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The Nobel Prize in Literature for 2025 was awarded to László Krasznahorkai, “for his compelling and visionary oeuvre that, in the midst of apocalyptic terror, reaffirms the power of art.”
128 Χρόνια Σιωνιστικού τύπου εθνικισμός. 128 χρόνια χρήσιμοι ηλίθιοι και συνένοχοι στη δύση από όλο το πολιτικό φάσμα. Νομίζω από τα σκληρότερα, πιο συμπαγή, μακροβιότερα και πιο "επιτυχημένα" εθνικιστικά κινήματα όλων των εποχών, με βάση όχι την καταγωγή αλλά τη θρησκεία.
Σε ότι απέτυχαν οι ναζιστές του Χίτλερ το πετυχαίνουν σταδιακά οι ναζιστές του Σιωνισμού. Το "σταδιακά" είναι το κλειδί πάντα.
Paul makes it clear that good works flow from salvation. And drawing near to Jesus in gratitude by inner working of the Holy Spirit transforms us to do them.
Had to run to the convenience store this morning and as I was pulling-out of my neighborhood there were two BCSO deputies pulling-in. Now, there's not a LOT of people here where I live so ngl I thought they might be coming for me for a split second. LOL. Halfway expected them to be waiting for me when I got back. Not that I've done anything illegal, but under this regime simply existing is apparently illegal in some places.
Trump approved on Monday the construction of a 211-mile road right through the Brooks Range Foothills and across the Northwestern Alaskan Arctic, including 26 miles of Gates of the Arctic National Park.
If the Supreme Court officially makes the chief executive a unitary executive, the advancement of the public good may depend on little more than the whims of the president, a state of affairs normally more characteristic of dictatorship than democracy.
Recent rulings indicate that the high court is leaning toward expanding the type of presidential power that is more emblematic of dictatorship than democracy.
C'était une guerre américano-sioniste contre #gaza , Washington l’a soutenu avec toutes ses capacités militaires et politiques. C'était à elle de décider si elle pouvait arrêter le feu ou le maintenir allumé. Trump, célébré comme un artisan de la paix, a été complice de ce génocide et est, de l’avis général, un criminel de guerre.
Battlefield 6 Benchmarks & PC Performance Analysis
EA has lifted the review embargo for Battlefield 6. Powered by the Frostbite Engine, it’s time to benchmark it and examine its performance on PC. For our benchmarks, I used an AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D, 32GB of DDR5 at 6000Mhz, AMD’s Radeon RX 6900XT, RX 7900XTX, RX 9070XT, as well as NVIDIA’s RTX 2080Ti, RTX …
The Trump administration has vowed to crack down on what it calls hate speech. It has labeled antifa, a loosely organized anti-fascist group, a terrorist organization. And it has sought to punish figures such as TV host Jimmy Kimmel for statements perceived critical of conservative activists. What the First Amendment makes clear is that it does not just protect the rights of speakers who say things with which Americans agree. Or, as the Supreme Court said in a separate decision it issued one year after the case involving the funeral protesters: “The Nation well knows that one of the costs of the First Amendment is that it protects the speech we detest as well as the speech we embrace.” But free speech is not absolute. The government can regulate speech through what are known as “reasonable time, place, and manner” restrictions. These limits cannot depend upon the content of the speech or expressive conduct in which a speaker is engaged, however. For example, the government can ban campfires in an area prone to wildfires. But if it banned the burning of the U.S. flag only as a form of political protest, that would be an unconstitutional restriction on speech. theconversation.com/how-the-fi…
They're publicly threatening to kill American #antifascists now? There's absolutely no law anywhere in the US about being antifascist. But remembering Judi Bari... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judi_Bar… informs me nothing changed, except their arrogance. #EarthFirst #Antifa
Surprise! Trump’s trade war is a masterclass in self-sabotage. Even Canada, a core US ally, is dumping Treasuries in record amounts. Why fund the bully who’s slapping you with tariffs? Instead, they're boosting trade with China and buying gold. The dollar is wilting, gold is soaring, and the US debt spiral is accelerating. But sure, this is definitely "setting the fundamentals for a strong dollar." Brilliant.
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Mark Bray was teaching courses on antifascism. Turning Point USA accused him of "belonging to antifa", which he denies. His flight to Spain was canceled abruptly on Wednesday night.
Pedestrian accidents getting more deadly seems like fairly strong evidence for the theory that the rise in large SUVs is behind the uptick in pedestrian deaths: it’s not that more pedestrians are getting hit by vehicles, it’s that the ones that are getting hit are more likely to die.
Behold Battlefield 6 at 8K/Overkill Settings with DLSS 4 MFG
Electronic Arts has lifted the review embargo for Battlefield 6. Powered by the Frostbite Engine, this new BF game does not support Ray Tracing or Path Tracing. However, it does support NVIDIA DLSS 4 with Multi-Frame Gen. So, can an NVIDIA RTX 5090 offer a playable experience at 8K on Max Settings? Let’s find out. …
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While I have food now, I’m broke with no income and I am going to be hard pressed to come up with any money to put towards rent or anything else. I’ve just been treading water for a year. Please, if anyone can help my payment links are in my bio. Uber credit also helps💕💸💸💕 #mutualaid #crowdfunding
Robert Badinter entre au Panthéon des grands hommes, car il en est un. Militant contre la peine de mort, j'ai toujours admiré le courage de cet homme. Mais cet acte ne doit pas occulter également son courage pour l'abolition de la criminalisation de l'homosexualité ! Merci Monsieur Badinter.
ACTING as arms trader and security snooper, Sir Keir Starmer cut deals to sell military hardware and perhaps buy a digital ID system during a visit to India.
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L'administration Trump a approuvé la construction d'une route de 340 km au cœur d'un parc national en Alaska. Justification officielle : gagner la « course aux armements de l'IA » face à la Chine. Une décision qui pourtant menace un écosystème fragile ainsi que les communautés autochtones, au nom la « course à l’intelligence artificielle ».
L'administration Trump a approuvé la construction d'une route de 340 km au cœur d'un parc national en Alaska. Justification officielle : gagner la « course aux armements de l'IA » face à la Chine.
The Democrats and their allies in the corporate media have been lying through their teeth about the government shutdown and their ridiculous demands to reope...
One Of 2025’s Most Promising Games Is Already Winding Down Before Leaving Early Access
The open-world prequel to Hyper Light Drifter has had it pretty rough The post One Of 2025’s Most Promising Games Is Already Winding Down Before Leaving Early Access appeared first on Kotaku.
[quote][em]From the Splainer-man not Man-splainin Dept.[/em] [...][/quote]
From the Splainer-man not Man-splainin Dept.
If you want me to close the browser tab on something, all you have to do is mention cryptocurrency or blockchain unironically. I recently learned about DAOs and my eyes rolled so hard, right out of their sockets.
I get asked about crypto and NFTs and the bitcoins all the time, but to explain in layman’s terms because none of my friends or family members are Computer Science/Engineering graduates. Every article that attempts to explain the topic will sortof talk about the blockchain, and maybe mention “proof of work” or “proof of stake”, “consensus mechanisms” but they don’t actually explain what those things are, what they actually mean. They just kindof wave their hands like “don’t worry about it” or “MAGIC” . And recently my son asked me to explain exactly what it is, so... here you go.
If you know of someone you love who has any significant part of their savings or retirement portfolio invested in anything to do with ANY cryptocurrency, perhaps you might want to slide this over to them to read.
TL;DR:
cryptocurrency / blockchain technologies have the potential of great promise – eventually
it’s not magic money that springs out of nowhere; not entirely
it IS completely unregulated and controlled (at the moment)
we’re still in the early days of this technology; any investment in crytocurrencies – or to a lesser extent, blockchain technology – is pure speculation; treat it like investing in a night out at the casino – you can make $$$, but can also (and likely) lose it all.
Cryptocurrency is dangerous crap for all the reasons it's proponents say it is the next thing since sliced bread. To explain to you why cryptocurrency is dangerous bullshit, I need to show you where it comes from – seemingly thin air. To show you that it magically coalesces out of thin air, I need to explain how it is produced, and that will take a little time. Then, we need to talk about financial economics and money theory for a bit. Then you'll throw your tapioca against the wall and fire up your fidelity.com account to make sure you're nowhere near anything crypto-related.
Blockchain Hocus Pocus would be a great band name
Suppose we have a series of transactions that we want to keep track of. Let’s call this the ledger. In the ledger of a bunch of financial transactions, – for example – if you want to make a transaction, it has to be done with the blessing of a central authority: the bank itself (or its computers). The problems with this type of ledger are:
there's one point of failure. Bank systems down? No transaction for you!
there's one authority. The bank disagrees with your transaction? No transaction for you!
there are only a few modes of access. Want to interact with the Bank? Have to use the Bank's apps, ATMs, branch locations or website.
Networked computers were supposed to help us get around problems like this. Back in the late 90s and early 2000s, the problem of not being able to download digital music, video, and files from central authorities was literally that those (websites/services) didn't exist yet. Or if they did, they were charging outrageous prices or crippling downloads with so much DRM it made the media unusable. So people created peer-to-peer file sharing systems like Napster and Limewire, and later on, BitTorrent software. P2P file distribution got around all 3 of our problems.
So what if we could have a whole network of participating computers manage, using peer-2-peer transfers, an open distributed ledger of data instead? A ledger of file transactions. A history of change edits, medical records, you name it.
Ok. So now we have a bunch of computers – nodes – all participating in our open ledger. If a node wants to make a transaction or add an event or a record to the ledger, it announces it to its peers, and the transaction/event/record slowly gets spread around the whole network. Depending on various internet-y things, it could take a while for announcements of transactions to get around. The order of transactions in YOUR local copy of the ledger might be different from the order in someone else’s. And how do we add new transactions to our ledger in a way that the record becomes indelible? How do we get everyone in the network to agree on the same version of history? How do we make it so noone can tamper with it?
Hashes are only good in data transfer and breakfast.
So we’ve collected together a bunch of pending, invalidated transactions from our peers. One way computers can make sure that transmitted or archived data doesn’t change over time is to calculate a checksum or a “hash” for a chunk of data. File transfers do this all the time. Before browsers and mobile clients started doing this automatically behind the scenes, and especially back when large files could be zipped or chunked into smaller bits, and you wanted to make sure each part was downloaded to transmitted properly, you could also download a checksum or hash file to go with each. You’d run a verification tool on your downloaded data, and if the hash it produced matched the checksum file, you knew your data was good. If not, you’d go download it again.
Note that a hash isn’t encryption. A hash is simply a characteristic fingerprint. The same hash algorithm run on the same data will always produce the same hash value. Always.
So, for any data, we can compute a hash; there are many types, but a common one is an MD5 hash, which represents a chunk of bytes as a 128-bit value. If I calculate an MD5 hash on the previous paragraph, I get the following:
e73435e3a4af75ce6466e5c8a0e5f119
If I remove the last period, the one after Always, the hash changes to:
21437c658fa3f6ff85a086a099b96d90
So what we can do is take a collection of transactions, or records (whatever our ledger is keeping track of) and make a bundle called a block. Then we calculate a hash using the data in our bundle, and by checking the hash value of the block, we can verify it hasn’t been monkeyed with.
If we include information about the previous block (its block ID, maybe ITS hash) along with the transactions in our block, we can effectively chain our blocks together – every block references the last, and so on.
So who gets to decide what the next block is?
We now have a block of transactions or records – these have been shouted out by nodes who are making or announcing transactions – and we have information about the previous block. Maybe we include some other data like the current time, or some randomly generated number too. Calculating the hash for our prospective block is relatively easy (for a computer that is).
What if we impose some arbitrary rules that the hash for our block has to adhere to? Maybe its hash value has to have 17 0’s in it. Maybe it has to start with six zeros. Maybe it has to have an even number of 1’s. Whatever. Now we’ve imposed a “difficulty” to hash generation. These rules are codified into the algorithm of the particular blockchain.
So, any node that is trying to define what the next block is now has to produce a hash that also meets some arbitrary criteria.
calculate hash using block data
Does hash meet the criteria? – yes: Yell “BINGO, i has next block!”
no? Fiddle with block inputs, re-roll the random bits, and go to #1.
Depending on the difficulty, it could take many, many attempts to produce a hash that meets the criteria.
When a node DOES calculate a winning hash for ITS block, it literally shouts out and says, “Here’s my block! Here’s a hash that meets the criteria! I call BINGO!”. Then, a few other nodes (how many of which depend on the rules of the blockchain) double-check by ALSO calculating the hash for the block. This is called “validation”. If they agree, then the node who “did the work” gets the prize.
This is what you may have heard of as “proof of work.” The work here is coming up with block hashes that meet some arbitrary rules, which is computationally expensive. Note that to double check or validate the block’s hash is easy; you just have to do the hash calculation on the block’s content once, not thousands of times like the original miner did (because it had to find a hash that met all the criteria).
Without this proof of work, the decision of what the next block in the chain should be would come down to a consensus of all the participating nodes. If you can get all YOUR nodes, creating a majority (51%), to say, “No, no, the next block is THIS one” – which features a bogus transaction that benefits you – then you can game the system. Remember, there’s no central authority here; all entities participating in the blockchain participate equally.
Once a “mined” block is re-validated by enough peers, the network decrees: “THIS is the new block, and it contains THESE transactions that have now been validated”. The validated transactions are now considered immutable, fixed in stone, and accepted by all. Then, every node participating in mining throws its work on THIS block away, forgets about the validated transactions, and starts afresh with a new block of any remaining unvalidated transactions, and the cycle repeats.
How many miners are active on the blockchain and how many transactions are being made will determine how quickly your transaction is validated in a block on the blockchain. Depending on the blockchain algorithm, the mining pool and validation nodes participating at any given time, it could be a few minutes or it could be a few days.
Now we know what the blockchain is and what mining blocks is; in part 2 we discover where the moolah comes from.
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Professor Timothy Snyder – a prominent voice of freedom, teams up with NAFO to fundraise for ten trucks and ten cargo buses with anti-drone jamming systems.
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Jane Fonda is joining forces with more than 500 celebrities and Hollywood heavyweights to defend free speech. The membership roll already includes scores of famous actors like Jamie Lee Curtis, Viola Davis, Whoopi Goldberg, Pedro Pascal, Natalie Portman and Michael Keaton. Successful directors like Spike Lee and Ben Stiller have signed on, along with singer and actress Barbra Streisand and pop star and songwriter Billie Eilish. Fonda, a star who has championed progressive causes since the 1970s, explained when she announced the group’s new edition on Oct. 1, 2025, that the effort isn’t really new. Instead, it marks the relaunch of the Committee for the First Amendment, an organization her father, actor Henry Fonda, had belonged to. The original Committee for the First Amendment was formed in October 1947 at a time when the U.S. government investigated and falsely charged actors, writers and directors of being communists. theconversation.com/jane-fonda…
there i was, ready and willing to be overcharged for an oil change and some fresh spark plugs, but it's not enough for them to overcharge me, they needed my vin, license plate, first and last name, physical address, phone number, and email address
looks like i'm either finding a mom and pop shop or doing this myself
I hate that shit, it's why I work on my own cars still. At least I can blame myself and not pay someone to mess it up for me. That would just piss me off.
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Sean Morgan exposes a hidden cause of death affecting millions: contraceptive abortion. Citing pharmaceutical package inserts themselves, he reveals how common hormonal birth control has a third, often unmentioned, mode of action—preventing a fertilized embryo from implanting, resulting in a very early chemical abortion. This episode of The News Behind the News cuts through the ...
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