With Encrypt It Already, we’re pushing on tech companies to deliver stronger privacy protections to their users by enabling and expanding the use of end-to-end encryption across their products or services. www.encryptitalready.org

A publisher who lays off a reporter whose pen is freezing because she's covering a frigid war zone while dodging missiles is not an editor you want to work for, in a more perfect world

Update: I have declared the day a total loss and crawled back into bed. Wednesday, you're fired.

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Free textbooks for Japanese, Korean, Spanish, French, Arabic, Swahili, and more!

🌍📚 Great for students and teachers.

#LangSky

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Happy new year

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february 2024: i learned that many electric vehicle charging cables have cooling hoses embedded in them! the current flow is high enough that the copper would overheat without them.
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If you’re American and eligible to vote then that is a very small and usually relatively easy thing you can do to materially reduce the prospects for advancement of Early Career Hitler and anyone who tries to convince you not to do it for whatever reason can be safely ignored

Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #528,164!

Howdy! It's your friendly neighborhood author, here to remind you that the best ways you can help an author during pub week are:
* buy the book from any place in any form!
* leave a review on Amazon--it can be short!
* post a pic on socials
* request from library
* tell a friend!
* RT this!

Just to make things clear, this might be the best-timed shot in science TV history. In the BBC series "Connections", James Burke points to a rocket just as it launches. It was filmed on August 20, 1977, during the launch of Voyager 2 spacecraft. 🧪🚀

New Feature Alert: Access archived webpages directly through Google Search, now featuring a link to the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine.

🔗 blog.archive.org/2024/09/11/n...

DOJ Files Antitrust Suit Against RealPage, Maker of Rent-Setting Algorithm

The suit, which comes in the wake of a ProPublica investigation into the Texas company, accuses RealPage of taking part in an illegal price-fixing scheme to reduce competition among landlords to boost prices — and profits.

Read our original 2022 report on RealPage here:
www.propublica.org/article/yiel...

Some mesmerising lava images at night of the latest #eruption, provided by the Icelandic Coast Guard and Meteorological Office. The latest eruption on the Reykjanes peninsula started in the evening, Aug 22 at 9:26 pm, at the Sundhnúks crater series. The fissure is now 4 km long. ⚒️ #Geology 🧪🌋

There are just three more performances of The Ocean at the End of the Lane at the Noel Coward theatre, one tonight, two on Saturday and then it's all done and this remarkable adventure is over. (We got a record number of 5 star reviews, I learned this morning.) I loved being part of it.