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Zhi Zhu 🕸️<p>Elon Musk’s Starlink Takes Over the White House</p><p>The world’s richest man now has control over the internet at the White House.<br><a href="https://newrepublic.com/post/192855/elon-musk-white-house-starlink-internet" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">newrepublic.com/post/192855/el</span><span class="invisible">on-musk-white-house-starlink-internet</span></a></p><p>"numerous <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/conflicts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>conflicts</span></a> of interest &amp; <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/ethics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ethics</span></a> issues. <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Musk</span></a> already collects billions of dollars through his <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/government" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>government</span></a> contracts, &amp; controls <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Starlink" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Starlink</span></a>. If <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/WhiteHouse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WhiteHouse</span></a> employees are using the <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/internet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>internet</span></a> service, he could have access to their <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/data" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>data</span></a>... questions as to how secure Starlink’s <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/network" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>network</span></a> is."</p><p><a href="https://newsie.social/tags/ElonMusk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ElonMusk</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Coup" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Coup</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Tech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Tech</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Security" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Security</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/News" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>News</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/US" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>US</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/USA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USA</span></a></p>
Coach Pāṇini ®<p>Keep, Measure, and Curate</p><p>If you’re not curating the wisdom, knowledge, information, and data sources, things will get sticky, messy, and ugly.</p><p><a href="http://inaniludibrio.com/2025/03/18/keep-measure-and-curate/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">http://</span><span class="ellipsis">inaniludibrio.com/2025/03/18/k</span><span class="invisible">eep-measure-and-curate/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/wisdom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>wisdom</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/knowledge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>knowledge</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/information" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>information</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/data" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>data</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/MakeInfohygieneGreat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MakeInfohygieneGreat</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/infohygiene" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>infohygiene</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/DataGovernance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DataGovernance</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/DataQuality" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DataQuality</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/DataStewardship" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DataStewardship</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/history" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>history</span></a></p>
Paul Hammond<p>Curiosity Rover in Gale crater: A drive of ~33 meters during Sol 4483 (March 17, 2025). The drive direction was southwest with a small detour to check out a rock formation, the rover climbed 2.2 meters during the ~59 minute drive. Post drive L-NavCam, the drive data extracted from JPL's waypoint JSON, and a couple of traverse maps (different scales). Image Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech. </p><p><a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Mars" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Mars</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Curiosity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Curiosity</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/MSL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MSL</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/MarsRover" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MarsRover</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/NASA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NASA</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Science</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Space" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Space</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Exploration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Exploration</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Solarocks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Solarocks</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Data" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Data</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/map" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>map</span></a></p>
Patrick Leavy<p>Important <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/UK" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UK</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/petition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>petition</span></a> to sign: "Ban behavioural data extraction for advertising"</p><p><a href="https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/713456" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">petition.parliament.uk/petitio</span><span class="invisible">ns/713456</span></a> </p><p>If you are a UK citizen or UK resident PLEASE SIGN THIS 🙏🏼 </p><p>We need the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/government" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>government</span></a> to take this seriously so creeps like this <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/databroker" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>databroker</span></a> don't get more data:<br><a href="https://gizmodo.com/data-broker-brags-about-having-highly-detailed-personal-information-on-nearly-all-internet-users-2000575762" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">gizmodo.com/data-broker-brags-</span><span class="invisible">about-having-highly-detailed-personal-information-on-nearly-all-internet-users-2000575762</span></a></p><p>And <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/democracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>democracy</span></a> is undermined by the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/microtargeting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>microtargeting</span></a> from <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/socialmedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>socialmedia</span></a> - <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> /Brexit/Romania etc</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/surveillancecapitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>surveillancecapitalism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/dataprivacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>dataprivacy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/advertising" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>advertising</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/RTB" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RTB</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/databreach" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>databreach</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/infosec" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>infosec</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/uspol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>uspol</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/data" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>data</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/selfhosting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>selfhosting</span></a></p>
Metin Seven 🎨<p>FreeTube ─ Watch YouTube without ads, without login and with private playlists.</p><p><a href="https://freetubeapp.io" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">freetubeapp.io</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://graphics.social/tags/google" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>google</span></a> <a href="https://graphics.social/tags/YouTube" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>YouTube</span></a> <a href="https://graphics.social/tags/privacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>privacy</span></a> <a href="https://graphics.social/tags/ad" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ad</span></a> <a href="https://graphics.social/tags/safety" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>safety</span></a> <a href="https://graphics.social/tags/security" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>security</span></a> <a href="https://graphics.social/tags/InfoSec" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>InfoSec</span></a> <a href="https://graphics.social/tags/data" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>data</span></a> <a href="https://graphics.social/tags/advertisement" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>advertisement</span></a> <a href="https://graphics.social/tags/tech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>tech</span></a> <a href="https://graphics.social/tags/technology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>technology</span></a> <a href="https://graphics.social/tags/BigTech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BigTech</span></a> <a href="https://graphics.social/tags/app" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>app</span></a> <a href="https://graphics.social/tags/apps" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>apps</span></a> <a href="https://graphics.social/tags/tip" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>tip</span></a> <a href="https://graphics.social/tags/tips" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>tips</span></a></p>
:rss: Hacker News<p>Undergraduate Disproves 40-Year-Old Conjecture, Invents New Kind of Hash Table<br><a href="https://www.wired.com/story/undergraduate-upends-a-40-year-old-data-science-conjecture/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">wired.com/story/undergraduate-</span><span class="invisible">upends-a-40-year-old-data-science-conjecture/</span></a><br><a href="https://rss-mstdn.studiofreesia.com/tags/ycombinator" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ycombinator</span></a> <a href="https://rss-mstdn.studiofreesia.com/tags/quanta_magazine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>quanta_magazine</span></a> <a href="https://rss-mstdn.studiofreesia.com/tags/science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>science</span></a> <a href="https://rss-mstdn.studiofreesia.com/tags/data" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>data</span></a> <a href="https://rss-mstdn.studiofreesia.com/tags/math" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>math</span></a></p>
Aram Sinnreich<p>Nice to see Connolly demanding answers from DOGE about their illegal use of <a href="https://aoir.social/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> and its consequences for U.S. <a href="https://aoir.social/tags/data" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>data</span></a> <a href="https://aoir.social/tags/privacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>privacy</span></a>.</p><p>I don't expect to see any answers or accountability, but every little bit of Congress doing what Congress was elected to do is a win for democracy.</p><p><a href="https://connolly.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=6328" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">connolly.house.gov/news/docume</span><span class="invisible">ntsingle.aspx?DocumentID=6328</span></a></p>
ℒӱḏɩę :blahaj:<p>Shiny new torrents are up!! </p><p><a href="https://lydie.cc/data.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">lydie.cc/data.html</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/datahoarder" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>datahoarder</span></a> <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/datapreservation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>datapreservation</span></a> <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/preservation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>preservation</span></a> <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/uspol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>uspol</span></a> <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/usgovernment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>usgovernment</span></a> <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/data" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>data</span></a> <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/DataRescue" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DataRescue</span></a> <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/torrent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>torrent</span></a> <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/antifa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>antifa</span></a> <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/resistance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>resistance</span></a> <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/resist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>resist</span></a></p>
Zhi Zhu 🕸️<p>DOGE Is Making It Harder to Track Extreme Weather. What Could Go Wrong?<br><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/17/opinion/weather-service-doge-cuts.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">nytimes.com/2025/03/17/opinion</span><span class="invisible">/weather-service-doge-cuts.html</span></a></p><p>"These cuts threaten your budget, too. <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Insurance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Insurance</span></a> companies rely heavily on <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/data" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>data</span></a> gathered by <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/NOAA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NOAA</span></a> and the <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/US" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>US</span></a> Geological Survey to assess wildfire, flood, wind and other risks. Some firms are warning that any interruption in data availability could drive insurance premiums for customers even higher."</p><p><a href="https://newsie.social/tags/ElonMusk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ElonMusk</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Musk</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Doge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Doge</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/GOP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GOP</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USPol</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Weather" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Weather</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Climate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Climate</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/News" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>News</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/US" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>US</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/USA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USA</span></a></p>
Europe Says<p><a href="https://www.europesays.com/1919791/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">europesays.com/1919791/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> [OC] Graph Visualizations of Blockchain Data <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Data" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Data</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/DataIsBeautiful" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DataIsBeautiful</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/DataIsBeautiful" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DataIsBeautiful</span></a></p>
Scott Williams 🐧<p>Today we published a sizable update to the Social Security Administration public archive. (Please note that the layout of the repo has changed to accommodate other subdomains of the SSA.)</p><p><a href="https://git.lsit.ucsb.edu/publicdata/ssa-gov" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">git.lsit.ucsb.edu/publicdata/s</span><span class="invisible">sa-gov</span></a></p><p>More on the way soon!</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/datarescue" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>datarescue</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/socialsecurity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>socialsecurity</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/data" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>data</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/research" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>research</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/publicdata" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>publicdata</span></a></p>
Lorraine C. 🇨🇦<p>Via <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>pluralistic</span></a></span> </p><p><a href="https://pluralistic.net/2025/03/15/altering-the-deal/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">pluralistic.net/2025/03/15/alt</span><span class="invisible">ering-the-deal/</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://forall.social/tags/data" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>data</span></a> <a href="https://forall.social/tags/privacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>privacy</span></a> <a href="https://forall.social/tags/databrokers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>databrokers</span></a> <a href="https://forall.social/tags/amazon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>amazon</span></a> <a href="https://forall.social/tags/usa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>usa</span></a> <a href="https://forall.social/tags/uspol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>uspol</span></a> <a href="https://forall.social/tags/canada" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>canada</span></a> <br><a href="https://forall.social/tags/infosec" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>infosec</span></a></p>
aphex twink<p>hey! I've just moved here today and i thought I'd start by introducing myself. I'm an ecologist, specialized in avian and herpetofaunal ecology. i am also very interested in the data science aspect of the discipline, and i am working on getting more familiar with the ins and outs of R programming, and hopefully moving to more conventional programming, so i can feed into my other interests. </p><p>i am also muchly into open source software, specifically Emacs and Void Linux, and in my free time, work on contributing to Void Linux packages and my Emacs config. i tend to talk about all of these things a lot.</p><p>I'm big on cats. well, basically everything about them. expect a LOT of photos.</p><p>i also play the guitar a little and I'm predominantly into loud and dark music. I do talk about the music i listen to as well, both here and on my blog articles.</p><p>i also occasionally like to indulge in woodworking, and i hope to get more active with it </p><p>i have been blogging since 2016, on and off, and recently revived my blog after a hiatus of nearly 2 years. </p><p>you can read more about me at <a href="https://peregrinator.site/about?1" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">peregrinator.site/about?1</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://toot.cat/tags/introduction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>introduction</span></a> <a href="https://toot.cat/tags/intro" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>intro</span></a> <a href="https://toot.cat/tags/ecology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ecology</span></a> <a href="https://toot.cat/tags/birds" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>birds</span></a> <a href="https://toot.cat/tags/cats" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cats</span></a> <a href="https://toot.cat/tags/blog" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>blog</span></a> <a href="https://toot.cat/tags/blogging" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>blogging</span></a> <a href="https://toot.cat/tags/music" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>music</span></a> <a href="https://toot.cat/tags/linux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>linux</span></a> <a href="https://toot.cat/tags/emacs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>emacs</span></a> <a href="https://toot.cat/tags/data" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>data</span></a></p>
Lorraine C. 🇨🇦<p>Nothing short of <a href="https://forall.social/tags/outrageous" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>outrageous</span></a> <a href="https://forall.social/tags/trashit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>trashit</span></a> 😡<a href="https://forall.social/tags/privacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>privacy</span></a></p><p><a href="https://forall.social/tags/usa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>usa</span></a> <a href="https://forall.social/tags/amazon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>amazon</span></a> <a href="https://forall.social/tags/canada" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>canada</span></a> sharing w <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@404mediaco" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>404mediaco</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>pluralistic</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@eff" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>eff</span></a></span> <a href="https://forall.social/tags/data" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>data</span></a> <a href="https://forall.social/tags/infosec" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>infosec</span></a> <a href="https://forall.social/tags/ai" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ai</span></a></p><p>Amazon is going to be disabling the privacy feature that processes voice commands locally on Echo devices at the end of this month. Instead, all voice commands will be sent to Amazon's cloud for processing.</p><p>I have already followed my own steps to remediate this:</p><p>1. Unplug Echo Device<br>2. Throw Echo Device in Trash<br>3. Done<br><a href="https://chow.fan/@mookie/114162820588906022" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">chow.fan/@mookie/1141628205889</span><span class="invisible">06022</span></a></p>
Jeremy B. Yoder 🖖🏻🌿🏳️‍🌈📈<p>The Conservation Biology Institute is looking for volunteers with GIS and spatial data experience to help secure and preserve federally funded environmental datasets on their Data Basin platform</p><p><a href="https://mailchi.mp/1757b2a216df/data-basin-quarterly-update?e=b2b5817153" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">mailchi.mp/1757b2a216df/data-b</span><span class="invisible">asin-quarterly-update?e=b2b5817153</span></a></p><p><a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>science</span></a> <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/data" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>data</span></a> <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/conservation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>conservation</span></a> <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/gis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>gis</span></a> <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/SpatialData" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SpatialData</span></a> <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/EnvironmentalData" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EnvironmentalData</span></a> <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/USpolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USpolitics</span></a></p>
petersuber<p>Update. "<a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/APDU" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>APDU</span></a> [Association of Public Data Users] Statement on <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Education" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Education</span></a> Research and <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Data" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Data</span></a>"<br><a href="https://apdu.org/?p=5812775" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">apdu.org/?p=5812775</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p>"On Tuesday, March 11, 2025, over 1,000 staff from the Department of Education [<a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/DOE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DOE</span></a>] were laid off. This includes almost all staff from the Institute of Education Sciences (<a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/IES" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IES</span></a>), which housed the National Center for Education Statistics (<a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/NCES" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NCES</span></a>)…NCES is mandated by law to report on the condition of education annually, collect and disseminate key education data, and support state and local education agencies…The [layoffs] make it unclear how NCES will meet its legal obligations under the Education Sciences Reform Act, Every Student Succeeds Act, the Information Quality Act, and other federal laws…Congress and policymakers must act to ensure NCES has the resources to meet its statutory obligations. Stakeholders—including researchers, educators, and state leaders—must demand transparency on how education data will be maintained." </p><p><a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Censorship" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Censorship</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/DefendResearch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DefendResearch</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/OpenData" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OpenData</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Takedowns" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Takedowns</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USPol</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/USPolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USPolitics</span></a></p>
ProPublica<p>How ProPublica Uses AI Responsibly in Its Investigations<br>—</p><p>When our reporters prompted a large language model to help identify “woke” themes in a database of grants, AI helped them tell a vital accountability story about science funding and Ted Cruz.<br><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/using-ai-responsibly-for-reporting?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">propublica.org/article/using-a</span><span class="invisible">i-responsibly-for-reporting?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a></p><p><a href="https://newsie.social/tags/News" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>News</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Tech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Tech</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Journalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Journalism</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Media" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Media</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Research" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Research</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Data" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Data</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Technology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Technology</span></a></p>
C.<p>Guide to Interpreting Security Incident <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/Announcements" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Announcements</span></a>:</p><p>"extremely sophisticated attack" : The attackers put more time into the attack than we spent designing our defences.</p><p>"no evidence customer <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/data" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>data</span></a> was accessed" : We lack audit records and the logs have been rotated out.</p><p>"due to a misconfiguration issue" : We deployed with default <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/insecure" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>insecure</span></a> settings.</p><p>"possible for only a short window" : We didn't dig too deep to determine how far back the bug existed.</p><p>"crafted invalid request data" : We forgot to add input <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/validation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>validation</span></a>.</p><p>"supplementary fix" : We didn't understand the problem as well as we thought, so our previous fix was insufficient.</p><p>"may have been exploited" : We're positive they got away with data, but they deleted our <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/logs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>logs</span></a>.</p><p>"multiple threat actors" : Everyone was in our systems before we noticed.</p><p>"most customers are unaffected" : There are corner cases that aren't as <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/vulnerable" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>vulnerable</span></a>.</p><p>"error in a third-party component" : We forgot to update our dependencies.</p><p>"could lead to remote code execution" : You're <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/p0wned" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>p0wned</span></a>.</p><p>"malicious activity has been observed" : The issue has already appeared in the press.</p><p>"review equipment inventory to verify if devices require other mitigations" : You need to buy new stuff.</p><p>"remotely exploited to allow authentication bypass" : We forgot to require <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/login" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>login</span></a> for this function.</p><p>"not aware of any exploits in the wild" : The attackers aren't bragging on darkweb fora yet.</p><p><a href="https://mindly.social/tags/InfoSec" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>InfoSec</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/security" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>security</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/incident" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>incident</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/obsolete" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>obsolete</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/vendor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>vendor</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/system" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>system</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/configuration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>configuration</span></a></p>
Alex Verbeek<p>I’m in Berlin at the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/JMPdiscoverysummit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>JMPdiscoverysummit</span></a>. </p><p>John Sall, Founder and Chairman of JMP explains how JMP enables engineers to move beyond routine problem solving by providing powerful platforms for statistical analysis, process optimization, and data visualization.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/JMP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>JMP</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/JMP18" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>JMP18</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Analytics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Analytics</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/data" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>data</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/datascience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>datascience</span></a></p>
Zhi Zhu 🕸️<p>Trump &amp; Musk's Power-Sharing Agreement Innovates the <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Authoritarian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Authoritarian</span></a> Playbook</p><p>The Novel Power-Partition Opens New Horizons of <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Corruption" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Corruption</span></a><br><a href="https://lucid.substack.com/p/trump-and-musks-power-sharing-agreement" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">lucid.substack.com/p/trump-and</span><span class="invisible">-musks-power-sharing-agreement</span></a></p><p>" <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> has a novel power-sharing arrangement w/an unelected private citizen who is essentially executing a <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/HostileTakeover" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HostileTakeover</span></a> of the US <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/government" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>government</span></a> to capture <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/data" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>data</span></a>... &amp; use our country as a laboratory for a new form of <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/authoritarian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>authoritarian</span></a> techno-governance that requires the wrecking of <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Democracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Democracy</span></a>"</p><p><a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Musk</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Tech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Tech</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Coup" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Coup</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USPol</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/News" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>News</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/USA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USA</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/US" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>US</span></a></p>