cultural reviewer and dabbler in stylistic premonitions

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  • Important context!

    They had to change this because newer laws like the CCPA classify some ways of transferring/processing data as a “sale”, even if no money is exchanged.

    What? No. Do you really think their “sharing” with “partners” who are “providing sponsored suggestionsdoesn’t involve money being exchanged? 🤔

    Here is an abridged version of that FAQ entry consisting only of substrings of it:

    The reason we’ve stepped away from making blanket claims that “We never sell your data” is because […] to make Firefox commercially viable […] we collect and share some data with our partners, including our optional ads on New Tab and providing sponsored suggestions in the search bar

    All of the other words in there implying that they had to stop promising not to sell user data because of some (implied to be unreasonable) “LEGAL definition” of “sale” is imo insulting to the reader.
















  • The bears definitely took notice of the drone. The animals’ heart rate skyrocketed when the UAV flew overhead, and their stress response was stronger when the quadcopter flew in windy conditions that masked the sound of its approach — apparently bears do not like being surprised. One bear started moving faster after the quadcopter flew by. And the bear that had experienced the greatest increase in heart rate — from 41 beats per minute to 162 — moved nearly 7 kilometers in the next 28 hours, encroaching into a neighboring female’s territory.

    All in all, though, the bears weren’t stressed all that much, the researchers concluded.

    🤌

    At least there is this:

    Ditmer’s team says that their results reinforce the NPS ban on drones in parks.












  • Maybe,

    why maybe and not obviously yes?

    but Democrats are running an 80 year-old conservative

    they’re also running a 41 year old murder enthusiast who is larping as a progressive, and they’re bolstering his credibility by pretending to fear his policies. it’s called hedging.

    His problem is he never expected to run for office and therefore didn’t delete his socials.

    You think the problem is that he didn’t delete is socials? (He actually did delete them and hoped to get away with it, it’s just that reddit archives exist and someone leaked his username to CNN.)

    I think the problem is actually that (in his own words) he “wanted to have an adventure and kill some people. Joined up in ‘04, did Fallujah and Ramadi, and managed both.