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Donald Trump is ordering NASA to shut down its
carbon-monitoring satellites
— the very tools we use to track carbon emissions, plant health, wildfire risk, and extreme weather patterns.
This is not about saving money.
It’s about blinding America to the truth of climate change.
If Trump gets his way, we’ll be flying blind in the face of rising disasters
— and Big Polluters will have a free pass to keep hiding the damag…
Filing: YouTube will pay $24.5M to settle a 2021 Trump lawsuit over suspending his account after Jan. 6, the last Big Tech company to settle his lawsuits (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/law/youtube-to-pay-24-5-million-…
https://www.nextgov.com/people/2025/08/noem-terminates-24-fema-workers-failing-address-cyber-vulnerabilities/407807/
Noem terminates 24 FEMA workers for failing to address cyber vulnerabilities
Can’t find plywood that’s not warped like crazy so this is janky - idiots storing it standing up.
But here is a mini Corsi-Rosenthal like air filter with 2 F8 / MERV14 filters.
Did some tests by filling the room with incense smoke and then measuring time to get back to 0 pm02 particles. Results suggest 8 full room changes a hour which is perfect (45m3 meter room)
Will try find better wood before varnishing etc
PC fans keeping things nice and quiet also
Credit reporting giant TransUnion has disclosed a data breach
affecting more than 4.4 million customers’ personal information.
In a filing with Maine’s attorney general’s office on Thursday, TransUnion attributed the July 28 breach to unauthorized access of a third-party application storing customers’ personal data for its U.S. consumer support operations.
TransUnion claimed “no credit information was accessed,” but provided no immediate evidence for its claim.
The d…
Repeated warnings of AI-driven layoffs is fueling anxiety among workers, who report feeling pressured to accept pay cuts or worse conditions to keep their jobs (Anne Lutz Fernandez/Nobody Wants This)
https://nobody-wants-this.ghost.io/ai-is-already-disemp…
Instead of the CHIPS Act money being tied to Intel actually building fabs,
the money is now tied to the government buying into Intel.
That is a different thing.
The specific deal is also different from the concept of the government getting shares as part of a grant to build fabs.
According to the SEC filing, there is less emphasis on fab building and more emphasis on government ownership.
The actual Intel deal is a major change to CHIPS Act purposes
and…