Vice President Vance is going to Greenland this week. The itinerary has shifted
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/25/nx-s1-5340717/vance-greenland?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Good evening Somerville! I plan to allow the nation to burn unsupervised for a couple hours this evening and instead bring you thoughts and screengrabs from MassDoT's update on "grounding" McGrath Higway. FYI, it is not yet "civics on my porch" weather, but SOON. www.mass.gov/event/somerv... 1/?
Testing the Cda 4.0V LIB series Lithium Ion Capacitors | Details | Hackaday.io
hackaday.ioThere's a new type of Lithium Ion Capacitor (LICs), it has higher voltage 4.0V than the
Today's threads (a thread)
Inside: Why I don't like AI art; and more!
Archived at: pluralistic.net/2025/03/25/com…
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'A lot of problems for Russia' — How Ukraine's new 3,000km drone could boost Kyiv's war effort
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#Russia #Ukraine #news #war #Putin #Ukrainewar #UkraineRussiawar #SlavaUkraini #uspol
'A lot of problems for Russia' — How Ukraine's new 3,000km drone could boost Kyiv's war effort
Ukraine last week announced the latest advance in the ongoing drone race with Russia, saying its new variant had the longest range of any in its arsenal and had successfully completed testing.Chris York (The Kyiv Independent)
To be clear, Trump does not have the authority to do this. The constitution explicitly states that "The Times, Places and Manner of holding Elections for Senators and Representatives, shall be prescribed in each State by the Legislature thereof; but the Congress may at any time by Law make or alter such Regulations, except as to the Places of chusing Senators"
That is, federal elections are governed by the states and by congress, not the president.
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Trump signs order seeking to overhaul US elections, including requiring proof of citizenship
President Donald Trump has signed a sweeping executive action to overhaul elections in the U.S. Tuesday's order demands documentary proof of citizenship be added as a requirement for federal voter registration.Ali Swenson (AP News)
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This is clearly pretext for doing what he tried to do several times already: Disregard election results he doesn't agree with.
Anyone who still thinks there'll be anything resembling normal midterms in '26 is deluded.
The fallout from the Signal breach begins : Consider This from NPR
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/25/1240671761/the-fallout-from-the-signal-breach-begins?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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AAAARGH! I'm not at all surprised, but NIST's excellent whitepaper on Inclusive Language (NIST.IR.8366) has been withdrawn:
nvlpubs.nist.gov/nistpubs/ir/2…
This was an excellent resource that I reference all the time. I feared it would go away so I made a snapshot a few weeks back that I uploaded here: nygren.org/archived/NIST.IR.83…
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A law professor friend tells me that LLMs have completely transformed the way she relates to grad students and post-docs - for the worse. And no, it's not that they're cheating on their homework or using LLMs to write briefs full of hallucinated cases.
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If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:
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The hottest use of AI right now? Dora the Explorer feet mukbang; Peppa the Pig Skibidi toilet explosion; Steph Curry and LeBron James Ahegao Drakedom threesome.
230 Protects Users, Not Big Tech
Section 230 provides limited protection for all platforms, though the biggest beneficiaries are small platforms and users.Electronic Frontier Foundation
River otters break out their zoo to play in the snow
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River otters break out their zoo to play in the snow - Boing Boing
A pair of North American river otters at the New Zoo Adventure Park in Green Bay, Wisconsin, decided to take an unauthorized field tripGail Sherman (Happy Mutants, LLC.)
Shelburne, Vermont
Shelburne, with its population is just short of 8,000, lies about 7 miles south of Burlington. Its major attractions are the fantastic Shelburne Museum, the Vermont Teddy Bear Factory and the Oakledge Park from which you can see the 3rd (!) of July …backpackandsnorkel.com
little rant
I hate the fact that ALL youtube videos in which somebody's explaining things, testing stuff, teaching how to play, hot to use a tool, EVERYTHING -
they have THAT fucking out-of-focus background, THOSE dim lights, THAT IKEA furniture
come on, avoid the cliché, find your own aestethics, I don't wanna see eyecandied scenes to turn off the brains - be yourself, show us your fucking bed, your dirty window panes
find the intruder
@yngmar yeah, of course I'm exaggerating, but the trend is awful. and some of them are really good at what they do, it's just that everyone wants to look like a "professional". real professionals don't give a fuck about ambiance 🙂
ok, now let's watch this siphon nozzle waste oil burner I have no idea what this is 😄
Turmoil at USDA Rural Development may diminish aid for small towns and farms
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/25/nx-s1-5334985/turmoil-at-usda-rural-development-may-diminish-aid-for-small-towns-and-farms?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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The funding went to state health departments for COVID-19 responses.
arstechnica.com/health/2025/03…
More babies and mothers are dying in Afghanistan after USAID cuts, midwives say
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/25/nx-s1-5338754/more-babies-and-mothers-are-dying-in-afghanistan-after-usaid-cuts-midwives-say?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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As the day ends, the Trump gang is not backing off an inch from its use of Signal, in blatant violation of the Federal Records Act. Democrats haven't yet focused on it; nor has most of the press.
But Josh Marshall gets it: "These are disappearing communications. They won’t be in the National Archives. Future administrations won’t know what happened. There also won’t be any records to determine whether crimes were committed."
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SignalGate Is Bad; But OPSEC Isn’t Even the Worst Part Of It
I haven’t had time to comment on the Jeff Goldberg story about the war cabinet planning a military campaign on the Signal app. So a few brief thoughts.Josh Marshall (TPM - Talking Points Memo)
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Wisconsin's Supreme Court race is revealing how voters feel about Trump's term so far
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/25/nx-s1-5336312/wisconsins-supreme-court-race-is-revealing-how-voters-feel-about-trumps-term-so-far?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Here's what 23andMe filing for bankruptcy could mean for your data
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/25/nx-s1-5339950/heres-what-23andme-filing-for-bankruptcy-could-mean-for-your-data?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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'Tilt' is the story of an epic journey following a catastrophic quake
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/25/nx-s1-5088116/tilt-is-the-story-of-an-epic-journey-following-a-catastrophic-quake?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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What's the point of the trade deal with Mexico and Canada if Trump imposes tariffs?
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/25/nx-s1-5331923/whats-the-point-of-the-trade-deal-with-mexico-and-canada-if-trump-imposes-tariffs?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Tesla Takedown Movement Urges Nonviolent Protests Against Musk
Here's how to get involved with #TeslaTakedown events around the countryThe Big Picture
One of the first things that I tell survivors of domestic abuse who are concerned about the safety of their devices to do is to check the security of their accounts. Techcrunch has a guide on how to do that.
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How to tell if your online accounts have been hacked | TechCrunch
This is a guide on how to check whether someone compromised your online accounts.Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai (TechCrunch)
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DNA of 15 Million People for Sale in 23andMe Bankruptcy
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DNA of 15 Million People for Sale in 23andMe Bankruptcy
There is no way to know what a buyer will want to do with the reams of genetic information it has collected. Customers, meanwhile, still have no way to change their underlying genetic data.Jason Koebler (404 Media)
🚨 Following reports of widespread DrayTek router reboots, GreyNoise is bringing awareness to in-the-wild activity against multiple known vulnerabilities in DrayTek devices. Read the analysis ⬇️
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#GreyNoise #ThreatIntel #Cybersecurity #DrayTek
Amid Reports of Worldwide Reboots, GreyNoise Observes In-the-Wild Activity Against DrayTek Routers
GreyNoise is bringing awareness to in-the-wild activity against several known vulnerabilities in DrayTek devices CVE-2020-8515, CVE-2021-20123, and CVE-2021-20124.www.greynoise.io
AI bots hungry for data are taking down sites by accident, but humans are fighting back.
arstechnica.com/ai/2025/03/dev…
Threat of deportation for pro-Palestinian activists an old tactic
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/25/nx-s1-5336373/threat-of-deportation-for-pro-palestinian-activists-an-old-tactic?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Democratic Senator Mark Warner reacts to leak of military strike information
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"If you accept that non-citizens have no right to due process, you are accepting that citizens have no right to due process. All the government has to do is claim that you are not a citizen; without due process you have no chance to prove the contrary."
~ Timothy Snyder
#Trump #ICE #immigrants #LawandOrder #fascism #authoritarianism
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Not going to lie, think I did quite well in my tour guiding duties today. Nibbly red squirrel FTW 
#Scotland #redSquirrel #squirrel
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Unknown parent • • •@SnoopJ
Yeah. Not the best reporting.
myrmepropagandist
Unknown parent • • •@Extra_Special_Carbon
It's based on the whorl shape as seen from Earth. I don't know what else one could base it on.
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in reply to myrmepropagandist • • •fraggle
Unknown parent • • •@Extra_Special_Carbon so this probably doesn't answer your question (I'm the wrong person to be answering it anyway) but might give a bit of insight
From my understanding of the paper, they've found an imbalance in number of galaxies spinning each way (it should be 1:1), and the imbalance varies across the sky (see diagram) in a pattern that mostly aligns with the plane of our galaxy
The question is why
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Unknown parent • • •@fraggle The milky way turns either clockwise or counterclockwise depending upon what your frame of reference is
If the frame of reference determines the facts (all galaxies turn CW from our FoR), is that a privileged frame of reference, or is there some way I’m not thinking of where all galaxies everywhere are predominantly turning CW no matter what the frame of reference is?
CW/CCW needs a reference frame, so how can all galaxies favor CW from everywhere
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