"How to Fix the Internet" has an important interview with neuroscientist Rafael Yuste and human rights lawyer Jared Genser, who together established the Neurorights Foundation, focused on expanding human rights concepts to neurotechnologies —tools that can record, interpret, and even manipulate brain activity.

They have contributed to getting laws passed nearly unanimously in three states of the USA and also discuss reforms in Brazil and Chile. This is an important issue to understand, and now seems like a short-lived opportunity to get laws passed before wealthy companies become involved in these technologies and start lobbying for their own interests.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/08/podcast-episode-protecting-privacy-your-brain

cross-posted from: https://yall.theatl.social/post/3357080

Fixed that for you

cross-posted from: https://yall.theatl.social/post/3356775

Dionysus wants you to know...

Fixed that for you

Dionysus wants you to know...

Atlanta is currently suffering from a major water main break that has put half the city under a boil-water advisory. The city government is reportedly bringing in pallets of bottled water, so there hopefully will not be any real crisis here. But I expect this will be a wake-up call for a lot of people who have not given much thought to prepping.

There are also major droughts in Mexico City and Bogota, threatening to dry out their taps.

Do you all have any tips for folk with how to prep for loss of water service, especially for folk in cities where they may not have a ton of storage space or land for collecting water?

I'll start off by referring to the US FEMA guidelines: One gallon of water per person per day. In my experience the best format is those upright 1-gallon bottles with the opening in the top middle (not the milk-jug style with the handle).

Response to questions/complaints about the planned Beltline light rail

In 2022, 38 people lost their lives while walking inside Atlanta city limits. That’s 23% more than in 2021, and a full 52% more than in 2020. The rise marks a continued upward trend that started in 2018 in a city whose overall traffic fatality rates are already high compared with similarly sized cities.

More than two-thirds of all Atlanta’s pedestrian fatalities occurred in predominantly Black neighborhoods, places with fewer features like sidewalks, crosswalks, and bike lanes that provide basic safety for pedestrians and people outside of cars.

cross-posted from: https://yall.theatl.social/post/830010

From Decaturish:

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cross-posted from: https://yall.theatl.social/post/824731

From Decaturish:

Atlanta, GA — There were 38 pedestrian deaths in Atlanta in 2022, a 23 percent increase over the previous year, a report by an advocacy group says. Propel ATL, which advocates for cyclists and pedestrians, said, “More than two-thirds of all Atlanta’s pedestrian fatalities (25 out of 38) occurred in predominantly Black neighborhoods, places with fewer […]

Even in our 'walkable' city, kids are still getting killed crossing the street.

DeKalb County is soliciting input on the master plan for trails and greenways. This page has links to a survey as well as to an interactive map where you can suggest trail destinations or flag problems.

RDA is a free-to-read local news source with an RSS feed. They put up a lot of content. Some of it may be reused (GPB). I think they have 5 different feeds for different neighborhoods, and also use tags to categorize content.

Would this be a good addition? @[email protected]

I understand the big picture for how mastodon works, but I am constantly running into edge cases where I don't know what to expect. Has anyone made a decision tree diagram (or flow chart) to show how Mastodon decides whether to show me someone's post, and where to show it?

A complete decision tree would cover at least the following settings:

1. Post settings: Public; unlisted; etc.
2. Individual connections: Individual follow, mute, block, etc.
3. Boosts and replies
4. Instance-level moderation (same server, suspended, silenced)
5. timelines (home, local, federated), hashtag search, thread-view