#Non-NHS #healthcare providers given £96bn in a decade, says Labour | #NHS | The Guardian
The #Tories are so brazen about the #privatization of the NHS.
Strong management believes that the company needs you; weak management believes you need the company. #management
Performance review time is where weak managers want you to write your own reasons for why you're employed. "Another year of doing my job." for some reason doesn't seem sufficient justification. You have to have accomplishments, as if you really had autonomy, might be able to get paid more than average wages, or the company actually had non-management promotion paths. #notreality
Apparently the future of clothing is "smart fabric": shirts that act like computer displays, microphones stitched into single strands of fabric, clothing full of sensors and semiconductors. All I can think of is how this will be abused. #privacy https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/05/03/smart-fabric-future-of-clothing/
Yoda is a caricature of ESL (English as a Second Language) speakers. Does that caricature add to Yoda's mystique, or is it just another prejudice inserted into the Star Wars universe? #romanticracism
Interesting Twitter thread on the impact of silicon semiconductor / chip shortages on small hardware producers: https://twitter.com/_MG_/status/1388321639524229120
#AirPollution spikes may impair #older #men’s #thinking, study finds | Air #pollution | The Guardian
Big pharma doesn’t want us to expand #Medicare. We have to fight them | #BernieSanders | The Guardian
Happy May Day everyone!
If you want to catch the wonderful panel put on last night by Forest City Anarchists (@FCA), and featuring Sima Lee (Marooncast), Klee Benally (Indigenous Action Network), and a friend from It's Going Down, the recording of the stream can be found here:
SolarWinds hacking campaign puts Microsoft in the hot seat
https://ca-finance-yahoo-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/ca.finance.yahoo.com/amphtml/news/solarwinds-hacking-campaign-puts-microsoft-114218764.html #privacy #security #bigtech #purism
A handful of billionaires control most of the UK’s national newspapers.
New Internationalist is owned by over 3,600 readers from all around the world. You can join the world’s largest media #coop & help New Internationalist through current economic troubles.
The Ball and Supply Chain – Purism
https://puri.sm/posts/the-ball-and-supply-chain/
They Looked like Protesters to Me https://rall.com/comic/they-looked-like-protesters-to-me
UK moves ahead of EU in closing loophole on airline and ship pollution - https://www.transportenvironment.org/news/uk-moves-ahead-eu-closing-loophole-airline-and-ship-pollution that's good; come on, EU catch up
"A.R.S.E. - Australian Research & Space Exploration"
https://spaceaustralia.com.au/
I'll should probably order the CLINT hoodie:
https://spaceaustralia.com.au/collections/frontpage/products/c-l-i-n-t-hoodie
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Excited to announce that The Intercept now has a Tor onion service version of its website, giving users a more anonymous option for reading the site
https://theintercept.com/2021/04/28/tor-browser-onion/
https://27m3p2uv7igmj6kvd4ql3cct5h3sdwrsajovkkndeufumzyfhlfev4qd.onion/2021/04/28/tor-browser-onion/
"30 Years Of Linux - An Interview With Linus Torvalds: Linux and Git"
https://www.tag1consulting.com/blog/interview-linus-torvalds-linux-and-git
Top Contender for Justice Department Antitrust Post Took Partisan Approach to Google Cases https://theintercept.com/2021/04/28/google-antitrust-justice-department-jonathan-sallet/
#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