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Facebook staff sarin for a bad day: Suspected chemical weapon parcel sent to Silicon Valley HQ -
(Source: theregister.co.uk, via merelygifted)
The other Wikipedia co-founder has called for a 48-hour boycott of all social media platforms to demonstrate users’ desire to regain control of their data and privacy.
On 4-5 July, and for at least one day, Larry Sanger has implored people to snub social media platforms except for posts showing that they are on strike.
Jimmy Wales’ former colleague unironically suggested using the hashtag #SocialMediaStrike.
He is asking participants sign the Declaration of Digital Independence, drafted by Sanger, or for people to create their own similar document.
Sanger – who memorably tried to fork Wikipedia in 2006 after leaving the project back in ‘01 – would like to see social media platforms work more like a blog reader that can suck up any posts published using RSS or Atom standards.
The declaration also provides a list of the sins of existing social media platforms. These include moderating platforms at the whim of senior executives rather than democratically; using algorithms to highlight the most controversial content which makes discussion less serious and rational and allows foreign interference in elections; and forcing users to sign Ts&Cs they cannot understand and then marketing their data in ways no one would agree to.
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(Source: theregister.co.uk)
These Are The Companies Profiting From Detaining Migrants At Border Concentration Camps -
Migrants being detained at the border camps are suffering through abhorrent and inhumane conditions, so while we’re aware that Shah and Wayfair’s leadership is profiting from human misery and human rights’ violations, it’s important for us to be aware of the other private citizens, politicians, and companies who are enriching themselves while others are ripped away from their families and confined in overcrowded cages.
We’re aware that the U.S. government has been tracking and detaining migrants since before the Trump Administration and according to a 2018 article by In These Times, ICE spent close to $1.7 billion on close to 5000 contractors in 2017.
Wear Your Voice wanted to put together a list of the known companies and politicians profiting from the camps — the list is non-exhaustive and we will update it with new information. We encourage you to divest from them, protest, write letters and call others to action.
(Source: instagram.com, via llovinghome)
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Tools you can build from recycled parts -
There may only be a handful of people in the world who have thought as deeply as Pat Delany has about making cheap tools. Delany, from Palestine, Texas, designs hand-powered tools made of recycled materials. His heavy-duty drills, lathes, saws and other tools can handle the same tasks as modern power tools, but they equip carpentry and machine shops in off-grid and impoverished communities. To achieve their low-tech precision, his designs fuse century-old technology, present-day scrapped auto parts, pipe, concrete, wood and a relentless commitment to the bottom line.
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Unfortunately this is a really old article and all of the links redirect to a yahoo group that doesn’t appear to exist anymore. Fortunately the pictures and diagrams give some insight into how these machines work, and therefore how to construct them.
There are also a number of tutorials on the creation of multi-machines floating around the net.
Did a little bit of digging and this is what I’ve found so far:
This is a link to a web page with data about the multi-machine.
Here is a direct link to the PDF that describes its construction.
This is the page on the screw cutting lathe.
This is a direct link to the lathe construction pdf.
Here is what I can find on the drill, with some technical drawings and photos here.
There’s some information on the generator here.
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