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The Greek shipwreck was a horrific tragedy. Yet it didn’t get the attention of the Titanic story | Arwa Mahdawi | The Guardian

Proof that the media view a few rich people as much more valuable or newsworthy than the many poor.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jun/22/the-greek-shipwreck-was-a-horrific-tragedy-yet-it-didnt-get-the-attention-of-the-titanic-story

Unrelated to our hardware failure, today the whole world (or maybe just some bad guys?) apparently want to access all our big repos like linux and FreeBSD source trees at once. We're currently tuning some configurations to allow better distribution of resources and keep normal queries unaffected.

It's important to note that more work is needed to improve the accessibility stack on Linux; if you want to contribute you can read the at-spi2-core developers documentation for an overview of the stack: https://gnome.pages.gitlab.gnome.org/at-spi2-core/devel-docs/index.html

We especially need more documentation on how ATs interpret the accessibility interfaces, and what kind of expectations should be satisfied by toolkits and apps.

#Climate impact of #shipping under growing scrutiny ahead of key meeting | Shipping #emissions | The Guardian

I’m not sure why shipping has got away with is damaging practices for so long.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jun/22/climate-impact-shipping-under-growing-scrutiny-imo-meeting-seascape

#Environment #GlobalWarming #ClimateChnage #Pollution

The Corporations behind Cop City - a map
https://framacarte.org/en/map/take-action-to-stopcopcity_149620#5/41.195/-103.184

The media missed the big one in the story about how Paul “The Vulture” Singer hooked Justice Alito. Singer’s big case, in which he invested millions, was Shelby v. Holder. Alito was the surprise deciding vote that destroyed the Voting Rights Act, Singer’s priority, key to GOP power.

https://youtu.be/LZ7k8uGp8N8

#SCOTUS #PaulSinger #JusticeAlito

Ugh. This will, no doubt, lead to more calls for "put everything in the [foreign owned] cloud!" https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/492437/it-outages-disrupt-hospitals-across-wellington-region-wairarapa Why are we so bad at managing IT? Could it be because all the wrong people are in charge?

The preventable -- and inexcusable -- shortage of chemotherapy drugs is only the latest evidence that US "health care" system is collapsing once and for all. https://arstechnica.com/health/2023/06/dire-shortage-of-cancer-drugs-in-us-forces-doctors-to-ration-doses/

The racist, counterproductive, and generally evil War on (Some) Drugs is back with a vengeance. We never learn. We just create more victims, and pretend we're fixing something that requires complex, not simplistic, solutions.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/21/health/fentanyl-overdose-crisis.html

The Murdoch family's Wall Street Journal editorial page is so often a forum for right-wing extremism (corporate branch) that it's not really surprising to see the Journal go all the way with Alito's risible alibis.

Two immediate thoughts:

-- He lives in a world where this kind of corruption is normal, so he can't imagine that what he did was wrong.

-- What we know about him and Thomas feels like tip-of-iceberg stuff. Maybe someday we'll know how deep it goes.

Scientists have been pounding the table warning about climate change for decades, often at the expense of their own careers, only to be ignored by politicians.
And now that the climate is spinning out of control, its somehow the fault of scientists??

I say this will all due respect to all those who promote this take: f#ck off.

Wouldn't it be funny if, with ChatGPT and Bard, Microsoft and Google have sowed the seeds of their own demise? 😂 https://twitter.com/immasiddtweets/status/1669721470006857729

The newly reintroduced PRESS Act is a powerful shield law that would protect journalists’ confidential sources and limit government surveillance of reporters. It would guard against attempts to threaten, intimidate or chill reporters and their sources. https://freedom.press/news/congress-has-reintroduced-the-press-act-now-lawmakers-must-pass-it/

Crazy idea... What if the "fediverse" was primarily a way to have an online identity you could use with whatever service you wanted, and then only secondarily an agreement about what content looks like?

Meaning, the first job of my "fediverse" hallucination is to let you sign up for a username@domain identity that just kind of exists the internet, but not much else.

Then, once you have an identity that exists, you can take it over to your favorite microblogging service (which may be on a different sever/domain from your identity) and start following people and posting using it. Or use two different microblogging services at once. YOLO. Or take that identity to your favorite forums to read and write and whatever. But it's the same you on each service because you have the same username@domain.

So we separate the idea of having an identity from where you can use it.

Then when that's all working, the second job of my "fediverse" hallucination is to have a standard so that all the different takes on microblogging services know how to talk to each other and agree on what content looks like.

And the same for the forums. They get their own standard for whatever forum content is supposed to look like. But that's allowed to be separate from what the microblogging content looks like. Because why on earth would I want forum content to be shoehorned into a microblogging app?? Or vice versa? It doesn't make any damn sense from a UX point of view.

So all the fediverse services should be able to agree on what identities look like and how to share them. That's the first responsibility and the common denominator for everyone. Then, after that, each app category can have its own rules for how instances can talk to each other.

But requiring that all the services doing vastly different things speak same language about content seems like insanity. Trying to support every conceivable use-case with one universal protocol seems like it would ultimately be very limiting and I'm not convinced it's something anyone actually wants.

hey tech folks:
please stop pushing discord. i get it. it works. please help us with something better, or we will be in a situation a while from now where suddenly we are all panicking because discord is shutting down or deleting old data as we all go "wow who could have seen this coming" and put our hands in the air

What constitutes a *large* Fediverse instance?

(boosts welcome)

Periodic reminder: public corporations are engines of inequity.

That's literally all they exist to do - extract from the many and bestow unto their shareholders. They are not benign.