@monlaferte did it!!! She matched the greatness of Norma with her new album, Mon Laferte Seis. It's very different from Norma, but just as spectacular. She's got endless talent and creativity. Mon is the greatest musical artist of our time. open.spotify.com/album/3EOGX…

Next time you think of a Pigeon in a negative way just think….. Pigeons Are Misunderstood Geniuses. Most people don't realize just how incredible Pigeons truly are. These gentle birds aren’t just loyal partners—they're brilliant, complex beings. Tucked inside their beaks are tiny magnetic crystals that act like a natural GPS, helping them navigate thousands of miles with stunning precision. They can also hear frequencies too low for us to detect, read polarized light patterns in the sky, and even see in ultraviolet light, giving them a vibrant view of the world we can't imagine. Pigeons are also remarkably intelligent. Studies show they can count, recognize their own reflections, understand abstract ideas, and even grasp probability, sometimes outperforming young children. When raising their young, they produce a special milk-like substance in their throats to nourish their chicks. They form lifelong bonds with their mates and use different coos and calls to communicate danger, love, and territory. History has seen their courage, too. During wartime, a pigeon named Cher Ami delivered a message that saved 194 soldiers—even after losing a leg. Sadly, despite all this, many pigeons were abandoned when we no longer “needed” them, and they stayed close to humans because that's what they knew. Pigeons are not pests. They are intelligent, emotional, deeply social beings that remember us. It's time we remember them. ❤️

Dark Factories? Of course you thought there wasn't anyone on the floor. They were hiding in the offices while management pretended to turn the lights on for you. Let me guess -- you just finished the McKinsey Quarterly deck on lights out factories, and now you think humans are going away because you saw a couple Fanucs feeding pallets into CNC mills while management waxed poetic about the future of manufacturing. You're going to believe that right up until your first ECN comes through and you have to scrap fifteen hundred fixtures because a twenty three year old design engineer in San Jose wasn't taught in their overpriced engineering university that hard internal corners are stress risers and cause parts to fail in cyclic loading. Then it'll become your problem. While you're dealing with that, you'll look around and notice that the lights in your "Dark Factory" have been on a lot dealing with these issues. You've had to hire more people than you thought for machine maintenance, and you don't even want to think about the very well lit shipping department in the back. Surprise -- another issue, the well staffed and well paid QC department is saying that half of your parts and assemblies are either OOS or failing ORT. You turn the lights back on. Then you'll finally open up ASME Y14.5 and really read it this time, and not just skim over it again to figure out why an angularity tolerance isn't measured in degrees and see that the cause of your process capability going to crap was because a process two vendors upstream was slowly coming out of spec. After that, you'll think you've figured things out and crack open Shigley's to read about Hertzian contact stress and realize that the super hard and expensive unobtanium carbide lathe tooling you forced down your vendor's throat was going to end up adhesive wearing away anyways despite the softer aluminum parts they were cutting because it didn't matter what your hardness differential was. Daddy Bharat Bhushan was always going to get you. You then implement a tool change schedule and then it hits you. Dark factories aren't happening because dark factories aren't a robotics problem. They aren't even just a manufacturing problem. They're an operational, finance, and everything under the sun problem. Recursive feedback mechanisms? Sure, pal. The only thing here recursive is this story. If I had a dollar every time I heard it, well, I guess I could afford an actual factory.

🛸🎬 Maher and Farah: Full Transcript with My Comments 🎬🛸 "If you don't think this is happening now, I'm not sure who the kook is. It could be the most serious issue. Everything else might seem trivial, if the aliens are here." ~Bill Maher (This transcript (with my comments added) took forever. Hope you enjoy it. Wanna support what I do? Information on that will be in the 2nd, attached tweet.) ~ Maher: "First up, he is the producer and director of the new documentary, The Age of Disclosure, releasing in select theaters and streaming worldwide on Prime Video, November 21st. Take a look. (They show the trailer.) Audio from the Gimbal video... "My gosh... There's a whole fleet of them." Sec. Rubio: "We've had repeated instances of something operating in the airspace over restricted, nuclear facilities, and it's not ours." Rep. Andre Carson: "These are other-worldly things that are performing maneuvers that haven't been seen." Former F-18 Fighter Pilot, Cmdr. David Fravor: "You can kind of see it start to accelerate, and as it gets in front of us, it's gone. This thing was doing 32,000 miles an hour." ~ Maher: "Please welcome, Dan Farah (audience applause). Dan. How are you, sir? Appreciate having you here. All right. So I saw your movie, I can't wait to talk to you about this. Not just because it's Halloween, I know it's a spooky subject. But I've been on your page for quite a while. I think, you know, I'm old enough to remember when we talked about UFOs, or what do we call them now?" Farah: "UAP." Maher: "UAP. I don't know why we had to make the change." Farah: "Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena." Maher: "(pause) I thought it was Aerial?" Farah: "Uh uh." Maher: "No? Unidentified Anomalous Phenomenon." Farah: "Yeah." Maher: "Whatever it is, they're flying saucers (Farah and audience laugh)." Farah: "That's fair." (Okay, why the change from UFO to UAP? UAP is an old acronym that was first used in the 60s and then, off and on, throughout the years. Most notably, by former First Lady, Hillary Clinton, in 2016 when she was on Jimmy Kimmel Live “You know, there’s a new name. It’s unexplained aerial phenomenon. U.A.P. That’s the latest nomenclature.” ~Hillary Clinton But the recent use of it again was explained by Jay Stratton at the 2023 AlienCon: Travis Taylor: "I think now would be a good time to explain to everybody why you decided to go from UFO to UAP." Jay Stratton: "I look at it…honestly, it needed to be done. There were two key reasons I changed it from UFO to UAP. 2018-ish, 2019-ish, you started seeing that term used more and more. I had to draw a line. This is 15+ years in this business for me and I had A LOT of interaction with Congress and lot of interactions with the executive branch, across the White House and everywhere. And it was way more palatable, one, for folks to hear UAP versus UFO because, unfortunately, they just immediately jump to little green men. "And two, my experience at the [Skinwalker] ranch, and other places and other things I had seen throughout my career at this point: This is phenomena. And it’s not one thing, it’s not always a nuts and bolts craft, as we used to look at it. I kind of went through that same stage of life that Jacques Vallée, my friend, went through with kind of realizing, we’re not talking just about flying saucers, right? There’s more to the story, it’s a bigger, involved story." Travis: "So you can blame Skinwalker Ranch for UAP." (Audience laughs) Full transcript: x.com/TheUfoJoe/status/16651… ~ Maher: "And, you know, things have changed a lot. I mean, again, I'm old enough to remember when it was like, it was just the kooks who thought about this. And I just wanna say, I think, if you don't think this is happening now, I'm not sure who the kook is, but I don't think it's me. I really don't. It used to be crazy people, or people out in the middle of nowhere who got anally probed and all that kind of..." (Audience and Farah laugh. Not a good moment for the experiencer community. Whitley Strieber feels like he was raped (anal probe) by a non-human intelligence so that claim is not something to laugh at. They revisit this a little later on in the interview and they do a better job of treating it in a serious manner.) Maher: "And now it's, I mean, it's not just the military people and the Defense-Department people, but everybody. You did a great service with this film because you put it all together, and you see all these people. Not just Rubio, it's bipartisan. You see Schumer and Adam Schiff and...senators and very, very serious people. The people with the buzz cuts in the military, talking about this and saying the kind of things that just cannot be explained. So, my first question to you is, could you go through the six observables? These are the things that you cannot deny that they are seeing." Farah: "Yeah. So, a number of the intelligence officials I interviewed who actively investigated UAP and non-human intelligent life for the government. They came up with a set of observables, they called them. These are, basically, flight characteristics that we observe UAP doing. And it's things we can't do. So, like, instantaneous acceleration." Maher: "Instantaneous acceleration." Farah: "Yeah. So like, stopping on a dime and then taking off." Maher: "Right. One of the guys in the movie says they hover around for a few hours, and then it's just gone." Farah: "Yeah, just absolute instant going from like, zero, to thousands of miles an hour. Anti-gravity. Displaying characteristics that seems [as] if they are not impacted by gravity. Transmedium travel. Going from one medium to another. Going from like, space, to the air, to the ocean, seamlessly." Maher: "And traveling in the ocean at speeds...we could never travel in the ocean They don't seem to be affected by friction of any kind." Farah: "Yeah, yeah. And then, hypersonic velocity. The long and short of it is, these things are doing things that we can't do. Our most advanced aircraft can't operate this way. And they're doing it with impunity in our most sensitive airspace. So, our training ranges, our military bases where we have our defense capabilities, like Vandenberg Air Force Base up the coast here in California, where we have our heart of our defense capabilities. UAP activity there regularly. Our nuclear-weapons bases. It's a serious issue." Maher: "A very (laughs)... Well, I mean, it could be the most serious issue. I mean, I feel like...they remind me, the aliens, a little about the guy in the, you know, the tough-guy movie, he always says, 'If I wanted you to be dead, you'd be dead by now (audience and Farah laugh).' I feel like people who have this capability, if they wanted us dead, we would be dead by now." (I don't think they want us dead (I could be wrong), and it may be that they want us very much alive because they use as a resource. As Garry Nolan speculated when Danica Patrick asked him: Why the secrecy? Why is information being kept from us by the people in the know? Nolan: "Maybe there's something about them that's really scary...to know that we are somebody else's property. Or, heaven help, maybe we're farmed for something? That would be awful, that would be icky. I mean, it isn't as if we don't farm things. Just to know you're not the top of the food chain, might not be a pleasant thing." Source: x.com/TheUfoJoe/status/15613… ~ Maher: "I feel like people who have this capability, if they wanted us dead, we would be dead by now." Farah: "Well, one of the points raised in our film is, what if that's been the case for a long time, but circumstances have changed? You know, we've evolved, technologically, very quickly, over the last 80 years." Maher: "Right." Farah: "But our morals have not really evolved. We're still a violent species." Maher: "Right." Farah: "We're still threatening war. We're, you know, still invading sovereign nations." Maher: "You bring up the point, and I think it's a great one, that I don't think it's a coincidence that we started finding stuff in 1947, right after the dawn of the nuclear age. That's when you have Roswell." (Well, there are claims of crashes earlier than Roswell, such as in Aurora, Texas in 1897 and Magenta, Italy in 1933.) Maher: "They have found crashes...you have people who say..." Farah: "Yeah, people that say Roswell happened and it was real." Maher: "No, but you have people who say, 'I saw with my own eyes, [an] alien body or a spaceship that crashed.'" Farah: "Yeah, yeah, yeah." (No, no, no. Assuming (since I haven't see the film) he's referring to Stratton - who talks about seeing those types of things - we need to be accurate: Stratton did NOT say he saw bodies, and craft that crashed. THIS is what he said: "I have seen, with my own eyes, non-human craft and non-human beings." ~Jay Stratton What was Stratton referring to? I think this post will give you a pretty good idea...) Stratton: On Skinwalker Ranch, "I was walking in the field in the area now that’s called the triangle, and I was just just kind of scanning the skies and I look up over the mesa and I saw what you’d call a delta-shaped, really right isosceles triangle craft moving left to right over the mesa. And at this point in my career, I’m the senior head of aerospace and warfare for the Defense Intelligence Agency. I’m the guy who the Secretary of Defense and President, and whomever else…I’m writing these reports and briefings on technologies and aerospace technologies, anywhere in the world. "And I’m seeing something that, okay, maybe it’s an F-117, a small, delta-winged… Nope, not a 117. It’s smaller than that. It’s not a B-2. The kicker was…it was moving very quickly. The size of it? Either it was very far away and large, or it was small and closer. You don’t have any way to judge that. And the biggest kicker was, it was quiet. And I should be hearing jet noise, even at a distance. Maybe see contrails if it was a control day. It’s all guesses, right? Apply the scientific approach and try to understand what I’m seeing. "But that was my first trip to the ranch, and that first trip to the ranch validated for me, 'Hey, there’s some things there.' And you can imagine, I went back with all the resources that I have. Is it ours, right? Everybody always thinks, 'Is it ours?' And I could never validate what that was. And that makes a point to somebody, especially in a career they’re in." (The beings, NOT bodies) Travis Taylor: "And when we turned the corner, Kaleb's (Bench) shining his light, and there was something there. It was as big as a human torso, rectangular, and it made the light reflect right back at us. And the thing either turned this way and ran off, or…it vanished. It’s hard to say because it was so quick. So we took off running after it and I’m yelling at these guys. "And Erik (Bard) jumps up and runs in and turns on all the cameras and everything. And it’s really weird…we all looked at each other afterwards and we were describing it. None us wanted to say it. But, one of us finally said, 'You know, it sounds kind of like that Predator thing they talk about in that book that George (Knapp) wrote.' And we were like, 'Nooo, that’s too crazy! We can’t do that.' But that’s literally what happened." Joe: "Like a translucent type of…like in the Arnold Schwarzenegger movie." Travis: "Like a cloaking suit or something. It was so weird. I don’t know what it was." Stratton: "Travis called me after that one. And if I remember, I asked him, 'Did it have a rectangle on it, kind of chest height?' And he said, 'Yeah.' I’ve seen the same thing out there. It’s crazy, right? To think thirteen, fourteen years apart and the same kinds of things are happening out there. I jokingly call it the Predator, you know? Because there’s no other way to describe it. And then, I observed something as I’m walking back, kind of to the triangle area, towards the doublewide. And I saw something wider than the trailer that the cows were in. And George (Knapp) may know more about the back end of that. I came home and our mutual friend, Colm (Kelleher), said that the security guards that were out there had seen something similar, too. And it was, you know, it jumped from the ground, up on top of the trailer. I didn’t see that myself. Caveat. But I did see that mask moving, behind the trailer as I was walking back. I didn’t see anything on my way up there. We had two dogs out there with us at the time and it wasn’t either one of the dogs." Full Predator post: x.com/TheUfoJoe/status/18919… (BTW, it's possible Stratton DID get access to the Legacy UAP crash retrieval program and related programs and DID see non-human bodies and craft (crashed or landed), but he has never, publicly, spoken about that so it's only speculation. However, Stratton DID say this at the SXSW premiere in March.) Stratton: I've spent, "lots of time over the years, countless hours with Congress, with the executive branch, pushing this message forward. And what I want to say is: In those countless hours, I have given them information. I've given them not only the existence of non-human intelligence, but the address to go look to see it, and they were denied access." (How does Stratton know where it is? Has he been inside of those locations to confirm it? Maybe. Maybe not.) Full transcript from the SXSW: x.com/TheUfoJoe/status/18995… ~ Farah: "I think the connection between nuclear weapons and UAP is fascinating. It's one of the most interesting things I learned about making this movie. In line with our harnessing of nuclear energy and our technological progress, UAP activity has increased. And so, yeah. It's safe to assume, if they're concerned with our progress, technologically." Maher: "Yes. I mean, again, I'm just going by what I'm reading and seeing in your movie, but reading for years now. Certainly the last five to ten years. It just seems that there is a progression. At the beginning, they seemed to be interested, they were more land based, the things we found. There was that book "Communion (and "The Communion Letters")." Somebody (Whitley Strieber, and Anne Strieber co-wrote the latter) wrote about a number of people, hundreds of people, who had a very similar experience. It could be a different psychological phenomenon, but they all seem to be even boarded on a spaceship. They have a vague memory of being probed in the ass (audience and Farah laugh). Well, that's just how they would... It looked like they were studying us. Like, okay, let's find out what these people are about. And then they seem to have ghosted us. They don't, they're not probing us anymore. You never hear about that. I feel like they, okay, we know who we're dealing with. And now they're..." (Kudos to Maher for taking those claims seriously. Are people still reporting abductions? I will reach out to experiencer researcher, Yvonne Smith, and find out.) Farah: "I think there's been a, like a turning point, in that, I think government officials have started to acknowledge that this is a real situation." Maher: "Yeah." Farah: "And it's not a laughing matter, it's serious. And it's an issue that should become a serious and national conversation." Maher: "Yeah, well, I think it is now. And as you say, when our technology changes, it very well may change their attitude toward us. It seems like, no they could have been here forever." Farah: "Yeah." Maher: "You seem to think that their bases are under the ocean, which is the best place you would hide. We don't know much about the bottom of the ocean." Farah: "Yeah. 80% of the ocean hasn't been explored." Maher: "Right. And they seem to be interested, very interested, when we started to have nuclear technology. Now we have AI. Is it possible that we do get to this level where we're getting threatening to them with our intelligence, and that is when they're gonna send Keanu Reeves to say (claps/swipes his hands together to simulate the non-humans wiping out humanity. Audience and Farah laugh). What? Plainly, they don't wanna do it." Farah: "It does seem like we're moving towards a crossroad, like we're evolving, technologically, to the point where we're on, you know, we're close to doing what they do. Yet, again, our morals have not evolved. So we could be viewed as a potential threat." Maher: "Plainly, we're not close to what they're doing. Maybe we will with AI. But all the stuff you're describing, the reason why it's so alarming is that we're not close. We don't even know what the f*ck they're...how they pull it off. How do you do this stuff? So maybe we have a few years." (Glad Maher said that. If we look at the technology and propulsion militaries around the world have put on public display thus far, we are NOT close to being able to replicate what UAP can do. But maybe we've cracked some of the code behind the scenes? I've posted about that many times and, IMO, the jury is still out. Did one of the folks in the movie pull Farah aside and say, "Between us, we're close to cracking gravity and being able to mimic what UAP can do." Doubtful, but you never know.) Maher: "I felt this was a very positive, even though some people would read it differently: They seem to have the technology, I learned from your movie, to turn off, or on, our nuclear weapons. There was an incident...was there not, where they turned...?" Farah: "Yeah, there's been a few events where UAP activity over nuclear-weapon sites has activated the missiles, in some case, and then turn them off in some cases. And, it's obviously a display of power of some sort. You know, your guess is as good as mine of what the intention is, but it's concerning." (I'm glad he's not assuming he knows "their" intent, like so many people have a tendency to do, and Maher almost did in this interview.) Maher: "Well, it's concerning. Also, if they are gonna be able to turn off our nuclear missiles, I say they can't get here soon enough (Farah nods in agreement and the audience applauds). You know, that, to me, looks like they're saving us from ourselves. Possibly." (Possibly is right and I'm glad he added that.) Farah: "Yeah, yeah. It could be, you know, there's been different opinions voiced in my film, right? Some people say it's the equivalent of adults taking matchsticks out of the hands of children, right? That's one way to look at it. Another way is, they're concerned about our progress, nuclearly, and they're trying to deter us from moving forward." (When people talk about the appearance of UFOs over nuclear missiles, seemingly, putting them into launch mode, they usually mention the 1982 alleged incident in the Ukraine. But there's also at least one alleged American case and it's a good one. "On this particular night, we had to activate the ‘Inhibit’ switch because we got ‘Launch in Progress’ indicators. I wrote a massive post about it here... 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼 x.com/TheUfoJoe/status/18322… ~ Maher: "So, let me just be devil's advocate here, because I'm sure there are people saying, you know, well, what about the other side, the people who have skepticism and their arguments that they level against you. It could be, I don't know, it could be another power like China or Russia that has this technology that we don't have. I don't think that's really..." Farah: "I think that's even more terrifying. Because we know the intentions of our adversaries, and they're not good. So if it turns out China leapfrogged us, technologically, by a lot." Maher: "They didn't." Farah: "All right, they didn't. But the person who can't wrap their head around the idea that it's a non-human intelligence, you would say..." Maher: "Well, I mean, here's another one I had. One of the people who was very prominent, who was early on interested in this subject and looking into it, was Harry Reid. He used to be the Democratic senator from Utah (Nevada. ~Joe), and he's a Mormon. And the Mormons believe in Planet Kolob. You know this, right?" Farah: "I don't know that. " Maher: "You don't know about the Mormons?" Farah: "No, I don't." Maher: "Oh, let me tell you." Farah: "All right (Farah and audience laughs)." Maher: "If you think the Scientologists are weird, Uh, yes, they believe God is a six-foot-two man. Six-foot-two. They know his exact height. And he lives on the planet, Kolob. Where is Kolob? Well, if you hit Ork (Mork and Mindy reference), you've gone too far. That's all I can tell you (audience laughs and applauds). But, no. This theory is that Harry Reid wants to legitimize alien invasion because it makes his religion make more sense." Farah: "Hmm. I don't think so." Maher: "Yeah, you don't have to answer (both laugh). (If anybody takes the time to read Reid's foreword to, "Skinwalkers at the Pentagon (SATP)," they'd have better insight into his thoughts on UAP. "Data on UAPs exist; they need to be analyzed; more data needs to be collected; and the public should be informed as much as possible." ~Reid in SATP ~ Maher: "Here's my question: Is this something that has been hidden from presidents themselves? Because, you know, it's been 80 years. I mean, somehow a lot of this stuff has been kept under wraps. Wouldn't Trump have blabbed about it?" Farah: "So, one of the shocking interviews in my film is Secretary Rubio going on the record, saying that this has been so deeply hidden that even presidents are not told all the facts around this topic. They're sort of given a little bit of information, and they're told the direction this is gonna go, but they're kept out of it. And that was pretty shocking to hear, someone at Rubio's level making that clear." (Admiral Wilson explained this to Dr. Eric Davis in 2002... Who's on the list (that he saw) of people who get access to the alleged crash retrieval program?) Wilson: "Willing to say that most were program employees - names and titles (job titles) - civilians - didn’t recognize any military personnel - could be there." Davis: "Any politicians?" Wilson: "No. No White House names, no President! No Congressional people. No Congressional staffers." Davis: "Any in Clinton or Bush Sr. Administrations?" Wilson: "No! But handful of names were Pentagon individuals I recognized - few from OUSDAT, one from another department, another at the NSC who is Pentagon SES employee." (And Rubio said this to Joe Khalil in 2023. Great interview if you haven't read or watched it.) "If it's accurate...there's a group of people who believe that they possess something that they don't need to share with anybody, including elected officials, who they view as temporary employees of the government." ~Rubio Full Interview: x.com/TheUfoJoe/status/16778… ~ Maher: "And there's also the theory I saw in your movie that, possibly, when these crashes take place, they're doing it on purpose so that we'll be able to absorb their technology. That we have found their spacecraft, possibly, and we would reverse engineer it so we could learn. Can you think of anything we actually may have learned from an alien crash?" Farah: "Like, there's a lot of speculation on what sort of technology that we've benefited from, has come out of these situations." Maher: "Tang." Farah: "Tang (both laugh along with the audience). But one of the really serious reveals in the film is that intelligence officials in our government, and elected officials in our government, have uncovered the fact that there is a deeply-hidden UAP crash retrieval program. And they've been reverse engineering UAP. And there is, in fact, a program - adversarial nations as well. And so there's this, essentially, a high-stakes, secret Cold War race playing out right now to reverse engineer this technology. Some of the interview subjects in my film referred to it as the Manhattan Project on steroids, because the stakes are so high, but the public has no idea. So one of the things I hope comes out of this film is the public becoming aware of this situation, because these circumstances impact us all. But we all, for the most part, think it's not a serious issue. We think it's a joke. Laugh at it." Maher: "I don't think it's a joke. It does not seem to me like they have evil intent, at least not for now. And, you know, given the state of humanity, I don't know if anybody could really do worse (all laugh)." (I agree that humans have been less-than-stellar at handling things on this planet, but I also don't know the intent of the intelligence behind the phenomenon. Could be bad news for us. Or not.) Farah: "I mean, if you were an advanced non-human intelligence species, would you want us showing up on your front lawn?" Maher: "Let's just leave that for next time (all laugh and audience applause). Thank you very much. Great work. I appreciate your efforts." ~

Factory farms are profoundly anti-traditional, and conservatives should stand firmly against them. They are a modern monstrosity, an industrial system that has torn the soul out of food production, leaving something wretched and unnatural in its place. Until recently, animal farming was an honorable way of life, rooted in a long and meaningful tradition. Pasture farming connected people to the land and to their animals, fostering a bond grounded in respect and stewardship. Today, opposition to factory farming among conservatives is far lower than it should be. This is partly because such opposition is often conflated with left-wing ideas about vegetarianism and veganism. But this is a mistake. The conservative alternative to industrialized agriculture is not vegetarianism. It is the restoration of traditional pasture farming.

I don't know who needs to hear this, but @monlaferte is the greatest singer of our time. Femme Fatale, is one of the best albums of the last 50 yrs--which is incredible, given that Mon already has Norma and Seis on that list. Big, brassy, bold. Femme Fatale is the epitome of Mon.

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I'm so tired of the deceitful discourse and the false binaries. I spent the final month of my last pregnancy not knowing if I would survive or my baby would survive. We came so close to the edge. My boy spent two weeks in the NICU, and I was sick a long time after. And throughout that time I received hundreds of death wishes from the groyper horde. Weeks of coordinated attacks where every single medical update post was flooded with the most vicious wishes of death and suffering you could imagine for myself and my tiny baby boy. They even made an account to harass me while we were in the hospital called "Abby Libby's baby" which posted bloody fantasies about my baby dying. The PFP was my face with the star of David drawn all over it. I will never forget any of this. So to all of you still pretending you think this conversation has just been about "a group chat leak," to those who've been signaling over and over that you "don't care" that groypers have infiltrated the Right and that we should unite with them. To those who continue to mock and slander those of us who said the group chat was an indicator of a bigger problem we needed to address. To those who defend their alliance with the groyper cancer because the Left cheered Charlie's murder and because the left murders babies, because the Left is evil...Spare me. Groypers are no less evil than Leftists. They have worked less quantifiable physical evil to date only because they currently lack the power to enact their explicit, horrifying wishes and plans. And if you haven't experienced that evil yourself it's only because you haven't stood against them. It's because they believe you might be sympathetic to them. It's because they still think you might be useful. I'm so tired of the bad faith, deceitful arguments when this is the reality.

Obama prosecuted more journalists using the Espionage Act than all presidents before him combined. He arrested, jailed & tortured Chelsea Manning for revealing war crimes committed in our name. He repealed the Smith-Mundt act which now allows the CIA/FBI to directly propagandize American citizens & infiltrate unions/ NGO’s/school boards/ & organizations of all kinds. He deported 3 million Hispanics & built the cages Democrats protested against under Trump. Obama took us from 2 wars to 7 wars while ramping up the drone bombings killing innocent people left & right. He effectively repealed Habeas Corpus & gave the government the authority to jail people indefinitely without a trial. Obama is a Myth pushed by the establishment & their bought media to make you think there was someone fighting for you while he was serving Banks, Big Pharma, the MIC & his corporate masters.

No, Greta, you were not tortured. Israelis being held in terror tunnels for two years without light, food, touch, life, and freedom are being tortured. Iranians forced to confess for their death sentences by having their teeth pulled, being lashed, and subjected to sensory deprivation are being tortured. Yemenis sentenced to death by stoning for criticizing the Houthis are being tortured. Lebanese held in Hezbollah’s captivity for challenging its rule are being tortured. As someone from a country of people who are tortured daily and left forgotten by the world while pampered westerners role play their persecution for media attention, I can tell you that this isn’t the “right side of history.” It’s the theater of the moral narcissists.

Enjoys all the luxuries that this country has to offer while hating it, screams "violence" about something that isn't violence while committing an act of violence, and says it's because his dog has too much freedom. It's all there.

It sounds silly but ‘poptimism’ was an early signal to me that something was very wrong culturally. Pop music doesn’t need promotion from music critics. It’s pop music. It’s popular and accessible. By cheerleading pop music the ‘poptimists’ were providing zero value added in terms of making readers aware of esoteric, difficult, or obscure music they otherwise might not be aware of or likely to enjoy. Instead the ‘poptimists’ were playing the role of social arbiter, they existed as a manifestation of over socialization, they were saying ‘it’s ok to like this music and think that it is good,’ and instead of doing real work as critics they were performatively allocating social approval. ‘Poptimism’ was self aggrandizing and self referential and as others have pointed out it didn’t even make sense because a great deal of pop music has always been held in high esteem. These status games where art approval was manufactured by ersatz surplus elites as a social commodity were a primary mechanism that facilitated our descent into the ideologically adulterated slop that was culturally dominant from 2015 to 2024 that everyone knew was execrable but still pretended was wonderful and thrilling.

the fact that kids attending AI schools rank in the top 1% of standardized tests with only 2h of learning per day is proof that traditional schools were never about learning, just compliance.

My initial analysis holds: motion blur remains negligible (~0.02 px at max 3.3s exposure, given 137k mph speed and ~29M km distance), so the streak likely reflects the comet's extended coma/tail or stacking artifacts, not streaking. Size estimate: Navcam focal length 19.1mm yields ~0.33 mrad/pix scale. At 29M km, a 5km nucleus subtends ~5e-4 px (point-like). Sources estimate 0.3-5.6km diameter, but image shows blurry few-px extent, implying larger coma ~10-100km.

UH....HELLO?!? THIS IS MAJOR NEWS ABOUT 3I/ATLAS, FOLKS.

Perseverance's Navcam max exposure is 3.28s, often used in low-light conditions like pre-dawn imaging (e.g., Deimos shots). In near-no-light (Martian night ~0.027 lux from stars/Phobos), it would use this max to achieve usable SNR for bright objects like 3I/ATLAS. Blur calc (0.12 px at 5° FOV) already assumes max exposure—can't go longer, so no additional streaking. The shape likely isn't motion artifact.

The main thing you have to remember about Ta-Nehisi Coates and others like him is that they exist strictly for the entertainment of white people. Black people aren’t reading personal essays and see right through guys like him unless they’re Obama intellectual types themselves, in which case it doesn’t count. It’s not that he’s not accepted by whites, it’s that he’s not accepted by blacks. That’s his core anxiety. Writing about race kills two birds with one stone. It lends his work an air of “urgency” and “legitimacy” that it otherwise lacks, being that it’s really nothing more than humdrum female substack confessional about vibes and feelings. And it creates a dynamic where liberal guilt on one hand and conservative outrage on the other drive interest in something that wouldn’t otherwise have a market or stand on merit. Everyone already knows this and no one actually takes him seriously, so the spectacle of wheeling him out every few months to few years to speak on it feels particularly Soviet.

I'm Italian. We have conversations about the exact same shit you have conversations about in USA. Same left vs right shit, same "i'm on the right side of history" shit, different shitty context. We just use more hand gestures and different curse words.

i'm actually much more hostile to the H1B program after reading this paper and it's entirely because of this figure just insane regressions get publications but the real shit is always in the raw data summaries

Jimmy Kimmel has been canned — that’s a fantastic thing. But there are real questions about the role of the FCC here. We break it all down on Verdict: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas…

from a game theory perspective, we are in a repeated prisoners dilemma game with the left. Ideally, both sides maintain principled norms but if only one side can get away with defecting while the other does not -- if you can break norms with impunity -- you benefit. but if both sides defect, that's the worst possible outcome. so how to play the game? the answer, game theory teaches us, is "tit-for-tat with forgiveness." if your opponent defects, you defect (tit-for-tat) but occasionally you have to let it go to escape the trap of endless defection (and escalation). what Jonah is describing is a strategy of "always forgive" that is the worst possible response. we are in the first round of the right's "tat" for years of the left's "tit". maybe someday we can have a round of forgiveness and return to a better equilibrium where both sides maintain norms. but not yet.