What these right-wing Catholics did here -- buying location information on priests they suspected were gay -- is not just a moral outrage. It is the proof that our lawmakers have pure contempt for privacy.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2023/03/09/catholics-gay-priests-grindr-data-bishops/
What will it take before the public recognizes how dangerous it is that slimy companies are collecting and selling our most personal information to slimy third parties?
🚨 one week left to apply to table or give a workshop at the bookfair!🚨
send us your pitch! we would love to see you there
https://www.anarchistbookfair.ca/application-forms-2023/
Great read:
https://ploum.net/2023-03-09-losing-signal.html
> #Signal published a blog post on how we were all different and they were trying to adapt to those differences. Signal was for everyone, told the title. Ironically, that very same day, I’ve lost access to my account.
> I’ve suddenly been excluded from all the conversations with my friends because I very slightly but unacceptably deviated from the norm.
> 3yrs ago, I thought having a black and white screen on my own phone was more comfortable for my eyes.
This article has a little bit of everything: “The Battle for the Soul of Buy Nothing”
“The scale of local news destruction in Gannett’s markets is astonishing” #journalism #publishing https://www.niemanlab.org/2023/03/the-scale-of-local-news-destruction-in-gannetts-markets-is-astonishing/
#Greece in turmoil and pain – 8 days of rage
"Greece: a country in mourning, still in shock, following the death of 57 people in a train crash at Tempe, the deadliest in the country and one of the worst in Europe.
For 8 days now, almost all protests in #Athens have been brutally attacked by the so-called “mourning” riot police, under the orders of Mitsotakis government that pretends to care, while they even close down all metro stations around a protest’s starting point to deter people from joining them."
Legally binding global #treaty needed to tackle #SpaceDebris, say experts | #Space | The Guardian
It’s hazardous enough up there.
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/mar/09/global-treaty-space-debris-earth-orbit-junk
Do not -- do not -- buy a printer (or anything else) from HP. Unfortunately, since Congress refuses to make illegal what is flagrantly unfair and unethical, that is your only option. Such a sleazy, arrogant company. https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/03/customers-fume-as-hp-blocks-third-party-ink-from-more-of-its-printers/
My latest at WIRED: Today the FBI admitted to buying cellphone location data that US companies claimed was gathered to personalize online ads -- data the bureau would've otherwise required a warrant to obtain
Dir. Wray says it was purchased for a classified pilot program "some time" ago
https://www.wired.com/story/fbi-purchase-location-data-wray-senate/
If you ever wonder what a corporation values... it's the shareholder's interest. Nothing else matters. Everything else is expendable, without regret. https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/business/485606/xero-announces-plan-to-cut-up-to-800-jobs
Time to dump Discord
Oversight GOP won’t sign Democrats’ statement denouncing white supremacy https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/oversight-republicans-great-replacement-theory-b2295295.html
Fascinating: https://invidious.snopyta.org/watch?v=jN7mSXMruEo or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jN7mSXMruEo The history of why #SUVs emerged form the US and how messed up it is.
Are there freelancers in the @FlatpakApps community who can be contracted for a few days' work bundling an (Electron) app as a #Flatpk and submitting it to #Flathub? I'm looking to make an introduction to another organisation that's not so familiar with the platform.
Part 6 already in the phone camera series :D
Culture War Hawks | The Nib
https://thenib.com/culture-war-hawks/
#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