Tigzikk @tigzikk@librem.one

📣 Programming Language World Championships 2020 #plwc2020 📣

A knockout tournament where 32 programming languages compete against each other, and you decide the winner of each round by voting.

There will be two matches per day, and in two weeks time we'll have a winner!

Discussions are encouraged, but please, keep it civil and peaceful. It's just a fun game.

RT @_DanArrows@twitter.com

Really tells you a lot about how much of a right-wing country the US. has been for decades when even members of the supposedly "left" party completly panic at the prospect of mild social democracy.

RT @FelixirofLife28@twitter.com

We humans have become so incredibly efficient at producing food. We could feed everyone in the world if we tried.

The issue is capitalism.

The reason people are starving. The reason people are homeless, choking in toxic city air, unable to drink clean water. IT’S CAPITALISM.

i think as posters, we should unionize. the people's irreverent software sophists - PISS for short. feedback welcomed!

@willghatch learn to use a package manager. good operating systems have them built in. app stores are bad substitutes.

.@NPRKelly's interview with @SecPompeo went in a direction we weren't expecting. As described on @npratc: He screamed, swore at her and said she couldn't find Ukraine on a map.

See the transcript for yourself: https://trib.al/jDeE0Qd 

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Original: https://www.twitter.com/npr/status/1220864061619015680
#NPR #Ukraine

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🔁 NPR Retweeted:
melissa block @NPRmelissablock

“Unhinged.” The notion that @NPRKelly would confuse Ukraine with Bangladesh on a map is so ludicrous it doesn’t even merit comment. As for the other accusations, I trust our reporter. And as for “basic rules of decency”: well.

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Original: https://www.twitter.com/npr/status/1221097025732857856
#NPR #Bangladesh #Ukraine

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"Montaigne says that we despise our own beings. You’re imprisoned in this tomb of self-proclaimed ugliness. We should try to recognize that we are animals. A dog doesn’t have a list of corrections for his body. He isn’t embarrassed about anything. We should recognize that the differences between our brain and an animal’s brain do bring us certain benefits, but they also bring us needless anxieties." @iamstephenwest@twitter.com on Michele de #Montaigne

http://philosophizethis.org/montaigne/

#philosophy

I forgot to mention, there's an organisation called Slave Free Chocolate, founded in 2007. They aim to make people aware of child slavery in West African chocolate farms and work to eradicate it. They also keep a list of ethical companies so you can help support the farmers and avoid any exploitative corporations.

https://www.slavefreechocolate.org/

What are some things that every computer user should learn? What things do you wish every computer user knew? What are some of the biggest benefits that individuals and/or society could reap if computer users learned these things?

Please boost, I honestly want as many serious answers as possible. Feel free to answer variations of the question for different levels of "computer users", such as programmers, office workers who use a computer 4+ hours per day, phone-only users, etc.

I guess on the plus side now my phone is smashed up the decision to get a #pinephone is that bit easier :/

@art

"What really needs rethinking today is the notion that digital ads can only be effective when they are targeted, & when companies know everything about everyone."

Unpacking the feasibility of less creepy 😬 digital ads: https://t.co/JihiwBtSIY #InternetHealth tweeted by @mozilla

URGENT: Mentally Ill Prisoners in Raleigh Prison Being Tortured.

Call to Action

16 folks incarcerated at Central Prison in Raleigh, NC are going on a hunger strike starting Monday January 20, 2020 as an act of comradery to the 200 prisoners being tortured in Unit One (a mental health unit). They need your help to make the calls on Monday, January 20th. And if you have the time thereafter, call any other day you can until their demands are met and those sixteen hunger strikers can eat again.

@DissidentKitty If ever a guy says anything like this, just parrot their own phrase back to them, but about men. "I have nothing against men, but I had a really bad experience with this one man, so I stay away from them." Then watch them fall all over themselves to explain why #NotAllMen are like that!