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Residents of 21 cities in Utah have access to some of the fastest, most competitively priced broadband in the US, at speeds up to 10gb/s and prices as low as $75/month. It's uncapped, and the connections are symmetrical: perfect for uploading and downloading. And it's all thanks to the government.
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You won't be surprised to learn that these are the neighborhoods that were historically redlined, and that the people who live in them are Black and brown, and also live with some of the highest levels of pollution and its attendant sicknesses:
These places are not set up for success under the best of circumstances, and during the lockdowns, they suffered terribly. You think your kid found it hard to go to Zoom school?
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The rate of remote work in the EU rose from 11.1% in 2019 to 20% in 2022.
The use of digital tools and the possibility to work remotely can carry the risk of an ‘always-on' culture. We want to ensure workers’ rights and well-being are prioritised in this #digital age.
That’s why this week we launched the first-stage consultation of European social partners on fair telework and the right to disconnect.
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please help Rae! ze is tired & in pain from surgery. ze has bills to pay and a family to feed and can't donate plasma for 4 months due to surgery. anything helps!
please help Rae! ze is tired & in pain from surgery. ze has bills to pay and a family to feed and can't donate plasma for 4 months due to surgery. anything helps!
"The Aruba Collection (Coleccion Aruba) is the documentary heritage portal for the island nation of Aruba, and is the result of the cooperation of Aruba's documentary heritage institutions".
Does anyone remember when #Facebook had this project to digitally enclose people in a walled internet space in countries like Ghana? Or do I misremember?
It came to mind while I watched #Meta representative insist - twice - that #Threads absolutely wants to be "a good member of the community" in the #Fediverse, with big hand gestures and an unconscious half shrug. But I am no expert in body language. Maybe I am being too suspicious of this company?
The promise of feudal security: "Surrender control over your digital life so that we, the wise, giant corporation, can ensure that you aren't tricked into catastrophic blunders that expose you to harm":
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The world leader in trusted computing isn't cars - it's phones. Long before anyone built a car to take orders from its manufacturer over the objections of its driver, Apple and Google were inventing "curating computing" whose app stores determined which software you could run and how you could run it.
#CfP for the #MLA (#MLAnews) 2025 convention #panel "Thinking Beyond #Brecht – Collective and/or #Artificial Intelligence" which will take place in New Orleans on January 9-12, 2025.
Another characteristically brilliant Kashmir Hill story for The New York Times reveals another characteristically terrible fact about modern life: your car secretly records fine-grained telemetry about your driving and sells it to data-brokers, who sell it to insurers, who use it as a pretext to gouge you on premiums:
Break the lease agreement that says you won't drive your car over the county line and it will immobilize itself. Try to change any of this software and you'll commit a felony under Section 1201 of the DMCA:
Tesla, naturally, has the most advanced anti-features. Long before BMW tried to rent you your seat-heater and Mercedes tried to sell you a monthly subscription to your accelerator pedal, Teslas were demon-haunted nightmare cars.
Meine 5 Grundprinzipien in der digitalen Welt: Verzicht, Risikobewertung, Verwendung von Fake-Daten, Datenminimierung und Ausübung von Datenschutzrechten.
Teil drei der Serie »Mein digitaler Schutzschild«. Gebt gerne Feedback ab, dass hilft mir für den weiteren Verlauf der Serie.👇
Teil 3 von »Mein digitaler Schutzschild«. Diese 5 Grundprinzipien prägen mein Verhalten in der digitalen Welt: Verzicht, Risikobewertung, Verwendung von Fake-Daten, Datenminimierung und Ausübung von Datenschutzrechten. 👇
Wir werfen einen Blick auf den »Kern« meines Schildes. Zero Trust: Ein Sicherheitskonzept, das davon ausgeht, dass nichts sicher ist und auf Prinzipien wie »Never Trust, Always Verify« basiert. 👇