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USA, March 2026.

Photo by Etienne Laurent / AFP / Getty

LAPD officers arrest a protester dressed as Lady Liberty in chains during the “No Kings” national day of protest in Los Angeles on March 28, 2026.

#USpol #Liberty #Photography #NoKings

kjaerulv 18h ago

Meet the dipwit and delusianal Tech Reporters Using AI to Help Write and Edit Their Stories

https://www.wired.com/story/tech-reporters-using-ai-write-edit-stories/

Meet the Tech Reporters Using AI to Help Write and Edit Their Stories

Independent writers are using AI agents all throughout their reporting process. What’s the value of a human journalist, anyway?

WIRED

kjaerulv 1d ago

København havde engang en pulserende taxaflåde med masser af private små firmaer. Nu er alt ved at blive en multinational udnytter-app, der tager 10 procent af alt - hvad gik al den ballade ud på med UBER? Jeg mindes at fagbevægelsen sagde de vandt?

kjaerulv 1d ago

flexghost.2d ago

Try to unsee it

Level: impossible.

kjaerulv 1d ago

Scientific Frontline 4d ago

Researchers at the University of Bath developed a renewable, bio-based polymer membrane that effectively captures and holds toxic perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) from water. The nanofibers in the membrane structurally reorganize and tighten when exposed to water, creating a net-like mechanism that traps stubborn "forever chemical" pollutants directly inside the polymer network.
#MaterialScience #Chemistry #Engineering #Environmental #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2026/03/ms03252601.html

Bio-based polymer offers a sustainable solution to ‘forever chemical’ cleanup

A renewable, bio-based polymer membrane capable of efficiently capturing toxic ‘forever chemicals’ from water

kjaerulv 1d ago

javi 6d ago

Firefox updated their Terms of Use? Let's see!

As you type a search query within Firefox, Firefox offers search suggestions to provide you with faster and more direct access to what you’re looking for. Some of the search suggestions come from your search provider (“Search Suggestions”). Others come from Firefox, and are based on information stored on your local device (including recent search terms, open tabs, and previously visited URLs), or content from Mozilla and Mozilla’s partners, including paid sponsors and internet resources like Wikipedia (“Suggestions from Firefox”).

Here chat. Here. This is where Firefox dies.

"information stored in your local device" and "content from mozilla's parners" and "paid sponsors".

This is a very convoluted way of saying "we use your personal data to segment you into something we can sell to advertisers".

This is EXACTLY what chrome does, this is exactly why a lot of us stopped using Chrome and moved back to Firefox. In some circumstances Mozilla’s partners will receive de-identified search and interaction data, in order to serve relevant suggestions and measure user engagement with suggested content.This is making me really mad. THIS IS JUST CORPO-SPEAK TO DESCRIBE HOW THE ENTIRE INTERNET ADVERTISEMENT INDUSTRY WORKS. This is HOW FACEBOOK WORK. This is how GOOGLE WORK. This is how the entire programmatic advertisement industry work. This is what we call "sell your personal data". No, no one sells your address, no one sells your name. BECAUSE IT'S ILLEGAL IN A SIGNIFICANT PART OF THE WORLD.
We also work with advertising providers to deliver relevant sponsored content using programmatic technologies. To support this, we may share limited, non-identifying information — such as device type, IP-derived location information, and category of content viewed — to help determine which ads to display. We don’t share any information that identifies you. You can turn off sponsored content in your New Tab settings at any time.Oh it's so nice of you Mozilla, to do THE MINIMUM LEGAL REQUIREMENTS when selling our data. You don't share information that identify me? so nice of you! you know how else does that? Meta! Google! Tiktok! Somehow big tech mega corporations are willing to comply with the minimum legal requirements as you do, mozilla!In some cases, we may share or publish aggregated and anonymized data to facilitate research or as part of the lawful business purposes outlined above (such as sharing aggregated insights with advertising partners).This is called "advertisement segmentation" and it's what it paid for Zuckenberg fortress in Hawaii!! Going places, Moz, you are operating exactly as how Facebook used to do in 2016!To provide our services as described above, we may disclose personal data to: Partners, service providers, suppliers and contractors"We never disclose your personal data!!! well, unless it's one of our partners who pays us for it, of course!"

oh wait! they include a table of what kind of data they share with partners!Technical dataLocationLanguage preferenceSettings dataUnique identifiersSystem performance dataInteraction dataSearch dataBrowsing dataThe SHARE FUCKING EVERYTHING. THEY ARE SELLING EVERYTHING. "Unique identifiers" is the closest to personal identifiable data they can sell. That's what advertisers can use to make a profile of you: They may not know your name, but they will know everything else about you.

This is the same information that google collects and sells from you. THE SAME.

Fucking ghouls. This is where Firefox died, folks.

Firefox Privacy Notice

Mozilla

kjaerulv 1d ago

Rainy #caturday with PM Trampedach #CatsOfMastodon

kjaerulv 1d ago

Aral Balkan 1d ago

Update - correction (thanks to @offbyone): Chuck Schumer did call for their removal on the 24th. (https://xcancel.com/SenSchumer/status/2036530272858955898)

*Original post follows*

“Five days after President Donald Trump deployed hundreds of armed Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers to airports across the US, not a single Democratic leader in the House or Senate has called for their removal. The same goes for Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.”

https://mas.to/@therightarticle/116305482084520174 https://mas.to/@therightarticle/116305482084520174 https://mas.to/@therightarticle/116305482084520174

kjaerulv 2d ago

The Conversation U.S.4d ago

From credit scores to fitness trackers to baby monitors, metrics don’t just measure behavior — they can define what “good” looks like.

And increasingly, those standards are set by corporations, not communities.
https://theconversation.com/moral-metrics-are-corporate-algorithms-becoming-our-new-moral-authorities-273178

https://theconversation.com/moral-metrics-are-corporate-algorithms-becoming-our-new-moral-authorities-273178

Moral metrics: Are corporate algorithms becoming our new moral authorities?

Scores are ubiquitous today, from data in parenting apps to fitness monitors. For some users, those scores start to shape a sense of right and wrong.

The Conversation

kjaerulv 2d ago

Jens Hjerrild Poder 2d ago

Bliver nødt til at give det her et shout out. Mærkeligste band ever. Angine des Poitrine.

Klædt ud som noget fra Børnetime giver de den maks gas med noget weird instrumental progrock/jazz.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Ssi-9wS1so

Angine de Poitrine - Full Performance (Live on KEXP)

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