Christian Bundy @christianbundy@social.coop

@marie_joseph There is, technically, a single-celled parasitic breed of dog

One of the only known types of contagious cancer is a venereal cancer carried by dogs. Since it's contagious, the cancer cells aren't actually cells that belong to the host dog. This cancer has been reproducing and spreading for so long that it's actually mutated and its DNA, while still dog DNA, is no longer a perfect match to any type of dog that does or ever has existed - it's its own unique breed, and it exists only in the form of cancer cells

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I've been pondering for a while how to respond to climate crisis. Write my representatives? Done. Insufficient. Direct action? Where, and demand what? "How We Win" says we need an escalating campaign making a specific demand of an entity that can accede to it.

But with #ClimateCrisis, it's hard to pick a pressure point.

But I have an idea. The best pressure point now is media.

@cwebber @anna a couple of the mozilla fellows in my cohort were working on, essentially, "computer security without fear" -- how do you teach computer security practice without relying on fear, but rather on a sense of community support and safety? Seems highly related

This town ain't big enough for the both of us, partner. We've gotta build more town, it can't fit two adults and that's baffling to me. This town dummy small.

Radical Networks Call for Proposals

From mass surveillance to the over-commercialization of the World Wide Web, the concept of a free and open Internet is continously threatened by corporate interests and over-reaching governments. Radical Networks is a festival and a conference, designed to foster critical discussions around these issues and to create opportunities to learn more about policy, DIY networking and the future of the Internet

Submissions due by 31 July

https://radicalnetworks.org

#latestagecapitalism

When you let #machinelearning evolve a new floor plan for your elementary school
Interesting work by Joel Simon http://www.joelsimon.net/evo_floorplans.html

"Portland Police are already arresting an astounding number of homeless people multiple times each year. Homeless people make up less than 3 percent of the city’s population, even by the largest estimates, and yet they accounted for more than half of arrests by Portland Police last year, and 86 percent of those were for low-level offenses..."

https://www.change.org/p/mayor-ted-wheeler-petition-for-city-of-portland-to-adopt-a-compassionate-response-to-homelessness

Anarchy, today, is attack; it is war against every authority, every power, every state. In the future society, anarchy will be defence, the prevention of the re-establishment of any authority, any power, any state.
-- Carlo Cafiero

#anarchism #quote #bot

In a world where only a tiny fraction of the money made in publishing ends up in the author's pockets and where they are generally the worst paid worker in the chain, complaining about used book sales or piracy is missing the point.