Freddy @freddy@social.privacytools.io

If you are a Facebook user in Illinois, please claim your $345. Facebook allegedly used photo face-tagging and other biometric data without users' consent.

https://apnews.com/article/technology-business-san-francisco-chicago-lawsuits-af6b42212e43be1b63b5c290eb5bfd85

Just finished (re)reading Animal Farm. Top notch satire in a very grim way.

@KayWoods yes.

Digital privacy — can we reclaim it?

https://www.ft.com/content/5aa33f07-11ef-461e-80e8-be9b50f9c879

In an attempt to work more effectively, we’ve accidentally deployed an inhumane way to collaborate.

https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/e-mail-is-making-us-miserable

@feyn I recently finished Sapiens... It is indeed a great read.

When the World Seems Like One Big Conspiracy

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/20/opinion/sunday/global-cabal-conspiracy-theories.html

Lessons from a year of Covid

https://www.ft.com/content/f1b30f2c-84aa-4595-84f2-7816796d6841

Why brilliant ideas can be overlooked

https://www.ft.com/content/a98bc707-eeb5-4270-b184-a916513c0a35

@kev I didn't even know @tootapp was a thing. Looks very nice!

During the pandemic, Newton worked from home wisely

https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2020/03/12/during-pandemic-isaac-newton-had-work-home-too-he-used-time-wisely/

@danarel thats an interesting study you mention. I might have to site in when I'm next writing on the topic...

@syntax I'm already eying up 21 Lessons for the 21st Century... though I've already got a copy of Origins by Lewis Dartnell which I will probably read first.

Just finished reading Yuval Noah Harari's Sapiens. Eye opening.

@avalos so have I. But I've been procrastinating it for sooo long lol

Why we’re suing over the £23m NHS data deal with Palantir

https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/ournhs/why-were-suing-over-the-23m-nhs-data-deal-with-palantir/

@callum when I was first starting out, I once forgot to put in my bung. With every stroke I took, more water was gushing in the Kayak. I nearly sunk the thing!