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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
The cost to clean up New Mexico’s oil and gas industry? billion. https://grist.org/energy/new-mexico-oil-gas-fossil-fuels-abandoned-wells-cleanup/
Doctors put a price tag on the annual health impacts of climate change. It’s 20 billion. https://grist.org/article/doctors-put-a-price-tag-on-the-annual-health-impacts-of-climate-change-its-820-billion/
Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner Trounces Police-Backed Primary Challenger https://theintercept.com/2021/05/18/larry-krasner-carlos-vega-philadelphia/
PRO Act Holdout Mark Kelly Served on Gig and Restaurant Company Boards https://theintercept.com/2021/05/19/pro-act-mark-kelly-landrys-tilman-fertitta/
Voice of America Is Accused of Ignoring Government Atrocities in Ethiopia https://theintercept.com/2021/05/21/voice-of-america-ethiopia-bias/
Looks like if you're pregnant, you should avoid large cities and smokers, or your child is more likely to have asthma.
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... Otherwise, we'd expect the same dynamic to play out at Google, IBM, etc. The technology landscape has a ton of convicted (or should be convicted) #monopolists, but if #capitalism was the sole reason for producing crap, then all capitalists would be producing crap. There's a culture element in there as well. In my own career, it seems that the degree of autonomy is the key. This implies, that in a world that valued quality, cooperatives should rule, but somehow Microsoft still has a monopoly.
#microsoftsucks is something I've seen proven over and over, since the company came into existence. It always amazes me to see some very strong software engineers aligned with Microsoft, but to never see any proof of that in their products. This shows something is inherently broken in that company, and it'll never be fixed. Of course the obvious flaw is the #capitalism approach to development, which values money over people (programmers and users), but something else must degrade the output. ...
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Jeeeez. You couldn't make this shit up 🤣
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@unlofl @lightweight the security community have been bitching recently about the 'attack surface' FOSS presents but that is minor compared to the attack surface MS has been for the last thirty years.
Moving the crap off the desktop into Azure has not made it any better... you might have removed the requirement to continually upgrade the local systems but when MS fucks up their routing tables half the planet goes offline.
The Right-Wing Web Lobbying for Puerto Rican Statehood https://theintercept.com/2021/05/17/puerto-rico-statehood-right-wing-web/
Lies, Damn Lies, and Inflation - Austerity is about to make its political comeback. https://inthesetimes.com/article/inflation-covid-mmt-austerity-economy-biden
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I don't have any inside knowledge but it strikes me that all these ransomware attacks on various health (and fuel line) systems around the world have a common denominator that's never ever mentioned: Microsoft Windows. If people (especially running critical infrastructure) didn't use it... I'm confident we wouldn't have ransomware attacks.
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“Current trends in the automotive industry point to a future with you locked in a remote control car, your vendor holding the remote." https://puri.sm/posts/locked-in-a-remote-control-car/
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If public health funds are subsidizing the research on new medicines, why are corporations still being allowed to use patents to monopolize production and increase their profits from distribution?
Intercepted: Big Pharma's Deadly Covid Vaccine Monopoly
https://play.acast.com/s/intercepted-with-jeremy-scahill/bigpharma-sdeadlycovidvaccinemonopoly
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Jonas Salk declined to patent his polio vaccine. "There is no patent," he said, "Could you patent the sun?"
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Before there was IMDb, there was rec.arts.movies. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/05/enclosure-public-interest-internet
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"Leading Deaf figures are supporting a new co-operative that is developing an online platform that they hope will “revolutionise” the booking of interpreters, “take control” from profit-making agencies and deliver “real and long-lasting social change”."
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Rich people are, by and large, evil. If they weren't evil before getting rich, they become evil afterwards. That's because (as you know) power corrupts. Of course they don't think they're evil. They think they're "exceptional," "outstanding," or "heroic." An effective social democracy puts a cap on how evil they can be. And that's why they hate (real) social democracies, and government in general.
#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
