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EPA Plans to Shut Down the Energy Star Program

Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/06/climate/epa-energy-star-eliminated.html
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43911252

E.P.A. Plans to Shut Down the Energy Star Program

Employees were told that the popular energy efficiency certification program would be “de-prioritized and eliminated,” according to documents and a recording.

The New York Times

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init6 5d ago

@ygor hard to answer. Security isn't privacy. Modern stock Android on pixel is competitive with apple, but way behind in privacy and grapheneos is great for privacy and security. I can't lump stuff like lineage in with grapheneos though

init6 May 1

Zack Labe May 1

ICYMI - my first take on a timeline of global change. More at https://zacklabe.com/climate-viz-of-the-month/

#ClimateChange #DataViz #SciComm #OpenScience

Climate Viz of the Month

March 2025 Hi! It is great to be writing here again. Welcome to my ‘climate viz of the month’ blog, which disappeared for a little while — for reasons I’m sure you can guess. Over the last couple o…

Zachary Labe

init6 Apr 30

CarveHerName Apr 30

Very early #OnThisDay, 30 April 1944, New Zealander Nancy Wake parachutes into occupied France to be a courier for the Special Operations Executive. The British SOE supported French Resistance to Nazi occupation.

Nick-named 'the white mouse' by the Gestapo, she is never captured. She died in 2011.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #WorldWar2 #Histodons

init6 Apr 28

Matt Blaze Apr 28

- Mass deportations without trials
- Extrajudicial imprisonment in foreign concentration camps.
- National registry of autistic people, who are declared "nonproductive"
- Arrests of judges

History is rhyming pretty hard right now.

@a1batross.bsky.social he was impeached twice last term. Removal requires gop to play along, sadly

init6 Apr 18

⚯ Michel de Cryptadamus ⚯Apr 18

Holy shit the details of this story about #DOGE taking over the #NLRB's systems are nuts.

1. Demanded full control of NLRB's #Azure cloud
2. Disabled logs and network monitoring
3. MFA turned off
4. Russian login attempts with valid (new) credentials
5. 10 GB exfiltrated from #NxGen, the NLRB's legal case database

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1913023007263543565.html

#ElonMusk #cybersecurity #CISA #infosec #Russia #Putin #vladimirPutin #GRU #FSB #crime #Elon #TeslaTakedown #Tesla

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@mattjay: 🧵 THREAD: A federal whistleblower just dropped one of the most disturbing cybersecurity disclosures I’ve ever read. He's saying DOGE came in, data went out, and Russians started attempting logins with new v...…

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init6 Apr 17

@anarchaeopteryx I'm guessing you don't want help or spoilers right? I wish I could experience the game new again, I did 3 full runs and also a full honor mode

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init6 Apr 12

@inthehands even funnier if you know what orangeberg pipe is/was