loshmi @loshmi@social.coop

One of my favorite short articles by David #Graeber:

Caring too much. That's the curse of the working classes

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/mar/26/caring-curse-working-class-austerity-solidarity-scourge

Woman Surprises Husband Returning From Long Day Of Work By Dressing Dog Up All Sexy https://local.theonion.com/woman-surprises-husband-returning-from-long-day-of-work-1844650440 #vol56issue33 #local #dogs

No matter what happens to Mozilla, please everyone, don't start using Brave.

many of my academia colleagues seem to dislike teaching. personally I much prefer teaching than the pressure to publish just because, the fetishization of ‘original research’. I'd be a happy girl teaching daily and publishing at will.

I think it does better for the world, too. if we put more energy into good teaching and less into article quantity we'd have more article quality.

https://www.mainstreet.coop/

Been following the Main Street Phoenix Project, which seems to be circling its focus in on launching a #WorkerCoop restaurant group to acquire COVID-shuttered restaurants.

Will be learning more next week when one of them presents to the #Vermont Solidarity Investing Club.

This is a cool site showing one set of HTML markup with different user submitted styles. I'm always impressed by what you can do with just styles!

https://stylestage.dev/styles/

hello, today is my birthday so please materially support your local protests, communities, and ecological spaces. and give me boosts for a dopamine hit

Having friends doesn’t have to be gay.

Cishet men need to hear this.

If you were looking to write the perfect *non-technical* book on decentralisation, what would you include? 🤔

(boosts appreciated!)

Bourgeois Pig Owns Ostentatious Glass Crafted Specifically To Hold Wine https://local.theonion.com/bourgeois-pig-owns-ostentatious-glass-crafted-specifica-1843182534 #vol56issue17

Thousands Of Pigs, Cattle Across Nation Stage Walkout Strike Following Trump’s Demands To Keep Meat Plants Open https://www.theonion.com/thousands-of-pigs-cattle-across-nation-stage-walkout-s-1843165157 #vol56issue17 #coronavirus #donaldtrump #animals #meat

"What does freedom mean in an academic economy structured to reward obedience? No thinking person buys the myth of merit. Academe is filled with mediocrities who achieved stardom by flattering the ruling class. Already, then, freedom is tenuous because livelihood is contingent on respectability, itself contingent on pleasing the ruling elite. Cultures of online exchange promise a kind of freedom, but more than anything they illuminate the preponderance of coercion."

https://www.chronicle.com/interactives/08282019-salaita-academic-freedom?key=mi0Bff1vaLHL09_no2Emg3XW4DWnx13YD3xqIgznrCP3EXYGV1IC1lZeoAl5jFPXLVp4b1Ixa2xFZHlrb2xMNDJBMUZQdUh1TndMUE9PRHdOZ2dVMWNJTzZVWQ

Wow, some very interesting new research here: https://tpm.fail/

Researchers published attacks that can recover encryption keys from Trusted Computing Modules (TPMs) (which isn't supposed to be possible) by timing elliptic curve signature generation. "On Intel fTPM, our key recovery succeeds after about1,300 observations and in less than two minutes."

Nearly all Windows computers store BitLocker encryption keys in TPMs.

Stolen from Twitter because lol https://twitter.com/gabecortez/status/1206730413055586304?s=09

Because I was unclear on the role of private insurance in Bernie's #medicare4all plan:

* restricts "duplicative" private insurance, meaning private insurers cannot compete with what Medicare For All covers
* allows supplemental private insurance for things not covered.

regular reminder that "user friendly" also implies that it actually runs on older hardware and still leaves room for other applications

Why isn’t it easier to find nice free coloring pages to print out? the internet really should have solved this thoroughly. When your kid says “I want to color monster trucks with you” you should be like 3 minutes away from saying “mine is called Truckula, I gave it red wheels and it turns into a bat”

We tried to unionize at my company, then they fired all of us.

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/evjenn/this-solar-energy-company-fired-its-construction-crew-after-they-unionized

How to hear (and delete) every conversation your #Amazon #Alexa has recorded
#theverge
https://www.theverge.com/2018/5/28/17402154/amazon-echo-alexa-conversation-recording-history-listen-how-to