A 300-million-year-old tree species declared extinct in the wild in the 1990s now numbers around 10,000 mature trees. China’s cliff cypress survives almost entirely in and around Chongqing’s Xuebaoshan reserve, the product of two decades of seed-banking and propagation work that just won an ecological restoration award in Geneva. China Daily https://www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/202608/21/WS6a88407ea3106bc57421cd17.html
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@inquiline the rule is that you get to feel superior to US racism if your country did not participate in the transatlantic slave trade. So Poles and Swedes get to do it, Brits and Spaniards do not

Today @zackwhittaker brings up a very important topic about the launch of the new Apple Watch this week:

How a large company like Apple can play an important role in normalizing intrusive surveillance.

"Apple is opening the door to a world where other companies, device makers, and app developers try to recreate or rival Apple's technology and do a far shoddier job, all the while creating a worse surveillance monster and introducing new security and privacy risks along the way."

We don't talk enough about how privacy is also a culture, part of cultural norms that can go in one direction or another.

Products like this, produced and sold at a massive scale, weakens our culture of consent and privacy, and pushes society towards the increasing normalization of always-on surveillance.

I highly recommend reading Zack's article: https://this.weekinsecurity.com/watch-what-you-say-apple-opens-the-door-to-a-nightmare-world-of-always-listening-tech/

#Privacy #Security #Apple #MassSurveillance

RE: https://cosocial.ca/@mhoye/117247490796893509

So, to pay a contractor a company called "Plooto" wants me to put my Actual Bank Real Credentials into a dialog box for a company called "Flinks", which promises that it is "secured via 256-bit encryption" and "will never share my credentials."

This is a real transaction!

And they want me to just... hand over my bank login to make it work?

This is bonkers. Guess I'm calling them Monday to find some way to pay them that doesn't look exactly like I'm being phished, badly.

WTF.

If you REALLY want to stick it to companies knowingly funding fashtech, consider becoming a Friend of @gnome! There’s a convenient $50/month option in case you’re not planning to drop $3 million on something else. Or, you know, any amount helps. 😉

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Oggi sono finito a vedere una gara di auto gran turismo d'epoca a 2200mt di altitudine: una cosa abbastanza assurda.

Sullo sfondo di un ghiacciaio che i miei nipoti non potranno più godere, davanti uno stuolo di abbastanza ricchi da buttare via dei soldi per correre con auto di 30, 40, a volte quasi 90anni fa, attorno i ricchi veri che pagano un caffè da un baracchino in strada 5€

Ganz schön viel los bei Breitband heute.
#Autistici #Rhysida und … #KI

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✨ A Sprinkle of JoyousJoyness ✨

What's he dreaming about?

Have a JoyousJoyfulJoyness day!

#happy #cat #kitten #funny #cute #joyousjoyness #repost

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@andypiper Both look really good and fitting at first sight. I'll have a closer look at them. Thanks so much!

@dimenzio Yeah, discussed in depth in others of my posts. Thing is, the fundamental fallacies are the same, expecting people to spend lots of time in VR headsets (which have many real uses, the Quest 3 is a marvel of tech), or standing on those scooters, or letting AI agents run amok in their data.