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2020, the game!
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Whether you’re a student, worker, alum, or community member, we need to defend privacy for students. Join our live stream today as we discuss invasive technologies being implemented by schools https://www.eff.org/event/home-and-campus-eff
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We overshare information; information that can be used by commercial companies, by political parties and by governments. Carissa Véliz is a philosopher at Oxford University and author of Privacy is Power. She argues that the harvesting of data is undermining liberal democracy.
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We now live in 1984, & it's even worse than Orwell imagined.
Parler, a simple free speech platform has been snuffed out in 24 hours not by government, but by big tech that wields more power than even them.
They have silenced a sitting president & destroyed a competitor in 48 hours & are above the law as the United States gov sits by and claps like seals for them.
Free speech is dead, censorship is now fully applauded by the most powerful nation on earth, & it makes me sick to stomach.
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Common cell type nomenclature for the mammalian brain
The advancement of single-cell RNA-sequencing technologies has led to an explosion of cell type definitions across multiple organs and organisms. Resulting in widely varying nomenclature and limited alignment between taxonomies.
To facilitate cross-dataset comparison, the Allen Institute created the common #cell type #nomenclature (CCN).
📄 https://elifesciences.org/articles/59928
#science #openscience #openaccess #opendata #opensource #taxonomy
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Suggestion: Have more than one mastodon account, and have them on different instances. This way, if one instance goes down for maintenance or updates, you can just use your account on another instance. I have this account on social.privacytools.io and I also have another account on maly.io.
This even came in handy once.
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It is proven! I am a_nar on Keybase: https://keybase.io/a_nar/sigchain#5ddb1b41f8cb28362326bc76f57dd107fe2c77eaa6ee8355d0bbb1d062610d5d0f
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New #blog post: School-Issued Chromebooks and Privacy
https://write.as/thenewoil/school-issued-chromebooks-and-privacy
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Hi there! I'm new here. I have an account at @nar, which I might move to, but I seem to like this instance more for now.