Mastodawn

Some good ways to watch the moon flyby today, starting ~1pm:
- NASA live stream https://www.youtube.com/live/m3kR2KK8TEs
- NASA app has an interactive 3D view (AROW) https://www.nasa.gov/nasa-app/
- timeline https://www.nasa.gov/blogs/missions/2026/04/06/artemis-ii-flight-day-6-crew-ready-for-lunar-flyby/
- another nice timeline view https://charbonzickpean.com/artemis2mission.html

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Andrew Faden 13h ago

@Daveography Also it really struck me how addicted to smartphones we are a species when I saw that they designed a special smartphone pocket in their space suits.

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Andrew Faden 13h ago

@Daveography Ha exactly, they were troubleshooting issues with their GoPros too. So weird to see them just using regular consumer tech, but I guess it makes sense for some things rather than developing specialized hardware and software in house.

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Andrew Faden 20h ago

Thanks to @quephird for noticing this on the NASA feed: https://tech.lgbt/@quephird/116353383035378497

Danie🏒🏒e is officially a PWHL fan (@[email protected])

OMFG… I just heard Mission Control tell Artemis II literally, “Everything but email is go” LOLSOBBING MY ASS OFF NOW

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Andrew Faden 20h ago

@quephird haha amazing, just found it on the broadcast https://mastodon.social/@faden/116354130816738591

Andrew Faden 20h ago

Famous quotes from NASA mission comms:
- Apollo 11: "The Eagle has landed"
- Apollo 13: "Houston, we have a problem"
- Artemis 2: "We are still updating Outlook so everything but email is go"

Andrew Faden 1d ago

Simon Willison 3d ago

Warning to open source maintainers: the Axios supply chain attack started with some
very sophisticated social engineering targeted at one of their developers https://simonwillison.net/2026/Apr/3/supply-chain-social-engineering/

The Axios supply chain attack used individually targeted social engineering

The Axios team have published a full postmortem on the supply chain attack which resulted in a malware dependency going out in a release the other day, and it involved …

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Andrew Faden Mar 28

Anil Dash Mar 28

You must picture Sam Altman holding a knife to Tim Berner-Lee's throat. We are in a truly existential level of danger when it comes to the survival of the open web, across every front. This year is when it all comes to a head. https://anildash.com/2026/03/27/endgame-open-web/

Endgame for the Open Web

A blog about making culture. Since 1999.

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Andrew Faden Mar 20

Electronic Frontier Foundation Mar 19

Imagine a newspaper publisher refusing to let libraries keep copies of its paper. That’s effectively what’s starting online, as big publishers block the Internet Archive from preserving news sites. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/03/blocking-internet-archive-wont-stop-ai-it-will-erase-webs-historical-record

Blocking the Internet Archive Won’t Stop AI, But It Will Erase the Web’s Historical Record

Imagine a newspaper publisher announcing it will no longer allow libraries to keep copies of its paper. That’s effectively what’s begun happening online in the last few months. The Internet Archive—the world’s largest digital library—has preserved newspapers since it went online in the mid-1990s....

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Andrew Faden Mar 8

Taggart Mar 7

Oh look, the exact thing everyone but Google said would happen has happened.

https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/google-ai-overviews-media

Evidence Grows That Google’s AI Overviews Have Eviscerated the Media Industry

Google's AI overviews have eviscerated the media landscape, with some top publications losing up to 97 percent of their web traffic.

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