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Image depitching Trump as Christ-like savior removed from president's social media page following backlash (Megan Lebowitz/NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/image-depitching-trump-christ-savior-removed-presidents-social-media-p-rcna331554
http://www.memeorandum.com/260413/p76#a260413p76

WWMJD (What will #SpeakerMikeJohnson do?) about this? Such a #dilemma
‘Blasphemy’: outrage after Trump posts AI image of himself as Christ-like figure

WWMJD (What will #SpeakerMikeJohnson do?) about this? Such a #dilemma
‘Blasphemy’: outrage after Trump posts AI image of himself as Christ-like figure

In an effort to crack down on nations it views as promoting terrorism,
the Trump administration has been carrying out a campaign of seizing tankers carrying oil,
-- a move the president has repeatedly characterized as a financial boon for Americans.
But there’s a problem.
The seizures have put the U.S. government in a financial bind.
The ships are highly expensive to maintain.
And the Trump administration cannot legally sell their oil without a judge’s p…

Trump’s Move to Seize Oil Tankers Costs the U.S. Tens of Millions of Dollars
Although President Trump said seizing tankers would be a financial boon, the cost of maintaining just one aging ship has already reached $47 million.

A "laddige" is a ball of crushed rice pops (rice still with bran) rolled with a syrup of jaggery (cane sugar). It is a prominent daily offering to Krishna in #Udupi #India and is given/sold as "prasaada" to devotees.
Not all laddige prasaada is actually from the altar because scale.
#food

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Why o why did I surrender to curiosity and peek? ... It seems that five years metaphorically lying down in a darkened room isn't long enough for the fundamental impossibility of #infosec to change or evolve.
"This pa…

The UK Cyber Security and Resilience Bill: A Practitioner's Guide to Legislative Reform, Compliance, and Organisational Readiness
The Cyber Security and Resilience (Network and Information Systems) Bill, introduced to Parliament in November 2025, represents the most significant reform of UK cyber security legislation in nearly a decade. This paper provides a comprehensive practitioner-oriented analysis of the Bill's provisions, their practical implications, and the steps organisations must take to achieve compliance. It examines the expanded regulatory scope covering managed service providers, data centres, and designated…

The Republican party needs to immediately start impeachment proceedings against the President and most of the cabinet. The complete failure of the Republican party to stop this administrations abuses is completely unacceptable.
Stop placating a convicted felon, rapist and corrupt man that continues to abuse the office of the Presidency to try cope with his mental problems. Republicans continuing to confirm his unqualified corrupt appointment is unacceptable.
The USA is in se…

Visits by Canadians to major U.S. cities have crashed by 42 percent during President Donald Trump’s second term, new research has found.
The 42 percent figure—uncovered by a University of Toronto research tool that tracks cellphone activity—dwarfs the roughly 25 percent drop captured by official border-crossing data, the newspaper said. The researchers said they had been struck by “the marked decline in visits to large metropolitan economies.”

Staggering Drop of Canadian Visitors to U.S. Cities Under Trump Revealed
Visits by Canadians to major U.S. cities have crashed by a staggering 42 percent during President Donald Trump’s second term, new research has found. The eye...

We talk endlessly about what AI can and cannot do. We talk very little about the assumptions built into the question itself. This dialogue follows a philosopher and an AI practitioner.
https://ocrampal.com/from-plato-to-gradient-descent-the-frame-we-forgot-w…

From Plato to Gradient Descent: The Frame We Forgot We Chose
Practitioner: I’ll be honest—I find the "philosophy of AI" a bit indulgent. We aren’t guessing anymore. We’re building systems that work. GPT, AlphaFold, Sora... these aren't accidents. We’ve clearly cracked the code on how intelligence functions. Philosopher: I don’t doubt the results. But results

After Trump administration officials gave a closed-door briefing to lawmakers on Tuesday,
Senator Christopher S. Murphy, Democrat of Connecticut, said on social media that the administration had “NO PLAN” for the Strait of Hormuz
and did “not know how to get it safely back open.”
Inside the administration, some officials are growing pessimistic about the lack of a clear strategy to finish the war.
But they have been careful not to express that directly to the presiden…

How Trump and His Advisers Miscalculated Iran’s Response to War
In the lead-up to the U.S.-Israeli attack, President Trump downplayed the risks to the energy markets as a short-term concern that should not overshadow the mission to decapitate the Iranian regime.