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So, companies are tracking you no matter what you do, but this specifically is something I care about deeply.

Essentially, when you share a link, sometimes it has extra data that tracks where it comes from and goes.

Opening Spotify, clicking the first item, and using the share button, I get something like open.spotify.com/track/4P0f1HTaA2UwtLJGryNgJZ?si=DBvbfihOSweU1KHj9Mib8w

That ?si=...........…. is the tracker. It tells Spotify who clicks on the link and ties it to you, meaning Spotify knows who your friends are even if you never follow them.

Similarly, if on Amazon or EBay in the browser, I get something like www.ebay.com/itm/146493392451?_skw=lenovo&itmmeta=............&hash=item................&itmprp=enc..............

And, similarly, everything after the question mark is tracking you. I had to blank it out because it was so long!

There is an exception for a few things (I.E. the v=..... on YouTube, but not the si=..... on YouTube)

The general rule is delete everything after the ? and if it breaks, add something back.

Stop talking about how you "would have hidden Anne Frank."

Anne Frank was not special.

You know her name because Otto Frank put in a considerable amount of work to make sure his daughter wasn't forgotten.

She is not your martyr or your saint.

She was a teenager who wrote that she believed people were good at heart, and then she was murdered by people who absolutely weren't.

And honestly, I don't want to hear a word about her by people who don't even know her sister's name.

LOVE LETTER TO THE ELECTRICAL GRID

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Romey T. Brough (b. 1944) Dried Sunflowers. 1972.

Juvenile Guineafowl Pufferfish is found in the warm waters of the Indo-Pacific. This tiny fish uses its vibrant pattern to stay safe and confuse predators.

📸: Alex Permiakov

Red-spotted Toad (Anaxyrus punctatus), family Bufonidae, Arizona, USA