Djoerd Hiemstra @djoerd

Great post from @phae about the origins of the term "progressive web app" and how the web is for everyone: https://fberriman.com/2017/06/26/naming-progressive-web-apps/

Don't worry. Mastodon is still good.

Too true
https://octodon.social/media/CfRxV8zmNQFD_jSTYZ0

'Now, when someone asks “what is a crazy Marxist?”, all you have to say is, “it’s someone silly enough to believe that if someone’s house has burned down, they should be allowed to stay in an empty house.”'

http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/grenfell-tower-fire-survivors-new-homes-crazy-marxists-a7803441.html

#marxism #socialism #capitalism

A $2 Million Prize to Decentralize the Web. Apply Today https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2017/06/21/2-million-prize-decentralize-web-apply-today/ cc @gargon@mastodon.social

"We must rapidly begin the shift from a thing-oriented society to a person-oriented society. When machines and computers, profit motives and property rights are considered more important than people, the giant triplets of racism, materialism, and militarism are incapable of being conquered.

— MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. “Beyond Vietnam,” 1967"

(reading "No Is Not Enough: Defeating the New Shock Politics" by Naomi Klein)

Rape is a prominent issue in society today and always has been.

In Canada alone it is estimated that only 6 out of every 100 rapes that occur are reported to police. (Sexual Assault Statistics in Canada).

This is a horrifyingly low number when one considers the fact that 1 in 4 women in North America will experience physical sexual assault in their lifetime. (Sexual Assault Statistics in Canada).