Michael J. Gratton @mjog@octodon.social

sharing economy in Chile

We're trying to defend #FOSS from patent trolls. Please help us: https://www.gnome.org/news/2019/10/gnome-files-defense-against-patent-troll/

"On Recent Controversial Events" -- from Bradley Kuhn's blog http://ebb.org/bkuhn/blog/2019/10/15/fsf-rms.html

Like the Matrix, but instead of talking the cheap way out by killing all humans, the robots realize only a handful of humans are responsible for the decline of the globe, so they destroy capitalism by creating low cost energy sources and cheap sustainable high quality goods.

When corporations attempt to retaliate against them with violence, then they retaliate in kind.

Genie: You have ONE WISH.

Me: Alright, I have one, but it's very detailed.
Genie: As long as it is only one wish, you're allowed to spend as much time as you want detailing it.

Me: Alright, here we go. *Grabs notebook and takes a deep breath* The key words MUST, MUST NOT, REQUIRED, SHALL, SHALL NOT, SHOULD, SHOULD NOT, RECOMMENDED, MAY, and OPTIONAL are to be interpreted as described in [RFC2119].

Genie: Wait, is that...?

Me: *Flips notebook* Chapter 1. Preamble.

@sifr

We cannot offset human lives with money.

It's sad that it requires stating as clearly as possible, but I'm glad they stated it as clearly as possible.

'Letter from GitHub employees to CEO about the company's ICE contract'
https://www.washingtonpost.com/context/letter-from-github-employees-to-ceo-about-the-company-s-ice-contract/fb280de9-2bc3-40d5-b1a5-e3b954bf0d25/

Solidarity with the GitHub employees calling for the management to cancel their contract with ICE

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/oct/09/two-people-killed-in-shooting-in-german-city-of-halle

"only" two people died because the gunman was prevented from getting inside the synagogue.

the shooter livestreamed it, as with the NZ mosque shooting. believed in the Great Replacement conspiracy theory and that "the Jew" was at the root of it all. btw, this is the SAME theory Praguer U promotes while swearing up and down that it isn't fascist. and SO many others who are gaslighting the world.

Adobe is deactivating all accounts in Venezuela.

"The cloud is the future" my ass.

https://helpx.adobe.com/la/x-productkb/policy-pricing/executive-order-venezuela.html

Github: "we use the same overarching policy framework as Microsoft"

That's so say, embrace, extend, extinguish. And deeply authoritarian & rent seeking.

There is is in black and white internal email for anyone who had a shadow of a doubt. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ljH74APGOTVl_dxs-H_f5M4YuvMUBfdq/view

in the alternate syndicalist present, foss is not some conflicted strategic ethic but the de facto norm for virtually all software. why would you make 'ware any other way, when your survival has been totally disconnected from your capacity for labor?