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Every major US city has a private foundation supporting police,
with more than 250 nationwide, according to a 2021 report by research and activist groups Little Sis and Color of Change.
The foundations have been used to pay for surveillance technologies in cities like Baltimore and Los Angeles -- without being subject to public scrutiny, according to the report.
More than a year after a digital news outlet and a research group sued the Atlanta Police Foundation for alleged…

There are light years between (1) “I thought this code was useful, so I shared it online and slapped an OSS license on it” and (2) “We set up a foundation to fund ongoing maintenance of this critical OSS project while guaranteeing its independence.”
The “dependency, fork, or rewrite?” question looks very, very different for (1) vs (2).
Yet how many of us think about where any given library dependency sits on that continuum when we add a dependency? Even if we try, how can we ••tell••?
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Folks, just a heads up: I’m busily coding a Gaza Verified Emergency Appeal site so that we can raise one amount that will get all our remaining families in the danger zone in the North to safety in the South.
I’m adapting the donation form I’d made for us at Small Technology Foundation (https://small-tech.org/fund-us

"The root cause of Britain’s pay depression? Weak productivity."
Says The Resolution Foundation.
Well I don't think so.
https://www.resolutionfoundation.org/comment/resolution-at-20/

Heritage Foundation founder Edwin J. Feulner dies at 83 (Landon Mion/Fox News)
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/heritage-foundation-founder-edwin-j-feulner-dies-83
http://www.memeorandum.com/250719/p49#a250719p49

Y'know what rubs me weird? Open Source guys who are all into competing projects. Like sure sometimes you gotta fork 'cause people's desires really are incompatible, but here we are with a system that lets us join forces for the greater good and here you are making Yet Another Thingy instead of collaborating.
I kinda fundamentally don't trust you to behave well in your project if this is the foundation.
There's reasons for forks and alternatives but come on

The Knight Foundation, the Ford Foundation, and others unveil the Public Media Bridge Fund, providing $26.5M to help CPB radio and TV stations avoid closure (Benjamin Mullin/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/20…

The Race to Rescue PBS and NPR Stations
The Knight Foundation and other top organizations are aiming to provide $50 million to stabilize the stations most at risk from the recent federal government funding cuts.

Israel Heritage Foundation tied to 2024 Trump campaign, top Israeli officials
https://prismreports.org/2025/09/17/israel-heritage-foundation-trump-israeli-government/

"The Free Software Foundation has been sliding into irrelevance more and more by entirely failing to address its big Creepy Uncle problem. Open-Source has turned into a form of unpaid internship to be hired to make shitty apps that bring more surveillance and ads to our world."
https://aria.dog/barks/forklift…

Introducing the Forklift Certified License—Aria’s Barks
It's not following the OSI definition of open-source because i don't give a damn how capital defines its needs.

Founder of Right-Wing Group Behind Project 2025 Dies at 83 (Emell Derra Adolphus/The Daily Beast)
https://www.thedailybeast.com/founder-of-heritage-foundation-edwin-j-feulner-dies-at-83/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250719/p47#a250719p47