Coach Sankhavaram ®🔥
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BrianKrebsHell to the yes....NYT reports that a political activist and a Vietnam veteran represented by an anti-corruption organization filed a lawsuit on Saturday challenging what it called the “night of cage fights” that President Trump planned to hold at the White House as part of the celebration of the country’s 250th anniversary.
The lawsuit alleges the significant transformation of the White House grounds to fit the monstrous UFC fight ring on the South Lawn was never authorized by Congress, but more importantly the POTUS will personally profit from this spectacle (shocker, I know):
"It cites reporting that U.F.C. was selling premium tickets to the event for more than $1 million, and the fees that Paramount Skydance, the media company owned by two other executives with ties to the president, Larry and David Ellison, will collect for streaming the event. The suit also notes that Mr. Trump purchased between $15,000 and $50,000 worth of stock in TKO Holding Group, the parent company of U.F.C., in March — while he was in the process of promoting the event."
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/07/us/politics/lawsuit-ufc-fight-white-house.html
GreenhostIn 2019, Meta committed to rolling out end-to-end encryption across Facebook Messenger and Instagram. "The future is private".
In 2026, that future has been quietly switched off. Instagram direct messages now use only standard encryption, meaning Meta can read message content, voice notes, and images that were previously visible only to the sender and recipient.
This is not a small adjustment. It is a reversal of a public promise made to billions of users, and it has been made with minimal noise and no meaningful alternative offered inside the platform.
The future of private communication will not be delivered by the companies that promised it in 2019. It will be built by everyone who is still committed to it now.
#Privacy #Encryption #DataSovereignty #DigitalRights
In 2026, that future has been quietly switched off. Instagram direct messages now use only standard encryption, meaning Meta can read message content, voice notes, and images that were previously visible only to the sender and recipient.
This is not a small adjustment. It is a reversal of a public promise made to billions of users, and it has been made with minimal noise and no meaningful alternative offered inside the platform.
The future of private communication will not be delivered by the companies that promised it in 2019. It will be built by everyone who is still committed to it now.
#Privacy #Encryption #DataSovereignty #DigitalRights
Fardels Bear'As the right moves in on antisemitism, where does that leave the Jewish left?'
In a very bad place. Zionism is a thoroughly right wing political position, and its expression in action is fascistic. To conflate Zionism with mainstream Jewish opinion degrades Judaism itself, particularly when any legitimate criticism of Israel as a state is labelled as antisemitic. In this sense, Zionism is antisemitic, demonising alternative views within Judaism.
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TottsItaly to stop sending arms to Israel because of Lebanon
Italy is the third-biggest arms exporter to Israel, according to figures from the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute
thunfischThe little devil on my shoulder wants me to tell you about https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/copilot/copilot-flex-routing
Apparently #Microsoft is not able to get enough compute within EU datacenters to handle #Copilot requests.
Instead, it will do "Flex-Routing", which processes some requests in non-EU datacenters. This is Opt-Out. The only notification was an e-mail to Admins. If they missed that, companies might be leaking PII outside of the EU from tomorrow on.
Get your GDPR Nightmare letters ready!
🍑 😈"For some reason, the most vocal Christians among us never mention the Beatitudes. But, often with tears in their eyes, they demand that the Ten Commandments be posted in public buildings. And of course, that's Moses, not Jesus. I haven't heard one of them demand that the Sermon on the Mount, the Beatitudes, be posted anywhere. 'Blessed are the merciful' in a courtroom? 'Blessed are the peacemakers' in the Pentagon? Give me a break!"
Chuck DarwinI am a proud Jewish American.
My father fled Poland in 1921 to escape poverty and antisemitism.
Those in his family who stayed were murdered by the Nazis.
Since childhood, I have known very well where antisemitism, racism, fanaticism and demagoguery lead.
So let me be clear.
Speaking out against the horrific and inhumane actions of Israel, and its extremist leader, Benjamin Netanyahu, is notantisemitic.
Speaking out about the dangerous and destructive role that Israel plays in shaping US foreign and military policy is notantisemitic.
It is, in fact, what every member of Congress and every American should be doing
-- Bernie Sanders
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/apr/15/no-more-us-military-aid-to-israel?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
