Why point out the couple who paid for the surrogacy is a gay male couple? Seems like more of a dog-whistle than a valid point.
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I discovered that the Omron Connect iOS app uploads all historical Apple Health data (not just data from their devices) the moment you grant it access. This includes third-party entries, with zero disclosure in their privacy policy. I confirmed it via a GDPR request — they’re storing years of unrelated health records. They also claim they can keep it forever, even if you delete your account.
Thank you for sharing this. I work in telehealth and in the U.S. at least, most patients using these devices have no idea what data they're sharing and who they're sharing the data with.
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If a social media platform blocks an account that publishes a list of names in federal positions that draw a lot of hostility, like IRS agents, I'd be at least sympathetic if not supportive. This has the same kind of ethical ambiguity. If your line between accountability and security is sharp then your world is more monochrome than mine.
Also ambiguous would be sympathy for this but not for the many private citizens called out publicly on social media by platform owners and government officials for the express purpose of risking those citizens' safety, especially since most citizens don't have the secret service and endless taxpayer money to protect them.
lookalike74 commented on What happened when REM went mainstream yalereview.org/article/ta... · Posted by u/johnshades
The Stones are also cultural giants in a way REM isn't and never will be.
Other than comparing the sales records of two bands, concert attendance, or other numerical measures, it's hard to imagine your comment makes any sense. The Stones and REM weren't contemporaries.
lookalike74 commented on Facebook Is the 'Zombie Internet' 404media.co/email/24eb6ce... · Posted by u/panarky
> That was chilling and eerie.
I'm sorry that upset you. But I have to wonder -- can't that happen in any community setting (online or RL)? For example -- imagine returning to your hometown and stopping by at a neighbor's house only to find they had passed on.
How is that really different? In the end, death is a part of life.
Is that really analogous to one of the world's largest social media sites, especially one with AI that knows exactly what ads to serve you and your friends but not that you're dead?
I guess I can imagine a grownup Easy Bake Oven with those.
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yes both sides, etc. but the impact of fox news is far far worse, they have the largest share among cable news shows and they specifically build their shows around fomenting outrage and hate, yes this also happens on the left but again the reach is on a whole other level here, the scale and sheer shamelessness of lies and distortions and the damage fox has created in the loss of trust in institutions and social cohesion in this country is unparalleled.
Also Maddow gets ridiculed on the left (Colbert has made fun of her bs), there is no such guardrail on the right. fox is a cancer on democracy.
Rupert Murdoch popularized tabloid news as we know it today and Fox News is a reflection of that. They were always concerned more with ratings than facts, and whoever wrote this article is full of shit because the Rupert-Fox-tabloid connection started in the 70s.
Happy for the author and some good points to consider as food for thought (however lacking in research on key points.) But reading between the lines, if the worst addiction did to him/her was dropping to 85lbs and getting kicked out of college for selling drugs, that pretty much indicates a pampered college kid who never truly worked for a habit and it gets SO much worse than that.
Cloudflare can do whatever it wants but I wish they were honest about it.
The claim that there has been some “dangerous escalation” in the past 2 weeks is nonsense. If anything the owner has been monitoring the thread more proactively and making sure people follow the law. This is included not allowing the creation of new accounts and reminding everyone that their data will be turned over to the authorities should it be requested.
The only thing that picked up steam in the last two weeks is the campaign to drop Cloudflare and the media attention on the situation. That’s why they caved in. It got big enough to reach Bloomberg/wsj/congress. Just be honest about it.
Thank you for this comment. The only possible negative here is "Kiwifarms itself will most likely find other infrastructure that allows them to come back online." Cloudflare supposedly being "concerned that our action may only fan the flames of this emergency" is disingenuous at best.
These are touching portraits of people's backgrounds. However, they are exactly the archetypes I expect in the Venice homeless encampments.
The first person is an addict who chops up stolen bikes. The second person has untreated mental health issues. The third person came to LA with no money or employment because the weather was nicer.
They've all had struggles and we need better support for all of them, but nothing surprising here. It is nice to get a more individualized and personal background on each, it's easy to dehumanize when you're walking by and afraid of who is the 1-in-100 that's dangerous.
It's also easy to dehumanize by assuming there are 'archetypes' that can be reasonably applied to people just because they're poor or living on the street.