Tarot @onetarot@mastodon.xyz

shoutout to facebook for suggesting i react to someone's super heartfelt post about suicidal thoughts with a dog with sunglasses gif

…you might be cursed. https://crapifindfunny.tumblr.com/post/175440277282?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

500px will no longer allow photographers to license their photos under Creative Commons https://www.theverge.com/2018/7/1/17521456/500px-marketplace-creative-commons-getty-images-visual-china-group-photography-open-access 🖕

In California, agencies that use automated license plate readers are required to post their policies online. Here's our running list of links:

https://www.eff.org/pages/california-automated-license-plate-reader-policies source: https://twitter.com/eff/status/1013527412733145088

Someone tried to stream my music on Spotify and told me it sounded compressed & clippy and all the rest. I left them with a hint:

If you use Spotify to check out new music and haven't turned off "Normalize volume - Set the same volume level for all songs" in settings, then do so now.

The reason so many songs sound bad on there is because of that for the most part.

Consumer Reports found various, significant issues with Facebook's privacy settings—months after the Cambridge Analytica scandal https://www.consumerreports.org/privacy/cr-researchers-find-facebook-privacy-settings-maximize-data-collection/ source: https://twitter.com/eff/status/1012772690367799296

Personally, my biggest concern about the modern internet is that the whole thing is resoundingly fragile, while acting like it is indestructible. (https://boingboing.net/2016/11/11/the-internets-core-infrastru.html)

It was designed to be fault tolerant. It was designed to be censorship resistant.

In some ways, it is!
In other ways, it's a massive, ubiquitous tool of surveillance.

AT&T more than doubles ‘admin fee’ for every #wireless customer #theverge https://www.theverge.com/2018/6/27/17511500/att-admin-fee-increase-wireless-bill-cover-costs

EFF filed suit against Universal way back in 2007 when they requested YouTube takedown a 29-second clip of a baby dancing to music by Prince. Now the case is finally over. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/06/after-more-decade-litigation-dancing-baby-ready-move source: https://twitter.com/eff/status/1012119637423808513

Free #thanatos Ransomware Decryption Tool Released #hackers https://thehackernews.com/2018/06/free-ransomware-decryption-tools.html

Awesome Tech You Can’t Buy Yet: Stick-on helmet speakers, bikes kids can build #digitaltrends https://www.digitaltrends.com/cool-tech/awesome-tech-you-cant-buy-yet/ #hammock

RT @openculture
Salvador Dalí’s 1973 Cookbook Gets Reissued: Surrealist Art Meets Haute Cuisine http://www.openculture.com/2016/10/salvador-dalis-1973-cookbook-gets-reissued.html 
Original URL: https://twitter.com/openculture/status/1010577223462502400

At this rodeo, robots enter downed planes and explore fake radioactive disasters #theverge https://www.theverge.com/2018/6/23/17491736/robot-rodeo-bomb-squads-sandia-national-laboratories

Some states have tried to restrict or outright ban encryption on smartphones and other devices. The ENCRYPT Act would stop that.
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/06/encrypt-act-protects-encryption-us-state-prying source: https://twitter.com/eff/status/1008735337919729664

It's so wonderful to speak to someone, to hear their voice.

I think we have got away from that in our world of total asynchronicity with textual conversations. Interleaving sentences from several conversations. The background stress of trying to read context from phrasing and the occasional emoji.

The warmth of the human voice is wonderful and it's amazing what just a half-minute on a Signal call with a kind friend can do for the soul. ❤️

Painting through the sciatica paid off. Sold a painting! https://jeanvengua.com/2018/06/14/wednesday-is-full-of/ (caption for url: painting is abstract, rectangular w/flowing bright colors & blue splotches). Tomorrow: shipping. #artists #art #tutoring #artistslife

After 6 hours and 49 minutes, today’s #spacewalk officially ended at 2:55pm ET. The dynamic duo, @Astro_Ricky & @Astro_Feustel completed all planned tasks. Get the details behind today’s spacewalk and other happenings at the @Space_Station: https://blogs.nasa.gov/spacestation/

📸: @OlegMKS https://twitter.com/NASA/status/1007341155187609602/photo/1 source: https://twitter.com/nasa/status/1007341155187609602