geNEURation @theodraxis@qoto.org
Researcher in neuroscience, psychology, pharmacology, and the intersections therein. Dabbler of cybersecurity and data/internet privacy. Document editor extraordinaire.
Joined Apr 2019
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What role did Israel play in the spread of an insidious piece of malware? Plus, PR companies and controversial states.
Pegasus: Flying on the wings of Israeli ‘cyber-tech diplomacy’?
Pegasus: Flying on the wings of Israeli ‘cyber-tech diplomacy’?
@otto Yes, but how tech savvy are you? I use Element but there are other options too.
@Tutanota Still down in the US.
@Tutanota Another attack today? Cannot access on Android, Windows app, or web. Missing crucial OTPs.
@Tutanota
Looks like you're down again! Inaccessible via Android app, desktop, or any of your website/blog.
@Tutanota Hey, your service looks down again. Unable to access via f-droid app, desktop app, or website.
@shapist Please note that this video is nearly a month old. China had a few days of no new cases detected, which is true, but there are new cases here and there, which they are reporting. See the below.
A little Covid-19 myth busting:
Challenging the common assumption about how stimulant ADHD medications work.
"Your perceived benefits of performing a demanding task are elevated, while the perceived costs are reduced. This effect is separate from any changes in actual ability."
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/03/200319141044.htm
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While everyone's been distracted by #corona #covid #wuhan virus, Congress has been trying to pass the following:
"The bill, known as the Eliminating Abusive and Rampant Neglect of Interactive Technologies (EARN IT) Act, grants sweeping powers to the Executive Branch. It opens the door for the government to require new measures to screen users’ speech and even backdoors to read your private communications—a stated goal of one of the bill’s authors."
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/01/congress-must-stop-graham-blumenthal-anti-security-bill
Bringing ecological validity into the realm of human reasoning.
https://nautil.us/blog/-the-problem-with-the-way-scientists-study-reason
"Life, uh, finds a way."
https://earther.gizmodo.com/satellites-show-italys-air-pollution-dissipating-as-cov-1842316669
You Are Now Remotely Controlled
"Tech industry executives “argued that they were capable of regulating themselves and that government intervention would be costly and counterproductive.” Civil libertarians warned that the companies’ data capabilities posed “an unprecedented threat to individual freedom.” One observed, “We have to decide what human beings are in the electronic age. Are we just going to be chattel for commerce?” A commissioner asked, ‘‘Where should we draw the line?” The year was 1997."
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/24/opinion/sunday/surveillance-capitalism.html
Over-reliance on Chinese pharmaceutical production. In the wake of a pandemic.
@arteteco Haha, I did actually see that screen shot circulating but wasn't sure if it was from a different promotion some time before.
@arteteco I saw this and I'm glad you can confirm that it is real. That. Is. Hilarious. 
Automation isn't wiping out jobs. It's that our engine of growth is winding down
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jan/23/robots-economy-growth-wages-jobs
The roots causes of depression.
"This is radical, but it is not, I discovered, a maverick position. In its official statement for World Health Day in 2017, the United Nations reviewed the best evidence and concluded that “the dominant biomedical narrative of depression” is based on “biased and selective use of research outcomes” that “must be abandoned”. We need to move from “focusing on ‘chemical imbalances’”, they said, to focusing more on “power imbalances."
Researcher in neuroscience, psychology, pharmacology, and the intersections therein. Dabbler of cybersecurity and data/internet privacy. Document editor extraordinaire.
Joined Apr 2019
