Brendan Howell

@KnowPresent
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Brendan HowellJun 12, 2020
Show threadLars WirzeniusJun 12, 2020

OpenZFS made the change. Some people on the Internet got upset.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/06/openzfs-removed-master-slave-terminology-from-its-codebase/

OpenZFS removed offensive terminology from its code

The terminology removed was inaccurate, as well as inappropriate.

Brendan HowellJun 11, 2020
Electronic Frontier FoundationJun 10, 2020

.@Amazon has just announced a one-year moratorium on police use of its dangerous "Rekognition" facial recognition tool.

But Amazon's @RING still partners with 1300 law enforcement agencies to put surveillance tech in the hands of unaccountable police. http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/06/amazon-ring-must-end-its-dangerous-partnerships-police

Amazon Ring Must End Its Dangerous Partnerships With Police

Across the United States, people are taking to the street to protest racist police violence, including the tragic police killings of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor. This is a historic moment of reckoning for law enforcement. Technology companies, too, must rethink how the tools they design and...

Brendan HowellJun 10, 2020
Lars WirzeniusJun 10, 2020

Challenge: summarize the software architecture of a program or system in 25 words or less.

Example:

Email: Send letters to others. Messages to recipients on other
systems are stored until forwarded on intermediate servers.

Brendan HowellJun 10, 2020
RyBnJun 10, 2020

RT @aksiomaorg@twitter.com

#moneylab ๐—ง๐—ฎ๐˜… ๐—›๐—ฎ๐˜ƒ๐—ฒ๐—ป๐˜€: ๐—ก๐—ผ๐—ฟ๐—บ๐—ฎ๐—น๐—ถ๐˜‡๐—ฒ๐—ฑ ๐—š๐—ฟ๐—ฎ๐—ป๐—ฑ ๐—ง๐—ต๐—ฒ๐—ณ๐˜
๐Ÿ“Œ https://aksioma.org/moneylab8
w/ @RYBn_@twitter.com + @dmstfctn@twitter.com talking to investigative and data journalist @007_delic@twitter.com
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#aksioma #tacticspractice #kons @kinosiska@twitter.com @INCAmsterdam@twitter.com

๐Ÿฆ๐Ÿ”—: https://twitter.com/aksiomaorg/status/1270627445503414272

MoneyLab #8

TALKS | ROUND TABLES | WORKSHOPS | EXHIBITIONS

MoneyLab#8
Brendan HowellJun 9, 2020
JeffJun 9, 2020

RT @DosFox1@twitter.com

Alright vintage computer people, whatโ€™s the current pride of your collection/hoard?

Currently mine is my Atari ST setup because, well, look at it!

Brendan HowellJun 8, 2020
Show threadLars WirzeniusJun 8, 2020

Aha, friend on IRC pointed me at:

https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-knodel-terminology-01

draft-knodel-terminology-01 - Terminology, Power and Offensive Language

Brendan HowellJun 8, 2020
alcinnzApr 27, 2020

Material Design, Modernism, & design politics: https://www.imaginarycloud.com/blog/material-design-is-a-political-choice/

'Google is a multinational corporation that represents a particular culture and Material Design is just another tentacle of the octopus that monopolizes the Web.

Thatโ€™s why, more than ever, movements like Web-Brutalism that have the boldness and the courage to question those โ€œrational aestheticsโ€, dictated by science and technology, are very relevant.'

Material Design is a political choice

Google's Material Design is a single perspective that's dominating the discourse of what constitutes good design, closing the door on other different aesthetics.

Brendan HowellJun 7, 2020
StrtJun 6, 2020
Just got the Feminist Finance Zine from Amateur Cities & The Institute of Network Cultures and Iโ€™m well impressed!
Brendan HowellJun 7, 2020
dackdelJun 7, 2020
Brendan HowellJun 7, 2020
Show thread///alt3Jun 7, 2020
@KnowPresent Every year - without a pandemic - the Kulturelle Landpartie Wendland is organised. The event is held decentrally in the many small villages in the Wendland - from theatre, to home-made food, political workshops and concerts, everything is there. All visitors ride their bicycles from village to village and enjoy the atmosphere. The "Rundlinge" add to the rural atmosphere. The KLP Wendland still lives from the spirit of the 80s. I was there last year and can only recommend it.