The Atlantic: “Unlike TikTok and Instagram, the photos and reviews on Google Maps haven’t been packaged for your taste or mine…Google Maps’ main purpose is to enable people to get directions and look up businesses. But along the way, it has become a social space too. Sort of. To fill out the world map it… Continue Reading
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Monthly Archives: April 2023
Privacy Guides – Search Engines
Recommended Search Engines: “Use a search engine that doesn’t build an advertising profile based on your searches. The recommendations here are based on the merits of each service’s privacy policy. There is no guarantee that these privacy policies are honored. Consider using a VPN or Tor if your threat model requires hiding your IP address… Continue Reading
Personalized AI-Written Spam May Soon Be Flooding Your Inbox
Gizmodo: “…Now, the arms race between spam blockers and spam senders is about to escalate with the emergence of a new weapon: generative artificial intelligence. With recent advances in AI made famous by ChatGPT, spammers could have new tools to evade filters, grab people’s attention and convince them to click, buy or give up personal… Continue Reading
Report Censorship
American Library Association: “ALA, established in 1876, has a longstanding commitment to defend intellectual freedom in libraries. Even before the formal adoption of the Library Bill of Rights in 1939, ALA has provided support, guidance, and resources to librarians faced with censorship. Since 1990, the ALA Office for Intellectual Freedom (OIF) has maintained a database on… Continue Reading
StreetPass – Find your people on Mastodon
“StreetPass is a browser extension that helps you find your people on Mastodon. Here’s how it works: Mastodon users verify themselves by adding a custom link to their personal site. StreetPass lets you know when you’ve found one of these links, and adds them to your StreetPass list. Browse the web as usual. StreetPass will… Continue Reading
The Geography of U.S. Gun Violence
Nationhood Lab at the Pell Center, Salve Regina University: America’s regions are poles apart when it comes to gun deaths and the cultural and ideological forces that drive them. By Colin Woodard: “Whenever you happen to read this article a chilling mass shooting has probably been in U.S. headlines recently. When I started writing this… Continue Reading
Florida school district bans dozens of books based on proposed bill
Judd at Popular Information: “Schools in Clay County, Florida, are withholding dozens of books from students, citing legislation that has been proposed but not approved by the state legislature or signed into law. In a spreadsheet published by the Clay County school district listing the status of challenged books, 55 titles were categorized as “Pending… Continue Reading
Submarine Cable Map 2023
“This new edition, Submarine Cable Map 2023, depicts 529 cable systems and 1,444 landings that are currently active or under construction. North America is seeing increasing diversity in submarine cable landing locations. New cables are coming into places like Virginia Beach and Myrtle Beach on the U.S. East Coast. On the West Coast, the first… Continue Reading
Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, April 22, 2023
Via LLRX – Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, April 22, 2023 – Privacy and cybersecurity issues impact every aspect of our lives – home, work, travel, education, health and medical records – to name but a few. On a weekly basis Pete Weiss highlights articles and information that focus on the… Continue Reading
How to Responsibly Dispose of Your Electronics
Wired: “Whether you have an old phone languishing in a desk drawer or a broken laptop gathering dust in the back of a closet, there will never be a better time to dispose of it. There’s a good chance your unwanted gadget can return to useful service, and it may even make you a little… Continue Reading
WHO releases the largest global collection of health inequality data
“Today, WHO is launching the Health Inequality Data Repository, the most comprehensive global collection of publicly available disaggregated data and evidence on population health and its determinants. The repository allows for tracking health inequalities across population groups and over time, by breaking down data according to group characteristics, ranging from education level to ethnicity. The… Continue Reading
Long COVID Is Being Erased—Again
The Atlantic: “…Most Americans simply aren’t thinking about COVID with the same acuity they once did; the White House long ago zeroed in on hospitalizations and deaths as the measures to worry most about. And what was once outright denial of long COVID’s existence has morphed into something subtler: a creeping conviction, seeded by academics… Continue Reading
