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Sandy Cameron playing a 1735 Giuseppe Guarneri violin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVQaLywKDLM
Bo Diddley – The Rhythm That Shook The World.
Over his signature beat Bo recounts his 1st hit record
Bitcoin is trading stubbornly below the $100,000 mark, putting the brakes on a blistering post-election rally.
The world’s biggest cryptocurrency has risen over 40% since Nov. 5, the day of the U.S. election which saw Donald Trump re-elected as president. Analysts named a number of reasons for the pause, including profit-taking by investors.
#Bitcoin
is now up 155%
over the last year.
Don’t worry it’s still early!!!!
MicroStrategy Accelerates Bitcoin Buying With Record Purchase
POLITICS
The lifelong criminal got away with everything.
Armed with a new conservative supermajority on the U.S. Supreme Court and a federal judiciary stacked with Donald Trump’s picks, the Christian far right sees a revived opportunity to overturn decades of legal precedent.
We are the inept and corrupt nation we fought against.
Historic moment for Arizona! @GovernorHobbs just certified Proposition 139, the ballot measure enshrining abortion rights into the state’s constitution. This is a huge victory for reproductive freedom in the Southwest.
Democrats should steal what’s been a highly successful move from the Republicans: Don’t provide any votes for the things that the GOP majority wants to do, no matter what they are.
Elon Musk Admits X is Throttling Links — Effectively Limiting People From Reading News
Washington Post analysis in August 2023 revealed that X had imposed delays on links to rival platforms like Facebook, Bluesky, and Substack, as well as news outlets such as the New York Times. These delays, routed through X’s t.co domain, reportedly reduced traffic to targeted websites, potentially impacting their ad revenue.
Elon’s dad says Elon Musk is fulfilling his destiny as a White South African by embracing Nazism Whole Interview
Here’s Elon’s dad saying Elon’s maternal grandparents were in the Nazi party in Canada, supported Hitler & moved to South Africa because they strongly admired the Apartheid regime.
Elon’s dad says Elon Musk is fulfilling his destiny as a White South African by embracing Nazism
‘l think for the first time Elon was accepting who
he is,’ says Errol now. Until recently, he’s been
a sort of character on a stage.
‘When you come from South Africa, Lefties
think you’re a Nazi. To succeed, you need to be
accepted by them so my sons, [Elon and
younger brother Kimbal, a hugely successful
restaurateur], started to become these flaming
liberals – turning away from South Africa and their roots, which included me.
‘Finally, Elon was embracing his heritage and his destiny.’
Technocracy movement interesting article to check out vis a vis that guy’s grandparents and their time in canada
OMG Donny and Dick were penpals in the 80’s
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/09/23/donald-trump-richard-nixon-pen-pals-420567
The letters between once and future presidents show the two men engaged in something of an exercise in mutual affirmation.
@JaredRyanSears
I didn’t realize that a two-sentence tweet would get so much attention, so here is a longer explanation of why Social Security doesn’t add to the national debt:
Kids, Exercise, and Technology
Just a reminder: Our prospective head of the HHS is connected a deadly measles outbreak in Samoa
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#LAW
The evidence that Donald Trump committed multiple egregious criminal acts is overwhelming and unrefuted. The U.S. legal system is incapable of withstanding a criminal presidency. Jack Smith is also dropping his appeal in the classified documents case against Donald Trump. He is not dropping the appeal against Walt Nauta and Carlos De Oliviera.
TRAGIC DAY @JoeBiden performatively pardoned turkeys while our designated white knight Jack Smith filed to dismiss all federal charges on Trump. Simultaneously, unelected plutocrat Elon Musk openly plans American apartheid. FUCK MERRICK GARLAND
Trump Is President-Elect for Just 7 Days and a Sex, Drugs and Bribe Scandal Breaks Out
By Pam Martens and Russ Martens: November 14, 2024 ~
Rep Matt Gaetz (Photo by Gage Skidmore via Flickr) Live streaming to you from various production sites in the nation’s capitol
is Donald Trump’s new reality TV show, “Remaking U.S. Government in My Image.” What the cast of the show lacks in serious credentials to run a government for the […]
Trump Makes Second Attempt to Install Wall Street’s Lawyer, Jay Clayton, to Oversee Prosecutions of Wall Street
By Pam Martens and Russ Martens: November 18, 2024 ~
Last week President-elect Donald Trump announced the nomination of Jay Clayton to become U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York – the regional office of the U.S. Department of Justice that brings (or passes on bringing) criminal prosecutions against the Wall Street megabanks for their serial […]
Trump’s Nominees Are Being Hand-Picked to Enact a Dangerous Platform the Koch Brothers Made Public 44 Years Ago
By Pam Martens and Russ Martens: November 19, 2024 ~
President-Elect Donald Trump/ Charles Koch
Tens of millions of Americans rise each morning and pray they are awakening from a bad dream about the President-elect’s plans to put a plethora of outrageously unfit people in charge of critical federal agencies that protect the air we breathe, the water we […]
Matt Gaetz Case Has Echoes of the Justice Department’s Failure to Prosecute Jeffrey Epstein’s Sex-Trafficking Ring
By Pam Martens and Russ Martens: November 21, 2024 ~
Today’s New York Times carries a diagram prepared by the U.S. Department of Justice during its multi-year investigation into then Congressman Matt Gaetz. (We have printed the left-hand section of the diagram above.) The diagram illustrates the following about the DOJ’s investigation into the man that President-elect […]
New to me: Paul Keating was Australian Prime Minister from 1991 to 1996.
Former Prime Minister Paul Keating’s daughter Katherine seen leaving Jeffrey Epstein’s apartment in 2010. 14 years on we have no answers. Also Prince Andrew is seen inside as Katherine exits.
#TECHNOLOGY
Federation of American Scientists
@scientistsorg
When the capital required for a new technology is too large for venture capital, yet too risky for traditional finance, the project dies on the vine. And with it, the American edge.
We need a Strategic Investment Fund to take promising technologies through the valley of death.
Chinese spies and the security of America’s networks
https://www.brookings.edu/articles/chinese-spies-and-the-security-of-americas-networks/
“ Americans, your calls and texts can be monitored by Chinese spies,” a Washington Post opinion piece recently headlined. China has “growing cyber-sophistication and relentless ambition to undermine U.S. infrastructure” another Post article reported. Some analyses trace the recent exploitation to a telecommunications network backdoor created early in the era of digital networks to allow for court-authorized wiretaps.
When the digital wiretap law was passed in 1994,
no one foresaw the kind of sophisticated intrusions apparently developed by the Chinese. It is an experience that we must remember as the design of digital network technology continues to evolve. ”. …..
https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/calea-was-a-national-security-disaster-waiting-to-happen
As CALEA was being debated in Congress in 1994,
David Farber, who served as FCC chief technologist in 2000-2001, highlighted security risks in testimony before the House Subcommittee on Technology, Environment, and Aviation:
My testimony to the House in 1994 on Calea Hearing on Communications and Computer Surveillance, Privacy and Security
Testimony before the Committee on Science, Space and Technology Subcommittee on Technology, Environment and Aviation U.S. House of Representatives
David J. Farber — May 3, 1994
The Alfred Fitler Moore Professor of Telecommunication Systems
University of Pennsylvania
Robot Jailbreak: Researchers Trick Bots Into Dangerous Tasks – IEEE Spectrum
AI chatbots such as ChatGPT and other applications powered by large language models (LLMs) have exploded in popularity, leading a number of companies to explore LLM-driven robots. However, a new study now reveals an automated way to hack into such machines with 100 percent success. By circumventing safety guardrails, researchers could manipulate self-driving systems into colliding with pedestrians and robot dogs into hunting for harmful places to detonate bombs.
Heads up: 2 Python packages claiming to integrate with popular chatbots actually transmit an infostealer to potentially thousands of victims. Attackers are betting that the hype around generative AI (GenAI) is attracting less technical, less cautious developers who might be more inclined to download an open source Python code package for free access, without vetting it or thinking twice.
The First Virtual Meeting Was in 1916
“ At 8:30 p.m. on 16 May 1916, John J. Carty banged his gavel at the Engineering Societies Building in New York City to call to order a meeting of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers. This was no ordinary gathering. The AIEE had decided to conduct a live national meeting connecting more than 5,000 attendees in eight cities across four time zones. More than a century before Zoom made virtual meetings a pedestrian experience, telephone lines linked auditoriums from coast to coast. AIEE members and guests in Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Denver, New York, Philadelphia, Salt Lake City, and San Francisco had telephone receivers at their seats so they could listen in.
The AIEE, a predecessor to the IEEE, orchestrated this event to commemorate recent achievements in communications, transportation, light, and power. The meeting was a triumph of engineering, covered in newspapers in many of the host cities. The Atlanta Constitution heralded it as “a feat never before accomplished in the history of the world.” According to the Philadelphia Evening Ledger, the telephone connections involved traversed about 6,500 kilometers (about 4,000 miles) across 20 states, held up by more than 150,000 poles running through 5,000 switches. It’s worth noting that the first transcontinental phone call had been achieved only a year earlier.
Carty, president of the AIEE, led the meeting from New York, while section chairmen directed the proceedings in the other cities. First up: roll call. Each city read off the number of members and guests in attendance—from 40 in Denver, the newest section of the institute, to 1,100 at AIEE headquarters in New York. In all, more than 5,100 members attended.
Due to limited seating in New York and Philadelphia, members were allowed only a single admission ticket, and ladies were explicitly not invited. (Boo.) In Atlanta, Boston, and Chicago, members received two tickets each, and in San Francisco members received three; women were allowed to attend in all of these cities. (The AIEE didn’t admit its first woman until 1922, and only as an associate member; Edith Clarke was the first woman to publish a paper in an AIEE journal, in 1926.)”.. . .
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