Virtual private networking (VPN) companies market their services as a way to prevent anyone from snooping on your Internet usage. But new research suggests this is a dangerous assumption when connecting to a VPN via an untrusted network, because attackers on the same network could force a target’s traffic off of the protection...
The problem with this assessment is that inaction also qualifies as an action and does not somehow exempt the bystander from the moral calculus. If you disagree you’d also have a difficult time arguing that people who don’t participate in forms of other activism should as the retort could simply be they’re just a bystander and that there’s vanishingly little untouched by the Capitalist system so they just won’t do anything proactive.
Unless you literally live in the woods and grow your own food, you’re likely interacting with a mini Capitalist trolley problem every time you buy food or turn on a light switch. Being asked to stop another few genocides and not make the current one worse is just one more.
So we’re using Bush era torture to justify inaction against fascism? Idk man seems a little weird.
I get voting isn’t enough and half the problem is people often limiting their involvement in society to a ballot once every four years, but I’d really like to prevent The Palestinian Chair from being used on anyone deemed an enemy of the state by a man who is talking about deporting 11 million people.
Instagram is profiting from several ads that invite people to create nonconsensual nude images with AI image generation apps, once again showing that some of the most harmful applications of AI tools are not hidden on the dark corners of the internet, but are actively promoted to users by social media companies unable or...
Within minutes of walking through an Israeli military checkpoint along Gaza’s central highway on Nov. 19, the Palestinian poet Mosab Abu Toha was asked to step out of the crowd. He put down his 3-year-old son, whom he was carrying, and sat in front of a military jeep....
There are plenty of known religions that share no significant similarity with Sumerian beliefs, ie basically every First Nation/Native American religious system. People have been in the Americas longer than Sumer existed.
And thats just stuff I’m even vaugely familiar with. I’d wager 0% of Subsaharan African religions, aborigional, and probably most Asian religious beliefs don’t have any Sumerian influence.
Cochran tells him about another library, where there is a “big glass room to put all those noisy teenagers in” that has a bookshelf in front of it with books she doesn’t like: “So what do you call that, sheriff? Enticing?” “Promoting,” he responds. “It’s like the old fashioned guy in the van with a bowl of...
Idk man, theres not too much debate on who to vote for. There’s a clear lesser evil and theres an avowed fascist. The quoted paragraph just reaffirms what his one sentence says, that voting isn’t sufficient.
I like the pamphet. I think it hits most everything important. If you only vote and the entirety of your efforts are spent on electoralism and not direct action, its a lot if wasted time. But if you cant even take 20 mins to vote every 2 years, or worse you’re advocating people who aren’t fascist sit it out, you need to rethink what you’re doing.
Why Your VPN May Not Be As Secure As It Claims (krebsonsecurity.com)
Virtual private networking (VPN) companies market their services as a way to prevent anyone from snooping on your Internet usage. But new research suggests this is a dangerous assumption when connecting to a VPN via an untrusted network, because attackers on the same network could force a target’s traffic off of the protection...
The trolley problem (i.ibb.co)
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gotta do it (lemmy.world)
Instagram Advertises Nonconsensual AI Nude Apps (www.404media.co)
Instagram is profiting from several ads that invite people to create nonconsensual nude images with AI image generation apps, once again showing that some of the most harmful applications of AI tools are not hidden on the dark corners of the internet, but are actively promoted to users by social media companies unable or...
Israel Deploys Expansive Facial Recognition Program in Gaza (www.nytimes.com)
Within minutes of walking through an Israeli military checkpoint along Gaza’s central highway on Nov. 19, the Palestinian poet Mosab Abu Toha was asked to step out of the crowd. He put down his 3-year-old son, whom he was carrying, and sat in front of a military jeep....
Projected climate-driven changes in pollen emission season length and magnitude over the continental United States (www.nature.com)
These simulations indicate that increasing pollen and longer seasons will increase the likelihood of seasonal allergies.
Yeah. Sure they will. (midwest.social)
Sneaky (slrpnk.net)
Fox trying to be sneaky
Murkowski, done with Trump, won’t rule out leaving GOP (www.cnn.com)
Sen. Lisa Murkowski, aghast at Donald Trump’s candidacy and the direction of her party, won’t rule out bolting from the GOP....
Global incidence of early-onset cancer increased by 79.1% and the number of early-onset cancer deaths increased by 27.7% between 1990 and 2019. (bmjoncology.bmj.com)
Remember to get screened next time you’re at the doctor 🙃
Trump claims he has $500 million in cash, undercutting lawyers' claims on bond money (www.nbcnews.com)
Amazon Tells Warehouse Workers to Close Their Eyes and Think Happy Thoughts (www.404media.co)
"Savoring,” the screen says, in a black font over a green block of color. “Close your eyes and think about something that makes you happy.”
The worst wildfire in Texas' history has a complex link with climate change (www.bbc.com)
Interesting relationship being documented between wet winters and wild fires.
Climate change could unearth, disturb Cold War-era nuclear waste buried by the US, officials say (abcnews.go.com)
Climate change presents problems much more immediate and threatening than Cold War-era nuclear waste, Roy said....
Study says 2023’s crazy Atlantic ocean heat, low Antarctic sea ice give glimpse of much hotter world (apnews.com)
Texas Panhandle wildfires merge, become largest in state history at over 1 million acres (www.dallasnews.com)
Alberta to ban renewables on ‘prime’ land and preserve ‘pristine viewscapes’ (www.theguardian.com)
Expanding wildfires force Texas nuclear facility to pause operations (www.npr.org)
Police Bodycam Shows Sheriff Hunting for 'Obscene' Books at Library (www.404media.co)
Cochran tells him about another library, where there is a “big glass room to put all those noisy teenagers in” that has a bookshelf in front of it with books she doesn’t like: “So what do you call that, sheriff? Enticing?” “Promoting,” he responds. “It’s like the old fashioned guy in the van with a bowl of...
Fox sitting on Whale Vertebra (slrpnk.net)
Calm down guys (midwest.social)
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I mean... it adds up (lemmy.world)
It's some sort of Elvish (lemmy.world)