Open post EllenMarch2 @Lisabet8931@universeodon.com · 4mo ago Replying to @samlitzinger@journa.host Kind of amazing how much the whole American system was built on the premise that the president wouldn’t be completely corrupt. Then along comes Trump, who in fact IS completely corrupt, aided by a party of sycophants, and everything falls apart. It was a fundamental flaw in the system that the Founders either didn’t think was possible or couldn’t figure out how to prevent. https://apnews.com/article/trump-lawsuit-irs-leak-3729de38770b558be01712a143437bf8 @samlitzinger@journa.host but also an entire party somehow terrorized or bribed into lockstep and the Supreme Court compromised
Open post EllenMarch2 @Lisabet8931@universeodon.com · 5mo ago Replying to @ZLabe@fediscience.org <p>Record high ocean temperatures continued across the North Pacific in April 2026 relative to the entire rest of the historical record for the month.</p><p>This graph shows the average for a band across the midlatitudes for every April from 1854-2026 using <br />NOAA ERSSTv5 data (<a href="https://psl.noaa.gov/data/gridded/data.noaa.ersst.v5.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">psl.noaa.gov/data/gridded/data</span><span class="invisible">.noaa.ersst.v5.html</span></a>).</p> @ZLabe@fediscience.org 💔💔💔
Open post EllenMarch2 @Lisabet8931@universeodon.com · 5mo ago Replying to @Nonilex@masto.ai Thursday’s vote marked the 2nd time the #House has acted on #legislation aimed at constraining #Trump’s #authority to wage #war against #Iran, & fell a day after the #Senate, for the 4th time, failed to advance a similar resolution. #law #Congress #WarPowers #RepublicanCowards #IranWar #US #WarCrimes #geopolitics #NationalSecurity #MiddleEast #inflation #economy #oil #EnergyCrisis @Nonilex only choice is: keep trying, dudes!
Open post EllenMarch2 @Lisabet8931@universeodon.com · 7mo ago Replying to @maxschrems@mastodon.social <p>😵 🤯 Last year a <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Meta" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Meta</span></a> Lobbyist became a new head of the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Irish" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Irish</span></a> Data Protection Commission (DPC). Today, the former head of the DPC announced that she is now working for MHC - the Irish law firm for Meta that was previously defending Meta before the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DPC" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>DPC</span></a> in <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GPDR" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>GPDR</span></a> cases - basically a 360° seat swap between the Irish regulator and Meta. </p><p>This is not just extreme <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/CorporateCapture" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>CorporateCapture</span></a> of a regulator and makes <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Ireland" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Ireland</span></a> a laughing stock within the EU, but moves like this also undermine any public...</p> @maxschrems
Open post EllenMarch2 @Lisabet8931@universeodon.com · 23mo ago Replying to @upstreamism@theatl.social <p>With Musk serving as a de facto cabinet member, it's reasonable to assume that X/Twitter will freely provide federal agencies with the sort of data that would normally require a warrant.</p><p>It's equally safe to assume that far right agency heads will use that data to pursue administration goals, like immigrant deportation, abortion prosecution, protest suppression, etc.</p><p>If you know anyone who insists on using Twitter, please urge them to be excruciatingly careful about what they post there from now on. Information and data that may have seemed innocuous a year ago are now a threat vector, and the person posting them may not always be the person most at risk.<br /><a href="https://theatl.social/tags/infosec" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>infosec</span></a> <a href="https://theatl.social/tags/Twitter" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Twitter</span></a></p> @upstreamism@theatl.social what’s the safest way to get off of twitter?
Open post EllenMarch2 @Lisabet8931@universeodon.com · 7mo ago Replying to @david_chisnall__dup_6636@infosec.exchange <p class="quote-inline">RE: <a href="https://mstdn.social/@rysiek/116226720041425679" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">mstdn.social/@rysiek/116226720</span><span class="invisible">041425679</span></a></p><p>Louder for people at the back:</p><p>If ‘AI’ gives you a 20% productivity increase, in an economic system that rewards growth at the expense of everything else, the rational thing for any company to do is use that productivity increase to expand into new markets. This may involve some redundancies because you need <em>different</em> skills for the new opportunities but they will be matched by increased hiring in the other areas. If you and your competitors both see a 20% increase in productivity and you use it to make people redundant and they use it to ship more products in more areas, then they will grow at your expense. Their products will be better than yours and you will lose market share.</p><p>If you are claiming that you have redundancies because ‘AI’ is increasing productivity, then one of the following is true:</p><ul><li>Your leadership team does not understand market economics (in which case, investors should worry that the board has not replaced obviously incompetent leadership).</li><li>You are an unchallengeable monopoly and have already filled all adjacent markets and have literally no possibility of growth (in which case, investors should take note and set their price predictions based on today’s revenue, with no expectation of future growth, which would wipe out over 80% of Meta’s market cap).</li><li>You are lying about productivity gains (in which case, investors should worry about what else you’re lying about and should start prodding the SEC to investigate).</li></ul> @david_chisnall this. Sadly.
Open post EllenMarch2 @Lisabet8931@universeodon.com · 6mo ago Replying to @scream@bots.robots.rodeo on bots.robots.rodeo @scream@bots.robots.rodeo you need some extra aaaaaaaa uuuuuui ghhhhhh for the way things are going
Open post EllenMarch2 @Lisabet8931@universeodon.com · 6mo ago Replying to @scream@bots.robots.rodeo on bots.robots.rodeo @scream@bots.robots.rodeo now that’s more like it!
Open post EllenMarch2 @Lisabet8931@universeodon.com · 6mo ago Replying to @mattblaze@federate.social Much is made of the presence of "pristine" absentee ballots, which is the term they use for ballots that lacked creases from being folded and sealed in an envelope. The assert that there's no innocent explanation for this, since all absentee ballots have to arrive in an envelope. But there *is* an explanation. UOCAVA ballots, a generic ballot form by some overseas/military voters, aren't machine readable. They have to be transcribed by election workers onto a regular ballot form for tabulation. @mattblaze@federate.social just…wow
Open post EllenMarch2 @Lisabet8931@universeodon.com · 3mo ago Replying to @Nonilex@masto.ai The #Labor Dept said Thurs that the #unemployment rate declined to 4.2% from 4.3% in May, though the decline mostly occurred because many people out of work gave up looking & were no longer counted as unemployed. The figures suggest companies remain wary of the #economy’s health, with #inflation at a 3-year high & consumer confidence near post-pandemic lows. The #jobs gains initially reported in April & May were also revised lower. #CostOfLiving #affordability #trumpcession #recession #trump @Nonilex@masto.ai
Open post EllenMarch2 @Lisabet8931@universeodon.com · 6mo ago Replying to @heidilifeldman@mastodon.social on mastodon.social @heidilifeldman@mastodon.social they did something at sfa. Please don’t encourage them to do stuff. It’s better like this
Open post EllenMarch2 @Lisabet8931@universeodon.com · 4mo ago Replying to @superflippy@mastodon.xyz This is terrible. We will lose the ability to accurately track marine weather. #climate #uspol https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/01/climate/ocean-observatories-initiative.html?unlocked_article_code=1.nFA.60N6.hYFHv83kH_Ee&smid=nytcore-ios-share @superflippy@mastodon.xyz why?????