If you're on LinkedIn and are thinking about verifying your account with them, maybe read this first. It walks through LinkedIn's privacy disclosure to identify 17 companies that may receive and process the data you submit, including name, passport photo, selfie, facial geometry, NFC data chip, national ID #, DoB, email, phone number, address, IP address, device type, MAC address, language, geolocation etc. Unsurprisingly, it seems the biggest recipients are US-based AI companies.

https://thelocalstack.eu/posts/linkedin-identity-verification-privacy/

#Google trips over its own words, when they sell you #Android it's the best computing device in the world that does everything. After you bought it Google doesn't let you do anything *you* want to.

#Sideload is a made-up term. Putting software on your computer is simply called “installing”, regardless of whether that computer is in your pocket or on your desk.

What Do You Talk About When You Talk About Sideloading?

What does Google?

Here's #FDroid: https://f-droid.org/2025/10/28/sideloading.html

Deadwood is not dead: a carbon gateway for orchid seedlings on dark forest floors https://functionalecologists.com/2025/10/10/kenji-suetsugu-deadwood-is-not-dead-a-carbon-gateway-for-orchid-seedlings-on-dark-forest-floors/ paper: https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1365-2435.70181

"the results reveal a hidden carbon route from deadwood to green #plants through wood-decaying #fungi. This pathway likely helps seedlings establish on dim #forest floors... Retaining decayed wood and maintaining moist forest microsites can determine whether #orchid seeds remain dormant or awaken"

#orchids #symbiosis

Balloons floated over our house this morning.

#Balloons #Napa #California