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Das Mittelmeer - Sehnsuchtsort oder Müllhalde ?

Am tiefsten Punkt des Mittelmeeres, dem Calypsotief, in mehr als 5100 m Tiefe, identifizierten Forscher*innen mehr als 167 Müllobjekte wie Plastiktüten, -becher, Getränkedose oder Flaschen.

spektrum.de/news/anthropozaen-…

#Anthropozän #Mittelmeer #Mitweltverschmuttung



BREAKING NEWS!

Limo from Putin's fleet explodes and catches fire in Moscow amid assassination paranoia

Reports did not reveal who was using the car - believed to be owned by Putin’s Presidential Property Management Department - when the incident occurred.
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #Ukraine #Russia #Putin #EU #NATO #Zelensky #war



Syria unveils new government.

Minister of Interior: Anas Khattab

Minister of Defence: Murhaf Abu Qasra

Minister of Foreign Affairs: Asaad al-Shaibani

Minister of Justice: Mazhar Al-Weiss

Minister of Religious Endowments: Mohammad Abu Al-Khair Shukri

Minister of Higher Education: Marwan Al-Halabi

Minister of Social Affairs and Labor: Hind Kabawat

Minister of Energy: Mohammad Al-Bashir

Minister of Finance: Mohammad Yasser Barniyeh

Minister of Economy: Nidal Al-Shaar
#AureFreePress



I have followed the #RoyalSociety #Musk fellowship case over the last months, which culminated in this disappointment: theguardian.com/technology/202…

As a consequence, I will not review any longer for roy soc journals, see review decline message:




#DigitalSovereignty my ass

"Germany plans to use #surveillance software from #Palantir countrywide."

derstandard.at/consent/tcf/sto…

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#BBCNews - UK prepared to retaliate against US tariffs, No 10 sources say
bbc.com/news/articles/cg7299re…


Dutchman @DannyMekic demands to see the data that Musk's X has stored on him, and what they did with it, including in their Guano system.
X wants him to sign a confidentiality agreement. Medic refuses, X sues, X loses in court.
Next: X appeals against original demand.
nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/03/27/x-wei…
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#BBCNews - Israel-Hamas ceasefire back on table in new negotiations
bbc.com/news/articles/c4g9x0kd…


🔵 NEW: Court documents seen by The Ferret link a Scottish Limited Partnership, registered to a flat in Edinburgh, to a large-scale international ad fraud scheme.

We visited the address and investigated how these partnerships continue to raise concerns over transparency 🧵



What Will You Do? | The Nation

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Die Fragen im Interview wirken

ernüchternd?
naiv?
verharmlosend?
von Unverständnis geprägt?

Die Antworten sind lesenswert.

zeit.de/kultur/2025-03/jason-s…

(Archiv ist vorhanden)



Chip Glitching 101 with

[Hash]hackaday.com/2025/03/30/chip-g…



Let's take a moment to remember the guy who made sure we don't have to change Every Goddamn Clock today, David L. Mills, creator of Network Time Protocol (NTP) who passed last year.

My wristwatch is synced to my phone, which is synced to the internet, which knows that time it is right now thanks to David Mills. Cheers to his memory 🥃

cse.engin.umich.edu/stories/re…

#DST #NTP #FOSS

#foss #ntp #dst
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@jasonkarns the OP suggested a change of clocks “today” which is the day summer time happens for a lot of the non US northern hemisphere is down to NTP.

It is not. The need to “change clocks” is down to summer time, not NTP.

I am not trying to undermine the importance of NTP.

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The timezone database was originally also the work of one individual, Arthur David Olsen, hence it initially being called the Olsen database.

Also worthy of mention is its current maintainer, Paul Eggert, with the backing of ICANN, and contributions from many many others.

[Insert relevant Tom Scott Computerphile video here.]




Canada Posts Giant Billboards in 10 Red States

The signs read:

“Tariffs Are A Tax On Your Grocery Bill.”

thegodpodcast.com/p/canada-tro…



"I drove 300 miles in rural Virginia, then asked police to send me their public surveillance footage of my car. Here’s what I learned":

cardinalnews.org/2025/03/28/i-…



Please forward to any Maga folk in Texas you know.

Ok, they do not have to live in Texas.

youtube.com/watch?v=VA3NijIUxB…



I realised on Thursday night that the journey meant I’d now used the final ferry to and from the island I’d not used, so that’s all three car ferries and both passenger ones. Am I a true islander now?


Mobilidade 🚲


Con una extensión de 3,3 kilómetros y una inversión de 2,4 millones de euros, Santiago estrenó este sábado el nuevo tramo de la senda peatonal y ciclista que discurre entre la Estación Intermodal y el complejo administrativo de San Caetano


aquí a nova completa, para evitar publicade e valados de pago

mapa da ruta


e xa está tamén en @openstreetmap a ruta completa (un dos tramos engadidos onte openstreetmap.org/changeset/16…)

baixades do #tren 🚅 (se puidestes meter a bici) e nun plisplás vas en #bicicleta 🚲 botar a instancia que-hai-de-lo-mio

#Compostela #Ciclovía #Mobilidade #openstreetmap #ciclismo



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Peter Müller
@boriskarnikowski
Ne ganze Staffel, wenn es sein müsste, aber ich muss noch ein bisschen vorbereiten. Ist ein ehrgeiziges Programm in Graz 😎


Shoes that belonged to victims of Auschwitz.
The Memorial preserves some 110,000 shoes.

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Auschwitz I. Block 5.
(Photo: instagram.com/loisara_photos)

in reply to Auschwitz Memorial

I distinctly remember seeing this... And the suitcases... And the glasses... And the horrible room with household items/furniture of human skin etc. Good that you show these.

#NeverForget #NeverAgain

in reply to Auschwitz Memorial

there is a memorial in Dallas that is very similar. And when you go in there in certain areas, you literally walk on shoes of the children who were absolutely and unequivocally and systematically slaughtered by the Nazis for their own greed, power and much else. It is a very telling, poignant, insight, and it will leave you with a definite impression, if it doesn’t, something is very wrong.


Gebloggt:

buddenbohm-und-soehne.de/2025/…



Twitter, #X, hit by massive data breach potentially impacting 2.8 billion users, inside job suspected - “A data leak involving a whopping 2.87 billion Twitter (X) users has surfaced on the infamous Breach Forums. According to a post by a user named ThinkingOne, the leak is the result of a disgruntled X employee who allegedly stole the data during a period of mass layoffs. If true, this would be the largest social media data leak in history, but surprisingly, neither X nor the broader public appears to be aware of it.” #DataBreach #DataPrivacy #opsec #infosec #Twitter #privacy
hackread.com/twitter-x-of-2-8-…


"Wisconsin appeals court won’t stop Musk’s $1 million payments to voters after attorney general sues":

apnews.com/article/wisconsin-s…

As I pointed out at the time, Musk certainly can afford enough lawyers who would make sure that his action does not violate at least the letter of the law, no matter how much people dislike it.

in reply to VessOnSecurity

It would be wonderful if the winners donated the money to Democratic causes.


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adingbatponder
@bw20 as here with full build info
loramesh.org/subpages/piboxnod…
Battery USB-A socket -to- USB-A male plug of USB-A to USB-C male cable --to -- USB-C female of right-angle USB-C female to USB-A micro male adapter --to-- USB-A micro Pi power input socket.


There's a meme and there's a meme with dates. Numbers give a power.

Steal and share, keep meme alive :batman:

#Musk #meme

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International academics using burner phones and laptops that are basically just browsers when entering the US…EU countries setting up fellowships to help US academics escape.

When the most intelligent folk on the planet start acting like this…you know it’s not a practice drill.

#USFascism
#Trump
#ICE

theguardian.com/us-news/2025/m…

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In the past I could access my social security account any time day or night. Now when I tried to log on to get a copy of my lifetime contributions I got "the website is not available at this time" with a list of when it is available. They are messing with online access to social security now.
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Trump is now directly firing career federal prosecutors who are investigating people who have donated money to his campaign. This is the most corrupt, dangerous, and venal act he has ever done. He only wants prosecutors who are directly loyal to him.

latimes.com/california/story/2…

Non-paywall link: archive.ph/qI4vk

Saturday Mar 29 Trump fired Adam Schleifer, a long-time financial fraud prosecutor in the Los Angeles U.S. attorney’s office.

#uspol

1/11

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From LA Times article:

Another source, a former prosecutor who handled fraud cases in the U.S. attorney’s office and sought anonymity over concerns about facing professional backlash, said he believes Schleifer’s firing is “going to have an incredible chilling effect on any line federal prosecutor who is thinking about criminally investigating or prosecuting an executive of any company of any significance.”

10/11

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From LA Times article:

“The message from Adam’s case is that if you’re going to indict some run-of-the-mill CEO of a company, you need to check if he’s a Trump supporter first,” the former prosecutor said. “It’s going to cause line prosecutors to be considerably more careful about pursuing anyone who has even tenuous connections to the president, which is not good for the DOJ.”

11/11

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‘The physics community has never split like this’: row erupts over plans for new Large Hadron Collider | Large Hadron Collider | The Guardian

theguardian.com/science/2025/m…

in reply to SpaceLifeForm

@SpaceLifeForm You very well may be right. Nonetheless, I won't live long enough to see it either way (I mean, I'd be over 110 if they built it in 40+ years)


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in reply to Obsolete Sony

I miss weird Nokia.

buymobiles.net/blog/nokia-mobi…

in reply to Jens Ljungkvist

@jens
Right?! I had an N90 back around 2007.
That phone was so much fun, and had an incredible camera for the time.


PSA to queers and their allies in the States:

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Yaydio, a Music Player For Kids

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😬

Experts baffled by mass bee deaths

youtube.com/watch?v=nK9-5O7ama…

#beekeeping #foodsupply