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A U.S. Army soldier in Texas with a top security clearance has been charged with handing over sensitive information about the military's main battle tank in exchange for Russian citizenship.

Taylor Adam Lee, 22, was arrested Wednesday on charges of attempted transmission of national defense information to a foreign adversary and attempted export of controlled technical data without a license.


Texas soldier with top security clearance charged with attempting to pass sensitive tank data to Russia: DOJ

Fort Bliss soldier with top secret clearance arrested for allegedly offering sensitive military tank data to Russia in citizenship exchange scheme.
Louis Casiano (Fox News)

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My ex was a vet tech and would bring home the babies that fell out of the nest, so we could raise them until they were big enough to release - we had several over the years.
They really ARE a cool little critter, that is until they start stealing your shit to make a nest -- they'll steal anything - pen caps, dollar bills - you name it. Then they get WILD and you have to let 'em go. minds.com/newsfeed/18001530144…

My ex was a vet tech and would bring home the babies that fell out of the nest, so we could raise them until they were big enough to release - we had several over the years. They really ARE a cool little critter, that is until they start s... | Minds

... fell out of the nest, so we could raise them until they were big enough to release - we had several over the years. They really ARE a cool little critter, that is until they start stealing your...
Minds

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The pop-behaviorist canard that refuses to die is that an extrinsic inducement just provides a helpful jump-start: Once you experience the intrinsic value of reading, learning, helping, being physically fit, etc., the reward can be phased out.

Alas, the evidence, which I updated in 2018 (alfiekohn.org/punished-rewards…), proves this belief is naive. Introducing $, grades, food, or praise for doing x promptly devalues x so the person being manipulated with goodies sees it as less valuable or appealing.

Punished by Rewards – (Book)

The Writings Of Alfie Kohn
Alfie Kohn

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Unter dem #Decknamen „IM Marion“ arbeitete die Berliner #Chefin der „Omas gegen Rechts“ zwischen 1978 und 1983 für den #Staatssicherheitsdienst der #DDR.

nius.de/politik/news/es-wird-a…

#STASI

„Es wird alles wiederkommen“: „Omas gegen Rechts“-Chefin war Stasi-Spitzel | NIUS.de

Eine hohe „Oma gegen rechts“ arbeitete für die Stasi. Bärbel Bohley warnte einst, dass Strukturen der DDR wiederkommen würden.
NiUS.de

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★ LA LIBERTÉ EST-ELLE POSSIBLE ?
socialisme-libertaire.fr/2025/…

"« Liberté chérie » par le « Banksy de Loudéac », œuvre de street art (Loudéac 2020). « Pour les sophistes et les imbéciles nous tenons, tout d’abord, à déclarer ceci : relevant de la semence expérimentale, nous ne pouvons récuser ses déductions et ses..."


★ LA LIBERTÉ EST-ELLE POSSIBLE ?

« Liberté chérie » par le « Banksy de Loudéac », œuvre de street art (Loudéac 2020). « Pour les sophistes et les imbéciles nous tenons, tout d’abord, à déclarer ceci : relevant de la semence expérimentale, nous ne pouvons récuser ses déductions et...
Socialisme libertaire

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‘Delusional’, ‘Pie in the Sky’: U.S.-EU Energy Deal Shows Trump Losing in Global Trade Talks theenergymix.com/delusional-pi…

‘Delusional’, ‘Pie in the Sky’: U.S.-EU Energy Deal Shows Trump Losing in Global Trade Talks

“Delusional”, “ridiculous”, and “pie in the sky” are the adjectives coming from analysts after Donald Trump put fossil fuel exports at the centre of a framework trade agreement with the European Union.
Mitchell Beer (The Energy Mix)

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Der Rückgang der Armut in Argentinien hat alle Altersgruppen gleichmäßig erfasst. Die Darstellung zeigt jeweils die Jahre 2022 bis 2025 jeweils 1-tes Quartal (farbig). Dazu das letzte Quartal 2024, also zum Ende des ersten Amtsjahres von Milei (grau). Der ungebremste Anstieg unter Mileis Vorgänger (grün) zeigt, welchen Stellenwert Sozialisten den Menschen einräumen. Insbesonders die Kinderarmut ist erschreckend. Hier hat Milei noch einiges vor der Brust.

#Milei wirkt!
#Hayek #Mises #Menger

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La Côte-Saint-André (Isère) : Feu à France Travail !
sansnom.noblogs.org/archives/2…

"L’agence France Travail de La Côte-Saint-André fermée une semaine à la suite d’un incendie volontaire France Bleu/Le Dauphiné, 4-5 août 2025 Les faits se sont produits dans la nuit du dimanche 3 au lundi 4 août. Un véhicule de service de France Travail stationné sur le parking de l’agence, rue du commandant Julhiet, à La … Continuer la lecture de La Côte-Saint-André (Isère) : Feu à France Travail

La Côte-Saint-André (Isère) : Feu à France Travail ! | Sans nom

sansnom.noblogs.org

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Oregon (États-Unis) : Toutes les caméras sont des flics
sansnom.noblogs.org/archives/2…

"[Traduit de l’anglais sur indy nantes de Rose City Counter-Info 3 août 2025] Le 25 juillet, le FBI a mené une descente matinale sur une maison à Portland et kidnappé une personne âgée de 24 ans sur des accusations fédérales reliées à une manifestation au bâtiment de l’ICE. Iel encourt 20 ans de prison prétendument … Continuer la lecture de Oregon (États-Unis) : Toutes les caméras sont des

Oregon (États-Unis) : Toutes les caméras sont des flics | Sans nom

sansnom.noblogs.org

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In May, I published a deep dive on a Pakistani firm that had just been charged w/ shipping fentanyl analogs to the US and was behind a sprawling empire of scam ghostwriting, app and logo design companies that were spending millions on Google ads to promote their scam businesses.

krebsonsecurity.com/2025/05/pa…

The story received a decent amount of attention, but it almost immediately dropped off Google search entirely. Searching for the headline brought only links to other sites covering my report. This persisted for almost two weeks and I never got a satisfactory answer from Google about why the story dropped from search.

Just read a story at Ars Technica about how a tech CEO who was trying to quash reporting about his alleged misdeeds used a feature in Google known as Refresh Outdated Content to trick Google into deindexing the unflattering stories about him. The method he reportedly used was working until last month. Makes me wonder how widely known this bug was.

arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/0…

infosec.exchange/@briankrebs/1…


Google tool misused to scrub tech CEO’s shady past from search

Google has fixed the bug, which it says affected only “a tiny fraction of websites.”…
Ryan Whitwam (Ars Technica)

BrianKrebs

2025-05-15 15:21:49

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Weirdly, this story appears to now be buried in Google. If you search on the headline in Google (Pakistani Firm Shipped Fentanyl Analogs, Scams to US) you will see tons of places linking to my story, and you will see tags from the story. I don't see this behavior for any other story of mine on the homepage of KrebsOnSecurity.com now. But the story itself is basically gone from Google's search results. Gee, I wonder how that happened?

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Gaza Ministry of Health:
- 100 martyrs and 603 injuries arrived at Gaza Strip hospitals during the past 24 hours.
- The toll of the Israeli aggression has risen to 61,258 martyrs and 152,045 injuries since October 7, 2023.
- The toll of martyrs and injuries from March 18, 2025 to date has reached 9,752 martyrs and 40,004 injuries.

#Gaza #SaveGaza #StopIsrael #SanctionIsrael #BDS
#palestine #Israel #Politics #Genocide #PeaceNow #StopTheWar #CeasefireNow @palestine@a.gup.pe @israel @palestine@lemmy.ml

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pathocracy -> kakistarchy


#politics #philosophy #psychology

I'm first encountering the term "pathocracy" in Andrew M. Lobaczewski's Political Ponerology" book (which admittedly, after a skim read of the index, I jumped straight to page 324, "Immunization"]. And seems like the precursor, the selection process, that leads to kakistarchy. Ruled over by the worst.

[From the brief little I've read so far] This #book seems a #good #read to accompany Mattias Desmet's The Psychology of Totalitarianism, and Don Barlow's Gaslighting & Narcissistic Abuse Recovery.

#Mendwards

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'Wipe' SSD before reinstalling Linux?

Are there any benefits, in terms of performance or security in 'wiping' or overwriting an SSD before reinstalling Linux? And if so, what is the best way of doing it?

I'm planning on doing a clean install of Debian 13 on my laptop soon.

I'm currently on Fedora and using encryption and will be using encryption on Debian too. I do not have a separate home partition.

Thanks 😀

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HiddenLayer555

AFAIK it's a bad idea to use dd or another wiping tool that just overwrites the logical partitions on flash based media, and is also not that effective for security. SSDs have wear leveling and what the computer sees does not map 1 to 1 to what's actually on the flash chips. They also have extra overprovisioned space inaccessible to your computer specifically for shuffling data around when wear leveling. So not only are you wasting write cycles, it's not guaranteed to actually overwrite all your data on the flash chips themselves.

If you want to wipe an SSD, use secure erase from a tool like nvme-cli which will directly tell the controller to erase all the data. How well the controller implements that is anyone's guess though.

I'd say if you're going to the effort of fully encrypting your new install, doing a secure erase will be in that spirit and won't hurt. There won't be any performance benefit but it will (probably) ensure that none of your previous unencrypted data is still there, though even if you don't do this, just writing to the drive in normal use will eventually fill up the free space and make it less and less likely that sensitive information is recoverable, but how long this happens depends on how you use the computer.


How to securely erase an NVMe SSD

It's generally accepted that SSDs cannot be securely wiped by writing patterns to the drive, due to features such as wear leveling and over-provisioning, and that the most secure way to wipe a mode...
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infjarchninja

I have been using disktest to overwrite my SSD's.

I overwrite the SSD's before encryption. works just as well on HDD's too.

A 2TB HDD takes about 3.5 hours to overwrite with the encrypted seed

A 250GB SSD takes about 17 minutes to overwrite with the encrypted seed

crates.io/crates/disktest

github.com/mbuesch/disktest

install with cargo

cargo uninstall disktest

much faster than your usual suspects like dd.

it runs as root: so add this $PATH to the root .bashrc
export PATH=/root/.cargo/bin:$PATH

recent test run on 250Gb ssd with just write with no verify:

disktest --write -j0 /dev/nvme0n1

The generated --seed is:
omNw4JreY1ZVAfwD4dgooF061R10Ra0vnmYv5SrU
Use this seed for subsequent --verify.

Writing /dev/nvme0n1 (512 bytes sectors), starting at position 0 bytes...
[15:09 / 00h:00m:10s] Wrote 7.62 GiB (8.18 GB) @ 779.3 MiB/s ...

[15:26 / 00h:17m:16s] Done. Wrote 238.47 GiB (256.06 GB, 256059113472 bytes) @ 235.5 MiB/s.
Successfully dropped file caches.
Generated --seed omNw4JreY1ZVAfwD4dgooF061R10Ra0vnmYv5SrU

Success!

to check my SSD's I use:

prometheus-smartctl-exporter

sudo smartctl -i -a /dev/nvme0n1


GitHub - mbuesch/disktest: Solid State Disk (SSD), USB Stick, SD-Card, Hard Disk (HDD) tester

Solid State Disk (SSD), USB Stick, SD-Card, Hard Disk (HDD) tester - mbuesch/disktest
GitHub

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one of my work colleagues has shared their "fancy wedding pen" on Slack and... it's hideous... it sort of sounds amazing if you describe it, but seeing it is something else entirely...

it's gold glittery body with then a big circle with their names in at the top (gold) and a (fake?) Pink(?) feather spouting out the top...

It goes beyond camp and into previously undiscovered realms...

*bites tongue*

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I’m not a lawyer or an expert on international law. Therefore I have no authority with which to judge on the question of genocide.

This is a copout.

It’s true that I cannot offer an authoritative legal answer. But I respond to these questions the way I do because it’s been hard for me to talk, or even think about the question. For a long time, it wasn’t clear to me exactly why. In a private conversation many months ago with an Israeli colleague who is a law professor and a scholar of international law, I let my guard down:

“Surely, this is not a genocide, right?”

“Why do you think that?” she asked.

“Because I hope it is not a genocide,” I answered.

With a lot of compassion, she told me that it was important that I hoped it was not a genocide, but that did not change the facts on the ground. “You should think about why it’s important to you that what you see in front of your eyes is not a genocide,” she said.
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For many Jews, and even more so for Israelis, our education about genocide begins and ends with the Holocaust. We have been educated to understand genocide as presenting in one, very specific fashion. Yet, the Holocaust was a unique instance. Sadly, there are many other expressions of genocide and crimes against humanity.

The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum shares case studies from its Center for the Prevention of Genocide of “threats of large-scale, group-targeted, identity-based persecution” that could possibly become a genocide. They include incidents in Sudan, Ukraine, India, China and many others. None of these cases include gas chambers or numbers tattooed on forearms; most of them do not have a death toll in the millions. Yet they are deemed dire enough to appear as cases to monitor under the museum’s mission to “confront genocide.”
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The difference between me and Segal was that I thought the threats barked by Israeli politicians and generals were the macho bluster of panicked leaders responsible for the worst security failure in Israeli history. I didn’t believe they intended to do what they said they were going to do. He, however, believed them.

I realize now, as the international community has failed to stop the total destruction of Gaza, that the speed of his and others’ prompt pronouncements was not irresponsible, knee-jerk scholarship. If anything, when it comes to the threat of genocide, being alarmist is precisely what is needed.
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I am familiar with emotions of outrage and revulsion with the conduct of the Israeli government and the dissemination of Jewish supremacy, but the question of genocide, I now understand, provoked new feelings I had not encountered before — shame and guilt.
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Liberal Jews like myself need to overcome our shame, which pushes some of us to avoid or even deny the reality of Gaza. Instead, we must grapple with guilt; guilt not in the sense of personal culpability, but rather in our collective responsibility toward and solidarity with our Israeli kin and our Palestinian neighbors. Writing this article is my first step in this direction.
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forward.com/opinion/759877/isr…

@palestine #Gaza #genocide


As an Israeli political scientist, I resisted calling the war a genocide – The Forward

The incitement for genocide in the Israeli public sphere is undeniable. So why are so many of us liberal Jews so reluctant?
The Forward

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Some Sandwiches ARE Heroes 👀

I used these, I remember them. I stopped using them because of the toothed plastic on the top that opened when the bottom was plunged to insert. They were super effective at stopping leaks. But I felt it scratched, even as the plastic body was less resistant to insertion than the cardboard tubes.
Happily post menopausal now. Don't miss the monthly week of cramps, blood, mess, and bloating.

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Excellent news (in the long term). A very long and detailed look at how bottom-up boycott of academics everywhere increasingly doing the right thing hits Israel where it hurts.

haaretz.com/israel-news/2025-0…

archive.is/GIlxr


Not a hypothesis: boycott against Israeli science spreads 'like a virus'

Growing backlash over the Gaza war is fueling both open and silent boycotts of Israeli scientific research. Grants are drying up, emails go unanswered, and once-regular collaborations are unraveling.
Gid'on Lev (Haaretz)

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Poem, Horror, Old Things And New, Playing Keepsies, Firearms, Child Abuse

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Cracking the Vault: How we found zero-day flaws in HashiCorp Vault

Link: cyata.ai/blog/cracking-the-vau…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…


Cracking the Vault: how we found zero-day flaws in authentication, identity, and authorization in HashiCorp Vault - Cyata | The Control Plane for Agentic Identity

Introduction: when the trust model can’t be trusted Secrets vaults are the backbone of digital infrastructure. They store the credentials, tokens, and certificates that govern access to systems, services, APIs, and data.
admin (Cyata | The Control Plane for Agentic Identity)

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Notes And Silence

2025-08-07 06:49:46

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I am a complex man,
I need a simple practice.

notesandsilence.com/2025/05/12…
#silence #prayer #meditation #practice



Zen

I am a complex man,I need a simple practice.I am a cerebral being,I need to be taught through the body. I am a scattered being,I need an anchoring in the center I am a futile manI need an eternal p…
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FIAR Light

Hmmm....well, first, yes, RFK is an idiot and should be put away somewhere. Some vaccines provide durable Ab responses (TDAP?) I think. SARS-CoV-2 mutates; I switched to Novavax because Ab responses are more durable but yes, wane. I'm glad there WILL be an updated vaccine in Sept but based on JN.1? We're well past that (though it MAY not matter so much). I'd like to see that money spent on trad vax, head-to-head studies and improved mRNA that target more conserved regions. Make sense?

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FIAR Light

See, e.g.,
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/…

or
nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJM…
"Antiviral antibody responses were remarkably stable, with half-lives ranging from an estimated 50 years for varicella–zoster virus to more than 200 years for other viruses such as measles and mumps. Antibody responses against tetanus and diphtheria antigens waned more quickly, with estimated half-lives of 11 years and 19 years, respectively."

Obviously, SARS-CoV-2 mutates faster.

Immunogenicity, Safety, and Antibody Persistence at 3, 5, and 10 Years Postvaccination in Adolescents Randomized to Booster Immunization with a Combined Tetanus, Diphtheria, 5-Component Acellular Pertussis, and Inactivated Poliomyelitis Vaccine Administer

An understanding of the antibody persistence elicited by a combined tetanus, diphtheria, 5-component acellular pertussis, and inactivated poliovirus vaccine (Tdap-IPV) after adolescent vaccination is important to optimize booster dosing intervals. ..
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

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@fonecokid@c.im I guess it pays better than waiting on tables. What else is a washed-up actor who can't seem to get any major roles any more to do? --

ZZ Bottom

2025-08-07 10:40:51

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Former Superman actor Dean Cain reveals he’s becoming an Ice agent to support Trump’s mass deportation agenda

The actor will be sworn in ‘ASAP’ amids the federal agency’s recruitment drive and unprecedented immigration raids that have sparked protest across the US
Sian Cain (The Guardian)
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