mercury john

@mercuryjohn
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I'm just here for the suppression of oppression. 🇺🇦
Artist, activist/dissident, researcher, geek.
Choosing not to boost anything from the cursed birb site, but helping folks transit and find their tribes here.
-Personally know John Mastodon.

Cat Salad Bar

by the Japanese artist Hashimoto Moku

#Cats #Caturday

@da_667 Scary...electrolyte imbalances are very serious. Glad to hear it's straightened out. Your docs will have to keep an eye on your meds as you continue with your new diet & exercise!

Wow. I don't think the US tech industry has quite grasped how big this is.

https://www.techpolicy.press/almost-two-thirds-of-europeans-back-replacing-us-tech-poll-finds/

Almost Two-Thirds of Europeans Back Replacing US Tech, Poll Finds

EU leaders are pursuing digital sovereignty plans to reduce the 27-country bloc’s dependence on the United States, writes Mark Scott.

Tech Policy Press
The Drunken Ship — Claire Daliers in Brussels, Belgium <3 14 Murals That Change the Mood of a City: https://streetartutopia.com/2026/04/03/murals-that-change-the-mood-of-a-city/

Yet another #Artemis II article (from a French press agency, no less) ignoring that propulsion, power, & life support to the Orion capsule are provided by ESA’s European Service Module.

Built in Bremen by Airbus, with parts from all over Europe, e.g. solar wings made in Leiden.

Also no mention of the fact that the ESM’s for the Moon-landing Artemis IV & V missions are to be supplied as part of ESA’s contribution to the Lunar Gateway.

Which NASA cancelled last week.

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/apr/03/artemis-ii-astronauts-rocket-towards-the-moon-after-breaking-free-of-earths-orbit

Artemis II astronauts rocket towards the moon after breaking free of Earth’s orbit

Spacecraft’s engine fired up for six minutes to propell astronauts on their three-day voyage towards Earth’s natural satellite

The Guardian

More Than Just Parks: BREAKING: Trump Administration Orders Dismantling of the U.S. Forest Service

"The headquarters is going to Utah. Every regional office is being shuttered. The research program is being destroyed."

https://morethanjustparks.substack.com/p/breaking-trump-administration-orders?triedRedirect=true

#USFS #fascism #nationalforests

BREAKING: Trump Administration Orders Dismantling of the U.S. Forest Service

The headquarters is going to Utah. Every regional office is being shuttered. The research program is being destroyed.

More Than Just Parks

Holy shit this is detailed. Can you believe the hubris to silently collect all this information on users?

#privacy

https://browsergate.eu/how-it-works/

The Attack: How it works

Every time you open LinkedIn in a Chrome-based browser, LinkedIn’s JavaScript executes a silent scan of your installed browser extensions. The scan probes for thousands of specific extensions by ID, collects the results, encrypts them, and transmits them to LinkedIn’s servers. The entire process happens in the background. There is no consent dialog, no notification, no mention of it in LinkedIn’s privacy policy. This page documents exactly how the system works, with line references and code excerpts from LinkedIn’s production JavaScript bundle.

BrowserGate

Watching the livestream of the Artemis II launch, I just witnessed one of the astronauts type in the password on their tablet while sitting in the capsule on camera.

#ArtemisII #Artemis #Artemis2 #NASA #InfoSec #cybersecurity #OpSec #Privacy #SpaceExploration

For the ahem, mature set: get your shingles vax, and start asking for the high dose flu vax. https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/influenza-vaccines/high-dose-flu-vaccine-tied-lower-alzheimer-s-risk-older-adults
High-dose flu vaccine tied to lower Alzheimer’s risk in older adults

CIDRAP

From my new piece concerning the Anthropic settlement:

https://catvalente.substack.com/p/blood-money-the-anthropic-settlement