Time has made it clear yet again that increasing exports will not keep farmers in business. Instead, legislators need to get behind policies that could assure fair prices for farmers. #Farmers#Lawmaker#FamilyDairiesAct
Section Three does not apply, because the presidency is not an office 'under the #UnitedStates States,' and #President#Trump did not take an oath 'to support the Constitution of the United States,'" the filing read.
Following a motion put forward on Monday by #NDP#lawmaker Taylor Bachrach, the #FederalTransport committee voted to undertake a #study on the state of accessible #transportation for Canadians living with #disabilities as well as the regulatory regime surrounding it.
In the speech in support of the ceasefire resolution, the #Democratic Florida #StateRepresentative Angie Nixon said: “We are at 10,000 dead Palestinians. How many will be enough?”
A #Malaysian#court sentenced a #lawmaker who was the country’s youngest ever minister & a rising star in national #politics to seven years in prison on Thursday for #embezzling more than $200,000USD from a political party’s funds.
Syed Saddiq Syed Abdul Rahman, who was #convicted on all 4 charges he faced, was also fined 10 million ringgit ($2.13 million) & became the first #politician to receive a #FloggingSentence - he'll get 2 cane strokes.
Let the Platforms Burn. The Opposite of Good Fires is… | by Cory Doctorow |
One of the most common complaints about #Mastodon is that it’s hard to know whom to follow there.
But as a technical matter, it’s easy: you should just follow the people you used to follow on Twitter —either because they’re on Mastodon, too, or because there’s a way to use Mastodon to read their Twitter posts.
Indeed, this is already built into Mastodon. With one click, you can export the list of everyone you follow, and everyone who follows you. Then you can switch Mastodon servers, upload that file, and automatically re-establish all those relationships.
That means that if the person who runs your server decides to shut it down, or if the server ends up being run by a maniac who hates you and delights in your torment, you don’t have to #petition a #public#prosecutor or an elected #lawmaker or a regulator to make them behave better.
They know that network effects gave them explosive growth, and they know that tech’s low switching costs will enable implosive contraction.
The thing is, network effects are a double-edged sword. People join a service to be with the people they care about. But when the people they care about start to leave, everyone rushes for the exits.
Anything that can’t go on forever will eventually stop. Suppressing good fire doesn’t mean “no fires,” it means wildfires.
It’s time to declare fire debt bankruptcy. It’s time to admit we can’t make these combustible, tinder-heavy forests safe.
It’s time to start moving people out of the danger zone.