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‘What happened to academic freedom?’: Scientist fumes as Facebook flags Covid-19 study questioning mask effectiveness as ‘false'

Social media cannot be allowed to suppress scientific discourse, critics said after Facebook ‘fact-checkers’ flagged as ‘false’ an Oxford professor’s report citing the Danish study on effectiveness of facemasks against Covid-19. Read Full Arti...
rt.com/news/507374-facebook-ce

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Kurt Russell says his age provides him with a unique opportunity: to play Santa Claus.

He stars alongside @goldiehawn in #TheChristmasChronicles2.
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New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo is set to soon receive an International Emmy award for his once-daily televised briefings on the coronavirus pandemic that killed tens of thousands of New Yorkers this spring. apne.ws/jxhzCOM twitter.com/AP/status/13299456 #News #AP #coronavirus #Killed #NewYork

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In the end, SeaDream admitted that all its efforts to prevent the spread of disease at sea were “not sufficient.” trib.al/7kuCtT1
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Dr Mark Sundaram is a university professor who presents The Endless Knot, a series of videos connecting language with history. You can follow the videos at:

➡️ @alliterative

The full set of videos is also available on the PeerTube instance at tilvids.com/accounts/alliterat

#MarkSundaram #TheEndlessKnot #EndlessKnot #Etymology #Language #Linguistic #Linguistics #English #EnglishLanguage #LanguageHistory #History #Videos

Mastodon instances have a variety of different themes to choose from.

✅ You can change your Mastodon theme by going to Preferences, then Appearance, then Site Theme, then click on "Save Changes".

This is particularly useful if you have several different accounts open, so you can switch between them without getting them mixed up.

Different instances have different selections of themes, ask your admin if you want extra themes added.

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This great article explains the fundamental problems with app data collection that lead to the govt. buying location data.

nytimes.com/2020/11/18/technol

In this post we talk about how app ecosystem incentives steer developers toward collecting data they don't need. puri.sm/posts/mobile-app-store

It shouldn’t be a surprise that Facebook has joined Section 230’s critics: it literally has the most to gain from decimating the law. eff.org/deeplinks/2020/11/dont

We have released a new lemmy version (v0.8.7), which fixes all the federation issues reported so far. The test instances are already updated, so give it another try :)

voyager.lemmy.ml/ enterprise.lemmy.ml/ ds9.lemmy.ml/

Two recent Supreme Court cases—Jones and Carpenter—have huge ramifications for whether or not police can access your data while it's being held by third parties. Learn more in the latest episode of "How to Fix the Internet": eff.org/deeplinks/2020/11/podc

the rest of the story didn’t load for a bit and i was like ‘wow! i respect how succinct this is’

ProtonVPN is now officially supported on Chromebook devices! Simply download the ProtonVPN Android app from the Google Play Store, or via our app APK link, to start securing your Internet connection, streaming your favorite shows, and more: protonvpn.com/blog/unlimited-c

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