I can certainly understand why some might feel the best explanation for such spectacularly damaging stupidity and destruction is that they're either being paid by some malign foreign actor or simply want to destroy the US as a world power. (I don't hold that view myself though; I think it's much worse than that.) This is, I think, possibly the most directly stupid things they've done so far, as well as simply evil with a small 'e', because as soon as the first unexpected RI leads to a cat 5 landfall in a densely populated but unprepared and unwarned area, the blame for the deaths and destruction is going to go in one direction.

My preemptive condolences to those who'll be bereaved in the next few years.

https://michaelrlowry.substack.com/p/noaa-proposes-permanently-closing

#NOAA #hurricanes #meteorology #climate #WarOnScience #Trump #DOGE #sabotage #USA

Incomprehensible USG self-sabotage. The combination of arrogance, stupidity and ignorance required to burn down hurricane and weather forecasting -- IN THE FIRST WEEKS OF THE HURRICANE SEASON?! -- will, incontrovertibly, kill people. I hope their surviving friends, family, coworkers etc get together and sue those responsible into smoking holes in the ground.

#NHC #NWS #NOAA #DOGE #hurricanes #weather #Trump

https://www.ospo.noaa.gov/data/messages/2025/06/MSG_20250625_1735.html

Timecube guy's getting hammered in a dive bar RN.

https://phys.org/news/2025-06-theory-dimensions-space-secondary-effect.amp

I've had a lot of respect and liking for Emily Thornbury for years, regardless of differing affiliations and policy preferences. But for answering a question about the PIP bill saying "it's a big document, its all financial detail rather than organisational, I haven't read it properly yet and when I comment it will be an informed comment" (approx words, not a transcript) she gets a gold star from me.

Politician in "Saying they don't have an informed opinion answer yet" shock! She's exactly the kind of politician we need RN. Tho' I'm almost glad Starmer didn't give her a ministerial job, as it opens up what she can say a bit more. (To be clear, when she DOES have an informed answer, IMO it's rational, based on facts and solid principles, and often particularly insightful and cogent. Even if she DOES come to the wrong conclusion, I respect how she got there.)

#EmilyThornberry #BBCNewsnight #Newsnight #democraticDecline #democracy

What a hot mess.

Climate change dashboard updated through last month: https://zacklabe.com/climate-change-indicators/

8 June 1943 | A transport of 880 Jews deported from the ghetto from Thessaloniki in German-occupied Greece arrived at #Auschwitz.

After the arrival selection 220 men and 88 women were registered in the camp The remaining 572 people were murdered in a gas chamber.

@krypt3ia I wish they'd just do what the voices in their heads are telling them to do and declare all anti-ICE protests and demonstrations to be terrorism

@krypt3ia Ohhh no, there's much further to go yet.

@dalperovitch This'll be the "allies in certain respects, enemies in certain respects" phenomena Vlad Vexler talks about.

@knotfeed That drone stat is beyond absurd.

Do the #BBC hand over website news stories to the work experience kids at the weekend, or something? This is embarrassingly bad.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn7zngr6jn5o

Yale Climate Connections (YCC) is an excellent resource for anyone interested in climate and extreme weather, and among other things they host the Jeff Masters / Bob Henson "Eye on the Storm" blog, which ran under another name on the old #Wunderground site. I don't need social media, I have the EotS comments section. Their coverage of #hurricanes during the season is superb, with both lifesaving information for people in harm's way, and deep technical expertise. Anyway, it's effing awesome, but #YCC lost a big source of funding because Trump, so now they need donations. I've given what I can; any generous multi-millionaires who'd like to do a bit more good, please go here:
https://yaleclimateconnections.org/donate/

@StOnSoftware @geraldew @jasongorman

One of the reasons I quit infosec. No-one's ever pleased to see you, because you only ever bring them bad news.

@robinadams @jasongorman Oh, really? Well I didn't know that.

Is SQL Turing-complete, then? I don't recall anyone hacking Oracle to run Doom...

@bellinghman @jasongorman Thin clients were supposed to present a full desktop environment including apps, weren't they? Embedded systems (like card readers) were a thing long before that.

Oh dear, it just occured to me I'm so old I remember when digital watches were a pretty neat idea.

@geraldew @jasongorman always good to learn something, go for it!

This would have been c.1995-97 or so IIRC? I was busy trying to get into an IT career by reading everything I could get my hands on (pre-web) - my employer's copies of Network World and Computer Weekly, mostly.

Perhaps we need a Campaign for Natural Intelligence. Dang, the acronym's already taken ("Critical National Infrastructure")

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c15q5qzdjqxo

Wasn't some sort of rebellion or campaign against machine cognition a thing in a 60s - 70s SF short story? Or am I thinking of Asimov? (Is it time for my nap, yet?)

#AI #NaturalIntelligence #CNI #LuddResurgamEst #SF #sciencefiction

@jasongorman Whatever happened to datacubes, anyway? Or the NC and thin clients? 4GL? RAD?

Having lived and worked through multiple computing industry hype cycles, I've learned to be wary of calls - nay, *demands* - for us all to use a solution that don't mention any actual problem.

@Josteglitz @randahl It comes up fairly regularly on the "Ukraine: The Latest" podcast (which shows that even terminally clickbaity hard-right culture war rags like the Telegraph still have some proper journalists.) Another good source is Mark Galeotti's "In Moscow's Shadows"

https://youtube.com/@telegraph?si=X7MjxXrlz-8YdLId (scroll past the clickbait, look for the Ukrainian flag)

https://inmoscowsshadows.buzzsprout.com/1026985/episodes

It also sounds like a topic Perun might cover in one of his weekly PowerPoint YT videos, tho I can't recall a specific one. https://youtube.com/@perunau?si=CFQIlumKo87JUNiD