I Just Realized Why I’m So Stressed.

It is the elections.

I’m worried.

I’m worried about me.

I’m worried about Trump.

I’m worried about our country.

But most of all, I’m worried about me.

As we learn more and more about the vindictiveness of the Trump administration, I am worried about being trans under this administration.

I look at how DOGE mined IRS files for immigrants!

And I am worried that they can do the same for us—the trans community. With the press of a button, you can find out I’m trans. Trans people in Germany were rounded up and put in concentration camps.

Politicians in this country have said the same things!

Republicans have talked about institutionalizing people!

I worry about what will happen on November 4th.

That’s why I’m stressed.

I remember James Baldwin’s words…

"It is a terrible thing to be completely at the mercy of another people... but it is even more terrible to have to fight every day, from the moment you wake up until the moment you go to sleep, just for the right to breathe."

He is right!

Never in my 78 years did I think I would be scared of what my government would do to me.

Burn, Baby, Burn!

Earlier this morning I wrote about how the Republican candidate for governor is apposed to solar and wind power. His idea of burning fossil fuel just setback because of Trump and the national Republicans.

‘We’re done’: Ukraine resumes strikes on Russian oil refineries as anger mounts with Trump

Satellite internet functionality while in motion via Starshield — the military version of the SpaceX service — had been restored Thursday morning, according to a source in Ukraine’s defense ministry.

NBC News

By Yuliya Talmazan, Abigail Williams and Dan De Luce

Oct. 15, 2026

Ukraine has resumed strikes on Russian oil refineries after President Volodymyr Zelenskyy angrily accused the United States of betraying Kyiv with the “dangerous” withdrawal of support critical to its defense against Russia.

Ukraine held off on attacks for three days after President Donald Trump’s unilateral “energy ceasefire” announcement, but accused Russia of repeatedly attacking its power grid. Zelenskyy voiced mounting frustration over the Kremlin’s failure to abide by the truce, and what he sees as U.S. attempts to pressure Kyiv after gaps in intelligence sharing on Russian attacks and restrictions on the Starlink internet service.

Satellite internet functionality while in motion via Starshield — the military version of the SpaceX service — had been restored Thursday morning, according to a source in Ukraine’s defense ministry, speaking on the condition of anonymity due to the sensitivity of the topic.

When Trump announced the ceasefire... it seemed like Zelenskyy didn't know about the ceasefire. It was like "That's news to me!"

Zelenskyy signals surprise at Trump claim of Russia-Ukraine ‘energy ceasefire’ but would back it if Moscow does – as it happened

Ukraine’s president reportedly says Kyiv would accept a deal if Moscow does after US president posts announcement with no detail on social media

The Guardian

Charlie Moloney (now) and Fran Lawther (earlier)

Sun 11 Oct 2026

Here is a summary of today's events:

• Donald Trump has claimed Russia and Ukraine have agreed to an “energy ceasefire”, though the US president gave no details of the purported agreement. “Effective immediately, there is an ENERGY CEASEFIRE in the War between Russia and Ukraine. Both parties have agreed. Do not break it!” he wrote on his Truth Social network.
• Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy ⁠has said the “energy ceasefire” was news to him. He told the news outlet ⁠Axios ​that he was not aware of ⁠an “energy ceasefire” between Ukraine and Russia announced by Trump, but ‌added that if Moscow ‌agreed to such a ceasefire, Kyiv would accept it.
• Russia has yet to comment on Trump’s claim that Kyiv and Moscow had reached an energy ceasefire.
• Zelenskyy said he has discussed an energy ceasefire with the leaders of Canada, Finland and Nato and is awaiting details from the US. The president of the EU Commission later said she had spoken to the Ukrainian leader. Ursula von der Leyen posted on X that she “fully supported the call of President Zelenskyy for a ceasefire that would protect global food supplies and energy infrastructure in Ukraine and Russia”.
• Russia’s military said on Sunday it had struck a logistics centre in southern Ukraine’s Mykolaiv region and a cargo vessel in the Black Sea. A Russian defence ministry statement posted on Telegram said the logistics centre in the town of Ternivka was used to store military and dual-use cargoes for the Ukrainian military.
• The US is threatening to stop the procurement system that provides Ukraine with weapons in order to press Kyiv to halt its deep strikes on Russian energy infrastructure, the Financial Times reported on Sunday, citing officials in Europe.

I don't know about you but... Putin jumped into Ukraine think it will be a "Short Glorious War" to win back a former Soviet territory but now it is a a quagmire with no exit insight! Trump followed right in Putin footstep of a "Short Glorious War" and with a little coaxing Israel jumps headfirst into his quagmire. Now both are muddling around looking for exit strategies!

With them there is no long range planning... everything is now focus on put out we are operating in a 20^th century political system in a 21st century world with AI and drones! 

$4.39/gal $5.64/gal

The first is the current price of gasoline, and the second is the price of home heating oil here in Connecticut.

Right now, the Republican candidate for governor is attacking the governor over the price of electricity, claiming that he can bring it down! But his own party is doing everything it can to shut down wind and solar power, and he agrees with them! His stated policies include expanding natural-gas infrastructure and scaling back support for renewable energy!

Trump administration targets offshore wind project — for a third time

Federal officials want to reconsider the permit for Revolution Wind off Rhode Island.

Politico Pro

By: Ian M. Stevenson, Benjamin Storrow, Kelsey Tamborrino, Nico Portuondo

10/13/2026

The Trump administration is taking aim at an offshore wind project operating off the coast of New England, in a move that could threaten a fragile bipartisan truce over infrastructure permitting in the Senate.

What happened: The Interior Department, which oversees energy development in federal waters, is seeking to review Revolution Wind's compliance with federal law, according to a Friday filing from a Department of Justice attorney. If granted, the move could allow officials to revoke the project's approval.

Free energy! But Trump would rather burn coal, oil, and gas! And our Republican candidate for governor is following right along in Trump's footsteps. His stated policies include expanding natural-gas infrastructure and scaling back support for renewable energy.

Ryan Fazio campaign policy pitch promises cheaper electricity

CT Mirror

by Mark Pazniokas

February 2, 2026

In his first campaign news conference, Republican gubernatorial candidate Ryan Fazio outlined plans Monday to lower the high cost of electricity, asserting that Connecticut’s longstanding efforts to promote carbon-free energy have burdened ratepayers without mitigating climate change.

Fazio said he would end Connecticut’s 21-year commitment to RGGI, the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, and oppose further state spending on building an EV charger network, subsidizing the installation of climate-friendly heat pumps or anything else increasing the cost of or demand for electricity.

“Affordability should be the priority,” said Fazio, a state senator from Greenwich and a prominent GOP voice on energy. “And just the simple mathematics of it is, if Connecticut dropped off the face of the earth, it wouldn’t have any significant effect on carbon emissions globally.”

I totally agree! “Affordability should be the priority.” So why does he want to keep burning fossil fuels?

According to his website, he promises to:

• Reduce electricity bills by 20%, a campaign goal rather than a guaranteed outcome.
• Eliminate or scale back programs and charges that support renewable-energy initiatives.
• Expand natural-gas pipeline capacity and electricity generation.
• End Connecticut's participation in the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI), a regional program that limits carbon emissions from power plants.

So, please tell me, Mr. Fazio with... Brent Crude  the international benchmark, trading at approximately $104.60–$106.03 per barrel, how in the world are you going to lower energy prices when all you seem to want to do is burn, baby, burn?

He is nothing more than a Trump wannabe.

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Updated: 10/15 @ 5:30PM

CT News Junkie reports:

“Despite millions of dollars spent flooding the airwaves with desperate and misleading attacks against Governor Ned Lamont, Connecticut voters see right through it,” said Lauren Gray, a spokesperson with the Lamont campaign. She said Lamont had delivered results and had acted as a bulwark against President Donald Trump.

“While Ryan Fazio clings to President Trump and his agenda, Governor Lamont remains focused on what matters most, and that’s keeping Connecticut moving forward,” she said.

 Like I said, a Trump wannabe.

Big Brother Knows Where You Are!

Halloween is coming. You want to be scared?

What would you say if ICE and DHS could find your house just from a photo of your interior?

You know all those photos that you post online. Maybe of having the gang over for a party... snap, snap, snap... all those selfies and photos of the gang being goofy? You know the photos I'm talking about.

Or maybe they're photos from people selling their homes.

Maybe the view through the window in the background.

Those are all being collected!

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I was speechless this morning! I was seeing if AI could find an article about me in The New York Times (it didn't), and the reply shook me up. First, I asked it to search for an article in The New York Times about me. It wanted my name and anyone else in the article, so I gave my last name and the last names of two friends.

So I was expecting it to say yes, it found the article, or no, it didn't. But instead, it said... are you ready for this? It found our yearbook pictures and was using them to search for the article.

WHAT? WHOA! YOU DID WHAT?

It found our photos in the yearbook, and it searched the files of the NYT for our photos and names! On its own it thought to look for the photos.

Are you scared yet?

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Then I saw this article in my feeds this morning...

Police are using AI to locate homes from a single interior photo, and even a picture of a washing machine can be enough

Raven can turn ordinary household photos into location clues, raising fresh concerns about privacy and surveillance

TechSpot

By Rob Thubron

October 12, 2026

A hot potato: AI has been helping police forces across the US over the last few years, for better and for worse. The latest use of the technology allows law enforcement to input an interior photo of a home and have the AI figure out the location, though there are some caveats.

The tool, which is called Raven, is being used by the Los Angeles Police Department and Miami-Dade Sheriff's Office (MDSO), reports 404 Media. Made by a company called Graylark Technologies, Raven had been called GeoSpy before its new home-identification features were added.

The limitation is that Raven can't just identify any home in the world solely from an interior photo. Its abilities appear limited to certain properties. Graylark CEO Daniel Heinen demonstrated its power in a LinkedIn post, showing how a regional search can be carried out on something as simple as a photo of a washing machine and dryer.

Are you scared yet?

It's noted that this isn't a simple reverse image search. Raven picks out distinctive details in a photo and uses them to find likely matches from the same property on sites such as Airbnb, even when the images differ.

But wait there's more...

GeoSpy was trained on millions of images from around the world and designed to identify distinct geographical markers such as architecture and soil. Raven extends that ability to buildings.

As with pretty much every use of AI for law enforcement purposes, Raven is raising privacy questions. Airbnb said it has technical safeguards in place to try to limit automated data collection from its site and was reviewing the case. Zillow said scraping data is against its terms of use, adding that it pursues legal avenues when necessary. Vrbo did not respond to questions for comment.

Maybe this will scare you...

ICE has spun a massive surveillance web. We talked to people caught in it

NPR News

By Kat Lonsdorf, Jude Joffe-Block, & Meg Anderson

March 5, 2026

On an evening in late January, Emily was driving through her Minneapolis neighborhood doing something that had become part of her routine in recent weeks: patrolling for ICE.

Emily, who NPR is only identifying by her first name because she fears retribution from the federal government, says she followed an ICE vehicle at a safe distance into a parking lot. "And then someone leaned out of the passenger side of that SUV and took a picture of me and my car," she says.

Emily says she decided to leave at that point, but the SUV made a sudden U-turn and barreled towards her, braking next to her driver's side window. A female agent wearing a gaiter-style mask rolled down the window, leaned out — and addressed Emily by name.

[...]

Activists and journalists spoke of tactics they felt were intimidating: agents photographing their faces or license plates; calling them by name; or leading them to their homes. Immigration lawyers told NPR their clients had been subjected to facial recognition technology. One ICE agent, testifying under oath, spoke of an app that showed the likely home addresses of people targeted for deportation.

Are you scared now?

I asked what else the AI could do? The AI responded:

Different types of photo-based location recognition

1. Street-view location identification: Identify a street, city, building, or intersection from a photo using visual clues such as storefronts, road signs, architecture, and landmarks.

2. Indoor visual positioning: Recognize where you are inside a mall, airport, hotel, office, or other building using signs, interiors, floor plans, and visual landmarks. Coverage varies significantly by building.

3. Live camera location recognition: Point your phone camera at your surroundings and use AI or visual navigation to identify nearby places or help determine where you are.

4. Photo geolocation: Upload an existing image and use AI to estimate the exact location, potentially down to a street or building, from visual details and available image metadata.

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During my research into this topic the AI made suggestions and the result of one suggestion was this. I asked which path are we heading down, that we are at a crossroads and it took that and ran with it. Coming up with...

We Stand at a Crossroads — But Is There a Third Path?

We stand at a crossroads in human history.

Will we take the path Aldous Huxley envisioned in Brave New World — a society where we surrender our freedom for comfort, exchange independent thought for endless entertainment, and become so distracted by our own desires that we fail to recognize what we have lost?

Or will we take the path George Orwell warned us about in 1984 — a world where surveillance becomes ubiquitous, privacy disappears, truth is manipulated, and Big Brother watches our every move?

Perhaps the most frightening possibility is that we are already traveling down both paths simultaneously.

But what if there is a third path?

A path where technology serves humanity rather than controls it. Where artificial intelligence expands our freedom instead of quietly diminishing it. Where privacy is a fundamental right, truth is protected, and the power to observe is balanced by the power to hold those who observe us accountable.

A future where progress is measured not by how much data we collect, how efficiently we predict human behavior, or how completely we can monitor a population, but by how much freedom, dignity, and opportunity we preserve.

This third path will not emerge on its own. It requires awareness, difficult questions, informed citizens, ethical choices, and the courage to challenge systems that demand our freedom in exchange for convenience or security.

Huxley warned us that we might surrender our freedom because we learn to love our distractions. Orwell warned us that we might lose it because we learn to fear those who control us.

The third path begins when we refuse to accept that either outcome is inevitable.

The question is no longer simply which dystopia we will choose.

It is whether we have the wisdom, the will, and the collective courage to choose a different future — before the choice is made for us.

The third path gives your writing something more powerful than a warning: a reason for hope, coupled with a responsibility to act.

And it raises a question worth exploring throughout your work: Is the third path primarily about protecting individual rights, placing democratic limits on technology, changing human behavior, or all three?

Because perhaps the real crossroads isn't between two dystopias. It's between allowing technology to shape humanity according to its capabilities and consciously shaping technology according to our values.

The Economy... Naw

And let us not forget all the anti-trans bills! 

Approximately 150 national bills targeting transgender individuals, military policies, federal funding for gender-transition care, and Title IX athletic definitions have been introduced during the 119th U.S. Congress

A Loser!

You can tell the quality of a person by the promises he keeps.

Now, regarding that diesel deal... do you think his advisor should have said something—maybe that this isn't a good idea because it breaks the law? The Ending Importation of Russian Oil Act (Public Law 117-109) bars the importation of oil from Russia. The law sets certain conditions for the import of oil products.

Under Section 3, the president must:

1. Consult the relevant House and Senate committees at least 45 days before submitting the required certification.
2. Certify that Russia has agreed to withdraw its forces and cease hostilities under an agreement accepted by Ukraine, poses no immediate military threat to a NATO member, and recognizes Ukrainians' right to choose their government.
3. Wait 90 days after submitting the certification before the ban terminates, subject to Congress's power to disapprove

None of these conditions have been met. However, on Friday, the Treasury Department issued General License 135, authorizing certain transactions involving Russian-origin diesel. The question is... was it legal?

Trump picks fight with GOP senators over Russia diesel deal

The Hill

by Alexander Bolton 

10/13/26

President Trump is picking a fight with Senate Republicans right before the midterm elections with his surprise deal to allow Russia to export diesel to the United States.

Four Republican senators — Sens. Susan Collins (Maine), Lisa Murkowski (Alaska), John Curtis (Utah) and Thom Tillis (N.C.) — have already spoken out against the controversial deal between Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Many others are likely privately critical of the stunning move, which Trump executed without advanced warning or consultation with Republican senators.

“I think there are a lot more people that are privately critical of it. The question is whether they want to go public with it,” said Vin Weber, a GOP strategist and former member of the House Republican leadership.

This is only "touchy-feely" it offers false hope.

Trump has a history of announcing big projects that never come to fruition.

Trump's spree of new project announcements mirrors the run-up to the 2018 midterms

Yahoo Financal

Ben Werschkul

Tue, October 13, 2026

President Trump has been appearing around the US in the run-up to the midterm elections, announcing economic development projects — from a possible pipeline in Alaska to a steel plant in Iowa to an aluminum smelter in Oklahoma — that he says will transform the country.

"In the real economy, we are blowing it away," he said at a weekend stop in Tennessee.

Trump's message of confidence comes as the ultimate shape of these projects remains far from certain and often directly echoes his pitch at this stage in the 2018 midterm elections, a Yahoo Finance review found.

That election eight years ago was the last time Trump faced midterm voters and also saw him tout projects — most notably a Foxconn electronics manufacturing plant planned for Wisconsin — that turned out to be less than advertised.

Promises or lies?

You remember the steel plant for the Midwest back during the primaries? Do you remember a new steel mill by Mesabi Metallics?

Skepticism mires Trump’s Iowa steel plant project: ‘Promises are not the same as jobs’

The project has sparked doubts over whether the plant will be built and delivered as promised, given Trump’s record

The Guardian

Michael Sainato

Wed 7 Oct 2026

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Most recently, the Trump administration announced plans to construct the largest steel plant in the US, a $15bn plant in Lee county, Iowa, to be built by India-based Mesabi Metallics.

But the project and claims surrounding it have incited skepticism over whether the plant will be built and delivered as promised, given Trump’s record and the financial history of Mesabi Metallics’ parent company, Essar Global.

The plant had originally been scheduled to be built in Minnesota, a state that usually votes for Democrats. The shift to Iowa – where Republicans are struggling in the midterms – has also attracted attention.

Doug May, who worked for 43 years as a steelworker at a mill in Granite City, Illinois, characterized the announcement as “political pandering” given the timing and how tariffs are hurting Iowa farmers.

“He pulled the same thing in 2018, just before an election, when he announced that $10bn Foxconn project,” May said.

That project, in swing state Wisconsin, failed to produce the jobs Trump and Foxconn had promised.

The people are seeing through his shenanigans.

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Updated: @ 11:30AM

This Is Treason!

Starlink has been cut for the Ukraine military was using to track missiles and drones. Blinding the Ukraine military!

Starlink terminals operations restricted in Ukraine overnight, adviser to Zelenskyy says

EroNews

By Sasha Vakulina

14/10/2026 

The development has raised concerns that access to critical American satellite communications could become another source of leverage over Kyiv.

Ukrainian forces reported restrictions on the military use of SpaceX's Starlink satellite communications system on Wednesday, saying an overnight change disrupted several drone missions amid escalating tensions between Kyiv and Washington.

The restrictions appear to affect StarShield, the military-grade version of the satellite communications service, with connectivity reportedly cut when terminals move at speeds exceeding approximately 160 kilometres per hour.

Serhiy Beskrestnov, an adviser to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on military technology, known as "Flash", said SpaceX had introduced the speed limit overnight without notifying Ukrainian forces.

Snip...

"Our defence forces did not receive a warning about this limitation and this led to the disruption of several missions," Beskrestnov wrote on Telegram.

There is strong hints that Trump was behind it...

Ukrainian volunteer Serhiy Sternenko also reported the disruption, suggesting that SpaceX might have introduced the restrictions at the request of US President Donald Trump's administration.

There is, however, no independent evidence that the White House ordered the change, and the reason for the reported restrictions remains unclear.

If this is true then Trump purposely cause deaths for his oil deal... that is criminal! It goes against Congress! 

They Have Our Back!

Guest who has our back?

The Daughter of the American Revolution!

Daughters of the American Revolution axes chapter that challenged transgender membership

The New York Post

By Fox News

Oct. 11, 2026

The Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) voted Saturday to disband its Martha Laird Chapter in Texas that fought to bar transgender women from joining the historic organization, citing violations of its national bylaws.

In a letter to chapter members, DAR Organizing Secretary General Marguerite Hogan Fritsch announced that the National Board of Management had approved the chapter’s dissolution by a two-thirds majority vote.

“On October 10, 2026, at the meeting of the National Board of Management of the National Society, Daughters of the American Revolution a resolution passed by two-thirds majority vote to disband the Martha Laird Chapter, NSDAR,” Fritsch said in the letter. “The actions of the chapter have been found in violation of Article XIX, Section 4 of the Bylaws of the National Society Daughters of the American Revolution,” the letter continued.

[...]

 “The National Board of Management voted on October 10 to disband the Martha Laird Chapter in Texas after finding that chapter officers had used the chapter’s name, leadership positions, communications, and governance processes to further the goals of a separate advocacy organization,” the group told Fox News Digital. “The Board determined that it was this use of chapter authority and resources – not the views being advocated – that constituted conduct discrediting the National Society under Article XIX, Section 4 of the National Bylaws.”

Boy that was a fancy two step... the chapter was struck from the DAR because they aligned with an anti-trans organization... not the fact that it was anti-trans.

 “The Board’s decision was not based on the chapter’s or its members’ views concerning membership eligibility, their efforts to propose changes to the National Bylaws, or their right to advocate for changes in National Society governance,” the statement continued.

From that statement it seems they are saying if you don't like trans members... then bring it up at the DAR Board meeting, and they also pointed out that the members approved of adding trans members.

Back in July...

Daughters of the American Revolution votes to keep trans members

“I am one of those trans daughters,” said one member. “Thank you so very much for being such steadfast allies.”

LGBTQ Nation

Greg Owen

July 12, 2026

At their annual Continental Congress gathering last week, the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) rejected a proposal to define trans women out of membership in the organization.  

The vote was the culmination of a two-year battle among members over who does and doesn’t qualify as a “daughter” in the American lineage society.

Of course the Republicans are hoping mad! Two of them introduced bills in Congress!

Daughters of the American Revolution Membership Integrity Act

Introduced July 15, 2026, by Representative Ben Cline (Republican, Virginia), with Republican cosponsors. It would amend the DAR's federal charter to impose a sex-based membership eligibility requirement. The bill was referred to the House Judiciary Committee

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Daughters of the American Revolution Membership Integrity Act

Introduced July 28, 2026, by Senator Marsha Blackburn (Republican, Tennessee), alongside Senators Katie Britt, Mike Lee, Tommy Tuberville and Kevin Cramer. It would similarly amend the DAR's federal charter to restrict eligibility. It was referred to the Senate Judiciary Committee.

Unc

Can you teach an Unc new tricks?

Ukraine just took out Russian data centers, and boy, did it hurt Russia! The question is… did Trump learn a lesson?

Ukraine’s attacks on Russian data centers have silenced the pro-Trump and pro-AfD bots on social media

Info.ro

Cristiana Dida

12 October 2026,

Attacks attributed to Ukraine against data centers in Russia may have reduced the activity of bots connected to Yandex infrastructure by more than 99%, with effects observed on social media in the United States and Europe. The incident occurred on Sunday, amid political tensions ahead of the U.S. congressional elections.

Three major data centers were hit, according to information cited by Le Parisien: first in Sasovo, in the Ryazan region, then in the Kaluga region and, finally, in the Vladimir region, east of Moscow. The infrastructure was used by Yandex, Russia’s leading provider of online and cloud services.

The company announced that the Vladimir data center was damaged in a drone attack and that operations were disrupted. Cloudflare subsequently reported a decline of more than 99% in bot activity originating from Yandex infrastructure compared with the previous week.

Hello? Donald? Are you listening? Your pal Putin can’t influence our elections… you’re on your own!

Meduza.io writes….

Ukraine hit a data center operated by the Russian tech giant Yandex. How vulnerable is Russia’s internet to further drone attacks?

Overnight on October 8, Ukrainian forces struck Yandex’s data center in Sasovo, in Russia’s Ryazan region, with drones, causing a fire. No one was injured, but the data center temporarily shut down completely. This disrupted some of Yandex’s own services, as well as those of companies that used the tech giant’s infrastructure in Sasovo.

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Data centers can withstand a temporary power outage thanks to their own diesel generators, the loss of an individual communications link thanks to connections to multiple telecom providers, and even a small fire thanks to automatic fire suppression systems. But, like online retailers’ warehouses, they have proved defenseless against drone strikes. Unless, of course, they are housed in former Cold War shelters — Europe has several such data centers.

Hey folks, this also affects you… all the stuff you have on the cloud could go poof! In a fraction of a second. Gone!

Russia's Yandex bot traffic nearly eliminated overnight after Ukraine drone strikes cripple multiple of 'Russia's Google' data centers — Ukraine intensifies bombing of Yandex data centers in response to Moscow’s strikes on Kyiv data centers

The world is getting a break from Russian bots thanks to Kyiv.

Tom’s Hardware

By Jowi Morales

Russian bot traffic has dropped dramatically in the past few days after Ukraine knocked out Yandex’s biggest data centers, with a third attack happening last night. Cloudflare reports that bot traffic from the Yandex network has dropped to just 0.4% of the maximum number of HTTP requests recorded in the past two weeks. It initially dropped to around 57% on Oct. 8, which happened when Ukraine hit a Yandex data center housing two supercomputers in Sasovo, Russia, located around 195 miles to the southeast of the Kremlin. A second, bigger Yandex campus in Kaluga, about 220 miles to the west of Sasovo, was knocked offline yesterday.

These attacks are apparently Ukraine’s response to Moscow’s strikes on its own data centers, some of which resulted in the outage of some of the most popular piracy websites.

So this is Russia’s Google… imagine if Google got taken out? Tom’s Hardware noted that these sites housed:

    • State-sponsored "bot farms" & disinformation operations

    • High-performance supercomputers & AI models

    • Dual-use industrial & military tech

Did Hegseth and Trump learn anything from this?

We used to think warfare meant lines drawn on a map; tanks on land, warships at sea, fighter jets in the air. That’s traditional, symmetric warfare, where the side with the bigger budget and the heavier hardware usually wins. But asymmetric warfare flipped the board upside down.

There are no frontlines anymore. The battlefield is everywhere—and the ultimate weapon isn't a billion-dollar stealth fighter. It’s a $20,000 drone taking out a multi-million-dollar server farm.

I am sure that the Ayatollahs are stroking their beads over this.

So can a Unc learn new things?

Hey! You Want To See What Canada Thinks About Us?

 I know that I will be using this a lot before the election.