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"America's Abandoned Reactor Just Went Live — In India"

Al Jazeera: "India’s nuclear leap: Why its fast breeder reactor success matters.. India’s most advanced reactor has set the country on a path towards potentially cutting its dependence on uranium — and instead using the much more abundant thorium."

Futurism: "Almost Half of US Data Centers That Were Supposed to Open This Year Slated to Be Canceled or Delayed"

F24: "AI is alredy getting boring"

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"@ketan@climatejustice.social

Knowingly using a piece of software that BY DESIGN fabricates text is not 'hallucination' - it is fraud. I'd be prosecuted if I sat down and invented references for submissions in a court case. I'd lose my job as an academic if I did the same for a paper. Someone explain why automating fraud has somehow made it completely fine and consequence-free? The very tiny remaining few of us who still give a crap about 'not lying' need to fight to bring back real consequences for fraud, fabrication"

FT: "Elite law firm Sullivan & Cromwell admits to AI ‘hallucinations’"

"Is AI the next dot-com crash? | Business Beyond"

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Higham, Trading with the Enemy: "I searched in vain through books about the corporations and their histories to find any reference to questionable activities in World War II. It was clear that the authors of those volumes, granted the cooperation of the businesses concerned, predictably backed off from disclosing anything that would be revealing. To this day the bulk of Americans do not suspect The Fraternity. The government smothered everything, during and even (inexcusably) after the war. What would have happened if millions of American and British people, struggling with coupons and lines at the gas stations, had learned that in 1942 Standard Oil of New Jersey managers shipped the enemy's fuel through neutral Switzerland and that the enemy was shipping Allied fuel?

Suppose the public had discovered that the Chase Bank in Nazi-occupied Paris after Pearl Harbor was doing millions of dollars' worth of business with the enemy with the full knowledge of the head office in Manhattan? Or that Ford trucks were being built for the German occupation troops in France with authorization from Dearborn, Michigan? Or that Colonel Sosthenes Behn, the head of the international American telephone conglomerate ITT, flew from New York to Madrid to Berne during the war to help improve Hitler's communications systems and improve the robot bombs that devastated London? Or that ITT built the Focke-Wulfs that dropped bombs on British and American troops? Or that crucial ball bearings were shipped to Nazi-associated customers in Latin America with the collusion of the vice-chairman of the U.S. War Production Board in partnership with Göring's cousin in Philadelphia when American forces were desperately short of them?"

"The Product Nobody Asked For" #MS

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"@MarkHoltom@mastodonapp.uk

Cocoa butter is expensive. To save money, companies replace it with a blend of six industrial oils. But oil doesn't taste like chocolate, so they add PGPR (polyglycerol polyricinoleate) to keep it from separating and petroleum-derived vanilla to mask the waxy taste.

Real chocolate has five ingredients or fewer. If you see 'vegetable fats,' put it back.

Now what's even worse is in the UK it's still allowed to be called chocolate as our standards for coco solids is quite low. Yet some brands like Hersheys and Reese are so low they have to be called chocolate flavoured confectionery."

"Cadburry's 'Dairy Milk' is legally banned from being called chocolate in 27 countries. Why? Because the cocoa butter was replaced with industrial oils and petroleum-derived vanilla"

Euronews: "France drops Microsoft for homegrown cloud provider for health data"

“The Iron Bank will have its due” #GameofThrones

Lebor, Tower of Basel: "Thanks to [new] research... we know that during the war years a total of 21.5 metric tons of gold passed in and out of the Reichsbank gold account at BIS, of which 13.5 metric tons was acquired during the war. Some of the new gold—much of which was looted—was used to pay the interest on the BIS’s loans and investments to Germany. Six metric tons were used to pay the Reichsbank’s debts through the BIS payments system for international railway and postal traffic, which the bank also handled...

The Belgian gold had been melted down at the Prussian Mint and stamped with false identifying numbers and dates between 1934 and 1939. About 1.6 metric tons was used by the Reichsbank to meet its BIS interest payments, as well as 2 metric tons of looted Dutch gold.

However, not all the gold melted down at the Prussian Mint originated in the vaults of national banks. The Nazis set up a network of informers and torturers, called the Devisenschutzkommando (DSK), to track down private gold holdings in occupied territories. The stated purpose of the special unit that was handpicked by SS soldiers was to control currency traffic across the Third Reich. Its actual purpose was 'the acquisition of gold by any means, including deceit and brutality,' according to British intelligence records. In Paris alone the DSK employed eighty informers, from the 'lowest levels of society to the highest circles.' Each received a 10 percent commission, as well as false identity cards and counterfeit American and British currency. Victims were lured with supposed sales of property or land. They were then arrested, beaten, and tortured to reveal how they would pay for such a purchase. The favorite interrogation method of Hugo Doose, who ran the DSK for the Channel Islands, was to break a beer glass over his victim’s head. Ludwig Jaretski, an Austrian living in Paris, 'employed burning matches on stripped victims.' Some of the BIS gold had an even more grisly origin, which came from the watches, spectacles, jewelry, and gold teeth of concentration camp victims. This was why, after the war, Emil Puhl, vice president of the Reichsbank and BIS director, would be found guilty of war crimes."

Russia is building a nuclear power plant for Asia Minor but it is old design. "The Turks" will be import-dependent on the uranium fuel. There is plenty of thorium in Anatolia.

Block, circumvent, contain.. here is a better word: cooperate. If countries treat Iran not as a donkey but a regional power, and work with them, "both state and non-state actors" will not disrupt their shit.

Pipe dream.. Good one

MEE: "'Pipe dream': Turkey's plan to redraw Middle East energy routes after Iran.. From Qatar to Saudi Arabia to Turkmenistan, Turkey dreams of overcoming the Hormuz block and becoming an energy hub

Although Turkish and Qatari leaders publicly suggested as far back as 2009 that they had agreed to build a pipeline connecting Qatar’s North Field to Turkish infrastructure through Saudi Arabia, Jordan, and Syria, the scheme reportedly faced opposition from former Syrian president Bashar al-Assad, under Russian pressure.

With Assad’s downfall, Turkey would like to revive the idea... Dargin pointed out that the proposed Qatar-Turkey pipeline would be vulnerable to disruption from both state and non-state actors, including Iran-aligned groups and militant organisations targeting energy infrastructure."

"India Enters Elite Nuclear Club Alongside Russia With PFBR"

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"LLMs are a Dead End"

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Another proof JFK assasination was the work of the surface state, the private complex and LBJ.

LBJ ducked, as if he knew what was happening

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