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@shaungriffith @_thegeoff And navigation would be mightily confused (you'd either need to fake weird maneuvers, change the time in the last state vector update accordingly, or end up with navigation that claims a totally different position).

Shaun Griffith Apr 27

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GunChleoc Apr 17

@shaungriffith TZAG 👋

Shaun Griffith Apr 18

Electronic Frontier Foundation Apr 18

Embattled Congresspeople standing up for privacy need our help. Write to their colleagues and tell them we need real reforms in Section 702. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/04/keep-pushing-we-get-10-more-days-reform-section-702

Keep Pushing: We Get 10 More Days to Reform Section 702

In a dramatic middle-of-the-night stand off, a bipartisan set of lawmakers pushing for true reform and privacy protections for Americans bought us some more time to fight! They are holding out for, at a minimum, the requirement of an actual probable cause warrant for FBI access to information...

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Shaun Griffith Apr 18

emptywheel Apr 18

As you watch the scandal over Mendelson failing clearance, consider how many people either FAILED (Dan Bongino) or just escaped (Kushner and Witkoff) clearance reviews altogether. No idea whether Kash and his alleged drinking problem was properly reviewed. Kavanaugh was not.

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:xabwvf57eu2lawtmvheq3ubi/post/3mjqsxqefrc2o

Shaun Griffith Apr 15

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Dan Ports Sep 12, 2025

@itgrrl @ricci also, this reminds me of a story I recently learned about and had been meaning to post about. Did you know that Margaret Hamilton used to bring her daughter to the lab when she was working nights and weekends, and let her play with the AGC simulator?

Her daughter crashed the simulator by accidentally invoking program 01 and resetting the guidance system to believe it was back on the launch pad.

Hamilton felt that was a pretty serious bug but was told "no, there's no way a trained astronaut would accidentally do that."

A trained astronaut did, in fact, do precisely that while Apollo 8 was on the way back from the moon.

She was allowed to fix it for Apollo 9.

Shaun Griffith Apr 15

Toward more inclusiveness: http://www.theilya.com/mips/ugt.html