VIPS on Dick Cheney: Intelligence Unglued
The Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS) sent this memo to George W. Bush about Dick Cheney's deceptive role in the Iraq invasion, published by Consortium News in 2003. Former U.S.Consortium News
Violenza nelle scuole, i metal detector non sono la vera soluzione: il parere dei lettori
Il 20 ottobre tre adolescenti di 13 e 14 anni sono stati trovati in possesso di alcuni coltelli in un istituto scolastico di Caivano, nella ... Scopri di più!Domani
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World War II Contemplations Still Remaining in Japan
The “Reflections” of outgoing Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba on “Japan in World War II,” coupled with the death of the author of the landmark “MurayamaВладимир Терехов (New Eastern Outlook)
Pinterest shares dropped 20% on Wednesday after forecasting Q4 revenue below estimates as advertising took a hit from retailers dealing with tariffs (Jaures Yip/CNBC)
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Pinterest plunges 20% after weak results as tariffs drag on ad revenue
Third-quarter sales in the U.S. and Canada came in at $786 million, missing analyst projections.Jaures Yip (CNBC)
the bug that taught me more about PyTorch than years of using it
The blog post recounts how a silent PyTorch MPS backend bug caused training loss plateaus by failing to update model weights on non-contiguous tensors, leading the author through a deep debugging journey that revealed PyTorch internals and the complexity of device-specific GPU kernel implementations. This experience taught more about PyTorch's workings than years of usage, emphasizing th...
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the bug that taught me more about PyTorch than years of using it
a loss plateau that looked like my mistake turned out to be a PyTorch bug. tracking it down meant peeling back every layer of abstraction, from optimizer internals to GPU kernels.elanapearl.github.io
New Strip Found: Hagar the Horrible by Chris Browne for Wed, 05 Nov 2025 arcamax.com/thefunnies/hagarth…
Hagar the Horrible for 11/5/2025
Created by Chris Browne, Hagar the Horrible is a funny look at Viking and medieval Scandinavian life.ArcaMax
LABR is LIVE!
Midweek Workday Chill Mix LIVE with Brother Soul - North England
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1918 Flu Pandemic: The Deadliest Pandemic in History
The Spanish flu (so-named because the Spanish press openly reported on the outbreak while other World War I belligerents suppressed the news) broke out in March 1918 at Camp Funston, an army camp in...John Horgan (https://www.worldhistory.org#organization)
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Data Availability — Cybersecurity
Availability can't be guaranteed. A short command by an unprivileged user can freeze a server. Files can be accidentally deleted. Without cryptographic tools, we can't even put meaningful numbers on availability estimates.Bob's Pages of Travel, Linux, Cybersecurity, and More
Standing Strong Together: Russia Celebrates National Unity Day
The unbreakable unity of Russia’s multinational people is the key to the country’s success and victories. But what’s the story behind the holiday?Sputnik International
L’ex capo della polizia giudiziaria, già arrestato in Italia ma poi rimpatriato, è accusato dalla Corte penale internazionale di torture contro i prigionieri e di violazioni dei diritti umani
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📰 Putin Approves Preparations for Full-scale Nuclear Weapons Tests in Response to Possible U.S. Tests
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Putin Approves Preparations for Full-scale Nuclear Weapons Tests in Response to Possible U.S. Tests
Earlier, U.S. President Trump also instructed the Pentagon to resume such testsistories.media
Hatuşaş, the Hittite Capital — Travels in Turkey
Hatuşaş was the capital of the Hittite Empire. Next to the village of Boğazkale, north of Cappadocia, head of a large empire.Bob's Pages of Travel, Linux, Cybersecurity, and More
Amazon opens a new 10,000-square-foot automated Whole Foods store in Pennsylvania partly staffed by robots; customers can scan and order items from the aisles (Matt Day/Bloomberg)
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Amazon opens a new 10,000-square-foot automated Whole Foods store in Pennsylvania partly staffed by robots; customers can scan and order items from the aisles
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📰 Conciertos 15° Encuentro de Flauta del Sur del Mundo
🏷️ #ChileCultura #Cartelera #Panoramas #Cultura #Chile
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Chile Cultura
La cultura se mueve contigo. Accede en un solo lugar a una cartelera de actividades que se desarrollan en los espacios públicos y privados de nuestras 16 regiones y a contenidos culturales digitales nacionales e internacionalesChile cultura
Fwupd 2.0.17 Released With More Hardware Support & Features
Days after the Linux Vendor Firmware Service celebrated 135 million firmware downloads, a new version of the Fwupd utility is now available for firmware updating systems and peripherals under Linux...
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Linux Patches Updated For Snapdragon X Elite Powered TUXEDO Elite 14 Gen1 Laptop
In mid-2024, Bavarian PC vendor TUXEDO Computers began teasing a Snapdragon X Elite powered Linux laptop with hopes of having it available by Christmas 2024. As we approach Christmas 2025, there still are no immediate signs of this new ARM-based TUXEDO laptop soon shipping but there are signs of life still with new Linux kernel patches posted for enabling this…
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The shadows lurking in the equations
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Three Western Grebes prepped for their famous ritual dance. Thanks for this charming photo!
Your post got me thinking how long it's been since I saw this courtship and competition behavior in the wild, so I went looking and found this neat video:
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A little exuberant dancing seems appropriate tonight for Americans opposed to fascism, doesn't it?
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An eBPF Loophole: Using XDP for Egress Traffic
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Using XDP for Egress Traffic
XDP only works for ingress. We found a loophole that lets it work for egress. Here's how we did the impossible.loopholelabs.io
UPS plane crashes near Louisville airport
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📰 Conciertos 15° Encuentro de Flauta del Sur del Mundo
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Chile Cultura
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ONLY 8 HOURS LEFT—please, please share. Beloved Mai has been facing her whole pregnancy malnourished, unemployed, displaced.
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Keep Hope Alive: a Gaza Giving Circle
We are a team of volunteers in the US and UK, led by two sisters passionate about helping our friends on the ground keep their families and neighbors alive with food, water, & shelter.Chuffed
Wild 0.7 Released For This Very Fast Linker Written In Rust
Wild 0.7 released on Monday as the newest feature release for this very fast linker for Linux systems competing with Mold on x86_64 / ARM64 / RISC-V devices.lxer.com
Nebula Is a New GTK Frontend for Managing Void Linux Packages
Nebula is a fresh Rust-built GTK frontend for XBPS, offering a modern and easy way to manage packages on Void Linux.Bobby Borisov (Linuxiac)
Celigo is hiring Senior Software Engineer I - AI/ML
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I’m worried that they put co-pilot in Excel
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I'm worried that they put co-pilot in Excel because Excel is the beast that drives our entire economy and do you know who has tamed that beast? Brenda. Who is …Simon Willison’s Weblog
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Le famiglie Attanasio, Iacovacci e Paciolla aspettano la commissione d’inchiesta. Ma la maggioranza Meloni diserta l’aula
«L’assenza totale della maggioranza in aula rappresenta un silenzio rumoroso», dice a Domani Salvatore Attanasio. Per la madre di Mario Paciolla ... Scopri di più!Luca Attanasio (Domani)
The Kyiv Independent’s Dominic Culverwell sits down with Elina Ribakova, a leading expert on the Russian economy, to unpack the latest U.S. sanctions targeting Rosneft and Lukoil — the oil giants fuelling Moscow’s war. piped.video/watch?v=s5ihvUxtNx…
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La rivoluzione dei dati sanitari europei: così Bruxelles prova a costruire la sanità del futuro
Il Covid ha insegnato che con la condivisione delle informazioni mediche si possono ottenere risultati importanti in breve tempo. Così l’Unione ... Scopri di più!Ilaria Potenza (Domani)
Klimaschutz: EU-Länder wollen Emissionen bis 2040 um 90 Prozent reduzieren
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France begins the process to temporarily suspend Shein for "the time necessary for the platform to demonstrate" it has scrubbed its website of illegal products (Wall Street Journal)
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France begins the process to temporarily suspend Shein for “the time necessary for the platform to demonstrate” it has scrubbed its website of illegal products
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The final score from last night:
VA Gov: Dem win 🟦
VA LtGov: Dem win 🟦
VA Attorney Gen: Dem Win 🟦
VA House of Delegates (state house): 64-36, Dem flip 13 seats 🟦
NJ Gov: Dem Win 🟦
NYC Mayor: Dem Win 🟦
PA Supreme Court, Retention: Dem Win 🟦 , Dem Win 🟦, Dem Win 🟦
CA Prop 50 (Redistricting): Yes Win 🟦
CO Prop MM (Raise Taxes for School Meals): Yes Win 🟦
Maine, Question 1 (Voting Restrictions): "No" Win 🟦
Maine, Question 2 (Firearm Red Flag): "Yes" Win 🟦
Oxford Street Christmas lights are switched on, because of woke
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Oxford Street's Christmas lights switched on by Vanessa Williams
Oxford Street kicked-off London's festive season as The Devil Wears Prada star Vanessa Williams flipped the switch to light up the West End.www.bbc.com
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in reply to World History Encyclopedia • • •here is some local reporting from the #SanFrancisco Bay Area about the #SpanishFlu:
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"When you get back home, hunt up your wood-workers and cabinet-makers and set them to making coffins. Then take your street laborers and set them to digging graves. If you do this you will not have your dead accumulating faster than you can dispose of them."
- WEAPONS AGAINST INFLUENZA. Am J Public Health (NY). 1918;8(10):787-788. doi:10.2105/ajph.8.10.787
There was an Anti-Mask League in San Francisco, and there were regional differences in responses to the virus, which tracked with regional differences in death rates.
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Second Wave of Spanish Influenza in California, January 1, 1919 to March 1, 1919 newspaper clippings
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