This America day.
Help MMIW
Find your local rez and ask what supplies they need.
Browse Etsy for indigenous crafters and buy from them. Do this for all jewelry and shit from now on. They make great pieces.
Push for Duolingo to add more indigenous languages to preserve dying languages.
Use your white privilege to raise a fuss that the tribes are still treated like shit and expected to be grateful.
u.s. independence day
I'm also celebrating by *not* blowing up a piece of it, and by trying to find out how to best help the Navajo Nation, whose people are among the group of U.S. citizens hardest hit and most devastated by the COVID-19 pandemic.
news, pol, covid-19 face masks
NBC News, the Today Show: "New Research Identifies Which Masks Are Most Effective Against Coronavirus": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Kpoz2-vsj4 (2:59)
New research shows SUCK IT UP AND WEAR YOUR DAMN MASK!
modern web rant
Yes, I just experienced a completely blank page while my browser was:
> Waiting for cloud.typography.com...
to time out.
And of course, once it did finally time out, the excuse of a page instantly appeared as a misaligned, completely unreadable mess overlaid on other misaligned & completely unreadable messes.
modern web rant
Hey, fancy Web CMS creators!
Did you know that you can ABSOLUTELY GUARANTEE your shortest, smallest, & simplest pages take OVER 180 SECONDS to load?
All you have to do is rely on 3rd-party cloud services to REINVENT EVERYTHING under the mistaken belief that they have better than 2-nines uptime or that they will outlive your CMS & won't sunset tomorrow!
IT'S THAT EASY TO SCREW EVERYONE TODAY!
(This message brought to you by the foundation to yeet techbros.)
So far, this is the longest video I've found spending the most time showing off GEOS 2.x for the Apple II-series computers.
"A GEOS for Apple II bemutatása": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=McB7NF6UC94 (11:42)
oh no! "Do not use popcorn button.": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTjRpmZm9ms (1:15)
"What’s The Deal With Snap Packages?": https://hackaday.com/2020/06/24/whats-the-deal-with-snap-packages/
Ubuntu's new package manager seems like a nice potential with insurmountable design flaws.
OMG this art. It's layers. of paper. flail
https://steampunktendencies.com/artist-patrick-cabral-layers-incised-paper-with-decorative-motifs-to-create-dazzling-sculptural-portraits-of-wildlife/
#Art #PaperCrafting
don't you just love it when your favorite app stops being developed because of the goog™ https://web.archive.org/web/20200307171651/https://tinytask.net/
uspol, facial recognition, Santa Cruz, +
"As officials mull steps to tackle police brutality and racism, California’s Santa Cruz has become the first U.S. city to ban predictive policing, which digital rights experts said could spark similar moves across the country.
“Understanding how predictive policing and facial recognition can be disproportionately biased against people of color, we officially banned the use of these technologies in the city of Santa Cruz,” Mayor Justin Cummings said on Wednesday."
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