I still get shocked surprise when I tell people that H G Wells wrote War of the Worlds after learning about the genocide inflicted by British colonists on the Aboriginal Tasmanians. It's right there in the foreword of the book.

#HGWells #WarOfTheWorlds #Indigenous #FirstNations #Aboriginal #lutruwita

Was lucky enough to finally realise my childhood dream and see the Northern Lights dancing in the night sky in the ice lagoon during my winter road trip around Iceland. There's never a guarantee you will see them as they're so unpredictable and the sky must be as dark as possible. This is a long exposure and caught a shooting star in the frame as well.
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#NorthernLghts #Aurora #Iceland #Photography #LongExposure #AstroPhotography #Icelagoon #Travelphotography #AuroraBorealis

This is what Earth looks like from 1.5 billion kilometers away. A pale blue dot beneath the rings of Saturn captured by the Cassini spacecraft.

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SSI
#earth #space #saturn #planets #nasa

Why #Australia is going through so many #CyberAttacks, many resulting in #dataleaks, lately?

According to cryptographer Prof. Vanessa Teague from the Australian National University:

'We've had a decade of anti-security policy. We've had laws that required the acquisition of data that didn't need to be acquired, laws that demand the retention of data that didn't need to be retained'.

The European Commission is looking for folks to enforce the DSA:

- Data scientists
- Economists
- Legal officers
- Digital policy experts

If you want to express interest:
- Be EU citizen
- Have university degree
- Make profile at EPSO
- Fill out application
- Provide CV

Roughly 30 positions coming throughout 2023

National+EU platform oversight requires new forms of interdisciplinary expertise+collaboration. Really crucial that Commission finds talent to support that

https://ec.europa.eu/newsroom/repository/document/2022-46/2022_Job_opportunities_within_the_DSA_Enforcement_Team_TaK2bXp46J9EXqQHPNAgUzLmI_91635.pdf