Karl Grindal

Charts from Down Detector showing recent outages at Cloudflare and Amazon Web Services

If you're wondering why a bunch of the internet seems vaguely borked this morning

Airline #Privacy is a serious problem, as airlines essentially have no privacy requirements (Dept of Transportation started investigating airline privacy practices last year but the agency has since dropped it).

You should opt out of this practice ASAP.

Cyber Hack - Evil Corp - Introducing Evil Corp - BBC Sounds Accused of stealing hundreds of millions of dollars – Russia’s most wanted hackers

Well this is VERY exciting. For the last 6 months we've been making a brand new BBC podcast series all about Evil Corp - the OGs of Russian cyber crime. Preview here. Series drops Monday! www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

This is a fundamental point that 99% of higher-ed coverage, and 100% of immig coverage, have missed.

Analyzing Broadband Reliability: Insights from Alaskan Arctic Communities Abstract. This study investigates broadband Internet reliability in underserved Alaskan communities by analyzing two years of network latency and outage data from anchor institutions. It critiques spe...

My article "Analyzing Broadband Reliability: Insights from Alaskan Arctic Communities" w/ @saschameinrath.bsky.social was published with the Journal of Information Policy. We compiled #Ookla and NDT7 speed test from remote clinics that document telecom QoS challenges. doi.org/10.5325/jinf...

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA

10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

Pentagon demands journalists pledge to not obtain unauthorized material Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is imposing strict new rules that would severely limit the ability of journalists to report on the Pentagon.

WaPo - Trump administration unveils a new crackdown on Pentagon journalists, requiring them to pledge they won't gather any information — even unclassified — that hasn't been expressly authorized for release, and will revoke press credentials of those who don't obey. www.washingtonpost.com/busine...

Brendan Carr, current chair of the FCC, saying that political satire must be protected... in 2022.

Thank you, Brendan Carr of the FCC, for standing up for what's right.

Results for elections held Tuesday in Manchester, Berlin Voters in a pair of New Hampshire cities hit the polls on Tuesday in municipal elections. Check out the results here.

Voters in a pair of New Hampshire cities hit the polls on Tuesday in municipal elections. Check out the results here.

it's so funny to see America's health insurance companies be like "look. If there's one thing we love it's denying you care. but we ran the numbers - and we cannot BELIEVE we're saying this - and it's cheaper for us to just pay for the vaccines than deal with you going to the ER."

Exclusive: Fed Governor Cook declared her Atlanta property as “vacation home,” documents show A loan estimate for an Atlanta home purchased by Lisa Cook, the Federal Reserve governor accused of mortgage fraud by the Trump administration, shows that Cook had declared the property as a “vacation home,” according to a document reviewed by Reuters.

www.reuters.com/world/us/fed...

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‘I escaped a Russian prison — only to end up in an American jail’ Dozens of Russian dissidents have been expelled from the US and forcibly returned to Russia with the co-operation of immigration authorities

BREAKING: ICE is sending Russian dissidents back to Russia. When the dissidents arrived in Russia, the Russian authorities were given documents relating to their asylum applications in the US which under US law are confidential. This seems to be part of a secret agreement between Trump and Putin.

Surveillance & Society is not only the top quality, peer-reviewed journal of #surveillance studies, but also independent, completely #OpenAccess & free to submit to, publish in & read: No APCs, no publication fees, no subscriptions – just free! #AcademicSky

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The individual ability to block you is an expression of the 2nd amendment right to free speech and association. Do you disagree?

The punishment should fit the crime.

Jessica Chastain Opens Up About Studying at Harvard as She Admits She's a 'Secret Nerd' During a Sept. 2 appearance on 'The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon,' Jessica Chastain opened up about attending Harvard University to attain a Master's degree. The Oscar winner said that her progr...

Master of Public Administration degree, folks!
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Defense Department Scrambles to Pretend It’s Called the War Department President Donald Trump said the so-called Department of War branding is to counter the “woke” Department of Defense name.

Notable bit from this @dell.bsky.social story on @wired.com — renaming the 9 bases after Confederate general officers had a projected cost of $39 mil. So if Dpt of War ends up being a full rebrand (with or without congress), we’re talking 9 figures and up: www.wired.com/story/depart...

A small hurdle, but an important one.

Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, scholars' association says Israel has strongly denied that its actions in Gaza amount to genocide and says they are justified as self defense. It is fighting a case at the International Court of Justice.

The world’s leading genocide scholars’ association has passed a resolution saying that the legal criteria have been met to establish Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, its president says.

There was no immediate response from the Israeli foreign ministry.

Uff Da

Found on Mastodon...

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Humble Book Bundle: Martha Wells' Murderbot and More by TOR Fall in love with Martha Wells’ The Murderbot Diaries series—the engine behind the hit AppleTV adaptation—and help support World Central Kitchen.

Humblebundle to support World Central Kitchen, and get a bunch of my books from @tordotcom.bsky.social including Murderbot and Witch King! #booksky

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Heads up to those of you affected by the Columbia University data breach: they’ve sent out breach notices (offering 2 years of credit monitoring)…to the address they have on file from when you applied. Even if you got in and attended and they know perfectly well where you now live.

UNH Recognized as Center of Excellence in Cyber Defense Education DURHAM, N.H.—The University of New Hampshire has once again been designated as a National Center of Academic Excellence in Cyber Defense (CAE-CD) by the National Security Agency and the Department of ...

Proud to have led UNH's renewal of our designation as a Center of Academic Excellence in Cyber Defense (CAE-CD). I've got great colleagues here and we have some excellent cybersecurity programs that are worth a look. #cybersecurity

CA could ban use of consumer location data to set prices – The Markup A proposed bill would bar companies from using data like a phone’s battery life, what apps are installed and where its user is to set prices.

SB 259 would prevent retailers from using ai “to jack up prices using the information stored on customers’ phones. That could include the phone’s battery life, whether it’s an older model, what apps are installed, what time of day it is, where its user is located and where they live.”

President Trump called into question the integrity of the Employment Situation report that the BLS released this morning. He accused BLS Commissioner Erika McEntarfer of deliberately reporting false numbers to reflect poorly on this administration. This baseless, damaging claim undermines the valuable work and dedication of BLS staff who produce the reports each month. This escalates the President’s unprecedented attacks on the independence and integrity of the federal statistical system. The President seeks to blame someone for unwelcome economic news. The Commissioner does not determine what the numbers are but simply reports on what the data show. The process of obtaining the numbers is decentralized by design to avoid opportunities for interference. The BLS uses the same proven, transparent, reliable process to produce estimates every month. Every month, BLS revises the prior two months’ employment estimates to reflect slower-arriving, more-accurate information. This rationale for firing Dr. McEntarfer is without merit and undermines the credibility of federal economic statistics that are a cornerstone of intelligent economic decision-making by businesses, families, and policymakers. U.S. official statistics are the gold standard globally. When leaders of other nations have politicized economic data, it has destroyed public trust in all official statistics and in government science. We call on Congress to respond immediately, to investigate the factors that led to Commissioner McEntarfer’s removal, to strongly urge the Commissioner’s continued service, and ensure that the nonpartisan integrity of the position is retained. The statement from the President undermines these tenets and politicizes data which cannot and should not be used for political points.

"...escalates the President’s unprecedented attacks on the independence & integrity of the federal statistical system.

"The president seeks to blame someone for unwelcome economic news.

"...firing Dr. McEntarfer is without merit & undermines the credibility of federal economic statistics..."

Early cybersecurity: this declassified 1982 memo discusses potential Soviet exploitation of commercially provided computer database services

Who Owns the Media Who owns the 35 most powerful media companies in America? Learn how these giants came to dominate the U.S. media landscape through mergers, acquisition and manipulation. Free Press rates their ability...

This is the direct link to the capitulation index itself, then there are four media categories to open up. Clean, clear, simple graphics and data.

www.freepress.net/who-owns-media