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This Is America #116: Against the Economy of Death https://itsgoingdown.org/this-is-america-116/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter
Mitch McConnell is pushing the Senate to pass a measure that would let the FBI collect Americans' web-browsing history without a warrant
https://www.businessinsider.com/mcconnell-patriot-act-renewal-fbi-web-browsing-history-2020-5 #privacy #security #purism
Seems to me that *this* is what we really have to worry about: https://www.theguardian.com/news/2020/may/13/naomi-klein-how-big-tech-plans-to-profit-from-coronavirus-pandemic The tech billionaires and their corporate arms definitely won't save us. They will, however, be delighted to exploit us.
Big Oil's Climate Plans Don't Come Close to Meeting the Paris Agreement
https://earther.gizmodo.com/big-oils-climate-plans-dont-come-close-to-meeting-the-p-1843418530 #climatechange #climatecrisis
Surveillance vendor NSO Group pitched hacking tools to US police forces that would "turn your target's smartphone into an intelligence gold mine" #privacy #infosec https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/8899nz/nso-group-pitched-phone-hacking-tech-american-police
Turns out good developers, who want to build better software, just ditch Windows, and use Linux. Cut out the cheesy unnecessary middleman.
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: http://techrights.org/2020/05/07/microsoft-wsl-evasion/
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. https://supporters.eff.org/donate/pandemicguide
Here's an important book about the struggle between labor and capitalism. https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1449-the-long-deep-grudge
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 https://www.eff.org/speaking-freely/evan-greer
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.
#ShlaerMellor, #FunctionPointAnalysis, #punk, #environmentalist, #unionAdvocate, #anarchosocialist
"with a big old lie and a flag and a pie and a mom and a bible most folks are just liable to buy any line, any place, any time" - Frank Zappa