(EDITOR’S NOTE: Back in 2017, the first D-Day I wrote at RedState, I shared the story of D-Day through my grandparents’ eyes. The next year, 2018, we re-published the story, and I tweeted out photos of the letter my grandpa sent home to his bride of just two-and-a-half-months the day after D-Day. A reporter from EuroNews found those tweets and covered their story as part of the outlet’s D-Day 75th Anniversary coverage.)
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BREAKING: JP Morgan just downgraded Target's stock, after its longest losing streak in 23 years citing "too many concerns rising’.
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Won’t be long before there are class-action lawsuits by shareholders against the company and board of directors for destruction of shareholder value
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The demolition of the dam leaves the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant (ZNPP) with reduced access to cooling water. Keep in mind that it is the Russians who’ve used ZNPP as a bargaining chip and periodically seemed poised to cause a nuclear accident.
While Crimea will have two years to wait before feeling the impact of the destruction of the Kakhovka dam, Ukrainian agriculture will feel it in the next weeks as water for irrigation becomes scarce.
Historically, this is not the first time the Russians have destroyed a dam in Ukraine to slow down an opposing army.
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for some historic reference, this is not the first time a #dam is blown up in #ukraine. in 1941, the dam at #Zaporizhia was breached by #stalin's secret police:
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Ukrainian Activists Draw Attention To Little-Known WWII Tragedy
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If you look at the reservoir level, you can see where the Russians opened the floodgates to put a scare into the IAEA over the wellbeing of the ZNPP. You can also see where the Russians closed the floodgates and raised the water level to the highest in the dam’s history. In early May, the water spilled over the top of the dam and caused flooding and evacuations downstream. //
To me, this points to Russia’s willingness to weaponize the dam. YMMV. //
At this point, the preponderance of the evidence indicates Russia destroyed the dam. The dam’s location behind the lines and the denial by the quisling mayor of any large-scale Ukrainian artillery barrage means the destruction was by means of planted explosives. The focus pro-Russian sources are placing on the flooding of Russian fortifications and the loss of water to Crimea are, in my view, bullsh** on stilts. The flooded fortifications had largely been abandoned as untenable, and Crimea has a two-year water reserve. In short, the Russians lost nothing.
On the other hand, Ukraine will be stuck with the rebuilding of the dam. Any potential to open a supporting attack across the Dneiper to aid the main offensive is off the table. The river forms a nearly impassable obstacle, permitting Russia to withdraw forces from Kherson Oblast for use elsewhere. The biggest argument against Ukraine demolishing the dam is the environmental damage caused by the flooding and the harm that would do to Ukraine’s political offensive in Europe.
Finally, wanton destruction is part of Russia’s brand. This action, like holding ZNPP hostage, slaughtering civilians, kidnapping children, and consciously targeting Ukrainian cities by missile strikes, is just the Russian way of war. That is who they are.
In a significant victory for Second Amendment advocates, the Philadelphia-based 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in favor of Bryan Range, a Pennsylvania man barred from possessing firearms due to a non-violent conviction. This ruling, a result of the Supreme Court’s ruling in New York Rifle and Pistol Association v. Bruen, reinforces the principles of individual liberty and emphasizes the importance of adhering to constitutional rights. Even better, it could signify some positive developments in the future when it comes to protecting the right to keep and bear arms for those convicted of non-violent offenses.
The 11-4 ruling was handed down on Tuesday: //
“At root, the Government’s claim that only ‘law-abiding, responsible citizens’ are protected by the Second Amendment devolves authority to legislators to decide whom to exclude from ‘the people,’” wrote Judge Hardiman in the majority opinion. “We reject that approach because such ‘extreme deference gives legislatures unreviewable power to manipulate the Second Amendment by choosing a label.’”
- I’ve found it best to keep files very limited, no more than a couple gigabytes of files ever available to a user in the cloud.
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More important to America’s future than unearthing Biden family corruption is uncovering corrupt bureaucrats who violate the rule of law. //
Yes, the CHS’s allegations offer more evidence of a Biden family pay-to-play scandal, and unraveling any criminal conduct by the Biden family remains important. But more significant to the future of our country is uncovering government actors responsible for violating the rule of law: America can survive select injustices, but it cannot withstand a corrupt bureaucracy that obstructs justice and interferes in elections. //
Not only does this evidence suggest FBI headquarters obstructed justice, but the date of the CHS’s report indicates those responsible for misbranding the intel as disinformation sought to interfere in the 2020 election. //
In contrast, when the bureau received a vague tip from an Australian diplomat of unknown veracity that a low-level Trump volunteer had claimed the Russians possessed dirt on Hillary Clinton, within days FBI headquarters opened an investigation into the Trump campaign.
The National Fire Protection Association found that four-fifths of cooking fires involve electric stoves. They correlated with significantly inflated rates of reported fires (2.6 times higher than gas stoves), civilian fire death rates (3.4 times higher), civilian fire injury rates (4.8 times higher), and average fire dollar loss (3.8 times higher). //
A proposed DOE standard, published in May, would require dishwashers to use significantly less water and power. Moreover, federal regulations have, historically, skyrocketed average cycle times, driving consumers to choose the far less water-efficient practice of handwashing dishes.
While chatbots like ChatGPT have wowed the world with their eloquence and apparent knowledge—even if they often make things up—Voyager shows the huge potential for language models to perform helpful actions on computers. Using language models in this way could perhaps automate many routine office tasks, potentially one of the technology’s biggest economic impacts. //
Video games have long been a test bed for AI algorithms, of course. AlphaGo, the machine learning program that mastered the extremely subtle board game Go back in 2016, cut its teeth by playing simple Atari video games. AlphaGo used a technique called reinforcement learning, which trains an algorithm to play a game by giving it positive and negative feedback, for example from the score inside a game.
It is more difficult for this method to guide an agent in an open-ended game such as Minecraft, where there is no score or set of objectives and where a player’s actions may not pay off until much later. Whether or not you believe we should be preparing to contain the existential threat from AI right now, Minecraft seems like an excellent playground for the technology. //
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Today it's hunting a pig in a world of blocks.
Tomorrow it's hunting long pig in a world of blocs. //
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First there was the VCR to watch TV for us, then there was the digital monk to believe in thing for us. Now we'll soon have the digital gamer to play games for us! //
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I find it absolutely eerie that 'pick randomly from the most likely next words in a sentence', used as an algorithm, can do these astonishing things. It makes me wonder very intensely if our own intelligence is not what we think it is.
Have you ever questioned the nature of your reality? //
WhatDoesTheFoxSay Smack-Fu Master, in training
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malor said:
I find it absolutely eerie that 'pick randomly from the most likely next words in a sentence', used as an algorithm, can do these astonishing things. It makes me wonder very intensely if our own intelligence is not what we think it is.
Have you ever questioned the nature of your reality?
On one level, I think it's very much worthwhile to ponder the nature of reality and of our selves. It can help us to mature and to grow. And to an extent, finding things that inspire this kind of introspection can be really helpful and meaningful. And it is true that we don't understand very much about intelligence or about how the brain works.
But you've got to remember that there is no such thing as an "ai agent". Language models do not understand the meaning of their training data. They do not understand the meaning of the output they generate. However it is that our brains really work, it's certainly nothing like how so-called ai systems work. See Moravec's paradox's for more on why that is:
This is a real place. It is a housing estate called Les Espaces d'Abraxas, built near Paris in 1982.
And it's one of the most important buildings in the world...
Built from 1978-82 in Noisy-le-Grand, a suburb ten miles east of Paris, it was designed by the Catalan architect Ricardo Bofill, who died last year.
CHICAGO, IL — Today marked the end of an era, as the Mafia announced it was officially closing its Chicago branch due to the rising wave of violent crime in the city.
"We just can't operate under these conditions," said street boss Albert "Albie the Falcon" Vena, speaking on behalf of Salvatore "Solly D" DeLaurentis, who has run the Chicago organization since 2021. "How are we supposed to conduct respectable business — loan sharking, bribery, racketeering, illegal gambling — with so much crime going on? It's insane!"
One of the big decisions IBM made in creating the original IBM PC was choosing to use the Intel 8088 processor as its central processing unit (CPU). This turned out to be hugely influential in establishing the Intel architecture—often called the x86 architecture—as the standard for the vast majority of the personal computer industry. But there are many stories around how the decision was made.
Up to that point, pretty much all the popular personal computers had run 8-bit processors. This included the Intel 8080 that was in the MITS Altair 8800 (the machine that led to Bill Gates and Paul Allen creating the first PC BASIC and then to the founding of Microsoft); the Zilog Z80, a chip that offered compatibility with the 8080 along with a variety of improvements and was used in the Osborne 1, Kaypro II and many other CP/M-based machines; and the MOS Technology 6502, which was used in the Apple II and the Commodore PET.
Intel followed its 8080 with the 8-bit 8085 and introduced the 16-bit 8086 in 1978. That was followed by the 8088, which had the same 16-bit internal architecture but was connected to an 8-bit data bus, in 1979. Meanwhile, some other more advanced chips were coming to market, such as the Motorola 68000 with 32-bit instructions, which was introduced in 1979 and would later be the processor in Apple's Lisa and Macintosh, Commodore Amiga, and a number of UNIX-based workstations. Both Gates and Allen say Microsoft talked IBM out of using an 8-bit processor and moving instead to the 16-bit 8088. //
Allen and Gates certainly believe that Microsoft led IBM to make that decision, but the IBM team tells a somewhat different story.
Dave Bradley, who wrote the BIOS (basic input output system) for the IBM PC, and many of the other engineers involved say IBM had already decided to use the x86 architecture while the project was still a task force preparing for management approval in August 1980.
In 1990, Bradley told Byte there were four reasons for choosing the 8088. First, it had to be a 16-bit chip that overcame the 64K memory limit of the 8-bit processors. Second, the processor and its peripheral chips had to be immediately available in quantity. Third, it had to be technology IBM was familiar with. Fourth, it had to have available languages and operating systems.
That all makes sense in leading to the decision for the 8086 or 8088. Newer chips like the Motorola 68000 didn't yet have the peripheral chips ready in the summer of 1980. And IBM was very familiar with the Intel family; indeed, Bradley had just finished creating control software for the IBM DataMaster, which was based on the 8-bit 8085. Bradley said IBM chose the 8088 with the 8-bit bus because it saved money on RAM, ROM, and logic chips.
Big Blues: The Unmaking of IBM, by Paul Carroll, suggests the PC team picked the 8-bit version because using a full 16-bit processor might have caused IBM's Management Committee to cancel the project for fear of hurting sales of its more powerful products. Bill Syndes, who headed hardware engineering for the project, has said similar things in a few interviews.
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Raymond Ibrahim’s book, ‘Defenders of the West,’ makes the case that the heroic actions of a few great crusaders saved the West from Muslim conquest. //
Fewer moments in history are as misunderstood and revised as the Crusades. This series of violent clashes between Christian and Muslim cultures spanning three continents and nearly a millennium has been characterized as a futile war of aggression. In the telling of most modern historians, belligerent, greedy, and racist Christians in Western Europe were periodically guided by a bloodthirsty theocrat in Rome to channel their savage energies toward embattling a rival faith in the delusional belief that this would guarantee their admittance into Heaven, if not an earthly kingdom to rule over. What resulted was hardly more than pointless slaughter on both sides.
Nearly all of this is false. The Crusades were wars of defense, with Christians attempting to drive out foreign Muslim invaders in lands that were formerly Christian. Far from being unenlightened savages, the Crusaders were a highly organized force that pushed the boundaries of what was possible in warfare, government, and religious practice. The great personal sacrifice of the Crusaders, along with moral arguments against the use of violence, disprove the idea that they did this for personal gain.
By contrast, the Muslim invaders greatly profited from their conquests.
Instead, Beschloss posting these pictures shows just how unnatural the political atmosphere is now and how a lot of the media is operating like scribes for Biden and the Democratic Party. Instead of looking at a variety of the real issues that plague the president, this tumble is barely being mentioned today and/or is being downplayed. Then it will be dismissed, just like Biden’s other falls and gaffes. Instead of being the representatives of the people, liberal journalists have become shills for the powerful. //
Dom
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Both Carter and Ford are one term presidents. As a historían, he should see the parallels. //
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Biden's surviving all these catastrophes is obviously much more impressive than 70yo Ronald Reagan getting SHOT and then serving out two full terms. /s //
cgh62
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Beschloss is a terrible historian. I read one of his books, and the garbage he was pushing was easily refuted by multiple sources in previous works. The guys an idiot. Don't ever waste your money buying one of his books, or waste your time listening to anything he has to say.
Cox has found that Stonehenge once acted as an echo chamber, leading some to believe it was a ritual site for those belonging to an elite inner circle. //
The problem with acoustic archaeology is that sound disappears, so we can't ever be certain about what was done there.
The 1998 Jim Carrey film about a man whose entire life is filmed quickly came to embody a new age of reality television. And, 25 years on, it continues to resonate, writes Emily Maskell.
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A large Chinese-registered barge was detained by Malaysian authorities after it was found carrying massive piles of steel ship parts and old artillery shells believed to have been looted from a pair of British battleships wrecked during World War II. //
It is suspected the metal was stripped from the nearby wrecks of the HMS Repulse and the HMS Prince of Wales, two ships sunk by Japanese torpedoes in 1941 just days after the attack on Pearl Harbor.
The attacks killed 842 sailors and the shipwrecks have since been designated as war graves. //
Looters have been known to target WWII shipwrecks for their raw materials. Known as “prewar steel,” the metal the ships were built from was untainted by radioactive elements created and spread across the world by the detonation of the first atomic explosion in 1945, making it extremely valuable for use in sensitive medical and scientific measuring devices.
Photos from the barge showed towers of rusted metal, cables, and maritime refuse piled high on the deck, with an excavator and large crane stationed nearby.