Mastodawn

Here's a good longer piece explaining why age verification solves nothing for children's safety, puts all of us at risk, violates fundamental privacy protections and lets the bad actors, "social" ad platforms off the hook. By @zackwhittaker
https://this.weekinsecurity.com/papers-please-age-verification-laws-threaten-everyones-online-security-and-privacy/

Papers, please: Age verification laws threaten everyone's online security and privacy

Laws that require adults to upload their driver's licenses or passports to access apps, websites, and VPNs will make the entire web less safe.

~this week in security~

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TinDrum 8h ago

'Wing and his colleagues measured a 10-fold concentration of lithium atoms in the upper atmosphere around 20 hours after the uncontrolled re-entry of the Falcon 9 rocket. Increasing amounts of metal, such as lithium...are beginning to alter the chemical composition of Earth’s atmosphere'

#musk #bezos #nasa #space #rockets #climateChange

https://gizmodo.com/study-confirms-reentering-spacex-rockets-are-peppering-the-upper-atmosphere-with-metal-pollution-2000723932

Study Confirms: Reentering SpaceX Rockets Are Peppering the Upper Atmosphere With Metal Pollution

For the first time, scientists were able to directly detect upper-atmospheric pollution from space debris.

Gizmodo

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Chris Silverman 🌻10h ago

#notesArt #mastoArt #art #illustration #fediArt

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Plan for the evening, public domain noir. Interpol isn't until tomorrow. https://archive.org/details/the-detective #Noir #Film #Cinema

Cinema Collection Film Noir : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

A collection of Film Noir

Internet Archive

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ChEeSy

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Ended up with an extra 2lb of "use tonight" ground beef from Dashmart I guess b/c they wanted to be rid of it so trying these stuffed peppers I've heard about round these parts. Had extra stuffing guess it can be pasta topping later? #AmCooking

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Jack Daniel (often offline)15h ago

Are your guitar skills rusty? Well then, I have just the thing for you. Fresh off the ArtiFictions luthier’s workbench, my latest creation.

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Electronic Frontier Foundation 15h ago

“The most telling amicus brief in Cisco comes from the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), which chronicles how U.S. companies have allegedly provided the tools and technologies to enable the global human rights abuses,” Just Security reports. https://www.justsecurity.org/136437/cisco-supreme-court/

Cisco’s Real Stakes: Digitally Aiding and Abetting

The Supreme Court should dismiss cert in Cisco to avoid immunizing U.S. corporations who actively aid and abet atrocities.

Just Security

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Our resident political Hutt trying to ram through immunity from public record-keeping out of sight of the legislature, surprising probably nobody https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/ford-government-foi-rule-change-9.7168713 #OnPoli

Ford government wants to skip public hearings on FOI rule change | CBC News

Ontario Premier Doug Ford's government is planning to skip public hearings to pass its omnibus budget bill that contains a retroactive clampdown on access to his cellphone records.

CBC

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