Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

@LeoSammallahti To be fair, a) coops haven't had the constant corporate propaganda campaign against them that unions have, and b) if a lot of credit unions are like the one I belong to, where the members only get to vote on who's on the board of directors and nothing else, they're pretty much coops in name only and certainly don't act or feel like coops.

Accounts from the Battle of Grant Park : How Chicago Demonstrators Pushed Back the Police and Nearly Toppled a Statue https://crimethinc.com/2020/07/21/accounts-from-the-battle-of-grant-park-how-chicago-demonstrators-pushed-back-the-police-and-nearly-toppled-a-statue?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

Do you want to work on free and open source software as a full-time job? People ask me all the time how to find companies who might hire you for this, and I share this command line snippet:

git log -n100000 --format="%ae" | cut -d@ -f2 | sort -u | less

This will produce a list of email domains who are committing in a given git repo, which often corresponds pretty closely with the list of companies willing to hire you to work on that project and others like it.

The Canadian Civil Liberties Association (CCLA) is suing the city of Ontario for sharing COVID-19 testing data with police. CCLA says sharing the data is “not necessary, and in fact undermines an effective public health approach to this pandemic.” We agree.https://toronto.ctvnews.ca/groups-launch-legal-action-against-ontario-for-sharing-covid-19-data-with-police-1.5028583

Research shows that roughly half of the agencies that now partner with Ring also have been responsible for at least one fatal encounter in the last five years. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/07/amazons-ring-enables-over-policing-efforts-some-americas-deadliest-law-enforcement

https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/transgender-facebook-content-dominated-right-wing-sources-study-finds-n1234252

Margaret Kimberley on why defunding the police, by itself, is not a solution:

https://www.blackagendareport.com/freedom-rider-police-defunding-con-game

"Cutting police budgets without establishing public control over their behavior doesn’t solve the problem, and invites politicians to shuffle budget numbers around like a three-card monte swindle."

We should be considering our RMA alongside the identified failings of AU's environment standards - because humanity can't afford to screw this up. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/jul/20/australias-environment-in-unsustainable-state-of-decline-major-review-finds

Yup. America, unless you're ready to sink into the swamp, you need to listen to those who still have ideals and principles. https://pamplinmedia.com/pt/474091-383299-portland-protester-describes-beating-by-federal-officers- These folks are the best among us.

Pinterest is a disease. It steals images in order to flood search results with them, making it harder and harder to find the origin of the image and therefore the information that is the real object of the search.

Pimpterest is for losers. How in the hell this piece of crap cancer ever took off doesn't bear thinking about.

There will never, ever, be a "Pin" button on my website.

The FCC hasn’t updated its definition of broadband for five years and counting, and by sustaining relentlessly low expectations even by 2015’s standards the agency has concluded everyone has broadband access now. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/07/american-federal-definition-broadband-both-useless-and-harmful

Don't "Back the Blue"—Push Back the Blue : An Account of a Clash between Police, Their Supporters, and Counter-Demonstrators in Brooklyn https://crimethinc.com/2020/07/18/dont-back-the-blue-push-back-the-blue-an-account-of-a-clash-between-police-their-supporters-and-counter-demonstrators-in-brooklyn?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

God knows how @sjvn managed to write a bunch of #zdnet pieces about stuff like #openstack and mention #microsoft #azure as if it's relevant. It's a major failure, propped up by lies/fraud. Microsoft shutting down datacenres and laying off Azure staff.

On Sunday, join Electronic Frontier Alliance member @FutureAda for an online workshop on offensive and defensive techniques to mitigate vehicle-based surveillance. https://www.eff.org/event/vehicle-based-surveillance-workshop

Where are the software trade unions? We're never going to get out from under VCs and flighty type-A stakeholders and being asked to write half-assed racist software without solidarity.

Sure, most startups will resist hiring union developers, for a while, but a) startups are mostly shitty and deserve shitty devs and b) despite the VC-driven lies to the contrary, developers still have most of the power in this industry. In my 16 years in the industry, I have never been at a company that was able to find enough developers to meet the workload.

I guess this is my biggest disappointment about zebra culture; they should be the ones pushing to hire only unionized developers.

EFF's new "Atlas of Surveillance" shows, city by city, how police departments across America use a variety of new surveillance tech to spy on their residents. What do your local police use? https://atlasofsurveillance.org

Real-time crime centers in coastal cities. Drones in rural towns. The pervasiveness of law enforcement surveillance must not be ignored. https://www.wired.com/story/atlas-of-surveillance-eff-law-enforcement-map/

#Pandemic shows #climate has never been treated as #crisis, say scientists | #ClimateChange | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/jul/16/pandemic-shows-climate-has-never-been-treated-as-crisis-say-scientists

#Environment #GlobalWarming