Jose Varela @escapist@unshaped.space

FYI, I'm now running the Deep-sea Mining Observer. The only trade journal dedicated to tracking the progress of the deep-sea mining industry.

DSMObserver.com

Our latest Annual Report is just the tip of the iceberg of our work, but it exemplifies the values we champion: freedom, privacy, and innovation.
https://www.eff.org/files/annual-report/2017/index.html source: https://twitter.com/eff/status/1058735556757078018

Building with learning: Containers and #el30. My reflections on Week 2 of @Downes #cmooc #el30 #blogpost

It's about using fancy code-techie things in ways to help facilitate learning, and importantly, how I got my head around it ;)

The most important part of the post is the last few lines, so if you don't feel like reading the rest, skip to the end. :)

wp.me/p4Ng5z-19u

:D

https://www.engadget.com/2018/11/02/dear-tech-stop-doing-business-with-nazis/

Signs Your Exorcist May Not Be Legit

1. Their sole piece of equipment they call a "Ghostbustin' stick," which you suspect is a storm-blown tree limb from your neighbor's lawn.

2. They claim they learned how to exorcise "from the streets" and so you ask "Which streets?" but when you go to those named streets, they still look pretty haunted actually.

3. When asked their favorite thing about being an exorcist, they say "Working in a field that has no centralized licensing authority."

One hella year 2018 has been!
In 4 days this election insanity and filthy back-biting ads will be over (brief as that will be, 2020 approacheth)

Get ready to have ads jammed in your face about how spending shitloads of cash you don't have.. on people who dgaf about you and treat you like a doormat..
will make your season bright.

You're just making the rich... richer. Stuff will never make any of us happy.
Only LOVE can do that.
Doesn't cost a thing.
#VoteYourValues
#GrabYourWallet

I am grateful for the time I get to have each of you in my life. I cherish the you that you share with me. I hope today sees you shine as brightly as you ever have and then some.

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It me, your favourite local data witch

alright, if I want simple-but-awesome autocomplete in Neovim for a variety of languages, what plugin(s) do y'all like? Deoplete[1]?

[1] https://github.com/Shougo/deoplete.nvim#requirements

The basic idea of "information fiduciaries": when you give your personal info to online companies to get a service, they should have a duty to exercise loyalty and care in how they use it. This rule should support other data privacy protections. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/10/information-fiduciaries-must-protect-your-data-privacy source: https://twitter.com/eff/status/1058445481703964672

Fantastic news https://thinkprogress.org/wisconsin-transgender-women-health-care-court-victory-e5ca758264b4/

I was thinking of buying my mother a pistachio tree for Christmas, but it turns out you need a male and female tree to get nuts. (I realise that sounds school-child hilarious) and there are two problems there... they are pretty expensive, and I'm not sure I can tie two trees to a rental car and drive halfway across a state like that.

I have done stranger things, so it might happen.

One of the very first things humans learn when they are born is to alert someone when they aren't okay. Then a bunch of people tell you not to and give you whole layers of shame about what you can need, when you can need it, and how you are allowed to ask, and who is allowed to ask, etc., etc.

Fuck all that. We literally exist to help each other or else we wouldn't keep hanging out with each other and figuring out new ways to connect.

Ask for help when you need it because it's fucking normal.

Have a site that's still running without HTTPS? Get your certificate today: https://certbot.eff.org/ source: https://twitter.com/eff/status/1058464175897202688

Recently the Supreme Court declined to hear a case regarding the disenfranchisement of Native American voters by a voter ID law passed in ND requiring proof of an address to vote, effectively endorsing a lower court's ruling that the claimed concern about voter fraud overrode that possibility. Now a new lawsuit has been launched, based on folks with addresses being told they're invalid, or being assigned conflicting addresses.

https://psmag.com/social-justice/native-americans-are-suing-north-dakota-over-voter-suppression

Patent troll Shipping & Transit LLC filed more than 500 lawsuits against companies just for using basic package-tracking technology. That's some real #CreepyIP, @uspto. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/10/stupid-patent-month-how-34-patents-worth-1-led-hundreds-lawsuits source: https://twitter.com/eff/status/1058473056115388416

every time i come home there's a new thing happening on mastodon and it almost never makes a single fucking ounce of sense

25% grounding your arguments in previous works
75% positioning yourself within your field
15% showing off the books you've read
5% boosting your friends