Chromebooks foisted on students? Teachers monitoring what children do outside of the classroom via nonfree software? Surveillance of children is common, and it's at your child's school, too. Support #FreeSoftware https://u.fsf.org/32h
BREAKING -- We have obtained a quote from the keynote speech at the World Economic Forum being held at Davos.
Vigils, rallies, and banner drops in solidarity with the fight to #StopCopCity in #Atlanta are spreading in the wake of the brutal murder of a 26 year old forest defender at the hands of he police yesterday. Check out roundup here:
https://itsgoingdown.org/rallies-spread-after-murder-cop-city/
We call on all people of good conscience to stand in solidarity with the movement to #stopcopcity and defend the Weelaunee Forest in Atlanta. @defendatlforest@twitter.com @ATLSolFund@twitter.com #defendatlforest
Appalling: A school district near me takes down rainbows because their braindead lawyer said they would open the district to "appropriate criticism." No, the criticism is that you are bigots teaching our children. For shame!
Rainbow signs to be replaced in N.J. middle school https://www.nj.com/education/2023/01/rainbow-signs-to-be-replaced-in-nj-middle-school.html
Anybody familiar with this organization? #cooperatives
https://www.cooperacionsantaana.org/
Can a single right wing activist judge block the sale of abortion pills nationwide? Apparently so. https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-judge-matthew-kacsmaryk-ban-abortion-pill-1234658423/
I always find it funny that many consumers, no matter what their political leaning, default to "whip the employees harder!" if they don't think their purchased product is arriving soon enough.
ProPublica used Blacklight (https://themarkup.org/blacklight) to show that nine online abortion pill providers are sharing sensitive data with Google: https://www.propublica.org/article/websites-selling-abortion-pills-share-sensitive-data-with-google
The off-the-shelf e-commerce tools aren't built for privacy, and patients face new legal risks since overturn of Roe v Wade.
In July, Dara Kerr and I found online abortion pill provider Hey Jane sending visitor data to Meta, Google and others (now stopped), and found a reviewer's personal information: https://themarkup.org/pixel-hunt/2022/07/01/online-abortion-pill-provider-hey-jane-used-tracking-tools-that-sent-visitor-data-to-meta-google-and-others
So #Apple is scanning your local files on #macOS without consent according to Jeffrey Paul ( @sneak ) https://sneak.berlin/20230115/macos-scans-your-local-files-now/
Again folks, #Linux is the only way to go to be truly private and piece of mind.
I've been using NextCloud for years now (previously used OwnCloud, too)... but it's never been quite up to replacing the proprietary heavy hitters... but it's got a LOT better: https://tilvids.com/w/5219e88d-7de8-4dc8-97ca-e370744a05f5 Also, the "heavy hitters" have gotten a lot worse - the implications of having ALL your data in the hands of Apple, Microsoft, or Google should now be clear - and damning - to most people. The confluence of those things means people should jump to #FOSS and reclaim data sovereignty.
RT @froomkin
Good grief! These articles treat hitting the debt limit as something normal, when it’s a completely engineered crisis created by crazed Republicans https://apnews.com/article/biden-us-department-of-the-treasury-united-states-government-janet-yellen-business-6fe9b54dcdfea58bead0f4c5f9f89a64
Minneapolis police began shutting down roads at 5:30am.
Word around camp confirms Metro Transit is shutting down light rail at 9:00.
Intergovernmental cooperation at its finest. They can't coordinate to provide housing, but they sure can pull it together for an eviction.
One last-minute community outreach worker only offering useless temporary, night-to-night shelters.
US Climate Envoy Backs UAE Oil Executive as President of UN Climate Summit
https://truthout.org/articles/us-climate-envoy-backs-uae-oil-executive-as-president-of-un-climate-summit/
That thing where the code is so bad that lint can't handle it correctly, but the code architect wants to blame it on the lint setup.
#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