Australia To Put Environmental Brakes On AI Data Centers https://slashdot.org/story/26/07/17/2142206/australia-to-put-environmental-brakes-on-ai-data-centers?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon

@cwebber
My biggest thought from your post is: disciplined use of dangerous materials & methods.
You finish with a driving example. I've noticed in the last 15 years, drivers became increasingly more careless. IMO It's because vehicles are safer than ever before. (A runaway dog's life was saved recently because my car hit the brake faster than I could.)
Yet, I still drive like I'm in the 1981 Corolla I learned in.
People need to use LLM-gen-AI like it's a '81 Corolla even if it's the latest EV.

@somebody i forgive you because the dark night of the soul tests us all

@catsalad Ma'am you need to stop spreading the secrets of NetOps folk

Trump has signed a little-noticed national security directive identifying
“anti-Christian” and “anti-American” views as
indicators of radical left violence.

Called National Security Presidential Memorandum 7,
it’s being referred to as “NSPM-7” by administration insiders.

“This is the first time in American history that there is an
all-of-government effort to dismantle left wing terrorism,”
Trump’s homeland security advisor Stephen Miller said,
referring to the issuance.

To the extent that the major media noticed the directive at all, they (even C-SPAN!) incorrectly labeled it an “executive order,”
like this week’s designation of “Antifa” as a domestic terrorist organization.

👉 It’s hard to overstate how much different NSPM-7 is from the over 200 executive orders Trump has frantically signed since coming back into office.

An executive order publicly lays out the course of day-to-day federal government operations;
⭐️whereas a national security directive is a sweeping policy decree for the defense, foreign policy, intelligence, and law enforcement apparatus.

National security directives are often secret, but in this case the Trump administration chose to publish NSPM-7
— only the seventh since he’s come into office.

President George W. Bush signed a series of classified national security directives after 9/11,
the most famous of which authorized NSA’s unlawful domestic intercepts,
a directive that wasn’t publicly revealed until four years later.

In NSPM-7,
“Countering Domestic Terrorism and Organized Political Violence,” Trump directs the Justice Department, the FBI, and other national security agencies and departments to fight his version of political violence in America,

retooling a network of Joint Terrorism Task Forces to focus on
“leftist” political violence in America.

This vast counterterrorism army, made up of federal, state, and local agents would,
as Trump aide Stephen Miller said,
form “the central hub of that effort.”

NSPM-7 directs a new national strategy to “disrupt” any individual or groups
“that foment political violence,”
🔥including “before they result in violent political acts.”

In other words, they’re targeting 💥pre-crime,
to reference Minority Report.

The Trump administration isn’t only targeting organizations or groups
but even individuals and “entities” whom NSPM-7 says can be identified by any of the following “indicia” (indicators) of violence:

anti-Americanism,
anti-capitalism,
anti-Christianity,
support for the overthrow of the United States Government,
extremism on migration,
extremism on race,
extremism on gender
hostility towards those who hold traditional American views on family,
hostility towards those who hold traditional American views on religion, and
hostility towards those who hold traditional American views on morality.

https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/trumps-nspm-7-labels-common-beliefs

@springdiesel
> If we just do these things and trust each other, it works out. No ledgers needed

I love Graeber's description (in Debt, I think?) of a village society in which women routinely trade in herbs and spices and other domestic condiments, with the implicit goal of *not* balancing a ledger. The rudest thing you can do to someone in this society is settle your account, effectively telling them you intend to have nothing more to do with them.

@h4ckernews

Consumer 👏 electronics 👏 companies 👏 don't 👏 take 👏 security 👏 seriously!

@gullevek @tshirtman A country is not a piece of land. A country is a history, culture(s), and ideologies, yes.

@mjd you don't see "unique among all animals" in ribosomes all that often

Now that the CEO of Flock has called deflock.me a terrorist organization, I'd hate for other people to know about these other flock watchdog groups.

Please don't go on these websites, I beg you.

https://Alpr.wtf - Every U.S. jurisdiction using ALPR, plus how to file info requests.

https://EyesOnFlock.com - Crowdsourced map of Flock cameras and city contracts.

https://Deflock.me - Nationwide ALPR map tracking Flock deployments, removals, and resistance.

https://HaveIBeenFlocked.com — Quick check to see if Flock is watching your neighborhood.

https://DontGetFlocked.com — Plots your route, counts ALPR/Flock cameras, and suggests surveillance-free alternatives.

#flock #surveillance #uspol #police #politics #ai #noai #facialrecognition

@jonny the fix always seems to be "pretty please don't make mistakes"

@KerryMitchell @jimbob "F-50" lmao

Flying Blind is an excellent book about the rapid erosion of the engineering culture that sustained Boeing for decades. One of the tangible examples they highlighted was that teams were rewarded for assembly line velocity and individuals who called out quality issues were targeted.

https://www.museumofflightstore.org/flying-blind-the-737-max-tragedy.html

Everyone’s level of socialization may vary but as social creatures it’s good for our hearts(literally & figuratively) to find & occasionally stretch our social skills.

TP-Link Kasa cameras leaked home GPS via unauthenticated UDP for 6 years

https://github.com/BadChemical/IoT-Vulnerability-Research-Public/blob/main/TP-Link_Kasa_EC71/Kasa_EC71.md

Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48952565

#HackerNews #TPLink #Kasa #IoT #Vulnerability #HomeSecurity #CyberSecurity #Privacy

“We report the unexpected discovery that octopuses possess structurally unique ribosomes that enhance the accuracy of protein synthesis compared with ribosomes from all other tested animals.”

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.06.25.734654v1.full

#octopus

@mjd what the hell that is awesome

@mattblaze Very well. We shall resume in an hour.