Futurology Today

There are few names in fiction that have crawled so deeply into our collective nightmares as Cthulhu. You might not have read a single Lovecraft story, but you know that name. But the strange thing is, the so-called “Cthulhu Mythos” was never meant to exist the way we think of it today. What started as one anxious man’s bizarre stories about cosmic insignificance turned into one of the most sprawling, fan-built mythologies in all of literature. So today, we’re diving into the deep end — into the murky history of how Cthulhu and his many eldritch friends came to rule the world of horror.

• Intro: 0:00
• What exactly is Cthulhu?: 1:29
• Raycon Ad: 7:20
• The Greater Mythos : 8:54
• Writing, Themes, & Criticism : 13:30
• The Books and Phases of Cthulhu: 19:25
• The Many Adaptations: 24:00
• The Future, Fandom, & Conclusion: 32:45

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I've been torrenting since I was a kid and never used a VPN - UK-based.

Only once did I receive a letter from my ISP stating that I had torrented 'Suits'—just a warning.

Am I a fool for not using one now? I assume that it will throttle my download speeds.

I am asking because I now have my own place and a mini cinema system. I constantly pirate from a private tracker.

cross-posted from: https://piefed.social/c/collapse/p/1433733/humanity-is-on-path-toward-climate-chaos-scientists-warn

Industries and individuals around the world burned record amounts of oil, gas and coal last year, releasing more greenhouse gases than ever before, a group of leading scientists said in a new report, warning that humanity is hurtling toward "climate chaos."

The surge in global use of fossil fuels in 2024 contributed to extreme weather and devastating disasters including heat waves, storms, floods and wildfires.

I am so close to getting my family to switch to Linux. A replacement for one drive, preferably a Proton one, is the last thing to tip the scales

I may have a new favourite protester. Now, if someone puts on an inflatable frog suit and plays the Imperial March, we may have hit peak trolling.

To say the irony was lost on them would be to assume they ever thought some irony might exist. DC resident Sam O’Hara came across a bunch of out-of-state National Guard troops and put his own spin on their Trump-enabled interloping. As he followed the troops through the neighborhood, O’Hara engaged in protected expression — that being the recording of government employees… with a little musical accompaniment.

This is from O’Hara’s lawsuit [PDF] filed against the DC Metro police officers who eventually arrested him, as written by the ACLU lawyers (Michael Perloff, Scott Michelman) representing him:

In the Star Wars franchise, The Imperial March is the music that plays when Darth Vader or other dark forces enter a scene or succeed in their dastardly plans. It is also the soundtrack of Sam O’Hara’s protest against the National Guard deployment in D.C.

Those troops arrived in the District in August 2025, after President Trump decided to flood D.C. neighborhoods with National Guard members from around the country. A few weeks passed, and yet the troops remained. Given the roughly 200-year-old tradition of civilian law enforcement in the United States, Mr. O’Hara was deeply concerned about the normalization of troops patrolling D.C. neighborhoods. And so, he began protesting the Guard members’ presence by walking several feet behind them when he saw them in the community. Using his phone and sometimes a small speaker, he played The Imperial March as he walked, keeping the music at a volume that was audible but not blaring. Mr. O’Hara recorded the encounters and posted the videos on his TikTok account, where millions of people have viewed them.

Saw this on DeviantArt and had to paint it. Here is the original: Storage building. by ThomasHumbert on @DeviantArt https://www.deviantart.com/thomashumbert/art/Storage-building-1259609194

The Colorado Bureau of Investigation said Thursday it is launching an investigation after a federal agent threw a 57-year-old woman to the ground during a protest in Durango following the detention of a father and his two children.

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Once the probe is completed, CBI’s findings will be presented to the 6th Judicial District Attorney’s Office.

The district attorney will decide whether to file criminal charges.

Archived at https://web.archive.org/web/20251101062551/https://coloradosun.com/2025/10/30/cbi-probe-durango-ice-protest/

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Oct 31, 2025Ravie LakshmananMalware / Threat Intelligence

A China-affiliated threat actor known as UNC6384 has been linked to a fresh set of attacks exploiting an unpatched Windows shortcut vulnerability to target European diplomatic and government entities between September and October 2025.

The activity targeted diplomatic organizations in Hungary, Belgium, Italy, and the Netherlands, as well as government agencies in Serbia, Arctic Wolf said in a technical report published Thursday.

"The attack chain begins with spear-phishing emails containing an embedded URL that is the first of several stages that lead to the delivery of malicious LNK files themed around European Commission meetings, NATO-related workshops, and multilateral diplomatic coordination events," the cybersecurity company said.

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