For those of you concerned about privacy:
The German Science Foundation (DFG) on the consequences of the transformation of publishers into data analytics businesses. Including third party data, microtargeting, port scanning and publisher spyware.
https://www.dfg.de/download/pdf/foerderung/programme/lis/datentracking_papier_en.pdf
https://www.reddit.com/r/Open_Science/comments/nhr5sf/the_german_science_foundation_dfg_on_the/?utm_source=ifttt
‘Grow the f*ck up and get the vaccine’ — These health care workers shared their honest thoughts about anti-vaxxers in this hilarious PSA
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This essay on ditching your phone has been in my to-read for a long time.
I've done most of what the guy suggests since then - my smart phone has no social media apps and only signal for texting.
I feel like I am at my worst when I am constantly using my smart phone - when I constantly feel the need to fill my brain up with noise.
I'm at my best when I'm confronting the reality - sometimes very painful - of my physical life
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/23/business/cell-phone-addiction.html
A child born today will never know privacy.
Everything that they do and everything that they say will be recorded, analysed, and monetised.
They will take for granted that this is the way that the world is — unless we do something about it now, while we still can.