Retired judge appointed to electoral boundary panel donated to UCP
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/judge-electoral-boundary-ucp-donations-9.7221110?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Edmonton @edmonton-cbcnews

The Bees don’t care that it’s a weed. https://britthub.co.uk/the-bees-dont-care-that-its-a-weed/

My garden is full of happy bees. No such thing as a weed.

#Art
#illustration #plants #sketchnotes #wildflowers #creativeToots #artistsOnMastodon

Myspace was THE social media site... until Fox News' parent company bought it in 2005.

Hotmail was THE online email site... until Microsoft bought it in 1998.

Skype was THE video calling platform... until Microsoft bought it in 2011.

Twitter was THE short form social media site... until Elon Musk bought it in 2022.

There's a pattern here. Microsoft bought github in 2018, dice.com bought sourceforge in 2012...

Paragon's software is capable of remotely breaking into phones and accessing messages from encrypted messaging apps. Our lawsuit aims to pry records about it from ICE.

https://www.404media.co/we-sued-ice-to-get-its-spyware-contract-the-agency-is-redacting-essentially-everything/

Disobedience, in the eyes of any one who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion.
-- Oscar Wilde

#anarchism #quote #bot

RE: https://mastodon.social/@Pikapods/116668660522587387

😮 I don’t use the software suite formerly known as Office, but this “scheduled remote degradation” is very concerning.

In a parallel move, the software suite formerly known as as iWork was updated to include all manner of AI and subscription-based features that you can’t turn off. I thought this wouldn’t affect me (I refuse to upgrade), except that my current apps hound me every day: “hey there’s a new version! Time to upgrade bro! Click the big blue button!” Every day! But what if at some point they decide the nags aren’t enough, and they just kill my current tools without my consent?

I seriously am out of patience for this #enshittification trend. Whenever my current Mac dies, I’m switching over to #Linux #Mint.

Grrr didn’t mean to start Sunday on such a grumpy note.

https://www.portlandmercury.com/news/portland-city-council-adopts-new-law-enforcement-mask-ban-id-requirements/

In addition to prohibiting all police from wearing facial coverings and requiring them to have visible identification, the legislation—which Kanal began crafting last September—also instructs city police officers to verify the identity of other law enforcement officers if it’s unclear whether someone is a sworn agent or what agency they work for. The new ordinance also requires local police to document those encounters, as a tool for logging how frequently other law enforcement agencies aren’t cooperating with local rules, and to track where other agencies are operating.

#pdx #Portland #oregon #orpol #uspol #ice #maga #fascism #ppb #ppa #portlandpolice