Changes to the PayPal legal agreements?
Must be a day ending in a -y.
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It's been a hard week. Here, have a cute cat.
[#]CatsofMastodon #Catstodon #Caturday
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HUZZAH! 🏎️💨 #f1
"The race engineer position is one of the most senior roles on each car, and one of the most important on the pitwall - because they act as a critical interface between the driver and the team.”
https://www.the-race.com/formula-1/haas-appoints-first-female-f1-race-engineer/
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Become ungovernable. 💪
“…consumption of these foods was an illicit act that had to be kept secret. These small acts of rebellion may have been a way for the women to resist the totalizing discipline of the institution.”
https://phys.org/news/2025-01-dried-19th-century-australian-colonial.html
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“A deep look at the water in the Great Lakes shows that winters are about 14 days shorter than they were in 1995.”
https://www.climate.gov/news-features/feed/winter-becoming-shorter-waters-great-lakes
[#]ClimateCrisis
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I have it on good authority* that the hard copy of "Business Success with #OpenSource" is finally available for pre-order, YAAAY!
Preorders (& online reviews!) make a huge difference for authors. Please make a difference for me by ordering now &/or sharing with your network:
• Bookshop (preferred): https://bookshop.org/p/books/business-success-with-open-source-strengthen-your-business-with-free-and-open-source-software-brasseur-vm-vicky/22085161
• Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Business-Success-Open-Source-Strengthen/dp/B0DPBXPPVQ/
And, of course, the early release ebook is still available at @pragprog : https://pragprog.com/titles/vbfoss/business-success-with-open-source/
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“Joe Biden commuted the life sentence of the Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier, convicted of the 1975 murder of two FBI agents in South Dakota, moments before handing over power to Donald Trump on Monday.”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/20/biden-commutation-leonard-peltier
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Today, even more than in November, I am grateful for Mastodon's robust filter/mute functionality.
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“It makes sense to have humility about how much we have yet to learn about the impacts of the sweeping changes to our diets that have taken place over the last century. We do need more research into how specific food additives might contribute to specific health outcomes, like impacts to our microbiomes, an area not yet well understood.”
https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/391795/ultra-processed-foods-science-vegan-meat-rfk-maha
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Find it at Settings > Copilot
https://infosec.exchange/@harrysintonen/113854967426639851
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“Just as magic spells are written with a distinctive style that sets them apart from everyday language, the convoluted style of legal language appears to signal a special kind of authority, the researchers say."
https://news.mit.edu/2024/mit-study-explains-laws-incomprehensible-writing-style-0819 (Aug 2024)
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“In this post I’m going to talk about the set of situations I’m loosely calling ‘civil unrest’ — everything from police crackdowns of street protests to right-wing rallies meant to instigate violence. My aim is to help people who are concerned about getting caught up in the middle of something they’re unprepared for.”
A valuable post from @audrey:
https://lifeofaudrey.com/2025/01/18/civil-unrest.html
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“Songbirds may converse with other species during their long migrations, forming social bonds and possibly exchanging information about the flight, according to a new study led by researchers at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC).”
https://www.ecowatch.com/songbirds-migration-conversations.html
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“Do you have Shakespeare in English?”
Librarians everywhere can relate.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqf80bLUPH4
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For those unhappy about this, have a look at this article:
https://www.intego.com/mac-security-blog/no-siris-learn-from-this-app-setting-is-not-sending-data-from-your-apps-to-third-parties/
tl;dr: "So, yes, I think Apple should make this setting clearer, but the panic over this feature, which has been in Apple operating systems for nine years, is unwarranted.”
https://infosec.exchange/@wendynather/113838518415169515
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“Coastal areas, then, are not simply wealthier than the rest of the country; wealth in these places is also less equally shared.”
https://theconversation.com/soaring-wealth-inequality-has-remade-the-map-of-american-prosperity-228377
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“Researchers analyzed nearly 3,000 recent studies, published between July 2022 and April 2024, that were focused on microplastics exposure and health…researchers determined that microplastics exposure posed digestive tract, reproductive system and respiratory system hazards…[including] risks of infertility, colon cancer, decreased lung function and chronic pulmonary inflammation, which in turn could increase lung cancer risks…”
https://www.ecowatch.com/microplastics-exposure-health-risks.html
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TIL that @freesewing has a shark pattern stuffie that several of you may need…
https://freesewing.org/new/hi
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“In order to create it, she says laws from 50 countries were broken, which, among other things, prohibit women from producing alcohol, working night shifts, cleaning machinery, lifting heavy barrels, or driving trucks.” 🍻
https://english.elpais.com/lifestyle/2025-01-14/the-beer-that-is-brewed-in-violation-of-the-misogynistic-laws-of-50-countries.html
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“Alcohol is the third-most preventable cause of cancer in the U.S, putting it just behind tobacco and obesity. As the surgeon general’s report highlights, alcohol is associated with approximately 100,000 cancer cases and 20,000 cancer deaths every year, playing a role in breast, liver, colorectal, mouth, throat, esophagus and voice box cancer cases. Alcohol-induced cancer deaths outnumber alcohol-associated traffic crash fatalities every year.”
https://theconversation.com/even-1-drink-a-day-elevates-your-cancer-risk-an-expert-on-how-alcohol-affects-the-body-breaks-down-a-new-government-report-246767
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