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Opt Out October: Daily Tips to Protect Your Privacy and Security
Trying to take control of your online privacy can feel like a full-time job. But if you break it up into small tasks and take on one project at a time it makes the process of protecting your privacy
Welcome to Opt Out October, our collection of tips to slowly break free from online surveillance and throw sand in the gears of overreaching large tech companies. Todayβs tip is about establishing good online security fundamentals. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
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Just witnessing the most unhinged shit imaginable and then logging on to my next meeting
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As federal shutdown looms, Alabama clergy lead protest against Medicaid, SNAP cuts | Alabama Reflector
The protest, part of the Alabama Poor Peopleβs Campaign Moral Mondays, was organized by clergy and pastors from across the South, and led by Rev. Carolyn Foster of Greater Birmingham Ministries.
Via @annabjournalist.bsky.social: About 80 people gathered on the front steps of the Alabama State Capitol Monday to protest the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) and to call on Alabama U.S. Sens. Katie Britt and Tommy Tuberville to restore funding cuts to Medicaid and SNAP.
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Pluralistic: The real (economic) AI apocalypse is nigh (27 Sep 2025) β Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
"So, you're saying a third of the stock market is tied up in seven AI companies that have no way to become profitable and that this is a bubble that's going to burst and take the whole economy with it?"
"Yes, that's right."
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Trying out SimpleAnalytics with no (external) Javascript | Erin White
Trying out a lightweight, privacy-focused analytics tool for my site after 15 years of Google Analytics bloatware.
Tinkering with a low/no-Javascript analytics service for my website and saying no to Google Analytics bloatware defaults; or, making shit as a way to stay grounded through fascism erinrwhite.com/no-external-...
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Text βBorn on this day in 1906, Dmitri Shostakovichβ over a black and white photo of actor Daniel Radcliffe (born not-on-this day in 1989)
Today in Facebook AI slop: Shostakovich, boy wizard
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AND new Amanda Shires?? Cate le Bon??
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Canβt wait to listen! So excited for the new Neko record too
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Photo of Kate Winslet and Gloria Stuart at the 1997 Oscars. Extremely incorrect caption on the photo: βTIMELESS FACTS:
In 1967, the film Titanic made Oscar history: for the first time, two actors Cathy Burns and Michael J. Pollard received Academy Award nominations for playing the same character at different ages.β
Today in Facebook AI slop: ah yes, the Oscar-nominated 1967 classic film Titanic, a tale of gender transition
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thanks for this!
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Great tip on DeleteMe too. I was able to find discount codes easily with a quick search.
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Oh, another lesson that should probably go without saying: don't expect your institution to protect you, or to have resources for you. If you have a union, reach out to them.
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Hi Hooper! We met forever ago through Twitter maybe? Or mutuals in Richmond? Good to see you here - hope you're hanging on. If CR is profiling you, I know you're on to something good. Keep it up β€οΈβπ₯
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AI-Generated βWorkslopβ Is Destroying Productivity
Despite a surge in generative AI use across workplaces, most companies are seeing little measurable ROI. One possible reason is because AI tools are being used to produce βworkslopββcontent that appea...
The article echoes what Iβve seen and heard from peers: AI makes it easy to produce slick but shallow work that looks plausible on the surface, yet riddled with errors or bad assumptions underneath.
Your coworkers end up having to fix or redo it.
Itβs workslop, and itβs spreading fast.
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Thank you! Great excuse to bike, great excuse to blog π
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Not a moment too soon! Bike folk, join me.
Here's my writeup from last year's challenge, to give you an idea of how #coffeeneuring works: erinrwhite.com/coffeeneurin...
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The people ARE the process
Cutting down on collaboration tricks you into thinking you're going faster, but it destroys the divergence effects that make the design process valuable.
A lot of advice for improving team velocity looks like speedrunning: sequence break as much as possible, any% everything in between.
But life isn't a video game, and shoveling crap at colleagues and customers is not a winning long-term strategy. No LLM can stand in for actual human teammates.
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A (not so Swift) rantβ¦
I've got a BIG rant for you this week, about Taylor Swift's new website. A site this high-profile, with a huge design budget, backed by of one of the biggest record labels in the world, still bypasses...
Articles like these that point out *specific ways* websites are not accessible, and how they could be, are extremely useful (especially for people like me who learn by studying examples). Also, we know Tay Tay can do better.
www.laurensherrard.com/blog/a-not-s...
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Thanks for letting me know! Will investigate. Planning to stick with it for now because the bar from all these other search engines is truly in hell
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Yeah, *and* it looks like it can be turned off (not possible with Google atm)
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Ooh. Tell me more? Like, no external accountability?
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