Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

D.C. Attorney General is probing Leonard Leo’s network

The Federalist Society co-chair and ex-Trump judicial adviser has utilized nonprofit groups to collect more than $1 billion for conservative causes.

in March that one of Leo’s nonprofits — registered as a charity — paid his for-profit company tens of millions of dollars in the two years since he joined the company.

#LeonardLeo #Leo #FederalSociety

https://www.politico.com/news/2023/08/22/d-c-attorney-general-is-probing-leonard-leos-network-00112331

Fellow educators:

1) Don't do cop shit.
2) Don't pay for a service that does cop shit.
3) Don't trust claims of system performance without documentation.
4) DO educate your students about what ChatGPT is and why they wouldn't want to use it.

Screen caps from some spam I received just now:

Code sharing increases citations but remains uncommon

https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-3222221/v1

'We examine temporal trends in code sharing in ecology and evolution publications since 2010.

We find that scientists are overwhelmingly (95%) failing to publish their code.

We also find code sharing can considerably improve citations.'

#openscience #code #ecopubs

Wow. 8 hours in, #Microsoft is still sending the vaguest possible descriptions of the maybe-problem with #Azure #DNS and what they’e tried to resolve it. Still not fixed.
I’m betting this is another #InfoSec blunder.

So glad this customer is still in pre-prod mode so the problem(?) isn’t breaking anything that anyone notices...

#MS #ShoddySecurity #Sysadminnery

Linux users: What's the best clipboard manager, and why?

I just mentioned the new 404Media journalism outlet. This @josephcox story, on of its first, is a harrowing reminder that America's credit bureaus are a security and privacy nightmare -- and that, short of Congress giving a damn (It doesn't) you can be a target of criminals with just a few clicks.

https://www.404media.co/the-secret-weapon-hackers-can-use-to-dox-nearly-anyone-in-america-for-15-tlo-usinfosearch-transunion/

Four excellent (former) Motherboard journalists have created their own subscription outlet. It already shows great promise.

https://www.404media.co

I wish they had a lower-cost subscription tier -- and I don't see them here on Mastodon (a major omission).

But it's great to see that they're using open-source Ghost as their platform.

Recommended!

This sure did unravel quickly for the Philly police
https://www.inquirer.com/news/philadelphia/eddie-irizarry-philadelphia-police-shooting-mark-dial-family-lawyer-20230822.html

from reddit /TIL: #TIL a family in Georgia claimed to have passed down a song in an unknown language from the time of their enslavement; scientists identified the song as a genuine West African funeral song in the Mende language that had survived multiple transmissions from mother to daughter over multiple centuries

https://www.harrisnecklandtrust.org/amelia-s-song

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The so-called "Constitutional Sheriffs" are among the most dangerous people in America -- and their malign influence is growing. Here's some great student reporting from ASU's Cronkite School (I work there) and the Arizona Center for Investigative Journalism. https://azcir.org/cspoa/

This trom one of my favourite economists - not that that list is very long.
“It is a patrician fantasy to create a global economic system whereby the poor perpetually pay real compound interest to the rich.”
https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO2308/S00213/financial-literacy-compound-interest-and-the-veneration-of-money.htm

Police officers in Ohio and Wisconsin are the latest to exploit a victims’ rights law to shield their names from the public when they wound or even kill people in the line of duty, making it harder for the public and press to hold them to account. https://freedom.press/news/police-use-victims-rights-law-to-hide-from-scrutiny/

Many people think that being a good facilitator is a trait one is born with. "Some people are born facilitators." But facilitation is more like a craft - it's learnable. Get facilitation practice in our next course👉 https://t.co/2Cf7VdqInX

#sociocracy https://t.co/K5vs97dh03

Source sadly unknown.

Wealth of Elon Musk
2012: $2,000,000,000
2023: $248,900,000,000

Wealth of Jeff Bezos
2012: $18,400,000,000
2023: $153,100,000,000

Wealth of Mark Zuckerberg
2012: $17,500,000,000
2023: $104,900,000,000

Federal Minimum Wage
2012: $7.25
2023: $7.25

Three words: tax the rich.

How #Copyleft licenses (like the #GPL) and #LibreSoftware aka #FOSS aka #FreeSoftware can help us all avoid #DigitalColonisation by proprietary US Big Tech & protect our #DigitalSovereignty via the founder of #NextCloud https://video.resolutions.it/w/4d5c5b1d-9613-4201-8d55-9e7906f42518 We need to break the cycle we're currently in. It's expensive, disempowering, & *brittle*. And it's unfit for purpose.

[tech notebook] Getting started with Jitsi https://tech.interfluidity.com/2023/08/21/getting-started-with-jitsi/index.html