The story of my professional life told in 54 seconds No matter how good the pre-planning, no matter how organized it starts out, this is where I end up

This evening's thought to ponder from Maggies Farm #Maggiesfarm

A national holiday. The chains had invented it, I knew that. A day named for the donut, given free, no purchase required. A promotion, nothing more. And still. A thing the country has named and set a day for cannot be received lightly. Not by me. So I came in formal robes, bowed at the threshold, and accepted the offering with both hands. The man at the counter smiled, said happy donut day, and waved the next guest forward. To him it was a small kindness. To me it could be nothing small. That night I opened the calendar, to measure the full weight of my duty. National Hamburger Day. National Pizza Day. National Taco Day. National Pancake Day. It did not stop. A holy day for nearly every food a man can hold. To honor the donut and forsake the rest would be the deeper disrespect. So now I attend them all. Full dress. Every week. Hamburger Day, I bow. Pizza Day, I bow. Taco Day, I bow. The robes never rest. My week is sacred rite from dawn. I have served in many lands. I know of none so rich in holy days.

George Lucas’ library at Skywalker Ranch contains more than 27,000 books. Not sure I would ever leave home…

So dental insurance pretty much covers nothing? Lol

I wanted to make a joke about sodium, but l thought Na, people won't get it. Chemistry jokes are all about the right reaction.

can't stop thinking about people that first ate mushrooms they found and just had to go through trial and error of like, this one tastes like beef, this one killed Brian immediately and this one makes you see God for a week

Life was better when there was a ‘computer room.’ Where you had to physically enter the room to get on the internet and then log off and leave that room and the internet stayed behind. The minute we were able to take it with us in our pockets that’s when society collapsed fully

Why the 1970s Way of Eating Hit Different – And Why I Can’t Stop Thinking About It I ran across this TikTok video the other day and it genuinely stopped me in my tracks. It was all about how Americans in the 1970s stayed naturally thinner—not because of better genetics or iron willpower, but because the whole food environment was completely different. Meals had real boundaries. You ate breakfast, lunch, and dinner at set times, and that was pretty much it. Snacking wasn’t the constant background noise it is today. As someone who actually grew up in that era, it rang so true. We didn’t have endless cabinets full of brightly packaged snacks calling our names. You ate when it was mealtime, portions were reasonable (a hamburger was hamburger-sized, fries came in actual small bags), and the kitchen pretty much closed after dinner cleanup. No grazing all day long, no supersized everything, no ultra-processed options lurking everywhere. Meals were smaller, more proportionate, and made from basic ingredients—fresh or simply prepared. It made me reflect: maybe we really do need to borrow a page from the 70s playbook. Go back to eating at specific times instead of all-day snacking. Choose normal, human-sized portions instead of the inflated ones we’ve gotten used to. Cut way back on the junk and focus on real food again. It felt healthier, more balanced, and honestly more sustainable than the constant diet culture we live in now. That video stuck with me because it wasn’t about shaming anyone—it was about remembering a simpler, more natural way of relating to food. I’m inspired to try bringing more of that 70s rhythm into my own life. Clear meal times, smaller plates, fewer processed snacks. It might just be the reset a lot of us need. Who else remembers eating this way and feels like it’s time to bring it back?

Windows BitLocker zero-day gives access to protected drives, PoC released bleepingcomputer.com/news/se… bleepingcomputer.com/news/se…

Pentagon: we found an eight-pointed UFO WoW players: that’s a skyriding glyph, go fly through it

every school should have a "fix-it lab" where students learn to repair their clothes, bikes and electronics. we should grow up knowing that not everything is disposable, that care and repair are part of living well on this planet.

🚨 Clearing your cookies does nothing. That is not how they track you anymore. Texas A&M and Johns Hopkins just published the first peer-reviewed proof. It is called browser fingerprinting. Here is what they found and what actually stops it:

‼️🚨 One of the world's largest Certificate Authorities, DigiCert, was compromised by a malicious screensaver file sent through a customer support chat. Their antivirus blocked the malware four times. The agent kept clicking. The fifth try got through. 27 code signing certificates were stolen and used to sign malware. DigiCert ultimately revoked 60 certificates. Per DigiCert's incident report, filed in Mozilla's CA compliance tracker as Bug 2033170, here is how it unfolded: April 2: an attacker contacted a DigiCert helpdesk agent through the company's customer support chat channel, posing as a customer. The lure was a zip file pitched as a screenshot. Inside the zip was a .scr file. On Windows, .scr files are executables, and this one carried a malicious payload. Opening a file a customer sent through the official support channel is what an agent is supposed to do. Support staff are the one role designed to accept files from strangers. DigiCert's endpoint security blocked four infection attempts. On the fifth, the support analyst's machine was infected. DigiCert detected the infection, ran an investigation, and concluded the incident was contained. Eleven days later, an external researcher tipped DigiCert off about misuse of DigiCert-issued code signing certificates in the wild. That tip led to the discovery of a second compromised machine, belonging to a different support analyst, infected through the same vector. The EDR on that machine had not been functioning correctly, so the original investigation missed it. The second machine gave the attacker access to DigiCert's internal support portal. That portal lets support staff reach limited views of customer accounts, including initialization codes for ordered but not-yet-issued code signing certificates. Combining a stolen initialization code with an approved order let the attacker pull a real, validly issued code signing certificate. They did this 27 times. DigiCert's own list of what went wrong: - File-type filtering on the customer support chat channel did not catch the .scr - EDR coverage was inconsistent and incomplete, creating a blind spot - Initialization codes for code signing certificates were not adequately protected DigiCert says it got lucky. An outside researcher found the malware abuse before DigiCert did. Without that tip, the second machine and the active certificate theft might still be running today.

I have never cooked hamburger this way, but I’m about to!! Watch this! 🍔

🚨 Hantavirus infection reportedly confirmed in Switzerland. Here’s what hantavirus actually is: Hantaviruses are a family of viruses mainly carried by rodents. Humans can become infected through exposure to contaminated droppings, urine, or saliva particles in the air. Most cases are rare but some strains can cause severe lung or kidney complications. Important context: • Hantavirus is NOT new • It does NOT spread like COVID through normal casual contact • Human-to-human transmission is extremely uncommon for most strains • Risk is usually linked to rodent exposure in enclosed or rural environments Scientists monitor cases closely because these viruses can have high fatality rates in severe infections. The bigger scientific story is this: As climate patterns shift and ecosystems change, humans and animal reservoirs are interacting more often increasing the chance of zoonotic spillover events. Modern disease emergence is becoming a systems problem: ecology climate urbanization global movement. That’s why surveillance matters more than panic. Follow me for science and physics explained without the hype.

The middle class survival kit now: Cook everything at home. Cancel vacations. Delay healthcare. Drive less. Buy generic everything. We shoudn't have to live like this.

The Kill Switch was pitched to Congress as a way to stop drunk driving—but its real-world implications are far more troubling. No government should have the authority to remotely control a vehicle you paid for, or turn it into a tool for surveillance. Stop the overreach. Kill the Kill Switch.

Back in February, gas was as low as $2.19/gal in my area. It is now $4.39/gal. We are all well aware that less than 2% of our crude comes from Iran or through the Strait of Hormuz. There is no reason for the current prices at the pump. None. (Other than greed, of course.) Couple that with the outrageous grocery prices… Whatever plan is in place to take down the deep state, it’d probably be a good idea to get on with it before everyone walks away. Is that a black pill? No. It is a kick in the ass and an honest to goodness observation.

Lots of questions, comments, and concerns about our tick eating machines we posted yesterday the Guinea Fowl. - First & foremost they're retarded -Loud AF Ours are actually pretty quiet, but they are great living alarm systems -Eat 300-1000 bugs a day Haven't had a tick or chigger issue since we've brought them onto the property -Can clear an 8' fence -Have been told they're aggressive towards roosters, but that hasn't been our experience -Apparently they're delicious -Wouldn't eat the eggs The noise & stupidity are big downsides for a lot of folks, but after experiencing our first summer out here with constant chigger & tick bites they're a huge net positive in our opinion to have on the farm.