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TEHRAN, Oct. 14 (MNA) – Lebanese President Joseph Aoun announced his telephone conversation with Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi and support for a diplomatic solution for the region.
do google translate and similar websites just not work at all on phone browsers anymore? trying to translate a word and it just won't do it. just keeps popping up stupid messages and 'ai star emoji translate from english' button, even after i select german>english. cambridge uni website just autorefreshes halfway through typing the word. i guess human trabslator jobs are safe after all.
bruh is today i learned science slop? volcanos are the most common extinction event so it isn't contrarian to say volcaneos contributed to ending the dinosaurs and there's no way any giants mythology in china referred to denisovans when many cultures have giant mythologies and denisovans happened a long time ago much before agriculture, bronze and iron age. Mythos being passed down reliably for a long time is already iffy in australian aborigines which never had those massive turnover events.
GeForce 617.70 targets two issues affecting 360Hz gaming monitors. NVIDIA confirms that the black-screen fix is incomplete and additional driver changes are still needed.
TEHRAN, Oct. 14 (MNA) – Azerbaijani student bids farewell to friends through school window after being denied entry for wearing hijab [Islamic Dress Code].
"La brève existence de la CGTU, entre 1920 et 1936, reste particulièrement influente dans le mouvement ouvrier et la vie politique française. Ce syndicat permet la diffusion des idées communistes dans le monde du travail. La CGTU tente d'abord d'impulser..."
I came across a claim made by John C. Wright in a larger piece he wrote about scepticism. Looking around, I found other people online making a similar claim:
“There is more and firmer historical evidence for the resurrection of Christ than there is for the assassination of Caesar.” scifiwright.com/2026/10/blind-…
He also claimed directly afterwards that there is more evidence for the miracles at Lourdes than for the Big Bang, but that comparison is of two things so unlike each other in terms of phenomenon and what counts as evidence that it makes for an unwieldy discussion.
The resurrection-v-assassination does feel more tractable. We have two events and two historical figures. Jesus died (or left) in about 33 CE, and Julius Caesar died in 44 BCE, both within the extent of Roman civilisation, so while the two events are separated by several decades, they aren’t from vastly different eras.
Before we go further, we need to consider what evidence is. There are multiple competing models of evidence in the philosophy of logic, but in general, evidence lends support to the belief that a proposition is true. Evidence doesn’t guarantee truth; it can be of varying quality. We expect it to be cumulative (more is better), but in some cases evidence may be contradictory (i.e. two pieces of evidence may support a claim when looked at separately, but when looked at together, the two pieces are in conflict).
For historical evidence, we also need to consider how detailed the claim is. For example, the assassination of Julius Caesar is believed to have occurred on 15 March, but imagine we found an eyewitness account of the event that dated it as 10 March? Is this positive or negative evidence? It supports that the assassination took place but contradicts the date. Put another way, it supports the claim “Julius Caesar was assassinated” but undermines the claim that “Julius Caesar was assassinated on March 15”.
The issue of the nature of the claim is of particular import given one of the claims is “the resurrection of Christ”. There is scant physical evidence of people returning to life after being dead for many hours, but that’s holding the claim to an unachievable standard. In terms of the kind of evidence that might exist, by the “resurrection” we should judge by a set of events that there could have been human eyewitnesses to: i.e. Jesus died, his body was placed somewhere, and then, sometime afterwards, he was seen alive. This is not being overly generous to Wright’s claim.
Imagine if tomorrow, a historical dig found documents that could be accurately dated (somehow) to Jerusalem 33 CE written by an impartial observer stating that a man known to have been executed by the Roman authorities was seen by the observer alive the following day. Such a document would be incredibly exciting for Christians around the world, even if it didn’t mention Jesus by name and contradicted a notable detail (alive the next day, rather than on the third day). We would clearly regard such a document as evidence of the event known as “the resurrection of Christ”. So, let’s be generous and skip over the “how” and count anything in which Jesus appears to have died but was later seen alive. This way we can stick to evidence rather than articles of faith.
However, even by this standard, the kind of event we are discussing is not a well-attested one. It is not impossible for somebody to have appeared to have died but later to have been seen alive, but it is an unusual set of circumstances. Political assassinations of notable political leaders are a kind of event that we have many historical and contemporary examples of. If we include political killings in general (e.g. examples where the state kills somebody for political reasons but using a judicial process), then the killing of Jesus counts as an example. So, to start with, we have more reason to regard an assassination as plausible than a resurrection (even with generous parameters).
We then have the two people concerned. I won’t detail the substantial evidence for the existence of Julius Caesar. It’s a lot, but it is also part of the historical context for the resurrection of Jesus, as that claim includes his execution by agents of the Roman Empire. Jesus is more than likely a historical figure (aside from anything else, the existence of Christianity implies his existence). The nearest contemporary evidence for his existence is the writings of Paul, but other later Christian writings imply earlier sources as well. However, the weight of evidence for Julius Caesar far outweighs that of Jesus. That’s hardly a surprise, given the relative standing of the two figures during their own lifetimes. Julius Caesar was a major player in the powerful Roman Republic. The relative lack of contemporary evidence for Jesus is what we would expect if he actually existed.
Still, the issue is the comparable weight of evidence. With historical evidence, we can think about the comparison in terms of how big a conspiracy theory we would need to have for the person NOT to have existed, but for there still to be the same amount of evidence. For Jesus not to have existed, we need Saint Paul to have been extraordinarily convincing, and there is some evidence of Christian groups around Jesus’s brother James as well; it would be a stretch. Still…the bulk of the evidence is the existence of Christian belief around the time after the apparent death of Jesus.
For Julius Caesar not to have existed requires a whole set of contemporary accounts of his existence not to be fiction, as well as the Roman Republic to have dissolved itself and reconstituted as an empire with an emperor within living memory of his death based on a popular fictional character. People do get heated up about fictional characters, but they don’t typically start civil wars about them.
So in terms of [event]-[person], we have:
Event
Person
Assassination: well-defined type of event with many historical precedents
Julius Caesar: well-documented figure during his lifetime and in the immediate aftermath of his death.
Resurrection: loosely defined type of event with limited historical precedents
Jesus: probably a historical figure but no documents from his lifetime, and some documents within a couple of decades of his death.
We could stop there, as the comparison is already stacked in favour of one side. We have a not-unusual event occurring to a well-attested figure versus an unusual event occurring to a less well-attested figure.
So why would John C. Wright make such an odd claim?
We do have a lot of details about the assassination of Julius Caesar, but in terms of historical narratives, that complete story is best laid out in the works of later Roman historians. For example, if you look at the Wikipedia article on the assassination, it cites works by Cassius Dio, who was born 165 CE and Suetonius, who was born 69 CE. If you are generous in dating the Gospels, maybe the extant complete narratives of the resurrection of Jesus predate the extant complete narratives of the assassination of Caesar. We don’t know when, say, the Gospel of Mark was written, but 70 CE is an estimate which would put it earlier than, say, Suetonius’s De vita Caesarum (112 CE).
That’s not what Wright’s claim states, though, and when I look at similar claims online, you get the same switching around i.e. the idea of the resurrection being better attested is a claim that looks for the earliest written accounts of the resurrection with later accounts of the assassination. For example, Paul’s First Letter to the Corinthians is cited as historical evidence of the resurrection, and it is indeed direct evidence of belief in the resurrection of Jesus as an important article of Christian faith:
“3 For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures;4 And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures: 5 And that he was seen of Cephas, then of the twelve: 6 After that, he was seen of above five hundred brethren at once; of whom the greater part remain unto this present, but some are fallen asleep. 7 After that, he was seen of James; then of all the apostles.8 And last of all he was seen of me also, as of one born out of due time.” en.wikisource.org/wiki/Bible_(…
The letter is commonly dated to 53-57 CE, so reasonably close to Jesus’s lifetime and within the lifetime of people who would have known him. Paul is also writing as if this is something the people he is addressing already know about and that is a common belief within the community.
However, with the assassination of Julius Caesar, we have references to it from much closer in time to the event. It’s not just documentuary evidence, there is, for example, a coin minted during the conflict following Caesar’s death that features Brutus one side and a reference to the Ides of March on the other, along with two knives (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ides_of_… ). The Res Gestae Divi Augusti is a inscription from 14 CE describing the life of Emperor Augustus, written in the first person (i.e. the original text was possibly written by Augustus himself prior to his death ). It doesn’t give the details of Julius’s death but is clear that he was murdered:
“Those who butchered my father I drove into exile, avenging their crime by legal judgements, and afterward, when they made war upon the republic, I defeated them twice in battle.” en.wikisource.org/wiki/Transla…
What makes the claim particularly absurd is that if we take Christian beliefs about the life of Jesus at face value we should expect this difference in evidence. On the one side, the life of a man with a small but significant following beyond the core of a major empire, versus a famous general, a ruler of that predominant power in that region. More relevantly, confirmation of a biographical fact about Jesus, adds no more weight to the spiritual or moral claims of Christianity.
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Why diasporic Judaism is the safest path forward for Jews worldwide Jews have lived in diaspora since 70 CE—about two thousand years. The State of Israel
Dans les théâtres antiques de Fourvière, on vous emmène pour une aventure en pleine Antiquité. Calidore est un petit esclave qui rêve de devenir danseur sur la scène du grand théâtre de Lugdunum. Mais pour atteindre son rêve il doit braver des dangers et prendre des risques.
Plein de suspense, de rêve dans ce lieu magique que l'on redécouvre avec des yeux d'enfants. ✨
Pendant les vacances, on propose notre visite contée des théâtres de Fourvière pour tous les âges dès 6 ans ! En voici un petit aperçu en vidéo : hitchtube.fr/w/ocZPf6dVnvRsaUT…
Exceptionnellement cette année pour fêter les 10 ans de notre partenariat avec Les Bateaux Lyonnais, on vous propose de démarrer la journée avec une "Croisière Moussaillons" sur la Saône.
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Trafikverket gör det igen. Placerar en stolpe - mitt i cykelbanan. Bekräftar gång på gång Riksrevisionens kritik: ”Riksrevisionen bedömer att kvaliteten i den cykelinfrastruktur som Trafikverket bygger kan bli betydligt bättre.” cykelmagasinet.se/trafikverket…
I got the ROM from the ACC RC-85 repeater controller and extracted it's audio to individual wave files at 48 kHz to preserve aliasing like you would get from the hardware, then imported all those files from Finder on my Mac into Reaper. It ... didn't quite put them in any kind of reasonable order, mostly. The result is somewhat amusing, at least to me.
@VE3RWJ Someone has basically already done that. First in 2019, then later for a project that is supposed to mimic programming the ACC repeater controllers through DTMF, the way it used to be done. So I don't really have to do anything.
The sixth 10th anniversary beer from First & Last Brewery is a nitro ESB collab with Stu Brew.
Look out for its first official pour at @thefreetradeinn.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy this Sunday (Red & Sandy will be there from 3pm if you want to chat all things beer).
While headlines obsess over artificial intelligence (AI) as an existential threat, a deeper story unfolds beneath the surface — advanced technology produces radically different outcomes depending on which society wields it.
Secretary of War Pete Hegseth announced on Oct. 8 that the execution of Nidal Malik Hasan by a firing squad will be livestreamed on Dec. 3. If this does happen, it will be the first federal execution by the U.S.
“While European countries are not immune from US tendencies, the authoritarian shift is not a law of nature. To turn back the tide, we need to be active: to deconstruct the surge of military and tech solutionist views and defend what we have, like basic social welfare and human rights enshrined in asylum law. And, if there is still energy left, keep reminding everyone of the importance of democratic empowerment, of the urgency of climate action and of radically needs-based digital policy.”
For more read this post about how "digital sovereignty" can result in a false hope for good capitalists:
https://www.structural-integrity.eu/a-larger-cage-about-the-ongoing-calls-for-digital-sovereignty/
and this post by @alineblankertz@indieweb.
Palestinian physician Dr. Marwan al-Hams, director of field hospitals in Gaza and spokesperson for the Palestinian Ministry of Health, was subjected to a brutal assault by occupation prison guards in the presence of Zionist "Minister of Public Securi…
C'est certainement pas les bonnes couleurs car #colorblind mais je prends vraiment du plaisir à utiliser l'aquarelle, même si ça demande une réflexion d'ordre des étapes pour éviter de se foirer
> En France, les coopératives de location ont été dissoutes dans les années 1970, alors que la majorité des autres pays européens ont conservé ce modèle. Alors que nous traversons aujourd’hui une tempête, ce modèle est pourtant très utile chez nos voisins. À Genève, par exemple, les coopératives gèrent plus de 5 % des logements du canton, avec des loyers 40 % inférieurs au marché. Et là où beaucoup se cassent les dents, ces coopératives continuent d'investir. Fort de ce succès, le canton a récemment voté par référendum pour doubler la proportion de logements coopératifs et atteindre 10 % du parc de logements.
je sais pas trop pourquoi le texte passe des "coopératives d'habitation" aux "coopératives de location". c'est thématisé "habitat participatif" aujourd'hui. il y en a plein et aussi quelques nuances "de notre temps".
Dans ce pays d’Amérique du Sud, les logements coopératifs, qui facilitent l’accès à une forme de copropriété, se sont développés depuis les années 1970. Ils con...
@tk de ce que je comprends c’est pas tout à fait la même chose que l’habitat participatif, qui lui revient timidement en volume mais avec une grosse hype
je ne l'ai pas retrouvé mais il y avait un super documentaire (maison France 5) appelé Codha Echo-Logis mais je n'en ai pas retrouvé la trace visible en dehors de YouTube
par ailleurs, même si on n'en construit plus, j'ai découvert par ma collaboratrice qui vit à Montreuil l'existence de ce système, car elle et son compagnon ont acheté dans un immeuble de ce type largement auto-géré par ses sociétaires
#OTD Heute wäre er 100 Jahre alt geworden: Michel #Foucault, geboren am 15. Oktober 1926 in Poitiers. Foucault und #Marx markieren bestimmte Teile der Linken, die sich politisch voneinander abgrenzen. Nicht so für Jacques Bidet: In »Foucault mit Marx« zeigt er, wie Foucaults Analyse der Disziplinarmacht und Marx’ Konzept des Klassenkampfs zusammengeführt werden können.
»Für Bidet sind die beiden ein Paar, das gleichsam Rücken an Rücken an verschiedenen Fronten kämpft: Während Marx die Macht des Eigentums ins Visier nehme, bringe Foucault mit seinem Interesse für Irrenärzte, Richter oder Stadtplaner ›diejenigen Machteffekte ans Licht, die mit dem anderen, der modernen Gesellschaft innewohnenden Klassenprozess verbunden sind: dem des Macht-Wissens‹« (Daniel Hackbarth in der @woz).
Marx und Foucault – oft scheinen sie unversöhnlich nebeneinanderzustehen. Nicht so für Jacques Bidet. Er lädt dazu ein, Foucault mit Marx zu lesen, und zeigt, wie Marx’ Konzept des Klassenkampfs und Foucaults Analyse der Disziplinarmacht zusammengefü…
One of Russia’s largest business associations has proposed eliminating tax breaks for small firms. A tax expert warns the changes would force many businesses to close — even as Moscow seeks more revenue to fund its war in Ukraine. meduza.io/en/cards/a-major-rus…
Delovaya Rossiya, one of Russia’s largest and most influential business associations, has proposed more than 50 economic reforms to the authorities, RBC reported. Many clearly run counter to small businesses’ interests.
We're pre-sharing a chat with Champagne Song, the antifascist who received a 100 year prison sentence in the #Prairieland Antifa trial. We spoke about their political development & current US situation
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Banks are now trying to offload the AI data center debt they just underwrote
JPMorgan and MUFG are part of the group that has spent more than six months trying to distribute $38 billion in construction debt tied to a Texas and Wisconsin data center project leased to Oracle.
This was close to the feedback the instructor told my mom after I went to Outward Bound when I was 14. "He complained the whole time but completed all the challenges satisfactorily"
Honestly one of my favorites - sometimes you just gotta push through, and if cussing like a sailor is what does it, then damnit all, motherfucker, we cussin'!
Gisteren vroeg de KNAW – terecht – aandacht voor de academische vrijheid en de vrijheid van meningsuiting door wetenschappers. Pleidooi om een stap verder te gaan, naar een recht op wetenschap.
Gisteren vroeg de KNAW – terecht – aandacht voor de academische vrijheid en de vrijheid van meningsuiting door wetenschappers. Pleidooi om een stap verder te gaan.
Mooi om over wetenschappelijke vrijheid te spreken, en daarmee ook wetenschappers bij bijv. hogescholen en bedrijven te betrekken. Daarnaast is opvallend dat tegelijkertijd het Rathenau momenteel ook met een dergelijk onderzoek bezig is (in opdracht van OC&W)...
AVFTCN 043 – David Belson interview, and creating a community around emerging technlogy
Greetings from the Vancouver airport! I’m about to board a ridiculously long (14.5 hours! 🤯) flight to Brisbane, Australia, and then on to another 6-ish hour flight to Bali, Indonesia, for ICANN 87. If you will be at that ICANN meeting, please do drop me a message and let’s connect!
Two quick things… I’ve published a new podcast episode… and I’m trying a new system to see about creating a community interested in what we are seeing out on the horizon in terms of emerging tech.
Bringing Back The Podcast! (And looking for guests..)
As I mentioned in previous newsletters, I have been so missing working with audio! I just love the medium and I enjoy talking with people and bringing stories in audio form. And so I’ve started bringing back “The Dan York Report” with an interview with David Belson.
David is a friend who has been staring at data about the Internet and publishing stories and reports about what he sees in that data in terms of traffic patterns, disruptions, major events, and more. When he was at Cloudflare, he had me join him for a few “Cloudflare TV” episodes talking about Internet disruptions… so I was glad to turn the tables and interview him. In this episode, we talked about where he sees the future of Internet measurement, the challenges of measuring Internet disruptions – and what the potential impact may or may not be of agentic AI. You can learn more about David at dbelson.com , mastodon.social/@dbelson or on LinkedIn at www.linkedin.com/in/dbelson/ (He’s also currently looking for his next role…)
If you would be interested to be interviewed, send me a note about why we should talk! Drop an email back to me (or ping me on Mastodon or LinkedIn).
Building a Community Around Emerging Technologies
I’ve still been giving a LOT of thought about building communities and connecting with others of similar interests. I’ve been experimenting with Discourse, and so I invite you all to join:
I’ve already started posting some topics about different emerging technologies I personally find interesting, and I would love to have other people join in. I’d love to connect with others who are interested in climbing up in their own “crow’s nests” and looking out at the horizon!
If you’ve never worked with Discourse, it’s a system for hosting forums… think kind of like Reddit but for your own topic (and with a smaller group of people).
It’s got a number of nice features… and it has mobile apps for IOS and Android that make engaging very easy. The IOS mobile app also runs on recent Macs, so you can have it as a separate app on your Mac.
Anyone reading this is welcome to join. Your first step will be to submit a request for an account. I will approve account requests as soon as I can … but do note I’m about to go spend 15 hours in an airborne metal tube, so I may not be approving immediately after I send this out.
P.S. Note that this is Discourse, the community software that’s been around for many years, versus Discord, the live chat system used by many, particularly in the gaming space.
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Japan Airlines has ordered up to 26 Embraer E190-E2 aircraft for its regional subsidiary J-Air, comprising 16 firm orders and ten options. Deliveries are
Got an email from #Dropbox about their new TOS. I'm troubled by this passage: "We’ve further explained our collection and use of your data to better identify what data is being used for which purposes."
Has anyone dug deeper into this? What do they mean by "collection and use of your data"? What data are they collecting? How are they using it? For which purposes?
OMG OMG OMG! Thanks to @sfoskett I was the overjoyed delegate to score a signed copy of The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI by none other than Cory Doctorow @pluralistic 😱 😱 😱 Thanks Stephen and Cory!
"The United States has informed its Arab partners: we are ready to immediately resume the war.
Arab media reports that the United States has sent confidential messages to its regional partners, stating that all necessary preparations for the immediate resumption of the war with Iran have been completed, and that operational plans for a large-scale military operation have been finalized.
Senior officials from countries in the Persian Gulf have told local media that they have received messages from the White House and the Pentagon, indicating that all necessary preparations for the immediate resumption of the war against Iran have been completed. The operation is expected to be "short and impressive."
According to reports in Arab media from countries in the Persian Gulf, which claim to have received information from high-ranking Arab officials in the region, the Trump administration has sent confidential messages to the United Arab Emirates and other partners, stating that all preparations for resuming the war have been completed, and that an intense and destructive, but short-term, military operation is expected.
Sources in the Persian Gulf countries claim that the order to begin the war has already been prepared and coordinated with all countries in the region that are expected to participate in the operation. The U.S. Central Command has also developed and finalized operational plans.
According to the plan, which has been reported on for several days, the proposed operation is a "short and destructive campaign" lasting approximately 3 days, which will exhaust all of Iran's capabilities that have been restored in recent months, and will allow the country to maintain its weakened position ahead of the U.S. midterm elections"
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