Effectively firing half the employees seems like a strong sign that the new owners are going to ruin what made Bandcamp good.
I’m so fucking tired, you guys.
As an Australian I always take a burner phone when I travel and just reformat it after getting home.
My understanding is that typical N95 masks may not prevent facial recognition. Different systems have different performance but many will work successfully with a masked subject. The position of the eyes are one of the key inputs to many facial recognition systems.
Carlin’s podcast (and a lot of popular history podcasts) are generally considered fairly poor by academic historians, in regard to accurately portraying modern historical research. I think those kinds of podcasts are good to engage and stimulate interest in history, as long as the listener understands that they are a kind of “pop” history and should be taken with a grain of salt.
Same goes for a lot of popular books, like Sapiens.
Digital data does not last anywhere near as long as physical artifacts like paper. Most of the data on a hard drive will be irretrievable after a hundred years.
Thanks for this well thought out and nuanced opinion.