MIT 3/19/25
"...We are writing to encourage our international students and scholars on temporary visas and U.S. permanent residents (green card holders) to consider postponing or delaying international travel, whether personal, academic, or professional, until additional guidance is available...."
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#travel #Politics #USpol #studentvisas
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Infant crying is a common trigger for shaken baby syndrome, which can be fatal or cause lifelong disabilities. Up to 25% of affected infants die, and half suffer long-term disabilities.
A pediatrician examines this preventable tragedy: buff.ly/CJo8eUf
Lori Frasier, Penn State #braininjury
Shaken baby syndrome can cause permanent brain damage, long-term disabilities or death – a pediatrician examines the preventable tragedy
Up to 25% of infants diagnosed with abusive head trauma – otherwise known as shaken baby syndrome – die, and a substantial percentage who survive are left with long-term disabilities.The Conversation
Taki Udon Shows Off The UI For His SuperStation One FPGA PS1
Has user themes and box art supportDamien McFerran (Time Extension)
#retro #meme #food #cartoon
FunHouse Radio
Novelty Records, Parodies, Weird Covers, Outsider Music, Oddities, Mashups, Comedy, Nonsense & Cringe.FunHouse Radio
Israel Launches a New Offensive in Gaza : State of the World from NPR
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/19/1239428620/israel-launches-a-new-offensive-in-gaza?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Ugh. According to Politico, a Georgetown postdoc in the School of Foreign Service, an Indian national on a student visa who's married to a US citizen, has been arrested and is facing deportation. No crime charged, but apparently was recently doxed on a right wing web site and accused of holding "anti-Israeli views".
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20 March 1883 | A German Jew, Albert Vogel, was born in Mainz. Held in the camps of Gurs and Drancy.
He arrived at #Auschwitz on 14 August 1942 in a transport of 1007 Jews. He was among 712 people murdered after selection in a gas chamber.
How is it possible that many automatically (exactly every 3 hours) spammed "victims" of the holocaust (pre-camp photos in particular) are NOT FOUND in the victims database maintained by IDF soldiers who colonized former concentration camp Auschwitz-Birkenau?
#Auschwitz #FrancescaAlbaneseIsRight #Gaza #GazaGenocide #Westbank #Lebanon #Syria #Yemen
A few notes on the new o1-pro API model - priced at 1000x the cost of GPT-4o mini ($150/million tokens for input, compared with $0.15) and only available via the new "Responses" API.
Rendering this pelican on a bicycle cost me 94 cents! simonwillison.net/2025/Mar/19/…
OpenAI platform: o1-pro
OpenAI have a new most-expensive model: o1-pro can now be accessed through their API at a hefty $150/million tokens for input and $600/million tokens for output. That's 10x the price …Simon Willison’s Weblog
Writing Thu 20 Mar Cross Bailey Light and Colorverse Eclipse Silence
What are you writing with today?
Cross Bailey Light <Medium> + Colorverse Eclipse Silence
#edc #fountainpen #fountainpens #penoftheday #dailypen #CrossBaileyLight #Cross #Colorverse #ColorverseEclipseSilence
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🇺🇸⚡️ Trump proposed U.S. ownership and management of Ukraine’s energy plants during a call with Zelensky, saying it would be the “best protection” for the country’s infrastructure, per a White House statement.
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Ukraine-Russia war latest: Trump tells Zelensky US could take ownership of energy plants after new Putin airstrikes
Ukrainian president hits out at Russian leader after Moscow bombs energy grid despite promising US president to stop for 30 daysArpan Rai,Alex Croft and Jane Dalton (Yahoo News)
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🇩🇪⚡ Germany to release an additional €3B in military aid for Ukraine this year after lawmakers approved a fiscal overhaul, per Reuters. Finance Minister Kukies also plans to authorize €8.25B for Ukraine from 2026-2029, bringing total aid to over €11B.
Additional F-16s have arrived in Ukraine, and Russia's claims of downing an F-16 in Sumy are false, says Zelensky.
He added that Ukraine will mirror Russian strikes on energy facilities and prepare a list of priority civilian infrastructure to share with partners in Saudi Arabia. Zelensky opposed a peace line settlement, warning, "We don’t want another Berlin."
Jury says Greenpeace owes hundreds of millions of dollars for Dakota pipeline protest
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/19/nx-s1-5332364/north-dakota-greenpeace-defamation-oil-pipeline-standing-rock?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into Science @science-npr
Un chercheur français du CNRS refoulé des Etats-Unis pour avoir exprimé "une opinion personnelle sur la politique menée par Trump". Ce chercheur dans le domaine spatial a subi un contrôle aléatoire à son arrivée à l'aéroport, au cours duquel son ordinateur et son téléphone personnel ont été fouillés. Le FBI a ouvert une enquête contre lui, depuis abandonnée. Les Etats-Unis ne sont plus une démocratie lemonde.fr/international/artic…
#Politique #Trump #Recherche #Spatial #CNRS #FBI #Justice
Etats-Unis : un chercheur français refoulé pour avoir exprimé « une opinion personnelle sur la politique menée par l’administration Trump »
Le ministre de la recherche français a dit sa « préoccupation », mercredi, après cette décision des autorités américaines.Le Monde avec AFP (Le Monde)
Why the US military has cared about climate change since the Cold War
https://www.marinecorpstimes.com/opinion/commentary/2025/03/19/why-the-us-military-has-cared-about-climate-change-since-the-cold-war/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Why the US military has cared about climate change since the Cold War
In this commentary, the author examines how the U.S. military sees climate change as a threat in itself and a threat multiplier for national security.Paul Bierman, University of Vermont, The Conversation (Marine Corps Times)
World's first quantum microsatellite demonstrates secure communication with multiple ground stations
A research team has developed the world's first quantum microsatellite and demonstrated real-time quantum key distribution (QKD) between the satellite and multiple compact, mobile ground stations.Shen Xinyi (Phys.org)
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50-B - Freckle Song [She's Got Freckles On Her Butt] - The Pearl Trio [Larry Vincent] - Party Record
Sometimes heard on Doctor Demento. This is wonderful performance.YouTube
The EU has accused Google of violating the DMA antitrust law in the following ways
1. Google Search treats Google’s services more favorably than competing products by either displaying them more prominently or integrating them.
2. The Google Play Store prevents developers from telling users how to buy digital products and avoid Google’s 30% cut.
Google argues complying with these requests will lead to worse products.
techcrunch.com/2025/03/19/goog…
Google search, Play Store falling foul of Digital Markets Act rules, says EU | TechCrunch
Google Search and its Play Store app marketplace are suspected of breaching the European Union's Digital Markets Act (DMA), per preliminary findingsNatasha Lomas (TechCrunch)
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NOKOMA players today 😅
I'm sorry... but let's use this little extra time to add more content in the next update! 💪
Thank you Matthieu for this funny meme 😂
#indiegamedev #solodev #Godot #mobilegame #puzzlegame #puzzle #cozy
Fedify
Fedify is a TypeScript library for building federated server apps powered by ActivityPub and other standards, so-called fediverse.fedify.dev
Volcano west of Anchorage is 'likely' to erupt in upcoming weeks or months
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/19/nx-s1-5328616/volcano-west-of-anchorage-is-likely-to-erupt-in-upcoming-weeks-or-months?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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'Courage the Cowardly Dog' head writer David Steven Cohen dies at 58
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/19/nx-s1-5333316/courage-the-cowardly-dog-head-writer-david-steven-cohen-dies-at-58?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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In new book, NPR's Emily Feng explores identity after China refused to let her return
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/19/nx-s1-5178087/in-new-book-nprs-emily-feng-explores-identity-after-china-refused-to-let-her-return?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into All Things Considered @all-things-considered-npr
This article has it all wrong.
sherwood.news/business/etsy-ha…
What Etsy did was break its own model to allow numerous "shops" selling the same factory made crap onto a site that was supposed to be only for artisans & hand-crafted items. Why? Greed. More "stuff," more clicks, they thought.
And many artisans and a lot of customers voted with their...keyboards, and went elsewhere.
BTW: One alternative is the Artisans Cooperative: artisans.coop/
#ArtisansCoop #Etsy #Ebay #Crafts #Handmade
Okay, so Tomcat's a bust, but this sucker (CVE-2025-23120) could get interesting if the technical reality matches the advisory severity.
It still throws me how many incidents Rapid7 MDR sees that include abuse of Veeam Backup & Replication in some manner — the deployment footprint of this product is always surprising to me, maybe because it's not usually internet-exposed, dunno. Anywho, domain-joined backup servers might be "against best practices," but that doesn't mean it's uncommon 🤷♀️ Thx to @fuzz for being on top of it as usual!
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I don't understand what's happening to us, or why. It's insane.
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