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June 18, 2022

June 18, 2022

B. Dave Walters: I Say Words About Things

@BDaveWalters

SCIENCE

Jun 17, 2022

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Military Pigeons

@MilitaryPigeons

RAF Pigeon Service Manual, date unknown

Jun 17, 2022

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Mitchell Prothero

@mitchprothero

Last month Dutch cops found three Albanian nationals living in a shipping container that crossed the Atlantic. They're called Hotel Containers and cartels will pay you $10-20K to live in one for about a week so you can bust out with the cocaine on arrival

The “Hotel Container” Phenomenon

Last week, Dutch cops in the port city of Rotterdam made a big announcement: On two separate occasions this past May, they discovered suspected Albanian drug traffickers secretly living inside shipping containers, protecting tons of cocaine shipments crossing the Atlantic from the Dominican Republic…

Jun 17, 2022

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Faine Greenwood

@faineg

Russian sources are reporting a shortage of commercial drones in Russia, as supplies are diverted to soldiers fighting against Ukraine. www-kommersant-ru.translate.goog/doc/5410319?_x…

Jun 17, 2022

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Epic.

GNOME has no thumbnails in the file picker (and my toilets are blocked)

GNOME filepicker and my toilets are broken because of culture of mediocrity.

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Gustav. The pigeon who carried the first report on the D-Day landings.

The challenges Gustav encountered during his journey were real and substantial.  The climate that day was unfavorable for flying.   A fierce headwind was blowing at 30 to 50 mph, making for stiff resistance.  The sun was shrouded by clouds, a major issue for homing pigeons, as they use the sun to help find their way. German-trained hawks and sharpshooters were also in the area, searching for pigeons flying overhead.  But Gustav rose to the occasion.  Flying non-stop over 150 miles for 5 hours and 16 minutes, Gustav entered his loft on Thorney Island at 1:46 pm.

Officials immediately telephoned London with the news.  This despatch was the first report received in Britain of the Normandy landings.

Gustav: D-Day’s Finest Pigeon – Pigeons of War

This past Monday was the 78th anniversary of the Allied invasion of Normandy, popularly known as D-Day.  A monumental achievement, the invasion changed the course of World War II, laying the g…

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Corey Quinn

@QuinnyPig

"Where the servers are" is one of the greatest misdirections in government regulation. I promise, I don't care whether the S3 bucket I'm pulling data from is in Ohio, Jakarta, or Frankfurt; my experience is identical.

Jun 17, 2022

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Jason Koebler

@jason_koebler

SCOOP: Uvalde and Uvalde Police have hired a private law firm to fight against being required to release body camera footage and other records related to school shooting Files could be 'highly embarrassing,' involve 'emotional/mental distress,' it argues

Uvalde Hires Private Law Firm to Argue It Doesn’t Have to Release School Shooting Public Records

Some of the records relating to the Robb Elementary School shooting could be “highly embarrassing,” involve “emotional/mental distress,” and are “not of legitimate concern to the public,” the lawyers argued.

Jun 17, 2022

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Google worker says he was fired for blowing whistle on cult

The internet giant, a doomsday religious sect, and a lawsuit in Silicon Valley

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Andy Kaplan-Myrth

@kaplanmyrth

1. Long story short: Rogers, Bell, and Quebecor got a court order against major ISPs plus relatively tiny TekSavvy and Distributel, to block whatever IP addresses they tell us to, in the name of filtering out unlicensed hockey games. Read the order: 2173091.fs1.hubspotusercontent-na1.net/hubfs/2173091/…

Jun 8, 2022

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SPIES&VESPERS

@SpiesVespers

TOO OBSCURE TO MATTER In summer of 1941 British intelligence deployed astrologer Louis de Wohl on an American nationwide tour to predict a sure victory over Nazis and promoted his column Stars Foretell.

Jun 18, 2022

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Great work which I missed at the time.

https://www.blackhat.com/us-16/briefings/schedule/#horse-pill-a-new-type-of-linux-rootkit-3370

GitHub - r00tkillah/HORSEPILL: HORSEPILL rootkit PoC · GitHub

HORSEPILL rootkit PoC. Contribute to r00tkillah/HORSEPILL development by creating an account on GitHub.

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WAVY TV 10

@WAVY_News

#BREAKING: Two men have been arrested in Virginia Beach accused of hacking into gas pumps and selling them for a discounted rate. Police say the gas station lost "thousands of dollars" worth of gas over several days.

2 men arrested, accused of hacking into Virginia Beach gas station, selling gas at discounted rate

Police arrested two men in Virginia Beach and accused them of hacking into gas pumps and selling them for a discounted rate.

Jun 16, 2022

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Jesse Hirsch

@Jesse_Hirsch

This rant on why the whole world should not be subject to American Twitter is so so good

Jun 16, 2022

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@[email protected]

@pulkomandy

Why we can't have nice things: - macos has a limitation on the number of chars in something in their linker - cabal decides toremove vowels from package names to lossy-compress text and fit the limit - there is a package named ieee -> cryptic error about a package with no name!

Apr 1, 2022

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https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2022/06/08/exclusive-us-government-ordered-travel-companies-to-spy-on-russian-hacker-for-years-and-report-his-whereabouts-every-week/

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eve6 ha

@Eve6

i’m a bitch i’m a lover i’m a child i’m a mother i’m a sinner i’m a saint and i lost all my apes

Jun 18, 2022

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Ukraine Memes for NATO Teens

@LivFaustDieJung

POV: You are assigned to lead the VDV in a sPeCiaL MiLiTaRy oPeRaTiOn

Jun 17, 2022

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Alien Intelligence and the Concept of Technology—Stephen Wolfram Writings

Learn how alien intelligence connects to human intelligence through science and technology using the Principle of Computational Equivalence, the ruliad, rulial space, tiny spacecraft and the Wolfram Language.

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Tuvia Gering 陶文亚

@GeringTuvia

A new report in English by top think-tankers from Beijing and Shanghai: RUSSIA-UKRAINE CRISIS: WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE? PERSPECTIVES FROM CHINESE THINK TANKS 1/4

Jun 17, 2022

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Shashank Joshi

@shashj

"The [Ukrainian security] agency said it had discovered that Russian intelligence was using smartphone games to induce unwitting youngsters to snap and upload geotagged photos of critical infrastructure, military and civilian."

The modern cannons that may make the difference in Ukraine

Who will pound harder?

Jun 18, 2022
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