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Use tags to organize<\/a> your notes and set reminders:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At this point in history barcodes<\/a> had never been used commercially \u2013 though the idea had been brewing for decades following a patent filed on 20 October 1949<\/a> by one of the engineers who was now part of McEnroe’s team. The IBM engineers were trying to bring barcodes to life. They had a vision of the future where shoppers whizzed through the checkout with lasers scanning every item they wanted to purchase. But IBM’s lawyers had a problem with the future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The lawfare<\/a> against @elonmusk, as gleefully described by the New York Times:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are the increases in population of Illegal Immigrants in Swing States<\/a> under the policies of the Biden\/Harris Administration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A billion dollars will have been wasted on losing voters by condemnation<\/a> versus winning them by invitation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anonymous FBI officials had already leaked to the media the official FBI position falsely claiming the agents kneeled for \u201cde-escalation\u201d to minimize potential confrontation. But here\u2019s the truth<\/a> about what happened\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Because they know what happens<\/a> when they do something.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This paper, though primarily philosophical, will draw extensively on empirical literature. The seriousness of many concerns relating to surveillance capitalism<\/a> depend on empirical facts, which philosophical discussions need to engage with. In some areas, the empirical literature is extensive, such as on echo chambers, filter bubbles, polarization, and mental health issues. Here, particular attention will be given to studies that offer a summary overview of existing research (review studies, meta-analyses, umbrella reviews). In other areas, such as whether algorithms exhibit political bias, the empirical literature is still scarce, and we must do without review studies. Limitations, ambiguities or contradictions within the empirical literature will be highlighted throughout.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to attorney R. Trent McCotter, who represents Bannon, \u201cThose credits mean that Mr. Bannon could have been released<\/a> to home confinement two days ago on October 19, 2024 (i.e., 10 days before the end of his sentence) \u2013 yet the BOP declined to do so, citing its view that there is \u2018insufficient time\u2019 remaining on Mr. Bannon\u2019s sentence \u2018to process\u2019 the referral to home confinement.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Soros\u2019s kid is collecting Democratic politicians<\/a> like they\u2019re rare Pokemon cards, but go on about how Elon Musk is the problem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Following a @HouseAdmin report, we filed a bar complaint on behalf of Stefan Passantino against former Rep. Liz Cheney for allegedly violating professional ethics obligations by secretly messaging Cassidy Hutchinson prior to her testimony before the<\/a> J6 Committee:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There is a bona fide scandal here. Since these reports appeared on a Telegram channel which is, at a minimum, very friendly to the mullah regime, and is quite possibly controlled by Iranian intelligence, it\u2019s reasonable to conclude that the intent of the leak<\/a> was to curtail any Israeli attack on Iran, while causing trouble for Israel\u2019s friends in Washington, DC. The current Biden-Harris administration doesn\u2019t count among those friends, at least not in Israeli eyes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I asked about that, and Sasan disagreed with me, and we went back and forth for a few minutes on it. It\u2019s Decoder; we have exchanges like this all the time, and I didn\u2019t think anything of it. But then I got a note from Rick Heineman, the chief communications officer at Intuit, who called the line of questioning and my tone \u201cinappropriate,\u201d<\/a> \u201cegregious,\u201d and \u201cdisappointing\u201d and demanded that we delete that entire section of the recording. I mean, literally \u2014 he wrote a long email that ended with \u201cat the very least the end portion of your interview should be deleted.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The environment in which we have been competing will be quite different in the future. The changes ahead will force us and athletic departments across the country to make difficult decisions given the financial impact of the settlement<\/a>.  We will adjust to the changing dynamics with our values and goals of academic achievement and a competitive athletic experience as our guide.   More<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Lutheran Tradition is home to some of the best church music in all Christendom. This is due to numerous great composers<\/a> from our tradition, some of whom I would like to introduce (There are many many more and I am not a church musician, just as a disclaimer)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This administration has surpassed George W Bush in squandering<\/a> US power.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the start of 2024, the industry began declaring the end of Peak TV<\/a>, a term coined by FX Networks Chairman John Landgraf that refers to an era of rampant content spending that gave us shows like The Wire<\/em>, Breaking Bad<\/em>, and Game of Thrones<\/em>. For streaming services, the Peak TV era meant trying to lure subscribers with original content that was often buoyed by critical acclaim and\/or top-tier actors, writers, and\/or directors. However, as streaming services struggle to reach or maintain profitability,<\/a> 2024 saw a drop in the number of new scripted shows for the first time in at least 10 years, FX Research found<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He also recalled how his warning about election fraud posted on YouTube was taken dow<\/a>n, possibly violating his First Amendment rights. In it, he fought the process of sending out ballots, possibly 90 million, to those who didn\u2019t ask for one or weren\u2019t interested in mail-in voting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Woodward reports in his new book that Biden donors began expressing concern about Biden\u2019s mental fitness in June of 2023. At a Los Gatos event: Biden was \u201cfrightening awful\u201d and like your 87-year-old senile grandfather<\/a>.\u201d \u201cHe could not wait to sit down and only took 2 pre-arranged questions.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meet Wanda Kagan, Harris\u2019s high school classmate and longtime girlfriend, whom the Times described<\/a> as “a close friend of Ms. Harris\u2019s when they attended high school together in Montreal<\/a>.” Kagan, per the Times, “said that Ms. Harris\u2019s mother, who died in 2009, had told Ms. Kagan about the summer job years ago.” What the Times<\/em> did not tell its readers is that Kagan is a full-throated Harris supporter who has appeared alongside the vice president at several campaign events. She also served as a surrogate<\/a> for her old friend on television during the Democratic National Convention.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’d highly recommend, when you have free time, perusing the Richard Nixon Foundation on YouTube<\/a>, which contains fascinating Nixon interviews as VP, President and after.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I post images<\/a> from Obama and Walz event this happens\u2026 #Censorship<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201clesson in two of the most important tactics in propaganda<\/a>\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Network tribal<\/a> governance in action.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

McQuown left Wells Fargo in 1974, exhausted by all the battles with the bank\u2019s new management<\/a>. Wells Fargo Investment Advisors \u2014 the unit set up to house the new quantitative investment strategies \u2014 later became Barclays Global Investors once it was acquired by the British bank. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cTechnically now it’s legal for the US military under this directive<\/a> to shoot and k*** Americans who engage in political protest because they disagree with policies in the White House.\u201d \u201cThis did not come from Donald Trump. It came from the Democratic party, and that’s why I left the Democratic party.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Still, the fact that Tesla has been testing its ridehailing<\/a> function with employees proves the company is still dead set on eventually launching the long-promised Tesla Network. First announced in Musk\u2019s Master Plan Part Deux<\/a>, the Tesla Network claims to allow regular Tesla owners to send their vehicles out autonomously to function as robotaxis while their owners stay at home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A ProPublica and Capitol Forum investigation found that EviCore uses an algorithm backed by artificial intelligence, which some insiders call \u201cthe dial,\u201d that it can adjust to lead to higher denials<\/a>. Some contracts ensure the company makes more money the more it cuts health spending. And it issues medical guidelines that doctors have said delay and deny care for patients.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Soon, based solely on your effortless knowledge of Gibberish<\/a>, you were being fast-tracked into influential positions in government. When, at last, you found yourself primed to inherit the most powerful position in the entire world, your inner circle was filled with people who had long since forgotten how to speak any other language but Gibberish.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you know someone who says the Overton Window has not shifted radically to the Left, show them the DNC Platform of 1992<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Do you think that he wants to go to trial here in the United States of America? Do you think maybe that’s one of the reasons he chose to give $50 million<\/a> to Kamala Harris?”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mrs. USOGA: “Why are you watching football<\/a>. You should be doing yard work. Mr. USOGA: “There was a lot that was done but there’s more to do but I’m pointing out things that need to be done that haven’t been done but need to be done\u2026”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Atto 3 teardown<\/a> in Japan revealed one of the ways BYD<\/a> manages to keep costs down and pass the savings down to the person who buys the car. It\u2019s all about producing as many of the components as possible in-house and integrating them. The source article highlights the so-called \u201cE-Axle\u201d used by BYD, which is comprised of eight different components. It includes not only the motor, inverter, transmission and controller but also the onboard AC charger, the DC-to-DC converter and the battery monitoring system (BMS). This approach, combined with the economies of scale (the larger the number of cars you build, the cheaper you can build them) goes a long way toward explaining how these highly competent Chinese EVs can be sold at such low prices.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Angela Merkel’s memoirs<\/a> are out next month. This week’s Charlemagne revisits her legacy. She led Germany – and thus Europe – as if in a make-believe world, letting it enjoy an extended geopolitical and economic nap from which it still needs to wake up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Calling your opponent a fascist when slipping in the polls is irresponsible<\/a> after 2 assassination attempts. You can\u2019t complain about January 6th and then recreate it It\u2019s wrong for the campaign and for the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Houthi have put an unbreakable chokehold<\/a> on the Red Sea and all Red Sea shipping.<\/strong> There is no way to break this chokehold. The USN and all other Western navies have tried for almost 12 months and failed utterly. Attempts to conduct strikes on the Houthi, including massive strikes on core infrastructure in Hodeida have yielded ZERO results over a period of almost a year. The Israelis are to thank for this achievement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I spoke w\/ WPR for the audio version of this story<\/a>. WI is unique among non-expansion states bc we have no coverage gap. Expansion could bring more federal $, but at the cost of higher prices for private payers & forcing low-income people onto Medicaid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is hilarious. CNN every day pretends they and the Dem Party are the sole defenders of democratic values. When an intruder points out that Kamala received zero votes to become the Dem nominee (other than Obama and Pelosi’s)<\/a>, they all go wild about how it doesn’t matter:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hundreds of truckles<\/a> of cheddar worth more than \u00a3300,000 have been stolen from London cheese specialist Neal\u2019s Yard Dairy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why it matters: Biden aides and allies privately have trash-talked the vice president<\/a> during the past 3\u00bd years \u2014 and Harris, Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff and others in her inner circle know it. Harris and Emhoff \u2014 along with Harris’ sister Maya and her husband, Tony West \u2014 have taken note of Biden advisers and big-dollar donors they suspect of knifing the vice president to reporters or fellow Democrats, two people familiar with the matter tell Axios. B. Beyond those grudges, Harris has a dim view of some members of Biden’s team and would want her own people in place, the sources said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Big Steal<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bay Area bridges made a $198 million profit last year, and tolls are already going up $1 on 1\/1\/25. But that is not enough for MTC, which wants to raise tolls<\/a> to as high as $11.50 in 2030 to funnel more $ to housing and transit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The study found some questionable word choices<\/a> but no widespread pattern, according to a senior intelligence official, one of five who requested anonymity to discuss the review. (None would disclose the words flagged by Ms. Harris because the reports were classified.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The greatest Hymns<\/a> in Christendom are found in the Lutheran Church. As the Church commemorates some of our great Hymnists today, I want to introduce you to them and share their amazing biografies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How the largest pine tree in the world<\/a> was discovered in Yosemite<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bob Lutz, 5 years ago today: \u201cThe Model Y, I think, is terminally ugly<\/a>. I don\u2019t know who\u2019s going to buy that. \u201cThe (Tesla) Smi is certainly never going to be built.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019ve been warning you the nastiest fish<\/a> in the Senate side of the censorship industry septic tank is Senate Intelligence Committee chairman Mark Warner. Do Not<\/em> take this new threat lightly: this guy oversees the CIA in Congress, pushing to censor speech at infrastructure level.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Did Musk ask the government if it was legal to give away a million a day in his constitutional sweepstakes? OF COURSE NOT! <\/a>He\u2019s already given away money, meanwhile the lawmakers and the enforcers aren\u2019t sure if it\u2019s legal and aren\u2019t sure what to do and. Yes, move fast and break things. Those damn techies. But that\u2019s why they became heroes to the youth to begin with, that\u2019s why they usurped the power from the musicians and other entertainers. They acted like they owned the world, like there were no limits. Like rock stars used to. We all need something to believe in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Example: \u00a0 The Democratic Secretary of State in PA issued a memorandum in September 2020 to all the counties that the statute requiring matching of signatures on absentee ballots was being \u201cwaived\u201d<\/a> because of COVID. \u00a0And when the PAGOP sued to ask the court to uphold this black letter law, the lower court agreed but the Democrat-controlled PA Supreme Court overruled and said that no signature matching was necessary, notwithstanding the statutory requirement to the contrary.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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