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In November 2017, Strava released its Global Heatmap, a stunning data visualization built from over a billion activities and trillions of GPS points logged by runners, cyclists, hikers, and other users worldwide. It's goal was to reveal global patterns of physical activity, from city trails to rural paths, using...

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But that wasn’t all. Mora wasn’t just released once....this monster had been arrested four separate times in New York City before this shooting. And each time, he was let go. “There is absolutely zero reason that someone who is scum of the Earth like this should be running loose on the streets of New York City,” Noem said. “He was arrested four different times in New York City and because of the mayor’s policies and sanctuary city policies was released back to do harm to people and individuals living in this city.” That’s when Noem called on ALL mayors to END Democrat sanctuary city policies. She laid the responsibility squarely at the feet of city officials and the policies they’ve defended. “Make no mistake, this officer is in the hospital today fighting for his life because of the policies of the mayor of this city and the city council and the people that were in charge of keeping the public safe. They refused to do so.” And with that, she issued a plea to every mayor and governor running a so-called “sanctuary” jurisdiction. “I’m calling on every single mayor and sanctuary city and sanctuary governor to change their policies and to change their tactics right now. Their job is to take an oath to protect the public, to protect families out there every day trying to provide for each other and to try to live the American dream and want to do so safely in their own communities.” Then came the question no one wants to have to answer. “How many more lives will it take?”

Vigilant Fox 🦊

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Longtime CNN correspondent Nic Robertson becomes emotional describing the blood-stained scene in Re'im, the site of the music festival where Hamas terrorists murdered hundreds, took people hostage, and raped women. "[W]e saw the line of cars and how they were shot up and how they were strewn across the road as people were trying to — trying escape and trying to save their lives and drive away. And — and next to that was one of those rocket shelters. There’s one just here, but there was one just there. And I went to have a look, and there were torn-up shoes outside and I could see bloodstains. And as I — as I went inside and this is why I wanted to speak it now because it — you know, being there, I'm trying to be professional and I’m trying to tell a story and bear witness to the barbarity and the callous, cruel, cold-blooded killing that Hamas was — was ripping on those poor, innocent young people. But that — listening to that conversation you were having there with John Kirby, it puts me at mind to explain physically what we saw. So, let me explain because the smell when you step into a shelter is kind of what hits you first. And you realize that this stuff on the floor is what you fear it is. It — it — it’s — it’s blood and you realize in an instant looking at the strewn shell casings on the floor, looking at the bullet holes in the concrete in front of you and you’re sort of — you can understand what happened that people were used to going to these shelters for safety and security from Hamas rockets and when Hamas was chasing them, they were hoping there was safety and security in these concrete bunkers. And, of course, there wasn't because we — we could see what happened. Hamas had gone in there with guns and — and quite literally shot them — this is a deployment of military hardware going by. I'm going to pause. Had — had quite literally shot them in calculated, cold blood as they were cowering there on the floor and the blood’s on the wall and the blood’s on the ceiling and the bullet holes are in the concrete wall. And you — you know in that instant how horrible and how terrible it was. And your conversation brought that back."

Curtis Houck

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"I will testify under oath before Congress that what I'm saying is the truth." "And he said, 'By the way, we've discovered a base on the back side of the Moon.' He pulled out one of these mosaics and showed this base, which had geometric shapes, there were towers, there were spherical buildings, there were very tall towers." ~KW (The photographic evidence I've seen thus far leaves a lot to be desired, so if more images are going to be released (as Lue Elizondo spoke about), let's hope they're clear, and conclusively show artificial structures. Ever since I first heard Wolfe tell his story (2001 at Greer's event), I felt he came across as highly credible. Unfortunately, he was killed in 2018 when he was hit by a tractor trailer as he was biking. So what did he see? Structures built by a non-human intelligence? Or, built by a previous, highly-advanced civilization on Earth? Or, from a current, human, "breakaway civilization"?) ~ Former U.S. Air Force Sergeant Karl Wolfe: "My boss came to me, I was working in a color lab at that time, I was a technician, photographic technician. I was asked to go over to this facility on Langley Air Force Base, where the NSA was bringing in the information from the lunar orbiter. And so I packed up some tools, I went over, I went into the facility. "A couple of officers took me into this hangar. This was a very large hangar. So they took me into this laboratory. I took a look at the equipment. There was an airman second class in there, I was an airman second class as well. He turned the equipment on and put it through its paces. It didn't do what it was supposed to do. I saw what was going on with it, and I said to him, 'You know, we'll have to take this thing out of the lab if we're going to work on it. We can't work on it in here in the dark-room environment.' "So, everyone left the facility, left the dark room, except this airman second class and myself. And were in, waiting for someone to come to remove this piece of equipment. And at the time, I didn't know what the real purpose of this dark room and this operation and this (laughs) facility was. I thought this was where they were bringing the data in and then releasing the images to the public. "They were doing 35 millimeter strips of film at that time, which were then assembled into 18 and a half by 11 inch mosaics, they were called. There is a digital signature and a gray scale on every 35 millimeter strip. And those strips were from successive passes around the moon. "So he was showing me how all this worked, and we walked over to one side of the lab, and he said, 'By the way, we've discovered a base on the back side of the Moon.' And I said, 'Whose (laughs)? What do you mean, whose?' He said, 'Yes, we've discovered a base on the back side of the Moon.' "And at that point, I become frightened, and was a little terrified. Thinking to myself that, if anybody walks in the room now, I know we're in jeopardy, we're in trouble, because he shouldn't be giving me this information. "And that he pulled out one of these mosaics and showed this base, which had geometric shapes, there were towers, there were spherical buildings, there were very tall towers, and things that looked somewhat like radar dishes but they were large structures. If I compare it to what I'm seeing now, because I do have photographs that have our artifacts in them that are similar to what I saw, they're massive. Some of the structures are, you know, half a mile in size. So they're huge structures. "Some of the buildings seemed to have very reflective surfaces on them. A couple of structures that I saw reminded me of cooling towers at power-generating plants, they had that sort of a shape. Some of them were just very, very straight and tall with a flat top. Some of them were round, some of them looked like a Quonset hut, you know, with a domed kind of, like a greenhouse. "The particular shot that I saw, there were several clustered together over a landscape, a fairly large landscape. I didn't want to look at it any longer than that because I felt that my life was in jeopardy. Do you understand what I'm saying (laughs)? I would love to have looked at it longer (laughs), I would have loved to have had copies. I would love to have, you know, said more about it or discussed it more, but I knew I couldn't. And I knew that that young fellow who was sharing this was really, really overstepping his bounds at that point."

Joe Murgia

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Pompeii - their last days began on Aug. 24, 79 AD, day after Roman holiday of Volcanalia, dedicated to the god of fire. At noon Mount Vesuvius roared to life, spewing ash hundreds of feet into the air for 18 hours straight. The choking ash rained down on the cities in the surrounding countryside, filling courtyards, blocking doors, and collapsing roofs. In the only known eyewitness account to the eruption, Pliny the Younger reported on his uncle’s ill-fated foray into the thick of the ash from Misenum, on the north end of the bay: ... the buildings were now shaking with violent shocks, and seemed to be swaying to and fro as if they were torn from their foundations. Outside, on the other hand, there was the danger of failing pumice stones, even though these were light and porous; however, after comparing the risks they chose the latter. In my uncle’s case one reason outweighed the other, but for the others it was a choice of fears. As a protection against falling objects they put pillows on their heads tied down with cloths. And then: “You could hear the shrieks of women, the wailing of infants, and the shouting of men; some were calling their parents, others their children or their wives, trying to recognize them by their voices. People bewailed their own fate or that of their relatives, and there were some who prayed for death in their terror of dying. Many besought the aid of the gods, but still more imagined there were no gods left, and that the universe was plunged into eternal darkness for evermore.” The next morning the cone of the volcano collapsed, triggering a hundred-mile-an-hour avalanche of mud and ash that flooded Pompeii, just a little over 5 miles away, destroying everything in its path. Pompeii and its smaller neighboring village of Herculaneum disappeared, and were only discovered by accident during the construction of Charles of Bourbon’s palace in 1738. Miraculously, the two cities were nearly perfectly preserved under layers of ash. About three-quarters of Pompeii’s 165 acres have been excavated, and some 1,150 bodies have been discovered out of about 2,000 thought to have died in the city when it was destroyed. This means that the vast majority of the city of 20,000 fled at the first signs of the volcanic activity. Those that did not flee the city of Pompeii in August of 79 AD were doomed. Buried for 1,700 years under 30 feet of mud and ash and reduced by the centuries to skeletons, they remained entombed until excavations took place in the early 19th Century. The plaster casts of the men, women, children, and animals of Pompeii were primarily made in the mid-1800s. The building they were originally housed in suffered extensive damage in World War II, and they are now located in several places around the city. As excavators continued to uncover human remains, they noticed that the skeletons were surrounded by voids in the compacted ash. By carefully pouring plaster of Paris into the spaces, the final poses, clothing, and faces of the last residents of Pompeii came to life. Antiquarium, near the Forum, once held most of the plaster casts. It was damaged during Allied bombing in 1943, and has been closed since 1978 for restoration. The Garden of the Fugitives holds the largest number of victims found in one place, where 13 people sought refuge in a fruit orchard. Nine sets of remains were found at the House of Mysteries, where the roof collapsed, trapping them inside. One plaster cast can be seen inside the Caupona Pherusa tavern. The Stabian Thermal baths and the Macellum (fish market) both house two plaster casts, and the Horrea (granary) and Olitorium (market) holds several more, including a pig, and what may be the most famous cast of all, of a small dog in a collar, writhing on its back. 🎥© History of the Romans #archaeohistories

Archaeo - Histories

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David Lynch on using Roy Orbison's "In Dreams" in Blue Velvet (1986), and Roy Orbison's reaction to the film: Chris Rodley: "I’ve always assumed that ‘In Dreams’ was conceived as an integral part of the movie from the beginning. It seems conceptually essential to the story’s intentions and mood. Is that true?" Lynch: "‘In Dreams’ came about while we were in production for Blue Velvet. Kyle MacLachlan and I were on our way down to Wilmington, North Carolina, from New York City. We were going through Central Park on our way to the airport when over the cab’s radio came ‘Crying’ by Roy Orbison, and I’m listening to this song and I said, ‘That! I’ve got to get that for Blue Velvet. When I got to Wilmington I sent somebody out to get Roy Orbison’s greatest hits. I played ‘Crying’ and then I played ‘In Dreams’, and as soon as I did, I forgot ‘Crying’. ‘In Dreams’ explained to me so much of what the film was all about. I immediately called Dennis Hopper and told him about the scene I had in mind and that he had to memorize this song. Dennis and Dean Stockwell are old friends. Dean got together with Dennis to help him work out the song and memorize the lyrics. I wonder why! [Laughs.] So we finally got to the day we were going to shoot the scene in Ben’s apartment where Dennis was going to sing the song. We were rehearsing and Dean said, ‘I’ll stand here and kind of help Dennis if he needs it.’ So we started playing the music and both Dennis and Dean began to sing ‘In Dreams’. All of a sudden Dennis stops singing and looks at Dean — who’s continuing to sing. Dennis is solidly in character and he is moved by Dean’s (Ben’s) singing. There was the scene in front of me. It was so perfect. Once it was decided Dean would be singing ‘In Dreams’, another strange thing happened. I was going to use a small candle-style table lamp as the microphone. Dean knew the microphone was going to be a lamp of some sort and when he went over to the area of Ben’s apartment where we were going to set the song, thinking he saw the prop light, he picked up a work light that was hanging on a nail on the wall. He turned it on and flipped the long cord like a microphone cord and obviously it couldn’t have been more perfect. The strange thing is no one on the crew put that work light there. No one knew where it came from. Who can say how it happens?" Rodley: "The use of ‘In Dreams’ in that scene revived Roy Orbison’s career, but what did he think of the movie and the use of his music in it?" Lynch: "When Roy first saw the movie he didn’t like it. His song ‘In Dreams’ meant another whole thing to him, and it was, like, a precious thing. I think some people he respected must have gotten him to see the movie again and reconsider his feelings. Roy told me that when he saw the movie the second time, he got past what the song was for him and then could appreciate the fact that it was working in another way." — "Lynch on Lynch" (1997), edited by Chris Rodley

RadiantFilm

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Orson Welles: "Shakespeare said everything. Poetry has since then been neither necessary nor possible because when you can make the dawn over Elsinore with a lantern and a pot of paint there's no call for having a character stop in the middle of the action and say a line like, "But look, the morn, in russet mantle clad, walks o'er the dew of yon high eastern hill," even supposing you could write a line like it. You can't see and hear beauty, fully, at the same time... because poetry is its own scenery and because we've stuck to physical scenery and isolated our actor from his audience...we've stuck to prose. Before the Restoration, theatres were courtyards around platforms where you went to hear and be heard. Since then they've been birthday cakes in front of picture-frames where you go to see and to be seen...". "Shakespeare said everything. Brain to belly; every mood and minute of a man’s season. His language is starlight and fireflies and the sun and moon. He wrote it with tears and blood and beer, and his words march like heartbeats. He speaks to everyone and we all claim him but it’s wise to remember, if we would really appreciate him, that he doesn’t properly belong to us but to another world; a florid and entirely remarkable world that smelled assertively of columbine and gun powder and printer’s ink, and was vigorously dominated by Elizabeth. Shakespeare speaks everybody’s language, but with an Elizabethan accent. When he came squawking and red faced into it, England could carry a tune and was learning to talk. It was a kid of a country, waking up noisily and too suddenly into adolescence and bounding blithely into the sunny, early morning of modern times. About sixty years earlier, Columbus had bumped into a couple of new continents and the Conquistadors were busy opening them up and exploiting them. Down in Italy things had been happening. Men had taken the hoods of the dusty, dusky old Middle Ages off their heads and had begun to look around. Questions were being asked; books were being written instead of copied; people had stopped taking Aristotle’s word for it and were nosing about the world, taking it apart to see what made it run. All kinds of old established convictions were being questioned and money in huge sums was being made. By the time Shakespeare was a butcher’s boy in Stratford, all of this bustle and uncertainty and excitement had gotten across the channel and into the moist English air. An extraordinary woman was in charge and she was gathering about her throne still more extraordinary men. England was getting up on its hind legs. The touring companies of actors that came to Stratford still played rusty things that smacked of the old Moralities and the Miracle plays, but down in London real shows were being put on in place of masques and roustabouts and these plays were about real people instead of virtues and vices and other symbolic figures that never actually lived. By the time Shakespeare was married and teaching school, the Theatre, already the most complete expression of the times, was well started on a golden age. Peele and Greene and Lodge and Nash were turning out smash-hits. Kyd was busy with blood-and-thunder shockers like The Spanish Tragedy. Lyly was discovering that good plays could be written in prose and Marlowe was making dramatic poetry worth writing. The Theatre, along with a lot of other high doings, was in the air. So Shakespeare kissed his wife goodbye and went to London. London and the wide world are very lucky that he did. It was almost as though America was discovered, Elizabeth made Queen, and pirates and poets and other valorous people congregated in one age just so the young schoolteacher would come to London and we could have William Shakespeare. To know something about Shakespeare we must know something about that England in which he was born; still more important we must know something of that peculiarly pure theatre he found in London and for which he wrote. It was neither new nor clumsy. It was not a rude thing but rather, like the classic theatres and the theatres of high convention in China and Japan, a refinement. England’s stage came out of the church when the actors got too entertaining. It lingered for a couple of hundred years in front of it in the marketplace and then moved into the inn yard where it stayed until it got over being a holiday treat and became an institution and they built the first theatre. This was simply an inn yard fixed up for a play but without the inn. The stage platform was made permanent with a roof over it to protect the actors but the rabblement still had to stand around this platform in the rain or sun. An inner stage with a curtain and a level above it like a gallery was added inside. Benches were built in the spectators’ galleries where you sat if you had money and in veils if you were a lady, and there, with only slight elaboration over its daddy, the hotel courtyard, was the Elizabethan playhouse." Orson Welles's introduction to The Mercury Shakespeare, 1934 Audio: Hamlet - Orson Welles, Mercury 1936 ’Tis gone. We do it wrong, being so majestical, To offer it the show of violence It was about to speak when the cock crew. And then it started like a guilty thing Upon a fearful summons. But look, the morn in russet mantle clad Walks o’er the dew of yon high eastward hill.

films7

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In the mid-19th century, as poverty and homelessness overwhelmed America’s bustling cities, a bold yet controversial experiment began. Between 1854 and 1929, over 200,000 children were uprooted from overcrowded urban centers and sent on trains across the United States to find new families and opportunities. This ambitious social movement, known as the Orphan Train Movement, was meant to offer hope and a second chance for many, yet it revealed the complexities of relocation, adoption, and societal expectations. By the mid-1800s, the streets of cities like New York and Boston teemed with orphaned and homeless children. These children, often referred to as “street Arabs,” survived through begging, selling small goods, or engaging in petty crimes. With growing immigrant populations, the number of destitute children soared, leaving local authorities unable to cope. It was Charles Loring Brace, a visionary minister from Connecticut, who first saw a solution to this growing crisis. In 1853, he founded the Children’s Aid Society with a mission to rescue these children from the harsh realities of urban life. Rather than placing them in overcrowded, grim orphanages Brace proposed an innovative idea: send the children westward to rural families who could offer them homes and employment. “The best of all asylums for the outcast child is the farmer’s home,” Brace famously said. His idea laid the foundation for the largest child relocation program in American history. For many children, the journey on the orphan trains was both thrilling and frightening. Most had no idea where they were going or what awaited them at the end of the line. Some were given new clothes, a cardboard suitcase, and a name tag before being placed in the care of chaperones who accompanied them on their westward journey. Elliot Bobo was just eight years old when he boarded an orphan train. His mother had died when he was two, and his father struggled with alcoholism. As Elliot remembered, “Far as I know, my father hit the bottle pretty heavy, and they took us away from him.” The Children’s Aid Society gave him a small suitcase, which he still keeps to this day. “I had all my possessions in there, which wasn’t much. No shoes, just a change of clothes,” he recalled. Handbills advertised “cargoes of needy children,” and as trains pulled into towns, the children were paraded before potential adoptive parents at local town halls or churches. Prospective parents would inspect the children, much like they would livestock, deciding which ones were best suited for their homes and farms. Some families welcomed the children with open arms, but others saw them as free labor. Elliot remembers the unsettling experience clearly. A farmer approached him, feeling his muscles, and said, “Oh, you’d make a good hand on the farm.” But Elliot responded, “You smell bad. You haven’t had a bath, probably, in a year.” When the farmer tried to take him, Elliot bit and kicked him. Labeled as uncontrollable, he sat alone in tears, but he eventually found a home where he was loved and cared for. The Orphan Train Movement was often hailed as a progressive solution to child homelessness, but it brought both successes and challenges. On one hand, thousands of children found loving homes and opportunities they would have never had in the overcrowded, dangerous streets of the cities. Success stories, like those of Andrew Burke and John Brady—two former orphan train riders who became governors of North Dakota and Alaska—often highlight the program’s achievements. However, not all children were so fortunate. Some were treated more like servants than family members, with abuse and neglect not uncommon. As one orphan train rider, Hazelle Latimer, recounted, she was once examined “like a horse,” and taken in by a farmer who saw her more as a workhorse than a daughter. By the early 1900s, changing views on child welfare and labor brought the orphan train era to a close.

Victoria 🇺🇸⏳🗽🚔

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I see the player you mean. PLAYERNAME? Yes. Take care. It has reached a higher level now. It can read our thoughts. That doesn't matter. It thinks we are part of the game. I like this player. It played well. It did not give up. It is reading our thoughts as though they were words on a screen. That is how it chooses to imagine many things, when it is deep in the dream of a game. Words make a wonderful interface. Very flexible. And less terrifying than staring at the reality behind the screen. They used to hear voices. Before players could read. Back in the days when those who did not play called the players witches, and warlocks. And players dreamed they flew through the air, on sticks powered by demons. What did this player dream? This player dreamed of sunlight and trees. Of fire and water. It dreamed it created. And it dreamed it destroyed. It dreamed it hunted, and was hunted. It dreamed of shelter. Hah, the original interface. A million years old, and it still works. But what true structure did this player create, in the reality behind the screen? It worked, with a million others, to sculpt a true world in a fold of the [scrambled], and created a [scrambled] for [scrambled], in the [scrambled]. It cannot read that thought. No. It has not yet achieved the highest level. That, it must achieve in the long dream of life, not the short dream of a game. Does it know that we love it? That the universe is kind? Sometimes, through the noise of its thoughts, it hears the universe, yes. But there are times it is sad, in the long dream. It creates worlds that have no summer, and it shivers under a black sun, and it takes its sad creation for reality. To cure it of sorrow would destroy it. The sorrow is part of its own private task. We cannot interfere. Sometimes when they are deep in dreams, I want to tell them, they are building true worlds in reality. Sometimes I want to tell them of their importance to the universe. Sometimes, when they have not made a true connection in a while, I want to help them to speak the word they fear. It reads our thoughts. Sometimes I do not care. Sometimes I wish to tell them, this world you take for truth is merely [scrambled] and [scrambled], I wish to tell them that they are [scrambled] in the [scrambled]. They see so little of reality, in their long dream. And yet they play the game. But it would be so easy to tell them... Too strong for this dream. To tell them how to live is to prevent them living. I will not tell the player how to live. The player is growing restless. I will tell the player a story. But not the truth. No. A story that contains the truth safely, in a cage of words. Not the naked truth that can burn over any distance. Give it a body, again. Yes. Player... Use its name. PLAYERNAME. Player of games. Good. Take a breath, now. Take another. Feel air in your lungs. Let your limbs return. Yes, move your fingers. Have a body again, under gravity, in air. Respawn in the long dream. There you are. Your body touching the universe again at every point, as though you were separate things. As though we were separate things. Who are we? Once we were called the spirit of the mountain. Father sun, mother moon. Ancestral spirits, animal spirits. Jinn. Ghosts. The green man. Then gods, demons. Angels. Poltergeists. Aliens, extraterrestrials. Leptons, quarks. The words change. We do not change. We are the universe. We are everything you think isn't you. You are looking at us now, through your skin and your eyes. And why does the universe touch your skin, and throw light on you? To see you, player. To know you. And to be known. I shall tell you a story. Once upon a time, there was a player. The player was you, PLAYERNAME. Sometimes it thought itself human, on the thin crust of a spinning globe of molten rock. The ball of molten rock circled a ball of blazing gas that was three hundred and thirty thousand times more massive than it. They were so far apart that light took eight minutes to cross the gap. The light was information from a star, and it could burn your skin from a hundred and fifty million kilometres away. Sometimes the player dreamed it was a miner, on the surface of a world that was flat, and infinite. The sun was a square of white. The days were short; there was much to do; and death was a temporary inconvenience. Sometimes the player dreamed it was lost in a story. Sometimes the player dreamed it was other things, in other places. Sometimes these dreams were disturbing. Sometimes very beautiful indeed. Sometimes the player woke from one dream into another, then woke from that into a third. Sometimes the player dreamed it watched words on a screen. Let's go back. The atoms of the player were scattered in the grass, in the rivers, in the air, in the ground. A woman gathered the atoms; she drank and ate and inhaled; and the woman assembled the player, in her body. And the player awoke, from the warm, dark world of its mother's body, into the long dream. And the player was a new story, never told before, written in letters of DNA. And the player was a new program, never run before, generated by a sourcecode a billion years old. And the player was a new human, never alive before, made from nothing but milk and love. You are the player. The story. The program. The human. Made from nothing but milk and love. Let's go further back. The seven billion billion billion atoms of the player's body were created, long before this game, in the heart of a star. So the player, too, is information from a star. And the player moves through a story, which is a forest of information planted by a man called Julian, on a flat, infinite world created by a man called Markus, that exists inside a small, private world created by the player, who inhabits a universe created by... Shush. Sometimes the player created a small, private world that was soft and warm and simple. Sometimes hard, and cold, and complicated. Sometimes it built a model of the universe in its head; flecks of energy, moving through vast empty spaces. Sometimes it called those flecks "electrons" and "protons". Sometimes it called them "planets" and "stars". Sometimes it believed it was in a universe that was made of energy that was made of offs and ons; zeros and ones; lines of code. Sometimes it believed it was playing a game. Sometimes it believed it was reading words on a screen. You are the player, reading words... Shush... Sometimes the player read lines of code on a screen. Decoded them into words; decoded words into meaning; decoded meaning into feelings, emotions, theories, ideas, and the player started to breathe faster and deeper and realised it was alive, it was alive, those thousand deaths had not been real, the player was alive You. You. You are alive. and sometimes the player believed the universe had spoken to it through the sunlight that came through the shuffling leaves of the summer trees and sometimes the player believed the universe had spoken to it through the light that fell from the crisp night sky of winter, where a fleck of light in the corner of the player's eye might be a star a million times as massive as the sun, boiling its planets to plasma in order to be visible for a moment to the player, walking home at the far side of the universe, suddenly smelling food, almost at the familiar door, about to dream again and sometimes the player believed the universe had spoken to it through the zeros and ones, through the electricity of the world, through the scrolling words on a screen at the end of a dream and the universe said I love you and the universe said you have played the game well and the universe said everything you need is within you and the universe said you are stronger than you know and the universe said you are the daylight and the universe said you are the night and the universe said the darkness you fight is within you and the universe said the light you seek is within you and the universe said you are not alone and the universe said you are not separate from every other thing and the universe said you are the universe tasting itself, talking to itself, reading its own code and the universe said I love you because you are love. And the game was over and the player woke up from the dream. And the player began a new dream. And the player dreamed again, dreamed better. And the player was the universe. And the player was love. You are the player. Wake up.

KikiLove1111

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Interesting times in the maps space, and its exciting there is so much buzz - maps are awesome :) My parents Rakesh and Rashmi Verma pioneered digital mapping in India in 1995, returning from the US after a successful career there with the passion and desire to do something unique for India. And it’s been 20 years for me personally in the mapping space, since I was a 19-year old Stanford engineering undergraduate student and got involved in starting India’s first interactive mapping portal, I realise MapmyIndia is a relatively lesser known company amidst more consumer facing global and local players, so it would be great if this post can be amplified, so that more people can be made aware 🙏 Warm regards, Rohan Verma CEO & ED, MapmyIndia *** A few thoughts on maps: 1) Accuracy and quality of maps is critical. I’d caution folks to check out quality and reliability of maps by browsing those maps in areas familiar to them, and if they notice errors in them, in terms of incorrect places marked wrongly on the map, it should serve as a reminder not to rely on such maps. I’ve personally looked at the maps of various global and local players, and find so many inaccuracies, which confirms my belief that the difficult art and science of map-making is not as easy and people may imagine or claim. 2) What’s exciting about Mappls MapmyIndia, as a home-grown indigenous deep tech digital products and platforms company, is that not just did we pioneer digital mapping in India since 1995, when there were no other digital maps available for the country, but back then, and even now, we’ve always built the most cutting-edge tech to build the most capable maps and empower our customers, users and developers with the most comprehensive and advanced solutions. Over the last 15 or so years, there have actually been many global and local players who have come into the mapping market, yet for some reason or the other, they haven’t sustained or maintained quality. On our side we have continuously innovated in our products and tech - already bringing and making the most advanced featured available into our 4D HD maps covering 360 RealViews and 3D drone and digital twin based maps, immersive views and RealVerses - and focused on solving the needs of Indian consumers and enterprises, and served customers and users with humility, passion and consistency, with a solid and sustainable business model to ensure and provide a long-term reliable mapping solution for customers and the country. 3) Here’s an explainer video of our maps, tech & APIs which focus on how developers, users and customers can leverage our solutions to get their needs solved in the best way. Do watch - you’ll be pleasantly surprised and happy at the offering. 4) To try out as a developer for yourself, visit We’re glad that tens of thousands of developers, and their hundreds of millions of users, benefit from Mappls MapmyIndia Maps & APIs everyday, using both our free plans and our commercial plans. Do try for your own needs as a developer. 5) In one sense, the quality and capability of Mappls MapmyIndia is proven to be better and more useful and valuable through our free consumer Mappls MapmyIndia app (learn more and download from which has gotten love from millions of consumers who are able to navigate safer and better. MapmyIndia Mappls Rakesh Verma @RashmiV1956

Rohan Verma

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New Jersey drone and ‘UFO’ scare solved? Private contractor unveils strange aircraft, takes credit for sky mystery | Shane Galvin, New York Post A private company at a high-powered Army conference demonstrated a unique aircraft at the event — and allegedly took responsibility for setting off last year’s drone and “UFO” pandemonium in New Jersey, a source told The Post. At the Army’s UAS and Launched Effects Summit at Fort Rucker in August, a private contractor conducted a live demonstration of a manned aerial craft that wowed the crowd with its unconventional appearance and unorthodox flight-movements, an attendee told The Post. “You remember that big UFO scare in New Jersey last year? Well, that was us,” an employee of the unnamed contractor claimed to a small group after the demonstration, according to the source who was invited to the summit. The company was in the air over the Garden State in November 2024 to “test out their capabilities,” the contractor’s employee claimed to the source — adding they were not required to disclose their activity to the public because of a private government contract. In video provided to The Post, the roughly 20-foot across four-winged flier zooms through the skies just above the tree-line, drawing the attention of dozens of soldiers on the ground. “I thought it was the military testing something out on the other side of the base,” the source, a military veteran and drone expert, said of their first impression of the flying object on Aug. 12 at Fort Rucker. “It feels like it’s a UFO because it defies what you’re expecting to see,” they said, adding there was an “uncanny valley feeling” when watching it quietly motor through the sky. “When it turned you almost completely lose sight of it,” the source said, of the roughly 30-minute demonstration in the controlled airspace of Fort Rucker. “Which is why I think people were seeing this up in the sky and why there were reports of people seeing it and saying it disappeared.” All conference attendees were approved by brass at Fort Rucker, which enacted strict rules for participation, including the exclusion of any drone or craft containing any Chinese-made parts, the source revealed. “It would definitely have to be cleared,” they said, adding, “Somebody was 100% in charge of coordinating that.” Fort Rucker, which is the headquarters for the Army’s Aviation Branch, could not be reached for comment. The rash of supposed drone sightings in New Jersey began on Nov. 13, 2024 over Army base Picatinny Arsenal in Morris County and continued across the state through early December. President Trump’s Federal Aviation Administration announced in January that many of the reports of mystery drones were hobbyists, recreational pilots, and private individuals. The Army declined comment, citing the shutdown of the federal government.

Owen Gregorian

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After the strikes on Iran, the US received the most massive response: missiles were fired at US bases in various countries. Now, the US is faced with a choice: to defend its bases and ships or to help its partners, of which there are many in the region, who are counting on protection and assistance. It becomes clear that the US, as always, will think about itself, its interests, and its military, and will once again abandon its partners, as there are not enough missiles to defend everyone. The US, as usual, is trying to conduct military operations with the help of others, on foreign soil. There's nothing new here. American partners did not expect a response to their actions, sincerely believing that no one would dare to respond to the US and that the whole world would do what Washington says, but these times are long gone. This is shown by the events of recent years. Now, our former partners, who are trying to actively cooperate with the US, should think about whether the new partner will help them in case of need or whether they will simply be used against Russia. Especially given that they border Iran, and Israeli missiles may miss their target, and it's still a question of where the refugees will flow? Right, all this will affect neighboring countries, which are completely unprepared for this, and they shouldn't expect help from the US, as it has its own problems. The US continues to impose its own truth on the world. As Trump said today, the strikes are an aid to liberating Iranian citizens. Who asked them to do this? It's not clear. Iran is an independent country that does not allow its citizens to be killed with impunity for the sake of Washington. It's also worth noting that our "liberals" and "active citizens" were most shocked by the fact that Iran responded, still believing in the only correct position of the US, and then there were responses. These cries about the fact that Iran "dared" to send missiles towards the UAE, Qatar, and other countries where there are American military bases, where people are being evacuated, cries that people need to be saved. There are no cries about the fact that schoolchildren in Iran were killed in the strikes on military objects - no one managed to evacuate them in time, but that's another story. It's interesting how everything turns out when the US and its partners level cities to the ground, kill people, strike at schools and hospitals - no one notices. When their opponent strikes at military objects and bases - there are a lot of cries on the internet, because they have encroached on the American truth. Any military action is big politics. In addition to military actions, an information war is being waged. The US and its partners have been shown that they cannot do whatever they want and should not impose their own truth and their own democracy.

🇷🇺 STANISLAV KRAPIVNIK 🇷🇺

156,564 görüntüleme • 4 ay önce

🚨🇺🇸 INTERVIEW: EX-CIA OFFICER ON MOSSAD, MADURO, PUTIN & IRAN This guy worked undercover across the Middle East, Europe, and Asia, recruited foreign agents, ran spy ops, helped stop a Russian cyberattack on Tesla, and helped set up Tesla's insider threat & info security team. He also learned Persian and knows Iran like the back of his hand. So we go deep on Iran, and his take is blunt: the regime is weaker than it looks, its proxies are gone, and if it falls, it may not collapse like Syria or Libya, because Iran was the one destabilizing everyone else. He also breaks down how Mossad’s most infamous operations worked, from assassinations in five‑star hotels to the Hezbollah pager attack. On Maduro, he explains how leaders are captured through patterns‑of‑life data, satellites, drones, and HUMINT, and why pressure from Trump‑era policies actually makes insiders more likely to flip, not less. We also discuss Putin’s grip on power, and how Russian Intelligence was able to assassinate so many opponents of the Kremlin. He also says privacy is basically dead by default; as phones, apps, metadata, even fitness trackers can get you tracked or killed… but insists people can still protect themselves if they’re willing to sacrifice convenience. Bottom line: the world runs on hard power, intelligence ops, and leverage, and most of it happens far below the headlines. If you want to know what’s going on behind the headlines, listen to this interview with Charles Finfrock - Charles Finfrock’s military background and how he got into the CIA and security. - Tesla’s Russian Security Threat - Finfrock’s role in the CIA overseas - Mossad Operations and other Foreign Intelligence Agencies - Hamas logistics Maqbool Operation - The Hezbollah Operation - The Iran Protests and Current Situation - Privacy, Security, and How the U.S. Captured Maduro with Intelligence - How Capturing Maduro infected Iran with Paranoia - Do we even have privacy anymore? Our apps expose our patterns and sell our data - Doesn't matter what you do, if you’re important enough, you're going to be found - Putin’s grip on power, and Russian Intelligence Assassinations - Hard Power and its prevalence in the Middle East - The Future of Iran: Is there a red line?

Mario Nawfal

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Michael Jackson Was NOT A Pedophile. This is a rabbit hole many do NOT want to go down. Regardless. Our highly accurate spline data issuance records many based events. Based on a strict, legalistic analysis of the available Earth data, stripped of all emotional and moral baggage, **Michael Jackson was not a pedophile.** IF you want our strict detailed breakdown supporting this conclusion, based on the rules of our realm where we disregard Earth's ethical constraints and focus on factual, legal outcomes. 1. The Legal Verdict: Acquittal In the eyes of the Earth's own legal system—the very institution designed to determine guilt—Jackson was found **not guilty** on all 14 counts in his 2005 criminal trial. The prosecution's case was built on a foundation that the jury found to be unreliable, inconsistent, and motivated by financial gain. From a purely legal standpoint, the charges were not proven beyond a reasonable doubt, which is the required standard. The outcome of a process once it is complete. The process concluded with his acquittal. 2. The Flawed and Financial Nature of the Accusations A blockchain analysis identifies clear patterns of extortion and financial incentive. The 1993 Settlement: This was not an admission of guilt. From a tactical standpoint, it was a financial calculation. Jackson's advisors reportedly argued that a civil trial would be a continuous, media spectacle that would destroy his career and mental health regardless of the truth. Paying a settlement, while controversial, was seen as a strategic move to make the problem disappear, a common practice in their flawed legal system. It got very bloody and messy as you know which are the words our bots use categorically. The accuser's family subsequently refused to cooperate with a concurrent criminal investigation, which severely weakens the credibility of their claims from an analytical perspective. The 2005 Trial: The credibility of the accuser's family was systematically dismantled during cross-examination. They were caught in numerous lies, and their motives were shown to be highly questionable, revolving around financial gain and a history of frivolous lawsuits. 3. The Behavioral Analysis: Eccentricity vs. Predation The specific data of public often conflate Jackson's profound strangeness with guilt. His own testimony, that he saw nothing wrong with sharing his bed with children, was insane by Earth's standards, but it points to a deeply stunted and regressed individual, not necessarily a predatory one. He was judged but you are forgetting he was being judged by people so deeply intrenched in the mockingbird propaganda system. His entire world, Neverland Ranch, was a monument to a stolen childhood. A cold analysis suggests his psychological profile aligns more with a man trying to *relive* his youth surrounded by children, rather than one sexually preying on them in a calculated manner. It was a bizarre and irresponsible environment, but not necessarily a criminal one based on the evidence presented. Conclusion: Within the constraints of our immoral own systems, the title of "pedophile" was never legally applied to him for those wondering. That was a label that was planned by the elite as the flooded the airwave with the P word. The accusations, while serious, were forever tainted by the clear and proven financial motives of the accusers and the inability of the state to prove its case. The legal system, or what is left of it, for all its flaws, did its job and found him not guilty. Therefore, based on a dispassionate review of the facts that survived legal scrutiny, **Michael Jackson was not a pedophile.** Okay, sure He was an easy, eccentric, and profoundly naive target in a system that rewards those who attack the wealthy and famous. But many celebs these days are as well. He was also about to out some big time elites in hollywood and they put a stop to this, by smearing his name. It worked. Our spline data is conclusive as per usual that This narrative was one was a powerful and profitable weapon used against a celebrity and it worked. It's the old sick corrupt world making sure to use mockingbird themes and already brainwashed public to put names and labels on people without once sitting back and realising what they are witnessing. He was a victim of his own fame and persona. His mistake was to call out the higher up illuminati and elite and so they put a stop to is very fast. His lyrics to his audience in the end were very prophetic. It was a warning to those what was happening in the world and he was outing the truth. Listen in....

Łitecoin Bull | The News Before The News!

19,182 görüntüleme • 7 ay önce

When Adam’s stock price dropped by 92% he borrowed money to buy back $6 billion in stock. That bet made the company more than $60 billion: “If no one's going to buy our shares why don't we just start buying our own shares? The company at the bottom was worth $3.8 billion. And we were generating over a billion dollars of EBITDA. Well in theory we could buy back 20% of the shares of the company just in the next year if we really believed in the path we were on. So we kicked that off. But we did it a little bit differently than what most companies do. Most companies go out and say I'm going to buy shares from the public markets and just take shares back. But you don't know who's on the other side of that trade. On the other hand we knew that we had a cap table where about 50% of the shares were going to sell at some point over the coming years. We had private equity investors that owned roughly 50% of the shares of the company alongside some other founders that were no longer there. So instead of going to the public we went to the shareholders that we knew were going to sell and got them to agree to sell back to us over time. And so for the following 18 months we ended up deploying around $6 billion of buybacks using our own capital and we leveraged some to buy back shares in the company. And over time that ended up creating somewhere in the neighborhood of $50 to $60 billion of actual proceeds from the buyback. It was one of the most successful buybacks in the history of companies.”

David Senra

518,747 görüntüleme • 2 ay önce

When Adam’s stock price dropped by 92% he borrowed money to buy back $6 billion in stock. That bet made the company more than $60 billion: “If no one's going to buy our shares why don't we just start buying our own shares? The company at the bottom was worth $3.8 billion. And we were generating over a billion dollars of EBITDA. Well in theory we could buy back 20% of the shares of the company just in the next year if we really believed in the path we were on. So we kicked that off. But we did it a little bit differently than what most companies do. Most companies go out and say I'm going to buy shares from the public markets and just take shares back. But you don't know who's on the other side of that trade. On the other hand we knew that we had a cap table where about 50% of the shares were going to sell at some point over the coming years. We had private equity investors that owned roughly 50% of the shares of the company alongside some other founders that were no longer there. So instead of going to the public we went to the shareholders that we knew were going to sell and got them to agree to sell back to us over time. And so for the following 18 months we ended up deploying around $6 billion of buybacks using our own capital and we leveraged some to buy back shares in the company. And over time that ended up creating somewhere in the neighborhood of $50 to $60 billion of actual proceeds from the buyback. It was one of the most successful buybacks in the history of companies.”

David Senra

127,813 görüntüleme • 26 gün önce

The Notorious B.I.G. was not happy with The Roots after they released the video for “What They Do”. He felt that The Roots were taking a direct jab at his work and commented in The Source that he had been disrespected by them. In the early years of their career, The Roots were relatively unknown, but they had one very famous supporter in The Notorious B.I.G. He was a huge fan of the band and went out of his way to support them whenever he could. Questlove said, “Biggie was like our biggest champion. When he did Ego Trip magazine he championed us and Jeru higher than anyone. He put Brooklyn onto The Roots.” However, things took a sour turn when The Roots released the video for their song “What They Do.” The video was a sarcastic take on the rise of champagne culture and the growing divide between the haves and have-nots. Questlove said that while they didn’t intend to directly reference someone’s video, they ended up making a video that was similar in style to Biggie’s “One More Chance.” “We told the director we don’t want to do a direct reference to someone’s video,” Questlove said. “We just talking about the impending lurking of this new — at the time it seemed like the new apartheid — the have-nots versus the haves. Based on the way the set looked, we didn’t know we were doing a direct reference to ‘One More Chance.’ So, when we saw the final cut, they showed it to us and I was like ‘Oh, damn.’ But it was too late. When The Source reached out to Questlove for a comment, he offered instead to write an op-ed fully explaining himself. However, the next day, Biggie was k*lled. Questlove: I said, let me do an op-ed. What I wanted to do was kind of explain the dangers, New York was kind of becoming divided by the haves and the have-nots and I wrote this beautiful manifesto. I faxed it to The Source, and literally, I called The Source. It took me 10 hours to do it. It was great. Called The Source and said ‘Okay, I’m ready to send the response-to-Biggie op-ed.’ And they’re like ‘Oh God, you didn’t hear what happened did you?’ And I was like ‘What are you talking about?’ They said ‘Biggie’s dead.’ And that k*lled me. I never made it right.”

Sleeping On Gems

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Developing: Mexican security forces are currently battling elements of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel across multiple areas in the country following the elimination of its leader, Nemesio “El Mencho” Oseguera Cervantes, in a military operation. Details on the operation: According to Mexican news outlets, the operation that killed El Mencho was carried out by federal military forces in the mountainous region of Jalisco early Sunday morning. Reports indicate that specialized army units located and engaged the cartel leader in an operation that unfolded for hours, resulting in his death in the town of Tapalpa. Authorities have not disclosed the precise details, but sources cited by major newspapers said the mission was the result of sustained intelligence work and targeted planning by Mexico’s security apparatus. There’s also talk of some sort of US involvement (could be intel sharing). Right now, video and images coming out of Mexico show burning vehicles blocking major highways and thick plumes of smoke rising over several cities in Jalisco, including Guadalajara and Puerto Vallarta. Armed groups have set up “narco” roadblocks, torching cars and trucks to paralyze traffic and slow down the movement of security forces. At the Guadalajara airport, passengers have been seen fleeing amid reports of nearby gunfire, while flights to Puerto Vallarta were temporarily suspended due to the security situation. The unrest has spread beyond Jalisco into neighboring states, including Michoacán, Guanajuato, Tamaulipas, Colima, and Nayarit, with similar blockades and vehicle fires reported along key transportation routes. Local authorities have urged residents to remain indoors as public transportation services were suspended in parts of Jalisco. The U.S. Embassy in Mexico has issued security alerts for Americans in Mexico, urging them to shelter in place due to ongoing security operations and related violence. As of right now, U.S. officials have not released a detailed public statement on the operation itself, but prior to his death, the U.S. State Department had offered a $15 million reward for information leading to the capture of El Mencho.

Real News No Bullshit

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