The Met #nyc

Climate change can amplify big rainstorms, but true fixes are far off for South Florida

https://amp.miamiherald.com/news/local/environment/climate-change/article289261495.html

Rural communities are emptying out. If these communities are to thrive, or even survive, they need immigrants settling there.

https://thehill.com/opinion/immigration/4720119-when-rural-communities-welcome-immigrants-everyone-wins/amp/?nxs-test=amp

Facebook-Instagram will not launch its AI models in Europe for now after the Irish privacy regulator told it to delay its plan to harness data from Facebook and Instagram users. The move came after complaints and a call by advocacy group NOYB to data protection authorities in Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Ireland, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland and Spain to act against the company. In the US Facebook-Instagram-WhatsApp has a data monopoly as they collect more than 80% of Americans private data. The FTC should break up the Facebook-Instagram-WhatsApp monopoly.

https://www.reuters.com/technology/artificial-intelligence/meta-will-not-launch-meta-ai-europe-now-2024-06-14/

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The Metropolitan Museum of Art #nyc

Gelato #food #foodstr

Seven Asian women-led climate tech startups making a positive environmental impact

https://asiapacific.unwomen.org/en/stories/feature-story/2024/06/seven-asian-women-led-climate-tech-startups-making-a-positive-environmental-impact

Whistleblower Andrew Harris Says Microsoft Chose Profit Over Security and Left U.S. Government Vulnerable to Russian Hack

https://www.propublica.org/article/microsoft-solarwinds-golden-saml-data-breach-russian-hackers

Fake News Still Has a Home on Facebook. Facebook-Instagram algorithms have at least an 8 year history of amplifying election misinformation & voter suppression content. Whistleblowers say this is because both extreme-left & extreme-right inflammatory content makes Facebook-Instagram more money. Facebook-Instagram should be investigated by Congress for election fraud.🇺🇸

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/13/technology/facebook-fake-news-culture-wars.html

Fossil fuels generated less than a quarter of the EU's electricity in April. The drop in fossil fuel generation was driven by wind and solar growth as well as the recovery of hydropower.

https://www.euronews.com/green/2024/05/10/fossil-fuels-are-on-the-way-out-in-the-eu-as-they-dropped-to-record-low-in-april

Voters who are backing Joe Biden this fall and those who back Donald Trump express sharply contrasting views about immigration.

https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2024/06/06/immigration-attitudes-and-the-2024-election/

Study finds that Facebook’s Pages and Groups shape its ideological echo chambers. Facebook-Instagram algorithms promote inflammatory content which could be to help keep the world more polarized possibly because this keeps customers on Facebook-Instagram longer which makes Facebook-Instagram more money, in 2023 Facebook-Instagram made more than $130,000,000,000.

https://techcrunch.com/2023/07/27/a-new-study-found-that-facebooks-pages-and-groups-shape-its-ideological-echo-chambers/

Uovo in purgatorio #food #foodstr

Capture the flag, orangetheory #workout

Doctor #funny

Batman #funny

Supreme Court preserves abortion pill access after tossing challenge

https://www.axios.com/2024/06/13/supreme-court-abortion-pill-case-decision

The Pennsylvania Department of State launched its mail-in ballot application for the 2024 presidential elections on Tuesday, two months earlier than in 2020, giving voters more than eight weeks of additional time to apply for their absentee ballots.

https://statescoop.com/pennsylvania-mail-ballot-election-early-2024/