Norway has had it with Meta, threatens $100K fines for data violations

"It is so clear that this is illegal," Norwegian regulator said.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/07/norway-has-had-it-with-meta-threatens-100k-fines-for-data-violations/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

Meet Larry Householder (R)

The ex Ohio house speaker just got 20 years for the largesrt bribery scandal in OH history

FirstEnergy paid Householder $60 million and got a $1 billion bailout from HB6

But wait there’s more!

Trump advisor Bob Paduchik pressed Ohio to pass the bill 🤔

And FirstEnergy (reg. in OH) emerged from bankrupcy as Energy Harbor (reg. in MI, NY, MA, TX, and NJ)

Governor DeWine, Michael Cohen and Elliot Broidy also have a hand in this

Party of law and order strikes again

1983: “But for them (affirmative action laws), God only knows where I would be today. These laws and their proper application are all that stand between the first 17 years of my life and the second 17 years."

2023: He votes to end using affirmative action in college admissions.

Twitter is falling apart. Reddit is falling apart. Facebook fell apart ages ago. Meta is a trashfire. Instagram is baloney. Google can't even search for anything you want anymore.

You know what website still miraculously works?

Wikipedia.

You should donate to keep it that way.

A message from Greta Thunberg (@gretathunberg)...
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School strike, week 251.

Today, I graduate from school, which means I’ll no longer be able to school strike for the climate. This is then the last school strike for me, so I guess I have to write something on this day.

When I started striking in 2018 I could never have expected that it would lead to anything. After striking every day for three weeks, we were a small group of children who decided to continue doing this every Friday. And we did, which is how Fridays For Future was formed.

Some more people joined, and quite suddenly this was a global movement growing every day. During 2019, millions of youth striked from school for the climate, flooding the streets in over 180 countries. When the pandemic started, we had to find new ways to protest.

With time, we started to get back on the streets again. We’re still here, and we aren’t planning on going anywhere. Much has changed since we started, and yet we have much further to go.

We are still moving in the wrong direction, where those in power are allowed to sacrifice marginalised and affected people and the planet in the name of greed, profit and economic growth. They continue to destabilise the biosphere and our life supporting systems. We’re rapidly approaching potential nonlinear ecological and climatic tipping points beyond our control.

And in so many parts of the world, we are even speeding up the process. There are probably many of us who graduate who now wonder what kind of future it is that we are stepping into, even though we did not cause this crisis.

We who can speak up have a duty to do so. In order to change everything, we need everyone. I’ll continue to protest on Fridays, even though it’s not technically “school striking”. We simply have no other option than to do everything we possibly can. The fight has only just begun.
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#Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency #ClimateAction #ClimateJustice

A ridiculous mask study has been retracted: It found “Masks interfered with O2-uptake and CO2-release and compromised respiratory compensation” and concluded “mask wearing should not be mandated let alone enforced by law.” Objections were raised, and the journal investigated, concluding “the complaints were valid and that the article does not meet the standards of editorial and scientific soundness.”

Masks work. #WearAMask #COVID19

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpubh.2023.1221666/full