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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · last yr.

I think a lot about what Carl Sagan said in one of his final interviews.

"WE'VE ARRANGED A society based on science and technology, in which nobody understands anything about science technology. And this combustible mixture of ignorance and power, sooner or later, is going to blow up in our faces. Who is running the science and technology in a democracy if the people don't know anything about it?"
"Science is more than a body of knowledge, it's a way of thinking. A way of skeptically interrogating the universe with a fine understanding of human fallibility. If we are not able to ask skeptical questions, to interrogate those who tell us that something is true, to be skeptical of those in authority, then we're up for grabs for the next charlatan, political or religious, who comes ambling along."

Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · last yr.

A new Bloomberg documentary follows a team of attorneys representing families whose children have suffered devastating digital harms

Social Media Victims Are Ready to Be Heard

A new Bloomberg documentary follows a team of attorneys representing families whose children have suffered devastating digital harms.

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · last yr.

Look, folks, this is it. The entire ballgame. Either we're a Republic of laws & the Constitution, or we have a dictator. This is fascism, & the impeachment vote should be happening today. Every single university president in the country should be out, in front of microphones, condemning this.

Justin Baragona@justinbaragona.bsky.social · last yr.

Trump takes credit for Mahmoud Khalil's arrest by ICE:

Following my previously signed Executive Orders, ICE proudly apprehended and detained Mahmoud Khalil, a Radical Foreign Pro-Hamas Student on the campus of Columbia University. This is the first arrest of many to come. We know there are more students at Columbia and other Universities across the Country who have engaged in pro-terrorist, anti-Semitic, anti-American activity, and the Trump Administration will not tolerate it. Many are not students, they are paid agitators. We will find, apprehend, and deport these terrorist sympathizers from our country — never to return again. If you support terrorism, including the slaughtering of innocent men, women, and children, your presence is contrary to our national and foreign policy interests, and you are not welcome here. We expect every one of America’s Colleges and Universities to comply. Thank you!

Stori3d Past @stori3dpast.bsky.social · 3y ago

I'm not a Luddite or technophobe. I just know that after 466 years the thing on the left can be read fine. The thing top-right is 15 years old & uses tech that already no longer comes standard on computers. And the 30-yr-old thing bottom-right needs specialized antique hardware & software to read.

A 1558 book on left, CD on top-right, and 3.5" floppy disk bottom-right.

James Barr @jamesbarr.bsky.social · 3y ago

Good reminder from @richove.bsky.social from his excellent FT piece today on the vulnerability of digital records

Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 3y ago

Buying a tech gift for someone this year? Keep in mind what you're opting them into, and take the time to help set up any device you do get them as privately and securely as possible.

Think Twice Before Giving Surveillance for the Holidays

With the holidays upon us, it's easy to default to giving the tech gifts that retailers tend to push on us this time of year: smart speakers, video doorbells, bluetooth trackers, fitness trackers,

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@bruceparker25.bsky.social · 3y ago

this is exactly why i still buy discs in 2023. it's crazy to think that we are reaching a point where piracy will be the only option to own media once dvds and blu-rays are gone.