Brendan Howell

@KnowPresent
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@alexlaw This is a really good point and I really worry about that. Having a whole class of people trained in violent techniques suddenly out of work and motivated largely by shame and pride is a recipe for disaster. Even if it's hard, we need to find a path to redemption and a sense of self-worth not based on relative power.
OpenZFS removed offensive terminology from its code

The terminology removed was inaccurate, as well as inappropriate.

@danburzo I'm periodically tempted to try some client side JS hyphenation stuffยน but I usually just sigh and accept that the web ain't LaTeX.

1. https://github.com/mnater/Hyphenopoly

GitHub - mnater/Hyphenopoly: Hyphenation for node and Polyfill for client-side hyphenation.

Hyphenation for node and Polyfill for client-side hyphenation. - mnater/Hyphenopoly

GitHub

.@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...

@n8 Yeah some kind of astroturfing from lobbyists. You can't win against "Big Pony".

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.

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MoneyLab #8

TALKS | ROUND TABLES | WORKSHOPS | EXHIBITIONS

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@n8 Yes. I'm still disappointed that the telegraph has not yet brought the promised new era of peace and prosperity for all.

@rusty It's not my field but I really liked Kieran Egan's "Educated Mind"ยน. He frames orality and literacy as relating to "mythic" and "romantic" forms of understanding. The book has a lot of good references to prior / deeper research.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Educated_Mind

The Educated Mind - Wikipedia

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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!