Gaythia Weis @Gaythia@qoto.org

"Hornetsecurity on Thursday reported that 33% of companies are not offering any cybersecurity awareness training to users who work remotely.

The study also pointed out that this causes security issues because nearly three-quarters, 74%, of remote staff have access to critical data, which creates more risk for companies in this new hybrid-working world."

#cybersecurity #training #remotework

https://www.scmagazine.com/news/security-awareness/a-third-of-companies-dont-offer-cybersecurity-training-to-remote-workers

And yet here you are, controlling what women can do with a bun in the oven.

NASA has a website dedicated to before-and-after images related to worldwide climate change. It's depressing to browse from one set of pictures to the next. This is how climate change looks like.

Bering Sea ice at record low, in just 5 years
https://climate.nasa.gov/images-of-change/?id=646#646-bering-sea-ice-at-record-low

Columbia Glacier melt, Alaska, in 28 years
https://climate.nasa.gov/images-of-change/?id=534#534-columbia-glacier-melt-alaska

Shrinking Mýrdalsjökull ice cap, Iceland, in 28 years
https://climate.nasa.gov/images-of-change/?id=535#535-shrinking-mrdalsj%C3%B6kull-ice-cap,-iceland

Pedersen Glacier melt, Alaska, in 65 years
https://climate.nasa.gov/images-of-change/?id=212#212-pedersen-glacier-melt-alaska

We shouldn't be seeing this moss. It's Janury in #Polesia in Eastern Poland. It should under a metre of snow.

#DogsOfMosstodon #IdąPsięta

It was "woke" people who ended slavery, ended Jim Crow, passed Constitutional amendment guaranteeing women the right to vote, passed both Civil Rights and Voting Rights Act plus championed marriage equality. Now you get why the GOP hates people who are woke.

Natural History museums are full of art, sculptures, but their purpose is communication—the cultural transmission of what little we know with some certainty about the world. #amnh

Debating whether or not Republicans *really* want to erect a cruel regime of merciless white patriarchal dominance is futile. The proof is in the pudding, and the pudding is the state level: Wherever they are in charge, they are embracing an authoritarian vision of society. (Thread!)

Sitting at a traffic light an hour ago, I saw a transfer-style sticker in the rear window of the SUV in front of me, that read

WHY ARE YOU WEARING A MASK IN YOUR CAR??

Two things came to mind:
1) Why are you so concerned about what other people do to protect themselves and others that you not only obsess over it but actually went to the trouble to obtain and apply this message to the back window of your car?
2. I often don't bother to pull my mask off right away when I get into the car. Sometimes I don't get around to taking it off at all between stops. Because unlike you, I don't like to imagine that my mask is hurting me, and I genuinely forget about it sometimes.

I received a baptism by tornado today, exactly 10 days after starting my new job as Assistant Provost and Campus Director at UGA Griffin. Can't wait for daybreak tomorrow to survey the full extent of damage and start the cleanup. Thankfully, we didn't suffer any injuries among those who remained on campus. Hundreds of downed trees and powerlines meant some employees were 3-4 hours late getting home.

I'm sharing this as an actual solution to empower civilians.

Please check out TurnSignl, an app founded by Black civil rights lawyers. It lets you video call a lawyer asap through voice activation or single touch when police pull you over. The lawyer manages & records the entire convo w/police & works to get you home safe.

It's like $7/mo and free for low income people. It's in a few dozen states & will be nationwide shortly. I have it myself.

See it here:

https://m.turnsignl.com/get_app/NbAW

"Keenan Anderson, a 31-year-old high school teacher...died hours after Los Angeles police repeatedly used a Taser on him and restrained him in the middle of the street following a traffic accident, according to body-camera footage released by authorities"

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2023/01/12/keenan-anderson-police-taser-death-los-angeles/

"Video of the 1/3 incident in Venice, CA, shows Anderson being detained by multiple officers as he begs for his life shortly after a traffic collision. Body-cam footage shows an officer appearing to have his elbow on Anderson’s neck as he is detained in the middle of the road."

Fed Chair Powell’s solution to inflation is to clobber workers: “The labor market continues to be out of balance, with demand substantially exceeding the supply of available workers,” he says. But if the demand for workers exceeds the supply, isn’t the answer to pay workers more?

We've learned this lesson before: Absent strict protections, any sensors that collect data and footage about people will eventually become a tool of police surveillance--even self-driving cars. https://www.vice.com/en/article/v7dw8x/san-francisco-police-are-using-driverless-cars-as-mobile-surveillance-cameras

I was tooting about scoop this a few days before the new year, hoping maybe Experian would see the wisdom or providing an on the record response. They never did.

Today's story includes a great quote from Sen. Ron Wyden, who told me Experian never responded to him either, in respond to his questions to them about my last scoop in re Experian (where they were letting ID thieves hijack existing Experian.com accounts by simply signing up as the target consumer using a different email address).

Here's the lede:

"Identity thieves have been exploiting a glaring security weakness in the website of Experian, one of the big three consumer credit reporting bureaus. Normally, Experian requires that those seeking a copy of their credit report successfully answer several multiple choice questions about their financial history. But until the end of 2022, Experian's website allowed anyone to bypass these questions and go straight to the consumer's report. All that was needed was the person's name, address, birthday and Social Security number."

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2023/01/identity-thieves-bypassed-experian-security-to-view-credit-reports/

@NatureMC In my opinion, the obsession by some groups to define the #anthropocene in a pseudo-rigorous #stratigraphic sense completely misses the point Paul Crutzen was trying to make.
The real issue is to properly recognize the multiple and far-reaching impacts human activity has on our #planet - and then to start dealing with them coherently. Whether things got really bad in year X or year Y is a matter of curiosity but of limited relevance for the need to radically change trajectory.

ℹ️ DID YOU KNOW? A poorly ventilated classroom has similar effects on a child’s ability to concentrate as skipping breakfast.

Clean indoor air doesn’t just limit the spread of COVID-19, it’s good for growing brains.

🔗 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ef3652ab722df11fcb2ba5d/t/60a3d1251fcec67243e91119/1621348646314/Safe+Work+TF+Desigining+infectious+disease+resilience+April+2021.pdf
#COVID19 #COVID