Notices by June (june@kitty.town)

IM NOT KIDDING

I’m really impressed by no man’s sky like what the fuck

Github has a $200,000 contract with ICE that they just renewed.

Welding and tech are two industries that are roughly the same age, yet one has internationally-accepted codes that ensure the work doesn’t endanger human lives, protects its workers’ rights with robust unions and safety practices, and has professional organizations that actually keep workers skills up to date.

Welding also pays more.

You’ve heard of sapiosexual now get ready for tautosexual: only attracted to people they find attractive

So I see we’re at the “you’re damn right I ordered the code red” portion of the program

Hear me out: tech conferences, but instead of masturbating about http you unionize everyone present

Inspirational droplet

Tiny brain: cars

Expanding brain: electric cars

Galaxy brain: no cars

ICE is a domestic terror organization with the backing of an explicitly white supremacist state.

@Laurelai lol if only they could see the stuff that goes in proprietary license terms in big businesses

@Laurelai just as a fyi, my previous employer had an explicit "use it for good, not evil" license for their datasets, and they took it very seriously

@Laurelai has a lovely new license for you software folks to use!

https://github.com/Laurelai/anti-fascist-mit-license/blob/master/LICENSE

Tired: sharing the cost of internet with your neighbors

Wired: forming a neighborhood mesh intranet and then bargaining directly with a backbone provider

@garbados i wanna be / where the people are / showing others / we will not / be ruled

This project to retrofit a house for energy efficiency with pretty low-tech is great. We need more of this at the DIY scale. Getting buildings to regulate themselves and also tackling simple efficiency issues like, you know, insulating walls, using thermal sinks like concrete... so good.

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/02/is-this-harvard-prototype-the-greenest-building-in-america.html

#solarpunk

Cat-like typing detected

#cats

Me: imagine this optimistic thing

Some dude, inevitably: but WHAT ABOUT THIS ONE ASPECT THAT IS A PROBLEM

It's really frustrating how much we could self-host the internet but can't because consumer ISP service is intentionally broken

Look at this awesome treadle press from the Minnesota Center for Book Arts!

Imagine this, but 3d printed at small scale, for DIY printing press operations that aren't reliant on tech like traditional printers. This is so much a part of what #solarpunk is about, for me. Finding what worked before and using it in today's context, not taking for granted that any technical progress is always beneficial.