Sasha Akhavi @sakhavi@social.cleverlibre.org

The definitive gender selector #webdev

Revealed: Exxon made ‘breathtakingly’ accurate #climate predictions in 1970s and 80s #ClimateAction #ClimateCrisis

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/jan/12/exxon-climate-change-global-warming-research

"Conservative group targets migrant cell phone data at NGOs, raising privacy concerns".

This is crazy. The Heritage Foundation geofenced migrant aid shelters and CBP facilities to track immigrants' mobile phones.

By @pablodelarosa

https://www.tpr.org/border-immigration/2023-01-06/conservative-group-targets-migrant-cell-phone-data-at-ngos-raising-privacy-concerns h/t Nabiha Syed

"But let’s be clear: this “burnout” that secure scholars are feeling is phantom pain where their colleagues should be. Or, to use a term that every other normal worker in the US uses to describe their workplace under these conditions: you are suffering from the effects of intentional systemic understaffing." https://contingentmagazine.org/2023/01/07/a-profession-if-you-can-keep-it/

‼️ ASK US ANYTHING about our reporting on telehealth startups ‼️

We analyzed web traffic across 50 #telehealth sites with @STAT and saw that almost all were sending users’ personal information to some of the world’s largest advertising platforms.

Questions about what we found or how we found it? Let us know in the replies and our team will be responding this week. ⬇️

#MedMastodon #MentalHealth #Privacy

John Deere signs right to repair agreement with US ag lobbyists https://www.theregister.com/2023/01/09/john_deere_repair_mou/?utm_medium=share&utm_content=article&utm_source=twitter

As more and more technology is applied to both stealing and securing data, when AI achieves sentience and singularity it will manifest in the personality of an all knowing corrupt cop. #theFIVE_OHconvergence

The Edward Snowden moment that was the Facebook whistleblower continues to have ripple effects across the industry.

https://www.geekwire.com/2023/seattle-public-schools-sues-tiktok-youtube-instagram-and-others-seeking-compensation-for-youth-mental-health-crisis/

2. Every month for two years, we've tracked the companies that pledged to cut off donations to GOP objectors

We've catalogued which have kept their word and which have not

It's called the January 6 Corporate Accountability Index

https://popular.info/p/the-january-6-corporate-accountability

In the future AI technology will play video games for us. You'll say "Computer, play Doom" and a message will pop up saying "You have won Doom." This will free up valuable time for doing more work

Science & Technology Studies journal, the house journal of the European Association for the Study of Science and Technology (EASST), is looking for editors to start as early as possible, preferably from February 2023 onwards.  https://sciencetechnologystudies.journal.fi/announcement/view/510

The vote turned 15 and Matt Gaetz lost interest.

The 6 holdouts, of the 20, holdouts, are all election-denying MAGA extremists who got everything they wanted from McCarthy.

These people defended the 1/6 terrorists, just as Trump has said he would pardon them.

The insurrectionists control Congress, 2 yrs after 1/6.

It's an *inevitable* result. If you go to your place of work and try to murder your colleagues in a violent takeover, if your department then backs the attempt, if leadership deems that your summary dismissal is a greater infraction against the rule of order than your murderous attempt, you will learn—correctly—that rules do not apply to you, and that you are, effectively, in charge.

🚨BREAKING: Following noyb litigation, @meta (Facebook and Instagram) has been prohibited from using personal data for advertisement.
The #GDPR decision signals a major blow to Meta's business model in Europe, as Meta faces a € 390 Mio fine.
➡https://noyb.eu/en/breaking-meta-prohibited-use-personal-data-advertisment

‘It never stops’: killings by US police reach record high in 2022 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jan/06/us-police-killings-record-number-2022

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