. I've also gotten a lot of political and historical information from comic strips and music. #art
"More generally, I believe that #opensource development should return to its roots as a #freesoftware movement guided by moral principles. Doing so would help the open source community set better boundaries, which would in turn improve software quality, funding, and working conditions. Without a moral center to give developers a spine, they’ll continue to race to the bottom to please corporate interests."
https://www.haskellforall.com/2021/12/funding-isnt-problem-with-open-source.html
#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