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Police: Crypto mining operation found in school crawl space COHASSET, Mass. (AP) — A former employee of a Massachusetts town is facing charges of allegedly setting up a secret cryptocurrency mining operation in a remote crawl space at a school, police said. Nadeam Nahas, 39, was scheduled to be arraigned Thursday on charges of fraudulent use of electricity and vandalizing a school, but he did not show up and a judge issued a default warrant after rejecting a defense motion to reschedule, a spokesperson for the Norfolk district attorney’s office said.  A listed number for Nahas was not accepting messages on Thursday. Police responded to Cohasset Middle/High School in December 2021 after the town’s facilities director found electrical wires, temporary duct work, and numerous computers that seemed out of place while conducting a routine inspection of the school, Chief William Quigley of the Cohasset Police Department said in a statement Wednesday. He contacted the town’s IT director, ...

  O n February 28th , 1973, I picked up a newly published book that had received a glowing review.  The review piqued my interest, you might say.  The book was a ground-breaker, raved the reviewer!  It was massively risky, absolutely hilarious and downright dangerous!  It would change the way American literature was written and perceived forever!   Okay, a bit much, yes?  Maybe hyperbolic, too. But it turned out to be true.  The book's taught in colleges everywhere now.  It's considered the most important post-modern novel of the 20th century.   All I knew was that it was an absolute hoot! It was funny, ribald, paranoid, inventive, filled with brilliant writing, obscene limericks and over 100 characters.  It really did turn out to be that important.  And I've read it over a dozen times now.   People are still fighting over Gravity's Rainbow.   Readers either adore it or find it incomprehensible.  D...

Scott Adams, author of the popular Dilbert comic strip said some naughty things that really offended a slew of folks. Woof! This one's a real stinker. In my opinion Adams was increasingly radicalizing in recent years. Maybe one could now call him a radical right extremist. The Oregonian is one of the newspapers that stopped publishing Dilbert in response to Adams' comments. He made his opinions public on his YouTube channel a few days ago. The editor of The Oregonian explained why he chose to stop publishing Dilbert: Letter from the Editor: Why we are no longer running the comic strip ‘Dilbert’   The Oregonian will no longer publish the long-running “Dilbert” comic strip after its creator Scott Adams broadcast a racist rant on social media. I made the decision after watching Adams’ nearly hourlong diatribe on his YouTube show “Real Coffee with Scott Adams,” which included such exhortations as, “I would say, based on the current way things are going, the best advice I would gi...

  The Bidens Went to Dinner and Ordered the Same Dish, Dividing the Internet The President and First Lady got two orders of rigatoni at Italian restaurant the Red Hen Joe and Jill Biden went to dinner on Saturday at Bloomingdale Italian restaurant the Red Hen. (No,  not  that  Red Hen  in Lexington, Virginia, the one that famously turned away Sarah Huckabee Sanders, sparking another Trump-era episode of the culture wars. This one has the same name but is totally unaffiliated.) Chef and co-owner Mike Friedman tells  Washingtonian  that POTUS and FLOTUS ordered a couple glasses of Barbera, grilled bread with cultured butter, chicory salad, and two orders of rigatoni with fennel sausage ragu. To which the Twitterati responded:  Wait a minute, they ordered the same dish?  https://www.washingtonian.com/2023/02/21/the-bidens-went-to-dinner-and-ordered-the-same-dish-dividing-the-internet/ Tripp Whitbeck @trippwhitbeck · Follow I have honestly never ...