@cdarwin@c.im2025-06-06 22:39:21
The US supreme court on Friday permitted DOGE, the so-called ‘department of government efficiency’, broad access to personal information on millions of Americans in Social Security Administration data systems while a legal challenge plays out.
At the request of the Justice Department, the justices put on hold US district judge Ellen Hollander’s order that had largely blocked Doge’s access to “personally identifiable information”
in data such as medical and financial records while …
@cosmos4u@scicomm.xyz2025-06-02 18:45:23
"Patricia #Espenak announced in an email that Fred passed away yesterday afternoon," Michael Zeiler just wrote on the Solar Eclipse Mailing List: "Fred was in hospice at their home in Portal, Arizona. Pat was holding his hand when he passed away and is devastated.
Fred had an extremely consequential life and was a giant in the solar eclipse community. Let‘s remember his enthusiasm for nature‘s greatest spectacle, his warm friendship to many of us, his generosity in sharing his knowledge, and his impact on all of us."
Obituaries: https://skyandtelescope.org/astronomy-news/fred-espenak-1953-2025/ and https://www.astronomy.com/observing/fred-espenak-dies-at-71/
@timbray@cosocial.ca2025-05-27 16:16:27
Pretty amazing. And yet, the majority of Americans won’t see this story because the truth is paywalled but the bullshit is free. Which feels more and more to me like one of the world’s most important problems.
https://masto.ai/@Nonilex/114580574368958399
@Matti_Vuori@mastodontti.fi2025-06-03 08:50:39
1/N Ylistäkäämme Maailman polkupyöräpäivänä polkupyörän monipuolista vastuullisuutta, josta ei puutu oikeastaan mitään elementtiä:
SOSIAALINEN VASTUULLISUUS: Polkupyörän ansiosta työväki pääsi aamulla töihin tai vaikka illalla mielenosoituksiin aamulla vaikkei omistanut hevosta, tai vähän myöhemmin autoa. Naisetkin pääsivät pois kotoa hellan ja pyykkäyksen äärestä singahtamaan kylille tarpeesta ja vaikka ilman tarvetta.
@Mediagazer@mstdn.social2025-05-28 10:05:42
Getty Images CEO Craig Peters says Getty is spending "millions and millions" on its Stability AI lawsuit in the UK and the US, accusing it of copying 12M images (Ryan Browne/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/05/28/getty-ceo-
@jtk@infosec.exchange2025-05-28 23:45:47
#Bluesky #networking job:
"Working on Bluesky’s cloud and bare-metal systems, you’ll be charting the path for long-term availability and resilience of systems running on dense, latest-generation servers running in our own racks performing millions of queries per second—all as we rapi…
