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Opinion: What should Ukraine do about its Russia-linked church?: https://benborges.xyz/2024/04/11/opinion-what-should.html

Back before the Reagan Revolution … a third of America had a good union job, our schools were brand-new and well supplied and staffed, college was free, healthcare was inexpensive, and the biggest challenge America had was to put a man on the moon and bring him safely home — there was little demand for a dictator in this country.
… For the majority of white Americans to adopt a strongman authoritarian, first the country had to be broken and broken badly.

Was the GOP Plan All Along to "Break" America to Make Room for an Authoritarian Strongman?
You have to break government pretty badly before people are willing to trade in a normal democracy for a dictatorship, but it’s sure happened before...

Russians try to break through Ukrainian defence lines north of Kharkiv
Russian forces have attacked across the Ukrainian border to the north of Kharkiv in a potential effort to open a new front in the war and intensify the pressure on Ukraine’s second city.
Ukraine’s defence ministry said there had been “an attempt by the enemy to break through our defence line using armoured vehicles” at about 5am on Friday near the town of Vovchansk, and the initial attacks had been repelled.…

Check out today's Metacurity for the top infosec developments you should know, including
-- New group RansomHub claims attack on Change Healthcare
-- Ukrainian hackers claim destruction of Russian military cloud provider,
-- Hackers steal nearly 350K SSNs from US gov't contractor Greylock McKinnon,
--Mobile gadget maker Targus hit by cyberattack,
-- Threat actor doxes almost every adult in El Salvador,
-- Massive anti-Ukraine troll operation revealed,
-- Summer Olympics face cyber threats,
--much more
https://www.metacurity.com/p/new-group-ransomhub-claims-attack-change-healthcare

Magnetic Configuration of Active Regions Associated with GLE Events
Regina A. Suleymanova, Leonty I. Miroshnichenko, Valentina I. Abramenko
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.06877

Magnetic Configuration of Active Regions Associated with GLE Events
Charged particles, generated in solar flares, sometimes can get extremely high energy, above the 500 MeV level, and produce abrupt ground level enhancements (GLEs) on the ground-based detectors of cosmic rays. The initial flares are strong eruptions and they should be originated from active regions (ARs). A list of GLE events and associated flares was initially available, and our aim here was to find the hosting AR for each GLE event. Moreover, we aimed to classify the revealed ARs using the ma…

Absence of concordance in a simple self-interacting neutrino cosmology
David Camarena, Francis-Yan Cyr-Racine
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.05496 https://

Absence of concordance in a simple self-interacting neutrino cosmology
Some cosmic microwave background (CMB) data allow a cosmological scenario in which the free streaming of neutrinos is delayed until close to matter-radiation equality. Interestingly, recent analyses have revealed that large-scale structure (LSS) data also align with this scenario, discarding the possibility of an accidental feature in the CMB sky and calling for further investigation into the free-streaming nature of neutrinos. By assuming a simple representation of self-interacting neutrinos, …

Check out today's Metacurity for the top infosec developments you should know, including
-- New group RansomHub claims attack on Change Healthcare
-- Ukrainian hackers claim destruction of Russian military cloud provider,
-- Hackers steal nearly 350K SSNs from US gov't contractor Greylock McKinnon,
--Mobile gadget maker Targus hit by cyberattack,
-- Threat actor doxes almost every adult in El Salvador,
-- Massive anti-Ukraine troll operation revealed,
-- Summer Olympics face cyber threats,
--much more
https://www.metacurity.com/p/new-group-ransomhub-claims-attack-change-healthcare

"He is mandated to compile and share the achievements of the Islamic Revolution in culture, science, and art on his internet platform. Furthermore, he is required to prepare a summary of two books regarding women’s status in Islam, produce a song addressing “USA’s atrocities against humanity,” collect cases of human rights violations by U.S. governments over the past century, and participate in behavior and knowledge skills training courses in the field of art."

Opinion: The REPO Act hasn’t won the war for Russian assets: https://benborges.xyz/2024/05/07/opinion-the-repo.html

A variable star population in the open cluster NGC\,6819 observed by the Kepler spacecraft
S. Sanjayan, A. S. Baran, P. Nemeth, K. Kinemuchi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.03887

A variable star population in the open cluster NGC\,6819 observed by the Kepler spacecraft
We present the list of variable stars we found in the \kep\ superstamp data covering approximately nine arcminutes from the central region of NGC6819. This is a continuation of our work presented by Sanjayan et al.(2022a). We classified the variable stars based on the variability type and we established their cluster membership based on the available Gaia Data Release 3 astrometry. Our search revealed 385 variable stars but only 128 were found to be cluster members. In the case of eclipsing and…