Bob Ham @rah@librem.one

I'm kinda irked that nobody gives credit to http://calagator.org/ for having been an open source alternative to Meetup for more than a decade already

Exposure to air pollution is linked to an increase in violent crime
https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2019/10/09/exposure-to-air-pollution-is-linked-to-an-increase-in-violent-crime

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do you or do i know someone who i could consult regarding thermal design of Reform?

Bank robbers used to burn debt documentation and it's absolutely wild to me that you could just do that in the 1920-30s.

RT @gabriel_zucman@twitter.com

In 1950, the ultra-wealthy paid 70% of their income in taxes.

In 2018, for the first time, they paid less than every other social group—23%.

Terrific animation in tomorrow's New York Times. Thanks @DLeonhardt@twitter.com @stuartathompson@twitter.com!

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/10/06/opinion/income-tax-rate-wealthy.html

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/gabriel_zucman/status/1181009202837254144

A senior criminology Professor at the UK's ACMD (Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs) has resigned due to concerns that the Home Office is skewing the recruitment of appointments to this organisation to favour prohibitionists (he is not even a "soft touch" type of person and oversaw many new psychoactive substances being made illegal).

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/oct/06/expert-quits-home-office-drug-panel-over-political-vetting

A worker owned taxi #coop in Southend has grown from 6 to 70 drivers.

They repaid all their investors and returned £3000 to their members last year. The same year Uber left the area after failing to compete with them.

We need this in every town and city!

https://www.thenews.coop/138486/topic/development/southend-taxi-co-op-launches-operations-neighbouring-rochford/

WTF?! My non-rooted phone had #Google Maps pre-installed, but I only use #OSMand for navigation etc.

Yesterday, I walked to a local restaurant, without using my phone, and had lunch there before walking back.

I never opened #GoogleMaps.

Today, I find a notification from Maps:
How was {restaurant name}?
Rate places to get smarter recommendations.

So it tracked and calculated where I ate without even opening my phone or the app.

Definitely time for #Pinephone / #LibreM

#privacy #Android

Thailand judge shoots himself in court after criticising system
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-49945636

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last night I went to a talk by tamzin powell, an anthropologist into folklore and witchcraft. it focused on the continued existence of 'cunning folk' and their history in the wye valley and the forest of dean. this is a thread of what I learned!

If the operating system on your computer is a subscription service which you might lose access to at any time, what use is owning the hardware it runs on?

This could be the next revolutionary product:
Rented PCs on which you own nothing, with no way of transferring your own data out to another storage medium. Also, you cannot even unlock the PC without an internet connection, so all your files are held hostage by the subscription service.

#PlannedObsolescence is for noobs.

Reading a bunch of cyberpunk stuff as a kid got me used to the idea that when I was an adult a bunch of billionaires and multinational corporations were going to try and kill me but I always thought it would be more fun, you know?

“Cancel Culture:” Social rewards are immediate, its dangers distant and abstract
https://www.city-journal.org/cancel-culture

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We actually need more events like #FOSDEM or Chaos Communication Camp/Congress that aren't corperate #openwashing circlejerk concerts.

#fsf #freesoftware #rms #gnu #openwashing

Dyne.org open letter to the Free Software Movement

This is an open letter to all the people who, in their good faith, are concerned about the recent events which have shaken the long-standing leadership of the Free Software Movement and the GNU project.

https://www.dyne.org/open-letter-to-the-free-software-movement/