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Dan Gillmor<p>Until Schumer is removed as the Dems' Senate leader, there is zero (or less) chance of saving the nation from total dictatorship. If that isn't obvious today, nothing is.</p>
Hans Hafner<p>😁</p>
Ars Technica<p>Everything you say to your Echo will be sent to Amazon starting on March 28<br />Amazon is killing a privacy feature to bolster Alexa+, the new subscription assistant.<br /><a href="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" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/0</span><span class="invisible">3/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</span></a></p>
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steve mookie kong<p>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.</p><p>I have already followed my own steps to remediate this:</p><p>1. Unplug Echo Device<br>2. Throw Echo Device in Trash<br>3. Done</p><p><a href="https://chow.fan/tags/amazon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>amazon</span></a> <a href="https://chow.fan/tags/echo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>echo</span></a> <a href="https://chow.fan/tags/privacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>privacy</span></a></p>
Qasim Rashid, Esq.<p>BREAKING: In a landslide vote, Harvard Law student body passes divestment referendum, overcoming administration attempts to prevent and delegitimize the vote. </p><p>Harvard Law students overwhelmingly vote for Justice for Palestine and divestment from Netanyahu’s regime.</p><p>This is historic. Now the question is whether Harvard will listen to its students or its donors.</p>
JA Westenberg<p>The right is burning books, erasing trans people, and criminalizing dissent, and the pundits who spent years laundering their ideology want to pretend they had no role in it. </p><p>But their reckoning is due.</p><p><a href="https://www.theindex.media/the-pundit-class-played-devils-advocate-now-the-devils-at-the-door/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theindex.media/the-pundit-clas</span><span class="invisible">s-played-devils-advocate-now-the-devils-at-the-door/</span></a></p>
Taylor Lorenz<p>I need to log off for a while and sleep and stop getting upset over the internet.</p>
Nincowpoop<p>I'm saving a ton of money over the last year. Here's my secret:</p><p>-Cancelled NYT subscription <br>-Cancelled WaPo subscription <br>-Cancelled Amazon Prime <br>-Cancelled Spotify</p><p>Turns out I'm saving money and also giving my more directly to smaller businesses, true journalists, and artists. </p><p>Really not that hard, people. </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/democracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>democracy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/collaborators" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>collaborators</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fascism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/journalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>journalism</span></a></p>
Molly Cantrell-Kraig 🇺🇦<p>Today I learned that there’s a free Black farmers index. Want to support hyperlocal and Black-owned businesses (instead of keeping billionaires in yacht money)? Take a look. Buy some stuff:</p><p><a href="https://blackfarmersindex.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">blackfarmersindex.com/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BlackMastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>BlackMastodon</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/gardening" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>gardening</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/antiCapitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>antiCapitalism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/dei" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>dei</span></a></p>
AI6YR Ben<p>Jeff Masters: EPA warning: do not go outside in the Central U.S. dust storm! Hazardous dust covers parts of KS, OK, CO, MO, WY, IL, TX, NM, NE. The AQI in St. Louis hit an unfathomable 5,791 from PM10 (dust); an AQI over 300 is “Hazardous”. The tops: Lamar, CO hit an AQI of 12,802. Consult airnow.gov.</p><p><a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/AQI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AQI</span></a> <a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/dust" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>dust</span></a></p>
Wendy Palmer<p>Spotted at a red light in <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/Perth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Perth</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/puns" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>puns</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/gandalf" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>gandalf</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/LOTR" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LOTR</span></a></p>
George Takei :verified: 🏳️🌈🖖🏽<p>I’d like to see more, thanks.</p>
Hippy Steve<p>YIKES!</p><p>On Wednesday, a woman gave birth in a Lubbock, Texas, hospital in the middle of a deadly and fast-growing measles outbreak. Doctors didn’t realize until the young mother had been admitted and in labor that she was infected with the measles.</p><p>By that time, other new moms, newborn babies and their families at University Medical Center Children’s Hospital in Lubbock had unknowingly been exposed to the virus, considered one of the most contagious in the world.</p><p>Hospital staff are scrambling with damage control efforts — implementing emergency masking policies and giving babies as young as three days old injections of immunoglobulin, an antibody that helps their fragile immune system fight off infections. <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/texas-measles-outbreak-hospital-newborn-babies-exposed-rcna196519" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">nbcnews.com/health/health-news</span><span class="invisible">/texas-measles-outbreak-hospital-newborn-babies-exposed-rcna196519</span></a></p><p><a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/Measles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Measles</span></a></p>
God :verified:<p>There aren’t enough cans of spray paint on Earth to damage Elon’s company as much as Elon has.</p>
Catherine Schmidt<p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>politics</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/AOC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AOC</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Budget" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Budget</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/alt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>alt</span></a></p>
Chris Silverman 🌻<p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/notesArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>notesArt</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/mastoArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>mastoArt</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/art" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>art</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/illustration" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>illustration</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/piday" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>piday</span></a></p>
Matthew Haughey<p>“There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, that you can’t take part; you can’t even passively take part, and you’ve got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus, and you’ve got to make it stop. And you’ve got to indicate to the people who run it, to the people who own it, that unless you’re free, the machine will be prevented from working at all!”<br>–Mario Savio, Sproul Hall</p>
FeloniousPunk<p>People are legitimately waiting for someone to come save the country. It’s. Not. Happening. </p><p>We’re it folks.</p>
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