Ghazi @curiousmind@qoto.org
Tunisian 🇹🇳 Pharmacist 💊 Romanista 🐺
I'll toot about whatever
Joined Nov 2022
@textcontainer @hen lol the idiot calls me antisemitic then blocks me! Looks like considering Palestinians unworthy of human rights is the new trend in Germany :)
@hen because it was built on land theft and mass genocide
@textcontainer @hen so saying that palestinians have the right to not get their lands stolen is antisemitic ?
@BennettTomlin also your Crypto Critics Corner podcast made me aware of the rotten nature of the crypto space and its negative externalities. Made me become more skeptical of it. So thanks for your efforts, you're doing a very important work !
@BennettTomlin in my case, crypto (specifically Brave browser / rewards) has led me into the digital privacy / FOSS space, which I think is some form of (good?) radicalization. So hey, not that bad 🤷
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Another thing that makes me happy. My first publication this year got materialised on a mug. Can’t wait to drink tea using this mug. Cheers everyone!
#publicationmug
#goldphotocatalysis
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From the #Pfizer oncology medical team: #Pharma companies should take steps to ensure #openaccess to medical research.
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s40487-023-00220-z
"Pharmaceutical companies need to regularly communicate to patients all essential info about their medicines…Companies will need to make sure patients have access to & awareness of relevant info. This can be achieved by ensuring medical info is freely available to the reader, & working with publishers to facilitate open access (free) publications."
#ACMilan are you okay ?
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@yayKM
Two scientists walk into a bar.
The first one says "Hello barkeep. I'll have H20."
The second one says "I'll have H20 too"
The bartender brings out their drinks. The second scientist dies.
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C'était il y a 10 ans : Aaron Swartz se suicide le 11 janvier 2013 à l'âge de 26 ans !
It was 10 years ago: Aaron Swartz committed suicide on January 11, 2013 at the age of 26!
Reddit, Open Library, RSS, Creative Commons, academic papers free of charge, open-access, transparency,...
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Swartz
Yet another insidious move from #Google! Now when you give permission to Google Maps to access your location, you're also giving that permission to all the other Google products (Meet, Drive, etc).
Solution : Ditch Google whenever you can. However, if you have to open a Google URL, best way to do it is in incognito mode.
https://www.simpleanalytics.com/en/blog/google-changed-google-maps-url-your-location-data-is-no-longer-safe
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how many times am I going to have to prove I'm not a robot? I wonder if there's a way to automate it
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I think it’s important to repeat: you don't "have something to hide" when you put blinds on your windows or close the door when you're on the can or wear clothes.
Privacy isn't about having something to hide. It's not about keeping secrets. It's about you being the person who chooses what you reveal about yourself, and when, and to who, and the other word we have for that is "dignity". Your inherent dignity, as a human being.
Your privacy is the agency you have over your dignity.
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RT @OulaAmrouni
🇹🇳Today 25/12/2022:Summer temperatures in winter season
🌡️31 °C in Tobarsk-northern Tunisia
🌡️28°C in Kairouan and Sidi Bouzid-central Tunisia
🧨The highest temperature recorded today in #NorthAfrica,Mediterranean basin,and even in the world at the same latitude #ClimateCrisis
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"#Facebook will pay $725 million to settle a class-action lawsuit filed in 2018. The lawsuit came in the wake of Facebooks revelation that it had improperly shared data on 87 million users with #CambridgeAnalytica, a British political consultancy tied to former President Donald Trump's election campaign." Frankly, the amount is too small, and should instead be more crippling to Meta. If it's not punitive enough to strike abject horror industry-wide, it's insufficient https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2022/12/meta-to-pay-725-million-to-settle-cambridge-analytica-lawsuit/
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The bit about a lawyer being stopped from entering a music hall in the US because its facial recognition system picked up that she's part of a law company that's suing them is even crazier than I thought.
The law company isn't suing the music hall - it's suing a restaurant, in another state, which is owned by the hall's parent company MSG Entertainment. MSG gone ahead and harvested photos of all the lawyers in the firm and fed it to an image recognition system to ban them from every MSG Entertainment owned location.
People always tell me that if you've got nothing to hide then you've got nothing to fear. She's got nothing to hide and they still went after her.
If this doesn't start making people worried about facial recognition then there's serious trouble coming.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/12/facial-recognition-flags-girl-scout-mom-as-security-risk-at-rockettes-show/
The law company isn't suing the music hall - it's suing a restaurant, in another state, which is owned by the hall's parent company MSG Entertainment. MSG gone ahead and harvested photos of all the lawyers in the firm and fed it to an image recognition system to ban them from every MSG Entertainment owned location.
People always tell me that if you've got nothing to hide then you've got nothing to fear. She's got nothing to hide and they still went after her.
If this doesn't start making people worried about facial recognition then there's serious trouble coming.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/12/facial-recognition-flags-girl-scout-mom-as-security-risk-at-rockettes-show/
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Tunisian 🇹🇳 Pharmacist 💊 Romanista 🐺
I'll toot about whatever
Joined Nov 2022
