Lunatech @Lunatech@social.cleverlibre.org

Toxic train derailment due to greed and weakened rules: Sherrod Brown

The senator cites pressure from lobbyists to weaken regulations.“Every time there’s a new administration,” Brown explained, “particularly a more conservative one that’s more pro-corporate, they put all these regulations on the table about safety, about worker safety, community safety, the environment, consumer protections, and, at the behest of lobbyists, far too often, they weaken those laws.”

https://www.politico.com/news/2023/02/19/sherrod-brown-train-derailment-ohio-00083588

How about more leaders who care about public service (like Jimmy Carter) and less who relish cruelty, violence and punching down on vulnerable communities (so many examples)?

President Carter’s viral essay:
“My decision to sever my ties with the Southern Baptist Convention, after six decades.…was…unavoidable…when the convention's leaders, quoting a few carefully selected Bible verses and claiming that Eve was created second to Adam and was responsible for original sin, ordained that women must be ‘subservient’ to their husbands and prohibited from serving as deacons, pastors or chaplains….”
#feminism #SouthernBaptist #misogyny #JimmyCarter
https://www.theage.com.au/politics/federal/losing-my-religion-for-equality-20090714-dk0v.html

The local University #MichiganTech recently reversed a student government decision and forced them to fund a conservative speaker from Turning Point USA claiming that not doing so violated the speaker's constitutionally protected free speech. A busy week of student activism, secret meetings, and social media pressure all lead up to a fierce clash between students and administration this past Friday.

If that sounds interesting then give my story a read.

https://www.copperbeacon.org/news/2d1a6c0r65j9tjmngmz9y91c4e8ngl

#Journalism #LocalNews #Keweenaw #TPUSA #FreeSpeech

I keep wondering at what point Big Journalism will awaken to the threat(s) posed by DeSantis, who is a Trump-like power-monger but with more brains.

As Nieman Lab reports, his anti-journalism agenda is deeper and more dangerous, too.

But you can count on the NY Times et al to focus on everything but the danger he poses to democracy. Business as usual political "coverage" prevail for the most part.

So much as stake, and so little media awareness...

https://www.niemanlab.org/2023/02/ron-desantis-is-weaponizing-partisan-media-and-weakening-independent-sources-of-news/

"Either way, the internet may change an awful lot this year, depending on what the Supreme Court decides on this one case."

@mmasnick explains

#Section230 #SCOTUS

https://www.techdirt.com/2023/02/17/next-week-the-supreme-court-could-destroy-everything-good-about-the-internet/

"When we say 'crime is a social construct', what we mean is that you, as an individual, can go to jail for littering, but a corporation can poison the air, the soil, and the water of an entire town, and no one will go to jail."

Just rereading this great post by @mmasnick about that one time, at Design Day, when a prominent design patent attorney trotted out a list of terrorist attacks that may or may not have been linked to "counterfeiting," then said, with a totally straight face:

"Most of the time, when people are using design patents, it’s to stop activities like this.”

https://www.techdirt.com/2018/05/11/when-doubt-blame-terrorists-patent-attorney-claims-terrorists-are-infringing-killing-jobs/

#DesignPatents #CounterfeitRhetoric

New Bing offers some marvelous responses alongside dangerously convincing falsehoods, direct quotes that appear to be made up, and shocking claims about itself (James West/Mother Jones)

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2023/02/bing-ai-chatbot-falsehoods-fact-checking-microsoft/
http://www.techmeme.com/230219/p7#a230219p7

I've tested various ports of #OpenAI #Whisper speech recognition to see how fast it can be on #ARM SBCs like #RaspberryPi 4 and #OrangePi 5: https://github.com/fquirin/speech-recognition-experiments - Spoiler: it can be very fast 😁🚀

#Ubuntu Linux Kernel 6.2 Released, This is What’s New https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2023/02/linux-kernel-6-2-new-features #Linux

I’m a trans doctor. What happened to me in front of the Arkansas senate was utterly mortifying

https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/trans-doctor-arkansas-senate-video-b2283620.html

#senate

Pro-Choice is more Pro-life than Pro-life

Our sister's wombs have been seize by government, Christians and rapists.

Act accordingly. Make some noise.
#AbortionsAreHealthcare #thinkingcap

Adele McClure: Gov. Youngkin “knows EXACTLY what he’s doing during #BlackHistory Month…Whitewashing & revising history is a deliberate tactic” (Richmond Mayor Levar Stoney: "Black History Month isn’t even over and @GlennYoungkin is following in the footsteps of DeSantis with his 'Don’t Say Black Law") https://bluevirginia.us/2023/02/adele-mcclure-gov-youngkin-knows-exactly-what-hes-doing-during-blackhistory-month-whitewashing-revising-history-is-a-deliberate-tactic

So, let's call this what it is, tired of just making money from ads and selling your data, Elon and Mark are turning to CONVERSION EXTORTION.

In software as a service (SaaS) marketing speak, CONVERSION is when a free user transitions to a paid customer. Getting your credit card number is their holy grail.

EXTORTION is the practice of obtaining something through force or threats.

When your online security is threatened unless you pay up, they are extorting your conversion.

#twittermigration

Social media giants have a new pitch:

"Nice identity you got there -- be a shame if something happened to it."

Is this love? NO. In all the years I was raising my children, not once did I threaten them if they failed to love me. #scam #religion #exchristian #atheist #criticalthinking #abuse #religioustrauma #humanism

I wrote The Ultimate Guide to Wake on LAN for Windows, MacOS, and Linux. Hope you enjoy it!

https://docs.technotim.live/posts/wake-on-lan/

#wakeonlan #wol #windows #macos #linux #remoteaccess #power #powersavings

There are reports that all Jehovah's Witness congregation in Pennsylvania are being subpoenaed for records relating to CSA records going back to 1987. JWs keep secret internal records, like many other seclusive fundamentalist churches. They hide behind 'clergy-penitent privilege' to protect abusers.

This is a huge step forward. Let's do this to all the fundamentalist cults. Children are stuck in these authoritative environments, they don't know who to turn to, they are taught not to trust people like teachers or guidance counselors, so abuse is kept under wraps within the controlling environment. It's even worse for kids who are home schooled or in private religious schools.

#exJW #exCult #exFundie #ReligiousAbuse

https://youtu.be/s84pgnRJtWg