Pirate News: After the Inauguration (January 23, 2021)
Sunday we will live stream the next Pirate News at 7:30pm Eastern: Biden is now president. Where will we go from here on…
Category: Issues
End white supremacy! End surveillance! (January 19, 2021)
The events that unfolded at the capitol building on January 6th will be remembered in history as the day the threat of white…
Monday, 11am, Protest Assange Extradition (January 3, 2021)
Trump’s attack on whistleblowers reaches a new milestone Monday as a British judge will rule on whether the United Kingdom will extradite Julian…
Happy Public Domain Day, 2021! (January 1, 2021)
For the 3rd year in a row, new works will enter the public domain in the United States. Works created in 1925 or…
Legislature Fumbles Police Reform Bill (December 23, 2020)
Governor Baker opposed the limited restrictions on facial recognition software in the legislature’s police reform bill (S.2963). The legislature buckled and passed a…
Pirate News: Today, 7:30pm (December 20, 2020)
We’ll live stream our latest Pirate News at 7:30pm today. If you missed last week’s Pirate News, we had an interesting discussion with…
Pirate News: Turq.io (December 13, 2020)
On today’s Pirate News, we will interview the people behind Turq.io: Tim Wallis & Michael Conlon. Turq.io is a platform that funds a…
Police Reform Bill Needs Our Help (December 11, 2020)
Governor Baker has issues with the long-awaited police reform bill (S.2963). Specifically, he opposes the statewide moratorium on regulation of facial recognition for…
Mass. Mesh Tech Meetup Tonight (December 8, 2020)
The weekly Mass. Mesh weekly tech meetup is tonight, 7-9pm. It is on-line at https://jitsi.massmesh.net/massmesh, as you would expect. Mass. Mesh is a commons-oriented…
Pirate News: Tell Gov. Baker: SIGN THE POLICE REFORM BILL! (December 7, 2020)
After months of deadlock, the Massachusetts House and Senate have finally passed the long-awaited police reform bill. Pirates Joe and James talk about…