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JUST IN: An FDA advisory panel has unanimously endorsed making daily birth control pills available over-the-counter for the first time.

https://t.co/FxrmOlHgLT

FDA experts unanimously endorse over-the-counter birth control pills

A final decision from the FDA is expected to come at some point this summer.

Axios

“no one writes (or reads) cyberpunk because they think it’s all gonna be fine.

And no one founds — or works for — an organization like the Electronic Frontier Foundation because they’re confident that technology can only be used for good.”

via @pluralistic

https://link.medium.com/AT4B13ngFzb

#cyberpunk #EFF #technology #dystopian #utopian #pragmatism

The first person to write a comprehensive report on the use of integrated car tech in domestic abuse situations will win my eternal gratitude, as expressed through the purchase of drinks.

I like winning:

Apple and Google partner on an industry specification to address unwanted tracking by Bluetooth-enabled physical trackers.

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2023/05/apple-google-partner-on-an-industry-specification-to-address-unwanted-tracking/

Apple and Google lead initiative for an industry specification to address unwanted tracking

Today Apple and Google jointly submitted a proposed industry specification to help address the misuse of Bluetooth location-tracking devices.

Apple Newsroom
There are unfortunate echos of the late Ruth Bader Ginsburg situation in the current Dianne Feinstein situation.
I don't understand the people who told me I would get more conservative with age. The more powerful I become, the more angry I get at the people who abuse their power and the more aware I become of the ways in which systemic oppression functions.
Hearing young people not understand Matrix references makes me want to buy investment properties and suppress the vote
Y'all told me Andreesen was smart, Thiel was smart, Rabois was smart, Musk was smart, they have all outed themselves as lucky and dumb. You need to stop assuming being rich and being smart are the same.

It would be great if we could safely vote online. Not only would it be convenient, it would also mean that a whole bunch of longstanding, very important, extremely difficult computer science problems had been solved. which would make all sorts of useful-but-currently-impossible things beyond voting possible, too.

But unfortunately, those problems haven't been solved (and may well never be). So we can't. Sorry.