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MissConstrue

George Orwell was an optimist.

After obliterating the federal office on long #COVID and clawing back billions in COVID funding from state health departments, the Trump administration has now entirely erased the online hub for federal COVID-19 resources. In its place now stands a site promoting the unproven idea that the pandemic virus SARS-CoV-2 was generated in and leaked from a lab in China, sparking the global health crisis.

Navigating to COVID.gov brings up a slick site with rich content that lays out arguments and allegations supporting a lab-based origin of the pandemic and subsequent cover-up by US health officials and Democrats.

arstechnica.com/health/2025/04

#psyop #disinformation #uspol #usa #47 #wtf

Ars Technica · “Lab leak” marketing page replaces federal hub for COVID resourcesBy Beth Mole
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ferricoxide

This morning, I asked my project-mate (who's been asked to do the similar certification-path that I've been asked to do):

Have you yet gotten back a detailing of your test results (e.g., how AWS breaks down test questions into domains and how you scored on each domain)?
He'd replied back that there was a blurb on his (administered at home) test's exits screens indicating that you only get such a breakdown if you fail your test. I was a touch incredulous. I mean maybe that makes a degree of sense if the certification-test you just sat was a "there's no more in-depth, overlapping certifications after this one" (e.g., #AWS's "Practitioner" → "Associate" → "Professional" or "Specialist" certification paths; I know #RedHat has/had similar and I think #Azure does as well). However, if it is a certification that overlaps with other ones, you probably want to know if you have any knowledge-gaps before trying to sit those other exams, neh?

…Or, if you're a perfectionist like me, you simply want to know what gaps you have so that you can kill them (especially for a cert that will eventually expire and you'll need to re-sit).

Thus far, everything about the #GCP certification process has left me frustrated and bewildered by how half-assed Google's approach has seemed to both the exams, themselves, and the processes around getting ready for said exams.

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Astro Hawk (Ian Kluft) 🚀🛰️

"Why are two Texas senators trying to wrest a Space Shuttle from the Smithsonian?" by @arstechnica / @sciguyspace - Texas senators introduced crazy bill which should have no chance of passing. The harebrained stupid $1B proposal would risk damaging Space Shuttle Discovery to move it from the Smithsonian Air & Space Museum to Houston, which failed in its bid for a shuttle when museum locations were up for discussion 15 years ago. #NASA wants no part in this. arstechnica.com/space/2025/04/ #space #WTF

Ars Technica · Why are two Texas senators trying to wrest a Space Shuttle from the Smithsonian?By Eric Berger
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