This story is wild to me. Who knew that receiving mail opted us into tracking like this? I certainly didn't.
"The federal privacy watchdog says Canada Post is breaking the law by gleaning information from the outsides of envelopes and packages to help build marketing lists that it rents to businesses.
... includes data about where individuals live and what type of online shopping they do, based on who sends them packages."
Trump stands to gain billions… from the merger between TrumpMedia & Tech & the blank-check co [#SPAC] #DWAC, which took the parent company of #TruthSocial public.
The subjs were asked: Would you share these stories online?
The results seemed to defy #logic of modern #politics or #polarization. “There were many…who seemed willing to share any #ConspiracyTheory, regardless of the party…,” Petersen said. These participants didn’t seem like stable partisans of the left or right. They weren’t even negative partisans, who hated 1 side w/o feeling allegiance to the other. Above all, they seemed drawn to stories that undermined #trust in every system of #power.
@mmasnick, Randy Lubin, and Leigh Beadon developed this really fun game, exploring the difficult choices and tradeoffs involved in managing a trust and safety team.
I was immediately hooked and ended with these scores:
While trust in Government is failing (see earlier post) this has not merely been caused by recent actions of the Tories.... Inquiries into the Horizon IT persecutions & the infected blood scandal have again & again revealed duplicity & malpractice by Govt. & associated institutions.
Certainly the Tories have compounded the issue, but our political class' contempt for normal people & their difficulties has also driven the longer-term decline in trust!
I love how folks still think people farmers like Google have a trust problem.
In 2024!
They don’t have a trust problem.
They are untrustworthy.
And they’ve always been untrustworthy. It’s just that your friends happen to work there and your agency gets scraps of work from them sometimes and maybe they sponsor events you speak at that you’re even still questioning this. And, by doing so – still, even today – helping legitimise them.
#Enshitification All Around:
"These Digital Goliaths are utilizing their websites’ authority and the public’s trust in their brands to sell every product under the sun.
They’re buying magazines we love, closing their print operations, turning them into digital-only, laying off the actual journalists who made us #trust in their content in the first place, and hiring third-party companies to run the affiliate arm of their sites."
#ScienceDirect and #Elsevier clearly didn't review this #chemistry paper about #batteries. The intro starts with "Certainly, here is a possible introduction for your topic:".
This lack of oversight erodes #trust in #science. The paper needs to be retracted and the authors sanctioned immediately.
Some Narrative Conventions of Scientific Discourse
Rom Harré, 1990
"The academic ‘we’ might seem at first glance to be just a version of the editorial ‘we’. Like the latter it is mutedly egocentric but it is not mainly used to imply teamwork. Rather, it is used to draw the listener into complicity, to participate as something more than an audience. "
"Trust, then, is a relation, but can be grounded in the faith of only one of its terminal members. Trust belongs to the same category of personal attributes as beliefs, though trust is more like implicit belief than like opinions which are overtly expressed. It is what is taken for granted in a relationship, whether between people or between people and things. It is usually called into question only when it is violated."
TOMORROW is the deadline for applications to the #Trust and #Identity Incubator #Mentorship Programme (TIM). #Students can get paid while they study, and learn from the best in the field.
Embracing March 2024: A Journey of Wisdom, Trust, and Transition - Let the path of insight guide us through the forests of life, toward the glowing dawn of divine guidance and understanding.
Read the full reading at https://www.patreon.com/posts/99443315
Cryptocurrencies promise decentralization, transparency, and security, but trust remains a fundamental issue. This article dives deep into the challenges and solutions surrounding #trust in the crypto economy. #divaexchange
Moss Agate promotes growth & renewal, mirroring nature's cycles. It aids in stabilizing emotions & fostering trust in universal abundance. Place near plants or wear as jewelry for a continuous flow of its gentle energy.
Prigozhin’s lesson for Trump & Co: Don’t trust Putin’s promises (www.politico.eu)
Trump, Vivek Ramaswamy and Macron should all be thinking twice after Prigozhin’s death about pinning hopes on deals with Putin.
OC Lemmy's Image Problem (wedistribute.org)
The popular Reddit alternative's user count has grown a lot over the past year. One problem, though: users and admins can't delete images.