Lunatech @Lunatech@social.cleverlibre.org

#Podcast Episode: Don't Be Afraid to Poke the Tigers | Electronic Frontier Foundation

- Huang believes that to truly unleash innovation that betters everyone, we must replace our current patent and #copyright culture with one that truly values making products better...and to encourage them to demand a return of the “permissionless ecosystem” that nurtured so many great ideas. -

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/01/podcast-episode-dont-be-afraid-poke-tigers

#openSource #hardware #tech #EFF

@kityates

Reminder: health care workers and teachers died in droves during the height of the pandemic.

The rich responded by launching media campaigns against their requests for pay increases.

The rich are orchestrating a recession by demanding tech and media layoffs.

https://www.thestar.com/business/opinion/2023/01/28/dont-do-evil-massive-layoffs-at-google-shine-a-light-on-tech-giants-ugly-side.html

https://www.theregister.com/2023/01/25/google_investor_more_cuts/

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2023/01/23/google-staff-overpaid-company-must-cut-thousands-jobs-investor/

https://www.worldatlas.com/economics/10-countries-with-the-most-billionaires.html

https://www.forbes.com/sites/qai/2023/01/08/are-we-headed-for-a-richcession-why-the-wealthy-stand-to-lose-the-most-if-the-economy-stalls/

https://www.commondreams.org/views/2020/03/24/no-i-will-not-die-damned-economy

Here is the AP African-American Studies Florida Wants to Ban - College Board has not released the syllabus for AP African-American Studies but Florida wants to ban it because they just know it has “no educational value” https://dianeravitch.net/2023/01/28/here-is-the-ap-african-american-studies-course-that-florida-wants-to-ban/ via @dianeravitch #DeFascist

An unknown individual attacked protesters here in front of LAPD riot cops. Officers immediately moved to protect the assailant while aiming a weapon at the protester who was assaulted. #TyreNichols #Tortuguita #KeenanAnderson

Jan Resseger: What Does It Mean for Our Children and Our Society that State Legislators Don’t Know What Teachers Do? https://networkforpubliceducation.org/blog-content/jan-resseger-what-does-it-mean-for-our-children-and-our-society-that-state-legislators-dont-know-what-teachers-do/ #Education

“The Department of Justice should launch an immediate investigation of the so-called SCORPION unit of the Memphis Police Department. What they are likely to find is a gang of thugs with badges, guns, tasers and police cruisers. It’s probably a good idea to take most all of that away.”

https://open.substack.com/pub/steveschmidt/p/murder-in-memphis?r=2ibrr&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post

"For the religious right, conspiracy is a reaction to not having unilateral decision-making power over what is accepted as true and unreal in the American public square. In many senses, conspiracy is a revenge fantasy — it’s an expression of resentment that says, 'We are the ones who decide what is fact, we’re the ones who decide what is real, and we are going to push that vision on the public square even if you continue to tell us that there is no actual evidentiary basis for it.'”

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"This is a group that is used to having an enormous amount of privilege and influence over American politics, culture and economics, and over the last 60 years, they have increasingly felt as if that power has been slipping away. In my mind, conspiracy theories are a very effective way to mobilize one’s community and to leverage what is actually real and true in the public square, even if you don’t have the evidence or data to back it up."

#WhiteChristianNationalism #ConspiracyTheories

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Ian Ward writes,

"When Donald Trump’s supporters stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021 — many of them carrying Christian symbols like crucifixes, statues of the Virgin Mary and even life-sized portraits of Jesus Christ — a terrible thought occurred to Bradley Onishi: 'Could I have been there?'”

#WhiteChristianNationalism #Jan6

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https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2023/01/27/apocalypse-coming-christian-nationalism-00079317

#Ubuntu Pro is now available to all who want it #Linux
https://infoidevice.fr/ubuntu-pro-est-desormais-disponible-pour-tous/

The @Iconfactory has 16.1k “followers” on Twitter and currently about 4.1k here on Mastodon. Our last post received a whopping 9 likes and 3 retweets on Twitter and an amazing 287 favorites and 163 boosts here on Mastodon.

This has been said before by many people but Twitter isn’t worth your time any more. People don’t SEE what you’re saying there, even if they actually follow you. The service is in big, BIG trouble.

Also, thx for following @Iconfactory here, we appreciate all of you 💕🖖

Tyre Nichols’s Death Is America’s Shame https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/27/opinion/tyre-nichols-video.html?smid=tw-share

ChatGPT is great at its job. But its job is to be a bullshit generator -- an automated creator of plausible lies.

"It is very good at being persuasive, but it's not trained to produce true statements," @randomwalker says in my latest newsletter.

https://themarkup.org/hello-world/2023/01/28/decoding-the-hype-about-ai

@simon #Python, #Ruby, #Perl, and other #scripting runtimes have been deprecated since #macOS #Catalina 10.15 in 2019: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/macos-release-notes/macos-catalina-10_15-release-notes#Scripting-Language-Runtimes

#PHP was removed entirely in #Monterey 12.0 in 2021: https://www.techgenyz.com/2021/06/18/macos-12-monterey-update-built-in-php/

#Python 2.7 was removed in Monterey 12.3 in 2022: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/macos-release-notes/macos-12_3-release-notes

Plan accordingly for the rest to go without much warning.

Kremlin-loyal #hacktivists wage Internet War to retaliate against #Germany for tank aid.

#Hacker groups affiliated with #Russia are engaged in a massive Distributed Denial of Service attack on #German websites, in retaliation for sending #Tanks to #Ukraine to help the #RussiaUkraine war.

#ukrainian #Russians #Russian

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/01/germanyrip-kremlin-loyal-hacktivists-wage-ddoses-to-retaliate-for-tank-aid/