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Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I want to start — I want to put aside my written statement, for a moment, and address one of the points that was brought up — I think an important point by the Ranking Member — that this body ought to be concerning itself with issues that impact directly the American people: the rising price of groceries, 76 percent over the past two years for basic food stuff, the war in Ukraine, inflation issues, the border issues, many other issues that concern us all as a nation. We can’t do that without the First Amendment, without debate.

When I gave my speech — my announcement speech — in Boston two months ago…I talked about all those issues. I focused on groceries. I focused on the fact that working class people can no longer afford to live in this country. I talked about inflation — all the issues that deeply concern you, and that you’ve devoted your career to alleviating those issues. Five minutes into my speech, when I was talking about Paul Revere, YouTube deplatformed me. I didn’t talk about vaccines in that speech. I didn’t talk about anything that was a verboten subject. I just was talking about my campaign and things — the conversation that we ought to be having with each other as Americans.

But I was shut down. And that is why the First Amendment’s important. Debate — congenial, respectful debate — is the fertilizer, it’s the water, it’s the sunlight for our Democracy. We need to be talking to each other.

Now, this is a letter that many of you signed — many of my fellow Democrats. I’ve spent my life in this party. I’ve devoted my life to the values of this party. This — 102 people signed this. This itself is evidence of the problem that this hearing was convened to address. This is an attempt to censor a censorship hearing.

The charges in this — and by the way, censorship is antithetical to our party. It was appalling to my father, to my uncle, to FDR, to Harry Truman, to Thomas Jefferson, as the Chairman referred to. It is the basis for democracy — it sets us apart from all of the previous forms of government. We need to be able to talk. And the First Amendment was not written for easy speech. It was written for the speech that nobody likes you for.

And I was censored — not just by the Democratic administration — I was censored by the Trump administration. I was the first person censored by the — as the Chairman pointed out — by the Biden administration, two days after it came into office…And by the way, they had to invent a new word, called “malinformation,” to censor people like me. There was no misinformation on my Instagram account. Everything I put on that account was cited and sourced with peer reviewed publications or government databases. Nobody has ever pointed to a single piece of misinformation that I published. I was removed for something they called “malinformation.” Malinformation is information that is true, but is inconvenient to the government, that they don’t want people to hear. And it’s antithetical to the values of our country. //

Now I want to say something, I think, that’s more important, and it goes directly to what you talked about, Ranking Member, which is the need, this toxic polarization, that is destroying our country today. And how do we deal with that? We are more — this kind of division — is more dangerous for our country than anytime since the American Civil War. And how do we deal with that? How are we gonna — every Democrat on this committee believes that we need to end that polarization. Do you think you can do that by censoring people? I’m telling you, you cannot. That only aggravates and amplifies the problem.

We need to start being kind to each other. We need to start being respectful to each other. We need to start restoring the comity — to this chamber and to the rest of America. But it has to start here. //

This is how we need to start treating each other in this country. We have to stop trying to destroy each other, to marginalize, to villify, to gaslight each other. We have to find that place inside of ourselves of light, of empathy, of compassion. And above all, we need to elevate the Constitution of the United States, which was written for hard times. And that has to be the premier compass for all of our activities. Thank you very much.

There’s nothing groundbreaking here; it’s casting a wide net with cell phone geolocation data and then winnowing it down using other evidence and investigative techniques. And right now, those are expensive and time consuming, so only used in major crimes like murder (or, in this case, murders).

What’s interesting to think about is what happens when this kind of thing becomes cheap and easy: when it can all be done through easily accessible databases, or even when an AI can do the sorting and make the inferences automatically. Cheaper digital forensics means more digital forensics, and we’ll start seeing this kind of thing for even routine crimes. That’s going to change things.

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A papermaker in Massachusetts named Zenas Marshall Crane is traditionally credited with being the first to include tiny fibers in the paper pulp used to print currency in 1844. But scientists at the University of Notre Dame have found evidence that Benjamin Franklin was incorporating colored fibers into his own printed currency much earlier, among other findings, according to a new paper published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). //

The first paper money appeared in 1690 when the Massachusetts Bay Colony printed paper currency to pay soldiers to fight campaigns against the French in Canada. The other colonies soon followed suit, although there was no uniform system of value for any of the currency. To combat the inevitable counterfeiters, government printers sometimes made indentations in the cut of the bill, which would be matched to government records to redeem the bills for coins. But this method wasn't ideal since paper currency was prone to damage.

By the time he was 23, Franklin was a successful newspaper editor and printer in Philadelphia, publishing The Pennsylvania Gazette and eventually becoming rich as the pseudonymous author of Poor Richard's Almanack. Franklin was a strong advocate of paper currency from the start. For instance, in 1736, he printed a new currency for New Jersey, a service he also provided for Pennsylvania and Delaware. And he designed the first currency of the Continental Congress in 1775, depicting 13 colonies as linked rings forming a circle, within which "We are one" was inscribed. (The reverse inscription read, "Mind your business," because Franklin had a bit of cheek.) //

The most recent discovery: very thin (between 100–300 microns) indigo-colored blue fibers and threads, found in Franklin's printed currency as early as 1739. Later bills that Franklin printed in the 1770s incorporated much larger threads and microfibers, measuring up to a few centimeters in length. Those blue fibers were not found in either the non-Franklin currency or the known counterfeits. “These [colored fiber] techniques have been used later on in printing federal dollars, and then other currencies all over the world,” Manukyan told New Scientist.

DOI: PNAS, 2023. 10.1073/pnas.2301856120 (About DOIs).

Thursday brought about another hearing on the weaponization of the federal government on Capitol Hill. In an ongoing affair as of this writing, Robert Kennedy Jr. is testifying before the select committee. //

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The Democrats vote to censor Bobby Kennedy from speaking at a hearing detailing how the Biden administration censored political speech online.

Democrats don't want you speaking online OR in person. It's all too dangerous. You can't make this stuff up.

10:03 AM · Jul 20, 2023

…criticism of Israel must not cross the line into negation of the state of Israel’s right to exist. Questioning the Jewish people’s right to self-determination, is not legitimate diplomacy, it is antisemitism.

Install FreeBSD-13.2 on a dedicated server from a Linux rescue environment

The rule would limit tailpipe emissions so that in order to comply, auto companies would have to sell 60% of new vehicles as electric by 2030. Right now, 6% of new vehicles sold are electric. That would have to rise to 60% to comply with the new rule by 2030 and 67% by 2032.

And I’m all in favor of people who love EVs to buy an EV, but right now EV sales are 6% of total new vehicle sales, and there are many Americans who prefer a car with an internal combustion engine. Because there are four Cs that we have to remember. There’s cost, there’s convenience, there’s climate, and there’s China.

And these are four reasons why many Americans prefer cars with some internal combustion engine, whether it’s a hybrid and internal combustion engine or just a normal gasoline-powered engine by itself.

As a dividend investor, you might have trained yourself to look for fantastic yields when placing your money. While 10% yields are attractive, they’re worthless if the company can’t sustain the payments.

These 15 companies have paid out dividends for at least 100 years—and are hoping to continue for a hundred more. Will any of these companies still be paying a dividend when we ring in the 22nd century?

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https://www.scribd.com/document/644292310/644283266-Bank-Memorandum-5-10-23#from_embed

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We have now established a network of over 20 companies formed by the Bidens and their associates.

Most of these companies were LLCs and formed when Joe Biden was Vice President.
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Based on the financial records we have obtained via bank subpoenas, we can now confidently trace at least $10 million in total from foreign nationals’ and their related companies going to the Biden family, their business associates, and their companies.
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The Bidens took steps to hide, confuse, and conceal payments they received from foreign nationals. Here’s one example how a CCP-linked associate layered domestic limited liability companies to pay Hunter Biden.
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Multiple Biden family members received money from the Chinese after it passed through an associate’s account. Additionally, Hunter Biden received money directly into his company’s account from a Chinese-controlled entity.
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Georgia state Rep. Mesha Mainor (R-56th District) was elected in 2020 as a Democrat to represent a deep blue portion of Atlanta in the Georgia House of Representatives. However, in a stunning reversal, Mainor recently announced she has decided to change her political allegiance to the GOP primarily due to her former party’s stubborn resistance to school choice.

“I support school choice, parent rights and opportunities for children to thrive, especially those that are marginalized and tend to fail in school,” Mainor said at the time of her decision to become a member of the GOP. //

According to the American Federation for Children, 72 percent of registered voters support the concept of school choice, including 68 percent of Democrats, 82 percent of Republicans, and 67 percent of Independents. Moreover, school choice is supported by 70 percent of blacks, 77 percent of Hispanics, 66 percent of Asians, and 72 percent of whites.

On top of this, mountains of data demonstrate that school choice legislation has far-reaching benefits throughout the community. For example, in states that have passed robust school choice bills: test scores have improved for both private and public schools, parent satisfaction has soared, civic values have progressed, racial and ethnic integration has been enhanced, school safety has advanced, and education spending has become more efficient. https://www.edchoice.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/123s-of-School-Choice-WEB-07-10-23.pdf

So, why in the world would anybody, particularly Democrat lawmakers who represent the very people who most desperately want school choice, be opposed to such a popular idea?

As Mainor intimated, the number one reason lies with teacher unions, who remain adamantly opposed to the proliferation of school choice.

This article is the first of a four-part series on building your own NAS on FreeBSD. This series will cover:

1. Selecting a storage drive interface that meets your capacity and performance requirements both now and into the future.
2. Why it makes sense to build your own NAS using FreeBSD rather than installing a NAS distribution (even a FreeBSD-based one). We’ll also discuss which configuration and tuning settings are needed.
3. The nitty-gritty on sharing: configuring NFS, Samba, and iSCSI shares.
4. Software maintenance and monitoring your NAS. //

https://klarasystems.com/articles/part-2-tuning-your-freebsd-configuration-for-your-nas/

https://klarasystems.com/articles/part-3-building-your-own-freebsd-based-nas-with-zfs/

 find . -iname "foo*" | while read f
 do
     # ... loop body
 done

Alternate:

 $ for x in *; do echo "file: '${x}'"; done

or

  for x in * 
  do 
      echo "file: '${x}'"
  done

Many times when writing Shell scripts, you may find yourself in a situation where you need to perform an action based on whether a file exists or not.

In Bash, you can use the test command to check whether a file exists and determine the type of the file.
The test command takes one of the following syntax forms:

 test EXPRESSION
 [ EXPRESSION ]
 [[ EXPRESSION ]]

If you want your script to be portable, you should prefer using the old test [ command, which is available on all POSIX shells. The new upgraded version of the test command [[ (double brackets) is supported on most modern systems using Bash, Zsh, and Ksh as a default shell.

Most of us wish we had more than 24 hours in a day to get everything done and actually breathe. What if each day gave us more than double that time? If it wasn’t for a phenomenon that put the lengthening of Earth’s days on pause billions of years ago, that would have probably happened.

Earth has not always had 24-hour days. There were fewer than 10 hours in a day when the Moon first came into being around 4.5 billion years ago, but they have grown longer as lunar tidal forces gradually slowed Earth’s rotation. But there was a long period when days didn’t grow at all. Astrophysicists have now found that, from 2 billion to 600 million years ago, days were about 19.5 hours because several tidal forces canceled each other out and kept Earth rotating at the same speed for over a billion years. If that had never happened, our present days might be over 65 hours long.

“The fact that the day is 24 hours long…is not a coincidence,” the research team said in a study recently published in Science Advances.

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.add2499

Clive Robinson • July 5, 2023 12:46 PM

@ Bruce, ALL,

Re : Descent into chaos and noise.

“A recent paper showed that using AI generated text to train another AI invariably “causes irreversible defects.””

As I’ve indicated before that is to be expected when you understand how these neural network based systems work.

There is not the space on this blog to go through the maths and the effort to make formula via UTF-8 glyphs is beyond most mortal flesh and blood can stand.

So an analogy instead[1]…

We know that various things like gongs, wine glasses, bottles and certain types of edges can cause musical notes, due to the build up and loss of energy in resonators.

The thing is appart from the repeyative banging on the gong, all of these resonators gain their energy from near random chaotic input.

You can see this with the wet finger on the wine glass rim. If you move your finger too quickly or too slowely then the body of the glass does not resonate. You can calculate the best speed fairly simply, but it’s even simpler just to get a little practice in. //

Well those nueral networks kind of work that way. You give them a stochastic –random– source and the network in effect resonates –parrots– to it which produces the ouput. Whole musical phrases and entire tunes can be held in the weights.

The weights come about by feeding in tunes and finding the errors and feeding the errors back to adjust the weights.

The point is the network can become “tuned” to a type of music or even just a composer. Which means the filter selects out of the random stream characteristics that match the type of music or the composer.

But each output from the network has differences, to the original music based on residual errors in the system. Yes it sounds to us like the type of music or in the style of the composer, but it’s different by those errors.

Feed that error laden output in as training data and the errors will build up over each iteration, as you would expect.

It’s like the “photocopy of the photocopy” or the “boot-leg tape of the boot-leg tape” each generation adds more noise that changes the network.