amcooper @amcooper@mastodon.technology

Model View Culture is back! It's good again! Awoo! https://modelviewculture.com/news/announcing-the-notechforice-war-crimes-human-rights-abuse-tribunal

The UN Special Rapporteur on Torture called Chelsea Manning's imprisonment and daily fines "an open-ended,
progressively severe measure of coercion fulfilling all the constitutive elements of torture
or other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment".

Full letter: https://spcommreports.ohchr.org/TMResultsBase/DownLoadPublicCommunicationFile?gId=24925

#PrivateHealthLIFEhacks actually we can think of a few notes, about prescriptions

get your prescription refills before it's super necessary if you can, so that you don't run low, and so that you have a buffer if you need to argue price with the pharmacist.

also: discuss prices with your pharmacist. ask if that's with insurance, for example. there are some things, like GoodRx here https://www.goodrx.com/ that provide free coupons that drop the price of uninsured medication by a lot, and sometimes, that price drop can literally be more than insurance saves you if you're able to be on private insurance. it's very good to keep an eye on if those or something similar will pop up local to you.

if anyone has a lobsters invite, let me know

What I love about the Web is that we've managed to wire together three languages - HTML, CSS and Javascript - that each have utterly different character-level syntaxes, down to quoting and escaping and reserved symbols, and expect the result to not just coexist in a single file, but interoperate. And then we wrap it in a fourth syntax, HTTP, and sometimes a fifth, PHP, for templating.

You'd think after 30 years we'd have invented something saner. But hello, we're humans, have you met us?

Hey devs this is an important announcement. I will be working with popular leftist youtuber Noncompete to create a peertue instance and I am looking for people to help me out. If you have any experience working with peertube or UI design or want to help shoot me a dm!

We are going to make something that can really have a shot at combating youtube and I think now might be a tipping point for us to make a big push.

I still haven't been able to find work - despite putting in 20-30 resumes and applications a week - and my bank account is dwindling. I'm putting together more options for Patreon, but that won't come together until the end of the month at least, and I gotta eat.

I know we're entering a fraught time of year, but if you can help me out, I'd really appreciate it. 💜

https://paypal.me/joyeusenoelle
https://liberapay.com/joyeusenoelle
https://venmo.com/Noelle-Anthony-2

🐍 💜

Friends - I'd like to follow some more people within the privacy and infosec circle. Any recommendations? Feel free to retoot if needed.

me: working from home gives me the opportunity to focus on tasks free from the the distractions of a noisy office!

brain:

TROUT

TROUT

LET IT ALL OUT

THESE ARE THE FISH I CAN DO WITHOUT

SALMON

I’M TALKING TO YOU

SALMON

me: cool never mind

I have spent the weekend playing with a @wallabagapp GTK & Rust client.
Source code can be found here https://gitlab.gnome.org/bilelmoussaoui/read-it-later

Hi Fediverse 👋

let me sum up the situation around #switchingsocial

Around September 20th, the original (anonymous) author of switching.social shut down its website and all related Social Media accounts, including mastodon 🤔

This info reached me (@tobias ) the next day via my German version @swisode .

As there hasn't been any sign of life since then, I restored the website and created this new account. Right now I'm out of spare time to work on it, but that'll change in a few weeks 🙂

i3Detroit cleared its $50,000 fundraising goal! Because we cleared $50K, the Michigan Economic Development Corporation will give us an additional $50K! We can fit out our doubled floor space with a fire surpressant system, a firewall, and other upgrades.

Philly baristas adding their wages to a spreadsheet to share how different employers treat them. One column includes whether they need to use govt assistance.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1oE2avtfGQRuSI1-gltcIw-AazA3ov3dEoX-sTbPI6Jw/edit?fbclid=IwAR1T3ttg8PBZ2Ppi5w2J2R1UfUtF6h3eYUM6u7u6xIte9qdtHUz6T12unIc#gid=0

I have fulfilled my honda civic duty of sitting in a room for about 4 hours and then being dismissed without having to be part of a jury.

https://gothamist.com/news/amazon-kept-word-doc-all-mean-things-new-yorkers-said-about-them