Freedom=Growing Each Other @freeschool@qoto.org

It's something I'll decide with the other mods and admins, but I'll ask the general populous anyway:

Should we sign the #FediPact?
https://fedipact.online

Or in other words, should we block all instances that gather data and send it to #Meta (Facebook, Instagram) or should we embrace them?

Please also answer whether you are on one of the #FediverseFoundation instances:
climatejustice.social
climatejustice.rocks
climatejustice.global
climatejustice.photos
climatescience.es
mtg.garden
mental.camp
indiepop.band
fedi.at
kaernten.space
burgenland.space
wien.rocks

#poll #facebook #instagram #SurveillanceCapitalism

FEDIAUCTION!!!!!!

I am auctioning off this quilt (story of it in next comment). All funds raised will go to Stacey Abrahms Fair Fight to fight voter suppression and protect democracy. Winner will have the quilt shipped to them US priority mail.

How to participate:
1. Reply to THIS post ONLY with your bid.
2. Any bids as replies to replies to this Post might not get seen.
3. U.S. only (because shipping costs are INCREDIBLY HIGH overseas).

Contest runs June to June 30.

"We need more of Richard Stallman, not less"

Or why RMS has been right since 40 years and the problem is that we could not hear him.

https://ploum.net/2023-06-19-more-rms.html

Free Software: "let's build free stuff for each other"

Open Source: "let's attract unpaid volunteers to write code we can extract value from"

Meta joining Fedi: "let's reduce our cost by letting unpaid volunteers deal with the distribution load of a platform our users dominate"

There's a pattern here, folks.

“One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.”
— Carl Sagan

Republicans don’t want convicts to vote but they’re okay with them being president.

I think this nails it. 😳

Newly added to the Trade-Free Directory:

fediverse.observer

Fediverse Observer checks all servers in the fediverse and gives you an easy way to find a home using a map or list

#fediverse-server-overview

More here:

https://www.directory.trade-free.org/goods-services/fediverse-observer/

the #threadiverse is gonna hit 200k in the next 24 hours!

"It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives its most distinctive characteristic."

James Weldon Johnson was born #OTD in 1871. Johnson established his reputation as a writer, and was known during the Harlem Renaissance for his poems, novel, and anthologies collecting both poems and spirituals of black culture. via @Wikipedia

Books by James Weldon Johnson at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/3793

#books #literature

"Reddit represents one of the largest data sets of just human beings talking about interesting things," Huffman said. "We are not in the business of giving that away for free."

You and me, we're just data sets. Years of interaction with fellow human beings, building community, sharing insight and creativity…it’s all just data. Data to be mined and monetized.

Huffman's not mad Reddit was scraped for a chatbot. He's mad he wasn't paid for the privilege. It's his data, you see. His. Not yours.

Computers are like onions. Everything is layers built on layers, and every layer makes you cry. #sysadmin

@leo @FourOh-LLC Yes, a whole system comparison of energy sources starts with comparing raw material extraction, transportation, processing, use, waste products, & effect on humans. I'm sure that analysis exists for electric vs fossil somewhere. I agree just taking parts of the process to compare is misleading. (I happen to be familiar with such analysis comparing coal vs. nuclear, & nuclear wins every time vs coal, even considering the effect on humans. That's how bad coal is. )

What better distills the Trump approach to politics than making a big promise in front of cameras and then quietly not following through? https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/06/16/trump-unkept-promises-analysis/?itid=ap_philipbump

We moved from OnlyOffice to Collabora (Libreoffice) for our TROM Files. It is nicer, more simple, no BS integrations with 3rd parties like google and the like. No worries, there is compatibility between the files created with OnlyOffice and Collabora. Read more about the Nextcloud Collabora integration here nextcloud.com/office#nextcloud…

And join our TROM Files here files.trom.tf

You get 5GB of space and we can increase up to 20GB if you need more.

#tromlive

As parents, it's critical to remember that we're not just raising children. Our parenting efforts have to be focused, ultimately, on raising up Godly Adults.

Jonathan Brush, President of Unbound, joins Yvette Hampton to talk about how teaching our kids to ask the right questions, do REAL things, understand God, ourselves, and others, live well, and thrive.

Watch or listen at https://podcast.schoolhouserocked.com/e/raising-adults-who-thrive-jonathan-brush-part-3/

#podcast #parenting #education #homeschool

15 signs that you might be in an abusive relationship:

You may be in an abusive relationship if they:

1/ Stop you seeing friends and family
2/ Won't let you go out without permission
3/ Tell you what to wear
4/ Monitor your phone or emails
5/ Control the finances or won't let you work
6/ Control what you read, watch and say
7/ Monitor everything you do
8/ Punish you for breaking the rules, but the rules keep changing
9/ Tell you it's for your own good and that they know better

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