Crow Magnon

Remember, Halloween isn’t about candy or costumes or decorations! The true meaning of Halloween is rural chuds bullying effete school teachers.

My eyes were opened when my old professor Clyde Wilson explained to us that Sleepy Hollow was a story of the old Dutch families resisting the encroaching Puritans.

every year there are four separate, simultaneous Halloweens

I’m sure they do. Tax revenue from oil/gas used to make up about 42% of the state budget. Now it’s just 6%. Diversifying is key to make up for the loss revenue. Not to mention jobs

In case you wondering why Louisiana is rolling out the red carpet for LNG plants, AI data centers, and a spaceport - here is one factor…. LA yearly oil production since 1981

Divorce rate by job, US Census 2020-24: Physicians 20% Pharmacists 20% Registered nurses 34% Practical nurses 47%

Incredible how much Haiti fumbled the bag.

This is the most serious 48 hours in cybersecurity history. "Black October" they're calling it It seems every *hour* there's a new incident, that in a typical year, would be one of the biggest incidents of the *entire year* SUMMARY OF THE LAST 48 HOURS: YEAR-LEVEL INCIDENTS (In a typical year, these would be among the biggest incidents of the year): 1. PHP2Shell: a hole in the software behind ~70% of websites. Governments took sites offline. 2. eMudhra: the master keys that prove websites are real were cracked. One was the number 4. 3. California: data on every public school student since 2023 stolen, including disability status 4. Railway: hackers stole customers' secret keys from a hosting platform used by millions of developers 5. Zeabur: 321,810 accounts breached. The company is shutting down. 6. LiteLLM: an AI tool downloaded 3.4 million times a day was poisoned with a password stealer 7. GitLab: a 10-out-of-10 severity hole in every version since 2014 8. Cairn: criminals used an AI hacking tool to break into 100+ companies 9. Ahold Delhaize: hackers knocked the owner of Food Lion and Stop & Shop offline 10. Onamae: malware planted on up to 26,739 customer servers in Japan MONTH-LEVEL INCIDENTS (In a typical month, these would be among the biggest incidents): 11. Signal: a bug could leave your mic and camera on after you hang up 12. NGINX: 3 critical holes in software running ~1/3 of websites 13. HTTP/3: a single connection can crash 7 of the 10 web server types tested 14. Plex: hackers breaking into home media servers 15. SafePay ransomware: FBI warns it has hit 600+ critical infrastructure organizations 16. Palo Alto: ransomware gangs breaking in through company firewalls 17. Bullhorn: platform used by 10,000+ companies knocked offline 18. Medi-Cal: 970,000 patients' data stolen 19. WordPress: hackers stole a plugin maker's keys and used them to plant backdoors on websites 20. AOMEI: backup software's update server handed out a backdoor 21. Meta Muse: Meta's AI agent exposed users' personal and business secrets 22. Tor: 333 relays hijacked to steal logins 23. TiDB Cloud: database company's cloud breached Also serious: 24. State Bank of India: India's biggest bank confirms a data breach 25. OVHcloud: hackers slipped a password stealer into a cloud company's official tool 26. Siemens: a software hole being used to spread malware 27. North Korea: state hackers launch a new attack campaign on South Korea

Dans Paris, le commandement aberrant a ouvert la porte au chaos. Les chefs ne savent plus que faire, la troupe a peur et se déchaîne. Je ne sais pas qui entendra ma voix dans de telles circonstances, mais mon message est clair : ceux qui partagent notre combat n'ont rien à faire dans le pillage, le saccage. Quelles que soient les responsabilités du pouvoir et de ses incompétents et leurs violences, nous devons refuser de participer à des actions sans signification politique et contraire à nos méthodes.

These three areas are all "deepest America" in their own distinct way. For each one, you kinda have to spend a bit of time there to truly understand.