⊥ᵒᵚ Cᵸᵎᶺᵋᶫ∸ᵒᵘ ☑️ @falken@social.cleverlibre.org

welp, that will do it. 😅

#SLS #LaunchCost : "the operational costs alone for a single #Artemis launch—for just the #rocket, #Orion spacecraft, and ground systems—will total $4.1 billion" 💰💰💰💰 * https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/03/nasa-inspector-general-says-sls-costs-are-unsustainable

4.1 billion / ~100k kg = 41.000 $ / kg 🤔

* As of #NASA Inspector General Paul Martin 📆 Mar 1, 2022

The #coronation hasn't even happened yet and it's already a cringingly anachronistic, histrionic, onanistic, fever dream that's about as self-aware as Marie Antoinette responding to the news that the peasants are cold by setting fire to them.

@neil DuckDuckGo, for many years now. I find it’s much better than Google due to prioritising StackOverflow answers to programming queries (which is probably half my searches) and Wikipedia for generic stuff like ‘tell me about this drug I’ve just been prescribed’.

@Em0nM4stodon

February 2026: the UK blocks all non-UK websites in the name of “child protection”. Or “anti-terrorism”. No-one is sure, as the notes are in Dropbox, which is now blocked, and the ministerial discussion was on WhatsApp, which ministers used because it was end to end encrypted and which they blocked because it was end to end encrypted.

The UK’s official Mastodon instance is launched with the slogan “A British site for British people”, forgetting Northern Ireland.

Stop the Online Safety Bill

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/634725

Sign the petition before they pass a law that requires all messaging providers to monitor the content of everyone's messages.

Bartender who laid out welcome mat with swastika beneath a banner saying NAZIS WELCOME HERE "concerned" that his bar could be visited by Nazis:

https://twitter.com/pookleblinky/status/1651783347759194112

You're on a very promising first date and find out that your chosen restaurant only provides menus, ordering, and payment via scanning a QR code with your phone. No cash accepted.

Your date politely says this is a discriminatory practice and a bad #privacy and #DataSecurity situation. You:

(Hey, not to boost grovel, but I'd love it if this got wide exposure.)

Wikipedia says it won’t comply with UK online safety bill requirements for age verification. Pleased to see then pushing back against Government’s attempt to control a free internet https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-65388255