‘More than a job’: the meal delivery co-ops making the gig economy fairer https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/may/11/more-than-a-job-the-meal-delivery-co-ops-making-the-gig-economy-fairer
Rising food costs are causing global hunger while the rich are getting richer https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/may/11/what-has-grown-most-in-the-coronavirus-pandemic-billionaire-bank-balances-and-food-bank-queues
U.S. Labor Shortage? No, We Have a Crisis of Low Wages. https://inthesetimes.com/article/labor-shortage-jobs-report-low-wages-biden-covid
The Real "Big Lie" Is That Billionaires Are Tolerable - Great wealth should be seen as deranged hoarding. https://inthesetimes.com/article/jeff-bezos-elon-musk-snl-billionaire-superyacht-class-war
Enslaved by civilization? Time to be barbaric. #fuckcivilization #fucktherulingclass #fuckcapitalism #enjoylife
We now have 23 Social.Coop members with accounts on Meet.Coop. If you would like to make an account (free for Social.Coop members): https://wiki.social.coop/meet.coop-registration-form.html
This blanket permit makes it easier to build pipelines. Advocates are suing to stop it. https://grist.org/climate-energy/this-blanket-permit-makes-it-easier-to-build-pipelines-advocates-are-suing-to-stop-it/
That thing where one guy at work wastes everyone else's time because he wants to word smith comments in the code. #dumballover
The European Commission has funded an open source project to create a Gateway between the ActivityPub and XMPP PubSub Protocols, and E2EE on PubSub
See https://www.goffi.org/b/activitypub-gateway-and-pubsub-e2ee-QGqK
Watching Exterminate all the brutes
https://www.themoviedb.org/tv/117909-exterminate-all-the-brutes
Sad, awful and unbelieveable look at the real history of colonialism. Why am I only hearing about the Haitian Revolution now - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haitian_Revolution
Opposing PRO Act, Uber and Other Gig Companies Spend Over Million Lobbying Congress https://theintercept.com/2021/05/06/pro-act-uber-lyft-doordash-instacart-lobbying/
If you have any funds to help the people suffering from the #covid19 pandemic in #India, here is a good way to send them:
The "Quarantined Student Youth Network" is one of the organizations in the north organizing direct care action and community solidarity spaces.
If you have the time and energy, read their text, and give if you can. Please boost
How sweeping is California's vehicle surveillance dragnet?
We crunched the numbers:
Last month, together with 15 other NGOs, we asked the Biden Administration to ask for the removal of IP barriers to the distribution of COVID-19 vaccines. Today, @AmbassadorTai has said she will push @WTO to make it happen. https://www.eff.org/files/2021/04/28/zients_ip_and_vaccines_letter_4-19-21.pdf
Have questions about mass surveillance? Ask NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden and EFF's panel of experts today at noon Pacific Time! https://eff.org/fireside
#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