Steffen Christensen

@Wikisteff
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Ph.D. in AI. Senior Policy Researcher, Horizons. Coder, numbers whiz, foresight expert. Sworn to use Evil powers only for Good.
Steffen ChristensenJun 3
Lesley Carhart Mar 14

Cybersecurity is political. Period, end of story. If you could vote and didn’t bother because it was boring you’re just as responsible for loss of key research, ISAC funding, international collaboration, and federal jobs.

Same if you kept using X.

We warned you.

https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/13/politics/johns-hopkins-layoffs-usaid-funding/index.html

Johns Hopkins laying off more than 2,000 workers after dramatic cut in USAID funding

Johns Hopkins University announced Thursday that it will be cutting more than 2,000 jobs after it lost $800 million in funding from the US Agency for International Development amid the Trump administration’s effort to significantly downsize the federal government.

CNN
Steffen ChristensenFeb 26
Brent ToderianFeb 17
Air pollution has dropped significantly in #Paris in the last 15 years as a result of a deliberate strategy. Mayor @annehidalgo.bsky.social’s leadership has traded car space for green space, safe bike space, kid space.. and traded pollution for people. Good trade.
Bluesky

Bluesky Social
Steffen ChristensenFeb 26
TechloreFeb 23

⚠️ Beginning Feb 26, Amazon will block you from:
1) downloading ebooks to your computer
2) transferring books from computer to Kindle via USB

This is another reminder that you do not own your media when you buy through companies like Amazon.

Before the 26th:
Go to Accounts & Lists > Content Library > Books. Click More actions > Download & transfer via USB.

Anytime:
Migrate ASAP to a workflow where you control your media. https://calibre-ebook.com/ is a fantastic, open source place to start.

calibre - E-book management

calibre: The one stop solution for all your e-book needs. Comprehensive e-book software.

Steffen ChristensenFeb 26
Jess👾Dec 28
Use encrypted comms platforms like Signal everywhere you can. ESPECIALLY for banal and innocuous stuff like organizing your little league team or your neighborhood potluck or your coworker's lunch bunch. The more people using encrypted comms platforms for absolutely boring things, the easier it is for those of us to NEED encrypted comms to be lost in the noise.
Steffen ChristensenFeb 26
VissFeb 24

THEY

PUT

ADS

IN

WORD

AND

EXCEL

Steffen ChristensenFeb 26
Neil BrownFeb 24

Microsoft is introducing ads into a free version of Office, which seemingly only lets users save to OneDrive.

In other news, LibreOffice is also free, doesn't have ads, and lets you save your documents wherever you want. I use it every day for my work. It is available here:

https://www.libreoffice.org/

Home | LibreOffice - Free and private office suite - Based on OpenOffice - Compatible with Microsoft

Free office suite – the evolution of OpenOffice. Compatible with Microsoft .doc, .docx, .xls, .xlsx, .ppt, .pptx. Updated regularly, community powered.

Steffen ChristensenFeb 26
Sasha Feb 23

Being called out has never hurt so much. You have no idea  

"Check in on your queer friends with ADHD/ AuDHD right now cuz their Justice Sensitivity combined with their Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria means that they are both acutely aware of how f*cked up things are *and* also feel personally responsible for fixing it *while* dealing with the helplessness inherent in the reality that individual action is not gonna do it this time. This means that their brains/bodies are going into overdrive and also that they are feeling guilty for any kind of self-care or joy in their lives because their brain weasels are telling them that resting or being happy while others cannot/are not is selfish. It's an exhausting state and we're not OK."

Steffen ChristensenFeb 26
Lesley Carhart Aug 30, 2024
#SupportTransRights
Steffen ChristensenFeb 26
AnnaSep 3, 2024
Random thought today: It’s cheaper to take a college class and get the student version of Autodesk’s 3D modeling software than to pay to lease that software for a year.
Steffen ChristensenFeb 26
Bill BennettFeb 22

Radical left-wing woke rag the Financial Times is not keen on the US President.

https://www.ft.com/content/1511aa42-a9ad-4952-99c8-98bea07d0414?accessToken=zwAGLqzYNe_Qkc8VEapCqa1JUtOZyJi-oH0EFA.MEQCIFSrGBIv_tUi1LtxlmlosDRTuYTIh7XvTYNS4hEMTfdTAiBg0Xt5RNQ9AoBblneLq07RXcCyBBZ6cOfRrqWxdSp21g&sharetype=gift&token=d09a257b-3c49-469b-b0bd-8b50185d90e8

America has turned on its friends

Donald Trump’s abandonment of allies is real and will endure

Financial Times