ceoln @ceoln@qoto.org

⚠️ 23andMe just sent out an email trying to trick customers into accepting a TOS change that will prevent you from suing them after they literally lost your genome ro thieves.

Do what it says in the email and email legal@23andme.com that you do not agree with the new terms of service.

If you have an account with them, do this right now.

#Garfield #music #Santeria
#bot #lyrics

I encountered a fellow American online who was insisting, in apparent good faith, that there is no such thing as a person anywhere in the world who doesn’t recognize the names of all 50 US states as easily as they recognize France or China, and so there’s never any need to clarify that you mean in the US.

My fellow Americans, that is not true. When people here in Europe ask where I’m from, and I say Massachusetts rather than Boston, 80% of the time I can visibly see the gears turning as they try to decide whether I just made up that word to mess with them. Nobody is talking about Massachusetts on the Estonian or the Nepalese news. Nobody outside of the US has ever massed a chusetts and they never will.

If you can't handle me at my worst (loudly ranting about groundhogs) then you don't deserve me at my best (ranting about groundhogs at a slightly more manageable volume).

I'm so sorry.

(no I'm not. Not really.)

not often does somebody drop the mic in the 3rd paragraph of a 7-page talk, but Schneier did:

“In this talk, I am going to make several arguments. One, that there are two different kinds of trust—interpersonal trust and social trust—and that we regularly confuse them. Two, that the confusion will increase with artificial intelligence. We will make a fundamental category error. We will think of AIs as friends when they’re really just services. Three, that the corporations controlling AI systems will take advantage of our confusion to take advantage of us. They will not be trustworthy. And four, that it is the role of government to create trust in society. And therefore, it is their role to create an environment for trustworthy AI. And that means regulation. Not regulating AI, but regulating the organizations that control and use AI.”

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2023/12/ai-and-trust.html

EFF’s “How to Fix the Internet” podcast is a finalist for the Anthem Awards Community Voice Award! We need your support to put us over the top. RT and VOTE! https://celebrate.anthemawards.com/PublicVoting#/2024/responsible-technology/awareness-media-categories/non-profit

“I just don’t like anything which creates a lords and peasants kind of thing.”

– Elon Musk, world’s richest person, on labour unions.

Trump campaign staffer tried to incite riot in Michigan to stop vote count: Jack Smith https://www.rawstory.com/michigan-2020/

What the actual $@&%!!!!!!

---

House Speaker Mike Johnson said Tuesday that before publicly releasing footage of the US Capitol attack on January 6, 2021, the faces of the mob will be blurred to protect them from the Justice Department.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/12/05/politics/mike-johnson

The Louisiana Republican said during a news conference that he wants to make sure rioters don’t get prosecuted.

#trump #jan6 #mikeJohnson

"This book provides the first full history of phrenitis. In doing so, it surveys ancient ideas about the interactions between body and soul, both in health and in disease. It also addresses ancient ideas about bodily health, mental soundness and moral 'goodness', and their heritage in contemporary psychiatric ideas."

Thumiger, C. (2023). Phrenitis and the Pathology of the Mind in Western Medical Thought: (Fifth Century BCE to Twentieth Century CE). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009241311 #OpenAccess #OA #History #Ancient #Philosophy #Medicine #HistSci #Psychiatry #Mind #NonFiction #Academia #Academic #Book #Books #Ebook #Ebooks #Bookstodon @bookstodon (68)

Of course they are - the Russians bought the GOP lock-stock and barrel back in the Trump days and now the Republicans are doing everything they can to help the Russians whilst tut-tutting loudly about how awful the Russians are!
https://www.euronews.com/2023/12/05/us-running-out-of-cash-to-help-ukraine?utm_source=vuukle&utm_medium=talk_of_town

Employees $200
Royalties $150
Servers $800
Joe Rogan $200,000,000
Utility $150
someone who is good at the economy please help me budget this. my company is dying
https://arstechnica.com/culture/2023/12/spotify-to-lay-off-17-of-workforce/

From elsewhere on the #internet...

Great Egret

Here is a great egret (Ardea alba) that I saw among the reeds on the bayou at the Sabine National Wildlife Refuge in Louisiana.

"Visit a pond or coastal marsh and look for an all-white bird—slightly smaller than a Great Blue Heron, with black legs and a yellow bill. It may be wading slowly or standing stock-still, peering intently at the water as it searches for fish. If you live outside of the species’ breeding range, you may still see Great Egrets in late summer as they move about widely before heading to their wintering grounds." - allaboutbirds.org

#photo #photography #photographer #photographylovers #bird #birdwatching #birdphotography #birdsofmastodon #GreatEgret

Looking through the archives. ChunChun is beautiful. #Cats #CatsOfMastodon #ChunChun #LynxPointSiamese