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If you're watching oil prices with trepidation as the Iran war heats up again and wondering what you can do to protect yourself from rising fuel prices and supply chain disruptions, I gotcha covered! https://www.transitiontimes.net/nn-1-protecting-yourse…

NN #1: Protecting yourself from the Global Energy Crisis
What can you do to protect yourself from the global energy crisis?

Such exercises don't need to be grand though. They can be small. They can be for any domain. They can be organized by people with experience to help people who are new.
A simple scenario of "you're at a protest" can branch off into "you hear blast balls and smell tear gas," "you see someone with a gun," "you see someone injured by police," or "a kettle is forming." Games can allow people with experience to transfer information in a highly effective way, a way that lets new people leverage their knowledge immediately but without risk.
Other scenarios might be things like...
- Someone tells you that your organization has been infiltrated by a right wing agitator
- There's conflict between two members of your organization
- An organizer goes missing
What scenarios do you think activists and organizers should think about?

This is the most detailed picture of a human cell ever made 🧪
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DX1CGIZMKJs/?igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ

Sam Bousaba on Instagram: "This is a single human cell. The white filament-like structures are microtubules, and the small colored particles are ribosomes. Your body contains on the order of ~37 trillion cells. Each cell functions like a highly organized, self-regulating factory operating continuously. There is no central “supervisor”—yet thousands of processes run in parallel with remarkable coordination. Every ribosome is constantly building proteins by linking amino acids together. In eukaryotic (human) cells, a ribosome typically adds about 5–10 amino acids per second (not ~20). Since a single cell can contain millions of ribosomes, protein production is massive—resulting in millions to tens of millions of peptide bonds formed per second per cell. The microtubules act as an internal transport network. Motor proteins such as kinesin move along these tracks, carrying cellular cargo. They “walk” step by step using ATP, at speeds of roughly 500–1000 nanometers per second. Each cell contains a dense network of these filaments, with many motor proteins moving simultaneously. Just beneath the cell membrane lies the actin cortex, a dynamic meshwork that helps maintain cell shape and resist mechanical stress. This structure is continuously remodeled—assembled and disassembled—allowing the cell to adapt to its environment. Now scale this up. Across ~37 trillion cells, each containing millions of ribosomes and hundreds to thousands of mitochondria, your body is constantly producing energy in the form of ATP. Total ATP turnover is enormous—roughly equivalent to your body weight in ATP recycled every day. The DNA in a single human cell, if stretched out, measures about 2 meters. Across all your cells, this would span distances comparable to traveling from Earth to the Sun and back many times (the exact multiple depends on assumptions about cell count and DNA packing). None of these processes are under conscious control. They began when you were a single cell and have continued uninterrupted ever since."
62K likes, 2,387 comments - scienceoftheuniverse on May 2, 2026: "This is a single human cell. The white filament-like structures are microtubules, and the small colored particles are ribosomes. Your body contains on the order of ~37 trillion cells. Each cell functions like a highly organized, self-regulating factory operating continuously. There is no central “supervisor”—yet thousands of processes run in parallel with remarkable coordination. Every ribosome is constantly building prot…

So Google is basically killing their main product? The ingenious money machine that made them billions? Or am I missing something … I mean: where are the ads? 🤔
https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/19/google-search-as-you-know-it-is-over/

Google Search as you know it is over | TechCrunch
Google is transforming Search from a list of links into an AI-powered experience filled with conversational answers, autonomous agents, and interactive interfaces — a shift that could further reduce traffic to publishers across the web.

The Minneapolis 15 ICE-protester indictments are meant to shut you up (Will Bunch/The Philadelphia Inquirer)
https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/ice-minneapolis-15-indictments-trump-silencing-dissent-20260618.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260619/p4#a260619p4

Tenemos como vecino un šrbol cuyas frutas parecen aguacates muy pequeños, a las aves les encanta particularmente a los yigüirros.
No pude determinar la especie exacta, pero sí el género: Aiouea: una palabra formada por las 5 vocales, los šrboles de este género son nativos de América Central y alrededores, varias especies estšn en peligro de extinción por deforestación y expansión urbana. Me alegra mucho tener el privilegio de tener este vecino tan especial.
Acš el registro en iNa…

Zurich - Cape Town - McMurdo - Honolulu - Zurich
You can basically set your bearing to 173° and fly along a straight line to see Switzerland, South Africa, Antarctica and Hawaii.
https://www.greatcirclemap.com/?routes=ZRH-CPT-NZIR-HNL-ZRH

periodic reminder that Dunning-Kruger effect is mostly statistical error and if you're using it as a part of your worldview, that's maybe a problem.
Doubly so since a naive reflection of it is a belief in a fascist ubermensch who's just smarter than everyone else. You can justify deeply anti-democratic ideals with it. So consider this carefully.

So much has happened in cyberworld since Friday, so don't miss today's Metacurity for the most critical infosec developments you might have missed over the weekend, including
--Leaders warn that AI bug hunting outpaces humanity’s ability to defend systems,
--Malware strain Fast16 sabotaged nuclear weapons development years before Stuxnet surfaced,
--Grafana Labs rejected hackers' extortion demand,
--DeFi protocol Verus lost nearly $12m in ongoing exploit,

Leaders warn that AI bug hunting outpaces humanity’s ability to defend systems
Malware strain Fast16 sabotaged nuclear weapons development years before Stuxnet surfaced, Grafana Labs rejected hackers' extortion demand, DeFi protocol Verus lost nearly $12m in ongoing exploit, Hotel check-in system left 1m passports exposed, Gas station gauge systems hacked, much more

Every zipper is manufactured to a specification that balances precision against cost.
A zipper with teeth machined to tolerances of plus or minus 0.02 millimetres will last thousands of cycles without splitting.
A zipper with tolerances of plus or minus 0.08 millimetres will function adequately for hundreds of cycles before wear accumulates to the failure threshold.
The first costs more to produce.
The second costs more to replace.
The decision between them …

The Precise Mechanics Behind Why Zippers Fail and What That Reveals About Everyday Product Engineering
Most zipper failures are a worn slider — a £1 part. You throw away the jacket because nobody told you. The tolerance decision was made in a spreadsheet.