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Joined August 2021
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Dear @StephenKing, your book The Outsider helped a Ukrainian soldier survive after 491 days on the frontline. Kostiantyn Vlasenko lost both feet after a Russian drone attack, and was trapped at his position. He even had to cut off one of his legs himself. His wife sent him your book to help him cope, knowing how much he loved your stories.
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BREAKING: Anderson Cooper just aired a montage of Trump obsessing over the attractiveness of several men he’s campaigned for. You’re not alone if you’ve noticed a pattern. Wow.
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🛑 “Not one of the 16 children who were killed on that day can be confidently called a deliberate killing by Hamas. The one case where someone knowingly fired on a child was done by Israel.“ Israeli researcher Shaiel Ben-Ephraim examines each of the 16 cases in the new short documentary below. ⬇️
Israel has long claimed that Hamas went around slaughtering children on October 7th. Yet even the Israeli records and the camera footage it released show this is not true. 16 children under 14 were killed on October 7. I went through every one of them, case by case. There is not a single case of a child targeted and executed intentionally by Hamas. But that false narrative has been used to justify the slaughter over 20,000 Palestinian children in Gaza. Watch the full analysis.
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Israeli forces can shoot at an American journalist in Lebanon without generating a single headline.
An IDF sniper just shot at me and my colleague Ali while we were working in Zowtar Al Gharabieh. We were clearly marked press and standing with a member of the Lebanese army.
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🚨 Yesterday US District Judge Zach Bluestone dismissed Annie Altman’s lawsuit against her brother Sam Altman after she failed to appear for an independent medical examination. The Missing Context: Mainstream coverage omits that Annie is unable to fly following recent orthopedic surgery. Instead she offered to fly out a physician of Sam’s choosing at her own expense, but Judge Bluestone rejected the request.
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Seems like the entire internet might need to be burned down completely and reset at this point. This is NUTS.
So basically, today PHP got two critical bugs that let anyone run code on your server without even logging in, which is bad, and then the details leaked before the patch was even out, which is worse, and it works on WordPress and MediaWiki and Magento and Joomla and Laravel, and Censys says like 1.5 million servers are running a version with no fix, so the NSA was like "take your system offline," and the FBI was like "take your system offline," and CISA and the UK and CERT-EU were all like "take your system offline," and then the Prime Minister of Japan, the actual Prime Minister, posted at 5:55 in the morning telling 48.8 million people to take their system offline, so everyone took their system offline, like the Dutch cybersecurity agency took its own website offline, and the Dutch parliament went offline, and the Port of Rotterdam went offline, and Finland and France and Denmark started pulling government sites, and Wikipedia went down, and Archive.org went down, and Asana and GOG and Something Awful went down, and the University of Vienna's webmail went down for some reason, and that's just PHP. Because GitLab also dropped a CVSS 10.0, which is the highest score they give out, for a bug that's been there since 2014, so that's every self-hosted GitLab for twelve years, and then LiteLLM 1.107.0 got hijacked and shipped a credential stealer and a remote access trojan in every single wheel and the Docker images, including latest, and you didn't even have to import it, just installing it was enough, and it's the second time this year, and then Railway paused every deployment on the entire platform because someone got into the environment variables, so now everyone has to rotate every secret they've ever stored there, and TiDB Cloud said someone was walking around inside with stolen credentials for basically a month and an extortion group says they took 10.6 terabytes, and Zeabur got breached for the second time in two months and is just shutting down, like the whole company, and Node.js patched remote code execution and a TLS bypass, and CISA says Plex is being actively exploited, and someone took over 300 Tor exit relays to steal SSH passwords, and SafePay ransomware has hit over 600 critical infrastructure orgs, and India's biggest bank filed a data loss incident, and Japan has been in an official state of emergency in cyberspace since October 9, which honestly explains the 5:55 AM post. Oh, and eMudhra, a certificate authority that's issued over 60 million certificates, whose entire job is proving websites are who they say they are, was supposed to be using private keys that are random numbers over a hundred digits long, and one of them was 4. Just 4. And the others were like 66 and 237. Anyway, it's Wednesday.
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Iran Threatens to Strike U.S. Bases Across Middle East if Maritime Provocations Continue The IRGC Navy accuses Washington of directing ships into unauthorized waters and laying naval mines. Tehran warns that the next confrontation may not remain at sea. American and allied military bases across the region could become targets.
Iran’s Mehr News Releases FIRST IMAGE of the Oil Tanker Iran EXPLODED on the Strait of Hormuz Brent Crude Oil is now OVER $111 Again
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Watch. This is being reported in multiple states.
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
This video is from Indiana's 2018 midterms, showing a calibration issue on a voting machine for candidates Jim Baird (R) and Tobi Beck (D), who last ran against each other then. It was a reported local malfunction. independent.co.uk/news/world/ame… jconline.com/story/news/pol…
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Unreal. Look at the size difference between that officer and the girl--did he really have to slam her face-first into the tile?
Utah county residents are demanding accountability after police forcibly removed a woman from a council meeting where officials unanimously approved a controversial data centre rule without public comment. The woman reportedly suffered a concussion and facial injuries.
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democracies around the world can look to the US to see how, when a democracy fails to properly punish insurrectionists who'd tried to overthrow the democracy, it will be the beginning of the end of that democracy; especially if the leader of the insurrection returns to power as president. it was easy to foresee this, & many did; why Biden/Garland did not will endure as one of the very great political blunders in US history.
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This is for all the writers ( and want to be writers) in this beautiful community 💖✍🏼👩‍💻👨🏻‍💻📝. This gave me some serious guffaws and I hope it does for you as well 👍🏼💙. Happy writing ✍🏼🙏🏼. @LouDPhillips @DzintraSullivan @ChrisBohjalian @therealSIR3 @hwinkler4real @AuthorFleur @donnacox1021 @drdoomed01 @jameshealyjr
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Diesel Deal Link in comments...
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The next time Nick Clegg in invited onto BBC to pontificate as an independent tech expert…please note that here he is, named in the $27bn New Mexico judgment as one of execs engaged in a systematic cover-up of Facebook’s deceptive consumer practices.
Woah! Go New Mexico. This is a really important message to Silicon Valley tech companies: you are not above the law
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George Proust retweeted
My theory about corporate AI psychosis is that AI is most appealing to people who aren’t good at their jobs. AI slop looks incredible to them because they’re so incompetent they don’t even know what good work looks like in the first place.
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Please read this well sourced article. We’ve been shockingly naïve regarding our election equipment history. I think we need to be prepared to ask for statistically significant risk limiting audits or even better yet hand counts.
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The single greatest thread,... EVER.
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Every member of Congress needs to see this ad. The fact that we’ve reached this point should terrify everyone.
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Miko Peled is asked if he will condemn Hamas and the Palestinian resistance. Here is his response:
Miko Peled, son of a prominent Israeli general who saw firsthand the genocidal depravity of Israel and now stands with the Palestinian liberation struggle: "There is no good Zionism, it is a racist, violent ideology."
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Iran’s Mehr News Releases FIRST IMAGE of the Oil Tanker Iran EXPLODED on the Strait of Hormuz Brent Crude Oil is now OVER $111 Again
This is HUGE Four Vessels Struck by Iran Reportedly Linked to U.S. Fars News reports that the FOUR ships targeted by Iran’s IRGC Navy in the northern Persian Gulf were either American-owned or carrying cargo for a U.S. company. The identities of the vessels and their U.S. connections remain unverified.
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"Tied up and tortured: Israel using US-made electroshock weapons on Palestinian detainees Investigation suggests American company Axon still supplies Israel with Taser weapons despite evidence they have been used to torture prisoners" theguardian.com/global-devel…
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