Reminder: you don't have to wait until January 1 to make your #NewYearsResolution-- start talking to your co-workers about organizing your workplace TODAY! #UnionYES #CWAStrong

Let me congratulate the 221 Members in the House for taking on the greed of the rail industry and voting to guarantee 7 paid sick days to every rail union worker in America. It is absolutely unacceptable that rail workers have ZERO paid sick days. The Senate must do the same.

The most significant election reform action possible in the US right now would be legislation that overturns the Citizens United v. FEC ruling.

Yes, It’s Censorship: Stop picking that nit, it’ll never heal. doctorow.medium.com/yes-its-censor…

So apparently selling a wedding cake to an LGBTQ couple is participating in the marriage, but selling a gun to a shooter isn't participating in the crime.

Answers produced by the #chatGPT AI have been banned from StackOverflow forums. They're basically well-written loads of bollocks 🤷 Source: meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/4218…

Don't cross that digital picket line.

I’m excited for more actual center left folks in the US Senate next term, but with the loss of the center right House (yes, the US Democrats as a group are center right) I don’t expect that any actually useful legislation will make it to POTUS.

The Tor Project is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, and one of the best ways to power Tor is through a monthly donation. Plus, every one who becomes a monthly donor (of any amount) before the end of the year will get a Tor sticker pack. 💜 donate.torproject.org

BTW, the Freenode reference: banning mentions of other IRC servers, even "we're both here and there" in the channel topic, is what made people finally say "okay we're only there." x.com/geofft/status/…

My hot take is that it a lot of our current messes could have been avoided if “fact check the grandiose claims of this tech executive” was standard procedure.

I almost twitted about micro$oft doing something good and smart earlier. I was wondering if they really are a different org these days. But this reminded me that if they did something I like it was only because capitalism had an incentive aligned with the same outcome.

Ginni Thomas’s political work continues creating conflicts for Justice Thomas and begs the question of why Congress made it harder for journalists to report similar conflicts by passing the overbroad and unconstitutional Judicial Security and Privacy Act. huffpost.com/entry/clarence…

The #CoolestToolAward celebrates software tools created and used by Wikimedia communities. This year's winners include tools that gamify the process of improving a Wikipedia article, automate vandalism reporting, and more. ⬇️ w.wiki/697H