Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis – “FRASER has long celebrated the contributions of women in the economy and their participation in our nation’s economic growth. This past year, FRASER commemorated the Women’s Bureau Centennial, and in previous years topics have included the history of women’s economic rights, the early years of the Women’s Bureau, working women of the Women’s Bureau, and the women of the Federal Reserve.… Continue Reading
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When You’ve Been Fully Vaccinated How to Protect Yourself and Others
CDC Guidance – “COVID-19 vaccines are effective at protecting you from getting sick. Based on what we know about COVID-19 vaccines, people who have been fully vaccinated can start to do some things that they had stopped doing because of the pandemic. We’re still learning how vaccines will affect the spread of COVID-19. After you’ve… Continue Reading
JustDelete.me
“A directory of direct links to delete your account from web services. Many companies use dark pattern techniques to make it difficult to find how to delete your account. JustDelete.me aims to be a directory of urls to enable you to easily delete your account from web services.” See also How to Delete Your Old… Continue Reading
How to Use Microsoft Outlook as an RSS Feed Reader
HowToGeek: “RSS feeds are great for getting alerted to new articles on your favorite sites. But your personal time shouldn’t be taken up with reading work articles. Split your professional and personal subscriptions by adding work feeds to Microsoft Outlook instead. Managing feeds in Outlook is super easy, although it can only be done in… Continue Reading
Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, March 6, 2021
Via LLRX – Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, March 6, 2021 – Privacy and security 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 increasingly… Continue Reading
Can a Vaccinated Person Still Spread the Coronavirus?: QuickTake
Bloomberg Law [paywall] – “Nine vaccines have proved effective at protecting people from developing symptoms of Covid-19, the disease that can result from infection with the SARS-CoV-2 virus. It’s not yet known, however, how well the inoculations prevent people from getting an asymptomatic infection or passing the virus on to others. Preliminary signs suggest they… Continue Reading
America, Your Privacy Settings Are All Wrong
The New York Times Editorial Board – Using an opt-in approach will help curb the excesses of Big Tech. “Despite what corporations profess, much of this personal data is used not to improve products themselves, but to make those products more attractive to advertisers. One straightforward solution is to let people opt in to data… Continue Reading
New Technique Reveals Centuries of Secrets in Locked Letters
The New York Times – “M.I.T. researchers have devised a virtual-reality technique that lets them read old letters that were mailed not in envelopes but in the writing paper itself after being folded into elaborate enclosures.In 1587, hours before her beheading, Mary, Queen of Scots, sent a letter to her brother-in-law Henry III, King of… Continue Reading
E-mail Is Making Us Miserable
The New Yorker – E-Mail is Making Us Miserable – by Cal Newport. “…To study the effects of e-mail, a team led by researchers from the University of California, Irvine, hooked up forty office workers to wireless heart-rate monitors for around twelve days. They recorded the subjects’ heart-rate variability, a common technique for measuring mental… Continue Reading
How Did Absentee Voting Affect the 2020 U.S.Election?
How Did Absentee Voting Affect the 2020 U.S.Election? Jesse Yoder, Cassandra Handan-Nader, Andrew Myers,Tobias Nowacki, Daniel M. Thompson, Jennifer A. Wu,Chenoa Yorgason, and Andrew B. Hall, Democracy & Polarization Lab, Stanford University, March 5, 2021. “The 2020 U.S. election saw high turnout, a huge increase in absentee voting, and brought unified Democratic control at the… Continue Reading
Fighting the Infodemic: The #CoronaVirusFacts Alliance
Poynter – “Led by the International Fact-Checking Network (IFCN) at the Poynter Institute, the #CoronaVirusFacts / #DatosCoronaVirus Alliance unites more than 100 fact-checkers around the world in publishing, sharing and translating facts surrounding the new coronavirus. The Alliance was launched in January when the spread of the virus was restricted to China but already causing… Continue Reading
Weekly Driving Returns to Pre-Pandemic Levels While Public Transport Drops 60%
Bumper Mobility Study: Weekly Driving Returns to Pre-Pandemic Levels While Public Transport Drops 60%: “As the United States entered lockdown, Americans turned to their cars. Weekly average driving remains flat compared to pre-pandemic life, but walking and public transit use declined, according to a Bumper analysis of 2020 Apple Maps data. As Americans lean more… Continue Reading
