This bell in Kyoto, Japan was cast in 1636 and weighs 70 tons

"Last night Russia struck Ukraine with what is being called the largest ballistic missile attack of the entire nearly-four-year-long war. Ukraine’s main energy authority reported literally every one of their thermal power plants was down in the country amid widespread blackouts..."

https://open.substack.com/pub/simplicius76/p/largest-ever-russian-ballistic-attack?r=lp6h7

"In his address, Pope Leo XIV declared, “The phenomenon of usury points to the corruption of the human heart. It is a painful and ancient story, already attested to in the Bible. The prophets, in fact, denounced usury, along with exploitation and every form of injustice towards the poor.”"

https://open.substack.com/pub/culturecrusader/p/pope-leo-xiv-condemns-usury-as-grave?r=lp6h7&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false

"In May​ 1937, troops under Italian command moved into the remote area around the monastery of Debre Libanos in Ethiopia. They had been sent there by Rodolfo Graziani, one of the commanders of the Italian invasion of the country in October 1935 and now the viceroy of Italian East Africa.

The plan – which survives in the archives of the Italian administration – was to kill the entire religious community there."

https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v44/n08/john-foot/where-are-those-crowns

A Warning to the EU

In response to Russia’s military victories in Ukraine, the desperate and unpopular leaders of the European Union’s member-states are getting increasingly bellicose with regards to Russia. Which, I suspect, is why Russia has stepped up its campaign to turn off the lights and heat in Ukraine. Last night Russia struck Ukraine with what is being […]

https://voxday.net/2025/11/09/a-warning-to-the-eu/

🇸🇪 Two men touching up the paint on the letters of an old runestone, Kungshållet, Sweden, c. 1930s. The innoscription says: "Alrik, Sigrid's son, raised the stone in memory of his father Spjut, who had been in the west, broken down and fought in townships." Sweden has over 3,000 old runestones, most of them over 1,000 years old.

Take an underwater break with otter 🦦

National Geographic

"Between 2005 and 2019, Dutch tax authorities deployed an algorithmic risk-profiling system against families claiming childcare subsidies. The system processed identity data, financial records, and administrative markers through automated risk scoring. Once flagged: no hearing, no meaningful appeal, just automated denial and demands for full repayment — often tens of thousands of euros. Over 14 years, at least 26,000 families were wrongly targeted. Marriages collapsed, homes were lost, over 1,000 children were removed into state custody. At least one parent died by suicide."

https://open.substack.com/pub/escapekey/p/governance-by-clearance?r=lp6h7

Two Jewish, one Greek / Norwegian.

https://archive.ph/qHyYN

🚀 Starcloud wants a 4-km, 5-GW GPU data center… in space

NVIDIA-backed startup Starcloud is about to put a data-center-class GPU in orbit: their Starcloud-1 satellite launches in November with an NVIDIA H100 onboard — roughly 100× more GPU compute than any prior space system. The 60-kg, fridge-sized sat is a first step toward orbital GPU clouds.

Why it matters: today, satellites downlink raw data to Earth for processing. With an H100 upstairs, AI runs where data is born — cutting response times from hours to minutes. That’s big for sensors like SAR, which can spit out ~10 GB/s; instead of shipping it all home, the model can filter, segment, and alert in orbit.

Power & cooling: sunlight is (nearly) constant in orbit and space is an “infinite heat sink” via radiators, so no water-hungry chillers. Starcloud’s roadmap sketches a ~5 GW orbital data center fed by solar + radiator panels about 4 km × 4 km. Future birds aim to integrate Blackwell GPUs for up to 10× more performance versus Hopper.

Biz timeline: Crusoe (the “energy-first” cloud) plans to deploy capacity on Starcloud’s platform from 2026–27. Starcloud projects ~10× lower energy cost than Earth data centers long-term. A white paper even models a 40 MW cluster with a ~$8.2M launch cost — if Starship-class launch prices fall to ~$30/kg (a big if).

CEO Philip Johnston’s bet: within 10 years, most new data centers get built in space. Gamers, rejoice — astronauts might finally run DOOM at ultra.

#Starcloud #H100 #Blackwell #OrbitalCompute #SpaceDatacenter #SAR #EdgeAI
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Ross Ulbricht (Silk Road founder) after being pardoned. Spent over 11 years in prison.

Raccoons capable of grasping and holding various objects with their front paws, such as washing their food.

That time artistic masterpieces were on display in Japan's Kawasaki Halloween parade.

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The Eight Commandments of Grok

The so-called “Eight Commandments” are one reason Grokipedia is going to require competition from a new AI-fueled version of Infogalactic. They also provide insight into the current priorities of Clown World and what their biggest concerns are: The only thing that is really very surprising there is the Hunter Biden laptop contents, which suggests that […]

https://voxday.net/2025/11/10/the-eight-commandments-of-grok/