szescstopni @szescstopni@qoto.org

You can say Substack should host Nazis, but don't pretend there's some "free speech" principle to it. Substack has a strict ban on pornography. Welcoming Nazis while banning sex workers isn't a principled stand, it's a choice, an expression that you like the former and dislike the latter.

Google Kills the Geofence Capability that Will Show ~30,000 Trump Supporters Swarmed the Capitol on Trump's Orders

https://www.emptywheel.net/2023/12/15/google-kills-the-geofence-capability-that-will-show-30000-trump-supporters-swarmed-the-capitol-on-trumps-orders/

🎉 Best News Of The Year! 🎉

Google confirms they will disable uBlock Origin in Chrome in 2024: Finally everyone understands it's time to quit Google. 😎

Here are our favorite browser alternatives:
➡️ https://tuta.com/blog/best-private-browsers

Which one did you pick?

🦊 Firefox
🦆 DuckDuckGo
🕵️ Tor Browser
Mullvad
Pale Moon
Puffin
GNU IceCat
WaterFox
Brave
Hyphanet

Jurors recommend death penalty based on certain looks, but new training can correct the bias

https://phys.org/news/2023-12-jurors-death-penalty-based-bias.html

> Certain facial features—like downturned lips and a heavy brow—are known to make someone appear untrustworthy to others, even though these do not indicate a person's actual character. Such facial biases influence our everyday social interactions as well as high-stakes decisions, including who we hire, or elect to political office.

Note: Wearing a mask or staying home when you are sick means we need government leadership and structural supports to encourage people to do that. That means providing N95 masks for free and increasing paid sick days.

twitter not paying whitehats. what could go wrong?

this one recently disclosed a vulnerability that would have allowed people to gain control of the twitter accounts of users who merely clicked malicious links

#twitter #birdsite

Not death by fire this year but a Zoroastrian sky burial for the Christmas Goat! #Gävlebocken
http://www.thelocal.se/20231214/swedens-gavle-goat-is-christmas-dinner-for-peckish-birds

Storage bench? My dudes, that is a telephone seat. It goes in the hall. Your telephone sits on the table, with the wire draped down and plugged into the wall. Your two phone books go in the opening.

We discussed ecological footprints in class this week, starting with nations and ending today with our own. These are tough conversations for teenagers. Especially rural teenagers.

https://blog.ohheybrian.com/2023/12/ecological-footprints/

#science #teaching #100DaysToOffload 80/100

@m0bi13 A moim zdaniem uratowanie Jowity to pikuś przy tym, o czym Pan minister mówił rano w radiu. Mianowicie przywrócenie listy czasopism punktowanych do tego co było za Gowina (tymczasowo oczywiście). Potem ułożenie nowej listy przez Komisję ds. ewaluacji nauki. To ma duuuuże znaczenie dla naukowców, piszę to właśnie jako były adiunkt.

Blocking internet access via DNS

One of the world’s longest-running experiments has been going for 144 years!

In 1879, botanist William Beal wanted to study how long buried seeds would remain viable. He buried bottles w different seeds in a secret spot on Michigan State's campus.

Every 20 yrs, a small group scientists dig up the bottles & seeds continue to germinate 🌱 (My husband @DavidLowry is the one on the right).

The paper from their last dig is now out so this #science story is back in the news. https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2023/12/14/scientists-dig-up-beal-seed-experiment/71913719007/?gnt-cfr=1&fbclid=IwAR2EjdgGDCOGLvvQTW87YAIu-8GDGBQCPrCpE9im8dubGJrRfWl3XVmeWow