The ugly details are here.
https://cepr.net/report/pocketing-money-meant-for-kids-private-equity-in-autism-services/
These #PE goons have been trying to weasel their way into the #WorkerCoop space, and I think we should reject them all with extreme prejudice. Why? Because you don't invite vampires into your house. Anybody who thinks they can play nice with PE d-bags and not get taken to the cleaners has a credulity problem, imnsho. The people who do this kind of thing do not care about workers, no matter what they say or how much money they throw at "worker empowerment".
The people over at Tech for #Palestine are doing good work: https://techforpalestine.org/
I added the banner to my personal site.
@gnumdk For #squeekboard thanks should go to @dcz mostly
Ability to easily build custom keyboard layouts is really awesome.
Thanks you @agx
Another scathing look at the private equity and hedge fund looters who buy up businesses and degrade customers, employees, and communities. In this case it's especially reprehensible, because the "customers" are elderly people are get treated like absolute garbage. https://theconversation.com/for-profit-nursing-homes-are-cutting-corners-on-safety-and-draining-resources-with-financial-shenanigans-especially-at-midsize-chains-that-dodge-public-scrutiny-225045
And bonus, it's all paid for by our tax dollars.
The people running these companies should be forced to live in the facilities they operate.
Contributing to Codeberg:
There are now chat rooms for #Backups and #Ceph under the Codeberg #Matrix space: https://matrix.to/#/#codeberg-space:matrix.org
Consider joining the efforts if you are interested.
Full list of areas looking for contribution, including non-technical work: https://codeberg.org/Codeberg/Contributing
What do House Dems like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Barbara Lee have in common with House GOPers like Thomas Massie and Andy Biggs? Not a lot. But they do know an unconstitutional bill when they see one, like this #TikTok ban. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/03/why-us-house-members-opposed-tiktok-ban-bill
It's the 26th anniversary of SNL's only airing of likely the most subversive sketch in the show's entire history: "Conspiracy Theory Rock" –– a Robert Smigel cartoon that, unsurprisingly, would be cut from all future reruns.
Smigel (my old boss!) posted this version today, which is much higher quality than the terrible one going around YouTube. Share this one!
His original post: https://twitter.com/TriumphICDHQ/status/1768279398132723857
For folks still actively using #Github for their #libre software activities, this is worth a read: https://sfconservancy.org/GiveUpGitHub/ I left Github shortly after Microsoft announced they were acquiring it (I should've done so sooner). Now I host a few Gitlab (Community Edition) instances and my own personal Forgejo instance. Both platforms are great (I prefer the fully #libre nature of Forgejo, though).
An Israeli tank killed Reuters reporter Issam Abdallah in Lebanon last year by firing two 120 mm rounds at a group of "clearly identifiable journalists" in violation of international law, a U.N. investigation into the Oct. 13 incident has found. https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/israeli-tank-strike-killed-clearly-identifiable-reuters-reporter-un-report-2024-03-13/
A little #immigration truth from #TedRall.
https://rall.com/comic/follow-the-rules-like-immigrants-used-to
Unpopular opinion: Markdown isn't fun.
What is fun is having a keyboard that supports just typing what you want. I've seen an OSK for LaTeX math. Why not bold and italics keys? Style keys?
It'd be interesting to see a pop-up OSK for desktop to see how fast our brains could translate remappings from eyes to hands.
Coming back to Adobe, while it's great that they've suddenly discovered digital credentials and have commissioned A Report To Tell Us How Great They Are, we'd be naive to think that this is a benevolent act.
What they're doing, it seems, is positioning the 'Adobe Certified Professional' digital credential as the one that you need in that particular industry.
That means tying 'creativity' to using certain tools, and having a very privatised 'rebundling' of knowledge and skills.
As someone who played SxSW multiple times and mostly enjoyed it, I would like to say bands should drop out of SxSW because it is in Texas and Greg Abbott is the governor and his party literally voted to greenlight alliances with Texas neo-Nazis because they, his party, are fucking neo-Nazis.
https://www.austinchronicle.com/daily/music/2024-03-12/sxsw-responds-to-artist-dropouts-following-tweet-from-greg-abbott/
“In a drastic attempt to protect their beachfront homes, residents in Salisbury, Massachusetts, invested $500,000 in a sand dune to defend against encroaching tides. After being completed last week, the barrier made from 14,000 tons of sand lasted just 72 hours before it was completely washed away”
#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