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"Be kind" is not a complete thought. Be kind to who? And don't say "Be kind to everyone!🤗" Because it's not possible to be kind to everyone.
Mr. Rogers is often held up as the example of someone that was kind to everyone. But even he roasted racists! He was unsympathetic to bigots who wanted to hold on to America's tradition of segregation. Something, something, paradox of tolerance.
"Be kind" is often the coward's way out of speaking up for those that need defending.
Evidence of the surveillance of environmental activists keeps mounting, so we put together a guide on how to limit social media monitoring for those protecting our planet 🌎
pvcy.org/climate
I would like you to imagine
That every “service” and app you’ve been using on the internet
Every platform for “information” and “community”
Every “futuristic” device that made you feel “connected”
Was just there to collect
Your data
All along
Collate it, analyze it,
Segment and sell it
Carve you into a market segment
Deepening divides
Corner your biometrics
To train facial recognition
Colonize your habits and home
To develop an “AI” product
To sell to investors
And increase shareholder value
I am absolutely gobsmacked by the journalistic achievement that @mozilla pulled off with their mental health, prayer, and lifestyle app audit.
Highly worth a read if you are like me and live in the orbit of these trendy app-based therapy services.
Intel announces its first quantum processor, Tunnel Falls, a 12-qubit chip using electrons for storing data, available to select academic and research partners (Stephen Shankland/CNET)
https://www.cnet.com/tech/computing/intel-enters-the-quantum-computing-horse-race-with-12-qubit-chip/
http://www.techmeme.com/230615/p43#a230615p43
102 years ago, on June 15, 1921, Bessie Coleman achieved a significant milestone as the FIRST Black woman in history to earn a pilot's license, 2 years before Amelia Earhart. With great courage and determination, “Brave Bessie,” as she would later be called, pursued her own path, striving always to fulfill her mother's aspiration for her children to “amount to something.”
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