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Short thoughts, updates, and quick posts. (1462 total)
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Fear based communication :
“Even my wife was saying, ‘What about this double mutant?’ It drives me nuts. People are scared unnecessarily. If you’re fully vaccinated, two weeks post dose, you shouldn’t have to worry about variants at all.”
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I still have a Linux/Win10 dual boot… Why?
To access Belgium online administration tools using the Belgian eID System (hopefully being accessible via ItsMe across all the services in the future?) You have no idea how messy the eID viewer/reader install is on some Linux installation, I’ve got it to work for Linux on Fedora, Ubuntu but Debian based #mxlinux?
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At a time when democratic values are under siege in her home country of India, as they are elsewhere around the world, including in the U.S., Roy’s analysis of issues like nuclear weapons, industrialization, nationalism, and more is essential to this moment. She is unapologetic about the stakes. Once, when a historian criticized her for passionate rhetoric, she responded, “I am hysterical. I’m screaming from the bloody rooftops … I want to wake the neighbors. That’s my whole point. I want everybody to open their eyes.”
https://niemanreports.org/articles/arundhati-roy-we-live-in-an-age-of-mini-massacres/ -
__This : I Refuse to Stand By While My Students Are Indoctrinated - Common Sense with Bari Weiss
What’s enfolding in the US is really concerning…
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__Why We’re Freaking Out About Substack
But Ghost represents an even purer departure from legacy media. More than half of the sites on the platform simply run the software off their own servers.
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Yeah CitizenLab going open-source!
https://www.citizenlab.co/blog/civic-engagement/heres-why-we-are-going-open-source/
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@rmdes nice one! I’ve added it to the @cloudron wishlist! :) https://forum.cloudron.io/post/29033 CitizenLab digital democracy platform
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Just the idea that you can do a thorough investigation on the origin of a pandemic, one year later, in China, with scientists pretty much hand-tied to the CPP doctrine is ridiculous.
WHO is being framed by China in the sense that no matter what it does to uncover the truth, it will forever and inevitably be tainted by China’s interest to protect its reputation, image and doctrine.Transparency and China’s interest, national security interest, are completely incompatible.
it’s simply two different routes and the China interest path will never produce an objective truth.
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[ #China](https://blog.rmendes.net/tag/+%23China)
[ #Covid-19](https://blog.rmendes.net/tag/+%23Covid-19) -
Clubhouse on #android with the unofficial app is still a mess… Can’t join a private room I created or can’t find a public room I created, what am I doing wrong ?
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The Coup We Are Not Talking About
We can have democracy, or we can have a surveillance society, but we cannot have both.
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Le monde de demain ©®™, surtout la direction dans laquelle il se vautre, est une horreur sans nom.
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[ #Covid-19](https://blog.rmendes.net/tag/+%23Covid-19)
[ #Vaccination](https://blog.rmendes.net/tag/+%23Vaccination)
[ #Exclusivité](https://blog.rmendes.net/tag/+%23Exclusivité) -
__Shameful, Revolting : Rich Countries Signed Away a Chance to Vaccinate the World
There is so much to unpack here but the first thing that comes to mind after reading this is : disgust, shame and outright criminal behavior against humanity.
__ #Covid-19
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the deep fake threat hardly anyone discusses
listen up. get mad.
https://wiczipedia.substack.com/p/the-deep-fake-threat-hardly-anyone
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<< With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts. >>
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Restricting access to democracy : at least now the GOP is aligned with what it has always been.
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2021/03/19/us/biden-news-today/in-restricting-early-voting-the-right-se…And what’s also very clear is that the USA is not a functioning democracy anymore. And yes 8t started before Trump, the later only amplified an existing trend : minority ruling against the majority.
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Using Android focus mode, all the time now, meaning it is set for the entire day, and I decide when to take a break from focus mode for a determined amount of minutes a few times a day.
My numbers of unlock/notifications have dropped from several thousands a day to a few dozens per day, when I choose to be distracted.
I’m liking this reverse mode a lot, feeling better overall, less polluted by constant incoming news and notifications, curious to what’s going to be the benefits over a longer period of time… -
Well #InstagramDown or #WhatsAppDown, who cares?
I have #pixelfed and #signal along with #Indieweb -
__Antivax, How are they funded? Investigating ad trackers with Gephi and the DMI Tracker Tracker tool - First Draft
__ #Covid-19
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@rmdes I’m sure there is no political bias or larger agenda involved in this project. 🤦♂️
Steve Floyd, Mar 15 2021 on floyds.io
@steve @rmdes could you be more explicit about what you have in mind and provide sources so that it’s not left to the reader’s imagination?
Hinting at issues without evidence nor explicit statements is not always a great way to move things forward ;)