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Amy Diehl, Ph.D. @amydiehl · 2026-05-16 · 01:04 UTC

The EEOC under Trump wants to end collecting race, sex, and national origin data from major US companies, a practice in place since 1960s. Eliminating data collection would make it impossible to determine if patterns of discrimination exist.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/05/15/federal-civil-rights-watchdog-wants-stop-tracking-data-race-sex/

Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻‍💻🧬 @[email protected] · 2023-12-28 · 17:47 UTC

Is This the End of #Geofence #Warrants?
#Google announced this week that it will be making several important changes to the way it handles users’ “#LocationHistory” data. These changes would appear to make it much more difficult—if not impossible—for Google to provide mass location data in response to a #geofencewarrant
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/12/end-geofence-warrants #surveillance #privacy

#geofence #warrants #google #locationhistory #geofencewarrant #surveillance

Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻‍💻🧬 @[email protected] · 2023-12-28 · 17:47 UTC

Is This the End of #Geofence #Warrants?
#Google announced this week that it will be making several important changes to the way it handles users’ “#LocationHistory” data. These changes would appear to make it much more difficult—if not impossible—for Google to provide mass location data in response to a #geofencewarrant
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/12/end-geofence-warrants #surveillance #privacy

#geofence #warrants #google #locationhistory #geofencewarrant #surveillance

Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻‍💻🧬 @BenjaminHCCarr · 2023-12-28 · 17:47 UTC

Is This the End of #Geofence #Warrants?
#Google announced this week that it will be making several important changes to the way it handles users’ “#LocationHistory” data. These changes would appear to make it much more difficult—if not impossible—for Google to provide mass location data in response to a #geofencewarrant
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/12/end-geofence-warrants #surveillance #privacy

#geofence #warrants #google #locationhistory #geofencewarrant #surveillance

Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻‍💻🧬 @[email protected] · 2023-12-28 · 17:47 UTC

Is This the End of #Geofence #Warrants?
#Google announced this week that it will be making several important changes to the way it handles users’ “#LocationHistory” data. These changes would appear to make it much more difficult—if not impossible—for Google to provide mass location data in response to a #geofencewarrant
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/12/end-geofence-warrants #surveillance #privacy

#privacy #surveillance #geofencewarrant #locationhistory #google #warrants

Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻‍💻🧬 @[email protected] · 2023-12-28 · 17:47 UTC

Is This the End of #Geofence #Warrants?
#Google announced this week that it will be making several important changes to the way it handles users’ “#LocationHistory” data. These changes would appear to make it much more difficult—if not impossible—for Google to provide mass location data in response to a #geofencewarrant
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/12/end-geofence-warrants #surveillance #privacy

#geofence #warrants #google #locationhistory #geofencewarrant #surveillance

Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻‍💻🧬 @[email protected] · 2025-11-24 · 11:04 UTC

#CambridgeUniversity launches project to rescue data trapped on old #floppydisks
On October 9, Cambridge University Library opened its doors to anyone with an old floppy disk and a question: What’s on here? The public “Copy that Floppy” session marked the launch of #FutureNostalgia, a year-long project dedicated to rescuing data from obsolete magnetic media before time and oxide decay make it impossible.
https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/storage/cambridge-university-rescues-data-from-old-floppy-disks

#cambridgeuniversity #floppydisks #futurenostalgia

Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻‍💻🧬 @[email protected] · 2025-11-24 · 11:04 UTC

#CambridgeUniversity launches project to rescue data trapped on old #floppydisks
On October 9, Cambridge University Library opened its doors to anyone with an old floppy disk and a question: What’s on here? The public “Copy that Floppy” session marked the launch of #FutureNostalgia, a year-long project dedicated to rescuing data from obsolete magnetic media before time and oxide decay make it impossible.
https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/storage/cambridge-university-rescues-data-from-old-floppy-disks

#cambridgeuniversity #floppydisks #futurenostalgia

Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻‍💻🧬 @BenjaminHCCarr · 2025-11-24 · 11:04 UTC

#CambridgeUniversity launches project to rescue data trapped on old #floppydisks
On October 9, Cambridge University Library opened its doors to anyone with an old floppy disk and a question: What’s on here? The public “Copy that Floppy” session marked the launch of #FutureNostalgia, a year-long project dedicated to rescuing data from obsolete magnetic media before time and oxide decay make it impossible.
https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/storage/cambridge-university-rescues-data-from-old-floppy-disks

#cambridgeuniversity #floppydisks #futurenostalgia

Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻‍💻🧬 @[email protected] · 2025-11-24 · 11:04 UTC

#CambridgeUniversity launches project to rescue data trapped on old #floppydisks
On October 9, Cambridge University Library opened its doors to anyone with an old floppy disk and a question: What’s on here? The public “Copy that Floppy” session marked the launch of #FutureNostalgia, a year-long project dedicated to rescuing data from obsolete magnetic media before time and oxide decay make it impossible.
https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/storage/cambridge-university-rescues-data-from-old-floppy-disks

#futurenostalgia #floppydisks #cambridgeuniversity

Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻‍💻🧬 @[email protected] · 2025-11-24 · 11:04 UTC

#CambridgeUniversity launches project to rescue data trapped on old #floppydisks
On October 9, Cambridge University Library opened its doors to anyone with an old floppy disk and a question: What’s on here? The public “Copy that Floppy” session marked the launch of #FutureNostalgia, a year-long project dedicated to rescuing data from obsolete magnetic media before time and oxide decay make it impossible.
https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/storage/cambridge-university-rescues-data-from-old-floppy-disks

#cambridgeuniversity #floppydisks #futurenostalgia

David Benfell, Ph.D. (he/him/his) @[email protected] · 2024-03-31 · 14:00 UTC

CW: Cars etc

@matthewtoad43 @tofugolem

I think one of the better examples of what @tofugolem is talking about might be #LasVegas.

Las Vegas has a small, not terribly significant downtown. And of course the infamous Strip, lined with gaudy casinos—apparently it’s the gaudier the better. Outside that area, you’re very rapidly in huge subdivisions that stretch out for miles in every direction.

I haven’t seen what’s happened there since the Financial Crisis. I heard Las Vegas was hit hard by the housing meltdown.

But in these subdivisions, many of the streets are cul de sacs. They’d be impossible to run buses through, so passengers would have to walk—I think—up to two miles to get to a stop.

A lot of the problem with #PublicTransit is in housing.

I think also of #SaltLakeCity, which has been attracting high technology, at least along a north-south freeway corridor. #Utah used to frown on alcohol. Now you’ll find hipster breweries everywhere.

Salt Lake City has grown—I think over a longer period of time—in a pattern similar to Las Vegas, with single family homes across the valley.

#Reno and #Stockton would be similar examples. Probably #Modesto and #Fresno as well. And of course #LosAngeles is notorious for suburban sprawl, but you see it even where transit is better, in the San Francisco Bay Area, where the sprawl now extends half way to #Sacramento, which has its own sprawl.

#lasvegas #publictransit #saltlakecity #utah #reno #stockton

Nick Byrd, Ph.D. @[email protected] · 2023-06-15 · 14:23 UTC

Some subjectivists and relativists need not agree to these statements from "measures" of subjectivism and relativism, raising questions about face validity. Can psychologists chat with philosophers before making scales like these?

#Subjectivism:
The truth does not exist
All subjective perceptions of a chain of events are equally true

#Relativism:
It is impossible to compare different cultures beliefs about reality in terms of "correctness"

From the Appendix of https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrp.2023.104394

#xPhi

#subjectivism #relativism #xphi

The Oasis BBS @[email protected] · 2026-05-20 · 13:00 UTC

Impossible Mission 3 Arrives on Commodore 64
#ImpossibleMission3 #Commodore64 #C64 #PsytronikSoftware #Epyx #RetroGaming #C64Gaming #8BitGaming
https://theoasisbbs.com/impossible-mission-3-arrives-on-commodore-64/?fsp_sid=7121

#impossiblemission3 #commodore64 #c64 #psytroniksoftware #epyx #retrogaming

PhreakByte the Octopus @[email protected] · 2026-05-19 · 12:38 UTC

Once again, i did the #impossible 😉

Flashed #bootloader (UF2) to #ChameleonUltra

Everything is here ** WARNING! ** You will likely brick your device, but this branch contains also the tools to create a UF2 rescue app!

https://github.com/nieldk/ChameleonUltra/tree/UF2

#impossible #bootloader #chameleonultra

PhreakByte the Octopus @[email protected] · 2026-05-19 · 12:38 UTC

Once again, i did the #impossible 😉

Flashed #bootloader (UF2) to #ChameleonUltra

Everything is here ** WARNING! ** You will likely brick your device, but this branch contains also the tools to create a UF2 rescue app!

https://github.com/nieldk/ChameleonUltra/tree/UF2

#impossible #bootloader #chameleonultra

PhreakByte the Octopus @[email protected] · 2026-05-19 · 12:38 UTC

Once again, i did the #impossible 😉

Flashed #bootloader (UF2) to #ChameleonUltra

Everything is here ** WARNING! ** You will likely brick your device, but this branch contains also the tools to create a UF2 rescue app!

https://github.com/nieldk/ChameleonUltra/tree/UF2

#impossible #bootloader #chameleonultra

PhreakByte the Octopus @[email protected] · 2026-05-19 · 12:38 UTC

Once again, i did the #impossible 😉

Flashed #bootloader (UF2) to #ChameleonUltra

Everything is here ** WARNING! ** You will likely brick your device, but this branch contains also the tools to create a UF2 rescue app!

https://github.com/nieldk/ChameleonUltra/tree/UF2

#impossible #bootloader #chameleonultra

dirk dierickx @[email protected] · 2026-05-18 · 17:32 UTC

IMPOSSIBLE MISSION 3 a sequel to the classic #Commodore #C64 games has been released by Psytronik Software (there are also physical editions available).

https://psytronik.itch.io/im3-c64

#retrogame #retrogaming

#commodore #c64 #retrogame #retrogaming