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"Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the universe trying to build bigger and better idiots. So far, the universe is winning." - Rick Cook
Polish prosecutors have launched an investigation into far-right leader Grzegorz Braun after he declared the gas chambers at Auschwitz to be âfakeâ and said it is a âfactâ that Jews have committed ritual slaughter of Christians. Denial of Nazi crimes is an offence in Poland that carries a jail sentence of up to three years.
Braun, who finished fourth in the recent presidential elections with 6.3% of the vote, made his remarks during an interview today with radio station WNET. The veteran far-right politician, who is a member of the European Parliament, has a long history of hateful and conspiratorial rhetoric regarding Jews and other minorities.
During the interview, Braun referred to what he claimed are the âlies of the Talmud, the Haggadah [two Jewish religious texts], and the Holocaustâ. He said that Jewish organisations âcondemn those who tell the truth that ritual murder is a fact and Auschwitz with its gas chambers is a lieâ.
A longstanding antisemitic canard is that Jews murder Christians, in particular children, and use their blood for religious rituals. Meanwhile, many modern antisemites deny the fact that gas chambers were used at Auschwitz and other German-Nazi camps to murder Jews during the Holocaust.
After the interviewer contested Braunâs remarks, he reiterated them, saying that the Auschwitz Museum provides a âpseudo-historical accountâ about what happened at the camp and blocks research into the gas chambers. He also cited a book by an Israeli historian that he says proves Jews carried out ritual murder.
That led the interviewer to immediately cut short the broadcast, saying that there âare limits to political cynicism and sensationalism when it comes to several million victims and their memoryâ.
Subsequently, Anna-Maria Ć»ukowska, head of the parliamentary caucus of The Left (Lewica), one of the groups that make up Polandâs ruling coalition, announced that she was filing a complaint to prosecutors regarding Braunâs remarks.
She accused him of violating article 55 of Polandâs law on the Institute of National Remembrance, which criminalises public denial of Nazi and communist crimes. Those found guilty can be punished by up to three years in prison.
Late on Thursday afternoon, the district prosecutorâs office in Warsaw announced that it had initiated an investigation into whether Braun had committed the offence of denying Nazi crimes.
Meanwhile, Piotr CywiĆski, the director of the Auschwitz Museum, which is a Polish state institution, issued a statement condemning Braunâs âscandalousâ comments, which he said were not only a violation of the law but also âan insult to the memory of the victims of the campâ.
âGrzegorz Braunâs words are not a âpolitical provocationâ, but a conscious lie and an act of ideological, antisemitic hatred,â said CywiĆski. âThey cannot remain without a decisive response from the state and all decent people â for whom the memory of Auschwitz is of particular importance.â
The museum director noted that, while it was primarily Jews who were victims of the gas chambers of Auschwitz, ethnic Poles, Soviet prisoners of war, and Roma were also murdered in them.
At least 1.3 million prisoners were transported to Auschwitz during the war, with at least 1.1 million of them killed at the camp. Around one million of those victims were Jews, most of whom were murdered in gas chambers immediately after their arrival. The second largest group of victims were ethnic Poles.
CywiĆski said that the museum would itself file a notification to prosecutors regarding Braunâs remarks. He also appealed to Polish media to stop giving space to Braun, who âhas repeatedly shown that he cannot function in the public space without vandalism, lies, hate speech and racismâ.
Last week, Braun was presented by prosecutors with seven sets of charges relating to four incidents, including his attack on a Jewish religious celebration in parliament two years ago.
He is also being investigated over a series of incidents during the recent presidential election campaign, including when he vandalised an LGBT+ exhibition, made antisemitic remarks during a televised debate, and removed a Ukrainian flag from a public building.
@Emmanuel Florac Opening windows is a start and taking plenty of very cold showers or laying in a bath tup of cold water. When I lived in cities that worked for me.
I developed a nasty paronychial abscess which turned into a rapidly expanding cellulitis. Here I present a pictorial case report on my response to over-the-counter products from my medicine cabinet.
"Kendilerinin hĂŒkĂŒm sĂŒrmek, baĆkalarının da itaat etmek için doÄduÄunu dĂŒĆĂŒnen insanlar kısa sĂŒrede kĂŒstahlaĆır; insanlıÄın geri kalanından seçilen zihinleri önemle erkenden zehirlenir; ve içinde hareket ettikleri dĂŒnya genel dĂŒnyadan o kadar farklıdır ki, onun gerçek çıkarlarını bilmek için çok az fırsatları olur ve yönetime geçtiklerinde çoÄu zaman egemenliklerdeki en cahil ve en uygunsuz kiĆiler olurlar."
Imperial Hypocrisy About "Terrorism" Hits Its Most Absurd Point Yet
The US has removed Syriaâs Al Qaeda franchise from its list of designated terrorist organizations just days after the UK added nonviolent activist group Palestine Action to its own list of banned terrorist groups.
Imperial Hypocrisy About "Terrorism" Hits Its Most Absurd Point Yet
The US has removed Syriaâs Al Qaeda franchise from its list of designated terrorist organizations just days after the UK added nonviolent activist group Palestine Action to its own list of banned terrorist groups.
Al-Manar correspondent: An Israeli helicopter dropped a bomb on a pickup truck before it fell and exploded in Kfar Kila southern Lebanon english.almanar.com.lb/2454839
Do you have good engineers yet in America? I was listening to a compilation of old top gear episodes where they talk about American cars. Only slightly interested in cars at all but the 3 guys are good.
I notice a theme off American cars having shit handling around corners and bends. Fair enough. You havenât got any.
But then also the theme of massive big motors, and then you get less horsepower than a small European city car. 6L V8 motor and it makes like 180 horsepower.
@wy7usa Okay but do they now have good build quality? or is it still like what they said on top gear. designed to last maybe 3 years made of plastic. like what German car makers now do
And itâs not about some pig watching pornography, itâs about CHILD VICTIMS beings enslaved and sexually abused by sick disgusting elite pigs AND further loss of trust in our government.
Sorry, it needs to be said.
Iâm not believing what weâve been told. If TRUE, then why is Maxwell in Prison?
Between 2021-2025, five major reports from major, influential global institutions outlined a remarkably similar vision for how the world should be governed.
Russian President Vladimir Putin sent a wreath to the farewell ceremony for former Transport Minister Roman Starovoit. Russian media reported that it was placed in the ceremonial hall of the Central Clinical Hospital (CCH 1) in Moscow.
White Coat Waste (WCW) investigations have documented how the National Institutes of Health (NIH) is doubling down on dog and cat testing while it's been eliminated by agencies like the Navy and Dept. Of Veterans Affairs.
Muslims support the perpetrators đĄ A trial is underway of two violent Muslim male suspects in Manchester, England who attacked and injured police in July 2024. They argue it was self-defense.
One unarmed female officer was beaten in the face, having her nose broken. Police body camera footage shows the officer bleeding and screaming as backup arrived.
Left-wing politicians and Muslims expressed support for the Muslim family at the time. Some Muslims even rioted outside a police station in Rochdale. minds.com/newsfeed/17903306801âŠ
UK parliamentary committee report claims Iran has made at least 15 attempts to murder or kidnap British nationals since 2022; Tehran issues âcategorical rejection".
Are all #ISO #auditors this fucking dumb or is it an act, to lure you into oversharing, revealing your process dirty laundry?
Srsly this guy (once again, 4/4 new auditor in as many #certification audits/inspections) is asking fundamentally basic questions that make me think "have you... ever... engineered anything in your life before? why are you an auditor."
Like explaining what a jira workflow is... or what a branch/merge strategy is. Fuck's sake.
Before I retired my coworker and I used to love our auditors. Love fucking with them, that is. Seriously, made our day sometimes, and we especially loved fucking with the new greenhorn auditors that just graduated college and got hired by Toilet & Douche (Deloitte & Touche) and we were their first assignment.
We didn't have ISO audits but we did have SOx-404 audits. (Sarbanes-Oxley.)
So many auditors were left crying and questioning their life's choices after we got done with them.
We never had a deficiency in the 17 years I was in my position, even after Deloitte (and their auditors) were told to find deficiencies that it looked bad that we never had any.
Then there was the time Compliance wanted to audit my PKI so they brought in some auditors from E&Y. Supposedly their top PKI people. Brought on a consultant for that since I was confident in my practices and implementation but I didn't have the same air of "authority" as someone who made a living doing PKI audits and PKI consulting.
Still passed with flying colors even after the E&Y auditors tried to claim that everything we were doing was bullshit.
I hate auditors. Love fucking with them, but hate them none the less.
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AND YOU'RE RIGHT ABOUT THE OVERSHARING. I used to tell new employees when they came into our group: Treat the auditors like you would the Police.
Never divulge ANY information unless specifically asked for.
Never lie, but don't tell them anything.
And never let them take your evidence away with them. They want to see evidence, they can look at it on your screen in your cube. They can take notes. But they can't take anything physical.
I would love messing with our auditors, but save for the one guy we had up to 3 yrs ago when he retired who actually _knew_ shit, it seems like we always get idiots. Or maybe they're experienced in a hardware engineering concern and know what a BOM is, might know what "change control" means, but start talking software development and its like you're speaking martian. And heaven help you if you're an agile shop, it breaks their brains.
For us, most of our important backend systems were UNIX, Linux, and Mainframe. When I retired in 2022 we were well on our way to moving stuff to Windows but we would never be able to get completely off *NIX or the Mainframe and it was fun to see these auditors that had no idea was a Mainframe was, what an LPAR was, JCLs, /etc/sudoers, or *NIX permissions for files and directories, trying to make their square pegs fit into our round holes.
They'd come at us and tell us they've found all these deficiencies and we'd show them how their methodology was flawed and how there weren't any deficiencies, or they were inserting control parameters into our SOX controls where none existed.
Every year we got audited. Sometimes the same auditor would come back for a couple of years but the vast majority were stupid greenhorns who couldn't navigate the command line.
The fact that all of our processes were automated (and auditable) really made things simple for us too.
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BOM? Going to take a wild guess but is that a Bill of Materials?
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And oh doggy did we have change control. Ran the complete gamut where every tiny change had to be documented and approved. Which naturally slowed everything down and made the entire department less productive.
To when I left minor changes still needed to be documented but the approvals were much more streamlined. It was mainly honor system but everyone knew if you implemented a change and marked it as minor and it took something down or caused an outage you were going to have to get in front of the entire change advisory board the following week and explain why your "minor" change caused the outage (with the idea being that maybe it shouldn't have been a minor change to begin with.)
Most Eerie Moment In My Entire Career/Not Career. Is Grok Programmed To Break Reality? It Also Denied Netanyahu Was At The WH On July 8--Evidence Below
"The only way to stop people making dangerous journeys across the channel is to introduce safe and managed routes for people to seek asylum in the UK." - Carla Denyer
I wrote recently about the chilling jurisprudence of Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, who has drawn the ire of colleagues in opinions for her rhetoric and extreme positions. Many have expressed alarmâŠ
Dr. Kevin OâConnor appeared before the House Oversight Committee, but he had little to say about the investigation into the alleged cover-up of President Joe Bidenâs mental and physical decliâŠ
The Trump administration notched another victory this week when U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta in Washington granted a motion to dismiss a case brought by five organizations to stop the cancellatioâŠ
WaPo demands Biden brain transparency as his doc pleads the Fifth; EPA tiptoes near chemtrails; MechaHitler sparks creative AI chaos, possibly with help from the top, or maybe David Hasselhoff; more.
Activists say the City University of New York is escalating its repression against Palestine activism by suspending a student leader and terminating the positions of four faculty members who have been active in protesting Israelâs genocide in Gaza.
The number of requests and disclosures in this report is average compared to most past reports. In Q4 2024, we got 49 requests and orders, compared to:
45 in Q2 2023 38 in Q3 2023 59 in Q4 2023 39 in Q1 2024 40 in Q2 2024 40 in Q3 2024 2/9
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Requests from federal agencies remains low compared to past years, at 4. From 2020-23, the avg number of federal requests per Q was 25. The provincial number is high, at 44, extending the trend for the past year. We don't know why it's happening; maybe a change in police practices. 3/9
Since our disclosure rate is generally lower for prov than for fed requests, our overall disclosure rate is lower. From 2020-23, we disclosed information for ~91% of federal requests, but only 62% of prov'l. Why? Federal agencies act fast while we have logs, and rarely make informal requests. 4/9
There were 7 emergency requests this quarter, and we identified subscribers in all 7 cases. One of these was a disclosure to a foreign law enforcement agency. That's the first time we have ever disclosed customer information to a foreign agency; we did it this time because we judged it to be extremely serious and urgent. We also informed the customer that we had done so.
7 exigent requests is slightly above average. On average, we've got 6 per quarter. The max was 10 in Q1 of 2024. 5/9
We disclosed info to 1 "Administrative" agency. That's an agency that is not technically "law enforcement", but they had the legal authority to compel disclosure, i.e. we had to disclose the information. Administrative agencies are typically a tax agency or the CRTC's enforcement folks. 6/9
Moving on, this quarter, we made 2 proactive reports to law enforcement. These are rare, like when an agent overhears violence or a threat. It is never related to a customer's online activity; we do not track that. From our stats, we make proactive disclosures about five times per year. 7/9
Finally, as always: Sometimes our numbers donât add up perfectly, or may not be totally complete, mostly because it's hard to perfectly keep track of every informal request, including so-called "jurisdiction requests". There may be small discrepancies in our numbers due to that. 8/9
You can post. Or you can transmit. You can design. Or you can awaken. Some build brands. I build worlds. Narratives carved from silence. Aesthetic charged with intention. AI used not to generate â but to initiate. If your project has a soul â I can show its face. Everything else is just noise.
FBIâs Kash Patel opens criminal probes into Comey and Brennan; USAID caught red-handedâagain; Ukraineâs collapse accelerates, right on schedule, just like we warned them for four years; more.
"Premature babies are being treated amid Israeli attacks at the Al-Hilu Hospital as they are at risk due to fuel shortages and closure of border crossings in Gaza City, Gaza on July 10, 2025. The fuel crisis affecting all hospitals could lead to the failure of generators and vital equipment.â
I'm one who watches politics more for the theater than the rhetoric.
I'm hoping for a summer action/suspense movie ending to the Epstein episode: A "turncoat" intelligence agent decides to play Snowden and dumps EVERYTHING on the internet. Both sides try to shoot it down as fake, but the victims use this revelation to find their voice and come forward.
August is supposed to be a HOT month. Maybe something will actually happen for those who have the brains to realize we're not living in normal. We're living in psyops & have been for decades if not longer.
Carter Braxton
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in reply to Emmanuel Florac • • •Notre corps aussi est un frigo, en buvant de l'eau, une certaine quantitĂ© va s'Ă©vaporer par notre peau. Lorsqu'on a trop chaud, il faut s'hydrater.
Pour la circulation d'air, il vaut mieux ouvrir petit face au vent (à l'entrée) et ouvrir en grand à la sortie. Il suffit de tester en soufflant dans sa main : en fermant les lÚvres comme pour souffler sur la soupe, la sensation sur la main est froide, tandis que si la bouche est grande ouverte, c'est chaud. Et comme la chaleur monte, il faut faire entrer l'air frais par le bas, de sorte que l'air chaud soit chassé par le haut.
On peut combiner les deux techniques d'Ă©vaporation ventilation en ouvrant lĂ©gĂšrement la porte d'une cave humide si on ne l'a pas trop isolĂ©e, l'air humide va monter et sa vapeur d'eau en expansion va chasser l'air chaud par le haut. Pour une meilleure circulation de l'air, on ne bloquera pas l'entrĂ©e d'air par les soupirails et on ouvrira les fenĂȘtres Ă l'Ă©tage. Un peu le principe du puit provençal.
Et il y a moyen de rĂ©flĂ©chir encore. Par exemple Ă mettre derriĂšre les vitres exposĂ©es au soleil des couvertures de survie, rĂ©flĂ©chissantes. Il y a moyen d'aller trĂšs loin dans ce type d'idĂ©es. Par exemple un ventilateur crĂ©e un courant d'air frais, en irradiant de la chaleur par son moteur. Toute Ă©nergie consommĂ©e produit de la chaleur : une centrale nuclĂ©aire produit de l'Ă©lectricitĂ© et de la chaleur, l'idĂ©al est donc d'oublier l'Ă©nergie en Ă©tĂ© pour n'utiliser que la physique. Bon, pas tout Ă fait, car l'Ă©nergie c'est de la physique. Et il y a de bonnes et de mauvaises idĂ©es. Je voyais un meme oĂč quelqu'un dormait devant son frigo ouvert. C'est bien Ă l'avant, mais Ă l'arriĂšre du frigo c'est de la chaleur qui est produite. Donc ça ne sert Ă rien, sauf Ă augmenter sa facture Ă©nergĂ©tique et dans l'absolu Ă augmenter la chaleur globale par consommation Ă©nergĂ©tique. C'est se tirer une balle dans le pied. Et Ă l'Ă©chelle de la planĂšte, toute Ă©nergie fossile ou minĂ©rale (comme l'uranium) consommĂ©e le sera finalement pour rĂ©chauffer l'atmosphĂšre et crĂ©er des turbulences insoutenables : vents, pluies, sĂ©cheresses.
Ce qui est efficace, c'est la transformation d'un liquide en phase gazeuse, c'est la ventilation et l'isolation, mais en gardant à l'esprit que c'est toujours une question de vases communicants. Rien se crée, tout se transforme. Et c'est une mauvaise idée que d'utiliser un corps solide comme énergie, car elle sera en expansion de maniÚre gazeuse à un moment ou un autre. Un caillou de charbon ou d'uranium consommé va augmenter la chaleur globale selon son potentiel énergétique. Et toujours à augmenter l'effet de serre, en se transformant en gaz divers. C'est absolu.