Matt Willemsen @Nonog@fedibird.com

I absolutely abhor that with every study that proves universal basic income works (how many studies does it take before it’s actually implemented universally?) there’s the qualifier “homeless people didn’t spend as much money on booze and drugs as we thought”. So condescending.

We don’t scrutinize rich people this way. There’s the assumption that rich people deserve that choice because the money belongs to them.
Poor people have to answer to some arbitrary social expectation of acceptable behaviour before they are “allowed” to be housed, fed, clothed, etc.

It shouldn’t matter how basic universal income is spent. The whole point is that we all get the choice and the possibility to live a comfortable life. It’s not up to any of us to decide what comfort looks like for anyone.

Some people don’t fit social expectations and it’s apparently not ok only when they are poor.

Wow, Plex just decided that I cannot host their software on my Hetzner machine anymore.

Notably, I’m paying for Plex.

Guess I need to find a new solution…

This time, Open Source *without a company behind it*

Any tips?

#Millie, four years old and #Nellie five years old. Cotton pickers on a farm near #Houston, #Millie picks #eightpounds a day and #Nellie thirty pounds. This is nearly every day. Home conditions bare and bad. Location: #Houston vicinity, #Texas.

#Photography #LewisHine #ChildLabour #ChildLabor

https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2018677603/

Alan Turing was a mathematician & cryptographer who was a leading code-breaker in the team that decrypted Nazi Germany’s Enigma machine during WWII. He inspired modern computing & what became AI.

Instead of being hailed as a genius & hero, Turing was convicted as a homosexual & forced to endure chemical castration. He died by suicide at 41 in 1954.

The British government didn’t apologize until 2009 & Queen Elizabeth II finally pardoned him in 2013. #history #science

Chilling paper produced Sergei Karaganov, once invited to many transatlantic conferences, and other academics. Proposals include deporting "1-2 million" people from occupied Ukraine and Russia to Siberia, an exact repeat of Stalin's policies, and destroying Ukrainian industry, energy, transport, leaving only agriculture, an exact repeat of Hitler's policies.
https://newsland.com/post/7698415-karaganov-podgotovil-sekretnyy-doklad-dlya-putina-migrantam-vse-russkim-deportaciya-v-sibir-i-katorga

Alrighty, introducing Masto Reader. Think Thread Reader App, but for Mastodon.

How does it work? Mention @mastoreaderio anywhere in a thread you want to unroll and the little bot will do the rest.

Here's an example (that takes a bit to load for reasons...)

https://mastoreader.io/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmastodon.gamedev.place%2F%40badlogic%2F111071396799790275

You can share those links with others.

Links to the crappy source code can be found in the bot's profile.

Everything runs in your browser. The server doesn't log anything either.

Enjoy and spread the word.

@badlogic this looks very neat! Great because it is very accessible!

For anyone interested, there's also @trunksapp building a very similar unroll feature directly into the app and web client. It's currently in beta and works very well!