Paul Sutton @zleap@social.cleverlibre.org

Hey #academics, and other concerned people. Did you know that the University of Buffalo is trying to recruit faculty?

You might want to let them know that nobody wants to teach at a place that harbors transphobic goons like Young Americans for Freedom and Michael Knowles.

A Texas lawsuit vividly shows how abortion bans cause women excruciating pain and even death. Plaintiffs argue that the Texas law inequitably deprives women of the rights to life and liberty without due process of law, contravening the state constitution.

Tough to read about the preventable suffering endured by the women who brought the suit, but absolutely necessary to face it. This link provides gift access: https://wapo.st/3SZVJwI #Women #WomensLiberation #AbortionRights

I guess today's main character is "do you support artists & other creators building an audience?"

A.K.A. "making a living" at least partially based on using their social media presence to show off their work and reach supporters.

This is actually a very simple equation:
Q: "Do you like 'things/stuff' (like art, open source code, how to videos, etc.)?"
A: "Because, if you don't support creators and the content they are making, then you won't "get more of whatever it is that you like."

Stop being a dick to people who are "doing useful stuff" . . and save your rage for Billionaires, corporations, people who are here to 'Farm Rage Clicks" and other abusive assholes on the internet.

Thanks for coming to my TED Talk!

"No billionaire should be paying less taxes than a school teacher or a firefighter."

That’s what Joe Biden said in his SOTU. How many Republicans stood up and applauded? Yep, none.

Spend money on roads, education, childcare - all of society gets better. Don’t and it all gets worse.

Biden budget would cut deficit by $3 trillion, tax American rich-
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/03/09/biden-budget-would-cut-deficit-by-3-trillion-over-next-decade-with-25percent-minimum-tax-on-richest-americans.html

NEW: Every year, governments use algorithms to flag people receiving welfare benefits as "high risk" of committing fraud. Today, for the first time, a joint investigation by Lighthouse Reports and WIRED can reveal how one of these algorithms works. We obtained the full algorithm code and the training data and recreated the system. What we found was discrimination based on gender and ethnicity. Part 1 is here: https://www.wired.com/story/welfare-state-algorithms/

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#WeAreHiring #opensource #itjobs #opensourcejobs #remotejobs

#science #academics yeah ok, four grants in four months is too many. My brain is fat, from spending the last 10 years without going at this pace! 😂 But to be fair, they are all great ideas!! I work with awesome collaborators, have I mentioned that? 😁 And we have more in the works, mwa hahha...

Thinking is cool. I'll be sorry if/when I have to stop. 🤓

Within the next 18 months we're going to see an explosion of invasive #tracking and #datascraping as major advertisers and #dataanalytics companies realize just how fucked Twitter is and start looking for new hunting grounds.

We, as #MastoAdmin and #mastoMods MUST have tools to easily lock out, allow list, and control who can have access to our users that are expecting us to protect their peace and privacy. We're going to see #spam ads from pop up domains in larger numbers, we're going to see garbage coming into our DMs like it used to on Twitter.

The reason these things weren't a larger issue on Twitter (until recently) was because of the infrastructure that went into managing and subduing that sort of behavior. The fediverse has none of that infrastructure, or really even tools.

If you do #MastoDev, please, we need to tools. Perfect is the enemy of done. We #mastoadmin need ways to share reports about problematic users and servers quickly and with notes and standardized categories. We need ways to identify and share with our peers and friends the things we are seeing and actions we are taking, and we need room for nuance and options in our response to unknown unknowns.

It's a big ask, but there's decades of these kinds of tools being built for email and other distributed systems, we don't have to start from nothing!

#fediblockhole #rapidblock #FedeRater #fedirelay #relay

Interested in joining the #GitLab team? Check out open positions for developers, security specialists, sales, software engineers, and more on #OSJobHub https://opensourcejobhub.com/company/706/ #DevSecOps #security #developer #sales #jobs #career #OpenSource

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RT @JackDAshby
This is heinous. The BBC is censoring not only itself, but David Attenborough, by pulling an episode of its new flagship series on British wildlife as it focuses on UK wildlife declines... in case it upsets right-wing politicans and media. #WildIsles
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2023/mar/10/david-attenborough-bbc-wild-isles-episode-rightwing-backlash-fears
https://twitter.com/JackDAshby/status/1634213555850612736

STEM Group 11/3/2023 https://personaljournal.ca/paulsutton/stem-group-11-3-2023

@zleap @clowncollege I try to spread the word. One would think the Fediverse would be a huge appeal to the DIY ethic. We just have to keep pestering our own networks.

Issues which concern me and the UK feminists I know. Domestic violence and murders. Stalking. Police failures to believe/prosecute sexual assault. Doctors who ignore women's pain /symptoms. Sexism in the media. DWP failures to secure child maintenance for single mothers. Lack of legal aid for divorce. Costs of childcare. The gender pay gap. The glass ceiling. Pension inequality and poverty for retired women. Lots more.

Issues where we're fine. Trans rights, and respect for trans people.

boost to scare a corporate lawyer

@smallcircles seems to me that the way to make Free Software sustainable is to make proprietary software unacceptable. I think that's a relatively easy thing to do, because proprietary software sucks. I've explained it at some length: https://davelane.nz/proprietary @atomicpoet

Deadline for our Research Fund applications is March 30th. Details in the thread 👇 https://t.co/DnEheGoOO1

@atomicpoet I wouldn't say I am worried. This was bound to happen one day.

But I am disappointed that in all the years before the grassroots #FOSS movement wasn't able to create stronger foundations that would place them in a better position than they are now.

It is a fact of life, I know. #FreeSoftware has a big sustainability issue that is very hard to tackle.

If #Fediverse is taken over by the corporate world, FOSS projects are left to add to that or explore new areas to be captured later.

This is a "holy shit" story with an emphasis on the holy: https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2023/03/09/catholics-gay-priests-grindr-data-bishops/

To out priests using Grindr, a conservative group spent "millions of dollars" on mobile app tracking data.

This whole saga has been one of the most illuminating case studies in the privacy harms that can come from "aggregated" and "de-identified" data being freely sold in the marketplace.