hi y’all, i work for a healthcare org in the u.s. and i wanted to share what the current conversation is internally around covid.the vaccine will not be signaling the end of social distancing. only 1/3rd of americans polled currently say they would get the vaccine, and the FDA is going to pass the first vaccine that hits the 50% effectiveness mark.
these numbers do not indicate that we will be able to “beat” the virus w/ a vaccine.
"If people's basic needs were met through socialism, nobody would ever choose to work!"Kid, there's people who saved up their entire lives to retire, and never have to work again
Who then choose to spend their retirement doing unpaid menial labor for the public library
People generally WANT to work, to feel accomplished from Doing Stuff
They just want to get to do work they choose to do willingly, for reasonable amounts of time, without the threat of starvation looming over them
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"In short, federation distributes governance and cost, and can allow us to tackle challenges that we couldn’t overcome without it. The free software community needs to rally behind federation, because no one else will. For all of the reasons which make it worth doing, it is not rewarding for corporations. They would much rather build walled gardens and centralize, centralize, centralize — it’s more profitable!"drewdevault.com/2020/09/20/The…
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Now would be a great time to get off the fedi and start a new show or book
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I wrote a thing! This time, it's about the false binary choices we feel like we have to make, and imagining a third option.
And copyright. Look, it gets there in the end.
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Refusal looks like millions of people using nonviolent tools to delegitimize the coup by demonstrating, resisting orders, and shutting down the country until democracy prevails.
This is a useful website for the nightmare scenario. We're a month and a half out--it's definitely time to start making actual plans for the coup attempt that's nearly guaranteed.
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«We cannot have a society in which, if two people wish to communicate, the only way that can happen is if it's financed by a third person who wishes to manipulate them.»— Jaron Lanier
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I haven't read anything this delightfully cheeky in a long time.
This was funny to read and also quite informative
tl; dr: Don't post your boardingpass on social media
mango.pdf.zone/finding-former-…
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RT @KiwixOffline@twitter.comCool project from Wakoma: the Nimble - a rapidly deployable, wireless mesh network. Tons of stuff, and completely offline:
wakoma.co/nimble/
I don't really like the term "tribalism"... instead I try to use "sportsballing", because I think it makes it clearer when referring to arbitrary fanatical grouping. "Go team X... we hate team Y!"
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The solution to the control of hosted software over our infrastructure is quite simple: we have to decentralize the power. Just like freedom of press can be achieved by giving people the tools to print and distribute underground pamphlets, we can give people their freedom of software back by teaching them to control their own server.
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Surveillance capitalism is the same as climate change, but for data:- Some people have been warning about its consequences for years
- Most people don't care because they don't feel concerned, they can't see it affecting them
- A few companies are making a lot of damage with the help of governments
- When we will face the consequences it will be too late
- We can still do something about it, and the sooner the better
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We learned yesterday of the death of fellow worker, activist, and anthropologist @davidgraeber. Graeber has written numerous books on direct action and anti-capitalist theory. He also coined the phrase, “We are the 99%” during OWS. Rest in power, fellow worker.
Fuckin' hell, Google.
Chromium, aka Google, just keeps proposing new standards to make the web less private and secure for users. We need to find a way to stop this.Allow JavaScript to make direct TCP and UDP connections? Sure!
theregister.com/2020/08/22/chr…Packaging up an entire website into a file so individual ads can't be blocked? Also sure!
brave.com/webbundles-harmful-t…
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Good morning, friends.
This is a check-in post. How are you doing? What do you need that others might have to share?
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