Lutnick Targets Swiss Pharma Giants for Making Money Off America
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-09-05/lutnick-targets-swiss-pharma-giants-for-making-money-off-america?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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"The image shows a postal official at the port in Dakar, while travelling i sent cards - it was great that this person was there to sell stamps and mail things

#dakar #postoffice #official #person #postal #places #culture #urban #port #senegal #africa #portrait #photography #street #photo

I saw hill, field, and tree and had to photograph it.

Just outside the frame on the left there’s a bush I didn’t want to include, so the tree had to sit far to the left unless I zoomed in more. Right behind the hill the forest begins, so I positioned myself low enough to keep the treetops out, but not too low, or the tree itself would have been cut off. Since the hill slopes, I wandered through the field for minutes, searching for the right spot.

At first, the photo was in color: green field, blue sky, small white clouds, and the dark tree. Pleasant enough, and it reminded me a little of the XP desktop background. Ten days later I tried it in black and white, darkening top and bottom to draw the eye to the horizon with the tree. Something you can hardly pull off convincingly in color. On the right I opened the crop, which pushed the tree further left, away from the rule of thirds. That rule doesn’t matter much to me anyway, though I sometimes glance at it. Mostly, I just go by instinct. After all, I’m not an AI.

#Photography #BlackAndWhite #Squared

Musk’s $1 Trillion Pay Package Hinges on Staggering Performance Targets
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-09-05/elon-musk-trillionaire-path-tesla-offers-mars-shot-goals-to-motivate-ceo?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Bloomberg Wealth @bloomberg-wealth-bloomberg

Tomorrow we are having our 11th anniversary, and today my wife got her tests results - still great!

Ergo: quite a nice day

🦀✨ Guardian DB is a distributed database inspired by IPFS, focused on being more logical, cohesive, polished, and robust.

Currently we’re:

Migrating from slog → tracing + tracing-subscriber

Consolidating the ipfs_core module

Strengthening tests and documentation

Contributions and feedback are very welcome 🚀

cc @thisweekinrust

Repo: github.com/wmaslonek/guardian-…

#Rust #IPFS #Databases #OpenSource

GitHub - wmaslonek/guardian-db: GuardianDB: The Rust Implementation of OrbitDB. A peer-to-peer database for the Decentralized Web.

GuardianDB: The Rust Implementation of OrbitDB. A peer-to-peer database for the Decentralized Web. - wmaslonek/guardian-db

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Rientro a scuola: alimenti amici dello studio e il ruolo delle emozioni
@scienza
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#News #Scienza #Alimenti #Studio #scienza
Il rientro a scuola segna sempre un periodo di nuovi inizi, ma anche di sfide per studenti e genitori. Tra compiti, lezioni e attività extra,

Rientro a scuola: alimenti amici dello studio e il ruolo delle emozioni

Scopri quali alimenti favoriscono concentrazione e memoria per il rientro a scuola e come il benessere emotivo influisce sulle performance degli studenti.

^{Annalisa Tellini (Focustech)}

📺 A RTP África visitou a exposição "Imaginários da Guiné-Bissáu", resultado da investigação de Catarina Laranjeiro e Inês Vieira Gomes, dedicada ao espólio fotográfico de Álvaro de Barros Geraldo, fotógrafo oficial de Álvaro de Spínola.

Patente no Museu Nacional de História Natural e da Ciência, em Lisboa, até 7 de Setembro.

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#ColonialWars #PortugueseColonialism #Photigraphy #Exhibition #GuerraColonial #Exposição #Fotografia #SciComm #GuinéBissau #GuineaBissau

Oops I lost my Duolingo streak again

Дерьмо!

"The truth is actually very straightforward. Ordinary even. And that's even more unsettling.

"It's far more sinister than a hot mic," says Egelman.

There's no credible evidence that your phone runs a secret, always-on microphone to target ads, and there are clear technical and policy reasons why.

Independent researchers have gone looking for covert "listening" and found none, including a definitive 2018 Northeastern University study that has yet to be superseded. What they did catch in a handful of cases were screen recordings or image and video uploads to third parties. Creepy, sure, but not a hot mic.

Laws matter, too. The federal Wiretap Act bans intercepting conversations without consent, and many states (like California) require all parties to consent, stacking civil and even criminal liability on covert, continuous capture. An "always-listening for ads" feature would constantly record non-consenting bystanders and invite massive legal exposure. I know that's not completely reassuring, but that's why it's implausible in practice.

When I run the bar moment by ad-tech veteran Ari Paparo, he doesn't flinch. Paparo helped build the pipes — he founded the Beeswax DSP (acquired by Comcast's FreeWheel) and led product management at AppNexus/DoubleClick — so he's seen exactly how ad targeting really works.

"I'm very confident this is not happening. The phone is not actually listening to you," he says. "I would say that 100% of my colleagues in the advertising world agree with me."

I know that's a tough pill to swallow, but he offers the real and almost boring explanation for why it feels uncanny: People are predictable. "The ads are attempting to guess what you're interested in," he says. "It's all statistics."

Simple version, for the record: Ads follow your behavior. No listening required."

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#iPhone #Apple #Surveillance #Privacy #DataProtection #AdTargeting

No, Your iPhone Isn't Listening to You. Here's What's Really Happening

There are lots of reasons an ad pops up on your phone, but none involve a microphone listening.

^{Nelson Aguilar (CNET)}

New on ASTROCOHORS CLUB: "Focus on Women tour at the UN | United Nations"

Focus on Women tour at the UN | United Nations

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#HumanitySLastStand #UnitedNations