Every now and then I think about Uber's God View and how naive it is to not expect that most services with widespread consumer use have a surveillance God View.
What irks me the most: The potential power this gives over politicians. Never doubt that some people obviously still have this access.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/dec/13/uber-employees-spying-ex-partners-politicians-beyonce
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Every now and then I think about Uber's God View and how naive it is to think that most services with widespread consumer use don't have a surveillance God View.
What irks me the most: The potential power this gives over politicians. Never doubt that some people obviously still have this access.
Uber employees 'spied on ex-partners, politicians and Beyoncé'
Idag fredag 21 augusti arbetar jag frĂ„n Espresso House vid Odenplan (i Stockholm) efter lunch, fram till cirka 15.30. Den som vill titta in och fika med mig Ă€r vĂ€lkommen đ
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I'm sure I'll never understand the US practice of public mugshots being used to ridicule, misrepresent and harass. So if someone is convicted of a crime it's apparently open season on doing as one pleases with their likeness. Consent no longer applies. It's a curious phenomenon and I'm sure someone must have written a dissertation about itâŠ
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Iâve seen several different women in this meme, and Iâm now wondering if any of them are based on something that happened or if itâs an image just designed to go viral. Sometimes itâs Texas, sometimes itâs Kansas.đ§
The blonde woman was apparently arrested in Georgia in 2025. for speeding. No goats.
Or Iâm just not getting the joke⊠đŹ
Idag kan du börja förbereda din budröst inför valet den 13:e september!
Du som Àr Àldre, sjuk, har en funktionsnedsÀttning eller Àr intagen pÄ hÀkte eller kriminalvÄrdsanstalt kan rösta med bud om du inte kan ta dig till en vallokal.
Material för budröstning mÄste du bestÀlla senast den 7:e september klockan 12.
BESTĂLL HĂR: https://www.val.se/sa-rostar-du/hjalp-att-rosta/rosta-hemifran-eller-fran-annan-plats/bestall-material-for-budrostning
OBS! Du kan ocksÄ lÄta nÄgon hÀmta material för budröstning pÄ plats i en lokal för förtidsröstning, eller vallokal. De kan dÄ ocksÄ hÀmta valsedlar med förtryckta namn, om du hellre vill anvÀnda det.
Materialet för budröstning innehÄller blanka valsedlar, tre kuvert för valsedlarna och ett ytterkuvert som alla dessa ska lÀggas i. Instruktioner följer ocksÄ med.
Gör sÄ hÀr:
1. Förbered i avskildhet. Skriv det parti du vill rösta pÄ i respektive val, pÄ varje blank valsedel. Gul = riksdag, blÄ = region och vit = kommun. Om du vill kan du ocksÄ skriva namnet pÄ den person du vill personrösta pÄ.
2. LĂ€gg varje valsedel i varsitt kuvert.
3. Nu behöver du bÄde ett bud och ett vittne som ser pÄ nÀr du lÀgger in dessa tre kuvert i ytterkuvertet.
4. PĂ„ ytterkuvertet ska du fylla i dina uppgifter och skriva din namnteckning.
5. Sedan ska bÄde vittnet och budet intyga att allt gÄtt rÀtt till genom att ocksÄ skriva sina namnteckningar pÄ ytterkuvertet.
6. Nu kan budet ta ditt kuvert till en vallokal (eller lokal för förtidsröstning), visa sin id-handling och lÀmna in kuvertet med dina röster.
P.S. Om du inte kan rösta med bud finns möjligheten att kommunen skickar hem tvÄ personer till dig som tar emot din röst. Det kallas för "ambulerande röstmottagning". För att det ska ske mÄste du kontakta kommunen dÀr du bor och be om det.
P.S. 2 Du kanske kan ta dig till vallokalen men inte in i den, Àven om alla vallokaler ska vara tillgÀngliga. DÄ kan röstmottagare ta emot din röst Àven utanför lokalen. Det Àr en del av att underlÀtta för alla!
This is such a fun and quirky episode. If you're interested in language and linguistics, and perhaps even ethics and human rights, I believe you will truly enjoy this. Lera Boroditsky has so many great examples.
The studio banter is worth it.
Lera Boroditsky: How Language Secretly Changes Your Personality
â© Replying to @deckerharrison.bsky.social
You're thinking of the Spectrum đ This one has a membrane keyboard.
â© Replying to @blacknext.bsky.social
I also didn't understand the "hunting" reference at first. Made me very curious as well. Good eyes.
â© Replying to @xorlou.bsky.social
I do not have the receipt unfortunately, it was a gift from my father đ
â© Replying to @bradfrost.com
Didn't know what to expect but this was actually pretty funny. đ
â© Replying to @lindarn.bsky.social
I got the computer in 1982. I was eight years old.
â© Replying to @notinvented.bsky.social
Yes! Though I think I just taped it. I also had the thermal printer.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZX_Prin...
â© Replying to @sandgrownboy.bsky.social
I went Dragon 32, Atari 600XL, Atari STe. I remember investing in a huge 30MB external hard drive in 1990.
â© Replying to @notinvented.bsky.social
A computer with built-in BASIC, a membrane keyboard and 1kB memory. I upgraded it to 16kB using an expansion slot.
I also had a thermal printer (7cm wide) and a cassette player for storing my programs.
â© Replying to @sparkybrit.bsky.social
Haha, what a nice thing to say. I got this in 1982. I was eight.
I not only still have my first computer⊠I still have the box for my first computer.
The age of probabilistic machines. Why be original when you can be bland and generic?âą
@brianjriddle Tack Brian, jag kollar pÄ det!
What did the SHIFT key really shift and why do computer programmers still have to care about carriages? Learn all about it, and why the original Qwerty layout didn't offer keys for the digits one and zero. And the R key was somewhere else entirely.
https://axbom.com/typewriter-design/