🔗 Chinese schools are using ‘smart uniforms’ to track their students’ locations – The Verge
while the uniforms are meant to encourage attendance, it seems that there’s nothing stopping administrators from using them to track students out of school, at least technologically speaking, which is certainly concerning
That is one super slippery slope!
I’ll preface this with saying I am decidedly against likes on Micro. – Josh Sullivan
that brings up the question, if you don’t want to write about it and cannot find a single sentence worth quoting or directly bring others attention to, is it worth sharing?
Personally, I think “simple” liking is the scourge of the social Internet and adds little to no value to anyone, unless you’re using “liking” as a bookmark type thing, which is what my wife does instead of using an actual bookmarking service.
That said, I often “like” other peoples posts using Indigenous, however, when they Micropub to my blog they do so “Privately” and I can then choose to add a comment or pull-quote later, and then publish it publicly.
🔗 Coalition needs a miracle to win next election
“He’s an ex-marketing guy and he wasn’t good at that either,” Prof van Onselen said.
😂
Here’s How Your Apps Reveal Personal Information To Facebook
The privacy researcher collective App Census estimates that “approximately 30 percent of all apps in Google’s Play store contact Facebook at startup” through the company’s SDK. The research firm Statista estimates that the Google Play store has over 2.6 million apps as of December 2018.
Clickbait headline aside, that’s a pretty shocking number of apps that connect to Facebook even if you don’t have an account, specially considering some of the apps that do it, i.e. Tinder, Grindr, Pregnancy+.
🔗 We’ve Got the Screen Time Debate All Wrong. Let’s Fix It – WIRED
Public anxiety over the side effects of screen time—the hours we spend staring at our various devices—is the highest it’s been in years. That anxiety has manifested in The form of self-help books, social movements, major media outlets foretelling “the worst mental-health crisis in decades,” and no shortage of guilt.
Colin O’Brady completed the first solo, unaided Antarctica crossing
Using solely his own muscle power, O’Brady skied 932 miles pulling a 300-pound sled over 54 frigid days across the coldest, windiest, most remote continent on Earth.
Damn, that’s impressive! 👏
My favorite part of @patrickrhone‘s Reading Plan for 2019 is;
Reading is reading. Magazines, newspapers, Instapaper, etc. all count towards the goal of reading more.
This is something I get wrong. The last few years I’ve only counted the number of actual books I’ve read, which totally discounts the value of the various essays, comics, online articles, that I’ve read.
Alcohol in the Hunter – more than 3000 treatments in a year | Newcastle Herald
The latest data shows 3306 “treatment periods” were sought for an alcohol problem in the region within a year.
The alcohol problem was followed by three illegal drugs. The data showed about 2223 “treatment periods” a year for amphetamines, 1739 for cannabis and 477 for heroin.
This so-called “treatment period” refers to contact between a client and publicly-funded health service at government and non-government agencies.
Alcohol is clearly a huge issue here in Australia, and many other countries in the World, and whilst I think there is more and more education needed, I doubt that it will ever be an issue that gets solved as the Government makes so much money from it.
The other stat I find interesting is the number of people who entered into treatment for Cannabis. I bet that the vast majority of people who entered into a treatment “contract” did so to avoid a conviction being recorded against them as there is little to no evidence that cannabis causes issues anything like alcohol does.
Six Years With a Distraction-Free iPhone – Member Feature Stories
Here’s the thing: When I stopped instantly reacting to everyone else’s priorities, I got better at making time for the projects I believed were most important—even if they weren’t urgent or nobody was asking for them.
Good read, gave me a couple of ideas on how I could tweak my iPhone’s layout to better reflect where I’d prefer my attention should be.