mercury john

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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.

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

RE: https://mastodon.social/@vicfroh/116336641955231173

That reminds me of the Nazi’s

I have a feeling many of us know the story of Anne Frank

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

Menudo embolao. Una app de encontrar churris y lo que surja traficó con datos varios (entendemos que también, y quizá sobre todo, con fotoculs, fototets, fotochós, fotopós y demás) porque le vino en gana con otra empresa de IA, que querría esos datos para lo suyo. Enlace uno.

Ahora busco y pertenece a una matriz de varias empresas de ligue fácil, o del mercado de la carne que decía uno que conocí (si deshumanizamos no usemos eufemismos), entre ellas Tinder. Digo. Enlace dos.

Busco Grindr por si está en el ajo. Parece que no pero encuentro ciertas declaraciones de principios también con la IA bien cuestionables. Enlace tres.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/03/okcupid-match-pay-no-fine-for-sharing-user-photos-with-facial-recognition-firm/
https://mtch.com/
https://www.grindr.com/about

OkCupid gave 3 million dating-app photos to facial recognition firm, FTC says

OkCupid and Match settle with Trump FTC, don't have to pay any financial penalty.

Ars Technica

"#russian terrorists doing what #russian terrorists do!"🤮🤮🤮

From https://t.me/pravdaGerashchenko_en

In #Cherkasy region, a #Russian drone explosion killed 53-year-old volunteer #Ivan_Stepaniuk. He was a member of the #Ukrainian_Rescue_Service, a public organization.

Probably going to get a viral blog out of this experience, I'm trying to report a 4tb exposed cloud bucket to a company using their responsible disclosure programme... but they replaced the people with a GenAI ticket system that refuses to discuss the case as it thinks exploring open buckets is unethical and against its rules.
Iran responds to the rhetoric by Trump and Hegseth about bombing them “back to the Stone Age”: