If it was the NFL season, some conservative player would take a knee in protest.

At some point after 27 September, the CIA had added to its X profile page a link - https://t.me/securelycontactingcia - to its Telegram channel containing information about contacting the organisation on the dark net and through other secretive means.

The channel said, in Russian: “Our global mission demands that individuals be able to reach out to CIA securely from anywhere,” while warning potential recruits to “be wary of any channels that claim to represent the CIA”.

But a flaw in how X displays some links meant the full web address had been truncated to https://t.me/securelycont - an unused Telegram username.

As soon as Mr McSheehan noticed the issue, he registered the username so anyone clicking on the link was directed to his own channel, which warned them not to share any secret or sensitive information.

It’s high time for any US government agencies to leave Twitter

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Spotify has blocked users on the free plan from tapping the previous button to restart the track or play songs in any order — without a subscription.

Extreme enshittification

“Israel has a right to self-defence, but it has to be done within international law … cutting water, cutting electricity, cutting food to a mass of civilian people is against international law,” said EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell on Tuesday (10 October).

He repeated the view more than once in his press briefing. “The Palestinian people are also suffering,” he added.

An eye for an eye leaves the whole world blind. This cycle of violence and repression needs to stop.

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What the world didn’t need right now was another war. I hope this ends as swiftly and peacefully as possible.

Pakistan’s Interior Ministry announced that migrants residing illegally in the country had 28 days to leave voluntarily, and it offered a “reward” for information leading to their arrests once that deadline passed.

These “report your neighbor” laws are only going to turn your society into a mistrustful and lifeless shell of itself. They had to build a wall to keep the East Germans in.

Vanguard assesses retirement readiness assuming your post-employment income should match around 68% of your annual salary.

Millennials in the 70th percentile of earners are the only demographic on track to come anywhere close to that coveted ratio. Early millennials are expected to hit 66% of their annual salary at retirement, while Gen X lags at 53% and late baby boomers at 51%.

Yay, wealthier Millennials? Way to grind that 401K

Instead, Kaufman said, the tourist was suffering from a mental disorder that psychiatrists have labeled the Jerusalem syndrome. The condition — a form of disorientation believed to be induced by the religious magnetism of the city, which is sacred to Christians, Jews and Muslims — is said to cause foreign pilgrims to believe they are figures from the Bible.

Well that’s a new one

With global temperatures rising and increases in human migration, common diseases only in Africa and equatorial climates (Dengue, Malaria, Cholera, Yellow Fever…etc) are likely to migrate up to the global north as well.

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Is there a single place in the world where democracy is improving? It sure seems like we’re all slowly backsliding together.

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While the stated goal is to hasten Ukrainian grain exports, the agreement may also help defuse tensions over grain prices between Ukraine and Poland a time when some international support for Kyiv’s efforts to throw back Russia’s invasion may be fraying.

Agricultural exports have brought one of the biggest threats to European unity for Ukraine since Russia invaded.

Seems like a win-win to me. Again, Russian aggression is uniting its neighbors behind a common cause.

Buy an electric car to give a middle finger to the whole OPEC cartel