A squeezy Christmas Morning to you on the west coast of North Amerikay! 🎅🏽
Here’s a bundle of never-heard-on-our-show before #accordion tunes from last night’s Cringle episode of @… radio 🪗
As the show-notes say, it includes a bit of piracy and tub…

Accordion Noir radio playlist 2025-12-24: Some Reindeer are Knocking on Our Chimney
If you’re going to be playing an hour of music on Christmas Eve, you need to either be explicitly embracing or rejecting the occasion. In this week’s episode of Accordion Noir, Bruce ki…

Trump envoy Steve Witkoff, according to a transcript of the Oct. 14 call published by the Bloomberg news service,
advised Putin’s foreign policy adviser Yuri Ushakov that Putin should call Trump to congratulate him for the Gaza peace deal,
say Russia had supported it and that he respects the president as a man of peace.
“From that, it’s going to be a really good call,” Witkoff said according to the transcript.
When asked by Russian state media to comment on Bloomberg’s…

How Witkoff coached Putin's aide on pitching Trump, according to a Bloomberg report
President Donald Trump’s chief interlocutor with the Russian government last month advised a senior aide to Vladimir Putin on how the Russian leader should go about pitching the U.S. president on a Ukraine peace plan. That's according to a transcript of the Oct. 14 call published Tuesday by Bloomberg News. The news agency said it reviewed a recording of the call. It said Trump envoy Steve Witkoff advised Putin’s foreign policy adviser Yuri Ushakov that Putin should call the U.S. leader to c…

USA Today Co., which owns the Detroit Free Press, plans to acquire The Detroit News from MediaNews Group and continue to publish it separately (The Detroit News)
https://www.detroitnews.com/story/business

The Detroit News to be acquired by USA TODAY Co., owner of Detroit Free Press
USA TODAY Co., owner of the Detroit Free Press, will acquire The Detroit News and continue to publish it separately, it announced Monday.

»Passwörter erstellen: "123456" bleibt 2025 Deutschlands beliebteste Wahl:
Dass simple Passwörter nicht sicher sind, hat wohl fast jeder schon einmal gehört. Viele hält das aber nicht davon ab, leichtsinnige Zugangsdaten zu verwenden. Eine Auswertung – und wie es besser geht.«
Nichts neues und hatte darüber schon mehrfach getootet. Ich kenne Firmen, die dies fast schon die Tipps zwanghaft verweigern, da mensch anscheinend ihr Passwort nicht eraten kann :-/
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Einladung für Hacker: Das sind die beliebtesten (und gefährlichsten) Passwörter
Dass simple Passwörter nicht sicher sind, hat wohl fast jeder schon einmal gehört. Viele hält das aber nicht davon ab, leichtsinnige Zugangsdaten zu verwenden. Eine Auswertung – und wie es besser geht.

KEV Assertion Format – Draft Specification (potential BCP?)

This format describes a generic KEV (Known Exploited Vulnerability) assertion format.
The goal is to express who claims exploitation, when, based on what, where it was observed, and with which level of confidence, without turning KEV into full threat intelligence. A KEV assertion is usually very binary and lacking some meta-information. The format adds some …

KEV (Known Exploited Vulnerabilities) - Potential Format (BCP?)
KEV Assertion Format – Draft Specification (potential BCP?) This format describes a generic KEV (Known Exploited Vulnerability) assertion format. The goal is to express who claims exploitation, when, based on what, where it was observed, and with which level of confidence, without turning KEV into full threat intelligence. A KEV assertion is usually very binary and lacking some meta-information. The format adds some information which could better capture details about the exploitation. A maj…

I listen to several things in Acquired Tastes, and occasionally dip into Dedicated Ears Only. But now, I'm curious about the genres in the Abyss of Degeneration.

Listen to @… radio this week with some Greenland commentary including Inuit #accordion
And donation suggestions from my friends on the ground in Minneapolis
Because we’re a full-service socio-political-musical

Accordion Noir radio playlist 2026-01-21: Greenland for Greenlanders
With all the talk about Greenland in the news recently, Bruce was inspired to devote an episode to the topic of that big cold island. (He didn’t get very far on short notice, but it’s w…

Absolutely hideous to read. And Trump has Republicans convinced he’s pro-life.
According to this document, Trump was present and 70 years old when a girl’s newborn was disposed of. To be clear, she’s a victim of sex trafficking.
Witness Info
First Name: Donald
Last Name: Trump
Age: 70
https://

Christopher Webb (@cwebbonline.com)
Absolutely hideous to read. And Trump has Republicans convinced he’s pro-life. According to this document, Trump was present and 70 years old when a girl’s newborn was disposed of. To be clear, she’s a victim of sex trafficking. Witness Info First Name: Donald Last Name: Trump Age: 70 1/2

White House officials sought to rapidly distance Donald Trump and top officials from their initial portrayals of the man fatally shot by federal officials in Minnesota as a gunman,
as they faced a deepening backlash after video footage was widely seen to undercut their assertions.
The move came as Trump advisers appeared to realize that the caustic portrayals of the man, Alex Pretti,
who was reportedly licensed to carry a gun,
had turned the killing into an even large…

A popular right-wing account
that called a video depicting
Barack and Michelle Obama as apes
"a masterpiece"
appears to be run by a White House staffer,
according to records reviewed by WIRED
https://www.wired.com/story/a-white-house-

A White House Staffer Appears to Run Massive Pro-Trump X Account
A popular right-wing account that called a video depicting Barack and Michelle Obama as apes "a masterpiece" appears to be run by a White House staffer, according to records reviewed by WIRED.