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No AI, this is a real photo taken by Percy’s engineering cameras of astronomical twilight on #Mars! You can see Deimos in the sky too. I worked pretty hard to plan, execute, and analyze this image, and it came out beautifully! A bit noisy, but it was very dark out after all. #astro #planetary

submitted 42 days ago • 28 comments

New Power User episode out with @jasonkoebler.bsky.social about Massive Blue, the company helping cops deploy AI-powered social media bots to gather intel

submitted 56 days ago • 8 comments

A DOGE staffer involved in dismantling the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau holds as much as $365,000 worth of shares of companies that the CFPB can regulate. Ethics experts say his actions are a potential violation of federal ethics laws.

submitted 52 days ago • 108 comments

Facebook tracked when adolescent girls deleted selfies so it can serve a beauty ad to them at that moment. 😳

submitted 53 days ago • 36 comments

All this "fraud" and yet still not a single fraud charge filed.

submitted 77 days ago • 1204 comments

Like a rapist promising to be gentle as long as their victim doesn't fight back.

submitted 77 days ago • 0 comments

Men walked on the Moon - but women made the guidance computers that got them there and back. At the landing sites and command module crash sites the computers are evidence of a unique women's lunar heritage. 🧪🏺

submitted 84 days ago • 16 comments

NOAA’s office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research’s main contract for its websites was not approved for renewal, so I’m told we should expect some of them to start to go down. “Lutnick's position on every contract is ‘no’ and agency reps have roughly a minute and a half to convince him otherwise.”

submitted 83 days ago • 69 comments

They just fired the head of the NSA. I’m not sure what that means exactly, but in the Trump era I’d bet it’s not good.

submitted 83 days ago • 58 comments

This week word leaked that #HHS was hiring David Geier, a long-time vaccines critic who was disciplined for practicing medicine without a license to do a new study on vaccines & autism. Sen. Cassidy met RFK Jr. for breakfast today. Geier's hiring didn't come up. www.statnews.com/2025/03/27/r...

submitted 91 days ago • 150 comments

David Geier has apparently been commissioned by HHS secretary RFK, Jr. to study potential links between vaccination and autism. He and his father have 2 papers in 2017/2016 claiming to show Hep-B vaccination greatly increases risk of autism/obesity. However, their studies have FATAL FLAW...

submitted 92 days ago • 20 comments

So the guy leading RFK Jr.'s vaccine-autism study? A total quack who was previously charged for practicing medicine without a license for using chemical castration drugs on autistic children.

submitted 92 days ago • 147 comments

Michael looked better as a brunette

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Some artists suggested that we pin a summary of Glaze, Nightshade & other projects here. Instead, I will point them to Melissa Heikkilä's article on our lab and projects. It is the definitive story of who we are, how we got here, and why we do what we do. www.technologyreview.com/2024/11/13/1...

submitted 225 days ago • 160 comments

We've been busy in 2025 working on research deadlines and funding proposals. But I did a lengthy interview with Freakonomics radio, just released as audio and text transcript. It covers Bracelets of Silence, Fawkes, Glaze & Nightshade, thoughts on present & future. freakonomics.com/podcast/how-...

submitted 150 days ago • 5 comments

New: "Lobbyist And Government Contractor Bought JD Vance’s Home For $170,000 Over Asking Price" me, for @forbes.com 1/

submitted 94 days ago • 110 comments

Pete Hegseth promised to stop hitting the bottle when he got in office. ...which is why he now only drinks from the box.

submitted 94 days ago • 0 comments

Circling back on this…

submitted 94 days ago • 1995 comments

Crossing into the United States has become increasingly dangerous for digital privacy. Here are a few steps you can take to minimize the risk of Customs and Border Patrol accessing your data.

submitted 94 days ago • 24 comments

Not for nothing: Imagine you were one of our foreign intel partners, already concerned about US stability and trustworthiness of, say, Tulsi Gabbard. Read this and tell me what you would be thinking in terms of sharing secret intel with the US going forward….

submitted 94 days ago • 20 comments

It never got a lot of attention, but Aber put a WHOLE LOT of child predators w/ties to law enforcement in prison. www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/f...

submitted 95 days ago • 632 comments

I mean.

submitted 101 days ago • 2346 comments

anyway, this is Curtis Yarvin talking expressly about the motivation underlying the Trump Pentagon's shift to drone-centric warfare: they want a cryptographically verifiable thousand-year reich which excludes the possibility of popular revolt or democracy forever.

submitted 96 days ago • 249 comments

Musk arrives at the Pentagon for his briefing - www.reuters.com/world/us/elo...

submitted 97 days ago • 1 comment

Guy filmed himself raping minors to sell as child pornography. www.huffpost.com/entry/maga-r...

submitted 98 days ago • 159 comments

Holy shit. Republican Harriet Hagemen got torn apart at a town hall in Wyoming last night. In a state that voted for Trump by 46 points. She tried defending DOGE and it went as well as you’d imagine. “Deport Elon, Deport Elon!” Watch to the end…

submitted 98 days ago • 619 comments

Someone gave me a bunch of credits to xAi’s API so I made a website that finds a random Musk related news story and makes Grok talk shit I ain’t payin for more credits so have at it until it dies. It’s kind of fun

submitted 99 days ago • 4 comments

mRNA vaccines are legit a near-miracle tech, there's one in testing that might be able to cure pancreatic cancer, and this fucking degenerate might take them from us arstechnica.com/health/2025/...

submitted 100 days ago • 221 comments

Very brave. I only represent Republicans, not all Americans in my district. Hopefully those independent voters will let him know how they feel about this when he runs for Senate.

submitted 99 days ago • 910 comments

MAGA doesn't need NOAA or NWS. They determine the weather by simply pissing into the wind, as the lord intended.

submitted 99 days ago • 0 comments

1/🧵 Judges across ideological lines are ruling against Trump at strikingly similar rates (84% liberal, 86% centrist, 82% conservative). This isn't partisan opposition to Trump—it's the judiciary functioning as intended by cutting across partisan lines to uphold the Constitution.

submitted 99 days ago • 197 comments

old enough to remember that before he was cosplaying as a genius businessman he was pretending to be a literal scientist and had the Kara Swishers of the world spend years calling him the new Edison and a genius inventor and all kinds of other cringe stuff, dunno why we never talk about that anymore

submitted 100 days ago • 41 comments

There's been goddamn stupid parts of the war on terror/drugs, but this seems like the natural conclusion of both. Declaring a common medically used substance a WMD just to get a cassus belli.

submitted 100 days ago • 0 comments

The FTC has removed blogs and guidance issued during the Biden administration. The removed posts include important consumer protection information, and posts critical of Amazon, Microsoft, and AI companies. From @makenakelly.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/federa...

submitted 100 days ago • 3 comments

Hi, I'm the guy who used to oversee the federal government's agency IT telecommunications contracts. This is extremely bad. There is absolutely no need for this. Not only is it a huge security exposure, but the simplest explanation for this is that it is meant to be a security exposure.

submitted 100 days ago • 599 comments