Mastodawn

🚀 I've just opened 2 new roles in my department at the Open Home Foundation to work full-time on #HomeAssistant!

🖥️ Frontend Engineer
🔐 Security Engineer

Fully remote. Full-time. #OpenSource every day.

Best job in the world. Working on open source for a non-profit, building the biggest smart home platform on the planet. It changed my life; your chance to change yours.

Boosts appreciated! 🙏

🔗 https://www.openhomefoundation.org/jobs

#SmartHome #Hiring #RemoteWork #FOSS #InfoSec
https://www.openhomefoundation.org/jobs

Open Home Foundation Jobs

mark simpkins Feb 28

I have family in Iran. My children are half Iranian and whilst I will never walk there again with my beautiful wife, I hope that someday they see properly her home. I can’t even think clearly right now.

mark simpkins Feb 21

Ika Makimaki Feb 20

Little One has friends with two mums, two dads, a single mum, an adopted family, divorced parents and knows both non binary people and a friendly adult who has transitioned their gender while we knew them.

We've been to drag queen story times, which Little One enjoys, because dressing up and telling stories and singing is Fun.

None of that has been confusing or an issue at all.

You know what this child finds confusing and upsetting?
That there are people with no home, sleeping in the streets. With nothing to eat.
That makes no sense to them. And rightly so, because it has no justification.

#parenting #socialJustice

Without understanding how race, gender, class, and the law intersect, we are severely limited in our ability to achieve gender equity. Bad actors that understand very well how these concepts intersect, will use that knowledge to win the long game.

This is why racists are banning the teaching and study of this intersectionality.

Prof. Kimberlé Crenshaw coined the term intersectionality. Read her stuff.

Arm yourself with the forbidden knowledge! 👍🏿
https://youtu.be/XfBzTTFLNz4

Scholar Kimberlé Crenshaw on the new 'segregation' of knowledge

YouTube

mark simpkins Feb 12

It is really disappointing that there are a whole number of Chinese and Iranian films that I cannot get access to which for a while (90s - 00s) were the art house rage. Mind you I can’t even watch some Greenaway or Jarman films when I want to so :-/

mark simpkins Feb 8

Went to watch ‘Nouvelle Vague’ at the Mayfair Curzon today, quite a few Waymo cars driving around the area (are they planning on only operating in the Mayfair backstreets, darlink we need a taxi from Berkeley sq to selfridges …

mark simpkins Feb 5

Too any of you who previously subscribed to LOT (yes I have the tattoo gun still) … have you seen the latest email about reviving this from vadik??

mark simpkins Jan 22

Antanicus Jan 22

"As US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents wreak havoc on American communities, big tech companies have been making themselves indispensable to the increasingly tyrannical state. Among them is Amazon subsidiary Ring, the company behind those AI doorbell cameras that have exploded in popularity over the last few years. Back in October, Ring announced that its devices would soon be looped into a network of Flock AI surveillance cameras"

I hate to be the "we told you" guy, but holy fuck, we DID tell you.

https://futurism.com/future-society/amazon-ring-cameras-ice

Activists Say Ring Cameras Are Being Used by ICE

Online activists are telling owners of Ring Doorbell cameras that it's time to get rid of their devices, which can be used by ICE.

Futurism

mark simpkins Jan 20

Adam Greenfield Jan 20

RE: https://social.coop/@adamgreenfield/115923122846195007

This is going to be a good time – we’re going to talk about standing structures and infrastructures of mutual aid and care, and whether (and how) the effort to organize them might catalyze further assertions of popular self-determination over space. I look forward to seeing you on the Zoom!

mark simpkins Jan 12

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