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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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Free in-person event in Minneapolis, 10/11: Invest in a #Cooperative Economy 
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/invest-in-a-cooperative-economy-tickets-420496655817
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My current fandom: laughing at the pratfalls, mishaps, and elegant catastrophes in The Goes Wrong Show, a farcical British show whose first season is streaming free in the US. https://harihareswara.net/posts/2022/the-goes-wrong-show/
Corporations’ Price-Gouging May Hurt Them in the Long Run, Says Economist
https://truthout.org/audio/corporations-price-gouging-may-hurt-them-in-the-long-run-says-economist/
"And so what that means is that for every dollar that these corporations are earning, a larger percentage of that is going to corporate profits, rather than paying off input costs or paying wages, than what we’ve seen since the 1950s. So not only are corporations making a lot of money, they’re actually squeezing consumers for more than they have in 70 years. "
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This summer, IGD turned 7! As things heat up again on the streets - we're more excited than ever to continue to be an engaging autonomous media platform. We're also in a crisis + need to raise $2k by the end of the month to continue. Help us meet our goal! https://itsgoingdown.org/igd-turns-7-call-for-support/
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"Far from reducing extreme poverty, the expansion of capitalism was associated with a dramatic deterioration in human welfare."
https://phys.org/news/2022-09-expansion-capitalism-deterioration-human-welfare.html
Once you realize that GDP can rise at the same time as deteriorating access to essential goods because commons-based and household production isn't as legible to econometrics as being forced to buy essential goods you used to be able to provide for yourself from a corporation is, this shouldn't be surprising at all.
Gemini Proxy for Techrights
09/26 Microsoft LinkedIn “Experimented” on Over 20 Million People Over Five Years and May Have Stopped Some of Them From Getting a Job
http://gemini.techrights.org/proxy?url=gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2022/09/26/linkedin-experiments/index.gmi
How long before we hear similar reports about Microsoft GitHub?
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Theres majority support for proportional representation across the UK.
Why is Starmer’s Labour refusing to back it?
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Schools in England warn of crisis of ‘heartbreaking’ rise in hungry children
Yet we seem fine with this? No rallies, no marches. No riots?
This country is fucked:
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"There will very likely be some softening of labor market conditions," Powell said on Wednesday. "We will keep at it until we are confident the job is done."
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/fed-interest-rates-unemployment-inflation/
It's so reassuring to know that the people responsible for managing our national economy are hard at working making sure more people become unemployed ("softening labor market conditions"). Heart-warming stuff, that.
Meet the robots coming to a restaurant near you - The Washington Post
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2022/09/20/robots-automating-restaurant-industry/
Businesses are going to pay $50/hr minimum wage as long as the worker isn't human?
Open-source software that lasts a thousand years? GitHub adds to its frozen Arctic Code Vault | ZDNET
https://www.zdnet.com/article/open-source-software-that-lasts-a-thousand-years-github-adds-to-its-frozen-arctic-code-vault/
Somehow I know that this still follows the principle of "garbage in; garbage out".
Unpatched 15-year old Python bug allows code execution in 350k projects
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/unpatched-15-year-old-python-bug-allows-code-execution-in-350k-projects/
I guess that's better than the designed in bug that allows code interpretation. >;->
Phew! It was supported in settings, so no snips or baseball bat.
I'm only talking about it because it's near my desk and has loud key press sounds enabled. If I remember, I'll have to fix that with settings or wire snips.
People like to use the fax machine in the office. Yes, I'm also like ???
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Today, we kick-off the OpenWebSearch.eu project.
https://djoerdhiemstra.com/2022/open-web-search-project-kicked-off/
Even though I like to promote FOSS projects, I am having a lot of trouble promoting anything on Microsoft GitHub aka. GitHub.
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Do you write code for free and open source projects? Would you like to learn the basics of the Rust programming language? I’m offering to teach the basics of Rust to free and open source software programmers, for free.
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ISSUE 03
☁️💦💧Water Bodies💧💦☁️
our call for pitches now open through 12 OCT 2022
https://link.hypha.coop/compost-cfp
#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
