Notices by Strypey (strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz), page 78

Let's not let the net become a totalitarian #dystopia where everyone lives in fear of their honest opinions being known, and where the only thing digitization has added to the mediasphere is granular surveillance, and increased concentration of media ownership on a global scale. Let's not do that, eh?
https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/12/17/the-toxoplasma-of-rage/

I don't know if #Atruisto is #FreeCode, but it's a cool idea to automate charitable donations as part of the online shopping process. I would use a similar extension that sent some money to free code projects every time I made a purchase online (maybe to the projects whose software is used under the hood of the site I'm buying on?):
https://altruisto.com/

Anyone know of a good article on the history of the Diaspora project?
@deadsuperhero

BTW I curate a list of #FreeCode video hosting software here:
https://www.coactivate.org/projects/permaculture/video-hosting-software

@polychrome @ajroach42 @MasterControlProgram @sean @garrett @dazinism

@polychrome what do you think #PeerTube needs to be ready for serious use?

#Miro was abandoned a long time ago. It's a shame, it was a pioneering project by the #PCF (Participatory Culture Foundation). I've made various attempts to reach out to the devs to find out what happened, with no results. Last release was 5 years ago:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miro_(software)

@ajroach42 @MasterControlProgram @sean @garrett @dazinism

@gendertreyf I wrote an article along similar lines towards the end of the #Occupy camps in #Aotearoa (#NZ):
https://www.coactivate.org/projects/disintermedia/going-forward-occupy-everything

@gendertreyf I wrote an article along similar lines towards the end of the #Occupy cames in #Aotearoa (#NZ):
https://www.coactivate.org/projects/disintermedia/going-forward-occupy-everything

I just signed An Open Letter from the Youth of
Aotearoa supporting the upcoming #ClimateChange strikes by school children:
https://our.actionstation.org.nz/petitions/climate-declaration-from-the-youth-of-aotearoa-2

Dutch historian tells the global elites at Davos to pay their damn taxes, and then goes on #FoxNews and points out that their presenters are all millionaires funded by billionaires. Legend!
https://invidio.us/watch?v=6_nFI2Zb7qE

"Emily Petersen says she won't be reading Dr. Seuss with her students this week, or ever."
https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2019/02/26/695966537/classic-books-are-full-of-problems-why-cant-we-put-them-down

Did reading Dr Suess as a child teach me to be racist? Hell no! It did teach me to critique industrial capitalism (The Lorax), dogmatism (The Zax, Green Eggs and Ham), conformity (The Sneetches), and fear of the "Other" (The Pale Green Pants), which *includes* racism.
Talk about throwing the baby out with the bathwater ...

"No one enters violence for the first time by committing it." - Danielle Sered of #CommonJustice
https://www.commonjustice.org/danielle_sered_staff

Quoted in this video:
https://invidio.us/watch?v=u80OmT2_zyA

.. which also references #AngieSpeaks:
https://abeautifulresistance.org/about-angie-speaks

#RestorativeJustice for activists:
http://rabble.ca/toolkit/workshop/restorative-justice-activists

"You can think about it as a proposed capital gains tax. Or you can think about the current system as a massive subsidy that we've been giving to a portion of our population, that has helped to make some people disproportionately rich."
- Jack Tame, 'Why I think a capital gains tax is "fair"'
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=12206553
#CorporateWelfare #SocialismForTheRich

#NZ is the only country in the #OECD that doesn't have some kind of #CapitalGainsTax. Why do some people think that minimum wages workers, and even beneficiaries, should pay tax on their income, but much wealthier people who make money from passively owning stuff shouldn't? It's a level of entitlement bordering on the delusional.
https://www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/focusonpolitics/audio/2018684730/focus-on-politics-for-1-march-2019

If #NZ property owners facing a #CapitalGainsTax think that it's like penalizing people for their hard work, what the hell do they think income tax is?

@ryayak1460
> Private spaces don't seem like a prerequisite

Without private spaces, you can't have ...
> independent people choosing their own response

... because what people feel comfortable saying in public is almost always a very small subset of what can be said in the safety of a private space, with trusted people:
http://www.paulgraham.com/say.html

@mmin @ricardojmendez

@LWFlouisa would it fit which project?

@wolfcoder you can also make the choice to publish only in journals that allow you to keep your copyright and apply CC licenses, ideally without charging you for the "privilege" (the cheek of it!?!). I get that it's a risky stand for a scholar to take, especially a junior one trying to work towards tenture in #PublishOrPerish institutions. That's why it's great to see UC following the EU institutions that are taking an institution-wide stand against exploitative publishers like #Evilsevier.