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There sure are a lot of people talking about "whiteness" these days in a way that sounds remarkably not at all like skin colour.
As in "look at these billionaires this is what whiteness looks like, also whiteness isn't race"
At some point we probably need to start saying "rich" and stop saying "white" when we actually mean "rich" and not "white".
It's like the Left is struggling to articulate the idea of "class" because they forgot it's a thing, and are trying to make race do class's work.
it’s really great how cycle lanes work for everybody: extra-wide pavement for pedestrians to walk in AND parking space for delivery vehicles 💯
Oh what the fuck, this shit again? This needs to die... https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/jun/06/planned-laws-to-force-tech-firms-to-reveal-encrypted-data
The internet offered us the potential to be more than consumers, to participate as peers. We slit our own throats and poured our lifeblood into machinery we didn't own or control... because it was easier.
I don't want to pander, to turn technology into appliances in the blind hope somebody will chose to be free. Freedom simply isn't free and the price of admission is skilling-up.
IMO we should be there to offer a hand to teach, explain and aid, not dumb down.
Uplift all the things!
@jordyd
tired: Microsoft buying GitHub is bad
wired: Github is bad
fired: All open source communities relying on a proprietary tool is bad.
The impending sale of GitHub to Microsoft is another example of what happens when we fixate on #opensource IP but not equitable corporate ownership models. How *should* the repository of most free, open software projects be owned?
@mattcropp @wu_lee @Antanicus @f4dc I love this. I have never been able to get excited abt UBI since I heart Ed say at the Left Forum years ago, "we want the means of production, not the means of consumption" (or something like that)
Decentralised #Git - how to not depend on a single web-service, be it #Github, #Gitlab, etc.
https://notes.orbitalfox.eu/decentralised-git.html
via #Gopher:
gopher://notes.orbitalfox.eu:70/0/note/15ec76d8-a67c-4c19-abc4-103184760186
FFS can people stop putting all community information on goddamned facebook??!
Mastadon newbie here.
Brought here by a mention in reddit. r/anarchy. Figured Id try it out. Lookin forward to chats.
I want to do some sort of co-op thing in my neighborhood but I have no idea how to approach people about it. It'd just be neat to socialism it up.
"Nothing makes us happier than good hard work that we chose for ourselves" —Jane McGonigal
I'm so fucking done. how do i rip out google play services with root? i need to slay the beast, i cannot simply ignore it anymore
@blakehaswell yep, same here. There is something seriously wrong in Youtube's recommendation algorithms. That, or LOTS of money skewing it.
“We would never use this technology to track random citizens, immigrants, activists, or people of color,” Mina told the crowd. “The pilot program is just us testing this technology out to see if it even works.”
Cops defending Amazon's face recognition tech. Have we reached peak irony?
https://www.theverge.com/2018/5/24/17391632/amazon-facial-recognition-orlando-police-rekognition
Apparently Jeff Bezos makes $28,000 (the median yearly salary of an Amazon employee) every 9 seconds.
He's on the way to becoming the world's first trillionaire.
The inequality is mind boggling. How do you actually, concretely, undo this kind of madness?
@cypnk It’s fascinating how there is a third layer to this: design is increasingly emphatic in trying to thwart fixability. It used to be that cheap products were merely planned to be obsolete. Now all products, cheap or not, are designed with a black box philosophy, intended to stupefy the consumer into resignation before the task or economics of repair. “You don’t need to see inside this computer,” Apple says, “This isn’t the open source hardware you’ve been looking for.”