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I love cats. I love every kind of cat.
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Electronic Frontier Foundation
about 1 month ago
Our new age verification resource hub will answer all your questions about the dangerous new age-gating mandates sweeping the US and the world.
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Age Verification Is Coming For the Internet. We Built You a Resource
Age verification laws are proliferating fast across the United States and around the world, creating a dangerous and confusing tangle of rules about what we’re all allowed to see and do online.
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/12/age-verification-coming-internet-we-built-you-resource-hub-fight-back
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Alt National Park Service
about 1 month ago
This is one of our favorites!
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Electronic Frontier Foundation
about 2 months ago
Feeling overwhelmed by the onslaught of invasive age-verification mandates? You’re not alone. We built a resource hub to break down how these laws work, who they harm, what’s at stake, and how to protect yourself. Join the fight at
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Age Verification and Age Gating: Resource Hub
Age verification (or age-gating) laws generally require online services to check, estimate, or verify all users’ ages—often through invasive tools like ID checks, biometric scans, or other dubious
https://www.eff.org/issues/age-verification
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Murray!!
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SpankChain
3 months ago
Banning VPNs sets a dangerous precedent. It gives governments and corporations more power to decide when and how we can practice free speech, while eroding privacy and limiting access to information.
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Meredith Whittaker
3 months ago
📣THREAD: It’s surprising to me that so many people were surprised to learn that Signal runs partly on AWS (something we can do because we use encryption to make sure no one but you–not AWS, not Signal, not anyone–can access your comms). It’s also concerning. 1/
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EV Curve Futurist
4 months ago
California made history in 2025. 🌞⚡ Solar is now the state’s #1 electricity source, overtaking gas (83.1 vs 81.6 TWh). In under a decade, solar surged from marginal to dominant. Big kudos to California—proof the clean energy future is not capacity, it’s generation. More to come!
#EnergyTransition
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Lovely time today at the Cambridge Science Festival! Thanks to the
#MITMuseum
, the sponsors and volunteers for organizing the event today!
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MRNA-based treatments are one of the most exciting things which have happened in my lifetime. We need to keep moving forward on biotech.
www.noahpinion.blog/p/did-rfk-ju...
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Did RFK just take away your cancer treatment?
mRNA promised to help turn cancer from a death sentence into a manageable condition.
https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/did-rfk-just-take-away-your-cancer
6 months ago
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Minimize information gathering and information stored in state databases, regulate information collected and stored by private companies including location information and communication metadata.
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7 months ago
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Just put a GE heat pump washer / dryer combo in my house, and it’s blowing me away with how energy efficient it is. On the loads I’ve run so far, it’s used around 1kWh for washing and drying. The old units used around 8kWh for the same load.
#electrifyallthethings
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Disappointed that
@bsky.app
has capitulated to the UK age verification laws -- age verification = identity verification and the end of pseudonymous speech.
bsky.social/about/blog/0...
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Working with the UK Government to Protect Children Online - Bluesky
Part of Bluesky’s mission to create a more open and decentralized social web is helping users feel safe and in control of their experience. We always try to balance safety with privacy, and free expre...
https://bsky.social/about/blog/07-10-2025-age-assurance
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Just setup wallabag as my
@mozilla.org
Pocket replacement. Sad to see that service is going away, but looking forward to self-hosting another service!
wallabag.org
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Save the web, freely | wallabag: a self hostable application for saving web pages
https://wallabag.org/
8 months ago
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Achievement Unlocked: Finished the Costco package of asparagus before it rotted.
8 months ago
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Jamie Bernstein
9 months ago
I cannot emphasize this enough: Please do not use AI tools as therapy. Not only is it not a good replacement for actual therapy, but your chat logs could be shared with the government, and I don't think you need a reminder that especially right now in the US, that could put you in danger.
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AI therapy is a surveillance machine in a police state
Big Tech wants you to share your private thoughts with chatbots — while backing a government with contempt for privacy.
https://www.theverge.com/policy/665685/ai-therapy-meta-chatbot-surveillance-risks-trump
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Really bummed that the Iotawatt won't be produced locally any longer. This is one of the most useful devices we have in our house. The device was made in the US out of globally sourced material, and was made uneconomic by the tariffs.
community.iotawatt.com/t/ending-pro...
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Ending production
Sadly, the current business climate in America has become so unpredictable for small businesses that I’ve decided to stop making IoTaWatt units. My suppliers have put me on notice that they reserve th...
https://community.iotawatt.com/t/ending-production/6965
9 months ago
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Adam Bonin
9 months ago
From Jeffrey Toobin's 2008 book THE NINE, this remains the greatest Justice Souter anecdote I can possibly share. RIP.
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Gravel Influencer
9 months ago
More data supporting the need to restrict vehicle sizes. Car bloat is killing people, plain and simple.
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Randall Munroe
9 months ago
PhD Timeline
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Kat O’Brien
10 months ago
I knew the U.S. higher education system was a massive draw for foreigners, but I did not know the U.S. sold more educational services to the rest of the world than it did natural gas and coal combined. Great piece by
@crampell.bsky.social
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Tim Barnes
10 months ago
the Dunkin’ logo has never felt more accurate
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Micah Lee
10 months ago
I don’t think foreign adversaries can hack Signal either, but they can definitely hack normal consumer devices that run Signal, and social engineer their way into Signal groups
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Electronic Frontier Foundation
11 months ago
Signal's a great app to keep your communications secure, but make sure you know the identities of the users in your group chats. Our SSD guide on how to use Signal includes guidance on managing your group chat preferences.
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How to: Use Signal
Download location: Google Play Store, Apple App Store System requirements: Android 5 or later, iOS 13 or later Version used in this guide: Android: 7.0. iPhone: 7.0 License: GPLv3 Level: Beginner Time...
https://ssd.eff.org/module/how-to-use-signal#manage-your-group-chat-preferences
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Evan Greer
11 months ago
Sigh. Here we go again. It's really important that people are smart about this story re: Trump admin using Signal to discuss war plans. The center-left media wants to make the story about Trump admin fucking up, which they did. But in the process they're falsely implying that Signal is "insecure."đź§µ
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Radley Balko
11 months ago
Using tax info to target undocumented people puts the lie to the claim that undocumented people don't pay taxes. It also makes them much less likely to pay taxes in the future. It's similar to detaining them at hearings and check-ins while claiming they never show up for hearings and check-ins.
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evacide
11 months ago
It's Monday, which is a good day to remember that the data broker industry must be destroyed:
gizmodo.com/data-broker-...
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Data Broker Brags About Having Highly Detailed Personal Information on Nearly All Internet Users
The advertising industry is immensely powerful, and disturbingly opaque.
https://gizmodo.com/data-broker-brags-about-having-highly-detailed-personal-information-on-nearly-all-internet-users-2000575762
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Ozzie D, NP-hard :bikepump: :vegan:
11 months ago
A big shout-out to
@gbhnews
for another incredible podcast series! I'm midway through "Scratch & Win", which documents the meteoric rise of the Massachusetts State Lottery, and it's pure nerd catnip: organized crime, gambling, power, machine politics, combinatorics, computer science history! I […]
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Absolutely loving the Scratch and Win podcast from
@iancoss.bsky.social
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@wgbh.org
! It’s a great view into why state government in MA works the way it does.
www.wgbh.org/podcasts/scr...
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Part 7: The Dirtiest Race in the Commonwealth
By 1986 Treasurer Bob Crane has turned the lottery into the most successful operation of its kind, but now he’s in the fight of his political life with a challenger who says he’s the real crook. To ce...
https://www.wgbh.org/podcasts/scratch-win/part-7-the-dirtiest-race-in-the-commonwealth
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Steve Koczela
11 months ago
Chaos. It’s just relentless chaos.
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bikepedantic
12 months ago
Our
#BikeBus
made the local news late last year! This was my pinned until I purged my old posts, but gosh it’s nice to revisit better times from not long ago.
www.cbsnews.com/boston/video...
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Fridays are "bike bus day" for kids at this Massachusetts elementary school
Friday is "bike bus day" in Cambridge, Massachusetts. WBZ TV's Penny Kmitt explains what it's all about and why it's so fun!
https://www.cbsnews.com/boston/video/fridays-are-bike-bus-day-for-kids-at-this-massachusetts-elementary-school/
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ACLU of Massachusetts
about 1 year ago
Your location data is being sold right now. "It’s time for elected officials who care about people, who care about democratic values, who want to prevent oligarchy from solidifying in this country, to take a stand for people over profit" -
@onekade.bsky.social
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/01/22/m...
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The peril in your cellphone - The Boston Globe
Our phones make it possible to track our every move. Now, that is more dangerous than ever. But Massachusetts can shut it down.
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2025/01/22/metro/peril-your-cellphone/
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about 1 year ago
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Beautiful shots
@mattfrank.bsky.social
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about 1 year ago
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I'm pretty sure the Lynn Journal is a numbers station.
about 1 year ago
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When we bought our house, the seller was required to put in CO and smoke detectors before the closing. So sad and cheap to prevent.
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Elle
about 1 year ago
What a devastating story. My heart goes out to the so many people who will grieve this whole family. NH has no requirement that a home be inspected for CO & smoke detectors upon sale of a home. This family owned this lake house for 7 yrs-never put CO detectors in. Regulations save lives.
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Newton family of four found dead on Christmas Day at N.H. lake house of apparent carbon monoxide poisoning - The Boston Globe
The victims have been identified as Matthew, Lyla, Valerie, and Violet Goldstein, officials said. Matthew was a teacher at a Brookline school.
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2024/12/27/metro/newton-family-identified-wakefield-nh-carbon-monoxide/
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Brewster Kahle
about 1 year ago
Please consider donating to the Internet Archive this year. Good news is people are looking for reliable sources to learn from. Lets help them find them!
@internetarchive.bsky.social
archive.org/donate
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When it gets cold, Massachusetts gets dirty. We're burning a ton of oil to keep our power plants moving and our lights on.
about 1 year ago
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The Mach-E is also a lot lower to the ground than the Tahoe and should be much safer for pedestrians.
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We put solar panels on our house last year. I started to write up a retrospective of the project. Post 1 is up, covering the system design and the installation process. Next posts will cover the system performance and financial numbers.
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One year with PV
In October 2023, I had 23 solar panels installed on my roof in the Boston area. This post series will summarize our experience with the system thus far. Procurement …
https://buff.ly/4fzFzDM
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Things I missed in 2024: MassDPU shrank PV systems surplus credits by 10% by creating a "Net Metering Recovery Surcharge" line and moving 20% of the distribution charge into that line. This cuts directly into the ROI for existing PV system owners.
www.mass.gov/news/dpu-upd...
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The Chelsea Research Festival call for abstracts is up! Event will be on May 15th 2025. Research projects should either be about Chelsea, Massachusetts in some way, or it the work should be performed by a member of the Chelsea community. The event is good fun!
www.chelsearesearchfestival.com
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about 1 year ago
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Gosh, this is sad news. Mill No. 5 is a great spot in Lowell.
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I'm impressed at how well the NREL PVWatts tool predicted the output of my solar array during its first year. The month-to-month error is larger, but the annual prediction was only off by 19kWh with two days left in November.
pvwatts.nrel.gov
about 1 year ago
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The barometers are falling sharply!
about 1 year ago
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Happy Thanksgiving!!
about 1 year ago
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I have a cat named Bob, but she'd have to get out of bed to take down a turkey.
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about 1 year ago
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Jay Ash
about 1 year ago
Other Chelsea, MA blueskyer’s here? Follow us and let’s get a group started!
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