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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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Signalise is a platform co-op that enables users to request and book interpreting services. Its democratically owned by deaf people, health staff and interpreters. This year they raised £330,000 pounds of investment in a crowdfunding campaign, exceeding their target by 10%.
It has now won the bid to become the main service provider for sign language interpreter services for the National Health Service in Liverpool, the fifth largest city in the country.
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Do yourself a favor and watch this presentation from the Cooperative Development Foundation 
Shared Values #Indigenous People and #Cooperatives
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Wikipedia now has a more advanced citing system than science.
You can cite articles in #Wikipedia by giving their ID in #Wikidata. Then if an article is retracted this will become visible on all Wiki pages that cite the article. 🤗
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Survivors of domestic abuse need to be able to remove their cell phone plan and information from the control of abusers. A new bill would let them. Tell Congress to pass the Safe Connections Act. https://act.eff.org/action/tell-congress-to-pass-the-safe-connections-act-and-make-it-easier-for-survivors-to-escape-domestic-violence
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The Minnesota Fusion Center, a federal-state law enforcement partnership, has been surveilling water protectors who are trying to protect their land and water sources from tar sands pipelines. https://unicornriot.ninja/2021/line-3-fusion-center-data-declared-secret/
Tired of working at places where they know they are not developing software in a sustainable manner, but aren't willing to make the changes needed due to ego and fear.
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So if I want to read some reporting on the 4 month + long strike at the Warrior Met coal mine in Alabama, apparently Elle magazine is the place to go. The NYT, WaPo, CNN, MSNBC, not so much.
https://www.elle.com/culture/career-politics/a36732756/warrior-met-mining-strike-alabama/
Turns out the weight we put on in middle age is all about life style changes and has nothing to do with aging. https://newsbots.eu/@ScienceDaily/106745671435360330
#lazysods
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The Open App Markets Act targets Google and Apple, but also online game stores like Steam, helping indie developers compete on price. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/08/new-bill-would-protect-indie-video-game-developers-and-app-developers
Stop Listening to the Pro-War Idiots Who Got Afghanistan Wrong https://rall.com/2021/08/12/stop-listening-to-the-pro-war-idiots-who-got-afghanistan-wrong #Rall
Follow the money: US subsidizes oil and gas so investors never lose https://grist.org/accountability/follow-the-money-us-subsidizes-oil-and-gas-so-investors-never-lose/
Nancy Pelosi’s Surprise Flip on Student Debt Cancellation Came After Urging From Billionaire Power Couple https://theintercept.com/2021/08/05/student-debt-cancellation-nancy-pelosi/
The Murder of the U.S. Middle Class Began 40 Years Ago This Week https://theintercept.com/2021/08/06/middle-class-reagan-patco-strike/
Senate Infrastructure Bill Would Invest 00 Million in “Smart City” Surveillance Technology Senate Infrastructure Bill Would Invest 00 Million in “Smart City” Surveillance Technology
Tribal Court Case Against Line 3 Pipeline Is First to Invoke \“Rights of Nature\” https://inthesetimes.com/article/line-3-pipeline-ojibwe-rights-of-nature-wild-rice
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Han Dynasty China had credit unions based on a sort of bond auction.
A group of people pooled an equal amount of money together, and members willing to pay the highest interest could borrow it.
The proceedings from the interest was then distributed back to the members of the circle.
Really cool!
The problem with touch-free switches is that people still insist upon touching them. Maybe they should make them truly touch-free, i.e., no manual on/off.
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It's time to decentralize the internet, again: What was distributed is now centralized by Google, Facebook, etc
See https://www.theregister.com/2021/08/11/decentralized_internet/
#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
