MiscreantMuse

Sigh, I just saw an article reporting that DDT exposure can have a hereditary impact (in humans). Meaning, a woman's exposure today can impact her grandkids' growth and development.

After 70 years, we're still figuring out how damaging Monsanto's 'miracle' solutions are.

Undaunted, we are frenetically creating untold multitudes of novel compounds every day... regulated only by profitability, in most cases.

Sometimes I wonder if we are going to last long enough to realize how dangerous our pace of progress is.

I will keep my fingers crossed, but 'enlightened' has not been my experience of the US.

It seems to me that the US will continue to prioritize protecting the profit streams stemming from internet tracking over personal privacy until the profits diminish, or the laws (and the system of government providing them) change substantially.

In any event, I was really more speaking to the widespread police surveillance in the US, alongside the national and individual consequences of ubiquitous corporate surveillance.

I hear you, it's really been a discouraging few years. Unfortunately, I think we have to keep on top of the dystopian stuff, or we'll end up with even less good news.

That said, here is an adorable interlude from the doomscrolling.

This "New IP" proposal is genuinely terrifying, but frankly, at least from my perspective (as an American), it seems the EU has been leading the way in ethical internet governance.

While the US is certainly less restrictive about information than China (at the moment), in many ways the US is just less honest about the surveillance state it enacts, and I'm not sure it has been leading anywhere the world wants to go.

Nice! For people who already have EFF's HTTPS Everywhere installed, it can totally do the same thing!

I haven't seen anyone mention ScriptSafe, which I really like for granular control of javascript!

It also has some fingerprinting protections, among other features.

Given the very fine people running Facebook, something tells me it's more of a feature than a 'loophole'.

lol, it's sadly what they deserve.

I'm still using my V20, the last great android phone (imo). I hate that android device makers gave up on being diverse and useful, only to embrace becoming crappy closed-off apple knockoffs.

When this dies, I'm just getting something that runs a mobile linux distro.

Super cool idea, but I wonder if the safety issues have been fully evaluated.

I'm definitely not an expert, but apparently these can emit volatile organic compounds and ultrafine particulates.

I just wanted to say thank you to the mods!

Anti-vax conspiracies are dangerous, and I greatly prefer the removal of dangerous misinformation to the dubious benefits of unmoderated freeze peach.

Many thanks to the OP as well, for an interesting post!

I feel like a broken record, but aside from having a homophobic CEO, Brave also has fascist funding!

One of their original investors was Peter Thiel, the souless monster financing Facebook, Palantir Technologies, and the despotic wing of the Republican Party.

FWIW, some of the people involved have suggested that Gab introduced vulnerabilities while modifying the Mastodon code.

See here.