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Nearly 50 million tons of e-waste is produced every year – that's more than 6kg for every person on the planet. Join forces with us and help us reach our target of recycling 20,000 phones in 2020. Send us yours for free! 📱 👉 : frphn.co/LxaNs

Mitch McConnell is pushing the Senate to pass a measure that would let the FBI collect Americans' web-browsing history without a warrant
businessinsider.com/mcconnell-

hello internet plz add created date and last updated date on all your articles kthx

Seems to me that *this* is what we really have to worry about: theguardian.com/news/2020/may/ The tech billionaires and their corporate arms definitely won't save us. They will, however, be delighted to exploit us.

Twitter led the migration of tech orgs from the rest of the Bay Area north into SF. I suspect many will follow their lead to a distributed workforce w/o SF's high cost of living. Big implications for SF economy mid-term.

Surveillance vendor NSO Group pitched hacking tools to US police forces that would "turn your target's smartphone into an intelligence gold mine" vice.com/en_us/article/8899nz/

RT @ThatTimWalker@twitter.com

People who say ‘well, he’s doing the best he can and who honestly could ever have got on top of something like #COVIDー19?’ should watch this.

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/ThatTimWalker/status/1258891604301099008

“Simplicity is a great virtue but it requires hard work to achieve it and education to appreciate it. And to make matters worse: complexity sells better.” ― Edsger W. Dijkstra

Turns out good developers, who want to build better software, just ditch Windows, and use Linux. Cut out the cheesy unnecessary middleman.

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What do you get when you take a majestic eagle, a symbol of strength, beauty, and freedom... and lock it in a dingy cage? You get tragedy. Or you get irony, like Microsoft's WSL - the worse of both worlds: freedom, totally constrained by relentless mediocrity.

Amusingly, despite MSFT's massive PR campaign, looks like not too many have been taken in by this completely pointless development: techrights.org/2020/05/07/micr

Looking for a weekend read?

We’ve put together an ebook on digital rights that will help you understand what roles technology should and should not play in fighting back against the COVID-19 crisis. supporters.eff.org/donate/pand

Here's an important book about the struggle between labor and capitalism. haymarketbooks.org/books/1449-
If you see it in a bookstore, the last chapter provides a good tldr summary.

“And if we prevent people from saying [controversial] things out loud because we don’t like them right now… then we’re actually freezing society as a whole to progress.” Read on for more of @evan_greer’s thoughts on free expression eff.org/speaking-freely/evan-g

The first global coops have emerged in recent years. Instead of being limited to local coops, everyone online will be a few clicks away from buying goods and services from a growing number of digital coops.

This makes “Coop Coupons" more viable than before.

coop.exchange/blog/9baaae5f-8f

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