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#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
Joined May 2019
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@pluralistic
"Market power monopoly" + "author monopoly" = "scientific publishing"
The publisher Elsevier makes 30 to 50% profits year after year.
The market power of the scientific publishers stems from the influence on scientific careers. So I am building a system to independently determine what are good scientific articles. It will not give me the monopoly profits, but better science. @GrassrootsReview
Are there ways communities could break other monopolies? "We have people." #rC3Two
Powerful Mobile Phone Surveillance Tool Operates in Obscurity Across the Country https://theintercept.com/2020/12/23/police-phone-surveillance-dragnet-cellhawk/
Investigator: DNC Was “Directly Involved” in Iowa Caucus App Development, Countering DNC Denial https://theintercept.com/2020/12/23/dnc-iowa-caucus-app-shadow/
A nation of moochers. https://thenib.com/nation-of-moochers/
I can't recommend Duck Duck Go as a search engine, because it uses Bing as it's primary, which means it returns Microsoft weighted results. I've been liking metaGer as an alternative.
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Hollywood gets presents, the rest of us get coal, in today’s disastrous copyright proposal https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/12/disastrous-copyright-proposal-goes-straight-our-naughty-list
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[Full-time] Staff Software Engineer at Wikimedia Foundation https://www.fossjobs.net/job/10313/staff-software-engineer-at-wikimedia-foundation/ #jobs
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@mattcropp and @Steve talk about EOCs (employee ownership centers):
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I found this indigenous development concept interesting: https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2020/jan/03/the-bold-new-plan-for-an-indigenous-led-development-in-vancouver.
Whether the development will live up to the vision is a different question, but it's an interesting example motivated by the desire to both increase density and allow people to engage with "nature."
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Milwaukee used to be ruled by socialists in the early 20th century. One reason for their success was organising a network of cooperative enterprises, a method their modern successors have not utilised enough.
"How socialists created a co-operative commonwealth in the American midwest" on Mutual Interest, a free online media #coop owned by readers & writers.
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Pretty damning message about sexism by @fsfe president (@kirschner)
https://write.as/malinagalina/i-took-fsfe-to-court
Does anyone have some confirmation of this or some other source that talks about it?
The Federal Reserve just took a major step forward on climate https://grist.org/climate/the-federal-reserve-just-took-a-major-step-forward-on-climate/
These ladies love natural gas! Too bad they aren’t real. https://grist.org/climate/these-ladies-love-natural-gas-too-bad-they-arent-real/
What California’s farmworkers can teach us during a season of giving https://grist.org/justice/what-californias-farmworkers-can-teach-us-during-a-season-of-giving/
Fuck colonialism. Make them a state or a country, but if we do the latter, we need to give them back their money.
https://theintercept.com/2020/12/18/deconstructed-puerto-rico-statehood/
Trump to CIA: Say Goodbye to Your War on Terror https://theintercept.com/2020/12/19/trump-pentagon-cia-biden/
This is the real story on the pandemic and what capitalist healthcare brings to the people.
Hospital CEOs Have Gotten Rich Cutting Staff and Supplies. Now They’re Not Ready for the Next Wave.
https://theintercept.com/2020/12/20/covid-hospital-ceos-nurses/
Time to burn City Hall.
Detroit is Suing Black Lives Matter Protesters for “Civil Conspiracy”
https://theintercept.com/2020/12/21/detroit-black-lives-matter-lawsuit/
This falls under the #FTFY category. The article totally ignores polling on progressive issues. If anything, progressives need to get louder and more entrenched.
Progressives are a minority in America. To win, they need to compromise
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/commentisfree/2020/dec/19/progressives-us-democrats-power-new-deal
#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
Joined May 2019
