Ask Not For Whom The Bell Tolls …

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It tolls for Democracy

Hyper-partisanship is likely to be the death of the United States.  It used to be that each of the two major political parties stood for something.  The Republican Party stood for fiscal conservatism, the Democratic Party stood for government helping people, but at the end of the day compromises were settled on.  Today, the word ‘compromise’ might just as well be written out of the dictionary. 

The most glaring example I see is the response to the events of January 6th, when a group of (mostly Republican) men and women attempted, with the blessings of the then-president, to overthrow our votes, to tell us that our voices do not matter, and to crush the democratic foundation of the nation.  The biggest problem is that it doesn’t take a majority to accomplish what the January 6th insurrectionists were trying to accomplish … all it…

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Los días, en este momento de mi vida

Santiago Galicia Rojon Serrallonga

SANTIAGO GALICIA ROJON SERRALLONGA

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Los días, en este momento de mi vida, parecen transcurrir con mayor celeridad. Aparecen, casi imperceptibles, similares al viento que apenas acaricia el rostro y se marcha, acaso con el mensaje oculto de la brevedad en cada minuto, quizá porque tal es la existencia. Y es así como se va la vida, junto con los instantes pasajeros, sin que uno note, muchas veces, que, a pesar de su prisa, el tiempo, que es una medida, deja huellas. Uno, con los años, aprende que cada segundo es irrepetible y que nada lo reemplaza; cambia, entonces, la conciencia del tiempo y se le valora, incluso, más que el dinero. El desarrollo y el posterior envejecimiento en los seres humanos, es un proceso natural que ni siquiera tiene apego a las manecillas del reloj; no obstante, al ser el tiempo la medida…

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Member of Hacking Group Sentenced for Scheme that Compromised Tens of Millions of Debit and Credit Cards | OPA | Department of Justice

A Ukrainian man was sentenced today in the Western District of Washington to five years in prison for his criminal work in the hacking group FIN7.

According to court documents, Denys Iarmak, 32, served as a high-level hacker, whom the group referred to as a “pen tester,” for FIN7. He was arrested in Bangkok, Thailand, in November 2019 at the request of U.S. law enforcement. Iarmak is the third member of the FIN7 group to be sentenced in the United States. On April 16, 2021, FIN7 member Fedir Hladyr was sentenced to 10 years in prison. On June 24, 2021, FIN7 member Andrii Kolpakov was sentenced to seven years in prison.

In the United States alone, FIN7 successfully breached the computer networks of businesses in all 50 states and the District of Columbia, stealing more than 20 million customer card records from over 6,500 individual point-of-sale terminals at more than 3,600 separate business locations. According to court documents, victims incurred enormous costs that, according to some estimates, exceeded $1 billion dollars. Additional intrusions occurred abroad, including in the United Kingdom, Australia, and France. Companies that have publicly disclosed hacks attributable to FIN7 include such chains as Chipotle Mexican Grill, Chili’s, Arby’s, Red Robin, and Jason’s Deli.

“Iarmak and his conspirators compromised millions of financial accounts, causing over a billion dollars in losses to Americans and costs to America’s economy,” said Assistant Attorney General Kenneth A. Polite, Jr. of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division. “Protecting businesses – both large and small – online is a top priority for the Department of Justice. We are committed to working with our international partners to hold such cyber criminals accountable, no matter where they live or how anonymous they think they are.”

“Iarmak was directly involved in designing phishing emails embedded with malware, intruding on victim networks, and extracting data such as payment card information,” said U.S. Attorney Nicholas W. Brown of the Western District of Washington. “To make matters worse, he continued his work with the FIN7 criminal enterprise even after the arrests and prosecution of co-conspirators. He and others in this cybercrime group used hacking techniques to essentially rob thousands of locations of multiple restaurant chains at once, from the comfort and safety of their keyboards in distant countries.”

 

Source: Member of Hacking Group Sentenced for Scheme that Compromised Tens of Millions of Debit and Credit Cards | OPA | Department of Justice

What day is it? + Timo’s Poem + Pod29: Fondant Peonies by R. Cheadle

Happiness Between Tails by da-AL

Photo of Khashayar and da-AL with their Persian New Year decorations.

What day is it? Those sprouts among the Persian New Year decorations got left (as is traditional) at the park to regenerate in their own way, but first K-D-doggie had a fun time tossing them about, a fun substitute for the squirrels and rabbits she was forbidden to chase.

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Click H-E-R-E for my podcast page at AnchorFM. This week’s audio show is the audio version of the post below this blog post of “DIY Fondant Peonies, by Robbie Cheadle.”

At the Happiness Between Tails podcast page, you’ll also find links to subscribe, hear, and share it via most any platform, from Spotify and Apple Podcasts, to Google Podcasts and Pocket Casts, along with RadioPublic and Castbox and Stitcher and more, plus an RSS feed. Check out the full list of 50+ places.

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Say/ dizer

Coisas da SIL

As vezes eu não tenho muito o que dizer. Prefiro apenas ler. Apenas comer. Apenas sorrir, menos dizer. As vezes quero entender, poder compreender, menos dizer. As vezes só queremos sobreviver, em nós mesmos ou pra alguém, só não dizer. As vezes me importo e deixo no off, as vezes fingi, outras até demonstro, menos digo. O dizer é importante, é significante, mas estou querendo agora é sentir, é viver é ler. Com Amor: Coisas da SiL

I want now is to feel, to live and to read.

Say

Sometimes I don’t have much to say. I prefer to just read. Just eat. Just smile, less say. Sometimes I want to understand, to be able to understand, less say. Sometimes we just want to survive, in ourselves or for someone, just don’t say. Sometimes I care and leave it off, sometimes I fake it, sometimes I even show it, I…

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Russians discuss killing civilians in radio intercepts by German intelligence – The Washington Post

These people also said the radio traffic suggests that members of the Wagner Group, the private military unit with close ties to Russian President Vladimir Putin and his allies, have played a role in attacks on civilians. Another person briefed on the intelligence said the Wagner Group or another private contractor could be involved.

German intelligence officials on Wednesday briefed members of at least two parliamentary committees on the findings, according to people familiar with the process.

“The reported cruelties have affected the members of the respective committees where it was reported very strongly,” said one of the people briefed on the intelligence.

Another person said the agency has high confidence in the findings, although it was not specific about how it obtained the radio communications. The third person said the information contributes to understanding of attitudes inside the Russian military but hardly represents “final evidence of who shot whom at what time.” This person said the examples discussed by the BND point to an atmosphere of panic leading soldiers to “cut corners.”

Source: Russians discuss killing civilians in radio intercepts by German intelligence – The Washington Post

Beauty In The Cracks #Ukraine #poetry #photography

penned in moon dust

We know there are cracks

they lead to despair

but your underlying courage

makes me glad you are there

for the beauty you hold

fragrant like the rose

gives so much hope

refugees hands that you hold

I’m writing this for friends in Ukraine who had the option to leave Ukraine but stayed to help others. Heroic, loving and beautiful even as the cracks deepen.

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