Something I’ve noticed lately. In addition to the increase in sales calls to my personal cell number, these sales teams are recording the call without notice or consent. They only disclose it after I ask.
Posts by Whitney Merrill
Comic. One... two... THREE! [text in red] X Deprecated [line break] One... two... three... GO! [text in red] Deprecated [red curly bracket around top two lines] Too easy to mix up [line break] Three... two... one... GO! [text in green] [check mark] ISO Standard [caption] If I were in charge of ISO, the first thing I’d do would be to standardize the way people count out loud before doing something in sync.
Countdown Standard
xkcd.com/3232/
NEW: An independent privacy audit of Microsoft, Meta, and Google web traffic in California found that the companies may be violating state regulations and racking up billions in fines.
“In many ways fines have come to replace taxes."
Oh yes I long abandoned Google as my main search. I also use DDG as my default/primary.
I’ve been considering it too. So many people tell me they love it.
SCIENCE!
I cannot comprehend or accept that. The dems need to get their shit together. Like… now.
I’ve been watching a lot of Artemis II coverage (if you’re not you’re missing out).
My takeaway: these astronauts seem like genuinely the best fucking people.
Etsy store is back up and running. I've also added something a new! A needlepoint/cross stitch chart to make a "come back with a warrant" sign.
I have this one hanging outside my office.
www.etsy.com/listing/4483...
There's a nice #Artemis II mission tracker here: artemis.cdnspace.ca
LOTS of data about its current position, crew activities, and whether or not the toilet is currently "Go"
There's something a bit poignant about a Bluetooth device failing to connect to another device right next to it when they're the only Bluetooth devices for hundreds of thousands of kilometres around.
Thank you!!! 🙏 hope I get to see you soon!!
They don’t care if they’re breaking the law if there are no meaningful consequences for their actions.
It’s done and now a pillow in my office.
Thank you!!
It’s done and now a pillow in my office.
Excellent sticker choices. If you need more, just holler. Happy to send some your way!
In her new book, Privacy's Defender, EFF Executive Director Cindy Cohn takes us with her into the courthouse back in 1996 as she argues the seminal first case defending privacy in the digital age. Listen: www.youtube.com/watch?v=1pY....
T-1 minute!
“Experts describe ‘surveillance wages’ as a system in which wages are based not on an employee’s performance or seniority, but on formulas that use their personal data, often collected without employees’ knowledge.”
Two weeks after the DarkSword iOS hacking tool was revealed, Apple is taking the rare step of pushing a security fix to older iOS 18 iPhones rather than just telling users to update to iOS 26, as it had previously done. (Which left millions of iOS 18 users vulnerable.) www.wired.com/story/apple-...
ILL!!
INI!!
2021 Republicans: How dare tech companies talk to government about moderating speech!!! We’ll create a whole false narrative about it and take it all the way to the Supreme Court!
2025 Republicans: We run things now so
Apple’s Lockdown Mode feature is the best defense we have against spyware on iOS, macOS, watchOS, and iPadOS. Apple launched the feature four years ago and has not yet seen a device with Lockdown Mode on be compromised. techcrunch.com/2026/03/27/a...