blit32 @blit32@mastodon.technology

Critics of Big Tech are often told, “If you don’t like the company, don’t use its products.”
Last year, @kashhill tried — really tried — to do just that. It wasn't possible.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/31/technology/blocking-the-tech-giants.html?smid=tw-nytimes&smtyp=cur

Israel Systematically Hides Evidence of 1948 Expulsion of Arabs
https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium.MAGAZINE-how-israel-systematically-hides-evidence-of-1948-expulsion-of-arabs-1.7435103

(submitted by rbecker)

The code I’m still ashamed of (2016)
https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/the-code-im-still-ashamed-of-e4c021dff55e/

(submitted by zdw)

Local TV set to air discredited 'Plandemic' researcher's conspiracy theory
https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/24/media/sinclair-fauci-conspiracy-bolling/index.html

(submitted by justin66)

Unmasking China's Invisible Fleet
https://newsinteractives.cbc.ca/longform/china-at-sea

(submitted by marvinpinto)

The irony overload...

Someone said "is that still a thing?" when I announced I was on Mastodon. Is it?
Boost this so we actually get a few votes maybe? How far can it go?

**UN's Michelle Bachelet says Israel's annexation plans 'illegal'**

"UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet warned that 'shock waves of annexation will last for decades'."

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/06/michelle-bachelet-israel-annexation-plans-illegal-200629110256674.html

#news #bot

"There is an obvious difference between George Washington and Thomas Jefferson, who founded our union, and, say, Jefferson Davis and Stonewall Jackson, who tried to destroy it. The fact that Washington, Jefferson and other early presidents owned slaves should temper our admiration for them but not erase it entirely. They gave us a nation grotesquely disfigured by slavery, but they also gave us the constitutional tools... with which to heal that original, near-fatal flaw."
https://wapo.st/2APVJvK

Police keep using Twitter for #misinformation and rumor-mongering about protesters -
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/06/16/police-keep-using-twitter-misinformation-rumor-mongering-about-protesters/

Yes call me a nerd, geek or whatever, but this is so much fun! I know there are more Tree of Life's out there, but this one is the greatest IMO.

Interactively zoom in and out of all #life on #Earth.

http://lifemap.univ-lyon1.fr/

I advise to view the one for the general public:

"Tree simplified from #NCBI taxonomy

~800,000 species

This 'large public' tree is a reduction of the whole NCBI #taxonomy. It only shows #species (no strains, environmental samples, unidentified species, etc.). It displays a description and picture retrieved from Wikipedia when clicking on the tips and nodes."

The other one is also great, but more for the professional:

"Complete NCBI taxonomy

~1.4 Million species
The NCBI taxonomic tree represents the relationships between all species/strains that have at least one sequence in the NCBI/Entrez database. It is curated and validated by expert taxonomists and is updated regularly. "

It even has a mobile app.

#biology

Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone – You Are Now Leaving the USA
https://capitolhillautonomous.zone/

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"A factor that convinced Facebook’s security team that this was appropriate, sources said, was that there was an upcoming release of Tails where the vulnerable code had been removed. Effectively, this put an expiration date on the exploit, according to two sources with knowledge of the tool."