Empfehlenswert! Die Frau plädiert für eine föderale Ukraine und eine gewisse Ungebundenheit/Brückenfunktion gegenüber Russland und Europa.
Friday, January 31, 2025
Sahra Wagenknecht: Zuversicht? Ihre Wahlplakate sind ein Hohn, Herr Habeck
Sehr empfehlenswert! Starke Worte von der Dame! Volltreffer!
'All support was gone when I lived truthfully': Gender de-transitioner tells story
A horrific story!
There is no so called gender affirming care available for detransitioners! How come?
Probably, a significant number of individuals will detransition after they realize they were abused or affected by a mania (euphemistically aka gender dysphoria), a cult etc.
‘Delighted’: Elon Musk nominated for 2025 Nobel Peace Prize over free speech advocacy by Rowan Dean
Very recommendable! Excellent opinion piece!
Is Syria Making Headway to Be Democratic?
Recommendable! The transition in Syria after decades of dictatorship since 1971 is very difficult. However, there are some signs that the new leader is making progress. The implementation of Sharia law in this report is a red herring!
CDC website scrubs HIV content following Trump diversity policy changes. Really!
What a piece of junk journalism! If the CDC indeed removed HIV/AIDS related content then someone at CDC clearly overreacted. Perhaps intentionally so to smear Trump (Hint: Trump Derangement Syndrome).
Trump will ‘unleash’ US economy in a way we ‘can’t even grasp’
Recommendable! Yes, President Trump could make it happen! President Coolidge are you watching?
RESIGN or BE FIRED: Top FBI officials given ultimatum by Trump administration
Good news! Yes, clean out the Augean stable aka FBI!
Iran’s terrifying nuke scheme REVEALED as satellite pics show hidden warhead sites
Very concerning! Religious fanatics ought never be allowed to have nuclear weapons!
Nearly 100 US Special Forces veterans hired as private contractors to operate key checkpoints in Gaza
Wow! Paid for by Israel and Arab countries.
Wall Street Journal: Trump Challenges the Rules-Based World Order. Really!
How did the WSJ get it so wrong!!! Trump challenges the globalists and enemies of open societies, not the rule based world order!
Trump challenges Reagan!
Why Some People Don’t ‘See’ Mental Imagery: Aphantasia
Recommendable! How about Hyperphantasia? Do I have aphantasia?
China Builds Giant Military Command Centre: 10X Bigger Than Pentagon with Palki Sharma
Very recommendable! Chinese shock and awe! Toys for a hegemon and bully! Showmanship & brinkmanship!
On DeepSeek-R1: Incentivizing Reasoning Capability in LLMs via Reinforcement Learning
Here is a summary of my review of this DeepSeek paper:
- It seems to leave too much unexplained or only vaguely described.
- The list of 39 references is not very impressive at all.
- The usual ablations and variations are missing.
- Implicitly, this paper requires you to read a second paper by DeepSeek if you want to understand their "pure RL" approach, i.e. "Deepseekmath: Pushing the limits of mathematical reasoning in open language models". The cross-references to this paper are poorly done.
As of 1/31/2025 this paper is cited only 2 times according to Google Scholar.
Typical excerpts from the paper:
"... One of the most remarkable aspects of this self-evolution is the emergence of sophisticated behaviors as the test-time computation increases. Behaviors such as reflection—where the model revisits and reevaluates its previous steps—and the exploration of alternative approaches to problem-solving arise spontaneously. These behaviors are not explicitly programmed but instead emerge as a result of the model’s interaction with the reinforcement learning environment. This spontaneous development significantly enhances DeepSeek-R1-Zero’s reasoning capabilities, enabling it to tackle more challenging tasks with greater efficiency and accuracy. ...
Aha Moment of DeepSeek-R1-Zero A particularly intriguing phenomenon observed during the training of DeepSeek-R1-Zero is the occurrence of an “aha moment”. This moment, as illustrated in Table 3, occurs in an intermediate version of the model. During this phase, DeepSeek-R1-Zero learns to allocate more thinking time to a problem by reevaluating its initial approach. This behavior is not only a testament to the model’s growing reasoning abilities but also a captivating example of how reinforcement learning can lead to unexpected and sophisticated outcomes.
This moment is not only an “aha moment” for the model but also for the researchers observing its behavior. It underscores the power and beauty of reinforcement learning: rather than explicitly teaching the model on how to solve a problem, we simply provide it with the right incentives, and it autonomously develops advanced problem-solving strategies. ..."
From the abstract:
"We introduce our first-generation reasoning models, DeepSeek-R1-Zero and DeepSeek-R1. DeepSeek-R1-Zero, a model trained via large-scale reinforcement learning (RL) without supervised fine-tuning (SFT) as a preliminary step, demonstrates remarkable reasoning capabilities. Through RL, DeepSeek-R1-Zero naturally emerges with numerous powerful and intriguing reasoning behaviors. However, it encounters challenges such as poor readability, and language mixing. To address these issues and further enhance reasoning performance, we introduce DeepSeek-R1, which incorporates multi-stage training and cold-start data before RL. DeepSeek-R1 achieves performance comparable to OpenAI-o1-1217 on reasoning tasks. To support the research community, we open-source DeepSeek-R1-Zero, DeepSeek-R1, and six dense models (1.5B, 7B, 8B, 14B, 32B, 70B) distilled from DeepSeek-R1 based on Qwen and Llama."
Trump to slap tariffs on China, Mexico and Canada on Saturday: White House for failing to interdict and prevent illegal fentanyl export and trafficking
Whether tariffs are a good instrument to achieve the goals is debatable!
However, one may safely assume that the US has tried before to negotiate with these three countries to do more about fentanyl export without much effect.
It has been reported and claimed many times that China neglects or even allows for precursor chemicals to be produced and exported.
Mexico too is supposedly doing too little to interdict and prevent illegal drug production and trafficking.
As far as Canada is concerned I am not particularly aware of its involvement, but the open border sure are an opportunity.
"... The president will be implementing tomorrow a 25% tariff on Mexico, 25% tariff on Canada and a 10% tariff on China for the illegal fentanyl that they have sourced and allowed to distribute into our country,""
Africa under Islamist threat and attack
Very concerning! Numerous African countries are under attack by Islamists!
I recently blogged here about the Arab/Islam very considerable involvement in the African slave trade!
Harvard U: Climate solutions need hope as a catalyst, Ayana Johnson says. Really!
More on socialist central planning exploiting and abusing the largest scam of our time! Nice spin and demagoguery!
"Imagine a world where hope for healing the planet fuels action. Public health and climate solutions are two sides of the same coin, and people work within their communities to address climate challenges. In What If We Get It Right? Visions of Climate Futures, Ayana Elizabeth Johnson envisions such a world and gives readers a blueprint to achieve it. Packed with hard truths, visionary ideas, and a call to reimagine how we care for our planet and each other, this book is not just an inspiring read—it’s a rallying cry."
Physicists discover — and explain — unexpected magnetism in an atomically thin material tri-layer graphene
Amazing stuff! Superimposed, hierarchical moire lattices.
"MIT physicists have created a new ultrathin, two-dimensional material with unusual magnetic properties that initially surprised the researchers before they went on to solve the complicated puzzle behind those properties’ emergence. As a result, the work introduces a new platform for studying how materials behave at the most fundamental level — the world of quantum physics. ...
worked with three layers of graphene. Each layer was twisted on top of the next at the same angle, creating a helical structure akin to the DNA helix or a hand of three cards that are fanned apart.
worked with three layers of graphene. Each layer was twisted on top of the next at the same angle, creating a helical structure akin to the DNA helix or a hand of three cards that are fanned apart.
“Helicity is a fundamental concept in science, from basic physics to chemistry and molecular biology. With 2D materials, one can create special helical structures, with novel properties which we are just beginning to understand. This work represents a new twist in the field of twistronics ..." ...
Twistronics can lead to new properties in ultrathin materials because arranging sheets of 2D materials in this way results in a unique pattern called a moiré lattice. And a moiré pattern, in turn, has an impact on the behavior of electrons. ...
In the current work, the helical structure created by the three graphene layers forms two moiré lattices. One is created by the first two overlapping sheets; the other is formed between the second and third sheets.
The two moiré patterns together form a third moiré, a supermoiré, or “moiré of a moiré,” ... “It’s like a moiré hierarchy.” While the first two moiré patterns are only nanometers, or billionths of a meter, in scale, the supermoiré appears at a scale of hundreds of nanometers superimposed over the other two. ..."
From the abstract:
"The intrinsic anomalous Hall effect (AHE) is driven by non-zero Berry curvature and spontaneous time-reversal symmetry breaking. This effect can be realized in two-dimensional moiré systems hosting flat electronic bands but is not usually seen in inversion-symmetric materials.
Here, we show that this physics is manifested in helical trilayer graphene—three graphene layers, each twisted in sequence by the same angle—although the system retains global in-plane inversion symmetry.
We uncover a phase diagram of correlated and magnetic states at a magic twist angle of 1.8∘, which is explained by a lattice relaxation that leads to the formation of large periodic domains where in-plane inversion symmetry is broken on the moiré scale.
Each domain harbours flat topological bands with opposite Chern numbers in the two valleys. We find correlated states at multiple integer and fractional electron fillings per moiré unit cell and an AHE at a subset of them. The AHE disappears above a critical electric displacement field at one electron per unit cell, indicating a topological phase transition. We establish helical trilayer graphene as a platform that presents an opportunity to engineer topology due to its emergent moiré-scale symmetries."
Topological bands and correlated states in helical trilayer graphene (no public access)
Unprecedented Defense Ministry Purge Sparks Concern in Russian Elite
Is the end of the megalomaniac and war criminal Putin the Terrible near? Hope and pray!
When will the lethargic, apathetic, and Russian Slav(e)s finally get rid of their last tsar, the megalomaniac and war criminal Putin the Terrible! How many more young Russian men have to die or be maimed because Putin the Terrible has conducted a “special military operation” in the Ukraine since February of 2022!
"... The biggest source of tension within the Russian elites in 2024 was the purge of the Defense Ministry. Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu was moved to a different post, and several dozen officials were detained over the course of many months, including three former deputy defense ministers. The shake-up was likely conceived as a way to improve the management of Russia’s ballooning military spending. In order to speed up the process of clearing out Shoigu-era placeholders, the Kremlin opted for a method that could be described as “rotation through repression.”
This is not a new approach, but the scale of what occurred at the Defense Ministry is unprecedented. The purge has not only redirected rent flows associated with the ministry, but also led to the dismantling of Shoigu’s entire clan within the Russian elite. Although Shoigu seems—for the moment—to be under the personal protection of President Vladimir Putin, he has been powerless to intervene in unfolding events.
The easiest way to understand the purge is to look at the criminal cases that followed the first—and most high-profile—arrest: that of Shoigu’s long-time associate, ex-deputy defense minister Timur Ivanov. Each wave of arrests seemed to lead to new arrests in turn, as well as generate new charges against Ivanov himself.
After Ivanov’s arrest in April 2024, he was charged with the embezzlement of 1.18 billion rubles ($11.5 million). That was followed by the arrest of two other senior officials at the Defense Ministry: Yury Kuznetsov, accused of selling state secrets to contractors linked with Ivanov, and Vladimir Verteletsky, who oversaw spending on digitization. ..."
Top Army aviators with hundreds of flight hours were on routine flight when helo collided with jet. Really!
That story/narrative does not seem to add up!
Routine flight??? Perhaps, the civilian jet was on a routine, predetermined route, scheduled flight attempting to land on the Reagan airport, but obviously not the Army helicopter!
This can not explain the enormous failure of the Army helicopter pilot and whoever else was on board of this Army helicopter. On the contrary!
Hopefully Hegseth and Trump will vigorously investigate this horrific incident without reservation or hesitancy!
"The U.S. Army UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter that collided midair with an American Airlines passenger jet above Reagan National Airport in Washington on Wednesday night was piloted by experienced aviators that typically fly VIP missions in busy airspace, according to a retired Army chief warrant officer with over 30 years of flying experience, who serves in the Headquarters Department of the Army Aviation Directorate at the Pentagon. ...
described the crew members, whose identities have yet to be released, as “very experienced.” ...
Koziol confirmed that the instructor pilot in command of the aircraft had logged 1,000 flight hours and the other pilot had 500 hours under their belt. ..."
“The instructor pilot was flying the aircraft with a fellow pilot in command, so both of those crew members can manage that aircraft by themselves. It was an annual evaluation that is conducted by every Army aviator that they fly day and night,” he said, “Even the crew chief in the back has been in the unit for a very long time, very familiar with the area, very familiar with the routing structure. So we don’t see that at all as being any impact on what happened.”
Bill Gates memoirs “I always thought of Silicon Valley as being left of center” - The New York Times
Is the old man (age 69) getting wiser? 😊
"“I always thought of Silicon Valley as being left of center,” Mr. Gates said. “The fact that now there is a significant right-of-center group is a surprise to me.”
Credits: Techcrunch newsletter
Joint US University Programs with China Escape Financial Reporting and scrutiny
Certainly concerning! How China exploits open societies!
Lessons from the The Art of War by Sun Tzu!
"Following last year’s reporting on DEI spending, federal money and foreign donations at elite private universities, Open the Books auditors have been taking a closer look at the finances of a sampling of public universities across the country.
Strikingly, these problems have spilled far beyond those elite Ivory Towers and out to some of the best state schools around the nation. ...
It’s a troubling comparison. Over the past decade, American institutions began pouring money into counterproductive, divisive DEI infrastructure. Meanwhile, China was spending to gain influence in American academia, accessing research and technology to advance their national interests. It happened under Uncle Sam’s radar, and Congress believes the spending continues unreported today – to the tune of hundreds of millions or billions! ...
UC Berkeley has accepted $790.8 million from foreign sources since 2013, including a staggering amount of Chinese funding.
China sent $87.5 million to UC Berkeley, more than any other country. The figure doesn’t include $59.4 million from Hong Kong and $57.5 million from Taiwan, which are reported separately.
The two largest Chinese contracts — worth $19 million and $15 million — were to help fund the Tsinghua-Berkeley Shenzhen Institute (TBSI), a partnership with Tsinghua University that has campuses at Berkeley and in Shenzhen, China. ...
The Georgia Institute of Technology has accepted $162.8 million from foreign sources since 2013.
China has spent at least $32.3M with the school in that time period, and at least $18.3 million worth of those contracts helped fund the Georgia Tech-Shenzhen Institute (GTSI). Like Berkeley’s, it’s another partnership with Tsinghua University that has campuses in Georgia and Shenzhen, China. ..."
Google quietly announces its next flagship AI model Gemini 2.0
Good news!
"... Gemini 2.0 Pro Experimental, which is available to Gemini Advanced users beginning Thursday, is now the leading model in Google’s Gemini AI family, the company said. ..."
"No fanfare: Google has released Gemini 2.0, its next-gen flagship AI model that promises to help users with complex tasks like solving mathematical problems or developing quantum algorithms with “greater ease and accuracy.”"
"... We’re getting 2.0 into the hands of developers and trusted testers today. And we’re working quickly to get it into our products, leading with Gemini and Search. Starting today our Gemini 2.0 Flash experimental model will be available to all Gemini users.
We're also launching a new feature called Deep Research, which uses advanced reasoning and long context capabilities to act as a research assistant, exploring complex topics and compiling reports on your behalf. It's available in Gemini Advanced today. ..."
Introducing Gemini 2.0: our new AI model for the agentic era (original news release)
Syria demands extradition of former dictator Assad from Russian asylum
Good news! Bravo!
The megalomaniac and war criminal Putin the Terrible is a loser! Make Russia a pariah state ruled by barbarians!
Credits: Syriens neue Machthaber fordern angeblich die Auslieferung von Asad – und setzen damit Russland unter Druck
A monster like Putin the Terrible!
Hamas also kidnapped a total 31 Thai nationals and killed 46 Thais
Incredible! More news on the coward and savage killers of Hamas!
"Hamas militants kidnapped 31 Thai nationals during the assault on southern Israel, making them the largest group of foreigners held captive. Many of the Thai agricultural workers lived in compounds on the outskirts of southern Israeli kibbutzim and towns, and Hamas militants overran those places first.
During an earlier ceasefire in November 2023, 23 Thai nationals were released in a deal negotiated between Thailand and Hamas, with assistance from Qatar and Iran.
According to Thailand’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, 46 Thais have been killed during the conflict, including two Thai citizens who were killed on Oct. 7, 2023 and their bodies taken into Gaza. ..."
Beugt Sex mit Maschinen der Gewalt an Frauen und Kindern vor? Die Wissenschaft streitet darüber. Wirklich!
Machen Roboter und KI Prostituierte und Nackttänzerinnen das Rotlichtviertel arbeitslos? 😊
Einige der neuesten humanoiden Roboter sind bereits sehr menschenähnlich!
Hat nicht die Wissenschaft schon längst bestätigt, dass die mehr entspannte und breitere Veröffentlichung von Pornographie in Bild und Filmen dazu beigetragen hat sexuelle Gewalt zu vermindern?
Europe launches space mission in defense against city-killer asteroids
Good news!
This is a about a real climate change threat not the current demagoguery about global warming!
Earth could be hit by an asteroid any day! But this real and disastrous threat is deliberately more or less concealed from the public!
"Europe launched its first spacecraft to help develop a defense against city-killer asteroids slamming into Earth. ...
About 30,000 asteroids measuring 100 to 300 meters travel the solar system in orbits that bring them relatively close to Earth, with one such space rock hitting the planet every 10,000 years ...
The Hera mission will investigate the result of NASA’s asteroid redirection test, in which the U.S. agency rammed a spacecraft into the asteroid Dimorphos in 2022 to test planetary defense capabilities. Hera will reach the binary asteroid system that includes Dimorphos in October 2026, and gathering close-up data may help turn NASA’s kinetic impact experiment into a potentially repeatable planetary defense technique, Thales said. ..."
At confirmation hearing, HHS secretary nominee Robert F. Kennedy Jr. refuses to say that vaccines don’t cause autism. Really!
What a piece of junk journalism and smear campaign!
No one can completely rule out that vaccines are not involved! A few studies is not enough!
"More than a dozen studies show that vaccination is not associated with autism, but the HHS nominee insisted sufficient data are not yet available." Stat Daily Recap
Caveat: I did not read the article, only the headline and the quote above referring to the article.
American fighters are dying in Ukraine in growing numbers. Bringing their bodies home is a complex task
The Russo-Ukrainian War is, for a long time, like WW III by any other name!
Unfortunately, the news about the Ukrainian foreign legion is sparse. How many foreigners are fighting with the Ukrainian forces against Putin the Terrible?
"More than 20 Americans are missing in action on the front lines in Ukraine, with a spike in casualties over the past six months as foreigners fill urgent gaps in the country’s embattled defenses, according to a CNN investigation. ...
The bodies of at least five American volunteers who signed up to the Ukrainian military could not be retrieved from the battlefield after being killed in action in the past six months ... Two of these were repatriated from Russian-occupied territory on Friday to Ukrainian soil after lengthy negotiations. ..."
Going Danish: How a small Nordic country is aiding Ukraine’s defense
Good news! Bravo! The Russo-Ukrainian War is World War III by any other name!
"Denmark is better known for LEGO bricks [, Havarti cheese] and leading in wind energy than for military power ...
the Danes have made a difference in Ukraine by leading an initiative to spend Western military aid on locally produced weapons rather than foreign equipment. That’s helping Ukraine rebuild and grow its battered defense industry by paying for “Made in Ukraine” howitzers, missiles, and long-range strike drones. ...
More than two years into Russia’s invasion, Denmark was the first NATO country to directly buy weapons in Ukraine, ordering 18 locally-made Bohdana howitzers in July last year. Three Nordic countries, the EU and Canada have since joined in, and Zelenskyy has repeatedly praised the initiative, singling out Denmark as one of his country’s most reliable defense partners. ..."
Sweden to provide Ukraine with $1.2 billion military aid package
Good news! The Russo-Ukrainian War is World War III by any other name!
"Sweden will provide Ukraine with 13.5 billion kronor (US$1.23 billion) in funding and equipment in its biggest military aid package yet, the government said on Thursday.
The Nordic country will double the amount of Stridsbåt 90 combat boats it’s donating from Swedish armed forces stocks to 32 boats, Minister for Defence Pål Jonson said in a post on X. Other equipment will include 1,500 TOW anti-tank missiles and 200 AT4 anti-tank weapons, with total donations from stocks amounting to about $294 million, or around 25% of the aid package. ..."
African mobility fintech company Moove is on the move
Good news!
"Moove, the African mobility fintech company backed by Uber, you should be. The company has had explosive growth in five years. In 2020, Moove had 76 cars in Lagos, Nigeria; today it has 36,000 cars operating in 19 cities across six continents. ...
Moove announced a partnership with Waymo last year to provide driverless vehicle fleet operations in Phoenix and Miami.
Now the company, which offers vehicle financing to ride-hailing and delivery app drivers across six continents, is expanding via acquisitions. Moove said it has acquired Kovi, a Brazil-based urban mobility provider.
The value of the deal is not being disclosed, but Moove confirmed it was an all-share transaction, and Kovi is now wholly owned by Moove. Moove co-founder and co-CEO Ladi Delano told TechCrunch that the deal bumps the mobility fintech’s annual revenue to $275 million. ..."
Google Maps annoyances
I was trying to get driving directions from our home to a place about 27 miles away in the Phoenix metro area.
My wife and I prefer to drive off highway. The option avoid highways did not work as expected. Despite the option was checked, Google Maps still offered a route containing a section of highway totally unnecessary.
I customized the route by dragging on the screen and sent it to my phone. However, when I opened the saved map link on my phone my customized map was altered.
Lastly, why does Google Map lacks an option for simplest route (least number of turns) instead it offers only optimized, zigzag like routes in urban areas. We certainly prefer a simple, easy to follow routes without having to glue our eyes on a display showing the current position on the map or having to listen to the instructions.
Discovering how fat cells play a protective role in skin fibrosis development
Good news!
"... In a new study, Yale researchers have started to uncover what happens at the cellular and molecular levels as skin fibrosis progresses, and the findings, they say, yield potential targets for treating fibrotic diseases in the future. ...
When the researchers stopped fibrosis stimulation, they saw that the adipocytes refilled with lipids as the skin began to recover. ..."
the researchers found that adipocyte depletion happens quite early in the fibrotic process.
Adipocytes in the skin contain one large liquid droplet of fat molecules (or lipids), which can be released from the cell in response to various biological events. In the two mouse models of skin fibrosis used in the new study, the researchers observed that adipocytes in the area where fibrosis was stimulated lost their lipid droplets as early as five days into fibrosis development.
From the abstract:
"During skin fibrosis, extracellular matrix (ECM) proteins are overproduced, and resident lipid-filled, mature dermal adipocytes are depleted in both human disease and mouse models. However, the mechanisms by which the reduction in lipid-filled adipocytes occurs during fibrosis are not well understood.
Here, we identify that adipocyte lipolysis via the rate limiting enzyme, adipocyte triglyceride lipase (Atgl), is required for loss of adipose tissue during skin fibrosis in mice. We find that in two fibrotic mouse models, adipocyte lipolysis occurs early during skin fibrosis development and lipid storage is reestablished during fibrosis recovery.
In mice lacking Atgl in adipocytes, maintenance of adipocyte lipid storage occurs in both chemical and genetic models of fibrosis development. Transcriptional analysis revealed upregulation of lipid metabolism/lipolysis genes in fibrotic patient skin.
Interestingly, loss of adipocyte Atgl-driven lipolysis results in precocious, fibrotic remodeling of the dermal ECM in bleomycin treated mice as indicated by histological and transcriptional changes. These data suggest that dermal adipocyte-derived fatty acids prevent fibrotic ECM remodeling in fibroblasts during fibrosis development.
Thus, we suggest that dermal adipocyte-derived fatty acids are released during fibrosis development and delay fibroblast fibrogenic responses, which may hold therapeutic potential for treating fibrotic diseases."
Atgl-dependent adipocyte lipolysis promotes lipodystrophy and restrains fibrogenic responses during skin fibrosis (open access)
Figure 3 Fibrotic lipodystrophy requires Atgl expression in adipocytes.
Thursday, January 30, 2025
Bernie Erupts After RFK Jr. Accuses Him Of Being ‘Single Largest Receiver Of Pharmaceutical Money’
Nice touche! 😊 This 83 year old US Senator is also so senile and demented like the former 46th President. And what a hypocrite and banal, stupid Marxist!
Nancy Pelosi desk guy explained how J6 'woke up America' from 'corruption' with Greg Kelly
Very recommendable! The Founding Fathers and Mothers are sure proud of this man! He is not a summer soldier!
Shocking moment mobs of Gazans swarm, threaten and spit on innocent Jewish hostages as they are released
If confirmed, then absolutely disgusting! The coward and savage killers of Hamas and their enablers! Perhaps, the people of Gaza should be resettled to e.g. Sinai peninsula!
I believe, but I might be wrong, these are not the first released hostages who had to go through something like this!
U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders argues with onesies in confirmation hearing
Is this 83 year old man wearing diapers?
Is he as senile and demented as the former 46th President?
We need long overdue term limits for all representatives in the US Congress not only for the president. He has been a US Senator for 19 years, before that he was a US Representative for 16 years.
Had such term limits been in place, most like the pathological lifelong and serial liar and politician Joseph Biden would never have become the president of the US!
Greg Kelly explains how DEI was possibly responsible for the horrific airplane helicopter crash near Washington DC
Very recommendable!
However, we do not learn anything about the pilot of the helicopter. Was this an act of terrorism by the helicopter pilot or was the pilot a DEI hire or under the influence of some substance?
Only one person was working in the air traffic control tower at the time!
Pete Buttegieg, a gay man and former mayor of a small town and no other qualifications, was in charge of the Department of Transportation!
What! The FAA accepted all applicants with these disabilities!!! What jobs were such applicants hired for?
John Kennedy Questions Kash Patel About Hunter Biden, Hillary Clinton's Lawyer, And More
Very recommendable! Hope, Mr. Patel will be confirmed!
The Crisis in Physics: Why the Higgs Boson Should NOT Exist! with Matt O'Dowd
Very recommendable! I think, the assumption of a multiverse is very plausible! Like our universe is made up of galaxies ...
DeepSeek: “Sorry, that’s beyond my current scope. Let’s talk about something else.”
Typical censorship common for a communist party!
Apparently, several such critical censorship examples to other prompts were discovered.
"—DeepSeek’s chatbot, replying to a question about what happened in Tiananmen Square in 1989. (Real answer: A military crackdown on unarmed citizens—a defining moment in China’s modern history.) ... its chatbot gave limited and propaganda-infused answers to questions about subjects routinely censored in China."
English for trippers: A collusion is not a collision
It appears some current spell checkers have even problems to distinguish between these two words.
I have just seen a news article about the horrific midair collision of an civilian airplane with a military helicopter near Washington DC. And guess what happened? Perhaps, this misspelling was intentional to "stimulate" or "test" the alertness of the reader, but the incident was not well chosen.
Is DeepSeek a Sputnik moment?
It may seem so given the daily, hyper reporting and the recent, sharp drop in value of NASDAQ tech stocks, but I doubt it!
The Communist Party of China certainly achieved a publicity stunt, but more and more news about the Deepseek models seem to suggest that DeepSeek is more hype than substance.
I am currently reading one of several of DeepSeek's published, preprint research papers, i.e. [2501.12948] DeepSeek-R1: Incentivizing Reasoning Capability in LLMs via Reinforcement Learning, but I am not very impressed. Stay tuned, I will soon publish my review about this paper.
How many Gaza Strip civilians were killed by Hamas?
As a news junky, I do not remember having seen any news or other reports on this subject.
Is this not curious? I bet, the number of civilian Gaza Strip casualties caused by Hamas are high. We know Hamas massively used them as shields.
However, we are inundated with frequent, bogus undisputed reports of tens of thousands of civilian casualties provided by Hamas officials implying they were killed or maimed by Israeli military operations.
Mexican president Scheinbaum pushes back against Google Map's renaming of Gulf of Mexico
Google asked for trouble (or for attention) by complying with President Trump's weird idea! Not very smart!
"Gulf of drama" is widening! 😊
"Google Maps is planning to comply with President Donald Trump’s executive order to rename several American landmarks, including the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America. However, Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said in a press conference on Wednesday that Mexico will send a letter to Google questioning its choice to update the body of water’s name. ..."
A coalition of law enforcement agencies from the U.S., Australia, and multiple countries in Europe took down and seized two prominent hacking forums
Just maybe law enforcement (cordially aka gum shoes) are finally catching up with digital crime in the 21st century! 😊
"On Thursday, an international coalition of law enforcement agencies from Australia, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Romania, Spain, and the United States took down and seized two prominent hacking forums and two other related cybercriminal services.
After the takedown operations were revealed by Europol and Germany’s Bundeskriminalamt (BKA) on Thursday, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) published its own announcement, providing more details about the two forums, which were called Cracked and Nulled.
According to the DOJ, since 2018, Cracked had over 4 million users who traded in cybercriminal tools and stolen information, producing around $4 million in revenue. Prosecutors say the data on the cybercrime forums affected at least 17 million Americans. ..."
NCAA Transgender Track Runner Decries Faulty Shoes Despite Destroying Female Opponents by almost 1.8 seconds
Why are female athletes still competing with transgender males? As a female athlete, I would boycott or refuse to compete!
Winning by almost 1.8 seconds is almost an eternity when it comes to short distance track running like 100 or 200 meters!
Biological males who compete in this way against women are jerks! We need e.g. separate sport events for transgender athletes! Had this runner competed against other men he would most likely be a distant runner up.
"Schreiner, whose birth name was Camden, jumped to Instagram to complain that the winning times were not as good as they could have been and placed some of the blame on faulty shoes (called spikes). ...
“Schreiner won the 200-meter event with a time of 25.17 seconds. SUNY Brockport’s Lexi Rodriguez finished in second place with a time of 26.92 seconds,” Fox News reported. ..."
Trans sprinter Sadie Schreiner gets NCAA track bronze
Former German chancellor Merkel Comes Out Of Retirement To Express Anger At German Parliament Voting For Border Control. Really!
What!!! One of the worst German chancellors after 1945, who is largely responsible for turning Germany into a banana republic!
She was a Socialist Unity Party (SED) chancellor! Here is my blog post about her dismal legacy (in German).
"Angela Merkel, the former leader of Germany’s Christian Democrats (CDU, globalist centre-right) and longtime Chancellor of Germany came out of retirement on Thursday to pour scorn on her successor for daring break the so-called cordon sanitaire or firewall that all other parties have imposed against the Alternative for Germany (AfD, populist-sovereigntist right) for years. ..."
Additional Measures to Combat Anti-Semitism – The White House
Good news! Bravo!
"My Administration has fought and will continue to fight anti-Semitism in the United States and around the world. On December 11, 2019, I issued Executive Order 13899, my first Executive Order on Combating Anti-Semitism, finding that students, in particular, faced anti-Semitic harassment in schools and on university and college campuses. Executive Order 13899 provided interpretive assistance on the enforcement of the Nation’s civil rights laws to ensure that they would protect American Jews to the same extent to which all other American citizens are protected. The prior administration effectively nullified Executive Order 13899 by failing to give the terms of the order full force and effect throughout the Government. This order reaffirms Executive Order 13899 and directs additional measures to advance the policy thereof in the wake of the Hamas terrorist attacks of October 7, 2023, against the people of Israel. ...
It shall be the policy of the United States to combat anti-Semitism vigorously, using all available and appropriate legal tools, to prosecute, remove, or otherwise hold to account the perpetrators of unlawful anti-Semitic harassment and violence. ..."
Federal appeals court rules handgun ban on adults under 21 is 'unconstitutional'
Good news! The Second Amendment applies to all adults!
To deny the right to bear arms to young adults was a nice try to chip away on the Second Amendment!
"A federal appeals court on Thursday struck down a handgun ban on adults under the age of 21, ruling that the current age-based restriction violated the right to keep and bear arms enshrined in the U.S. Constitution's Second Amendment. ..."
Video documentary "Colorado Springs: Letting Freedom Lead the Way"
I did not watch this one hour long video, but it might be interesting.
"New from PRI’s Free Cities Center, watch “Colorado Springs: Letting Freedom Lead the Way,” an hour-long documentary touring one of America’s top cities for freedom – and offering lessons from the city’s pro-freedom government that can be emulated by other cities to improve services and affordability."
German-Israelis hostage Arbel Yehoud finally released by Hamas
Who knew there was also a German among the hostages held for over 15 months in captivity by the coward and savage killers of Hamas?
What did Chancellor Olaf Scholz do for this hostage if anything? Do Germans not have a particular responsibility when violence is committed against Jews!
"... But Israel was appalled at the scenes that took place during the handover. [hostages] were made to walk through a crowd of screaming people who tried to take photos of them. ...
Arbel Yehoud's brother, Dolev, was killed in the Hamas massacre on October 7, 2023. Arbel herself was abducted with the family of her boyfriend, Ariel Cunio, from the Nir Oz kibbutz near the Gaza border. Initially, they hid in the house of her partner's brother but the attackers set fire to it, forcing them all out into the open. Some 1,200 Israelis were killed during the terror attacks, and another 250 were taken hostage. ..."
Arbel Yehoud (center, in white and black shit) was reunited with her family on Thursday after more than 15 months of captivity
11 Baltic cables damaged in 15 months, pushing NATO to boost security
Very concerning!
"... Power and communications cables and gas pipelines stitch together the nine countries with shores on the Baltic, a relatively shallow and nearly landlocked sea. A few examples are the 94-mile Balticconnector pipeline that carries gas between Finland and Estonia, the high-voltage Baltic Cable connecting the power grids of Sweden and Germany, and the 729-mile C-Lion1 telecommunications cable between Finland and Germany. ...
“In the last two months alone, we have seen damage to a cable connecting Lithuania and Sweden, another connecting Germany and Finland, and most recently, a number of cables linking Estonia and Finland. Investigations of all of these cases are still ongoing. ...
At least 11 Baltic cables have been damaged since October 2023 — the most recent being a fiber optic cable connecting Latvia and the Swedish island of Gotland, reported to have ruptured on Sunday. Although cable operators note that subsea cable damage is commonplace, the frequency and concentration of incidents in the Baltic heightened suspicions that damage might have been deliberate.
There also are fears that Russia could target cables as part of a wider campaign of so-called “hybrid warfare” to destabilize European nations helping Ukraine defend itself against the full-scale invasion that Moscow has been pursuing since 2022. ...
Several Western intelligence officials ... that recent damage was most likely accidental, seemingly caused by anchors being dragged by ships that were poorly maintained and poorly crewed. ... The official said Russian cables were also severed. ..."
VDMA: Germany's robotics industry 'has lost competitiveness'
Bad news! Germany ranks only fifth after South Korea in installed industrial robots.
"... VDMA R+A said these structural weaknesses were evident in 2024. It pointed to a 16% decrease domestically compared with 2023. ...
The only bright spot for the German robotics and automation industry was exports to the eurozone, with incoming orders rising by an impressive 44% in 2024, noted VDMA. ...
In June 2024, the VDMA warned that growing competition from China was weighing on its own robotics ecosystem. “Many Chinese suppliers have grown strongly in their home markets and are now pushing into Europe,” ...
“With a view to fierce global competition, Germany can no longer afford disadvantages such as disproportionate regulation and excessive costs,” ...
“With a view to fierce global competition, Germany can no longer afford disadvantages such as disproportionate regulation and excessive costs,” ...
Germany isn’t the only country to see its leading robotics industry see a slowdown. China, the world’s largest industrial robotics market for 10-plus years, expected its industrial robot sales to decline for the first time in five years in 2024."
Asensus Surgical completes gallbladder removal from 16-year-old
More and more surgical robots are developed and are successful! If this trend continues, then soon surgeons will be unemployed in large numbers? 😊
"Rev, a 16-year-old from Aurora, Colo., last year became the first patient to be operated on by a remotely controlled Senhance robot at HCA HealthONE Rocky Mountain Children’s. After the removal of his gallbladder with the Asensus Surgical system, Rev was discharged that afternoon. Just two days later, the teenager was out of the hospital and dancing at his prom. ..."
Waymo reportedly testing robotaxis in 10 new US cities in 2025
Good news! Maybe in LA, Waymo will soon drive on highways too.
"Waymo plans to start testing autonomous vehicles in 10 new cities this year, starting with Las Vegas and San Diego, according to The Verge. However, this doesn’t mean the company will launch commercial operations in any of these cities — or even test them in autonomous mode. Waymo told The Verge it will send less than 10 AVs to each city, where they will be manually driven. ..."
General Mark Milley was immediately grateful for the 46th President's last minute pardon. Really!
Proves what a total fool this general is! Anyone else with a scintilla of character would have rejected/declined this preemptive pardon!
Now, this fool will be investigated and most likely be demoted! He lost already his security detail and clearance.
Maybe then he will understand white rage better! 😊
Wednesday, January 29, 2025
#MeToo: Movement, Momentum, and Mission by WHO. Really!
So glad President Trump exited WHO! I have blogged here plenty about what is wrong with the leftist Me Too ideology, e.g. toxic femininity!
Wind turbines are changing your local weather, here’s how
So wind turbines are not only mass bird, bats, and insect killers! Not to mention that they are spoiling nature!
The video (falsely) claims the weather effects are negligible.
If it changes local weather, then it may also change the climate!
Sun's Violent Behaviour Alarms Space Scientists
Very recommendable! We still know so little about the sun and solar activity! What if the sun is mostly responsible for global warming?
ISRO’s 100th Rocket Launch & NASA’s Starliner Crisis: Shakeup in Space? with Palki Sharma
Very recommendable! A story of the The Tortoise and the Hare!
Drohnen-Schwarm durchbricht russische Flugabwehr
Sehr empfehlenswert! David gegen Goliath! Putin der Schreckliche ist ein Verlierer!
Trump to Open Guantanamo Bay Camp in Cuba for 30,000 Migrants
Good news! However, what will the Cuban government do about it?
"President Donald Trump has told his deputies to reopen a facility in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to house 30,000 migrants pending their full deportation. ..."
Tulsi Gabbard’s congressional campaign in 2017 tried to suppress coverage of an alleged pyramid scheme linked to her Hindu sect
More potential trouble for her confirmation?
I have blogged here a few days ago that I don't think she is highly qualified for the job of Director of DNI!
"Consultants were paid to handle PR. Gabbard, Trump’s national intelligence pick, was raised in a religious group tied to a firm suspected of running an international scam. The sect accused the WSJ of “falsehoods, half-truths, and misrepresentations.” The firm denied a connection to Gabbard. Her Senate confirmation hearing is tomorrow. Ties to a group that some ex-followers call a cult raise questions about her judgment and loyalty, congressional staffers said. A Trump administration spokeswoman responded on Gabbard’s behalf by taking to social media to call the WSJ’s questions and findings “Hinduphobic smears and other lies.”"
OpenAI is investigating whether DeepSeek trained its new chatbot by repeatedly querying the U.S. company’s AI models
They say, the Chinese copied and imitated a lot to catch up with the West.
Now OpenAI claims they also prompted a lot! 😊
There is an old Chinese proverb: Imitations is the sincerest form of flattery! Caution: Satire.
"OpenAI is investigating whether DeepSeek trained its new chatbot by repeatedly querying the U.S. company’s AI models.
The ChatGPT maker said it’s reviewing indications that the Chinese AI startup extricated lots of data from OpenAI’s tools to help develop its own technology. OpenAI’s terms of service forbid customers from using its AI models’ outputs to do that. DeepSeek didn’t immediately respond to requests for comment. An announcement about its cheaply made AI model rattled markets Monday, but some investors doubled down and bought stocks."
Die Nationalgalerie Washington kündigt Gleichstellungsprogramme. Wirklich!
Wieder ein dämlicher Kommentar von einer deutschen Journalistin (in New York)! Trump Derangement Syndrome auch in der Bananenrepublik D.
Ich zweifel sehr stark, dass das amerikanische DEI Unwesen mit der deutschen Gleichstellung vergleichbar ist.
Portrait der Journalistin Frauke Steffens!
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