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Budanov announces crackdown on AWOL and corruption at recruitment centers: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/10/budanov-announces-crackdown-on-awol.html

Closer to home here are the kind of 𝐻𝑒𝑙𝑖𝑜𝑝𝑠𝑖𝑠 flowers you find up and down the creek in Monkey Run; I think every natural area in Tompkins has its own characteristic 𝐻𝑒𝑙𝑖𝑜𝑝𝑠𝑖𝑠.
#photo #photography #flowers

Friday Links 26-05
If you watch one thing this weekend, watch the video about being misled about renewable energy.
Spoiler: It's not just about renewable energy.
I still haven't decided what I think about coding with AI. It has been a great help and I see all the drawbacks. My links reflect this.

I know plenty of you hate recording voiceovers. Why? Because you told me that you sound like a hostage reading a ransom note, and getting high quality audio quality is always a massive struggle without high end gear.
We all know the alternative: Al voices that sound so robotic they could be running Windows 95. But what about the "good" ones? The ones charging you hefty monthly fees (looking at you, ElevenLabs and Synthesia). Pass.
I cracked a powerful, free workflow ins…

Why We Should All Be Worried About "Crusadercore" #christiannationalism

Why We Should All Be Worried About "Crusadercore"
This online trend equips young, White men with a historically bastardized visual lexicon — one that gives new credence and religious authority to far-right bigotry.

An important detail in this article: DHS is lying about assaults against agents.
That supposed “1,150% increase in assaults” against DHS agents they keep trotting out? By their own admission, that includes “videotaping them [agents] where they’re at.”
DHS thinks •recording video• of ICE counts as •violence•.
•That• is the supposed increase in violence they’re crying all these crocodile tears about. Un-frigging-be-lievable. https://social.freedom.press/@freedomofpress/115844121656978280

amazing. https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:pabvs6a5fnlyclsotatpuns4/post/3me4jnonwlc2t
edit: here's mr nipples

kate (@katertot.bsky.social)
I need everyone to know that on the crochet subreddit the mods made a big post about how they're taking a week off because there was too much fighting/political posts. so there's currently no mods on r/crochet and people are being absolutely insane

"Out of curiosity, I used this brand-new search engine you might have heard about, “Google,” to learn more about the subject. I found a copy of CaptureNet, a freeware packet sniffer part of the SpyNet/PeepNet by Laurentiu Nicula; then I looked up for the port number used by MSN Messenger (it was 1863 in case you were wondering.) Finally, I found out how to enable “promiscuous mode” in the network card in my laptop."

The Weakest Link
The professor stopped the class. He asked one students for his phone number. After entering the number into a device looking like a handheld calculator, he asked this unsuspecting student to go outside the classroom and call a friend or a relative. The student complied. After a few seconds, to our astonishment, the machine picked up the call. We could all clearly hear our friend talking to his mum about dinner plans for that evening.

An interview with Christopher Nolan about becoming president of the Directors Guild of America, labor negotiations, studios striking AI deals, and more (Katie Kilkenny/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business

Christopher Nolan Wants to Know Where All the Hollywood Jobs Are, Too
In his first interview as president of the Directors Guild of America, the ‘Oppenheimer’ and ‘Dark Knight’ helmer called a recent downturn in employment at the union “very troubling.”

It is always disturbing when MAGA politicians go off halfcocked about socialism.
Here are some of the “radical left” socialist programs that Warner must be complaining about:
Medicare
Medicaid
The Affordable Care Act
Social Security
SNAP (food stamps)
Meals on Wheels and Office of Aging services
Every single one of these programs was once characterized by right-wing politicians as a
“socialist program.”

This MAGA politician's disturbing rant shows a party hellbent on hurting its own
“It is hard to watch other states and cities across our nation leap toward socialism… Let’s keep our state moving forward by always rejecting the falsehoods sold by the radical left.” — Secretary of State Kris Warner, Facebook post, November 5, 2025. Although I should be accustomed to it, it is alw...