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Electric / Self Driving cars

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

Info Rental / ShowBiz / Advertising

AI Will (Save | Destroy) The World

Space / Boomy Zoomers / UFO

  • Declassified documents reveal F-16 collision with unknown flying object | Fox News

    Declassified documents revealing a United States military aircraft was previously struck by an unknown flying object is raising eyebrows as experts point to other unexplainable sightings suggesting otherworldly technology flying within the country’s airspace. The incident occurred in January 2023, after an unidentified object collided with the left side of an F-16 Viper jet participating in training exercises near Gila Benda, Arizona, an Air Force spokesperson confirmed to Fox News Digital. The flying object struck the clear "canopy" at the top of the aircraft and was first spotted by an instructor pilot sitting in the rear of the plane, officials said. An initial investigation determined no damage was done to the near $70 million jet, with officials ruling against a possible bird strike.

    Authorities ultimately determined the aircraft was struck by a drone, but the location and operator of the device have yet to be determined, the spokesperson said. The incident was the first of four encounters with unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP) that were reported a day later, according to Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) documents obtained by the War Zone. "According to military personnel I’ve personally met with, there were objects 200 miles off the East Coast that were extensively loitering and had no visible means of propulsion," James Fox, a director specializing in films about UFO activity, told Fox News Digital. "So a report from 2023 about an actual impact with a UAP doesn’t really surprise me."

  • Discovery of ancient riverbeds suggests Mars once wetter than thought

  • ESA's Moonlight programme: Pioneering the path for lunar exploration

  • Astronauts from India, Poland and Hungary Head Back to Earth

Crypto con games

Economicon / Business / Finance

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

Trump

Democrats

Left Angst

  • James Webb, Hubble space telescopes face reduction in operations

  • Trump's push for a 1% Fed policy rate could spell trouble for US economy

  • The Problem With Neoliberalism - Integrity Talk

    To be fair, depicting neoliberalism as merely a disguised version of market fundamentalism is a caricature, not an accurate representation. Most neoliberals would agree that some state funding, as in the case of basic research, is necessary, and that some industrial policies can be fruitful. The exclusive state versus exclusive private funding analogy is rarely debated because they both work hand in hand. Government intervention is often necessary for long-term, expensive projects that do not align with private funding investment horizons. High-speed rail networks are a good example, while in some cases they can become privatized — which was the case for the Shinkansen. On the other hand, markets generally do a great job of rapidly scaling existing technologies while providing incremental innovation. In many respects, neoliberalism is more useful as a way of considering government spending as bad but sometimes necessary rather than massively cutting public spending as an ultimate goal for prosperity.

    • I recall first hearing the term "neoliberal" in the 1980's. It is always pejorative. From then to now i have never heard someone use it to describe themselves, or even someone they agreed with.

  • Making Immigration Great Again – Paul Krugman

    As far as I can tell, however, until recently many political analysts assumed that high-profile roundups of suspected illegal immigrants were a politically savvy move, playing to one of Donald Trump’s perceived strengths. But it’s beginning to look as if there’s more basic decency in the American body politic than is dreamed of in many pundits’ political philosophy. Gallup made a splash, at least among us wonks, with new polling on immigration showing that approval of immigration in general is now at a record high.

  • The Broadband Story Abundance Liberals Like Ezra Klein Got Wrong

    The accuracy of the story, however, has come under question. In April, Bharat Ramamurti, a former member of the Biden administration’s National Economic Council who worked on telecommunications policy, alleged that the BEAD implementation process was not a Biden or even a Democratic prerogative, but the result of a compromise with Senate Republicans during negotiations over the infrastructure law. According to Ramamurti, these Republicans had “insisted” on a cautious implementation design in part to monitor spending for waste, and in part “at the behest of large incumbent internet providers,” who wanted more opportunities to shape the program to protect their interests. In a subsequent New York Times column, Klein admitted that he had gotten some of the facts wrong—that “portions of [BEAD’s] 14-stage process were insisted upon by congressional Republicans.” But rather than concede the broader argument, he doubled down, saying that after further talks with “various people who’d been part of the broadband program,” he discovered that “much of the process was worse than I’d known.” One official, he wrote, told him that “he’d wasted 40 to 50 percent of his time on internal government requirements he judged irrelevant to the project,” though Klein didn’t name the official or the specific requirements the official was referencing. Similarly, Klein’s coauthor, Derek Thompson, acknowledged in an interview with the journalist Mehdi Hasan that Klein initially “got some things wrong” about BEAD, but insisted that “rules we’ve put in our own way” (he didn’t specify which) had derailed the program.

    • It was them evil Republicans that made all the red tape!

  • The Biggest Myth About the YIMBY Movement - The Atlantic

    There’s nothing centrist or conservative about the push to lower housing costs.

    Antitrust policy and housing abundance are natural allies. Although the pro-housing movement does want to remove a specific set of regulations, this ambition is best understood in the populist, trust-busting mold: as an attack aimed at breaking up a powerful group’s capture of the regulatory regime. There is nothing centrist about that. In fact, NIMBY activists and their allies are the ones engaged in a fundamentally conservative project: helping a landowning elite hoard wealth by preserving an unfair status quo. As a progressive YIMBY advocate myself (and a former city-council candidate in Seattle), I have witnessed this dynamic directly.

    • It was the evil Republicans that made all the red tape! .. Sounds familiar...

  • Marc Andreessen Is a Traitor

    A recent leak of venture capitalist Marc Andreessen’s group chats has revealed that he’s quite happy to see our university system destroyed if it will keep out foreigners and humiliate the elites who “actively discriminated against” people like him. The messages are at times quite shockingly racist in their content, referencing how “the combination of DEI and immigration” are “two forms of discrimination” that “systematically cut most of the children of the Trump voter base out of any realistic prospect of access to higher education and corporate America.” Less shocking but no less notable is his contempt for elite centers of learning. He declares “Stanford and MIT as mainly political lobbying operations fighting American innovation at this point,” a remarkably delusional statement. Andreessen has made no secret of the fact that he feels he and his tech oligarch peers have been betrayed by elite institutions and the Democratic party. But the reality is that they are the ones who have betrayed not only their country, but the very system which made their fortune and status possible.

  • Wearables Aren't Going to 'Make America Healthy Again'

  • The Collapse of the FDA

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

  • Texas AG asks for execution date as court set to consider M. Roberson death case

  • Accused killer Vance Boelter hints at motive in Post jailhouse interview

    “I am pro-life personaly [sic] but it wasn’t those,” he said, using the jail’s internal messaging system. “I will just say there is a lot of information that will come out in future that people will look at and judge for themselves that goes back 24 months before the 14th. If the gov ever let’s [sic] it get out.”

    Boelter harped on a handwritten, one-and-a-half page letter left in an abandoned SUV at the crime scene that was addressed to FBI Director Kash Patel, saying critical elements were kept from the public. “Can I ask what you heard as an outside person about the note that the alleged person — I’ll say alleged person — left in that car, did you hear anything about that?” demanded Boelter, who was wearing a yellow, jail-issued jumpsuit, and spoke with a thick Minnesotan accent. In the letter, which has not been released publicly, Boelter reportedly claimed he had been secretly trained by the US Military and was asked by Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz to perform the killings, so that the 2024 Democratic vice presidential candidate could run for Minnesota Democratic Sen. Amy Klobuchar’s seat. “Certain details of that letter were leaked out that probably painted one kind of a picture, but a lot more important details that were in that letter were not leaked out,” Boelter said during the second televisit Friday, refusing to elaborate, only saying the details pertained to “things that were going on in Minnesota.” “I also made sure when I was arrested that they secured that letter — I made the request that they secure that letter before it gets destroyed — because I was concerned somebody would destroy it,” said Boelter, who has grown a salt and pepper goatee since his arrest.

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World

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Israel

Russia Bad / Ukraine War

China

Health / Medicine

Pox / COVID / BioTerror AgitProp

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

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