theatlantic: Use Google? Time to Get Real About Protecting Your Digital Self Google’s decided to integrate the data it has about you, which means you better think about the digital tracks you’re leaving. Read more. [Image: Alexis Madrigal]
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theatlantic:

Use Google? Time to Get Real About Protecting Your Digital Self

Google’s decided to integrate the data it has about you, which means you better think about the digital tracks you’re leaving. Read more.

[Image: Alexis Madrigal]

Source: theatlantic

thecsph: An Exciting New iPhone App for Transgender and Gender Non-Conforming Folks! Planned Parenthood of the Southern Finger Lakes’ LGBT Health and Wellness Project, Out for Health, is pleased to present their Pee in Peace App!  This app is designed to help transgender, gender non-conforming, and other individuals who do not readily fit into expected and conventional norms of gender presentation, easily locate single stall or gender neutral bathrooms in Ithaca, New York! The idea for this app came about after a survey conducted by the San Francisco Human Rights Commission found that nearly 50% of respondents reported having been harassed or assaulted in a public bathroom. Because of this, many transgender people avoid public bathrooms altogether and can develop health problems as a result. It has become Out for Health’s commitment to work toward removing the barriers to accessing safe bathrooms. About the app:Pee in Peace is the premiere interactive map of MOST single stall and gender neutral restrooms in Ithaca, New York.  Because public restrooms can pose some risks (from cleanliness to safety), Out for Health has done the work for you so you can pee in peace! For anyone who needs quick and easy access to a private bathroom -  from caregivers for people of a different sex, to anyone who just prefers a private place, and especially for transgender and gender non-conforming people who may have a specific need for safe and private restrooms.  Everyone deserves a place to pee in peace, right here in Ithaca, New York. Features: Interactive map of nearby single stall and gender neutral restrooms. GPS ‘near me’ search for the closest bathroom. Quick access to walking or driving directions to get you there fast! List includes when restrooms are open and key features, including if the restroom is accessible. Notes section provides special directions for restrooms at local college campus locations. Out for Health is also working toward adding more locations! If you know of a restroom that should be included please use the feedback button in the app to alert them! Requirements: Location data is used to provide walking and driving directions to restrooms and is not collected or stored by the app Network connection is required to update locations and availability Network connection is required to provide driving and walking directions About Out for Health:Out for Health is Planned Parenthood of the Southern Finger Lakes’ LGBT Health & Wellness Project, providing outreach, education, and information to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) people, their health care providers, and the community at-large about the importance of inclusive, welcoming, and respectful care for LGBT people. Planned Parenthood of the Southern Finger Lakes takes pride in assuring that their diverse patients and communities have access to the sexual health, wellness services, and information they need. They proudly stand side-by-side with their LGBT communities as fellow activists, allies, and people committed to health, wellness, and social change.
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thecsph:

An Exciting New iPhone App for Transgender and Gender Non-Conforming Folks!

Planned Parenthood of the Southern Finger Lakes’ LGBT Health and Wellness Project, Out for Health, is pleased to present their Pee in Peace App!  This app is designed to help transgender, gender non-conforming, and other individuals who do not readily fit into expected and conventional norms of gender presentation, easily locate single stall or gender neutral bathrooms in Ithaca, New York!

The idea for this app came about after a survey conducted by the San Francisco Human Rights Commission found that nearly 50% of respondents reported having been harassed or assaulted in a public bathroom. Because of this, many transgender people avoid public bathrooms altogether and can develop health problems as a result. It has become Out for Health’s commitment to work toward removing the barriers to accessing safe bathrooms.

About the app:
Pee in Peace is the premiere interactive map of MOST single stall and gender neutral restrooms in Ithaca, New York.  Because public restrooms can pose some risks (from cleanliness to safety), Out for Health has done the work for you so you can pee in peace! For anyone who needs quick and easy access to a private bathroom -  from caregivers for people of a different sex, to anyone who just prefers a private place, and especially for transgender and gender non-conforming people who may have a specific need for safe and private restrooms.  Everyone deserves a place to pee in peace, right here in Ithaca, New York.

Features:

  • Interactive map of nearby single stall and gender neutral restrooms.
  • GPS ‘near me’ search for the closest bathroom.
  • Quick access to walking or driving directions to get you there fast!
  • List includes when restrooms are open and key features, including if the restroom is accessible.
  • Notes section provides special directions for restrooms at local college campus locations.

Out for Health is also working toward adding more locations!
If you know of a restroom that should be included please use the feedback button in the app to alert them!

Requirements:

  • Location data is used to provide walking and driving directions to restrooms and is not collected or stored by the app
  • Network connection is required to update locations and availability
  • Network connection is required to provide driving and walking directions

About Out for Health:
Out for Health is Planned Parenthood of the Southern Finger Lakes’ LGBT Health & Wellness Project, providing outreach, education, and information to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) people, their health care providers, and the community at-large about the importance of inclusive, welcoming, and respectful care for LGBT people. Planned Parenthood of the Southern Finger Lakes takes pride in assuring that their diverse patients and communities have access to the sexual health, wellness services, and information they need. They proudly stand side-by-side with their LGBT communities as fellow activists, allies, and people committed to health, wellness, and social change.

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Source: thecsph

theatlantic:

Obsolete Gadgets Play ‘House of the Rising Sun’

This virtuoso rendition of “The House of the Rising Sun” uses old machines as instruments, with “absolutely no sampling or audio effects.” Read more.

I’m such a sucker for this kind of thing, where old school technology plays music. IT JUST NEVER STOPS BEING AWESOME.

Source: theatlantic

Our Siri, Ourselves

“[T]he alarming notices turned a lot of Siri owners into a massive public beta-testing team—which is fantastic—and a lot of good data has emerged. It challenges the idea that Siri or Apple itself alone is “sexist,” but reveals a lot about how these things are embedded in both computers and culture. Or more accurately, in computers by culture.”

Exactly the response I was hoping for. I found Siri’s difficulties with abortion important and fascinating, but not because it revealed some secret anti-reproductive health agenda on the part of Apple. No, it’s important because it says a lot about accessibility of information, and how technology is changing that in some big ways.

Check out the link, there’s some great stuff there.

Ask the Siri, the new iPhone 4 assistant, where to get an abortion, and, if you happen to be in Washington, D.C., she won’t direct you to the Planned Parenthood on 16th St, NW. Instead, she’ll suggest you pay a visit to the 1st Choice Women’s Health Center, an anti-abortion Crisis Pregnancy Center (CPC) in Landsdowne, Virginia, or Human Life Services, a CPC in York, Pennsylvania. Ask Google the same question, and you’ll get ads for no less than 7 metro-area abortion clinics, 2 CPCs and a nationwide abortion referral service.



Ask in New York City, and Siri will tell you: ‘I didn’t find any abortion clinics.’

10 things the iPhone Siri will help you get instead of an abortion | The Raw Story (via interweber)

If true, this is extremely important. Not just because of the subject matter but because its important to understand that our access to news and INFORMATION may increasingly be funneled through large companies like Apple, Facebook, Google and Amazon, who have hidden agendas, policies or biases we don’t know about. 

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Source: rawstory.com