Who made this illustration? I'd like to use it for a talk about the fediverse I'm asked to hold in two weeks. Please RT. =)
Department Of Labor Cracks Down On People Getting Paid For Work
WASHINGTON—Adopting a tougher stance against the increasingly widespread form of workplace corruption, U.S. Department of Labor officials announced plans Thursday to crack down on people getting paid for their work. “For far too long, the practice of receiving money for services has gone unchecked, and today we’re turning over evidence …
#theonion
https://theonion.com/department-of-labor-cracks-down-on-people-getting-paid-for-work/
Sunrise III Data Release: 2 years after the flight of the balloon-borne solar observatory Sunrise III, terabytes of data are now online and offer a unique view of our star: https://sr3data.mps.mpg.de
#Sun #SunriseIII #Sunrise3 #APL #NAOJ #IAA_CSIC #INTA #UV #upm #iacastrofisica #SSC
Can you really call it a match if the boxers don't kiss at the end?
Update. "Demand Is Booming for New No Tech, Repairable Tractor."
https://www.404media.co/demand-is-booming-for-ursa-ag-new-no-tech-repairable-tractor/
Brilliant solution to a real problem. Subtract user-hostile tech.
"Alberta’s #UrsaAg says that it has been inundated with demand after announcing its tractor, which costs roughly half as much as a #Deere and has the benefit of not being a repair nightmare. We have for years covered the frustration that farmers have felt as they have been locked out of their Deere tractors with digital rights management [#DRM] systems that prevent them from fixing their machinery, tractors that won’t run because of minor sensor failures, and crops that literally die on the vine as they wait for an “authorized” repair person to fix tractors during critical harvesting periods."
The @EUCommission just released a statement positioning open source as central to #Europe’s #TechSovereignty.
We couldn’t agree more. #OpenSource is critical to a robust and independent society.
Here’s our full statement: https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2026/06/europes-new-tech-strategy-puts-open-source-front-and-centre/
#Mastodon #Fediverse #SocialWeb #OpenWeb #DigitalSovereignty
FCC To Investigate TV Shows Where The Mom Has Job
WASHINGTON—Saying it had been forced to take action against networks that refused to change their conduct, the Federal Communications Commission announced Monday it would investigate broadcasters of TV shows where the mom has a job. “It has come to our attention that the public airwaves have been used to transmit indecent images of female characters who […]
The po…
#theonion
https://theonion.com/fcc-to-investigate-tv-shows-where-the-mom-has-job/
Space Weather: Incoming solar storms
Several solar storms were launched towards Earth during the last 24 hours, all from Earth-facing region AR4455.
Flares times and peaks:
M3.3 16h50 UT 02 June: CME observed 631km/s
M9.3 01h36 UT 03 June: CME observed 253km/s
M7.9 07h00 UT 03 June: CME observed 313km/s
X1.1 11h28 UT 03 June: 10cm radio burst indicating a CME, no further details.
The first CME should hit late on the 4th or early on the 5th. The slower CMEs will bunch up together (faster one is behind) and should reach us around the 8th or 9th, but timings are uncertain.
NOAA has issued a G3 geomagnetic storm watch for 04 and 05 June (UT).
#datacenter #datacentre #AI #Brockovich #citizenscience
Huh, there's a Guinness World Record for "First fine for littering from space" https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/114725-first-fine-for-littering-from-space
I *did* call the Saskatchewan Turn in Poachers and Polluters hotline after the whole SpaceX debris fall here (which was a HILARIOUS conversation, by the way). Maybe I should try again and cite this record. I'm sure the rural municipality of Tullymet wants to try to get the richest dude in the world to pay a littering fine...
Science participative au Canada
Il a fallu fournir la première moitié de mon code postal, mon année de naissance et un courriel pour recevoir le questionnaire.
https://public.cnphi-rcrsp.ca/fluWatcher/register
#scienceparticipative #Canada #science
Citizen Science in Canada
Not too intrusive: I had to give the first half of my postal code, my birth year and an email address at which to receive the weekly one question survey.
https://public.cnphi-rcrsp.ca/fluWatcher/register
#citizenscience #Canada #science
Tearful Trump Claims He Was Sex-Trafficked By Epstein
WASHINGTON—Growing visibly emotional as he recounted the trauma surfaced by the Justice Department’s release of files on the serial predator, a tearful President Donald Trump told reporters Wednesday he had been sex-trafficked by disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein. Trump, who described himself as a “victim of really unbelievable stuff, some of the worst” …
#theonion
https://theonion.com/tearful-trump-claims-he-was-sex-trafficked-by-epstein/
Been telling people I’m poly because I thought that meant I don’t wear any natural fibers
New Signal backup phishing attacks just dropped, targeting civil society: https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/28/hackers-are-trying-to-steal-signal-users-backups-in-new-wave-of-phishing-attacks/
One of the suggested mitigations is setting up Registration Lock on your Signal account: https://support.signal.org/hc/en-us/articles/360007059792-Signal-PIN#manage_registration_lock
