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Top 3 Sources for Donated Tech, Products, and Services

Tech Soup

Matthew Perdoni also invited everyone to the Independent Sector Embark National Conference in late October in Miami. Good 360 has been around since 1983; it provides product donations to charities and libraries and also to victims of disasters. Use the discount code TECHSOUP200 for $200 off regular registration.

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Inside the ‘slow-rolling catastrophe’ of Trump’s NOAA cuts

Fast Company Tech

Mass layoffs struck the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Organization (NOAA) late last week , throwing into jeopardy the core mission of the agency tasked with observing the skies and seas nationwideand a key piece of the federal disaster preparedness apparatus. In Miami, multiple hurricane researchers were let go.

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Opinions Differ On If Donors Will Show Up On GivingTuesday

The NonProfit Times

The year started with atypically high inflation rates and featured several significant weather-related disasters, ongoing crises in the Middle East and Ukraine and an acrimoniously contested, highly polarizing and wildly expensive election season. People giving to natural disasters this fall is a bigger concern than election giving.”

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What Facebook doesn’t understand about the Facebook walkout

The Verge

When the looting starts, the shooting starts,” Trump had tweeted — quoting a former Miami police chief who, in 1967, called for a violent crackdown on the city’s black community. Over the coming days, as the National Guard is now deployed, probably the largest one that I would worry about would be excessive use of police or military force.

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Platforms successfully stopped a lame COVID conspiracy video from going viral

The Verge

Contrast that with last month’s content moderation disaster, which was essentially a bunch of nonsense that was uttered during a live stream of a press conference. Miami police used Clearview AI’s facial recognition technology to arrest a protestor who they say was involved in a standoff on May 30th. Matthew Smith / Time ).

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