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Last spring, @philipbrewer and I set up identical Synology devices to back up our home networks and then provide off-site back-ups for each other: stevendbrewer.com/new-backup-s…
It's worked very well and has provided great peace of mind.
New Backup Strategy - Steven D. BREWER
Authors should take backups seriously. And not just depend on free corporate solutions. I've read about people who trusted "the cloud" to keep their data safe only to have some faceless corporation invalidate their account and cause them lose everyth…StevenDBrewer (Steven D. BREWER)
AI kids' toys give explicit and dangerous responses in tests
AI kids' toys give explicit and dangerous responses in tests
AI-powered kids' toys like Miko 3 have hit shelves this holiday season, claiming to rely on sophisticated chatbots to animate interactive robots for children.Kevin Collier (NBC News)
your regular reminder to appreciate your tech staff
#technology #techsupport #staff #wellbeing #livelaughlove #dinosaurs #it #infosec
From Bosnia to Brisbane: what child refugee Jasmina Joldić learned about peace, hate and the fragility of society | Australian politics
Jasmina Joldić was nine when she found out she was born into a religion.BYTESEU (Bytes Europe)
After failure in the Senate, House GOP has its own health care proposal
https://www.npr.org/2025/12/13/nx-s1-5643535/health-care-senate-house-gop-proposal?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into Politics @politics-npr
Well, it's time to light a 🕯️ for those who knew the US Dollar...
RIP...
OCC Announces Conditional Approvals for Five National Trust Bank Charter Applications:
- First National Digital Currency Bank, National Association
- Ripple National Trust Bank
- BitGo Bank & Trust, National Association
- Fidelity Digital Assets, National Association
- Paxos Trust Company, National Association
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#Crypto #Stablecoin #Finance #Banking #USPol
OCC Announces Conditional Approvals for Five National Trust Bank Charter Applications
The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) today announced its conditional approval of five national trust bank charter applications.OCC.gov
Why connecting US food stamps to work is outdated and ineffective.
In many parts of the country, there are new work requirements to get food aid. But starving people doesn’t motivate them – despite centuries of this rhetoric. #ClimateChange
Nouvel ajout à ma bibliothèque : Michael Tregenza, Aktion T4, Le secret d’Etat des nazis : l’extermination des handicapés physiques et mentaux.
Le livre de Michael Tregenza, historien spécialiste du camp de Belzec, constitue l’un des rares essais, traduit en langue française, sur la vaste entreprise nazie qui a été nommée l’« Aktion T4 » durant le IIIe Reich et qui désigne l’extermination systématique en masse des handicapés physiques et mentaux d’Europe.
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#3615Looping
Today's threads (a thread)
Inside: Federal Wallet Inspectors; and more!
Archived at: pluralistic.net/2025/12/13/unc…
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I'm and the end of my tour for my new book, the international bestseller *Enshittification*!
My last two events are CCC in #Hamburg, Dec 27-30:
events.ccc.de/congress/2025/in…
and the Tattered Cover in #Denver, Jan 22:
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I hope you can make it!
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Cory Doctorow Live at Tattered Cover Colfax
Join us for a great event with Cory Doctorow as we hear about his bestselling book: Enshittification.Eventbrite
This quote from the "AI-Training Lessons from Napster" article broke my mind:
“… AI is very different from historical cases of online piracy, as it creates large net benefits for society while using copyrighted works as input."
Both piracy and AI have the problem that artists aren't paid.
Piracy created the biggest media library ever seen in the history of the world, freely accessible by anyone with a connection.
What benefits has AI created compared to that? Besides a bubble?
when I found out you were coming to town, I rushed to book, but it was sold out.
Didn’t want to annoy you with “can you score me a ticket”, but just wanted to let you know you are too popular and plenty of us missed out due to physics - cheers!
Stellantis: an Italian worker at the Fiat plant in Serbia testifies “everyone is paid according to their country of origin, from €600 to €2,000”
At a time when production of the Fiat Grande Panda urgently needs to accelerate to make up for months of backlog in orders, the factory Stellantis inBYTESEU (Bytes Europe)
Hamas hid tons of baby formula to damage Israel with starvation claims, Palestinian activist says
Hamas allegedly hid baby formula and nutritional shakes meant for kids inside a warehouse to allow Gazans to starve and spread its claims of widespread famine to undermine Israel, a US-based Palest…Ronny Reyes (New York Post)
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Courtesy of @oatmeal
Why the mantis shrimp is my new favorite animal - The Oatmeal
A comic about a glorious undersea creature.The Oatmeal
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