Mastodawn

Smart meter data can reveal intimate details inside your home. A court just ruled police can’t run dragnet surveillance on that data. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/11/victory-court-end-dragnet-electricity-surveillance-program-sacramento

Victory! Court Ends Dragnet Electricity Surveillance Program in Sacramento

For more than a decade, the Sacramento Municipal Utility District coordinated with police to sift through the granular smart meter data of residents without suspicion to find evidence of cannabis growing.

Electronic Frontier Foundation

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Electronic Frontier Foundation Nov 1

Technology should enhance our lives and support democracy, but instead it’s being weaponized to make our world a privacy-invasive surveillance nightmare. That's why EFF's team of lawyers, activists, and technologists are fighting back: https://takebackctrl.org

Schatzie27 Sep 1, 2025

Max Leibman May 3, 2025

No, I do not want to install your app.

No, I do not want that app to run on startup.

No, I do not want that app shortcut on my desktop.

No, I do not want to subscribe to your newsletter.

No, I do not want your site to send me notifications.

No, I do not want to tell you about my recent experience.

No, I do not want to sign up for an account.

No, I do not want to sign up using a different service and let the two of you know about each other.

No, I do not want to sign in for a more personalized experience.

No, I do not want to allow you to read my contacts.

No, I do not want you to scan my content.

No, I do not want you to track me.

No, I do not want to click "Later" or "Not now" when what I mean is NO.

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Anthony Baker Sep 1, 2025

More of this, please. Haha.

Schatzie27 Aug 3, 2025

WEKEND EATS & READS 8/2/25

EATS: Creamy Garlic Pasta from Salt & Lavendar (I added mushrooms, because mushrooms are delicious).

Link: saltandlavender.com/wprm_print…

Petit Pain au Lait (crusty dinner rolls): The Bread Bible by Beth Hensperger (used baking stone method)

READS: Stumbling Can Be Lovely by Devin Kelly via @longreads

Schatzie27 Aug 2, 2025

Softening a working weekend with a fantastic WEEKEND EATS & READS. Stay tuned!

Schatzie27 Jul 31, 2025

BOOKSNS Jul 30, 2025

https://www.booksns.com/152753/ Table of Booker Prize Longlist and related books by those authors #books Title Author Blurb Other Books by Author Misinterpretation Ledia Xhoga An Albanian interpreter in New York grapples with compassion fatigue and personal trauma while helping a Kosovar torture survivor, navigating misunderstandings and missed connections. Debut novel; no other books. Seascraper Benjamin Wood A fisherman’s life is disrupted by a Hollywood director, weaving

Table of Booker Prize Longlist and related books by those authors - Trending Books

by nicacio

Trending Books

Schatzie27 Jul 28, 2025

AI perpetuates the standard practice of devaluing and exploiting scientific authors for the _skilled labor_ that is formal research and writing. One hundred dollars ffs; there are entertainment mags that pay more for listicles (not throwing shade; writers SHOULD get paid).

Additionally, feeding this complex information into LLM and AGIs when neural net research and devopmemt are still nascent is putting the cart before the horse to a truly mind-boggling degree.

https://www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty-issues/books-publishing/2025/07/25/johns-hopkins-press-plans-license-books-train-ai?utm_source=join1440&utm_medium=email&utm_placement=newsletter&user_id=66c4c6b35d78644b3ab80428

Johns Hopkins Press Plans to License Books to Train AI

The publisher did not disclose which AI company or companies it’s partnering with, but expects any resulting revenue to be “meaningful” in advancing its mission.

Inside Higher Ed | Higher Education News, Events and Jobs

Schatzie27 Jul 28, 2025

Nate Shivar Jan 1, 2025

This year was a pretty random year with what I read. It was purely driven by interests at the moment rather than any plan or queue.

Books Read In 2024 --> https://www.nateshivar.com/26763/books-read-in-2024/

#Books #Fiction #Nonfiction

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Joseph Cox Jul 25, 2025

Tea, the viral women's safety dating app, has been breached:

- 4chan found an exposed Firebase bucket
- people starting taking Tea users' photos and IDs and posting them to 4chan
- we verified it

More here: https://www.404media.co/women-dating-safety-app-tea-breached-users-ids-posted-to-4chan/