Show newer

Don’t use in-app web browsers if you care about keeping your passwords private:

“Meta injects special “keylogging” JavaScript onto the website you’re visiting that allows the company to monitor everything you type and tap on, including passwords.”

gizmodo.com/meet-link-history-

For years, I’ve been Bothered by things like dating apps and social media as superimposing consumer culture into intimacy and the Self.

I’ve talked with people about capitalism working its way up the hierarchy of needs, having long since colonized food and shelter and safety, now setting its sights on belonging, connection, and self-actualization.

For the most part, people have made me feel like I’m being unnecessarily alarmist and out of touch for having this view. I’ve questioned my sanity and relevance as a result.

To hear Klein call this out directly, and speak about it as a profoundly painful experience, has been a vindicating relief. She’s right: it’s the last frontier of privatization, and it should horrify us all.

From: @parismarx
mastodon.online/@parismarx/111

Nein, die Behörden haben über Wirksamkeit und Sicherheit der COVID-Impfung nicht gelogen. Leute, die das behaupten, können bloß keine Studien richtig lesen.
Ein wunderbar unaufgeregter, faktenreicher Artikel zum Lesen und Teilen:
profil.at/faktiv/corona-impfun

Announcing the 2024 edition of the Paris Spring School for Optical Imaging and Electrophysiological Recording in Neuroscience

15-28 May 2024

parisneuro.ovh/

Applications opening imminently, deadline Feb 1st.

Boosts appreciated.

✨ Unser Rückblick auf die beliebtesten Posts 2023. Dieser ist vom 8. Februar ✨

Marie-Agnes Strack-Zimmermann hielt eine Büttenrede bei der Verleihung des „Ordens wider den tierischen Ernst“. Lustig war das nicht für alle.
👉 taz.de/Eine-kleine-Karnevalskr

#tazBeste2023

Multiphoton imaging through 20 mm of air with the new Cousa objective.

This is a new type of objective: ultra long working distance, huge field-of-view, optimized for two-photon imaging.

And it fits on standard microscopes neuroscientists use for in vivo imaging (e.g., from Bruker, Thorlabs, Neurolabware, INSS, CoSys, etc.)!

The Cousa provides excellent data and even three-photon imaging over a huge field-of-view!

The paper has data from marmosets, tree shrews, both young and adult ferrets, intact pig eye, the first in vivo calcium imaging from mouse cochlear hair cells (!), beautiful input mapping / dendritic spine imaging, and more!

The paper was published just now: doi.org/10.1038/s41592-023-020 It's open access. The Cousa objective can be purchased from a company that is being spun out of the lab: pacificoptica.com

COOL! The spicy article I wrote about satellite pollution is FINALLY published! "Bright satellites are disrupting astronomy research worldwide" in Nature News & Views.

This article required weeks of back-and-forth with the editor, the editor-in-chief, and Nature's lawyers, so I hope that means it's a good one.

During this process, I learned that satellite companies are so powerful and litigious that even giant publishers like Nature are terrified of getting sued. Which is...rather worrying.

The 2023 Lifetime Fundraiser brings you rare usernames and 11 chances to win Proton’s most exclusive account!

We’ve received hundreds of community-nominations for organizations that advance privacy, freedom, and human rights around the world.

Check who we’re supporting this year. ⬇️

Hungary’s Victor Orbán is trying to blackmail the EU into paying him EUR 30 billion to end his block on Ukraine aid.

I have an alternative solution: Hungary joins Russia, Ukraine joins the EU — everybody gets to live in their dream society.

politico.eu/article/hungary-uk

Those trying to justify absurd Rwanda Bill overriding our courts & laws in the name of “Parliamentary sovereignty” are wrong. Parliament can only be sovereign *within a functioning legal & constitutional system* where courts can interpret law - which this Bill totally undermines.

🐦🔗: nitter.cz/CarolineLucas/status

[2023-12-12 14:23 UTC]

@brembs
I have long taken to judging companies and other organisations for their continued use of X.

If I want to be seen as an ethically acting organisation and support scientific development, then I simply can't see that being compatible with the use that platform.

And yes, I practice what I preach. I run social media accounts for two scientific instrumentation companies and we have stopped using X.

Show older
Qoto Mastodon

QOTO: Question Others to Teach Ourselves
An inclusive, Academic Freedom, instance
All cultures welcome.
Hate speech and harassment strictly forbidden.