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💧🌏 Greg Cocks

A Google-Backed… [Satellite] To [Help] Battle Wildfires Made It Into Orbit
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techcrunch.com/2025/03/17/a-go <-- shared technical article
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sites.research.google/gr/wildf <-- shared Google FireSat home page
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youtu.be/pmQlXLaHT_Y?si=q3wM80 <-- shared video overview of FireSat
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earthfirealliance.org/ <-- shared Earth Fire Alliance home page
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[this post should not be considered an endorsement of this product]
#GIS #spatial #mapping #FireSat #monitoring #fire #wildfire #EarthFireAlliance #Google #satellite #remotesensing #earthobservation #detection #tracking #earlywarning #multispectral #infrared #spatialanalysis #spatiotemporal #risk #hazard #climatechange #extremeweather #impacts #humanimpacts #infrastructure #damage #AI #machinelearning #emergencyresponse #model #modeling
@Google @GoogleResearch @EarthFireAlliance @MuonSpace

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Nonilex

The two *leaders* spoke by phone Tues morning & discussed the need for "a lasting peace agreement" as well as " improved bilateral relations between the #UnitedStates & #Russia," acc/to a White House stmnt.
"The leaders agreed that the movement to peace will begin with an #energy & #infrastructure #ceasefire, as well as technical negotiations on implementation of a maritime ceasefire in the #BlackSea, full ceasefire & permanent peace. These negotiations will begin immediately in the #MiddleEast”

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Nonilex

…It was…unclear if #Starlink communications were #encrypted. At a minimum, the system allows for a network separate from existing WH servers that people on the grounds are able to use, keeping that data separate.

“It’s super rare” to install Starlink or another #internet provider as a replacement for existing govt #infrastructure that has been vetted & secured, said Jake Williams, a VP for R&D at Hunter Strategy, a #cybersecurity consultancy. “I can’t think of a time that I have heard of that.”

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Zhi Zhu 🕸️

Social Security Employees Warn of Damage From #DOGE

Current & former employees, both #Republican & #Democratic, are raising alarms about the damage cost-cutting efforts could do to the agency’s ability to serve the public.
nytimes.com/2025/03/17/busines

"Many current & former Social Security officials fear the cuts could create gaping holes in the agency’s #infrastructure, destabilizing the program, which keeps millions of people out of #poverty"

Headline from The New York Times: Social Security Employees Warn of Damage From DOGE Current and former employees, both Republican and Democratic, are raising alarms about the damage cost-cutting efforts could do to the agency’s ability to serve the public.
#Musk#Trump#GOP
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Mlíkařův foťák

Light damage on #SilentSunday, Feb '25

#ADHDMoment - I am rewinding film and suddenly a car honks in the distance. I let go of the rewind crank lever, look around what is happening, find out that nothing is going on, so I return to the crank and alas - zero resistance, the film must be back in the cartrige! I open the film door and gets greeted by half wound film...

Developed+scanned by filmstore.cz

#Photography #FilmPhotography @FilmPhotography@a.gup.pe #Train #Infrastructure #TrainSpotting

The image shows a black and white scene of a railway station with multiple train tracks converging towards the station in the background. There is a train on one of the tracks to the right. Overhead electrical lines and supporting poles are visible. Buildings can be seen in the distance, and there is graffiti on a wall to the right. There is a significant light damage on the left.
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Zhi Zhu 🕸️

$42.5 Billion Broadband Grant Program Being Rewritten To Benefit Elon Musk
techdirt.com/2025/03/12/42-5-b

"there are $42.5 billion in broadband #grants... courtesy of the 2021 #infrastructure bill. The #GOP voted against the bill, but have repeatedly... taken credit for its looming #benefits among our broadly misinformed electorate. And, as we predicted, they’re now redrafting key components of the program to the direct benefit of #ElonMusk"

Headline and text(edited for length): $42.5 Billion Broadband Grant Program Being Rewritten To Benefit Elon Musk from the and-by-"fix"-it-I-mean-smashing-it-to-bits dept Wed, Mar 12th 2025 05:35am - Karl Bode ...there are $42.5 billion in broadband grants headed to the states courtesy of the 2021 infrastructure bill. The GOP voted against the bill, but have repeatedly... taken credit for its looming benefits among our broadly misinformed electorate... they’re now redrafting key components of the program to the direct benefit of Elon Musk. To ensure that the $42.5 billion taxpayer money was spent wisely, the bill included numerous provisions, including a recommendation that states try to prioritize the funding of fiber. Because higher capacity fiber is generally future proof, whereas satellite services like Starlink are congested, expensive, harm the environment, and are seeing slowdowns as the network’s customer base grows. The NTIA also included some bare bones requirements that ISPs taking taxpayer money try to ensure that any resulting service is made affordable to poor people. Big ISPs like Comcast and AT&T were quick to complain last year... the outrageous scandal that is trying to help poor people get online. These fairly sensible restrictions (which I suspect would have never been enforced in any serious way anyway) are being declared “woke” by the Trump administration, which is changing key parts of the grant program to the direct benefit of Elon Musk:
#Musk#Coup#Corruption
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HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴

@BenjaminHCCarr

#ElectricVehicles #Infrastructure #USpol #Environment

Further bad news for the environment, possibly if the recycling of the toxic batteries can be dominated.

Also, bad news for #Tesla and the #HumanWreckingBall, #ElonMusk, who's having the week he deserves and should be having every week. Cheers!

"Feds Halt the National Electric Vehicle Charging Program
The US gov't has ordered states 2 retract their plans 2 build hundreds of... EV charging stations

hachyderm.io/@BenjaminHCCarr/1

Hachyderm.ioBenjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻‍💻🧬 (@BenjaminHCCarr@hachyderm.io)Feds Halt the National #ElectricVehicle Charging Program The US government has ordered states to retract their plans to build hundreds of federally funded #EVcharging stations, according to a memo obtained by WIRED. The #NEVI program, established by 2021’s Infrastructure Law, attempted to build chargers along thousands of miles of federal highway, with a focus on places that might not otherwise be able to financially support a charger. https://www.wired.com/story/feds-halt-national-electric-vehicle-charging-program/
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Scott 🇮🇱🇺🇦🗽

Airing TV ads lauding the leader (using tax dollars of course)

Firing senior #military officers

Firing career #prosecutors

Firing the person responsible for the security of American #infrastructure from attack

Refusing to defend our NATO allies from attack

Cutting off military aid to #Ukraine

The only possible explanation for these actions is that President Fragile Ego Tiny Hands is creating a #dictatorship in which he can act freely to make this country a #Russian vassal state

#fascism#autocracy#Amerika
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Texas Observer

Earlier: “We have to develop 10 to 12 million acre-feet [of new #water supply] in the next 30, 40 years. And that’s not any small task. … It’s multiple decades, billions of dollars. So it only makes sense to treat the water supply needs just like we treat state highways.” texasobserver.org/texas-legisl

The Texas Observer · Will Texas Secure Its Water Future?Senator Charles Perry outlines an expansive vision of where Texans will get their H₂O in the coming decades.
#politics#USpol#environment
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petersuber

Update. "Safeguarding Research & Culture — Distributing Cultural Memory"
safeguarding-research.discours

"The destruction of knowledge and cultural heritage has happened, and therefore it can happen again. We are in the middle of that happening, whether it is caused by human action or natural causes…Safeguarding Research & Culture (#SRC) is creating an alternative #infrastructure for archiving and disseminating of cultural heritage and scientific knowledge…Together, we can ensure that our cultural, intellectual and scientific heritage exists in multiple copies, in multiple places, and that no single entity or group of entities can make it all disappear. Our archive is built according to the principles of #FAIR and #CARE, based on open technologies and standards, and resilient against loss via meaningfully distributed storage…Everyone, from individuals to institutions, can participate by accessing, contributing, and supporting these archival infrastructures."

Safeguarding Research & Culture (SRC) — Distributing Cultural MemoryAbout - Safeguarding Research & Culture (SRC) — Distributing Cultural Memory"As researchers we often say 'we need the data'. Today, the data needs us." — Kathy Reid
#Censorship#Crowdsource#DefendResearch
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Michael Hanke

The events of the past weeks have again upped the urgency of moving away from the US tech cloud. After forever Google and 18 years GitHub this is hard for me.

I am lucky that @distribits gave me the enthusiasm and the tools to make this happen for me and the #infrastructure of the #research group I am heading.

This is the first post in a series that documents our new #selfhosted setup, starting with the centerpiece forgejo-aneksajo -- #forgejo with #gitAnnex built in.

blog.datalad.org/posts/lab-inf

blog.datalad.org · Collaborative infrastructure for a lab: ForgejoThe first installment of a mini-series on a self-hosted, collaborative infrastructure: Run Forgejo on a small VPS or NAS as a central collaboration platform for a lab or group.
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Kim Perales

Musk's #DOGE is weakening America's #Infrastructure, from the grid to waterways...

The Trump admin is firing staff at the Bureau of Reclamation -manages dams & water-delivery INFRA in CA.

Water agencies that rely on supplies from the fed managed CV Project have warned that major job cuts could🚨threaten #PublicSafety.

The bureau will lose 100 WRs, More WF reductions: slated +plans to cut its staff by 40%. These WKRs are integral to a functioning system.
#USPol #Firings
latimes.com/environment/story/

Los Angeles Times · Major staff cuts at federal water agency spark worries in CaliforniaBy Ian James
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Zhi Zhu 🕸️

How Elon Musk Executed His Takeover of the Federal Bureaucracy

The operation was driven with a frenetic focus by the billionaire, who channeled his resentment of regulatory oversight into a drastic overhaul of govt agencies.
#GiftLink
nytimes.com/2025/02/28/us/poli

"Without ceding control of his companies, the [South African immigrant] has embedded his #engineers & aides inside the govt’s critical digital #infrastructure"

Text from article: Mr. Musk made clear that he saw the gutting of that bureaucracy as primarily a technology challenge. He told the party of around 20 that when he overhauled Twitter, the social media company that he bought in 2022 and later renamed X, the key was gaining access to the company’s servers. Wouldn’t it be great, Mr. Musk offered, if he could have access to the computers of the federal government? Just give him the passwords, he said jocularly, and he would make the government fit and trim. What started as musings at a dinner party evolved into a radical takeover of the federal bureaucracy. It was driven with a frenetic focus by Mr. Musk, who channeled his libertarian impulses and resentment of regulatory oversight of his vast business holdings into a singular position of influence.
#ElonMusk#Musk#Coup
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alxd ✏️ solarpunk prompts

theguardian.com/science/2025/f

I really like thinking about the ecosystems in #space , especially in the #solarpunk context of being aware of our surroundings, microbiomes etc.

Just please don't make it about the aesthetics only, I don't want to see a hundred illustrations / stories about potted plants floating on the ISS. I want more stories like the Expanse's Ganymede Station's infrastructure.

The Guardian · Space station’s lack of dirt may damage astronauts’ health, says studyBy Hannah Devlin
#infrastructure#ecosystem#microbiome
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Zhi Zhu 🕸️

‘They Were Careless People’: Taking Moments to Tear Down What Has Taken Lifetimes to Create.

The zealots of #Doge & #Project2025 are out to ‘cut waste.’ They will certainly cost lives...
fallows.substack.com/p/they-we

"let me focus on one dull-sounding development that... will be killing people. Yes, I could be talking about changes in #Medicaid or...

But instead I’m talking about the sudden attack on part of the invisible #infrastructure that has kept air travelers so safe in the skies."

Headline and photo with caption. Headline: ‘They Were Careless People’: Taking Moments to Tear Down What Has Taken Lifetimes to Create. The zealots of Doge and Project 2025 are out to ‘cut waste.’ They will certainly cost lives: An example from aviation. by James Fallows Feb 25, 2025 Photo with caption: The plush lawn of The Queen’s College, Oxford. As the corny joke goes, a visiting American asks, “How do you get your lawn to look like that?” The British groundskeeper replies, “It’s easy. Just sow it, roll it, mow it—and do that for 400 years.” But what has taken centuries to perfect could be torn up in minutes with a backhoe. That’s essentially what’s happening to America’s carefully built ‘soft infrastructure’ now. Here’s another example from the aviation world. (Photo by John Cairns, Queen’s College site.)
#USPol
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Su_G

@RickiTarr

This comment really resonates with me: "so many of them [the people recently fired] took these lower paying jobs, because they wanted to do work they felt actually helped people. You don't often think of government work and passion as things that go together, but there really are people out there that care."

People as an essential part of infrastructure - which in this case happens to be infrastructure provided by government; infrastructure - which includes the people delivering it - as a service.

#InfrastructureAsAService
#Infrastructure
#PublicService
#PeopleWhoCare
#Government
#USPol

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Björn Brembs

"How disruptive would it be if GitHub started deleting repositories, or Google Scholar started hiding certain papers in response to U.S. government demands?"

thetransmitter.org/policy/scie

Most people with some interest have seen precisely this coming for more than a decade. @neuralreckoning is among them. It's great that outlets like @thetransmitter are now also recognizing this problem and are helping to amplify these voices.

The Transmitter: Neuroscience News and Perspectives · Science must step away from nationally managed infrastructureBy Dan Goodman
#openscience#infrastructure
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