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Help! Moving our lab ( @SuffolkLITLab) to Mastodon was a bet on #LawFedi. Now I need to show the university that it wasn't a mistake.

If you're into #LegalTech or know folks who are, please boost!!! Our annual conference is back: #LITCon2023 (4/3/23)

Focus: Collaboration at Scale

Conference site: https://suffolklitlab.org/LITCon/2023

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Louis DeJoy plans to slash 50,000 USPS jobs.

Why in the world does Trump's postmaster general still have his job?

And how is this not a massive national scandal?

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/dec/13/ron-desantis-grand-jury-investigation-covid-vaccines-florida

ProPublica used Blacklight (https://themarkup.org/blacklight) to show that nine online abortion pill providers are sharing sensitive data with Google: https://www.propublica.org/article/websites-selling-abortion-pills-share-sensitive-data-with-google

The off-the-shelf e-commerce tools aren't built for privacy, and patients face new legal risks since overturn of Roe v Wade.

In July, Dara Kerr and I found online abortion pill provider Hey Jane sending visitor data to Meta, Google and others (now stopped), and found a reviewer's personal information: https://themarkup.org/pixel-hunt/2022/07/01/online-abortion-pill-provider-hey-jane-used-tracking-tools-that-sent-visitor-data-to-meta-google-and-others

Moderna is planning to charge $130 for its COVID vaccine, but the vaccine only costs $2.85 to make.

Meanwhile, over the last two years, the company made over $19 billion in profits off the vaccine.

Folks, this is what corporate greed looks like.

Friends of George Santos, who should immediately be handcuffed and forcibly removed from the House chamber as an intruder and national security risk, say he was wearing stolen clothes when he spoke at Trump's "Stop the Steal" rally. #USpol #politics https://patch.com/new-york/portwashington/friends-say-santos-wore-stolen-scarf-stolen-election-speech

Tonight, the House plans a vote that will gut the Office of Congressional Ethics, the watchdog that holds members of Congress accountable for ethics violations, and has been instrumental in holding members of Congress on both sides of the aisle accountable for more than a decade! Don’t let them do it!

Call your Representative right away at (202) 224-3121 and tell them: Protect the Office of Congressional Ethics

We’ve just launched a new research program for immuncompromised individuals in the US with free home molecular testing and rapid access to medications when needed. Please help spread the word 👇
https://immunocare.scripps.edu

Networking 101

Twitter gave Michael Flynn his account back on the anniversary of the Jan. 6 insurrection.
#Twitter #MichaelFlynn #ElonMusk #Jan6 #January6th
https://apnews.com/article/technology-politics-michael-flynn-business-48b079e6b87cd9ebcf45d9e24d7861b7

Albertsons bought Safeway. Now Kroger is buying Albertons.

Combined they would control ~22% of the US grocery market, with revenue over $200B.

Add Walmart, these brands would control 70% of the grocery market in 167 cities across the country.

This is why antitrust matters.

#GeorgeSantos is on an apology tour, why are journalists skipping out major question, “where did you get $700,000?”

The XBB.1.5 variant is on the move in the US, outcompeting BQ.1.1, especially in New York/Northeast. It is the variant with a major growth advantage over all in the mix now It picked up 2 key mutations beyond XBB

@freemo Merry Christmas, and thanks for playing Santa this year and giving all of us new users here the gift of QOTO! It's very much appreciated.

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The gas pipeline that exploded today is reported to be the gas pipeline that supplies Turkey. With both Nord Stream I & II down it leaves only the Russian gas pipeline that goes through Belarus.