Lunatech @Lunatech@social.cleverlibre.org

Prediction from "1984" written 72 years ago...

I find the M2 and M2 Pro Mac minis very compelling, but I can’t justify buying one right now—two years on, my completely base-model M1 Mac mini still handles everything I throw at it.

Apple Silicon is the real deal.


#AppleSilicon #arm #MacMini #M1 #M2

I wrote about how news organizations bungled a chance to push back on Twitter's censorship of journalists covering Musk. cc: @drewharwell @donieosullivan @taylorlorenz https://www.readtpa.com/p/take-a-twitter-lesson-from-fox-news

We just hit the federal debt limit.

If we don't raise the debt ceiling, it could trigger a global financial crisis.

But the House GOP refuses to raise it unless Biden agrees to Social Security and Medicare cuts.

Let's be clear: There must be no negotiating on the debt ceiling.

Republicans have no use for old people

It's so fake. Any person who wants to work to 90 can do so. There is no law against it.

Oh nice. I just found @keila an alternative to #Mailchimp that is #AGPL-licensend and implemented in #Elixir. You can self-host or host with a subscription plan.

https://www.keila.io

Good to see more #FOSS models like #Plausible that offer #BigTech alternatives.

What would you do if you saw serious rights abuses in your workplace?

You would hopefully want to speak up.

But if you’re an undocumented worker or otherwise have shaky immigration status, you’re likely to hesitate about reporting abusive employers. The understood threat of immigration-related retaliation, including deportation, keeps workers quiet – and abuses continuing.

Now, that may be changing in the US:
https://www.hrw.org/the-day-in-human-rights/2023/01/19?story=paragraph-4922

Soon UK kids, everyone in UK probably, will have to learn how to use the dark web if they want to access sites like #Wikipedia.

Thanks to the incredibly, no really really improbably bad #law going through parliament right now.

And literally being made worse in the process 🤦‍♂️

The #OnlineSafetyBill is mass censorship for government control.

One day after quoting MLK on MLK Day, Florida MAGA Gov Ron DeSantis cancels AP African American Studies Program, saying it ‘Lacks Educational Value’

This is literally white supremacist talking points & a reminder how much these people still hate MLK today.

Indeed, DeSantis banning AP African American Studies is a reminder of that old quote -- White privilege is when your history is the curriculum and every other history is an elective.
#BlackMastodon

Libertarians believe people should be free to live their life however they want, except for women. Study finds libertarians less likely to support women's abortion rights and more likely to support men's right to deny partner's abortions.
https://www.psypost.org/2023/01/new-study-finds-libertarians-tend-to-support-reproductive-autonomy-for-men-but-not-for-women-64912

Imposing Censorship: New Training Tells Florida School Librarians Which Books Are Off-Limits https://www.edweek.org/teaching-learning/new-training-tells-florida-school-librarians-which-books-are-off-limits/2023/01

Michigan is Banning Inmates From Reading Totally Normal Books
https://www.vice.com/en/article/dy7bdq/michigan-is-banning-inmates-from-reading-totally-normal-books

George Santos’s 11 Most Absurd Lies and Cons (That We Know About So Far) | Vanity Fair https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2023/01/george-santos-worst-lies

Anger grows in Virginia city where first-grader shot teacher | AP News

Students in the past got away with assaulting staff without consequences.

https://apnews.com/article/school-safety-education-virginia-newport-news-boards-c6b0f2360b8f083d3be15da85067bbd6

It appears that Santos competed in drag queen pageants in Brazil in 2005.

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/embattled-us-rep-santos-was-drag-queen-brazil-pageants-say-associates-2023-01-19/

#USPol #politics