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It's just COVID-19...it's not Captain Trips.

The best thing about Corona?

We’re finally finding out which meetings could have been emails instead... 😂

RT @redfishstream@twitter.com

Hundreds of thousands of Chilean women have taken to the streets against sexual violence during a historic #InternationalWomensDay march in Santiago.

The march took place amid an ongoing uprising against neoliberalism & government repression. #IWD2020 #DiaInternacionalDeLaMujer

A good/ethical alternative to IMDB. Please use this site as much as possible.

The Movie Database (TMDb)
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Despite what the Canadian media would have you believe, there's been no call from the Wet'suwet'en hereditary chiefs to take down blockades or stop carrying out solidarity actions.

#ShutDownCanada #WetsuwetenStrong #unistoten #reconciliationisdead

If passed, this bill could fulfill a long-standing dream of U.S. law enforcement: the end of private, encrypted messaging on the Internet. eff.org/deeplinks/2020/03/earn

"Combining industry-level data on employment with data on robot adoption, it finds that robot use is linked to a small but significant increase in employment. Contrary to some previous studies, it does not find evidence of robots reducing the share of low-skill workers across Europe."

voxeu.org/article/dont-blame-i

Late-stage capitalism:

"Airlines are burning thousands of gallons of jet fuel flying empty 'ghost' planes so they can keep their flight slots during the coronavirus outbreak"

businessinsider.com/coronaviru

A periodic reminder to everyone who's involved with #WorkerCoops or the #SolidarityEconomy:

**Write something for GEO!!**

Now, please.

Seriously, I know you're out there. I know you have stuff to say that's valuable and that needs to be heard.

Write it down, would ya? And then send it to editors[at]geo[dot]coop

We're here for you! Use us!

"In 1980, 26.5% of German social democrat parliamentarians had held formal roles with a trade union, but by 1994 this had reduced by half... parliamentarians who held a formal role with the youth wing of the party amounted to 51% in 2017 ­– up from 13% in the early 1990s."

From "Trade unions are key to winning back working-class support for the left" by Mutual Interest, a free online newspaper #coop owned by the readers and writers.

mutualinterest.coop/2020/02/tr

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If Bernie isn't the Democratic nominee, I hope he runs as an independent (I doubt he will), because Trump isn't the enemy that needs to be defeated.

Of course, it's hard to blame them. The software development world continues to treat software as magic, not science, so there's no empirical evidence pointing toward the best development methods.

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Software managers and their bosses never like to hear that the best answer is to start over, so they'll ignore such advice in favor of slipped schedules, undelivered promises, and unmaintainable software; then in ten years, they'll start over, often after the people wise enough to suggest it are long gone.

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