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I hope those bastards at Google have kept Bugspot up to date. I really should put my 20 yrs. of spewing here on discs or something, just in case.Politico:
US, allies warn of critical vulnerabilities in programming underlying 70% of the internet — The National Security Agency and cyber agencies in Europe, Australia, Canada, and elsewhere on Wednesday urged organizations to take their websites offline immediately after OpenAI tools found critical bugs …The Hill: NSA warns organizations to patch security flaws identified by AIJess Weatherbed / The Verge: A critical PHP vulnerability may take websites down todayJulie Bort / TechCrunch: PHP armageddon: OpenAI, Google's Wiz find ancient holes, panicking the internetChance Townsend / Mashable: OpenAI says GPT-5.6-Sol helped find the PHP flaws now shaking the internetJoseph Feldman / VINnews: Some Websites Go Dark As Operators Address An Ai-detected Flaw In A Web Programming LanguageLisa Eadicicco / KIFI-TV: AI helped find a critical security flaw affecting 70% of the internetBruce Gil / Gizmodo: ‘Expect Mass Attacks Within 15 Minutes’: Hackers Poised to Exploit Newly Discovered Website FlawsThomas Brewster / Forbes: OpenAI Says AI Found One Of The Biggest Web Weaknesses Ever
All because of the dripping faucet in my bunker that's been leaking since at least 2023. (Cheap slumlord bastard!) And the only reason the cheap prick is doing this is because Bldg. & Safety (in their first inspection in six yrs.!) wrote them up for it, in January!! Other incompetence: Lying assholes first claimed they'd be here 1 Oct. Didn't show, didn't call. 16 days later ...Estimado(s) inquilino(s),
Usted está recibiendo este aviso porque habrá una interrupción temporal del agua programado para todas las unidades este viernes, 16 de octubre entre las 10:00AM y 2:00PM para hacer una reparacion en el edificio.
Nos disculpamos por las molestias que esto le puede causar y le agradecemos por su paciencia.
Gracias por su cooperacion.
They certainly like the word "skewer".Nikki McCann Ramirez / Rolling Stone:
Right-Wingers Are Mad Anti-Welfare Ad Isn't Racist Enough — Sarah Huckabee Sanders has been attacked by her own party for depicting a lazy white guy named “Brad” in an ad about fraud — No racist Republican trope has survived the test of time quite like that of the “welfare queen.”Lauren Green / Washington Examiner: Huckabee Sanders slammed for ad featuring white man on welfare
Speaking of losers, J.B. couldn't make it out of the '22 Republican primary. Poor widdle white boys, so abused. The DC:However, the portrayal of Brad was met with swift condemnation on social media by many conservative voices, who noted that white men are among the Republican Party’s most loyal voters.“This is a massive own goal, @SarahHuckabee, and you should fire the consultants who made this ad,” Senior Counsel Internet Accountability Project Will Chamberlain wrote on X. “Do not portray your core voting bloc as losers, period.”
“Years ago, Democrats abandoned young white men and turned them into enemies for political purposes,” wrote Jake Bequette, a former NFL player and 2022 Senate candidate in Arkansas. “It was only a matter of time until Republicans explicitly did the same. That time is now. The crown is in the gutter for anyone who unapologetically fights for young white men.”
Oh, my heart pumps piss for these whining weenies. Break out the tiny violin.Consultants have a stock slacker, and for a decade, that slacker has been a white male. They’re the butt of every sitcom joke, portrayed as an idiot in commercials; they are the cautionary tale in political ads. Meanwhile, every other demographic is the hero or victim of the white male slacker. The ultimate insult of Sanders’s ad is that the GOP is perpetuating this insanity.
Text on you murderous apes & your squalid origins.Then Ella turns the lens on herself, sharing her personal journey from creationist to becoming a leading expert on human evolution, and the long, difficult journey that challenged everything she thought she knew.
Denisovans towered over their contemporaries and munched a bunch of meat
A pair of studies dissects the stature and diets of our mysterious archaic cousins
Again, science shows why & how you people suck. Too much, too fast, too soon.[Science/The Conversation]Why it might be time to rethink the human family tree
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| Signing of The Declaration of Independence by Armand-Dumaresq, c. 1873 |
Historians now think the signing wasn't until 2 August. The Continental Congress did approve the final draft on 4 July. More. Added trivia.On July 2, 1776, the Second Continental Congress passed a “Resolution for Independence” declaring “That these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States, that they are absolved from all allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain is, and ought to be, totally dissolved.”Also known as the “Lee Resolution,” after Virginia delegate Richard Henry Lee, who had proposed it, the resolution was the final break between the king and the thirteen colonies on the North American continent that would later become the United States of America.
All sorts of trivia on variations of themes, but this was new to me.Guest post: Frank Zappa & The Mothers of Invention's Verve/MGM albums (1966-1969): comparing mix variations
There is also an alternate master of the original stereo vinyl mix, with brighter EQ, that has been bootlegged. This tape is a fascinating mystery, because we don’t have much information about it. First of all, except for tape print-through problems, where one can hear remnants of a previous recording, its fidelity is higher than that of the regular stereo version of the album. The track order is completely different: it’s unclear whether this is an early configuration or a compilation of mixes. Most importantly, though, it includes an uncensored “It Can’t Happen Here” and a different edit of “Wowie Zowie”, including a short section that was removed from the final master, possibly at MGM’s request (see below). This version of the album is still unreleased.
Compare & contrast. (Hope this is the original mix.)An early version of the album was done in April, with a different track order from the final sequence completed two months later. For instance, "Wowie Zowie" (which would eventually begin side two of the finalized sequence instead, and was described by Zappa as "harmless", "cheerful" and apparently liked by Little Richard was the original planned lead-off track rather than "Hungry Freaks, Daddy", "Trouble Comin' Every Day" (which was inspired by the Watts Riots that took place the previous year) was included on side one rather than side three, and "Who Are the Brain Police?" (acknowledged by Zappa himself as one of the scariest songs on the album) took up the middle of side two rather than the middle of side one, with only "Help, I'm a Rock" (dedicated to Elvis Presley) and "Cream Cheese" (retitled "The Return of the Son of Monster Magnet") taking up the same concluding places on the early sequence that they eventually would on the finalized sequence."Wowie Zowie" itself originally contained a musique concrète section between the bridge and third verse that would eventually be edited out of the song as it appeared on the finalized sequence, while the third section of "Help, I'm a Rock", called "It Can't Happen Here", contained two additional lines consisting of the word "psychedelic" during the self-pleasure sequence and of the words "...since you first took the shots" immediately following the "we've been very interested in your development" line. Tapes of the early sequence were eventually leaked to European collectors and bootlegged on vinyl as The Alternate Freak Out! in 2010, with long-time Zappa associate Scott Parker later describing the early sequence's track order as having more conceptual "integrat[ion]" and "a greater amount of weirdness sprinkled throughout" than that of the finalized sequence during a 2011 podcast.
The label eventually requested that the two lines in question be removed from the "It Can't Happen Here" section of "Help, I'm a Rock", both of which had been interpreted by MGM executives to be drug references. However, the label either had no objections to, or else did not notice, a sped-up recording of Zappa shouting the word "fuck" after accidentally smashing his finger, occurring at 11 minutes and 36 seconds into "The Return of the Son of Monster Magnet". From the 1995 CD reissue of the album onwards, the formerly three-part "Help, I'm a Rock" was reindexed as two separate tracks, with only the first two parts ("Okay To Tap Dance" and "In Memoriam, Edgard Varèse) remaining under the "Help, I'm a Rock" title but with "It Can't Happen Here" becoming its own track, as "It Can't Happen Here" had been on the 1969 vinyl compilation Mothermania, where the two previously censored lines were also reinstated.
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| Past attempts to whip up hysteria by right-wingers & the fake news. QAnon, baby!! (Note "Recent Posts".) |
Where's the outrage now, hypocrites?
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| Izzat Main St. running down the middle? Fifth Ave.? Wilshire? |
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| Zealandia's fairly obvious here, from the October 1969 issue of National Geographic. |
Antarctica w/o ice. It's better described as an archipelago, but accepted as a continent.
