Everything you say to your Echo will be sent to Amazon starting on March 28
Amazon is killing a privacy feature to bolster Alexa+, the new subscription assistant.
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/03/everything-you-say-to-your-echo-will-be-sent-to-amazon-starting-on-march-28/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social
BREAKING: In a landslide vote, Harvard Law student body passes divestment referendum, overcoming administration attempts to prevent and delegitimize the vote.
Harvard Law students overwhelmingly vote for Justice for Palestine and divestment from Netanyahu’s regime.
This is historic. Now the question is whether Harvard will listen to its students or its donors.
Amazon is going to be disabling the privacy feature that processes voice commands locally on Echo devices at the end of this month. Instead, all voice commands will be sent to Amazon's cloud for processing.
I have already followed my own steps to remediate this:
1. Unplug Echo Device
2. Throw Echo Device in Trash
3. Done
I am saying it once more.
If #academia and #highered do not QUICKLY develop a coordinated strategy of resistance, then MAGA will pick them off one by one.
“Half of this stuff you can’t just do and the other half is insane,” said Joseph Howley, a professor of classics at Columbia. “If the federal government can show up and demand a university department be shut down or restructured, then we don’t have universities in this country.”
Chuck Schumer
John Fetterman
Kirsten Gillibrand
Maggie Hassan
Gary Peters
Angus King
Catherine Cortez Masto
Jean Shaheen
Brian Schatz
Dick Durbin
May they step of Legos for their rest of their miserable lives and may both sides of their pillows always be hot
Every single appeal for money I get from now on will be met with
NOT WHILE SCHUMER HAS A LEADERSHIP POSITION
Laws against stripping DRM from an audiobook to listen to it privately via different software is “another example of how anti-circumvention laws interfere with consumers’ rights of ownership over the things they buy," EFF’s @mitchstoltz told @arstechnica. https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/03/i-threw-away-audibles-app-and-now-i-self-host-my-audiobooks/
Here it is: The first clear image of an eclipse of the Sun by the Earth, taken from the surface of the Moon.
This is what last night's lunar eclipse looked like from the Blue Ghost lander's perspective on the Moon. Amazing!
https://www.flickr.com/photos/fireflyspace/54386246629/in/dateposted/ #space #science #art #tech
I wish I lived in a country where Chuck Schumer and John Fetterman had at least half the balls of Nancy Pelosi or Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
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If voting NO against the GOP's budget were "giving Trump exactly what he wants," then Republicans would be voting NO.
Ladies and gentlemen... the weekend. (also: you are important and are not alone 
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French nuclear submarine arrives in Canada, so the Canadians can see its capabilities, and choose to buy French instead of buying from the gangster in Washington.
Merci! 
Senator Mark Kelly is getting rid of his Tesla, saying, “I don’t want to be driving a car built and designed by an asshole.”
This comes just days after Elon Musk called the astronaut and decorated veteran a “traitor” for supporting Ukraine.
Buy a EU electric car instead
I heard there have been some InfoSec layoffs lately. First of all, my condolences. Capitalism sucks.
Second, if you know of experienced Detection & Response folks, please send them my way. I might have a position opening soon.
