@gwire@mastodon.socialI think the government is stretching the understood meaning of "upskilling" in making people use AI, given the underlying promise of the AI industry.
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/tech-giants-join-government-to…
@markhburton@mstdn.socialGrenfell survivor urges government to speed up firms’ contract ban ahead of eighth anniversary | Morning Star
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/grenfell-survivor-urges-government-speed-firms-contract…
@pre@boing.worldI believe I have managed to prove my ID in order to comply with the new laws that say I have to prove my ID to own the business I own that I'm sure already asked me to prove my ID when I registered it.
First we tried the on-web version, but that apparently relies upon the corporates having managed to profile and track me, because it told me they had no questions upon which to base identification. Good I guess? My avoid-tracking systems must be working at least a bit?
Next we tried the android app, but apparently the phone I tried that with is too old and the app won't install.
So next option is turning up at a post office with a printed letter. I don't own a printer though, so had to have them post that to me.
Took the letter and a driving licence up to the post office today and "It's not going through" they said, pointing to a stalled progress bar on an android app on a tablet.
Um. Okay. So?
Just wait longer apparently. About ten minutes and it finally proceeded and the post office man took a photograph of me after asking me to disrobe of my robe, strip down to a teeshirt and jeans.
Not sure in what sense this has proven my ID any more than it was already proven to get the driving licence or company registration in the first place?
Apparently I now have government logins for "One Login" and for "government gateway" and they are not the same thing? But sort of are the same thing?
Can't say I really understand it. Expect they'll introduce a third government login when they do these Digital ID cards they're talking about.
God knows how I'm supposed to know which to use when the company tax records need updating in a few months.
#id #government #oneLogin
@aral@mastodon.ar.al“Two European journalists were hacked using government spyware made by Israeli surveillance tech provider Paragon.”
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/12/researchers-confirm-two-journalists-were-hacked-with-paragon-spyware/
@newsie@darktundra.xyzGovernment offices in North Carolina, Georgia disrupted by cyberattacks https://therecord.media/thomasville-nc-government-ogeechee-ga-district-cyberattacks
@servelan@newsie.socialGovernment says it won't release Mahmoud Khalil despite judge's order
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/government-wont-release-mahmoud-khalil-rcna212889
@benrosstransit@mastodon.socialMaryland suspends 20,000 drivers licenses per year because of unpaid child support. And how many does it suspend because of bad driving?
https://www.thebaltimorebanner.com/pol…
@cheryanne@aus.socialLocal Government News Roundup
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: #GreatAusPods
@doktrock@toad.social"The Agriculture Department will restore information about climate change that was scrubbed from its website" - Farmers Sued Over Deleted #Climate Data. So the Government Will Put It Back. - The New York Times
@askans@bonn.social#linktipp
They Looted Companies — Now They're Looting the Government
Most executives are no longer rewarded for building durable businesses or contributing to the real economy—they’re rewarded for how efficiently they extract value from the companies that they control.
“Because these people have gotten away with looting corporations, they’ve come to believe it’s their right …
@primonatura@mstdn.social"Colombia cuts deforestation by one-third as government targets Amazon and illegal mining"
#Colombia #Trees #Deforestation
@dhuyvetter@mastodon.socialThe Trump/Musk fight is why we say "No Kings"
The protests are about reestablishing a government of laws, not unaccountable oligarchs
https://open.substack.com/pub/aaronrupar/p/no-kings-protests-trump-musk
@timbray@cosocial.caUK and partners unite to sanction ministers inciting West Bank violence - GOV.UK https://www.gov.uk/government/news/uk-and-partners-unite-to-sanction-ministers-inciting-west-bank-violence
@Tupp_ed@mastodon.ieA reminder regarding the government of Iran. you do not, under any circumstances, “gotta hand it to them”.
@cdarwin@c.im
@simon_brooke@mastodon.scotHM Govt is flushing another **fourteen billion pounds** down the toilet that is Sizewell C, a plant which will certainly never generate a kilowatt hour of unsubsidised electricity, probably never generate a kilowatt hour of needed electricity, and certainly cost our descendants far more to decommission than it costs us to build.
At the same time as stealing money from tidal and wave installations we urgently need.
@ErikJonker@mastodon.socialIn light of the political killings in Minnesota, remember what Trump did, #minnesota
@memeorandum@universeodon.comDetained Columbia protester asks judge to order his release after government misses appeal deadline (Philip Marcelo/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/mahmoud-khalil-columbia-protest-trump-immigration-d89cf3bdf995a85b4b499f74554834a6
http://www.memeorandum.com/250613/p79#a250613p79
@mlncn@social.coopCannot even find where i read it but because i first read about an alleged breach of data from the Israeli government held by the Iranian government (on Mossad agents, recordings from secret cameras installed by Netanyahu to get compromising info on potential rivals, and much more, apparently all from a 2024 hack or leak) i have not been able to shake the twisted thought that the war Israel has now started against Iran is the new worst ever fallout for bad information security.
@tanyakaroli@expressional.socialI morgen kl 14 er der anti-Trump demo ved Democrats Abroad. Vi starter på Kgs Nytorv og går til den amerikanske ambassade. Min sŸde, amerikanske svigerinde er medarrangŸr (jeg er så stolt af hende!).
Kom og lad os sammen vise modstand mod det autokratiske regime i USA!
https://www.democratsabroad.org/cph_no_tyr…
@kurtsh@mastodon.social“[T]here can be no debate that most protesters demonstrated peacefully,” he said & that those who were violent were not armed with weapons or organized to overthrow the government.
✅ Q&A on Federalizing the #NationalGuard in #LosAngeles - FactCheck.org
@UP8@mastodon.social⏰ Government ‘With’ The People
#politics
@Dragofix@veganism.socialToxic Thailand rivers pinned on Myanmar mines #Myanmar
@lschiff@mastodon.sdf.orgA great piece of analysis with lots of suggestions for what to do in response to the Trump administration's efforts to destroy U.S. research infrastructure. I appreciate the inclusion of the work to #DefendResearch against #censorship.
@gfriend@mas.toLovely sentiments, well articulated. But unfortunately the opposite of what the government she works for is doing.
https://youtu.be/g3vDwPOx5PI?si=u8sZpYba6IdK9_Hb
@jensilber@mastodon.socialI hate this on principle, sure, but after it acquired and then suddenly axed DCist* I can't even care much about fighting for my local affiliate.
𝐎𝐩𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐨𝐧 | 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐔.𝐒. 𝐠𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐢𝐬 𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐩 𝐜𝐥𝐨𝐬𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐨 𝐝𝐞𝐟𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐍𝐏𝐑, 𝐏𝐁𝐒
𝑂𝑛 𝑇ℎ𝑢𝑟𝑠𝑑𝑎𝑦, 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐻𝑜𝑢𝑠𝑒 𝑣𝑜𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑡𝑜 𝑐𝑢𝑡 $1.1 𝑏𝑖𝑙𝑙𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑖𝑛 𝑓𝑢𝑛𝑑𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑝𝑢𝑏𝑙𝑖𝑐 𝑚𝑒𝑑𝑖𝑎, 𝑤ℎ𝑖𝑐ℎ, 𝑖𝑓 𝑝𝑎𝑠𝑠𝑒𝑑 𝑏𝑦 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑆𝑒𝑛𝑎𝑡𝑒, 𝑤𝑖𝑙𝑙 ℎ𝑢𝑟𝑡 𝑙𝑜𝑐𝑎𝑙 𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑠 𝑚𝑜𝑠𝑡.
@gedankenstuecke@scholar.social«GitHub is Leaking Trump’s Plans to 'Accelerate' AI Across Government»
Don't tell the UK government, otherwise Starmer and his AI lackies will just copy and paste that playbook 😂
https://www.404media.co/github-is-leaking-trumps-plans-to-accelerate-ai-across-government/
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.deus_agencies: U.S. government agency websites (2018)
50 networks, one for each U.S. state, representing the web-based links between their associated government agencies websites. A node is an entire agency website and a directed edge (i,j) represents the existence of a hyperlink from any webpage in website i to some webpage in website j. Data was collected with a crawler. Nodes are annotated with the number of webpages per website, website name (related to its government function) and U…
@anneroth@systemli.social"The hacking mystery roiling the Italian prime minister Giorgia Meloni’s rightwing government is deepening after researchers said they had found new evidence that two more journalists were targeted using the same military-grade spyware that Italy has admitted to using against activists."
#Spyware @…
@annsev@troet.cafeThe targeted killing of scientists is murder. It is unacceptable that the government in #Israel simply decides to murder people because it suits their agenda.
I fear that deep hatred will cover Israel and its people for generations, that many Israelis will have to “pay” for the human rights and war crimes of a corrupt head of government
@newsie@darktundra.xyzDanish government agency to ditch Microsoft software in push for digital independence https://therecord.media/denmark-digital-agency-microsoft-digital-independence
@timfoster@mastodon.socialAlright, that's the car spruced up for the Dollingstown Car Show/Annual Festival of Porsche tomorrow at Stormont*, where it'll be on the club stand in ... (checks weather) heavy rain most of the day.
Plus ça change.
* seat of the government here in NI
@davidaugust@mastodon.onlineJust read "This isn’t just a coup of the government; it’s a coup of the mind." via @…:
https://50501chicago.substack.com/p/opi…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialTrump says Elon Musk "went CRAZY" and that canceling his government contracts is "the easiest way to save money", as their One Big Beautiful bill feud escalates (Kevin Breuninger/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/05/trump-musk-crazy-…
@cdarwin@c.imThree of the new advisers appointed by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to guide the government on immunization policy
took part in lawsuits casting doubt on the safety or efficacy of vaccines,
public records show.
In dismissing all 17 members of an influential Centers for Disease Control and Prevention advisory panel on Monday,
Mr. Kennedy cited what he said was a history of conflicts of interest that he claimed made those experts a “rubber stamp” on approving …
@hacksilon@infosec.exchangeOver the last months, I have been listening to a bunch of podcasts that were basically interviews with people from the public sector who were talking about how the sausage is made in government - today, for example, there were two people from a think tank talking about how they lobbied the government for a specific policy around the use of the strategic petroleum reserve in the US. This kind of stuff is oddly appealing to me - I would love to listen to something like that from a german /
@markhburton@mstdn.socialStarmer's Labour government complicity.
Fury as minister admits Britain is still training Israeli troops amid Gaza genocide | Morning Star
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/fury-minister-admits-br…
@crell@phpc.socialHey, all of you 2nd Amendment fans who insist you need all those guns to protect you from evil authoritarian government oppression... Your moment has arrived.
Or were you just sacrificing kids so you could cosplay a soldier?
Or are you OK with an authoritarian government crushing its own citizens as long as they're brown people?
We're all waiting for an answer... The longer we wait, the more we assume it's the latter.
@Jeff@mastodon.opencloud.luUS 11.04.2025
"Justice Department Implements Critical National Security Program to Protect Americans’ Sensitive Data from Foreign Adversaries"
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-implements-…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialA spam marketing operation exploited some domains owned by NPR, Nvidia, Stanford, and the US CDC to host AI slop articles redirecting users to an SEO spam site (Samantha Cole/404 Media)
https://www.404media.co/spam-blogs-ai-slop-domains-wowlazy/
@jtk@infosec.exchange @servelan@newsie.social"Central to the hearing was the Department of Justice’s argument that the president’s determination of a “rebellion” or “danger of rebellion” is not subject to judicial review. Breyer appeared skeptical of that claim."That’s the difference between a Constitutional government and King George,” the judge said."
'Monarchy': Federal judge compares Trump to 'King George' - Alternet.org
https://www.alternet.org/monarchy-trump-king-george/
@metacurity@infosec.exchangeThis is the first I've heard of this:
“They’re finding backdoors in Barbie dolls,” said Antani, now CEO of Horizon3.ai, a cybersecurity firm, referring to concerns from researchers who successfully hacked the microphone of a digitally connected version of the toy."
https://
@digitalnaiv@mastodon.social @primonatura@mstdn.social"UK government mandates solar panels for new homes in England"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Solar #SolarPower
@queerdublin@mastodon.ieFuming! That's exactly the reason why we need to have our own media, run for #queer people BY queer people, the corporate overlords who run Meta and Xitter will happily be complici in our erasure if it only means that their quarterly report will get half a percent better or that they'll get some favour in the government
@cosmos4u@scicomm.xyzSome statistics about all robotic #LunarLanding attempts so far from 1965 to 2025 compiled from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_missions_to_the_Moon and https://scicomm.xyz/@AkaSci@fosstodon.org/114636519291241321 in which I only count those for which descent to the surface had been initiated, not missions lost at launch or on the way - in a nutshell ~70% of all landings by government agencies went well (essentially the same rate 60 years ago and now!) but only ~30% by private companies. Here goes ...
There have been two separate periods of soft lunar landing attempts of ca. a dozen years each, from 1965 to 1976 and 2013 to 2025 (ongoing) with a huge gap between them.
In the first interval there were 20 attempts with 13 successes (Luna 9, 13, 16, 17, 19, 20, 21 and 24 and Surveyor 1, 3, 5, 6 and 7), one partial success (Luna 23, counting as 50%) and 6 failures (Luna 5, 7, 8, 15 and 18 and Surveyor 4), so the success rate was 13.5/20 = 68 %. All missions were by - the Soviet and U.S. - governments.
In the second interval there were so far 14 attempts with 6 full successes (Chang'e-3, 4, 5 and 6, Vikram 2 and Blue Ghost), three partial successes (SLIM, IM-1 and 2, counting as 75%, 50% and 25%, respectively) and 5 failures (Beresheet, Vikram 1, Hakuto-R 1 and 2 and Luna 25) so the success rate was 7.5 / 14 = 54%.
But looking only at the government missions it was 72%, slighly up from 50 years ago. While for the commercial attempts it was only 29%. In total the success rate was 19 (18 government-run) missions out of 34 (28) attempts or 62% but 69% for governments only. And if you throw in the 6 Apollo landings, the total success rate rises to 68% and the government-only rate goes even up to 75%.
@ampersine@mastodon.onlineCongratulations to all the "Elon's reign of terror is over" article writers from last week, great jorb
https://www.wired.com/story/big-balls-young-doge-converted-into-full-time-government-employees/
@cosmicray@mastodon.social
@Sustainable2050@mastodon.energyShareholders in his companies feared that Musk was closing the golden money faucet for them in the White House.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/elon
@juandesant@astrodon.socialPublic Service Announcement: If you've worked in the UK, and you've changed the UK number that you use for accessing Gov.UK services, it is impossible to restore access because the default recovery workflow requires UK-issued photo ids: either a UK passport, or a UK driving license, are mandatory, even if you never had one or provided one in the first place.
Happily enough, as long as you keep your National Insurance Number, you can create a new Gateway ID, but this time follow…
@cdarwin@c.imFederal prosecutors now charging immigrants who don’t submit fingerprints under dormant 1940s law
The Alien Registration Act requires non-citizens to register with the federal government.
That provision hadn’t been enforced in 75 years
https://www.polit…
@gwire@mastodon.socialTrump's message on the government's Truth Social website imply, publicly, that the bombings in Tehran were in service of the US position in forthcoming negotiations.
Which, diplomatically, is unconventional.
@shriramk@mastodon.socialHow to feel inadequate: TIL that Michael Holding — Whispering Death — preferred being a computer programmer to a professional cricketer, and worked as one well into his career. (This is from an article about the 1976 Oval match.) #Cricket
@johnleonard@mastodon.socialData privacy experts are calling on the government to urgently tighten regulation around facial recognition technology, amid growing concerns over its unregulated use by police forces and private companies across the UK.
https://www.computing.co.uk/news/202…
@david_colquhoun@mstdn.social
@rberger@hachyderm.io"When the Trump regime took over in January and Elon Musk's data-raiders started hacking federal agencies of various kinds, a group chat in which I participate started speculating about what kinds of terrible things this crowd might do. One member of the group wondered if the hacking might include the Social Security Administration's "death master file" – a list of people, presumably deceased, who would not receive any federal benefits and whose names and other identifying information would be flagged so that financial institutions would refuse to serve them.
What if, the conversation continued, the infamously cruel and paranoid regime decided to add living persons to the death master list? Doing so would destroy people's actual lives – which might make it just what a vicious government would do."
#USPolitics
https://cornerstone.dangillmor.com/essentials-april-12-2025/
@villavelius@mastodon.onlineThere are days on which the news is a relief.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jun/03/netherlands-government-collapse-geert-wilders?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
@erikdelareguera@mastodon.nuFinancial Times editorial: ”European states must show Israel that its actions bear consequences. They should ban trade with settlements and sanction extremist settler entities. They should halve offensive weapons sales to Israel and sanction ultranationalists in the government …
Finally, they should lead the way in formally recognising a Palestinian state, before there is nothing left to recognise.” #Gaza
@arXiv_qfinPR_bot@mastoxiv.pageThis https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.14839 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_qfi…
@ErikJonker@mastodon.social"Why Denmark is dumping Microsoft Office and Windows for LibreOffice and Linux"
https://www.zdnet.com/article/why-denmark-is-dumping-microsoft-office-and-windows-for-libreoffice-and-linux/
@cdarwin@c.imThe eighteenth-century legal system relied primarily on victims and other private individuals to initiate prosecutions.
To counter the disincentives raised by the financial fees, time and potential damage to reputation entailed in mounting a prosecution,
the government offered financial incentives,
both in the form of rewards and the payment of expenses.
Voluntary societies were also set up to support prosecutions.
Despite these initiatives, however, many sti…
@memeorandum@universeodon.comHere's the latest. -- The Israeli government has been making preparations for weeks for an attack on Iran's nuclear facilities. (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06/12/world/israel-iran-us-nuclear?unlocked_article_code=1.Ok8.U3b4.WA988zCDEwXA&smid=url-share
http://www.memeorandum.com/250612/p147#a250612p147
@gadgetboy@gadgetboy.socialHarvard now offers free online courses on how the government is *supposed* to work.
https://pll.harvard.edu/subject/government
@benrosstransit@mastodon.socialCorruption & incompetence all in one!
Amtrak brings in Elon Musk's "Hyperloop" company to reassess plan for building new Northeast Corridor rail tunnel in Baltimore.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/12…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialWill Cathcart says WhatsApp plans to support Apple in its legal case against the UK Home Office over weakening encryption, which may "set a dangerous precedent" (Zoe Kleinman/BBC)
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cgmjrn42wdwo
@gwire@mastodon.socialI guess directed-energy weapons are real now, since they're a billion pound line item.
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/spending-review-2025-document/spending-review-2025-html#:~:text=Directe…
@aral@mastodon.ar.al @newsie@darktundra.xyzUK cyber agency pushes for 'strategic policy agenda' as government efforts stall https://therecord.media/ncsc-pushes-uk-government-create-strategic-cyber-policy-agenda
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.deus_agencies: U.S. government agency websites (2018)
50 networks, one for each U.S. state, representing the web-based links between their associated government agencies websites. A node is an entire agency website and a directed edge (i,j) represents the existence of a hyperlink from any webpage in website i to some webpage in website j. Data was collected with a crawler. Nodes are annotated with the number of webpages per website, website name (related to its government function) and U…
@servelan@newsie.social“Equity will no longer be treated as the responsibility of a single team,” he said. “It will be a shared expectation for every team.”
WA Commerce Department dissolves standalone equity team | The Olympian
https://www.theolympian.com/news/politics-government/article308352160.html
@kurtsh@mastodon.socialWhen Trump encounters a demographic he doesn’t care for, he “disappears” them–in many cases, the very record of their existence.
Meet America’s new “missing persons," and the govt campaign to delete statistical evidence of anyone who doesn't fit Trump’s idea of our new golden age... including Jackie Robinson & Rosa Parks.
(taken from Catherine Rampell on BlueSky)
☑️ The people Trump is trying to delete from government records - Washington Post
@metacurity@infosec.exchangeWhy Was Nvidia Hosting Blogs About 'Brazilian Facesitting Fart Games'?
https://www.404media.co/spam-blogs-ai-slop-domains-wowlazy/
@cdarwin@c.imBefore the Danish government announced its move, Denmark's largest cities, Copenhagen and Aarhus, had already announced plans to phase out Microsoft software and cloud services
https://www.zdnet.com/article/why-denmark-
@Dragofix@veganism.socialPushback grows against nickel mining in Indonesian marine paradise of Raja Ampat https://news.mongabay.com/2025/06/pushback-grows-against-nickel-mining-in-indonesian-marine-paradise-of-raja-ampat/
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSome domains of Nvidia, Stanford, NPR, and the CDC were exploited to host AI spam blogs redirecting users to a spam marketing site (Samantha Cole/404 Media)
https://www.404media.co/spam-blogs-ai-slop-domains-wowlazy/
@newsie@darktundra.xyzGitHub is Leaking Trump’s Plans to 'Accelerate' AI Across Government https://www.404media.co/github-is-leaking-trumps-plans-to-accelerate-ai-across-government/
@memeorandum@universeodon.comTrump says he thinks the government has a 'very easy case' against Kilmar Abrego Garcia (NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-thinks-government-easy-case-kilmar-abrego-garcia-rcna211606
http://www.memeorandum.com/250607/p43#a250607p43
@cdarwin@c.imHistory shows that once a vanguard of rogues and lawless individuals gets a hold on government, it is difficult to eject them.
Rather, the changes in government applied with force by this vanguard become normalized.
And that is what is happening here.
https://
@markhburton@mstdn.social"A new government of austerity and war, in a deteriorating international situation, after 17 years of economic slump and stagnation, unable to confront crises from genocide to climate change to housing shortages and preparing the way for far-right rule, would warrant sustained opposition from the left under any circumstances."
The Times They Are-a-Changin: #Labour is no longer the de…
@primonatura@mstdn.social"Stephen Fry and Theo James to star in film about marine bottom trawling"
#Oceans #Environment
@newsie@darktundra.xyzSpyware maker cuts ties with Italy after government refused audit into hack of journalist’s phone https://therecord.media/paragon-spyware-maker-cuts-ties-italy-government
@memeorandum@universeodon.comProud Boys Freed by Trump Sue the Government for $100 Million (Tim Dickinson/Rolling Stone)
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/proud-boys-freed-trump-sue-government-1235358123/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250607/p16#a250607p16
@metacurity@infosec.exchangehttps://news.sky.com/story/russian-linked-hackers-posing-as-journalists-targeted-ministry-of-defence-government-says-13376229
Russia-linked hackers posing as journalists targeted staff at Britain's …
@servelan@newsie.socialMusk not returning to government because no one 'wants him back': ex-GOP insider - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/ex-gop-lawmaker-dismisses-musk-s-trump-apology-no-one-wants-him-back/
@cdarwin@c.imTrump has ordered the US government to consolidate its wildland firefighting force into a single program,
despite warnings from former federal officials that it could be costly and increase the risk of catastrophic blazes in the middle of peak wildfire season.
The order aims to centralize firefighting efforts,
which are now split among five agencies and two cabinet departments.
Trump’s proposed budget for next year calls for the creation of a new Federal Wildland Fire…
@newsie@darktundra.xyzWhatsApp moves to join Apple’s encryption fight with UK government https://therecord.media/whatsapp-uk-encryption-fight-apple
@gwire@mastodon.socialWith most apps, "[feature] enable push notifications" is just a line in the changelog, not a segment on BBC News.
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/patients-to-receive-reminders-and-test-results-via-the-nhs-app
@Techmeme@techhub.socialThe US Treasury sanctions Philippines-based Funnull Technology for allegedly facilitating "pig butchering" crypto scams that stole over $200M from US victims (Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/05/29/us-g
@cdarwin@c.imIran said Israel’s deadly attacks on Friday underscored its need to advance uranium enrichment and missile capabilities.
“One should not speak to such a predatory regime except in the language of power,”
the Iranian government said in a statement.
“The world now better understands Iran’s insistence on the right to enrichment, nuclear technology, and missile power.”
@servelan@newsie.socialForest chief says losing 5,000 employees won’t impact fire season response. Many federal firefighters disagree - Government Executive
https://www.govexec.com/management/2025/06/forest-chief-says-losing-5000-employees-wont-impact-fire-season-response-many-federal-firefighters-disagree/406010/
@memeorandum@universeodon.com'Big Balls' Is Officially a Full-Time Government Employee (Makena Kelly/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/big-balls-young-doge-converted-into-full-time-government-employees/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250604/p61#a250604p61
@cdarwin@c.imUnprecedented wealth concentration
– and the unbridled power that comes with such wealth
– has distorted our democracy and is driving societal and economic tensions.
Musk, the world’s richest man, wields power no one person should have.
He has used this power to elect candidates that will enact policies to protect his interests and he even bought his way into government.
While at the helm of Doge, Musk dramatically reshaped the government in ways that benefit him…
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@cdarwin@c.imSecretary of State Marco Rubio is pushing to 🆘 investigate whether Harvard University violated federal sanctions by collaborating on a health insurance conference in China that may have included officials blacklisted by the U.S. government.
Rubio signed off on a recommendation to the Treasury Department last month to open an investigation,
which experts and former Treasury officials said was 👉an unusual attempt from a cabinet secretary to target a domestic entity for sanctions enf…
@cdarwin@c.imWe are now at the point where our government is literally terrorizing tens of millions of hard working Americans as a matter of strategy.
What can we do?
Call your Senators and Rep and demand they fight Trump’s insane and illegal escalation of the past few days.
Contact your local party and Dems and encourage them to hold solidarity press conferences defending the State of California
as this escalation/attack is not just on California and Los Angeles
- it is …
@cdarwin@c.imThe Trump administration deported a 31-year-old Salvadoran man minutes after a federal appeals court barred his removal while his case proceeded, the government admitted in a court filing this week.
In its filing, the government denied that it had violated the order from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, in New York, instead blaming “a confluence of administrative errors.”
The government had previously given the court what the judges called “express assurance” that…
@cdarwin@c.imPresident Trump is the first to ask federal job applicants to describe their allegiance to administration policy in an essay
or to mandate training for senior government officials on White House executive orders, experts said.
Senior agency officials, who are often political appointees, are to be directly involved in the hiring process, which has not previously been the case.
The guidelines, released last month, arrived at a time when the Trump administration was beginning …
@cdarwin@c.imForeboding only intensified Monday,
when Trump applauded the idea of arresting California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D),
followed by the mobilization of hundreds of active-duty Marines to augment the Guard members already in Los Angeles.
In a city that has increasingly found itself in the crosshairs of the federal government, turmoil can feel personal.
Local leaders accuse the Trump administration of ginning up a crisis for political gain,
and Angelenos from across …
