Storm gps takes you straight down to street level.
https://www.storm-gps.us/

Happening now in Texas

#weather

→ How To Protect Human Autonomy In An Age Of AI
https://www.noemamag.com/how-to-protect-human-autonomy-in-an-age-of-ai

“#AI-driven systems designed to re-orient our agency are different in kind, not merely in degree. […] [T]hey continuously reconstruct the environment in which the #subject acts, perceives and forms preferences.”

“What is at issue […] is not influence over the will. It is the gradual molding of the conditions under which the will forms at all — and with it, the #environment from which the process we call #autonomy emerges.”

Babies Are Bleeding to Death as Parents Reject a Vitamin Shot Given at Birth
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The vitamin K shot, a lifesaving injection given to newborns to prevent uncontrollable bleeding of the brain and intestines, has become collateral damage of the anti-vaccine movement.
https://www.propublica.org/article/more-parents-decline-vitamin-k-shot-newborns?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Parenting #Health #PublicHealth #Science #Medicine #Children

Instagram will no longer encrypt chats starting this Friday

Meta announced that IG will officially discontinue end-to-end encryption feature on May 8th.

All DMs will be decrypted once it reaches Meta's servers.

https://cybersecuritynews.com/instagram-end-encryption-direct-messages/

#Meta #Instagram #privacy #surveillance #security #enshittification #messaging #socialmedia #technology

I wrote something for my students reflecting on the current cultural and technological moment - a collection of important things I want to say that I'm never quite sure how or when to say in class.

http://ozark.hendrix.edu/~yorgey/forest/00FD/index.xml

RE: https://mastodon.social/@regehr/116524023644223750

“There's a recent report of a method to make a more stable form of [this substance], by mixing it with TNT.”