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Just a guy who works in #biotech who enjoys #photography, #3dprinting, and #books. I also casually follow #cybersecurity and try not to doom scroll too much #climatechange news/data.

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NEW: What to Expect From #ProPublica in a Second #Trump Administration
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Our job is to give readers an independent, verifiable account of what’s happening, even if the #president is calling us enemies of the people or bloodsuckers.

#News #Journalism #DonaldTrump #Election #Election2024 #Politics #Government
https://www.propublica.org/article/second-trump-administration-investigative-journalism

What We’ll Be Covering in a Second Trump Administration

We’ll be devoting a significant part of our staff to detailing what are expected to be dramatic changes in the role of the federal government in the lives of Americans.

ProPublica
Anxiety updates, right on your Lock Screen!
Nothing quite as awful as unexpected Thursday morning #layoffs blindsiding everyone (but the C suite obviously). If anyone knows people #hiring in #biotech I've got some friends that could use that information now.

Major news in the fight against autoimmune disorders as a class of problem.

https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/car-t-autoimmune-disorders

The FTC's latest investigation found giant tech companies collect way more data than users expect and share it widely without oversight. Federal privacy legislation is long overdue.
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/09/ftc-report-confirms-commercial-surveillance-out-control
FTC Report Confirms: Commercial Surveillance is Out of Control

A new Federal Trade Commission (FTC) report confirms what EFF has been warning about for years: tech giants are widely harvesting and sharing your personal information to fuel their online behavioral advertising businesses. This four-year investigation into the data practices of nine social media...

Electronic Frontier Foundation

HEADLINE 1: June 2023: Atlanta City Council approves $90M for Cop City

HEADLINe 2: June 2024: Atlanta residents are under boil water orders because of a failed water system

America’s out of control police spending is literally killing us, and police violence is just the tip of that iceberg. Smh.

Really wish marketers would stop asking me to “reimagine” stuff. Like it’s 2024 and the world is on fire, I can’t even imagine banking in this day and age, I def cannot “reimagine banking.”

Time Magazine's Trump interviews present a dictator-in-waiting, and are important documents for everyone right now.

Read it all. This is as clear a warning as you'll see of what's to come.

https://time.com/6972022/donald-trump-transcript-2024-election/

(It's too bad, however, that the magazine "lightly edited" the transcripts -- this means the editors cleaned up his notorious word salad, giving a false impression of sorts.)

Read the Full Transcripts of Donald Trump’s Interviews With TIME

In an exclusive interview, the former U.S. president lays out a second-term agenda. Read the full transcript of the interviews.

Time

Docusign just admitted that they use customer data (i.e., all those contracts, affidavits, and other confidential documents we send them) to train AI:

https://support.docusign.com/s/document-item?language=en_US&bundleId=fzd1707173174972&topicId=uss1707173279973.html

They state that customers "contractually consent" to such use, but good luck finding it in their Terms of Service. There also doesn't appear to be a way to withdraw consent, but I may have missed that.

DocuSign Support Center

When cities run gun buyback programs, they work with a vendor to run the program and destroy the guns. Despite their marketing to the contrary, those vendors turn out to have been reselling the guns, as a matter of course, minus the receiver. 98% are resold. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/10/us/guns-disposal-recycling.html?unlocked_article_code=1.E00.JnYH.TqkHjf6uP1oW&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
The Guns Were Said to Be Destroyed. Instead, They Were Reborn.

Communities across the U.S. are fueling a secondary arms market by giving seized and surrendered guns to disposal services that destroy one part and resell the rest.

The New York Times