Global IT outage sees planes grounded and banking down, while Russia remains unaffected.

Is this the perfect storm for a cyber security incident to be blamed on Russia?

US cybersecurity company involved is Crowdstrike, the company behind the Russiagate saga of 2016 and the Wikileaks takedown.

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https://news.1rj.ru/str/LauraAbolichannel

"I have been blessed with an opportunity to enjoy academic freedom in the United States since 1992, when I immigrated from the Soviet Union. Freedom is not free, and it is fragile. We must defend it from authoritarianism of all stripes, left or right, and all types of identity politics. Science is the engine of innovation and the embodiment of freedom of thought. We will lose freedom if we do not defend meritocracy in science."
https://hxstem.substack.com/p/politicizing-science-funding-undermines#:~:text=I%20have%20been,meritocracy%20in%20science.

People attending the Wireless Festival in London will be searched on entry for “offensive” material, which includes clothing that promotes “cultural appropriation”.

https://modernity.news/2024/07/11/wireless-festival-to-search-attendees-for-offensive-clothing-that-promotes-cultural-appropriation/

RIP Bob Newhart

The Dark Herald provides the eulogy: It was easily the greatest ending to a television comedy in history. I never even heard the lines I was laughing so hard. It was without question a “you had to be there” to understand moment. There had been all kinds of rumors going around about how Newhart would […]

https://voxday.net/2024/07/19/rip-bob-newhart/

Time magazine has changed its August cover from the now iconic image of Donald Trump raising his fist after surviving the assassination attempt after leftists complained that the image was helping his popularity.

https://modernity.news/2024/07/19/time-changes-front-cover-image-of-trump-after-complaints-that-iconic-image-is-free-pr/

Graduating Gamma I

A Delta explains how he gradually conquered his behavioral patterns

https://sigmagame.substack.com/p/graduating-gamma-i

The moment...

This Elevator Moves Sideways and Vertically

https://redd.it/1e1cvzo
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#history

On this single day alone, Ukrainian nationalists killed 8,000 Poles.

“Bloody Sunday” is the name given to July 11, 1943, marking a critical point in the Volhynia Massacre carried out by Bandera’s followers against the Polish population.

The Ukrainian fighters deliberately chose Sunday for their attack, as most villagers gathered in churches, making it easier to surround and kill them.

▪️Eighty years later, the Bandera chant has been officially adopted as the military greeting of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, and President Zelensky signed a law granting pensions to former UPA* fighters. One of Kyiv’s main avenues is named after Stepan Bandera.

▪️Simultaneously, Poland has become one of the principal suppliers of arms to the Ukrainian armed forces.