Reminder that people who have seemed to be the most resilient over the past decade of upheaval are likely people who have developed coping skills through surviving past trauma. They’re also the least likely to be getting the necessary support because they’re givers of support and lots of their circle just assumes “oh they’re strong, they’re fine”

Check on the caretakers. Don’t just do so casually, because they’re used to having to say “I’m fine”. They need to be seen, appreciated, and given care just like the rest of us

"the West Virginia University Board of Governors voted to eliminate 143 faculty positions and 28 academic programs from its flagship Morgantown campus."

https://www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty-issues/shared-governance/2023/09/15/despite-national-pushback-wvu-will-cut-faculty

Picture two homes – one constructed in the 1950s and the other in the 1990s. They’re on the same street with the same sun exposure, have identical air conditioning units, but the 1950s home is at least 10 degrees warmer inside on a hot day.

Why?

The answer has to do with radiant heat.

More explained:
https://theconversation.com/why-homes-often-feel-warmer-than-the-thermostat-suggests-and-what-to-do-about-it-210553

#science #heatwave #energy #environment

Google's dominance of internet search faces major challenge in legal showdown with U.S. regulators

The U.S. government is taking aim at what has been an indomitable empire: Google’s ubiquitous search engine.

https://apnews.com/article/google-antitrust-trial-search-engine-justice-department-2cfb06271455c7e12c4927959061e832

Streaming is now just as expensive and confusing as cable. Ubers cost as much as taxis. And the cloud is no longer cheap.

In other words, enshitification comes for us all. 😏

https://www.businessinsider.com/tech-broken-promises-streaming-ride-hailing-cloud-computing-2023-8?utm_source=reddit.com

Since I've seen a lot of chatter about people switching to #Firefox as Google ramps up the enshitification of #Chrome, let me tell you about a killer feature for people who (a) need multiple accounts on the same websites (eg. devs) or specifically (b) have to use multiple Google accounts.

Firefox has an official addon called Multi Account Containers that lets you trivially set up color coded tabs that have separate sets of cookies. Log into your dev account in one, and your test account in another. Log into your personal #gmail in one and have another tab next to it with your work Gmail. I'm actually not signed in to any Google accounts in most my tabs, I just have containers for the specific tasks I do on Google products.

It'll take you 30 seconds to set up.

Add-on: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/multi-account-containers/

Mozilla's explanation: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/containers

We are currently witnessing the fallout from monopolization in the browser space. Back in 2007, Internet Explorer received much criticism for its phishing protection mechanism which transmitted all visited websites to Microsoft servers. Mozilla paired up with Google and designed a different system which performed most checks locally and preserved users’ privacy. That’s what healthy competition looks like.

Fast forward to 2023. Almost all web browsers in use are either Chrome or based on the Chromium browser engine. With the competition pretty much eliminated, Google is now pushing its “Enhanced Safe Browsing” down everyone’s throats – which is a nice sounding name for “every website you visit is sent to our servers.” The Internet Explorer approach from 2007 all over again, only that now it’s Google getting all this data. And they certainly won’t do anything evil with it. Yeah, sure.

Reminder: Firefox and Safari are the only remaining browsers worth noting which are not using Google’s browser engine.

#Chrome #Google #Mozilla #privacy

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/google/google-is-enabling-chrome-real-time-phishing-protection-for-everyone/

Wowee!
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/sep/04/archaeologists-uncover-complete-neolithic-cursus-on-the-isle-of-arran

#Arran
#Archaeology