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"Billionaire Donald Trump asks the UK government to bail out his golf courses in Scotland"

You couldn't even make this shit up if you tried really hard.

The decline in union membership has been less marked in Nordic countries than elsewhere. Here are three reasons why.

A new article "Three things we can learn from the Nordic trade unions" on Mutual Interest, a free online newspaper #coop owned by the readers and writers.

mutualinterest.coop/2020/04/th

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Funds are distributed to writers by members voting on their favourite articles each month through #Loomio, a tool developed by a NZ worker coop.

The number of individuals in prison around the world for raising their voices online is on the rise. To learn more about some of these individuals, visit Offline: eff.org/offline

We are winding down our work on STARTTLS Everywhere. Thanks to the cooperation of email providers, protocol authors, and mailserver developers, we’ve made major strides in transport security for email since 2014! eff.org/deeplinks/2020/04/wind

Stripe is Silently Recording Your Movements On its Customers' Websites · mtlynch.io
mtlynch.io/stripe-recording-it

What if workers and communities were given a preferential right to buy businesses that have gone bankrupt due to the Covid-19 crisis?

My new article on Coop Exchange blog.

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coop.exchange/blog/1594638a-84

I'm old enough to remember when "hardcore punk" referred to belief system, not a musical style.

80s punks know how to spot a fascist thanks to Ronnie and Mags.

I think you have to be a certain type of personality to see value in scrum. is broad enough to have mass appeal, even if you know how tainted is the Agile Manifesto by 'code is king' thinking. When you wrap agile in process, it becomes decidedly less agile, and scrum is one of the heaviest processes I've encountered. (Yes, that does include CMM.)

Of course, there's always a difference between process and 'process in company <x>', but scrum seems like agile meets Taylorism.

Question authority! Politicians, police, pundits, gurus, parents, ...

If you never question, you'll never uncover the data (or lack of data) supporting the pillars of said authority.

Work instituted a policy of using 3/4 of our PTO by Sept 30. The claimed justification was to avoid having everyone take time off at the same time after COVID-19 passes.

I've been in software 30+ years, usually at big corporations. This policy is meant to reduce cash liabilities for coming layoffs in Q4 (following Q1 layoffs earlier this year).

#Coronavirus: #England and #Wales #CareHome #deaths quadruple in a week | World news | The Guardian

This article shows that the headline figure is misleadingly low. It also doesn’t count deaths outside hospital due to #Covid-19

theguardian.com/world/2020/apr

#UK

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