Paul Sutton @zleap@social.cleverlibre.org

Updates on class action lawsuits!

I got a payout last week from the Yahoo data breach: $61.08

And $32.32 from Zoom privacy suit

Those both felt like real compensation for once

A while back, I stumbled upon a file I consider the largest piece of evidence revealing how hundreds of data brokers trade personal data on everyone, including super-sensitive data, globally.

Massive investigation by US-based @themarkup and German @netzpolitik_feed, I think this is a must-read for everyone interested in the future of digital technology:
https://themarkup.org/privacy/2023/06/08/from-heavy-purchasers-of-pregnancy-tests-to-the-depression-prone-we-found-650000-ways-advertisers-label-you

#NewYork Just Appointed #SethMarin, as the #Country’s First openly #Trans Man to serve as a #judge.

Not only is Marnin the state’s first openly trans judge, he is the first openly transgender man to serve as judge in US History.

#TransMen #Transgender #LGBTQ #NewYork #Progress #Representation #Culture

https://www.intomore.com/impact/justice/new-york-just-appointed-the-countrys-first-trans-male-judge/

Things the internet is supposed to be able survive and route around:

* Nuclear war
* Censorship

Things the internet's architecture isn't apparently equipped to deal with:

* Centralization due to market ideology convenience

I am helping a young mom who has two children. Her partner was killed in a car accident, and as he had no ID, no file open with AB works, and was unemployed, she's a full-time mom, who paid for the funeral. Now she has no food, hygiene products, etc.

If anybody wants to help, DM me.

If Reddit's management weren't thick as a brick they'd have dealt with their third-party app "problem" by buying up the top ten third party apps (eg. Apollo), removing the ad-blocking, but giving it back to moderators.

That's how Amazon handled rival online discount/second-hand bookstores, eg. Book Depository and AbeBooks.

Sneaky, and nobody noticed until it was a fait accompli.

@zleap @ct_bergstrom
"According to the most popular version of the singularity hypothesis, I.J. Good's intelligence explosion model, an upgradable intelligent agent will eventually enter a "runaway reaction" of self-improvement cycles, each new and more intelligent generation appearing more and more rapidly, causing an "explosion" in intelligence and resulting in a powerful superintelligence that qualitatively far surpasses all human intelligence." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technological_singularity

@zleap not just France, Germany and a whole bunch of other European countries as well

Hey friends, I just published the episode 14 of “#Emacs From Scratch, An Emacs #tutorial for beginners” on Editing Modes, Part 2

https://youtu.be/tAa-r_fZW5Y

Looking forward to your feedback, and as always, please support me by sharing this post with others.

I’m going to keep repeating this - calling right-wing extremists who are armed, organized, and threatening violence, “militias” works to their goal of establishing legitimacy. They are terrorists. Call. Them. Out.

And if you’re in media and calling them “militias”, but refer to Daesh, ISIS, Al-Qaida, or the Taliban as “terrorists”, you should really think about why that is and the bias that you’re internalizing in your work.

#Terrorism
#DomesticTerrorism

Indictment Against Trump ‘Very, Very Damning,’ Former Attorney General Says https://www.voanews.com/a/indictment-against-trump-very-very-damning-former-attorney-general-says/7132424.html #voanews #voiceofamerica

Child labour robs girls and boys of their childhood.

Nowadays, over 160 million children endure child labour, half of which are exploited in hazardous work.

It's time for change.
We must #EndChildLabour once and for all.

#WorldDayAgainstChildLabour

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EU_Commission/status/1668143846209859586

@zleap it can often take a surprisingly long time for modern EPOS to reboot and connect to the servers, and the IT support is often outsourced to faraway places, added to which retailers do not like their staff knowing too much about how the EPOS works as they don't trust them (its why its very difficult for someone well educated/qualified to get a retail job, the bosses think you are planning to rob the place)

Did you know the Homo Naledi burial paper has more authors (37) than cited sources (32)?

Half of those sources are self-citing the team's papers. And some of those self-citations are just wrong

This is a problem for a scientific paper with such strong claims #archaeology

youtu.be/9iN9t393QQI

UNHINGED: Trump vents his rage on Truth Social as indictment sinks in https://washingtonpress.com/2023/06/11/trump-vents-his-rage-on-truth-social-as-indictment-sinks-in/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

I have a background in #Chemistry and learned Fortran on punch cards. I got a 128K Macintosh and wrote #ChemDraw for Macintosh and Windows. It's still sold today, but I haven't been associated with it since 2007.
Since then, I have played a lot of #BridgeCardGame, but face-to-face bridge is a Covid disaster.
I don't say much, mostly I like to follow a few specific journalists, infosec, legal, econ, medical voices, and local news.
he/him

Maybe instead of labeling bathrooms male and female they should be labeled classified and unclassified.