Gabriele Lucci @gabriele@social.lucci.xyz

This is the average culture on the Fediverse about politics, macroeconomics, Euro and the EU. All totally false. Fortunately where I live millions of people know that these things are false, I only read them from people in other countries now. Wake up people, you have an Internet connection to get informed.

I'm *really* not happy about the #Github #Sponsors project (https://github.com/sponsors).
It'll bind a lot of open source project much more strongly to github's closed, proprietary ecosystem if that's where they have any chance of getting some money.

It's so hypocritical that soo many #FOSS projects are hosted on a non-free platform. With #Gitlab there's even a superior just as easy to use alternative there.

And most people are celebrating this move by github 😢.

Folks, for years: We have a problem called Surveillance Capitalism, it’s a systemic problem arising from socio-economic factors…

Ex-Googler: Hmm, this problem, very exotic… what shall I call it without criticising either surveillance or capitalism? Time well spent?

Folks: SURVEILLANCE CAPITALISM! It’s the feedback loop between accumulation of information (surveillance) and accumulation of wealth (capitalism)

Ex-Googler: …human downgrading?

🤔

https://www.wired.com/story/tristan-harris-tech-is-downgrading-humans-time-to-fight-back/

So Orwellian and dystopic

So whether or not you're vegetarian or vegan, cutting down on your meat intake is a good idea for various reasons – high among them being environmental concerns and overuse of antibiotics on farms. It would be foolish to think otherwise.

The thing is, some cultures have been using meat substitutes in food for centuries. Either for religious reasons, like some schools of Buddhism, or among people who don't always have access to meat. So it can be worth following their example.

Humans are not evolved to be herbivores, and I really don't like all the people who say "go vegan" without also telling people exactly what that means. So in case anyone finds it useful, here's a little thread about meat substitutes to include in your diet, and nutrients to make sure you're getting enough of!

If you ever need to convince anyone how evil the US government is, refer them to this document:

https://github.com/dessalines/essays/blob/master/us_atrocities.md

Props to @dessalines

The People's Republic of #China delivered a large amount of humanitarian aid to #Venezuela, completing their second long haul of cargo to the Bolivarian Republic since March. https://www.telesurenglish.net/news/China-Delivers-71-Tons-of-Humanitarian-Aid-to-Venezuela-20190514-0005.html

The United States Is Already at War With China

https://www.thenation.com/article/the-us-is-already-at-war-with-china/