Hot off the presses... from The Onion...Google Maps Adds Shortcuts Through Houses Of People Google Knows Aren’t Home Right Now
https://www.theonion.com/google-maps-adds-shortcuts-through-houses-of-people-goo-1848861825
Compelling argument on the relationship between controlling our bodies and our right to privacy through encryption:
The End of Roe Will Bring About a Sea Change in the Encryption Debate
https://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/blog/2022/05/end-roe-will-bring-about-sea-change-encryption-debate
Including “And. And. And. And. And.” in a Google doc causes it to crash https://bit.ly/3vNJHN2
“The AI industry does not seek to capture land as the conquistadors of the Caribbean and Latin America did, but the same desire for profit drives it to expand its reach” https://buff.ly/36uVPbS
"The far-right People’s Convoy reportedly opened fire with live rounds at anti-fascist counter protesters today on I-205 freeway in Oregon. Independent journalist Alissa Azar confirmed that two shots were fired and that no counter protesters were injured." https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/4/29/2094910/-People-s-Convoy-fires-live-rounds-at-anti-fascists-in-Oregon
Elon Musk isn’t just buying Twitter, he’s buying every private tweet and direct message you’ve ever sent. He’s acquiring untold volumes of location data, IP addresses, and other metadata. And there are virtually no rules on how he can use it. #deleteTwitter
Elon Musk’s Twitter Could Be a Nightmare for User Privacy https://www.thedailybeast.com/elon-musks-twitter-could-be-a-nightmare-for-user-privacy
Checkout the May First World Social Forum activities next week! #wsf2022 https://mayfirst.coop/en/post/2022/wsf2022/
Long and dense but a great read:
Crypto, the Left, and Techno-Feudalism | Yanis Varoufakis & Evgeny Morozov in dialogue - mέta
https://metacpc.org/en/crypto-blockchain/
The UX on this Small Child Is Terrible
https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/the-ux-on-this-small-child-is-terrible
Has anybody posted this here yet?
https://blog.wesleyac.com/posts/web3-centralized
One more time won't hurt...
The SQLite project has 640 times more lines of testing code then lines of regular code. Is there ever a point where the effort to maintain the testing code outweighs it's benefit? https://www.sqlite.org/testing.html
Hi to all the May First members out there in the Fediverse - if you have not yet registered for our Membership meeting tomorrow at 3:00 pm America/New_York (8:00 pm UTC), please do so now so we can send you the link to participate: https://outreach.mayfirst.org/civicrm/event/register?id=76&reset=1
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On the state of banking and Internet security: “We’re failing so profoundly at the very basics that children can literally become millionaire criminals."
https://threatpost.com/teen-rakes-in-2-74m-worth-of-bitcoin-in-phishing-scam/175834/
Facebook crisis grows as new whistleblower and leaked documents emerge https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/oct/22/facebook-whistleblower-hate-speech-illegal-report
Trying not to lose too much time checking out the global clock
https://thehtime.com/. Intriguing idea, the full article is also fascinating (https://medium.com/adventures-in-consumer-technology/introducing-solutions-to-solve-the-mess-of-time-zones-cdf44a7ee4ae), especially the part about identifying days by the position of the earth relative to the sun. Reminds me of the hours I lost obsessing over calendars thanks to 99 percent invisible (https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/the-calendar/).
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