Kim Shoemaker

🚨JUST IN🚨The Defense Criminal Investigative Service (DCIS), FBI Anchorage, and international partners disrupted four of the world’s largest Internet of Things (IoT) botnets that together were responsible for millions of infected devices and hundreds of thousands of DDoS attacks worldwide. 🔗ow.ly/PBQb50YwAHN @USAO_AK | @DoD_IG

Basketball would be ten times better if they went back to 70s and 80s traveling rules and enforcement..@MarchMadnessMBB

@ChiefNitro AI couldn’t find anything, but if you could remember her last name that would do a lot to figure it out. Sometimes, yearbooks are online.

Twitter! I need your help... I took a deaf girl to prom in 1996. We both worked at Walmart in Macedonia, Ohio. She was really nice, a good friend and she never went to her prom... so I figured, why not ask her and show her a good time. Her first name is Beth but i can't remember her last name. I have some pictures that I had developed...yes developed, and I know she might want to at least see them, if not want them....can you all retweet the hell out of this? Might be a "frogs hair" chance she is on Twitter and sees it or someone she knows sees it! Thanks

@BuzzPatterson We actually used it sometimes. I can’t remember the circumstances, but somebody asked what it stood for, so I said screwed up beyond all repair. They said, “where does the F come from?” And, then they looked at me went “oh”, lol.

FUBAR

@DRSunlocked Could part of it be titanium or something?

Why is the Mercedes front wing variable? I noticed this all last weekend. The Merc front wing was closing at different speeds depending on the corner, and that at it's slowest, it was closing in about 800ms, twice what the rules allow. This gif is slowed 4x and lines-up two corners on Russell's car where the wing closes much faster and much slower. Anyone have any theories as to what might be going on?

There has been an alarming development in our legal system. Judges are starting to contract with a private corporation started by an ex-Palantir employee--whose bio says he is also a former speechwriter for Israel's UN ambassador--to have **secretive proprietary AI help decide cases for them.**

@Fender That’s only $100 more than I paid for a new telecaster, lol! Vince may have got the deal of the century.

Vince Gill’s 1953 blackguard Tele has had a place on every record he’s made since 1978. Almost 50 years later, it’s still his No. 1 electric guitar. Catch up with Vince at The House studio in Nashville as he shares stories behind his favorite Teles, a “magical” tone tip from Roy Nichols and the 1950 Broadcaster that made Merle Haggard cry. Watch the full interview at the link in bio, and stay tuned for more as we celebrate 75 years of the Telecaster: youtu.be/1guaCmEpvGs

Regarding the terrible story of the UA student missing in Barcelona—this is not an isolated incident. If you have children studying abroad, Americans coming out of nightclubs are being targeted for their phones. Please tell them if they need to call a ride to do it inside, stay inside until it arrives, and keep their phone in their pocket until they are in the car. Please share this so no one else has to go through what the Gracey family is enduring. Prayers for Jimmy.

🚨 EXCLUSIVE: Chuck Norris has been hospitalized after a medical emergency in Hawaii. What we know: tmz.me/7e8iqBd

U.S. officials have detected unidentified drones above Fort Lesley J. McNair in Washington, D.C. over the last two weeks, where Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth live, according to three people briefed on the situation who spoke to the Washington Post. Officials have not determined where they came from, two of the people said, though the military is monitoring potential threats more closely because of the heightened alert level due to the Iran War. Multiple drones were spotted over Fort McNair on a single night in the last 10 days, the official said, prompting increased security measures and a meeting on how to respond at the White House. The drone sightings prompted officials to weigh relocating Rubio and Hegseth, two of the people briefed said. The senior administration official said the secretaries haven’t moved. Their quarters on the base were publicly reported by multiple outlets in October.

NEW: MyRadar has reviewed radar/wind data, as well as NASA analysis, and has produced a map of where METEORITE FRAGMENTS may be found. This comes after Tuesday's meteor exploded over Cleveland. IF meteorite fragments survived to the ground, the greatest likelihood of finding large meteorites (upwards of 20 pounds) would be near Rittman, Ohio, just west of Easton and along Highway 57. Medium meteorites, between 2 and 20 pounds, would likely be clustered around Acme, or west of Wadsworth. Smaller meteorites, which are most likely, could be strewn anywhere in the yellow from Granger to Sharon Center and along Highway 94. The meteor likely weighed close to 13,000 pounds before it exploded, and was 6-7 feet across. Weather radar captured the fragmentation of the meteor. Despite snow ongoing at the time, we can use the correlation coefficient feature to determine where weird/spiked/jagged/irregular shapes are present – not "hydrometeors" like rain or snow, but rather meteor debris. Break out the metal detectors! Sweeping the area may legitimately provide an opportunity to find meteorites. On Jan. 16, 2018, a meteor exploded over Michigan, producing shaking equivalent to that of a 1.8-magnitude earthquake. Fragments were found after the fact, and debris could even be seen on weather radars. @MatthewCappucci used radar to pinpoint where he thought debris would be found, and notified his friend Paul at WDIV in Detroit. Indeed, his photographer found a fragment!

‼️‼️ ‼️BREAKING: Sheppard Air Force Base in Wichita County, Texas currently locked down reportedly Explosives found in a laundry truck. DEVELOPING.

Shelter-in-place has been ordered due to a threat made against MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa, Florida, which houses the Headquarters of U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM).

NEW: Explosives found in a laundry truck have prompted the closure of Sheppard Air Force Base in Wichita County, Texas.

List of known security events at US military bases since 28 February: Feb 28 - Kirtland AFB, NM - Armed person on base Mar 1 - Shaw AFB, SC - Threat at Sumter gate Mar 2 - NAS Pensacola, FL - Unauthorized subject entered the base by boat Mar 3 - Ellsworth AFB, SD - Unspecified security incident over/near flightline (multiple) Mar 6 - Selfridge ANGB, MI - Suspicious package Mar 9 - Barksdale AFB, LA - Lockdown due to drone over/near flightline Mar 10 - Moody AFB, GA - Lockdown due to security incident Mar 11 - Tyndall AFB, FL - Suspicious package incident Mar 12 - MacDill AFB, FL - Suspicious package turned over to FBI bomb techs Mar 13 - Beale AFB, CA - Unauthorized drone Mar 17 - JB McGuire/Dix/Lakehurst - Suspicious packages Mar 17 - Holloman AFB, NM - Shooting (Domestic) Mar 18 - Sheppard AFB, TX - Possible explosives detected at Missile gate Mar 18 - MacDill AFB, FL - Possible bomb threat

@CaptainDznuts I used to watch Tubi quite a bit, but one show I was watching was discontinued and the other one is now on the Warner Brothers network. But, they don’t seem to be in order. They skipped me from 1971 to 1974 and then back to 1973.

I'm hooked on Tubi. Screw your paid for streaming services. I have everything great about the past at my finger tips

🚨The Owners of Formula 1 Have Filed to Leave Delaware for Nevada In the proposal, Liberty Media ($8.84B market cap) is citing "substantial cost savings" and "reducing the risk of opportunistic litigation" as its reasons for the move. Another billion-dollar company looking to make its move out of Delaware.

I put in 25 years. It would be 26 but I haven't worked yet this year and I'm not sure I'll ever work in entertainment again. The writing has been on the wall for quite some time. But it's a sad thing--especially since the collapse of Hollywood is (mostly) self inflicted. Outsiders like to blame the unions and burdensome regulations. That's not exactly wrong, but the big reason is that Hollywood stopped making a product that people wanted to consume. Film is a funny thing. On one hand it's art. But on the other it's a mass consumer product--like a car, or a soft drink. But unlike a typical consumer product, it was something we consumed together. We went to a special place, and sat with strangers, and watched stories. And those stories infected us. They entered our minds and our souls and they implanted things. Deep things. Ancient things. Timeless things. Things like heroism and beauty and love and fear and sex and death and adventure and tragedy and pain and injustice and all the things that make up our dreams. There's a thing we call "cinematic language". It's how we tell a story with images. (And BTW if you want to learn more about the language of visual media, read Scott McCloud's excellent book Understanding Comics.) An odd thing about cinematic language is that it's the same language as dreams. There's a scene in Christopher Nolan's Inception where Leonardo DiCaprio is explains to (the tragic) Ellen Page how dreams work. But what he's really describing is cinematic language. Inception is really a movie about movies BTW. While it's far from my favorite film, I think it's the perfect film. Because the suspension of disbelief is perfect. You believe the plot about dreams because you're familiar with how movies work--maybe not consciously--but you know. Everyone knows. Maybe not everyone has seen a movie, but everyone has dreams. Another odd thing about film: you don't "watch" a movie, you look into it. And you put yourself inside it. Now you're in the dream. And you're hypnotized. Because movies do that too. The motion--the moving images--they hack your brain. We're programed to pay attention to moving things. Even when the things aren't real. Even when they're just light reflected off a screen. So we'd go to these special places--these movie theaters--these temples--and we'd sit, and we'd "watch" and we'd enter the dream. And we did it together. And after the movie was over--and the lights came on, and we'd file out over the sound of popcorn crunching under our feet--we were different. We had become transformed. Sometimes we were changed in minor ways. But sometimes not. Sometimes we were changed in profound ways. And we did it together. Before the movie we were a room full of strangers. But after--on the way out the door--we all had something in common. Because we shared an experience. We'd shared the dream. And we'd all become transformed. And then tech got involved... Streaming turned movies from a communal experience to a personal experience. And that's an issue, but they did something else too. They started developing movies as if they were tech products. But you can't apply a KPI to a dream. At least, not successfully anyway. Because dreams don't work like that--nor does any sort of art. And that's a funny thing about making movies. You try to make the best film you can, but at the end of the day you have no idea if it's good or if it's going to be successful. You just have to hope the audience likes it. Now, you can design a movie that will appeal to a preexisting audience. Marvel movies are like this. There's a large group of fanboy nerds that will see every single one. You can count on them every time. Just like you can count on the Gay Oscar Bait crowd (for example). But those movies are slop. But Hollywood became specialists in slop. Because slop is safe. Because you could apply KPI style metrics to slop. As a result they lost the audience. And the audience is probably never coming back. I wrote a book in 2024 (that was published in 2025). While writing, I thought of it as my farewell to the industry. But looking back, what I was actually writing was a eulogy for Hollywood--the place where dreams were made. And so it goes...

US Air Force base shooting leaves 1 dead, another injured in New Mexico trib.al/FDyvAkF

There are no reliable figures @hunleyeric , but I wonder when you have one mature spouse totally change their sociopolitical views how often their partner is some form of psychological controller.