Pretty sure that if a male U.S. athlete was on the verge of breaking the all-time victory record in his sport, U.S. media -- including broadcasters -- would be trumpeting his achievements.
There's coverage of Mikaela Shiffrin's astonishing World Cup skiing feats, but what she has done -- and will do -- is being mostly ignored by American broadcasters and given insufficient attention in other U.S. news outlets.
Guardian's story today is solid: https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2023/jan/29/mikaela-shiffrin-world-cup-skiing-record-lena-duerr
Are you a #CLI lover? Are you unhappy with the #Gitea #tea CLI? Feel free to check out #cod then.
Cod #Codeberg CLI: https://codeberg.org/RobWalt/codeberg-cli
#Forgejo/Gitea CLI: https://gitea.com/gitea/tea
This project -- a mobile app that helps you understand corporate spying on you, and do something about it -- is a GREAT move by Consumer Reports.
CR, a venerable nonprofit, was slow to understand and adapt to the digital era. But with a much savvier board and leadership, and support from people like @craignewmark, the organization is making brilliant moves to help all of us.
Fascinating history of polio from the Infectious Diseases and Therapy article (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4108111/#:~:text=Before%20the%20twentieth%20century%2C%20poor,of%20sewage%20from%20drinking%20water):
"Before the twentieth century, poor hygiene and sanitation meant that almost all children were exposed to polio virus during infancy, which enabled natural immunity to build up in populations. The industrial revolution brought great sanitary improvements[, but] it reduced childhood exposure to the virus..., creating the perfect setting for epidemics to ignite [3]."
A reminder that the Daily Mail is a toxic waste dump of journalism -- vile, vile people at an outlet you should never, ever cite as proof of anything. (I immediately unfollow any account that treats the Mail as legitimate journalism.) https://mastodon.social/@rvawonk@newsie.social/109765532849132897
If you're looking for work in IT, and a prospective employer tells you, confidently, that they're a "Microsoft Shop" they've got really bad governance and I'm confident they'll cause you more pain than they're worth if you work for them. Here's what I mean: https://davelane.nz/mshostage
Decades of research prove that the best way to end homelessness is...
Give people a home. Seriously. That's it. No strings, no prerequisites, no faith-based, holistic, means-tested, yoga-cebtric meditation parole. Just a home.
"Erasure of history is not a secret. There are 2.8 million students sitting in Florida public schools right now knowing that their governor does not want them to learn about Black history"
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2023/01/25/desantis-african-american-studies-black-history/
A true open standard (see https://openstandards.nz/definition) allows for *permissionless innovation*. Literally anyone can both study the open standard in its entirety, and implement it without fear of patent extortion or the need to pay up front or have profit drained by royalties.
The fact you're looking at this on an ActivityPub-enabled Fediverse app demonstrates that a community of focused individuals can create a global-scale network around an open standard that rivals (or, frankly, beats) pretty much anything capitalism could create, even at its 'best'.
And these communities create without profit motive - just because they share a vision and think it'd be a good thing. All they require is sustainability, not exploitative profit.
I think that's worth celebrating.
With these 'big tech' corporate lay offs, I encourage those who're unexpectedly back in the job market to consider the power dynamics & lacking ethics of the previous employers they chose to work for and look out for (and avoid) new role in similar circumstances (that's likely to have the same ultimate outcome).
The options with more principled, ethical management (perhaps even non-profits & foundations) might not pay as well, but the peace of mind might easily be worth the difference.
@lightweight every billionaire is a policy failure
Seeing all these posts about MS365 being shit...DOS crashed a lot, Windows has always had a shit UI, MS Word is the worst document tool I've ever used, MS Excel couldn't compete when there was competition, did anyone really think Visual Basic was a serious programming language?, Visual Studio is shit for anything but Windows programming, ...
When you primarily pursue anti-competitive behavior, there is little left for quality.
📢 I'm looking to #hire a part-time #frontend #webdev to help me build important and cool projects at @freedomofpress such as the U.S. Press Freedom Tracker (https://pressfreedomtracker.us/)
The work we do is meaningful and we're a fun and thoughtful team.
We're particularly looking for someone with #react experience. #dataviz and #python are a bonus.
We posted this #job a couple weeks ago, and are going through apps now, so apply soon!
#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