Nick @internic@social.cleverlibre.org

Not every mass extinction in Earth’s history has occurred due to #ClimateChange.

But fossil & temperature records over hundreds of millions of years show climate change is consistently associated with mass extinctions.

'As a journalism professor in Illinois, Meyer said, he had graduate students from Egypt who talked about how people would come into the newspaper office and seize everything so they couldn’t publish. Those students presented a scholarly paper at a conference in Toronto about what it has done to journalism there.

“That’s basically what they’re trying to do here,” Meyer said. “The intervention is just like that repressive government of Egypt. I didn’t think it could happen in America.”'

https://kansasreflector.com/2023/08/11/police-stage-chilling-raid-on-marion-county-newspaper-seizing-computers-records-and-cellphones/

h/t @dangillmor

Whenever I see artwork that suspiciously looks AI-generated

As of one hour ago Terraform is no longer open source

#terraform #opensource

https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform/commit/b145fbcaadf0fa7d0e7040eac641d9aef2a26433

Fifteen years ago, a couple of MIT students planned to give a talk at Defcon about a vulnerability in the Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority's (MBTA) subway fare system. It was entitled Free Subway Rides For Life. The MBTA sued the students, and got a restraining order, canceling the talk and preventing the students from communicating truthful information to the public. I represented them (along with other EFF attorneys).

Fast forward to now. Two high school students have replicated the vuln, extended the research and gave a talk at Defcon this year. No, MTBA didn't bother to fix the problem.... BUUUT they did refrain from suing the researchers this time. And they even invited the students to HQ to give a presentation about their research.

I love this story and these students and am proud to have been a part of this history, and even more pleased that authorities have learned a lesson about appreciating hackers and the important work that you do.

https://www.wired.com/story/mtba-charliecard-hack-defcon-2023/

The North American Jewish community’s official security organization urges Elon Musk to better monitor antisemitic and violent posts. https://www.jns.org/antisemitism/twitter/23/8/10/309702/

Sonos has been unable to fix Arc soundbars’ “pop of death” for over 2 years

It has told users to disable Dolby Atmos.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/08/sonos-has-been-unable-to-fix-arc-soundbars-pop-of-death-for-over-2-years/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

A thoughtful piece on a dominant new COVID variant and rising hospitalizations in the US. (It is, fittingly, named for Eris, the Greek goddess of discord and strife.) https://www.vox.com/health/2023/8/9/23825133/covid-eris-variant-eg5-cdc-pandemic-coronavirus-precautions-masking-booster-vaccine #Covid #Covid19 #Eris #WHO #stillmasking

I wrote about the whole zoom "AI" ToS clause public relations debacle for @WIRED, including what zoom might need to do to gain back customer and user trust, and what other tech creators and corporations need to understand about where people are, right now:
https://www.wired.com/story/zoom-became-a-part-of-daily-life-it-needs-to-tell-users-exactly-how-its-using-their-data/

Students! We can’t prove you cheated with ChatGPT *now,* but do you really want proof coming out in five, ten, fifteen years, right when you’re running for office?

Also worth remembering that tech companies standing up for the right to notify their users of surveillance orders is the only reason that the official DOJ policy for the time period for gag orders is now 1 year instead of indefinite, thanks to Microsoft.

Passionate about decarbonization? Knowledgeable about how to get there?

Join me at Columbia Business School to help get our Climate Knowledge Initiative off the ground!

The task: go sector by sector, technology by technology, to help business leaders, policymakers, and the rest of us to zero in on the investable, scalable low-carbon technologies, while unapologetically flagging where business & public interests diverge. Job posting just went up today: https://opportunities.columbia.edu/jobs/communications-specialist-climate-knowledge-initiative-in-the-tamer-center-manhattanville-new-york-united-states
#climate #job

Going to #Defcon this weekend? I'm giving a keynote, "An Audacious Plan to Halt the Internet's Enshittification and Throw it Into Reverse," on Saturday at 12:30pm, followed by a book signing at the No Starch Press booth at 2:30pm!

https://info.defcon.org/event/?id=50826

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Re-upping this from an earlier threaded discussion: An interesting thing we learned years ago at Moz from an SE researcher we worked with is that the number one _predictor_ that a bug would eventually be resolved is whether or not it got triaged into the right component on the first touch. The more a bugs changes owners, the less likely it will be to get fixed at all; a bug that's reassigned twice is effectively gone.

Still amazes & saddens me how many tools we build or are willing to put up with in order to avoid making diff & merge work for formats that aren't backward-compatible with punchcards from the 1880s.

When I talk about the danger of #hacking #history online vanishing, and the importance of the Wayback Machine, this is the kind of jackass decision making I am talking about, among many other things.
https://gizmodo.com/cnet-deletes-thousands-old-articles-google-search-seo-1850721475

You deserve a cat pic today. Yes, you! You do!