☕️stephen 🌹✪The NYT's @BariWeiss falsely denies her years of attacks on the academic freedom of Arab scholars who criticize Israel https://interc.pt/2oSCnNc by @ggreenwald
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The Supreme Court is going to make government jobs open shops. So maddening.
https://newrepublic.com/minutes/145074/supreme-court-will-get-another-chance-wreck-unions
https://newrepublic.com/minutes/145074/supreme-court-will-get-another-chance-wreck-unions
The Supreme Court will get another chance to wreck unions.
The nation’s highest court will hear Janus v. AFSCME, which challenges the collection of mandatory fees for public sector workers. It’s the second case of its type; another, Freidrichs v. California Teachers Association, resulted in a 4-4 deadlock after the death of Antonin Scalia. In both cases, plaintiffs argue that the mandatory fees violate their First Amendment rights by obligating ...
Unions and Worker Co-ops, Old Allies, Are Joining Forces Again | Labor Notes https://shar.es/1SRAOV
Simon 🌧This #DSA article that is reflective and also self critical about the individualism that is the reason for a lot of its growth recently is very good. http://www.dsausa.org/overcoming_individualism
"it means our growth is more inclined to follow the flows of the capitalist system we’re working within, expanding through the cultural networks that treat politics as a kind of identity to be consumed through social media and training courses."
josefwhat are the foundational tomes of the Boomer Mythology? We Didn't Start the Fire? Forrest Gump?
Eugen RochkoTheresa May wants to ban cryptography https://boingboing.net/2017/06/04/theresa-may-king-canute.html
I'd rather ban Theresa May
Aral BalkanIn a move straight out of Erdoğan's playbook, Theresa May deploys military for domestic policing in UK amid general election.
“There’s a reason you separate military and the police. One fights the enemies of the state, the other serves and protects the people. When the military becomes both, then the enemies of the state tend to become the people.” – Commander William Adama, Battlestar Galactica
https://thelink.is/democracy-or-something-like-it
https://mastodon.ar.al/media/KV-VNHOHsB6MDn3OQlA
I'm still pissed about how accepted surveillance capitalism is. In Germany there is this "payback" system where you identify at the checkout in shops and collect points you can turn into free shit. I'm still saying no every time the cashier asks me if I'm interested. I don't want anyone to datamine my shopping habits.
What is the best way to run linux on a macbook pro? VM or bootcamp? Is there an opensource/GNU VM that runs on MacOS?
What is the best way to run linux on a macbook pro? VM or bootcamp? Is there an opensource/GNU VM that runs on MacOS?