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All undergraduates of #Duke University are told to #quarantine due to #covid19 outbreak caused by recruitment parties.

Effective immediately, students must stay in place until at least Sunday March 21. More than 180 positive
#coronavirus cases have been reported. Suspension or dismissal will be the penalty.

Total
#virus cases in North #Carolina is 887,595 with 11,716 deaths

Interesting - putting a value on the contribution of FOSS developers... TL;DL -> $100s of billions contributed to the economy. zdnet.com/video/open-source-de

@datatitian Is this post a joke? At least some people are being misled... this is a reversed playback of the original video, which showed a sheet of ice breaking off and drifting away. You can notice that the shadows would indicate the sun rising from the west and setting in the east (over Lake Michigan) if the video were unedited, but in fact it is edited.

Important call for experimentation from @democracypolicy:

Alternative Voting Methods | Democracy Policy Network - democracypolicy.network/agenda

@lightweight Well put. When people think of the threats from Big Tech, they think of Facebook, Google, Amazon, Apple. The one causing the most inefficiencies and problems is often just an afterthought; we are so used to it as the infrastructure and that it isn't questioned much anymore.

@tomharris Just today Microsoft Word told me once again to change "don't" to "do not" and I found it so patronizing, had to uninstall.

Oh you know just a video of some birds playing basketball

"Own a Newspaper for $1 per Month." An interesting story about a growing experiment in cooperative local journalism.

washingtonmonthly.com/magazine

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I love the #replyall podcast, but... FUCK the latest 171 episode.

Paraphrasing: "I hate that Twitter can decide who gets banned, I wish people made different social platforms where there is no central power like that".

Yes, I live in a fediverse bubble. But surely, with just a tiny bit of research, they could have found the fediverse, right? At least, Mastodon?

Now they leave it hanging as all other article: "Twitter sucks, but what can we do? No good alternatives"

Small is Beautiful

Next live stream: Free and Open Education with Pine64 and elementary OS

small-tech.org/events/small-is

We’ll be joined by Nicolas Vivant, CIO of the city of Fontaine, who oversaw the deployment of 200+ elementary OS PCs and Debian servers in schools. Our other guests are Cassidy James Blaede (elementary OS), Lukasz Erecinski (Pine64), and Pernille Tranberg (Data Ethics EU).

Thursday, Jan 14, 2021 – 5PM Cork (UTC +0) / 12PM NY (UTC -5) / 9AM SF (UTC -8)

#SmallIsBeautiful

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