Apropos of nothing, here is #XKCD 1357.
#FreeSpeech
Pardoned Insurrectionists Are Using Charlie Kirk’s Death to Call for Civil War – Mother Jones https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/09/pardoned-insurrectionists-are-using-charlie-kirks-death-to-call-for-civi…
“Multiple UNC-Chapel Hill faculty and student groups organized collective actions speaking out against the compact, including a SUNRISE UNC protest shortly before the Faculty Council meeting and a petition from the Coalition for Carolina that has amassed over 1,750 signatures.”
Organize
https://www.wunc.org/education/2025-11-10/unc-chapel-hill-chancellor-will-not-sign-trump-higher-ed-compact
there's still kindness in San Francisco
https://missionlocal.org/2025/08/a-couple-of-hours-at-the-mission-district-soup-kitchen-that-almost-didnt-open/
Charlie Kirk's honorable legacy of civil discourse (Brad Polumbo/Washington Examiner)
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-america/patriotism-unity/3802057/charlie-kirks-honorable-legacy-of-civil-discourse/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250910/p145#a250910p145
‘The Bold and the Beautiful’ to introduce first-ever gay male couple - LGBTQ Nation
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/09/the-bold-and-the-beautiful-to-introduce-first-ever-gay-male-couple/
Update on the Estlink-2 #subseacable cut last December:
"Finnish authorities [...] have charged the captain and two senior officers of a Russia-linked vessel that damaged undersea cables last year between Finland and Estonia."
Don't miss today's Metacurity for ongoing reports from hacker summer camp and all the other critical infosec developments you should know, including
--US feds clawed back $1 million from BlackSuit and Royal gangs,
--US seeks to recoup $1m from DPRK hackers,
--US charges four Ghanian nationals for romance scams and BECs,
--Personal data of 500K cervical cancer victims stolen,
--FCC issues new rules for subsea data cable security,
--Erlang/OTP vulnerab…
Pentagon plan would create military 'reaction force' for civil unrest (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/08/12/national-guard-civil-unrest/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250812/p13#a250812p13
🏳️🌈 🇺🇦 Kyiv court rejects appeal, upholds Ukraine's first de facto recognition of same-sex couple as a family
https://kyivindependent.com/kyiv-court-rejects-appeal-upholds-ukraines-first-de-facto-recognition-of-same-sex-couple-as-a-family/