Jamie @jamiem@social.coop

Any May First members out there? If so, now's the time to register for our annual membership meeting! https://mayfirst.coop/en/membership-meeting/

On the state of banking and Internet security: “We’re failing so profoundly at the very basics that children can literally become millionaire criminals."
https://threatpost.com/teen-rakes-in-2-74m-worth-of-bitcoin-in-phishing-scam/175834/

Ready for Halloween ride!

Trying not to lose too much time checking out the global clock
https://thehtime.com/. Intriguing idea, the full article is also fascinating (https://medium.com/adventures-in-consumer-technology/introducing-solutions-to-solve-the-mess-of-time-zones-cdf44a7ee4ae), especially the part about identifying days by the position of the earth relative to the sun. Reminds me of the hours I lost obsessing over calendars thanks to 99 percent invisible (https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/the-calendar/).

Amazon and Google workers protest billion dollar military and surveillance tech infused Israeli contract: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/oct/12/google-amazon-workers-condemn-project-nimbus-israeli-military-contract

APC has produced an impressive guide on the circular economy of digital devices: https://circulartech.apc.org/books/a-guide-to-the-circular-economy-of-digital-devices

Check out upcoming workshop on privacy from the folks at Community Bridge - this Thursday at 3:00 pm America/New_york time: https://communitybridge.com/events/

I just read Adam Gordon Bell's article on the awk command and learned that awk was named after the first letters of the three authors. Big take away: we could have been typing `wak` this whole time!
https://earthly.dev/blog/awk-examples/

Nobody likes corporate tech drones, but the birds are doing something about it! #directaction
https://www.canberratimes.com.au/story/7437616/they-think-its-terminator-angry-birds-take-down-drone-deliveries/

R.I.P Howard Frederick. We should challenge the narrative that the corporate/military/right wing have always directed the development of the Internet. Frederick was a pioneer with a legacy of left wing innovation via the Internet: https://www.academia.edu/29802924/The_Technologies_of_Peace_and_War_The_Future_of_PeaceNet_and_Other_Decentralized_Technologies (scroll down to read - you don't have to give your email).

We Thought It Was Fiction - an abolitionist perspective on surveillance: https://www.radicalecologicaldemocracy.org/we-thought-it-was-fiction/

If you live in the US and need help paying your Internet bill, check out https://ebbhelp.org or take a look at the attached PSA.

Facebook Is Censoring People For Mentioning Open-Source Social Network Mastodon | The Changelog
https://changelog.complete.org/archives/10285-facebook-censored-me-for-mentioning-open-source-social-network-mastodon