Researchers recently caught Meta using tactics that one expert called similar to those of digital crooks to secretly compile logs of people’s web browsing on Android devices. Here are a few ways to safeguard your digital privacy:

The 100 day Time interview shows the word salad repetitiveness of his "lie\weave\repeat" style of deception... The Washington Post lists 32 claims of "inaccuracies" aka "lies." Time also has a fact checking page time.com/7280129/dona... Should we simply not care that truth is unobtainable from him?

A process of proof identifying the basis in reality of a claimed item of knowledge is necessary to establish its truth.

Consumer Alert: The genetic information company declared bankruptcy on Sunday and there is a risk your #genetic information could end up in someone else’s hands — and used in ways you had never considered.

US firm #Firefly succeeded in its first attempt to land on the moon. Blue Ghost carried 10 scientific payloads. Two of the onboard instruments will study the lunar soil and its subsurface temperatures in experiments by Honeybee #Robotics, a firm owned by Blue Origin. #NASA #Space

If Russia ceases combat operations, the war is over. If Ukraine ceases combat operations, Ukraine is over

Sources indicated that it was plausible that Jared Isaacman, whom the President has nominated to lead the #space agency, asked for the cuts to be put on hold. #NASA

"Saying you don't need privacy because you have nothing to hide is like saying you don't need freedom of speech because you have nothing to say." Edward #Snowden

#L3Harris today announced it is unveiling a new command and control software, dubbed “AMORPHOUS,” designed to control thousands of unmanned systems in a “swarm,” joining a number of other companies in recent years that have homed in on that technology as a gap in the Pentagon’s arsenal.

Someone very wise once said that all politics and activism is distilling a necessary change down to a simple message and hammering on it until change happens signal.org

VICTORY! After over a decade, a federal court has declared that warrantless backdoor searches of US person’s communications collected under Section 702 of FISA is unconstitutional.

High Tech Minimal - #BorisBrejcha at #RedRocks Amphitheatre on April 15th, 2025 #Colorado

Fun picture of our backyard white oak, Quercus alba, under the full January wolf moon. Taken at 11 PM, the branch shadows make awesome root-like patterns. #virginianativeplants #trees #moon #nativeplants

#SpaceX Falcon 9 launch -"The two robotic lunar landers—one from Firefly Aerospace based near Austin, Texas, and another from the Japanese space company ispace—will use their own small engines for the final maneuvers required to enter orbit around the #Moon in the coming months." Stephen Clark

BREAKING NEWS: Today I used a piece of wood that I kept in my garage since 2008 in case I might one day need it.

Words of Wisdom

A Little Night music Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart #classicalmusic

Growing mushrooms in wooden logs with mushroom dowels #TheOutpost 🍄 Log cutting/mushroom type link: www.fieldforest.net/product/463/...

CAPTCHA where you play #Doom on Nightmare difficulty - It's a WebAssembly application, but was made via a human language, prompt-driven web development tool called v0, part of a suite of features with Vercel

"...the more I see parents reflexively reaching for their phones, the more I come to believe that when we turn our kids into the subjects of our personal documentaries, we risk muting the richness of the very thing we’re trying to record." Russell Shaw

Here is my response to Donald Trump’s latest malicious lies:

Red Rocks officially opened in 1941 and in 2024 was the most-attended outdoor venue in the U.S. and the most-attended amphitheater in the world. #Colorado

Former Representative Liz Cheney, who bucked her Republican Party to strongly criticize US President-elect Donald Trump and some of his allies, was one of 20 people awarded the Presidential Citizens Medal, one of the country's highest civilian honors reut.rs/3BSZ78q

A story set in the mythical realm of Silvyra, it’s a world unto its own, filled with creatures, plant life, and people living in harmony. This is the #BorisBrejcha segment. I love the way #Tomorrowland makes use of the drones in the filming.

Automated License Plate Readers (ALPRs) are monitoring your every move. Protect your #privacy. Locate the cameras in your area. They surveil mostly innocent people while claiming to target criminals, leading to wrongful arrests, profiling, and stalking ex-partners by police officers. #Flock

NIGHTWISH - The Greatest Show on Earth Professor Richard Dawkins "And that whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved."

So far this year, SpaceX has launched a total of 119 Falcon 9 rockets, for an average of a launch every 2.3 days. #Space Dec 2, 2024 arstechnica.com/author/ericb...

"In any compromise between good and evil, it is only evil that can profit." Ayn Rand

"The value of facts lies in their proper appraisal and interpretation." Ayn Rand

Here's today's random, out of context politics photo for your enjoyment. It's former Vice President Dick Cheney with a gun.

That Which Is Seen and that Which Is Not Seen Essay by Frederic Bastiat, 1st published in 1850. F.A. Hayek wrote: “No one has ever stated more clearly in a single phrase the central difficulty of a rational economic policy and, I would like to add, the decisive argument for economic freedom.”

#China plans to carry out its Tianwen 3 mission through 2 launches around 2028. The mission aims to land, collect samples and return them in one integrated operation, with the landing site also serving as the sampling location. #Space #Mars

A Revolution in How Robots Learn #Robotics #AI #DeepMind Figure.ai "Speculating on the future of A.I.-powered robots is like trying to imagine the Industrial Revolution from the perspective of a nineteenth-century hatmaker." www.newyorker.com/contributors...

"The fact that terrestrial microbes are the Earth's best colonizers means we can never completely discount terrestrial contamination," Matthew Genge of Imperial College London told Space.com. #Space #JAXA #NASA

"...every year for the last decade, NASA has spent on the order of $3 billion a year to develop the Space Launch System rocket and its ground systems... ...The reality is that #NASA can't afford the Artemis Program without leaning into commercial #space."

I love finding mushrooms growing up off the ground, nice to get a good angle to take the photo. These bonnets make me think of ballet dancers posing together for a photo. Bonnets 3 of 6. #fungifriends #fungi #naturephotography #mycology #fungisky #forestfloor

Russian cosmonauts on the International Space Station were forced to briefly lock down a segment of the orbiting laboratory this weekend after finding an “unusual odor” emanating from a visiting cargo spacecraft called Progress 90, NASA said Sunday.

Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Sierra Space have developed a new silicon-carbide-based thermal protection system. Sierra Space plans to use the new TPS on the Sierra Space Dream Chaser. #SierraSpace

#DHRumsfeld As we know, There are known knowns. There are things we know we know. We also know There are known unknowns. That is to say We know there are some things We do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns, The ones we don't know we don't know.

A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed. #Constitution of the United States of America, #SecondAmendment Bill of Rights #2A