"I temi di cui ci occupiamo sono tutti legati alla crisi nella quale viviamo, fatta di guerre che non finiscono mai e del culto della forza che sta diventando il segno delle relazioni diplomatiche. (ANSA)
Xiaomi announced on Friday a voluntary recall of 146,891 units of its PB2030MI power bank, produced between August 1 and September 22, 2024. The recall
30% of all word-based domain extensions are managed by 1 large corporation in the United States.
The biggest words based corporation was called Donuts Inc — A corporation that for the longest time went unnoticed because the name is not what it implies. They eventually became Identity Digital Inc, which is owned by Ethos Capital.
Ethos Capital is one of the larger investment and capital marketing companies in the country, which is located in my state of Massachusetts, USA.
The second-largest corporation for words based domains was Afilias Inc, which also was bought out by Identity Digital Inc. Which, once again, is owned by Ethos Capital.
Nearly every word-based domain is sponsored and governed by a corporation. The majority of those are in the United States. But Identity Digital Inc, which is owned by Ethos Capital, controls a large sum of them, and you can see the full list on Wikipedia (see URL).
La Dette, toujours la dette... Mais au fait, quand le banquier te file 100.000€, il les sort d'où ?
L'Argent-Dette. (2006, revisitée 2010) informassue.tuxfamily.org/page… Long métrage d'animation, dynamique et divertissant, de l'artiste et vidéographe Paul Grignon.
/ Hérault, Le Cap d'Agde / Série « Arcadie - D’ici et de maintenant - La France, comme elle va... » France, 22.08.2025 / website thomas-catifait.com / L’homme marque de son empreinte le territoire qu’il habite, inscrivant dans le paysage les traces de son occupation. Éléments vernaculaires de nos paysages, témoins du temps passé, révélatrices du temps présent ou supports du temps qui s’écoule, elles sont le reflet de la situation sociale, économique et politique de ceux qui vivent là. Cette série photographique, initiée en 2011, montre cela, constituant un "portrait de lieu", personnel et subjectif. Le "portrait de lieu" de la France d’aujourd’hui. D’ici et de maintenant. Man leaves his mark on the territory he inhabits, inscribing the traces of his occupation in the landscape. Vernacular elements of our landscapes, witnesses of the past, revealing the present, or bearing the passage of time, they reflect the social, economic, and political situation of those who live there. This photographic series, initiated in 2011, shows this, constituting a "portrait of place", personal and subjective. The "portrait of place" of today’s France. From here and now. #photographie #photographiecontemporaine #artistefrancais #france #paysagesfrançais #paysages #rural #architecture #petitpatrimoine #tracesdupassé #commercesdupassé #photography #artpicture #landscapephotography #frenchlandscape #ruralphotography #architecturephotography #storefronts #oldshop #dicietdemaintenant #moyenformat #sigma #sigmadp1quattro #sigmadp2quattro #sigmadp3quattro #leica #leicacamera #leicaphotography
The EU's foreign policy chief said the bloc needs to dive deep into the issue of frozen Russian assets, to be prepared in case of an eventual ceasefire or peace deal.
Dass Fans des rechtsextremen kroatischen Popstars Marko Perković alias Thompson faschistische Parolen rufen, ist nichts Neues. Doch bei seinem letzten Konzert – dem größten in der Geschichte der EU – »feierten« Hunderttausende.
Do you want your brain to remain your own? Do you want your government to recognize that neural privacy is a fundamental human right?
"How to Fix the Internet" interviewed Neuroscientist Rafael Yuste and human rights lawyer Jared Genser, who together established the Neurorights Foundation, and have contributed to getting laws passed nearly unanimously in three states of the USA.
I'm going to write to my representatives in #Georgia and encourage them to follow the lead of CA, CO, and MT.
The human brain might be the grandest computer of all, but in this episode, we talk to two experts who confirm that the ability for tech to decipher thoughts, and perhaps even manipulate them, isn't just around the corner – it's already here.
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14 DAYS AGO: Trump enters the longest period in his entire life without a day of golf
10 DAYS AGO: Trump reflects on his mortality, says he wants to enter heaven
8 DAYS AGO: Bruising seen on his hand. Transfusions speculated.
6 DAYS AGO: Vance releases a public statement saying he is ready to become President in case of a "tragedy"
4 DAYS AGO: Trump disappears from public
TODAY: No public events scheduled this weekend
NOW: Truth Social has been taken down.
Now look I'm not trying to give you false hope. But I'm just saying I have a very particular songlist queued up and ready to go and it has "Ding Dong The Witch Is Dead" on it.
Un soldat africain pendant la bataille d'Hastings (1066) ? Réponse de médiéviste : 1/ c'est possible ; 2/ c'est très improbable ; 3/ on s'en fiche car c'est de la fiction ; 4/ ces réactions outrées sont très signifiantes. Je détaille chaque point ⬇️
1/ C'est possible. Les sociétés anciennes sont plus connectées qu'on ne le pense souvent, et l'Afrique, y compris l'Afrique subsaharienne, n'est pas coupée de la Méditerranée. Il y a des flux de biens et de personnes (marchands, soldats, esclaves, pèlerins, etc).
1/ Ces flux ont d'ailleurs laissé des traces archéologiques, y compris en Grande-Bretagne : dans cet article, des fouilles dans un cimetière anglais du VIIe siècle ap JC où on a retrouvé une personne ayant un ancêtre récent originaire d'Afrique de l'Ouestphys.org/news/2025-08...
Archaeologists have analyzed the DNA of two unrelated individuals buried in 7th-century-AD cemeteries on the south coast of England, revealing that they both had recent ancestors, likely grandparents, from West Africa.
1/ Donc, en théorie, oui, un mercenaire africain aurait pu, via une vie aventureuse ou un passage par la case "esclave", se retrouver dans les rangs des Normands en 1066. On a une poignée d'exemples : en 1120, l'évêque de Laon a un serviteur éthiopien. Donc, oui, ça peut arriver !
2/ Cela reste très improbable. Les Scandinaves n'étaient assurément pas tous de grands blonds aux yeux bleus, et au fil de leurs voyages il y a dû avoir un paquet de métissages (plus ou moins volontaires), mais aucune source ne mentionne de vikings à la peau noire.
2/ ce qui ne veut pas dire qu'il n'y en avait pas, d'une part car "absence de preuve n'est pas preuve de l'absence", d'autre part car les médiévaux se fichent un peu de la couleur de la peau, donc auraient pu ne pas le mentionner.
3/ On s'en fiche ! Ici c'est une représentation contemporaine, une fiction, avec des acteurs. Les soldats de l'époque n'avaient de toute manière pas la taille qu'ont les gens d'ajd, ni la même santé, les mêmes dents, les mêmes cheveux, etc. Et ils ne parlaient pas en anglais contemporain... !
3/ Même la représentation la plus "réaliste" possible achoppera toujours sur l'impossibilité de restituer "fidèlement" le passé (je mets des guillemets car ces notions n'ont en réalité pas grand sens ni grand intérêt). Ce sera toujours une représentation contemporaine.
3/ Quand vous allez voir Richard III au théâtre, vous n'exigez pas que l'acteur principal soit un anglais âgé de 33 ans, bossu et membre de la famille royale d'Angleterre. Vous acceptez l'acteur tel qu'il est, précisément parce que c'est un acteur (ou une actrice !)
4/ Alors pourquoi ça râle ici ? Parce que les comptes qui râlent voient dans cette présence un projet politique ("wokisme") qui leur est insupportable. L'argument du "réalisme historique" n'est qu'un prétexte qui leur permet en fait de légitimer leur racisme.
Ah oué, c'est comme les mecs qui râlent sur la présence d'un samouraï noir dans un jeu-vidéo avec des aliens technologiquement très avancées qui créent la race humaine au cours de l'antiquité, se font passer pour les dieux des mythes européens antiques et on sait tout ça grâce à une machine qui retranscrit les souvenirs précis des ancêtres cachés dans l'ADN…
I thought it would be funny to take a picture where my arm is coming out of this opening in a brick wall. It kind of looks like I cut and pasted my arm there, but it's just me doing weird things in public. #photography #urbanphotography
I just tried to watch #Ronja the Robber's Daughter (made by Goro Miyazaki). I really love the book by Astrid Lindgren, so I thought maybe the show would be fun too! but I was honestly creeped out by the animation style. the CGI was not good.
also (this is very American of me but) the pacing was sooo slow. I did not make it thru the first episode.
One thing I keep running into with any form of self-hosting: STARTING it is every bit as easy as promotors of self-hosting claim it is. Yeah, spinning up a Wordpress instance is easy and rewarding, as is writing a bit of HTML by hand, or any other solution really.
CONTINUING to do it, while maintaining and securing whatever solution you're using, is hard.
I think writing HTML by hand is the easiest option by far. Fewest security holes. For something like a webcomic where there are a lot of similar pages, it does get incredibly tedious.
WP is never easy, and always bloated ;D
I've used Grawlix and a custom CMS for my webcomics, but for my next one I think I'm going to go for something entirely static, possibly hand-coded (unlike a massive existing archive like yours, a new webcomic allows for a comfy pace of adding pages).
I've been doing this so long, apparently, that I've gone through the "professional" options right back to the "amateur" ones because they just work better and are easier to maintain, even if they do require more manual work. For a personal site, I don't need to rush.
@eishiya A solution that can work reasonably well as a compromise between completely hand-coding a website and a CSM like WordPress is static site generation. This gives pretty much the same security as a static site, but it reduces the strain of replicating all the boilerplate by hand.
I'm not sure if there's SSGs specifically tuned for webcomics, though.
@eishiya I'm kind of in the same place, at least for some things. I wouldn't want to hand-code a new site for Rogues of Clwyd-Rhan and started to get away from that by the time that reached 100 episodes (it's at over 1200 now); for something like that, I need automation and cross-referencing, and Wordpress* fits that need best. But for a new project, like a gag comic with a (honestly) short life expectancy, hand-coding is a better option.
L’estate sta finendo, Edith Wharton era la lettura giusta, editorialedomani.it/idee/cultu…, , Gli ultimi giorni di agosto li ho passati con L’età dell’innocenza, con cui la scrittrice vinse (prima donna) il Pulitzer nel 2021. Ho poi scoperto di non essere stato il solo
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Gut 48 (+/-) Stunden bevor hier das Licht ausgeht möchte ich noch ein paar Dinge kurz sagen.
Ich bin dankbar und fühle mich geehrt, dass mir hier so viel Solidarität entgegen gebracht worden ist, als die Scheiße den Ventilator getroffen hat.
Ich bin froh, dass ich hier in dieser kleinen antifaschistischen Enklave für andere eine Zuflucht geworden bin, weil sie sich auf anderen Instanzen nicht mehr sicher bzw. wohl gefühlt haben.
Auch wenn ich nicht alle User*innen persönlich gekannt habe, habe ich großes Vertrauen in sie gesetzt und wurde auch nicht enttäuscht.
Diese Instanz schließt, weil etwas passiert ist, was in einer funktionierenden linken Bubble nie passieren dürfte. Ein Antifa, oder zumindest jemand der sich dafür ausgibt, zeigt einen anderen Antifa an.
Da schaltet eine Person den repressiven Staat ein, weil ein Ego verletzt eventuell verletzt wurde... Ich weiß wie der vorgeworfene Tatbestand lautet - und ich sage Euch. Das ist peinlich damit ein Gericht beschäftigen zu müssen. Es ist ein Unding.
Sag mal, in welcher Welt leben wir denn? Ich fasse es nicht, dass hier mutmaßlich zwei Antifas ein Gericht beschätfigen, weil einer oder eine ihm nahestehende Person eine "Verletzung der Ehre" in Dinge hinein deutet, die man mit einem einfachen "Selber!" und einem Block erledigen könnte.
Auch, dass mir im Vorfeld von Menschen gedroht wurde, dass man gegen meine Instanz einen so genannten FediBlock aussprechen müsse, weil ich ja genau so denken würde, wie die Person um die es eigentlich gehen sollte, macht mich wütend.
Ein FediBlock auszusprechen zu wollen, weil zwei Individuen nicht aufeinander klar kommen ist der Obergipfel.
(Ein FediBlock spricht man mit # aus, weil sich eine Instanz nicht ethisch oder verbrecherisch zeigt oder einfach illegale Inhalte verbreitet - davon gibt es viele. Vor allem Kinderpornografie, Gewaltverherrlichung, und Nazis fallen für den Großteil unter diesen Begriff. Ein Fediblock soll dazu animieren, die erwähnte Instanz umgehend auf die Blockliste zu setzen und damit vom Fediverse "zu entkoppeln")
Aber nun ist es so, dass ich mental mit der Situation null zurecht komme, weil ich meine User*innen schützen möchte. Weil ich sehe wie verkommen das System geworden ist, dass Antifas andere Antifas und Linke anzeigen oder die Betreiber*innen der jeweiligen Instanzen unter Druck setzen.
So erreicht man auch das, was eigentlich im Sinne "der Anklage" ist - die*der unliebsame User*in verschwindet, hat Scherereien deswegen - und die dahinter liegende Fediverse-Instanz verschwindet, weil der Admin das emotional nicht verkraftet und hin schmeißt.
Ich weiß nicht, wie ich das nennen soll...
Das ist es - das ist der Post. Bis die Tage Euer NOCadmin
Es gibt noch ein bis zwei Accounts, die noch nicht umgezogen sind.
Falls es nicht anders geht, werde ich die Instanz noch 24 bis 48 Stunden laufen lassen und dann mindestens in einen Schlummermodus versetzen.
Alle Accounts, die bereits umgezogen sind, werden morgen vormittag gelöscht, damit sie nicht unnötigen ActivityPub Traffic verursachen, der dann ins Nichts gehen würde.
L'immagine mostra un gruppo di attori in un teatro, vestiti in costumi medievali colorati. Al centro, una donna in un abito verde e oro si sta avvicinando a un uomo in un abito rosso, con le braccia tese verso di lui. Sullo sfondo, altri attori in abiti scuri e colorati osservano la scena. La scena è ambientata in un palazzo medievale, con archi e finestre illuminati. L'atmosfera è vivace e teatrale, con i colori vivaci dei costumi che si riflettono sulla scena. ― L'immagine mostra un gruppo di attori in un teatro, rappresentando una scena di un'opera o di una commedia storica. Al centro della scena, una donna in un abito verde con dettagli dorati e una donna in un abito verde più scuro sono coinvolte in un gesto drammatico, con le mani alzate. Un uomo in un abito rosso e giallo, probabilmente un personaggio di rilievo, è al centro dell'azione, mentre un uomo calvo in abito scuro interagisce con loro. Sullo sfondo, altri attori in costumi medievali osservano la scena. La scena è illuminata da luci colorate, con un set che rappresenta un edificio con finestre e una porta. L'atmosfera è vivace e teatrale, con i personaggi in posizioni dinamiche che suggeriscono un momento di tensione o di dramma. ― L'immagine mostra un gruppo di giovani attori in un teatro, eseguendo una performance su un palco. I bambini indossano abiti colorati e elaborati, che sembrano ispirati a diverse culture e epoche storiche. Alcuni indossano abiti tradizionali, come gonne lunghe e cappotti, mentre altri hanno vestiti più moderni ma con dettagli ricercati. I bambini sono in posizioni dinamiche, con le braccia alzate, suggerendo un momento di danza o di espressione teatrale. Sullo sfondo, c'è una scenografia che rappresenta un edificio con archi gotici, che potrebbe essere un palazzo o una chiesa. In primo piano, si intravede un'orchestra che suona, con i musicisti visibili solo parzialmente. L'atmosfera è vivace e piena di energia, con i bambini che sembrano completamente immersi nella loro performance.
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From a mother and child towering over Glasgow to a sleeping boy tucked under a hedge in Imbabura, this set shows buildings turned gentle: quiet portraits, birds on city walls, and scenes that bring warmth to concrete in Lleida, Karlstad, Frauenfeld, Sioux City, London, and Fene.
1. Mother and Child with Robin — SMUG in Glasgow, Scotland
A large-scale portrait of a woman holding a child close, a robin perched on the child’s arm. Soft light and restrained tones emphasize tenderness against the brick facade. More by SMUG!: 24 Times SMUG Made Walls Look More Real Than Life
2. Sleeping Boy — El Decertor in Imbabura, Ecuador
A boy rests on a pillow while real foliage becomes his blanket. The painted figure aligns with the hedge, blending wall and vegetation into a single scene.
6. A Good Host Turns Places into Friends — HERA in Karlstad, Sweden
A child pours tea for a deer and a wolf, each seated calmly. Loose brushwork and handwritten notes add a storybook quality across the gable wall. More!: HERA – Crafting Stories on Walls Around the World
A figure before a field of stars spans the curved facade. The composition layers cosmic bands behind the portrait with fine detail in the face and hands. More!: Turning Walls into Stories! 6 Murals by SFHIR
8. Magpie on the Stairs — Irony & Boe in London, UK
A magpie painted at stair height fills the side wall. The bird’s blue, green, and white plumage sits crisply against the pale backdrop, interacting with the railings and steps.
From an enormous child peering into a mirror in Italy to a serene bear reading under a leafy tree, this collection brings together 9 striking public artworks from across the globe.
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@normjess Gary is after a very specific goal and that’s tax wealth. But you should look at how he’s doing it he is rallying the people.
His argument is very direct and comprehensible:
Wealth drives poverty
If you don’t bring wealth disparity back to earth, your life will continue to become worse and he’s telling the middle class you’re not escaping this either because the very richest people will take everything from you too.
@normjess The egalitarian societies humans form have a very strong moral system that keeps the emergence of an individual or a group of people as a dominant group or individual in check.
That moral system is enforced by everyone. They jealously defend themselves from others taking control of the decision-making power, over people were over resources.
@benfell @normjess This is where cultural anthropology has a lot to say.
I am currently reading through a book called “hierarchy in the forest” by Boehm.
They have a very clear definition of egalitarianism and a very clear analysis of house societies jealously defend power flowing upwards (egalitarianism).
Furthermore, they go on to say there are material conditions that favor egalitarianism or hierarchy, equality or hierarchy.
@normjess The very fact of a system of exchange system privileges whomever is most able to say no. Max Weber and others have pointed out that this inherently exacerbates economic inequality, ultimately leaving workers destitute while a few get rich.
Admittedly, Weber attributed this to capitalism, but the logic of his argument applies to *any* market system.
The only way to avoid it is to start with a perfectly level playing field and somehow--impossibly--to keep that field level.
Economics that works, then, applies the maxim from the Communist Manifesto: To each according to their need, from each according to their ability.
@benfell @normjess It is extremely interesting stuff because it makes it brutally and very simply clear what is necessary to create and defend an equal society.
Socially it hinges on a moral system. And if you notice the moral system of capitalism is mercenary, it’s psychopathic. Every man seeks mastery in the world of slaves.
Our morning walk plan for the state park trails was spoiled as a hundred cars were already there at 7am. No way we could have had a quiet walk. So, we just had a quiet walk around the lake.
Sports holidays have ended, so the struggle of #F1Segreta may start again!
This week a little less painful for the return of #f1academy in a nice track AND even better for us Tifosi Maya Weug got 1st in the Race 2 Quali, definitely making her the only Ferrari to score a pole this weekend (and year). Yay! Today at 17:00 CET we'll have Race 1 and we'll see how much of my #malocchio will go to her, I pray not too much. #DutchGP
It's time for the Reverse Grid race around the dunes here in Zandvoort. Who will take the victory?For more F1® Academy, visit https://www.f1academy.com/Follo...
Cat holes or wag bags? Researchers studying human waste in parks and protected areas outline options for responsible pooping outdoors to minimize environmental impact and protect public health.
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So...coming out of my patch test, the big change is that I need to remove amidoamine from my products.
In combination with my fragrance allergy, this is proving to be very difficult.
Amidoamine is pretty much everything in the ingredient list that is "...amine" or "...betaine" and more.
Doc gave me a special app to help.
I have to replace a lot of stuff *again*.
In just a few years I have gone from being a beauty junkie with no fewer than 4 shampoos and conditioners in my shower and up to 7 products in my hair on any given day to being grateful to continue to have *A* hairspray that I can use.
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UN human rights experts condemned the enforced disappearances of Palestinians at aid distribution sites on Thursday, urging Israeli authorities to halt the targeting of the starving Palestinian population.
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UN human rights experts condemned the enforced disappearances of Palestinians at aid distribution sites on Thursday, urging Israeli authorities to halt the targeting of the starving Palestinian popula...
Algú sap de que va aquest @hecc? Bàsicament acaba de fotre-me-la grossa per un post, faltat al respecte i acte seguit ha esborrat els comentaris i bloquejat. 😳
Wer kommt bei der Nahost-Berichterstattung zu Wort? Eine exklusive Auswertung von 5.000 Schlagzeilen deutscher Leitmedien zeigt: Israels Militär und Regierung dominieren. Unabhängige Quellen werden kaum genutzt.
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Moren més de 140 migrants en el pitjor naufragi de la ruta cap a les Canàries
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"In the nearly two years since Israel’s assault on Gaza began, at least initially in response to the Hamas attack on 7 October, over 60,000 Palestinians have been killed. Entire cities lie in ruins, starvation is widespread, and a growing chorus of international legal experts warn of a looming genocide. Despite this, the European Union continues its preferential trade and research partnership with Israel under the EU–Israel Association Agreement — an agreement that is conditional on respect for human rights. Calls to suspend it are growing across Europe, yet EU institutions have so far declined to act.
Marc Botenga, Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from the Workers’ Party of Belgium (PTB/PVDA) and Vice-Chair of the Left group in the European Parliament, has been a leading critic of the EU’s response to Israel’s actions in Gaza and the occupation of Palestinian territory. In April 2025, he proposed a resolution on the immediate suspension of the EU-Israel Association Agreement with a group of fifteen MEPs. Recently, he spoke with the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation’s Alexandra Gerasimcikova about his views and the next political steps the Left in Europe can take."
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FEMA Chief Information Officer (CIO) Charles Armstrong, Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) Gregory Edwards, and 22 other FEMA IT employees directly responsible were immediately terminated.
While conducting a routine cybersecurity review, the DHS Office of the Chief Information Officer (OCIO) discovered significant security vulnerabilities that gave a threat actor access to FEMA’s network. The investigation uncovered several severe lapses in security that allowed the threat actor to breach FEMA’s network and threaten the entire Department and the nation as a whole.
The entrenched bureaucrats who led FEMA’s IT team for decades resisted any efforts to fix the problem. Instead, they avoided scheduled inspections and lied to officials about the scope and scale of the cyber vulnerabilities.
Failures included: an agency-wide lack of multi-factor authentication, use of prohibited legacy protocols, failing to fix known and critical vulnerabilities, and inadequate operational visibility.
FEMA spent nearly half a billion dollars on IT and cybersecurity measures in Fiscal Year 2025 alone and delivered virtually nothing for the American people. Despite burning hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars, FEMA’s IT leadership still neglected its basic duties and exposed the entire Department to cyberattacks.
DHS Secretary Kristi Noem fires 24 FEMA IT staffers, including the CIO and CISO; DHS says they failed security protocols and let hackers access Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) networks
FEMA Chief Information Officer (CIO) Charles Armstrong, Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) Gregory Edwards, and 22 other FEMA IT employees directly responsible were immediately terminated.
While conducting a routine cybersecurity review, the DHS Office of the Chief Information Officer (OCIO) discovered significant security vulnerabilities that gave a threat actor access to FEMA’s network. The investigation uncovered several severe lapses in security that allowed the threat actor to breach FEMA’s network and threaten the entire Department and the nation as a whole.
The entrenched bureaucrats who led FEMA’s IT team for decades resisted any efforts to fix the problem. Instead, they avoided scheduled inspections and lied to officials about the scope and scale of the cyber vulnerabilities.
Failures included: an agency-wide lack of multi-factor authentication, use of prohibited legacy protocols, failing to fix known and critical vulnerabilities, and inadequate operational visibility.
FEMA spent nearly half a billion dollars on IT and cybersecurity measures in Fiscal Year 2025 alone and delivered virtually nothing for the American people. Despite burning hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars, FEMA’s IT leadership still neglected its basic duties and exposed the entire Department to cyberattacks.
FEMA Chief Information Officer (CIO) Charles Armstrong, Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) Gregory Edwards, and 22 other FEMA IT employees directly responsible were immediately terminated.
While conducting a routine cybersecurity review, the DHS Office of the Chief Information Officer (OCIO) discovered significant security vulnerabilities that gave a threat actor access to FEMA’s network. The investigation uncovered several severe lapses in security that allowed the threat actor to breach FEMA’s network and threaten the entire Department and the nation as a whole.
The entrenched bureaucrats who led FEMA’s IT team for decades resisted any efforts to fix the problem. Instead, they avoided scheduled inspections and lied to officials about the scope and scale of the cyber vulnerabilities.
Failures included: an agency-wide lack of multi-factor authentication, use of prohibited legacy protocols, failing to fix known and critical vulnerabilities, and inadequate operational visibility.
FEMA spent nearly half a billion dollars on IT and cybersecurity measures in Fiscal Year 2025 alone and delivered virtually nothing for the American people. Despite burning hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars, FEMA’s IT leadership still neglected its basic duties and exposed the entire Department to cyberattacks.
DHS Secretary Kristi Noem fires 24 FEMA IT staffers, including the CIO and CISO; DHS says they failed security protocols and let hackers access Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) networks
FEMA Chief Information Officer (CIO) Charles Armstrong, Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) Gregory Edwards, and 22 other FEMA IT employees directly responsible were immediately terminated.
While conducting a routine cybersecurity review, the DHS Office of the Chief Information Officer (OCIO) discovered significant security vulnerabilities that gave a threat actor access to FEMA’s network. The investigation uncovered several severe lapses in security that allowed the threat actor to breach FEMA’s network and threaten the entire Department and the nation as a whole.
The entrenched bureaucrats who led FEMA’s IT team for decades resisted any efforts to fix the problem. Instead, they avoided scheduled inspections and lied to officials about the scope and scale of the cyber vulnerabilities.
Failures included: an agency-wide lack of multi-factor authentication, use of prohibited legacy protocols, failing to fix known and critical vulnerabilities, and inadequate operational visibility.
FEMA spent nearly half a billion dollars on IT and cybersecurity measures in Fiscal Year 2025 alone and delivered virtually nothing for the American people. Despite burning hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars, FEMA’s IT leadership still neglected its basic duties and exposed the entire Department to cyberattacks.
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Nearly 1,000 "Workers Over Billionaires" protests will be held across the US for Labor Day to protest the Trump administration's attacks on workers' rights and safety net programs relied on by millions.
"This is about workers showing up and demanding what workers deserve all across the country," said Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers.
I’d love to see their evaluation of how much this will save, plus their evaluation of what the costs would be to switch to another system if it all goes pear shaped. Plus of course data privacy etc etc.
Even if they come up with some fictional savings, those are savings in *staff* costs. So they have - like good little capitalists - already ruled out improving services by spending the £500k on more *staff*. (Which would likely be a bigger service improvement.)
How did we get to a place where people managing essentially human activities are able to spend money on technology to reduce spend on humans?
They have swallowed the neoliberal mantra 'hiring people is inefficient'.
@onepict Presumably by the time something goes wrong with local government decisions, the people responsible have moved on? (In some cases with brown envelopes to fall back on...)
Is there any precedent for holding government decision makers legally responsible after they've changed jobs?
FEMA Chief Information Officer (CIO) Charles Armstrong, Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) Gregory Edwards, and 22 other FEMA IT employees directly responsible were immediately terminated.
While conducting a routine cybersecurity review, the DHS Office of the Chief Information Officer (OCIO) discovered significant security vulnerabilities that gave a threat actor access to FEMA’s network. The investigation uncovered several severe lapses in security that allowed the threat actor to breach FEMA’s network and threaten the entire Department and the nation as a whole.
The entrenched bureaucrats who led FEMA’s IT team for decades resisted any efforts to fix the problem. Instead, they avoided scheduled inspections and lied to officials about the scope and scale of the cyber vulnerabilities.
Failures included: an agency-wide lack of multi-factor authentication, use of prohibited legacy protocols, failing to fix known and critical vulnerabilities, and inadequate operational visibility.
FEMA spent nearly half a billion dollars on IT and cybersecurity measures in Fiscal Year 2025 alone and delivered virtually nothing for the American people. Despite burning hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars, FEMA’s IT leadership still neglected its basic duties and exposed the entire Department to cyberattacks.
Set aside all of the issues that may or may not come with the new round of '26 Apple OS's. Someone should start and maintain a running list of all of the bugs across the platforms that Apple doesn't care to fix. #Apple #Tech
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