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"En janvier 2025, 85 % des Groenlandais s’étaient dits opposés Š leur rattachement aux États-Unis, selon un sondage publié dans la presse danoise et groenlandaise. Seuls 6 % y étaient favorables."
https://www.ledevoir.com/monde/ameriques/94710…

Trump pardons major drug traffickers despite his anti-drug rhetoric
Donald Trump — who campaigned against America’s worsening drug crisis and promised to crack down on the illegal flow of deadly drugs coming across the border
— has pardoned or granted clemency to at least 10 people for drug-related crimes since the beginning of his second term, according to a Washington Post analysis.
He also granted pardons or commutations to almost 90 others for drug-related crimes duri…

Trump pardons major drug traffickers despite his anti-drug rhetoric
The president has granted clemency to about 100 people accused of drug-related crimes during his two terms in office, a Post analysis shows.

Before you leave for a likely well-deserved weekend break, don't miss today's Metacurity for the most important infosec developments you should know, including
--Claude Opus 4.6 found 500 severe flaws in open source repos without much prompting,
--Asian cyberespionage group broke into sensitive systems in 37 countries,
--ICE's Mobile Fortify does not reliably ID people,
--CISA tells agencies to stop using edge devices past EOS,
--764 member busted a…

Claude Opus 4.6 found 500+ severe flaws in open source repos without much prompting
Asian cyberespionage group broke into sensitive systems in 37+ countries, ICE's Mobile Fortify does not reliably ID people, CISA tells agencies to stop using edge devices past EOS, 764 member busted and charged with receiving CSAM, French cops bust four with spying on Starlink for China, much more

You can call me an AUTHORITARIAN bootlicking COMMIE all you want, I don’t care. I ain’t shutting up EVER.
LABOR people know more than your damn boss ever will. We run the machines, we keep it all working, we ARE the reason your fancy office even has lights on.

The US military has always had a massive global advantage against enemies by having bases all over the world. There are bases in every NATO country. This would appear to be a powerful threat to anyone willing to oppose American hegemon, and under normal conditions it would be.
But a lot of those kids serving on those bases joined, not because they love America but, because they needed a ticket out of poverty. They joined for the education, for the money, maybe a bit for the adventure, but, more than anything, to escape the ghetto or podunk backwater that trapped them. Under normal times, this is the best deal they could expect. Maybe they risk their lives, usually they sit around being bored for a few years, and they get to come out with respect and paid college.
But what they are being offered is normal in most of the countries they're stationed in. Free healthcare, cheap or free education, is just what citizens in a lot of countries have come to expect. If the US attacked a NATO country, how many would snap up citizenship if they were given a chance to defect? Bonus points for taking some hardware with you, I'm sure.
But there are some who love their country. There are some patriotic Americans on those bases. Some of them joined specifically to protect the US from all enemies, foreign *and* domestic. Given a chance to fulfill that oath or violate international law, what happens?
There are a good number of former military folks too who now are unsafe in the countries they served, who would do just about anything for citizenship in any EU country and almost any NATO ally. Some of those folks know things they swore an oath to never share, but the country they swore an oath to has betrayed them. Today there's no value in leaking those secrets, but in a war between the US and NATO allies things would be different. Some of those former military folks still believe in their oath, and know exactly who the real enemy is. What happens when there's a real threat of war, when they can use their knowledge to fulfill that oath to protect the US against those domestic threats?
There are a bunch of civilian tech workers who have become targets of the regime. Some of them had clearance, or know about the skeletons in the closet. They know about critical infrastructure, classified systems, all sorts of things that would be extremely valuable to an opponent. But the opponents of the US have always been a frightening *other*, never familiar societies these folks look up to, have visited, have thought about moving to, are trying to escape to.
All I'm saying here is that invading Venezuela and kidnapping the president has a very different calculus than does attacking Greenland. I don't know if Trump or his people are able to understand that, but if he and his folks aren't then I hope European leaders are. But more than that, I hope it never comes down to finding out.
But perhaps we should all think about what we would do to make sure things ended quickly if American leadership ever made such an incredible mistake.

@… definitely, the meanings of CURRENT, STABLE and RELEASE should be more obvious – without people needing to veer off into FAQ or whatever.
Plastering multiple download options on the front page of the main FreeBSD website is, IMHO, not good use of space (there should be modern calls to action (CTAs)). The multi-plastering is a hangover from an era whe…

"Doug #Burgum, the secretary of the Interior, who, when he was governor of #NorthDakota, created the Office of Legal Immigration to help facilitate bringing new citizens to our state... "You know, in North Dakota, in 1900 in the city of Fargo, 80% of the people in Fargo, English was their secon…

The office last night.
#chicago #MaggieSpeaks #FieldMuseum

Federal immigration officers shot and wound 2 people in Portland, Oregon
The FBI’s Portland office said it was investigating an “
agent involved shooting”
that happened around 2:15 p.m. local time.
Portland’s police chief encouraged calm.

When Immigration and Customs Enforcement pulled all of its detainees out of the Cumberland County Jail,
many of them were moved to a field office in Burlington, Massachusetts,
about 100 miles from Portland, Maine.
The facility is designed for administrative processing,
but immigration attorneys say it has been holding some people for more than 10 days
-- raising concerns about due process and access to legal counsel.
Lisa Parisio,
policy director at…

ICE detainees from Maine being held under ‘inhumane’ conditions in Mass. facility, attorneys say
An Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokesperson said the allegations of overcrowding and lack of access to lawyers are false.