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Kevin Beaumont<p>United States Disappeared Tracker</p><p><a href="https://public.tableau.com/app/profile/danielleharlow/viz/UnitedStatesDisappearedTracker/Map" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">public.tableau.com/app/profile</span><span class="invisible">/danielleharlow/viz/UnitedStatesDisappearedTracker/Map</span></a></p>
Dan Goodin<p>A prominent computer scientist who has spent 20 years publishing academic papers on cryptography, privacy, and cybersecurity has gone incommunicado, had his professor profile, email account, and phone number removed by his employer Indiana University, and had his homes raided by the FBI. No one knows why.</p><p><a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/XiaofengWang" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>XiaofengWang</span></a> Xiaofeng Wang</p><p><a href="https://arstechnica.com/security/2025/03/computer-scientist-goes-silent-after-fbi-raid-and-purging-from-university-website/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">arstechnica.com/security/2025/</span><span class="invisible">03/computer-scientist-goes-silent-after-fbi-raid-and-purging-from-university-website/</span></a></p>
Ars Technica<p>Computer scientist goes silent after FBI raid and purging from University website<br />Indiana University quietly removes profile of tenured professor and refuses to say why.<br /><a href="https://arstechnica.com/security/2025/03/computer-scientist-goes-silent-after-fbi-raid-and-purging-from-university-website/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">arstechnica.com/security/2025/</span><span class="invisible">03/computer-scientist-goes-silent-after-fbi-raid-and-purging-from-university-website/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social</span></a></p>
evacide<p>I did a lot of talks on student surveillance last year, including talks aimed at college administrations trying, to convince them that turning the campus into a surveillance state was not a good idea. I have not been invited to do a single talk on student surveillance in 2025 for some reason.</p><p><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/29/us/universities-students-search-warrants.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">nytimes.com/2025/03/29/us/univ</span><span class="invisible">ersities-students-search-warrants.html</span></a></p>
(((Cindy Weinstein)))<p>You read that right. 75% of scientists are considering leaving the US. Forgive me (not really) if I'm struggling to understand exactly how this is making the US anything other than diminished, stupid, and ill.</p><p><a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-00938-y" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">nature.com/articles/d41586-025</span><span class="invisible">-00938-y</span></a></p><p><a href="https://zirk.us/tags/NSF" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NSF</span></a> <br><a href="https://zirk.us/tags/NIH" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NIH</span></a> <br><a href="https://zirk.us/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USPol</span></a><br><a href="https://zirk.us/tags/Science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Science</span></a></p>
Prof. Sam Lawler<p>The complete bliss of a new hay bale (they were actually making yummy noises while stuffing their faces into the bale to get the best parts, super cute)</p>
Jonathan<p>Bernie Sanders @SenSanders • 2d<br /> We must demand that the extremely<br />wealthy pay their fair share. Period.</p><p>Elon Musk @elonmusk • 2d<br /> I keep forgetting that you're still alive</p><p>ChongsCalls @ChongsCalls<br /> The richest person in the world<br />shitting on the nicest person in the<br />world is capitalism summed up in two<br />tweets.</p>
George Takei :verified: 🏳️🌈🖖🏽<p>And yet Joe Rogan puts guests on who say "Vaccines aren't actually responsible for the reduction in infectious diseases.”</p>
Steve Herman<p>Here’s tonight’s 60 Minutes piece on the silencing of the Voice of America. <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/video/voice-of-america-sunday-on-60-minutes/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">cbsnews.com/video/voice-of-ame</span><span class="invisible">rica-sunday-on-60-minutes/</span></a></p>
Church of Jeff<p><a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/GenerativeAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GenerativeAI</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/artists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>artists</span></a></p><p><a href="https://www.facebook.com/joewos" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">facebook.com/joewos</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
John Overholt<p>I’m not going to say there’s a lot of overlap between digital preservation librarianship and knitting, because this post says it more clearly than I ever could. <a href="https://digitalpreservation-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/knitting-through-digital-decay-a-collection-of-digital-preservation-jumpers-no-one-asked-for-but-478c48009521" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">digitalpreservation-blog.lib.c</span><span class="invisible">am.ac.uk/knitting-through-digital-decay-a-collection-of-digital-preservation-jumpers-no-one-asked-for-but-478c48009521</span></a><br>Via <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://researchbuzz.masto.host/@researchbuzz" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>Researchbuzz</span></a></span></p>
Nowhere Girl<p>I find it weird how many people refuse to believe we live in a racial and gender caste system whose wealthy white nobility control both major political parties. </p><p>White Americans are so heavily propagandized and so inclined to go along because they think they're proximal to power.</p>
Aaron J. Waltke<p>There’s an ongoing joke in Star Trek where replicator food is considered inferior to hand prepared meals.</p><p>Replicator rations are perfectly balanced, produce exactly what asked for down to the molecule. Nothing more, nothing less. </p><p>But it is soulless.</p><p>Anyway, thinking about AI.</p>
EXTREMEWEATHER.CLUB<p>Incredible structure near Öhringen, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Germany" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Germany</span></a> by Unwetter-Freaks ⚡ More from Unwetter-Freaks: <a href="https://bit.ly/unwetterfreaks" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">bit.ly/unwetterfreaks</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
Harold S<p>Proposed California ballot initiative ‘Luigi Mangione Act’ would make it harder for insurers to deny medical care | KTLA <br><a href="https://ktla.com/news/california/proposed-california-ballot-initiative-luigi-mangione-act-would-make-it-harder-for-insurers-to-deny-medical-care/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">ktla.com/news/california/propo</span><span class="invisible">sed-california-ballot-initiative-luigi-mangione-act-would-make-it-harder-for-insurers-to-deny-medical-care/</span></a></p>
Old Book Illustrations<p>Crown imperial.<br />Maurice Pillard Verneuil, from "La plante et ses applications ornementales" by Eugène Grasset, Paris: [ca. 1896] <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/illustration" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>illustration</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/art" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>art</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/design" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>design</span></a> <a href="https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/crown-imperial/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">oldbookillustrations.com/illus</span><span class="invisible">trations/crown-imperial/</span></a></p>
Jeff Jarvis<p>Nine cops to protect one swasticar.</p>
Star Trek Minus Context<p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/StarTrek" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>StarTrek</span></a></p>
Radley Balko<p>NYU canceled a planned speech by the former president of Doctors Without Borders because she planned to discuss the humanitarian crisis in Gaza and cuts to US AID.
This is what actual campus censorship looks like.<br><br><a href="https://www.ctvnews.ca/montreal/article/climate-of-fear-montreal-doctor-says-nyu-cancelled-her-presentation/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">‘Climate of fear’: Montreal do...</a></p>
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