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SANTIAGO GALICIA ROJON SERRALLONGA

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Somos de papel y de tinta, de letras y de palabras; pero también, no lo olvidemos, de sentimientos y de ideas, de sueños y de realidades. Traemos el lenguaje del paraíso y del infierno, de la temporalidad y del infinito, para describirlos en una novela, en un cuento, en un poema, en un texto, que nuestros lectores recolectan con sus sentires y sus pensamientos, con sus motivos y sus razones, en la búsqueda de sí mismos y de las cosas que no podrían explicarse de otra manera. Hablamos con Dios, con el bien y con el mal, con la sonrisa y con el enojo, con la alegría y con la tristeza, con los seres humanos -los de antes, los de entonces, los de hoy y los de mañana-, con personajes reales y ficticios, con las luces y con las…

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US Passes Massive Infrastructure Bill, Investing in Clean Energy, Electric Cars, and Broadband Internet – Slashdot

Late Friday night U.S. Congressmen passed a long-awaited Bipartisan Infrastructure bill. “The infrastructure package contains $550 billion in entirely new investments, including money for electric-car charging stations and zero-emission school buses,” reports the Washington Post.

“The spending is mostly paid for — without raising taxes. The bulk of the funding comes from repurposing unspent coronavirus relief money and tightening enforcement on reporting gains from cryptocurrency investments.”

An additional $65 billion will fund broadband Internet, with new statements on the White House web site hailing the bill as “a once-in-a-generation investment in our nation’s infrastructure and competitiveness” and “the largest investment in public transit in U.S. history.”

This Bipartisan Infrastructure Deal will rebuild America’s roads, bridges and rails, expand access to clean drinking water, ensure every American has access to high-speed internet, tackle the climate crisis, advance environmental justice, and invest in communities that have too often been left behind. The legislation will help ease inflationary pressures and strengthen supply chains by making long overdue improvements for our nation’s ports, airports, rail, and roads. It will drive the creation of good-paying union jobs and grow the economy sustainably and equitably so that everyone gets ahead for decades to come. Combined with the President’s Build Back Framework, it will add on average 1.5 million jobs per year for the next 10 years.
Or, as U.S. president Biden said in his own statement, the newly-passed bill “will create millions of jobs, turn the climate crisis into an opportunity, and put us on a path to win the economic competition of the 21st Century.”

To address the climate crisis, the legislation “will upgrade our power infrastructure, by building thousands of miles of new, resilient transmission lines to facilitate the expansion of renewables and clean energy, while lowering costs,” according to the White House’s statement. “And it will fund new programs to support the development, demonstration, and deployment of cutting-edge clean energy technologies to accelerate our transition to a zero-emission economy.” Source: US Passes Massive Infrastructure Bill, Investing in Clean Energy, Electric Cars, and Broadband Internet – Slashdot

A ransomware gang shut down after Cybercom hijacked its site and it discovered it had been hacked

“The foreign government hacked the servers of REvil this summer, but the Russian-speaking criminal group did not discover it was compromised until Cybercom last month blocked its website by hijacking its traffic, said the officials who spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the matter’s sensitivity.

Cybercom’s action was not a hack or takedown, but it deprived the criminals of the platform they used to extort their victims — businesses, schools and others whose computers they’d locked up with data-encrypting malware and from whom they demanded expensive ransoms to unlock the machines, the officials said.

[FBI held back ransomware key from victims to run operation that never happened]

In the hours after the Cybercom operation, which has not been previously reported, one of REvil’s leaders saw the site’s traffic had been redirected.

“Domains hijacked from REvil,” wrote 0_neday, an REvil leader, on a Russian-language forum popular with cyber criminals, on Oct. 17.”

Source: A ransomware gang shut down after Cybercom hijacked its site and it discovered it had been hacked

Alphabet soup for the soul vol.2 -“E”

“Ego is the mind interrupting the present moment with chatter and trickery of thought patterns.

In the western world, Ego is usually viewed as a person who seems vain or braggadocios and always ‘showing off’ as in that guy has a big ego. This description of Ego is hungry for power, money, fame, and lust to name a few. These are all lower vibrational frequencies.”

Words from Walden

E is for Ego

“In the war of Ego, the loser always wins” -Buddha-

Ego is the mind interrupting the present moment with chatter and trickery of thought patterns.

In the western world, Ego is usually viewed as a person who seems vain or braggadocios and always ‘showing off’ as in that guy has a big ego.  This description of Ego is hungry for power, money, fame, and lust to name a few. These are all lower vibrational frequencies.

This is not the full description. Simply put, ego arises when we live in fear. The braggadocios person is bragging because they fear that no one will love them unless they have all sorts of accomplishments to show like money, cars or whatever they are bragging about.

Ego can also manifest in the opposite way. When we hear people say “no one loves me” or “poor me” that is also the…

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Red Red Wine

Inhale Peace; Exhale Love. Joy will Follow! - RUELHA

This song is something I’ve heard all through the early years of my life. It was such a hit song and was a favourite among many years after it was released in 1983. This song doesn’t have any concealed story or message. It’s as straightforward as they come. I’m dedicating this song to a BFF who relishes wine as much as I do. That being conveyed, neither of us are alcoholics! We’re not into reds, but unfortunately there’s no song titled ‘White White Wine’ 😉

PS: Please ignore the inappropriate glass pairing. And just like all my music-inspired poems, I suggest playing the song{which I have embedded below for your convenience} in the background as you read; it truly elevates the experience!

There's something about a good wine It tends to go back and erase time Mistakes and people, it makes me forget And I feel light and happy with…

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In Peru’s Amazon, deforestation and crime sweep through Indigenous communities

Community members suspected the presence of an airstrip near their community due to the constant sound of planes flying overhead. A Mongabay Latam team used a drone to record images of this clandestine airstrip, which was under construction. Image by Christian Ugarte.

In these five Amazonian regions, the analysis found that at least 1,247 Indigenous communities are affected by illegal mining, illicit crops, or deforestation. Source: In Peru’s Amazon, deforestation and crime sweep through Indigenous communities

Familientisch

Lignes invisibiles

Familientisch. Ich könnte ganze Bände mit dem Titel “(potenzielle) Eltern” schreiben und wählen, an welcher Stelle ich Drama und wann Komödie verwenden sollte, um ihre schweren und weniger schwerwiegenden Verbrechen zu beschreiben. Aber heute habe ich mich entschieden, meine Zellen mit Komödie zu füttern und über meine Mutter zu lachen, die mir seit zwei Jahren verzweifelt rät, meine Eizellen zu retten, damit ich die Chance auf eine spätere Mutterschaft nicht verpasse. Ich denke, es ist keine schlechte Idee, aber ich lache dann, wenn ich (nicht nur an mein junges Alter denke) daran denke, wie viele andere grundlegende Dinge ich im Leben noch nicht herausgefunden habe, um dann meine Eizellen einfrieren zu lassen und die Existenz eines anderen neuen Lebens zu unterstützen. Eine Existenz, die von mir abhängig sein wird.

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