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Jim Fenton 🇺🇸<>🇨🇦3h ago

404 Media 1d ago

In space, no one can hear you scream at Microsoft’s legacy software.

https://www.404media.co/artemis-2-astronauts-microsoft-outlook-livestream/

Artemis II Astronauts Have ‘Two Microsoft Outlooks’ and Neither Work

In space, no one can hear you scream at Microsoft’s legacy software.

404 Media

Jim Fenton 🇺🇸<>🇨🇦1d ago

Joanna J.

1d ago

You know it’s a big earthquake when the USGS site goes down. #bayarea

Jim Fenton 🇺🇸<>🇨🇦1d ago

Small earthquake in SF Bay Area a little while ago caused gateway timeout errors when trying to access information at usgs.gov. They need to be better prepared for load.

Jim Fenton 🇺🇸<>🇨🇦Mar 26

Another reason to go cashless https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/26/us/politics/trump-signature-us-dollars.html?smid=url-share

Trump’s Signature Is Set to Be Added to America’s Currency

President Trump is poised to be the first sitting president to have his signature appear on the U.S. dollar.

The New York Times

Jim Fenton 🇺🇸<>🇨🇦Mar 16

As I have done for several of our past trips, I started delayed posting my travel journal from last month's trip to Vietnam and Cambodia. The first installment is at https://altmode.org/2026/03/11/vietnam-cambodia-day-0-departure/

Vietnam/Cambodia Day 0: Departure

Tuesday/Wednesday, February 3/4, 2026 As I have done several times in the past, I am again blogging a summary of our recent vacation trip. I will post daily installments offset by five weeks to all…

Altmode

Jim Fenton 🇺🇸<>🇨🇦Mar 13

feliks✨Mar 13

it's free ~~real estate~~ compute

Jim Fenton 🇺🇸<>🇨🇦Mar 9

Andrew Gallagher Feb 26

“we estimate that a million satellites could mean that a teragram (one billion kgs) of alumina accumulates in the upper atmosphere – enough, alongside launch emissions, to significantly alter atmospheric chemistry and heating in dramatic ways we do not yet understand.

There is no public mandate for a single company in one country to make changes on that scale to the planet’s atmosphere.”
https://theconversation.com/a-new-space-race-could-turn-our-atmosphere-into-a-crematorium-for-satellites-276366

A new space race could turn our atmosphere into a ‘crematorium for satellites’

Planned ‘megaconstellations’ of satellites could cause unforeseen harm to the ozone layer and climate systems. Global regulation is needed before it’s too late.

The Conversation

Jim Fenton 🇺🇸<>🇨🇦Feb 27

Dan Gillmor Feb 27

A reminder that Molly White (https://mastodon.social/@molly0xfff@hachyderm.io) is, by far, doing the best job of covering the endlessly corrupt cryptocurrency "industry" -- her latest newsletter post, replete with Epstein Class dot-connecting, should make you furious.

https://www.citationneeded.news/issue-101/

Issue 101 – Bought and paid for

Bitcoin is down 50%, several prominent industry figures have been uncovered in the Epstein files, Trump’s facing a probe into his family’s $500M deal with the UAE, and crypto super PACs spend their first $6 million in the midterms.

Citation Needed

Jim Fenton 🇺🇸<>🇨🇦Feb 24

As I type a document on my iPad, spell correct is making very aggressive corrections to my typos, changing slightly misspelled words to completely unrelated words. Is this the sort of advantage AI is bringing us?

Jim Fenton 🇺🇸<>🇨🇦Jan 3

I'm not succeeding in registering a "10DLC campaign" to be able to send myself SMS messages to remind me to close the garage door. Given all the restrictions on sending SMS messages, why am I receiving so much SMS spam from political candidates I have never heard of? Are they exempt somehow?