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Gotta love that Simon quote! While the left keeps rambling about capitalism, none ever really consider modern organisations as the real centers of political power today.
"Suppose that [“a mythical visitor from Mars”] approaches the Earth from space, equipped with a telescope that revels social structures. The firms reveal themselves, say, as solid green areas with faint interior contours marking out divisions and departments. Market transactions show as red lines connecting firms, forming a network in the spaces between them. Within firms (and perhaps even between them) the approaching visitor also sees pale blue lines, the lines of authority connecting bosses with various levels of workers. As our visitors looked more carefully at the scene beneath, it might see one of the green masses divide, as a firm divested itself of one of its divisions. Or it might see one green object gobble up another. At this distance, the departing golden parachutes would probably not be visible.
No matter whether our visitor approached the United States or the Soviet Union, urban China or the European Community, the greater part of the space below it would be within green areas, for almost all of the inhabitants would be employees, hence inside the firm boundaries. Organizations would be the dominant feature of the landscape. A message sent back home, describing the scene, would speak of “large green areas interconnected by red lines.” It would not likely speak of “a network of red lines connecting green spots."
http://crookedtimber.org/2012/05/30/in-soviet-union-optimization-problem-solves-you/
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reminder before canada day that canada was built on indigenous genocide, loves to erase its history of slavery, uses neoliberal "multiculturalism" as a shield to avoid criticism for its horrific record of police brutality (especially that of the RCMP) and to elide the fact that some 70% of the global mining interests pillaging the globe in the name of neocolonial empire are headquartered in toronto
Some cool ideas here for #i3status: Create your own i3/sway status bar with some bash and python
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Meine Untersuchung zeigt: Vor allem Onlineshops sind teilweise weit vom Gesetz entfernt. Bei der Einwilligung wird hart getrickst und bevor man den OK-Button klickt, sollte man wirklich mal genauer nachlesen.
https://rufposten.de/blog/2020/06/22/tracking-bei-shops-und-markenherstellern/
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Someone made a "face depixelizer" that turn a low-res pic of a face into a high-res one and of course the first thing they did is try it out with Doomguy and honestly that's pretty impressive but also hilarious
https://twitter.com/tg_bomze/status/1274098682284163072?s=19
https://twitter.com/tg_bomze/status/1274098682284163072?s=19
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#2323 "Modeling Study"
You've got questions, we've got assumptions.
https://xkcd.com/2323/
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Die Klimabewegung hat ein Rassismusproblem
Ich wurde auf einem Pressefoto mit Luisa Neubauer und anderen weißen Klimaaktivistinnen unsichtbar gemacht. Vor kaum einem halben Jahr ist der ugandischen Klimaaktivistin Vanessa Nakate mehr oder weniger dasselbe passiert. Der Unterschied: Diesmal waren Menschen aus der Klimabewegung verantwortlich. Menschen, die ich Kolleg:innen und Freund:innen nenne.
ein Gastbeitrag von
Tonny Nowshin
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https://www.klimareporter.de/protest/die-klimabewegung-hat-ein-rassismusproblem
#Rassimus https://venera.social/display/85a863ed-195e-eca9-3b06-363544524692
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Auf Einladung unserer Bayreuther Hochschulgruppe gab Andreas Itzchak "Izzy" Rehberg, Autor des inoffiziellen Android-Handbuchs und #FDroid-Maintainer, ein Webinar zur Frage „Wie kann ich Android Privatsphäre-freundlich(er) betreiben?“
Hier ist das Video: https://libre.video/videos/watch/37c7dc78-6058-4e3f-bb47-73f6b9c2c9b3
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@cyberto @maha @senfcall Es gibt noch französische Instanzen ohne Registrierung von Scaleway: https://ensemble-bbb.scaleway.com/
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Seid heute Abend ab 18.30 Uhr dabei via #BigBlueButton
https://digitalcourage.de/hochschulgruppe-bayreuth
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Topographie der Daten: Eine Blackbox für den Nutzer
https://www.kuketz-blog.de/topographie-der-daten-eine-blackbox-fuer-den-nutzer/
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During our next (virtual) XMPP meetup on Wednesday, 18:00 CEST, Daniel Gultsch and me will give an introduction to the technologies used for A/V calls with XMPP. Topics discussed will include Jingle, ICE/STUN/TURN, (S)RTP, and WebRTC. The meetup will take place on Jitsi Meet, see:
https://nl.movim.eu/?node/pubsub.movim.eu/berlin-xmpp-meetup/3e091c00-5e20-4727-a61d-c92a247b106e
We'll also be streaming this meetup live to YouTube, so if you participate, you will be recorded. If you'd prefer to just listen, please use the YouTube stream:
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Please send us a few mentions, favs, boots to any toot, DMs or other stuff so we can test our support app with real data. Thank you!
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Hello Mastodon!
We're the devs working on uberspace.de.
Our presence on mastodon isn't quite ready for prime time yet, but the dev team already found a home.
Follow us for under-the-hood quirks, hopefully useful tips about python/django and packaging, as well as occasional friendly rants about qmail or other software. If you're lucky you might also get to see a sneak peek or three.
boots welcome :)
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Alphaphase für Träcktor - den DSGVO-Beschwerde-Generator gegen Tracking-Einbindungen
Mehr Infos zum Tool und Diskussionsmöglichkeit gibt es hier: https://forum.kuketz-blog.de/viewtopic.php?p=65596#p65596
An important talk by Kavita Krishnan on police violence both in the US and India. Her focus on India unravels the atrocities faced by Kashmiris, Dalits and minorities. She also speaks of the training of Indian and American police officers in the manner of Israeli forces and their subjugation of the Palestinians.
https://p.eertu.be/videos/watch/fc7c4bb2-557a-4ebc-94e2-e25f94b97e6d
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Solidarity banners from rural central #France #Creuse #BLACK_LIVE_MATTERS #ICantBreathe #WithLoveFromCreuse
MG Tarnac - https://twitter.com/mgtarnac/status/1267576868468920323
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#Lemmy is having an AMA on #reddit /r/linux forum in 30 minutes
https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/guklhr/we_are_the_devs_behind_lemmy_an_open_source/
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**Opinion: George Floyd killing opens racism wounds for European blacks**
""There's no relief for me that I live in Germany," writes DW's Chiponda Chimbelu, as he reflects on the European reaction to the killing of George Floyd. It's a moment for Europe to reflect on its own racism, he adds."
Khrys@mamot.fr - Minnesota is now using contact tracing to track protestors, as demonstrations escalate
"Contact tracing has previously been used as part of a comprehensive coronavirus response.
https://bgr.com/2020/05/30/minnesota-protest-contact-tracing-used-to-track-demonstrators/
