Steve Hammett @bitflips@qoto.org

When the risk is known to be existential, you would think the precautionary principle would apply

Hello Mastodon followers, help please.

If you are a follower, could you kindly "like" this post when you see it so I can gauge how many are seeing/reading my Mastodon posts?

Nominally I have 41k followers on here, but I think that figure is artificially inflated because of how many came over last November and then went away again.

Many thanks.

Banksy nails it

When your home burns, floods, or is destroyed in an extreme climate weather event, when someone in your family dies from heat waves, or when crops fail and people starve—come for these three people: Wael Sawan (Shell CEO), Darren Woods (Exxon CEO), and Patrick Pouyanne (TotalEnergies CEO). They knew what was coming and did it to you anyway. Sue them, shame them, heckle them, despise them. These are choices. They are to blame, not society.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jul/16/big-oil-climate-pledges-extreme-heat-fossil-fuel

Do not fear mistakes.
There are none.
- Miles Davis
Beautiful shot. Birdland
New York, 1958 #DennisStock https://noirbooks.blogspot.com youtu.be/zqNTltOGh5c
#MilesDavis #Jazz #FilmNoir #music #film #noir #jazznoir #photos #histodons #Photomonday #sundayvibes #mondaymotivation #histodon #photoart

🤔As #NATO leaders meet for their 2023 summit in Lithuania, one Tory MP has called for opposition parliamentarians to be kicked out of their party for showing support for the UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (#TPNW).

Soon more than half the world's population will be in countries that back the #NuclearBan.

CND asks why aren’t more MPs giving their support to an international ban that is growing in popularity by the day?

https://cnduk.org/its-time-more-mps-gave-their-support-to-the-global-nuclear-weapons-ban-treaty/

For those who didn't follow the whole story or drama so far about Red Hat/IBM. Here we go:

1. Red hat blog that started storm https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/furthering-evolution-centos-stream

2. Oracle said they will set enterprise Linux free https://www.oracle.com/news/announcement/blog/keep-linux-open-and-free-2023-07-10/

3. SUSE announced RHEL fork https://www.suse.com/news/SUSE-Preserves-Choice-in-Enterprise-Linux/

4. More info from Rocky Linux https://rockylinux.org/news/keeping-open-source-open/

5. Also from Alma Linux https://almalinux.org/blog/our-value-is-our-values/

[/Moscow]

h/t @Marktech

Friends. I’m looking for work. I’m a UX designer/researcher, information architect, and UI designer/developer. I bring over two decades of experience to the table. I’m also an accessibility/usability expert.

If you have a need I’d love to talk with you. If you know folks I’d love a boost. Thank you! 🙌🏻

My website:
https://markwyner.com/

Fresh case study:
https://markwyner.com/my-work/texas-a-and-m/

#UX #Design #Research #IA #InformationArchitecture #UI #UIDesign #OpenToWork #Accessibility #Usability #A11y

Children raised under UK austerity shorter than European peers, study finds - https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/jun/21/children-raised-under-uk-austerity-shorter-than-european-peers-study wow, tories have literally stunted the growth of a generation....

See also: https://www.damninteresting.com/how-miss-shillings-orifice-helped-win-the-war/

A billionaire goes missing while on a vanity mission and the world loose their shit; 78 people die off the coast of Greece whilst fleeing for their lives and the response from those same people is a shrug.

I stopped supporting Spotify with my money because it hands so much of it to Joe Rogan. What about you? (I switched to Deezer.)

https://www.vice.com/en/article/k7zz9z/spotify-rogan-rfk-vaccine-misinformation-policy

'Driscoll is a victim of McCarthyism. The office he holds is now a mere electoral toy to be enjoyed by a favoured faction. And those people in Newbiggin and Ashington and anyone else who might be looking on with half an eye will see nothing but machine politicians serving themselves. This was the swamp out of which Nigel Farage emerged.'

Notes on a scandal: this is how Starmer’s bullies took out Jamie Driscoll – and why it matters | Aditya Chakrabortty | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jun/08/jamie-driscoll-labour-keir-starmer-north-of-tyne-mayor

"The only dangerous minority is the rich"
Pasteups in NYC