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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
Police funding in Los Angeles to be partially reallocated from the LAPD to a one-year basic income pilot for 500 single parents https://basicincometoday.com/police-funding-in-los-angeles-to-be-partially-reallocated-from-the-lapd-to-a-one-year-basic-income-pilot-for-500-single-parents/
Oil companies want you to think they’re feminist. It’s BS. https://grist.org/justice/oil-companies-not-feminist-international-womens-day/
Entire Staff of Nevada Democratic Party Quits After Democratic Socialist Slate Won Every Seat https://theintercept.com/2021/03/08/nevada-democratic-party-dsa/
Jim Crow Rises: Desperate Georgia Republicans Scurry to Pass Voting Restrictions Law https://theintercept.com/2021/03/09/georgia-republicans-voting-sb-241/
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Corporate nastiness
Scary reading about how much underpaid adjunct professors have replaced tenured professors at most colleges. Not only are you paying a much higher price for college these days, you are also getting a lesser education. #capitalismsucks
You should really believe Microsoft when they tell you their cloud based email is much safer than the older Exchange solution. [sic]
Fool me once, fool me twice, keep fooling me baby. I'm just a sucker for you! #MicrosoftRubes #MicrosoftSucks #dumballover
One thing you get by sneering at something as "academia" is another measure of protection [sic] against having to apply the thing to your work. It's basically anti-science and anti-knowledge. It makes one feel better about their own ignorance. #dumballover
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🎉 Owncast 0.0.6, an open-source live video streaming service is out!
Biggest changes:
- completely configure and manage your settings via the admin interface
- build your own integrations, bots, tools and customizations on top of Owncast with the 3rd party APIs
Also check out the new website: https://owncast.online/
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Atmospheric drying will lead to lower crop yields, shorter trees across the globe
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/03/210308111954.htm #climatechange #climatecrisis #leadonclimate
Oh goody! My favorite job, replacing a garage door spring. [sic] #fml
I was a little disappointed in the chapter on technical work in Sarah Jaffe's book, Work Won't Love You Back, because it focused too tightly on Silicon Valley and game development. The things she described aren't wholly unique to the game industry, but it kind of sounded that way. She did a good study on how the software industry abuses youthful enthusiasm, and her treatment of burnout, ego, and mistaking software dev for art was spot on.
Don't let the right-wing fucknuts take Viking history or Norse gods away from you. They also don't own the "Don't tread on me" flag. We know they're bullies that run in the face of stuff opposition, so stand up and show them how small of a minority they are! #NaziPunksFuckOff
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@GuerillaOntologist @cadwellsocialcoop @CaitlinWaddick @emi
Here is a good explanation of the employment status question Josh and I were talking about. It is about California law, but seems like it might be generally applicable, with some local variations, since co-op laws are state laws.
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#privacy #software #dataprivacy
LibrePlanet is coming up - 3/20 and 21
Join the Free Software Foundation, preserve your privacy. https://tinyurl.com/xz84zbs5
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Thanks to @mackiwg for pointing me at this - I encourage everyone to use a password manager, and Bitwarden's been my preferred option for a few years. Here's someone else who's come to the same conclusion: https://www.makeuseof.com/how-to-start-using-password-manager/ - I prefer to run my own Bitwarden servers (which is an option because it's fully #FOSS) - here's how I do it very cost effectively: https://tech.oeru.org/setting-your-own-bitwarden-password-manager-and-sync-server
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Talk about the NHS is too focused on how much money is spent on it, not how the money is spent.
Public services like the NHS should mutualised - government gives it a budget and every UK citizen has one vote in electing the board of directors that is in charge how it is spent.
Same should apply for other public services like public transportation.
Am a big fan of worker coops (earn my living as a member of one!) but think in these services consumer ownership makes most sense imo.
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Seems to me that a convenient side effect of this: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/437849/microsoft-email-users-in-nz-told-to-act-quickly-after-mass-hack from Microsoft's perspective is that it'll hasten (ignorant) people's/organisations' shift from running MS Exchange servers (that they've already paid for) to MSFT's cloud-based systems... that they perpetually paid for... **rubs chin**...
#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
