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@eff The TikTok ban was never about national security or privacy. It's about the oligarchs not being able to control the algorithm of a very popular social media platform and hence, what users see.
I'm not saying there aren't national security or privacy issues with TikTok mind you, just saying what the real concern is. #privacy #security #social #oligarchy

"It's just weird to talk about your sexual feelings to your parents.” 15-year-old *Ben and his parents, two professionals in their 40s, have watched and discussed the new Netflix drama “Adolescence,” a series that follows the story of a 13-year-old boy who is accused of murdering a female classmate. @BBCNews sits down with Ben and his parents to discuss how their own concerns overlap with the themes from the show:

flip.it/ijmkqD

A teenage boy sits at a table, smirking, while a coffee cup sits on the table in front of him
flip.itAdolesence: Teenager dissects Netflix drama with worried parentsA 15-year-old teenager discusses Andrew Tate and girl-boy friendships with his parents after watching the Netflix drama.
#Culture#TV#Social

It's weird what grabs the attention and what doesn't.

I was looking up some UK #statistics and it looks like the most dangerous thing our sons do is drive a car.

Over 78% of all car fatalities are male and that's even higher in the younger groups.

Strangely, that's not why men's insurance is higher. That's mostly because men are more likely to make a claim.

Apparently women cause more accidents per capita in the #USA, which is a very odd geographical difference if you ask me.

These are the kinds of discrepancies that make me suspicious of #social #research

Someone must be getting this wrong, surely. #american #women can't be worse #drivers than their #British counterparts, can they?

#cars#driving#roads

Traitement de l'endométriose : « En plus de la violence physique, il y a la violence des mots. »
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Des fragments de muqueuse qui, lors du cycle menstruel, se déposent sur les ovaires, la vessie, le rectum et provoque d'intenses douleurs pelviennes. la muqueuse interne utérine (ou endomètre) qui se développe en dehors de l'utérus, colonisant d'autres organes… L'endométriose, maladie gynécologique, touche une personne menstruée sur dix. Pourtant, le délai moyen pour diagnostiquer les femmes qui en sont victimes est encore de sept ans. Si 30 millions d'euros sont débloqués pour la recherche (…)
#Politique #Social #Actus&ExclusWeb

Fakir · Traitement de l'endométriose : « En plus de la violence physique, il y a la violence des mots. » – FakirDes fragments de muqueuse qui, lors du cycle menstruel, se déposent sur les ovaires, la vessie, le rectum et provoque d'intenses douleurs (…)

La mauvaise blague: 72 départements dirigés par LR refusent d’appliquer la revalorisation du RSA, un coup de pouce royal de... 1,7% au 1er avril. "Nos collègues plutôt de gauche vont faire la même chose", estime Jean-Marc Roze (Marne) sur RTL. Raté. "Comment peut-on, par cette annonce, pointer du doigt cette revalorisation pourtant dérisoire face à l’inflation?", répond son collègue PS Stéphane Troussel.

Le budget 2026 va être "un cauchemar", selon la porte-parole du gouvernement Sophie Primas après le conseil des ministres. Les difficultés "s’additionnent", selon notre rayon de soleil, qui prévoit que "chacun sera mis à contribution" pour réduire le déficit tout en réarmant le pays. Le tout sans augmenter les impôts car Macron refuse toujours toute hausse fiscale Tremblez, Bernard Arnault et Vincent Bolloré!

Psychodrame en Macronie après que la ministre Méadel a salué hier soir l’échec d'une proposition de loi de...Kasbarian, visant à virer des locataires de leur HLM, une mesure qui "risquait d’accentuer l’assignation sociale à résidence", a écrit la ministre. "Assistez aux réunions interministérielles ou démissionnez", lui a répondu son camarade, furax, sous les rires de la gauche. Il faut bien se détendre, un peu...

#meta alias #facebook non vorrebbe che si leggesse il libro pubblicato da una sua ex #dirigente che parla della totale indifferenza dei dirigenti di #zuckerberg riguardo i danni che il suo #social stava producendo in #Myanmar

Parla anche dei comportamenti sconsiderati e sessisti tenuti a bordo del jet privato di meta

Una lettura interessante insomma

wired.it/article/careless-peop

Wired Italia · Careless People, perché Meta non vuole che leggiate questo libroBy Steven Levy

Festival Latino-americano de Instalação de Software Livre – FLISoL 2025 acontece no dia 26 de Abril

América Latina, sábado, 26 de abril às 09:00 BRT

O Festival Latino-americano de Instalação de Software Livre (FLISoL) é o maior evento da América Latina de divulgação de Software Livre. Ele é realizado desde o ano de 2005, e desde 2008 sua realização acontece no 4°. sábado de abril de cada ano.Seu principal objetivo é promover o uso de Software Livre, mostrando ao público em geral sua filosofia, abrangência, avanços e desenvolvimento.Para alcançar estes objetivos, diversas comunidades locais de Software Livre (em cada país/cidade/localidade), organizam simultaneamente eventos em que se instala, de maneira gratuita e totalmente legal, Software Livre nos computadores dos participantes. Além disso, paralelamente acontecem palestras, apresentações e oficinas, sobre temas locais, nacionais e latino-americanos sobre Software Livre, em toda a sua expressão: artística, acadêmica, empresarial e social.O FLISOL Brasil 2025 acontece no dia 26 de Abril em diversas cidades, verifique o horário da sua cidade na listagem abaixo!https://flisol.info/FLISOL2025/Brasil

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