Musician, writer, and filmmaker Rachel Brown on having a life outside of your creative world – #CreativeLife https://thecreativeindependent.…
It's the Day of #Hermes aka Mercurius Day aka #Wednesday! 🐏
"Following his [Hermes'] example, they use the staff [caduceus] in athletic contests and other contests of this kind."
Pseudo-Hyginus, Astronomica 2.7
🏛️ Scarab intaglio with Hermes,
Italic / Etrusc…
Russia Is Suspected to Be Behind Breach of Federal Court Filing System
Federal officials are scrambling to assess the damage and address flaws in a sprawling, heavily used computer system long known to have vulnerabilities.
Russia is at least in part responsible for a recent hack of the computer system that manages federal court documents,
including highly sensitive records that might contain information
that could reveal sources and people charged with national secur…
Sources: investigators have uncovered evidence that Russia is at least in part responsible for a recent hack of the US federal court filing system (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/12/us/politics/russia-hack-federal-court-system.html…
Bengals OC: Chase Brown is a 'top-10 back in the league' https://www.nfl.com/news/bengals-oc-chase-brown-is-a-top-10-back-in-the-league
The MRI at Iceland's biggest hospital Landspítalinn is broken at the moment.
A scrubber that cleaning personal brought into the room is now stuck inside. 😂
Repairs are under way
https://www.mbl.is/frettir/innlent/2025/06
Cowboys fans are falling for an all too predictable George Pickens fallacy https://fansided.com/nfl/cowboys-fans-falling-all-too-predictable-george-pickens-fallacy
Interesting that some who replied to my post on tax and GDP growth yesterday missed the point.
The point isn't to debate whether tax -> growth (it might, with a tail wind).
The point is that
1) Growth won't happen like it used to.
2) That is good because GDP growth is ecologically and socially lethal.
3) So our leaders (sic) had better adapt to the new reality and use taxation and other measures to build a better, fairer future.
More here:
The Los Angeles field office director for the Department of Homeland Security
testified on Monday that Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers
desperately needed the help of military personnel in carrying out arrests.
The question is whether Donald Trump‘s deployment of armed forces goes against U.S. law that generally prohibits the president from using the military to police domestic affairs.
Ernesto Santacruz Jr. testified at the start of a three-day trial in S…
Cowboys' Brian Schottenheimer praises CeeDee Lamb's work ethic following Week 1 drops https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/dallas-cowboys-brian-schottenheimer-praises-ceedee-lamb-work-ethic-following-week-1-drops…