"It's news to me!"

[The Rod]

Mexican news station ask viewers to submit pictures and video of the eclipse. A man sent a video of his testicles blocking the sun and. It was ”accidentally” shown on the air.

[FlyingMonkey]

The Umbra would have been much more spectacular had he shaved.

[ygmir]

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The Umbra would have been much more spectacular had he shaved.
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does "Umbra" mean "taint" in spanish?

[some seeing eye]

Senate Debates Surveillance Bill

Secret Rift Over Data Center Fueled Push to Expand Reach of Surveillance Program

Privacy advocates are raising alarms about a mysterious provision the House added to a surveillance bill last week. The Senate to discuss Wednesday and vote by Friday.


https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/16/us/f ... =url-share

[Simon of the Playa]

On March 16, cows on a Texas dairy farm began showing symptoms of a mysterious illness now known to be H5N1 bird flu. Their symptoms were nondescript, but their milk production dramatically dropped and turned thick and creamy yellow. The next day, cats on the farm that had consumed some of the raw milk from the sick cows also became ill. While the cows would go on to largely recover, the cats weren't so lucky. They developed depressed mental states, stiff body movements, loss of coordination, circling, copious discharge from their eyes and noses, and blindness. By March 20, over half of the farm's 24 or so cats died from the flu.


In the meantime, it's definitely not the time to start drinking raw cow's milk. While drinking raw milk is always dangerous because it carries the threat of various nasty bacterial infections, H5N1 also appears to be infectious in raw milk. And, unlike other influenza viruses, H5N1 has the potential to infect organs beyond the lungs and respiratory tract, as seen in the cats. The authors of the new study note that a 2019 consumer survey found that 4.4 percent of adults in the US consumed raw milk more than once in the previous year, suggesting more public awareness of the dangers of raw milk is necessary.

https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/04 ... -in-texas/

[Simon of the Playa]

https://www.axios.com/2024/05/15/sun-so ... le-auroras

[some seeing eye]

If A.I. Can Do Your Job, Maybe It Can Also Replace Your C.E.O.

Chief executives are vulnerable to the same forces buffeting their employees. Leadership is important, but so is efficiency — and cost-cutting.

(free article)
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/28/tech ... =url-share

Given the erratic culture of the organizers and snark in Burning Man training data we shall see what AI brings to Burning Man. AI is obvious for art. For instance talk to BarbieTM.

[some seeing eye]

Nevada gains doomsday prepper ranch franchise

With Fortitude Ranch, the entrepreneur Drew Miller is betting on franchised timeshares for people who are worried about the end of the world.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/13/busi ... =url-share



It reminds me of an encounter in the early 2000's. I met an ex-special forces person on an art car. He had been in Afghanistan pre-the invasion harassing the Taliban by doing things like sneaking up on their camps at night and cutting their tent guy lines. He got a new commander who made the unit shave their beards and had more rules. So he quit. He had a mad plan to buy land near BRC and build tunnels and underground survivalist structures.

[Simon of the Playa]

“Don’t go anywhere near there. It is a disgusting, vile, and dangerous place.”


https://www.fulcrum7.com/blog/2024/7/10 ... urning-man

[FIGJAM]

I just found out that the movie The Sixth Sense in China was titled "He is the ghost." :lol:

[Simon of the Playa]

https://www.c-span.org/video/?c5131775/ ... he-put-out

[Simon of the Playa]

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[some seeing eye]

^

Welp, it looks like MAGA has its own problem with elites vs barstool Republicans.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/27/opin ... =url-share (long)

Where is FOX and the rest telling the barstool Republicans they are victims being oppressed? Which they are...

[Simon of the Playa]

“This case serves as yet another warning to those seeking to sow violence and chaos in the name of hatred by attacking our country’s critical infrastructure: the Justice Department will find you, we will disrupt your plot, and we will hold you accountable. I am grateful to the public servants of the FBI for their extraordinary work on this case and for the work they do every day to keep our country safe.”

“Those fueled by hate and inspired to violence by racial or ethnic bias pose a grave threat to our national security,” said Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco. “As alleged in today’s charges, Skyler Philippi, a man dedicated to white supremacist ideology and the destruction of our critical infrastructure, planned to attack Nashville’s power grid using a drone carrying an explosive device. Thanks to brave work by the FBI, his scheme was thwarted.

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/man-arre ... y-facility

[some seeing eye]

The culture of BRC has been critical of influencers. When your main goal is posting selfies and pageviews of yourself on FB, Instagram, Snapchat, or TikTok things can go terribly wrong. There are many sad examples of people backing off cliffs and falling to death when taking selfies. This story is another example of influencers being so driven for pageviews that get themselves arrested, justifiably.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/us-youtube ... -polyakov/

Jail is probably better than being shot with arrows and buried in an unmarked grave.

The YouTuber apparently comes at it from an Neo-Orientalism viewpoint, same bad old. BRC is a remote tribe too, we don't like our picture stolen, and probably won't respond to a soda! And don't send missionaries to save us! Especially don't try to save GPE and DPW.

[Simon of the Playa]

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i wonder if the the drones can spell out "Jamal Khashoggi" in the sky?

[Simon of the Playa]

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[some seeing eye]

Corruption is back!

"Major League Baseball on Tuesday removed Pete Rose and “Shoeless” Joe Jackson – two of the sport’s most famous players who were previously kicked out of baseball for gambling on the game – from the league’s permanently ineligible list. "

https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/13/sport/pe ... ecision-sp

[FIGJAM]

Just watched this doc that I hope you find as interesting as I did.

On amazon prime if you've got it.

https://commongroundfilm.org/

[some seeing eye]

Ticks spreading an allergy to meat

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/202 ... ate-crisis

[Simon of the Playa]

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https://www.thedailybeast.com/maga-cong ... ts-murder/

[Simon of the Playa]

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[some seeing eye]

Ukrainian hackers FTW!

Hackers press release.
Together with colleagues from Cyberpartisan BY, we announce the successful implementation of a lengthy and large-scale operation, which resulted in the internal IT infrastructure "Aeroflot - Russian Airlines" being completely compromised and destroyed.
Throughout the year, we have been inside their corporate network, methodically developing access, delving into the very core of the infrastructure - Tier0.
We made it:
Receive and download a full array of flight history databases. Compromise all critical corporate systems, including CREW, Sabre, SharePoint, Exchange, KASUD, Sirax, CRM, ERP, 1C, DLP and others.
Gain control over employees' personal computers, including top management.
Copy data from listening servers, including audio recordings of telephone conversations and intercepted communications.
Extract data from personnel surveillance and control systems.
We have access to 122 hypervisors, 43 ZVIRT virtualization installations, About a hundred iLO interfaces for server management, 4 Proxmox clusters.
As a result of the actions, about 7,000 servers - physical and virtual were destroyed.
The volume of received information is 12TB database, 8TB files with Windows Share, 2TB corporate mail. All of these resources are now inaccessible or destroyed, restoration will cost perhaps tens of millions of dollars.
The damage is strategic.
Our operation is a direct message: For the FSB, NCCKI, RT-Solar and other so-called "cyber defenders" - you cannot protect even your key infrastructures.
To all the repressive apparatus workers, your digital security is insignificant and you have been under surveillance for a long time.
Part of the received data will begin to be published in the near future. We didn’t just destroy infrastructure - we left a trail.
Glory to Ukraine! Long live Belarus!
Personal data of all Russians who have ever flown Aeroflot have now also gone on a trip - true, without luggage and to one end.

[some seeing eye]

Pro-Ukrainian Hackers Claim Cyberattack as Aeroflot Grounds Flights
The hack may have been part of a campaign to disrupt the sense of normalcy Russians have mostly enjoyed since the start of the war.

The company also said that its ticket refund function was not available because the hack caused its information systems to fail.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/28/worl ... =url-share

[Simon of the Playa]

https://renonr.com/newsletter/from-the- ... rning-man/

[sadie]

Brilliant...and horrifyingly true.

[unjonharley]

Brilliant...and horrifyingly true.

BUMP

[some seeing eye]

https://www.kron4.com/news/technology-a ... -eyebrows/

[Simon of the Playa]

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[Simon of the Playa]

and they wonder why tickets are not selling...

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/202 ... tained-ice