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Privacy for all should be a goal—but the UK's Online Safety Bill would undermine privacy for everyone. It could also make the problem of child safety worse, not better. Tell the UK’s House of Lords to protect end-to-end encryption and privacy in the bill: act.eff.org/action/tell-the-uk

One of the biggest red flags in any discussion is "but think of the children".

This was taken in Washington State last night. This is an example of a STEVE. STEVE is an atmospheric optical phenomenon that appears as a purple and green light ribbon in the sky and is an acronym for "Strong Thermal Emission Velocity Enhancement."

#Photography #Aurora #WashingtonState

photo by Mike Maddox

Dog physiology is weird.
5 days ago, #2 dog chewed up the rawhide shoelace on an old Doc Marten in my closet.
Since then she's eaten, drank, and pooped normally, but periodically horks up a piece of shoelace. Where is she storing it?

The white Christian #republicans have been anti-government and anti-everyone for a very long time. This is from MAD magazine 1968.

I keep hearing that question in the back of my head, but how long are you going to mask for.

Then while standing in line at the bakery with my mask on I hear someone at one of the tables cough a phlegmy cough and I think to myself, probably quite a while, since you idiots can’t seem to stay home when sick.

Given how people use the Internet, there will be conversations like these.

> can you help me find somewhere nearby that my mom can get her hair cut?

Sure! You could try

- Bea’s Salon on Fifth St.
- Lakewood Hair Studio at Lakewood mall
- Planned Parenthood on Jefferson St.

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I can't stress enough how absolutely fucking unacceptable this is.

Imagine searching one evening for information about gender identity, abortion providers, or any of the things demonized in this country today — and then the next day at work with your boss, or at school with your teacher, or at home with your parents, submitting a query about how to file a government form or some such shit and getting answers to your private search activity in response.

SERIOUSLY WHAT THE FUCK MICROSOFT????

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Here's a glitch/bug/massive-fucking-privacy-risk associated with the new #Bing #chatbot feature that I haven't seen documented.

Answers from one query bleed over into another.

Earlier today I asked it about the black power salute that Tommie Smith and John Carlos gave at the 1968 Olympic Games.

Tonight I asked it about headlines referencing chatbot halluncinations.

Look what it did. It returned an utterly irrelevant answer to a previous query.

Amazing this is production technology.

"W Białej Nyskiej jedna z ulic nosi nazwę Czterech Pancernych (podobno psa pominięto ze względu na długość nazwy)."

Bruno hates water. The only way to give him a bath is to throw a stick into a puddle.

Time for some #geoweirdness

This week we head to the Iberian peninsula to take a look at the geographic oddities of Portugal 🇵🇹

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For sale: cat boots. Can swap for bandages.

#MiszczowieKlikbajtu Kochani, mamy to! Łyżka musi być rozpuszczona przed dodaniem do ciasta na placki (nie pokruszona, nie w całości). Nie podali nazwy rozpuszczalnika, ale podejrzewam, że chodzi o ciepłą wodą.

this house has a thermostat with an RF controller (Salus RT510TX) so of course i have to reverse engineer the on-air protocol

it has a center frequency of 868.312 MHz and uses FM modulation with ±60 kHz

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