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Hamas Is Playing A Really Really Stupid Game Right Now

11 Feb 2025 4 minute read 15 comments Cje95

For What Its Worth I was working on this post since before the Hamas announcement about not releasing anymore hostages. Sadly what I had written so far... well it does kind of hint at this very thing happening.   Since President Trump came back into...

The first round match between Putintseva and Uchijima

10 Feb 2025 1 minute read 0 comments Jurgan

In the first round of the 1000-person tournament in Doha, Yulia Putintseva played against Mayuka Uchijima. Yulia is ranked 20th. The Japanese player is ranked 63rd. Bookmakers had Putintseva as a clear favorite. The odds on her victory were 1.23. Th...

Scandal at USAID- When Foreign Aid Funded Flamboyance Over Fundamentals

8 Feb 2025 4 minute read 0 comments Mr. Meditation

In the world of international development, where the fight against poverty, disease, and hunger often takes center stage, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has recently found itself in the spotlight for some unexpected pr...

Beware of "friends" at work!

8 Feb 2025 1 minute read 2 comments ROcrypton

Talking about this is really a cliché, that thing of "beating the same drum". But it's good to remember... Be very careful with "friends" at work.   Has anyone in history ever gone through this? That can only be a joke, it would be easier to ask who...

Kaspersky Labs has discovered SparkCat malware

5 Feb 2025 1 minute read 0 comments Yugocean

What is SparkCat?      SparkCat is a Chinese program identified by renowned cybersecurity firm Kaspersky Labs. SparkCat is considered stealing malware because it analyses images on hacked devices using optical character recognition (OCR), allowing ha...

"Generation Z is weak, they don't want to work, they don't care about anything!"

3 Feb 2025 2 minute read 12 comments ROcrypton

  You know that story about how Generation Z doesn't want to work and that's why there's a shortage of employees in supermarkets, construction and many other areas? Well, here in Brazil, they keep talking about it. They're even trying to pass a law t...

Apple x SpaceX : Starlink for iOS 18.3

2 Feb 2025 1 minute read 0 comments Rupanshu kumar

Hello guys, I hope you all doing well! Apple x spaceX joins for iOS 18.3, introducing starlink to iphones.  In a new collaboration between , Apple has joined partnership with elonmusk's SpaceX and T- Mobile US to intergrate support for the starlink...

KEEPING CALM

2 Feb 2025 1 minute read 0 comments ROcrypton

  I searched through my old drawings again, because it's been a while since I've done a new drawing, but as always I try to update the drawing blog.   I say "update with old drawings" because these have never been posted here, so every now and then I...

I Always Fly Into DCA At Night

1 Feb 2025 3 minute read 2 comments Cje95

I wrote this a couple of days ago when I was trying to process the tragic midair collision at DCA. In all honesty I am still dealing with trying to mentally hash it out. Being a frequent flyer into DCA at night.... typically landing between 9 and 10...

Migration to Japan and South Korea is not as selective and exclusionary as many think

31 Jan 2025 2 minute read 0 comments Vladan Lausevic

TLDR In "Immigration Systems in Labor-Needy Japan and South Korea Have Evolved—but Remain Restrictive," published by the Migration Policy Institute, authors Erin Aeran Chung and Yunchen Tian analyze the restrictive and selective immigration policies...