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NEW: It's been more than a week since Israeli settlers murdered Nasrallah Abu Siyam, a Pennsylvania citizen, in the West Bank. So why hasn't Gov. Josh Shapiro said a word about his constituent's death? www.currentaffairs.org/news/josh-sh...

Winter getting shorter in 80% of major US cities, new data shows

Researchers find that across 195 US cities, winters are on average nine days shorter than they were in 1970-1997

Ransomware payments cratered in 2025, but attacks surged to record highs Smaller crews piled in as old names splintered and rebranded Ransomware payments cratered in 2025, but it seems like the cybercrooks launching the attacks didn't get the memo.…

FYI: Ransomware payments cratered in 2025, but attacks surged to record highs

They're going to keep doubling, tripling down on stating bullshit clickbait about Iran's nonexistent nuclear weapons, bc this is the state of American corporate media led by dipshit podcasters and douchebro fame-thirsts.

Are New Police Drone Programs A Big Help Or Big Brother? - Law360 Police are increasingly using drones as first responders to 911 calls, a practice they say helps them respond to crises much faster with far fewer officers, but that privacy advocates warn could lead to mass, warrantless surveillance.

"These drones are basically being pushed as flying cops, but a cop is not allowed to just take a peek in my backyard whenever they want,"EFF’s Beryl Lipton told @law360.bsky.social, nor are they “allowed to just be taking notes about what's going on in a private space."www.law360.com/articles/24...

Oil Prices Jump 10% After Iran Attack, Pointing to Economic Risks

Great news on the "affordability" front. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/01/b...

Sadly, it is an appropriate time to re-up this thread.

Among all the other terrible things about this war, gasoline is about to become much more expensive for families that have been give too few alternatives.

Here's how state lawmakers can help.

The Third-Largest Coffee Chain in the U.S. Actually Sells Very Little Hot Coffee By focusing on customizable cold energy drinks, Dutch Bros thinks it has the formula to attract younger customers.

It’s pretty amusing that the business of the number three coffee monger is energy drinks (for number one it’s milkshakes). www.wsj.com/business/hos...

Lots of terrible people are effective communicators. What are we doing here?

“Trump is yet again in breech of the constitution and his oath and has committed more heinous war crimes. He needs to resign and surrender to authorities.”

U.S. Supreme Court Justices want to hear from the oil companies many of them have ties to... this is not how you #MakePollutersPay. 🤦‍♀️

Check out the full story here:
https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-climate-change-lawsuits-c8982af07855a7a6379e1313ebb71895

What are people delegating their isnic (.is) domains to these days? I’ve been using x.is DNS but apparently that’s going away. I’m going to switch to Cloudflare’s free DNS but would love to hear of any better/different options.

No universe in which it's appropriate for the Pentagon to be collecting this information about Americans

It's just vandalism. The global hegemon has no sense of system ownership. No vision or leadership. Just vaporware trade "deals" and bombs.

Over at Twitter, an assorted combo of paid russian stooges and probably unpaid useful idiots from academia are involved in another cycle of « imagine if Ru did X » about a bunch of international law violations Russia has been committing for a decade. It’s pathetic.

Mondelēz picks Celonis as process backbone for SAP overhaul Snack giant opts for vendor-neutral process mining as it shifts from ECC to S/4HANA In the middle of a mammoth migration off SAP's legacy ERP systems, global snack giant Mondelēz has found an alternative to the German vendor's tech as the main platform for understanding its complex, fragmented business processes.…

FYI: Mondelēz picks Celonis as process backbone for SAP overhaul

MediaDailyNews: FTC Endorses Age-Verification Tech Web companies can collect personal information from young children in order to verify their ages, the FTC said this week in a new policy statement.

The FTC’s new policy on age verification "will allow businesses to do more of what they want to do, which is vacuum up young people's information," EFF’s Adam Schwartz told MediaPost. "It's a threat to privacy to force people to upload this information." www.mediapost.com/publication...

Florida wants its own CIA. That could lead to unchecked domestic surveillance | Seth Stern, Lauren Harper and Bobby Block A bill to create a state intelligence operation would allow scrutiny based on ‘opinions’ – and could prompt other states to follow

Yeah... fuck this very much

Trump and Netanyahu’s attack on Iran is an illegal act of aggression | Kenneth Roth Their actions are no different from Putin’s invasion of Ukraine or Rwandan president Paul Kagame’s invasion of the Democratic Republic of Congo

"Their actions are no different from Putin’s invasion of Ukraine or Rwandan president Paul Kagame’s invasion of the Democratic Republic of Congo."

Correct

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UNC-CH Will ‘Scrap’ New Recording Policy, Chancellor Says The move comes less than three weeks after the controversial rules were enacted.

Congrats to @ncaaup.bsky.social & all who fought against this surveillance policy that would've allowed admin to hijack microphones in the classroom for secret recordings.

This move would've chilled classroom discussion & suppressed students' willingness to ask questions & take intellectual risks.

Carney Allowed Gas-powered AI Data Centres After Lobbying From Alberta Energy Company The Alberta gas giant Capital Power lobbied the government 37 times in the lead-up to an accord suspending clean energy regulations, federal records show.

Hey look! More evidence AI data centers are throwing a lifeline to the fossil fuel industry 🫠
https://www.desmog.com/2026/02/25/carney-allowed-gas-powered-ai-centres-after-lobbying-from-alberta-energy-company/

How to Pick Your Password Manager Phishing and data breaches are a constant on the internet. The single best defense against both is to use a password manager to generate and automatically fill a unique password for every site. There

In recent years, the built-in password managers in browsers and operating systems have come a long way. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

In Age of Disruption, a Defense of Incrementalism Evan Selinger and Albert Fox Cahn are the authors of Move Slow and Upgrade: The Power of Incremental Innovation.

In their book, Move Slow and Upgrade: The Power of Incremental Innovation, Evan Selinger and Albert Fox Cahn argue society is over-fixated on disruptive innovation and needs to adopt an “upgrader’s mindset,” which should be applied whenever “disruptive changes would pose the greatest social risk.”

Aurora cops say drones give crime-fighting a new advantage. Critics want regulation - Sentinel Colorado "The industry that provides technology to law enforcement is one of the most unregulated, unexamined and consequential in the United States."

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'The industry that provides technology to law enforcement is one of the most unregulated, unexamined and consequential in the United States'

sentinelcolorado.com/metro/higher...

#AuroraCO #Flock #PoliceDrones #PoliceReform

U.S. Strikes in Middle East Use Anthropic, Hours After Trump Ban Within hours of declaring that the federal government will end its use of artificial-intelligence tools made by tech company Anthropic, President Trump launched a major air attack in Iran with the hel...

U.S. Strikes in Middle East Use Anthropic, Hours After Trump Ban
www.wsj.com/livecoverage...

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It's very hard for the public to learn who is behind these accounts, but if any prosecutors did want to take up this case, it would likely be trivially easy to subpoena all the evidence they need.