Notices by neil 🍄 (neil@social.coop), page 10

I learned about Jallianwala Bagh massacre today. Pretty fucking horrible, all told. The British Army in Punjab in 1919. Another shameful part of British colonial history. I'd never heard of it before. Not something we are told about in school.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jallianwala_Bagh_massacre

Peterloo mural outside the People's History Museum.

The first victim of the Peterloo massacre was a two year old. One point of the mural is to say, if the same protest was to happen again today, who would the people be and what would they be fighting for?

#Manchester

'In such an extreme environment, art becomes an essential radical act. "Art is our weapon. Culture is a form of resistance."'

Graffiti, vandalism, and protest in Iran.

(to the tune of "she'll be coming round the mountain")

There was a protest against the Tories by the Greater Manchester Coalition of Disabled People.

I enjoyed the singing of

you can stick your work assessment up your arse,
you can stick your work assessment up your arrrse,
you can stick your work assessment,
stick your work assessment,
stick your work assessment up your arse

Hot diggity, I've been listening to SomaFM Cliq Hop station for a while, but not really explored the other stations. Just tuned in to the DEF CON station and damn it's kickin'. Totally happy to be a subscriber to them.

http://somafm.com/defcon/

@datatitian Ooh, nice! Look forward to trying it out.

@adasauce @mood owl looks more specific to uptime monitoring use case but will shoutout hugginn anyway (https://github.com/huginn/huginn) because it's cool.. you could probably use the HTTP Status Agent for this purpose.

@andrioid Oh so true

Nice interview with Ewan MacAskill, about his relationship with Ed Snowden over time, and the breaking of the original story.

https://www.theguardian.com/news/audio/2019/sep/16/edward-snowden-life-after-leaking-podcast

@michel_slm That's exciting, Goldsmiths did the same a few weeks back - could be gaining momentum

Working for the 'experience' (From 8 years ago mind... did Apple Store employees unionize in the end?)

“Money shouldn’t be an issue when you’re employed at Apple.” Instead, managers said, the chance to work at Apple “should be looked at as an experience.” “You can’t live off of experience,” said the worker interviewed

http://inthesetimes.com/working/entry/11557/apple_store_workers_share_why_they_want_to_work_different