Mastodawn

I can't overstate this. NASA's use of pounds and cubic feet in its outreach efforts does not come across to science-literate people, inside or outside the US, as a sign that the country is a badass superpower that can do what it likes and ignore everyone else.

Instead it suggests that the US is a provincial nation of dungaree-wearing banjo players.

#science #nasa #artemis #space

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fanf42 14h ago

@ariadne oh, poll has already ended. I follow for the insights on that instance management ; the deep tech knowledge ; and the whole you, whatever the topic.

fanf42 1d ago

Dissent Doe

2d ago

When people keep advising victims not to pay ransom because threat actors can't be trusted to really delete all the data, my inner researcher kicks in and wants to know how often that really happens.

So I started sending out inquiries.

Now you might think that those who publicly and repeatedly urge journalists to "spread the word" not to pay would respond and share some of their experiences with untrustworthy threat actors, but no..... they didn't even respond.

Read about the replies I did get, because they really surprised me.

I have no doubt that some professionals will hate what I have reported, but then, perhaps they should have responded, too, if they think differently.

How often do threat actors default on promises to delete data?
https://databreaches.net/2026/04/05/how-often-do-threat-actors-default-on-promises-to-delete-data/

#databreach #incidentresponse #ransom

@zackwhittaker @campuscodi @euroinfosec @lawrenceabrams @jgreig @securityaffairs @Hackread @h4ckernews

fanf42 1d ago

GeofCox Mar 28

I often joke that Brittany is the most left-wing region in France - and has the highest number of cafés and bars per capita... but perhaps the two aspects are more closely linked than I thought.

This article - https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/mar/27/progressive-paris-far-right-french-capital-food-culture-community-extremists - links the increasing number of car-free and non-commercial social spaces in Paris with its continuing extraordinary left voting record - and suggests that the well documented disappearance of such spaces in the US and elsewhere may be a factor in the rise of the extreme right.

Progressive Paris has many weapons to fight the far right, but the best? Spaces where you can simply hang out

Drop into any of the French capital’s ‘third places’ and you’ll find food, culture, community – and an antidote to the disaffection extremists feed on, says Paris-based writer Alexander Hurst

The Guardian

"The closure of 'tabacs' (small local café-bars in France) contributes to the progression of far-right voting... regardless of immigration, unemployment or other economic indicators...

"Symmetrically, the opening of tabacs is associated with a decline in far-right voting, suggesting that these dynamics are not irreversible.

"No other commercial closure produces a comparable effect. The specificity of tabacs lies in their function as a place of socialisation... The effects are three times stronger in rural communities, where these establishments often constitute the last place of sociability...

"When places of sociability disappear, politics becomes a face-off between atomised individuals and national media narratives."

fanf42 2d ago

Taggart

Mar 30

As a research project, I built a needed tool with Claude Code. I thought it would be a disaster, but it wasn't. I have some complicated feelings about it.

https://taggart-tech.com/reckoning/

I used AI. It worked. I hated it.

I used Claude Code to build a tool I needed. It worked great, but I was miserable. I need to reckon with what it means.

fanf42 Mar 31

Brett Sheffield (he/him)Mar 30

OMG it hurts! 🤣

Here I was, trying to eat my breakfast, when my darling wife tells me — and I need to be careful as this might set me off again — that Microsoft ... have started putting ... (just breathe) ... ads into GitHub pull requests 🤣

I haven't laughed so hard in a long time. I thought I was going to have a heart attack. That's how I want to go — laughing so hard my heart explodes and I fall face down in a stack of pancakes.

fanf42 Mar 31

Nils Wilcke Mar 28

Des agents du Renseignement se trouvaient à proximité des affrontements entre les fachos et les antifas à Lyon lors de la mort de Quentin mais ne sont pas intervenus. Quel scandale. On apprend aussi que le leader neonazi lyonnais Eliot Bertin a été incarcéré pour avoir violé son contrôle judiciaire. A partager, BFM fait du bon boulot cette fois. https://www.bfmtv.com/police-justice/mort-de-quentin-deranque-pourquoi-les-agents-du-renseignement-qui-suivaient-les-affrontements-ne-sont-pas-intervenus_AN-202603270651.html

#Politique #Quentin #Police #Securite #Facholand #ExtremeDroite #Lyon #Medias #Presse #Ultradroite

Mort de Quentin Deranque: pourquoi les agents du renseignement qui suivaient les affrontements ne sont pas intervenus

Le jour du tabassage de Quentin Deranque, le 12 février à Lyon, des policiers du renseignement ont documenté minute par minute les affrontements entre l'ultragauche et l'ultradroite qui ont mené à son lynchage. Auraient-ils dû intervenir? Ces agents en civil, rarement armés, n'ont pas vocation à le...

BFM

fanf42 Mar 28