kravietz 🦇 @kravietz@social.privacytools.io

German farmers protesting in Berlin against #glyphosate ban and other "environmental" regulations they criticize as "not based on expert knowledge".

https://www.dw.com/en/german-farmers-protest-against-berlins-agriculture-policy/a-50828932

@saper No, to jednak fabularny. Muzyka jest doskonała :) W takich klimatach polecam również Жить (2012) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aa3KUcGKDp0

Why are all JSONPath implementation for #python half-baked, crappy or last touched in 2011? Is there anything better? #json

"Algorithms and digital technologies constantly collect data and evaluate us and sometimes make life changing decisions such as credit, housing and employment.  Advertisements play a crucial part in this in that they inform us about goods and services, opportunities, products or nudge us into certain behaviours."

https://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/news/releases/public-at-risk-of-discrimination-from-online-behavioural-advertising-says-oxford-legal-expert/

#privacy #advertising

Call for Nominations for 2019 Corrupt Person of the Year Award

https://www.occrp.org/en/62-press-releases/11178-call-for-nominations-for-2019-corrupt-person-of-the-year-award

@freemo In case of USA it's unlikely because of patents, it's because of NDA enforced oligopoly on imports. I suppose the same insulin can be purchased for pennies outside of US.

Second popular technique of drug price boosting in the US is introduction of slightly modified variant of the same drug which *is* patented and then again using NDA to force doctors to move to the new, patented variant.

Both of these are only possibly because of active participation of NDA.

@jonw It's not really odd from their point of view - they use it to quantitatively check how big problem it is for users. If not big, they can just continue doing what they are doing. If big, they will run another "your privacy is important to us" propaganda campaign

A new wave of climate denialism expected from programmers who write lousy code... https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.08354

This is one is really good so I'm reposting it here even though I boosted it already http://www.openculture.com/2017/02/david-foster-wallace-on-whats-wrong-with-postmodernism-a-video-essay.html #postmodernism #philosophy #science

#Tesla #cybertruck #Russian edition

Exploring Switzerland

@yogthos Just replace Chrome with sodium and RAM with neutrons ;)