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A couple was left stunned after finding a 10-foot painting of Jesus on the cross inside their barn. After locating a date and signature showing it was 70 years old, they contacted their local reverend and managed to get it lodged in the Church of Saint Bartholomew in Lostwithiel as a piece of holy local […] The post Woman Shouts ‘Jesus!’ After a 10-foot Painting of Crucifixion Is Uncovered in Old Barn from 70 Years Ago appeared first on Good News Network.

News Severance Severance’s Self Help Book The You You Are Is Available for Download There’s an audiobook too. By Vanessa Armstrong | Published on January 31, 2025 Credit: Apple Comment 0 Share New Share Credit: Apple Praise Kier! If you’ve watched Severance, you’ve seen Innie Mark become obsessed with his Outie’s brother-in-law’s self-help book, The You You Are, so much so that it becomes the spark that inspires the Innies to break out at the end of season one. If you want more of Dr. Ricken Lazlo Hale, PhD’s pablum, Apple has got you covered: You can now read the first eight chapters of the book for free! You can download an excerpt of the book—or the audiobook!—by following the link here. Here’s the book’s blurb, for your enjoyment: In his quinquennial tome, Dr. Ricken Lazlo Hale, PhD guides You on a brave journey of self-learnedness. Fertile with mind-engorging insights, The You You Are is an invitation to merge with your true “You,” and expel from your essence the dead-eyed conventionalism that has defined your life since infancy. I highly recommend the audiobook version of The You You Are; it’s about an hour long and it’s read by Ricken himself (actor Michael Chernus) and delivered with the insipid gravitas that you’d expect. What a joy. The cover of The You You Are is also a delight, sporting a serious-looking Ricken and giving a nod to two of his other works: My Own Petard and Life of an American Gadfly, both of which, I’m sure, are life-changing reads. Season two of Severance is now streaming on Apple TV+. You can catch Reactor’s spoiler-full recaps of the series here.[end-mark] The post <i>Severance</i>’s Self Help Book <i>The You You Are</i> Is Available for Download appeared first on Reactor.

If you're tired of censorship and dystopian threats against civil liberties, subscribe to Reclaim The Net. FBI Director nominee Kash Patel’s Senate confirmation hearing on Thursday was a chance to learn about the direction the agency would take after a number of years filled with controversies linked to online censorship. Patel addressed several of these issues, including the suppression of the Hunter Biden laptop stories and the FBI’s role in the scandal – which he said would not repeat going forward. Patel also spoke against the FBI attempting to pressure Big Tech to get these companies to censor content, as well as against wiretapping political candidates and their staff – but also pledged to work with Senator Richard Blumenthal in order to bring potentially controversial changes to Section 230 that could jeopardize end-to-end encryption. Senator Lindsey Graham, a Republican, was on the confirmation hearing panel and recalled that in October 2020 – a month before the election – the FBI was among those who worked to falsely present Hunter Biden laptop story as “Russian disinformation.” Senator Lindsey Graham Graham quoted Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg as revealing this, and asked Patel whether he promises that “those days are over at the FBI.” Patel replied, “Yes, senator, they are.” Another Republican, Senator Josh Hawley, stayed on the same topic but expanded on other instances when the FBI, under the previous administration, was found to be suppressing online speech, including around Covid topics. Senator Josh Hawley Hawley characterized these activities as attempts to violate the First Amendment and censor regular American’s political speech. And he wanted Patel to clarify if the FBI under his leadership would end these practices. Patel said he would “always follow the law” and work with Congress to shed light on what he called corrupt activities the FBI was involved with in the past, particularly concerning free speech censorship. Senator Eric Schmitt focused on the agency’s politicization, citing behavior like investigations of presidential candidates, political opponents, and wiretapping of their advisors, and asked Patel if he would make sure the FBI gets “back to its core mission” and disengage with politics. Patel replied to the Republican senator that he himself was the target of the weaponization of law enforcement and that he believes politics have no place in the FBI – adding that, if confirmed, he would “make sure no American feels that sleight of hand ever again.” But, politics was once again the heart of the issue when Democrat Blumenthal grilled Patel about his involvement in assisting what is known as the J6 Prison Choir – gathering about two dozen men put in prison after the January 6 unrest. They came up with a charity track, “Justice for All,” meant to help with their legal costs, and Blumenthal said Patel produced and helped raise money for the group, using that to question whether he is fit to now head the FBI. Patel replied that neither his career in government service nor any part of the song glorified violence against law enforcement – but suggested that Blumenthal’s question in itself demonstrated the level of divisions present around the topic of law enforcement. Patel said that it should be restored to be “constitutionally based, de-weaponized and de-politicized.” Patel then brought up the Communication Decency Act’s Section 230 as a topic he and Blumenthal share interest in and said he was committed to working with the senator on that. Senator Richard Blumenthal The likely future FBI chief, however, did not go into more details regarding this point. What is known is that Blumenthal is the sponsor of the third version of the Eliminating Abusive and Rampant Neglect of Interactive Technologies (EARN IT) Act introduced in 2023, which aims to change the terms under which platforms enjoy protection from legal liability under Section 230. In some ways, this proposed legislation is similar to the EU’s “Chat Control.” The bill’s stated purpose is to make platforms more responsible for removing child sexual abuse material (CSAM), but the way it is drafted has been drawing criticism from a large number of civil and privacy rights groups, who see it as clashing with the First and Fourth Amendments. Among other things, they suspect that it provides for the introduction of content scanning by means of encryption backdoors – something that Blumenthal has in the past denied was the goal – but also “incentivizes” platforms to remove encryption and destroy privacy in order to avoid having Section 230 protections removed from them. If you're tired of censorship and dystopian threats against civil liberties, subscribe to Reclaim The Net. The post FBI Nominee Kash Patel Vows to End Censorship Collusion, Slams Wiretaps, and Pledges Section 230 Work appeared first on Reclaim The Net.

If you're tired of censorship and dystopian threats against civil liberties, subscribe to Reclaim The Net. It’s been a minute since Linux – the backbone of the internet these days, and for a while, Meta’s assets included – has been the target of a smear campaign by Big Tech. After all, the entire tech industry is benefiting from, and many big players have been contributing to the development of Linux, while appearing to make peace with the “little” competing, free and open source project. That war is well over – the good guys have won. In the past, Microsoft would go after Linux, with a CEO branding it “a cancer” at one point. But now, Meta appeared to reignite the controversy, censoring posts that reference Linux and DistroWatch.com as “cybersecurity threats” and blocking the account of the site. Of course, Facebook runs Linux servers, and as has already been noted, so does the rest of the internet/world. A major reason is the superior level of security and flexibility it provides, compared to, say, Microsoft Windows. But none of that stopped Facebook from reviving – if only briefly – the one-sided feud proprietary tech giants have against Linux, as posts mentioning it, and DistroWatch, got banned. Linux is a kernel – the heart of any operating system built on top of it (core Android being one of them). These operating systems are referred to as “distros” (distributions) in the free and open-source community. Hence, DistroWatch, a website that has for well over a decade served to track a great variety of Linux operating systems. They provide for reliable OS’s, these days fully compatible with major hardware manufacturers’ products, that give not only big corporate users like Meta, but anyone deciding to run a “distro” – like the popular Ubuntu or Fedora – a high degree of control over their computing, and an order of magnitude better security than anything closed source systems like Microsoft or Apple can offer. How absurd then, that Facebook treated the mention of Linux as “malware.” “Starting on January 19, 2025, Facebook’s internal policy makers decided that Linux is malware and labelled groups associated with Linux as being ‘cybersecurity threats’. Any posts mentioning DistroWatch and multiple groups associated with Linux and Linux discussions have either been shut down or had many of their posts removed,” DistroWatch announced. It remains unclear as of this writing how and why this incident occurred. If you're tired of censorship and dystopian threats against civil liberties, subscribe to Reclaim The Net. The post Facebook Censors Linux Mentions, Labels DistroWatch a “Cybersecurity Threat” appeared first on Reclaim The Net.

Hakeem Jeffries: Fight Donald Trump In the Streets

The nuclear tests of the Cold War continue to haunt the world.