In step with 'Project 2025', which seeks to undermine and erase climate science, Trump is trying to shut down the Mauna Loa Observatory in Hawaii. It is trying to do this through the aggressive defunding of NOAA. Data collected by this observatory since 1958 has been central to nearly every report ever published on our changing climate. Our home planet may soon lose a canonical reference that it is warming. https://edition.cnn.com/2025/07/01/climate/trump-cuts-mauna-loa-keeling #climate #misinformation

Australian man interrogated at LA airport and deported back to Melbourne for his writings about pro-Palestine protests. His social media posts, too, which he said he deleted before flying, were used as material. "Clearly, they had technology in their system which linked those posts to my Esta … a long time before I took them down,” he said. “Because they knew all about the posts, and then interrogated me about the posts once I was there.”

the Guardian

Australian deported from US says he was ‘targeted’ due to writing on pro-Palestine student protests

Alistair Kitchen says he was detained and questioned about views on Israel and Palestine before being deported from LA to Melbourne

Eager to talk to studied #Permacomputing folk about the possibility of a (streamed) lecture on the topic in the next few months. It would be an intro to the topic to an audience of mixed technical literacy, with little or no knowledge of the field.

A fascinating example of inadvertently breaking a broad signal domain, and at a huge scale: "According to local internet service providers (ISPs), HMAS Canberra's navigation radar began interfering with 5GHz wireless access points - devices that bridge wired and wireless networks - in regions on both New Zealand's North and South Islands at around 2am." https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/563357/hmas-canberra-accidentally-blocks-wireless-internet-and-radio-services-in-new-zealand

Meta have been asking some users to confirm their identity with a 'video selfie', & for supposed account recovery. Soon, more users will be asked with threat of blocking or deleting their account as Meta prepares to launch their facial recog glasses (soon on shelves). But it's not just about feeding their new product. Meta are harvesting biometric data on a vast scale, perhaps globally, & in full cohort with a dangerous regime. Leaving Meta is an important act of resistance, now more than ever

Overjoyed to see our 2011 Critical Engineering Manifesto tooled up for our times, in this powerful reading by Charlotte Kent for the Brooklyn Rail

The State of AI Agents | The Brooklyn Rail

Artists’ recent approaches to machinic agents showcase the designed attributes of different systems. Artist and environmental engineer Tega Brain...

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