Greum Maol @stevenson@mastodon.scot
- Pen name
- https://barrygrahamauthor.site/
- City Cave Zen
- https://zen.scot/
Scottish, not British. Writer and #Zen #Buddhist monk. Author of more than a dozen books. Returned to my native Glasgow in 2017, after 22 years in America. Green socialist, Scottish independence supporter (but not a nationalist). Urban walker. One of "the screeching voices of the minority."
Pronouns: I don't care.
Joined Feb 2021
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"Ask who benefits, and from whom."— Lenin
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“A principal rule for writers, and especially those who want to describe their own sensations, is not to believe that their doing so indicates they possess a special disposition of nature in this respect. Others can perhaps do it just as well as you can. Only they do not make a business of it, because it seems to them silly to publicise such things.”
—Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
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Signed #OTD in Paris, in 1295 – The first treaty forming the Auld Alliance between Scotland and France. Cool.
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Facebook is creating AR glasses & wants to AI systems that essentially sub in for human memory, "constantly analyzing peoples’ lives using first-person video; recording what they see, do, & hear..." reports @jjvincent.
That's a 'Duck No' from us.
Original tweet : https://twitter.com/DuckDuckGo/status/1451908018875023363
But the pandemic is over, right? https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/oct/19/uk-records-highest-covid-deaths-since-march
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Are there any copyright lawyers on here who'd be up for giving us some pro bono advice on a fair use issue?
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I've said it before and I'll say it again, public services and governments are not qualified to understand the ramifications of not safeguarding citizen ID data. The UK government needs to stop it's various ID proposals and destroying anonymity. Plus encryption isn't optional.
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RT @PrivacyMatters
Hacker steals government ID database for Argentina’s entire population https://therecord.media/?p=8167 HT @emrys_s
https://twitter.com/PrivacyMatters/status/1450205475849523204
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RT from Shubham Agarwal (@phonesoldier)
.@duckduckgo's Email Protection is the best new service I've signed up for in ages. It gets rid of trackers from your incoming emails for free and after using it for weeks, I've found 99% of my incoming emails have multiple trackers. Even the ones I thought would be harmless.
Original tweet : https://twitter.com/phonesoldier/status/1449947615869554693
Sex and the Politics of Desire on the Politics Theory Other podcast: https://pca.st/episode/d94dd952-bb13-47eb-8991-aa960a54134f
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A new study from @GreensEFA shows what A Future Without Manipulation online looks like.
Learn how companies are tracking you online and how the new EU Digital Services Act could limit them from doing so: https://afuturewithoutmanipulation.eu
Original tweet : https://twitter.com/DuckDuckGo/status/1449733688003121157
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Heads up, it's nearly "corporate effort to shame employees into giving to a specific charity that benefits the employer" season in the US.
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Signal created targeted ads for Instagram that show the personal data that Facebook collects about you and sells access to.
They were blocked.
https://signal.org/blog/the-instagram-ads-you-will-never-see/
New single from Zeal and Ardor: https://zealandardor.bandcamp.com/track/g-tterd-mmerung?from=fanpub_fb_trk
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#OtD 15 Oct 1926, French philosopher Michel Foucault was born. Here are a selection of articles by or about him: https://libcom.org/tags/michel-foucault
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RT from Josh Lewis! (@joshlewis)
Ever make a joke about “oh, I searched for [some term], so I must be on a list now”? Yeah, that’s no joke. That’s real.
I love DuckDuckGo.
https://twitter.com/DuckDuckGo/status/1447559362906447874
Original tweet : https://twitter.com/joshlewis/status/1448741849901015041
- Pen name
- https://barrygrahamauthor.site/
- City Cave Zen
- https://zen.scot/
Scottish, not British. Writer and #Zen #Buddhist monk. Author of more than a dozen books. Returned to my native Glasgow in 2017, after 22 years in America. Green socialist, Scottish independence supporter (but not a nationalist). Urban walker. One of "the screeching voices of the minority."
Pronouns: I don't care.
Joined Feb 2021
