"The fear in her eyes is that of a student interrupted at school by a male stranger invading her space, her personal boundaries and her culture and leaving without even having learned her name."
Sharbat Gula was eight years old. She did not want this photo taken. Read the story. x.com/justinpodur/st…
Getting cleaned up for #MälarenRunt. A yearly motorcycle event where thousands of motorcycles drive around lake Mälaren during the same day. It was canceled last year but this year they've removed stops and made it covid-safe. I'll add photos to this thread during Saturday.
Two dogs are riding in style in a sidecar.
What a day for it! ☀️
Current location: Turinge.
Eight hours after I took off this morning, home again. Fantastic day. My body will be aching tomorrow. Not many pictures, but you know: driving... Might post some faves later.
The new Harley-Davidson offroad motorcycle looks like a military vehicle.
A motorcycle made of recycled scrap metal. The gas tank is a milk pail.
I imagine this is what an Apple motorcycle would look like. White and streamlined. (Made by Buell American Motorcycles)
There are so many reactions available on LinkedIn know that a standard like just feels "meh". You just push the like button and people are all "did you not like it!?"
🤷♂️
Just came across a newsletter where the unsubscribe link was blue and underlined but actually not a link at all. Only fashioned to look like one and thus rendering unsubscribe impossible. Who makes these decisions? 🤬
I know people who would keep tapping on that fake link, think there is something wrong with their finger and blame themselves. These same people do not know how to filter those messages into the bin.
“I don’t think anyone ever thought about data privacy or what to do in the event the [HIIDE] system fell into the wrong hands,” said Welton Chang, chief technology officer for Human Rights First, himself a former Army intelligence officer.
#DigitalEthics
theintercept.com/2021/08/17/afg…
“The federal government has collected biometric data from Afghans despite knowing the risks entailed by maintaining large databases of personal information, especially given recent cyberattacks on government agencies and private companies. These efforts are continuing to expand.”
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@mattarrow @evacide @EFF The first checkbox is an opt-out though ;)
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@impactology @albanvillamil Haha, thanks for reminding me @impactology. That piece has been a half-finished draft for a long time now 😬😅
« Press’s thesis is that our society confers on these workers an “unconscious mandate” to do jobs that are morally objectionable and at the same time wants those jobs to remain invisible. »
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« But Press reports that some of those working in secretive drone warfare programs were offered little explanation of what they would be doing, and as they came to comprehend their missions they spiraled psychologically, from disappointment to disgust or suicidal despair. »
« Many of the workers he encountered blamed themselves for the harms they had done. They were victims of “moral injury,” meaning they had violated their own core values and were suffering profoundly for it. »
This book just jumped to the top of my reading list.
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@LinusEkenstam @Stenkula @sarafritzon @petterkarlsson @javve @kalasjocke @tedpersson @peralmq @bjornfalkevik @adamczak @Sarahsmind @martinaelm @Arvegard @xpatrikh @Feffekaufmann @heidiharman @danieldaboczy @kazarnowicz @emanuelkarlsten @OlaSoderdahl Man börjar komma till åren, men kanske just därför.😁 Att gå tillbaka och läsa mitt gamla blogginlägg från just #sswc 2012 gjorde mig inte mindre sugen. Gäller att utgå från vilka vi är idag och hitta rätt nivå 😅
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@m8rt @dashlane That’s the one I went with in the end :)
@whereby I’m confused. Where do I add rooms in the Business plan? I only see one room, and can only join that room.
The Practical Guide to Humanitarian Law, by @MSF (Medecins Sans Frontieres).
« Calling things by the wrong name adds to the affliction of the world. » Albert Camus.
guide-humanitarian-law.org/content/index/
Good entry on "Human Rights", the origins of the phrase, complexities and relationship to international law. By better understanding what we mean when we say it, we can also become better at supporting and upholding those rights.
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@SquarespaceHelp Is there a way to make the calendar view start on a Monday? This must have come up so many times…
1. In 1888, Ludvig Nobel died. Reportedly, some newspapers mistakenly reported that his brother, Alfred Nobel, had died. One French newspaper stated "The merchant of death is dead" due to his invention of military explosives (not dynamite, which mainly had civilian applications).
2. The article went further: "Dr. Alfred Nobel, who became rich by finding ways to kill more people faster than ever before, died yesterday."
Alfred Nobel, alive and well in Paris, was upset by the idea that this was how he would be remembered. He pledged to change his ways.
3. A few years later he signed most of his wealth off to a trust. This was unbeknownst to his family. 94 percent of his total assets were allocated to establish the five Nobel prizes. This is in part due to wanting to leave a better legacy.
4. In France however he was accused of high treason against the state for selling the explosive Ballistite to Italy. So he had moved from Paris to Sanremo, Italy in 1891 - where he died on December 10, 1896.
5. Alfred's younger brother Emil died in 1864 when a shed used for preparation of nitroglycerin exploded at the family factory. He was 21. Alfred invented dynamite, much safer to handle than nitroglycerin, three years later.
6. And the remaining of four brothers, the only 4 siblings of 8 to survive beyond childhood, died in August of the same year as Alfred. Robert Nobel for several years ran the company Branobel together with his two brothers, with Ludvig taking the reins when Robert fell ill.
7. Branobel, a petroleum production company, at one point produced 50% of the world's oil. Ludvig Nobel, credited with creating the Russian oil industry, actually built the largest fortune of any of the Nobel brothers and was one of the world's richest men.
8. As much an inventor as Alfred, Ludvig designed the world’s first oil tanker and installed Europe’s first oil pipelines. He started out building diesel engines, then produced munitions and rifles and later discovered oil near the Caspian Sea.
9. Much later, following the Bolshevik revolution in 2017, it is estimated that 99% of the Nobel family's vast fortune in Russia was confiscated. And Soviet historians virtually erased Ludvig Nobel from the record.
10. Anyway, Alfred's fortune turned into the Nobel Prize seemingly in part to save face after seeing his own, mistakenly-published, devastating obituary after Ludvig's death. Whether or not that saved his reputation will be left to the eye of the beholder. And time.
11. The story of this premature obituary is published in many forms in respected magazines and journals, but when asking the Nobel foundation directly this answer was provided to Peter McNaughton:
history.stackexchange.com/questions/4346…
12. “Dear Peter Macnaughton, There have never been found any documentation about this story despite all the research conducted. Yours sincerely, Nobelprize.org Team”
In the end, it is up to every reader to decide what trust they place in this saga. 😊
13. Takeaway: if you sprinkle an unconfirmed story with lots of interesting facts, it can start looking more and more like all those facts. Especially if it contains a stark twist.
But underneath… it is still just an unconfirmed story.
14. In the Apple app store the story is presented as an undisputable fact.
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@patrikhson @landgren Den här är intressant för er som gillar de olika tekniska perspektiven, om ni inte läst den. Tar även upp PhotoDNA.
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@david_vuorio @landgren Tack! fixar det. My bad. Det är bara uppdateringarna i Siri och sök som kommer till MacOS Monterey ser jag nu i pressmeddelandet.
@david_vuorio När det gäller punkt 1, tänker du att det endast gäller iMessage? Allt från Apple säger att det gäller Messages-appen och allt som skickas till/från den.…
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@MartinMillnert @landgren Det är väl det här som skrämmer mest. Man måste vara vaken och byta ofta. Det kan vi inte förvänta oss av alla. Egentligen tillbaka till Christians ursprungliga poäng... debatten måste bli ljudligare och tydligare i samhället.
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@landgren @MartinMillnert Håller verkligen med. Målet torde vara att normalisera det som ger mest frihet. Lite som att jag använder Signal för att normalisera, inte för att jag nödvändigtvis har något att dölja. Personer som jag lider nog minst risk.
Men jag börjar redan bli gammal och bitter... 😬