l03s @l03s@post.lurk.org
I'm a software artist and writer. My home is https://bleu255.com/~marloes
This might be a stretch, but anyone on here as an employee inside Microsoft, Google, and/or Amazon that are working inside to petition them to break their relationship with ICE? DM me as I know someone working on a story about it and would like to connect you #TechWorkers #Organizing
General strike on Amazon in the EU?
https://www.transnational-strike.info/2018/05/17/call-to-all-amazon-workers-in-europe-in-july-a-european-general-strike/
"It is for these reasons that we are promoting the idea of a European general strike in the second week of July. That is when Prime Day is, a day during which Amazon aims to sell millions of products in what is one of its most important days of sales. The idea is that if no concessions to the workers are made, that day will not take place."
General Strike on Amazon EU:
Global strike! No one go to work for megacorporations- except co-ops, democratized workplaces, and indie companies run out of rusting shipping containers and monocrystalline panels! All you uberdriving machine learning Ph. Ds living in cardboard boxes, artschool dropouts shilling brands on Birdsite with a gofundme for Ramen dinner, taskrabbiting coders underpaid to automate your own job away -- DEMAND TO BE PAID WHAT YOU'RE WORTH!
(If you can, don't hurt yourself!)
PZI #XPUB Special Issue 6
XPPL / Interfacing the Law
Workshop on distributed book catalogue and network library + discussion on shadow/extra-legal side of access to knowledge and research practices.
June 14, Leeszaal #Rotterdam West
more info: https://issue.xpub.nl/06/
The $63 billion takeover of Monsanto by Bayer prompted a thorny branding question: what to call the new company? The company's management has announced its decision: the new company will be called "Bayer," despite the name's longtime association with Nazi slave labor camps, fatal human subjects experiments conducted on prisoners supplied by the Nazis, and complicity in the production of Zyklon B, the lethal poison used in concentration camp gas-chambers.[...]
https://boingboing.net/2018/06/05/roundup-ready.html
Yesterday I was part of a panel at Disruption Network Lab "TARGETED, PROFILED & INFLUENCED: On Cambridge Analytica and Beyond". I sneaked in tons of What Remains game snippets. If you're in Berlin, this afternoon the program continues with "UNCOVERING CORRUPTION: On Strategic Harassment, Mexican Trolls and Election Manipulation".
These stories made a huge impression on me and are partly responsible for my interest in solar power, cycle touring, mobile computing and DIY.
After solar powered UMPCs with wireless networking starting to become closer to consumer-grade electronics, he moved on to pedal and wind powered boats. https://microship.com/
Sun Ra’s Full Lecture & Reading List From His 1971 UC Berkeley Course, "The Black Man in the Cosmos" https://goo.gl/KtCIfX https://t.co/MyjZfl9WSC
An invitation for anyone nearby Rotterdam: Algo-Rhythms #2 a creative coding and algorithmic improvisation on May 31st, more details: https://worm.org/production/algo-rhythms/
RT @n_srnck@twitter.com
Amazon Web Services calling the cloud a democratisation of AI is like your landlord calling rent a democratisation of housing
HATE NEWS conference on May 25-26, 2018 @Studio 1, Kunstquartier Bethanien Investigating online opinion manipulation, strategic hate speech and misinformation – and their impact on civil rights.
Given how important the WebFinger protocol is to Mastodon, I got curious about where this use of the word "finger" comes from. Fortunately somebody in 1990 thought to record the story of events from 1971, so that 47 years later we can discover what happened: https://groups.google.com/groups?selm=1990Feb20.023931.13825@cs.rochester.edu
Join us on the 12th of May for the #varia open day! There will be free coffee, tea and software 💥
*gasp* Facebook weakened WhatsApp encryption so they could open it up for businesses by selling user data and making a profit
Oh wait, no. That’s not surprising at all
the program for AMRO is out!
*this post is sponsored by Leberkas Pepi*
