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TIL that Nikola Tesla openly expressed disgust for overweight people. Once, he fired his secretary because of her weight.
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‼️🇷🇺 Russia will revise its nuclear doctrine based on the analysis of recent conflicts and the actions of the West in connection with the special military operation, according to the Deputy Foreign Minister of the Russian Federation.
🗣 "As has been repeatedly stated on our part, the work is in an advanced stage, and there is a clear directive to make adjustments, which are partly driven by the study and analysis of the development of conflicts in recent years, including, of course, everything related to the escalation course of our Western adversaries in connection with the special military operation," said Sergey Ryabkov.
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Last week everyone had a good laugh at a newly appointed nuclear security official, who wrote an absurd essay calling for "Queering nuclear weapons". Ridiculous as that essay was, it obscures something much darker.
Digging into her research history, the official in question has written extensively about the supposed threat to US nuclear security posed by 'domestic violent extremists' ... a term she uses so broadly that it encompasses everything from Atomwaffen to QAnon to the Oath Keepers.
To combat this threat, she conceptualizes a weaponization of DEI, installing a zampolit that will continuously evaluate employees for the presence of unapproved opinions, while also (because of course) relaxing security and competence tests for diverse individuals.
It's one thing for the media, academia, major corporations, government bureaucracies, the police, the military, and so on to DIE. That's aggravating and occasionally dangerous. If the same cancer spreads into the marrow of the nuclear industry, the consequences could be extraordinarily dire.
https://barsoom.substack.com/p/malevolent-anal-distraction
Digging into her research history, the official in question has written extensively about the supposed threat to US nuclear security posed by 'domestic violent extremists' ... a term she uses so broadly that it encompasses everything from Atomwaffen to QAnon to the Oath Keepers.
To combat this threat, she conceptualizes a weaponization of DEI, installing a zampolit that will continuously evaluate employees for the presence of unapproved opinions, while also (because of course) relaxing security and competence tests for diverse individuals.
It's one thing for the media, academia, major corporations, government bureaucracies, the police, the military, and so on to DIE. That's aggravating and occasionally dangerous. If the same cancer spreads into the marrow of the nuclear industry, the consequences could be extraordinarily dire.
https://barsoom.substack.com/p/malevolent-anal-distraction
Substack
Malevolent Anal Distraction
The media’s reporting on the "Queering Nuclear Weapons" essay written by a new national nuclear security official obscures something much darker
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"For Russians, however, the story is more complicated. Mannerheim is remembered in different ways – as a man who started out as a brilliant military and intelligence officer then turned into a cruel commander during the Finnish Civil War, in which he did not particularly care about the actions of his people, and during WWII he became Hitler’s ally and was directly responsible for one of the greatest humanitarian catastrophes and war crimes in world history. Major politicians – especially in such a turbulent era as the first half of the 20th century – are rarely unambiguous figures, especially when their names are inscribed in the histories of different peoples, and Carl Gustaf Mannerheim was living proof of this."
https://www.rt.com/russia/602938-mannerheim-between-russia-finland/#:~:text=For%20Russians%2C%20however,proof%20of%20this.
https://www.rt.com/russia/602938-mannerheim-between-russia-finland/#:~:text=For%20Russians%2C%20however,proof%20of%20this.
RT
Russian officer, Finnish hero, Hitler’s ally: The fascinating story of Carl Mannerheim
Carl Mannerheim, appointed Finland’s president in 1944, was also a Russian army officer and his legacy in each country remains controversial
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Forwarded from Today I Learned
TIL Gregor Mendel originally planned to use mice for his famous genetics research but was forced to use peas because a Bishop was uncomfortable mice would be having sex in the abbey.
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From the todayilearned community on Reddit: TIL Gregor Mendel originally planned to use mice for his famous genetics research but…
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"Ask any mathematically untrained person whether he should switch and he will say, and say rightly, “It makes no difference.” That is the right answer. You won’t know one envelope from another. There is no paradox. Why does one seem to arise? Because of the rush to get to the “expected value”. If people stuck with probability, and not swapped in some decision rule, which is not probability, for probability, there never would have been any difficulty. Which I shall now prove to you, if you are mathematically trained and need proof."
https://substack.com/home/post/p-148109888#:~:text=Ask%20any%20mathematically,and%20need%20proof.
https://substack.com/home/post/p-148109888#:~:text=Ask%20any%20mathematically,and%20need%20proof.
Science Is Not The Answer
Killing A Paradox: The Two Envelopes
Class proper will resume after Labor Day on 9 September.
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Forwarded from Vault of Secrets - Unpopular History
Radar sends out electromagnetic waves, and sonar transmits outward acoustic waves, however from mid-WW1 to the early years of WW2, to detect aircraft a passive detection device was deployed to hear the the noise of airplane engines. This German passive acoustic aircraft detector was photographed in 1939.
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The UN is 'terrified' of Trump, an official admits in undercover video.
"I’m not sure the United Nations is going to survive a second term from Donald Trump."
https://nypost.com/2024/08/29/opinion/un-terrified-of-trump-official-admits-in-undercover-video/
"I’m not sure the United Nations is going to survive a second term from Donald Trump."
https://nypost.com/2024/08/29/opinion/un-terrified-of-trump-official-admits-in-undercover-video/
New York Post
The United Nations is 'terrified' of Trump, official admits in...
The United Nations is “terrified” at the prospect of a second Trump presidency, according to a leaked conversation with a senior official at the global agency.
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The best companion for a kayak.
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"Perhaps we should do a Mosaic Ark tour of the features of Telegram: the channels and chats; the stickers and media files; the ease with which we can share items from one channel or chat (group) into our working chat; the archives and access to the news of the world before it shows up on any other social media platform, never mind the mainstream news. To be fair, it is not a platform that is instantly legible. It takes a bit of time to figure out its utility. But when every other platform kicked Milo out back in 2019, Durov welcomed him on Telegram. And when the world erupted into war in February 2022, the channels of Telegram were the first to carry the news."
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Here Be Dragons
King Pavel’s Telegram A week ago Saturday, Pavel Durov, the CEO of Telegram, was arrested in Paris when his private jet landed there to refuel. According to the Prosecutor of the Republic, the twelve charges against him included “complicity” in various admittedly…
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NASA Cuts 2 Astronauts From SpaceX Crew To Make Room For Stranded Boeing Starliner Astronauts
https://www.oann.com/newsroom/nasa-cuts-2-astronauts-from-spacex-crew-to-make-room-for-stranded-boeing-starliner-astronauts/
NASA has made the decision to cut two astronauts scheduled for the next SpaceX mission in order to make room for two NASA astronauts who have been stranded at the International Space Station since June, the organization stated.
https://www.oann.com/newsroom/nasa-cuts-2-astronauts-from-spacex-crew-to-make-room-for-stranded-boeing-starliner-astronauts/
NASA has made the decision to cut two astronauts scheduled for the next SpaceX mission in order to make room for two NASA astronauts who have been stranded at the International Space Station since June, the organization stated.
One America News Network
NASA Cuts 2 Astronauts From SpaceX Crew To Make Room For Stranded Boeing Starliner Astronauts
NASA has made the decision to cut two astronauts scheduled for the next SpaceX mission in order to make room for two NASA astronauts who have been stranded at the International Space Station since June, the organization stated.
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Starliner is getting close to recreating the conditions for the ISS to replicate some of the most memorable experiments performed on MIR: the ones on the effects of weightlessness on mortal terror.
https://theonion.com/mir-scientists-study-effects-of-weightlessness-on-morta-1819564368/
https://theonion.com/mir-scientists-study-effects-of-weightlessness-on-morta-1819564368/
The Onion
Mir Scientists Study Effects Of Weightlessness On Mortal Terror
KOROLYOV, RUSSIA—U.S. and Russian scientists are increasingly excited about the Mir space station project, which promises to reveal more than has ever been known about the scientific relationship between weightlessness and mortal terror.
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Guess which of these physicists made great discoveries about how reality works?
https://aetherczar.substack.com/p/foundations-of-physical-theory-function
https://aetherczar.substack.com/p/foundations-of-physical-theory-function
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TIL the boom in mathematics during the 17th and 18th centuries in the Western world is correlated with the development of artillery and the increasing need for military professionals, especially artillerists, to be skilled in mathematics
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"According to sources at DragonCon, Orson Scott Card, who showed up for just two days, was a bigger draw than any other author. His lines looped around the dealer hall, and he was not promoted as being there by the convention as he was a last-minute addition brought in by Writers of the Future. The enthusiasm of readers and fans far surpassed that of Guest of Honor Nancy Kress, who reportedly has lines of around fifty people. In contrast, eventual Dragon Award Winner John Scalzi perhaps had a couple of dozen at most points."
https://fandompulse.substack.com/p/despite-dc-comics-and-sci-fi-publishing
https://fandompulse.substack.com/p/despite-dc-comics-and-sci-fi-publishing
Fandom Pulse
Despite DC Comics And Sci-Fi Publishing Canceling Him, Orson Scott Card Draws Massive Lines At DragonCon And Woke Authors Are Furious
Orson Scott Card is one of our greatest science fiction minds, but he all but left the public discourse a little over a decade ago.
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"There was a little mouse who was very much concerned about himself and his. One day, looking about his little mouse home, a nice enough place, he thought that he could do with a little bit of mouse success, but what was success?
"He knew how to get the farmers grain, to get a little mouse wife and have little mouse children, but he thought it prudent to ask successful animals about their success, perhaps he could apply it in his own little mousey life.
"First, he thought to visit the lion and his mighty pride. A glamorous handsome beast was this animal, surrounded by lionesses each more svelte than the last.
"Oh mighty Lion, spare this little mouse and grace him with an answer, what is success?"
https://sigmagame.substack.com/p/the-little-mouses-quest
"He knew how to get the farmers grain, to get a little mouse wife and have little mouse children, but he thought it prudent to ask successful animals about their success, perhaps he could apply it in his own little mousey life.
"First, he thought to visit the lion and his mighty pride. A glamorous handsome beast was this animal, surrounded by lionesses each more svelte than the last.
"Oh mighty Lion, spare this little mouse and grace him with an answer, what is success?"
https://sigmagame.substack.com/p/the-little-mouses-quest
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The Little Mouse's Quest
An Aesopian fable illustrates the socio-sexual hierarchy in an amusing manner
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"Another battlefield: Telegram as a digital front in Russia’s war against Ukraine" from the Atlantic Council.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-pxafeepeI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-pxafeepeI
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The Top 7 Reasons Science is Broken
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3WqZNyBLS4
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The Top 7 Reasons Science is Broken
This is a talk I gave at Hillsdale in April 2023, as part of the Broken Science Initiative.
The video is elsewhere, but to make it easy to find for regular viewers, I'm posting a copy here (plus, there is no class today).
A trannoscript of the talk is at:…
The video is elsewhere, but to make it easy to find for regular viewers, I'm posting a copy here (plus, there is no class today).
A trannoscript of the talk is at:…
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MRNA - NZ ADVISORS KNEW HOW TO KEEP TEENS SAFE....GOVT IGNORED THEIR RECOMMENDATIONS
By July 2021 NZ drug regulators and advisors understood that the Pfizer mRNA
INCREASED RISK OF MYOCARDITIS IN TEENS
They were also starting to understand that the interval between dose one and dose two was likely significant.
The longer the interval THE LOWER THE RISK
On 21 July 2021 the Covid Vaccine Technical Advisory Group (CV-TAG) issued a formal recommendation that
*the interval between first and second dose be extended to at least 8 weeks for everyone under age 30 DUE TO THE RISK OF MYOCARDITIS
This recommendation to the Govt and Ministry of Health
WAS IGNORED AND NEVER IMPLEMENTED
Instead the MOH and government continued to implement a three week interval between first and second dose.... KNOWING that this significantly increased the risk of heart inflammation, especially for young males.
By July 2021 NZ drug regulators and advisors understood that the Pfizer mRNA
INCREASED RISK OF MYOCARDITIS IN TEENS
They were also starting to understand that the interval between dose one and dose two was likely significant.
The longer the interval THE LOWER THE RISK
On 21 July 2021 the Covid Vaccine Technical Advisory Group (CV-TAG) issued a formal recommendation that
*the interval between first and second dose be extended to at least 8 weeks for everyone under age 30 DUE TO THE RISK OF MYOCARDITIS
This recommendation to the Govt and Ministry of Health
WAS IGNORED AND NEVER IMPLEMENTED
Instead the MOH and government continued to implement a three week interval between first and second dose.... KNOWING that this significantly increased the risk of heart inflammation, especially for young males.
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