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seattle·Seattlebykalkulat

A walking tour of surveillance infrastructure in Seattle

"Each surveillance technology in our field guide includes the following categories to help you “spot” surveillance technology in the wild: Address, Appearance, What it does, How the tech works, Social importance, Discussion and finally, References"

Learning to spot these things might be useful anywhere they're used ?

https://coveillance.org/a-walking-tour-of-surveillance-infrastructure-in-seattle/Open linkView original on lemmy.world
news·Newsbykalkulat

Leaving America

"What’s different in the last two years is the ease with which Americans can find writers, historians, and good Samaritans sharing their tips and hard truths online for planning to move. An entirely new genre has emerged that’s part survival manual, part dispatch from beyond a deteriorating state. Those resources aside, the process is anything but easy and frictionless. Still, there is a sense of possibility"

Leaving Americahttps://bittersoutherner.com/issue-no-13/leaving-americaOpen linkView original on lemmy.world

Why SETI Might Have Been Missing Alien Signals

"Stellar activity and plasma turbulence near a transmitting planet can broaden an otherwise ultra-narrow signal, spreading its power across more frequencies and making it more difficult to detect in traditional narrowband searches."

Science paper: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ae3d33

Review article: https://www.theregister.com/2026/03/10/seti_admits_its_search_for/

Broadening of specral lines info: http://www.hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/Atomic/broaden.html

Why SETI Might Have Been Missing Alien Signalshttps://www.seti.org/news/why-seti-might-have-been-missing-alien-signals/Open linkView original on lemmy.world
technology·Technologybykalkulat

Euro firms must ditch Uncle Sam's clouds and go EU-native

"You don't need a DEA warrant or a Justice Department subpoena to see the trend: Europe's 90‑plus‑percent dependency on US cloud infrastructure, as former European Commission advisor Cristina Caffarra put it, is a single‑shock‑event security nightmare waiting to rupture the EU's digital stability."

Euro firms must ditch Uncle Sam's clouds and go EU-nativehttps://www.theregister.com/2026/01/30/euro_firms_must_ditch_us/Open linkView original on lemmy.world
sciencefiction·Science Fictionbykalkulat

The Empire Never Ended: Philip K Dick, Valis, and the Psychopathology of War

" He's talking about the Roman Empire. In some form or another, the Roman Empire has continued to flourish, long after its apparent demise, taking on various disguises....

It may not be literally true, but psychologically, spiritually, economically, militarily, you might say, THE EMPIRE really has NEVER ENDED....

I've believed for years that the modern day Catholic church is the present heir to the Roman Empire, that in the 4th century AD the Roman Empire did not fall so much as it incorporated the might of the barbarian warlord and civilized them with the Christian message so that they would become warriors for God, and more importantly, for Rome instead of against her. "

https://discover.hubpages.com/religion-philosophy/War-Is-A-RacketOpen linkView original on lemmy.world
technology·Technologybykalkulat

Electrolysis can solve one of our biggest contamination problems

"persistent organic pollutants (POPs) are so chemically stable that they remain in soil, water and organisms for decades.... Using an innovative electrochemical method, they are not only able to break down these long-lived pollutants but also to convert them into valuable raw materials for the chemical industry."

Electrolysis can solve one of our biggest contamination problemshttps://ethz.ch/en/news-and-events/eth-news/news/2025/11/electrolysis-can-solve-one-of-our-biggest-contamination-problems.htmlOpen linkView original on lemmy.world
technology·Technologybykalkulat

Grid-Scale Bubble Batteries Will Soon Be Everywhere

"This giant bubble on the island of Sardinia holds 2,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide. But the gas wasn’t captured from factory emissions, nor was it pulled from the air. It came from a gas supplier.... "The facility compresses and expands CO2 daily in its closed system, turning a turbine that generates 200 megawatt-hours of electricity, or 20 MW over 10 hours."

Grid-Scale Bubble Batteries Will Soon Be Everywherehttps://spectrum.ieee.org/co2-battery-energy-storageOpen linkView original on lemmy.world