The Librarian 🌷 @thelibrarian@scholar.social

"Stanford, Yale, Princeton, MIT, and Google—including the recommendation that the state return to a system of paper ballots filled out by hand, combined with what scientists call risk-limiting audits." https://qz.com/1661870/georgias-new-voting-tech-raises-questions-over-election-security/

@thomasfuchs

“Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron.”
― Dwight D. Eisenhower

I just wanna put it out there that the word for “being polite on mastodon” should be fediquette

I'm specifically spending time in these computer history archives because I believe there is important stuff for us to learn from the past as we build out the fediverse and other distributed/decentralized future networks.

"... whenever a techbro talks about 'disrupting an industry,' they mean: 'replicating an already existing industry, but subsidizing it heavily with venture capital, and externalizing its costs at the expense of the public or potential workers by circumventing existing consumer-, worker- or public-protection laws in order to hopefully undercut the existing competition long enough to bring about regulatory capture.'"

https://blog.bgcarlisle.com/2019/06/05/on-techbros-in-healthcare-and-medical-research/

We cannot count our way to justice, we cannot infer our way to decency. https://halfanhour.blogspot.com/2019/06/the-failure-of-reason.html

I get pissed off whenever someone says or implies that Rosa Parks "just got tired" or "just decided one day," etc

She planned it

It was done in cold blood

It was an organized protest that was carried out in a particular way in order to reduce harm to participants and ensure that they couldn't be easily dismissed

When we minimize that, we take away their agency and we set ourselves up for unsafe or ineffectual protests in the future

⚠️ Public Service Announcement ⚠️

Stop talking about:
• Climate change
• Global warming
• Climate sceptic

Instead, talk about:
• Climate crisis
• Global heating
• Climate science denier

🌍

We don't have to live in a world that's like this

It can be better

As we're getting this show on the road, and are preparing for the Pre-release 0.1 of #Florence we're looking for some active code-reviewers. Both for the actual code, and for where the feature / PR lands within our planned goals etc. This means that we want to have non-coder reviewers!

Our goal will be to have one of each, i.e. one person looking at the code, and one person seeing where it aligns, if we forgot something important about this kind of feature.

Obviously additional people will always be welcome to help, as we are looking to never burn one or two people out, but have a larger rotation of people who can contribute this way.

You can find our repo here: https://github.com/florence-social/mastodon-fork

Join the Chat to stay in touch and help out:
https://chat.florencesoc.org/signup_user_complete/?id=2a7237f68937b2c4a99ca25c156e6915

#MastoDev #MastoFork #ForkTogether

https://v2.jacky.wtf/post/9a3f803a-9482-43b8-b8f4-1dbff7a13178

Stop using Google Chrome.

Google Chrome is moving to remove autonomy from Web users. Excuse me while I purge it from my machines. Please remember - it’s a “open source” “project” (commerically provided product) whose goal is to not to “affect our [Google’s] ability to customize ads and/or could block ads online, which would harm our business” (from their SEC 10-K filing).

Google Chrome is not built for people; it’s built for Google, by Google. You are their bank.

You’re allowed to post things which aren’t just jokes, shitposts, and things that you have strong opinions about. It’s ok just to talk about your day or how you’re feeling, because we love you and care about you. 💚

Ok, that’s not really a secret. I just wanted to remind you.

you, a clown: comfortably riding the train while posting with your homies on mastodon

me, a genius: riding alone in my two ton metal pod, having to pay attention every split second or possibly cause several thousand dollars of property damage or kill someone