They're after me... @frickinLasers@social.cleverlibre.org

Elsevier appears to be collecting and monetizing our personal data, sometimes without our consent. The data they collect can be used to "extrapolate core working hours, vacation times, and other patterns of a person’s life."

What can we do?

Over 20,000 researchers are refusing to publish, review, or edit for Elsevier. You can also ask them to delete your "non-integral" personal data: https://www.elsevier.com/legal/privacy-policy/data-request

Article by @eikofried https://eiko-fried.com/welcome-to-hotel-elsevier-you-can-check-out-any-time-you-like-not/?=IwAR3DJSxwVn4OQB_HcRr8uNS1szepCAWy_9wbJo3Hi_ZcfdBN-trs6ndgmJo
#OpenScience @academicchatter

I hope everyone can be themselves today!

Daily podcast: COVID Tech is Expanding Police Surveillance. Worldwide!

#News #TechNews #Technology #Surveillance #Privacty #Covid #government #LawEnforcement #podcast

https://soundcloud.com/nickaesp/cts

[do-it-yourself store]

Me: hello? anyone here?

You’d think since they’re called Zoom calls they’d go a lot faster.

[Hospital]

I’ve got some good news: it's not cancer.

Wow, that’s GREAT news, doctor!

I know! This whole time I was actually a Scorpio! Also, a flesh-eating bacteria has spread to your heart and lungs.

Does the Bible not teach us, “Scramble yee for pointless and sure to be unappreciated last second gifts just so you have something to give the person”?

Every room is an escape room to me if it contains a social situation

Alternate universe where the '90s trend for calling things "bad", "sick" or "rude" never ended and now we compliment each other's shoes by calling them "catastrophic" and "fundamentally misaligned with my values"

sickest prog harmonies https://youtu.be/u7ukvQZIgn8

𝐷𝑜𝑒𝑠 𝑖𝑡 𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟 𝑚𝑎𝑘𝑒 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑤𝑜𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑟?
𝑊ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑖𝑓 𝐼 𝑡𝑜𝑜𝑘 𝑎 𝑙𝑒𝑓𝑡 𝑖𝑛𝑠𝑡𝑒𝑎𝑑 𝑜𝑓 𝑟𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡?
𝐴𝑛𝑑 𝑤ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑖𝑓 𝐼'𝑚 𝑡𝑜 𝑏𝑙𝑎𝑚𝑒?

𝑊ℎ𝑎𝑡 ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝐼 𝑏𝑒𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑒?
𝑊ℎ𝑎𝑡 ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝐼 𝑏𝑒𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑒?
𝑊ℎ𝑎𝑡 ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝐼 𝑏𝑒𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑒?

Haikus are awesome
Even when they don’t make sense
Refrigerator

Oh no, I've been urinating all wrong all these years...

"We can now 3D print as much wood as we want without cutting a single tree"
https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/lab-grown-3d-printed-wood
https://youtu.be/68kiCZqKie4
#Education #EdTech #Science #Sustainability #STEM

Henrietta Lacks was a poor, Black, young mother diagnosed w cervical cancer in 1951. When her cells were collected w/o consent, scientists saw they multiplied remarkably fast.

“HeLa” cells changed #science. They’re used globally to study viruses, drugs, hormones, genes, diseases & develop vaccines. Lacks passed away at 31 w no recognition.

Rebecca Skloot’s beautiful book about her life & legacy is changing that. Now her statue will replace Robert E. Lee in NC. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/20/us/henrietta-lacks-statue-roanoke-virginia.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare #history

🔴 #Mozilla, a free software community that owns #Firefox, announces it will be running its own #fediverse instance in early 2023

https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/mozilla-launch-fediverse-instance-social-media-alternative/ #news #tech #technology

when i mistake a brief silence during an argument with my wife as my turn to speak

the h in ghost is actually a little ghost waving to you

Silent Sprite
Holy Sprite
All is calm
All is bright.

Everyone around you is fighting a battle you know nothing about. You are a 17th century warrior with ADHD and you are spacing out hardcore on the battlefield rn. For the love of god, focus