Chris Wiegman @chris@mastodon.chriswiegman.com

Mt. St. Helen's from above.

Glad to be home to some pretty great weather this morning.

Here I share a means of understanding exactly why what is going on in Bolivia is a CIA backed coup.

I wouldn't dare not provide sources to provide perspective and support my claims.

https://www.jacobinmag.com/2019/11/greg-grandin-bolivia-evo-morales-coup-latin-america

Reminder: companies like Facebook and Google are a threat to the Internet and the Web. They want to keep you on their site (with Facebook it's pretty obvious, with Google it's through AMP) so they can keep serving you adverts, which earns them money.

Those companies don't care about open access to information, privacy or consumer choice. Those values aren't profitable. What do you think they'll do when they control the majority of Web traffic?

What could go wrong... :-(

RT @KrVaSt@twitter.com

We're heading to the hottest Arctic fall season in 3M years.

Entire basin & Greenland 16°C to 28°C warmer than normal.

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/KrVaSt/status/1192379141880000512

jesus christ wolfram alpha, I'm sorry I asked

We want to add a moderator who speaks Hindi to the mastodon.social team. Must uphold our code of conduct, must stick around on Mastodon, some monetary compensation is included.

Apply over DM or reply. Will try to get through the applications in the following days (I’m not home though)

Some of you did not watch Mr. Rogers growing up and it shows.

For those of you who did not here is a message I hope you take to heart:
You can be liked and loved, just as you are.

@manuelcaeiro They’re not competition. They’re a VC-backed startup concerned with exponential growth that will be bought by Google/Facebook/etc., some day if they’re successful.

We’re a not-for-profit concerned with helping safeguard human rights and democracy and building a web tool for individuals (not startups or corporations) to form the basis of a possible future decentralised web.

Them: https://www.webiny.com/about-us

Us: https://small-tech.org/about

Bulgaria is about to legalise genocide against Roma people.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/oct/20/bulgaria-sofia-racism-roma-everybody-hates-us-anti-gypsy-abuse

RT @Fionn_Grunspan@twitter.com

Bulgaria is close to passing a [Neo-Nazi] law called “Roma Integration”.

• It limits how many children Roma can have.

• Roma children will be sent to work camps.

• It will legally formalise the Roma Ghettos into violent Pogroms.

#SpeakOut
#OpreRoma
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/oct/20/bulgaria-sofia-racism-roma-everybody-hates-us-anti-gypsy-abuse

Just a semi-regular reminder that "Linux" isn't a platform. GNOME is a platform, KDE is a platform. Linux is a kernel.

Any web app can claim Linux support, as can Windows app running under Wine. "Native Linux" apps that aren't KDE or GNOME apps aren't native at all.

Please for the love of god, can we forget about medium.com?

We appreciate you, associate’s name!

If you're in the States, open enrollment for medical insurance through Healthcare.gov starts on November 1st. ACA hasn't been gutted completely yet, take advantage of what you can while you can.

Please boost or toot about it too.