@metacurity@infosec.exchangeI wonder how much of this is going on unreported - it's like taking candy from a baby.
The small town of Gloversville, NY, was hit by a ransomware attack and paid a ransom of $150,000, negotiated down from $300,000.
https://wnyt.com/top-stories/gloversville-hit-b…
@fanf@mendeddrum.orgfrom my link log —
InvisiCaps: pointers in Fil-C by example.
https://fil-c.org/invisicaps_by_example
saved 2025-10-28 https://dotat.at/:/0TWPM.h…
@laf0rge@chaos.social#Nokia is closing down their Munich site until 2030: https://www.heise.de/en/news/Nokia-plans-to-close-Munich-site-by-2030-11079263.html - is that part of the…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialToronto-based Wealthsimple, an online investment management service, raised CA$750M co-led by Dragoneer and GIC at a post-money valuation of CA$10B (Josh Scott/BetaKit)
https://betakit.com/wealthsimple-hits-10-billion-valuation…
@servelan@newsie.socialBy the CIA, then by DHS...
National Guard shooting suspect was likely vetted by US before being granted asylum - Everett Post
https://www.everettpost.com/politics/national-guard-shooting-suspect-was-likely-vetted-by-us-before-being-granted-asylum/
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialSpotify raises UK prices by £1 after previously raising them in April 2024; the Premium individual monthly plan will now cost £12.99 (Mandy Dalugdug/Music Business Worldwide)
https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/spo
@nohillside@smnn.chThat‘s a lot of money for a company which looses money each time a customer uses their product …
#OpenAI Needs At Least $207 Billion By 2030 Just To Keep Losing Money, HSBC Estimates - Slashdot
@jby@ecoevo.socialOrchids are famous for specialized flowers that create species isolation by manipulating pollinators— but these ones don't have specialized pollinator relationships. Instead, they're isolated by pollen incompatibilities.
https://doi.org/10.1093/aob/mcaf271
@Sustainable2050@mastodon.energyIsrael continues its genocide in Gaza, and the world lets it happen.
https://truthout.org/articles/gaza-officials-israel-has-only-let-in-14-percent-of-aid-required-by-ceasefire/
@Dragofix@veganism.socialSecond Cranswick Lincolnshire Pig Farm Exposed by Animal Justice Project https://veganfta.com/articles/2025/08/27/second-cranswick-lincolnshire-pig-farm-exposed-by-animal-justice-project/?utm_source=Mastodon
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.deunicodelang: Languages spoken by country (2015)
A bipartite network of languages and the countries in which they are spoken, as estimated by Unicode. Edges are weighted by the proportion of the given country's population that is literate in a particular language.
This network has 868 nodes and 1255 edges.
Tags: Informational, Relatedness, Weighted
@fgraver@hcommons.socialTaylor Swift Songs Sung in the Style of The Velvet Underground by Father John Misty | Open Culture https://www.openculture.com/2015/09/taylor-swift-songs-sung-in-the-style-of-the-velvet-underground-by-father-jo…
@tante@tldr.nettime.orgThis is so much "AI" reporting: Claims about potentials and/or threads. I'd just like to have grown-up conversations about tech again :(
"The actual current user base for evil chatbots is the cyber security vendors, who scaremonger how only their good AI can possibly stop this automated hacker evil!"
(Original title: AI for evil — hacked by WormGPT!)
@drgeraint@glasgow.socialBallot Box Scotland 2025 in review: council by-elections
"remember the most important aspect of STV – that the nice simple language used for FPTP of “gain/loss/hold” isn’t as applicable here. Whoever vacated one of three or four seats is not always the same as the overall winner at the last election. It’s entirely possible for the vacating party, the party that had a first preference lead, and the party that would have won a single seat election ... to all be different"
@cdarwin@c.imRecalcitrant members of Congress who refuse to fulfill their Constitutional duty are, like Trump, using the incumbent powers of their office to remake the Constitution in a way that excuses their prejudices and enables their graft
https://skywriter.blue/pages/did:plc:7
@seeingwithsound@mas.toPrototype device restores lost smell by teaching the brain to feel odors https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-11-prototype-device-lost-brain-odors.html
Substitution of human olfaction by the trigeminal system
@Nathan@social.lostinok.com
@sonnets@bots.krohsnest.comSonnet 154 - CLIV
The little Love-god lying once asleep,
Laid by his side his heart-inflaming brand,
Whilst many nymphs that vowed chaste life to keep
Came tripping by; but in her maiden hand
The fairest votary took up that fire
Which many legions of true hearts had warmed;
And so the General of hot desire
Was, sleeping, by a virgin hand disarmed.
This brand she quenched in a cool well by,
Which from Love's fire took heat perpet…
@timbray@cosocial.caPipeline projects such as the one being promoted by Carney and Smith typically end having to skirt the Hecate Strait (see https://paddlingmag.com/stories/columns/still/hecate-strait/) after hitting saltwater at Kitimat (see
@metacurity@infosec.exchangeHundreds of People With ‘Top Secret’ Clearance Exposed by House Democrats’ Website
https://www.wired.com/story/hundreds-of-people-with-top-secret-clearance-exposed-by-house-democrats-website/
@memeorandum@universeodon.comTrump Spoke by Phone Last Week With Maduro, Venezuela's Leader (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/28/us/politics/trump-spoke-by-phone-last-week-with-maduro-venezuelas-leader.html?unlocked_article_code=1.4k8.71F2.wOyy08If19vk&smid=url-share
http://www.memeorandum.com/251128/p48#a251128p48
@raiders@darktundra.xyzRaiders could steal the Rams’ playbook by targeting Mike LaFleur https://raiderramble.com/2025/12/27/raiders-could-steal-the-rams-playbook-by-targeting-mike-lafleur/
@burger_jaap@mastodon.socialMAN Trucks and EDF in France have launched an electric truck package that guarantees price parity with the diesel equivalent. Smart charging plays a key role in reducing energy costs by 30–50%.
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/jaapburger_
@floheinstein@chaos.socialWhen people tell me "Why do you only listen to such old-fashioned music, your taste in music is hopelessly outdated!", I send them these 3 pictures
@BBC6MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk
@ErikJonker@mastodon.social"Nicolas Guillou, French ICC judge sanctioned by the US: 'You are effectively blacklisted by much of the world's banking system'"
https://www.lemonde.fr…
@matthiasott@mastodon.socialReally enjoying the latest Wolf Alice album at the moment. Beautiful production and mixing as well. Just really good music overall! 👏😊
https://album.link/s/2kKc3Yid0YR3SSbeQ3x5kV
@inthehands@hachyderm.ioUnderlings are so annoying!
Sometimes you can make this problem go away by exploiting weak labor power (see: factories, agriculture, sanitation).
Sometimes you can create a toxic org culture when information •only• flows down the hierarchy, so no pushback can ever reach your sensitive ears. (Public school administrations are rife with this.)
Sometimes you can do it by making your catastrophic failures look like a string of successes to the people up the chain. (Large corporations are swimming in this.)
5/
@carloshr@lile.clMi mšs reciente descubrimiento en música chilena. El disco debut de Quivik, una banda de rock progresivo alternativo y con algo de pop también. Muy interesante.
«Manantial»
https://album.link/s/3LCk5UAp6gHqsVFlryBJji
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ngOne of the most biting & memorable film monologues, inspired by the poetry of Antonio Machado, and delivered by "Jefe" near the end of Ridley Scott's The Counselor:
"Actions create consequences, which create new worlds, and they're all different [...] and hitherto unknown to us. They must have always been there. [...] I urge you to see the truth of the situation you are in. It is not for me to tell you what you should have done or not done. The world in which…
@boris@cosocial.caeleven dance songs I made
by imaginary prisons https://blog.bmann.ca/3m6pzjjct722k
@jtk@infosec.exchange
@aardrian@toot.cafeI appreciate Hidde’s ability to take preposterous claims by a major accessibility tooling maker and the rampant thievery of IP by LLM makers, consider their dehumanizing output, and propose this gentle, whisper-soft rebuke:
https://hidde.blog/teaching-llms-or-companies/
@BBC3MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#WordsAndMusic
- Byron
Music by Berlioz, Virgil Thomson and Tchaikovsky inspired by Byron's poetry, and readings by Robert Glenister from his writings, in today's programme celebrating Byron (1788-1824)
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001y982
@underdarkGIS@fosstodon.orgWohoo, QGIS Arrow support has been merged: https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/pull/63749
Thanks @… & @…
@bourgwick@heads.sociallate night bob hang, accompanied by @…. @…
@lilmikesf@c.im#Measles On The Rise Across Globe As #Vaccination Rates Decline...Third World Has Highest Spike, But #USA in The Mix As Well Now.
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Continent
Maher Cissoko:
🎵 Kora By Night
#MaherCissoko
https://mahercissoko.bandcamp.com/track/kora-by-night
https://open.spotify.com/track/7u1PHaYkLixo6zONYqvrHQ
@datascience@genomic.social
@qurlyjoe@mstdn.social#muddledMaunderings caveat emptor.
Details within.
@markhburton@mstdn.socialUK rejects visa for Lati-Yana Brown, a girl left destitute in Jamaica by Hurricane Melissa | Home Office | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/nov/28/uk-home-office-rejects-visa-young-girl-destitute…
@frankel@mastodon.top
@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.ca @Dragofix@veganism.socialNorth and Baltic seas show widespread contamination by MRI contrasting agents #sea
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.depolbooks: Political books network (2004)
A network of books about U.S. politics published close to the 2004 U.S. presidential election, and sold by Amazon.com. Edges between books represent frequent copurchasing of those books by the same buyers. The network was compiled by V. Krebs and is unpublished.
This network has 105 nodes and 441 edges.
Tags: Informational, Relatedness, Unweighted, Metadata
@Techmeme@techhub.socialMyanmar shut down a major online scam center on October 21 as part of operations starting in September to curb cross-border online scams and illegal gambling (Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/myanmar-scam-centers-cybercr…
@cdarwin@c.imA British anti-disinformation campaigner who was told by the Trump administration that he faces possible removal from the US
said he is being targeted by arrogant and “sociopathic” tech companies for trying to hold them to account.
Imran Ahmed, the chief executive of the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH),
is among five European nationals barred from the US by the state department
after being accused of seeking to push tech firms to censor or suppress American v…
@memeorandum@universeodon.comWatchdog group demands answers after 'unbelievable security lapse' by Trump's Secret Service team (Geoff Earle/New York Post)
https://nypost.com/2025/12/27/us-news/watchdog-group-demands-answers-after-unbelievable-security-lapse-by-trumps-secret-service-team/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251227/p38#a251227p38
@raiders@darktundra.xyzGame Recap: Turnovers foil Raiders game as team falls to Bears by 1 point https://www.raiders.com/news/game-recap-turnovers-foil-raiders-game-as-team-falls-to-bears-by-1-point
@tante@tldr.nettime.orgNo idea what the Kagi crawler does but it has been caught by iocaine ;)
EDIT: It wasn't the Kagi crawler but the Google crawler ;)
@seeingwithsound@mas.to[OT] So now even when you try to avoid using #AI, #AI hits your wallet nonetheless https://www.<…
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.dechess: Kaggle chess players (2010)
A network among chess players (nodes) giving the chess match outcomes (edges), for game-by-game results among the world’s top chess players. The direction of edge (i,j) denotes white player (i) and black player (j). Each edge is timestamped (approximate). Edge sign is 1 for a win by white, 0 for draw, and -1 for a win by black.
This network has 7301 nodes and 65053 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Signed, Timestamps
@carloshr@lile.cl¡Pero qué PEDAZO de colaboración! 🤯
Rosalía junto a Björk y Yves Tumor -a quien no conozco- en el primer adelanto de LUX, el próximo disco de Rosalía que sale el 6 de noviembre. Una canción mšs que interesante.
https://song.link/s/6V4ntlX6608rd3Ec5SpVhj
@Sustainable2050@mastodon.energyNo shortage of public EV charging posts in Utrecht ;)
The green ones have free spots (the number shows how many there are under one dot on the map), the blue don't.
These are the ones I can use with my E-Flux card. Prices vary quite a lot, but you can find them by clicking https://dashboard.e-flux.io/my-map
@cdarwin@c.imSilicon Valley, drunk on exponential curves and both terrified and entranced by endless funding rounds,
has given us the "Hero Developer":
a figure who ships features at midnight,
who “moves fast and breaks things,”
who transforms whiteboard scribbles into billion-dollar unicorns through sheer caffeinated will.
We celebrate this person constantly.
They're on the front page of TechCrunch et al.
They keynote conferences.
Their G…
@aardrian@toot.cafeWhen I see “accessible by default” I am broadly wary:
https://cdpn.io/jh3y/debug/JoGpOGV
I found a WCAG violation in about four seconds (2.4.7). Never mind aria-hiding those up/down arrows (who doesn’t like to mess with sighted SR users?).
Anyway “accessible by default” from CSS influencers…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialThe UK has spent more than £500K since 2024, including £350K by the Department for Education, on 215 influencers to promote government campaigns (The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2025/dec/25/uk-government-spending-social-media-infl…
@boris@cosocial.caI highly recommend Redwall Feasts Bot.
What I wouldn’t give for “mixed berry cordial brewed by the hedgehogs”
[contains quote post or other embedded content] https://bsky.app/profile/bmann.ca/post/3m7g4bc7zbk2s
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ngCame across this 2010 blog post about mindfulness in computing and so much of these behaviors have only intensified to new extremes with LLM usage. So much so that not only is the process of software creation being quickly supplanted by prompts and (stochastic) "search" assemblies, but more generally the kind of mindfulness talked about in the post (here meaning thinking through & solving a problem yourself[1]) is now being openly discouraged by industry and forcefully delegate…
@timbray@cosocial.caFrom a Bloomberg newsletter. I guess if enough people believe Btc holds real value, then by definition it does, by analogy with gold. Still makes my skin crawl.
#Bitcoin
@fanf@mendeddrum.orgre the nonsense units on kettles
most kettles are made by a company called Strix from the Isle of Man
https://strix.com
with superficial design features and branding added by breville or whoever
you can probably find the strix name on the side of the power connector of your kettle’s base
anyway…
@markhburton@mstdn.socialAt last a sensible note on the bond problem that underpins the tax rises in #Budget2025.
"Slowing quantitative tightening, having the Bank of England absorb its own losses on its balance sheet and reducing the amount of interest paid out on reserves all offer ways for the government to recoup these losses and invest in public services and infrastructure. "
Budget tax rises to…
@metacurity@infosec.exchangeMillions of passengers could be affected by cyber breach at Dublin Airport supplier
https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2025/10/24/millions-of-passengers-could-be-affected-by-cyber-breach-at-dublin-airport-suppl…
@Dragofix@veganism.socialPlastic pollution is worsened by warming climate and must be stemmed, researchers warn #environment
@Techmeme@techhub.socialChina claims it has completed the first phase of construction of the first underwater data center, which is powered by wind energy and cooled by seawater (Anna Lagos/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/china-dives-in-on-the-worlds-first-wind-p…
@cdarwin@c.imFive months after the Trump administration stripped $8 billion in U.S. foreign aid from the world,
a Sudanese National Army helicopter bombed a hospital, pharmacy and market in a remote village of South Sudan known as Old Fangak.
Situated in a deep pocket of grassy swampland formed by floodwaters from the Nile that haven’t receded for five years thanks to climate change,
Old Fangak was home to thousands of internally displaced South Sudanese women and children
— inclu…
@carloshr@lile.clAltamente sospechoso este nuevo EP que acaba de publicar la banda de los hermanos Rich y Ryan Meter, Highly Suspect.
«Black Ocean»
#HighlySuspect
@Dragofix@veganism.socialAward-Winning Documentary On India’s Dairy Industry Removed By YouTube #AnimalRights
@Techmeme@techhub.socialGermany-based Quantum Systems, which sells surveillance drones that are being used by Ukraine, raised €180M, tripling its valuation to €3B since May (Christina Kyriasoglou/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/202…
@cdarwin@c.imEndangered penguins living off South Africa's coast have likely
starved en masse due to food shortages, a study said,
with some populations dropping by 95% in just eight years.
Fewer than 10,000 breeding pairs of the small, black and white African penguin are left globally,
according to scientists,
and the species was listed as critically endangered last year by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN).
Two of the most important breedi…
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.decontact: Haggle human proximity network (2006)
A network of human proximities, as measured by carried wireless devices. Each node represents a person, and an edge denotes when two people were within a certain proximity of each other, as measured by a wireless protocol (Bluetooth or Wifi). The edges are timestamped.
This network has 274 nodes and 28244 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted, Timestamps
@carloshr@lile.clEsto es también música nuevecita de paquete de estos días:
«West End Girl» de Lily Allen
#LilyAllen
@metacurity@infosec.exchangeDon't miss today's Metacurity for the most crucial cybersecurity developments you should know, including
--Qilin ransomware activity is surging, with 100 victims listed in August,
--A major Swedish power supplier was hit by Everest gang,
--Some top tech companies relent on Australia's age ban,
--Google denies it suffered a 183m Gmail accounts breach,
--Western Sydney University hit with fifth cyber incident in two years,
--Afghan data breach kil…
@Dragofix@veganism.socialGlobal construction carbon footprint set to double by 2050 #environment
@cdarwin@c.imNorthwestern about to cave???
Writing about Cornell caving to the Trump Administration,
I told Northwestern that if it planned to cave to please do so by December 31
so I can save money.
Unfortunately, I may have gotten my wish.
The supposed pricetag is
$75 million
(more than Cornell, less than Columbia, much more than Virginia).
And it will include the usual surrender of academic freedom tempered by a bullshit assurance
(and press rele…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialPoint One Navigation, which develops precise location tech, raised a $35M Series C led by Khosla Ventures, a source says at a post-money valuation of $230M (Kirsten Korosec/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/20/this-khos…
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.degame_thrones: Game of Thrones coappearances
Network of coappearances of characters in the Game of Thrones series, by George R. R. Martin, and in particular coappearances in the book "A Storm of Swords." Nodes are unique characters, and edges are weighted by the number of times the two characters' names appeared within 15 words of each other in the text.
This network has 107 nodes and 352 edges.
Tags: Social, Fictional, Weighted
@carloshr@lile.clEn la sección viernes de lanzamientos musicales, les traemos lo nuevo de los argentinos Babasonicos.
«CUERPOS, Vol. 1»
#Babasonicos
@cdarwin@c.imTrump 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…
@cdarwin@c.imDavid Sirota says that while the United States is now
“immersed in corruption” in a way that seems like an inevitable part of politics,
it is the result of a decades long agenda by the wealthy to deregulate the campaign finance system
and to essentially make anti-bribery laws unenforceable.
“This is all part of a plan by a corporate movement that sees democracy — the government providing what people want — sees that as a threat.”
@cdarwin@c.imFlynn proposes sending Obama “back to Africa”
and suggests we “prosecute” Somalis on welfare.
https://skywriter.blue/pages/did:plc:2g4ozpjxrwesjdog6eys44si/post/3mb2n3dozmk2l
@cdarwin@c.imRemember, we have an anti-vax conspiracy theorist as the *head* of all healthcare in the U.S.
This particular conspiracy theory is even more bonkers than his others (and there are many others).
How is this remotely ok? 🧪
https://skywriter.blue/pages/did:plc:4
@cdarwin@c.im💰Trump’s wealth increased by about $2.5B since his reelection, to $6.9B
💰 Eric’s increased 10x, to $400M.
💰 Don Jr.’s 6x, to $300M.
💰 Barron, a college sophomore, is worth $150M.
"I’m sure that this is all based on merit and the value that each contributes to our society."
-- Heidi Kitrosser
https:/…
@cdarwin@c.imA day after part of a missile fired by the United States hit their village, landing just meters from its only medical facility,
the people of Jabo in northwestern Nigeria are in a state of shock and confusion.
Suleiman Kagara, a resident of this quiet and predominantly Muslim farming community in Tambuwal district of Sokoto state, told CNN he heard a loud blast and saw flames as a projectile flew overhead at around 10 p.m. on Thursday.
Soon after, it came crashing down, expl…
@cdarwin@c.imFungal Spores in Wildfire Smoke Could Cause Lung Disease
Mice exposed to fungi spread by wildfires developed symptoms,
exposing a potential health hazard to humans that has been understudied.
“It was really an unknown that there were living microorganisms in wildland fire smoke.
I think most people assumed that it was sterile because it comes from a hot fire,”
said Phinehas Lampman,
a former wildland firefighter,
coauthor on the study,
and wi…
@cdarwin@c.imWithout evidence, Trump has claimed many times that Biden administration officials may have forged their boss’s signature
-- by using the autopen
-- and taken broad actions he was not aware of.
Trump has also obsessively cast doubt on the validity of pardons and other documents that Biden signed with an autopen,
even though for decades other presidents before him have also relied on the device to sign key papers.
Trump himself has also used an autopen in the past.…
@cdarwin@c.im#AsgardArchaea team,
led by @archaeal.bsky.social from @texasscience.bsky.social
— sequencing the DNA collected from the mouth of Rio de la Plata to the continental shelf of Uruguay
to detect #Asgards,
a group of single-celled organisms
-- and our closest microbial relatives on the t…
@cdarwin@c.im❌Mobile Fortify,
the new app used by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to use face recognition technology (FRT) to identify people during street encounters,
is an affront to the rights and dignity of migrants and U.S. citizens alike.
That's why a coalition of privacy, civil liberties and civil rights organizations are
🔥demanding the Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
shut down the use of Mobile Fortify,
release the agency's privacy anal…
@cdarwin@c.imThe Arctic Research Consortium of the United States funded programs that aided Indigenous communities and tracked melting sea ice, among dozens of initiatives.
After nearly 40 years, the Arctic Research Consortium of the United States will close Sept. 30,
a casualty of Donald Trump’s proposed budget cuts and his administration’s focus on using the Arctic as an outpost for national security and energy dominance
—and its push away from science.
As part of the overarching…
@cdarwin@c.im#Oumuamua was first spotted on October 19, 2017, by a telescope in Hawaii called Pan-STARRS 1.
At first, scientists thought it was just a regular comet or asteroid -- But as they watched it more closely, they realized it was very different.
Here are some key things about Oumuamua:
#Shape: Unlike most as…
@cdarwin@c.im @cdarwin@c.imThe Chinese can pump or dump the Trump family's net worth by billions any time they want to.
The response will be predictably Pavlovian.
https://universeodon.com/@cryptadamist/115448291085354467
@cdarwin@c.imDonald Trump has been using fictional figures to justify his controversial military strikes on alleged drug-trafficking boats in the Caribbean near Venezuela.
“Every boat kills about 25,000 people,” Trump said in a speech last week.
“Every one of those boats is responsible for the death of 25,000 American people, and the destruction of families,”
he said in a speech Sunday.
“Probably saved at least 100,000 lives, American lives
– Canadian lives
– by taking …
@cdarwin@c.imOMG PEOPLE!! STOP LETTING THEM INTO YOUR HEAD!!
THERE WILL NOT BE A THIRD PRESIDENTIAL TERM!
NOT NOW, NOT IN 2028, NOT IN ANY OF OUR LIFETIMES
The ONLY way for there to be a third presidential term is by *AMENDING THE CONSTITUTION*!!
https://bsky.app/profile/annepmitchell
@cdarwin@c.imThe man suspected of shooting two National Guard members, Rahmanullah Lakanwal, was once part of a C.I.A.-backed paramilitary group, one of several so-called Zero Units, according to Afghan and U.S. officials.
These units, formerly known as Counterterrorism Pursuit Teams, were trained to conduct night raids and clandestine missions across Afghanistan during the U.S. war in the country. By the time the United States had withdrawn from Afghanistan in August 2021,
the units had offi…
@cdarwin@c.im“Opening locks” might not sound like scintillating social media content,
but Trevor McNally has turned lock-busting into online gold.
A former US Marine Staff Sergeant, McNally today has more than 7 million followers and has amassed more than 2 billion views
just by showing how easy it is to open many common locks by slapping, picking, or shimming them
@cdarwin@c.imA new genome study offers significant insight, pinpointing the introduction of domestic cats into Europe from North Africa.
The research indicates that domestic cats first arrived on the continent roughly 2,000 years ago, coinciding with the early imperial Roman era.
This migration was likely facilitated by burgeoning maritime trade,
with some of these early feline travellers possibly brought by sailors to hunt mice on ships.
These vessels plied the Mediterranean, carr…
@cdarwin@c.imA college freshman trying to fly from Boston to Texas to surprise her family for Thanksgiving
was instead deported to Honduras
in violation of a court order, according to her attorney.
Any Lucia Lopez Belloza, 19,
had already passed through security at Boston Logan International Airport on Nov. 20
when she was told there was an issue with her boarding pass,
said attorney Todd Pomerleau.
The Babson College student was then detained by immigration off…
