here's a random paperpost, from 25 June 2011:

Another beautiful book from the Princeton Architectural Press
https://www.paperposts.me/another-beautiful-book-from-the-princeton-architectural-press

#typography #book #mailart #postcard #PAPress #paperposts

Holy crap.

"Nearly a million passports and photo IDs from multiple countries were exposed across unprotected public URLs, accessible to anyone with a link. The documents remained discoverable this way for months, according to reporting by The Verge, before being taken offline."

https://cambridgeanalytica.org/data-breaches-scandals/passports-driver-licenses-exposed-public-internet-2026-51096/

Original article: https://www.theverge.com/tech/947157/passports-data-breach-cannabis-club-systems-nefos-puffpal

Via an extensive series of links starting at https://mastodon.social/@Gargron/116828220896988835

#news #technology #TechNews #AgeVerification #security #leak

"People like me existed, they always have and they always will — and many fought and died so that I could have an easier life. I owe it to them to remember and share their stories."

https://www.npca.org/articles/2736-the-unsung-heroines-of-stonewall

Happy "Stonewall was a riot" day to at all who celebrate ✊

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stonewall_riots

#stonewall #StonewallRiots #StonewallWasARiot #lgbt #lgbtqia #history #OTD

That's absolutely sad to read. The CEO of @mullvadnet is not only financing the far-right Swedish Örebro party, but he even is their main financer. 70+% of their money is his donation. He is the reason why they go nationwide this year.

For obvious reasons i cease to trust this service. Also i do not finance parties that aim for forced deportations.

https://www.flamman.se/techprofil-ger-miljoner-till-orebropartiet/

#Mullvad

RE: https://en.osm.town/@mapcomplete_edits/116785657343770076

I've used MapComplete to add loads of public art in #Vilnius to OpenStreetMap.
Absolutely gorgeous here.

"Today, many people in cities live in small homes, and they might need a sewing machine only once a year. So why buy one?

People prefer not to spend their own money when they can access a sewing machine for free, funded through their taxes."

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20260618-the-weird-and-wonderful-libraries-of-finland

#libraries #finland

💳 Who should decide what content is acceptable online? Banks?

In TRANSACTION DENIED, author Rainey Reitman joins Annalee Newitz to discuss why content moderation decisions shouldn't be made by financial institutions. 💵💷💴

As banks, payment processors, and credit card networks gain influence over who can participate online, questions of speech become questions of financial power. ⚖️

🎧 Listen & subscribe to the Future Knowledge #podcast ⤵️
https://futureknowledge.transistor.fm/episodes/transaction-denied

@annaleen #DigitalRights

Doing a little email experiment, hopefully a fun one! If you send an email to [email protected], two things should happen:

Your identity isn’t shared (only the subject and body). Hopefully nobody will be a jerk and ruin this (the reply footer has instructions for reporting abuse).

Anyway, have fun!