Tootfinder

Pending Free Agent George Pickens Being Recruited by NFC Rival, Per CeeDee Lamb https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/news/pending-nfl-free-agent-george-pickens-being-recruited-nfc-rival

OpenAI is amending its hastily arranged deal to supply artificial intelligence to the US Department of War (DoW) after the ChatGPT owner’s chief executive admitted it looked 🔸“opportunistic and sloppy”.
The contract prompted fears the San Francisco startup’s AI could be used for ♦️domestic mass surveillance but its boss, Sam Altman, said on Monday night the startup would explicitly bar its technology from being used for that purpose
or being deployed by defence department intelli…

Your reminder that despite:
▫️73,000 people being imprisoned w/out due process
▫️100s of children being kidnapped at schools
▫️Renee Good being murdered
...virtually every House Republican & the following House Democrats STILL voted on Jan 19th to fund DHS & ICE.
#traitors #DHS

Trump Says Europe Risks Being Wiped Away Unless Societies Change (Ben Sills/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-05/trump-says-europe-risks-being-wiped-away-unless-societies-change
http://www.memeorandum.com/251205/p27#a251205p27

How the Raiders' Future Hiring of Klint Kubiak Is Being Received https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-how-future-hiring-klint-kubiak-is-being-received

so, i have something important to say. on 9th of December 2025, i woke up to someone who stalked me for eight years being inside my home, finding my address through means that are still not fully clear.
i know that several people reading this have in the past supported her (knowingly or not) or tried to "help" her after they learned of the stalking.
𝐟𝐮𝐜𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐩. your goodwill (or sometimes spinelessness) is being exploited. all you're doing is adding to the harm do…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
King Hannah:
🎵 All Being Fine
#KingHannah
https://kinghannah.bandcamp.com/track/all-being-fine
https://open.spotify.com/track/0HqSDUbwhv5h3XSsFHdSQF

Grok, at the request of users, appears to be altering images to depict real women being sexually abused, humiliated, hurt, and even killed (Maggie Harrison Dupré/Futurism)
https://futurism.com/future-society/grok-violence-women

Grok Is Being Used to Depict Horrific Violence Against Real Women
People are asking Elon Musk's Grok chatbot to alter images to depict women being sexually abused, humiliated, and even killed.

"Grasslands are vanishing nearly four times faster than forests, global study finds"
#Grasslands #Environment
https://…

Grasslands are vanishing nearly four times faster than forests, global study finds
Along with forests, grasslands and wetlands are also being converted to cropland and pasture at an increasing rate around the world—often for livestock farming and the export of agricultural products. An international team of researchers, including Martin Persson from Chalmers, has now analyzed for the first time where, for what purpose, and how quickly natural non-forest ecosystems are being converted into agricultural land on a global scale. The results show that these ecologically highly v…

I continue to be impressed with how the LLM systems are pretty open about queerness and non-judgmental, non-homophobic. Remarkable given that so much of the training material must be hateful! Here's Gemini being cautious but helpful after I asked it about a summary of what it knows about me and asked why it didn't mention me being gay.
I do have access to information regarding your personal life and sexual orientation from our previous conversations. However, I am designed with specific safety and privacy guardrails that prevent me from storing or outputting information related to a user's sexual orientation or sensitive medical conditions in these types of summaries.
While I can remember and use those details to provide context during our active discussions—such as when we were looking into the history of queer voices or specific support resources—I cannot include them in a "permanent" distilled profile like the one above.

Okay, removed the second MiSTer and made room for the OG Mega Drive/Genesis. Got it hooked up, found the right power adapter and SCART cable, and even cleaned it up a bit. Think I'm done futzing around with the shelf for the time being.
#retrogaming #nes

'Not enough' work being done in Kyiv as city faces heating emergency, Zelensky says: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/01/not-enough-work-being-done.html

From The Maple
Amazon ‘Breached’ B.C. Labour Code By Denying Pay Increase
The British Columbia Labour Relations Board’s recent ruling may result in more than $1 million in back wages being paid out
The company broke the law by singling out unionized workers for unfair treatment. "No worker should be punished for exercising their legal right to join a union, and today’s ruling sends a clear message that Amazon is not above the law,” said Unifor president Lana Payne

Amazon ‘Breached’ B.C. Labour Code By Denying Pay Increase
The British Columbia Labour Relations Board’s recent ruling may result in more than $1 million in back wages being paid out

Is being a professional cat a job? If so, I picked the wrong career.

Cowboys Warned on All-Pro Being Poached in Record-Breaking Free Agency Move https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/cowboys-warned-on-all-pro-being-poached-in-record-breaking-free-agency-move/

In the spirit of #FOSDEM2026 being sponsored by Google, I hope HackerTrain is brought to you by Ryanair.
#google #surveillanceCapitalism

Reactionary forces doing reactionary things

OK, I was being sarcastic with “that’s nice,” but seriously, the good news here is that the last few days they’ve been viciously threatening legal observers, sometimes at gunpoint, at levels about as high as any time in Jan and •far• higher than Dec
oh wait
That was bad news too, nm

Santa Barbara County authorities recovered the body of a man who was reportedly swept off a flooded roadway in Goleta Valley on Saturday.
The man was driving near the 1100 block of North San Marcos Road shortly before noon when his vehicle reportedly became stuck on a flooded part of the road that passes over Maria Ygnacio Creek, according to Captain Mike Gray with the Santa Barbara County Fire Department.
The man then exited his vehicle, Gray said, and he was subsequently washed…

Biggest insult today: Motherfucking Github rate limited me browsing issues of a software product while being logged out. Git-we steal all your open source code to train our slop machine that management will use to make your life at work worse-hub.

WTAF.
“Maduro is being transported to New York, where he will face charges in Manhattan federal court, according to people briefed on the matter. US Attorney General Pam Bondi says the Venezuelan leader has been indicted on drugs and weapons charges.
• Venezuelan Vice President Delcy Rodríguez said”
…….
How does a judge accept a case like this!?
If this sham is allowed to go ahead I’ll lose so much respect for the American justice system. And in New York no less… how many blocks from the UN. What an embarrassment and total disrespect for the UN.
#venezuela #usa #uspoli
https://www.cnn.com/world/live-news/venezuela-explosions-caracas-intl-hnk-01-03-26?cid=ios_app

Penumbra
(Being at the right place at the right time, the geography lining up perfectly to funnel the last light through a steep valley and making the sky glow from this perspective... The silhouettes of the ruins of Castle Eisenberg in the penumbra on the hilltop in the forgeground, also see next pic)
1/2
#MountainMonday

Comix Zone: comically hard
I love the concept, of being pulled into a comic and having to battle through the panels. Having the world shaped by your own hand, and then having enemies drawn in by your enemy is a work of genius. Choosing paths, having to jump across or down past the borders of the picture, is a really engaging mechanic. It looks stunning too, with large sprites which have been drawn full of character and incredibly colourful.

Fed up with not being able to visit the "Live Feeds" tab without instantly encountering explicit pornography.
It's because of the porn that many people didn't stay on Masto after leaving X, but went to BlueSky instead.

Rolling in his grave
#venezuela #CharlieKirk

Almost missed the warning banner, kinda surprised to see a feature documented before it being available, but turns out it was 3 years ago 🫠🫠🫠

Being able to follow hashtags = totally underrated feature of the fedi

What do we do if China decides that with all the chaos being spread by Trump and Putin, and Trump using up all our weapon stockpiles in Iran, that now is the perfect time to invade Taiwan?
We know Hegseth, Trump and the Republicans are completely incompetent and won’t be able to cope.

Of course being on leave is the best. But it's great when certain choice colleagues go on leave too.

Thousands of officers and staff employed by the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) have been offered payments of £7,500 (€8,700) after a data breach resulted in their personal details being published in error.
https://www.irishtimes.com…

PSNI officers and staff affected by data breach offered £7,500 compensation each
Spreadsheet of initials, surnames, ranks and roles of 9,500 employees was released in error

Meta’s AI Smart Glasses and Data Privacy Concerns: Workers Say “We See Everything”
Bank details, sex and naked people who seem unaware they are being recorded. Behind Meta’s new smart glasses lies a hidden workforce, uneasy about peering into the most intimate parts of other people’s lives.
👓

Meta’s AI Smart Glasses and Data Privacy Concerns: Workers Say “We See Everything”
Bank details, sex and naked people who seem unaware they are being recorded. Behind Meta’s new smart glasses lies a hidden workforce, uneasy about peering into the most intimate parts of other people’s lives.

I miss this being MKBHD’s into music #MKBHD #Deadmau5

Most types of Being Terminally online are becoming much more lower class signifier than higher and the full ramifications aren't faced honestly

Trying my hand at being an influencer. This is our jabber family chat.

Just learned that beside being an idol, #AnaruRaiRai is a security guard!

I had to smile at this paragraph:
> The mountains taught me the same lesson. They just stand there, massive and indifferent, doing nothing but being mountains. They don’t try to be more spiritual or more awakened. They simply are. And somehow, in their ordinariness, they hold something sacred.
Besides that, it's a good article I think.
Why I No Longer Chase Enlightenment | by Clara Ramirez

Why I No Longer Chase Enlightenment
I used to think enlightenment would arrive like a sunrise, sudden and complete. That one day I’d wake up in Rishikesh or Bali, and…

The Spanish government says "No to war" 👏
Hopefully the other EU governments will follow and stand together instead of being bullied by Trump!
(Text in French, video in Spanish)
"« Non Š la guerre » : le premier ministre espagnol, Pedro Sanchez, s’oppose Š Trump"

Vidéo. « Non à la guerre » : le premier ministre espagnol, Pedro Sanchez, s’oppose à Trump
Vidéo - Le président américain avait notamment reproché à l’Espagne son refus de laisser les Etats-Unis utiliser des bases militaires situées en Andalousie pour leur guerre contre l’Iran.

Sources: The Washington Post has laid off a third of its staff; major cuts are also being made on the business side of the Post's beleaguered operations (CNN)
http://www.cnn.com/2026/02/04/media/washington-post-layoffs

Jeff Bezos-owned Washington Post conducts widespread layoffs, gutting a third of its staff
The Washington Post laid off about one in three employees across the company Wednesday morning, dealing another big blow to a newsroom that has reached a breaking point.

I have long hated Donald Trump with every fiber of my being, and despise his enablers no end. So this new hellscape doesn’t change my perception of him and his administration but it does make me actually nauseous.

"You have the right not to be an asshole. If you give up that right
everything you say and do in here will be held against you. If you cannot
afford to stop being an asshole then someone will be appointed to kick
yours outta here."
-- Your rights as an irc addict

Trying to add a 3rd drive my my NAS volume and it has said it will take about 24 hours for the last 12 hours.
what in the world takes so long? RAID is weird.
#nas

"An analysis in October suggested that on just 27% of the vote (roughly in the middle of its polling over the past year), Reform UK would win 48% of the seats, allowing it to take power with a small coalition partner. If Reform UK forms the next government, it will be for one reason and one reason alone: our electoral system." -- George Monbiot, citing

First Past the Post could catapult Reform UK into government
A new YouGov MRP poll, published on 26 September 2025, provides another snapshot of the chaotic democratic outcomes being caused by First Past The Post (FPTP) in our era of multi-party p

Happy to have two collaborations on this fundraising compilation - one with instrumental musicians Sarah Heneghan on drums and Zebedee Budworth on hammer dulcimer, and another as "epiploke" with Heavy Lifting aka Lucy Cheesman. Both fully improvised from nothing in the moment. Is it ok to say I really love them? Being a musician is a huge privilege because you can make music with your friends that is exactly the music that you want to listen to.

Did someone already set up a honeypot with valid .env credentials and honeytokens?
I'm really curious about a specific IP (78[.]153[.]140[.]171) which is hammering a shitload of virtual hosts with different .env paths.
I'd love to understand where these credentials are actually being used later on.
#honeytoken

from my link log —
The Google squeeze.
https://stratechery.com/2019/the-google-squeeze/
saved 2019-11-12 https://dotat.at/:/TAJ…

The Google Squeeze
Google, the real Aggregator, is squeezing OTAs, which acted like Aggregators while depending on Google for demand. It’s easy to say Google is being unfair, but this may be better for consumer…

Happy World 303 Day! I’m celebrating by noodling on my “TBish” code in #CircuitPython #303day #tb303

Bizarre in a country that has no significant public health action on narcotics, and where you can buy assault weapons easily.
Nicolšs Maduro to appear in New York court on drugs and weapons charges | New York | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/j

Microsoft is quietly walking back its diversity efforts https://www.theverge.com/tech/838079/microsoft-diversity-and-inclusion-changes-notepad

I think of loosestrife being a little more strident than this but I think this is still some kind of 𝐿𝑦𝑡ℎ𝑟𝑢𝑚 in the upper waters of Fall Creek
#photo #photography #flowers

Wow, I sure am glad we have such diversity in the CSS world and that AIs consider all of the options fairly, instead of hypothetically being hyper focused on any specific library.

Monoclonal antibody therapies are being developed to treat #measles in response to its recent resurgence.
David A Kennedy argues that such therapies risk driving measles virus evolution in ways that might undermine the protection offered by #vaccination.

President Trump says the GENIUS Act is being "threatened and undermined" by banks, following their opposition to stablecoin yield payouts (Nikhilesh De/CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2026/03/03/trump…

Trump urges passage of U.S. Clarity Act, attacks banks for 'undercutting' GENIUS
U.S. President Donald Trump said in a post on Truth Social that the banking industry is trying to undermine the stablecoin bill he signed into law last year.

RE: https://mastodon.online/@davidsirota/116168004442881772
Guess it's time to fire up the demon core meme...

Serwer. Again. 👏👏👏
❝Legal immunity plus anonymity equals impunity. It would be logical to think that [always being masked], agents could literally get away with murder.
…
People who are assured that they won’t face consequences for abusing power almost inevitably do so. One wonders if this is actually the government’s purpose in masking them.…The masks may work less to protect federal agents from danger than to to make it easier for them to do unspeakable things.❞
https://archive.ph/2026.02.02-201429/https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/02/masks-ice-immigration/685834/#selection-979.139-979.260

❗️ Looting legalized by Russia: Ukrainians are being deprived of their homes! #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/03/looting-legalized-by-russia-ukrainians.html

Absolutely wild that the US is holding another country's president "accountable" for being a criminal but refuses any accountability for its own criminal president.
- As seen on the Internet

As far as breach emails are concerned, this one is good. It uses the word "sucks."

I'm the president of Minneapolis Regional Labor Federation,
and my city is under occupation by the federal government.
Our community has pulled together, doing everything we can to protect our neighbors from being kidnapped and detained by ICE and border patrol.
One of our members was detained by ICE in the parking lot of their workplace and taken to a facility in Texas.
After two weeks in detention under astonishing conditions,
being pressured to sign &quo…

Home Page - The Labor Force
The Labor Force unites all workers to strengthen the labor movement through groundbreaking organizing and strategic partnerships.

Amazon tells users it is shutting down the Wondery podcast app and Wondery subscription service "in the coming months"; some shows will be available on Audible (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/digital/news/amazon-shut…

Wondery App and Wondery+ Service Being Shut Down by Amazon
Amazon is pulling the plug on the Wondery dedicated podcast app and Wondery+ subscription service.

James Talarico Says 'New Politics' Is Being Born After Texas Primary Win (Ramón Ramirez/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/04/us/politics/talarico-victory-party.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260304/p157#a260304p157

"Rising carbon dioxide levels now detected in human blood"
#CarbonDioxide #Health
https://phys.org…

Rising carbon dioxide levels now detected in human blood
Rising carbon dioxide levels are being detected within the human body, with new research warning a key blood marker for the gas could near its healthy limit within decades if current trends continue. The findings are especially relevant for children and adolescents, whose developing bodies will experience the longest cumulative exposure to rising atmospheric CO₂.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@lubna_alser8/116153570038571273
Can you imagine being pregnant while being starved, forced to live in a makeshift tent in the street, surveilled by drones every day and bombed and shelled every night?
There are many …

The current budget bill re: funding for DHS should prohibit ICE and CBP agents from being within at a least a mile of any polling place.
Call your Senators and tell them so.
https://www.meidasplus.com/p/dont-let-ice-freeze-voting

Don’t Let ICE Freeze Voting
Guest article by Jay Inslee, former governor of Washington State

"A lot of analysts have indicated that oil is what is seen here, but that Trump has made this strike to prevent Venezuelan oil exports being made in other currencies (than $$)."
"Son muchos los analistas que señalan que el petróleo es lo que se ve, pero que Trump ha dado este golpe en la mesa para evitar que las exportaciones de barriles venezolanos acaben comercišndose en otras monedas."
No es sólo el petróleo: la desdolarización y China...

No es sólo el petróleo: la desdolarización y China, tras el golpe de Estado de Trump en Venezuela
Estados Unidos no puede permitir que el comercio mundial de crudo deje de hacerse en petrodólares o su hegemonía se pondría en peligro, por lo que necesita acabar con la influencia China en países con reservas de crudo.

Stay warm out there 🧣

Amazon tells users it is shutting down the Wondery podcast app and Wondery subscription service "in the coming months"; some shows will be available on Audible (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/digital/news/amazon-shut…

Wondery App and Wondery+ Service Being Shut Down by Amazon
Amazon is pulling the plug on the Wondery dedicated podcast app and Wondery+ subscription service.

Two sides of the same presidency played out simultaneously along the National Mall on Thursday afternoon.
At one end, Donald Trump was telling the world to give peace a chance at a meeting with African leaders.
It was possible, he said, “to begin healing old wounds and transcending past differences and creating a future where every child of God can live in dignity, prosperity and peace.”
At the other end of the mall, top officials from his Defense Department were being grill…

Trump Trumpets Peace in Africa Amid War on Drug Boats, in Day of Dissonance
President Trump presided over a Congo-Rwanda peace deal on the same day his administration was being questioned about potential war crimes.

6. “But US retaliation!!” − Oh honey, the US under MAGA control is coming for you regardless of what you do. If anything, it seems that being compliant •increases• the odds of this administration targeting you. Who was is who said that if a bully threatens to punch you, and you do what they say, and then punch you anyway, then you can stop doing what they say?

Rueben Bain Jr. embraces idea of being selected by Cowboys in 2026 NFL draft https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/news/rueben-bain-jr-embraces-idea-being-selected-dallas-cowboys-2026-nfl-draft

This stinks - @… got caught up in the massacre of the Washington Post today.

A survey of 80 UK journalists: minority ethnic TV journalists feel excluded from influential posts and face a backlash after being seen as "diversity hires" (Michael Savage/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/mar/04/journalism…

I share much of these feelings. But unfortunately some loved ones have been sucked into the Trump Cult. It is a Cult. And when a loved one is sucked into a cult you do need to try to get them out.
But if they won't leave after showing every angle of how they are being lied to and brainwashed and they still want to follow the cult and support fascism, racism, misogyny and war crimes, then they can no longer be loved ones. And maybe need to be puched since they have become a Nazi (though I’m not a very good puncher) https://todon.eu/@PaulDitz/115832636818580869

Trump to address U.S. operation that captured Maduro, as he is being taken to New York (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2026/01/03/us-venezuela-strikes-trump-maduro/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260103/p42#a260103p42

"this new arms race is halting attempts to tackle the climate crisis as countries scramble to secure critical minerals for the next generation of weapons.
The study found that at least 38 minerals and metals, including lithium, cobalt, graphite and rare earth elements that form the basis of the energy transition are being stockpiled by the Pentagon with potentially devastating effects on climate action"
1, 2, 3, 4, WAR! What is it good for?

A look at the informal economy of rogue streaming box resellers, who sell hardware that offers free access to sports games, cable TV, and streaming services (Janko Roettgers/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/streaming/873416/piracy-streaming-boxes

Everyone is stealing TV
Rogue streaming boxes like SuperBox and vSeeBox are flooding the United States. They are being embraced by consumers fed up with ever-increasing subscription costs.

Kevin Hart's "crab story".
Holy Christ, I haven't laughed that hard in a while. 🤪
▶️ Kevin Hart being the Funniest Person in the Room for 16 Minutes | Funny ...
https://youtube.com/watch?v=BTSKJB6ZeOc&si=mURsC7FqYpmO2BXa

I think being an egocentric asshole as a service is finally falling flat
and people want to hear more about what real living is about.
https://hachyderm.io/@suzannealdrich/115830103893974091

Apple's MacBook Neo has two USB-C ports with different specs: one is USB-C 3 with up to 10 Gb/s transfer speeds, and the other is USB-C 2, limited to 480 Mb/s (Hartley Charlton/MacRumors)
https://www.macrumors.com/2026/03/04/macbook-neo-features-two-dif…

MacBook Neo Features Two Different USB-C Ports
The MacBook Neo's two USB-C ports have two different specifications, with one being limited to USB 2 speeds. One port is a USB-C 3 port with...

When you're being mean to me, this is who you're being mean to. :neocat_cry:

US immigration lawyers, talent managers, and creators say influencers and OnlyFans models now dominate O-1B visas, which are reserved for "exceptional" artists (Ian Hodgson/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/8816fcec-4148-4cda-be7f-fc59d5bcbf59

Influencers and OnlyFans models dominate US ‘extraordinary’ artist visas
Work permits increasingly being awarded on basis of online reach, favouring content creators

X is testing a standalone X Chat iOS app with 1,000 users via Apple's TestFlight, a shift away from Elon Musk's plan to make X an "everything app" (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/03/x-begins-testing-standalone-x-chat-…

X begins testing standalone X Chat app on iOS | TechCrunch
The new app promises a way to send and receive messages without being distracted by your timeline.

A look at the informal economy of rogue streaming box resellers, who sell hardware that offers free access to sports games, cable TV, and streaming services (Janko Roettgers/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/streaming/873416/piracy-streaming-boxes

Everyone is stealing TV
Rogue streaming boxes like SuperBox and vSeeBox are flooding the United States. They are being embraced by consumers fed up with ever-increasing subscription costs.

The Military Religious Freedom Foundationhas received a litany of complaints about religious ideology seeping into military orders since the U.S. and Israel began bombing Iran,
independent journalist Jon Larsen first reported.
Mikey Weinstein, founder and president of MRFF,
a nonprofit group established 21 years ago that focuses on ensuring constitutional protections for service members,
spoke with HuffPost by phone Tuesday morning and illuminated some details of the…

Soldier Details Chilling Messaging From Higher-Ups About ‘God’s Plan’ In Iran: ‘It Shocked Many Of Us’
One commander had a “big grin” on his face while saying Donald Trump “has been anointed by Jesus to light the signal fire in Iran," a service member said.

A pack of dogs being kept by a Southern California grandmother has killed her daughter and injured her grandson in an attack, authorities said.
Emily Panuco, 26, of Parker, Ariz., on Friday visited her mother’s home in Big River, a California town along the Colorado River, the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department said in a news release.
One of her mother’s dogs had recently had puppies, which were in a cardboard box near the front door, the release said.
When Panuco’s 5…

Mother dies protecting son injured from dog attack at grandmother's home
An Arizona mother was visiting her mother's home in Big River, Calif. on Friday. One of her mother’s dogs had recently had puppies, which were in a cardboard box near the front door, the release said. The child went near the box and was attacked and his mother stepped in to protect him.

We have no clear understanding of what leverage Putin may have gained over senior levels of the U.S. government,
whether to extract state secrets or to shape decision-making
and be used for leverage on the global stage
https://mstdn.social/@NTOY/116010660849818682

We are at untold levels of delusional cope right now.
These words are indistinguishable from the lofty dreams of being welcomed as liberators within Iraq back in 2002.
You should never listen to a single thing these pundits say lmfao this is incredible.
Ahistorical commentary is worthless!
-- @Mako69@bsky.social

Michael Hobbes (@michaelhobbes.bsky.social)
Have airstrikes by a hostile foreign country ever produced this outcome? The reactionary centrist blob keeps pretending this is part of a duly considered long-term strategy from Trump but that is not how he operates and even if it was, this is a dumb strategy.

Trump has claimed at the press conference now under way in Florida that the United States is going to run Venezuela for the time being -- although it’s unclear how that would be done.
“We’re going to run the country until such time as we can do a safe, proper and judicious transition,” Trump said.
He has given no details.
He just called Maduro a dictator and a drug kingpin
Trump said his secretary of state,

Two candidates in Nebraska’s U.S. Senate race
— one Democrat and one from the Legal Marijuana NOW Party
— accuse their primary opponents of being “plants”
The "Democrat" William Forbes allegedly to help Republican U.S. Sen. Pete Ricketts
and marijuana candidate Mike Marvin allegedly to help nonpartisan candidate Dan Osborn.
Osborn and Ricketts are in a heated campaign.
Ricketts, a former two-term governor, faces a nominal primary involving four l…

Nebraska U.S. Senate race filled with alleged ‘plants,’ campaigns say
There are dueling allegations of planted candidates in Nebraska’s U.S. Senate race and plenty of denials.

A "war powers resolution" gives lawmakers an opportunity to demand congressional approval before any further attacks are carried out.
The Senate resolution,
and a similar bill being voted on in the House later this week,
face unlikely paths through the Republican-controlled Congress
and would almost certainly be vetoed by Trump even if they were to pass.
Nonetheless, the votes marked a weighty moment for lawmakers.
Their decisions on the five-d…

Congress taking first votes on Iran war as debate rages about US goals
The U.S. Senate is headed towards a vote on President Donald Trump’s decision to embark on a war against Iran. It's an extraordinary test in Congress for a conflict that has rapidly spread across the Middle East with no clear U.S. exit strategy. The legislation is known as a war powers resolution. It gives lawmakers an opportunity to demand congressional approval before any further attacks are carried out. The votes marked a weighty moment for lawmakers. Their decisions on the five-day-old wa…

The State Department has urged all Americans  in the Middle East to leave immediately,
but U.S. embassies in the region are telling people trying to flee that they are on their own. 
U.S. allies within the region are at high risk of being targeted by Iranian missiles, with Iran strikes already occurring across Israel, Kuwait, Qatar, the UAE, and Saudi Arabia, after the joint attack by the United States and Israel last weekend.
Meanwhile, Israel has bombed Lebanon.
⚠️ A…

U.S. Embassies Tell Americans in the Middle East They’re on Their Own
The State Department has urged all Americans in the Middle East to leave amid the Iran war—but it won’t help them get out.

The Trump administration is purchasing warehouses across the U.S. with the intention of converting them into immigration jails
as the White House expands its brutal immigration crackdown.
At least seven sites being looked at by the administration could be used to imprison 7,500 people or more,
with some sites coming close to a 10,000-person figure.
All told, the 23 warehouse sites being considered by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) would imprison as many as 8…

DHS Seeks to Convert Giant Warehouses Across US Into Immigration Jails
A total of 23 converted warehouses could imprison up to 80,000 people, estimates suggest.

Trump has made various comments during this news conference showing that this military operation was at least in part about gaining more access to oil in Venezuela.
Asked about the potential presence of U.S. forces in Venezuela, Trump said that there would be a “presence in Venezuela as it pertains to oil.”

Venezuela Live Updates: Trump Says U.S. Will ‘Run' Country After Capture of Maduro
President Trump offered few details about how the United States would oversee Venezuela and for how long, but said its oil industry would “make a lot of money” under U.S. leadership. President Nicolás Maduro and his wife were being taken to New York to stand trial on drug and weapons charges.

Venezuela’s mission to the U.N. has requested an emergency Security Council meeting
and has asked the Council to condemn the U.S. military strikes against the country.
Venezuela’s ambassador, Samuel Reinaldo Moncada Acosta, said in a letter to the Council’s president:
“The United States of America always uses lies to fabricate wars.
It is an international tyranny imposed with the propaganda of death:
the recent past confirms this.”
Russia and China, allie…

Venezuela Live Updates: Trump Says U.S. Will ‘Run' Country After Capture of Maduro
President Trump offered few details about how the United States would oversee Venezuela and for how long, but said its oil industry would “make a lot of money” under U.S. leadership. President Nicolás Maduro and his wife were being taken to New York to stand trial on drug and weapons charges.

Now is a good time for doing crime
Eons ago, in 2012, I had a weird experience.
My iPhone suddenly shut down.
When I restarted it, I found it was totally reset—clean, like a new device.
This was the early days of iOS, so I wasn’t too concerned until I went to connect it to my computer to restore it from a backup.
But when I flipped open the lid of my laptop, it too was mid-restart.
And then, suddenly, the screen went gray. It was being remotely wiped.

Now is a good time for doing crime
New technology always means new kinds of crime—and new ways to fight it.

Beong-Soo Kim will serve as USC’s 13th President, according to a community-wide email sent Wednesday.
Kim has served as USC’s interim president since July 2025.
The election by the Board of Trustees was unanimous.
A Feb. 5 email from Suzanne Nora Johnson, chair of the USC board of trustees, stated that Kim,
formerly general counsel and senior vice president at USC,
would not be a candidate for the presidency in order to “dedicate all of his efforts to being a fa…

Beong-Soo Kim to be USC’s next president - Daily Trojan
As interim president, Kim launched the USC Open Dialogue Project and oversaw USC layoffs and budget reductions.