@metacurity@infosec.exchange2025-11-20 10:32:44
Alice Guo, Chinese national who ran huge scam centre while Philippines mayor, sentenced to life in prison
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/nov/20/alice-guo-chinese-nat…
@brian_gettler@mas.to2025-10-20 19:05:08
Every now and then I assign something that sounds great but that just doesn't work. Sometimes this involves students just not getting it and submitting work that's wide of the mark. Sometimes, though, students produce fine work but, because I didn't do a great job designing it, the assignment is virtually impossible to grade. That's what happened this time. Everyone did the work and I can tell they learned something, but the results are all over the place. High marks for all,…
@cdarwin@c.im2025-11-21 01:29:21
The Grammy-winning rapper Prakazrel “Pras” Michel of the Fugees
has been sentenced to 14 years in prison
for a case in which he was convicted of funnelling millions of dollars in foreign contributions to former US president Barack Obama’s 2012 reelection campaign.
In April 2023, a federal jury convicted Michel of 10 counts,
including conspiracy and acting as an unregistered agent of a foreign government.
The trial in Washington DC included testimony from the act…
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2025-10-21 12:05:49
Chip Roy Moves To Impeach Judge Over 'Absurd' Sentence For Attempted Kavanaugh Assassin (The Daily Wire)
https://www.dailywire.com/news/chip-roy-impeach-judge-over-absurd-sentence-for-kavanaughs-attempted-assassin
http://www.memeorandum.com/251021/p14#a251021p14
@hex@kolektiva.social2025-11-21 14:40:06
I keep thinking that I should text a friend of mine, tell him how much I've been writing, tell him I mentioned him in something I wrote. Then I remember he died like 4 years ago.
Edit:
It must have been more like 6 or something now that I'm thinking about it. It was part of the way through the first Trump administration. He would have really appreciated the way Trump is unraveling now. One of the last times we talked he was like... "You know man, You used to play 'Baby, I'm an anarchist' and I'd think... ' don't want to throw a brick through a Starbucks window. I kinda like their coffee sometimes.' But the way things have been going lately, I'm kind of looking around and thinking you might be right. Fuck Starbucks. Where's that brick?"
At least I won the SRV vs the Hendrix version of Voodoo Chile debate. Hendrix is just better.
We used to talk about music, especially punk (and rockabilly, and ska, and 2 tone), and poetry, and beer. He liked hop stupid, but I always thought it didn't have the body to match the hops and I always preferred Racer 5. Of course, this time of year we'd be shifting in to red and stout season, and I'd be excited for Lagunitas Russian Imperial and this year's Bourbon County Stout batch.
He was really big in to Star Wars. He missed all of Andor, which is probably the best thing to have come out since the original 3. But I guess he also missed the new trilogy, so maybe it balances out.
He would have really liked all the good music I've run across in the last few years. He had a music blog for a bit.
Yeah... I don't know why it's hitting me so hard now, other than maybe I never had time to really process it before.
@cowboys@darktundra.xyz2025-10-21 13:12:20
In one year, Brian Schottenheimer accomplished something no Cowboys coach has done https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/news/in-one-year-brian-schottenheimer-accomplished-something-no-cowboys-coach-has-done
@raiders@darktundra.xyz2025-11-21 23:13:37
Charles Snowden calls game with fourth-down sack vs. Browns https://www.raiders.com/video/charles-snowden-sack-browns-nfl-thrilling-moments
@ruth_mottram@fediscience.org2025-11-21 05:56:34
Britain’s tax system combines the worst of the US and Scandinavia - https://on.ft.com/48abwRo via @FT
Sharing also for the sake of warning my Scandinavian compatriots some of whom seem to be learning the wrong things from the UK.
@vform@openbiblio.social2025-12-20 14:06:05
Hamburg morgen: Günstige Heizungen für alte Häuser
https://www.ndr.de/fernsehen/sendungen/hamburg_journal/hamburg-morgen-guenstige-heizungen-fuer-alte-haeuser,hamj-6188.html
@metacurity@infosec.exchange2025-11-20 12:49:57
The cyber news machine never stops cranking away, so check out today's Metacurity for the most critical infosec developments you should know, including
--The US, UK, and Australia sanction Russian bulletproof hosting providers,
--Alice Guo sentenced to life for running scam compound,
--Samourai Wallet operator sentenced to four years,
--SK Telecom rejects breach mediation proposal,
--USBP is massively surveilling Americans,
--Trump to preempt state AI …
