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SpaceX's $250 Million GigaBay at Starbase Targets 1,000 Starships Yearly / X Added: Nov 9, 2025
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Washington Post editorial slams NYC mayor-elect Mamdani's victory speech | Fox News Added: Nov 9, 2025
Washington Post editorial slams NYC mayor-elect Mamdani's victory speech | Fox News
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Opinion | Mamdaniās victory speech previews class warfare in New York - The Washington Post Added: Nov 9, 2025
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Zohran Mamdani will kick off his mayoralty with at least ONE smart move: tossing Brad Lander Added: Nov 9, 2025
Zohran Mamdani just made ONE wise move: nixing loser Landerās job hopes
Site: New York Post
The mayor-elect has apparently kicked Brad Lander to the curb.
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Democrats LOSE, Several Vote To END Government Shutdown | Tim Pool - YouTube Added: Nov 10, 2025
Democrats LOST
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The government has not reopened but Democrats have broken ranks so they can pay themselves temporarilyBecome A Memberhttp://youtube.com/timcastnews/joinThe G...
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Tim Pool Shocked By Jay Jones Victory, Says Republicans Must Wake Up
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What Do You Believe About Extraterrestrial Intelligent Life Beyond Earth? | by Avi Loeb | Nov, 2025 | Medium Added: Nov 10, 2025
What Do You Believe About Extraterrestrial Intelligent Life Beyond Earth?
Site: Medium
Iām grateful that my posts have reached 100,000 followers on Medium. This milestone tells me something important: curiosity about scienceā¦
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Did 3I/ATLAS Just Break-Up Near the Sun?
Site: Medium
Let me start this quantitative discussion with the conservative assumption that the interstellar object 3I/ATLAS is a natural comet, andā¦
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Supreme Court rejects Kim Davis's bid to overturn same-sex marriage Added: Nov 10, 2025
Supreme Court rejects bid to overturn same-sex marriage ruling
Site: The Hill
The Supreme Court rejected a long-shot effort Monday to overturn its ruling guaranteeing same-sex marriage nationwide. Former Kentucky county clerk Kim Davis directly asked the justices to overruleā¦
The Supreme Court rejected a long-shot effort Monday to overturn its ruling guaranteeing same-sex marriage nationwide. Former Kentucky county clerk Kim Davis directly asked the justices to overrule the 2015 landmark decision after a jury awarded damages to a couple whom Davis refused to issue a marriage license. āThe Court can and should fix this mistake,ā her attorneys wrote in court filings. In a brief order, the justices declined to take up Davisās appeal, alongside dozens of other petitions up for consideration at the justicesā weekly closed-door conference. There were no noted dissents. Court-watchers viewed Davisās appeal as a long-shot effort, but it sparked trepidation among LGBTQ rights groups, since several conservative justices who dissented in the decade-old case remain on the court. Davis gained national attention after she raised religious objections to issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples despite the Supreme Courtās decision in Obergefell v. Hodges. Among the refused couples was David Ermold and David Moore, who sued. Davis was found to have violated a judgeās order in another case, which required her to keep issuing licenses. Davis was jailed for five days, the couple obtained their license and Kentucky later passed a law enabling clerks to keep their signatures off marriage certificates. But Davis kept fighting in court after the couple won $100,000 in emotional distress damages from a jury, plus $260,000 in attorneysā fees. Primarily, Davisās appeal concerned arguments that she has a private First Amendment religious defense against the award, despite acting as a government official. She tacked onto it a request to overturn Obergefell outright, insisting the whole lawsuit would fall if the justices do so. The couple said the effort wasnāt properly presented to the Supreme Court, arguing Davis had waived the argument earlier in the litigation. āThe Court should hold her to that representation,ā the coupleās lawyers wrote. āReaching the question of whether to overrule Obergefell in the context of this case would also require the Court to first decide thorny questions about how such a ruling would affect Davisās liability.ā Updated at 9:41 a.m. EST
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Democrats go ballistic over Senate shutdown deal: "It's complete BS" Added: Nov 10, 2025
Democrats go ballistic over Senate shutdown deal: "People need healthcare, damn it"
Site: Axios
One House Democrat told Axios there is "near universal frustration."
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Eight Senate Democrats joined Republicans to begin the end of the shutdown | Fox News
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SpaceX and Musk called on to rescue China's Shenzhou-20 crew ā¢ The Register Added: Nov 10, 2025
- SpaceX and Musk called on to rescue China's Shenzhou-20 crew
- Technical and political obstacles block collaboration following suspected space debris strike on craft
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Nested Learning: A New Machine Learning Approach for Continual Learning that Views Models as Nested Optimization Problems to Enhance Long Context Processing - MarkTechPost
Added: Nov 10, 2025Nested Learning: A New Machine Learning Approach for Continual Learning that Views Models as Nested Optimization Problems to Enhance Long Context Processing
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Understand Nested Learning, Google's novel solution for enhancing machine learning models to learn continuously without forgetting.
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SCOTUS UPHOLDS Gay Marriage | Tim Pool
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POTUS Attends Washington Commanders Game for NFL's Salute to Service
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Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.
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Fifty Years of Gaslighting Israel at the U.N. | National Review Added: Nov 10, 2025
Fifty Years of Gaslighting Israel at the U.N. | National Review
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Herzog's UN speech 50 years on: When Zionism became racist | The Jerusalem Post
Added: Nov 10, 2025Herzog's UN speech 50 years on: When Zionism became racist | The Jerusalem Post
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Fifty years after the UN declared Zionism is a form of racism, its legacy still continues to fuel antisemitism and distort human rights discourse.
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Chinaās developer surge places America under pressure as Jensen Huang warns the global AI race could shift faster than expected | TechRadar Added: Nov 10, 2025
Nvidia CEO says China ban will make them win the AI race
Site: TechRadar
Overly restrictive policies could hinder US influence in AI development, Jensen Huang warns
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āChina is going to win the AI raceā ā Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang decries the price of electricity in the US, contrasts it with China's subsidized pricing | Tom's Hardware Added: Nov 10, 2025
āChina is going to win the AI raceā ā Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang decries the price of electricity in the US, contrasts it with China's subsidized pricing
Site: Tom's Hardware
Jensen Huang made this controversial comment on the sidelines of the Future of AI Summit.
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Dems Finally Fold in Pointless Shutdown Fight | National Review
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It's time to de-duplicate the desktops
opinion: Here come old FlatPak, it comes grooving up slowly...
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The Heritage Foundation goes from MAGA to MEGA ā Make Europe Great Again ā POLITICO Added: Nov 10, 2025
The Heritage Foundation goes from MAGA to MEGA ā Make Europe Great Again
Site: POLITICO
On the agenda: pro-natalism, freedom of expression, opposing trans rights and fighting Chinese influence.
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SpaceX Is About to Attempt Something So Extreme, Most Aerospace Engineers Would Consider āSheer Madnessā
Added: Nov 10, 2025SpaceX Is About to Attempt Something So Extreme, Most Aerospace Engineers Would Consider āSheer Madnessā
Site: The Daily Galaxy - Great Discoveries Channel
If Starship V3 delivers on its promises, it could inaugurate an era of fully reusable heavy-lift systems with global implications for government spaceflight, commercial launch, and interplanetary missions.
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Scientists Discover the World's Largest Spider Web in Cave: Over 111,000 Spiders of Two Different Species Coexist in Pitch Black
Added: Nov 10, 2025
Scientists Discover the World's Largest Spider Web in Cave: Over 111,000 Spiders of Two Different Species Coexist in Pitch Black
Site: The Daily Galaxy - Great Discoveries Channel
Deep beneath Europe, scientists have uncovered a colossal, shimmering structure teeming with lifeāsomething never seen in nature. Hidden in toxic darkness, it rewrites what we know about survival, evolution, and the secret lives of spiders.
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Alex Karp Goes to War | WIRED Added: Nov 10, 2025
Alex Karp Goes to War
Site: WIRED
Palantirās CEO is good with ICE and says he defends human rights. But will Israel and Trump ever go too far for him?
But we can bond over one shared status: Both of us are alumni of Central High School, a Philadelphia magnet school. (Not at the same time. I have some years on the 58-year-old executive.) Maybe it was that connection that led Karp to agree to a sit-down. The son of a Jewish pediatrician and a Black artist, Karp struggled with dyslexia, and at Central he seems to have turned a cornerāeven speculating now that overcoming the challenge helped position him for later success. We conducted our interview at an annual gathering of Palantirās corporate customers. The event had the giddy vibe of a multilevel marketing summit. The customers I talked toāfrom giants like American Airlines to relatively modest family firmsāsaid that Palantirās AI-powered systems are expensive but well worth it. Not presenting at the event are the customers who provide Palantir with the majority of its businessāthe US government and its allies. (The company does not do business with Russia or China.) Palantir was founded to put Silicon Valleyās innovation into defense and government technology. With coauthor Nicholas Zamiska (a Palantirian), Karp laid out his philosophy earlier this year in a book called The Technological Republic, a surprisingly readable polemic that skewers Silicon Valley for insufficient patriotism. In Karpās view, the antiestablishment tone of Appleās Macintosh marketing was the original sin in a tech culture that celebrates indulgent individualism and neglects nationalist concerns. At the conference, Karp, dressed in a white T-shirt and jeans, began his opening remarks by saying, āWeāve been at odds with Silicon Valley on and off since our inception 20 years ago.ā In 2020, Karp moved the company headquarters from Palo Alto to Denver, whereupon it became that stateās wealthiest corporation. Some see Karp as a dystopic supervillain. He responds to those critics aggressively, bluntly, and without a shred of remorse. After years of contracts, the company has apparently proven to the governmentās satisfaction that its tools can effectively leverage information on the battlefield and in intelligence operations. Palantir has a multimillion-dollar contract with ICE involving ātargeting and enforcementāāessentially helping the agency to locate people for deportation. In Ukraine, Karp says with pride, the companyās products have helped deliver lethal force. Palantir has a Code of Conduct that supposedly binds the company to, among other things, āprotect privacy and civil liberties,ā āprotect the vulnerable,ā ārespect human dignity,ā and āpreserve and promote democracy.ā In an open letter last May, 13 former workers accused Palantirās leadership of having abandoned its founding values and of being complicit in ānormalizing authoritarianism under the guise of a ārevolutionā led by oligarchs.ā Karp has also revealed that other employees have left because of the companyās work with the Israel military. His retort: If youāre not generating opposition, youāre probably doing something wrong. Beneath his fiery defense of Palantir, I sense that Karp yearns to be understood. He noted that all anyone wants to talk to him about is ICE, Israel, and Ukraine. I wanted to visit those subjects, too, and we did. But our conversation also touched on Donald Trump, democracy, and his love affair with German culture. Oh, and Central High. ALEX KARP: They gave me an IQ test for the mentally gifted program. My parents had never bothered to tell me to get all Aās. But when the person in charge, Mrs. Snyder, got my IQ test she told me, āClearly youāre dyslexic, but someone with your IQ canāt get Bās, you have to get all Aās.ā Thatās when I went from a strong student to an exceptional one. She kind of changed my life. A lot of people say that it isnāt clear exactly what Palantir does. Can you explain it in your own words? If youāre an intelligence agency, youāre using us to find terrorists and organized criminals while maintaining the security and data protection of your country. Then you have the special forces. How do you know where your troops are? How do you get in and out of the battlefield as safely as possible, avoiding mines, avoiding enemies? Then thereās Palantir on the commercial side. The shorthand is if youāre doing anything that involves operational intelligence, whether itās analytics or AI, youāre going to have to find something like our products. Basically, itās about orchestrating information with AI, which is something lots of companies in Silicon Valley want to do. But you contend that no other tech company can do it like yours. What Iām really saying is we know how to do it. If you find someone else who can do it, and you donāt want to work with us, buy it from them. Is there anyone you consider a competitor? Our competition is political. The woke left and the woke right wake up every day, figuring out how they can hurt Palantir. If they get into power, theyāll hurt Palantir. And by the way, itās global. I view Democrats as my party, but if the Mamdani wing of the party takes over? If thatās my party, Iām not in it. Or the right woke wing, which is like, everything is a conspiracy, any use of technology is actually going to only be used to eviscerate and attack us? Palantir is literally the hardest software to abuse in the world, but they donāt seem to want it. If you donāt want meritocracy, you hate Palantir. That is our competition. My headās spinning a little. How did Mamdani get in there? If you explain to the world that labor is going to be valueless, people are going to elect the most ridiculous people ever. Theyāre afraid of an AI-driven, AGI environment where no one has a job. Universities and elite institutions have played a corrosive role here. People are teaching pagan religion viewsāa new religion with sacrifices. Whoās the sacrifice? Me, Iām the sacrifice. You donāt seem constrained to me. Youāre doing great. Iām not complaining. Weāre not victims at Palantir. Weāre doing very well. We might even do better. In your book you offer a harsh critique that tech companies are not sufficiently patriotic. In the beginning, we were at odds with Silicon Valley because we were pro-American, pro-West, and pro-Āmaking the government functional. That was very controversial in Silicon Valley because it equated to not making any money and being a loser. We won that battle. I think Silicon Valley actually has become, at least behind closed doors, patriotic. Silicon Valley has always been pro-meritocracy, and weāre very aligned with that. Where weāre currently at a misalignment-alignment apex is that we believe in using large language models in a way that creates actual empirical value, but also is very strong for workers. We walked toward the government when everyone walked away. Thatās how we ended up powering Maven, the US governmentās AI battlefield plan. You have been part of the war in Ukraine from the start. What have you learned from that about the battlefield of the future? I can tell you off the record. This is a Q and A, so that wouldnāt be helpful. Then Iāll give you the on-the-record version, which is almost the same. Broadly speaking, at the beginning of the war it was very clear that you would need software orchestration of small objects. But then the Russians began jamming all devices. The lesson was that the only thing that basically mattered was how to get through the jam space and get your device to deliver its payload. So itās the ability to interact with the device, plan where the device is going, and gather intel from the device. Thatās very different from how war has been fought in the past. Is this a scarier form of war? The way I look at it is: Is America going to be scarier or are our adversaries going to be scarier? You need high-end satellites, you need to be able to coordinate with the satellites, and you need software and large language models. Itās advantageous for America because weāre very strong in those areas. Palantir has a unique cultureāsome even call it a cult. I wonder how much you cultivate the outsider mentality. Weāre both from Philadelphia; Jason Kelce after the first Super Bowl win was saying, āNo one likes us. We donāt care.ā People donāt understand that thereās a massive feature side to being an outsider. Itās not pleasant to be unpopular. I donāt like it, actually. But you get the best people in the world. If someone says something ridiculously stupid about Palantir, five people look at it and the fifth person says, hey, it canāt be as simple as thatāthis is a really interesting company, and theyāre thinking of the 10th derivative of a problem, not the simplistic bullshit from someone online who has no idea how our products work. Thatās exactly the kind of person you want inside your business, or buying your product someday, or investing in you. Thereās no country in the world where our brand is as bad as in France, but we have the best French employees in the world, working at a company thatās apparently a CIA front, which is obviously complete bullshit. You may not be a CIA front, but you work for the CIA and ICE. ICE came later. Our first contracts were with US intelligence, our biggest contracts ended up being in the DOD, and then later we started working in Homeland Security under Democrats. Now itās very controversial because itās Trump. Itās controversial because Trump is doing things that we havenāt seen done before, particularly with ICE. You have a corporate code that supports democracy and stands against discrimination. Do you track whether your products are being used in ways that violate that code? Is there a line beyond which you would say no to a president? I was the first CEO to say we would not build a Muslim database. [Editorās note: Technically he was not the first, but considering Palantirās business, the statement was consequential.] Iāve defended Israel, so I think Iām the last person in the world people would expect to say that. I canāt go into details. But Iāve pulled things from places in the United States where I thought there was something going on like that. Maybe you and I disagree about ICE because I spent most of my adult life in Europe, in Germany. I am an immigration skeptic. I personally think that citizens have to decide by their vote what immigration policy is going to be. I grew up in a progressive family, but people my age and older were massive immigration skeptics. Open borders is not a progressive policy; it never was. Look at what a version of open borders has done to Germany on any vector. Let me ask again: Are you monitoring whatās happening with the US government and democracy in this country, and asking yourself if you need to take a closer look at how your products are being used? Let me reframe that. Have I ever worked against our commercial interests because it violated our norms? Yes. Have I done this in government? Yes. We get no credit for this, but we almost went out of business because we were not working in Russia or China. Do I agree with your implicit assertion that whatās going on in immigration as you formulate it has never been done before? No. Do you know what happens when youāre in Japan, and you overstay your visa for one minute? You are put on a plane. [Ed. note: The Japanese government has received domestic and international criticism for its policy of indefinitely detaining thousands of immigrants.] I do think this is a very valuable line of questioning youāre askingāif our product allowed for civil rights abuses, would I intervene? Yes, though our product is the hardest in the world to violate. Do I agree with some of the assertions you just made? No. But youāre bringing up exactly the right question, and Iām telling you that I have done this, and I will continue to do it. Does your Jewish background inform the support Palantir is giving to Israel? I donāt give to Israel. I allow them to purchase our product. Look, youāre asking whether we are defined by where we sit or by our ideas? I always think itās both. I view myself as an outsider. Thereās obviously a particularistic element, no doubt, but I would like to believe that a support of Western values and their robust defense includes something thatās not just me doing a derivative of my own identity. A lot of Jews, me included, feel affinity to Israel but also feel that whatās happening in Gaza is intolerable. If you have five Jews, you have 50 opinions. The issue for Palantir is, do you support Israel? Not do you support every micro decision that Israel is making? Weāre not talking about a little thing here. Israel is a country with a GDP smaller than Switzerland, and itās under massive attack. Some critiques are legitimate, but others are aggressive in attacking Israel. My reaction is, well, then Iām just going to defend them. When people are fair to Israel and treat it like any other nation, which I donāt think they do, I will be much more willing to express in public the things I express in private to Israelis. When you get a letter from 13 former employees saying that Palantirās leadership has failed to stand up to authoritarianism, do you take that seriously? You have to steelman everything thatās lobbed at you. When The New York Times says weāre eviscerating human rights, blah, blah, blah, thatās complete malarkey. Everyone knows itās malarkey. They know itās malarkey. I certainly steelman [the critiques from] ex-Palantirians and current ones. Anybody making decisions all day is wrong sometimes. But if you attack me irresponsibly, that will harden my view. Do you have a relationship with Trump? It depends how you define ārelationship.ā Heās the president of the United States, and I very much respect that. I agree with him on some things, and probably on some things I donāt. Do you like him? I think heās done a much better job than you think heās done. Letās not use me. In the positioning of your question, youāre not neutral. Talking to you is just like talking to my family. Itās like where me and my family disagree. And Iāll tell you where those places are. Theyāre on the border, theyāre in Israel, and theyāre in Ukraine. I get yelled at all day about those three issues. Iād like to meet your parents! I think if we were family members, in private you and I would disagree, and I would be pointing out that Trumpās decisions on AI, and his decisions on the Middle East, are very different than people in the Democratic Party would have made, and very good. Letās go back in time a bit. You are an unusual CEO. You arenāt technical. You went to law school at Stanford and didnāt practice but went to Germany for a PhD in philosophy. What do you think Peter Thiel saw in you that led him to choose you to run his defense-related startup? God only knows, but I would say my best explanation is the same things that made Peter the worldās best value investorāhe finds people that understand the sixth, seventh, eighth derivative of a problem in a business context. And we were friends. I do think thereās a Germanic overlap, in our aptitude for understanding the consequences of a decision very far out. Thereās a lot of Germanic culture in Palantirāthe whole process of going deeper and deeper and deeper into a problem, what we call the Five Whys, is very Germanic. The level of rigor to understand if something is plausibly true, or at least figure out if itās definitively wrong, is definitely a derivative of my education. I would say our high standard of quality is somewhat derivative of authors I read and people I dealt with in Germany. It seems that Germany resonates with you personally. I just did very well there. In Germany, letās just say you meet a girlāyou donāt have to run around saying you love them after, like, the first date. You may go out with someone for years, and you could just be honest, like you really care about them. Thereās very little white-lie-telling in Germany. I suspect you donāt tell too many white lies in the United States. Thereās a higher price for not doing it. I do bring some of that Germanic culture to America, but I do think America is a superior culture. You seem to live your life the way you want. Not many CEOs live in some remote corner of New Hampshire like you do. Doing what everybody else wants me to do is much harder for a dyslexic like me than a non-dyslexic, so I donāt think Iād be very good at it. Maybe Iām not everyoneās cup of tea, but I kind of like being me on most days. You are a fanatical cross-country skier. What do you think about when you do that for hours at a time? How happy I am.
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Going One on One With Palantir CEO Alex Karp | The Big Interview | WIRED
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WIRED's Steven Levy sits down for The Big Interview with Palantir CEO Alex Karp. From the benefits of embracing the government in an era when Silicon Valley ...
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Comment from @chrispark7010
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Did you read the books? Palantiri were morally neutral tools forged by the elves. Sauron and the fellowship used the Palantiri on both sides. I read their product line and its effectively an AI/data driven battlefield guide or like a very strong CPU you would fight on a 2D strategy game where there are turn based moves. Their PG (Gotham) which is used by the military, direct troop movement, artillery strikes, aerial strikes, tank positioning, and use AI to make the best battlefield decision. I would sure hope the military is trying to get every advantage to do battlefield surveillance on the enemy and try to know everything about the enemy.
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John Rich Explains Why Country Music Has Gone Woke and Who Really Controls the Music Industry
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Megyn Kelly is joined by John Rich to talk about why country music has gone woke, the importance of staying independent and outside the record labels and mus...
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Why Marjorie Taylor Greene Says She Went on "The View"... and What it Means to be "America Only"
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Megyn Kelly is joined by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene to talk about her decision to go on "The View," what Sunny Hostin said about her after the show, why MTG...
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AI Dystopian Nightmare Is Here, Itās Already Controlling Humanity
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interstellar comet 3i/atlas: After interstellar object 3I/ATLAS shows no comet tail, Harvard scientist sounds alarm, says 'its size is very anomalous' - The Economic Times Added: Nov 10, 2025
After interstellar object 3I/ATLAS shows no comet tail, Harvard scientist sounds alarm, says 'its size is very anomalous'
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Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS has baffled scientists by showing no tail in recent images. This anomaly fuels debate about its true nature. Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb suggests it could be alien technology, a claim dismissed by NASA. The comet is predicted to pass Earth in December. Scientists are closely observing its behavior for further clues.
The mysterious Manhattan-sized interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS has once again surprised scientists as new images appear to have no cometary tail in new images. Photographs taken by the R. Naves Observatory in Spain on Nov. 5, showed no sign of a tail of debris which was expected to be shooting off behind the object as it encountered the force of the sun. The finding has intensified scientific debate surrounding the true nature of the massive, thus raising questions about how the cosmic visitor behaves. Amid the growing mystery around the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS, Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb is once again dominating headline for his position that an interstellar object might be a piece of extraterrestrial technology, reports The Times of Israel. This time comet 3I/ATLAS, the third known interstellar visitor to our solar system, is predicted to pass roughly 167 million miles from Earth in December. Avi Loeb has claimed that the comet 3I/ATLAS, which is estimated to be one or two city blocks in width, could pose a threat to humanity. NASA has dismissed his claims out of hand.ALSO READ: US citizens to receive $2000 tariff dividend check in November? Check eligibility and other key criteriaMultiple anomalies related to comet 3I/ATLAS On October 7, [2023], there was evidence from data collected by Israeli intelligence agencies of what Hamas was about to do,ā Loeb told The Times of Israel in a phone interview. āThey dismissed it. They had a theory that it was very unlikely Hamas would do something like that. They ignored anomalies in the data.āRecently, Loeb has been pointing out what he says are multiple anomalies related to 3I/ATLAS. Heās been in this place before: Eight years ago, in 2017, he also publicized anomalies pertaining to the first-ever interstellar object known to humanity, āOumuamua (Hawaiian for āscoutā). āWith 3I/ATLAS, the anomalies are quite differentā from āOumuamua,ā Loeb said. He had been puzzled by the shape of āOumuamua, which he described as like a pancake, not a comet. When it comes to 3I/ATLAS, multiple factors mystify him.āIts path in the plane, the ecliptic plane of the planets around the sun, is [aligned by] five degrees,ā Loeb said. āThe chance of [this happening] at random is one in 500. Its size is very anomalous ā¦ 1 million times more massive than āOumuamua.ā Its composition contains ānickel and very little iron, the way we find in industry rich alloys with aerospace application.ā And, he said, its jet path was ānot away from the Sun like comets ā¦ In July and August, the glow extended from the object towards the Sun, not away.āALSO READ: Millions of US citizens to receive stimulus payment before Thanksgiving 2025: Check amount, date, eligibility and moreThis week, Loeb invited Kim Kardashian to join his research team after the reality star tweeted asking for the āteaā on 3I/ATLAS ā and received a response from NASA acting administrator Sean Duffy, to the chagrin of Loeb and other critics who slammed Duffy for responding to Kardashian while ignoring an official inquiry from Congresswoman Anna Paulina Luna. On October 28, Loeb appeared on Joe Roganās podcast and raised eyebrows when he compared 3I/ATLAS to, potentially, a tennis ball that a neighbor tossed into our backyard.Comet 3I/ATLAS a threat?āSuppose this is a visit from alien technology to the solar system,ā he said. āItās something we should all know about. It would change everythingā¦ Even if the probability is small, we must consider such scenarios as 3I/ATLAS being a threat, something like a Trojan horse [that looks] completely innocent from the outside, something that will change history forever.āHe told The Times of Israel that when he submitted an academic paper about 3I/ATLAS, he ended it by suggesting the object might be targeting our solar system. The editor accepted the paper but asked him to remove that final sentence.āThis is an example from the modern world of what the Vatican did at the time of Galileo,ā Loeb said. āPeople have their own prejudices. I donāt have any problem with that.ā āThe whole idea of doing science is to maintain an agnostic point of view, be curious, wonder over the possibilities,ā he said. āItās what makes science exciting.āALSO READ: Trump caught snoozing during discussion on sleep and obesity; California Gov says 'Dozy don is back'Comet 3I/ATLAS an artificial alien craft?With no tail in sight, Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb is suggesting that this is yet another indicator that the object could be an artificial alien craft. āFor a typical comet, [passing the sun] should have resulted in a massive coma with dust and gas that would have been pushed by the solar radiation pressure and the solar wind to the shape of a typical cometary tail pointing away from the Sun,ā Loeb wrote in an analysis of the images on Wednesday.Instead, the object appears intact and showing āa compact source of light,ā Loeb wrote. āThis offers a clean test of the nature of 3I/ATLAS in the coming weeks,ā he told The New York Post. āIf 3I/ATLAS is a natural comet, it should be surrounded by a massive cloud of gas that carries at least 13 percent of the original nucleus mass.ā If 3I/ATLAS fails to produce a cometary tail, Loeb maintained that it is likely not a naturally occurring comet.ALSO READ: Comet 3I/ATLAS puzzles scientists again: Mystery around cosmic visitor's tail continues after NASA declines to release photos
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Astronomer Avi Loeb warns world not to ignore new comet's potential alien threat | The Times of Israel Added: Nov 10, 2025
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The Blogs: 3I/ATLAS ā If the Earth Is About to Burn, Will NASA Still Keep Its Data Locked ? | Rafi Glick | The Times of Israel
Added: Nov 10, 2025The Blogs: 3I/ATLAS ā If the Earth Is About to Burn, Will NASA Still Keep Its Data Locked ?
From the blog of Rafi Glick at The Times of Israel
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Chinese consul threatens to decapitate Japan PM over Taiwan comments | Fox News Added: Nov 10, 2025
Chinese diplomat threatens to cut off new Japanese PM's head over Taiwan comments
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Chinese diplomat threatens to 'decapitate' Japan's new prime minister over Taiwan defense comments, sparking major diplomatic crisis between Asian powers.
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Under the Atlantic, scientists surprisingly discovered a large freshwater reserve
Added: Nov 10, 2025Under the Atlantic, scientists surprisingly discovered a large freshwater reserve
Site: Wychavontags.co.uk
A multinational team returned to a decades-old drilling site and pulled up tens of thousands of litres of lowāsalinity water. That haul confirms a hidden
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Mitt Hjerte Alltid Vanker - YouTube Music Added: Nov 10, 2025
Kalandra - Mitt Hjerte Alltid Vanker (Official Lyric Video) - YouTube Music
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Link to the MĆørketid EP: https://bfan.link/morketid Support our music through our merchandise shop: https://kalandrashop.com/en/ Mitt Hjerte Alltid Vanker (...
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Joseph est bien mariƩ - YouTube Music
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Provided to YouTube by The Orchard Enterprises Joseph est bien mariĆ© Ā· Mignarda Ā· Claude Balbastre Joseph est bien mariĆ© ā 2025 Prima Classic Released on...
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The Weaver's Song - YouTube Music
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Provided to YouTube by DistroKid The Weaver's Song Ā· EchoesOfVelandria Ā· Andrada Lazarescu The Weaver's Song ā Liminal Sound Collective Released on: 2025...
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A new Chinese AI model claims to outperform GPT-5 and Sonnet 4.5 - and it's free | ZDNET
Added: Nov 10, 2025A new Chinese AI model claims to outperform GPT-5 and Sonnet 4.5 - and it's free
Site: ZDNET
The plot of the US-China AI arms race just thickened - again.
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The Lumina Prayer - YouTube Music
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Provided to YouTube by DistroKid The Lumina Prayer Ā· EchoesOfVelandria Ā· Andrada Lazarescu STARFALL (An Original Fantasy Score) ā Liminal Sound Collective...
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Zohran Mamdaniās first staff picks show heās going full speed ahead ā¦ to disaster
Site: New York Post
Donāt expect 1st Deputy Mayor-designate Dean Fuleihan to rein in an ounce of Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani worst urges: He imposed no such restraint he when worked for Bill de Blasio.
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Bill Maher eviscerates press coverage of White House ballroom, says he doesnāt āgive a sātā
Site: New York Post
Rejecting the White Houseās current setup, where state dinners have been held in tents, Maher exclaimed, āThis is America.ā
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Interstellar Object 3I/ATLAS Shows Evidence Of "Galactic Cosmic Ray" Processing | IFLScience
Added: Nov 10, 2025Interstellar Object 3I/ATLAS Shows Evidence Of "Galactic Cosmic Ray" Processing. That's Not Great News
Site: IFLScience
A new study has an explanation for the unusual chemical makeup of our interstellar visitor. If true, it's not the best news we've ever heard.
A team studying the spectra of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS has found evidence of "galactic cosmic ray processing". While interesting and certainly worth knowing, it really isn't the best news that astronomers have ever received. It may be very disappointing indeed. In case you're just catching up, on July 1, 2025, astronomers at the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) spotted a fairly large object shooting through our Solar System on an escape trajectory. As the world's telescopes quickly turned towards it, it was established to be an interstellar object, our third confirmed interstellar visitor after 1I/Ź»Oumuamua and 2I/Borisov. Observations of 3I/ATLAS soon showed that it was a comet, with a distinct coma formed of ice and dust. There have been plenty of puzzling aspects to the object, from its development of a rare " anti-tail " to its unusual chemical makeup. But we should not be too surprised to be surprised, given that this is only our third interstellar visitor, and may be a 10-billion-year-old time capsule from an earlier age of the universe. Studying it could tell us about the environment it came from, which may be very different from our own part of the galaxy. Though the comet is unusual, we should stress that it remains a comet and not an alien mothership. āIt looks like a comet. It does comet things. It very, very strongly resembles, in just about every way, the comets that we know,ā as Tom Statler, NASAās lead scientist for Solar System small bodies, explained to The Guardian. āIt has some interesting properties that are a little bit different from our solar system comets, but it behaves like a comet. And so the evidence is overwhelmingly pointing to this object being a natural body. Itās a comet.ā ā IFLScience is not responsible for content shared from external sites. Now that the silly stuff is out of the way, on to the science. In a new paper examining the spectra of the comet, which has not yet been peer reviewed, a team of astronomers from Belgium and the USA took a close look at the object's chemical makeup. One particular puzzle, revealed by the JWST and Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization, and Ices Explorer (SPHEREx), is the odd ratio of carbon dioxide to water observed in the comet's coma. "The ratio measured for the amount of CO 2 gas relative to H 2 O is among the highest ever observed in a solar system comet, demonstrating that the coma of 3I/ATLAS is very CO 2 -rich," NASA explained, prior to the new paper. "This may indicate that 3I/ATLAS was exposed to higher levels of radiation than comets from inside the solar system or that it formed in a region of its original planetary disk where CO 2 ice naturally freezes out from the gas." Any explanation for the comet's makeup would have to explain these odd ratios, and why they were observed when the object was so far from the radiation of our Sun. "JWST/NIRSpec measurements show CO 2 /H 2 O = 7.6 Ā± 0.3, placing 3I/ATLAS 4.5Ļ above solar system trends at the observed heliocentric distance," the team explains in their paper. "Any viable explanation must therefore elevate the near-surface CO 2 /H 2 O ratio substantially." The team evaluated several hypotheses that could potentially explain these ratios. For example, the physical conditions within protoplanetary disks where the object originated could possibly alter carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide abundances, or destruction of CO in protoplanetary disk midplanes, which could lead to increased CO 2 abundances. Unfortunately, they found these to be a worse fit for the observations than galactic cosmic ray (GCR) processing. In this scenario, galactic cosmic rays convert carbon monoxide into carbon dioxide, creating an organic-rich, irradiated crust on the comet's nucleus over around a billion years. If this is correct, it is not great news for humanity's chance to learn about the environments of other star systems. "Laboratory experiments demonstrate that GCR irradiation efficiently converts CO to CO 2 while synthesizing organic-rich crusts, suggesting that the outer layers of 3I/ATLAS consist of irradiated material which properties are consistent with the observed composition of 3I/ATLAS coma and with its observed spectral reddening. Estimates of the erosion rate of 3I/ATLAS indicate that current outgassing samples the GCR-processed zone only (depth ā¼15ā20 m), never reaching pristine interior material," the team explains in their paper. "Rather than being pristine messengers from distant planetary systems, interstellar objects may instead carry signatures of processed material shaped by Gyr-scale cosmic-ray exposure both in the distant reservoirs of their parent stellar systems, prior to ejection, and during their interstellar transit to the solar system." This makes studying the environments of other star systems more difficult. Though it is more complicated than this, essentially, it looked like we had been sent a piece of pristine material from another star system, but instead, we've found its outer layers have been altered by its journey, and now conceal the pristine material underneath. Though that isn't exactly what we'd like, it might be what has occurred, making studying other star systems more complicated than it already is. Instead, the spectra may tell us a lot more about the journey the comet took to get here. "The substantial CO levels indicate ongoing chemical evolution, not pristine composition," the team writes. "This study suggests that 3I/ATLAS is better understood as a natural laboratory for cosmic-ray processing than as a direct messenger from a distant protoplanetary disk." That may be disappointing, but more observations are needed to confirm whether this is the case, as well as a peer review of the paper. On top of this, the team suggests that pristine material could still be outgassed as the object reaches perihelion, the closest approach to the Sun, "though it is considered unlikely". Further observations will be necessary to gather further evidence for or against this idea. Fortunately, many of the world's telescopes are currently pointing at it, amateur and professional alike. Hopefully we will soon have more answers about our new interstellar visitor. The study is posted to preprint server arXiv.
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The Mysterious Interstellar Object May Have Just Exploded
Added: Nov 10, 2025The Mysterious Interstellar Object May Have Just Exploded
Site: Futurism
Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb suggests that interstellar object 3I/ATLAS may have just broken up into well over a dozen pieces.
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Think RAM Prices Are High? Wait Until You See Whatās Happening in the NAND Market, As Phison Reports Demand "Never Seen" Before Added: Nov 10, 2025
Think RAM Prices Are High? Wait Until You See Whatās Happening in the SSD Market
Site: Wccftech
The NAND industry has started to report unprecedented demand, as one of the leading suppliers, Phison, calls the situation a "shocking" one.
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The Left May Owe Justice Jackson an Apology on SNAP Benefits | National Review
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Government Shutdown Deal: Republicans Came Out Ahead on Policy | National Review
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Minisforum MS-R1: 12-Core Linux ARM Workstation for AI and VMs - OMG! Ubuntu
Added: Nov 10, 2025Minisforum MS-R1: 12-Core Linux ARM Workstation for AI and VMs - OMG! Ubuntu
Site: OMG! Ubuntu
Minisforum, a Chinese company famed for selling range of mini PCs, has launched an affordable ARM-based mini workstation with UEFI boot, making it easier
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Democrats Cave on Shutdown Deal: Media Melts Down over Bipartisan Compromise | National Review
