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Friends - My next children's science book is out! Pick up BUG EXPLORERS wherever books are SOLD! 🐛 🐝🐞🦋🐜

www.amazon.com/Bug-Explorer...
October 14, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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Good thing there's a weekend coming up - the #defcon Youtube channel has dropped a few hundred #defcon33 videos for your perusal. Clear your schedule and let these #dc33 Main Stage & Creator Stage Talks wash over your thirsty brain.

www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

As always, enjoy and #passiton.
DEF CON 33 - YouTube
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October 10, 2025 at 10:27 PM
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🎉LEGISLATIVE VICTORY🎉
We’re glad Gov. Newsom signed AB 566, which makes it easy for Californians to tell companies what they want to happen with their own personal information. The easier it is to exercise your rights, the more power you have.
October 9, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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ICE is buying a location tracking tool that harvests data from hundreds of millions of phones a day. Protect your location data by updating a few settings on your phone 🧵 (1/4): www.404media.co/ice-to-buy-...
ICE to Buy Tool that Tracks Locations of Hundreds of Millions of Phones Every Day
Documents show that ICE has gone back on its decision to not use location data remotely harvested from peoples' phones. The database is updated every day with billions of pieces of location data.
www.404media.co
October 2, 2025 at 11:13 PM
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The unilateral sanctions imposed on the UN Special Rapporteur not only target her as an individual but also undermine crucial work in monitoring and reporting on human rights issues. EFF joined more than 50 civil society organizations in calling for the U.S. to lift the sanctions.
EFF Joins 55 Civil Society Organizations Urging the End of Sanctions on UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese
Following the U.S. government's overreaching decision to impose sanctions against Francesca Albanese, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territor...
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September 16, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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Phrack turns 40.
The digital drop is live.
Download it. Archive it. Pass it on.
💾 www.phrack.org
#phrackat40 #phrack72
August 19, 2025 at 5:08 AM
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A new Department of Energy report “fundamentally misrepresents” climate research and leaves out key context, multiple scientists cited in the report tell WIRED. www.wired.com/story/scient...
Scientists Say New Government Climate Report Twists Their Work
A new Department of Energy report “fundamentally misrepresents” climate research and leaves out key context, multiple scientists cited in the report tell WIRED.
www.wired.com
July 30, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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Juneteenth calls us to understand the realities of our past, celebrate the resilience and achievements of Black Americans, and align the course of our country toward its founding creed of liberty and justice for all. Wishing everyone a meaningful Juneteenth!
June 19, 2025 at 12:59 PM
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Powerful flares on highly-magnetic neutron stars called magnetars could produce up to 10% of the universe’s gold, silver and platinum; and astronomers may have already observed this cosmic alchemy in action. 🧪⚛️ ow.ly/sAtR50W1nXZ
How magnetar flares give birth to gold and platinum – Physics World
Starquakes and magnetic recombination drive the r-process of nucleosynthesis
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May 30, 2025 at 8:28 AM
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GO CORY GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I’ve taken the Senate floor and will speak for as long as I’m physically able to lift the voices of Americans who are being harmed and not being heard in this moment of crisis. Watch here:
Live: Speaking on Trump, Musk, and America’s Moral Moment on the Senate Floor | Senator Cory Booker
YouTube video by Senator Cory Booker
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April 1, 2025 at 6:24 AM
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New Yorkers: Call Sen. Gillibrand’s office to vote NO on cloture and NO on the Republican Spending Bill.

They vote in the morning.
☎️: (202) 224-4451
March 14, 2025 at 12:56 AM
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March 7, 2025 at 10:17 PM
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Access Everywhere.”

This year we’re thinking about how to make info and services available to everyone.

Less walled gardens, more sunlight.

You can read the theme story and get some visual inspiration at defcon.org/html/defcon-....

We can’t wait to see where you’ll take it.
March 5, 2025 at 10:17 PM
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We've been saving this little pup for when we thought you all might really need a gold star. And, given the current circumstances, here she is. 13/10
March 5, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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In 12 hours, we land on the MOON!!! 🌖

Tune in tonight to the Firefly & NASA livestream, which will begin about an hour before Blue Ghost Mission One's landing at ~2:30am CT: www.youtube.com/live/ChEuA1A...
Firefly's Blue Ghost Mission 1 Lunar Landing
YouTube video by Firefly Aerospace
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March 1, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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Get your tickets now for the March 8th BEST IN THE WESTIN dog show! It's at the St. Francis Hotel, it's a day of fun-fun-fun! And you can bring your dog! Enter your pup in the show & enjoy fab vendors & great food for you and your pup! 🏆🐾 Meet Muttville dogs, too!
www.eventbrite.com/e/best-in-th...
February 27, 2025 at 10:44 PM
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Congress is debating a bill that will lead to weaponized takedown requests of lawful speech with no real safeguards. Tell Congress to vote No on TAKE IT DOWN.
The TAKE IT DOWN Act Will Censor Legal Speech Without Helping Victims
Congress is pushing a dangerous internet censorship bill, the TAKE IT DOWN Act (S. 146/H.R.633), and we need your help to stop it. While this bill claims to fight the spread of non-consensual intimate...
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February 25, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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February 19, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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I stand with the trans community. Pass it along.
February 9, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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The DEI caused the plane crash narrative is a distraction. The tariffs are a distraction. Whatever insane nonsense Trump spews that the media will chase like cats chasing a laser light is a distraction. The only story that counts right now is the wholesale hijacking of control of the US government.
February 3, 2025 at 6:17 AM
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Trump has deployed active military to help round up migrants and put them into detention camps.

The military forced us out of our homes at gunpoint in 1942 because we were considered possibly disloyal Americans. They sent us to internment camps for four years.

History is repeating. Pay attention.
January 23, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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In the wake of the 2024 election in the U.S., many people are concerned about their digital privacy. EFF has decades of experience in providing digital privacy and security resources. Here are the top ten resources that we think are most useful right now 🧵 (1/13)
December 4, 2024 at 10:26 PM