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❝The Newsom podcasts gutted me. I’m not bothered that he’s talking to conservatives. I’m an organizer. I’m all about outreach. The idea that you should be willing to talk anybody about what you believe and why you believe it is embedded deep in my soul. But the whole reason you have conversations like that is so that you stand up for those who aren’t in the room.❞

Garrett Bucks via @beep:
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Ethan Marcotte (@beep@follow.ethanmarcotte.com)

“You’re always allowed to say no. You don’t actually have to throw anybody under the bus. You can in fact say that the laid-off auto worker deserves sympathy, but so does the single mom on welfare and the trans teenager who loves volleyball and the V…
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"In a study appearing today in Nature Sustainability, the researchers report that #CO2 and other greenhouse gases can cause the upper atmosphere to shrink. An atmospheric layer of special interest is the thermosphere, where the ISS and most satellites orbit today. When the thermosphere contracts, the decreasing density reduces atmospheric drag - a force that pulls old satellites and other debris down to altitudes where they will encounter air molecules and burn up."

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Study: Climate change will reduce the number of satellites that can safely orbit in space

Greenhouse emissions are changing the environment of near-Earth space in ways that, over time, will reduce the number of satellites that can safely operate there, according to new MIT research.
MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of Technology
#co2
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On April 1, #Wisconsin will elect a State Supreme Court Justice. Justices serve 10-year terms & make decisions that impact your rights, including abortion access and voting laws and will shape Wisconsin’s future for decades to come.

Judge Crawford cares about voters abroad, so much so that she called #DemocratsAbroad to answer your questions! Watch the recording here to find out more, and remember to send your ballot back ASAP!

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#WisconsinitesAbroad #WISupremeCourt

District Judge Susan Crawford, WI Supreme Court Candidate

Hear from District Judge Susan Crawford, WI Supreme Court Candidate, as she speaks with Democrats Abroad. Judge Crawford, a respected legal expert and advoca...
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#wisconsin #democratsabroad #WISupremeCourt #wisconsinitesabroad

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Welp, Breakthrough Energy, a climate change organization funded by Bill Gates, is downsizing its operations, including its US policy team and European unit. This shift reflects Gates’s strategic decision to focus on building clean energy companies rather than influencing policy, particularly in the current political climate.

nytimes.com/2025/03/12/climate…

Climate Group Funded by Bill Gates Slashes Staff in Major Retreat

Breakthrough Energy, an umbrella group for energy and environmental efforts funded by Mr. Gates, is resetting for the Trump era.
David Gelles (The New York Times)

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River Dart. Location: ///motive.mornings.removingPermalink: flickr
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#england #devon #swe #believeinfilm #filmisnotdead #wood #filmphotography #Wald #35mm #wasser #flora #AU #amLand #dartingtonHall #karlender25 #kodakPortra400 #leicaM4p #nokton40mm #riverDart
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Meta mocked for raising “Bob Dylan defense” of torrenting in AI copyright fight
Meta fights to keep leeching evidence out of AI copyright battle.
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Meta mocked for raising “Bob Dylan defense” of torrenting in AI copyright fight

Ashley Belanger (Ars Technica)

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Three Hollywood movies were released in 1995 with internet themes: the Keanu Reeves cyberpunk film Johnny Mnemonic (with an accompanying website), The Net with Sandra Bullock, and Hackers. As well as these 3 films, I look back at William Gibson's now extinct mid-90s website, "William Gibson’s Yardshow", and the equally lost to time Johnny Mnemonic net.hunt, an online scavenger hunt. cybercultural.com/p/cyberspace… #InternetHistory #90smovies

Cyberspace Movies in 1995: Silicon Valley Meets Hollywood

Richard MacManus (Cybercultural)
#internethistory #90smovies

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John Oliver Set Up a Guide to Make Your Data Less Valuable to Mark Zuckerberg

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#news #technology #tech #Internet #facebook #meta #security #privacy

John Oliver Set Up a Guide to Make Your Data Less Valuable to Mark Zuckerberg

It's one time it's okay to cheapen yourself.
AJ Dellinger (Gizmodo)
#privacy #news #technology #Internet #facebook #meta #security #Tech

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Bob Dylan Explains Why Music Has Been Getting Worse

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Bob Dylan Explains Why Music Has Been Getting Worse

One often hears that there's no money to be made in music anymore. But then, there was no money to be made in music when Bob Dylan started his career either—at least according to Bob Dylan.
Colin Marshall (Openculture.com)

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Keir Starmer’s government held a private meeting with Elbit Systems, Israel’s largest weapons company, Declassified has found.

The meeting occurred in December 2024 and was attended by three representatives from Elbit Systems and three officials from Yvette Cooper’s Home Office.

It took place months after Israeli forces used an Elbit drone to kill three British military veterans in Gaza who were protecting a humanitarian aid convoy.

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#Gaza #Palestine

Labour held secret meeting with top Israeli arms firm

Exclusive: Home Office met with Elbit Systems amid crackdown on Palestine Action, documents reveal.
JOHN McEVOY (Declassified Media ltd)
#Gaza #palestine

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Make it rain 🌧️

The UK government’s demand for a spy hole makes your iCloud storage leaky.

All your pics, docs, finances and more are up for grabs. Hackers, blackmailers and predators will have a field day.

Sign our petition to save Apple encrypted services!

➡️ you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions…

#encryption #e2ee #privacy #security #cybersecurity #ukpolitics #ukpol #apple

Keep our Apple data encrypted

It is reported that the Home Office has ordered Apple to build a backdoor into its encrypted services so that they can get hold of content that any Apple user has upload to the cloud. Encryption keeps our private information safe and secure.
38 Degrees
#apple #privacy #ukpol #ukpolitics #security #cybersecurity #encryption #e2ee
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History is a set of lies agreed upon.

The UK government took to revisionist tactics and wiped its advice for lawyers and barristers to use Apple encrypted services.

Putting victims of crime at a greater risk of harm so you don't contradict yourself isn't a good look 🤷‍♂️

techcrunch.com/2025/03/06/uk-q…

#encryption #e2ee #privacy #security #cybersecurity #ukpolitics #ukpol #apple

UK quietly scrubs encryption advice from government websites | TechCrunch

The UK is no longer recommending the use of encryption for at-risk groups following its iCloud backdoor demands
Carly Page (TechCrunch)
#apple #privacy #ukpol #ukpolitics #security #cybersecurity #encryption #e2ee
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In response to the State's demand for insecurity, Apple withdrew its encrypted services from the UK and appealed.

A secret tribunal now decides 🤫

This hearing MUST happen in public.

It starts with Apple... the UK government will chomp away encryption to a rotten core.

digit.fyi/apple-to-battle-uk-g…

#encryption #e2ee #privacy #security #cybersecurity #ukpolitics #ukpol #apple

Apple to battle UK Gov over encryption in secret tribunal

Apple is set to appeal against a Home Office order to create a 'backdoor' to it encryption tools in a secret tribunal.
elizabeth (DIGIT.FYI)
#apple #privacy #ukpol #ukpolitics #security #cybersecurity #encryption #e2ee
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The largest camera ever built for astrophysics (3200-megapixels, >3000 kg) was installed this week at the Rubin Observatory at Cerro Pachón in Chile.

The Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) camera, the final major component of the Rubin Observatory's Simonyi Survey Telescope, was transported to the summit in May 2024.

After a few more months of testing, first light is expected around 4 Jul 2025.

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lsst.org/about/project-status
#Science #Astronomy #Space
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NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory Installs LSST Camera on Telescope

Using the largest digital camera in the world, Rubin Observatory will soon be ready to capture more data than any other observatory in history
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#science #Space #astronomy
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The Rubin Legacy Survey of Space and Time LSST Camera is the largest camera ever constructed for astronomy. It is a large-aperture, wide-field optical camera, capable of viewing light from the near UV to near infrared wavelengths.

Length: 3.73 m
Height: 1.65 m
Weight: 2,800 kg
Pixels: 3.2 billion
Wavelength: 0.32–1.06 μm
Filters: 6 (u-g-r-i-z-y)
Field of view = 3.5° (moon = 0.5°)
Operating temperature: -100°C

www6.slac.stanford.edu/lsst
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LSST Camera | SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

Learn more about the LSST Camera for the NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile. SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory led the construction of the LSST Camera – the largest digital camera ever built for astrophysics and cosmology.
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The focal plane of the Vera C. Rubin telescope consists of 189 4kx4k charge-coupled device (CCD) sensors, arranged in a total of 21 3-by-3 square arrays. The system is cooled to about -100 °C to minimize noise.

The 3.5° field of view of the 64 cm wide array is 40 times the area of the full moon in the sky.

Camera Data Rates: ~3.2 GBytes/sec peak raw data 😲
1 pixel = 16 bits (raw)
Pixels: 3.2 billion
Detector read-out time: 2 sec

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#Rubin
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LSST Camera | SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

Learn more about the LSST Camera for the NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile. SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory led the construction of the LSST Camera – the largest digital camera ever built for astrophysics and cosmology.
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Your government is trying to kill you

Here RFK, jr talks about giving everyone measles

“It used to be that everybody got measles. And the measles gave you lifetime protection…The vaccine doesn't do that ... it used to be that very young kids were protected by breast milk."

Before the vaccine was invented in 1963 measles caused and estimated 6 million deaths

Case fatality rates within industrialized populations can be has high as 6%

In malnourished populations, rates can reach 30%

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Juggling With Eggs

@MiriShuli @cindyweinstein

The notion that you get better life long immunity to diseases by catching them when young instead of via vaccination is scary…why do the likes of RFK Jr think there was a drive for vaccinations in the first place?

I have hearing loss due to my mum catching Rubella from a kid when she was pregnant with me…I later was vaccinated, but when it came to checking my immunity before I had IVF, I was suprised to hear I had none. GP said this is not unusual.

@(((Cindy Weinstein))) @Mirishuli

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The captain of the Solong cargo ship arrested after a collision with a tanker in the North Sea is a Russian national, the ship's owner has confirmed.

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#news #politics #international #russia #sabotage #disaster

Arrested captain of Solong ship is Russian national, owners say

The captain of the Solong cargo ship was arrested on suspicion of gross negligence manslaughter.
Stuart Harratt & Jonathan Josephs (BBC News)
#russia #news #politics #sabotage #international #disaster

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If Starlink is turned off in Ukraine, are there any good alternatives?
"OneWeb customers say that when the service is working great, it's great."
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If Starlink is turned off in Ukraine, are there any good alternatives?

“OneWeb customers say that when the service is working great, it’s great.”…
Eric Berger (Ars Technica)

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I'm starting a #Mastodon thread on the new #Trump administration's actions and positions on #OpenAccess to research.

I posted frequently about the actions of his first administration. But I did it on #Twitter / #X, which I no longer use.

Also see this wiki page where I'm collecting my old Twitter posts on his first term and my new Mastodon posts on his second term.
cyber.harvard.edu/hoap/The_Tru…

For updates, watch this space.

#OpenWashing #OSTP #ScholComm #Takedowns #USPol #USPolitics

The Trump administrations on open access to research - Harvard Open Access Project

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#mastodon #uspolitics #uspol #trump #Twitter #x #takedowns #openaccess #scholcomm #openwashing #OSTP
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Update. "#NIH blocks researchers in China, Russia and other countries from multiple databases."
fiercebiotech.com/research/nih…

"The #Trump administration has blocked access to multiple data repositories maintained by the NIH…The ban is effective April 4 and applies to institutions in China, Hong Kong, Macau, Russia, Iran, North Korea, Cuba and Venezuela…The numerous controlled-access data repositories (CADRs) that are affected by the rule hold data on a vast swath of subjects including cancer, Alzheimer’s disease, mental health disorders, substance abuse and adolescent brain development."

#Censorship #DefendResearch #Medicine #Nationalism #OpenData #Trump #USPol #USPolitics

NIH blocks researchers in China, Russia and other countries from multiple databases

The Trump administration has blocked access to multiple data repositories maintained by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for researchers in several countries, including a cancer statistics d | The Trump administration has blocked access to mul…
Darren Incorvaia (Fierce Biotech)
#uspolitics #uspol #trump #nih #opendata #medicine #censorship #defendresearch #Nationalism
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Protecting research from censorship: resources for scholarly publishers

While there is a great deal of uncertainty surrounding the state of research in the US, initiatives are forming to help scholarly publishers respond to government directives and policy changes. We round up resources in this blog post.
blog.scholasticahq.com
#uspolitics #uspol #trump #takedowns #censorship #defendresearch #publishers #scholastica

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This is mindblowing disruption. This new US executive order orders an immediate review of all *existing* federal grants & contracts & also freezes all federal credit cards. The federal gov funds a huge amount of science & it will all stop while this plays out.

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Implementing the President's "Department of Government Efficiency" Cost Efficiency Initiative – The White House

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1.
The White House

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A great day, indeed. Some more context: "Berners-Lee had been experimenting with hypertext for at least a decade before he began coding the Web. In the proposal he referenced a piece of software he’d developed in 1980, called ‘Enquire’, which he says was conceptually similar to Apple’s later product, HyperCard (which had been released in 1987, just a couple of years before his proposal)." cybercultural.com/p/1990-progr…
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1990: Programming the World Wide Web

In the final few months of 1990, Tim Berners-Lee and his colleague Robert Cailliau developed the world’s first browser, created HTML, wrote the first web server, and invented HTTP.
Richard MacManus (Cybercultural)

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iRobot says there is “substantial doubt” about it as a “going concern”
After Amazon bid failure, firm cut 50% of staff and is launching new robots.
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iRobot says there is “substantial doubt” about it as a “going concern”

Kevin Purdy (Ars Technica)

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Cop was speeding while watching a Youtube video titled, “Trans woman CONFRONTING Matt Walsh takes UNEXPECTED turn” when he struck and killed a bicyclist.

#MAGA trash. #acab #lgbtq
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Shelburne police officer had YouTube video playing in cruiser at time of fatal crash, court records say

Kyle Kapitanski is set to be arraigned next week on a felony charge stemming from the crash that killed Sean Hayes, a cyclist, in South Burlington.
Alan J. Keays (VTDigger)
#maga #LGBTQ #acab

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US judge says Musk's DOGE must release records on operations run in 'secrecy
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #GOP #Politics #uspolitics #uspol

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US judge says Musk's DOGE must release records on operations run in 'secrecy'

(Reuters) -A federal judge on Monday ordered the government-downsizing team created by U.S. President Donald Trump and spearheaded by billionaire Elon Musk...
Nate Raymond (Yahoo News)
#news #uspolitics #uspol #politics #press #aurefreepress #headline #gop

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5 years after WHO declared #COVID-19 a pandemic, the U.S. is cutting staff at #NIH and #CDC while facing TB, measles and the worst flu season in 15 years. A scholar examines the role of 3 #publichealth agencies:
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5 years of COVID-19 underscore value of coordinated efforts to manage disease – while CDC, NIH and WHO face threats to their ability to respond to a crisis

More than a century ago, the US learned what happens when there is no national response to a major health crisis.
The Conversation
#cdc #covid #nih #publichealth

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Trying to figure out how I would explain to the version of myself living in 1995 the phrase "one of the most prominent surf draculas of our time"

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Surf Dracula

Surf Dracula is a slang expression describing a trope in television shows and other media in which the character's backstory takes so long that the exciting main part of that character's arc arrives too late and gets insufficient screen time.
Philipp (Know Your Meme)
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As a citizen of the United States, after hearing more and more stories like this I have to say it's probably best if people don't travel here. ICE has been bad from day one (created-post 9/11) but it's like horror stories from the Soviet Union I remember hearing as a kid now. It doesn't matter if you are coming from countries MAGA considers "good" like this German lady or "bad" ones. It doesn't matter if you have your documents in order and your nose clean. No one is safe from this sort of secret police style treatment. I'm sorry half my country voted for these monsters and cheer this shit on. We've failed ourselves and the rest of the planet. #uspoli #rant

German Thru-Hiker Detained, Deported, and Banned From US - The Trek

An experienced thru-hiker traveling to the US to hike the AZT last month says she was treated inhumanely and deported without justification.
Caitlin Hardee (The Trek)
#uspoli #rant
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