szescstopni @szescstopni@social.cleverlibre.org

You can say Substack should host Nazis, but don't pretend there's some "free speech" principle to it. Substack has a strict ban on pornography. Welcoming Nazis while banning sex workers isn't a principled stand, it's a choice, an expression that you like the former and dislike the latter.

Google Kills the Geofence Capability that Will Show ~30,000 Trump Supporters Swarmed the Capitol on Trump's Orders

https://www.emptywheel.net/2023/12/15/google-kills-the-geofence-capability-that-will-show-30000-trump-supporters-swarmed-the-capitol-on-trumps-orders/

🎉 Best News Of The Year! 🎉

Google confirms they will disable uBlock Origin in Chrome in 2024: Finally everyone understands it's time to quit Google. 😎

Here are our favorite browser alternatives:
➡️ https://tuta.com/blog/best-private-browsers

Which one did you pick?

🦊 Firefox
🦆 DuckDuckGo
🕵️ Tor Browser
Mullvad
Pale Moon
Puffin
GNU IceCat
WaterFox
Brave
Hyphanet

@chris_e_simpson @nbou @aras Ploum wrote a great article about it. https://ploum.net/2023-06-23-how-to-kill-decentralised-networks.html

It happened before, and given how Meta behaved since then there really is zero reason to trust them now. Also, federating means throwing your users data to them; not really something you'd want either. As Stallman once said (and he was completely right): "Facebook isn't a social media website. It's a surveillance engine."

Jurors recommend death penalty based on certain looks, but new training can correct the bias

https://phys.org/news/2023-12-jurors-death-penalty-based-bias.html

> Certain facial features—like downturned lips and a heavy brow—are known to make someone appear untrustworthy to others, even though these do not indicate a person's actual character. Such facial biases influence our everyday social interactions as well as high-stakes decisions, including who we hire, or elect to political office.

Note: Wearing a mask or staying home when you are sick means we need government leadership and structural supports to encourage people to do that. That means providing N95 masks for free and increasing paid sick days.

twitter not paying whitehats. what could go wrong?

this one recently disclosed a vulnerability that would have allowed people to gain control of the twitter accounts of users who merely clicked malicious links

#twitter #birdsite

Not death by fire this year but a Zoroastrian sky burial for the Christmas Goat! #Gävlebocken
http://www.thelocal.se/20231214/swedens-gavle-goat-is-christmas-dinner-for-peckish-birds

Taka refleksja mnie naszła. Gdybyście mieli jakieś kompleksy odnośnie kultury jazdy polskich kierowców, to powiem Wam, że nie tylko polscy kierowcy jeżdżą "szybko ale bezpiecznie". A jak kogoś cieszą skutki czyjegoś braku rozwagi, to polecam do obserwowania profil https://social.overheid.nl/@RWSverkeersinfo Co prawda piszą po niderlandzku, ale zdjęcia mówią same za siebie.

Żeby nie było rozczarowań, to profil o utrudnieniach w ruchu i zwykle wrzucają informacje o korkach. Ale czasem się trafi jakiś smakowity dzwon.

I na zakończenie nieco ponura anegdotka.
Q: Jaka jest definicja bezpiecznego dystansu do poprzednika wg niderlandzkiego kierowcy?
A: Bezpieczny dystans to taki, że możemy się czuć bezpiecznie, że nikt się nie wciśnie między nas a poprzednika.

Storage bench? My dudes, that is a telephone seat. It goes in the hall. Your telephone sits on the table, with the wire draped down and plugged into the wall. Your two phone books go in the opening.

We discussed ecological footprints in class this week, starting with nations and ending today with our own. These are tough conversations for teenagers. Especially rural teenagers.

https://blog.ohheybrian.com/2023/12/ecological-footprints/

#science #teaching #100DaysToOffload 80/100

@m0bi13 A moim zdaniem uratowanie Jowity to pikuś przy tym, o czym Pan minister mówił rano w radiu. Mianowicie przywrócenie listy czasopism punktowanych do tego co było za Gowina (tymczasowo oczywiście). Potem ułożenie nowej listy przez Komisję ds. ewaluacji nauki. To ma duuuuże znaczenie dla naukowców, piszę to właśnie jako były adiunkt.

Blocking internet access via DNS

One of the world’s longest-running experiments has been going for 144 years!

In 1879, botanist William Beal wanted to study how long buried seeds would remain viable. He buried bottles w different seeds in a secret spot on Michigan State's campus.

Every 20 yrs, a small group scientists dig up the bottles & seeds continue to germinate 🌱 (My husband @DavidLowry is the one on the right).

The paper from their last dig is now out so this #science story is back in the news. https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2023/12/14/scientists-dig-up-beal-seed-experiment/71913719007/?gnt-cfr=1&fbclid=IwAR2EjdgGDCOGLvvQTW87YAIu-8GDGBQCPrCpE9im8dubGJrRfWl3XVmeWow

Working on a product for academic geologists, "Geology from Elsewhere". There are more than 200 geology and other earth sciences journals, challenging enough for scientists to keep up with. But some really important articles are published in general science journals (e.g., Nature ) or in journals that we don't associate with geology. As I already monitor oodles of journals across multiple fields, I can spot these outliers and bring them to your attention. Does this sound useful?

@revk oh noes... how will the under 16s recover his WhatsApp messages now... 🤭

Lubisz rano wcześnie wstawać? Możliwe, że to dlatego, że masz więcej genów Neandertalczyka niż inni ludzie. 🐒 🧔 😜

Więcej: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/dec/14/neanderthal-dna-may-explain-why-some-of-us-are-morning-people

#Neandertalczyk #Neandertalczycy #TheGuardian