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"A #DepartmentofCommerce spokesperson told #Fortune the agency was committed to reversing the trend of the #manufacturing jobs leaving the U.S.. Since... (WAIIT FOR IT!)

******1979, the country has lost 6.5 million manufacturing jobs due to #outsourcing and previous policies, the person said.******

They want you to fix robots that service the
#Republicans
#Reagan
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#tariffs
#recession
#premarket
#investing
#election2026
#2026election
https://fortune.com/article/secretary-of-commerce-howard-lutnick-trump-tariffs-factory-jobs-gen-z-trade-work/

Einblicke in die #Cybercrime Industrie in #Nordkorea: Laut einem aktuellen Bericht sollen Hunderte von US "#Fortune 500" Firmen und damit die umsatzstärksten Unternehmen in den #USA von nordkoreanischen IT-Kräften infiltriert worden sein.

Als "Schläfer" verhalten sich diese zunächst unauffällig, zumeist mit Anstellung in mehreren Firmen gleichzeitig, um bei einer Entlassung die Firmen mit Datenlecks oder der Lahmlegung von Infrastrukturen zu erpressen:

https://cyberscoop.com/north-korea-workers-infiltrate-fortune-500/ #cybersecurity

Des remèdes de l'une et l'autre Fortune : traduction de Pétrarque par un auteur rouennais vers 1503. Plusieurs magnifiques enluminures pleines pages illustrent les chapitres de l'ouvrage avec notamment la représentation de la Fortune prospère et adverse, devant la roue qui tourne. Image riche et complexe !

Le manuscrit est visible en entier ici : https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b60007782

ttrpg fortunes

fortune is one of those classic unix programs that are available on basically all unixoid systems. The only thing it does is “display a pseudorandom message from a database of quotations”, or as the man-page of fortune for debian says: “fortune – print a random, hopefully interesting, adage”.

To be fair, the fortune part of the name comes from fortune cookies. So whatever is printed is not meant to be taken too seriously.

You wouldn’t think this is a terribly interesting or even useful program, but people have found uses for it over the last few decades. It might just be used to provide a human element to an otherwise sterile work environment, but I also found it used at least once to provide a noticeable update to an otherwise static website (by printing adages about project management. So the updates were functionally useless, but the program did fulfill an important task).

What the program does is this: it takes a file of adages, or sayings, or other small text snippets, and when called prints one of them. You can chose which file you want to take those from, you can choose the length you want your printed text to be, and a few other smaller options. It will determine one and output it. It’s one of those programs that breathes the unix philosophy that a program should do just one thing, but do it well.

You might encounter it every time when you log on to a shell, where the admin has configured fortune to print a quote. Or some people have it in their signature for forums or emails. (sometimes connected with something like cowsay which prints a bit of crude ascii art cow (or whatever) saying whatever fortune spit out.

 ________________________________________/ I could never be a druid, I just don’t \\ trust the trees. They’re too shady.    / ----------------------------------------        \   ^__^         \  (oo)\_______            (__)\       )\/\                ||----w |                ||     ||

There are a lot of different fortune files available, from the stock ones that are shipped with distributions, to other projects where you might, e.g. find Discworld quotes, or, I dunno, your favorite Chuck Norris facts.

Anyway, I was futzing around with our IRC network lately and while playing around with a bot that could use fortune, I realized that there was no actual file available for stuff about roleplaying (or wargaming, or boardgaming, or any gaming for that matter).

So I decided to make one.

Right now it’s only a small page on campaignwiki.org: https://campaignwiki.org/wiki/TTRPGFortuneFile/HomePage but the idea is to soon enough move that to github and do it on there.

If you want to add to the file: the page above is a wiki so you can just add what you want to add. (some people already did). I am looking for pithy sayings, jokes, DM advice, and everything else that might be interesting. Have a great quote about roleplaying games? Maybe even a more or less short story? Just add it on there.

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Les bijoux Dati, suite. Le gouvernement réagit en deux temps après les révélations de Libé sur les trésors de la ministre de la culture. 1. La défense: "Elle doit régulariser si c’était vrai, affirme Sophie Primas. De 2. L'attaque contre la presse: "J’ai discuté avec elle. Aujourd’hui, ses avocats vont porter plainte, (ils) ont écrit à la HATVP", ajoute la porte-parole sur le plateau du Grand Jury. My ministre is rich...

Dati n'a pas déclaré à la HATVP sa fabuleuse collection de bijoux offerts par son amant Henri Proglio. La liste estimée à 500 000 euros donne le tournis: une montre Chopard (32 000 euros), des ballons bleus Cartier, le Serpenti Viper de Bulgari (28 900 euros), un bracelet Anita Ko (24 265 euros) etc. "Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend", chantait Monroe... Pas sûr que la Justice entonne la même chanson https://www.liberation.fr/societe/police-justice/les-bijoux-caches-de-rachida-dati-revelations-sur-le-patrimoine-de-la-ministre-de-la-culture-20250409_CSZOOEG3AVFCJBERYAWHKY6F7M/?redirected=1

A quotation from Emerson

Shallow men believe in luck, believe in circumstances — it was somebody’s name, or he happened to be there at the time, or it was so then, and another day would have been otherwise. Strong men believe in cause and effect.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) American essayist, lecturer, poet
Essay (1860), “Worship,” The Conduct of Life, ch. 6

Sourcing, notes: wist.info/emerson-ralph-waldo/…

so yesterday I was wondering why there was no #fortune file for roleplaying games (or similar stuff). despite it's geeky origins there doesn't seem to be anything really available.

so I decided to start a new one. here's a page on campaignwiki.org to collect pithy aphorisms or DM advice. Or jokes.

no, right now it isn't much.

https://campaignwiki.org/wiki/TTRPGFortuneFile/HomePage

What a cool combination of analog and digital!

https://internetsculptures.com/object/fortune-webstones

(h/t: https://open.substack.com/pub/kristoffer/p/against-the-cozy-web)

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- French: fortune

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