@servelan@newsie.social2026-01-04 04:15:57
It's the oil - just the oil: "Experts have said that Venezuela is not a major drug producer but rather a minor cocaine transit country, with most of the cocaine flowing through it headed to Europe."
U.S. Indictment of Maduro Cites Cocaine Smuggling, Trade in Which Venezuela’s Role Is Believed to Be Modest - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/03/world/americas/venezuela-drug-trade.html
@metacurity@infosec.exchange2025-10-19 16:49:55
OYO Hotel & Casino Las Vegas (formerly Hooters Hotel & Casino) was hit by a ransomware attack in January. Apparently, LockBit was the culprit.
https://www.casino.org/news/another-las-vegas-casino-suffered-major-data-breach-in-january/
@fanf@mendeddrum.org2025-11-03 20:48:10
did a winter warmer soup that turned out very nice
fried up onion, sweet pepper, chilli pepper, lots of garlic in butter with some spicy chorizo
drowned it in some homemade chicken stock, a tin of chopped tomatoes, four tins of lentils with their tinjuice
good and filling with crusty toast
@callunavulgaris@mastodon.scot2025-11-01 18:11:09
I'm feeling inspired to make something a little chanko nabe-like tonight. I have to avoid all fermented and vinegary things so the broth will lack punch but it will have chicken and veg in it. I might use that tiny pasta rather than rice as I'm feeling lazy.
@cosmicray@mastodon.social2025-10-20 06:15:11
@paulwermer@sfba.social2025-10-21 13:56:54
The similarity to the climate crisis is amazing - robust scientific research has identified a serious, life threatening problem - as well as what is needed to address that problem. But $€₱₹¥£ are flowing from customers who are unaware of the problem, and are seduced by marketing messages - in movies, TV shows, social media, and explicit advertisements. And there is huge profit from practices that are already resulting in injuries, illnesses and death, as well as economic losses. And
@PaulWermer@sfba.social2025-10-21 13:56:54
The similarity to the climate crisis is amazing - robust scientific research has identified a serious, life threatening problem - as well as what is needed to address that problem. But $€₱₹¥£ are flowing from customers who are unaware of the problem, and are seduced by marketing messages - in movies, TV shows, social media, and explicit advertisements. And there is huge profit from practices that are already resulting in injuries, illnesses and death, as well as economic losses. And
@arXiv_astrophSR_bot@mastoxiv.page2025-10-14 09:45:28
Sunspot Observations in 1684-1702: John Flamsteed and Philippe de La Hire
Nadezhda Zolotova, Mikhail Vokhmyanin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11375 https://ar…
@davej@dice.camp2025-10-09 19:26:46
This week, @… has chosen #Falling as #ThursdayFiveList’s theme.
1. Single Gun Theory, “Fall”—
@castarco@hachyderm.io2025-11-16 12:05:17
I have the distinct impression that we could use most American "sci-fi" TV series (which seem to have a kink for post-apocalyptical scenographies) as a diagnostic tool for the autism spectrum.
For a moment, let's leave aside the tons of right-wing propaganda "hidden" in plain sight, and their excessive reliance on boring & worn out tropes (religious & cultish bullshit, irrational lack of communication & excess of anti-social behaviour, all vs all, ultra-low-iq characters*, psychotic & irrationally treacherous characters*, ultra-inconsistent character development used to justify "unexpected" plot twists, rampant anti-intellectualism...).
What could be used as a diagnosis tool is the incredible amount of strong inconsistencies that we can find in them**. It throws me out of the story every single time; and I suspect that it takes a certain kind of "uncommon personality" to feel that way about it, because otherwise these series wouldn't be so popular without real widespread criticism beyond cliches like "too slow", "it loses steam towards the end of the season", etc.
Many of those plots start in a gold mine of potentially powerful ideas... yet they consistently provide us with dirt & clay instead, while side-lining the "good stuff" as if it was too complicated for the populace.
Do you feel strongly about it? Do you feel like you can't verbalize it without being criticised as "too negative", or "too picky", or an "unbearable snob"? Do you wonder why it seems like nobody around shares your discomfort with these stories?
* : I feel this is a bit like the chicken & egg problem. Has the media conditioned part of American society to behave like dumb psychopaths as if it was something "natural", or is the media reflecting what was already there? Also, could we use other societies as models for these stories... just for a change? Please?
** : Just a tiny example: a "brilliant" engineer who builds a bridge out of fence parts and who doesn't bother to perform the most basic tests before trying it in a real setting and suffer the consequences: the bridge failing and her falling into the void. Bonus points for anyone who knows what I'm talking about.