2021-06-16
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World's most powerful magnet being shipped to ITER fusion reactor | New Scientist
The magnet, known as the central solenoid, is being shipped in parts and will be 18 metres tall, 4.2 metres wide and weigh around 1000 tonnes once fully constructed. With a magnetic field strength of 13 tesla, it will be about 280,000 times stronger than Earth’s own magnetic field. Because of this, the structure that the central solenoid sits in will have to withstand forces equal to twice the thrust of a space shuttle lift-off.
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A transistorized shift register box, built in 1965 for Apollo testing
Worthy
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Chimamanda.com | IT IS OBSCENE: A TRUE REFLECTION IN THREE PARTS
In certain young people today like these two from my writing workshop, I notice what I find increasingly troubling: a cold-blooded grasping, a hunger to take and take and take, but never give; a massive sense of entitlement; an inability to show gratitude; an ease with dishonesty and pretension and selfishness that is couched in the language of self-care; an expectation always to be helped and rewarded no matter whether deserving or not; language that is slick and sleek but with little emotional intelligence; an astonishing level of self-absorption; an unrealistic expectation of puritanism from others; an over-inflated sense of ability, or of talent where there is any at all; an inability to apologize, truly and fully, without justifications; a passionate performance of virtue that is well executed in the public space of Twitter but not in the intimate space of friendship.
I find it obscene.
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This paper is notably bad because nothing about it is notable. It’s everyday bad science, performed by researchers at a top university, supported by national research grants, published in a top journal, cited 1069 times when I last checked—and with conclusions that are unsupported by the data. (As I often say, if the theory is so great that it stands on its own, fine: just present the theory and perhaps some preliminary data representing a pilot study, but don’t do the mathematical equivalent of flipping a bunch of coins and then using the pattern of heads and tails to tell a story.)
Routine bad science using routine bad methods, the kind that fools Harvard scholars, journal reviewers, and 1600 or so later researchers.
Horseshit
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Judge Kormann stated if the U.S. Attorney refuses to prosecute the case, the court would appoint a prosecutor. I'm sure Merrick Garland would be thrilled to prosecute his own marshals for contempt.
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Researchers fear a scenario in which smart speakers feed sleepers subliminal ads
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Technology Saves the World - Future
Only 15 months ago — March 13, 2020 — COVID-19 became a national emergency in the United States. My assumption at the time was that COVID lockdowns could extend as long as five years, the previous speed record for modern vaccine development, with many millions of deaths — a generational cataclysm.
While COVID certainly has been plenty devastating in the U.S. and around the world, with 600,000 Americans dead of and with COVID, and with shockingly broad destruction of American small businesses, it has not been nearly as destructive as it could have been. We are coming out of COVID years early, with many livelihoods and businesses preserved, compared to what we had any right to expect. And overwhelming credit goes to our spectacular technology industry.
celebrity gossip
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(2019) The Genesis and Evolution of the Jeffrey Epstein, Bill Clinton Relationship
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Cliff Stoll How a Berkeley Eccentric Beat the Russians—and Then Made Useless, Wondrous Objects | California Magazine
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Julian Assange: The Man Who Knew Too Much - LA Progressive
If America truly values an informed public, the persecution of Julian Assange must end.
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We've pretty clearly answered that negatively. America values an indoctrinated public. To the point that our debates aren't about right or wrong, fact or fiction, but whose doctrine one hews closest to.
Here's a list of reasons I think the American public has such huge problems with indoctrination:
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The vast majority of people enjoy indoctrination and very few people will say "hold up" when presented with a story that doesn't line up with other stories or that seems synthetic. This is partly because doctrine is designed and evolved to be salient, and partly because many people have not experienced an environment of truth, where things make sense, that could give non-sensemaking a contrasting emotional character.
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There are occasional isolated incidences of powerful interests wanting very badly that the public stay uninformed, but no counterbalancing incidences of similarly powerful interests wanting the public to be informed. This averages out to a downward pressure, even though each instance is brief and each power incomplete.
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Even when people want to be informed, they will usually be satisfied with the synthetic feeling of being informed, and stop there. Realizing that what you think is informing you is actually wasting your time takes a humility and emotional fortitude only present in the strongest, most humble, and most epistemically virtuous people. Consequently it is rare for people to realize it.
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Culture War / Re segregation / Identdoctrination
Media / Many Ministries of Truths / Censorship
TechSuck
Economicon
Security / Militaria / Crime / Police
World
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Greenpeace logo probably prevented the use of snipers | LATEST PAGE NEWS
Greenpeace quickly asked for forgiveness. “We apologize that people were endangered during today’s Greenpeace action due to a technical malfunction,” the organization tweeted: “This protest never had the intention of disrupting the game or injuring people. We hope everyone does going well and no one was seriously injured. Greenpeace actions are always peaceful and non-violent. Unfortunately, not everything went according to plan with this action. “
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Putin and Biden start tense Geneva summit talks
+ [Biden Shows Putin the Way Forward](https://intpolicydigest.org/biden-shows-putin-the-way-forward/)