The Marshall Project likewise described 'neighborhoods' with upbeat names like 'Yellow Frog' and 'Red Parrot,' framing them as euphemisms meant to soften the reality of confinement.​

So it is entirely possible that 'Blue Butterfly' is simply an old label, now being reinterpreted in the most ominous way imaginable. It is also possible that a named area is being used for a specific operational purpose that has not been explained publicly, and that is exactly why vague terminology makes people nervous.

Until there is on-the-record confirmation of what these online claims describe, the only honest position is to keep asking for verifiable facts while refusing to treat a viral phrase as proof.

Last week’s surprise departure of Phil Spencer from Microsoft led to the promotion of Asha Sharma, who comes to head Microsoft’s gaming division after two years as president of the company’s CoreAI Product group. Despite that recent history, Sharma says in a new interview that she has “no tolerance for bad AI” in game development.

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Meanwhile the head of another Soulless Tech Corporation Hellbent On Dehumanizing Game Development In Every Sense Of The Word "Dehumanize" Possible reminds us...

CEO Tim Sweeney says requiring developers to disclose their use of AI tools is as relevant as disclosing “what shampoo brand the developer uses,”

But as right as Gorsuch is in the tariff case, his statements also should disabuse everyone of the idea that there’s much principle or empiricism at play here, considering that Gorsuch only eighteen months ago helped give Trump and every other president near-absolute power to proudly ignore the laws passed by the very Congress that Gorsuch now touts. In that ruling, Gorsuch — a supporter of the so-called “unitary executive” theory of an all-powerful president — signed onto an opinion that declared:

The nature of Presidential power requires that a former President have some immunity from criminal prosecution for official acts during his tenure in office. At least with respect to the President’s exercise of his core constitutional powers, this immunity must be absolute. As for his remaining official actions, he is also entitled to immunity.

As Ukraine pushes for a fast-tracked entry to the EU, senior European officials say they are worried about progress on key reforms needed to secure the country’s European aspirations.

Ukraine failed to complete 11 reforms in the last three months of 2025 required to unlock European funds, according to RRR4U, a consortium of Ukrainian think tanks, and is on track to miss more reforms in the first three months of 2026 — putting a total of five billion euros ($5.8 billion) of EU funding at risk.

Four senior EU officials working closely on Ukraine matters told the Kyiv Independent that the reduced appetite to pursue reforms could undermine support for the country's EU membership, as well as future private sector investment in the country.

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Anger over Epstein Files: Austin Tucker Martin was killed at Mar-a-Lago in Florida after entering Trump's estate. He is said to have been "obsessed" with the Epstein Files and was angry with everything that was revealed. He was reportedly frustrated to see the elite get away with it.

The man who entered Mar-a-Lago in Florida and was shot dead was obsessed with the way Donald Trump's administration was handling the Epstein Files. He also comes from a family of Trump supporters. Austin Tucker Martin was killed on Sunday morning after he entered Trump's property with a shotgun and a gas canister. His family, co-workers and a cousin said that Martin had also shown his appreciation for Trump many times.

Braeden Fields, Martin's cousin, said he was shocked to know about Austin's breaking and entering, and described him as a "quiet" kid who was scared of firearms. "We are big Trump supporters, all of us. Everybody," Fields said, adding Austin was "real quiet, never really talked about anything." Austin's cousin said, "He wouldn’t even hurt an ant. He doesn’t even know how to use a gun."

Iranian students held anti-government protests at several universities for the third consecutive day, according to videos published online and verified by RFE/RL.

The new protests are the first since the authorities killed thousands of people in an unprecedented crackdown on nationwide demonstrations against Iran's clerical rulers last month.

The renewed unrest comes as Iran braces for possible US military action. US President Donald Trump has warned Tehran against further violence against demonstrators and threatened to strike the Islamic republic over its refusal to abandon its nuclear program.

Objectification, hate, rape threats: the politicians debating online abuse mean well, but to truly understand, they need to see what I see

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Objectification, hate, rape threats: the politicians debating online abuse mean well, but to truly understand, they need to see what I see

tldr: I'm going to set up raid z2 with 4x8TB hard drives. I'll have photos, documents (text, pdf, etc.), movies/tv shows, and music on the pool. Are the below commands good enough? Anything extra you think I should add?

sudo zpool create mypool raidz2 -o ashift=12 /dev/disk/by-id/12345 ...

zfs set compression=lz4 mypool #maybe zstd?
zpool set autoexpand=on mypool
zpool set autoreplace=on mypool #I might keep this off. I can see myself forgetting in the future
zpool set listsnapshots=on mypool

With ai raising hard drive prices, I over spent on 3x10TB drives in order to reorganize my current pool and have 3 hard drives sitting on a shelf in the event of a failure. My current pool was built over time but it currently consists of 4x8TB drives. They are a mirrored stripe so a usable 16TB. If I understand it correctly, I can lose 1 drive for sure without losing data and maybe a second drive depending on which drive fails. Because of that, I want to move to raid z2 to ensure I can lose 2 drives without data loss. I'm going to move data from my 4x8TB drives, to the 3x10TB, reconfigure the 4x8TB, and move everything back. I run Immich, plex/jellyfin, and navidrome off the pool. All other documents are basically there for long term storage just in case. What options should I use for raid z2 when setting it up?

I know I can look this stuff up. I have been and continue to do so, I was just hoping for some advise from people that are more knowledgeable about this than me. The move from the 4x8TB drives to the 3x10TB is going to take ~3 days so I really don't want to mess this up and have to start over 😅

Edit:

After looking up each property, this is the command I will probably end up using to create the raid z2 pool, thanks Avid Amoeba:

~~sudo zpool create
-o ashift=12 -o acltype=posixacl -o xattr=sa
-o compression=lz4 -o dnodesize=auto -o relatime=on
-o normalization=formD
raidz2
mypool
/dev/disk/by-id/12345 ...~~

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Above command didn't work on my machine. The order and uppercase "O" matters. Had to do this:

sudo zpool create \
  mypool \
  raidz2 \
  -o ashift=12 -O compression=lz4 \
  -O normalization=formD -O acltype=posixacl \
  -O xattr=sa -O dnodesize=auto \
  -O relatime=on \
  /dev/disk/by-id/12345 ...

Edit3:

And finally, after all this, I set up my tmp pool of 3x10TB disks as a raid z2 instead of raid z1. Spent a day and a half transferring before I finally saw my mistake after running out of space 🫠

Trade MEPs punt a vote to implement the trade deal after Donald Trump sets new tariffs that they say violate the transatlantic accord.

The European Parliament froze ratification of the EU’s trade deal with the United States on Monday amid concerns that President Donald Trump’s latest tariff broadside breaches the terms of the transatlantic accord struck last summer.

Senior trade lawmakers pulled the emergency brake after the U.S. Supreme Court on Friday struck down the main tariffs on which the deal, reached at Trump’s Turnberry Scottish golf resort last July, had been based. Trump said on Saturday he would impose a global tariff of 15 percent under a new legal authority — triggering alarm across the bloc.

“The decision to postpone the vote on the implementation of the U.S. deal is the right one. Given the current enormous uncertainty, a vote would be unjustifiable,” said Anna Cavazzini, who represents the Greens.

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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth jokingly said any surge in takeout deliveries to the Pentagon — a phenomenon that has accurately predicted the start of major geopolitical events — could be him ordering pizza “just to throw everybody off.”

Asked about the “Pentagon Pizza Report,” an account on X that tracks activity at local pizza joints near the U.S. military hub, Hegseth said he was aware of the account.

“I’ve thought of just ordering lots of pizza on random nights just to throw everybody off,” he said Sunday on Fox News. “Some Friday night when you see a bunch of Dominos orders, it might just be me on an app, throwing the whole system off so we keep everybody off balance. We look at every indicator.”

With everything that's going on in the world, the only thing people seem to actually care about is getting me to apologize for party rocking.

Well I won't do it, consequences be damned. I'm going to be shuffling every day til I die. I'm sexy, and in my heart of hearts I know it.

If this is my last post, I just want to say that it has been a true honor party rocking with you all.

As first reported by the Nine newspapers, the home affairs minister, Tony Burke, is considering denying Zvi Yehezkeli’s visa into the country based on his previous inflammatory comments.

The TV journalist is due to appear at two events in Sydney and Melbourne in March, supported by the Australian Jewish Association (AJA) and other groups, alongside the former Israeli president Reuven Rivlin.

Yehezkeli, who works on Israeli TV channel i24 as an Arab affairs commentator, is no stranger to controversy in recent years. On air, he said that Israel should have responded to Palestinian militant group Hamas’ 7 October attack by killing 100,000 Gazans.

“I know that those 100,000 will not all be Hamas members,” he said, after estimating Hamas only had around 20,000 members in the besieged strip.

The government in Tehran sees capitulating to Washington’s demands on uranium enrichment and ballistic missiles as riskier to its survival than going to war, analysts say.

Facing high-stakes brinkmanship as American warships and fighter jets mass off its shores, Iran has refused to concede to President Trump’s demands on its nuclear program and weapons — a stance that has bewildered U.S. officials.

The authoritarian clerics who rule Iran see those concessions — which, in their view, could compromise their core ideology and sovereignty — as a greater threat to their survival than the risk of war.

A dangerous mismatch in perceptions between Iran and the United States is why efforts to negotiate a deal over Iran’s nuclear and military capabilities look increasingly fragile, experts say, and a new regional conflict seems almost inevitable.

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Israeli political commentator Rachel Gur said her son is refusing to study for his math test as he's certain that the exam is going to get canceled due to an Iran attack or counterattack.

"I told him a strike is unlikely before Wednesday," Gur said, adding that Wednesday is also the exam day.