Extraordinary, powerful and heart-wrenching. Active duty Marine Colonel Zach Schmidt, speaking in his personal capacity, about Khalil, an Afghan national whose family helped U.S. forces in Afghanistan. Khalil was deported by the U.S. on Friday to a conflict zone.

What's craziest to me, with all this AI agent-supported hacking, is that the bots are able to exploit security gaps so quickly that I'm not sure that the overseeing hackers are able to keep up with them - and barely know what they have accessed. Lots of rinky dink impact hacks in serious places.

Texas has suspended over 1.2 million voter registrations. Many valid voters in Texas have found their voter registrations were somehow canceled when they checked. Check your registration here and fix it immediately - Texas doesn't always honor provisional ballots cast on election day.

To honor Tim Curry's memory, we are making Brütal Legend FREE on Itch.io, for 666 minutes: itch.io/s/199277/the...

Brütal Legend | The Tainted Coil shall rule forever! by Double Fine Productions

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Double Fine@doublefine.com · 4d ago

It was hard enough losing Dolly yesterday. ☹️ And now, we cry a sea of black tears for our very own Doviculus: The irreplaceable Tim Curry.  May these beloved legends rest well, as we carry their spirit forward~   🩷🖤

Republican lawmakers have quietly cut funding for Dolly Parton’s children’s book charity, Imagination Library, which sends free books to children across the world.

GOP lawmakers quietly slash funds for Dolly Parton children's book charity

Republicans this year quietly cut millions of dollars of funding for the late and beloved Dolly Parton's children's book charity, according to multiple reports.Imagination Library, the nonprofit found...

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Lindsay Ellis has unlocked this video from Nebula exclusivity on the occasion of Dolly's passing. I recommend watching, it will only be available for a limited time. www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJuK...

Yes, Dolly was Actually That Great

YouTube video by Lindsay Ellis

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Some people might not be aware, but it is entirely possible that without Dolly Parton we wouldn’t have had a COVID vaccine. She partly funded Moderna’s research and gave the largest individual contribution to make it all happen. Just gives you an idea of the kind of person she was.

This girl I used to waitress with in Austin, we moved to New York together in 2003 on a literal Greyhound bus. Shared a fifth floor walk-up studio that, when it rained, had more leaks in the ceiling than we had pots and pans. We used to get drunk and smoke off the fire escape and do “sad-offs.”

Nooooooooooooo! I couldn't have respected her more. She was one of the truly good people and the world is so much worse for her absence. Rest in Peace, Dolly.

I do love a loud night out - Conrad Taylor shook all the floors tonight - and I will find out by morning if my ancient ass did any lasting damage to my knees, ankles, and / or dignity on the dancefloor.

Trump was negotiating with Carney, a man who wanted desperately to fold, and Trump still managed to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. The art of the deal, bitches.

Gotta say, my chocolate chip Nana Banana bread is a real crowd pleaser.

When 'it' happens, I believe we will be able to make a proper shape of 'lack of decorum from the left'. Decorum will take a vacation from my life, to be certain.

TW: Suicide If you tell people you have SI, many are likely to suggest you call 988 or text the suicide lifeline. These are good resources *if you need to be kept physically safe;* they are not as helpful if your ideations are passive. Allow me to share some things that have helped me. /1

Young adults keep tumbling into my house requesting information. At this point I'm almost teaching weekly classes on basic skills like: - gardening & plants - baking & cooking and - cleaning & shopping They're SO crazy eager for life skills! And it's kind of fun - I'm creating good roommates.

Free advice for folks hosting WordPress sites: Get your WP core updated to 7.0.4 asap, and then check vulnerability warnings for your various plugins. Look for unexpected Wpsvc addresses with Admin User Roles. This is a serious week of exploits and you cannot afford to be lazy on this.

since referencing and repurposing creative works is a topic of discussion today i am just going to drop zhang jingna’s lawsuit article here as well zhangjingna.com/blog/luxembo...

At this point, anyone advocating for more fossil fuel infrastructure and extraction is just an evil person. There's no other word for it. It goes beyond greed, beyond ignorance. It's just plain evil. Crops are being cooked IN THE GROUND.

Potatoes ‘boil’ in the ground as record heatwave sweeps across swathes of Asia

South Korean farmers are suffering in record heat, as Hong Kong reports its highest ever temperature and Japan swelters through newly designated ‘cruelly hot’ days

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I'm going to keep saying this until it's rote practice: If you are in official connection with let alone in charge of an archive of data, if is your professional & moral responsibility to secure that archive, as a backup or otherwise, against just such an emergency, so we're not Hoping some kid did.

Michael Clemens@mclem.org · 3w ago

Incredible. When E—n M—k & his crew obliterated USAID in a weekend, they deleted a vast trove of publicly-funded knowledge: the Development Experience Clearinghouse. A Canadian high school student (!) happened to have downloaded the entire thing for a project. AidData has now posted it for all.

Well this has been another crackerjack day at the everything breaks all the time factory.

just gonna drop this riiiight here. 😂 youtu.be/HP0BWBWn14I?...

WICKER | Official Trailer | Only In Theaters October

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Sarah J. Jackson@sjjphd.bsky.social · 3w ago

Okay I know this guy is rage bait and there are a million reasons this is a tired and wrong take but anyone paying attention these days obviously knows that women would happily marry a bear and/or a wicker basket just to not have to listen to stuff like this.

Reminder note to all adults: If you know any young people trying to enter the workforce, make it your job to introduce them to people in your network. Provide a reference if you can. Help them acquire resume and coaching help. Tickets to networking conferences. We need to help them start.

As Suresh says, if you're in business with a liar, you might be able to reason with them in private - but you can't reason with a true believer. The true believers are in charge. 38/

Everyone's comparing Nolan's Odyssey to Homer, but I think there's much more richness The ancient Greeks adapted the Odyssey into ART While these images might appear static to us, I want to walk through how an ancient Greek saw art: AS DYNAMIC STORYTELLING like our films 1/13

If you want to know what participating in technofascism looks like, it’s play-acting that computers have agency in order to construct the social belief that corporations and governments aren’t responsible for their own decisions because they were commissioned via a computer.

Running out of body bags, using forklifts to transfer corpses into makeshift morgues, a mortician conducting 200 funerals in a month when he usually does 30, crematories running at double capacity… And these senators just want to memory-hole it all www.nytimes.com/2020/04/30/n...

‘We Ran Out of Space’: Bodies Pile Up as N.Y. Struggles to Bury Its Dead (Gift Article)

The coronavirus crisis is overwhelming New York’s system for burying the dead.

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Since they changed the location of the discover tags from top ribbon to below first post, I haven't used it even once. Tag: Free UAT.

Every time I see you it's like rediscovering a long lost sister. You're so cool. ❤️ Till next time!

Ranylt Richildis@ranylt.bsky.social · last mo.

Just had a rare hangout with a very faraway friend who dropped into town on biz. LOVE THAT. Thanks for another round of catchup, @modreplica.bsky.social. There will be more! ♥️