Cynthia / Estienne

I have a bottle of Graham's vintage port tucked away. This looks like the occasion.

star trek deep space nine inspired fan art featuring Jadzia Dax. she's battling with a klingon bat'leth. the text says "Protect the Dolls." the colors of the Transgender pride flag are smeared across her eyes.

star trek lower decks fan art of an unfortunately nameless background character. She's wearing a yellow engineering uniforms, with matching hijab. In the top right corner is a silver number 60. the blue text says "This Is Star Trek."

fan art illustration of a Carrie Fisher as Princess Leia from Star Wars. The text over the image says "I won't be remembered as a woman who kept her mouth shut."

Star Trek illustration of Uhura. The Text says "Compassion is Rebellion."

Happy International Women's Day. 🖖🏻

How tenaciously Palantir courted Switzerland Internal documents show how the country finally rejected pitches by tech company Palantir.

A small Swiss magazine's research piece on how Palantir courted the Swiss government.

Ultimately, the Swiss decided that the risks of loss of data sovereignty, possibility of sensitive data sharing with US agencies, and permanent lock-in were too great.

www.republik.ch/2026/02/18/h...

Its always unnerving to see people talking about war like its sports game, supporting their respective teams, like its not something with extraordinary destruction that, under the BEST of circumstances, those who haven't been obliterated, will need to spend many decades attempting to rebuild from.

Russia is providing intelligence to Iran on the location of U.S. forces, sources say The assistance could help Iran locate American warships, radar or other communication systems, but there's no indication Moscow is helping direct Iranian strikes, sources tell NBC News.

You still friends with this guys MAGA?

Republicans Voters, you did say you loved Russia. You said stop helping Ukraine. You said you want Russia to win because they are more friendly to the USA. You still think that now?

www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...

Yup, and email is very much not a secure channel regardless of which provider you use.

Canada’s first large-scale battery plant opens in Windsor Canada's first large-scale battery plant has already produced more than one million cells and created 1,300 jobs in its first months of operation — and is backed by nearly $16 billion in government su...

Canada's first large battery plant opens in Windsor #onpoli #cdnpoli www.nationalobserver.com/2026/03/05/n...

The American Astronomical Society has a page with more info and how you can submit comments to the FCC to stop this travesty. Hurry though; submissions end today.

aas.org/action-alert...

Supreme Court rules Quebec's exclusion of asylum seekers in subsidized daycare is discriminatory | CBC News The Supreme Court of Canada has ruled Quebec cannot bar asylum seekers from subsidized daycare, according to a ruling handed down Friday.

Glad the #Quebec Supreme Court got something right. #qcpoli #cdnpoli #Canada 🤘🏾🇨🇦

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Don’t let mega-constellation-building billionaires steal your night sky Satellites are wonders of modern technology that have improved all of our lives. But having more than a million of them in orbit could destroy our view of the heavens and seriously damage our planet

Elon Musk has already started plans to launch a million satellites.

Yes. A MILLION.

This is a colossally bad idea, and it's not too late to make your voice heard. I explain everything:

www.scientificamerican.com/article/ramp...

🔭 🧪

Holzman C5b hearth feature with associated in situ artifacts.

Stone and mammoth ivory tool production, circulation, and human dispersals in the middle Tanana Valley, Alaska:
Implications for the Pleistocene peopling of the Americas 🏺🧪
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Suggests a late southern migration by ancestral Clovis people sometime between 14-13 ka

Shared for #HedgehogThursday 🦔

For email providers, their direct link is here:

www.privacyguides.org/en/email/

And yes, there are supposedly bulletproof email providers that don't comply with court orders, but these are run by the types of folks who do things like sell credit card numbers and run phishing operations.

If you trust your emails to those folks, I would seriously question your threat model.

Everyone needs to do their own threat and risk assessment.

For me personally, I do not want to run my own email server with all the work that entails.

And I care most about the contents of my emails remaining private (strong encryption that the provider can't break) rather than my payment info.

Every choice of provider has its own risks and benefits.

* Commercial providers have your payment info, unless you're "paying" with your privacy i.e. Gmail
* Your personal email server can be removed during a search of your home, and requires tech skills for patching and hacking defences

OK. Before I get accused of being a Proton shill:

* Any commercial provider is going to have your payment info, unless you pay with cash or crypto or privacy
* Any email provider, including non-profit, will have to comply with a court order from their local government unless they challenge in court

bsky.app/profile/prot...

I believe Proton accepts Bitcoin (and possibly other cryptocurrencies). But those also have their own issues, and are usually traceable back to the sending wallet.

And running your own server has its own issues - even experienced admins can overlook a patch that leaves the server vulnerable. Not to mention that server could be confiscated if your house is searched with a warrant.

It all comes down to what your threat model is.

Yup, any commercial company is going to have to give in to court orders from their local government, and is going to have your payment information. Proton did not, however, give up encrypted emails to my knowledge.

The alternative is to run your own email server on your own hardware.

I really, really wish we'd ditch DST and stick with standard time, and I know I'm not alone here. I sign every petition that crosses my feed about this.

The old argument about "moar daylight!!!!!" is BS IMO.

A reminder that for adults, daylight savings time is a rough week of the year:
- +24% spike in heart attacks on the first workday
- +8% stroke
- +6.25% mental health crisis
- Upwards to 23% increase in car or car smashing

Proton's response in the article is they received a legally binding request from Swiss authorities, not directly from the FBI.

Switzerland has a Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty with the US.

Amazon down — live updates on massive outage as shoppers can't check out It's affecting mobile apps and its website

Amazon has a massive outage at the time I'm posting this. Live updates from Tom's Hardware. (Couldn't happen to a nicer billionaire LOL)

www.tomsguide.com/computing/li...

"Demand is so great that programs to mentor attorneys to file habeas cases are emerging...

“I’m on all these listservs where people are saying, who can help me in Arizona, who can help me in Mississippi, and people are stepping up and helping each other...”

www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

New catalog more than doubles the number of gravitational-wave detections made by LIGO, Virgo, and KAGRA observatories The Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) consists of two widely separated installations within the United States — one in Hanford Washington and the other in Livingston, Louisian...

New catalog more than doubles the number of gravitational-wave detections made by LIGO, Virgo, and KAGRA observatories

The latest crop of space-time wobbles includes a variety of heavy, fast-spinning, and lopsided colliding black holes.

www.ligo.caltech.edu/news/ligo202...

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noem's dog looking down from heaven

Cell-free DNA fragmentomes for noninvasive detection of liver cirrhosis and other diseases Genome-wide cfDNA fragmentomes are altered in liver disease and other morbidities and enable noninvasive detection of liver fibrosis and cirrhosis.

We've used a blood test—cell free DNA—for detecting cancer or prenatal fetal abnormalities. It turns out it can be used to detect liver diseases and all-cause mortality from other conditions!

science.org/doi/10.1126/...

My guess would be "free use 24/7" combined with bdsm dungeon