Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

WSJ discovers that Phoenix police are not especially interested in First Amendment rights: https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/06/media/wsj-reporter-chase-arrest/index.html

Two thirds of health care organizations in a study said they'd been attacked with ransomware.

This activity isn't just robbery It's assault on people's health, and if some die, outright murder.

https://assets.sophos.com/X24WTUEQ/at/4wxp262kpf84t3bxf32wrctm/sophos-state-of-ransomware-healthcare-2022-wp.pdf

The auto industry needs to up its security testing in a big way as it transitions to web and API to interact with vehicles.

Wow.

"Fully remote lock, unlock, engine start, engine stop, precision locate, flash headlights, and honk vehicles using only the VIN number
Fully remote account takeover and PII disclosure via VIN number (name, phone number, email address, physical address)
Ability to lock users out of remotely managing their vehicle, change ownership
For Kia’s specifically, we could remotely access the 360-view camera and view live images from the car"

https://samcurry.net/web-hackers-vs-the-auto-industry/

Classic NY Times analysis in this "Wave of Job-Switching Has Employers on a Training Treadmill" story: It tangentially notes that the switching is highest in low-pay jobs where workers are going to higher-paying gigs. But no one directly states the obvious, that treating workers better would keep more of them around. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/03/business/economy/job-turnover-productivity.html

Reminder that journalists who would never consider working for the Murdoch family's Fox "News" -- because they have too much integrity to participate in its relentless poisoning of our civic life -- continue to pour their work into Elon Musk's Twitter.

Half of #glaciers will be gone by #2100 even under Paris 1.5C accord, study finds | Glaciers | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jan/05/half-planets-glaciers-gone-2100-even-under-paris-15c-accord-data-finds

#Environment #GlobalWarming #ClimateChange #ParisAgreement

Well, this is surprising and terrific.

The Biden administration nominated Gigi Sohn for FCC (she's the architect of net neutrality regulations), but that nomination stalled out in the face of lobby efforts, and it seemed like she was hung out to dry.

Guess they didn't lose interest after all. Hope this time she gets full support to get approved.

https://www.techdirt.com/2023/01/03/gigi-sohns-fcc-future-looking-brighter-as-biden-plans-renomination/

#FCC #TechPolicy #Telecom

Streaming middleman Roku, which wants to replace the cable box in people's homes, is amenable to having an extremist right-wing channel as part of its offering. https://www.mediamatters.org/qanon-conspiracy-theory/roku-has-allowed-hundreds-thousands-installations-channel-dedicated-qanon

#extremism #streaming

New research shows that #farmland #bird populations bounce back when farms devote 10% of their land to #nature-friendly measures 🐦 👨‍🌾 💚

Article: https://www.britishecologicalsociety.org/farmland-bird-populations-bounce-back-when-farms-devote-10-of-their-land-to-nature-friendly-measures/

Research paper:
https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1365-2664.14338

grocery store chains: we set record profits this year

retail chains: we've never made so much money

energy companies: we just posted our best quarter on record

news article: who is to blame for inflation? you peasants wanting wages, probably

"A ransomware attack on the Guardian has hobbled the London-based news-organization’s basic operations, shutting down everything from its office wifi to the tills in the staff canteen. The company’s offices will remain closed until at least Jan 23"

https://www.semafor.com/article/01/03/2023/cyberattack-shutters-the-guardians-office-for-a-month

@QasimRashid

"Racism is so bad?! I didn't know!" Is a cop out. It's a crime in two parts. The first part is intentional actions that people take to make sure that they don't know how bad the racism is.

Sometimes it's in 3 parts. Party A makes sure that Party B doesn't know how bad the racism is. Then party B can happily enjoy life while party C is brutalized. That's the whole CRT debate, and the Texas board of education in a nutshell.

Willfull ignorance is not the same as innocence.

Turns out that Adobe is collecting all of its customers' pictures into a machine learning training set.

This is opt-out, not opt-in so if you use Lightroom, for example, it defaults to adding all of your photos to the set.

If these are unpublished pictures, work-in-progress, etc. they'll still be analysed as soon as they're synced.

I've been using Lightroom to sync photos from my Windows desktop to my iPad. Now I need to reconsider that.