smokeinfog

smokeinfog, 3 months ago to mastodon

Mastodon Has A Serious SPAM Problem

"Over the past week or so there has been a serious spam problem hitting mastodon and rest of the fediverse especially misskey over on the japanese side of things and the story behind it is absolutely wild."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_KCwq9e-H5M

#Mastodon #Fediverse #Lemmy #spam #skid #scriptKiddies #DoS #security #openSocialNetworking #misskey #BrodieRobertson #YouTube

PS: if you like Brodie's content, he can also be found on Mastodon: @BrodieOnLinux

smokeinfog, 4 months ago to Humor

#joy #comic #RichardSpencer #antifa #antiFascist #lol #humor #funny

smokeinfog, 5 months ago to Amazon

Data brokers know everything about you – what FTC case against ad tech giant Kochava reveals

"... [Kochava] secretly collects ... and otherwise obtains vast amounts of consumer location and personal data. It then analyzes that data using AI, which allows it to predict and influence consumer behavior in an impressively varied and alarmingly invasive number of ways..."

https://theconversation.com/data-brokers-know-everything-about-you-what-ftc-case-against-ad-tech-giant-kochava-reveals-218232

#Kochava #Amazon #Foursquare #mobileDevice #data #privacy #manipulation #TheConversation

smokeinfog, 6 months ago to Israel

‘Double standards’: World reacts to US veto on Gaza truce resolution at UN

"World leaders, international rights groups & United Nations officials have criticised the United States for vetoing a UN resolution calling for an immediate humanitarian ceasefire in Gaza and failing to halt the war that has killed more than 17,400 Palestinians and about 1,100 people in Israel since October 7."

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/12/9/double-standards-world-reacts-to-us-vetoing-unsc-gaza-resolution

#Israel #Hamas #Gaza #UnitedNations #ceasefire #UnitedStates #vote #warCrimes #fail

smokeinfog, 6 months ago to Health

US sets policy to seize government-funded drug patents if price deemed too high

". . .
The policy creates a roadmap for the government's so-called march-in rights, which have never been used before. They would allow the government to grant additional licenses to third parties for products developed using federal funds if the original patent holder does not make them available to the public on reasonable terms
. . ."

https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/us-sets-policy-seize-government-funded-drug-patents-if-price-deemed-too-high-2023-12-07

#UnitedStates #pharmaceutical #patents #health

smokeinfog, 7 months ago to Israel

Progressive forces in Israel: Netanyahu’s fascist government bears full responsibility for the dangerous escalation

"In response to the rapid escalation of military confrontation between Hamas and Israeli forces, progressive forces in Israel have placed blame on the criminal occupation policy of the far-right Netanyahu government, underlining the grave dangers that it poses for peace..."

https://pvonline.ca/2023/10/11/progressive-forces-in-israel-netanyahus-fascist-government-bears-full-responsibility-for-the-dangerous-escalation/

#Israel #Palestine #Hamas #war #progressive #peace #Netanyahu #fascist

smokeinfog, 9 months ago to environment

Europe's Biggest Oil Company [Shell] Quietly Shelves a Radical Plan to Shrink Its Carbon Footprint

"A faltering offsets program points to new problems with the corporate world’s favorite 'climate solution.'"

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2023-08-31/shell-silently-abandoned-its-100-million-a-year-plan-to-offset-co2-emissions

#Shell #oil #carbonCredits #carbonSink #environment #climateChange #climateCrisis

smokeinfog, 10 months ago to random

She is trying to get the U.S. to take extreme heat more seriously. Here's how

"... [E]xtreme heat killed more people in the U.S. last year than hurricanes, floods, lightning or tornadoes, according to the National Weather Service. Kathy Baughman McLeod says it doesn't have to be this way."

https://www.npr.org/2023/07/28/1190684174/heat-heatwave-weather-government

#BaughmanMcLeod #AdrienneArsht-RockefellerFoundationResilienceCenter #extreme #heat #natural #disaster #deaths #killed #flooding #hurricanes #lightening

mjgardner, 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago) to escribiendo

BIG NEWS: The #AynRand Institute is releasing a HUGE trove of essays on Rand’s #fiction and #philosophy for FREE.

Watch: https://www.youtube.com/live/0WNRmh5KpLI
Read: https://newideal.aynrand.org/soon-online-for-free-in-depth-essays-on-ayn-rands-novels/

These in-depth historical, literary, and philosophical essays were originally included in a series of expensive #academic market #books edited by Robert Mayhew. They’re a tremendous educational resource that can greatly add to the public understanding of Rand as a #novelist and seminal #philosopher.

smokeinfog, 10 months ago to PetBirds

A Third of North America’s Birds Have Vanished

"When Smith pulled these estimates together and adjusted each for its degree of certainty, the findings came down to a single ski slope of a chart. It showed a precipitous drop in nearly all these species in every part of the continent. At the bottom sat four lone digits—2.913. That’s the number of breeding birds in billions that had disappeared since the early 1970s."

https://nautil.us/a-third-of-north-americas-birds-have-vanished-340007/

#birds #biodiversity #ecology #ornithology #Nautilus