Astroturfed culture is dying, and is struggling to compete with genuine creators.
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1620095528448192512.html

The Fall of the Fake Democracies

Simplicius rightly calls out the fake democratic imperialism of Clown World’s European slave-leaders and their woefully misnamed “rules-based order”: A new speech by Georgian pretender Salome Zourabichvili to the EU Parliament is a must-see. It is the very apotheosis of the Rules Based Order’s terminal decline, on which we’ve enlarged at length here. As things […]

https://voxday.net/2024/12/20/the-fall-of-the-fake-democracies/

Feds Urge Usage Of End-To-End Encryption Following Massive Telecom Breach By Suspected Chinese Hackers
https://www.oann.com/newsroom/feds-urge-usage-of-end-to-end-encryption-following-massive-telecom-breach-by-suspected-chinese-hackers/
Following a massive telecom breach, Apple and Android users are being urged to restrain from receiving two-factor authentication codes through text, risking exposure of non-encrypted messages by suspected Chinese hackers.

Einstein visits RCA, Princeton, NJ, 1922. In photograph (left to right): James Casey, W.A. Graham, W.A. Winterbottom, David Sarnoff, Thomas J. Hayden, Ernst J. Berg, S. Benedict, Albert Einstein, John R. Carson, Charles Steinmetz, Alfred N. Goldsmith, A. Malsin, Irving Langmuir, A.W. Hull, E.B. Pillsbury, Saul Dushman, R.H. Ranger, George Campbell, C.H. Taylor, W. Wilson

https://ethw.org/w/images/e/ec/160-steinmetz_and_einstein_at_rca.jpg

Russia Introduces New ‘Cancer Vaccine’ Utilizing AI Tech To Attack Specific Cells, Scientists Express Skepticism
https://www.oann.com/newsroom/russia-introduces-new-cancer-vaccine-utilizing-ai-tech-to-attack-specific-cells-scientists-express-skepticism/
Russian President Vladimir Putin revealed that the country will unveil a new vaccine that allegedly fights all types of cancer, which he claims will be available to cancer patients beginning in early 2025, amidst skepticism from a number of scientists.

"I believe these images confirm Ted Postol’s assessment that the Oreshnik’s kinetic projectiles deliver the approximate energy of a 250kg bomb, though the nature of this energy is different. The projectiles are moving so quickly that they punch a hole through most anything until they hit the ground. When we see severe enough roof failure to get a good look at the damage, we see an impact crater 100ft in diameter and a lot of dirt. This implies that the projectile is penetrating into or through the foundation of the building. These structures were built by the Soviets and are extremely tough, so if the projectiles are capable of punching through them and reaching earth (or pulverizing the foundations enough that they look like earth), they’re delivering a lot of energy."

https://www.amerikanets.com/p/yuzhmash-and-oreshnik-demystified

Bring back Panama hats

🇷🇺 The Russian Federal Security Service in the Irkutsk Region announced the detention of supporters of extremist ideology.

The perpetrators spread criminal ideas among local residents who were prone to committing crimes.

Trump says any shutdown ‘is a Biden problem to solve’

President-elect Donald Trump worked Friday morning to foist the blame for any potential government shutdown onto the current White House, insisting that the funding fight on Capitol Hill “is a Biden problem to solve.”

Lawmakers had seemed on track earlier this week to fund the government with time to spare, settling on a bipartisan stopgap spending bill, known as a continuing resolution or CR, that would extend government spending into March and included a lot of add-ons to appease Democrats and others. But that plan quickly drew the ire of Trump ally Elon Musk, followed by the president-elect and Vice President-elect JD Vance, tanking that bill. Still, with government funding set to run out at midnight on Friday, Trump insisted that it is President Joe Biden who should be held responsible for any shutdown. “If there is going to be a shutdown of government, let it begin now, under the Biden Administration, not after January 20th, under ‘TRUMP,’” the president-elect wrote on Truth Social. “This is a Biden problem to solve, but if Republicans can help solve it, they will!”

Of particular interest to Trump amid the ongoing spending negotiations is an increase, or outright removal, of the government’s debt limit. The president-elect has insisted that any funding package include such a provision, an especially tough pill to swallow for conservatives who have for years forced painful debt limit fights on Capitol Hill.

https://www.politico.com/news/2024/12/20/trump-shutdown-biden-problem-00195574

https://archive.ph/aVdbh

An important thread on our emerging technocracy.

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1852049068601807022.html

"Leibniz–Newton calculus controversy"

>A letter to the founder of the French Academy of Sciences, Marin Mersenne for a French scientist, or to the secretary of the Royal Society of London, Henry Oldenburg for English, had practically the status of a published article. The discoverer could "time-stamp" the moment of his discovery, and prove that he knew of it at the point the letter was sealed, and had not copied it from anything subsequently published.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leibniz%E2%80%93Newton_calculus_controversy
https://archive.ph/l3iFK
(Fake History)

You have no idea how deep the rabbit hole goes

Number of times each state has been admitted into the US
https://redd.it/1hh486r
@r_mapporn