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My fellow Americans: Serbia understood the assignment Brazil understood the assignment Do you?

It turns out that Canada's federal privacy law, PIPEDA, generally doesn't cover nonprofits when they're conducting noncommercial activities. Now, some provinces, including BC, have their own privacy laws that DO cover nonprofits. But protections vary across Canada. 3/7

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Psst... (whispers) Custom yarn bowl is still available.

Restock preview is up! Going live tomorrow at 10am PT amyraehill.com #sciart

Today's lesson Stop using outdated guidance on setting up M365 admin breakglass accounts. Do not exclude them from MFA. Do use dual enrolled FIDO2 keys stored in a safe.

Now? Now will you fucking enforce passkeys?

This thread has some great feels, as do the comments. Take a few minutes and cleanse your doomscrolling?

I've held this account for nearly as long as Sirius existed as a service, from before the merger with XM. But I cannot tolerate what they are doing now.

This is one of the most articulate and clear musings on ethics, law and responsibility for high tech I've seen this year. Thread 🧵

Bit of a milestone reached this last weekend. Sitting at 140 ish books completed during the streak, not quite a book per week.

I have blamed The agents That hacked Your website And which You probably Reasonably thought I controlled Forgive me I am rich And unaccustomed To taking responsibility

apropos of nothing in particular

I'm wondering now if dicamba has been used in my area and drifted into our garden this year.

We learn best by making our own special mistakes and building past them.

Any fellow tech authors out there who have received a Notice of Disagreement from the Anthropic Settlement administrators involving your contract with Pearson? Let's talk.

This is good risk assessment and mitigation planning in action. Applies to any class of risk.

Fire. Ready. Aim.

Briefly popping my head back in to unveil the cover of my upcoming book, LIFE BEYOND MEASURE: Nature's Hidden Wonders at Every Scale. It’ll be out on April 6 in the U.S. and April 29 in the U.K. and you can pre-order it right now! www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/757705... 1/

They never learn that it’s a trick.

Tech Predictions

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"Reality doesn’t read rosy government propaganda—and if you can’t see reality, you can’t fix it."

Except everyone would have to agree not to play

Every once in awhile, in the midst of my nights, I’m struck dumb with awe and a strange, refracted grief: It’s legitimately fucking *crazy* how good the internet used to be

There are still heros in our midst. ❤️

macabre = “muh-KAHB” Worcestershire = “WOOSS-ter-sheer” omnipotent = “ahm-NI-puh-tunt” reticent = “RET-uh-sunt” epitome = “ih-PIT-uh-mee” myriad = "MEER-ee-ud" Never make fun of someone if they mispronounce a word. It means they learned it by reading.

The correct name is Niigani-gichigami (Yes, really)

The muses do not care about age, or anything else physical. They just want two things: 1) To be heard or felt 2) For one to create after listening or feeling.

Christian H. Klosz: "Remember: If you're a lone masker again, know that in another, more advanced culture you would be totally normal. The problem isn't you, it's them." Source: x.com/_Kun3_0/stat... @ckklosz.bsky.social

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The Library is devastated to learn of the passing of Dolly Parton, a music legend and titan of children's literacy. Her Imagination Library program has earned multiple Library Literacy Awards and, in 2018, she visited us to donate its 100 millionth book to our collection and host a story time. 🦋❤️

And a special one from the pile from Canada 🇨🇦🇨🇦

Do you want to write a story about volcanoes that changed history? the editor asked. Why yes. Yes, I do. My piece in @knowablemag.bsky.social on the terrible, horrible, no good, very bad days that can transpire after an eruption: knowablemagazine.org/content/arti... 🧪🌋

Still leasing that Comcast router? Did you know you can buy your own, stop paying the rental fee on your bill, and now, improve your privacy at home?