Most of it is old news. but the first two are interconnected.

Hello, we have a major climate crisis slowly exploding in this country! Harold Meyerson in his TAP column yesterday linked an excellent read by David Dayen. Dayen’s column is titled “Nature Is Screaming to Prioritize Climate.” The title says it all. TAP stands for a very good publication called The American Prospect. Give Dayen’s essay some eyeballs, everyone. The Nest is Open. 😊 7.1: I hope the PNW is starting to feel some relief!

Don’t want to miss a day! Happy Summer!

suing all of ad tech The EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) has been a mixed bag, but at its core is an exemplary and indisputable principle: you can’t give informed consent for activities you don’t understand. Since the dawn of online commercial surveillance, ad-tech sector maintained the obvious fiction that we agreed to allow it to nonconsensually suck in our private information, either by clicking “I Agree” on a garbage novella of unreadable legalese, or just by using a service. GDPR exposes this “consent theater” for a sham. It says, “Look, if you think users are cool with all … Continue reading →