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SECURITY
“A Clash of Cultures Comes Together to Change Software” dives into how early hacker groups like the L0pht began collaborating with tech companies, reshaping software security.
Watch here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6SAqT4ZQik
Day 1 Keynote: Chris Wysopal (AKA Weld Pond), VeraCode / L0pht
In case y’all don’t know, AARP is a scam non-profit who shills for one of the worst health insurance companies in America, United Healthcare.
Walgreens is reportedly in talks to sell to Sycamore Partners — a private equity firm with a track record of pushing the companies into bankruptcy.
ARTS IN THE PUBLIC DOMAIN 2025
A guide to the 124th Philadelphia Mummers Parade
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When the clock strikes midnight on January 1, creative works from 1929 & sound recordings from 1924 will enter the public domain in the US, like:
⚓️ Popeye
️ The Maltese Falcon
The Sound and the Fury
A Farewell to Arms
A Room of One’s Own
Hallelujah
& more!
– The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner – A profound novel exploring themes of time, memory, and the decline of the Southern aristocracy.
– A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway – A classic war novel set during World War I, focusing on themes of love and war.
– All Quiet on the Western Front – The English translation by Arthur Wesley Wheen of Erich Maria Remarque’s anti-war novel, first published in German in 1929, will become public domain.
– Tintin – The character made his debut in “Les Aventures de Tintin” by Belgian cartoonist Hergé, published in the magazine Le Petit Vingtième.
– Sound Recordings from 1924 – Although not from 1929, sound recordings from this year will also enter the public domain in 2025. Examples include Gershwin’s “An American in Paris,” Ravel’s “Bolero,” and Fats Waller’s “Ain’t Misbehavin’.”
Please note that the exact list can vary, and for a comprehensive list, one should refer to sources like the Center for the Study of the Public Domain at Duke University or Copyright Lately.
TAXES
Over the past 2 years Republicans clawed back $40B that Joe Biden made available to modernize the IRS. It would have paid for itself by collecting overdue taxes. So, not only do they want the rich to pay no taxes, they want to make it impossible to investigate tax cheats.
Republicans Quietly Axed IRS Funding While No One Was Looking
Amid the chaos of the shutdown fight, Republicans snuck in a passage to gut funding for the IRS. And Democrats didn’t catch it.
https://newrepublic.com/post/189672/republicans-cut-irs-funding-government-shutdown
Wealthy tax cheats are robbing $150 billion — that’s billion with a “b” — from the public each year.
The Inflation Reduction Act gave IRS the tools it needed to crack down on rich tax evaders. And every single Republican voted against it.
Senator Chris Larson @SenChrisLarson
It turns out Wal-Mart is bad for the communities where they are located. Very bad.
Two new studies described in a recent article in @TheAtlantic found that when a Wal-Mart opens in a given county, total employment there falls by 3% within 5 years, and poverty rises by 8%.
ROYALS
Everyone But Trump Invited to Royal Funeral
Queen Left Explicit Instructions
Exluding “that fucking moron ”
Why Queen Elizabeth
Hated Donald TRump
She called him an “uncouth
ignoramus” and could never
understand how he got to
President of the United States.
“It does boggle one’s mind,” the
Queen said after their first en-
counter. “He’s a buffoon of the
highest order, a cretin, a rube,
an uncouth, stupid plonker!
https://x.com/TrueFactsStated/status/1872706889735389241/photo/1
BREAKING: The parliament of Greenland just introduced legislation that bans Donald Trump and all his descendants for 100 generations.
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