Isaac Ji Kuo

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What to know about Trump's 'Patriot Games' announcement

Cue discussions about which state is District 12 from "The Hunger Games."

Snopes
Home Alone 2: Epstein Files Edition

HUGE NEWS from the new Epstein files:

Records show that Maria Farmer, who worked for Epstein, filed a "child pornography" report to the FBI in 1996.

The FBI has never before acknowledged that complaint. The case went nowhere, and mass abuse followed.

Maria has been accused over the years of fabricating her story that she had gone to the FBI.

After finding the document in the trove, I called her.
She broke down in tears.

“I’ve waited 30 years. I can’t believe it.

They can’t call me a liar anymore.”

https://skywriter.blue/pages/did:plc:r4htmaum3mel37tvqtidnfo4/post/3maevwksjqc2i

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HUGE NEWS from the new Epstein files: Records show that Maria Farmer, who worked for Epstein, filed a "child pornography" report to the FBI in 1996. The FBI has never before acknowledged that complaint. The case went nowhere, and mass abuse followed. www.nytimes.com

«Reflect Orbital, a planned orbital illumination system, proposes to use in-space mirrors mounted on satellites to reflect sunlight down to Earth at night.»

https://darksky.org/news/organizational-statement-reflect-orbital/

DarkSky opposes Reflect Orbital

DarkSky International recently released an organizational statement in response to Reflect Orbital’s proposal to use in-space mirrors to reflect sunlight to…

DarkSky International
Ukraine has publicly revealed the long‑range cruise missile Bars for the first time. With an estimated 700–800 km range and classic mid‑wing design, Bars is believed to be in mass production and used operationally. Photos released by the Museum of the Russo‑Ukrainian War confirm its layout and jet engine placement. Further technical details remain under review.
Wirth's law, software is getting slower more rapidly than hardware is becoming faster.
Chicken shit MAGA Mike Johnson shut down the House of Representatives for the rest of the year. He was too afraid to take a vote about extending the ACA subsidies. He just screwed over 40% of the people in his own district and tens of millions of Americans across the country. The only good thing about him shutting it down is it I’ll never have to see Marjorie Taylor Greene in the House of Representatives again.
To spell this out clearly, the reason RAM has quadrupled in price is that a huge quantity of RAM that hasn't been produced yet has been bought with money that doesn't exist to populate GPUs that also haven't been produced to go in datacenters that haven't been built powered by infrastructure that may never exist to meet a demand that doesn't exist at all to make profit margins that mathematically can't exist while economists talk about this thing they call the "rational markets hypothesis".
These are the flying discs the government wants you to know about

DiskSat’s design offers “a power-to-weight ratio unmatched by traditional aluminum satellites.”…

Ars Technica

Relative rotation speed and axial tilts of the planets.

Credit: Dr James O'Donoghue