"How the #Trump Administration Ended Independent Science at the #EPA"
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/27/climate/epa-science-trump-cuts.html

"The agency’s prestigious research office spent decades doing scientific work insulated from political pressure…For more than a half-century, [it] did groundbreaking research aimed at saving American lives. It studied fertility, asthma, wildfires, drinking water, climate change and myriad other health threats. In just one year, it has been almost completely dismantled."

#Censorship #Climate #DefendResearch #Environment #Takedowns #TrumpVResearch #USPol #USPolitics

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My mom used to do environmental activism. All by herself, she got earth day and a recycling center going in town, and was a whistleblower about Dow chemical using agent orange. She was mentioned in Time Magazine for it.

Then she went to a barbecue for environmentalists. They put her down for wearing red lipstick and long nails.

And then her activism days petered out because she didn't want to hang out with these people.

Make sure you can see the forest for the trees.

at a job interview

"whats your biggest weakness?"

"understanding the semantics of a question but ignoring the pragmatics"

"could you give an me an example?"

"yes i could"

is it love? i bet it’s love

Free software enthusiast from Kerala elected Debian Project Leader

One of the oldest and widely used Linux-based operating systems, Debian has been developed by a community of volunteers from around the world

https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/kerala/free-software-enthusiast-from-kerala-elected-debian-project-leader/article70892810.ece

https://ostechnix.com/sruthi-chandran-debian-project-leader-dpl-2026/

Happy to have voted for her in the election.

#FreeSoftware #Debian #OpenSource #FOSS @srud

DDos (Distributed Denial of Service) attack against BlueSky a few days ago: The whole network goes down.

DDoS against mastodon.social today: Lots of users on that instance impacted, the rest of the Fediverse keeps on running, my instance doesn't really notice, messages will be queued up until mastodon.social is reachable again.

Both networks claim to be decentralised and federated. You decide :)

Congratulations, Sruthi!

#Debian #projectLeader #election #SruthiChandran

After just having responded to the third #curl security report for the evening I noticed a post that cheered me up...

Have a good Friday everyone!

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/moekatib_millions-of-people-look-up-to-steve-jobs-activity-7450947453085749248-K1w-

My therapist said I need to find things to keep me busy, so I created the @cdnspace Artemis II dashboard.

I reverse-engineered the Unity Engine powering the NASA AROW visualization and found an absolute treasure trove of data to display.

Little did I expect that it's now being seen by anywhere from 200 to 600 people at any given time with 130,000 people having looked at it in the last 24 hours. People are even building projects around my API.

Yesterday, I received a message on LinkedIn from someone working in Mission Control in Houston... and they're using my dashboard! He even sent me a photo, but I can't share it until after the crew has splashed down.

Mind blown, and an absolute pick-me-up. The best part? It's being served from my basement.

https://artemis.cdnspace.ca/

#artemis #artemis2 #artemisII #nasa #csa

It's been a few years since I drew this. I still stand by it.

#MastoArt #HumanArt #CreativeToots