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Operation Dark Winter continues: Joe Biden says carbon emissions threaten, literally, ‘the very existence of our planet’ Posted at 7:53 pm on December 28, 2020 by Brett T. As Twitchy reported earlier, Joe Biden spoke from the Office of the President-Elect Monday, where he said he was going to find out who built all those cages at the border and expressed his respect for the intelligence community, such as the FBI agents who’ve been investigating his son since 2018. He also brought up clim...

When Slate debuted a feature called “80 Over 80” more than a decade ago, we had two goals in mind: to poke fun at America’s obsession with early achievers (and the 30 Under 30 industrial complex) and point to the lasting influence of octogenarians on American society. In 2008, John Paul Stevens topped the inaugural list. Logo by Morgan Saavedra-Friedman Advertisement We brought the feature out of retirement this year because the power of the geriatric set—in politics, in Hollywood, in c...

The Cosmologist Working to Preserve the Night Sky for the Future, reports Becky Ferreira for Motherboard Science.– Dr. Aparna Venkatesan studies the distant reaches of space and time, while advocating for a night sky undamaged by orbital clutter. Astronomers Get Their Wish, and a Cosmic Crisis Gets Worse –We don’t know why the universe appears to be expanding faster than it should. New ultra-precise distance measurements have only intensified the problem, reports Natalie Wolchover for Qua...

Is this the high point of Facebook panic? Share on Facebook John SextonPosted at 9:20 pm on December 15, 2020 Share on Facebook Share on Twitter I’ve really come to dislike the so-called “tech reporters” employed by supposedly serious news outlets who, for starters, don’t know much of anything about tech in any useful sense. Their beat seems to range between lionizing the latest progressive influencers various online platforms to warning us that social media, especially Facebook and You...

Facebook is a doomsday machine Today’s fatalism about the brokenness of the internet feels similar. We’re still in the infancy of this century’s triple digital revolution of the internet, smartphones, and the social web, and we find ourselves in a dangerous and unstable informational environment, powerless to resist forces of manipulation and exploitation that we know are exerted on us but remain mostly invisible. The Doomsday Machine offers a lesson: We should not accept this current arr...

Dooms day machine. it might hit its target two or three days later even if moscow was already destroyed. >> wow. >> so he showed all these, but we couldnt tell what part of this was sort of out of dr. strangelove and what part was real. >> president trump tweeted the united states is learning from the explosion. he says the u.s. has, quote, similar though more advanced technology. do we know? is that accurate? you report the u.s. actually tried and failed to develop a nuclear powered missile bac...

One was a cruise missile. ballistic missiles take a predictable path into outer space. thats how defenses work. cruise missiles try to avoid defenses by staying low and basically zigzag to the target. he showed an under sea drone, looks like a giant torpedo. that he maintained would evade missile defenses and many in the united states and the intelligence community thought this was a sort of under sea doomsday machine. in other words the russians could launch it under attack and might hit its ta...

That film sing, that you can feet that stanley kubrick has somebody that he trusts to go completely off the rails and that he knows how to film it and contain it and use it for the purposes of the story. >> the whole point of the doomsday machine is lost if you keep it a secret. why didnt you tell the world, eh? >> when i first saw the film, i came out of that movie fearing nuclear war with the russians more than i ever had before. >> i got a pretty fair idea that something doggone important is ...

There is a comedy before "dr. strangelove" and after "dr. strangelove" because no one had seen anything that dry. the satire of it, in order to do it right, you had to do it completely straight. >> of course i like to speak to you. of course i like to say hello. >> on the surface, it was not supposed to scare anybody because it was a comedy when, in fact, its not a comedy. the film really, really takes you to the end of the world. >> gentlemen, you cant fight in here. this is the war room. >> pe...

Nine hundred seventy one classified documents which helped to exit the b. at nom wars and as well as watergate and the resignation of richard nixon im happy to welcome to the day daniel ellsberg is ellsberg its an honor to have you on the day we appreciate you taking the time they talk with us id like to talk with you about about how we view nuclear weapons in deterrence in general in just a moment but first id like to ask you about this acute problem right now with this i.n.f. treaty should it ...