Quick shoutout to a new project called FediAid, it's boosting mutual aid posts so requests can have a wider reach. They will also be providing other resources down the line.
➡️ @FediAid
NOTE: Just to make clear, despite the similar names this project has no connection to me, I'm just giving them a shoutout 🙂
Growing up in Chicago, Chakena D. Perry knew not to trust the water coming out of her tap.
“It was just one of these unspoken truths within households like mine
— low-income, Black households
— that there was some sort of distrust with the water,” said Perry,
who later learned that Chicago is the city with the most lead service lines in the country.
“No one really talked about it, but we never used our tap for just regular drinking.”
Now, as a senior policy advocate for the Natural Resources Defense Council,
Perry is part of a coalition that fought for stricter rules to force cities like Chicago to remove their toxic lead pipes faster.
Last year, advocates celebrated a big win:
The Biden administration’s Environmental Protection Agency mandated that water systems across the country replace all their lead service lines.
Under the new rule, most water systems will have 10 years to complete replacements,
while Chicago will likely get just over 20, starting in 2027,
when that requirement kicks in.
But the city’s replacement plan, submitted to the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency in April per state law and obtained through a public records request,
puts it 30 years behind that timeline.
Chicago’s plan adheres to state law and an outdated EPA rule from the first Trump administration.
It aims to replace the city’s estimated 412,000 lead service lines by 2076
— completing 8,300 replacements annually for 50 years, starting in 2027.
The latest federal rule requires Chicago to replace nearly 20,000 pipes per year beginning in 2027
— more than double the speed of the city’s current plan.
Documents show city officials are aware of the new requirements,
but have not yet updated their plans.
A delayed timeline will expose many more children and adults to the risk of toxic drinking water,
and rising temperatures from climate change may exacerbate the risk by causing more lead to leach off pipes and into water.
https://grist.org/accountability/chicago-lead-pipe-service-line-replacement-plan-epa/
Mitochondria don’t just power your cells, they also help your immune system detect and trap bacteria.
Here’s the cool #science behind how they sense infections and what that might mean for treating #autoimmune disease and boosting immunity:
Protestation
ICE, CBP, CoreCivic, Geo Group. Personnel in all of these should be individually charged for crimes. Will it ever happen? Nothing happened after the traumatic kidnappings done during the first criminal Trump regime. They stole thousands of kids, kept no records, and some of those kids were never rejoined with their families. Is this American justice? Apparently it is. https://www.texastribune.org/2025/06/21/texas-family-detention-adults-kids-fighting/
When you really boil it down, there are two types of people on the political spectrum:
- Those that are capable of having empathy for those that are different than themselves.
- And those that are incapable.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/27/supreme-court-lgbt-book-ban-case-ruling
Fun fact: You don't have to do any of this when travelling to the evil, socialist, anti-free-speech China, EU, etc.
I know, I know,
that with everything else
it is so easy these days to be
bored of Covid,
but be that as it may
please be careful,
for you may be
bored of Covid,
but unfortunately this virus
is not yet bored of you.
SC declaring children have no rights that the law is bound to respect. they're just vessels for whatever ideology their parents want to instill. legally rightless empty drones..
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:b2zlnxrfackjw5h3lbemyqg5/post/3lslvz6q5hs2d
The best trick the wealthy 1% have ever pulled off is to convince the politically vocal (and influential) next 20% that one day they could be super wealthy too, and so increases in tax on the current wealthy, are really increases of tax on their future wealth....
By the time the 20% realise the 1% have made sure they'll never get that wealthy a new generation is waiting to be hoodwinked!
Denmark to tackle deepfakes by giving people copyright to their own features
#AI
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jun/27/deepfakes-denmark-copyright-law-artificial-intelligence
3/ Stern:
KBJ, in dissent, calls today's ruling "profoundly dangerous" and an "existential threat to the rule of law." She expresses her "deep disillusionment" with the court and suggests that the conservative supermajority continues to crown Trump a king above law. https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24pdf/24a884_8n59.pdf
13/ Adam Serwer:
This is a monstrous court that has decided that it agrees with Stephen Miller that America is a nation by and for white people and everyone else is just a guest whose invite can be rescinded at their leisure
Cybercriminals are abusing LLMs to help them with hacking activities
https://www.techradar.com/pro/security/cybercriminals-are-abusing-llms-to-help-them-with-hacking-activities?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into TechRadar: The Full Screen @techradar-the-full-screen-TechRadar
"Increasingly (possibly as an outgrowth of their willingness to serve as data mules for his Truth Social tweets), news outlets treat Donald Trump’s mere act of saying something as news. There’s an interesting example in the NYT that shows how doing so wildly distorts the workings of what democracy America has left:" How the Newslettification of News Reifies Trump's Power Rather than Exposing His Lies - emptywheel https://www.emptywheel.net/2025/06/27/how-the-newslettification-of-news-reifies-trumps-power-rather-than-exposing-his-lies/
US Department of Defense will stop sending critical hurricane satellite data
No replacement in the wings for info streamed from past their prime rigs, 'termination will be permanent' Satellite data used for hurricane forecasting is to be abruptly cut off from the end of June due to "recent service changes."…
#theregister #IT
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2025/06/27/us_hurricane_satellite_data_to_stop/
Microsoft security advisories, posted yesterday, affecting six Chromium-based Edge vulnerabilities.
Microsoft security update guide: https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide #Microsoft #cybersecurity #infosec #Chromium
It's not just in the AI space. I routinely see people make moral judgments that some technology is good merely because it is "open".
Nope.
I'll do you one better. I would rather use a proprietary code product that was developed ethically with ethical end user intentions, than use an open code product that was developed unethically with unethical end user intentions.
Open is not synonymous with good.
The countdown to the weekend begins with Five for Friday by Sherpa Intelligence 💃🕺🪩
Read five #InfoSec & #DataPrivacy news items from this past week that you may have missed.
Five for Friday for June 27, 2025 🌟
https://sherpaintelligence.substack.com/p/five-for-friday-27-june-2025
"Hundreds of users tagged X's integrated AI bot Grok to ask: Is this real?
It's not — the video was created with generative AI. But Grok's responses varied wildly, sometimes minute to minute. "The video likely shows real damage," said one response; "likely not authentic," said another."
https://www.npr.org/2025/06/26/nx-s1-5442682/ai-chatbots-fact-check-videos-images-israel-iran
