Notices by Third Foundation (rayckeith@techhub.social)

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@igorkulman/116580445728339210

"As we all know, “73.6% of all statistics are made up.“ I recommend adding: “Since wide AI adoption, that percentage went up to 86.9%.”"

https://youtu.be/wes7joY9FBs?si=yNaZC1izWho45nAo

"GoDaddy is currently investigating claims that it handed complete control of a valid 27-year-old #domain to another customer, without requiring them to pass any authentication processes or upload any supporting documents. […]

"In a statement sent to Flagstream, #GoDaddy said: "After investigating the domain name(s) in question, we have determined that the registrant of the domain name(s) provided the necessary documentation to initiate a change of account… "

"… The issue here is that no documentation was provided, according to both Flagstream and the woman who received ownership of the domain. Ginder refers to her as Susan, but it is not her real name.

"… Susan is really the hero of this entire story," Ginder wrote. "Without her, Flagstream would still have no idea what happened to this domain. Lawyers would have gotten involved, but it would probably be months until anything was resolved."

https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2026/04/29/godaddy_megagaffe_wrongly_transferred_27yearold/

"I am sharing this again, because it echoes some of what I’ve been writing about in my coverage of Epstein and Zorro Ranch. DeBecker is a respected intelligence consultant and security expert. He is certain, as are many other people, that Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell were both Israeli intelligence assets or operatives, and that their child sex trafficking ring was a kompromat gathering enterprise on behalf of Zionist Israeli military intelligence.

"What my work here in New Mexico has uncovered is that their work here was a continuation of work Ghislaine’s own father had begin in the mid 1980s, when he, posing as a mere “British media magnate,” sold backdoored/bugged software to the United States’ two top nuclear weapons laboratories, both based in New Mexico: Sandia National Laboratories and Los Alamos National Laboratories.

"Zorro Ranch is located roughly equidistant between them. That’s not a coincidence."
https://alisav.substack.com/p/confirmation-of-what-ive-been-saying

@Natasha_Jay @jalefkowit

Recently read the experience of a dungeon master who gender-flipped all the characters in a D&D module from the 70s or 80s. this resulted in one nameless male character and everyone else in the game other than his players were female. The players kept asking where the men were and weren't getting any answers. They became very paranoid.

"–Hegseth fired Navy Secretary John Phelan without any warning, effective immediately, and in the middle of a war. (Note: He had previously fired the Army Chief of Staff.)

"–Garrett M. Graff; “So now Pete Hegseth has fired the Secretary of the Navy and the Chief of Staff of the Army, both in the middle of a war, both with no publicity or known explanation. Seems fine.”

"–Phelan was no prize. He had no military experience at all and was just a big Trump donor. He was also in the Epstein files. He flew on “the Lolita Express” with five other men including Jean-Luc Brunel (sent to prison for trafficking of underage girls, where he “committed suicide”) and six girls whose names are redacted in the files, which means they were all victims.)

"–Phelan is being replaced by Navy Undersecretary Hung Cao, who may be even worse. He believes witches have taken over California, is a far-right extremist and gun nut, a climate and an election denier, and thinks women who get abortions are Nazis."
https://azsf.net/cwdaily/2026/04/23/what-the-hell-is-going-on/

"those solar panels had to go somewhere. Mostly, they ended up in Pakistan, dumped there at such a massive discount that the country solarized virtually overnight. Pakistani solar installers learned their trade from Tiktok videos set to Tamil film soundtracks, and unwired the country so thoroughly that today, the national power company is in danger of going bust because no one buys their electricity from the grid anymore. Pakistani bridal dowries now routinely include four panels, an inverter and a battery:

https://billmckibben.substack.com/p/a-tale-of-two-countries

"This is an inversion of the normal order of things, in which rich countries get all the good stuff first, and poor countries like Pakistan get scraps after we've gorged ourselves."
https://pluralistic.net/2026/04/20/praxis/

"Ever wonder why products on Amazon are sometimes cheaper than on other websites? Turns out, it might be because of a widespread price-fixing scheme. According to California Attorney General Rob Bonta, Amazon allegedly pressured brands to increase the prices for their products on other retailers’ websites so that Amazon would have a more competitive price.

"The allegations, which were made in a filing that is part of California’s ongoing antitrust lawsuit against Amazon and was unsealed on Monday, lay out a scheme in which Amazon used the leverage of its massive e-commerce platform to pressure companies into raising prices with other retailers or face punishment for failing to do so.

"Per Bonta, the method of coercion starts with Amazon demanding a vendor “fix,” “correct,” “increase,” “raise,” or “look into” the prices of products on other retailers’ websites. …"
https://gizmodo.com/california-accuses-amazon-of-price-fixing-2000748712

"The program would kick in at the moment the government decides that AI has begun to “meaningfully” displace workers. The memo describes that meaningful change as either a persistent decline in labor force participation, a compression of wages in sectors affected the most by AI, or a notable increase in AI-driven productivity without a parallel measure of job growth.

The funds would come from “a combination of AI-linked revenue mechanisms,” according to the memo. These mechanisms could include the federal government taking equity stakes in major AI firms or a complete tax code reform, which would include a “modest tax” on AI consumption that would be tied to the amount of tokens used.

“If AI can substitute for labor rather than complement it, then our tax code is actively subsidizing job elimination."
https://gizmodo.com/house-candidate-unveils-plan-to-pay-americans-who-face-ai-job-displacement-2000748609

"Software developer Photon, whose product requires running a bunch of Macs to connect to iMessage, discovered a pretty major bug:

Every Mac has a hidden expiration date. After exactly 49 days, 17 hours, 2 minutes, and 47 seconds of continuous uptime, a 32-bit unsigned integer overflow in Apple’s XNU kernel freezes the internal TCP timestamp clock… ICMP (ping) keeps working. Everything else dies. The only fix most people know is a reboot"
https://sixcolors.com/link/2026/04/macs-crash-after-49-days-of-uptime/

In my opinion, Starfleet Academy, despite its flaws, had the best first season of any of Star Trek series other than TOS. It won't hurt to sign the petition. Please sign.

https://www.change.org/p/renew-star-trek-starfleet-academy-for-a-third-season

#startrek #starfleetacademy

"Chutkan called the defense “disquieting.”

“Defendants appear to make the extraordinary argument that an individual who holds an important office and wields immense power is not subject to the Appointments Clause so long as the office was unlawfully created, and the power was unlawfully seized,” Chutkan said."
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/03/all-of-doges-work-could-be-undone-as-lawsuit-against-musk-proceeds/

"The fear — a completely reasonable one — is that this lawless administration, led by a madman, would manufacture some national emergency declaration to wiggle through one of those gaps and put armed federal forces at the polls before the 2026 midterms.

"What New Mexico did is close that gap at the state level. By making this conduct a state felony regardless of the shenanigans Trump’s legal team dreams up to justify it, enforcement now belongs to state and local prosecutors who answer to New Mexicans, not to the pedo protector club Washington. And because committing a federal crime cannot legally be part of a federal officer’s official duties, those officers would have no federal preemption shield against state criminal charges (Brennan Center for Justice). In other words: we have claws now that don’t depend on Trump’s DOJ deciding to use them."
https://alisav.substack.com/p/new-mexico-just-became-the-first-4e4

"If one pastes Z80 opcodes into a word processor and changes their font to Z80 Sans, the codes are rendered as their assembly mnemonics. The font manages this by abusing the Glyph Substitution Table and Glyph Positioning Table, two components of the OpenType standard. Fonts define relations between characters (internal representations used by the computer, such as ASCII and Unicode) and glyphs (the graphics actually displayed).

In some cases, though, the way a character is displayed depends on where it appears in a word, or what appears around it (Arabic characters are a common example, but an example from English is the ligature “æ”). Z80 Sans defines all the possible glyphs for each nibble of the opcodes, then used a recursive descent parser to generate substitution rules which display the correct glyphs in context."
https://hackaday.com/2026/03/15/disassembling-opcodes-with-a-font/

https://www.tumblr.com/what-even-is-thiss/811128549794856960

#starfleetAcademy #starTrek

no spoilers

"A recent satellite image of the ranch once owned by Jeffrey Epstein reveals evidence of the new owners conducting massive excavations and burns on the property in the past two months. Some of what’s been dug up is consistent with human burial sites, according to experts.
Within the past two months, the new owners of Jeffrey Epstein’s Zorro Ranch, Texas millionaires Donald Blaine and Mary Catherine Huffines, have dug up and burned what current satellite imagery shows to be dozens of uniformly sized, regularly arranged mounded structures — forms that, in their shape, scale, and organization, are visually consistent with human burial sites.

Here’s a closer shot. The items of uniform size all gathered together appear to have been excavated, quite recently, from the light spots with dark holes in the lower left portion of the image, which are consistent with dug holes with caliche (lime) in them."
https://alisav.substack.com/p/breaking-news-exclusive-what-the

"Now, let’s be real. I am a journalist, not a forensic investigator. I cannot tell you what those mounds contain, or what was burned in the massive fire around them. I can tell you that I have submitted this imagery — five screenshots, all watermarked ©2026 Airbus / Maxar Technologies — to the New Mexico Attorney General’s office and the Epstein Survivors Truth Commission as a formal tip, requesting immediate forensic examination before anything more is destroyed. I can also tell you I’ve shown the images to a pal in geospacial analysis, and he says they are consistent with burial sites or, possibly, landfill containment pods. Either way, it’s not normal at all for the new owners to frantically dig them up and burn them as soon as their identity becomes public."

#epsteinClass #zorroRanch

"NBC surveyed a group of registered voters and found that the concept of artificial intelligence was so unpopular that 46% of respondents said they hold negative feelings towards the concept, and only 26% reported positive connotations, while 27% were neutral.

Even the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency, which has been the subject of nationwide protests spanning months, was viewed more favorably, as was President Donald Trump, whose current net approval rating is -19. In fact, the only topics viewed more negatively than AI were Iran and the Democratic Party."

#ai https://gizmodo.com/people-hate-ai-even-more-than-they-hate-ice-poll-finds-2000731438

"The British newspaper Daily Mail is out with a deeply researched investigative report[…]

"It’s shocking in its detail and its implication that Vladimir Putin has basically owned Donald Trump for years, even before Trump ran for president in 2016.

"They note of last week’s partial (about 50 percent) Epstein document release:

“The files include 1,056 documents naming Russian President Vladimir Putin and 9,629 referring to Moscow. [Jeffrey] Epstein even seems to have secured audiences with Putin after his 2008 conviction for procuring a child for prostitution.”

"Essentially, they’re arguing that Epstein was running an operation on behalf of the KGB/Putin that lured wealthy and powerful men to Epstein’s New York and Palm Beach mansions and his island where they were surreptitiously filmed having sex with underage girls.

"That material was then presumably passed along to Putin, who used it for leverage when he needed it…"
https://www.rawstory.com/raw-investigates/trump-russia-2675069424/