Notices by Micky Metts (freescholar@social.coop)

Got a GITLAB account???
Give us a star to help us become a fiscal sponsor for projects with opencollective! https://gitlab.com/drutopia/drutopia

Halloween party idea - If you are having a Halloween party you can test out face makeup to avoid facial recognition. I thought people may like this as an activity for a party --

Watch a few videos, apply the face makeup and then use free software to see if you are recognized.

info: https://cvdazzle.com/

video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZnCoO7Kd-4

site with free software webcam: https://face-dazzler.herokuapp.com/#go-to-webcam

What do you think?

Still fits the times... basement recording of my old punk band from 1993 playing our song titled: Guilty but Insane
http://bit.ly/DiabolixGuilty

Are you in the UK? My friend Sam is speaking at this conference on June 18th https://hcidopenday.co.uk/ on the complexities of designing for GOOD... https://hcidopenday.co.uk/speakers/sam-medrington/ his blog on this matter is eloquent - http://bit.ly/2WHvIYk

NYC Friends...
Donate a New or Used Laptop

http://techActivist.org is building a tech lab for activists - help us by donating a laptop.

Accepting: MacBooks, PC, Linux, ChromeBooks
All data will be cleaned from laptop before using it. Drop-off location:

The People's Forum

320 W 37th Street,

NY NY 10018

@mnw Thanks so much! What a great reception to a difficult topic - WOOT! here are the Resource Links for the LibrePlanet 2019 Closing Keynote: https://agaric.coop/libreplanet2019

How to share work with multiple cooperatives - http://bit.ly/2U6tjVH
Show and Tell with Agaric was awesome this week as Nicolas Dimarco shared the process his cooperative Fiqus.coop uses to share work with others - in a Federation! It is a game changer!!!

Enspiral has been experimenting with many kinds of tech co-ops over the last almost decade, and we've learned a lot along the way. Twelve of us have spent the last year finally pulling together all the stories, tools, and experiences and writing a book, called Better Work Together.

It's a mix of short essays, practical guides, and toolkits.

https://betterworktogether.co

MayFirst/PeopleLink

$25 bux a year for membership that includes use of AMAZING FREE TOOLS.

Live video streaming
Up until now, however, we have been dependent on the biggest corporations to access this service.

Today, MF/PL is launching a beta version of our own member live video streaming service. Do you have an existing MF/PL username and password? Then you are ready to stream!

You can just log in and hit the STREAM button - how easy and cool is that????????????

https://live.mayfirst.org/

Just in from MayFirst --

https://creativecommons.org/2018/04/27/mexican-senate-passes-changes-to-copyright-law-that-would-censor-content-online/

> Apparently, Mexico has now passed a law allowing judges to order the removal any on-line content that the judge deems violate author's rights or copyright. There's now discussion if possible penalties which include
physical seizure and "detention" of equipment and servers.

Remember that these people try out stuff in Mexico before bringing it to the U.S. so this is important for ALL. Take a look at the piece if you can.

A database about people can be misused in four ways. First, the organization that collects the data can misuse the data. Second, rogue employees can misuse the data. Third, unrelated parties can steal the data and misuse it. That happens frequently, too. And fourth, the state can collect the data and do really horrible things with it, like put people in prison camps. Which is what happened famously in World War II in the United States.

http://nymag.com/selectall/2018/04/richard-stallman-rms-on-privacy-data-and-free-software.html