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Join Sam Tracy in Milwaukee to discuss Riding More with Less: A Future for Bike Repair

Vulture Space, The Milwaukee Community Bicycle Project on Wednesday, July 24th at 6pm https://www.facebook.com/events/435855372688360

Boswell Book Company on Thursday, July 25th at 6:30pm https://www.eventbrite.com/e/sam-tracy-author-of-riding-more-with-less-an-in-person-boswell-event-tickets-863928743127

#books #bike

I have a comic up over at In These Times. https://inthesetimes.com/article/student-loan-debt-collective-comics

The new comics section at In These Times is up for the DEBT issue.
https://inthesetimes.com/article/student-loan-debt-collective-comics

If you want to support #Forgejo financially, you can now do this via #Liberapay: https://liberapay.com/forgejo/

The funding goes to approved team members first, and some leftover funds benefit Codeberg, too.

If you prefer other payment options, you can also donate to Codeberg, since we also use part of our funding for the development of Forgejo. https://docs.codeberg.org/improving-codeberg/donate/

Check your voter registration at least twice a month to make sure you haven’t been taken off the voting rolls! If there are defects you have enough time NOW to get them fixed!!! Don’t wait. Don’t procrastinate! Check this now: https://vote.org

#Harris #Harris2024 #voteblue #vote #kamalaharris

@civillibertynz opposes the Sentencing (Reinstating Three Strikes) Amendment Bill as it infringes on our civil liberties while not providing sufficient justification for doing so. It seems to us that the bill is more about political signalling than improving our justice system.
https://nzccl.org.nz/submission-sentencing-reinstating-three-strikes-amendment-bill/

Severe sentences do not deter crime, retribution often does not help survivors of crime heal, and the system overestimates when incarceration is needed for public safety.
https://www.vera.org/publications/a-new-paradigm-for-sentencing-in-the-united-states

Right - over the coming weekends, in addition to upgrading my Drupal7 blog (and another D7 site) to D10... I need to install HomeAssistant, PhotoPrism, and Frigate on my home server... As a #libre self-hoster, there're always exciting options to explore - I'm like a kid in a candy store, perpetually!

Wow, read this thread. Google (and #BigTech cloud services in general) can be pretty useful... right up until the instant they're not. And then you're *properly* screwed. https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/112830813712646630

Pollution plan ‘must cut intensive farming for Lough #Neagh to survive’ - https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/article/2024/jul/22/pollution-plan-must-cut-intensive-farming-for-lough-neagh-to-survive #farmers and #DUP marching lockstep in self-harming stupidity...

I find it really frustrating that people take the first attempts of disabled people to do something as an indication of whether they can do it or not, without realizing that anyone can fail when doing something for the first time just because they have never done it before. This is a huge double standard that I don't hear people talk about often for some reason. Today I saw a parent forbidding their blind child from cooking because she once accidentally spilled salt on the counter. The fact that the girl is rarely ever allowed to cook and doesn't have much experience somehow slipped their mind. Not to mention that such things can happen and do happen to literally anyone. I've also been in situations where people wouldn't let me go somewhere on my own, because they saw me get lost once. The fact that it's normal to sometimes get lost and not know the exact route if you have never been to that place before, again, slipped their mind. And God forbid if I tell them about this one time when I didn't get to the right place with Google maps. I keep being reminded of it every single time I want to go somewhere. I understand that those people are worried and everything, but damn. This only makes things worse because it's normal to learn from mistakes, and it's normal to make such mistakes. Maybe... I guess not for us.

“Privacy Sandbox” protects Google’s bottom line at the expense of your privacy. Opt out automatically with Privacy Badger’s latest update. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/07/why-privacy-badger-opts-you-out-googles-privacy-sandbox

I also added this gorgeous poster from Sam Wallman "You Don’t Have To Hate Your Job To Want A Union"

https://justseeds.org/graphic/you-dont-have-to-hate-your-job-to-want-a-union/

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#books #bookstodon #antifa #anarchism

Privacy-first smartphone. No tracking. No data mining. Runs PureOS. Physical kill switches. True digital freedom in your pocket. #Librem5 #PureOS
https://puri.sm/products/librem-5/

Once again I have my rates bill, and once again I am reminded that I, an atheist Jew, am being rated by the Christchurch city council to rebuild the cathedral, a place of worship for Anglicans, who had to have their arms twisted to rebuild it, in an initiative led by cranky old people like the late Jim Anderton who were/are not Anglicans.

If any lawyers would like to help me refuse to pay $6.25 this year please get in touch.

This is a big deal. As a member of my family so astutely put it, "insurers and banks are shaping environmental policy for the better, rather than our own governments."

https://www.insurancebusinessmag.com/nz/news/environmental/major-insurers-withdraw-support-for-deep-sea-mining-498048.aspx

I'm speaking at #fossy2024 in just under two weeks. First, I'm doing an updated co-presentation with my son about teaching #softwarefreedom concepts to children. Second, I'm co-presenting an updated overview of the economics of public goods to set the stage for a panel discussion on FLO funding dilemmas.

https://2024.fossy.us/

#Switzerland mandates #OpenSource software for all public software!

This makes perfect sense. Public software should be transparent. #India could have taken a lead on this, but our digital public infrastructure is mostly closed-source - with predictable consequences. 🙄

https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/collection/open-source-observatory-osor/news/new-open-source-law-switzerland

Listening to Jesse Mulligan & Dr Ravi Iyer about how #BigTech is harming kids... He's ex-Meta (Facebook). Seems to me those who have thought it acceptable to work for BigTech should be treated skeptically by default because they showed poor judgement taking that job & have probably rationalised their role, so that whatever they've done in the past still allows them to be 'good'. Unless they're openly contrite about having worked in Big Tech & ashamed, they're probably not worth listening to.

Everyone I know that actually trains as a sprinter is so violently opposed to terminology that implies knowledge work should be approached that way, yet we still call it a "sprint".

I feel like we could just call it a "fortnight" and half the Scrum industry would instantly evaporate as pseudo-leaders realize that you can't program at max speed forever in enterprise environments.

Unfortunately, at that point someone would invent "Faster Sprints" to recapture the gullible dweeb market.