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I am once again getting a wave of right-wing spam SMSes from Hillsdale College (purportedly). Are they actually letting their institution’s name be attached to political spam? I realize there are all kinds of super gross things about Hillsdale as an institution, but even so, I’d think the institution would want to preserve some shred of self-respect, or at least try to keep up appearances.
The spam links are all the domain rght.io followed by 6-character alphanumeric codes, such as:
http://rght.io/jjne75
http://rght.io/ip0l3b
http://rght.io/646anh
http://rght.io/aem0ai
http://rght.io/8gplnp
http://rght.io/mncl8i
http://rght.io/eo556l
http://rght.io/15bk46
http://rght.io/igd8ga
http://rght.io/pp2ggf
(Those are random examples, I don’t want them validating my number; I just want to send the typical Fedi server traffic their way.)
I haven’t investigated the domain, server, etc. at all, but if anyone is inspired…have at it!

Daylight #fireball over the U.S. Southeast - and there may have been a related meteorite hit of a house: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_OaYXxB7Z8. Visual reports: https://fireballs.imo.net/members/imo_view/event/2025/3455. Detections by radar and from a satellite: https://x.com/spann/status/1938367055368970461. An article: https://eos.org/research-and-developments/fireball-passes-over-southeastern-united-states. More TV reports: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bq7THmDUCfg and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IcTk-Sg1uSA and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5d8HbC4zjKw

New York state cyber chief calls out Trump for cybersecurity cuts
https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/28/new-york-state-cyber-chief-calls-out-trump-for-cybersecurity-cuts/

New York state cyber chief calls out Trump for cybersecurity cuts | TechCrunch
The top cybersecurity official in New York told TechCrunch in an interview that Trump's budget cuts are going to put the government at risk from cyberattacks, and will put more pressure on states to secure themselves.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MiddayShow
The Clash:
🎵 London Calling
#TheClash
https://aprecords.bandcamp.com/album/the-clash-cassette-london-calling
https://open.spotify.com/track/5jzma6gCzYtKB1DbEwFZKH

Groups File Nationwide Class Action Lawsuit Over Trump's Birthright Citizenship Order (Jennifer Bendery/HuffPost)
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/groups-file-nationwide-class-action-lawsuit-birthright-citizenship_n_685eeac5e4b015addf95e404
http://www.memeorandum.com/250628/p3#a250628p3

Organized by my colleagues -
Join #climate and #weather scientists for a century of talks - no really , 100 hours of livestream.
Starting Wednesday May 28 at 1 p EST
https://wclivestream.com/watch
https://bsky.app/profile/wclivestream.bsky.social

#TomLehrer who passed away yesterday at 97: https://edition.cnn.com/2025/07/27/entertainment/tom-lehrer-death and https://variety.com/2025/music/obituaries-people-news/tom-lehrer-dead-satirist-topical-singer-songwriter-1236471506/ ... I still recall how I first learned about him, long after he had ended his musical career, in a German radio feature ("Ein Narr verstummt") - in 1980.

Detection of X-ray Emission from a Bright Long-Period #RadioTransient: https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.16606 -> Eccentric 'Star' Defies Easy Explanation, NASA's Chandra Finds: https://chandra.si.edu/press/25_releases/press_052825.html and https://chandra.si.edu/photo/2025/lprt/

This morning's #NLC show over Bochum, Germany: extended but not that bright, with only a few interesting details, selected here: See https://www.facebook.com/dan.fischer.393/posts/pfbid025vdCUuoc32qTjXDjTB6zXs9p3EXHSW6HkV4dAxsLirBMLTg2vNKQTykrU5Y5Hbzdl for the full series and https://www.facebook.com/groups/leuchtendenachtwolken/posts/3971122466444367/ and https://www.facebook.com/groups/nlcaroundtheworld/posts/1703406993628232/ for other selections.

At t-2 1/2 hours one independent #Starship flight 9 webcast has already been on for a while at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hAdLlG9Rfd4 - others will start at 21:30 UTC on https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hgDhgTaV5s (they also have cameras on the Bahamas, just in case ...) and at 22:50 UTC at https://x.com/i/broadcasts/1OwxWXMRAXmKQ from SpaceX themselves. Meanwhile "The Road to Making Life Multiplanetary" has vanished there completely ... so it's "A Road not Taken" now, Robert Frost would approve of that. ;-)