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Dangerous Cancel Culture Precedent Following Kirk’s Murder
The Trump administration continues to counter the First Amendment rights that Kirk so often referenced and arguably died defending.
For example, the Pentagon has promised to “address” federal employees who are deemed to mock or celebrate Kirk’s death.
(The Pentagon has also in recent days announced that it will require credentialed journalists to sign a pledge to refrain from reporting information that has not been …

The ‘Right to Offend’ and the Legacy of Charlie Kirk - San Francisco Bay Times
The day before right-wing activist and Turning Point USA Co-Founder Charlie Kirk was assassinated on September 10, 2025, he texted the following to civil rights advocate and CNN host Van Jones: “Hey, Van, I mean it, I’d love to have you on my show to have a respectful conversation about crime and race. I would […]

Series C, Episode 10 - Ultraworld
ORAC: The idiosyncratic syntax of riddles interests me. They seem to depend for their effect on solecisms and grammatical discrepancies.
VILA: Eh?
ORAC: Do you have another riddle for me to analyze?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/310/228 B7B4

In memoriam (1938–2025)
https://deprogrammaticaipsum.com/stewart-cheifet/

Stewart Cheifet
The same way kids are addicted to TikTok nowadays, I was addicted to TV as a kid. In the place and time of my teenage years, that is Argentina during the 1980s, it was the times of hyperinflation and eternal crisis (which begs the question: has anything changed in forty years?) Such a tense situation also meant that there was not much content on the telly about a subject that I was definitely interested in since a young age: computers. I mean, you could barely afford food, so, understandably en…

I may still feel like crap and not have gotten enough sleep due to coughing, but that doesn't mean I'm not gonna relax and play some quality* games this weekend. The MiSTer is running perfectly and the PVM is still working like a champ.
* - for various definitions of quality
#retrogaming #psx

Lately I make a point to point out olfactory impressions which are more common in human areas (though it's impolite to tell people you can smell the tomato sauce on their pasta 40 feet away) -- these are much less common in the woods but this area in Shindagin Hollow has a definite scent of pine
#photo #photography

4,500 years ago, Worship of the Sun Took Place in This Recently-Uncovered Temple in Egypt https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/4500-years-ago-worship-of-the-sun-took-place-in-this-recently-uncovered-temple-in-egypt/

4,500 years ago, Worship of the Sun Took Place in This Recently-Uncovered Temple in Egypt
It's only one of two sun temples that have been definitively identified, and dates to the reign of King Nyuserre, the sixth ruler of the 5th

The network security firm @… posted about Scattered Spider and they included a few TTP's that I'd not seen before. Use of the legitimate teleport.sh tunneling service and the shz.al pastee/file hosting service. Block these domains -- and the others in the article -- if you don't use those services.

Scattered Spider Attacks | Infrastructure and TTP Analysis
An in-depth analysis of Scattered Spider attacks, detailing the group’s infrastructure usage and TTPs to help defenders detect and disrupt activity earlier.

Caught a bug over the holidays so I’m mostly resting, feeling sorry for myself, and taking the time to at least carry out some mindless housekeeping tasks (updating dependencies, etc.) on some of my Node modules.
Released updates to the following packages yesterday:
Tape-based Node.js testing:
• Tap monkey (https://

tap-monkey
A tap formatter that’s also a monkey.