TIL financial trading companies use saved Wireshark packet captures (libpcap) as audit sources. Neet!

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42269227

Reading an essay written in a foreign language:

https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2024/11/kendrick-lamar-gnx-new-album-review/680806/?gift=ly-h2TZGdDJyaoFv6n-KafyaTHx6m3OPlB3vq-7i6Xw&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share

https://www.newsobserver.com/news/politics-government/election/article296175214.html

Republicans. No honor. No courage. Unable to just take the L.

NC State Board of Elections currently has 3 Dems, 2 Repubs. The Republicans want it to deadlock.

At this point, I’m pretty sure I will go to my grave voting Democrat. Which… young me would probably never have expected.

«“The oral and written misrepresentations made by the conference to convince and effectively trick our client to not hold a vote to leave the denomination under rule 2553 while such right existed severely prejudiced and permanently injured our client,”»

https://www.al.com/news/2024/11/unholy-threat-united-methodists-sue-breakaway-beach-church.html#:~:text=%E2%80%9CThe%20oral%20and%20written%20misrepresentations%20made%20by%20the%20conference%20to%20convince%20and%20effectively%20trick%20our%20client%20to%20not%20hold%20a%20vote%20to%20leave%20the%20denomination%20under%20rule%202553%20while%20such%20right%20existed%20severely%20prejudiced%20and%20permanently%20injured%20our%20client%2C%E2%80%9D

“We didn’t knooooowwwww!!! 😭”

🙄

https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5010049-boebert-cameo-ethics/

So, uh… is Cameo like OnlyFans? I’ve never heard of it before.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/nov/26/far-right-weaponising-ai-generated-content-europe

Brave new world. If you’re seeing what you want to be seeing, maybe… it’s AI?

«Smith asked U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan to dismiss the election-related case “without prejudice” — a legal term that means the case could theoretically be brought again in the future.»

https://www.politico.com/news/2024/11/25/jack-smith-drops-case-trump-election-00191514

Well… I guess we’ll see, in four years.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/25/business/thyssenkrupp-job-cuts-germany.html

I see the decision to mothball nuclear power plants and depend on Russian natural gas is going well.

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-farm-groups-want-trump-spare-their-workers-deportation-2024-11-25/

How many of these people voted for Trump? Dunno, but here’s a quote from the American Farm Bureau Federation in 2018:

«“Donald Trump is president of the United States and he’s the man many of them voted for,” Rodger told Bloomberg.»

I’m sure they’ll be happy to hire laborers who will be less able to resist poor treatment. I hope the next administration makes a point of tracking down the worst offenders and squashing them like bugs. I hope they look down the road and see it coming.

https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/contentious-cop29-deal-shows-climate-cooperation-fraying-edges-2024-11-25/

I don’t think we’re gonna make it. Time to start buying land somewhere safer. Not hurricane territory, not forest-fire territory, not flood zones. Maybe avoid tornados, too?

Hmmm I wonder how many these companies there are floating around: https://climatecheck.com/. And, for each one, what the blend of scam and actual value is.