An investgation covering 19 US cities -- including Seattle and Portland -- found that CenturyLink, Verizon, AT&T, and EarthLink routinely offer slow internet speeds to poorer neighborhoods for the same price as they offer higher speeds in other areas.

In two-thirds of the cities where there was sufficient data to compare, the worst deals were offered to the least-white neighborhoods, aligning with former redlining boundaries.

#InternetSpeed #racism #redlining

https://www.invw.org/2022/12/21/poor-and-diverse-areas-of-seattle-and-portland-offered-slower-and-more-expensive-internet/

A friend of mine got laid off yesterday. Two days before Christmas. Nice job, jerks.

Well, if your new year plans involve hiring a remote team member or contractor to work with Azure, SharePoint, Office 365, Dotnet or related DevOps work, hit me up. UK based but they're happy to work international hours, esp east coast

Boosts appreciated!

#layoffs #jobhunt #remote #azure

The folks of Pine Ridge Indian Reservation are in real trouble. We can help.

https://rapidcityjournal.com/news/local/thousands-trapped-on-pine-ridge-burn-clothes-for-warmth-in-wake-of-storm/article_94206351-fe7c-5c97-8370-83be18af81a8.html

Friends Of Pine Ridge and First Families Now are providing supplies and heating to the affected families.

If you can afford it, you can donate here:
https://www.1stfamiliesnow.org/donate

And for everyone who boosts this post, I'll add another dollar to my next donation. So, uh, go wild.

This year:
Nobody freezes.
Nobody starves.
Nobody goes it alone.

#JoinIn

Really useful legal guide from the folks at the EFF for people running fediverse servers:

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/12/user-generated-content-and-fediverse-legal-primer

(disclosure: I advised them on this work a bit)

Hello friends! If you follow me on Twitter you know me as @JCB_Journo

I was a staff reporter in Chicago before becoming a freelancer. I do police investigations and live on the ground reporting.

Now, I'm finishing law school at UIC Law and will be taking the bar exam this summer. I plan on working as a public defender.

My work focuses on police accountability, homelessness, and criminal defense. I'd love for you to follow and say hello.

Thank you to @MsKellyMHayes for recommending spore 🙏

We created the account at Mastodon only a week ago and this community here grown to over 32,000.

Thank you for welcoming us here, thank you for all boosts, comments, advice, support and your engagement.

We are still learning and try to find our specific language on this platform. Your feedback is much appreciated.

Remember with us and amplify our voice.

#mastodon #Memorial #NeverForget #history #education #memory #Remember #followerpower #follow #Holocaust #Shoah #community #fediverse