When the US @HHSGov stripped @CDCgov of its control over infectious disease data about patients, it announced plans to collect, use, share, and store much more personal data than CDC ever had. We filed comments in opposition. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/08/no-expanded-hhs-surveillance-covid-19-patients
WOW!!!!!
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How Northern California's Police Intelligence Center Tracked Protests https://theintercept.com/2020/08/17/blueleaks-california-ncric-black-lives-matter-protesters/
Massachusetts State Party Leader Told College Democrats to Destroy Communication Records https://theintercept.com/2020/08/17/alex-morse-massachusetts-college-democrats-destroy-records/
Trump Is Trying to Put Us on War Footing with China. It’s Up to the Left to Stop It. - On the dangers of the Right’s new China scare https://inthesetimes.com/article/china-gop-trump-biden-coronavirus-cold-war-sinophobia
@ruff How do we know a trend was being tracked? Why weren't all incoming students and staff tested?
When you swell a population shouldn't you expect a corresponding increase?
I was just commenting that studies have shown that COVID-19 cases may be being underreported by 10x due to asymptomatic cases and a lack of testing.
All the more reason to take control over your own location data and how it's shared, instead of hoping proprietary software funded by your data is operating in your best interests (it isn't): https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/08/secret-service-other-agencies-buy-access-to-mobile-phone-location-data/ #privacy
White House Plants Pro-Trump Conspiracy Theorists Among Reporters in Briefing Room https://theintercept.com/2020/08/15/white-house-plants-pro-trump-conspiracy-theorists-among-reporters-briefing-room/
Agriculture is one of fifteen industries the DOL considers "low wage, high violation industries.” https://inthesetimes.com/article/agriculture-farm-workers-million-dollar-wage-theft
This was not supposed to happen until 2050 or so. We are in deep trouble.
Arctic fires set record as sea ice, ice shelves melt - The Washington Post https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2020/08/14/record-arctic-fires/
@fribbledom This, "It is not only the violin that shapes the violinist, we are all shaped by the tools we train ourselves to use, and in this respect programming languages have a devious influence: they shape our thinking habits.", applied to any 3GL language, including Haskell, explains a lot of the mess that is the software world.
I have a colleague who advises people learning software to initially avoid books targeting a specific programming language/environment.
@salixlucida The real question is why are people still using that awful operating system?
NOTE: Any answer without the word, "monopoly", is wrong.
Sigh. Few things are ever quite as good as they seem. After my fairly glowing reviews of Rutger Bregman's extremely optimistic "Humankind: a hopeful history" a couple weeks back, I have to admit that this rather less glowing review I've just read also rings true: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/jun/10/humankind-by-rutger-bregman-review-a-hopeful-history-of-our-nature
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