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Week 12

"Cutting-edge hydrogen-diesel engine retrofits could deliver 20% fuel reduction in shipping.. Lomar Shipping.. is set to begin real-world testing of a promising new hydrogen-diesel engine retrofit technology in summer 2025"

Renew Economy: "Plans to install up to 6 gigawatts of onshore wind and solar and produce 2 million tonnes of green ammonia a year near Kalbarri in Western Australia has been named as a winner of the federal government’s hydrogen head start program"

Careless People: "The Italian prime minister tells us that he and his counterparts in Europe are struggling with unemployment and slowing economic growth, and the tech companies are seen as leeches, sucking money out of their countries and not creating jobs, making investments, or paying tax...

Facebook deploy[ed] something called a 'double Irish' to avoid paying taxes. It’s something Google and Apple do as well. The way the double Irish works is that when one of these companies makes a dollar selling ads (or iPhones in Apple’s case) in Italy or Germany or elsewhere in the European Union, that revenue can be shifted to Ireland for tax purposes, and then on to a tax-haven country like Bermuda that charges no taxes at all. To do this, the companies have to set up subsidiaries in Ireland and transfer their foreign IP rights to those subsidiaries. What Ireland gets out of the deal is big Google and Apple and Facebook operations located on their soil, with thousands of local employees earning good wages. Those employees pay taxes to Ireland, even if the tech companies don’t. After years of controversy and opposition, the EU had just forced Ireland to shut down the boondoggle"

Nobody Wants This w/ Adam Brody was not bad.. It's not the Zio propaganda it might appear it was. It takes some hard look into the the shut-in minority lifestyle, showing IMO why assimilation is inevitable, which already naturally happens, and minorities, even the most "ancient" ones should not fight it / come to terms with it.

That joke absolutely killed... I've heard Puerto Rico jokes lamer than that one.

Han Solo could have called him "Jewy".

Harrison Ford is Jewish? Maybe Chewbaca was Jewish too

None of the below

"@stfn@fosstodon.org

What is your favourite type of pole?

Autoevolution: "American military started testing something unheard of in military operations: extracting hydrogen from water in austere and isolated environments, and using the stuff as fuel to power drones, tactical vehicles, electrical generators, and balloons that can be used to track weather changes and ensure communications"

"[A] study unveils a pioneering approach to harnessing sunlight for efficient and stable hydrogen production using cost-effective organic materials.. the team introduced a multi-layer device architecture that integrates an organic photoactive layer with a protective graphite sheet functionalised with a nickel-iron catalyst. This innovative design achieved an unprecedented combination of high efficiency and durability, setting a new benchmark for the field"

Yes for real change thought leaders need to change consensus.

Not a big deal the next admin can bring it all back. That is the price you pay for being "contrarian" on things that are outside of consensus.

Lower and lower..

Bad move... Will the states pick up the slack?

Reuters: "Trump to sign order to shut down Department of Education"

Why aren't they making it easier to start businesses, so there are more businesses, they get richer and richer, eventually it trickles down to regular people?

Because that shit doesn't work.

CNBC: "China is tackling weak consumption with child care subsidies"

Watched CA Brave New World. There was a good movie somewhere in there struggling to get out.. The action was above average, the script could definitely be better. Some stuff did not jel internally, or the stakes failed short. CA-Falcon rel was fine, same for potus character, but why tie the story so closely to the failed 2008 Hulk movie? The problem was likely working backward from the "Red" Hulk, he had to be a president, had to be Hulk, they lost flexibility and depth there, tried to recover by canonizing an earlier movie hoping to get some mojo but things went sideways from there. Sterns was a bad choice as the level boss.

It was critical that the MIC, or the MILC to use Israel as its window dressing / moneymaker... ISR is in a region awash with oil money, chaos can be generated through/for it, which mean increased sales. By hiding behind Israel the MIC can justify almost any spending, both to them and to other countries around them.

If ISR gets any pushback the comeback is easy, reference the ultimate victimhood, past experience of Jewry with genocide. This is where the "right to defend itself" mantra comes from, it is supposed to evoke images of Jews in gas chambers, remind us the ultimate wronged people, so we need to make sure it does not happen again, we sell them arms. Then the region goes to shit, sell neighbors around them arms. Rinse, repeat.

NYT: "In Call With Trump, Putin Concedes Little on Ukraine"

Careless People: "Just a few weeks after [Joel Kaplan] takes over [the Facebook global public policy, 2011] job, Joel starts hiring a political sales team to push politicians—here and abroad—into becoming advertisers. The idea is, if politicians depend on Facebook to win elections, they’ll be less likely to do anything that’ll harm Facebook. If Facebook is the goose that lays the golden egg, no one wants to kill the goose. Get them hooked on those golden eggs.

Political advertising is a way to change that. And elections are the biggest opportunity. Fresh-faced Harvard grads start moving into the Washington, DC, office to sell ads to politicians and political campaigns.

I find this all repugnant. I feel alienated from this new regime from the outset. As a foreigner, I have a very different perspective on money in elections. New Zealand, like so many other countries, has strict limits on electoral spending: under 27,500 New Zealand dollars per candidate. I’m astounded at the role money plays in elections in the US. It determines so much about whose voice gets heard on every issue... I’m also against exporting this value system. But Facebook is effectively bringing this in globally by stealth"

"@juanan@infosec.exchange

Researchers at Harvard Business School and University of Toronto [conducted research] to quantify the value of open source.

Takeways:

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I'd love to see US excommunicated from everything, coupled with a reverse brain drain and total ban against their products, esp. military. They are supporting terrorism (Zionist expansionism) and their support for free speech is in duldrums, see the Mahmoud Khalil case.

"@bert_hubert@fosstodon.org

Massive result in Dutch parliament just now. They passed 10 separate motions to enhance digital resilience, run more of our own servers & reduce dependency on US cloud technology"

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Nature: "Microsoft quantum computing claim still lacks evidence: physicists are dubious"

Reddit: "It costs around $10m to electrify a mile of railroad track, and that's why the diesel rules the (mostly private) railroads in the US."

"@keithdpatch@mastodon.mit.edu

CPKC hydrogen fuel cell locomotive & gaseous hydrogen #GH2 tender enter mainline service, carrying Glencore Elk Valley metallurgical coal. N America needs hydrogen fuelcell trains, as only 1% of track is electrified. Electrification costs USD$1-8MM/mi"

F24: "Germany set for massive rearmament"

Wynn-Williams, Careless People: "Facebook had planned to launch a Facebook for children codenamed 'Project Family,' and Sheryl [Sandberg] would occasionally remind the policy team of their 'failure to do this while we had the opportunity,' blaming the policy team for missing the chance to get kids on Facebook but she, like most of the leaders at Facebook with younger children, severely limits her kids’ access to screens, let alone social media accounts. And she never shares images of her children on social media. Silicon Valley is awash in wooden Montessori toys and shrouded in total screen bans. Parents at work talk about how they don’t allow their teens to have mobile phones, which only underscores how well these executives understand the real damage their product inflicts on young minds.

SCMP: "French deputy to US: ‘give us back the Statue of Liberty’.. France should take back the Statue of Liberty because the US no longer represents the values that led France to offer the statue, a French Euro-deputy said on Sunday"

"'In everyone’s pocket right now is a computer far more powerful than the one we flew on Voyager [launched in 1977]. I don’t mean your cell phone — I mean the key fob that unlocks your car.'

— JPL scientist and member of the Voyager imaging team"

Went negative for the first time in the second term

It is sad to see admin rolling over and showing its belly though at the first sight of trouble. We have an anti-establishment DNI chief working for an anti-establishment president. But you can't work with the deputy you choose? How anti-establishment are you exactly?

Davis: "A short and by no means exhaustive list of [mil misspending] might include the RAH-66 Comanche armed reconnaissance helicopter (launched in 1991, canceled after $6.9 billion), the XM2001 Crusader mobile cannon (launched in 1995, canceled after 7 billion), and the Future Combat Systems (launched in 2003, canceled after 20 billion). FCS in particular was notable for senior Army leaders’ efforts to ignore or suppress the results of simulations, tests and analyses that highlighted problems and ultimately predicted failure...

After each of these failures, one might expect the Army and program leaders to have suffered censure. Instead, the opposite seems generally to have been the case. The leaders of failed programs and other efforts received prestigious medals, promotion to higher ranks, and plum follow-on jobs; others retired and went to work for defense contractors, often with companies that had profited from the failed acquisition effort"

The smear campaign against Col Daniel Davis originates from MIC. The "Jew stuff" is an excuse, it gives trolls something to latch on to. Just like the attacks on Corbyn had nothing to do with anti-semitism, this one did not either. The Zionist lobby is a mere appendage to the military-industrial complex. The tail does not wag the dog.

Careless People: [Story from 2011] Most countries like Facebook. Germany’s an outlier. The Germans disapprove of everything Facebook stands for. It wasn’t very long ago that Germans lived with networks of spies and informants in their country—the Stasi in East Germany and the Gestapo before that. As a result, they have a fundamental suspicion of anyone who wants to gather lots of personal information—which of course is Facebook’s business model. Where others see a website that’s good for wasting time, Germans see a comprehensive surveillance tool that needs muscular oversight"

Got a copy. Streisand effect is a bitch

Lawfare eh. The book must be interesting.

"@cdarwin@c.im

Meta won a legal victory this week against Sarah Wynn-Williams, a former employee who recently published a memoir of her time at the company titled Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism. An arbitrator ruled that the company has made a valid argument that Wynn-Williams, who worked at Facebook (now Meta) from 2011 to 2017, may have violated the non-disparagement agreement she signed when leaving the company"

"Chihombori-Quao: USAID was ‘a wolf in sheep’s clothing’ in Africa"

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A Windows joke. The oft-repeated solution / half-joke is the result of a crooked closed-source commercial architecture FYI. Their products are mostly inferior.

"@advisorybriefs@mas.to

Have we tried turning the US off and turning it back on again?"

ProPublica: "What a Wrongful Death Lawsuit Reveals About America’s Largest Oxygen Provider.. When an at-risk sleep apnea patient needed his breathing machine replaced, Lincare, a $2.4 billion behemoth with a decadeslong history of regulatory and legal problems, acted slowly... Vernor died of complications from obstructive sleep apnea, according to a coroner’s report"

Om Malik: "I once shared extensively on social media, but the platforms have evolved. They now discourage sharing links that direct users to external sites. In response, I’ve returned to a more traditional approach. The Daily Blog features curated links to articles I find compelling, along with relevant graphics and memorable quotes. I hope to post with higher frequency there"

B1M: "The $17BN Plan to Make Iraq a Logistics Superpower.. The Al Faw peninsula, a small and seemingly insignificant stretch of land overlooking the Persian Gulf, is on track to become a pivotal hub in global trade. The 20-kilometre strip is in fact Iraq's only access to the sea and is central to the country's goal of becoming a major player in global shipping.

For over 150 years, the Suez Canal has been the primary route for goods shipped between Europe, Asia, and other regions. However, due to concerns about congestion and security in the Red Sea, experts are looking into alternative routes. Iraq aims to offer a solution by constructing a new maritime infrastructure project"

Trump dropped a MOAB on Taliban, then made a deal with them for an Afganistan pullout.

How is this different from Biden attacking them a gazillion times before?

BBC: "US launches wave of air strikes on Yemen's Houthis"

"He Audited the Pentagon. Here’s Where the Waste Really Is"

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"@emsenn@kolektiva.social

Under U.S. law, organizing a general strike—especially across industries—is straight-up illegal. The Taft-Hartley Act (1947) makes it a felony to advocate for a mass strike across sectors. Courts ruled long ago that calls for general strikes count as criminal conspiracy—which is why labor leaders, radicals, and workers have been crushed every time they tried to organize one.

Think about that: The state doesn’t just want you working, it wants you to believe striking is an option—so they can catch you the second you push too far. They let the words circulate, they let people dream about it, but they’ve ensured that the mechanisms for a general strike are dead on arrival"

Eurofighters are generation 4.5. Same for Rafale.

DW News: "Kill switch fears over US F-35 fighter jets in Europe"

Why to 32? Why not Zero?

"Canada is slashing its order of F-35 fighters from 88 to about 32."

Papa e-jagoff tells how junior grew up. Unsurprisingly the laminated faced diva grew up filthy rich.

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Ars Technica: "From Mar 28, each Amazon Echo device will cease processing audio on-device and instead upload all the audio it captures to Amazon's cloud for processing, even if you have previously opted out of cloud-based processing"

DD talks about all the wrong stuff, military misadventures, misallocation of military spending.. MIC must have lobbied heavily against.

Responsible Statecraft: "Earlier today the Jewish Insider magazine ran a story saying that the White House tapped retired Lt. Col. Danny Davis for Deputy Director of National Intelligence, working under the newly confirmed DNI Tulsi Gabbard. It was a hit piece by a pro-Israel platform that primarily focused on Davis's critical views — published only in articles and on his popular podcast — on Gaza and Iran. Within hours, he was informed there would be no job"

"@evanprodromou@threads.net

God grant me the confidence of Ben Stiller going into Apple TV+ headquarters to pitch a series about a corporation with a fanatical quasi-religious devotion to its legendary founder" #Severance

"Is the CMB Actually Cosmic?"

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#Frontline #UA #RU 03/10 - 03/16

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