funkforager

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[–] funkforager@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 week ago (2 children)

The whole wu tang slang comes from their neighborhood in NY. Shaolin is their name for staten island.

[–] funkforager@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 week ago

For more information on being a US resident/citizen trying to get out of the US, and what your options are in various countries, I also highly recommend Trans World Express https://transworldexpress.org/wiki/Main_Page

The info there isn't necessarily only useful to trans people, but mostly is aimed at trans people, since trans people are very vulnerable right now.

[–] funkforager@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 week ago

For more information on being a US resident/citizen trying to get out of the US, and what your options are in various countries, I also highly recommend Trans World Express https://transworldexpress.org/wiki/Main_Page

The info there isn't necessarily only useful to trans people, but mostly is aimed at trans people, since trans people are very vulnerable right now.

[–] funkforager@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 week ago

17 countries offer golden visas still if you have or can raise the money: https://www.globalcitizensolutions.com/golden-visa/

[–] funkforager@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Have you tried GRC’s InControl? Supposedly helps prevent the win11 update attempts.

https://www.grc.com/incontrol.htm

[–] funkforager@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 week ago

I wish more folks would pay attention to what is happening in Ecuador. The vast majority of the population don’t deserve any of this.

And of course the real driver of all this is people up in the global north (UK/EU/USA/etc) treating cocaine as a party drug that has only grown in popularity despite all the health and addiction concerns.

Meanwhile the very real and tragic consequences are that global narco gangs have more money and power than local governments. Ecuador used to be a nice place to live just a few years ago. Now you can’t go out in the streets at night.

[–] funkforager@sh.itjust.works 9 points 2 weeks ago

Important context. This article is about past corruption of the formerly-ruling-but-now-opposition party (PP) who were in charge before the current ruling coalition party (PSOE).

[–] funkforager@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

SPY or related index etfs

[–] funkforager@sh.itjust.works 44 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It’s a GREAT festival. Super fun. Every neighborhood you can just walk around and there are little stages of groups or solo musicians performing. Free and just kind of everywhere. Good vibes. Very pedestrian friendly.

[–] funkforager@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Noooooooooooooooooo! Aw man.

 

A pretty extensive article about what’s happening at the national labor relations board. The DOGE team came in, granted themselves access to all the files, turned off logs, copied several gigs of private data on who knows what, then left without telling anyone.

They have no official reason for this data and it breaks dozens of privacy laws. It’s sensitive enough to chill every security professional interviewed.

Oh and it’s all about getting this data into a centralized depot run by palantir Peter thiel

 

Yep this headline is from today, Monday morning.

Some snippets from the article about how efficient things are now that DOGE have injected their code changes into production without testing.

Suddenly forced offline as they were taking claims, the staff members scribbled down clients’ information, then had to wait until later to load it into the computer, doubling or tripling the amount of time and work involved, the employee said.

In other instances, Managers or security guards improvised a solution after the online scheduling system failed, the employee said. They walked out to the reception area, wrote down numbers on paper slips and started handing them out to people waiting in line.

The network crashes appear to be caused by an expansion initiated by the Trump team of an existing contract with a credit-reporting agency that tracks names, addresses and other personal information to verify customers’ identities. The enhanced fraud checks are now done earlier in the claims process and have resulted in a boost to the volume of customers who must pass the checks.

EDIT: here’s an archive link. https://archive.is/FQfBu

 

The famous documentary Ferris Bueller’s Day Off demonstrates why forty years later our leaders elected Tariff Man. (Classic comedy actually if you’ve never seen it)

 

Natalia Goncharova The Forest 1913

Oil on canvas.  130 x 97 cm

Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid

In 1913, the year the present “Rayonist landscape” entitled The Forest is dated, Natalia Goncharova and Mikhail Larionov signed the Rayonist Manifesto.

This Russian avant-garde movement was defined by Camilla Gray as the style which “encompasses all existing styles and forms of the art of the past, as they, like life, are simply points of departure for a Rayonist perception and construction of a picture.”

According to this new aesthetic idea which, as the American historian specifies, departed from the concept of perception, both artists showed an interest in the nature of vision and began studying light as the indispensable source of our sensory appreciation of the world. Given that, in order for any object to be seen it must be illuminated, the Rayonists represented in painting the whole sequence of rays that allows us to see a particular scene. “We do not sense the object with our eye, as it is depicted conventionally in pictures and as a result of following this or that device, ” they stated in the Rayonist manifesto. “In fact, we do not sense the object as such. We perceive a sum of rays proceeding from a source of light; these are reflected from the object and enter our field of vision.” 

The Forest, also entitled Rayonist Landscape or Rayonist Perception, which was shown both in Mishen (Target), the exhibition organized by Larionov in Moscow in 1913 marking the new movement’s introduction to society, and in the solo exhibition of the painter’s work organised by the gallery owner K.I. Mikhailova at his Art Salon in Moscow that year, is an illustrative example of Goncharova’s interpretation of Rayonism.

(https://www.museothyssen.org/en/collection/artists/goncharova-natalia)

 

knew he was a bad dude and a creep but holy hell.

Records state that the alleged events happened as early as Nov. 14, 2023, to as recent as July 31, 2024. The alleged assaults were reported on Aug. 9.

On Nov. 14, 2023, George is accused of pinning a woman to the ground, strangling her and slamming her head into the ground multiple times, resulting in post-concussion syndrome.

Between Nov. 1, 2023, and May 1, 2024, George allegedly followed a woman out to her car, demanded she exit the vehicle and held a gun to the window to "encourage her to exit the vehicle." Once she got out of the car, he put the gun to her stomach and escorted her back inside the home she fled, records state.

Between June 8-10, 2024, George allegedly tried to kill a woman by "shoving a towel down the victim's throat and stating 'You think God is going to help you?' while she was attempting to pray in the closet that she would not die." Furthermore, he refused to let the woman leave the residence and strangled and assaulted her.

Sometime between May 1, 2024, and July 31, 2024, he allegedly sexually assaulted a woman who had just gotten out of the shower.

On July 27, he allegedly threw a woman in a closet when she was trying to leave the residence.

George is not currently in custody.

 

From the signing of the kids lunch bill. I just feel like even the laziest version of this is pretty fun.

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