Scientific American: COVID probably killed 150,000 more people in its first two years than official U.S. tolls show

We have severely undercounted the number of COVID deaths, scientists say (March 18, 2026)

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/covid-killed-150-000-more-people-in-its-first-two-years-than-official-toll/

#covid19 #covid #pandemic

Representative Dan Goldman drives a freight train through Pam Bondi’s coverup of The Epstein Files.

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https://youtu.be/OLnU9IWEIgw

RE: https://indieweb.social/@jbz/116252516767918215

Of course Mozilla's CTO drives a Tesla, lol

Kind and cherished FOSS and computing freedom advocate @sleepyowl (Joyce Ng) has gone missing and there is reason to fear she may have been apprehended by authorities, possibly likely even for being framed. Nobody has been able to reach her and many of us are worried for her safety.

Joyce does work on verifiable open source hardware. She also has been an activist pushing against the rise of far-right Christian nationalism globally but especially in Singapore. Because of this and her identity, she has people who would like to see bad things happen to her.

Probably for this reason, she may have been misidentified by Five Eyes as being a threat actor. Joyce wrote about this concern in November, posting a threatening screenshot where she was tipped off. https://bitowl.online/about

Please spread this wide. Hopefully this is a false alarm but Joyce is a kind-hearted person who fights for human rights and computing freedom; many of us are worried for her safety.

"Palantir CEO Alex Karp thinks his AI technology will lessen the power of “highly educated, often female voters, who vote mostly Democrat” while increasing the power of working-class men.

“This technology disrupts humanities-trained—largely Democratic—voters, and makes their economic power less. And increases the economic power of vocationally trained, working-class, often male, working-class voters....”
#ai #humanities #women #feminism #democracy #palantir
https://newrepublic.com/post/207693/palantir-ceo-karp-disrupting-democratic-power

New York bill to require all manufacturers of internet-enabled devices to verify their user's age

Imagine uploading your government ID to washers, dryers, TVs, speakers, security cameras, smartwatches, bulbs, cars... 🤦🏻‍♂️

🗳 There's a vote here whether you support this bill

https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2025/S8102/amendment/A

#AgeVerification #privacy #surveillance #dystopia #technology #NewYork #USA

First Post! Uh, I mean, First CHERIoT Silicon!

We have our first chips back! It is very exciting! Spatial and temporal memory safety, fine-grained compartmentalisation, and also a load of other big chips on a board, so you can play 'Where's ICENI?' on the board picture!

#CHERI #CHERIoT