sam floreanijournos love to use 'hacked' in a headline but for real I'm less worried about hacking (read: usually data breaches caused by poor privacy and digital security practices) and more worried about how the company is lawfully going to collect, use and exploit my data ok
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Dr. Lucky Tran 
Let’s get this right. Scientists didn’t fail to communicate the risks of #climatechange, they have been warning us for a century. Our policies are failing because after knowing the risks, fossil fuel companies spent billions of dollars blocking meaningful action on #climate.
Catch-22: Scientific communication failures linked to faster-rising seas
Scientists failed for decades to communicate the coming risks of rapid sea-level rise to policymakers and the public, a new study has found. That has created a climate catch-22 in which scientists have soft-pedaled the kinds of catastrophic risks most easily headed off by cutting emissions. While scientific communication has improved in the 2020s, this…
Juan Carlos MuñozLike many other scientists I often get "debate me" emails from random people with weird ideas about #astronomy. If I answer, they feel validated. Same if I don't. So I always pick the option that doesn't waste my time. Don't fall for the "debate me" trap, folks, you can't win. #scicomm
Chris HallbeckIf you take a social media sabbatical, don’t announce it. Just make your last post something fun like “I wonder if there’s a bear in this cave?”
Qasim Rashid, Esq.Did you know: The annual cost of burglary, robbery, larceny, & auto theft COMBINED is $14B—but the annual cost of wage theft by employers exploiting workers is $50B?
Remember this when media or politicians cite crime but ignore the most costly crime of all—corporate wage theft.
Ricki Yasha Tarr
Suddenly a badger“To recommend thrift to the poor is both grotesque and insulting. It is like advising a man who is starving to eat less.”
― Oscar Wilde
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VM (Vicky) BrasseurAmazon to pay $5.8M penalty for spying with Ring devices.
https://techcrunch.com/2023/05/31/amazon-ring-ftc-settlement-lax-security/
Also, Amazon makes more than $49M per hour:
Bet that $5.8M “penalty" is gonna hurt for a lot less time than the 7 minutes it's gonna take them to pay for it…
StarChild"I just don't have the energy I used to. Why can't I do as much as I did in the past?"
My dude, friend, old buddy, pal...
We are -literally- living in some of the most difficult times we have seen in "recent" history.
We face regular existential crisis among countless other issues with meeting the most basic of needs.
Honestly that you are still here is a tribute to how resilient you are. Don't gaslight yourself, it's a mess out there. But there is room still for hope too.