A lot of these are a bit before my time, but I do remember three or four of them…
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What piano playing does to your brainThanks, @chas . Great video. The comments are a bonus. I was starting to think about selling my digital piano but this has prompted me to reconsider...
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Good reason not to have wifi on your refrigeratorFrance has accused Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) of being behind cyber-attacks that raised the temperatures of supermarket fridges and freezers.
French Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot said the attack was "unprecedented in both its scale and its level of aggression", adding those who were responsible would be hit with sanctions "at the European level".
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Inside the fake review tradeRecently, our team exposed sophisticated scam kits designed to steal sensitive data and trick consumers. But underground marketplaces are not just for malware and stolen passwords. They also offer services designed to manipulate your opinion of the products and services you buy every day.
In our latest research, we examined cybercrime forums where sellers advertise illicit “reputation management” services. For the right price, these underground operators offer to flood a product with glowing, five-star ratings or remove negative reviews. This shadowy industry works both ways—artificially boosting reputations and deliberately hiding legitimate complaints.
A major shift we are seeing in this space is the adoption of new technology. We also found that cybercriminals are using AI to automate these fake review campaigns. This could allow them to quickly generate realistic, human-sounding feedback in large volumes without much manual effort.
htps://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/threat-intel/2026/11/5-stars-for-sale-inside-the-underground-fake-review-trade
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Susie's out, Stephen's inInside the White House it's apparently dog eat dog.
https://www.cnn.com/2026/11/06/politics/stephen-miller-trump-susie-wiles
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KrakowSad and shocking.
Mr wtg's high school doctor friend and his family were in Krakow this past summer. Sent us the most wonderful photos of what looks like an idyllic town; they said they loved it. I'm sure they were stunned by the news.
The shooter died this morning.
Reporting from Reuters:
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Every vote countsAcross the Mississippi Delta — poor, Black, rural — there were houses like the one where Smith was busy at work, where organizers spent months figuring out how to get a community of nonvoters excited about reengaging in democracy.
When Colom was trying to figure out the final message for his Senate campaign, he and his team chose to end with a commercial about Medgar Evers, the African American veteran whom white supremacists killed as he was conducting voter registration campaigns.
“We can’t just ask people to vote for me,” Colom said in an interview with The Washington Post on Thursday morning. “We just got to talk about sacrifice. We got to talk about the importance of voting.”
It was also about stressing the idea of what he called “Mississippi Values” — including Evers’s audacious and righteous response to abusive power. Those values were revealed in the work of Fannie Lou Hamer and the Mississippi Freedom Party, and others who worked during the Civil Rights Era to break some of the most racist policies in the South. Still, Colom knew it would take a herculean effort in a place that hadn’t elected a Black politician to statewide office since the fall of Reconstruction.
Smith just focused on reaching would-be voters where she grew up in Holmes County. It is one of the smaller counties in the state — about 15,000 people, 80 percent Black, with 34 percent living below the poverty line. But it was a place where Colom could run up the score to offset Whiter, more conservative districts.
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Happy Diwali!Happy Diwali! We used to love going to the lunch buffet at our favorite Indian restaurant on Diwali. The buffet was always expanded to include even more items, and the restaurant was always super busy. Fun times!
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Local AI on an HP laptopOf course the laptop is priced at $7K....
I tried local AI on HP’s Omnibook Ultra – it’s a private, powerful beast with zero token fees
I ran a free, open-weights AI model locally on HP’s $7,000 OmniBook Ultra and turned 20 years of my articles into a searchable archive in a day.
https://www.zdnet.com/tech/hp-omnibook-ultra-nvidia-rtx-spark-laptop-review/
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Where was Ax? -
Word association threadEaster
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Peruvian peppersThat looks delicious!
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Laughter is the best medicine
(that's a @dougg or @piano-dad joke....)
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Eat like an astronautBuzz Aldrin's favorite dish, Bourbon Pot Roast.
https://www.allrecipes.com/buzz-aldrin-pot-roast-recipe-12228599
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There goes Scaramucci's recordPresident Donald Trump offered UFC president and CEO Dana White the job of press secretary on Saturday.
In a post on Truth Social, Trump said: “I am pleased to announce that the Great Dana White, a violent Fighter and Warrior, has been offered the job of Press Secretary of the United States.”
“We need these people to defend us against the Lunatic Left,” Trump wrote. “Dana will be a Press Secretary like none other. Dana, please take the job!”
CNN, citing a source, reported White had declined the president’s offer.
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/11/07/trump-ufc-dana-white-press-secretary-offer.html
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Susie's out, Stephen's inSeveral Republican lawmakers are fuming over President Donald Trump’s elevation of Stephen Miller to be his chief of staff.
"Horrible decision," Rep. Marlin Stutzman, R-Ind., told Fox News Digital Friday after Trump announced his decision.
A Republican lawmaker who was granted anonymity to speak candidly described being in "utter disbelief."
Tensions were rising against Miller in the wake of Republicans’ terrible performance in Tuesday’s midterm elections. Multiple House Republicans who spoke with Fox News Digital just moments before his promotion said Miller, who spearheads Trump’s immigration policy, should be fired.
When later asked about his promotion, one House Republican who said Miller should be fired replied simply with a facepalm emoji.
The second GOP lawmaker told Fox News Digital that Miller ignored multiple warnings from House Republicans in the past, arguing that Trump’s immigration crackdown is what voters asked for.
"I've been in several group meetings where a lot of us have told him, ‘Your immigration enforcement policies are backfiring back home. Our people are mad, our businesses are mad — even in deep red districts — and it is impacting not just the voters, but the donors, and everybody top to bottom," that GOP lawmaker said.
"But it looked to me like Stephen Miller was only after numbers. … He would not listen to us."
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Word association threadmuffins
