Wknd. Riot Round-Up

Mad As Hell & Not Going To Take It Anymore

Feel free to wake the fuck up & demonstrate, Yankee chickenshits! What the hell's wrong w/ y'all?

Saturday Civics Lesson

As ever, the urbane sophisticates of the large states vs. the small-state goobers & hicks. And why there is a Senate. As if a "state", or its legislature, has any "rights" or interests that supersede those of its people. The wealthy, rigging the game since 1786.

And not word one about slavery. No doubt simplified for classroom consumption, which is no excuse.

Basketball News & Notes

High-scoring games.

Best of luck to all the teams.

WHY INDEED?

Fellow Scientist Friday

Thurber Thursday

No One Under 50 Knows Or Cares

More stuff, if you'd like to know more. From news from me. F-book link (Don't encourage them!) from the video poster.

Americans

There's One Born Every Minute

Ugly Stupid Assholes.

You Don't Need A Weatherman ...

... & You Don't Need To Talk To A Clinical Psychopath To Know He's A Clinical Psychopath

So shut up, quacks. He's as easy to diagnose as leprosy.

Norfolk & Western RS-3 #2547

Bring It Down, Now!!

No More iNternet, Thank You

Smash it to a billion pieces!

Politico:

US, allies warn of critical vulnerabilities in programming underlying 70% of the internet  —  The National Security Agency and cyber agencies in Europe, Australia, Canada, and elsewhere on Wednesday urged organizations to take their websites offline immediately after OpenAI tools found critical bugs …

The Hill:   NSA warns organizations to patch security flaws identified by AI

Jess Weatherbed / The Verge:   A critical PHP vulnerability may take websites down today

The PHP Foundation:   Today's PHP Security Release, and How We're Strengthening PHP Security

Wired:   ‘This Is Not a Drill’: Critical PHP Vulnerabilities Are Setting the Internet on Fire

Leo Marchandon / Reuters:   Explainer: What is PHP and why did it take government websites offline?

Julie Bort / TechCrunch:   PHP armageddon: OpenAI, Google's Wiz find ancient holes, panicking the internet

Chance Townsend / Mashable:   OpenAI says GPT-5.6-Sol helped find the PHP flaws now shaking the internet

Joseph Feldman / VINnews:   Some Websites Go Dark As Operators Address An Ai-detected Flaw In A Web Programming Language

Lisa Eadicicco / KIFI-TV:   AI helped find a critical security flaw affecting 70% of the internet

Bruce Gil / Gizmodo:   ‘Expect Mass Attacks Within 15 Minutes’: Hackers Poised to Exploit Newly Discovered Website Flaws

Wiz Blog:   PHP2Shell: AI uncovers critical RCE vulnerabilities affecting 70% of the Internet

Cloudflare:   Cloudflare deploys protections against php2shell vulnerability

OpenAI:   Patch the Planet: global response coordination as agents uncover critical vulnerabilities

Thomas Brewster / Forbes:   OpenAI Says AI Found One Of The Biggest Web Weaknesses Ever

Insurance Journal:   EU Cyber Agency Warns Websites May Go Dark as PHP Prepares Critical Fix

Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security:   Widespread PHP Flaw May Cause Many Site Outages Today

Lindsay Clark / The Register:   PHP devs publish critical bug fix as site owners warned: Pull 'em offline if you're unpatched

more at Techmeme »

I hope those bastards at Google have kept Bugspot up to date. I really should put my 20 yrs. of spewing here on discs or something, just in case.

Maybe ... Everything ... Will Be Changed

That's a big "maybe".

No Mas Mantra

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Escalation

DESTROY ALL GOVERNMENTS & CORPORATIONS! ANARCHY NOW!!

Know Your Enemy

Don't believe anything anyone says about the whole stupid & unnecessary mess, from the Bible to Trump

Sickest Nation In The "High-Income" World

Might be you any day now.

Where's the outrage? Wut if it wuz dirty Ay-rab Muslim terrists named Muhammad doin' all th' shootin'? Would that outrage the two-faced shits? Why are they perfectly fine w/ daily acts of terror? It's O.K. because it's Yankees exercising their Second Amendment rights on each other?

Three Shootings in America

A week of our entirely-ordinary *extraordinary* violence

The shooting is another reminder of how right-wing and white nationalist violence remains the biggest threat to the United States domestically. And yet the FBI and the federal government have all but given up investigating it, and the President is in fact one of the nation’s leading spreaders of hate speech and extremist rhetoric, including just this week mocking the Arab-American candidate for Senate in Michigan and the politically motivated targeting of Rep. Ilhan Omar. Indeed, racist targeting of South Asians — like those at the Aurora temple — appears increasingly to be a central political strategy of the GOP.

“The threat of such violence shows how dangerous anti-Indian hatred and white supremacy have become, and we cannot wait until innocent people are killed to take these threats seriously,” Krishnamoorthi said last week in a statement.

We do not talk enough about how central the threat (and reality) of political violence is to the Trump movement and to the paralysis that so many GOP figures feel when they attempt to speak out or act against President Trump and the MAGA movement. We are “both-sides”-ing a threat where one side is a gasoline-fueled mass arsonist by pretending that the other side also plays with matches.

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We suffer a rate of gun homicides that, according to Everytown for Gun Safety, “is 26 times that of other high-income countries.”

There are more gun deaths in the US on a single day than there are in the UK, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, and Japan in a year combined.

Our weekly total is roughly equal to the annual total of gun deaths of France, Canada, or Germany.

SICK, SICK, SICK!!

Students Join Albanian "Riots"

Same "Riots", Different Day

Another bang-up job bringing peace, Kushner. I wonder what the odds or "percentages" are on how long the current gummint will last.

Sunday Swiffery

Bunkerkeeping

Got tired of cleaning the filthy tile & linoleum floors in the bunker by spraying cleanser on the floor & wiping it w/ a paper towel underfoot, so I charged a Swiffer.

Works pretty well, sprays a fur piece (powered by two AA batteries) & w/ a little elbow grease did a better job than the previous method.

Probably take a powerwasher w/ bleach to really clean.

Of course now I'm in thrall to P&G for Swiffer solution & pads for eternity.