“How to Protest Safely: What to Bring, What to Do, and What to Avoid”
https://www.wired.com/story/how-to-protest-safely-gear-tips/
h/t @ronaldtootall, https://tech.lgbt/@ronaldtootall/114308564101070413
@teslatakedown @resistancerallies #TeslaTakeDown #HandsOff #Resist #Protest #CivilRights #Activism #ACLU #Wired
WIRED: Inside arXiv—the Most Transformative Platform in All of Science
https://www.wired.com/story/inside-arxiv-most-transformative-code-science/
"With an expected downgrade to the status of electoral autocracy, the US will share its label with Turkey, Hungary, Iraq, India, and Russia. This makes Big Tech's data collection, storage, control over, or any use of that data an even more urgent issue around the world."
Yay! One of my favorite comedians has done a #Wired "#StandUp #Comedy #Support" episode! #MatteoLane
https://youtu.be/xXpNGOpj4Cc
There's a non-zero chance that a benevolent superintelligence will terminate Elon Musk & Peter Thiel, for being the threat to humanity they are. So, at least we've got that going for us.
Must read
The clear selfless actions of a small group of Irish working class workers despite threats from management, fellow workers and the majority of the wider public, shows that we all have the capacity to stand on the right side of history.
#apartheid #FreePalestine #genocide #human_rights #EU #zeteo #wired #euractiv #BBCNews #boycott #BDS
https://www.newarab.com/opinion/boycotts-turn-tides-lessons-irish-anti-apartheid
While Elon Musk tries to get South African white people here, white replacement theory that he subscribes to has gone mainstream. And they've proceeded to go completely crazy. This is what is running the country now.
Caso #Signal, e se l’uso dell’ #app da parte dei vertici del #governo #Usa non fosse un errore? | #Wired Italia
L’uso del #software potrebbe essere stato deciso a tavolino. Sulla vicenda l’ombra degli #hacker #cinesi che hanno infiltrato le #telco statunitensi
https://www.wired.it/article/caso-signal-hacker-cinesi-salt-typhoon/
WIRED on the Elon Musk Takeover:
"Since the first days of the Trump administration, Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has been everywhere in the federal government, moving fast and breaking things.
The big takeaway: Many on the DOGE team are from Musk’s world. If Musk is America’s CEO, then DOGE has become his Silicon Valley executive branch."
https://www.wired.com/story/elon-musk-doge-silicon-valley-corporate-connections/
#elonmusk #authoritarianism #doge #wired #musk #siliconvalley #oligarchy #usa
From Wired: “DOGE Plans to Rebuild SSA Code Base in Months”
Ahahaha.
Wait. You serious?
AHAHAHAHAHA!
Anyone who wants to port such a giant COBOL code base in mere months is either a complete moron or wants to completely dismantle SSA without going through Congress.
Remember that 25 years of prosperity we where promised? Yea, that ended 5 years ago.
Kudos to arXiv!
There’s a good piece in Wired about Paul Ginsparg, the physicist who created arXiv. The lede of the article begins Modern science wouldn’t exist without the online research repository known as arXiv. For once, this isn’t an exaggeration. I recommend you read the piece yourself so I won’t say much more about it except that I found it fascinating. I couldn’t resist in including this extract, however, with which I wholeheartedly agree:
Every industry has certain problems universally acknowledged as broken: insurance in health care, licensing in music, standardized testing in education, tipping in the restaurant business. In academia, it’s publishing. Academic publishing is dominated by for-profit giants like Elsevier and Springer. Calling their practice a form of thuggery isn’t so much an insult as an economic observation. Imagine if a book publisher demanded that authors write books for free and, instead of employing in-house editors, relied on other authors to edit those books, also for free. And not only that: The final product was then sold at prohibitively expensive prices to ordinary readers, and institutions were forced to pay exorbitant fees for access.
I’ve written words to that effect so many times I’ve lost count!
Anyway, as if to reinforce the point about the transformative nature of arXiv, it has just been announced that the European Astronomical Society has awarded the 2025 Jocelyn Bell Burnell Inspiration Medal to arXiv “for its impact on astrophysical research thanks to the open, free and world-wide distribution of scientific articles”. What a bold, imaginative and fully justifiable decision that is, and congratulations to arXiv! It is a truth universally acknowledged that every paper in astrophysics worth reading is on arXiv.
I’m planning to be at this year’s EAS meeting in Cork at the end of June when this, and the other EAS awards, will be presented. I’m not sure who will receive it on behalf of arXiv but they’re sure to get a rousing ovation.
@waldo.net Looks like I need to subscribe to #Wired I have a lot to make up for since I paid for one year of WaPo.
#wired proving to be one of the last legs of the fourth estate willing to stand up and do their job in the face of all this right-wing repression that’s become so fashionable (for rich connected racist sociopaths). https://apple.news/AXdMKXbxCRz6sSZM6vdz9jw
Ok, this is scary.
Went to pull up the article below, but #Wired said I've already read the maximum number of articles I can read.
So then I open up https://www.removepaywall.com and paste in the URL for this article.
And I immediately get redirected to #RT (#RussiaToday) / https://rurtnews.com!
Would love it if someone else can confirm my findings here.
#security #privacy
RE: https://infosec.exchange/users/nono2357/statuses/114236340733451801
