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[Tuta @TutaPrivacy]

🚨Make your voices heard & #KILLTHECOOKIEBANNER. 🍪

The European Commission wants to remove the ANNOYING COOKIE BANNER that you have to deal with everyday, but of course Google is lobbying against this. 🍪🙄

Now, EU Member States like Germany and France also want to keep it.

WHY?

Tech Giants like Google make HUGE profits tracking you, so of course they don't want it to be easier for you to not consent. 😡

It is time for the European Parliament to advocate to keep their proposal (Article 88b) and remove the cookie banner, because its people that are directly impacted by this.

Say no here → https://t.co/d61l6ivCRQ

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[History Nerd @_HistoryNerd]

Marlon Brando once told Dick Cavett that everyone on Earth is an actor.

Then he proved it, live on air, by dissecting Cavett himself.

It remains one of the most disarming exchanges in talk show history.

Cavett opened by pressing Brando on something he had read for years: that Brando considered acting "not a fit profession for a man." Brando deflected at first. "We can't believe the press; I don't know what we can believe in this country."

But then, in his words, "in an effort to help your ratings," Brando laid out his real view of acting:

"I think that we couldn't survive a second if we weren't able to act; acting is a survival mechanism, a social lubricant, and we act to save our lives every day."

People lie constantly, he explained. By not saying what they think. By showing something they don't feel. By trying to give the appearance of feeling something they don't actually feel.

Cavett pushed back: "But that's not acting."

Brando disagreed:

"That is acting. When you're nervous or frightened in this chair, or distressed and angry, you know that is not what is necessary to be shown here, so you control your face. You're a highly controlled person and you have to do that."

Cavett argued there had to be gradations. He was motivated in the moment, but he couldn't wake up the next morning and repeat that same performance on command, take after take. Surely that skill, the thing Brando did better than almost anybody, was something different.

Brando refused the compliment. He pointed to the office worker who hates his boss but performs enthusiasm for his "impossible notions" day after day to keep his job.

Cavett countered that delivering the same line six times, getting "something deeper into it time after time," takes an actor. Everyday performances are one-time things with immediate motivation.

"No, they're not one-time things because it's a daily procedure," Brando replied. "The dialogue changes but the motivation doesn't."

Then came the moment the interview is remembered for. Brando turned the lens directly on his host:

"Right now, you're thinking of 60 things at once: 'Is it getting dull? Is he upset? Is he bored? Is he offended? Here's a good time for a joke.' You're doing this editing at an insane rate with a demeanor of levity and zest, and that finally isn't what goes on in your mind or feelings at all."

Cavett's response said everything:

"I just feel like all my clothes have been taken off."

Brando softened it. "I couldn't do what you do, and that's a different kind of acting; you're playing a different kind of role."

Cavett tried one final test. He handed Brando a commercial script and challenged him to read it, any way he wanted. Brando refused flatly: "No, I won't do it."

Cavett's closing line: "I'm glad you didn't. The man's incorruptible, and that's what I hoped."

Source: The Dick Cavett Show, interview with Marlon Brando (1973)

[Jill ~ recently described as ‘That Jill’ 🟪 🇺🇦💜 @pozitivemindsuk]

Good morning 🎈
Enjoy a Terrific Tuesday
💜💜

Be decisive ~ don’t miss that opportunity 💜

[Gary McKinnon @realGMcKinnon]

#boxing #MartialArts
Masterclass in speedball :

https://t.co/DxXeqSJ5er

[Nostalgia @NostalgiaFolder]

This was peak AC controls

The world has been downhill ever since

[Helen Day @LBFlyawayhome]

Time for a round of ‘you can only pick one’.
Which will it be?

[Precis0x @precisox]

Google se lleva 238 mil millones de dólares al año solo por llenarte de anuncios.

Un solo desarrollador creó una herramienta totalmente gratis que los bloquea a todos, antes de que lleguen a cualquier dispositivo.
En toda tu casa.
Al mismo tiempo.
Sin instalar nada en el celular, la tele ni la tablet.

Se llama Pi-hole (más de 57.000 estrellas en GitHub).

Lo pones a correr en un Raspberry Pi de 35 dólares o en cualquier computadora vieja con Linux. Se convierte en el DNS de tu red y hunde todos los dominios de publicidad antes de que toquen tus equipos.

De repente:
- La Smart TV deja de cargar anuncios
- El teléfono navega limpio
- Los niños ya no ven propaganda en su tablet
También detiene:
- El pixel de rastreo de Facebook
- Google Analytics siguiéndote como sombra
- La vigilancia de tu tele inteligente
- La telemetría de las apps que llama a casa
- Los data brokers husmeando en tu red

Un solo aparato.
Una sola configuración.
Un comando.

Una industria de 238 mil millones neutralizada por 35 dólares y una tarde de tu tiempo. 100% open source. Gratis para siempreee.

Link en comentarios.

[Medieval Diesel @TimothyEveland]

This medieval shipping container home is actually pretty sick.

Would you live in one of these?

[twicrates 5’8.375 @twicrates]

boomers will look you dead in the eye and say lifes tough meanwhile they literally fumbled fucking everything

[໊໊ @juniorkingpp]

boomers will look you dead in the eye and say lifes tough meanwhile they literally fumbled fucking everything

[X Daily News @xDaily]

NEWS: X will soon let you stop autoplay next video with an “auto-advance” setting.

[Bear Grylls OBE @BearGrylls]

The best teams I've been on didn't have the most talented people. They had the most honest ones. People who could say "I don't know" or "I need help" without flinching. That kind of honesty is rare and it's worth more than any skill.

[mmatigari @matigary]

A giant ship's engine broke down and no one could repair it, so they hired a Mechanical Engineer with over 30 years of experience.

He inspected the engine very carefully, from top to bottom. After seeing everything, the engineer unloaded his bag and pulled out a small hammer.

He knocked something gently. Soon, the engine came to life again. The engine has been fixed!

A week later the engineer mentioned to the ship owner that the total cost of repairing the giant ship was $20,000.

"What?!" said the owner.

"You did almost nothing. Give us a detailed bill."

The answer is simple:

Tap with a hammer: $2

Know where to knock and how much to knock: $19,998

The importance of appreciating one's expertise and experience...because those are the results of struggles, experiments and even tears.

If I do a job in 40 minutes it's because I spent 20 years learning how to do that in 20 minutes. You owe me for the years, not the minutes.

Are you with me? You get it?

[jackofallgames @jackofallgames7]

People will say “there’s nothing stopping you having this now” but that’s not true.

Nearly everything in this room was offline. Everyone had to make arrangements to come over and play. You’d make an evening out of a video game.

Successfully doing this today is near impossible. Culturally, we’ve left this behind.

[HSVSphere @HSVSphere]

I have a Kumtel HMIN-05 for about $60, it has an inverter so the heat dial changes the amount of energy rather than turning it on/off at intervals (making melting butter, chocolate etc work well), and all of this is controlled with two knobs. No beep. It's nearly silent.