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@theconversationau Oh. Guess I'll take a break from reading The Conversation.
In "Things we doubt would happen in the U.S. these days"
My son's school has decided to close for the next few days because there is a respiratory bug happening. (In this case, Flu.) They are recommending consulting with local systems regarding vaccination. (There was just recently vaccinations for updated MMR)
I....am pleasantly impressed.
Well now I can't stop thinking about this https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2024/06/11/why-curl-closes-prs-on-github/
Thanks @bagder ! Now I don't want to use GitHub anymore! Or to work with my teammate (and myself sometime) that writes poor commit messages because nobody cares since GitHub hides them...
I also know why sometime I feel stupid writing commit messages that nobod will look at xD
😩 when reading blog post makes me sad! 😅
Between surveillance capitalism, indecipherable user interfaces, and digital technologies whose primary function is to increase electricity expenditure, it's easy to forget that there actually have been some worthwhile advances in software over the past 20 years or so.
What are your favorite examples of useful software, programming languages, and tools that didn't exist 20 years ago?
Age verification systems are surveillance systems. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/06/california-lawmakers-should-reject-mandatory-internet-id-checks
Wholesale bans on public employees talking to the press are blatantly unconstitutional.
People are entitled to know more about their government than PR.
Hopefully, other agencies will rescind similar policies without the need for more lawsuits.
Introducing ProPublica’s 527 Explorer
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#Nonprofits known as 527s can raise unlimited sums for #political spending.
ProPublica is releasing a new database that will allow #journalists, #researchers and others to more easily search these organizations’ finances.
#News #DataJournalism #Journalism #Nonprofit #Politics
https://www.propublica.org/article/search-527s-finances-pacs-database-political-spending
One bullshit artist on Georgetown’s faculty, with the help of some pro-gun organizations that exist only on paper, appears to provide a major pillar of evidence that judges use to justify eliminating gun restrictions. His research is nonsense and his work is funded by the gun lobby. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/18/us/gun-laws-georgetown-professor.html?unlocked_article_code=1.0k0.2FGZ.X-6pzJp9ecZN&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=c-cb
The job of the press in a society like ours is mostly, I believe, to carefully curate those things which the public is allowed to know and which dots the public should be encouraged to connect, whether the connection is there or not. This is what always frustrates me about listening to NPR or reading the NYT: if you have any context to draw on for many of their stories, it's easy to see the lies by omission - but that can be hard to explain to ppl who lack that context.
And that ends this thread on OpenStreetMap.
In summary
- Underlying OpenStreetMap is a database
- The OpenStreetMap website is a demo only
- To a lot of folks it's not obvious that the OpenStreetMap website is just a demo showcasing what could be accomplished with the data. Even here on Mastodon in our nerd bubble this is not obvious.
- Communication around that could be improved; and communication around vandalism and what it means if you see it on the website's map could be improved.
6/6
Right-wing state supreme court secretly refused to punish right-wing lower-court judges who violated their judicial oaths.
Just another day in the Republican firmament.
https://www.propublica.org/article/north-carolina-supreme-court-republican-judges-violations
Congress continues to push for censorship bills to "protect the kids" online rather than passing comprehensive privacy laws that would protect all users from predatory data gathering and sales that target us for advertising and abuse.
We detail what a comprehensive data privacy law should look like here at https://eff.org/privacyfirst
Today’s suggestion by the Surgeon General that online speech be labeled as dangerous is extraordinary, and puts him in the same category as censorious public officials like Anthony Comstock. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/06/no-online-speech-should-not-have-warning-labels
Cool upcoming #film #book from @pmpress to back on Kickstarter about #resistance in #cinema
Revolution in 35mm: Political Violence and Resistance in Cinema from the Arthouse to the Grindhouse, 1960–1990
@fsf remind everyone that GNU-like #MobileLinux phones (not iOS and not Android) exist, and are great for #freedom! #LinuxMobile
As Kissinger said, "It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal."
Notice that we didn't attack China (our enemy) with this anti-vaxx disinfo, we attacked the Philippines (our friend).
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