Pomona.

Again.

#losangeles #BrownMastodon #latinomastodon
https://abc7.com/post/martin-majin-taken-federal-agents-outside-pomona-business-same-day-home-depot-raid-video-shows/16233144/
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Fighting words from @molly0xfff's opening talk at the Fediverse House at SXSW 2025:

“We're facing an existential threat. We need a web that serves people not profit, a web built on protocols, not platforms…It's being built right now by people like you in communities like this one.”

Thank you, developers and denizens of the open social web.🙏🏼

https://flipboard.video/w/p7cECAUgThGrfQo9Cqvb8r

#OpenSocial #OpenSocialWeb #ProtocolsNotPlatforms #MollyWhite #DigitalSovereignty #ActivityPub #Fediverse #FediverseHouse #SXSW

Are we really this country? Is this who we want to be? Because I don’t want to be a country that does this.

——

“The parties included a 7-year-old boy, wearing a shirt emblazoned with a pizza cartoon, who spun a toy windmill while the judge spoke. There was an 8-year-old girl and her 4-year-old sister, in a tie-dye shirt, who squeezed a pink plushy toy and stuffed it into her sleeve.”

Gothamist: https://gothamist.com/news/4-year-old-migrant-girl-other-kids-go-to-court-in-nyc-with-no-lawyer-the-cruelty-is-apparent

Just like Apple and Costco, Levi Strauss & Co. was targeted by conservative think tank the National Center for Public Policy Research to drop its DEI programs. And just like those other companies, Levi's said no — more than 99% of shareholders voted against the proposal, a position also taken by the company's board. Michelle Gass, president and chief executive officer of Levi’s, told WWD earlier this year: “We’ve been committed to diversity and inclusion for literally decades, and it’s the core to who we are. So our commitment remains unchanged. We will do what’s right for our people, for our business. And at the end of the day, building a diverse and inclusive workplace helps us deliver stronger results.” Here's more.

https://flip.it/ThQl3l

#DEI #DiversityEquityInclusion #Fashion #Lifestyle #Levis #Costco

I have some resources to distribute in my community, but I'm not very well connected here, so I'm not sure where to start.

So I stopped by the library and had a quick chat with the librarian, who was amazingly helpful!

This is just a librarian appreciation post. All hail librarians!

I’m urgently looking for work 🚨
Engineering manager or staff programmer

20 years ruby/rails
30 years of web dev/design
5+ years of eng mgmt

I’m based in Portland, Oregon
Open to local or remote work

#GetFediHired

https://linkedin.com/in/veganstraightedge

Hot off the presses: DOGE Worker's Code Supports NLRB Whistleblower

Yes, I turned another "oh btw" update here into a story. Please read/RT (thx!). Here's the top bit:

"A whistleblower at the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) alleged last week that denizens of Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) siphoned gigabytes of data from the agency's sensitive case files in early March. The whistleblower said accounts created for DOGE at the NLRB downloaded three code repositories from GitHub. Further investigation into one of those code bundles shows it is remarkably similar to a program published in January 2025 by Marko Elez, a 25-year-old DOGE employee who has worked at a number of Musk's companies."

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2025/04/doge-workers-code-supports-nlrb-whistleblower/