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This is kind of a rhetorical question, but not totally. Is it that opt out laws just don't cover this kind of thing?

How come on Instagram I can only opt out of my data being sold, and not their acceptance of data about me for marketing?

E.g. in your "Account Settings", you can see a list of advertisers who targeted you because they included you in a list *they uploaded* of who they want their ads to reach.

when i saw the new jigglypuff plushie, all i could think of was this image from the forum for power grid operators
Just want to say this is something I'm guilty of as well in my career as an engineer, and have been trying to get better at recognizing it before it happens.

Really insightful post on how STEM educations aren't preparing engineers for the reality many of them face: being expected to tackle issues that can't and shouldn't be reduced to simple engineering problems, but they keep trying to do it anyway.

https://senykamara.substack.com/p/escaping-flatland

Want to share how much I love Evy Kassirer's blog about community living: https://thoughtclippings.com/community-housing-blog/

Even as someone who isn't into community living, I find the posts insightful about group dynamics and quite interesting.

community housing blog

a detail you probably didn't know: nowhere in any #curl documentation do we use the word "very". It is a banned word enforced by a CI check. This rule encourages us to rewrite and instead use more appropriate words. Makes us write better English.
just another day being a 10x engineer

me: when someone says "we're on a wild goose chase", do they mean we're chasing a wild goose, or rather that this goose chase is particularly wild? if it means chasing a wild goose, does that mean the goose is not domesticated, or that it's particularly unruly?

kidnappers: ...you're free to go