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‘It’s all God’s creation’: farmers continue a ‘Jewishly inspired’ agrarian tradition

In the US, a growing number of Jewish people are seeking purpose and community through farming

Wendy Rhein is trying to round up the sheep hanging out among the hazelnut and walnut trees of her Chutzpah Hollow farm in Tryon, North Carolina.

“Hi, Brea. Come on down. I hear you,” Rhein calls to the bleating queen of the flock. If the Barbados black belly ewe moves, the rest will follow.

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Europa League: Sunderland held in Poznan as Juventus denied comeback win

  • Sunderland drop points in 1-1 draw but stay unbeaten

  • VAR rules out Juventus winner in draw with Rennes

Sunderland’s winning start in the Europa League was ended with a 1-1 draw away to Lech Poznan. The point keeps Sunderland unbeaten in Europe this season but ends their winning start, which saw them claim back-to-back victories over AZ Alkmaar and Torreense.

A thrilling opening saw Sunderland go in front early through Timur Tutierov, who was making just his third competitive start since arriving at Sunderland’s academy in 2023.

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Flo & Joan: With Feeling review – sisters turn an old rock setlist into hilariously neurotic songs

Shepherd’s Bush Empire, London
Richly wrought lyrical wit and sumptuous harmonies enhance the duo’s clever new show – along with plenty of backchat

The last time Flo & Joan played Shepherd’s Bush Empire, they found a setlist on stage left by beloved indie-rock band the Feeling on the previous night. It made the sisters contemplate their own relationship to the music industry. Are Flo & Joan a proper band or doomed for ever to remain “musical comedy”? The problem with which, they deadpan here, is that “no one takes it seriously”. Cue this new show, its structure inspired by that chance discovery. Tonight, the duo play a suite of new songs that, title by title, matches the setlist of the band who preceded them four years ago.

And so goes the first half of With Feeling, which by turns delivers on and subverts that challenge – and proves handsomely entertaining either way. In the sisters’ hands, Fill My Little World becomes a neurotic number about the surfeit of stuff (cheap food, fast fashion, AI slop). Never Be Lonely returns to a favoured topic, Flo & Joan’s toxic co-dependency – with an added sight gag involving Joan (AKA Rosie Dempsey)’s questionable trumpet skills. Further numbers address the risks of poor punctuation and the need, in a society giddy on unfiltered self-expression, to “bring back shame”.

On tour until 12 December

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Super Graphic Spectacular review – Chappell Roan dazzles at her gloriously gay mini-festival

Shrine Auditorium, Los Angeles
With performances by Christina Aguilera, Lola Young and Tinashe, the pop star brings a colorful vision to life in support of LGBTQ+ charities

At Chappell Roan’s Super Graphic Spectacular, the sincerely camp pop star imagines a world where the most vulnerable among us aren’t wielded as scapegoats, and where life can be good, so long as we are good to one another.

That better world takes the form of a two-night extravaganza at Los Angeles’s Shrine Auditorium, part kiki ball, part fabulous revue, celebrating the first anniversary of the Midwest Princess Project, the nonprofit Roan founded in 2025 to support transgender youth and LGBTQ+ communities.

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Christa Pike’s IV team warned vein might be ‘blowing’ before failed execution

New account from Pike’s lawyer suggests team was racked by doubts even before pentobarbital began to flow

The Tennessee execution team tasked with setting an intravenous line in the arms of the death row prisoner Christa Pike through which she could be injected with a lethal dose of pentobarbital repeatedly warned that her vein might be “blowing”, before they went ahead with the procedure, her lawyer has revealed.

Members of the intravenous (IV) team used up to 10 needles as they sought to establish a line through which Pike could be killed with a massive dose of the sedative. About 20 minutes into the attempt, they began discussing among themselves whether the prisoner’s vein “might be blowing”.

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NCSC onderzoekt eerste signalen van misbruik kwetsbaarheden PHP

DEN HAAG (ANP) - Het Nationaal Cyber Security Centrum (NCSC) onderzoekt de eerste signalen dat de kwetsbaarheden in programmeertaal PHP succesvol zijn misbruikt. Dat heeft de instantie gezegd in een nieuwe update, waarin wordt gesproken van mogelijk misbruik.

"De situatie kan snel verergeren", voegt het NCSC daaraan toe. "Door gebruik van artificiële intelligentie (AI) kunnen deze kwetsbaarheden mogelijk nog sneller worden misbruikt."

Het centrum stelt dat dit de urgentie versterkt dat organisaties snel beschikbare updates installeren. "We adviseren iedereen dan ook met klem om direct te patchen."

Eerder zei het NCSC al dat er momenteel geen aanwijzingen zijn dat de beschikbare patches de kwetsbaarheden onvoldoende verhelpen.


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Wangari Mathenge’s Vibrant Paintings Tap into Kenya’s Paradigm Shift in the 1960s

Wangari Mathenge’s Vibrant Paintings Tap into Kenya’s Paradigm Shift in the 1960s

In 1963, following nearly 70 years of British colonial rule, Kenya declared independence. The nation was not alone on the African continent; in the 1960s, Gambia, Guyana, Malawi, Nigeria, and others freed themselves from Britain’s control in a watershed period of democratic redevelopment and socio-cultural shifts. Wangari Mathenge, who was born in Nairobi, looks to the not-so-distant past in an ongoing series of vivid oil paintings.

Many of the works shown here are part of the artist’s current solo exhibition, Re-membering at Lévy Gorvy Dayan. Inspired in part by scholar Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o’s 2009 book Something Torn and New: An African Renaissance, Mathenge examines her own cultural identity through the lens of Kenya in the first half of the 20th century. Something Torn and New focuses on the long-lasting impacts of colonialism and slavery in Africa.

a detailed painting of an imagined kitchen in Kenya in the 1960s centering on three Black women in colorful dresses surrounded by toys
“Re-membering XII (The Wednesday Women’s Club)” (2026), oil on canvas, 72 x 90 inches. Courtesy of Lévy Gorvy Dayan

The artist’s recent work depicts herself as all of the women, who each interact in domestic spaces. Toys, books, maps, and the occasional uncanny scenario, such as the green ladder in the wall of “Re-membering XI (To Leave This Steady Unendurable Land),” nod to a period of significant change in Africa. The figures often play with or alter the items in front of them, such as documenting a transatlantic vessel or jostling a teddy bear in an activity that blurs gutting and mending.

Sometimes, Mathenge’s protagonists meet the viewer’s gaze directly, almost confrontationally, while in other settings, she or he relaxes amid an array of items. Through the lens of cultural memory, the artist gathers symbols of resistance and healing. The compositions are sometimes paradoxical in their depictions of toys and nostalgic items with an underlying tension, like “Re-membering XIII (May the Wind Be Always at Your Back)” in which one of the figures readies an arrow in a bow.

“Re-membering signifies not merely the act of recall, but the active gathering and reassembly of what has been fragmented: cultural memory, inherited forms, histories, and ways of seeing,” the artist says in a statement. The exhibition continues through October 24 in New York. See more on Mathenge’s Instagram.

a detailed painting of a a Black man with his eyes closed, wrapped in red tartan and surrounded by numerous objects
“Re-Membering II (Facing Mt. Kenya)” (2025), oil on canvas, 91.4 x 88.9 inches. Photo by Brian Griffin Art Photography, courtesy of Pippy Houldsworth Gallery
a detailed painting of a Black woman laying amid numerous objects and toys, looking up at the viewer
“Re-membering X (I Fall Upon the Earth, I Call Upon the Air)” (2026), oil on canvas, 20 3/4 × 20 3/4 inches. Courtesy of Lévy Gorvy Dayan
a painting of a Black woman at a table with tea and other objects in front of her, talking on a turquoise phone
“The Ascendants XXIV (Tea O’clock with Neel’s Ringgold II)” (2023), oil on canvas, 84 x 62 inches. Photo by Brian Griffin Art Photography, courtesy of Pippy Houldsworth Gallery
a detailed painting of an imagined domestic interior in Kenya in the 1960s centering on two Black women in colorful dresses surrounded by toys, books, and other objects
“Re-membering XIII (May the Wind Be Always at Your Back)” (2026), oil on canvas, 71 7/8 x 82 inches. Courtesy of Lévy Gorvy Dayan
a detailed painting of an imagined domestic interior featuring a Black man napping on a couch with numerous objects on a coffee table in front of him
“The Ascendants XXIII (Oblivion)” (2023), oil on canvas, 63 x 63 inches. Photo by Brian Griffin Art Photography, courtesy of Pippy Houldsworth Gallery

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Polen demonstreren voor het recht op abortus en willen geen ‘compromis’: ‘Het voelt alsof we in herhaling vallen’

Stuur Karremans voortaan met de NS naar zijn werk en na drie keer is alles opgelost

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Closing Time | The Unanswered Question

Op de vraag wat de zin is van “dit alles”, valt alleen wat te mijmeren. Een klip en klaar antwoord blijft uit. Daar was Charles Ives (1874 – 1954) wel van overtuigd en zeker wetend dat bij zulke grote levensvragen de dood een gewisse rol speelt, maakte hij carrière als levensverzekeraar.

Samen met zijn compagnon Julian Myrick verdiende hij daar een heel aardige boterham mee. Een bijzonder levenspad voor een componist van eigenzinnige klassieke muziek.

Charles Ives noemde zijn compositie “The Unanswered Question” een “kosmisch drama” (bron: A Question is Better than an Answer, artikel van Jan Swafford). De strijkers vertegenwoordigen “de stilte van de Druïden”. Een trompet stelt “de eeuwige vraag naar het bestaan”, die beantwoord wordt door vier houtblazers (de “strijdende antwoordgevers”), die het ook niet weten.

Tot zes keer toe stelt de trompet de vraag en de houtblazers lijken in toenemende mate geïrriteerd te raken (“wat wil je dan sukkel?) tot ze na de zesde keer woedend de spot drijven met de vraag.

De trompet stelt de de vraag toch weer opnieuw, die nu beantwoord wordt met stilte.

StamCafé! Haïti maakt El Salvador boos, president waarschuwt maar één keer

Spierballentaal uit Johan Cruijff El Salvador. We kennen Haïti van overstromingen. Soms met water, meestal met drugbendes. In het kader van de door de VN goedgekeurde missie Gang Suppression Force zijn er onder andere Salvadoraanse krachten verzameld te Haïti.

Oké, korte achtergrond. In 2021 was Jovenel Moïse (puntjes op de ï is een pré voor presidentschap Haïti) president, maar werd: vermoord. Ariel Henry had wel zin in macht maar geen zin in verkiezingen en werd dus premier. Vanaf dat moment: poep raakt ventilator. Bendeoorlogen en andersoortelijke ongezelligheid. De politie had te maken met enorme tekorten. Enerzijds omdat er zo'n 80 korpsleden overleden door drugsgeweld, anderzijds omdat duizenden personeelsleden het wel even best vonden of werden ontslagen. Poep raakt nog meer ventilator, er kwam een cholera-uitbraak en hier zou je een eindeloze opsomming van geweld kunnen neerzetten.

Terug naar het heden. Afgelopen weekend werden er vier luchtvaarttechnici van El Salvador gegijzeld. Hun voertuig kwam in een hinderlaag terecht en werd vernietigd. President Nayib Bukele, een soort Rob Jetten maar dan met ballen van staal en woorden van ijzer, vond dit he-le-maal geen goed idee. Vertaald tweetje onder de breek. Hij richt het woord aan de bendeleiders in Haïti en belooft, laten we maar zeggen, de onderste steen boven te krijgen. Leuk detail: de tweet is in het Haïtiaans Creools.

Nayib Bukele toont pikgrootte

Vertaald X'je van president Nayib Bukele

Voor de bendeleiders en bendeleden die onze vier landgenoten in gijzeling houden in Haïti:

Onze ontvoerde mannen zijn geen combattanten. Het zijn technici in de luchtvaartsector die deel uitmaken van onze missie in Haïti, in het kader van een internationale missie. Onze missie telt enkel piloten en technisch personeel, die als hoofdzakelijke taak medische evacuaties uitvoeren en levens redden, geen oorlog voeren.

Toch zijn ze op een laffe manier ontvoerd terwijl ze terugkeerden na het kopen van eten in een markt in de zone.

Daarom hebben we vandaag een militaire operatie gelanceerd om hen te hulp te schieten. We hebben één enkel doel: onze vier landgenoten levend en ongedeerd naar huis laten terugkeren.

Maar ik wil dat jullie, bendeleiders, één ding heel duidelijk begrijpen: de aanval van vandaag is niets vergeleken met wat er komt als we de vier gijzelaars niet levend terugkrijgen.

En neem onze woorden niet als loze dreigementen. We zijn al klaar met de bendes in El Salvador, en we kunnen met jullie afrekenen als het moet.

We hebben nog tijd om dat te vermijden.

Geef ons onze vier landgenoten levend en ongedeerd terug, en alles zal terugkeren zoals het was voor de ontvoering.

De beslissing ligt bij jullie.

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The Starlink system was working more normally on Thursday, shortly after the Trump-Musk conversation, the Journal reported.

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Several Linux Kernel Vulnerabilities Accidentally Posted To Public Kernel Mailing List

Trend Micro's Zero Day Initiative appears to have accidentally disclosed several unpatched Linux kernel vulnerabilities on the public LKML instead of the private security list, including two CVSS 9.0 flaws that could enable remote code execution through SMB Direct and KSMBD. "This seemingly was a mistake with Linux's second-in-command Greg Kroah-Hartman responding to each report asking about their submission to the public mailing list," adds Phoronix. The newly-disclosed vulnerabilities include: ZDI-CAN-33549 as a CVSS 9.0 scored vulnerability for SMB Direct remote code execution vulnerability due to integer underflow. For this one there is a patch in a Git branch of code intended for Linux v7.5 but now presumably will be expedited for getting to mainline.

ZDI-CAN-33774 as a KSMBD race condition that can lead to remote code execution. Another CVSS 9.0 rated vulnerability.

ZDI-CAN-33367 is a vulneravbility for skbuff skb_zerocopy in the network code that can lead to local privilege escalation. For this one Linux kernel developers received a security report from another source last week over the same issue and a patch is expected to be posted soon.

ZDI-CAN-34068 as a VMWGFX VMware graphics driver bug with an out-of-bounds write leading to local privilege escalation.

ZDI-CAN-34076 an uninitialized resource in the NVMET code leading to information disclosure.

ZDI-CAN-32005 was also posted to the mailing list a day prior for a search-domain TCP query stack buffer overflow leading to local privilege escalation.

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Humans-B-Gone! is a labour of love animated series about a society of colossal sapient arthropods where humans are vermin. The series mostly follows a timorous tarantula, a mouthy mantis and the titular pest-control service. Don't worry - there's extensive translation (audio, pheremonal and visual) to make things legible to a human audience. You should thank Professor Gregorsa. Or possibly Rev Storm. With season 1 complete, episode 1 sets the scene, or jump right into the action with Episode 2.

Episodes have substantial unobtrusive footnotes explaining the real-world and in-universe science behind what you've just seen. There's even points to be scored! And don't worry pedants - the square-cube law is in full effect, it simply plays second fiddle to The Unknown Nature. Episodes also available on Newgrounds if you prefer.

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