Don't leave for the weekend before you check out today's Metacurity for the most crucial infosec developments you should know, including
--Operation Checkmate seized the sites of BlackSuit ransomware operation,
--US sanctions three DPRK officials involved in worker schemes,
--AZ woman sentenced to 8 years for hosting DPRK laptop farm,
--Plankey promises to pitch for more CISA funding,
--UK student sentenced to 7 years for distributing phishing kits,
Louis Armstrong: The US jazz icon with a 'controversial' legacy? If you ask me, Pops was grinnin' 'cause he was winnin'! Micheal Ray said to me, there were only two times in America when it was OK to be black and happy; the other time was Disco.
Gold plated bathroom, Richard Nixon smuggles your stash, and (fuck Miles, he was too coked to have sense) not one detractor, even his ex and his mistress joined his wife at his funeral. Yeah, 'controversial' 🙄
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Geomorphological Evidence of Near-Surface Ice at Candidate Landing Sites in Northern Amazonis Planitia, Mars: #Mars: https://olemiss.edu/news/2025/06/researchers-take-one-small-step-toward-planning-life-on-mars/index.html - near-surface water ice could provide resources for human exploration on the Red Planet.
Scouting Garrett Nussmeier: Shades of Andy Dalton, Brock Purdy, Tony Romo in LSU quarterback https://www.nfl.com/news/scouting-garrett-nussmeier-shades-of-andy-dalton-brock-purdy-tony-romo-in-lsu-quarterback…
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The Black Seeds:
🎵 Love Is A Radiation
#NowPlaying #TheBlackSeeds
https://theblackseeds.bandcamp.com/track/little-sunshine-feat-david-levi-porina-love-is-a-radiation-reality-chant-version
https://open.spotify.com/track/5KhQa14vF6vrJvM3N0asLg
in the 18th century, some wealthy landowners hired ornamental hermits to reside on their estates. they'd sometimes be asked to make themselves available to guests, answering questions, providing guidance, or intrigue alone. but in some cases, the hermit would not communicate with visitors at all, functioning instead like a perpetual stage play or live diorama. life lived as background dressing to another, in exchange for just enough to keep it going.
Trump voters wanted lower medical bills. But for millions, bills are about to go up (Noam Levey/NPR)
https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/07/25/nx-s1-5479075/trump-medical-debt-bbb-health-insurance
http://www.memeorandum.com/250725/p16#a250725p16
Von #LuisaNeubauer @luisaneubauer@instagram.com
Hoffnung in the making & wir sind live dabei. 🥲😍❤️🔥
Wer all das mit möglich gemacht hat: #WY4CJ #WorldsYouth4ClimateJustice…
Relationship between unpredictability and intermittency in shell models of turbulence and experiments
Ewen Frog\'e (IMT Atlantique - MEE, ODYSSEY, Lab-STICC_OSE), Carlos Granero-Belinchon (ODYSSEY, IMT Atlantique - MEE, Lab-STICC_OSE), St\'ephane G. Roux (IMT Atlantique - MEE, Lab-STICC_MATRIX), Thierry Chonavel (IMT Atlantique - MEE, Lab-STICC_MATRIX), Nicolas B. Garnier