🚨 It's official - 2025 likely observed the lowest annual maximum #Arctic sea ice extent on record!
Climate change is reshaping the Arctic, all throughout the year.
For more information from the NSIDC: nsidc.org/sea-ice-today/analys…
Arctic sea ice sets a record low maximum in 2025
Arctic sea ice extent appears to have reached its annual maximum on March 22, 2025.National Snow and Ice Data Center
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Anyone with any regard whatsoever for the Constitution should recognize how fundamentally at odds this is with our values and should be deeply repulsed regardless of political leanings.
The arrest of Rumeysa Ozturk may serve as the canary in the coal mine for the First Amendment.
Read our full statement:
freedom.press/issues/fpf-state…
FPF statement on arrest of Tufts student
If reports that Ozturk’s arrest was over an op-ed are accurate, it is absolutely appallingFreedom of the Press
Plug for @AbandonedAmerica. In his Patreon feed, he has pictures of the turbine hall for an "enormous abandoned power plant prior to demolition". I'm a sucker for big machines.
He also has lots of poignant pictures of abandoned schools, amusement parks and the like. Gave my daughter a framed print of an abandoned theater one Christmas.
Abandoned America: Matthew Christopher's Autopsy of the American Dream
Abandoned America is one of the leading collections of American ruins on the internet, with hundreds of derelict buildings to explore.www.abandonedamerica.us
Philadelphia's Abandoned Church of the Transfiguration: In My Absence
One of the saddest losses in the Philadelphia church community, Transfiguration remains one of the most impressive abandoned churches I've seen. By Matthew Christopher of Abandoned America.www.abandonedamerica.us
Researchers ascribe it to "animus or prejudice against minority drivers."
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Study of Lyft rideshare data confirms minorities get more tickets
Researchers ascribe it to “animus or prejudice against minority drivers.”…John Timmer (Ars Technica)
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For an administration that campaigned on bringing back competence and accountability to government, they’ve instead demonstrated they can’t be trusted with either classified information or military power.
Even If Those Weren’t War Plans In Hegseth’s Signal Chat, They Were War Crimes
When the Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg revealed this week that senior White House officials had accidentally added him to their Yemen bombing planning session on Signal, he did something remark…Techdirt
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UK's first permanent facial recognition cameras installed in South London
As if living in Croydon wasn't bad enough
theregister.com/2025/03/27/uk_…
#news #tech #technology #security #privacy #UK #facialrecognition #london
UK's first permanent facial recognition cameras installed in South London
: As if living in Croydon wasn't bad enoughIain Thomson (The Register)
NOT OK
A. There is NO evidence that #RumeysaOzturk did any of the things #MarcoRubio said. She wrote an op-ed. That’s it.
B. Even if she had participated in #protests, what the #Trump admin did is NOT the process a #visa holder goes through. Normally you receive a notice & have a month. They arrested her on the street w/no notice, took her phone & belongings, threw her in the back of a van, & flew her to a detention center in a different state.
They may as well have black bagged her.
#law
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Got some new lace books at our lace retreat. It's increasingly important to hear from people who have had the actual books in their hands for these kinds of things now.
They are cute and small pieces in Rosaline, Duchesse, and Honiton.
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#Linux #kernel #Rust #GhostWire #sucurity #Wine #NTSYNC
Linux Kernel 6.14 Released » Linux Magazine
The latest Linux kernel has arrived with extra Rust support and more.Linux Magazine
Netflix's Price Hikes Pushed Me to Free Streaming Services, and I Don't Hate It
A seamless Super Bowl stream from Tubi inspired me to see if I could dump Netflix, Hulu, and other expensive options for free streaming services.Tyler Hayes (PCMag)
Travel Guide for Bay of Islands, New Zealand - New Zealand Purple Travel Guide
The Bay of Islands are a popular tourist destination, because its sheltered waters make it an excellent place to see marine life and because its sandy beaches, calm water make it perfect for beach activities.Backpack and Snorkel Travel Guides - The Home of the Purple Travel Guides
"Grants are getting killed “without any scientific input anywhere. It is purely political,” said a member of a senior leadership team at a large NIH institute. “The science in this country is going to be destroyed if you can change what the priorities are going to be every four years. You can’t do science that way.”"
simonwillison.net/2025/Mar/27/…
Nomic Embed Code: A State-of-the-Art Code Retriever
Nomic have released a new embedding model that specializes in code, based on their CoRNStack "large-scale high-quality training dataset specifically curated for code retrieval". The [nomic-embed-code](https://huggingface.Simon Willison’s Weblog
Alabama halted a library’s funding. Supporters raised the cash in days.
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#transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA
Inside a Fake WiFi Repeater
hackaday.com/2025/03/27/inside…
Inside A Fake WiFi Repeater
Over the years we have seen a lot of fake electronics, ranging from fake power saving devices that you plug into an outlet, to fake car ECU optimizers that you stick into the OBD port. These are al…Hackaday
The absurdly irritating thing is: we know.
Everybody knows. They know that everybody knows.
In a functioning state under law, the entire participants list of that chat would sit in high security jail right now. The entire Trump crew would have all private devices confiscated to determine the extent of this blatant crime. Further arrests very probable.
But who can actually do that right now?
I feel like the schools are taking the wrong approach with the "academic integrity" pledges that imply LLMs are some genius way to cheat they're not allowed to touch.
What they need to do is show students how wrong the LLMs can be, and make it clear they are smarter than this supposed miracle tech.
(of course, I would also couple this with not banning calculators that can do fractions because we have had that particular tech since the 80s and it actually works and is good)
Wadada Leo Smith and Vijay Iyer on what it takes to lead a defiant life
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/27/nx-s1-5333695/interview-wadada-leo-smith-vijay-iyer-defiant-life?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Elon Musk is pouring money into a Supreme Court election in Wisconsin.
Musk has spent more than $18 million to support Trump-backed candidate Brad Schimel over liberal Susan Crawford
and has been paying Wisconsin voters $100 to help flip the state’s top court.
This election could impact abortion rights, unions and Republicans’ ability to keep gerrymandered districts in place to control Congress.
“The level of corruption at play here, the level of money at play here, really is a warning sign for what’s happening to our democracy,”
says Ari Berman, voting rights correspondent for Mother Jonesmagazine.
democracynow.org/2025/3/27/elo…
Can Elon Musk Buy Wisconsin? Ari Berman on Billionaire-Funded Attempt to Flip State Supreme Court
After spending over a quarter of a billion dollars on Donald Trump’s presidential election campaign, Elon Musk is pouring money into a Supreme Court election in Wisconsin.Democracy Now!
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Big update from the team with Susan Crawford for Supreme Court:
This is a single digit race.
A recent poll showed this race TIED.
Others have shown Susan Crawford and Brad Schimel apart in the polls by just a couple of points.
That’s not the only way this is a single digit race
– we’re down to a single-digit number of days until Election Day,
and ballots are already being cast across Wisconsin.
Don’t miss this chance to make a difference and help save our majority
– chip in right now to elect Susan Crawford:
Contribute to Susan Crawford's campaign for WI Supreme Court:
Show your support with a contribution.ActBlue
Cybersecurity Firm Hacks Ransomware Group, Alerts Potential Victims
Cybersecurity vendor Resecurity exploits a vulnerability in the BlackLock website to snoop on and hijack the gang’s infrastructure.Michael Kan (PCMag)
Why not check out a #FediArtist and comment on their music (or even buy a release) for today's #MusiciansDay?
For the most exhaustive list of #FediArtists head to indieart.support
Fresh releases, reviews and lots more are at nham.co.uk
And a whole lot of great recommendations by Fedi folks can be found at the isitfairtrademusicfri.day archives. (Also keep your eyes peeled for a reboot of it in the very near future).
Go on, make a muso's day and buy/boost their stuff 🎶 💙
IndieArt.Support - A Community for Independent Artist Support
Celebrating independent art, community, comraderie and as direct as possible support for artists.indieart.support
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Can France really lead ‘the little west’?
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Paywall Free: archive.today/HjHdn
#news #politics #GOPCult #trump #ethics #france
Can France really lead ‘the little west’?
As America retreats, Paris dreams of bringing the ‘grande nation’ out of retirementSimon Kuper (Financial Times)
Union und SPD planen den Generalangriff auf den Datenschutz: Bürgerkonto-Pflicht, Altersverifikation, verpflichtende ePA, massiver behördlicher Datenaustausch – dazu ein Opt-out-Prinzip, das faktisch jeden zur gläsernen Person macht. Wer profitiert? Wirtschaft, Militär, Forschung. Wer verliert? Unsere Grundrechte. Unfassbar!👇
netzpolitik.org/2025/schwarz-r…
#union #csu #cdu #spd #datenschutz #fail
Schwarz-rote Koalitionsgespräche: Daten vernetzen, Datenschutz schleifen
Union und SPD wollen Bürgerkonten und Altersverifikation zur Pflicht machen. Und sie träumen von Fusionsreaktoren und KI-Gigafactorys.netzpolitik.org
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Much of the Signal discussion is overlooking a key point: an entire apartment building was leveled to kill one guy.
How many civilians died? Is this a war crime?
The religious language—“prayer,” “God bless,” “Godspeed to our Warriors”—makes it all the more revolting, like a game of Battleship from the safety of a church basement.
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Losing your job is bad for your health, but there are things you can do to minimize the harm
It’s not just about having money problems − it’s how you feel about those problems that matters most for your mental health.The Conversation
Fighting Back: A Citizen’s Guide to Resistance
Ordinary people have more power than they know.
#resistance #noncompliance #AntiFascism #protest #MoralCourage
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in reply to Zack Labe • • •Antarctica: I feel bad for you! Strange you have no land mass to call home. Will hang on for a bit longer.
#ClimateChange #Physics #Geology