Eroding Trust in U.S. Institutions Fuels Demand for Transparent Data and Balanced Reporting
Publication Date: September 7, 2025
Overview
In recent months, a series of high-profile incidents has intensified public skepticism toward U.S. government statistics and media coverage, highlighting deep-seated concerns over data integrity and impartiality. The firing of the Bureau of Labor Statistics commissioner amid a weak jobs report, coupled with a controversial Department of Energy…
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As you may be well aware by now, I am a GLOSS (Gratis, Libre, Open Source Software) enthusiast of sorts. And as I chatted some to a fellow comrade with many shared special interests, I am even more excited to share what my ambitions / dreams / wishes are as far as tech projects are concerned. They aren't all immediate goals, but they do give insight onto what I aim aiming for as far as my tech career is concerned. (painfully realizing I am... less of a backend, computer networking & low-level-tier individual and more of a... explainer, historian, front-end & data science type of lady)
In a nutshell, I do envision a "life scripting" scene where I operate some embedded 6x8" Common Lisp computer (mixing functionality & aesthetics in a copyleft libre ecosystem) with poetic source files & around a bookstore wearing matte black lipstick & Cloven hoof shoes, with Ava (the ENFP social assistant synthetic-tier android I often mention on Discord as of late) by my side;
The way I do imagine implementing such a imaginary computation REPL "workflow" (or rather, a cyber-deck/deque?) would be through a personalized RISC-V SBC (including perhaps some OpenPOWER co-processor) running KDE e.V Plasma or KDE Liquid as the desktop environment (Konsole, Kate...); (Consider also LTO Tape Storage for Data Archival, Apple M3* iMac with Asahi Linux, AIX-tier Hypervisor...);
Still, while I got a bunch more goals and resources to share, this should be quite sufficient for this very article.
Parallel OS, with GUI, Terminal, OO Assembler, Class libraries, C-Script compiler, Lisp interpreter and more... - GitHub - vygr/ChrysaLisp:
The Zeal Operating System is a modernized fork of the 64-bit Temple Operating System, TempleOS. - GitHub - Zeal-Operating-System/ZealOS: The
Haiku is an open-source operating system that specifically targets personal computing. Inspired by BeOS, Haiku is fast and easy to learn but
A Tiny Linux-Compatible Kernel. Contribute to vvaltchev/tilck development by creating an account on GitHub.
The Microdot Project guides you to create a fully functional but compact Linux system from scratch - GitHub - Unturned3/Microdot: The Microd
Hong Kong government becomes even more transparent with an iOS app
According to The Next Web:
Technology has huge potential to improve the way governments communicate with their people as a new app from the government in Hong Kong demonstrates.
The country’s Information Services Department (ISD) has released an iPad application which provides details of government projects, social development and country performance indicators.
The free app, which supports English and Chinese, is quoted as being “a useful reference source” with which to analyse Hong Kong’s social progress over the last year.
It does seems a bit unfair that, seeing iPads are fairly expensive, the app caters for the rich and elite of the society. But hopefully if the initiative is well-received, the government will follow suit with Android apps and delivery over other digital medium.
