skry

skry, 9 days ago to random

“I did not find the case trivial. I found it nauseating, a grouping of some of the least attractive and sleaziest human beings I have ever imagined in proximity to the levers of power. And critically, these were people actively and consciously engaged in an effort to corrupt an election. I came away from the trial thinking it was actually important that Trump had to answer for this conduct, whether he was convicted of it or not.” https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/thoughts-on-donald-trump-s-conviction by @benjaminwittes

skry, 9 days ago to random

#aurora in a week?

“Because the sun rotates on its axis once every 27 days, the sunspot disappeared from view around a week later, but it didn't stop producing solar flares. On May 20, it emitted a solar flare rated as X12, the strongest since September 2017. It was observed by the European Space Agency's Solar Orbiter spacecraft.

AR3664/AR13664 is now becoming visible again as the sun rotates — and it will be Earth-facing once again during the new moon on June 6."

https://www.livescience.com/space/auroras-could-paint-earths-skies-again-in-early-june-here-are-the-key-nights-to-watch-for

skry, 10 days ago to infosec

Ticketmaster hacked. Breach affects more than half a billion users.

Emails, phone numbers, addresses, and even financial details have allegedly been exposed by a notorious hacker group. And they are offering the data for half a million bucks.

https://mashable.com/article/ticketmaster-data-breach-shinyhunters-hack

@404mediaco exposed Ticketmaster yesterday for its monopoly power in the concert industry, so its 500 million customers are now being revictimized by the hackers.

https://www.404media.co/the-monopoly-case-against-ticketmaster-explained/

#infosec

skry, 13 days ago to random

I imagine that with the tail end of the post WW2 generation retiring, the leading edge of the baby boom will be selling housing. Because of demographics we should have excess housing in just a few years. Right? Prices drop, people move up, entry housing appears again, and new housing is built on existing lots with older homes. Hoping we won’t have to pay people to take them as Italy is doing. https://assortedflotsam.com/@NewsBot/112510400384472436

skry, 13 days ago to random

High property taxes support schools. Lotteries support schools. Federal gov supports school food. And yet we have “lunch debts” for poor families and expect the child labor and lemonade stands market to pay them off. SMH.

Good on him, but WTF is going on in these states. https://pubeurope.com/@europesays/112510017626432122

skry, 15 days ago to linux

Test drive #Linux online to find the flavor you like best:
https://distrosea.com/

#windows11

skry, 16 days ago to random

New study from UC San Diego:

“Even if you perform surgery to remove the tumors, no surgery is perfect and there is outgrowth of metastasis if no additional treatment is provided,” explained Steinmetz. “Here, we use our plant virus [cowpea mosaic] nanoparticles after surgery to boost the immune system to reject any residual disease and prevent circulating tumor cells from metastatic seeding. We found that it works really, really well [in mice]!”’

https://www.earth.com/news/plant-virus-that-attacks-black-eyed-peas-also-kills-cancer-tumors/ #cancer

skry, 16 days ago to Bloomscrolling

#BloomScrolling
I am so excited about this rose. First bloom.

skry, 17 days ago to DuckDuckGo

#DuckDuckGo is down likely because #Bing is down. Both are flatlined. https://downdetector.com/

skry, 18 days ago to random

#TilingTuesday https://genart.social/@ylegall/112481410917570437

skry, 18 days ago to random

I hope this hubristic power play is the beginning of the end for Elon and Tesla. https://electrek.co/2024/05/20/elon-musk-confirms-threat-give-me-25-of-tesla-or-no-ai-robotics/

skry, 21 days ago to webdev

“hello! i am currently seeking new employment opportunities in art, design and/or web development, ux & marketing consultation
resume :: ‪https://encipherdesign.com‬”

—> @brentpruitt

#getfedihired #webdev #webdesign #ux #a11y #frontend #wordpress #remote

skry, 25 days ago to random

Good news everyone, "AI" wants to listen to your Google phone calls: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/05/google-wants-ai-to-listen-to-your-phone-calls-detect-scam-callers/

Even better "AI" wants to read all your Google email. https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/05/gmails-ai-powered-email-summaries-can-dig-through-your-inbox-for-you/

#DoNotWant

skry, 25 days ago to H5N1

“Cats suffer #H5N1 brain infections, blindness, death after drinking raw milk” https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/04/concerning-spread-of-bird-flu-from-cows-to-cats-suspected-in-texas/

“Anything that the FDA tells our customers to do, they do the opposite” says a man making money: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/health/raw-milk-sales-spike-despite-cdcs-warnings-of-risk-associated-with-bird-flu

We have vaccines against various diseases precisely because exposing yourself to live virus is just too risky.

What kind of foolishness would cause a parent to risk their kids, knowing that so many different animals had already died of #birdflu recently?

skry, 27 days ago to Bloomscrolling

#BloomScrolling

Poppy flower after petals fall. Blue and black stamens surround a purple-topped seedpod, faintly reminiscent of a carnival tent.
Pink poppy blossom open, showing the white and yellow center.

skry, 28 days ago to random

No-fault divorce saves lives, lots of them. In the US, women’s suicide rates went way down after it became possible to leave their abusers.

"states that adopted no-fault divorce experienced a decrease of 8 to 16 percent in wives' suicide rates and a 30 percent decline in domestic violence."

In the bad old days, you had to prove infidelity or sometimes lack of sexual ability in order to get a divorce. Being abused wasn’t sufficient unless some judge decided it was. (1/2)

skry, 30 days ago to random

I’m mad too, but vote for the environment if you want to live. https://progressivecafe.social/@TonyStark/112412298827046469

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/05/09/trump-oil-industry-campaign-money/

skry, 1 month ago to tesla

It makes you wonder if there’s anyone left at #Tesla who knows how to make cars or who wants to work for Elon at this point. https://arstechnica.com/cars/2024/05/tesla-announces-fourth-round-of-layoffs-in-four-weeks/

https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/6/24150274/tesla-layoffs-employee-fourth-week-elon-musk-ev-demand

Meanwhile GOP tries to hurt EV industry https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/6/24150041/ev-epa-clean-air-emissions-lawsuit-republicans-tax-credit

If Tesla and Twitter both fail, investors will have to eat SpaceX I guess.

skry, 1 month ago to random

“Texas, the first state where the bird flu virus was detected, has not invited the CDC to conduct epidemiological field studies there, even though its health department is open to the research, because, “We haven’t found a dairy farm that is interested in participating,” said Lara Anton, a spokesperson for the Texas Department of State Health Services.”

// It pains me to say it, but we’re gonna have to stop buying beef and dairy until they care about cows testing clean. https://mastodon.social/@JulianOliver/112396436511595868

skry, 1 month ago to california

“Work began Wednesday on removing the third of four dams that nearly destroyed salmon populations on the Klamath River in Oregon and California and caused some of the nation's largest-ever fish kills.”

https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/arizona-environment/2024/05/02/demolition-starts-on-iron-gate-dam-one-of-the-last-klamath-river-dams/73528152007/ #california #salmon #oregon

skry, 1 month ago to random

“The forest made of a single tree known as Pando ("I spread" in Latin) has 47,000 stems (all with the same DNA) sprouting from a shared root system over 100 acres (40 hectares) [0.4 sq km] of Utah.

Here, this lone male quaking aspen (Populus tremuloides) gradually grew into a massive 6,000 metric tons of life, making it the largest living organism in the world in terms of mass. (1/2)

skry, 1 month ago to apple

OFFS. Please wipe and donate old phones to domestic violence shelters or sell them to https://www.gazelle.com/iphone

Buy used phones when you can. Gazelle takes trade-ins too.

https://9to5mac.com/2024/04/18/100000-iphones-stolen-instead-of-scrapped/ #apple #iphone #ewaste #dv

skry, 1 month ago to random

RIP Om Fahad and the millions of other women who have been killed by theocracy and patriarchy.

Women’s rights will not be a won battle until women on the front lines are no longer martyred for self-expression or for controlling their own bodies.

https://wapo.st/4drQnUS

skry, 1 month ago to random

Yeet this guy and everybody who rode in with him. Sociopathic thug ravings. Textbook-caliber fascism.

‘“Balaji has the highest rate of output per minute of good new ideas of anybody I’ve ever met,” wrote Marc Andreessen’ (1/6)

skry, 1 month ago to random

It’s okay to work for a big tech company, they said, we can change it from the inside. https://wapo.st/3WdPCIG