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New Records Obtained by EFF Expose More Problems with Medicare’s AI Experiment | Electronic Frontier Foundation

2026-11-11T14:38:33.110-05:00

Isolate workloads with AWS Nitro Sandboxes - Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud

2026-11-11T13:44:23.827-05:00

AWS re:Invent Livestream - Save the Date

2026-11-10T11:41:21.909-05:00

The Washington Post | Hackers identify thousands of DHS employees in massive data breach

2026-10-28T22:42:57.247-04:00

An activist group published a searchable database of more than 41,000 Department of Homeland Security employees and contractors, saying it was seeking transparency into agency activities.

By Maria Sacchetti, Ted Hesson and Aaron Schaffer

https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2026/10/28/ice-cbp-other-dhs-officer-identities-posted-online-data-breach/

The Cheesecake Factory Isn’t the Symbol of Flyover America That Right-Wing Pundits Think It Is - Esquire

2026-10-27T11:20:02.637-04:00

Browse Chinese Electric Vehicles for Export | BYD, NIO, XPeng & More

2026-10-26T23:26:25.872-04:00

NYTimes: Katie Zacharia Is Out After 5 Days as White House Press Secretary

2026-10-16T13:38:06.032-04:00

Fannie Mae sharply raises mortgage rate forecast for 2027

2026-10-14T18:01:26.875-04:00

Virginia SCC - Cases: Joint Petition of Dominion Energy, Inc., Virginia Electric and Power Company, OSW Project LLC, CS HoldCo, LLC, and NextEra Energy, Inc. - for a disposition and acquisition of control of public utility

2026-09-21T08:41:16.417-04:00

Share your opposition to the Next-Era merging with VA Power/Dominion Power. This Merger will increase their monopoly and raise prices for all Virginians.

Act Now!

Virginia SCC - Cases: Joint Petition of Dominion Energy, Inc., Virginia Electric and Power Company, OSW Project LLC, CS HoldCo, LLC, and NextEra Energy, Inc. - for a disposition and acquisition of control of public utility

scc.virginia.gov

https://www.scc.virginia.gov/case-information/submit-public-comments/cases/pur-2026-00112.html

Iran strikes on Amazon data centers caused permanent loss of customer data - Ars Technica

2026-09-16T18:16:30.343-04:00

The Hugh Stevens Bell Collection by Thomas Hawk

2026-08-31T22:50:24.556-04:00

The Hugh Stevens Bell Collection

by Thomas Hawk

https://www.flickr.com/photos/thomashawk/albums/72157712413727757/

AWS mumbles about its cost-busting networking tech when it should be shouting

2026-08-30T00:15:02.383-04:00

AWS mumbles about its cost-busting networking tech when it should be shouting

Source: theregister
https://share.google/gSyeMM1xntXYoWrx6

Under Trump, Protected Wild Horses Are Going to Slaughter

2026-08-23T18:17:55.356-04:00

A legal loophole allows the government to sell mustangs on the cheap, stripping them of protections and clearing their path to destruction.

By Dave Philipps

Visuals by Erin Schaff

Reporting from Poteau, Okla., and Wauseon, Ohio

Published Aug. 20, 2026Updated Aug. 21, 2026

They once had run free through the desert mountains of the West, a multicolored band of 68 wild mustangs that had never been saddled or corralled.

Then the federal government rounded them up with helicopters, as it has with tens of thousands of other mustangs, in an attempt to control wild populations on public lands. The horses were held for years in a feed lot in Idaho while the government tried to find them what it called “loving homes.”

Abruptly this March, the government found a home. Whether it was loving didn’t seem to matter.

The horses were packed into echoing metal trailers and trucked 1,800 miles east to the pens of a hard-luck livestock trader in Ohio named Brandon Jones, who bought them for $25 each.

A day later, two double-decker cattle trucks pulled up at midnight, loaded the mustangs and quickly drove off into the night.

From there the mustangs disappeared. They never appeared at a public auction. The trader won’t say where they went. Wild horse advocates suspect the horses were shipped to slaughter.

But that’s not the government’s concern — it got what it wanted: two more trucks of wild horses off its books.

It wasn’t the first time, or the last. In the past year, the government has shipped the trader one truckload of mustangs after another. And not just him.

An examination of government records by The New York Times found that all over the country the Bureau of Land Management, the agency in charge of protecting wild horses, is quietly selling thousands of horses to buyers like the one in Ohio. Slaughtering wild horses is illegal, but the bureau’s actions create a loophole that enables people to get mustangs on the cheap and then quickly resell them to be exported alive, processed into cuts of meat and sold abroad.

Gift Article:

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/20/us/trump-wild-horses-legal-loophole-slaughter.html?unlocked_article_code=1.7lA.3tTC.gCXiIGxaskaJ&smid=nytcore-ios-share

CCSP Training Course | Certification Online at Your Pace

2026-08-07T21:20:36.672-04:00

RUSH the Rock Hall | Rock & Roll Hall of Fame

2026-08-06T16:49:20.834-04:00

OMFG: $7 Billion??? Our President is a toddler with a gimme, gimme, gimme attitude and a Platinum credit card, which we pay for.

2026-08-01T16:55:28.697-04:00

NYTimes: Trump’s Fixation on Arctic Ships Led to Billions in No-Bid Contracts

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/01/climate/trump-arctic-ships.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

Larry Ellison Bet It All on the A.I. Boom. Will He Be the Face of the A.I. Bubble?

2026-07-31T22:44:29.796-04:00

One Can Only Hope!

I was personally threatened with a lawsuit by my Oracle salesman back in the day. They demanded we pay for a Production license to run a Dev Only instance. Total Dirtbags

Gift article from The New York Times.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/31/magazine/larry-ellison-ai-oracle.html

NYTimes Gift Article: Floundering A.I. ‘Nostradamus’ Hedge Fund Is Rescued by Rival

2026-07-30T17:09:53.650-04:00

This Might be the Start of the End for the AI Hype

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/30/business/artificial-intelligence-situational-awareness-citadel.html?unlocked_article_code=1.1lA.zSzw.1MduyUzIM5Pj&smid=nytcore-ios-share

Griffin PowerMate Open Source Driver

2026-07-26T15:52:17.021-04:00

Posha Cooking Robot $1,500

2026-07-19T00:15:46.108-04:00

Tweet from Robert Scoble w/ video

https://x.com/Scobleizer/status/1991931957513797862?s=20

Posha site: https://www.posha.com/

Wired article:

I Tasked Rival Robots With Cooking My Thanksgiving Dinner
The Posha and the Thermomix TM7 are the closest things to a home robot chef that mere mortals can afford. The catch is that you’re the prep cook.

https://www.wired.com/story/i-tasked-rival-robots-with-cooking-my-thanksgiving-dinner/

THE GLITZ AND GLAM OF TAX-EXEMPT HOSPITALS

2026-07-04T20:02:09.941-04:00

[The Washington Post] Supreme Court expands Trump’s power over the federal bureaucracy

2026-06-29T10:50:05.557-04:00

The concept of an “Independent Agency” is now dead. ☠️

SCOTUS needs Term Limits and Ethics Rules ASAP.

Supreme Court expands Trump’s power over the federal bureaucracy

The justices allowed the president to fire a Democratic member of the Federal Trade Commission, striking down a nearly century-old precedent intended to insulate independent agencies from political influence by the executive.

By Justin Jouvenal

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/06/29/supreme-court-expands-trumps-power-over-federal-bureaucracy/

NYTimes: How Trump Turned America’s Refugee Program Into a Pathway for White People

2026-06-28T18:23:48.937-04:00

This should surprise no one…

Mr. Kleinhaus is among more than 6,000 South Africans — the vast majority of them white — who have benefited from Mr. Trump’s decision to upend America’s refugee program, which for decades had made the United States a sanctuary for people fleeing disaster and persecution.

Under Mr. Trump, the program has effectively become a whites-only path to life in the United States, a culmination of the president’s longstanding antipathy toward immigrants and his embrace of the concept of “reverse racism” as a guiding principle in his administration.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/23/us/politics/trump-refugee-program-whites.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

stuartvetterick on TikTok

2026-06-27T16:16:53.490-04:00

Wow!

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8G81sB3/

Required update for Digital Ocean - Wordpress Multisite - Caddy server configuration

2026-06-14T18:07:11.861-04:00

I set up a new Wordpress host (droplet) on Digital Ocean. It is "WordPress on Ubuntu 24.04"

I configured it for subdirectory based Wordpress Multisite (MU) aka Wordpress Network.

Digital Ocean has moved to using Caddy Server, instead of Apache2, which I have never used before.

Previously my Wordpress hosts all used Apache2 and you have to create a custom .htaccess to make MU work. Caddy doesn't use an .htaccess file, so you have to update the CaddyFile itself (Caddy sonfiguration file) to make MU work.

A generic CaddyFile looks something like this:

example.com { root /var/www/html encode php_fastcgi unix//run/php/php-version-fpm.sock file_server }

To support Wordpress MU I hade to update to this:

example.com { root /var/www/html ## Added to resolve wp-admin issue for Multisite uri path_regexp (\/{1})(\w|\d|\s)+\/wp- /wp- ## END Added to resolve wp-admin issue for Multisite encode php_fastcgi unix//run/php/php-version-fpm.sock file_server }

I can admit I don't fully understand the CaddyFile, or Caddy Web Server, but this worked for me.