There is a fresh thing going around about LinkedIn scanning extensions installed in Chrome/Chromium:
https://browsergate.eu/

The website claims "LinkedIn is Illegally Searching Your Computer", and implies the purpose is to find "religious beliefs, political opinions, disabilities".

tl;dr:
- yes, LinkedIn is scanning through a list of 6k+ extensions on Chrome;
- yes, this is bad;
- but the website is disingenuous in making unnecessarily overblown claims.

🧵

#LinkedIn #BrowserGate #Privacy

Here's the problem: To even turn things back to the way they were 20 years ago would take a President as ruthless and unchallenged as Trump himself. Or a President, House, Senate, SCOTUS and Federal judiciary that would be completely behind that level of reform. Plus a ruthless purging of all the apparatchiks that Trump and his team have ensconced throughout the federal bureaucracy.

Tell me truthfully, do you believe that that will ever happen? Is there any doubt in your mind that if a Democratic Presidential nominee manages to win they will do ANYTHING to roll back the huge surges we've made toward fascism under Presidents from both parties over the last 40 years?

Is there any question that a Democratic president and Congress would just insist that it was time to look forward, not back, and to make sure that we have a nice diverse group of people running ICE, DHS and the border patrol? Maybe a little more diversity among the staff and inmates of the death camps that Trump has built?

If anything, aren't the Democrats likely to pass MORE funding for the military and ICE and DHS? Will they do a single goddamned thing to rein in Israel and it's genocide of Arabs in the Middle East?

If that's all we can expect under the best circumstances from the Democratic Party, why should we settle for that instead of the complete overthrow of the system that the world desperately needs? Under the status quo our extinction due to climate change and the effects of war will just be a little slower. Which hardly seems a kindness.

I await replies.

#Politics #Extinction #Democrats #Fascism

While I continue to look for a new full time position, I would like to offer 1 hour tutoring sessions to help people get started with their first website.

$150 for 1 hour of one-on-one tutoring and assistance with web technologies:

- learn how to use HTML and CSS
- how to buy and set up a custom domain
- ways to get a web page online for free
- what the hell is Git and how to use it

You can book a session on my Calendly. Sessions start 4/13

https://calendly.com/arhodes-codes/tutoring

It matters that shit's rough for #trans people when powerful transphobes are in charge. But it also really matters that the majority of Americans back trans equality.

https://www.scenemag.co.uk/majority-of-americans-back-trans-equality-new-survey-finds/

> support for trans equality is both broad and consistent across demographic groups - including among Republicans.

85% support equal rights and protections for transgender people
89% back equal access to healthcare
79% support workplace protections
83% favour protections for transgender students

First Home Depot supports Trump, and now Lowe's is giving data to Flock/ICE.

https://www.fightforthefuture.org/actions/deflock-lowes/

Post with evidence of Flock ALPRs on Lowe's and Home Depot properties all around Seattle (and anywhere else you want to look up).

https://lgbtqia.space/@alice/116343024579680117

Flock map: https://deflock.org/map

#FuckICE #FuckTrump

Today we're sending the first black person & the first woman to the moon.

But I know that Dr. Mae Jemison was the first black woman to travel into space when she served as a mission specialist aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavour in 1992.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mae_Jemison

Also, Jemison became the first real-life astronaut to appear on #StarTrek
Here's Jemison as Lt. Palmer in #StarTrekTNG episode Second Chances talking to Nichelle Nichols, Star Trek's Lt. Uhura, outside the set.
#Artemis #Artemis2