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This will surprise you not at all: New York City police commissioner protects bad cops and lies about it.

@ProPublica follows up on its earlier reporting in this piece: https://www.propublica.org/article/fact-check-nypd-commissioner-caban-response-police-brutality-retention?utm_source=sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=majorinvestigations&utm_content=river

Interest rates go down: prices go up, wages go up less. Interest rates go up: wages stagnate, people get laid off and can only find work at lower wages, if they can at all.

I think workers are actually better off with high inflation as long as it comes with low unemployment, because it causes people to start organizing. And only organizing can actually increase real wages. Because wages come from power.

EFF also creates free tools that help solve the problems of sneaky tracking, inconsistent encryption, and more. You can check them out here! https://eff.org/tools

Ursula K. Le Guin: “We live in capitalism—its power seems inescapable, but so did the divine right of kings.”

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Take one of these crappy books to the beach so it won't matter if it gets wet. https://brianmcfadden.org/2024/07/08/summer-beach-reads-2/

Exciting news! Our first #purismgamejam just went into the voting round. Check out the amazing 'symbiotic' themed games created by our community. These free software games showcase the power of open-source gaming. Play them now at https://itch.io/jam/free-software-purism-game-jam #OpenSource #Gaming #Purism

Sometimes it feels like contracting consists of being paid to wait while everyone argues over what to do next, then being paid to explain why we're behind schedule without pointing out how long it took for everyone to argue over what to do next.

“We fight for ourselves. We do not engage in representative struggles. We do not fight for ideology, or for the proletariat, or for ‘the people.’ We fight for a self-determined life.”

From a set of "Autonomous Theses" drafted by a group of militants in Italy in 1981.

Just saw a Fedi poll asking who people would vote for in the 2024 Presidential race, with the only options being the three frontrunners.

Here's a poll better pitched for the audience around here.

Who will you vote for in the U.S. Presidential race?

Do/Have you used a CD/DVD/Bluray in a while?

What about burning a disk?

I'm surveying modern day awareness/usage of optical media, mostly to confirm some demographic theories, so if you know what a CD/DVD is, please help me (and maybe others) out by answering some ~10 questions here:

https://optical-media-survey.benjojo.co.uk/

And then please boost for better visibility! Thank you!

I've been asked to write a book by a Real Publisher. The topic was a collection of thoughts on issues in the industry, leadership, etc.

Pros: I have control over the book.

Cons: Publisher has an extremely poor reputation in the tech community.

Does anyone here have experience self-publishing (probably my preference, I just want a physical copy for spiritual reasons) or know someone at a good publisher that might enjoy my writing? I'll have talks with these folks, but can probably do better.

The Washington Post asks: "Severe heat wave in the West is making history. How much longer will it continue?"

About a century or more, depending on how we finally chose to tackle human-caused climate change.

Google PR sure is taking its sweet time getting back to me about the finding that Chrome has a hidden extension that allows all *.google.com domains to monitor your CPU usage and other private system info. I'm sure they're working just as fast as they can.

https://simonwillison.net/2024/Jul/9/hangout_servicesthunkjs/

Breaking: Secret Service logs show seven visits to White House by an arborist in the last six months. Our expert analyst concludes this means Biden likely has Dutch Elm Disease.

A magazine asked me for a quote on AI generated influencers. I read the articles they linked and said "Just a bunch of dudes bragging that they made a woman that doesn't talk back. Nothing fucked up about that."

The interviewees in the previous articles just quibbled over whether the images were fatphobic. Like, yes, sure, obviously, but did NO ONE ELSE see the guy saying he made a woman that doesn't talk back?

??!?!?!?!?? 💀 🙃 🧛‍♂️ Is this why people ask me for quotes?

https://www.npr.org/2024/06/09/nx-s1-4993998/the-miss-ai-beauty-pageant-ushers-in-a-new-type-of-influencer

Our #CommunitySpotlight presents: @readeck, a simple self-hosted web app that lets you manage bookmarks for articles you want to read. Use the UI to easily group and search your articles, and even transfer content to your #ebook reader for relaxed reading (if you have one).

Just get your browser extension ready, and save interesting content for later.

Find #Readeck on #Codeberg:
https://codeberg.org/readeck/readeck

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