River ,'The Message'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Still have a visual image of cartoon me fleeing from genetic testing.
Same, but because it's the one tinhat conspiracy theory I actually entertain: I worry the data will be sold to whatever company dangles enough money in front of the testing companies. In other words, I watched the movie Gattica and went, "Yep, that's pretty plausible".
Yeah, everything about this new wide-spread genetic testing creeps me out.
That reminds me that we need to do my MIL's genetic stuff. She was adopted when she was 2 and never has found her family. She is 76, so parents are unlikely, but she would love to know if she has any siblings out there.
While I appreciate the privacy concerns and would never say "everyone should do this", I wanted to be able to tell my grandmother what had happened to her father before she died, and this was the only way to confirm it.
Now I will eat my lunch before it gets cold.
While I appreciate the privacy concerns and would never say "everyone should do this", I wanted to be able to tell my grandmother what had happened to her father before she died, and this was the only way to confirm it.
Which totally makes sense! And I know some really good things for people that have come out of genetic testing! But it's the one tinhat conspiracy that gets room in my brain.
Same, Atropa. It's totally Gattaca, not real-people family stuff.
A little conspiracy theory-esque paranoia is probably a healthier attitude than mine. I think I've kind of given up on the whole concept of any data actually being private, and I'd like to have it myself, so, hands in the air like I just don't care
I think I've kind of given up on the whole concept of any data actually being private, and I'd like to have it myself, so, hands in the air like I just don't care
Honestly, that's the attitude I should have, because I have done enough InfoSec -adjacent work that I know that privacy no longer exists for data. (The Internet of Things freaks me the hell out, but I know there's no undoing that bear.)
I think I've kind of given up on the whole concept of any data actually being private, and I'd like to have it myself, so, hands in the air like I just don't care
That's me! Even though it is hard to let go of not actually posting a picture, so for many zoom calls, I am a cat or Penelope from Criminal Minds.
And also, my family drama from 23 and me is made more urgent by Covid. Do I meet these people?
I think the colleges are going to about-face and go all-virtual, unless something changes very soon.
The community colleges in CT are deciding this by department, focusing mostly on opening for the allied health field people. Physical sciences at my CC will be online only.
The unis are all planning to open (including the dorms), and keep making the plan bigger, which seems to be at odds with the whole tristate quarantine situation going on elsewhere in Connecticut. I have no idea what's going to happen there.