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If you're familiar with Usagi Yojimbo, he needs no further introduction. For those who aren't...

Miyamoto Usagi is a rabbit ronin. Also a space samurai. The invention of comic artist Stan Sakai, he started out as a letterer for Sergio Aragones with the Groo The Barbarian comic in Albedo Anthropomorphics. He started Usagi in 1984 and has 219 issues published overall, including several crossovers with Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles in both print and animated.

I met Stan several times at San Diego ComicCon and got to speak with him. Really nice guy.

https://www.humblebundle.com/books/usagi-yojimbo-rabbit-rnin-bundle-books
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And here's the first trailer!



It won't be out until late this year, and there is a possibility that it will see theatrical release!

https://gizmodo.com/guillermo-del-toros-frankenstein-has-its-creepy-first-trailer-2000608830
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This is a great quote from Doonesbury's Say What:
Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt rebutted criticism [of Trump's crypto dinner], saying: 'The president is attending in his personal time. It is not a White House dinner.' But he flew to Virginia on Marine One. He gave his remarks from a lectern with the presidential seal. And some of the crypto crowd on Friday got a tour of the White House."
-- Maureen Dowd


Congratulations, sweetheart, you just described and failed the Duck Test.

President TACO conned these people into giving him hundreds of millions of dollars to attend this "dinner". They were served poor-grade airline food, allegedly Walmart-grade steaks, he gave a rambling 23 minute speech that had nothing to do with crypto currency or the direction he's steering the nation in regards to it. And then he left. He allegedly had a private meeting with some of the highest donors, I haven't seen anything about that particular meeting.

In other words, per usual, SCAM.

Oh, I almost forgot the second part. And GRIFT.
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GO, PAKISTAN!

It's always lovely to see these arrests take place in countries where you don't expect them to happen.

This particular ring, who operated the Heartsender malware service, are accused of stealing more than $50mil from U.S. businesses over the last decade and are under investigation in the EU for more theft. Their package was advertised as undetectable to malware/anti-virus systems and used to trick businesses to make money transfers to criminals.

Great malware, lousy opsec (operational security).

The guys apparently thought that Pakistan was totally fine with their running a big cybercrime operation with no consequences. And perhaps they were, I don't know if other countries 'encouraged' Pakistan to get serious about shutting down people like this or what.

This is where it starts getting good...

"Mr. Shahzad ['alleged' head of the group] was named and pictured in a 2021 KrebsOnSecurity story about a series of remarkable operational security mistakes that exposed their identities and Facebook pages showing employees posing for group photos and socializing at work-related outings.

...

Sometime in 2019, The Manipulaters failed to renew their core domain name — manipulaters[.]com — the same one tied to so many of the company’s business operations. That domain was quickly scooped up by Scylla Intel, a cyber intelligence firm that specializes in connecting cybercriminals to their real-life identities. Soon after, Scylla started receiving large amounts of email correspondence intended for the group’s owners."


Like I said, sloppy opsec.

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2025/05/pakistan-arrests-21-in-heartsender-malware-service/
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