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  • GOP-controlled House has plenty to investigate on ‘Big Guy’ Joe Biden

    11/08/2022 5:29:09 PM PST · by Libloather · 18 replies
    NY Post ^ | 11/08/22 | Jonathan Turley
    In the movie “The Longest Day,” Maj. Werner Pluskat tried to warn his superior about the approaching armada that he was seeing on the horizon. His superior asks where they are heading, and Pluskat responds, “Straight for me!” In the days before the midterm “Democratic D-Day,” President Joe Biden has increasingly sounded like Werner Pluskat. And he’s right. While Biden may or may not be the subject of an impeachment, a Republican-controlled House has plenty to investigate, and impeachment is unlikely his greatest fear. Here are the top three concerns, and there is every indication that Biden is wise to...
  • LG's Stretchable, Smooshable Screen Promises a Future of Shatter-Proof Gadgets

    11/08/2022 12:57:37 PM PST · by BenLurkin · 12 replies
    Gizmodo ^ | Andrew Liszewski
    OLED screens can also be engineered to be bendable and malleable, without hindering their performance or causing any permanent damage. We’ve already seen devices like TVs and computer displays with a permanent curve to better fill a user’s peripheral vision, and even screens that can be flattened back out again for users who want to frequently switch between the two display modes. But LG is working to bring the flexibility of OLEDs to smaller devices, and today revealed the world’s first 12-inch panel that’s both flexible and stretchable, like a giant piece of rubber band, improving its ability to survive...
  • Best disk cloning software of 2022 [since SSD prices lowest ever - see comments. Vastly improve speed=productively, for good and God]

    11/08/2022 10:51:09 AM PST · by daniel1212 · 40 replies
    SoftwareTestingHelp 2022 ^ | October 25, 2022 | Best disk cloning software of 2022
    Frequently Asked QuestionsList of Best Hard Disk Cloning SoftwareComparison of Hard Drive Cloning Tools#1) AOMEI Backupper Standard#2) O&O Disk Image#3) MiniTool Partition Wizard#4) Macrium Reflect#5) EaseUS Todo Backup#6) Acronis True Image 2020#7) Clonezilla#8) Paragon Software Hard Disk ManagerConclusionRecommended Reading
  • Notorious Nigerian fraudster 'Ray Hushpuppi' who flaunted his bling lifestyle on Instagram is jailed in America for 11 years

    11/08/2022 7:33:22 AM PST · by dennisw · 10 replies
    MAILONLINE ^ | 8 November 2022 | JACK NEWMAN
    Notorious Nigerian fraudster 'Ray Hushpuppi' who flaunted his bling lifestyle on Instagram is jailed in America for 11 years as FBI calls him 'one of the most prolific money launderers in the world' Ramon Abbas, 40, hacked into emails and convinced people to wire him money He laundered millions stolen from banks, a soccer club and a New York law firm He boasted 2million Instagram followers he tried to 'inspire' with his lifestyle A Nigerian influencer who flaunted his lavish lifestyle online has been jailed for 11 years after laundering millions of stolen dollars by hacking into emails and convincing...
  • New Endorsements for College Athletes Resurface an Old Concern: Sex Sells

    11/08/2022 2:41:20 AM PST · by C19fan · 27 replies
    NY Times ^ | November 8, 2022 | Kurt Streeter
    She was an all-American in her freshman year and made the Southeastern Conference’s honor roll as a sophomore majoring in interdisciplinary studies. Ahead of the start of her junior season, Dunne is also at the leading edge of a movement shaking the old foundations of college sports: a female student athlete raking in cash thanks to the passage in 2021 of new rules allowing college athletes to sign name, image and likeness, or N.I.L., deals.
  • Are Voting Machines on WiFi?

    11/08/2022 2:04:25 AM PST · by tired&retired · 19 replies
    Vanity
    This past week I was in Lowes purchasing a refrigerator. I went to use my phone to read reviews of various models, and there were dozens of wi-fi networks available. They were all smart refrigerators and every refrigerator had its own network that showed on my phone. These networks are everywhere. I'm curious. Bet the voting machines are the same..
  • The Satanic Subversion Of The United States Military

    11/08/2022 12:33:08 AM PST · by Jonty30 · 32 replies
    https://www.exposingsatanism.org/ ^ | November 15, 2018 | Jon Watkins
    While we agree that by and large, most people who choose to serve within the US military to defend America have the very best intentions in mind, we had asked within an ANP story on November 7th if the Pentagon itself had been compromised and was being fully controlled by globalists and no long loyal to President Trump and America. Giving several recent examples of actions taken or words spoken by high ranking members of the military to help support our argument, we’ll take a look today within this story in another direction that helps to make that argument with...
  • "When My STUDENTS Bring Up SexED I Get Excited" (Elementary School Teacher)

    11/07/2022 8:54:59 PM PST · by Morgana · 24 replies
    Odins Men ^ | November 3, 2022 | Odins Men
    "When My STUDENTS Bring Up SexED I Get Excited" (Elementary School Teacher) S8xuality is Now the Only Topic for KIDS in Elementary Schools When the Woke Zealots Are in Charge. My Class is Exclusively Designed for KIDS of COLOR (Teacher
  • A solar flare hit Earth today, causing radio blackouts in Australia and New Zealand

    11/07/2022 8:52:24 AM PST · by BenLurkin · 20 replies
    interestingengineering.com ^ | 11/07/2022 | Ameya Paleja
    A medium-intensity solar flare hit the Earth's magnetosphere in the early hours of Monday, Spaceweather.com reported. It is unlikely that a coronal discharge will follow the solar activity, and if it does, whether will head toward Earth. The recent solar flare came from the sunspot AR 3141, which has grown in size in the past 24 hours, EarthSky.org said in its report. The eruption was classified as an M5.2, even where M denotes the class of solar flares and is a medium-intensity eruption. In comparison, classes A, B, and C are low-intensity events, while Class X flares are wildly the...
  • EXCLUSIVE: 'My dad's speaking...you should come meet him.' Hunter Biden's ex business partner is set to blow whistle with explosive trove of never-before-seen messages, photos and recordings that could expose alleged criminal activity by the First Family

    11/07/2022 1:21:13 AM PST · by Libloather · 35 replies
    Daily Mail ^ | 11/06/22 | Josh Boswell
    Hunter Biden's former business partner is ready to testify with thousands of new call recordings, text messages, photos, emails and documents to a congressional probe investigating the First Son – if the Republicans win the House, sources told DailyMail.com. Whistleblower Tony Bobulinski had a front-row seat to the Biden family's deal with their Chinese government-linked business partners, and his explosive trove could expose alleged criminal activity by the First Family. A source close to the congressional investigations shared some of Bobulinski's unseen cache of documents exclusively with DailyMail.com. Bobulinski's evidence includes audio recordings of phone calls and meetings between partners...
  • For Techies Only: What Was Elon Musk Trying to Say With His Cryptic Tweet about Git and Subversion?

    11/06/2022 1:59:44 PM PST · by SeekAndFind · 25 replies
    PJ Media ^ | 11/06/2022 | Charlie Martin
    Elon Musk, with the Twitter acquisition, is now the subject of much attention by the general public. Elon is not shy about saying whatever he wants — and being a computer-nerd genius with more money than King Charles III and his late mom, he is sometimes a little obscure. Like today: pic.twitter.com/4UQlClBSct— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 5, 2022This one was puzzling enough that the editors asked me for a translation. “Version control” is the way software developers keep track of changes in order to make sure you know what’s changed in case you f—— something up. Your version control is...
  • Mass migration from Twitter is likely to be an uphill battle – just ask ex-Tumblr users

    11/06/2022 7:09:28 AM PST · by DoodleBob · 40 replies
    The Conversation ^ | November 3, 2022 | Casey Feisler
    Elon Musk announced that “the bird is freed” when his US$44 billion acquisition of Twitter officially closed on Oct. 27, 2022. Some users on the microblogging platform saw this as a reason to fly away. Over the course of the next 48 hours, I saw countless announcements on my Twitter feed from people either leaving the platform or making preparations to leave. The hashtags #GoodbyeTwitter, #TwitterMigration and #Mastodon were trending. The decentralized, open source social network Mastodon gained over 100,000 users in just a few days, according to a user counting bot. As an information scientist who studies online communities,...
  • Scientists Increasingly Can’t Explain How AI Works

    11/05/2022 11:58:49 AM PDT · by BenLurkin · 54 replies
    VIce ^ | Chloe Xiang
    What's your favorite ice cream flavor? You might say vanilla or chocolate, and if I asked why, you’d probably say it’s because it tastes good. But why does it taste good, and why do you still want to try other flavors sometimes? Rarely do we ever question the basic decisions we make in our everyday lives, but if we did, we might realize that we can’t pinpoint the exact reasons for our preferences, emotions, and desires at any given moment. There's a similar problem in artificial intelligence: The people who develop AI are increasingly having problems explaining how it works...
  • Jack Dorsey source: ‘Everyone at Twitter hates him (Dorsey) now’

    11/05/2022 11:55:37 AM PDT · by dennisw · 11 replies
    NY POST ^ | November 5, 2022 | By Dana Kennedy and Michael Kaplan
    Dorsey may not be a lightning rod for controversy like Musk, Jeff Bezos or Bill Gates, or be perceived as socially awkward like Mark Zuckerberg, but it’s a mistake to think he’s any less Machiavellian or megalomaniacal than the rest of them, several sources who know Dorsey told The Post. “He was at one point the lowest person in the room at Twitter and then, because he wanted to be the most important person in the room, he was — and he ended up being CEO,” said author Nick Bilton, who spent time with Dorsey for “Hatching Twitter: A True...
  • Former Twitter employees air their grievances after Elon Musk's mass firings

    11/04/2022 11:53:23 AM PDT · by Red Badger · 39 replies
    The Post Millennial ^ | Nov 4, 2022 | Hannah Nightingale
    Layoffs appear to cover a wide range of departments, with those in engineering, human resources, policy, content moderation, and more chiming in about their new unemployed status. MANY TWEETS AT LINK..................... On Friday, now-former Twitter employees took to the social media platform to document their firing as new owner Elon Musk clears house. Employees wrote of their job status in the hashtags "Love Where You Worked" and "One Team," calling it "dehumanizing," and calling out Elon Musk for the action. Others vowed to take legal action against the social media company for being laid off. Some former Twitter employees and...
  • NPR Plays Heartbreaking Audio of Abortionist Killing Baby in Abortion

    11/03/2022 8:08:42 PM PDT · by Morgana · 17 replies
    Life News ^ | November 3, 2022 | Micaiah Bilger
    NPR listeners heard a baby being killed in an abortion as the mother moaned and cried during a morning news report Thursday. The shocking audio came from an abortion facility in Michigan where an NPR journalist watched an abortionist perform an 11-week abortion. NPR is a taxpayer-funded news organization. “I almost didn’t want to tweet this but it’s something everyone needs to know,” XStrategies’ Greg Price wrote, sharing a 2-minute segment of the report on Twitter. “NPR on the radio this morning played audio of a woman getting an abortion. You can hear the vacuum turning on, crying, moaning, and...
  • PETTY: I Was Put in a Pro-Abortion Ad Without My Consent And I Want Out

    11/03/2022 7:52:39 PM PDT · by Morgana · 13 replies
    The Daily Caller ^ | November 3, 2022 | Macy Petty
    The abortion lobby manipulates anything and everything to fit their narrative, but they went too far recently when California pro-abortion Democrats used my face to further their radical abortion agenda — and I’m working to put a stop to it. Last week, Hillary Clinton and California Governor Gavin Newsom posted a video on their Twitter accounts in support of Proposition 1, paid for by the California Democratic Party. The video begins by stating, “We are mad, sad, and scared” about the United States Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade, and there is a clip of me sobbing in front of...
  • Crown Prince Launches First Saudi Electric Vehicle Brand

    11/03/2022 6:20:26 PM PDT · by nickcarraway · 20 replies
    ARAB NEWS ^ | November 03, 2022 | ARAB NEWS
    “We are igniting a new industry and an ecosystem that attracts international and local investments and creates job opportunities for local talent,” the crown prince said Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman on Thursday launched Ceer, the first Saudi electric vehicle brand. Ceer is the first Saudi automotive brand to produce electric vehicles in the Kingdom, and will design, manufacture, and sell a range of vehicles including sedans and sports utility vehicles for consumers in Saudi Arabia and the Middle East and North Africa region, Saudi Press Agency reported. The brand will contribute to Saudi Arabia’s automotive manufacturing sector...
  • Cheerios Maker General Mills Pauses Advertising on Twitter

    11/03/2022 2:29:39 PM PDT · by nickcarraway · 48 replies
    Channel News Asia ^ | 04 Nov 2022
    General Mills Inc has paused advertising on Twitter, a company spokesperson said on Thursday, days after the social media platform was acquired by billionaire Elon Musk for $44 billion. "We will continue to monitor this new direction and evaluate our marketing spend," the spokesperson added.
  • Teen plummets to her death trying to retrieve her cellphone

    11/02/2022 11:02:32 PM PDT · by BenLurkin · 55 replies
    .foxnews ^ | Rebecca Rosenberg |
    On Oct. 12, Melike Gün Kanavuzlar was on the fourth floor of a building in Ortaca, a city in southwestern Turkey about 115 miles from the scenic resort town of Bodrum, when she tried to recover the device. She lost her footing and plummeted four stories to the pavement below, Cumhiryet reported. The local newspaper said the young girl had been taking a selfie before she slipped.