Notices by Michael Downey 🇺🇳 (downey@floss.social), page 2

@anildash

Respectfully disagree:
My life is worth fighting for.
So is yours.

This pandemic was and is preventable.

@danhon @marypcbuk @Meyerweb

#StateOfOpenCon #SOOCon23

I hope my #FreeSoftware & #OpenSource friends attending events in Brussels have safe, pleasant, and rewarding journeys. 💙

I also hope they look around & notice those of us who can't attend this year because there's still a massive global pandemic underway; none of these events put even the most basic WHO-recommended health precautions in place. 😷

#COVIDisStillHere #COVID #WearAMask #Ventilate #Vaccinate #KnowYourStatus

@lizrice

"All" except those who need and deserve basic safety precautions during a public health emergency.

#DisabilityRightsIsDEI #CovidIsStillHere #StateOfOpen #StateOfOpenCon #DEI #OpenSource #Incusion #Diversity

💡 This weekend would be a perfect time to #GiveUpGitHub.

☣️ #GitHub is the #Twitter of software development, creators of the most enticing proprietary walled garden ever made for #FOSS developers.

https://GiveUpGitHub.org

#FreeSoftware #OpenSource #EUOpenSource #FOSDEM

#FOSDEM #OFE #OpenForumEurope #CHAOSScon #StateOfOpen #StateOfOpenCon

I hope my #FreeSoftware & #OpenSource friends attending events in Brussels have safe, pleasant, and rewarding journeys. 💙

I also hope they look around & notice those of us who can't attend this year because there's still a massive global pandemic underway; none of these events put even the most basic WHO-recommended health precautions in place. 😷

#COVIDisStillHere #COVID #WearAMask #Ventilate #Vaccinate #KnowYourStatus

@be Have been to that event (even in Vancouver) in the past a few times (as well as the Europe version a few times) and it was nice but probably wouldn't do it again unless it was convenient for travel. Mostly good for catching up with folks.

I'm focusing on #FOSSY for mid-year: https://fossy.us

@marypcbuk @slothrop

#Privacy isn't extremism, it's one of our #humanRights.

"No one shall be subjected to arbitrary interference with his privacy, family, home or correspondence, nor to attacks upon his honour and reputation. Everyone has the right to the protection of the law against such interference or attacks." -- UDHR Article 12

https://www.un.org/en/about-us/universal-declaration-of-human-rights

stop using discord
pass it on

:boost_ok: :reply_no:

@be

s/Infosec/corporate/

The latter isn't profitable.

💰 Experts: #Amazon benefits from local #poverty through exploitative subcontracts.

⛓️ "Since it opened, around 25 to 30 people from the neighborhood have worked there, all for short periods of time, all subcontracted without benefits. Only one person from the neighborhood was able to secure employment outside of the cleaning and kitchen departments, but his stay was short; his contract was rescinded after only a few months."

#SurveillanceCapitalism #BigTech #labor #AWS

https://restofworld.org/2022/amazon-tijuana-slum-promises/

💡 This weekend would be a perfect time to #GiveUpGitHub.

☣️ #GitHub is the #Twitter of software development, creators of the most enticing proprietary walled garden ever made for #FOSS developers.

https://GiveUpGitHub.org

#FreeSoftware #OpenSource

And not to be outdone:

:microsoft: Here's the story of #Microsoft and their despicable efforts to erase an historic Black cemetery that was in the way of building another #Azure data center.

:opensource: But hey, we're supposed to shut up and be grateful for their posting of trashed projects on #GitHub.

:fists_raised: How about instead let's stop shilling for tax freeloaders in #BigTech and start holding them accountable to be responsible participants in society?

https://www.propublica.org/article/how-authorities-erased-historic-black-cemetery-virginia

:google: #Google paid a city government in #Oregon to unsuccessfully try to keep its data center #water usage secret.

🚨 Today the numbers have been revealed, and the data looks devastating for the beautiful Columbia River Gorge as the company plans even more data centers.

📣 #BigTech continues to hoard billions of our tax money while destroying both our environment and our society. It's time to speak out.

#WaterIsLife

https://www.oregonlive.com/silicon-forest/2022/12/googles-water-use-is-soaring-in-the-dalles-records-show-with-two-more-data-centers-to-come.html

Tom #Lehrer, musician, singer- songwriter, satirist, and mathematician, has put all of his music into the #publicDomain.

He is best known for the pithy and humorous songs that he recorded in the 1950s and 1960s.

🎵 "The Elements" (1959) by Tom Lehrer

https://tomlehrersongs.com/