If you're boycotting Avelo Airlines due to their contract with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to operate deportation flights...here's some info that may make it easier for you to let them know.

• CEO of Avelo: Andrew Levy: alevy@aveloair.com
• Vice President, Airports & Customer Support at Avelo: Blaine Nicholas: bnicholas@aveloair.com

The email I sent; feel free to steal as needed:

Dear Mr. Levy and Mr. Nicholas,

We were so excited when you started your [city]>[city] route. My family flies to [state] multiple times per year, and sometimes friends go up to visit us there as well. This new route was so much more convenient than flying into [city]!

Sad to say, this past week we took our final flight on Avelo. We just can't support an airline that will be helping the current administration deport people

Boycott of Target is making an impact on Target's numbers.

Inspired by acquisition of power yesterday by a corrupt tyrant and his possie of xenophobic chronies, people should be reminded that the voting is not over because you can vote in the consumer market every day for the next 4 years. Everyone in the world can participate in this voting process (despite ALEC’s effort to reduce democracy).

ALEC¹ is the extreme right lobby and bill mill. This org writes bills for Congress conservatives to:

• reduce environmental protection and neuter the EPA
• fight immigration, push xenophobia
• proliferate and privatize prisons
• privatize education
• reduce public healthcare
• reduce tax regs (individual & corp)
• neuter the CFPB
• suppress voting (e.g. tightening id rules)
• weaken labor unions
• reduce gun control
• mask corporate tampering in politics

They have a close hand

cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/880059

And I can’t even imagine it’s an intentional addition, it’s just become part of boiler plate legal documents here in the deep south.

The wiki on anti-BDS laws

cross-posted from: https://infosec.pub/post/8862635

“Only because of that official investigation did Canadians learn that ‘over 5 million nonconsenting Canadians’ were scanned into Cadillac Fairview's database”. Wow.

This Wired article is contradictory. The spokesperson says:

“an individual person cannot be identified using the technology in the machines. The technology acts as a motion sensor that detects faces, so the machine knows when to activate the purchasing interface”

I suppose it’s possible that a sloppy developer would name an executable Invenda.Vending.FacialRecognitionApp.exe which merely senses the presence of a face. But it seems like a baldfaced lie when you consider that:

“Invenda sales brochures that promised ‘the machines are capable of sending estimated ages and genders’ of every person who used the machines—without ever requesting consent.”

Boycott Mars

I already boycott Mars because they are a GMA member and they spent ~$5

Cloudflare is the most harmful fiefdom amoung our technofeudalist walled gardens. Unlike Facebook, Cloudflare is largely inescapable because over 30% of the web has become restricted access under Cloudflare. Government agencies have started jailing public resources in Cloudflare. In some cases naively obligating people to use websites that they are blocked from, if they find themselves in a demographic that Cloudflare has shut out. People are being denied electronic access to medical information, voting information, credit histories, etc.

People who are not blocked are unwittingly sharing all their sensitive info with an (essentially invisible) tech giant in a country without privacy safeguards.

Even in the Lemmy network, some of us are fucked because the biggest instances (Lemmy World and [ironically named] sh.itjust works) make some content unreachable to those on the more liberated hosts. It’s a centralized walled garden in the middle of our otherwise decentralized network.