A speech by the EU's Energy Commissioner, Dan Jørgensen, last week. The guy's got a point:

https://substack.com/home/post/p-192965852

#iran #iranWar #energy #oil #europe #eu

There is a fresh thing going around about LinkedIn scanning extensions installed in Chrome/Chromium:
https://browsergate.eu/

The website claims "LinkedIn is Illegally Searching Your Computer", and implies the purpose is to find "religious beliefs, political opinions, disabilities".

tl;dr:
- yes, LinkedIn is scanning through a list of 6k+ extensions on Chrome;
- yes, this is bad;
- but the website is disingenuous in making unnecessarily overblown claims.

🧵

#LinkedIn #BrowserGate #Privacy

On this occasion of the launch of Artemis II, I need to reshare this.

This is a photo of 8 of the surviving Apollo astronauts, taken on the 50th anniversary of the moon landing.

The man wearing ... well ... a heat shield, is Buzz Aldrin. I have to imagine his arrival went like this:

PHOTOGRAPHER: Um, Mr. Aldrin, this is a formal portrait.
BUZZ: Do you think I don't know that, son?
PHOTOG: Well, your outfit sir, it's-
BUZZ: Son. I've been to the moon. The mother-lovin' moon. In a tin can running on a graphing calculator powered by a can of sterno.
PHOTOG: Yes sir.
BUZZ: I get to wear what I want, where I want, when I want, for the rest of my life. Do you understand me, son?
PHOTOG: Right this way sir.

And what really gets me is Charlie Duke. He's the guy in the tux with the gold trim. He thought he was going to stand out in this photo. Then in walks Mr. Moon Man.

"Scientists shocked to find lab gloves may be skewing microplastics data
Mar 29, 2026 at 8:25 PM
A University of Michigan study suggests that the nitrile and latex gloves scientists commonly use could be causing microplastics levels to appear higher than they actually are.

Researchers found that these gloves can unintentionally transfer particles onto lab tools used to analyze air, water, and other environmental samples. The contamination comes from stearates, which are not plastics but can closely resemble them during testing. Because of this, scientists may be detecting particles that are not true microplastics. To reduce this issue, U-M researchers Madeline Clough and Anne McNeil recommend using cleanroom gloves, which release far fewer particles"

#science

(water filters may also be injecting microplastics into experiments.) https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/03/260329222938.htm

When you are in a hurry and don't notice your ISO is set to 5000 in broad daylight... lean into it. Burn the f*** out of the bottom and let the glare fly.

#photography #MonochromeMonday

Newly arrived on the fediverse and wondering the difference between here and X?
Ask what the plural is of octopus.

On X this will result in a vicious argument whether it is octopuses or octopi.

Here there will be polite discussion on when one should use octopuses and when octopodes, followed by a discursion about classical Greek plurals.

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