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Critical Hurricane Forecast Tool Abruptly Terminated U.S. Department of Defense announced Tuesday it would no longer process and deliver data essential to most hurricane forecasts

A huge blow was dealt to hurricane forecasters this week as a critical tool was abruptly terminated by the Department of Defense and NOAA. The immediate discontinuation of data from three weather satellites will severely impact hurricane forecasts this season and beyond. More ⬇️

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Update: the extension is 11 months, I’m told.

‘People Are Scared’: Inside CISA as It Reels From Trump’s Purge Employees at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency tell WIRED they’re struggling to protect the US while the administration dismisses their colleagues and poisons their partnerships.

Employees at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency tell WIRED they’re struggling to protect the US while the administration dismisses their colleagues and poisons their partnerships.

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​Archivists recreate pre-Trump CDC website, hosting it in Europe. ​

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Denmark's postal service to stop delivering letters The decision will end 400 years of the company's letter service, and postboxes will disappear from June.

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Wow. That's messed up. A functioning postal service is a fundamental public service.

YouTube video by WIRED Teslas Monitor Everything—Including You | WIRED

I love @wired.com's new YouTube series, Incognito Mode, hosted by @couts.bsky.social and informed by journalism from WIRED's ace team of security reporters.

First up: How much personal data does Tesla collect -- and can you trust the company to keep it safe?

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Elon Musk's DOGE fires FDA officials regulating his brain implant company: report Some of the latest employees on the chopping block at tech billionaire Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency task force are Food and Drug Administration staff who oversee regulation of one o...

Some of the latest employees on the chopping block at Elon Musk's DOGE task force are FDA staff who oversee regulation of Musk's controversial Neuralink brain implant company, whose early trials in monkeys reportedly caused horrific deaths — something Musk denied.
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Amazon’s killing a feature that let you download and backup Kindle books It’s bad if you like to keep ebook backup copies.

hey for anyone who might want to actually own their kindle books instead of renting them, or who might be thinking of switching to kobo etc and will want to convert them to epubs, you now only have one week before amazon kills your ability to download its ebooks www.theverge.com/news/612898/...

They were so sweet to talk to. Please, y'all, if this matters to you, call.

Since this post got some attention, let me clarify that (1) I don't necessarily agree with all of the readings on my syllabus, but assign them as a way to engage important debates; (2) if you want my own assessment of "what works," and answers to specific Qs, see: global.oup.com/academic/pro....

It actually is very important that you do things that you take pleasure in, regularly. That is part of how you survive the things that feel like they are going to destroy you.

Yep. Glad to see people saying it outright. It's literally only a viable platform while it's profitable to advertisers, and that only lasts while people stay there and keep posting. Even rage engagement is still engagement and money in Musk's pocket.

Trump administration fires members of cybersecurity review board in “horribly shortsighted” decision | TechCrunch The Department of Homeland security told members of the Cyber Safety Review Board that their membership was terminated.

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OH GOOD WHAT COULD POSSIBLY GO WRONG

The most powerful words you can say right now to these fascist bastards is:

"No, make me."

They cannot actually be everywhere and enforce their fascist policies. They rely on fear to do the job of governing for them. By refusing to comply, you make their means of compliance ineffective.

Mad at Meta? Don't Let Them Collect and Monetize Your Personal Data If you’re fed up with Meta right now, you’re not alone. Meta tracks you across millions of websites and apps and its business model relies on your data. If you want to limit Meta’s ability to collect ...

Fed up with Meta? Avoiding Instagram or Facebook isn’t enough to stop Meta from harvesting and profiting from your private information. Here’s how to limit Meta’s ability to monetize your personal data.

"Forty-two years ago, for reasons beyond my comprehension, David Lynch plucked me out of obscurity to star in his first and last big budget movie. He clearly saw something in me that even I didn’t recognize. I owe my entire career, and life really, to his vision. What I saw in him was an enigmatic and intuitive man with a creative ocean bursting forth inside of him. He was in touch with something the rest of us wish we could get to. Our friendship blossomed on Blue Velvet and then Twin Peaks and I always found him to be the most authentically alive person I’d ever met. David was in tune with the universe and his own imagination on a level that seemed to be the best version of human. He was not interested in answers because he understood that questions are the drive that make us who we are. They are our breath. While the world has lost a remarkable artist, I’ve lost a dear friend who imagined a future for me and allowed me to travel in worlds I could never have conceived on my own. I can see him now, standing up to greet me in his backyard, with a warm smile and big hug and that Great Plains honk of a voice. We’d talk coffee, the joy of the unexpected, the beauty of the world, and laugh. His love for me and mine for him came out of the cosmic fate of two people who saw the best things about themselves in each other. I will miss him more than the limits of my language can tell and my heart can bear. My world is that much fuller because I knew him and that much emptier now that he’s gone. David, I remain forever changed, and forever your Kale. Thank you for everything."

was mostly keeping it together until I read Kyle MacLachlan's tribute to David Lynch

Scoop: Heritage Foundation plans to ‘identify and target’ Wikipedia editors The conservative think tank told prospective donors that the project was part of its work to combat antisemitism.

Wikipedia editors need to up their opsec. There's a full on war against any independent sources of authority and the oligarch project of taking down Wikipedia is part of it.

Donate to Wikipedia if you can. forward.com/news/686797/...

Pssst. Hey, you.
Yes, you.
Hi.

If no one has told you lately, you’re totally kicking ass even though nothing makes sense anymore.

We need you. Keep it up.

Novel phising campaign uses corrupted Word documents to evade security A novel phishing attack abuses Microsoft's Word file recovery feature by sending corrupted Word documents as email attachments, allowing them to bypass security software due to their damaged state but...

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Novel phising campaign uses corrupted Word documents to evade security

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“Debilitating a Generation”: Expert Warns That Long COVID May Eventually Affect Most Americans In a candid discussion with INET's Lynn Parramore, Dr. Phillip Alvelda highlights the imminent dangers of long COVID, criticizing governments and health agencies for ongoing preventable suffering and ...

When we said this years ago on Twitter… based on maths… they said it was ridiculous.

Slowly, slowly… this train is pulling out of the station.

We’ll see what full speed looks like.

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The House is about to vote on a bill that would give broad and easily abused new powers to the executive branch to allow the Secretary of Treasury to strip a U.S. nonprofit of its tax-exempt status. Tell Congress to vote NO on H.R. 9495.

a man in a jacket says i say we take off and nuke . ALT: a man in a jacket says i say we take off and nuke .

To anyone who is on the fence about leaving the other place: