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This last-minute draft of KOSA, which its authors hope to wrap into a continuing spending resolution that must pass before the year’s end to avoid government shutdown, does not resolve the constitutional concerns raised by EFF and others. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/12/xs-last-minute-update-kids-online-safety-act-still-fails-protect-kids-or-adults

Latest comic. A British consumer rights group examined unnecessary data harvesting by “smart” devices, including air fryers connected to phone apps. While these devices may not pose the greatest privacy risk in our everyday lives, they are part of a growing Internet of Things capable of collecting data when and where we least expect it.

#comic #cartoon #technology #tech #privacy #surveillance #consumer #cooking #internet #internetofthings

#Lazyweb. Has anyone built a #Forgejo or #Gitea Action to run #Jekyll and put the generated files in a directory on a web server? I know about all the GitHub automation using their GitHub pages, but I want to #selfhost and already have the sources of my blog in a git repo on my local forgejo instance. Ideally a solution that runs completely locally, without downloading tons of stuff from docker repos :)

I am truly impressed. Within minutes I got files, advice and support from everywhere around the #fediverse. I now have no more excuses and will have to work hard to get it all up and running and report on teh HOWTO in an upcoming blog post which might already be after I moved my blog to my own server. The Fediverse is full of geeks that are happy to share. And that's not a bad thing in clickbait times! Thank you all :)

Actual anti-imperialists are a rare breed nowadays. Thankfully, we've still got Margaret Kimberley and Gerald Horne around to keep things real.

https://www.blackagendareport.com/gerald-horne-analyzes-collapse-syria-government

A reminder that the mainstream media is here to keep you in line and not thinking any thoughts that might be bad for our overlords.

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2024/12/tom-neuburger-the-medias-bizarre-treatment-of-the-mangione-case.html

When I am an employee, employers are like "you have to accept Scrum". When I'm consulting, employers are like "oh, you must be elite, you're using something that isn't Scrum"

This industry has brain worms

And yes of course it is literally the paper that gives us this incredible FIGURE 1, which you have CERTAINLY seen if you have ever heard ANYONE talk about ANY "decentralized" or "distributed" system ever

CENTRALIZED DECENTRALIZED DISTRIBUTED

You know this image. You could never forget this image

In my previous blogpost I had expressed worry about moving the goalposts of "decentralization". That is *exactly* what's happening here, and what's being said is "if we weaken the definition dramatically, then Bluesky qualifies"

This is, IMO, not a very compelling look I've gotta say

Hello world! We are a new anarchist podcast covering frontline autonomous struggles across the so-called US and beyond. New episode drops soon! Part of the @ChannelZeroNet.

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‘Unprecedented risk’ to #life on Earth: #Scientists call for halt on #MirrorLife #microbe #research | #Science | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2024/dec/12/unprecedented-risk-to-life-on-earth-scientists-call-for-halt-on-mirror-life-microbe-research

#Biology #Microbiology #SyntheticBiology

And I know, I know, this sounds like some kind of hoax. Surely, it's a hoax.

No. No, my friends, this is an actual thing UCLA is doing. I can't even...

https://newsroom.ucla.edu/stories/comparative-literature-zrinka-stahuljak-artificial-intelligence

This is an actual cover for an actual text book at an actual university (and one that you have likely heard of is you're a USian). WTAF is going on, people? I don't think the "AIs" are the only ones hallucinating, because someone must have been on some extremely hard substances to think THIS 👇 was a good idea. And it would be bad enough if the AIification stopped at a book cover, but no, they AIed the whole course. If this stuff isn't stopped, higher ed is cooked, imho.

https://lithub.com/uclas-new-ai-designed-literature-course-has-the-worst-looking-textbook-cover-ive-ever-seen/

Glad someone went through the trouble of debunking the insurance industry apologists.

https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/its-time-to-break-up-big-medicine

I've got a feeling this might be a FAFO moment for the China hawks in Washington.

https://www.crisisinvesting.com/p/the-red-dragon-strikes-back

“One place suits one person, another place suits another person. For my part I prefer to live in the country, like Timmie Willie.” ~Beatrix Potter

https://www.neh.gov/article/beatrix-potters-quiet-rebellion

New In These Times comic from Ben Passmore on being sent to a reform school

https://inthesetimes.com/article/comic-burn-the-system-comics-reform-ben-passmore

@interfluidity @keubiko As the economic statistics are calculated, when a crash makes you spend a lot of money on health care & auto repairs, you have a higher standard of living.