pgs @pgs@mastodon.technology

Amazon deletes job listings for analysts to track ‘labor organizing threats’
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/09/01/amazon-seeks-intelligence-analyst-to-track-labor-organizing-threats.html

(submitted by SirLJ)

somehow there's a false notion on the internet (and maybe in life in general) that winning a debate makes you right

no... it just means you won a debate

$ cat /bin/cat

Ugh, theres still a few folks I talk to on there...

You know, someone just mentioned and corrected me - even with kids going to school, people won’t care about the death of children. Kids dying wasn’t enough for gun control, how will it curb control around virus spreading? (https://v2.jacky.wtf/post/a382e5b1-6159-42e2-8f96-d7e37f3fc6ec)

Twitter bans 7k QAnon accounts, limits 150k others as part of broad crackdown
https://news.yahoo.com/twitter-bans-7-000-qanon-000000686.html

(submitted by MBCook)

N. K. Jemisin’s Dream Worlds
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/01/27/nk-jemisins-dream-worlds

(submitted by apollinaire)

Google offers free fabbing for 130nm open-source chips
https://fossi-foundation.org/2020/06/30/skywater-pdk

(submitted by tomcam)

Facebook accused of trying to bypass GDPR, slurp domain owners' personal Whois info via an obscure process

https://www.theregister.com/2020/06/23/facebook_gdpr_workaround/

Nine biological aging measurements were compared with actual deaths over a 20 year period, telomere length, DNAmAge, Horvath, Hannum, PhenoAge, GrimAge, physiological age, cognitive function, functional aging index, and frailty index. Go ahead and try to guess which of those 9 tests actually predicted who would die. https://news.ki.se/new-measure-of-biological-age-can-predict-health-risks

Coronavirus Mortality Rate
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/coronavirus-death-rate/

(submitted by rgbrgb)

A Kaggle Grandmaster cheated in $25k AI contest with hidden code
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/01/21/ai_kaggle_contest_cheat/

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Apple can be sued by app developers “on a monopsony theory.”
https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2019/06/18/733510647/apples-buying-power-and-the-woman-who-named-it

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RT @glynmoody@twitter.com

ICANN hits pause on the sale of .ORG to Republican billionaires' private equity fund - https://boingboing.net/2019/12/16/its-an-ethos.html good; now stop it completely

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/glynmoody/status/1206640519289421824