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that explains the "big" part. there's a lot.
*sigh*

These 20 Apps Are Watching You—And You Probably Use Them Every Day You might use these apps every day, but have no idea what they collect. These 20 apps are quietly harvesting your location, contacts, photos, and more—here's what you can do about it.

A lot of the apps on your phone are tracking your physical location and selling that information to other companies. Here's a fantastic explainer from @pcmag.com about 20 of the most common apps that spy on you. Service journalism at its finest. www.pcmag.com/explainers/t...

Resurfacing this to remind y’all.

photo of paulina borsook

1/ A longtime Wired editor just wrote a mush-brained essay about how he totally missed the political rot of Silicon Valley (& still doesn't get it).

But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that

I had a lot to say LOL [alt text included]

it's not an adjustable stand? 👀

it's at least not peeing?

And, no, Signal is NOT compromised.

A reminder that #SignalGate is NOT because @signal.org is compromised but because the people in the Executive branch are fucking idiots.

The Minnesota shooter apparently used data broker websites to find the home addresses of the people he shot and murdered.

Congress has had years to do something about data brokers and they've sided with the tech lobby over and over again.

Their inaction is deadly.

"MRI OPSEC clear", so idk what to tell you, other than it's going to be a longer discussion that you probably want to have.

In Hurricane Katrina, mainstream media were more worried people might take stuff rom WalMart than that grandmothers were dying on rooftops of buildings surrounded by contaminated floodwater.

4 lineman's buttsets.left to right- a blue rotary set with circular jeweled pattern, an touch tone set with random jewels (not for sale, an orange rotary set with gemstones lined up in stripes, and a touch tone set with green gems, and then red gem flames up the sides.

Just so everyone knows, the butt set being auctioned off is the first of 3. Each are unique and from different eras, and they come with random fun stuff (butt coins! Stickers! Surprises!) and all proceeds will go to Veilid.
ebay.us/m/O4Fdp5

making art right now isn’t pointless making art right now isn’t pointless making art right now isn’t pointless making art right now isn’t pointless

reminder: ring doorbells are snitches and ring allows cops to peer through any doorbell they want without permission or a warrant.

tell everyone in LA

Cornell Law School LII " Legal Information • Institute Search Cornell Q Menu 18 U.S. Code § 1385 - Use of Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Air Force, and Space Force as posse comitatus U.S. Code Notes prev | next Whoever, except in cases and under circumstances expressly authorized by the Constitution or Act of Congress, willfully uses any part of the Army, the Navy, the Marine Corps, the Air Force, or the Space Force as a posse comitatus or otherwise to execute the laws shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than two years, or both. (Added Aug. 10, 1956, ch. 1041, $ 18(a), 70A Stat. 626; amended Pub. L. 86-70, § 17(d), June 25, 1959, 73 Stat. 144; Pub. L. 103-322, title XXXIlI, § 330016(1)(L), Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 2147; Pub. L. 117-81, div. A, title X, § 1045(a), Dec. 27, 2021, 135 Stat. 1904.)

Let's all take a moment to read the Posse Comitatus Act of 1878. It's only one sentence.

Today's shadow docket decision allowing DOGE immediate access to individual Social Security data is a flaming turd substantively and procedurally. Justice Jackson, dissenting, joined by Justice Sotomayor; Justice Kagan also would've denied the stay. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

I distinctly agree with you, 100%.
the ethics of the current implementation is questionable at best, before adding this layer of "access", especially in this proposed widespread useage.

it needs clearly defined guidelines & education, and we're not there yet afaict.

yeah. my best guess based on other research is a way for the person doing the search to better differentiate approximate tactile hardness of objects (instead of visual guess) but that's still generated from the scanning tech.

also, ostensibly, it wouldn't be displaying the images publicly.

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How a Kind Scientist Wrote 1750 Wikipedia Bios of Underappreciated Women Scientists Her dedicated work has brought the work of many unrecognised women and minority scientists into the limelight

How a Kind Scientist Wrote 1750 Wikipedia Bios of Underappreciated Women Scientists mukundarajanvn.medium.com/how-a-kind-s...

Hacked some Javascript, forced the feature flag for xchat on, and verified my assumptions - Twitter's got the ability to recover private key material for their encrypted DMs, even ignoring the complete lack of any MITM or metadata protection: mjg59.dreamwidth.org/71646.html

If you had a list of people who really shouldn’t be allowed to have a ‘master database’ of any population, the top ten would all be Peter Thiel.

cannot read anything that account posts without it sounding like a child's nails on a chalkboard.

it doesn't even read genuinely, just bombastic screed

So how did you “get here”? You got here because emotional impact doesn’t require deep conversation—just honest presence. And in many ways, the lack of words may have made everything feel more intense. There was no resolution, just lingering energy. And that’s often harder to walk away from.

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idk if I'll be there in person or not, yet

Colurful painted artwork with circular symbolic and significant symbols and motifs and lines against a multicoloured background

Collaborative artwork, 2019 by the senior Indigenous women artists of Amata in the APY Lands of Australia, who founded an art centre for Indigenous artists #WomensArt

energy is easier to transmit. so maybe the process is running on limited bandwidth with intermittent gravitational lensing & translation issues initially.

I probably need sleep. 🫠

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3 sticks of butter

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oh, that pinged a visceral reaction of ```repulsion``` at the thought 🤢