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Banker, princess, warlord: the many lives of Asma Assad How a girl from west London<\/a> became the unlikely winner of Syria\u2019s war<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cJoe Rogan is a symptom<\/a> of changing media systems, not the root cause.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

TAMPA, Fla. \u2013 U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) forces conducted dozens<\/a> of precision airstrikes targeting known ISIS camps and operatives in central Syria, Dec. 8. The operation struck over 75 targets using multiple U.S. Air Force assets, including B-52s, F-15s, and A-10s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lastly, Levy smartly<\/a> asks how long Cook sees himself remaining in the role. His answer sounds almost weary. While he gives no hints of imminent plans<\/a>, it’s clearly on his mind. You have to start wondering when the next obvious point would be. Steve Jobs run as CEO (including his time as ‘iCEO’) was 14 years. Cook is just over 13 years now in that role, he’ll surpass Jobs next year, which is sort of wild.<\/mark>He’ll hit 15 years as CEO in 2026 and then hit 30 years at Apple in 2028.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201c[Chinese customers] will probably take delivery of a few 737s, and maybe some 787s that are currently on order or may have been built already But I think that China, increasingly, for a number of reasons, doesn\u2019t necessarily need all the Boeing planes<\/a> that it might have thought it would need.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n

“and companies\u2019 increasing use of financial instruments not easily characterised<\/a> as either equity or debt”.<\/p>\n\n\n

Today I\u2019m delighted to announce Willow, our latest quantum<\/a> chip. Willow has state-of-the-art performance across a number of metrics, enabling two major achievements.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt\u2019s not a conspiracy theory if people really are<\/em> out to get you.\u201d sums up part of my reaction to this, but only part. There exists some amount of conflation between what private actors are doing<\/a>, what state actors have de facto or de jure commanded that they do, and which particular<\/em> state and political actors have their fingers on the keyboard. These create a complex system; the threads are not entirely divorced from each other.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Just 20 months ago I was amazed to see something that felt GPT-3 class run on that same machine<\/a>. The quality of models that are accessible on consumer hardware has improved dramatically<\/em> in the past two years. My laptop is a 64GB MacBook Pro M2, which I got in January 2023\u2014two months after the initial release of ChatGPT. All of my experiments running LLMs on a laptop have used this same machine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All of us agree the original Russiagate conspiracy continues even today. The Russia hoax was created by Hillary Clinton aide Jake Sullivan, who carries on with his lies today as President Joe Biden\u2019s national security advisor. Christopher Steele, the British spy hired by Clinton to create the dodgy dossier, and his Fusion GPS co-conspirator Glenn Simpson are still doing the same work for similar clients. Andrew Weissmann, Peter Strzok, John Brennan, and more still peddle their lies. Elements of the original conspiracy were woven into Ukrainian meddling in the 2016 American election, then bogus Trump impeachments, January 6th prosecutions, anti-Trump lawfare<\/a>, and Special Counsel Jack Smith\u2019s Mar-a-lago raid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of these bonds the only surviving one<\/a> is a 1,200 guilder bond sold on December 10, 1624, to a wealthy woman in Amsterdam called Elsken Jorisdochter. In return for her money, the water board promised Jorisdochter, her descendants or anyone who owned the bearer bond 2.5 per cent interest in perpetuity. Remarkably, this bond is still alive and pays \u20ac13.61 of interest a year. Yesterday, the current owner \u2014 the New York Stock Exchange \u2014 collected \u00a3299.42 of owed interest for the bond\u2019s 400th birthday, which FT Alphaville was able to attend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Every year, researchers from American University measure the percentage of parts<\/a> originating in the United States or Canada in every car sold in the U.S. The result, the school\u2019s Made in America Auto Index, is an excellent tool for exploring how interconnected the global auto industry has become. Telsa took the top two spots last year<\/a> and the top four in a list filled with ties in 2024.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

We see a “waterbed effect” where squeezing prices in one area causes<\/a> costs to bubble up elsewhere. When we eliminate the ability to charge for network services directly, the costs don’t disappear – they transform into other types of charges, fees, or inefficiencies that are harder to track and regulate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThese small towns just really come through,” said Jeffris, sitting on a piano bench on the Opera House’s stage. \u201cIt\u2019s really terrible what we\u2019ve done, generally as a nation, in tearing down things<\/a>. I\u2019m a great believer in preservation and for improving the quality of life. Financially, for the community, it\u2019s better.\u201d. The list of projects touched by Jeffris Foundation includes some of the most well-known historic structures in the state. They include Villa Louis, the estate constructed in the 1840s by Hercules Dousman in Prairie du Chien; the Frank Lloyd Wright-designed Seth Peterson Cottage on Mirror Lake; and the nearby Al. Ringling Theatre in Baraboo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Health Data, Technology, and Interoperability<\/a>: Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Turn-of-the-century high society<\/a> is a hard place to get comfortable in. Few Sargent sitters seem completely at home there, though not so distressed as to up and leave. Few seem at home in their own clothes, even. The jewels pull, the gowns prickle and squeeze. Everyone seems to be breaking in a brand-new costume. Their only way out, since they refuse to walk out, is to acknowledge the charade and no longer try quite so hard to impress. Which is why the most comfortable-seeming Sargent figures are those like the actress Ellen Terry, who is dressed in the literal costume of Lady Macbeth, or the two children in \u201cCarnation, Lily, Lily, Rose,\u201d who are still young enough that any article of clothing is a kind of costume, or Ena Wertheimer in \u201cA Vele Gonfie\u201d (1904), whose billowing cloak Sargent told her to hold up with a broomstick, \u201csimulating the volume and motion of her original entrance.\u201d You can see the stick toward the lower right side of the painting, and Ena sees it, too, since this time her gaze points down and over instead of up and out. She has nothing she feels a need to hide, which isn\u2019t the same as freedom but is in the vicinity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effort to tank<\/a> Hegseth’s nomination is one of the most coordinated smear campaigns I’ve ever seen in DC.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If Pete Hegseth hasn\u2019t kept a letter<\/a> for almost 30 years, the biggest story today would be about West Point.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All stories feature Elena, a 42-year-old marketing executive whose healthcare providers participate in AcmeConnect, a Health Information Network<\/a> (HIN)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My experience here has been extremely positive. We\u2019re very fast in decision-making<\/a>, more so than in some of the other cultures in Asia Pacific that may be more hierarchical or resist change, so that it will take longer to provide the kinds of services we would like to. But Hong Kong, because of its compactness, its agile mentality, and receptiveness to working with people from different cultures, has worked very well for us.<\/p>\n\n\n

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One very important change was quickly made<\/a>: the name Vulcan was dropped as there was an operating system by that name made by Harris Computers in Florida. The name dBASE II was suggested, and there was no objection. Around the same time as the name change, Ratliff felt that it was time to abandon accommodations made for teletypes within the interface, and he moved the interface to being completely oriented toward screens. The retail price of dBASE II was $700 (around $2000 in 2023).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Timemap<\/a> history: old maps online<\/p>\n\n\n\n

President Biden commuted the sentence of Rita Crundwell, the woman who embezzled over $53 million<\/a> from a small Illinois town and spent it on luxury goods, real estate, and a horse breeding business.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe first sign an empire is failing is when its people question the institutions the empire was built on. The structure of government, the churches, the schools. They reject God because the emperors believe they are God. And the people become so rich, everyone believes they are an emperor as well. And too good to do the jobs that built the empire in the first place. So they outsource those jobs. And they open their borders to allow people desperate to do all the other jobs the other people are too rich to do. Then comes the guilt for all this wealth. But still the empire thrives. And now everyone questions their wealth. Then they question themselves. And then they reject everything that built the empire to begin with. They destroy their own symbols, attack themselves like a cancer<\/a>, attack the people who protect the empire, attack you for protecting it. Then the wolves come. And all the people who lived like emperors will know the suffering they blamed themselves for creating. And they will be slaughtered. And a new empire will rise from its ashes. Then the cycle begins again.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Further, we are supposed to believe that only twice as many FBI informants<\/a> were in DC (26) on Jan 6 as there were in Whitmer fednapping (at least 12)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born Gwynne Rowley in Illinois in 1963, Shotwell grew up in Libertyville, a suburb of Chicago, where she was a straight-A student and cheerleader. During her teens, her mother dragged her to a Society of Women Engineers conference<\/a> \u2014 an event that changed her opinion on engineers as \u201cnerds, social outcasts, nose pickers\u201d, she said in a 2012 interview<\/a> with the alumni magazine for Northwestern University, where she studied mechanical engineering and applied mathematics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Her first professional role was at Chrysler, before joining The Aerospace Corporation and then rocket company Microcosm. In 2002, an ex-colleague introduced her to Musk, who offered her a job the same day. She joined as the seventh employee of SpaceX \u2014 one co-worker remembers her having the nickname \u201c007\u201d \u2014 hoping to galvanise space exploration out of a period of \u201cstagnation\u201d and \u201cconstipated\u201d bureaucracy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Syrians are still both shocked & mesmerized<\/a><\/em> by the events of this month. How can a 54 year-old rule have such an abrupt closing chapter? This account was created to help shed light on the key events that led to Dec 8 & the departure of Assad. Key insiders have come forward to help piece together what happened. This excellent thread is by a Syrian fellow who knows what’s going on and does not derive his information solely from idiotic journalists.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

After two years away from sportscar<\/a> racing, Mercedes had returned with a masterfully engineered new machine. One of its drivers at Le Mans that year, John Fitch, later described the 300 SLR as \u201ca ferocious racing car\u201d with \u201ca staggering complexity of parts.\u201d Its body was made of ultralight magnesium alloy; Motor Sport<\/em> reported that its fuel-injected 3-liter engine emitted an \u201cunholy scream.\u201d One month earlier, Fangio and the 25-year-old English driver Stirling Moss had powered theirs to a one-two finish at the Mille Miglia. In the hands of elite drivers like these, it seemed almost unbeatable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

America\u2019s cows are now extraordinarily<\/a> productive. In 2024, just 9.3 million cows will produce 226 billion pounds of milk (about 100 million tons) \u2013 enough milk to provide ten percent<\/a> of 333 million insatiable Americans\u2019 diets, and export for good measure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nobody\u2019s ever done an audit<\/a> of AT&T\u2019s fraud, waste, and abuse because AT&T\u2019s a trusted domestic surveillance partner<\/a> effectively immune from meaningful government accountability. AT&T\u2019s about to get a major chunk of the $42.5 billion in broadband subsidies included in the 2021 infrastructure bill.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Welcome to the age of average<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The visit left me in a pensive mood. As I got ready to continue my walk, I turned around one last time and looked at the little stone church. It appeared forlorn amid the windswept fields of East England. Once, there must have been a small but tight-knit rural community<\/a> here, and the church was woven into its social fabric.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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