eqe @eqe@aleph.land

So, I hear the maintainers of #Tusky, my #Mastodon client of choice, have chosen to take responsibility for how their software is being used. Good! Let this be the start of a new era in free software.

“You can’t make Hitler analogies until there are at least six million dead” say people who make Stalin analogies when the top marginal tax rate goes up by 3%.

--Jacob T Levy

I've been keeping quiet about this, but I can finally share!

My friend and I are officially contracted for a book from the West Virginia University Press's series Salvaging the Anthropocene. Our book, Almanac for the Anthropocene: A Compendium of Solarpunk Futures, will focus primarily on collecting practical, substantive applications of #solarpunk thought. And we are currently accepting submissions/pitches!

https://wagnerwieland.com/2019/06/03/new-project-almanac-for-the-anthropocene-a-compendium-of-solarpunk-futures/

if you’ve seen that NYT FALC essay going around, or the book that it’s about, here’s a review of it that will save you the trouble:

> But, if I have to, the most positive thing I can say about the book is that I don’t doubt that it will be Elon Musk’s favourite book of 2019 – and he’ll tweet about it as he prevents his workers from unionising.

https://www.ebb-magazine.com/essay-reviews/2019/6/11/fully-automated-luxury-communism

ty @darius for linking this to me!

Okay this is exciting -- I think about the Dynabook and journalism all the time: https://parametric.press/about/

this is still my favorite poem of all time

Interesting:

"A 100% libre RISC-V + 3D GPU chip for mobile devices"

"The application for funding from NLnet and the Next Generation Internet initiative from the European Commission, from back in November of last year, has been approved. It means that we have EUR 50,000 to pay for full-time engineering work to be carried out over the next year, and to pay for bounty-style tasks. For the right people, with the right skills, there is money now available."

https://www.crowdsupply.com/libre-risc-v/m-class/updates/first-nlnet-grant-approved-to-fund-development

cc @orionwl

RT @miziodel@twitter.com

interesting concept: #DataColonialism - raw information mined in numerous countries, processed mainly in the imperial hub, and then used to exercise control throughout the world

https://foreignpolicy.com/gt-essay/who-will-win-the-race-for-ai-united-states-china-data/

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/miziodel/status/1136316590729891840

"O wait, I need some piece of software I don't have. Looks like I'll have to type one command and wait five seconds.'

Endless gratitude to the people who make it possible for me to do no work to get every piece of software I've ever wanted.

"The economics of package management" by @ceejbot https://github.com/ceejbot/economics-of-package-management/blob/master/essay.md

One of the best-written and most important things I've read in a long time.