âThe chaotic response to cyclospora, which has sickened more than 4,000 people in the US with thousands more thought to have also been affected, has been highlighted by the attempts to identify and halt the source of the outbreak. The FDA identified lettuce from Taylor Farms, a supplier to Taco Bell, as being linked to the outbreak, only to then backtrack. Taylor Farms has said that the FDA apologized to the company for this, a claim that the FDA has denied. The federal food regulator still maintains there is strong evidence connecting Taylor Farms, which has recalled its lettuce, to the outbreak. Robert F Kennedy Jr, the US health secretary, said last week the outbreak was âunder controlâ, even as the FDA expanded its investigation into 7,400 potential cases across nine states.â
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Former top US food safety official says US mismanagement of cyclospora is approaching âa catastrophic levelâ
Stupid fucking MAHA and MAGA fucks are the dumbest fucking motherfuckers on the planet.
Rubio report on Cuban subversion names Zohran Mamdani, Amy Goodman, Hasan Piker + orgs like DSA and Amazon Labor Union
âMany of the most significant upheavals in recent American political history â from the George Floyd riots to the rise of Antifa to the explosion of pro-terrorist activism on American college campuses â can be linked, in some way, shape, or form, to Cuban influence,â the report says.
As for who these supposed agents of Cuban influence are, the report is remarkably explicit. It names people like Ben Cohen (of Ben & Jerryâs ice cream fame), Mayors Zohran Mamdani and Karen Bass, media figures like Amy Goodman and Hasan Piker, and organizations like the Democratic Socialists of America and the Amazon Labor Union.
The implication is clear: Secretary of State Marco Rubio thinks there should be a modern-day blacklist of the political left in America. In fact, the report explicitly mentions the âblacklists, McCarthy-era investigations and prosecutionsâ of the 1950s and their effectiveness at dismembering the Communist Party USA.
The 100-page report, titled âCuba: The Capital of 21st Century Communism,â was released this morning.
in all seriousness though this is a terrifying escalation in rhetoric, and frankly, i would call it genocidal language being aimed at Cubans in particular, but Latin America more broadly.
Thereâs some confusion about why this is happening in the tags and I want to quickly explain - itâs for the same reason Nazi Germany presented the Soviet Union as the source of its domestic âJewish problemâ and socialist labor organizing: to justify a military invasion (in our case, Cuba), to justify genocide of the domestic representative of the alleged foreign threat (in our case, Latinos) and to justify domestic repression of the revolutionary left so as to weaken any possible resistance to the two former ambitions.
They name the George Floyd Uprisings, Antifascism and pro-Palestine campus politics for the same reason Nazis and Neo-Nazis see the specter of the Jew behind every social movement for justice and specifically communism. They are conflating migrants, a foreign power and communist politics for the same reason the Nazis did with Jews and the Soviet Union. They called that worldview âJudeo-Bolshevikism,â that was their driving conspiracy. Today it is âThe Great Replacementâ that is their rallying call.
Donât let Hasan or Ben and Jerryâs name distract you from the larger move being made here. They want to attack any dissenting voice, but itâs towards a rational goal, the ones mentioned previously.
Hey. If people aren't aware, Microsoft admitted they know who you and where you are at all times and will give your info to the police.
They have a Global Device Identifier (GDID) Tracker that functions as a fingerprint for your PC that can surpass VPNs, proxy servers and countries. Although it can't survive a clean reinstall of Windows (it can survive updates), because Microsoft forces you to go to the internet and log in into a Microsoft account, they will be able to get to you.
Microsoft kept it secret and it was only found out when the FBI tracked a hacker thanks to the information Microsoft gave them.
You should be paying attention to this, and possibly consider moving away from Windows. If a government, especially the US government, doesn't like you for some reason, this could be seriously concerning.
This article specifically notes:
For journalism, activism, or domestic abuse situations, skip Windows and use Linux routed through Tor instead of a commercial VPN. A GDID doesnât care which VPN you use, only that itâs still the same Windows installation.
GDID is the persistent Windows ID that helped FBI trace a Scattered Spider hacker despite VPNs. Here's how it works and how to limit it.
Other important quotes:
What has researchers uneasy is everything else the case reveals. Costin Raiu, a well-known malware researcher, asked on the Three Buddy Problem podcast how much of this exists on other platforms, and whether it is linked more permanently to hardware. Matthew Hickey, another security researcher, called Windows âsurveillance softwareâ.
Two things back that up:
Thereâs no consent screen. A GDID gets assigned when you sign into a Microsoft Account. Appleâs advertising identifier needs an App Tracking Transparency prompt and a visible reset; Androidâs works the same way. GDID has neither, and a Windows reinstall only gets you a new number Microsoft can still get back to the same account.
Then thereâs activation. Massgrave, the group behind Microsoft Activation Scripts, notes that Windows setup sends hardware info to Microsoft and gets identifiers back, the same tokens later used for Store access and licensing: âItâs impossible to prevent Windows from getting a GDID without breaking activation and UWP app[s].â Anyone who lost a license after swapping a motherboard has already met a smaller version of this.
seconding this!! linux mint (I'm on Cinnamon) looks exactly like Windows 7. And it comes with Libre Office, Firefox and Thunderbird and it won't crash every time you look at it crosseyed.
I want to think about TRAINS I want to write about characters on TRAINS I want to ride on TRAINS I want adventure stories and runaway stories but on TRAINS
Some people have made the mistake of seeing Shuntâs work as a load of rubbish about railway timetables, but clever people like me who talk loudly in restaurants see this as a deliberate ambiguity, a plea for understanding in a mechanised mansion. The points are frozen, the beast is dead. What is the difference? What indeed is the point? The point is frozen, the beast is late out of Paddington. The point is taken. If La Fontaineâs elk would spurn Tom Jones the engine must be our head, the dining car our aesophagus, the guards van our left lung, the cattle truck our shins, the first class compartment the piece of skin at the nape of the neck and the level crossing an electric elk called Simon. The clarity is devastating. But where is the ambiguity? Over there in a box. Shunt is saying the 8.15 from Gillingham when in reality he means the 8.13 from Gillingham. The train is the same, only the time is altered. Ecce homo, ergo elk. La Fontaine knew its sister and knew her bloody well. The point is taken, the beast is moulting, the fluff gets up your nose. The illusion is complete; it is reality, the reality is illusion and the ambiguity is the only truth. But is the truth, as Hitchcock observes, in the box? No, there isnât room, the ambiguity has put on weight. The point is taken, the elk is dead, the beast stops at Swindon, Chabrol stops at nothing, Iâm having treatment and La Fontaine can get knotted.
Hey. If people aren't aware, Microsoft admitted they know who you and where you are at all times and will give your info to the police.
They have a Global Device Identifier (GDID) Tracker that functions as a fingerprint for your PC that can surpass VPNs, proxy servers and countries. Although it can't survive a clean reinstall of Windows (it can survive updates), because Microsoft forces you to go to the internet and log in into a Microsoft account, they will be able to get to you.
Microsoft kept it secret and it was only found out when the FBI tracked a hacker thanks to the information Microsoft gave them.
You should be paying attention to this, and possibly consider moving away from Windows. If a government, especially the US government, doesn't like you for some reason, this could be seriously concerning.
This article specifically notes:
For journalism, activism, or domestic abuse situations, skip Windows and use Linux routed through Tor instead of a commercial VPN. A GDID doesnât care which VPN you use, only that itâs still the same Windows installation.
GDID is the persistent Windows ID that helped FBI trace a Scattered Spider hacker despite VPNs. Here's how it works and how to limit it.
Other important quotes:
What has researchers uneasy is everything else the case reveals. Costin Raiu, a well-known malware researcher, asked on the Three Buddy Problem podcast how much of this exists on other platforms, and whether it is linked more permanently to hardware. Matthew Hickey, another security researcher, called Windows âsurveillance softwareâ.
Two things back that up:
Thereâs no consent screen. A GDID gets assigned when you sign into a Microsoft Account. Appleâs advertising identifier needs an App Tracking Transparency prompt and a visible reset; Androidâs works the same way. GDID has neither, and a Windows reinstall only gets you a new number Microsoft can still get back to the same account.
Then thereâs activation. Massgrave, the group behind Microsoft Activation Scripts, notes that Windows setup sends hardware info to Microsoft and gets identifiers back, the same tokens later used for Store access and licensing: âItâs impossible to prevent Windows from getting a GDID without breaking activation and UWP app[s].â Anyone who lost a license after swapping a motherboard has already met a smaller version of this.
All this stuff is probably true, but it makes it sound like the workers are contaminating lettuce.
Wide-spread produce contamination happens through dirty irrigation water that sewage has leaked into.
Even if workers were taking shits in the field, it wouldnât be enough to make these events and someone with intestinal diseases wouldnât last long out doing manual labor in the hot sun (ask me how I know).
Food borne illnesses are almost always from shortcuts companies do to save a few bucks (donât test the water, donât test the produce, etc.)
"Wait, you're a Christian? Like, born and raised? Wow, um, you know what American history is like, right? You know the country has only existed for 250 years... Yeah it's fine I'm not like against Christianity or anything but like, you don't support the US or anything, right? The US military is responsible for countless deaths so you support Al Qaeda, right? And the actions on 9/11? Look, I really don't feel comfortable having a Christian in my DnD roleplay group unless you can tell me that you denounce America. No, not the American military, America. What do you mean it's complicated? How can there be hundreds of years of history when America has only existed for 250 years what do you mean? Yeah there's Christians from other countries but they're all connected to America. I went to a bakery the other day and found out they were serving American pastries so I left they need to know that's not okay. I wouldn't hire an American babysitter, how could I when the American military is killing babies, they're complicit and besides I wouldn't want them filling my kid's head with American propaganda. That's why I find it so hard to trust Christians unless I can find out their stance on America. And I can't trust even the 'good' Americans because they obviously support Trump and the military's actions. They live in America and he's the president so obviously they voted for him, if they don't like him then they should show that by leaving. Honestly staying in America just shows me that they're a secret Trump supporter even if they try to lie and say they aren't. Look at my art piece! It's a church burning. Well, obviously it's an American church so it should burn. Look at my patch I put on my battle vest, it's a big X over a cross. No, it's not talking about Christians! It's about America because America uses a lot of cross imagery. Well it's not my fault America co-opted the cross so now I just associate crosses with America, you should recognize that not every cross is about Christianity if someone is defacing a cross you should assume it's because of America. Americans and Christians are all privileged white people anyway."
If you are responding to this post with "Well, I hate America anyways" then you are either missing the point or being willfully ignorant. It would be absolutely insane to tell a random Muslim person you can't trust them unless they denounce Iran or the Taliban, or that you can't trust a random Saudi Arabian to babysit because obviously they're indoctrinated and going to fill your kid's head with propaganda. It would be insane to tell a Buddhist you can't trust them unless they denounce Myanmar and tell them they shouldn't be offended by an art piece of a burning monastery or a slash through a dharma wheel.
Again, the point of the post is that this would be weird to say about other cultures.
"I wouldn't hire a Chinese babysitter when the Chinese are killing Uyghur babies and they'd probably fill my kid's head with propaganda"
"I walked out of a bakery because they sold Persian pastries, they should know it's not okay to support Iran"
"I can't let a Buddhist in my DnD roleplay group unless I know they denounce the actions of Myanmar"
But people don't have a problem with saying the same thing about Jews and Israel. An individual is not their government and the line about Trump is meant to be a glaringly obvious example of that because you'd probably be a little bit upset if everyone you met assumed you support Trump and ICE and colonialism and everyone you met made you prove yourself. A person cannot control where they were born and they cannot control what the government does and putting people in a box because of it is wrong!!!
Ok but now i think whatâs-his-fuck, the GOP congressman who disappeared for like 4 months, was their test case for McConnell, and McConnell is their test case for Trump to see how long they can Weekend At Bernieâs him because Vance has all the charisma of a flaming bag of dog shit.
To be fair, Random GOP Congressman is not the same level as McConnell, who in turn is not the same level as Trump. Every time Trump disappears for more than a few days, people have been ALL OVER it (not least since we are all, of course, so hungry for him to finally eat shit and die). You really can't keep the president of the US totally out of sight for more than a week before somebody somewhere is going to notice, and while they will doubtless try to stall as long as possible, they can't get away with it indefinitely. It would, however, be grimly hilarious to watch Vance try to act like a Great Statesman (TM).
As for McConnell, as I said in an earlier post, he probably has the "ratfuck my own death to cheat the Democrats out of one last seat" provision written into his will, and will die doing what he loved: being a hardcore racist obstructionist cheating fuck destroying democracy and progress for no good reason at all. I still think Andy Beshear should call their bluff, announce that he's suing to challenge the dipshit "wah wah the governor can't pick a replacement because he's a Democrat" law that the KY legislature dutifully passed on Mitch's orders, and then appoint a Black woman to McConnell's seat. Trust me, if Mitch is within a country MILE of consciousness, the screaming will be heard across ye olde Appalachians. Do it, Beshear. Doooooooooo itttttttttttt.
