A guy came back from the dead and now I eat him. Once rented a hamster. High-fived a whale. Mr. Hooper is my hero.
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There are just too many awful things happening in the world, all at once. And in between everything else, the horrors in #Gaza go on and on. Each of these deaths a total tragedy.
Fatima Hassouna, who had been documenting war in Gaza for 18 months and was subject of new documentary, killed along with 10 members of her family
Today my #rust compiler told me "expected future, found a different future".
And I'm like: me too buddy, me too
"In 2006, a retired AT&T engineer knocked on the door of the EFF's office in a rundown part of San Francisco's Mission district and asked, "Do you folks care about privacy?" With him he carried schematics exposing the largest US government domestic spying operation since Watergate.
That person was Mark Klein, who died on March 8 this year from cancer. He was 79.
After a life working in telecoms, Klein realized he had helped the NSA wire up a listening station in AT&T's San Francisco switching facility - the infamous Room 641A - that was being used to illegally spy on Americans.
The evidence he gathered and shared led to two lawsuits that exposed the extent to which US citizens were being spied on by their own government in the post-9/11 world. Klein faced legal pressure, death threats, and the constant fear of ruin, to get his story out and tell the public what was going on. But Klein regretted nothing."
https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/15/rip_mark_klein/
#USA #NSA #Surveillance #ATT #MassSurveillance #PoliceState #Privacy
Given it’s international women’s day, I’d like to encourage you all, but especially Dutch men to read these ‘anti-acknowledgments’ in a PhD thesis. This is not from somewhere else, it’s from Delft. And it’s not from the 1950s, but from the present. Unfortunately what academic life and culture in The Netherlands is still like. The author is just one of the few who actually spoke up about it, but there are many stories like it.
(Alt at https://pastebin.com/cqLvxX1f)
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Pauline von Hellermann
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Miguel Afonso Caetano
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