George Station

@harmonygritz
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Tested the waters in 2016... returned in April 2022 with one or two other people. The avatar is an Earth Day photo from a few years ago on my campus. Header image is lifted from my Twitter cover photo.

I'm not as gone from Twitter as I'd like. Active on Bluesky too, @ harmonygritz.bsky.social. You'll find my longtime "rainbow" profile image there.

My favorite magazine, https://www.thesunmagazine.org/, forever a bastion of human connection. No ads. No AI.
Face recognition is "a dangerous, error-prone, discriminatory technology,” EFF’s @Adam_D_Schwartz told GV Wire, and it's “especially inappropriate as a means to screen members of the public seeking to participate in democratic self-government.” https://gvwire.com/2026/03/17/first-amendment-advocates-oppose-fresno-councils-facial-recognition-idea/
First Amendment Advocates Oppose Fresno Council's Facial Recognition Idea

First Amendment groups oppose Fresno City Council proposal to ban sex offenders from City Hall using facial recognition to identify them.

GV Wire
Princeton kicked a trans runner off of the track in a competition that had no qualification, prize, or trophy. An event where runners just race against the clock. Now, athletes are organizing a boycott of an upcoming meet. An Op-Ed from Max Freedman. Subscribe to support our journalism.

Op-Ed: Princeton Kicked a Tran...
Op-Ed: Princeton Kicked a Trans Runner Off the Track. Now Athletes Are Organizing A Boycott

The alleged targeting of transgender runners at non-professional events marks an alarming escalation.

Erin In The Morning
Microsoft is ending the Windows Update nightmare — and letting you pause them indefinitely https://www.theverge.com/tech/898082/microsoft-promises-to-end-forced-windows-updates-still-automatic
Microsoft is ending the Windows Update nightmare — and letting you pause them indefinitely

Windows boss Pavan Davuluri promises you’ll be able to pause forced Windows Updates “for as long as you need,” among many other things.

The Verge
I must have listened to thousands of hours of CBS News Radio as a kid, including Lowell Thomas, who’d been broadcasting since 1930. RIP. https://deadline.com/2026/03/cbs-news-radio-to-shut-down-1236761393/
CBS News Radio To Shutter Amid News Division Cuts

The closure of CBS News Radio ends nearly 100 years of radio programming from CBS.

Deadline

RE: https://mastodon.social/@RuthMalan/115390769239504914

Well, 2026 is trying to outdo 2025 ("golden year for least responsible decisions"), and ... I think the correct technical term is "well, shit"

I have been invited to but turned down 3 conferences talks already this year because they're told me it's new policy to not cover speaker travel under the assumption that your tech employer will cover it. I own my own small business as a researcher and my wife is an academic teaching professor, so I cannot ask my household to absorb that. I just want to generally observe that we are filtering the voices we're going to be able to hear from, with all this contraction

Alan Lomax’s Massive Music Archive Is Online: Features 20,000 Historic Blues & Folk Recordings

https://www.openculture.com/2026/03/alan-lomaxs-massive-music-archive-is-online-20000-recordings.html

Alan Lomax’s Massive Music Archive Is Online: Features 20,000 Historic Blues & Folk Recordings

A huge treasure trove of songs and interviews recorded by the legendary folklorist Alan Lomax from the 1940s into the 1990s has been digitized and made available online for free listening.

Open Culture
Hackers can infect network-connected wrenches to install ransomware

Researchers identify 23 vulnerabilities, some of which can exploited with no authentication.

Ars Technica

I used to waste years preparing gourmet meals. It was creative, an expression of my humanity, and fostered zen.

Thanks to McDonalds, I don't have to do that!

#Satire