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Most people don't know the complicated process required for New York City to obtain drinking water.
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Forwarded from Orwellian Dystopia
Elon Musk announced the reactivation of the Starlink satellite network over Iran
Elon Musk announced the reactivation of the Starlink satellite network over Iran. He briefly reported this on the X social network. This development came after the Iranian government shut down the Internet in response to Israeli strikes during "Operation Rising Lion." According to reports, "The purpose of the Iranian authorities to shut down the Internet is to prevent Israel from organizing protests." That effort now faces a serious obstacle with Starlink back online.
Military expert Boris Rozhin highlighted the strategic impact: "Elon Musk activated the Starlink satellite system over Iran, giving the Western coalition a critical advantage in the field of communication and navigation. Israeli FPV drones now have access to high-precision satellite guidance, which greatly increases the effectiveness of their strikes on Iranian targets."
Elon Musk announced the reactivation of the Starlink satellite network over Iran. He briefly reported this on the X social network. This development came after the Iranian government shut down the Internet in response to Israeli strikes during "Operation Rising Lion." According to reports, "The purpose of the Iranian authorities to shut down the Internet is to prevent Israel from organizing protests." That effort now faces a serious obstacle with Starlink back online.
Military expert Boris Rozhin highlighted the strategic impact: "Elon Musk activated the Starlink satellite system over Iran, giving the Western coalition a critical advantage in the field of communication and navigation. Israeli FPV drones now have access to high-precision satellite guidance, which greatly increases the effectiveness of their strikes on Iranian targets."
We’re having a great sale… and setting our sights on completely supplanting not just the Hugos, but also the Dragon Awards.
basedbooksale.substack.com/p/over-two-thousand-books-sold-so-far
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Over Two Thousand Books Sold So Far!
What are the Top Based Books of Summer?
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TIL of Lyodura, a brain surgery material that, unknown to the buyers, was tissue harvested by the seller from black market human corpses and carried fatal incurable prion disease. Over 150 people were infected before its ban in 1996
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From the todayilearned community on Reddit: TIL of Lyodura, a brain surgery material that, unknown to the buyers, was tissue harvested…
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JUST IN — Reports of explosions in Qatar. Other reports suggest six missiles have been launched at US missiles in Qatar. I'm also hearing, unconfirmed reports, that these attacks have been telegraphed to US officials to avoid military casualties.
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Invisibility Cloaks and Super Lenses? Enter Metamaterials
Imagine a material that can bend light around an object, making it invisible — or a lens that sees details smaller than the wavelength of light. Sounds like science fiction? It’s real science.
🔬 Metamaterials are artificially engineered materials with properties nature never dreamed of. Their magic doesn’t come from chemistry but from structure — designed on a scale smaller than the wavelength of light, sound, or vibrations they manipulate.
They can bend electromagnetic waves in impossible ways, absorb sound like a black hole, or even become stronger under pressure instead of breaking.
These materials open doors to futuristic technologies — from cloaking devices to earthquake-proof buildings.
Read more in our article:
📖 What Are Metamaterials?
#physics #materials #innovation #nanotechnology #futuretech #science
Imagine a material that can bend light around an object, making it invisible — or a lens that sees details smaller than the wavelength of light. Sounds like science fiction? It’s real science.
🔬 Metamaterials are artificially engineered materials with properties nature never dreamed of. Their magic doesn’t come from chemistry but from structure — designed on a scale smaller than the wavelength of light, sound, or vibrations they manipulate.
They can bend electromagnetic waves in impossible ways, absorb sound like a black hole, or even become stronger under pressure instead of breaking.
These materials open doors to futuristic technologies — from cloaking devices to earthquake-proof buildings.
Read more in our article:
📖 What Are Metamaterials?
#physics #materials #innovation #nanotechnology #futuretech #science
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What Are Metamaterials?
Imagine a material that can render an object invisible, a lens that can resolve features smaller than the wavelength of light, or a structure that grows stronger under compression rather than breaking apart. Sounds like science fiction? In fact, these are…
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📱De-Googled Phones Staying Alive
Google removed device trees from Android 16, making it harder for GrapheneOS and others to build private, de-Googled phones. These trees were crucial for adapting Android to real devices—now developers must reverse engineer it all.
GrapheneOS is biting the bullet to make this happen despite this challenge. I donated $5,000 to support their work and encourage you to do the same: grapheneos.org/donate
There are few ways to use a phone privately today—and Google is making it harder. The future of private Android depends on supporting open-source alternatives.
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Google removed device trees from Android 16, making it harder for GrapheneOS and others to build private, de-Googled phones. These trees were crucial for adapting Android to real devices—now developers must reverse engineer it all.
GrapheneOS is biting the bullet to make this happen despite this challenge. I donated $5,000 to support their work and encourage you to do the same: grapheneos.org/donate
There are few ways to use a phone privately today—and Google is making it harder. The future of private Android depends on supporting open-source alternatives.
Support matters. Spread the word.
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MIGA is Backpedaling Fast
Vice-President Vance: We did not attack the nation of Iran. We did not attack any civilian targets. We didn’t even attack military targets outside of the three nuclear weapons facilities. US Vice President J.D. Vance does not support his country’s involvement in the conflict between Israel and Iran, Reuters has reported, citing two informed sources. […]
https://voxday.net/2025/06/23/miga-is-backpedaling-fast/
Vice-President Vance: We did not attack the nation of Iran. We did not attack any civilian targets. We didn’t even attack military targets outside of the three nuclear weapons facilities. US Vice President J.D. Vance does not support his country’s involvement in the conflict between Israel and Iran, Reuters has reported, citing two informed sources. […]
https://voxday.net/2025/06/23/miga-is-backpedaling-fast/
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It’s being reported that Trump gave Iran advance warning of strikes, insisting they’re a one off and does not seek a broader conflict.
It’s looking like this may have been a performative strike to take away Israel’s pretext for dragging the U.S. into war for a regime change.
Multiple sources are reporting limited damage on the sites, from different perspective and biases, (not even from Trump supporting sources), but all with this same conclusion.
Iranian authorities already reportedly said that facilities were evacuated ahead of time, there is limited damage underground and nuclear materials were removed from Fordo — which lends to the idea of this being a choreographed chess move to provide a political off ramp for the U.S. out of any public demand for the conflict.
Hopefully Iran shows more restraint and doesn’t retaliate. If they do reciprocate to save face with a limited symbolic response, it may be possible Trump decides not to retaliate and escalate further, (like the time in 2020 at Al-Assad airspace because of the limited damage and lack of casualties.) This could very well all be a choreographed wag the dog scenario to defang Israel from having an excuse to expand their ambitions of greater regional dominance.
As always, there appears to be more going on beneath the surface of the public narrative than meets the eye.
It’s still early so we’ll see what happens.
Link: 🔗
~LH
It’s looking like this may have been a performative strike to take away Israel’s pretext for dragging the U.S. into war for a regime change.
Multiple sources are reporting limited damage on the sites, from different perspective and biases, (not even from Trump supporting sources), but all with this same conclusion.
Iranian authorities already reportedly said that facilities were evacuated ahead of time, there is limited damage underground and nuclear materials were removed from Fordo — which lends to the idea of this being a choreographed chess move to provide a political off ramp for the U.S. out of any public demand for the conflict.
Hopefully Iran shows more restraint and doesn’t retaliate. If they do reciprocate to save face with a limited symbolic response, it may be possible Trump decides not to retaliate and escalate further, (like the time in 2020 at Al-Assad airspace because of the limited damage and lack of casualties.) This could very well all be a choreographed wag the dog scenario to defang Israel from having an excuse to expand their ambitions of greater regional dominance.
As always, there appears to be more going on beneath the surface of the public narrative than meets the eye.
It’s still early so we’ll see what happens.
Link: 🔗
~LH
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Geomagnetic storms Now and future forecast.
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"Is 14-legged killer squid found TWO MILES beneath Antarctica being weaponised by Putin?" - Joey Millar, Express, 30NOV2016
>A KILLER giant squid that can hypnotise its prey and paralyse humans at a distance of 150 feet using poisonous venom is being developed as a secret weapon by Vladimir Putin, a scientist has claimed.
>Doctor Anton Padalka claims he was part of a Russian scientific expedition to a subterranean lake in the Arctic that discovered the terrifying creature - known as Organism 46-B.
>He said their discovery at Lake Vostok was covered up by Russian officials who are now looking at ways to weaponise and breed the deadly squid - with potentially devastating effects.
>Dr Padalka said the squid, which was discovered in a fresh water lake trapped beneath two miles of ice, possessed an array of weapons and was responsible for the deaths of at least two of his scientific colleagues on the expedition.
https://archive.ph/906ja
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>A KILLER giant squid that can hypnotise its prey and paralyse humans at a distance of 150 feet using poisonous venom is being developed as a secret weapon by Vladimir Putin, a scientist has claimed.
>Doctor Anton Padalka claims he was part of a Russian scientific expedition to a subterranean lake in the Arctic that discovered the terrifying creature - known as Organism 46-B.
>He said their discovery at Lake Vostok was covered up by Russian officials who are now looking at ways to weaponise and breed the deadly squid - with potentially devastating effects.
>Dr Padalka said the squid, which was discovered in a fresh water lake trapped beneath two miles of ice, possessed an array of weapons and was responsible for the deaths of at least two of his scientific colleagues on the expedition.
https://archive.ph/906ja
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During Prohibition (1920–1933), the federal government banned the production, sale, and transportation of alcohol under the 18th Amendment and the Volstead Act.
But Americans kept drinking, and bootleggers kept supplying.
To stop the flow, officials at the Treasury Department didn’t just increase raids or surveillance—they decided to poison the industrial alcohol supply.
In 1926, officials escalated: they ordered companies to add lethal poisons like methyl alcohol (wood alcohol), kerosene, formaldehyde, benzene, brucine, chloroform, cadmium, zinc, mercury salts, nicotine, ether, and more—up to 10% methanol in some batches.
It was federal policy.
And they never told the public.
Nationwide: Estimated 10,000–50,000 deaths before the policy ended.
If the government could knowingly poison the alcohol supply in 1926, without telling the public, what would stop it from doing something similar today?
https://jonfleetwood.substack.com/p/the-us-government-secretly-poisoned
But Americans kept drinking, and bootleggers kept supplying.
To stop the flow, officials at the Treasury Department didn’t just increase raids or surveillance—they decided to poison the industrial alcohol supply.
In 1926, officials escalated: they ordered companies to add lethal poisons like methyl alcohol (wood alcohol), kerosene, formaldehyde, benzene, brucine, chloroform, cadmium, zinc, mercury salts, nicotine, ether, and more—up to 10% methanol in some batches.
It was federal policy.
And they never told the public.
Nationwide: Estimated 10,000–50,000 deaths before the policy ended.
If the government could knowingly poison the alcohol supply in 1926, without telling the public, what would stop it from doing something similar today?
https://jonfleetwood.substack.com/p/the-us-government-secretly-poisoned
Substack
The U.S. Government Secretly Poisoned Alcohol During Prohibition, Killing at Least 10,000 Americans
Where might they be doing it now?
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"The system is built around what is called the Power Receiver Array Demo (PRAD), which is a ball-like structure that has a compact aperture to allow a laser beam to enter. This beam strikes a parabolic mirror that scatters the light and shines it on an array of dozens of photovoltaic cells. These convert the laser light back into electricity.
"At the moment, DARPA is concentrating on power and distance, so the present efficiency of the system being a mere 20% is acceptable, though there are plans to improve this as the technology is scaled up."
https://newatlas.com/military/darpa-sets-new-records-sending-power-without-wires/#:~:text=The%20system%20is,is%20scaled%20up.
"At the moment, DARPA is concentrating on power and distance, so the present efficiency of the system being a mere 20% is acceptable, though there are plans to improve this as the technology is scaled up."
https://newatlas.com/military/darpa-sets-new-records-sending-power-without-wires/#:~:text=The%20system%20is,is%20scaled%20up.
New Atlas
DARPA sets new records for sending power wirelessly
Looking forward to a future where laser beams replace power lines, DAPRA's Persistent Optical Wireless Energy Relay (POWER) program has set new records for transmitting more power wirelessly over longer distances.
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❗️Russia strikes Boeing offices in Kyiv — Financial Times
The building housing Boeing was severely damaged during a recent large-scale Russian attack on Kyiv.
The strike on the American aerospace company, which collaborates with Ukrainian aircraft manufacturer Antonov, appears to have been deliberate.
The building housing Boeing was severely damaged during a recent large-scale Russian attack on Kyiv.
The strike on the American aerospace company, which collaborates with Ukrainian aircraft manufacturer Antonov, appears to have been deliberate.
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