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CMB is likely a local phenomenon, not cosmological. The distribution of galaxies cannot be explained properly, large scale structures detected by JWST made sure of that. Bullet point #3 is the biggest fail, there should be 20 TIMES more lithium than predicted by the theory, yet it isn't there. The general spirit of the article is correct though, Lambda CDM is in trouble (along with much of modern physics).

Explains so well? It fails at all those items listed.

"One significant experimental anomaly that does not appear to be going away, and which may point to a fundamental weakness in either the standard model or Big Bang cosmology, is the discrepancy in values of the Hubble constant based on different experimental approaches. This discrepancy is now known as the Hubble tension... While [everyone] is hard at work scrutinizing their methods and refining their results, researchers are increasingly considering the unsettling possibility that one or more of the underlying physical theories are just plain wrong, at least on the length and time scales involved.

Key among these theories is the Lambda-CDM model of Big Bang cosmology. Yet physicists and cosmologists are loath to discard this model, because it explains so much so well:

FPJ: "European Union Commissioners Arrive In India Aboard Hydrogen-Powered Bus For Bilateral Talks.. The EU Commission Commissioners smiled for cameras as they sat in the bus that transported them to Hyderabad House, where Prime Minister Narendra Modi and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen held bilateral delegation level talks"

Masse: "Maxwell’s electromagnetic field equations for free space can be derived from classical elasticity theory as applied to transverse elastic waves propagating in a perfectly elastic aether"

Masse: "[Niels Bohr's] first postulated constraint is inconsistent with classical mechanics, which permits any of a continuum of orbital paths around the nucleus. The second constraint is inconsistent with classical electromagnetism, which requires that accelerating electrons radiate electro-magnetic energy that should be detectable... By adopting these postulates, Bohr effectively assumed that neither classical mechanics nor classical electromagnetism is applicable at the scale of atomic dimensions..

The atomic model initially developed by chemists to explain the formation and structure of molecules generally differed from the atomic model developed by physicists primarily in one important respect: the chemist’s atomic model was static..

From a theorem developed by Earnshaw (1842), we know that stable equilibrium cannot be attained by a system of stationary point charges interacting only according to Coulomb’s inverse-square force law... Electrostatic equilibrium cannot exist by itself. Therefore, the force keeping atomic electrons from falling into the nucleus cannot simply be electromagnetic force. Moreover, since the atomic electrons are not accelerating, the force keeping the atomic electrons from falling into the nucleus cannot be centrifugal force. Only one possibility remains: we must conclude that the force keeping the atomic electrons from falling into the nucleus is the weak nuclear force...

The atom is static as proposed in early atomic models developed by chemists.. Atoms are observed to possess a very great stability. This stability can now be seen as the natural result of electron positions in an atom generally corresponding to a minimum energy configuration. Classical physics can explain both the stability and structure of the atom"

Electrons are static. Time only flows forward. There is no dark matter. My o my... The hits keep on coming #RobertMasse

Phys.org: "Molten metal catalysts for CO₂-free hydrogen production improve efficiency by up to 36.3%"

AGBI: "EV maker Lucid’s CEO quits as total losses hit $13bn"

The story would be Stark was born as Victor Van Doom, but adapted by Starks. Another version of VVD will have his usual storyline, from Latveria, and now he is entering the picture. Both characters being physically the same person could lead the audience seek similarities, both tried to save others albeit via different methods. Add a little MCU banter on top, start counting your profits (if there's any left that is after paying RDJ and the Russos their mammoth share).

#MCU #Marvel Doom is not a Stark variant, but Stark is a Doom variant? That can work.. #Gossip

"@hogsy@mastodon.social

Holy shit, EA just open-sourced some more Command & Conquer games including Generals and Renegade"

DJT: "I have determined that President Zelenskyy is not ready for Peace if America is involved, because he feels our involvement gives him a big advantage in negotiations. I don’t want advantage, I want PEACE. He disrespected the United States of America in its cherished Oval Office. He can come back when he is ready for Peace"

Politico: "Trump and Vance attack Zelenskyy in remarkable Oval Office exchange.. The president and vice president each had harsh words for the Ukrainian president"

They were mostly trolled. I think the joke is on you, for latching on performative little acts for your "resistance fix".

TDB: "MSNBC anchor Lawrence O’Donnell analyzed Donald Trump’s 'humiliating' meeting Thursday with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, in which the president was corrected by his European counterpart—just days after French President Emmanuel Macron did the same"

Railway Gazette: "Gruppo FNM formally unveiled its first hydrogen trainset at Rovato near Brescia on February 13, along with a new depot and a mobile refuelling station... Delivered on January 23 following testing at Alstom’s Salzgitter plant, the five-car Coradia Stream fuel cell multiple-unit is the first of 14 being purchased with funding from Lombardia region and the national recovery and resilience facility, PNRR. It is the first hydrogen train to arrive for use in Italy, where various initiatives are under way."

"@GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social

Expect many more of these. VSCode is an absolute security trash fire..

"[Microsoft] VSCode extensions with 9 million installs pulled over security risks"

Doctorow: "A January 2025 report from Groundwork Collective documents how increasingly nurses in the USA are hired through gig apps — 'Uber for nurses' — so nurses never know from one day to the next whether they’re going to work, or how much they’ll get paid. There’s something high-tech going on here with those nurses’ wages. These nursing apps — a cartel of three companies, Shiftkey, Shiftmed and Carerev — can play all kinds of games with labor pricing.

Before Shiftkey offers a nurse a shift, it purchases that worker’s credit history from a data-broker. Specifically, it pays to find out how much credit-card debt the nurse is carrying, and whether it is overdue. The more desperate the nurse’s financial straits are, the lower the wage on offer. Because the more desperate you are, the less you’ll accept to come and do the gruntwork of caring for the sick, the elderly, and the dying.

Now, there are lots of things going on here, and they’re all terrible. What’s more, they are emblematic of 'enshittification,' the word I coined to describe the decay of online platforms"

CDO's are still around BTW. The post-GFC reforms did not do away with them.

I remember in a post-mortem analysis of GFC, there were reports on those infamous CDO products. They were basically packaged mortgage loans each loan with differing risk level, stacked on top of each other, in order to "distribute risk". One book described a scene where an operator brings up a CDO on the screen, each debtor was a little dot you would see money flow and the red dots for people who missed a payment (who would later lose their houses, get foreclosed on, the creditor ended up with the house which I'm sure they were fine with). So via a CDO you could buy the debt of 100 people, in one package. Financial services made that easy for you, if you had the money.

Stevenson: "In the UK, ordinary people tend to hold their assets in property, and there is and there will be less direct owning of property by ordinary families. But what you will see increasingly is the government need to keep people owning property politically. The rich have this enormous amount of cash, which is driving house prices up. The way that the government can square that circle is to encourage rich people to lend that money. And that money gets borrowed eventually by ordinary people. And I think this gets disguised somewhat by the fact that this lending tends to go through the banking system... a lot of people [likely] assume that when mortgages go up, what that means is the bank is accumulating credit... [But.. ] banks are essentially middlemen. They borrow money from the rich, they lend money to mortgages, and the mortgage interest goes from you, the mortgager, to the bank to the rich. These people are essentially just middlemen in between.

So you need to understand this, because governments will see the only way to keep ordinary people in houses is to encourage high levels of lending, high levels of mortgages, to do things like reduce the checks on mortgage eligibility, to encourage things like longer term mortgages, to encourage things like multi-generational mortgages. And this is exactly the transfer of wealth from the middle class to the rich. You are getting further and further into debt. The rich are getting further and further into credit. They are owning your house via your mortgage and they are driving you into poverty"

That earned e-jagoff another nickname - "laminated faced cunt" #BillBurr

Burr gets "flagged" on Twitter, I guess bcz of his informative take on billionaires.

The Sunday Times: "Tesla sales in Europe plummet by 45%"

I recognize the actor from the second Top Gun, he can clearly pick good scripts.

The Gorge.. It was good. It had a great bad guy (gal) and a symbolic evilness where it belongs, just as in Fight Club.

Politico: "Senate Republicans say House budget won’t fly with them"

The amt doesn't look too high. The move could be preemptive, to stop any roundabout way CH products can still enter US even after raised US tariffs on China.

u.baci_all_products("China","Mexico")

$ 83,836,384,363.99998

US not only wants to reduce its own CH imports but wants to force Mexico to reduce theirs as well..? Wow.

Bloomberg: "Trump Team Pushes Mexico Toward Tariffs on Chinese Imports"

AP News: "Trump says Ukraine can 'forget about' joining NATO"

#Frontline #UA #RU 02/21 - 02/27

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Automotive Logistics: "BMW pioneers hydrogen-powered trucks to transform European freight"

Hydrogen Insight: "Plug Power poised to bring Louisiana liquid hydrogen plant into operation in coming weeks"

Gary Stevenson: "When you live in a very wealth unequal society.. that means is a small group of people own all of the companies, they own all of the commercial property, they own most of the properties. And ordinary people are continually having to pay them rents, profits and interest. If inequality gets very large, these flows of cash from ordinary families to the rich become very large. [Then three things happen] One is ordinary people work much more for the rich, although in reality, if you try and do that, it tends to just push wages down. Two is ordinary families sell their assets to the rich, and that is why we are seeing reduced homeownership rates and reduced ability to save in pensions. But the third one is the rich can lend that money back to the poor. And that is what we're seeing when we see mortgage sizes increase. What you are seeing there is the rich taking enormous amounts of money from working families and then lending it back...

During Covid, governments gave out an enormous amount of money. And that money was largely, in the end, accumulated by richer people... When these rich people started to accumulate cash, what do they do?.. They tend to want to own a balanced portfolio.. They want to own things like stocks and shares.. They want to own property as well.. But the problem with property is it's very difficult for super rich people to buy enormous amounts of property... So what do rich people do?.. If I had £500,000 cash and I wanted to buy a property, I could go out and spend £500,000, buy a flat in London. £500,000 is kind of roughly what a flat in London costs nowadays. I could rent it to my sister and she could pay me rent every month. Alternatively, I could lend that money to my sister. She could go out and buy the house herself, and then she could pay me interest every month. How are these two things different to me?

Well, the first thing I want to point out is, what is the difference between those two examples on the housing market and on house prices? The answer is that is exactly no difference. You know the housing market doesn't see whether it's me or whether it's my sister, whether I'm buying directly or whether I'm lending to my sister. All the housing market sees is somebody’s coming in with £500,000 and buying a house.

So what that shows you is whether I buy the house directly or whether I lend the money out to buy the house. In both cases, I drive the house price up. The second thing is this question of who actually owns the house. So legally, technically, if I lent the money to my sister, my sister owns the house. But what is her net worth after she buys it? Well, she buys a flat that's worth £500,000. She has debt of £500,000. She's worth nothing. So, essentially, I own the equity in the house..

Mortgage lending and the accumulation of credit by the rich is the way in which rich people buy houses. And if you are sitting on a house with an enormous mortgage, realistically you don't own that house. The person who lent you the money owns that house. And it's important to understand this because as we go forward, this increased size of mortgage is going to be the primary way in which we see the wealth of the middle class decline"

Mass resignations from douche. Staffers apparetly did not agree with ‘dismantling of public services’ pursued by the org.

Politico: "The first comprehensive public listing of the billions of dollars in purported savings [DOUCHE] is making across federal contracts is filled with errors, according to a Politico review of the published data"

"@GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social

I don’t think Four Eyes will work as a brand name."

FT: "White House official pushes to axe Canada from Five Eyes intelligence group"

Will check it out, audience score is not bad.

u.rottentomatoes("The Gorge")

Out[1]: {'critics': '65', 'audience': '77'}

Russian oligarchs can qualify for the $5 million residency gold cards..

If I were them I would not apply, there is no telling what can happen when shitlib Dems are in power, they might go after those same Russian oligarchs with even bigger zeal just bcz Trump let them in. They are still hung up on that Russian angle, starting with Russiagate so forth, now if Trump is again not antagonistic towards Russia, they will have to be.

I propose a new hero - Nativeman. He is born smack in the middle of US (Kansas?). Nativeman will be super powerful at that location, as he moves away from there, he starts losing his power. Like, when he reaches either shore he can't even pass gas. In Kansas he can lift a truck. And he wants big government, because he is local.

I hope Superman cannon w/ the upcoming movie does not stress his "foreignness". We have to realize a part of SM is immigrant propaganda.. The alien arrives from another planet to America, he has super powers on his new home, on Earth (wink wink, we know where they really mean, US), right? The whole shabang with the yellow Sun vs the red Sun? The immigrant is powerful in US, not back home, he is normal there. The message corporate America wants to send is we want foreigners, please arrive on our shores where you will be special, leave home where you are nothing. And well since you are special, you won't need social services, social help and infrastructure - hell, you can fly over buildings boy! You don't need government! You can be government with those super duper powers!

TDB: "Rep. Dan Crenshaw’s apparent threat to Tucker Carlson drew backlash from the right on Monday.. Carlson once called the lawmaker one of 'the dumbest' Republicans and 'eyepatch McCain'"

Great, the free elevation service I used is back

u.elev_at(28.5983, 83.9310)

Out[1]: 6453

😂 😂 😂

The nine most terrifying words in the English language are "I am a businessman and I'm here to help".

"@waeiski@vis.social

It is now illegal to transmit personal information of EU citizens to cloud infrastructure in the #US as they won't be protected by the #GDPR. Many European service providers will have to move quickly to avoid fines, but eventually #EU data will be held in the EU.. That means AWS, Azure, Google and iCloud can lose a sizeable chunk of their customer base if no moves are made. I am all for it"

#Burr #Billionaires

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Physics is in dire straits. No one should underestimate how bad things are.

America oscillates between two extremes, either too industrious (getting shit to work), or too dreamy (a distant walhalla, gold rush, dot.com). Industrious gets you "shut up and compute" of quantum mechanics ignoring every bizarreness of it, dreamification gets you stupidest theories presented as real physics many worlds, multiverses, string theory among others. There doesn't seem to be a middle point between the two extremes, as in conceptually sound and wide-reaching base formulations that will explain experimental results. Eurasia would not get mired in this bullshit if they were in the driving seat. We've lost precious time with the New World.

The native culture of the land, pushing its inhabitants to incessant dreamification probably did not help.

The sci rut started either 50 or 100 years ago, I still blame US for the current state of science. They've been the stewards of the bleeding edge research since WWII.

Masse: Nature of Physical Fields and Forces: "Newton’s force law can be used to derive Poisson’s gravitational field equation. Moreover, since Newton’s force law of gravity is not a function of time, Poisson’s field equation of gravity only applies to gravitational fields that are stationary. Therefore, Poisson’s field equation of gravity and Newton’s force law of gravity must be mathematically equivalent for a stationary gravitational field... The physical interpretation of Poisson’s field equation of gravity is, however, very different from the physical interpretation of Newton’s force law of gravity. Rather than the action-at-a-distance interpretation of gravity obtained from Newton’s force law of gravity, Poisson’s field equation is based upon and must be interpreted in terms of the existence of a physical medium consisting of contiguous particles about any material body [aether!]"

Having a proper imperial past that descends from a militocracy would help to get the right context on Ukraine, Georgia, Syria.. Empires care about their borders, "what I control" vs "what the other guy controls". You worry abt "trouble at the far flung edges" they can spread and reach the middle. When I read my history I see statements like "words of unrest reached [from a distant outpost] Sublime Porte (the Otto palace), and they mobilized in a hurry". It is that "oh shit" moment that many do not get. We are alert, borders have been fought over for centuries, shed blood over.. This is not some "McDonalds franchise" where you worry about "market share" and all you care about is parachuting into some country beyond the border to open a store there, and start selling products. The border is life-or-death.

Many in US have trouble relating to conflicts around the world IMO because you've never been a proper empire. You are not one now, and you've never been. The short amount you were ruled by an Anglo king does not count, you need a continental king for the proper experience.

HuffPost: "House Adopts Republican Budget That Calls For Medicaid Cuts"

TDB: "Trump Rescues Johnson From Humiliating Vote Flop After GOP Chaos.. In the days leading up to the vote, several moderate GOP lawmakers also voiced reservations, worried that the resolution could impact key entitlement programs such as Medicaid, Pell Grants, and SNAP. Ultimately, leadership was able to sway them by assuring that these programs would remain untouched"

CNN: "The United States joined Russia to vote against a UN General Assembly resolution condemning Russia’s war against Ukraine Monday in a stunning shift from years of US policy"

Onshoring, reducing immigration will help, but won't be enough.

Pro-business anti-government policies are useless. Growth will remain meager, asset prices will go through the roof unless inequality is addressed. The rich needs to be taxed at higher rates. US needs a new New Deal.

"@evanchaney@mastodon.social

Apple’s #privacy policy for #Siri now says Apple can retain transcripts of and related inputs to your interactions with Siri for 2 years or more. The “Delete Siri & Dictation History” button only deletes local copies of your transcripts. The only way to opt out is to turn off both Siri and dictation"

UAS Weekly: "Heven Drones introduces its latest hydrogen-powered UAV, the Raider, at IDEX 2025, featuring a 1,000 km range and 10-hour endurance"

Lookie. Orban misses Merkel.

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There was an internal power struggle in the CDU years ago, and today's chancellor-to-be Merz was ousted by Merkel. The wording at the time was he was "cut down at a young age", "executed". Now he is back bcz Merkel is out, you see? Dude might have nursed some anger since; if he tries to be the un-Merkel bcz of it, that's would be dumb. The immigration issue aside, AM had the right approach towards the East. She was an "Ossie" herself.

Merz wants to "lead Europe" for a massive UA aid package so they can continue fighting?

"Steve Bannon warned Republicans that cutting Medicaid would hurt Trump's base, as many MAGA supporters rely on the program"

Politico: "Republicans [David Valadao, Ken Calvert, Mike Lawler, Pennsylvania’s Robert Bresnahan, Dan Newhouse] have a lot to lose if Congress cuts Medicaid.. GOP lawmakers expected to vote soon on slashing the insurance program for low-income people represent tens of millions reliant on it"

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I remember the Oval Office press briefing for the announcement, guess who was there to shower BHO with praise and receive his munee - the same melon headed son of a bitch we like to dislike - Netanyahoo. The linchpin of MILC, military-industrial-Likud-complex.

👇 👇 👇

Reuters: "[2016/09] U.S., Israel sign $38 billion military aid package"

They must have scared Bama so badly he kowtowed to MIC until the last second of his admin.

BHO admin started fine but capitulated midway, they got scared, gave in. Trump era shows a tug-of-war between MIC and WH, we'll see how things work out this time around.

Looking at the graph it is clear after 2012 MIC had a bonanza (Syria, Libya, overall unrest in ME). Higher upward trend seen beginning 2017 but meager growth between 2018-2020, steep fall at 2020 is understandable, but steady upward trend continued thanks to bought out officials doing MIC's bidding on Ukraine and other places, like Tony Blink Blink 737, and "Raytheon Lord" Austin. Biden obviously had his own "entanglements" in Ukraine.

tickers = ['RTX','LMT','BA','GD','NOC']
df = u.get_yahoo_tickers(2000,tickers)
cap = {'RTX':157.5,'LMT':122.4,'BA':115.7,'GD':76.3,'NOC':70.6}
recent = df.tail(1).to_dict("records")[0]
df_cap = df * dict((x,cap[x]/recent[x]*1e9) for x in tickers)
df_cap.sum(axis=1).plot(title='MIC Combined Market Cap')

Macron - Trump meeting, and no one got handcucked this time? Very strange.

😂 Let's not go there

"Is there anything more German than our old pure Austrianness?"

Hear it from the Austrian military, Markus Schwarzenegger explains it all #AustrainMil #Ukraine

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Eventually they will take it all back. But it doesn't matter when imo, RU kills Ukrainian soldiers over there, or kills them over somewhere else... their strategy is the same, is one of de-militarization, removing UA as a threat.

Reuters: "Russia says it has taken back major chunk of Kursk region"

Rail Journal: "Italy's first hydrogen train on test.. The Alstom Coradia Steam H train is undergoing refuelling trials at Rovato"

"@cnbusinessforum@mstdn.business

[#TRADESHOW] The 3rd #World #Hydrogen #Energy #Industry #Expo (#WHE 2025) will take place from August 8–10, 2025, at the #China #Import and #Export #Fair Complex (Area A) in #Guangzhou"

"Ohio transit agency to switch to green hydrogen for fuel cell buses"

The Korea Herald: "Seoul to offer increased subsidy for hydrogen-powered buses from March"

Interesting Engineering: "Honda hydrogen fuel cell with 3x power density to boost car performance"

The New Stack: "According to the federal government, WebAssembly could and should be integrated across the cloud native service mesh sphere to enhance security... The use of WebAssembly could become mandatory to meet security-compliance requirements while solving other ongoing security conundrums as Wasm becomes more widely adopted"

I was joking abt the Justin Baldoni thing earlier. He was most likely unjustly blamed, is the real victim, the target of a Me Too type of smear campaign.

Carrier Strike Group near Greece?

u.map_usnavy(outfile="map03.html")

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Market Screener: "[US] administration is piling pressure on Iraq to allow Kurdish oil exports to restart or face sanctions alongside Iran, eight sources with direct knowledge of the matter told Reuters. A speedy resumption of exports from Iraq's semi-autonomous Kurdistan region would help to offset a potential fall in Iranian oil exports, which Washington has pledged to cut to zero as part of Trump's 'maximum pressure' campaign against Tehran."

D'Alembert's Principle? Also a restatement of the second law.

How did I find about Richard Masse's work? I was looking for a way to explain how to derive the Lagrangian form of least action, the famous $T - V$ formula from basic principles. I saw a derivation starting from $\int mvds$, Euler's method, they call mass times velocity times distance as "action", based on Maupertuis. But neither method sound fundamental. Feynman does a great job motivating $T - V$ in his lectures (Vol II), he articulates extremely well why he thinks the method works, but he is essentially putting lipstick on a pig. He is rationalizing, the choice of this particular formula is arbitrary. It is pulled out of the air, in a "let's see if this works" kind of experiementation (obviously it did), explained later.

Then I searched for books on the subject, Masse's came up. His approach was Newton's second law is more fundamental, derive Lagrangian from there, but still, not fundamental enough. This is where his eather formulation comes in, he can derive the second law from it.

BMW Blog: "Toyota’s 3rd-Gen Fuel Cell: The Tech That Could Power BMW’s iX5 Hydrogen"

Ash Sarkar: How WOKE Politics is DESTROYING the Left!

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"@cdarwin@c.im

German newsmagazine Der Spiegel reported that the Max Planck Society one of the world’s top scientific research institutions is experiencing an uptick in applications from American scientists. [Its president said the society regards the U.S. as 'a new talent pool' at a time when the Trump administration seeks to cut billions in funding to the National Institutes of Health.

There’s a deep historical irony in these recent developments: During the Third Reich, it was the Max Planck Society then known as the Kaiser Wilhelm Society that lost its best and brightest to the U.S. and other countries"

Politico: "As Eric Adams melts down, Andrew Cuomo forges ahead.. The former governor has put together the structure of a campaign and is courting New York power players"

"@EndIsraeliApartheid@mastodon.social

The BBC has faced significant backlash following its removal of the documentary 'Gaza: How To Survive A Warzone,' which focused on the experiences of Palestinian children in the Gaza Strip"

The Guardian: "[2021] Literally meaning 'alternative-less', alternativlos was Angela Merkel’s own version of a line usually associated with Margaret Thatcher: 'There is no alternative.' But if 'TINA' was specifically used to close down debates over alternatives to the market economy, Merkel’s government declared all type of policy decisions alternativlos.. [eg open border immigration policy]. Her use of the phrase also inspired the naming of the first party to the right of her CDU to make it into the Bundestag: Alternative für Deutschland [AfD]"

F24: "Germany's snap elections: CDU leads, far-right AfD set for record gains"

Ash Sarkar: How WOKE Politics is DESTROYING the Left!

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Sounds like a good plan so far

The New Arab: "Egypt’s diplomatic plan for Gaza's future is set to be presented to US President Donald Trump after receiving approval at key upcoming summits in Riyadh and Cairo... According to a high-ranking Egyptian diplomat based in Washington, the initiative from Cairo is divided into two phases, which are estimated to cost tens of billions of dollars.

The first phase spans ten years and primarily focuses on rebuilding Gaza's infrastructure, housing, and residential sectors. The plan includes the redistribution of population clusters in Gaza, particularly by easing the density of the population in northern Gaza and creating less populated zones near illegal Israeli settlements.

The second phase, still open for Arab discussion and refinement, would start the process of establishing a Palestinian state, focusing on creating links between Gaza, the West Bank, and Jerusalem...

Another key element of the first phase is the regulation of weapons. Cairo's approach seeks to address concerns from international donors financing Gaza's reconstruction while respecting Palestinian armed groups' demands of retaining their arms until a Palestinian state is established...

Another crucial aspect of this stage involves the establishment of an Arab-led committee, with Egypt at the helm, tasked with resolving disputes between local security forces and militant factions"

Masse: "Having concluded that time in our Universe is a result of the flow of aether into matter, we see that time cannot be modified in any way (shortened or lengthened). Time is then uniform and absolute throughout our Universe and is independent of the kinematic properties and spatial position of any observer. Since absolute motion (acceleration) exists in our Universe, it is to be expected that absolute time must also exist. Time is not relative, and time does to alter with the motion of any reference system.

We see, therefore, that Einstein’s special theory of relativity, with its kinematically dependent time, cannot be correct. We also see that, while Newton was correct in postulating the existence of absolute time, he was incorrect in assuming that such time is independent of anything external. Aether provides not only the absolute frame of reference in our Universe, but also (together with matter) the absolute time in our Universe. Time is not, then, a fundamental entity of our Universe"

The Guardian: "Nigeria sues crypto giant Binance for $81.5bn in economic losses and back tax.. Authorities blame Binance, the world’s largest crypto exchange, for Nigeria’s currency woes and detained two of its executives in 2024 after crypto websites emerged as platforms of choice for trading the local naira currency"

The Huge Flaw in the Many Worlds Interpretation #Barandes

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We need boring scifi. A new show can focus on truly unknown, but knowable stuff.. One episode they can discover how gravity works. Another fixes quantum mechanics. Forget abt these multiple universes, time travel. Try to imagine how stuff works in one universe with boring time (it only flows forward).

Who made this PDF? Two pages in one sheet, heavy graphics.. I had to ghostscript to decrease image quality, then a little mutool poster -x 2 input.pdf output.pdf to split pages in half.

News 12: "Officials: Fire rips through high rise building in Melrose [New York].. As of Jan. 30, there have been 12 fires and 3 injuries due to lithium-ion batteries"

Politico: "China says it backs new US and Russian [consensus] on Ukraine war"