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Twitter is uniquely poised to lead on interoperability and federation; though they are very large, they are dwarfed by their major competitors, Facebook and Wechat. What's more, Twitter was initially built for federation, with wide, generous APIs that facilitated interop.

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Gait analysis, clothing analysis, eye framing etc... these are all valid points of concern for protecting your identity, but masks are still a golden opportunity to reduce the effectiveness public mass surveillance

There's no on/off switch for privacy. All mitigations are layers which increase combined effectiveness

If you dislike wearing masks, consider that it costs you little in terms of inconvenience and there are other benefits besides health and safety

Microsoft is about to shut off its ebook DRM servers: "The books will stop working" https://boingboing.net/2019/06/28/jun-17-2004.html

Two-thirds of glacier ice in the #Himalayas will be lost by 2100 if climate targets aren't met
https://theconversation.com/two-thirds-of-glacier-ice-in-the-himalayas-will-be-lost-by-2100-if-climate-targets-arent-met-143207

#ClimateChange

Does anybody know how to move this red ❌ away? the output is correct. just confusion.

@mathlover Seems like a weak argument for intelligent desing on several fronts...

One, it assumes that there is a single configuration of ones genome that results in life. While the odds of one configuration occuring randomly is very low you'd have to collectively check the odds of **all** configurations that result in life. Which if broad enough may not be impractically rare

Two, it is naive to the fact that the simplest form of "life" that is complex enough that it can begin basic replication (and thus incremental improvement through evolution) may be much simpler than even our simplest organisms today

Trump's press conference cut into Jeopardy. He's officially gone too far

On discovering some apps 'break' when using a VPN:

Friend: VPN ruins everything.

Me: Privacy invasive apps ruin VPN.

https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s10803-010-0958-2.pdf

Comorbid Psychiatric Disorders Associated with Asperger Syndrome/High-functioning Autism: A Community-
and Clinic-based Study

Insomnia lmao

Georgia Democrats pick state senator to replace John Lewis on Nov. U.S. ballot

The Republican nominee who will now run against Williams is African-American Angela Stanton-King, who has been a television personality and served in prison after being implicated in a 2007 stolen vehicle ring. President Donald Trump pardoned her early this year.

https://reut.rs/3fMA9HJ

This is an example of normalized #creepytech:

#Minnesota police use a drone to spy on secluded nude sunbathers.

From article: #Police Sgt. Randy Mahlen told WCCO that using drones "would be no different than a surveillance camera in a public place for a high-crime area."

This normalizes surveillance & lumps nudity in with “high-crime” in an attempt to normalize drones accessing our #private and secluded moments.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/19/us/drones-nudity-minnesota-trnd/index.html (Has many trackers. Disable in browser if you can.)

Baseball teams to fill empty stands with simulated crowd noise https://boingboing.net/2020/07/16/baseball-teams-to-fill-empty-s.html #boingboing #simulations #sports

Here's the full video of covidiots in Huntington Beach refusing to wear a mask https://boingboing.net/2020/07/16/heres-the-full-video-of-covi.html #boingboing ##COVIDIOTS

@mathlover It's dangerous to call my mom during Lifetime sessions too. Also for interrupting unintentional comedy