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Mark Zuckerberg is a single point of failure at a company that is systemically important to the internet
https://amp.businessinsider.com/mark-zuckerberg-a-single-point-of-failure-at-facebook-a-company-that-is-systemically-important-to-the-internet-2018-7
#Facebook #fb
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The #bookshop kobo.com sells lots of non-DRM eBooks! 
However, they also sell lots of DRM eBooks, all mixed together with the non-DRM, and no filter to sort them out 
This makes it very difficult to look for non-DRM books on #Kobo.
So, to solve this problem switching.social presents the Unofficial Kobo Search page, which lets you find non-DRM books available on your country's Kobo site:
https://switching.social/unofficial-kobo-search/
Any feedback very welcome.
if you are a devout Buddhist, this is what you listen to. They are singing
in Mongolian, and later in Chinese version. The text on the side is Mongolian.
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εηθ¨ι six-syllabled Sanskrit mantra βOm mani padme humβ http://xahmusic.org/music/padme_hum.html
#xahmusic
Why is Spotify doing this to me? I'm a good person!
4 days until Greece!
I visited two used bookstores and ESLITE today and I didn't buy one book. So proud of myself.
In a wood-panelled room in Paris, lined with books, these Olympians [Woodrow Wilson, Lloyd George, Clemenceau] would shape the world, a prospect that amused the cynical Balfour as he superciliously watched "three all-powerful, all-ignorant men carving up continents."
#BookQuotes #books
Jerusalem: The Biography
Balfour, 1917:
"His Majesty's Government view with favour the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people... it being clearly understood that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities"
#BookQuotes
Jerusalem: The Biography
Checked out 3 bookstores, and now time for rewarding and coffee.
I'm at the point in the book when the imperial powers divide up the Middle East and f*** it up forever.
DECEIVED BY DESIGN
How tech companies use dark patterns to discourage us from
exercising our rights to #privacy
https://fil.forbrukerradet.no/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/2018-06-27-deceived-by-design-final.pdf
An impressive report on a situation not at all surprising.
βEveryone is breaking the law right nowβ: #GDPR compliance efforts are falling [way] short
https://digiday.com/media/everyone-breaking-law-right-now-gdpr-compliance-efforts-falling-short/
"Pretty much everyone is breaking the law right now," said Denmark-based media analyst Thomas Baekdal. βThere is not a single consent dialogue box anywhere that is easy to understand. We [publishers] have not really realized how much this is going to hit us. Everyone is trying to make things work the way they used to, rather than thinking about privacy.β
So many system apps I don't use on Android. How to hide them without root?
Wish I lived in Canada where police do this, rather than shooting first: https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/06/canadian-convenience-store-video-escape-attempt-yakety-sax.html?via=homepage_taps_top
7 Reasons Why Robert Silverberg Remains a Must-Read
https://www.tor.com/2016/09/09/7-reasons-why-robert-silverberg-remains-a-must-read/
#scifi #books
"It's very, very difficult to dispel ignorance, if you retain arrogance."
The Vietnam War: A Film by Ken Burns
Get 90% off Verso's e-books until Sunday!
Versoβs e-books are DRM-free, so can be read on ANY e-reader, computer or smartphone. So you can settle down to read it right away.
I'm reading Lonely Planet Greece travel book and am salivating. I want to go to the bougatsa restaurant in Xania. Yum!
5 days more days 'till Greece.
School's. Out. For. Summer!
Hurray. No more classes until mid August! Oh yeah!
Thereβs just not enough time to read all the books.
