New records obtained by KARE 11 show the company that owned a vacant private prison in Appleton, Minnesota offered to sell it to the state in 2025 for $75 million.

One year later, the Trump administration agreed to use taxpayer funds to buy the same abandoned prison from CoreCivic, Inc., for $495.6 million.  

The price difference, $420 million, is more than taxpayers are estimated to have lost in Minnesota’s much-publicized Feeding Our Future fraud scandal. 

Federal records show CoreCivic donated half a million dollars to the Trump-Vance inaugural committee. 

New to fediverse. Joined mostly because reddit has been annoying me for a while for it's algorithm use and general admin stuff. Joining piefed was still a big leap since I have some interest in privacy and security on the internet and joining anonymous server felt a bit suss. Some stranger somewhere would have my email and be able to monitor everything I do and say.

Now, of course reddit does the same and I had no problem (well a little problem) with it. They not only have the data, but they also use it to advertise to me and most definitely sell the data forward. Still, there is a difference on a company with a public leadership whose names are known, and who have to follow laws and mark down their privacy notice publicly. If a server admin gets funny with the data, I'm shit out of luck.

Well I joined so obviously I accepted the trade of but came here to see what others thought. Surprised there was not a discussion about this already.

https://mod.gov.ua/en/news/total-russian-combat-losses-in-ukraine-as-of-november-1-2026

I gave up parties, going out, and friends, in favor of staying home with my son. I quite like it, and I think he does as well. We just moved to a new place that has private entrances to the units. Also, I’ve noticed a good amount of kids in the neighborhood. I figured that there would be at least some amount of trick or treating.

I ended up picking up a bag of 210pc fun-size Hershey, Reese’s , and KitKats—ya know, the good stuff—at BJ’s the other day. Also, I got some Halloween light decorations to get their attention as well. I was going to chill out front with a Pikachu costume on, passing out candy. I love kids. Engaging with them, making them laugh or feel cool is so much fun for me.

I have no idea when it would start around here, so I setup a webcam in one of the windows with a live view, so that my son and I could watch scary movies until kids start coming around. Not a single one. I don’t mean that they skipped my place. It was like a ghost town. So now I have a bowl of like 175 pieces of candy. I’m going to take most of it to work, otherwise I will eat it.

My son grew out of trick treating at a very early age. He really looked up to my younger brother, and when lil bro was done with costumes, so was my boy. Darn it.

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The powers to use UFED [universal forensic extraction devices] on phones has been expanded for organised crime-related offences, and the examples originally given were offences relating to drugs or illicit tobacco, firebombings and public shootings. But as the organised crime offences include those organised by 2 or more people and those involving planning, these powers may end up being used in relation to protest activity.

“Under the Minns Labor government police have been given increased powers, the number of kids and young people in prison has increased at record rates, and more people are being arrested and incarcerated than ever before,” said NSW Greens MLC Sue Higginson in a media release at the time the Cellebrite UFED expansion laws were before parliament.

“If we are investing $15 million to hack more phones and give police further access to messages, images, location markers and other sensitive information, we must also increase the independent oversight to safeguard against improper use of this invasive technology,” the Greens justice spokesperson continued.

“This announcement comes amidst increasing community concern about Cellebrite, the Israeli spyware firm run by ex-IDF soldiers who provide phone-hacking technology to police.”

Artist: Jean Béraud

Year: ca. 1880

Medium: Oil on canvas

In his pursuit of an active composition and naturalistic image, Béraud was known to sit in his carriage and observe the scenes of the city with his sketchbook in hand, a habit shared by his contemporaries Jean-François Raffaëlli and Giusseppe De Nittis. In the present work, Béraud has placed himself on the Boulevard de Sébastopol and Avenue Victoria, looking through the bustle of the street towards the monumental Tour Saint Jacques. He described his very public process in an undated letter to an unknown correspondent, writing: "you have to vanquish your feelings of artistic modesty so you can work among people who take the most irritating kind of interest in what you're doing. If you cannot overcome your disgust, you will end up locking yourself away in your house, and painting a woman or a still life, like all your colleagues. For some artists, that was all they needed to produce a masterpiece. But I believe that today, we need something different" (as quoted in Patrick Offenstadt, Jean Béraud 1849-1935, The Belle Époque: A Dream of Times Gone By, Catalogue Raisonné, Cologne, 1999, p. 10).

The Tour Saint Jacques is an ornately decorated gothic tower and all that remains of the sixteenth century Church of Saint-Jacques-de-la-Boucherie (Saint James of the butchery) which was demolished in 1793. The tower was purchased by the city of Paris in 1836 and declared a Historic Monument in 1862. The rich decoration reflects the wealth of the church’s patrons, the wholesale butchers of the nearby Les Halles Market, and it is likely no coincidence that Béraud has included a butcher in the active scene below, easily identified by his white apron and the knife sharpener hanging from his belt. Among other types de Paris that Béraud has included are a fashionable woman seen with a hat box and juxtaposed with the humble market girl who walks with her basket of wares; a flâneur stands and smokes while smartly dressed businessmen stroll the street or rush for cabs. Béraud created a body of work that is deeply inquisitive, voyeuristic, and often humorous. He was intrigued by all aspects of la vie parisienne, and was one of its most scrupulous and devoted observers. He once wrote to fellow artist Alfred Roll "I find everything but Paris wearisome" (as quoted in Offenstadt, p. 14). His sophisticated eye was drawn to the characters who populated the bustling streets, cafés and theatres of Paris and his affection for all of these people granted him notoriety and popularity. Marcel Proust described him as "a charming creature, sought in vain, by every social circle" (as quoted in Offenstadt, p. 7). He was described as a perfect gentleman, impeccably dressed and above trends and fashion, likely allowing him to "blend in".

Abandoning his previous ambitions to become a lawyer, Jean Béraud joined Parisian artistic circles and studied portraiture with a leading artist of the third republic, Léon Bonnat. Many of Béraud's well-known contemporaries also passed through Bonnat's studio, including Gustave Caillebotte, Alfred Roll and Toulouse-Lautrec. While Béraud initially emulated his master's choice of subject and painted portraits of women and children as well as genre scenes, he was quickly drawn to representing modern urban life and developed an idiosyncratic style of tight draftsmanship, a light and sophisticated palette, and fine brushwork. The opulent spectacle of the newly created public spaces of Paris became Béraud's choice subject.

This painting was most likely in the collection of Béraud's friend and patron, Armand Dorville. The Musée Carnavalet houses the most important collection of paintings by Jean Béraud as a result of Mr. Dorville's generous donation in 1944.

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I was using NoIP until I saw that it is listed as frequently abused: https://github.com/hagezi/dns-blocklists/blob/main/adblock/dyndns.txt

The purpose is to setup a URL to use for my self-hosted nextcloud instance (storage). 😊

A step in the right direction, I think.

There seems to be a lot of confusion here about the ownership structure of Proton.... "the CEO is beholden to shareholders!!!", etc...

Proton is not a publicly traded company... The largest shareholder is the non-profit whose mission is as follows:

Proton was created to serve the world, and the non-profit Proton Foundation ensures that this can never change. As Proton’s primary shareholder, the foundation exercises its control to ensure that Proton does not deviate from our mission to build a better internet that serves the interests of all of society. Our legally binding purpose is to further the advancement of privacy, freedom, and democracy around the world.

https://proton.me/foundation

please contact the Board of Trustees and ask for the removal of the CEO and CTO

mailto: foundation@proton.me

At least one of the Board members is on Mastodon

Tim Berners-Lee: https://w3c.social/@timbl (yes, THAT guy... the inventor or the mother-flipping ~~internets~~ world wide web)

Email alternatives are incredibly hard to build... it's not like forking a software repo if the devs go off the deep end. Proton is worth trying to save if the alternatives are going back to google or switching to some other small time player who is equally suceptible to having a CEO ruin everything without the governance structure to make changes like Proton (in theory) has.

Let's at least try

Both really simple, just fried in butter with salt and pepper. There is a butter lemon sauce which adds flavour though. Prepared this way, the lamb cutlets end up tender and juicy. If you have a lot of ghee or clarified butter left over, this is great for using it.

Recipes: https://www.epimel.es/recipes/cotelettes-d-agneau-a-la-minute-fra-1903 https://www.epimel.es/recipes/pomme-de-terre-chateau-fra-1903

In my last blog post What’s next in pattern patching syntax world I gave a small preview of what I am working on and what keeps me busy. In this blog post I want to take you on a small journey that explains the whole thing.

i've been using graphene os for about a decade now and my second pixel (6a) is approaching it's end date. i am not a techy person. i am, however someone concerned with digital privacy. when enough people who i find trustworthy endorse technology like graphene, i take a leap of faith because the alternative seems so much worse.

to get to my point, i'm wondering how the fairphone compares to graphene. my understanding is that most fairphone users run lineage os. does the security compare? does the repairability of fairphone compromise its security? i'd really appreciate an expert opinion or two.