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Fine Art Authentication Report: Portrait of Female Nude, Sharpie on Paper

https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/fine-art-authentication-report-portrait-of-…
Created
Wed, 10/09/2025 - 22:00

Angelico Schwartzkopf
and Jean-Paul Pudzianowski
Fine Art Authenticators

I. Introduction

As requested, herein is our authentication report on the artwork with catalogue number 45/47.

II. Alleged Artist’s Statement

Nearly all authentication disputes involve works allegedly created by long-dead artistic masters. In this case, however, the alleged artist is still alive and denounces the work in question as a forgery. However, many mature artists (and the alleged artist is very old, regardless of maturity level) renounce or even destroy artworks from their younger days to protect their reputations from association with earlier, less polished work. Thus, it is possible that the alleged artist is trying to disassociate himself from this work out of concern for his reputation.

What can be safely said is that whether the work is the creation of the alleged artist or a forgery, the creator wishes to remain anonymous. Thus, this report will scrupulously guard against revealing the identity of the alleged artist.

Beyond Patching: Drupal Association and CrowdSec Team Up to Protect the Open Web

https://www.drupal.org/association/blog/beyond-patching-drupal-association-and-…
Created
Wed, 10/09/2025 - 19:50

Keeping your site up to date is essential, but it is only the beginning when it comes to web security. For Drupal site maintainers, this comes naturally thanks to a long-standing culture of best practices, code quality, and the dedicated work of the Drupal Security Team. But today’s threat landscape doesn’t just target vulnerabilities in code. It exploits infrastructure, automation, and scale.

This is where the Drupal Association and CrowdSec collaboration comes in. It combines deep application-layer awareness with a community-powered defense system to offer broader, more adaptive protection for the modern web.

Drupal’s Internal Security Culture

Drupal has earned a reputation for prioritizing security from the ground up. Core security practices, frequent updates, and responsible disclosure processes form the baseline. Modules like CAPTCHA, Honeypot, TFA, OAuth, and header hardening tools are widely used across websites to harden attack surfaces.

Beyond Patching: Drupal Association and CrowdSec Team Up to Protect the Open Web

https://www.drupal.org/blog/beyond-patching-drupal-association-and-crowdsec-tea…
Created
Wed, 10/09/2025 - 19:42

Keeping your site up to date is essential, but it is only the beginning when it comes to web security. For Drupal site maintainers, this comes naturally thanks to a long-standing culture of best practices, code quality, and the dedicated work of the Drupal Security Team. But today’s threat landscape doesn’t just target vulnerabilities in code. It exploits infrastructure, automation, and scale.

This is where the Drupal Association and CrowdSec collaboration comes in. It combines deep application-layer awareness with a community-powered defense system to offer broader, more adaptive protection for the modern web.

Drupal’s Internal Security Culture

Drupal has earned a reputation for prioritizing security from the ground up. Core security practices, frequent updates, and responsible disclosure processes form the baseline. Modules like CAPTCHA, Honeypot, TFA, OAuth, and header hardening tools are widely used across websites to harden attack surfaces.

Israeli ‘tip’ preceded Australian claim that Iran plotted bombings

https://thegrayzone.com/2025/09/09/israeli-tip-preceded-australian-claim-that-i…
Created
Wed, 10/09/2025 - 13:23

A new report suggests Israel played a key role in establishing the narrative that Iran was behind attacks on Jewish-focused establishments in Australia. The still unproven claim has since been used to poison relations between Tehran and Canberra. Israeli spies provided Australia’s top intelligence agency with a “tip off” regarding at least one of the recent explosions at Jewish community buildings which Canberra has publicly blamed on Iran, according to Australia’s Sky News. “Confidential sources have confirmed that Israel provided […]

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My down the back of the sofa theory of the emerging stage of capitalism. Plus, Australian magpies.

https://crookedtimber.org/2025/09/09/my-down-the-back-of-the-sofa-theory-of-the…
Created
Wed, 10/09/2025 - 07:23
Mr Magpie has always been a bold friend. He sits at the table with us when we are outside. In the warmer months when we often leave the back door open he walks inside the house, sometimes looking for a snack, but often enough walks all the way through the house, apparently just to say […]

ICE’s Training Manual for Determining Who to Terrorize

https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/ices-training-manual-for-determining-who-to…
Created
Wed, 10/09/2025 - 03:00

“The Supreme Court on Monday lifted a federal judge’s order prohibiting government agents from making indiscriminate immigration-related stops in the Los Angeles area that challengers called ‘blatant racial profiling.’” — New York Times

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Welcome to your first day on the job as an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer. We hope you enjoyed your $50,000 signing bonus and were finally able to pay off your legal fees related to January 6 and/or your divorce.

As an ICE agent, you’ll be responsible for detaining undocumented immigrants, who have completely overrun American cities, like Boston, Massachusetts. Because when people think “Boston,” they think “city with too many Brown people and not enough White people.”