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astro_jcm@mastodon.online ("Juan Carlos Muñoz") wrote:
🚨 Attention #science communicators! There are still a few days to apply for a cool #scicomm #job at the ESO Supernova Planetarium here in Garching bei #Munchen.
If you're passionate about getting audiences of all ages excited about #astronomy and you're fluent in both English and German, apply here: https://recruitment.eso.org/jobs/2025%5F0019
📷 ESO/P. Horálek
Mastodon FeedBoosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
popcornreel@mas.to ("Omar Moore") wrote:
SENATOR CORY BOOKER IS APPROACHING 18 CONSECUTIVE HOURS STANDING AND SPEAKING ON THE SENATE FLOOR.
He began at 7pm Eastern on Monday night.
Mastodon FeedBoosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
flexghost ("flexghost.") wrote:
Democrats take note
Senator Cory Booker is demonstrating remarkable courage, holding the Senate floor overnight in a marathon filibuster speech to protest the current administration’s policies
Join him. All of you.
You can even get out the Dr. Seuss books if you need to
Mastodon FeedBoosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social ("Kevin Beaumont") wrote:
Bletchley code breaker Betty Webb dies aged 101 🫡 https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c78jd30ywv8o
Mastodon FeedBoosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
MennoOng@waag.social ("Menno 王 Ong") wrote:
Robert Reich: “If you live in #Wisconsin or #Florida's Sixth congressional district, today's your day to tell Trump and Musk to go to hell” https://open.substack.com/pub/robertreich/p/if-you-live-in-wisconsin-or-floridas?r=50tqdq&utm%5Fmedium=ios
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freedomofpress@freedom.press ("Freedom of the Press") wrote:
Good news! Prosecutors have dropped their unconstitutional case against Chicago photojournalist Matthew Kaplan for covering an ICE protest in Gary, IN.
We're proud that our advocacy helped make this happen.
https://www.instagram.com/mkaplanphoto/p/DHuMXpYP5QI/?img%5Findex=11
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michael_w_busch@mastodon.online ("Michael Busch") wrote:
Obituary for the astronomer Alicia Soderberg; who I overlapped with at Caltech - https://baas.aas.org/pub/2025i006/release/1 .
Alicia took the time to teach me how to use the telescopes on Palomar the first time I was on the mountain.
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TomWellborn@universeodon.com ("TomWellborn3") wrote:
Trump’s deportation flights are flying prisons—shackled migrants, sick children, and powerless civilians forced into silence. Flight attendants describe chaos, inhumanity, and instructions to abandon detainees in emergencies. It’s cruelty by design, executed in secret, with fascist efficiency.
https://www.rawstory.com/i-cried/
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
this is so very not normal
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TomWellborn@universeodon.com ("TomWellborn3") wrote:
A top cybersecurity professor at Indiana University, Xiaofeng Wang, vanished after the FBI raided his homes. The university scrubbed his and his wife's profiles. No charges are public. No one can reach them. No explanation has been offered. This is not normal—and the silence is deafening.
https://www.wired.com/story/cybersecurity-professor-mysteriously-disappears-as-fbi-raids-his-homes/?
Mastodon FeedBoosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
wim_v12e@scholar.social ("Wim🧮") wrote:
I've compiled a short list of anti-AI tools
https://codeberg.org/wimvanderbauwhede/low-carbon-computing/src/branch/master/anti-AI-tools.md
Mastodon FeedBoosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Wileymiller ("Wiley Miller") wrote:
Via WaPo:
"Trump administration says it mistakenly deported Salvadoran migrant
The government blamed “an administrative error” for the accidental deportation of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran immigrant married to a U.S. citizen. Officials claim they’re unable to return him to his family in Maryland."Gee, I wonder if due process might have helped prevent this?
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kingofark ("Noah Fang") wrote:
Mastodon FeedBoosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
ScottLucas@journa.host ("Scott Lucas") wrote:
Yes, #Trump is serious about wanting to be "President for Life"
But he is also diverting from serious problems for his Admin: " #SignalGate", signs of economic downturn; and complications over #ElonMusk'attempt to decimate US agencies
The dangerous reality: how Trump will try to be the power behind the Presidency, hoping to rule over the US Government that he is destroying in his second term
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MeanwhileinCanada@ohai.social ("Meanwhile in Canada") wrote:
The US military base that JD Vance visited in Greenland uses fuel that can only be delivered with the help of Canadian ice breakers.
I noticed he didn't say thank you.
Mastodon FeedBoosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
br00t4c wrote:
The CDC Has Been Gutted
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petrillic@hachyderm.io ("Chris Petrilli") wrote:
It’s best to view Trump and Musk as strip mining the country for their personal gain.
Mastodon FeedBoosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
com ("QC") wrote:
This collaboration between a Tuvan throat singer and a bunch of beatboxers from Baltimore is the album you didn’t know you needed to listen to today.
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
evey damned one of them should hit ‘REPLY ALL’. these supposed computer geniuses cannot even handle managing a friggin’ email list.
Mastodon FeedBoosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
neauoire@merveilles.town ("Devine Lu Linvega") wrote:
One aspect that I like of the programming language I use daily is its robustness, it'd be hard for it to become unrecoverable.
The language itself relies on a runtime that can be emulated in about 150 lines in most languages(including its own language), and a 2300 bytes self-hosted assembler. There is a bootstrapping toolchain that allows me to recover an assembler from a hex dump on an operating system without `cat`, or `xxd`, or even with an implementation of the runtime without a file system.
I've added a few notes on how it all works:
https://wiki.xxiivv.com/site/drifblim#bootstrap
Mastodon FeedBoosted by taral ("JP Sugarbroad"):
glent@aus.social ("Glen, now with 100% OPSEC") wrote:
A quick note that the issue with the use of Signal in the infamous Mother of All Group Chats is not encryption. Nor is the Signal program deficient for use by folk like us.
The issue is authorisation (the authority to do a thing) and, specifically, labelling.
Those TOP SECRET stamps you see on TV are labels. Authorisation schemes are all based around labels: people with *this* label can access items with *that* label.
Government information security is awash with labels. Security clearances, nationality, project codewords, compartmental information -- all are labels. The idea being that a person with a Secret clearance, and "cleared" into compartmented information label, and "read into" a codeword project can access the document with labels SECRET//CRYPTO//AWASH HAVEN (and I am absolutely avoiding real-life labels here, because I don't need ASIO at my door waving the Official Secrets Act).
Now you can see how a military group chat will work. Each chat will have a label (say SECRET//BOMBPEOPLE) and people seeking to join that chat will need to have labels which indicate they have a Secret clearance and have been read into the BOMBPEOPLE codeword.
You can also see that if we invite the Editor of The Atlantic to that SECRET//BOMBPEOPLE conversation then the Editor will lack the labels indicating the Secret clearance and BOMBPEOPLE codeword and their attempt to join the group will not be authorised.
Signal, being communications for ordinary folk, doesn't support much authorisation and does not need military-style label-based authorisation, with its labelling of people, communication channels, and information. Imagine the hassle of configuring all those labels just to text your dad.
This is really what is meant when experts say that Signal is not suitable for national security use.
Mastodon Feedjscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi") wrote:
Yes, this is how tariffs actually work, any first-year economics student will tell you this
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@freethought.online ("pzmyers 🕷") wrote:
Somebody scattered little toy spiders around my office door last night. I like it.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/04/01/i-had-visitors-last-night/
Mastodon FeedGargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:
Today's mastodon.social update brings some improvements to the video player in Mastodon's web app. You can double-tap the video to enter and exit full screen, the controls will disappear once your mouse stops moving, and a new indicator will show you which function you triggered when you press a hotkey (like "m" to mute or "arrow up" to increase volume).
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
an interesting analysis
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/apr/01/democrats-working-class-voters
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rich@social.lol ("Rich") wrote:
this is a fun idea: https://www.aprilcools.club/
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darylsun@social.lol ("Daryl Sun") wrote:
Special Edition — Self-Expression:
https://blog.darylsun.page/2025/03/30/se-8-indieweb-carnival-march-2025
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andycarolan@social.lol ("Andy Carolan :prami:") wrote:
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Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
‘“A year from now people will notice things are missing that used to be there and Doge and others promoting this will say: ‘See, told you government can’t do things’, rather than: ‘We broke it and it got worse,’” he said.
“Noaa staff right now aren’t happy because they don’t know if they will keep their jobs. Work has been made harder for no reason and they are being told they are worthless. No one has even explained why they are doing all of this crap.”’
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/01/trump-cuts-noaa-spam-emails
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StillIRise1963@mastodon.world wrote:
White does NOT make safe. SO, GET YOUR ASSES IN GEAR.