Jayson Massey @jaysonmassey@qoto.org

"And it for me was very difficult because it opened a lot of mental wounds. I've experienced my own injuries. Of course, I've lost consciousness. Once it was I didn't remember what happened till the next day when I watched game film about titanium plating for screws in my neck. So I remember how scary injuries can be."

https://www.cnn.com/audio/podcasts/one-thing/episodes/99669f30-7786-4c6d-a837-af8300f09095

"Before entering politics, the 35-year-old southwestern Pennsylvania native graduated from Howard University School of Law with a focus on civil rights, worked as a labor organizer in the fight for a $15 minimum wage, and was a proud advocate for her working-class Pittsburgh community for years. “

#politics #pittsburgh #congress

https://www.thecut.com/2023/01/how-representative-summer-lee-will-get-it-done.html?utm_source=tw&utm_campaign=nym&utm_medium=s1

"To combat AI plagiarism and keep the tool in check, Princeton computer science and journalism student Edward Tian spent his winter break building GPTZero, an app that attempts to detect whether or not a body of text was human-written or AI-written."

#ai #computerscience

https://www.vice.com/en/article/3admg8/a-compsci-student-built-an-app-that-can-detect-chatgpt-generated-text

Cybersecurity tip: Change the default password on your devices, even your car!

"Believe it or not, this incredibly creepy hack hinged on the fact that the companies were giving users the default password of “123456.”"

#cybersecurity #passwords

https://www.vice.com/en/article/pajpkg/how-a-hacker-tracked-thousands-of-cars-and-gained-the-ability-to-kill-their-engines

"One of Cobb’s most well-known articles was “Race and Runners” which appeared in 1936. He sought to refute the idea that Jesse Owens, a quadruple gold medalist in the 1936 “Nazi” Olympics, was superior because of African Americans’ innate physical prowess that corresponded to a decreased intelligence."

#scienceandenvironment #intelligence #jobs #anthropology

https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/cobb-w-montague-1904-1990/

"We don’t incinerate foods, we DIGEST them, and the efficiency of said digestion is multi-factorial, the result being that we probably absorb about 90% of the caloric energy from the food we eat."

https://forums.t-nation.com/t/6-giant-myths-about-calories/280622

How small is the difference between people?

"In fact, genetically, we are among the most similar at all species. Only one out of every 1000 nucleotides that make up our genetic code is different. One individual, um, another. These look like penguins have twice the amount of genetic difference. One from the other than humans. And these fruit flies, ten times more difference. Any to fruit flies maybe as different genetically from each other as a human is from a chimpanzee."

#race #biology #genetics

https://capture.udel.edu/media/RaceA+The+Power+of+an+Illusion%2C+Ep.+1A+The+Difference+Between+us/1_de7u5ihx/180544301

"For the league, it has worked. The NFL is the constructor of its own reality. Until Monday night, it was unclear if the league’s world-building abilities even had a limit. Now that threshold is obvious."

https://slate.com/culture/2023/01/damar-hamlin-injury-update-cardiac-arrest-nfl-response.html?utm_source=pocket-newtab

Sign up for CPR classes! Let's be prepared to help people like Pittsburgh native Delmar Hamlin

https://www.redcross.org/take-a-class

"Here’s the scary thing: The tools and tactics that Russia used have now been co-opted by Republican operatives, fascists, and other weirdos to harass people, dox them, and spread misinformation."

#Russia #Republican #fascist #misinformation

https://slate.com/technology/2023/01/vpn-phone-computer-security-phishing-siri-tips.html

"More than ever, we saw efforts to catch and convict cyber criminals increase throughout the year"

#cybersecurity #2022recap

https://www.forbes.com/sites/emilsayegh/2022/12/13/2022-in-review-an-eventful-cybersecurity-year/?sh=35941767352f

Working on New Year's stuff. First, I worked out. Now I'm sore!

Next, I am cancelling subscriptions.

After that...going to bed early?

"The Best of 2022 MEGA LIST encompasses the top 25 albums of 2022, as determined by the ears you trust and the voices you love, the tastemakers and playlist curators of the WXPN airstaff."

https://xpn.org/2022/12/20/best-of-2022-mega-list/

"The writers behind Pocket’s Best of 2022 stories share the stories they couldn’t stop thinking about."

https://getpocket.com/collections/pocket-top-2022-authors-articles-we-loved-this-year?utm_source=pocket-newtab

Do me a favor and get more cyber-secure in 2023 for free! How?

Go to haveibeenpwned.com and enter your email. If you see a site on that list, CHANGE YOUR PASSWORD to a new one.

Use Bitwarden like @obi suggests for new passwords. Thanks Obi!

#cybersecurity #password

"I started as a YouTuber after graduating from Howard University. I was on a Fulbright scholarship teaching English to children in Durban, South Africa, and wanted to share my experiences because it's rare for Blacks and other underrepresented minorities to earn this scholarship."

https://www.businessinsider.com/medical-student-tiktok-social-media-influencer-online-side-hustle-2022-12

"So she took it, and started a leadership institute, where she continued working through the age of 107."

https://davidepstein.substack.com/p/year-end-remembrances-part-3-the