extremely mad because my relative in American prison has let me know that from now on, instead of being charged once per book or per song and having the files added permanently to his account, he's going to ALSO be charged by the minute to read or listen to music on the tablets that are the only things they're allowed to use.
reminder that paying prisoners (vastly) less than minimum wage is legal in the US because they're defined as an exception to anti-slavery laws.
What an amazing view of Earth from Artemis II.
The Sun is behind the Earth, illuminating a thin crescent. This low-light shot, taken by Reid Wiseman using a Nikon D5, shows auroras over the poles, city lights, and the glow of the atmosphere.
And yes, there are stars!
https://www.nasa.gov/image-article/hello-world/ #space #science #nature #technology
Holy shit this is detailed. Can you believe the hubris to silently collect all this information on users?
Every time you open LinkedIn in a Chrome-based browser, LinkedIn’s JavaScript executes a silent scan of your installed browser extensions. The scan probes for thousands of specific extensions by ID, collects the results, encrypts them, and transmits them to LinkedIn’s servers. The entire process happens in the background. There is no consent dialog, no notification, no mention of it in LinkedIn’s privacy policy. This page documents exactly how the system works, with line references and code excerpts from LinkedIn’s production JavaScript bundle.
🚨 OPT OUT & say NO to #GitHub using your interaction data to train & improve its AI models. 🚨
GitHub is the next company to choose to opt you into having your data used - by default. 🚩
Opt out in Settings --> Copilot --> Features.
Under "Allow GitHub to use my data for AI model training" -→ Disabled.
It recently announced that if you do not opt out before April 24th, it will use your interaction data when using Copilot.
BREAKING: Israel's parliament has approved the death penalty BY HANGING as the default for Palestinians convicted of murdering Israelis
Meanwhile, multiple human rights orgs including Israeli orgs like B'TSalem confirm that Israelis kill Palestinians with impunity and face no accountabilty.
This is what apartheid looks like and shame on anyone gaslighting otherwise
Umberto Eco’s List of the 14 Common Features of Fascism
14. Ur-Fascism speaks Newspeak. “All the Nazi or Fascist schoolbooks made use of an impoverished vocabulary, and an elementary syntax, in order to limit the instruments for complex and critical reasoning.”
https://www.openculture.com/2024/11/umberto-ecos-list-of-the-14-common-features-of-fascism.html
Creative Commons image by Rob Bogaerts, via the National Archives in Holland One of the key questions facing both journalists and loyal oppositions these days is how do we stay honest as euphemisms and trivializations take over the discourse?
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