Notices by Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al), page 68

@Cdespinosa This should play well with the ex-presidents who play golf demographic.

Doing the EU’s work. (I’m glad someone is.) https://mastodon.social/@noybeu/113129358797876956

@nullagent Anytime :)

@rmattila74 Please explain. If the one-time script is licensed appropriately and the resulting data is also licensed appropriately, I don’t see how that would be the case.

If you mean a proprietary one-time script you run on the data to transform it and then claim the transformed data as propriety data, then yes, by design, it would rule that out.

Let us be clear, an American citizen was killed by a foreign military in a targeted attack. The appropriate action is for President Biden and Vice President Harris to speak with the family directly, and order an independent, transparent investigation into the killing of Aysenur, a volunteer for peace. (3/3)

Aysenur was an international observer who stood in witness of "violent extremist Israeli settlers [whol are uprooting Palestinians from their homes"-words President Biden himself used today. Despite this, President Biden is still calling her killing an accident based only on the Israeli military's story. This is not only insensitive and false, it is complicity in the Israeli military's agenda to take Palestinian land and whitewash the killing of an American. (2/3)

@nullagent Alt text: second screenshot of text: (1/3)

@nullagent Alt text second photo: bouquets of flowers laid on a beach by a photo of Ayşenur Eygi with people standing around.

In the midst of this terrible tragedy, our family has been crossing continents to gather and put our beloved Aysenur to rest. We will always remember Aysenur as the kindhearted, silly, and passionate soul whose face expressed all those qualities. We cannot speak of what happened to those expressions when her temple met a bullet fired by a trained Israeli soldier. (2/2)

@nullagent Alt text, first photo:

Palestinian flags planted in rows on a beach overlooking the sea.

Text on photo: President Biden has said, "If you harm an American, we will respond." On September 9th, the State Department claimed, "when it comes to the protection of our citizens and our personnel and if they are targeted, we of course will take appropriate action." (1/2)

@witchescauldron PS. Not sure our biggest challenge is how to communicate it. It’s how you get, to paraphrase Upton Sinclair, folks to understand it whose salaries depend on their not understanding it.

(Open source has been adopted so widely specifically because it is “open for business.” Anything that isn’t has a much steeper hill to climb under capitalism.)

@witchescauldron Ah, nice. Although I’d be vary of recommending Creative Commons licenses for software (Lawrence Lessig warned me off of them for that use case a long time ago, citing lack of limitation of liability clauses). And I’d be careful to ensure people understand that liberal licenses like MIT, while “open source”, do not protect the freedom of the software. I almost feel like #4freedoms reflects the philosophy better than #4opens (but would clash with FSF’s 4 freedoms)

We need a free data license that stipulates that “if you use this data, the code you use must be released under so-so-and-so license”. Where the license in question is a share-alike free software license like AGPL.

This will protect the freedom of the data and prevent it from being enclosed behind proprietary APIs, etc., by corporate interests.

(And, as such, will not be endorsed/strongly opposed by the “open data” folks for whom “open” means “open to be privatised.”) https://fediscience.org/@petersuber/113142012355378404

@benfell @QasimRashid May I frame this post and put it up on my wall, pls?

So now a second person has been caught trying to assassinate Donald Trump. Both used weapons that Democrats want banned, both are US citizens, both are white men—and the MAGA response is to blame Black immigrants & expand assault weapon access.🤔

But don't worry it's not a cult.

@ilumium @EUCommission I don’t know him personally and have been reading mixed thing coming out from him – Elon Musk told him to go fuck himself, so he must’ve been doing something right, but I’ve also seen him championing greater centralised control, etc. Would you say this is a positive/negative/neutral development for protection of human rights in the EU? (I guess it’s hard to tell without knowing his replacement.)

@jimmy_h @arrrg Yep, hierarchy is the core problem. Saw that all too well while at DiEM25.

https://ar.al/notes/farewell-not-goodbye/

You anger Swifties and shit gets real.

@swachter Just asked @laura and she said most folks still put them on their web sites apparently but maybe also to add a link to ThreadLoop (https://threadloop.app).

@urlyman “Build the world you want to live in.” Been telling people that in nearly every talk for as long as I can remember.

https://ar.al/notes/encouraging-individual-sovereignty-and-a-healthy-commons/