Jamie @jamiem@social.coop

Hot off the presses... from The Onion...Google Maps Adds Shortcuts Through Houses Of People Google Knows Aren’t Home Right Now
https://www.theonion.com/google-maps-adds-shortcuts-through-houses-of-people-goo-1848861825

Compelling argument on the relationship between controlling our bodies and our right to privacy through encryption:
The End of Roe Will Bring About a Sea Change in the Encryption Debate
https://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/blog/2022/05/end-roe-will-bring-about-sea-change-encryption-debate

Checkout the May First World Social Forum activities next week! #wsf2022 https://mayfirst.coop/en/post/2022/wsf2022/

Long and dense but a great read:
Crypto, the Left, and Techno-Feudalism | Yanis Varoufakis & Evgeny Morozov in dialogue - mέta
https://metacpc.org/en/crypto-blockchain/

The UX on this Small Child Is Terrible
https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/the-ux-on-this-small-child-is-terrible

The SQLite project has 640 times more lines of testing code then lines of regular code. Is there ever a point where the effort to maintain the testing code outweighs it's benefit? https://www.sqlite.org/testing.html

Hi May First members! The May First Membership meeting is starting in 45 minutes. If you are a member and have not received the link to join, please email info@mayfirst.org.

Hi to all the May First members out there in the Fediverse - if you have not yet registered for our Membership meeting tomorrow at 3:00 pm America/New_York (8:00 pm UTC), please do so now so we can send you the link to participate: https://outreach.mayfirst.org/civicrm/event/register?id=76&reset=1

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/).