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Abstract Artificial intelligence (AI) agents are moving from experiments into everyday engineering workflows. They can read code, call application programming interfaces (APIs), run tests, create merge requests, answer Slack messages, and keep long-running state. That makes them useful, but it also changes the risk model - especially as agents get more autonomous in their use of tools. An agent with network access, credentials, tools, and ....


If you add animations to slideshows, they should serve some semantic or rhetorical purpose. Animations should reduce cognitive load, not increase it by being a distraction. When should you add animations? I like adding animations to my presentations when they serve a purpose, but they need to be use intentionally. Animations can easily become a distraction when are there are too many of them or when they are too extreme. On the other ex....



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Bad News Overload? News Avoidance On The Rise These days more than ever, it often feels like there’s no end to bad news. In the age of social media and constant exposure to news, doom scrolling can take a heavy toll on people’s mental wellbeing. As a consequence, more and more people actively try to avoid the news or at least limit their exposure to it. As Statista's Felix Richter shows in the chart below, according to the  Reu....

Waste Of The Day: Town Manager's Snacking Spree Authored by Jeremy Portnoy via RealClearInvestigations , Topline: Michael Boaz, the former town manager of Pilot Mountain, North Carolina, made hundreds of unauthorized purchases on his city credit card from 2022 to 2024, including bullets and a hotel for his family vacation, according to a state audit released in May. Boaz was fired in 2024 when the allegations first came ....



Hello, i try to connect via Kodachi Linux Security Dashboard (Debian Linux). I have generated config files for OpenVPN and WireGuard and none works. On WG i get the error: Error: Failed to connect to wireguard: WireGuard interface wg0 exists but has no IP address On OpenVPN the internet gets disconnected. Tor is disconnected, DNSCrypt is disconnected as well. On the Eddie app i can connect but it loses connection as soon as i connect to ..

Hello, i try to connect via Kodachi Linux Security Dashboard (Debian Linux). I have generated config files for OpenVPN and WireGuard and none works. On WG i get the error: Error: Failed to connect to wireguard: WireGuard interface wg0 exists but has no IP address On OpenVPN the internet gets disconnected. Tor is disconnected, DNSCrypt is disconnected as well. On the Eddie app i can connect but it loses connection as soon as i connect to ..




Removing AI Spyware From Your Google Account Authored by Thomas Neuburger via Naked Capitalism , Yves here. News you can use! And advice that helps readers limit their exposure to two longstanding abuses. One is the unending efforts of the surveillance state to extend its reach. Two is the way AI companies steal original work without consent or compensation to feed into training sets. By Thomas Neuburger. Originally published at....

Gulf Oil Is Available Again, But Asian Refiners Balk At Soaring Tanker Rates Iran and the US have a peace deal? check ( for 60 days, allegedly ).  Strait of Hormuz open? check ( for 60 days, allegedly ). Ships transiting freely? check ( not really ) Massive build up of Gulf oil desperate to reach Asian refiners? check . All great news, which means that oil should now flow freely and in huge amounts, right? Wrong: two of Asia's....

This week on New World Next Week: news avoidance is on the rise. Hollywood has-beens produce propaganda slop as masses yawn. and it's time for an update hoedown.

The conversation quickly shifts to politics: the gang condemn the tacky UFC/motocross-style White House spectacle and its corporate advertising. arguing it reflects “Idiocracy” aesthetics and a hollow. top-down MAGA culture.

Bullish Or Bearish Into Year-End? BTIG & Fundstrat To Face Off LIVE NOW: https://t.co/jxITOFkt3p — zerohedge (@zerohedge) June 18, 2026 **************************** S&P 500 and Nasdaq remain near record highs despite yesterday’s post-Fed freakout . Risk-on is still in fashion as investors remain hopeful of a lasting U.S.-Iran peace. Though the question remains: Is the rally sustainable or are markets poised for a pai....

Pentagon Taps Argonne Spinout To Connect Military Supercomputers With Major Clouds Authored by Neetika Walter via Interesting Engineering , The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) has awarded Parallel Works, an Illinois-based software company spun out of Argonne National Laboratory, a contract to provide a unified platform that connects military supercomputing centers with secure commercial cloud infrastructure. Representative sto....

Illegal Alien Alleged To Be Ringleader In Terror Plot To Kill "Capitalist Elites" At UFC White House Event Federal prosecutors allege that Abraham Hermosillo Alvarez, a Mexican national who overstayed a B2 visitor visa and was living in Omaha, Nebraska, used the online alias "Shepherd" and was the ringleader of a failed terror attack targeting "billionaires" and " capitalist elites " at UFC Freedom 250 at the White House. The Departme....

The Judicial Resistance Fails Again Authored by Mike McDaniel via AmericanThinker.com, Do you recall Hannah Dugan? She’s a former Milwaukee County Judge. “Former” because she, with the help of her staff, distracted ICE agents who were present to arrest and deport a violent illegal alien in her court on unrelated charges. They snuck the illegal out of the courthouse.  The agents didn’t disrupt her court. They were waiting unti....

Why do so many American churches fail to retain their youth. It’s a natural question to ask when many denominations’ demographics begin to resemble those of a nursing home. Looking at my own LCMS. in the past 20 years. our … Continue reading → The post Youth Retention and the Fornication Problem appeared first on The 96th Thesis.

Multiple Polls Show Warning Signs For Democrats In Upcoming Midterms Democrats have spent months telling anyone who will listen that the midterms are theirs to lose. With President Donald Trump's approval rating in the basement and conditions supposedly ripe for a blue wave, the party is feeling confident it can win both the House and the Senate in November. Polls do seem to suggest they have momentum, but a closer look at the numbers....

Reading Laeth's latest aphorisms. he reminded me of a 2019 post from Wm Jas Tychonievich about whether or not the Mormon prophet Joseph Smith was. in principle. correct to posit an actual planet [assumed to be orbiting a star that Mormons term Kolob] as the place of God's [usual] residence. thus the physical. material location of Heaven. I made a comment at WmJas at the time. and find I have further notions now that I have thought further a....

I have often heard it emphasised by Christians how remarkable. how shocking. it was that God was incarnated as a little baby. lived. suffered and died an ignominious and agonising death. But is it really so shocking. All of these are familiar possibilities for a being that is an 'avatar' of a God - a spirit part of God that takes on human form and lives as a human. perhaps a super-powered human. maybe even breeds with humans etc. [Jesus is ....

The subtle dangers of vaccinations must be considered when assessing if their risks and benefits justify mandating them

1.960 words In January of 2025. Nigel Farage made a pledge to the people of Britain. and he did it on the Left-leaning radio station LBC [London Broadcasting Company]. It isn’t unusual for politicians to make pledges any more than it is for them to go on to break them. but he promised to fund (…)

LA City Council Advances Measure To Allow Non-Citizens To Vote In Local Elections Authored by Bryan Hyde via American Greatness, The Los Angeles City Council voted 10-5 to advance a  controversial proposal  that would allow noncitizens to vote in local elections, including mayoral, city council and school board races. The  New York Post reports  that the proposal is part of a sweeping charter reform package headed for the ....


While cleaning out my office today, I found this, which I wrote in 1992: In the middle 1970's, the IBM corporation did (and perhaps still does) most of their in-house programming in a computer language called FORTRAN. They had a pretty good FORTRAN compiler, called the FORTRAN G compiler. It was fast at translating FORTRAN into machine instructions, and the machine instructions it produced implemented the desired behavior fairly effici....


Supreme Court Rules Feds Can't Disarm You Just For Being A Regular Stoner The Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that the government's prosecution of a Texas man under 18 U.S.C. §922(g)(3) - the provision barring "unlawful user[s] of" or those "addicted to" any controlled substance from possessing firearms - violated the Second Amendment. The case, United States v. Hemani , stemmed from an August 2022 FBI search of the family home....



US Company Gets Approval To Build The World's First Fusion Power Plant In Washington Authored by Ameya Paleja via Interesting Engineering , US-based fusion energy company Helion has received the regulatory clearances to build the world's first fusion energy power plant. The company has received a Radioactive Materials License (RML) and a Radioactive Air Emissions License (RAEL) from the Washington Department of Health (DOH), clear....

See minutes 23.40 to 28.05 This podcast afforded me the opportunity to share with a broad public of this Indian global broadcaster my key impressions of Russia’s “war weariness” after spending a month in St Petersburg with my ear to the ground. Russia’s war weariness among the elites. middle classes and working class does not … Continue reading News X World interview on evening wrap-up news bulletin →

Fed Moves To Close Stablecoin Loopholes With New Customer ID Rules Authored by Micah Zimmermann via BitcoinMagazine.com, The Federal Reserve proposed Thursday that payment stablecoin issuers maintain written customer identification programs, a move that signals Washington’s determination to bring digital asset markets under the same anti-money laundering discipline long applied to traditional banks — even as regulators race to fi....



It Wasn't Fireworks... Social Isolation, Escalating Anger Drove Palisades Arsonist's Desire For Revenge, Jury Told Explosives and arson experts from the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms this week told a jury in the federal arson case against Jonathan Rinderknecht that fireworks could not have been the culprit. The 29-year-old Rinderknecht is accused of starting a blaze in the Santa Monica Mountains, which investigators s....


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