Shira OvideIf you're pitching a data-collecting toilet or TV in 2023 and NOT talking about customer privacy and security, FAIL.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/01/08/ces-worst-products-safety-privacy/
Nedley
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Retired in the north central US, interested in music, the environment, space and left leaning politics
Jorge González Belmar"The moon belongs to everyone
"The best things in life are free"
A reminder that today being January 1st, 2023, books, films and other works (except audio recordings) made in 1927 have entered the #publicdomain in the US (including the cited song).
#Books included: "The Case-Book of #SherlockHolmes" by #ArthurConanDoyle, "The Big Four" by #AgathaChristie, and "Men Without Women" by #ErnestHemingway, among others.
#Bookstodon @bookstodon
https://web.law.duke.edu/cspd/publicdomainday/2023/
Public Domain Day 2023 | Duke University School of Law
Tweet By Jennifer Jenkins, Director of Duke’s Center for the Study of the Public Domain January 1, 2023 is Public Domain Day: Works from 1927 are open to all! On January 1, 2023, copyrighted works from 1927 will enter the US public domain. 1 They will be free for all to copy, share, and build upon. These include Virginia Woolf’s To The Lighthouse and the final Sherlock Holmes stories by Arthur Conan Doyle, the German science-fiction film Metropolis and Alfred Hitchcock’s first thriller, compositions by Louis Armstrong and Fats Waller, and a novelty song about ice cream.
Blep 
y'all.
do me a favor.
and share this pic.
i wanna see how viral a fox post can get on mastodon. 👀🦊
Athena Andreadis, PhDTo go in the dark with a light is to know the light.
To know the dark, go dark. Go without sight,
and find that the dark, too, blooms and sings,
and is traveled by dark feet and dark wings.
-- Wendell Berry
A lovely way to celebrate: watch Keilidh Bradley's luminous Fox Fires -- #animation of an aurora borealis origin myth that packs heartaching creativity in 6 min.
Fox Fires - Animated Short Film
This is the coolest music I’ve seen on YouTube in a few weeks
A chill take on a classic song
https://youtu.be/bXDcPoeIx-E
#lowspark #traffic #stevewinwood #piano
Steve Winwood - The Low Spark Of High Heeled Boys (Live Performance 2022)
Martin Boller 
Shared by my Daughter
"I need privacy, not because my actions are questionable, but because your judgement and intentions are"
In response to "if you have nothing to hide you have nothing to fear"
Robert ReichAmazon, Starbucks, and other giant corporations wouldn’t be deploying massive union-busting campaigns if they weren’t terrified of union power. Keep up the fight. #UnionsForAll
This is a great 9 minutes watch
YouTube description:
Journalist and Nobel Peace Prize winner Maria Ressa discusses the insights about Democracy and freedom contained in her latest book, “How to Stand Up to a Dictator” and outlines some of the perils of living in a world dominated by social media.
Maria Ressa: How Social Media Uses Free Speech To Stifle Free Speech
KBSez ✅The Sleepy Rodent That Could Help Humans Get To Mars
The Hibernator’s Guide to the Galaxy
Scientists are on the verge of figuring out how to put humans in a state of suspended animation. It could be the key to colonizing Mars.
The Arctic ground squirrel—"the most extreme hibernator on the planet," and the creature that might hold the key to long-distance space travel.
https://www.wired.com/story/mars-hiberators-guide-to-the-galaxy/
Toby Morton 
Herschel never secured his own domain name so I thanked him by using it to build a new and informative website.