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SRE, Operations/Senior Sysadmin, Big Data, DNS Guy. Used to run an online merchant bank for a while. For my sins, co-author of "How to Ask Questions the Smart Way".

Passionate about: Road bicycling, creative cooking, learning languages, travel, geopolitics, biosciences, chili peppers, cultural anthopology.

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Israeli soldiers have been looting civilian property on a large scale from homes and businesses in southern Lebanon with the knowledge of their commanders, Haaretz reported on Thursday.

As Israeli troops leave Lebanon, they openly load stolen goods onto their vehicles without attempting to conceal them.

#israel #zionism #Lebanon #us #usa #uspol #eu #eupol #uk #ukpol #Iran

Who's Fooling Whom? How the SPLC Indictment Works emptywheel.net/2026/04/23/w...

Who's Fooling Whom? How the SP...
Who's Fooling Whom? How the SPLC Indictment Works - emptywheel

While the SPLC indictment lists a lot of senior people that SPLC allegedly paid, most of those people are not tied to the specific wire fraud charges alleged in the indictment.

emptywheel
#RIP Michael Tilson Thomas, Celebrated American Conductor, Dies at 81 www.nytimes.com/2026/04/23/a...

Michael Tilson Thomas, Celebra...
Michael Tilson Thomas, Celebrated American Conductor, Dies at 81

A galvanizing force in classical music as a conductor, composer, pianist and evangelist, he spent 25 years as music director of the San Francisco Symphony.

The New York Times

FYI FOR CALIFORNIA VOTERS โ€” Last day to register to vote for the June 2, 2026 primary is MAY 18.

(Source: https://sos.ca.gov) - CA sec of state website

#california #debate #vote #registertovote

Ombudsman column: The Pentagon is trying to silence me

Outgoing Stars and Stripes ombudsman Jacqueline Smith has spent months speaking about her growing concern over attempted control of the newspaper.

Stars and Stripes

Your doctor or therapist might be using AI recording to transcribe your patient notes. Two privacy experts have nine good reasons why you should decline and opt-out.

Some words by me: https://this.weekinsecurity.com/why-your-doctors-ai-recorder-can-be-bad-for-your-health-and-privacy/

Why your doctor's AI recorder can be bad for your health (and privacy)

Privacy experts have nine good reasons why you can โ€” and should โ€” decline a doctor or therapist's request to record your conversations with AI tools.

~this week in security~
- Fediverse: We care about scaling down and lots of full-participant nodes
- ATproto: We care about scaling up, a few root-participation nodes, many smaller fractionally participatory nodes
- Me (what people think I think): Fediverse rules ATproto drools
- Me (what I actually think): The right system has parts of both
Joe DiGenova, whose wife once solicited payments from foreigners to lie about Joe Biden in 2019, just got sworn in to investigate things those things he lied about in the past. Over the weekend I laid out why this is so problematic. emptywheel.net/2026/04/19/t...

For all the folks who've been telling us what was coming, some for decades, the story of Robert Conquest.

In his magisterial work on the Soviet Union, he predicted when, how, & why it would fall. He was viciously attacked for this.

He was right, *to* *the* *year*.

While working the second edition, he added a lot of material. Should it be a new book rather than a 2nd edition, and if so, what should be the title?

He asked his friends.

Kingsley Amis suggested "I Fucking Told You".