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'You'll go down as a wimp:' Pence's never-before-published notes key evidence in case against Trump, book says  - ABC News
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/youll-wimp-pences-published-notes-key-evidence-case/story?id=126837443

'You'll go down as a wimp:' Pence's never-before-published notes key evidence in case against Trump, book says (Peter Charalambous/ABC News)
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/youll-wimp-pences-published-notes-key-evidence-case/story?id=126837443
http://www.memeorandum.com/251026/p21#a251026p21

20 GeV halo-like excess of the Galactic diffuse emission and implications for #DarkMatter annihilation: https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.07209 -> After nearly 100 years, scientists may have detected dark matter: https://www.u-tokyo.ac.jp/focus/en/press/z0508_00433.html -> Study claims to provide first direct evidence of dark matter: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/nov/25/study-claims-to-provide-first-direct-evidence-of-dark-matter

As the Trump administration escalates pressure on Venezuela,
U.S. military activity across the Caribbean continues to grow.
The U.S. has deployed more than 15,000 troops to the region and carried out airstrikes on over 20 boats,
killing at least 83 people in operations the White House has justified, without providing evidence, as targeting drug traffickers.
On Monday, the administration also designated the so-called Cšrtel de los Soles as a foreign terrorist organiza…

Will the U.S. Attack Venezuela? Trump’s Anti-Maduro Campaign Seen as Part of a Broader Regional Plan
As the Trump administration escalates pressure on Venezuela, U.S. military activity across the Caribbean continues to grow. The U.S. has deployed more than 15,000 troops to the region and carried out airstrikes on over 20 boats, killing at least 83 people in operations the White House has justified, without providing evidence, as targeting drug traffickers. On Monday, the administration also designated the so-called Cártel de los Soles as a foreign terrorist organization, alleging President Ni…

I was just thinking about how the fact that #Musk named his AI "Grok" is evidence that he "reads sci-fi" in the same way he "plays video games." Like, he claims to do it but when it comes time to show the evidence it's clear he does not actually "grok" it.
Like... To grok something is to have a layer deeper than simply knowledge, but mathematically encoding statistical relationships between words is pretty obviously not even understanding much less qualifying as "groking" it. In the book, the ability to grok something is also the ability to annihilate that thing with a thought. Just pretending that an LLM actually *was* something that could become AGI (which it's not), this name would imply the AI would have the power to annihilate reality. That's bad. That's a bad name for an AI.
And why would a greedy fascist name something of his after something an anarchist communist space Jesus taught to the hippie cult he started? There are so many layers of facepalm to this. It's some kind of php-esque fractal of incompetence.
Like, there's no reason to talk about this but my brain does this to me sometimes and now it's your problem.

messal_shale: Messel Shale food web (2014)
A network of feeling links among taxa based on the 48 million years old uppermost early Eocene Messel Shale. Edge property 'certainty' denotes the certainty of the edge. Metadata include evidence, habitat, and trophic roles. The edge direction goes from consumer to resource.
This network has 700 nodes and 6444 edges.
Tags: Biological, Food Web, Uncertain, Weighted, Metadata

Files offer details on Epstein's death in federal custody (Derek Hawkins/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/12/26/epstein-suicide-files-evidence/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251226/p10#a251226p10

Evidence that AI is normal technology include AI systems that are good enough to be useful but not good enough to be trusted, continuing to require human oversight that limits productivity gains;
prompt injection and security vulnerabilities remain unsolved, constraining what agents can be trusted to do;
domain complexity continues to defeat generalization, and what works in coding doesn’t transfer to medicine, law, science;
regulatory and liability barriers prove high enou…

What If? AI in 2026 and Beyond
The market is betting that AI is an unprecedented technology breakthrough, valuing Sam Altman and Jensen Huang like demigods already astride the world. The

"In blowing up the vessel, destroying evidence and repatriating the survivors, the U.S. cut short a process that’s helped bring down traffickers."
The U.S. sank the alleged narco-terrorists’ boat — and let them go - The Washington Post
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/12/27/us-drug-strike-survivors/

Because there's not enough evidence to charge them with a crime ... https://www.threads.com/@aaron.rupar/post/DQRkrYSCcsK

Aaron Rupar (@aaron.rupar) on Threads
Rand Paul: "In the one instance you're killed on sight. On the other instance, if you're captured, we just say, 'Oh well, we're gonna send you back to your country.' It doesn't make any sense."