Francis 🇾🇪 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @francis@greenplenty.social

100 % korrekt.

So @pluralistic is giving a talk in Defcon on: "Disenshittify or die! How hackers can seize the means of computation and build a new, good internet that is hardened against our asshole bosses' insatiable horniness for enshittification." https://defcon.org/html/defcon-32/dc-32-speakers.html

This is fascinating. There were trans and intersex athletes competing at the Olympics in the early years, but everything changed during/after the 1936 Olympics in Nazi Germany, when the Nazis decided to go after Zdeněk Koubek, a trans man competing for Czechoslovakia
https://www.vox.com/culture/364032/trans-athletes-olympics-2024

The NHS ate my wife again.

She started work at 07:30… she got home at 22:00, exhausted, in tears.

And that’s normal.

Because there are not enough staff.

There are not enough staff because the conditions are shit. And the pay is jokes. And the expectations insane.

And the answer from Starmer… “cut waiting times by efficiency savings”. My dude, there is nothing left to squeeze.

#SaveOurNHS #VoteGreen

@leighms @KimSJ @ChrisMayLA6

"On too many managers in the NHS, analysis exists that shows that as a proportion of the work force the NHS has at least half the percentage that is common in business."

This is where you have to realise that the NHS SHOULDN'T BE RUN AS A BUSINESS!

#NHS #SaveOurNHS

Sentiments (quite widely) expressed recently:

Once you've jailed protesters for 5 years for peaceful protests, the next wave may well work on the assumption that 'you might as well be hung for a sheep as a lamb' & shift to actions that more clearly carry prison sentences.

Will we see the right-wing demonstrators who disrupted people's daily lives in Southport & elsewhere handed similar sentences (if & when caught) that were handed out to the Just Stop Oil protesters?

#politics #ruleoflaw

Infosec peeps: Patrick McKenzie (@patio11) wrote an excellent overview of the Crowdstrike debacle for novice users. It explains things like the difference between kernelspace and userspace, and has an appropriately high level of snark throughout.

The focus towards the end is why this hit US banks at a disproportionally high rate, and why it could have been much worse for all of us.

https://www.bitsaboutmoney.com/archive/crowdstrike-bug-hit-banks-hard/

Would be nice if NHTSA spoke about road safety as clearly as Jalopnik.

https://jalopnik.com/these-are-the-unbreakable-rules-of-driving-1851608168/slides/8

Austerity does not save money https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2024/07/31/austerity-does-not-save-money/ Like almost all economic truths, austerity works in the opposite way to that which most people think. It does not save money. Instead, it prevents the government from creating the money required to deliver what the economy is capable of.

Taxing the rich isn't enough. Don't say "tax the rich," say "expropriate the rich."