Thiemo Kreuz

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Open source software developer with a deep passion for clean code and free knowledge at @wikimediaDE. Software archeologist. Feminist. Vaccinated. Still wearing a mask. Fighting for climate justice and a world without cars.
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LocationBerlin, Germany
Websitehttp://thiemokreuz.de
Undocumented immigrants will not all disappear under the incoming administration. They will just go further underground, where employers will be better able to subject them to illegal and immoral working conditions. The raids and deportations will be surgical, meant to inspire fear, but allow bosses to steal even more wages and exploit more effectively.
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Stellt euch vor, ihr werdet Polizist, um Gangster und andere böse Buben zu fangen, und stattdessen müsst ihr jetzt zwischen vier und fünf Uhr morgens in Freilassing einer tierisch übernächtigten Journalistin in einem Nachtzug mit der Taschenlampe ins Gesicht leuchten, um zu sehen, ob sie weiß genug ist, um ohne Ausweiskontrolle die österreichisch-deutsche Grenze zu übertreten.

Articles that talk about the gender wage gap, and don't mention race? Are trash. This one mentions race but it's buried. So, not trash! But could be better.

Title:
What’s behind the widening gender wage gap in the US?

Early paragraphs:
Economists trying to make sense of the data say it captures a complicated moment...

Later paragraphs:
For Black women and Asian women, the wage gap widened, and for white women, it stayed the same.

Latinas working full time surged

https://apnews.com/article/gender-wage-gap-women-pay-latina-work-dce2d7cf2c004dfe5322fffaf5fdbbcf

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What's behind the widening gender wage gap?

The first widening of the gender wage in 20 years is the latest indication that many women have paid a price for leaving the workforce at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, either because they lost their jobs or because they quit because of caretaking responsibilities. But the finding in a recent Census Bureau report captures a complicated moment for women in the post-pandemic recovery, and not all the news is bad. Wages are growing for all workers, just much faster for men. And the widening of the wage gap is due in large part because of a surge in Latina women joining the full-time workforce.

AP News

If you're wondering how things are going with the famous #DRM'd Polish trains, well, their manufacturer – #Newag – sued the hackers who had un-blocked them:
https://rys.io/en/175.html

But weirdly, after months of implying and suggesting that the locking code was added to the software by the hackers themselves, in the lawsuit the company now insists they did not in fact modify the software installed on the trains.

Why? Because that would not mesh well with the copyright infringement claim. 🤡

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Newag admits: Dragon Sector hackers did not modify software in Impuls

Wednesday, August 28th, marked the beginning of the copyright infringement lawsuit filed by the Polish train manufacturer Newag against train maintenance yard Serwis Pojazdow Szynowych and experts fro

Songs on the Security of Networks

If you want to know what widespread "AI" adoption will lead to look no further than the Fast Fashion industry.

A massively wasteful way of producing very low quality objects on the back of marginalized people for a few big corporations to profit off of.

I mean, if an EU citizen’s initiative to tax the rich cannot get a paltry 1 million signatures (less than one quarter of one percent of the population), I guess we really must deserve this bullshit system.

You still have five days, sign this ffs:

https://eci.ec.europa.eu/038/public/#/screen/home

#eu #TaxTheRich #billionaires #fascism #ecocide

Wealth is hypervisible. Poverty is easy to hide.

Just because you see big fancy houses and cars and so on everywhere you go doesn't mean that everyone has more money than you and is able to afford those things. It's just that those things take up a ton of public space. They are designed, used and displayed in such a way that everyone gets to see what a nice big fancy car/house/whatever the owner has.

Poverty, on the other hand, is easily swept under the rug. A poor person doesn't have a car that they take up space with. Their life takes place behind the small windows of a small apartment. They're always in a hurry, to and from work, running errands, doing chores. They don't have the time or the money to go to a restaurant or a club and enjoy life there. You don't get to see the poverty unless you look really hard.

But the picture you get from walking around in the city and looking at people, cars and houses is distorted. Wealth takes up all the space. Poverty takes up very little. And yet, most people around you are struggling from paycheck to paycheck, just like you are.

Quite some years ago (2006-08), we brought the #OLPC AKA the 100$ laptop to Ethiopia as pilot. A surprising thing happened. The laptops were often without battery power in the morning. A thing that wasn’t anticipated. It had two reasons. One was the keyboard LED (it was removed in later series). It was used by the parents to have a light at home. The other was a bigger surprise. The parents used the mesh networking to discuss market prices for their produce. Fascinating. 1/8

1990er: Intel Prozessor rechnet in Ausnahmefall falsch.
Und alle so waaaahhhhhhhhhh Computer müssen RICHTIG rechnen.

2024: Computer „denkt“ und erzählt zu 40% Scheiße.
Und alle so yeahhhhhhhh