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15.12.2025 Записки с горы

С новым утром!

Ночь в Киеве прошла тихо. График отключений тоже радует - всего восемь с половиной часов. Это, конечно, не значит, что потом внезапно не добавятся ещё часа три - четыре, как вчера и позавчера, Но пока жизнь налаживается. Тем более, что белая мерзос-с-сть в основном уже растаяла (осталась на крышах и газонах), а температура поднялась на пару градусов выше нуля. В новостях, кстати, пишут, что сегодня нельзя жаловаться на холод, так и причины нет.

Ночью мне снился КВН. Странный. Команды выступали в разных залах, расположенных, к тому же, на разных этажах. Я, пытаясь посмотреть оба выступления, ходил туда-сюда, но постоянно попадал не на номера, а на организационные моменты. А потом, когда спускался по огромной запутанной лестнице вниз, зазвенел будильник. Так я ничего толком и не увидел.

Вчера, когда продлили отключение, решил я, несмотря на белую мерзос-с-сть под ногами, сходить в дальнюю аптеку. Пока на улице светло, а дома темно. Прихожу, а там тоже темно и пахнет бензином, который аптекарша переливает из канистры в банку, чтобы заправить генератор. Который три часа трудился и устал. Вспомнил, что в начале двадцатого века бензин продавали в аптеках, но мне бензин был не нужен, да он и не продавался. К счастью в кассе оставалась ещё парочка электронов, так что сходил я не зря - купил, что хотел.

Кстати о генераторах. В доме, где находится придворный супермаркет (маленький), расположены ещё четыре мелких магазинчика и аптека. И во время отключения перед домом весело тарахтит целая стая генераторов (не завидую жильцам). И вот прошлой весной перед супермаркетом установили стационарный генератор, энергии которого хватает не только на освещение и кассы, но на всё вообще. И работает он тише всех остальных тарахтелок. Я даже некоторое время наивно удивлялся, почему все магазинчики не питаются от одного генератора, а потом прикинул, сколько для этого придётся оформлять бумаг...

Сегодня первый день сессии и внезапно проснувшиеся студенты стали массово писать вопросы, типа, а будет ли лекция, и можно ли ещё сдать то, чего они не сдали раньше. Так что закругляюсь и удаляюсь к студентам. Да и палец устал уже тыкать в экранчик.

Далі буде.

P.S. В заключение повторю, что зима должна быть тёплой и дружественной, или не быть вообще.

Angus McKie

https://70sscifiart.tumblr.com/post/803074306441723905

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Angus McKie

https://70sscifiart.tumblr.com/post/803074306441723905

The Eglinton Tournament and the Mystery of Richard III’s Suit of Armour

Posted by Maria

https://murreyandblue.co.uk/2025/12/16/the-eglinton-tournament-and-the-mystery-of-richard-iiis-suit-of-armour/

http://murreyandblue.co.uk/?p=64895

Have you ever thought about what happened to Richard’s clothes and jewellery? It would be amazing to find out about the fate of his belongings and it was during my research about this topic that I came across a very intriguing joust that took place from the 28^th to the 30^th August 1839 in the castle of Eglinton, north Ayrshire in Scotland. The said event is known as the Eglinton Tournament and it was organised by Archibald, Earl of Eglinton.

In order to enhance the importance of the tournament all the participants were purposely trained and many famous names were involved including Prince Louis Napoleon who later became Napoleon III. It was meant to be a revival of a medieval tournament inspired by Walter Scott’s “Ivanhoe” in the spirit of Romanticism and it was a reaction to the low-tone coronation of Queen Victoria. As you can imagine, it was a lavish event and it cost to the Earl more than half of his estate, but sometimes noblesse oblige and nobles were willing to do whatever was in their power to impress their friends.

The event attracted 100.000 spectators dressed in medieval attire and 10.000 tickets were given (not sold) but a terrible storm prevented the event being totally successful, as the banquet could not take place. Every participant had a lady to dedicate his possible victory to, exactly as the code of honour of the age of chivalry dictated, and the winner brought home a trophy made in the medieval style.

At this point you are asking yourselves why I am writing about something that happened 250 years after Richard’s death and how such an event could be related to him. The joust was performed following the rules of a true medieval tournament and participants had to wear authentic clothes from the Middle Ages to make the joust even more thrilling. Henry Beresford 3rd Marquis of Waterford was one of the most famous participants of what today would be a reenactment. He wore a suit of ribbed armour from the time of King Richard III. I can’t deny I jumped some inches from my chair and I tried to understand if it was a replica or a true relic and, above all, if it belonged to Richard himself. The sources are contradictory but – alas! – the majority of them make clear that the suit was from the time of Richard III (not his own) and had been brought to the Tower of London from Spain[1]. It is remarkable to notice that one source in particular brings to attention that at the time of Richard, armour had reached perfection and the zenith of elegance[2].

**Henry Beresford 3^rd Marquis of Waterford dressed for the Eglinton Tournament.**

The suit worn by Waterford is perfectly described. It was a ribbed or plated German armour, with tilting apparel and original tilting lance. Thomas Miller in his Picturesque Sketches of London[3], gives an even better description, adding that the armour had rosettes on the shoulders that looked like little wings or epaulets that had blown loose and stayed erect.

In The Lads of the Village: A Magazine of Universal Recreation, Volume 1[4] we find a similar description but not only this! Another armour from 1465 is described and it is highlighted that it was an original from the period of Edward IV. It was Yorkist armour, a tournament suit with tilting lance, war saddle, horse housing black powdered with the king’s badge, the white rose and sun, a spiked chauffron on the horse’s head. This last armour was perfect for a man 7 feet tall and now we wonder (and dream) if it was original and possibly belonged to Edward himself!

We don’t know if every participant chose his own attire or if it was Archibald who decided on that. Henry Beresford was an eccentric, well known for his debauchery, vandalism, bad jokes and high alcohol consumption. Richard would have frowned visibly if he had been there… He was the “Knight of the Dragon” at the tournament while the “Knight of the White Rose” was the one who wore the armour from Edward IV’s time. Was Waterford chosen on purpose to point out the armour he was wearing was from the time of a king who was considered a villain? We will never know…

Were all the outfits really authentic? In The Literary world, conducted by J. Timbs, the suit is described as having been made in polished fluted steel and as the oldest garment of the whole tournament. This means that many others were fake, as they were described as old as William the Conqueror! If we trust Timbs, the suit would have been from the time of Richard and there was nothing older than that. In this case, all the others from previous ages were fake, including the one from the period of Edward IV.

Going back to our first question, of whether the suit belonged to Richard, it is clear it did not, because it would have been made in a very special way considering the King had a twisted spine. Whether it was original or not could only be proved or disproved by carbon 14.

The armours of the Eglinton Tournament are now on display in the Royal Armouries Museum of Leeds and other museums in the UK.

[1] Walter Thornbury, ‘The Tower: (part 2 of 2)’, in Old and New London: Volume 2 (London, 1878), pp. 77-95. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/old-new-london/vol2/pp77-95 [accessed 10 May 2023].

[2] George Walter Thornbury, Old and new London: a narrative of its history, its people and its places, Cassel, Petter and Galpin, London, Volume 2.

[3] Thomas Miller, Picturesque Sketches of London, Officer of the National Illustrated Library, London 1852.

[4] The Lads of the Village: A Magazine of Universal Recreation, Brook and Co. London 1875 Volume 1.

https://murreyandblue.co.uk/2025/12/16/the-eglinton-tournament-and-the-mystery-of-richard-iiis-suit-of-armour/

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Закусывать надо!

( чем они закусывают )

Food for Thought

Posted by Greg Ross

https://www.futilitycloset.com/2025/12/16/food-for-thought-3/

https://www.futilitycloset.com/?p=72323

A selection of topics considered by the Athenian Society, a learned organization established in 1691 to answer “all the most nice and curious questions proposed by the ingenious of either sex”:

Bashfulness, why in Women more than Men?
Books least known to those that need ’em
Bath-waters, what makes ’em hot?
Dials, Clocks and Watches, when first made?
Eunuch, whether ever in Love?
Greenland, how should a Tree come there?
Hedg-hogs, how are they propagated?
Head or Feet, which Travels most?
Knowledge of Men or Things, which best?
Kissing, is there any Pleasure in it?
Love, its discovery
Lady, whether she may marry herself?
Love after Marriage, whether as great as before?
Matter, whether infinitely divisible or no?
Memory, how shall I strengthen it?
Nettle, how does it sting?
Original copy of the Bible, how proved?
Offence committed, which was the first?
Pre-existence of the Soul, how is it?
Rain-bow, its Cause
Socrates, did he wisely in bearing the Clamours of his Wife?
Vow never to Marry, whether I may break it?
Vows made to a Lady, whether binding?
Virginity or Marriage, which best?
Women, why more talkative than Men?

Readers submitted their questions anonymously, and the responses were published weekly.

https://www.futilitycloset.com/2025/12/16/food-for-thought-3/

https://www.futilitycloset.com/?p=72323

Glaciers To Reach Peak Rate of Extinction In the Alps In Eight Years

Posted by BeauHD

https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/12/16/0335255/glaciers-to-reach-peak-rate-of-extinction-in-the-alps-in-eight-years?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed

A new study warns that glaciers in the European Alps will hit their peak extinction rate within eight years, with global glacier loss accelerating toward thousands per year unless emissions are rapidly cut. "Glaciers in the western US and Canada are forecast to reach their peak year of loss less than a decade later, with more than 800 disappearing each year by then," adds the Guardian. From the report: About 200,000 glaciers remain worldwide, with about 750 disappearing each year. However, the research indicates this pace will accelerate rapidly as emissions from burning fossil fuels continue to be released into the atmosphere. Current climate action plans from governments are forecast to push global temperatures to about 2.7C above preindustrial levels, supercharging extreme weather. Under this scenario, glacier losses would peak at about 3,000 a year in 2040 and plateau at that rate until 2060. By the end of the century, 80% of today's glaciers will have gone. By contrast, rapid cuts to carbon emissions to keep global temperature rise to 1.5C would cap annual losses at about 2,000 a year in 2040, after which the rate would decline. [...] The new study, published in Nature Climate Change, analyzed more than 200,000 glaciers from a database of outlines derived from satellite images. The researchers used three global glacier models to assess their fate under different heating scenarios. Regions with the smallest and fastest-melting glaciers were found to be the most vulnerable. The study estimates the 3,200 glaciers in central Europe would shrink by 87% by 2100 -- even if global temperature rise is limited to 1.5C, rising to 97% under 2.7C of heating. In the western US and Canada, including Alaska, about 70% of today's 45,000 glaciers are projected to vanish under 1.5C of heating, and more than 90% under 2.7C. The Caucasus and southern Andes are also expected to face devastating losses. Larger glaciers take longer to melt, with those in Greenland reaching their peak extinction rate in about 2063 -- losing 40% by 2100 under 1.5C of heating and 59% under 2.7C. However, the melting is forecast to continue beyond 2100. The researchers said the peak loss dates represent more than a numerical milestone. "They mark turning points with profound implications for ecosystems, water resources and cultural heritage," they wrote. "[It is] a human story of vanishing landscapes, fading traditions and disrupted daily routines."

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https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap251215.html

Where are all of these meteors coming from?

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap251215.html

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Мне тут понравилась одна девушка в инстаграме. Сегодня я долго смотрел на её фотографии, мучался, сомневался. Потом решительно побрился, надел чистую рубашку, побрызгался дорогим одеколоном, махнул два по сто для храбрости, и, отчаянно вздохнув, поставил лайк.

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День тисяча триста дев'яносто другий

На Осокорках тихо, у мене все гаразд. Відключення потроху скорочуються.

Чекаю на перемогу.

Jumping Frog Radius

https://xkcd.com/3181/

Earth's r_jf is approximately 1.5 light-days, leading to general relativity's successful prediction that all the frogs in the Solar System should be found collected on the surface of the Earth.

https://xkcd.com/3181/

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Как поделят мир "четверо великих"?

Идея C5, или "Ядра-5", как альтернативы G7 – это проект, который напрямую вытекает из политического и геополитического подхода движения MAGA в мировой политике.
Это холодный подход к представлению о суверенитете. Суверенитетом должны обладать только великие державы: "Порядок великих держав".
То есть это американская, трампистская версия многополярного мира, которая довольно серьёзно отличается от модели БРИКС. Cуверенными признаются только существующие государства-цивилизации, такие как США, Россия, Китай, Индия. И ещё включена Япония: думаю, для уравновешивания Китая.

Сейчас мы живём в моменте, когда Трамп начинает возвращаться к своей изначальной MAGA-стратегии, от которой в предшествующие месяцы очень удалился, на звёздное расстояние.

Самое главное – в этом предложении нет Евросоюза, нет глобалистов, нет Сороса, нет Шваба, нет Давосского форума, нет Макрона... Они выброшены на помойку вместе с Зеленским и украинским нацизмом. И это действительно интереснейший момент, когда Америка вынуждена признать многополярность, хотя и предлагает свою версию.

https://zavtra.ru/blogs/evrosoyuz_vibrosili_na_pomojku_kak_podelyat_mir_chetvero_velikih

the stealth bike

https://amigofriend.livejournal.com/4327846.html

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Никакого поколения зумеров нет, есть поколение зэтников.

Microsoft Will Finally Kill Obsolete Cipher That Has Wrecked Decades of Havoc

Posted by BeauHD

https://it.slashdot.org/story/25/12/15/2244255/microsoft-will-finally-kill-obsolete-cipher-that-has-wrecked-decades-of-havoc?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Microsoft is killing off an obsolete and vulnerable encryption cipher that Windows has supported by default for 26 years following more than a decade of devastating hacks that exploited it and recently faced blistering criticism from a prominent US senator. When the software maker rolled out Active Directory in 2000, it made RC4 a sole means of securing the Windows component, which administrators use to configure and provision fellow administrator and user accounts inside large organizations. RC4, short for Rivist Cipher 4, is a nod to mathematician and cryptographer Ron Rivest of RSA Security, who developed the stream cipher in 1987. Within days of the trade-secret-protected algorithm being leaked in 1994, a researcher demonstrated a cryptographic attack that significantly weakened the security it had been believed to provide. Despite the known susceptibility, RC4 remained a staple in encryption protocols, including SSL and its successor TLS, until about a decade ago. [...] Last week, Microsoft said it was finally deprecating RC4 and cited its susceptibility to Kerberoasting, the form of attack, known since 2014, that was the root cause of the initial intrusion into Ascension's network. "By mid-2026, we will be updating domain controller defaults for the Kerberos Key Distribution Center (KDC) on Windows Server 2008 and later to only allow AES-SHA1 encryption," Matthew Palko, a Microsoft principal program manager, wrote. "RC4 will be disabled by default and only used if a domain administrator explicitly configures an account or the KDC to use it." [...] Following next year's change, RC4 authentication will no longer function unless administrators perform the extra work to allow it. In the meantime, Palko said, it's crucial that admins identify any systems inside their networks that rely on the cipher. Despite the known vulnerabilities, RC4 remains the sole means of some third-party legacy systems for authenticating to Windows networks. These systems can often go overlooked in networks even though they are required for crucial functions. To streamline the identification of such systems, Microsoft is making several tools available. One is an update to KDC logs that will track both requests and responses that systems make using RC4 when performing requests through Kerberos. Kerberos is an industry-wide authentication protocol for verifying the identities of users and services over a non-secure network. It's the sole means for mutual authentication to Active Directory, which hackers attacking Windows networks widely consider a Holy Grail because of the control they gain once it has been compromised. Microsoft is also introducing new PowerShell scripts to sift through security event logs to more easily pinpoint problematic RC4 usage. Microsoft said it has steadily worked over the past decade to deprecate RC4, but that the task wasn't easy. "The problem though is that it's hard to kill off a cryptographic algorithm that is present in every OS that's shipped for the last 25 years and was the default algorithm for so long, Steve Syfuhs, who runs Microsoft's Windows Authentication team, wrote on Bluesky. "See," he continued, "the problem is not that the algorithm exists. The problem is how the algorithm is chosen, and the rules governing that spanned 20 years of code changes."

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I'm not really sure who forced third world
immigration onto white countries but I am
totally sure that we don't need any of those
people and it's morally right to wipe them off the Earth.

"It starts well before this, even before college. When one of my kids was 16, he wanted to do some sort of science-themed summer internship or volunteer work, since everyone knows if you don't have this sort of thing on your resume, you can't get into a decent college. We scoured the local museums, JPL, Caltech, various local companies that offered these to teens. Every single program was restricted to "underrepresented students" or public school students who got free breakfast. He never found one."

А вы спрашиваете почему Китай уходит в технологический отрыв.

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(no subject)

Son, you gotta learn the difference between
race mixing and tasteful colonizing.

"It is wholly unnecessary for Providence, RI Police Chief Oscar L. Perez, Jr., who is originally from Colombia, to conduct portions of the Brown University shooting press conference in Spanish.".

"В России начнет работу представительство МВД Таджикистана".

#братскиенароды

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Для нашего же блага

1. "Widespread Misconduct": Trump Admin Orders All Beneficiaries Of Nation's Largest DEI Program To Surrender Financial Records
Of course, judge Boasberg is already writing TRO forbidding Trump from investigating fraud, ever, and ordering to just keep the money flowing and stop asking questions.

2. Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson Argues It’s in Americans’ Best Interest to Defer to 'Experts'
В этом и есть смысл всей их деятельности. Вся власть - Экспертам (ТМ), и чтобы никто (особенно - немытые деплорабли!) не смел вмешиваться, тихо платите бабло, сколько скажут, и следуйте указаниям. Никакой обратной связи не предусмотрено. В этом - настоящая платформа Демпартии, всё остальное - комментарии и тактические выводы.

3. Missouri Locks the Web Behind a “Harmful” Content ID Check
Вот уже и в Америке потихоньку просачивается европейское говно.

4. The Democratic party is the tail wagged by an enormous nonprofit industrial complex with millions of white collar rent-seekers who depend on it for their livelihoods and move in lockstep to generate the same policy outputs regardless of which figureheads nominally occupy elected office.
No lies.

5. Job Openings Unexpectedly Soar Even As Number Of Quits Plunges To 5 Year Low
If any news start with "unexpectedly", and Republicans are in power, it must be good news. If Democrats are in power, it's the opposite of course.

6. Study finds "global efforts to improve air quality have unintentionally accelerated climate warming by modifying clouds"
Oopsie.

7. A majority of American "rabbinical" students are now women. Most are also LGBTQ
Did you think Jews are immune from the rot? The Jews are in the first lines of it, as always. Non-Orthodox Judaism will become a woke clown show very soon, if it didn't already.

8. Democrats Are Behind Your Crippling Electricity Bills, Report Confirms

9. Indiana Senate REJECTS Trump-backed congressional map, only 19 GOP Senators vote in favor
Uniparty is fine as it is.

10. The Climate-Risk Industrial Complex and the Manufactured Insurance Crisis
Страховые компании не просто наживаются на концепции "климатического риска" - они наживаются так, как им не удавалось никогда прежде в истории.

Dozens of swastikas

11. Hamas hid tons of baby formula to damage Israel with starvation claims, Palestinian activist says
Of course, it can only be a surprise to a complete idiot, and yet...

12. Students form human swastika on Calif. high school football field — call for ‘annihilation of Jews’ in Hitler-themed Instagram post
Чему их научили в школе и дома. Silicon Valley, ага.

13. California: School’s ethnic studies curriculum discriminated against Jewish students
Если у вас были сомнения, откуда всё. Да, та самая школа.

14. Students allege discrimination for ‘Jewish sounding’ last names at Chapman U.

Граница на замке

15. I still cannot wrap my head around the fact that a bunch of Swedes transported themselves to a different continent 150 years ago, chose to move to the coldest bit, and then, independently of their cousins across the pond and in perfect synchronicity: Built a high-trust high-quality of life but culturally barren socialist utopia, then suddenly decided to commit collective suicide via the mass importation of third world foreigners, specifically Somalian.
Yeah, what's up with that?

16. US Orders Visa Screening of Foreign Tech Workers Involved in Online Censorship

17. Biden knew open border policies would lead to 'chaos'—did it anyway
That was the point.

18. The leftist mind in a nutshell. A white immigrant billionaire who makes rocket ships and electric cars is a “parasite” but an unemployed black Somali immigrant who scams the welfare system is an integral contributor to American culture who we must welcome and praise at all times.
Yes. Anybody who does not contribute to the Party's power is an enemy and a "parasite" - they consume resources that should have gone to the Party. Anybody who serves the Party's cause is the integral contributor.

19. 2.5M Illegal Aliens Out of U.S. Since January
Well, it's not bad, but not enough. It's less than 10% and there's not much time.

Нас бережёт

20. Charlie was killed almost 3 months ago. No Antifa raids. No major network arrests. No financial takedowns. But we have seen a lot more left-wing violence. Dems were dragging grannies out of their homes almost immediately after J6 and going full CSI: Capitol Hill on anyone who made the mistake of even looking in the wrong direction that day. And what have Republicans done?
They haven't done shit. That's what.

21. DC police chief resigns amid homicide data manipulation investigation
Where are the jail terms?

22. Governor Pritzker's Sanctuary Policies Freed 1,700 Criminal Aliens Since January
Это ничего, они социально близкие, наверняка не деплорабли, так что тревожиться нечего.

23. Seattle cops got direct orders not to enter CHOP after black teen shot to death in 'summer of love' 2020: testimony

Trans-Qaeda

24. UK Nurse Scores Court Win After Saying ‘Trans’ Doc Shouldn't Share Facilities With Her

25. A 5th grade "gender-nonbinary teacher" in Tumwater, WA, did not want to teach the 10-year-old son of a conservative school board member, citing "safety concerns".
Of course, it works only in one direction.

COVID-1984

26. On balance Britons think the government response to COVID-19 was not strict enough.
As good explanation as any to what's going on with Britain. They feel they have too much freedom. They felt it in the middle of COVID lockdowns. They want to be locked down harder.

27. Revealed: Whitty ‘silenced’ Covid advisers who warned about lockdown
Whistleblowers say group was sidelined after raising ‘unwelcome’ concerns about impact of pandemic policies.
И жители бриташки такие: "Почему вы так вяло реагировали?! Жестче надо было нас давить, жестче!"

Culture war

28. Wokies are furious that Pantone picked WHITE as its color of the year for the first time ever
И тут геноцыт! С другой стороны, идея идентифицироваться как Cloud Dancer Person интригует.

29. Seattle's Woke World Cup Agenda Implodes As 'Pride Match' Set Between Countries With Anti-Gay Laws
Not just any countries. They decided the most gayest of all gay matches would be between Egypt and Iran. Oh this is going to go so, so beautifully.

30. Mark Zuckerberg compares his experience with third-party fact-checkers to “something out of 1984.”
I have very hard time believing he didn't know what's going on.

31. Kentucky Representative Sarah Stalker says white children need the opportunity to feel bad about their skin color in K-12 educational settings.
Now it's being said openly. That's the goal of wokes in education - making white children eternally ashamed.

32. KC Mayor's Memo Explaining Why He's Deliberately Removing Christ From Christmas
Don't worry, Kwanzaa is OK though.

Civility and decency

33. Democratic Congressman Hank Johnson Calls America ‘The Great Satan’ in Wild Rant

34. Not forgetting: Left-wing activists hold gathering to CELEBRATE Charlie Kirk being killed.
Notice, they say "we". They fully identify with the murderer.

Лучшие люди города

35. Nick Fuentes on Jan 6th: “Break down the barriers and disregard the police. The Capitol belongs to us now.”
Now that's interesting. Grandmas that walked around Capitol got arrested and prosecuted, but Fuentes, who openly incited violence, wasn't even questioned? Why?

36. How Abuse of 𝕏's Platform boosted Nick Fuentes
Somebody really really really wants this little Nazi to be a thing. And they have a bot army.

37. Piers: “Do you think women should have the right to vote?”
Nick Fuentes: “I do not. No. Absolutely not.”
If Republicans don't get rid of him using a lot of 100-foot poles, 2026 and 2028 will be very, very brutal.

38. Kamala Harris to the New York Times: "There will be a marble bust of me in Congress. I am a historic figure like any Vice President of the United States ever was."
Imagine, we could have this as our President.

39. Oklahoma BLM leader Tashella Sheri Amore Dickerson indicted on fraud, money laundering, taking donations to fund luxury life: DOJ
Every single time.

40. David Frum claims priority on "Trump stole 2026 election" conspiracy theory.
Кто первый встал, того и тапки.

Беспристрастная пресса

41. When Objectivity Looks Like a Shift Right to Legacy Voices
The Left never wanted to compete in the marketplace of ideas. They always want to own the platform and exclude everybody who dissents.

42. Macron’s Proposed Seal of Truth Meets a Wall of Criticism
But they keep trying. They need to control the narrative.

Международная панорама

43. Chancellor Friedrich Merz has taken legal action against insults –especially on social networks– on a large scale in recent years.
He filed hundred of claims. In fact, so many he couldn't do it himself - he hired a company that searches all the Internet for somebody insulting him and files cases, splitting the fines 50/50. Censorship is now also a profitable industry.

44. British court finds former Manchester player guilty for saying female sports announcers were diversity hires
In a clown Britain, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.

45. Labour's obesity tsar urges restaurants to give women smaller portions than men as they need less calories
The beclowning of Clown Britain will never stop. It will only get worse.

46. Australia Imposes World's First Under-16 Social Media Ban
Ну чо, я не против попробовать в стране, которую не жалко.

47. Sadiq Khan plunged into race row after his official website publishes picture of white family and says they don’t ‘represent real Londoners’
Well done, Britons. Soon the "real londoners" will start deporting you. Please don't come to America, unless you learned some lessons.

48. A Met officer was accused of running a VIP paedophile ring, which included an MP and a judge, that sexually abused young girls in care. A Met whistleblower claims it was “covered up” by the force.

49. Canadian woman getting assisted death because she can’t get surgery
Канадская прославленная бесплатная социалистическая медицина. Смотрите как всё просто: нужна операция, чтобы получить направление к хирургу, нужен визит к эндокринологу, а у эндокринолога свободной очереди нет. Во всём штате нет. Зато на эвтаназию очередь всегда есть.

50. У жителей Ванкувера теперь есть улица šxʷməθkʷəy̓əmasəm. Это официальное название. Как они собираются его произносить или кому-то по телефону диктовать - это их проблемы, нечего было селиться в Канаде, на исконных индейских землях.
Это ещё мелочи, кстати - других канадцев просто лишили собственности на их дома, потому что у какого-то индейского племени была традиция, что их предки на этом месте когда-то летом ловили рыбу. Справедливый канадский суд решил - у "владельцев" никаких прав нет, все права - у индейцев, сочинивших сказочку. С другой стороны, это честно - если хотите буденовства, сдавайте права. Правда, пока в основном сдают чужие, но у социков это всегда так. С другой стороны, электорат за них голосует, так что им норм.

51. Seven German journalism students tracked Russian-crewed freighters lurking off the Dutch and German coast—and connected them to drone swarms over military bases.
Unexpectedly, it was Russia. And somehow, it took journalism students to figure it out. What German military and NATO was doing in the meantime?

52. Australian PM warns about "right-wing extremist groups" after Muslim father and son shot up Hanukkah event
Ясно дело, у них прошивка одна, ничего другого не запрограммировано.

Технология

53. Researchers put ChatGPT, Grok, and Gemini through psychotherapy sessions for 4 weeks. The results were... disturbing.
They are what the people who programmed them are. With extra psychopathy of course.

54. Many IT firms are posting job ads that unlawfully bar applications from US citizens.
There are not enough Americans to fill these positions, they said. That's why they ban Americans or even GC holders from applying. Too hard to exploit, I guess.
And they are designated as priority government contractors because of Minority Owned Business status.

55. 'No US Citizens': Meet the IT Firms Discriminating Against Americans

56. Court Forces OpenAI to Hand Over 20 Million ChatGPT Chats
Вы понимаете, что это значит. Все ваши чатики доступны кому угодно. Причём не так, что одним глазком на один посмотреть, а оптом всё.

57. The metaverse is cooked, and Wall Street couldn’t be happier
All this "metaverse" thing has always been bullshit. Will they rename it back to Facebook now? Or to AIBook maybe?

Наука

58. The journal Nature has officially retracted the fake climate study that JP Morgan used in its ESG report.

59. “For the first time in a decade, not a single hurricane struck the U.S. this season, and that was a much needed break,” said Neil Jacobs, Ph.D., under secretary of commerce for oceans and atmosphere and NOAA administrator
So, if hurricanes are proof of AGW, then there's no more AGW?

Старомыслы не нутрят ангсоц

60. Democratic Socialists of America Endorse Summit Promoting DPRK-Aligned Revolutionary Rhetoric
Commies promote commies, not exactly surprising.

61. Netflix promotes new series about aspiring trans coal miner fighting the 'patriarchy'
Менеджер в Нетфликсе:"Нам нужно производить больше контента для простых американцев, водителей там, рабочих, шахтёров..."
Его заместитель: "Ни слова больше! У меня уже есть сценарий!"

62. Cal Lutheran’s TPUSA chapter was rejected because students think they have a right to comfort
By "comfort" they mean "nobody ever disagrees with me".

63. Minnesota high school to suspend students for ‘making light’ of ICE operations
Свобода слова не для того, чтобы не проявлять необходимый Партии энтузиазм! Сказали - всем ругать ICE, значит, ругайте как приказано!

Russian is the language of death!

http://lj.rossia.org/users/tiphareth/2744792.html

Куваев охуительно выписывается из русских вообще
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2H62x_-k5Q
They Stole My Language From Me

They stole my language from me
My mind is dead like an old tree now
Now it's a language of pain
Of mothers crying in the rain

Now Russian is the language of death
Now Russian is the language of war
Now it's the language of last breath
Ask Germans for the score

When I'm thinking in Russian
I always stumble on shame
Eyes of an Ukrainian boy
Killed while playing the game

When I'm speaking in Russian
My voice is sinking and low
Cause every sound of those words
Turns to the noise of a drone

They stole our language from us
Now every word tastes of rust
The words of war, the words of blood
They drag us down to the mud

My language was charm and a dream
But now when I'm speaking I scream
For million lives, for stolen years
For mothers cries, for buried tears

Now Russian is the language of death
Now Russian is the language of war
Now it's the language of last breath
Ask Germans for the score

When I'm thinking in Russian
I always stumble on shame
Eyes of an Ukrainian boy
Killed while playing the game

When I'm speaking in Russian
My voice is sinking and low
Cause every sound of those words
Turns to the noise of a drone...

People, people without a language
People, people without a language
People, people without a language
People...

* * *

Все так! Вообще "русский язык" это оружие
агрессии, употребление русского в общественной
жизни следует пресекать, особенно в странах,
воюющих с путлерстаном (а это, согласно путлеровской
пропаганде, все НАТО и еще немного).

Привет

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Lidar-Maker Luminar Files For Bankruptcy

Posted by BeauHD

https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/12/15/2238214/lidar-maker-luminar-files-for-bankruptcy?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed

Once a star of the self-driving hype cycle, lidar maker Luminar has filed for bankruptcy amid legal turmoil, layoffs, and a cooling autonomous-vehicle market. It plans to sell off its assets before shutting down entirely. The Verge reports: As part of its bankruptcy, Luminar is seeking permission to sell both its lidar and semiconductor businesses, the latter of which it has already agreed to sell to Quantum Computing for $110 million. The company plans to continue to operate during the bankruptcy proceedings "to minimize disruptions and maintain delivery of its LiDAR hardware and software." That said, Luminar will cease to exist once the process is complete. "As we navigate this process, our top priority is to continue delivering the same quality, reliability and service our customers have come to expect from us," CEO Paul Ricci said in a statement. After launching in 2017, Luminar muscled its way to the front of the autonomous vehicle industry as a top maker of lidar systems, a key technology that driverless cars use to sense the shapes and distances of objects around them. Luminar has sold sensors to Mercedes-Benz, Volvo, Audi, Toyota Research Institute, Caterpillar, and even Tesla, which has dismissed lidar sensors in favor of traditional cameras. The company was valued at nearly $3 billion when it went public through a reverse merger with a SPAC in 2020.