don albertson

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Anthropology major (1973) Pumped gas (1973-76) Archeology Fieldwork (1976-82) Feed Sales (1982-89) Tech Support(1989-96) Programmer (1996-2021) Retired (2021-???)
“Can Offshore Wind Win The Trump Disinformation War?” by Carolyn Fortuna for @cleantechnica:

https://cleantechnica.com/2026/03/19/can-offshore-wind-win-the-trump-disinformation-war/

In 1988, Trump said he would “go in and take” the oil at Iran’s Kharg Island—which controls 90% of Iran’s exports. Saturday, he bombed the military targets, but not the oil.

War is a mind game like poker—and the president is a fish in a pool of sharks.
https://www.mind-war.com/p/little-excursion-trumps-very-bad

Little Excursion: Trump’s Very Bad Poker Game

Is Kharg Island the next grand adventure to entertain the mad king?

MindWar: The Psychological War on Democracy
International Women's Day may have passed, but these 5 women are worth honoring every day. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/03/admiring-our-heroes-international-womens-day-five-women-tech-eff-admires-0
Admiring Our Heroes for International Women’s Day: Five Women In Tech That EFF Admires

In honor of International Women’s Day, we asked five women at EFF about women in digital rights, freedom of expression, technology, and tech activism who have inspired us. Anna Politkovskaya Jillian York, Activist This International Women’s Day, I want to honor the memory of Anna Politkovskaya, the...

Electronic Frontier Foundation
Cameras embedded in glasses introduce all sorts of new privacy problems. Here's a framework for thinking about them. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/03/think-twice-buying-or-using-metas-ray-bans
Think Twice Before Buying or Using Meta’s Ray-Bans

Over the last decade or so, the tech industry has tried, and mostly failed, to make “smart glasses”—tech-infused glasses with cameras, AI, maps, displays, and more—a thing. But over the past year, products like Meta’s Ray-Ban Display Glasses and Oakley’s Meta Glasses have gone from a curious niche...

Electronic Frontier Foundation

When the hacker expressed disgust at the child abuse images on the server and threatened to report them to the FBI, agents had to get into a video chat with the hacker to convince him they WERE the FBI.

We continue to live in the stupidest possible timeline.

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/foreign-hacker-2023-compromised-epstein-files-held-by-fbi-source-documents-show-2026-03-11/

Exclusive: Foreign hacker in 2023 compromised Epstein files held by FBI, source and documents show

A foreign hacker compromised files relating to the FBI’s investigation of the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein during a break-in at the bureau’s New York Field Office three years ago, according to ​a source familiar with the matter and recently published Justice Department documents reviewed by Reuters.

Reuters
We must stop doomspeaking and start organizing!
Vote in the midterms like your children’s and grandchildren’s lives depend on it. Because they do.