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DefCon 34 - Stalking the Wily Hacker: 40 years later - Cliff Stoll
One of the best DefCon talks ever. May go down as a classic.
The ACLU Is Arming Lawyers to Expose State Surveillance Secrets
Archive: https://archive.ph/9FwUX
ACLU Surveilllance Discovery Project: https://www.aclum.org/campaigns-initiatives/surveillance-discovery-project/
https://www.wired.com/story/the-aclu-is-arming-lawyers-to-expose-state-surveillance-secrets/Open linkView original on lemmy.world
Elon Musk’s Colossus 2 data center installed 59 natural gas turbines without permission, report claims — thousands of tons of pollutants reportedly impact black communities in Mississippi already suff
https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/data-centers/elon-musks-colossus-2-data-center-installed-59-natural-gas-turbines-without-permission-report-claims-thousands-of-tons-of-pollutants-reportedly-impact-black-communities-in-mississippi-already-suffering-from-elevated-lung-disease-ratesOpen linkView original on lemmy.world
Are You Just a .md File? The SaaSpocalypse Survival Scanner
Try a random startup from the Spring 2025 batch of Y-Combinator VC: https://www.extruct.ai/data-room/ycombinator-companies-x25/
What's in The Box?
Cosmas Indicopleustes, a 6th Century traveler and author of Christian Topography, believed the world was not only flat, but that it fit inside a 'box' with a curved lid. It was surrounded by water routes (the ocean), and contained the tallest mountain peak that went up to heavens.
Having to figure out how 'night' and 'day' worked, he came up with the explanation that 'angels' moved the sun behind and in front of the mountain.
His world was bounded by the coast of East Africa, northern Mediterranean, Central Asia, and present-day Sri Lanka (hence, the box).
It turned out this was because these were the only places he had ever gone through his travels.
