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URGENT: Google privacy policy change

fuckyeahfeminists:

Just got this in an email

In just a few hours, new policies will take effect at Google, endangering your privacy.

Tech publication Gizmodo reports, “things you could do in relative anonymity today [like your web searches], will be explicitly associated with your name, your face, your phone number come March 1st.” And this applies retro-actively if you don’t act today.

You can protect yourself in just 1 minute! Click here for a step-by-step guide to protecting your privacy from Google’s changes.

sharing with my followers because your privacy matters! They had searches from 2008…even showed which pages of which Google Books I viewed and when…spooky.

What if I don’t and instead, read a lot of Google Books about uranium enrichment?

Uranium enrichment and perhaps some searches of power grids. OOPSY!

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We have constructed a system we can’t control. It imposes itself on us, and we become its slaves and victims.

“We have created a society in which the rich become richer and the poor become poorer, and in which we are so caught up in our own immediate problems that we cannot afford to be aware of what is going on with the rest of the human family or our planet Earth.

“In my mind I see a group of chickens in a cage disputing over a few seeds of grain, unaware that in a few hours they will all be killed.

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—Thich Nhat Hanh, The World we Have

Read:

Beyond environment: falling back in love with Mother Earth

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Mar 1, 201256 notes

#environmentalism #quotes #Environment #Dominant culture #sustainability #philosophy #change #love #earth

“The idea that a changing climate can persuade the ground to shake, volcanoes to rumble and tsunamis to crash on to unsuspecting coastlines seems, at first, to be bordering on the insane. How can what happens in the thin envelope of gas that shrouds and protects our world possibly influence the potentially Earth-shattering processes that operate deep beneath the surface? The fact that it does reflects a failure of our imagination and a limited understanding of the manner in which the different physical components of our planet – the atmosphere, the oceans, and the solid Earth, or geosphere – intertwine and interact.
-Bill McGuire” —(via kristen12592)

Mar 1, 20122 notes

#environmentalism #the guardian #geology #meteorology

“Certainly there are people of faith who don’t consider environmentalism a part of their religion. But there are also many environmentalists who see their activism as deeply rooted in Scripture and faith traditions. Threats to the natural world at times implicitly involve issues with which religion has long grappled, among them materialism, social and economic justice, and love of God and neighbor. Indeed, it is not a little ironic that Santorum, a devout Roman Catholic, is at odds with Pope Benedict XVI and the nation’s Roman Catholic bishops who view climate change with alarm. They have repeatedly called on the government to address it as a matter of prudence, and to aid poor nations and people who are least responsible for climate change and least able to cope with its consequences. “At its core, global climate change is not about economic theory or political platforms, nor about partisan advantage or interest group pressures,” the U.S. bishops wrote. “It is about the future of God’s creation and the one human family. It is about protecting both ‘the human environment’ and the natural environment. It is about our human stewardship of God’s creation and our responsibility to those who come after us.” —

Santorum is at odds with his own church on environmental issues - KansasCity.com

In Buddhism, environmentalism is definitely a part of taking the right path. Buddhism values ALL life.

“Taking care of our planet, environment, is something like taking care of our own home,” he told the audience at Crisler Arena, as he sat cross-legged on a chair on the main stage in his traditional saffron robes. “This blue planet is our only home.” - HH Dalai Lama

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Mar 1, 20128 notes

#environmentalism #politics #santorum #climate change

Mar 1, 201230 notes

#environmentalism #earth day #save the earth #pledge of allegiance

“It takes a good crisis to get us going. When we feel fear and we fear loss we are capable of quite extraordinary things.
-Paul Gilding” —(via kristen12592)

Mar 1, 20124 notes

#environmentalism #ted.com #earth #economics #economy #nature

Mar 1, 2012527 notes

earthandscience:

ScienceDaily (Feb. 27, 2012) — Coyotes today are pint-sized compared to their Ice Age counterparts, finds a new fossil study. Between 11,500 and 10,000 years ago — a mere blink of an eye in geologic terms — coyotes shrunk to their present size. The sudden shrinkage was most likely a response to dwindling food supply and changing interactions with competitors, rather than warming climate, researchers say.

Everything was super sized.

Mar 1, 20123 notes

#animals #nature #coyote #canine #fossils

almondskin replied to your post: #firefox

YES. sad cause i used firefox for years but last year i finally went to chrome cause shit was freezing on me soooo much!

Right? What crap. I was holding out cause I liked the extensions and scripts but now even the chrome plugins are better. Especially my twitter extension, it’s night and day over the old crap one.

Mar 1, 20122 notes

#almondskin

Feb 29, 20123 notes

#firefox

you are completely fucking fired. You might as well be Internet Explorer. You keep getting bogged down on every comp I’ve been using and I’m done.

Chrome is the way. Privacy be damned.

Feb 29, 20126 notes

#i have fully switched to chrome #fuck firefox #eddyizm #words

Feb 29, 20123 notes

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#395 #alabama hills #bw #climbing #eastern sierras #eddyizm #eduardo cervantes #february #hwy 395 #lone pine #nikon #s9100 #shark's fin

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#395 #alabama hills #bw #climbing #eastern sierras #eddyizm #eduardo cervantes #february #hwy 395 #lone pine #nikon #s9100 #shark's fin

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#2011 #california #eddyizm #eduardo cervantes #nikon #panorama #eastern sierras #hwy395 #395 #alabama hills

“For Santorum, as for Ratzinger, if your conscience says one thing, and the Pope says another, you obey the Pope, not your conscience. And for the Christianists, if your conscience or intelligence says one thing, and the Bible says another, you obey the Bible, not your conscience, and certainly not your intelligence. Because beneath Christianism is a deep fear of the human mind - as if they actually believe that reason is stronger than religion and therefore must be restrained. As if the human mind can will God out of existence. This is Santorum’s fear-laden vision. Which is why he is not a man of questioning, sincere faith and should not be flattered as such. He is a man of the kind of fear that leads to fundamentalist faith, a faith without doubt and in complete subservience to external authority. There is a reason he doesn’t want many kids to go to college. I mean: when we already know the truth, why bother to keep seeking it? And if we already know the truth, why are we not enforcing it as a matter of law in a country founded on Christian principles? It is not religious oppression if it is “the way things are supposed to be”, by natural law. In fact, a neutral public square, in his mind, is itself religious oppression.” —Andrew Sullivan (via azspot)

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Feb 29, 201221 notes

#violence #freedom of speech #free expression

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