Did Trump Make Up “Bill Jones” to Justify Costly Overhaul of Navy Ships?
Speaking at a campaign rally in January 2024, Trump told a story about a sailor aboard the USS Gerald R. Ford aircraft carrier
who argued on behalf of steam catapults over their more modern electromagnetic counterparts.
Trump had been telling the same story since at least 2019
—but this time he gave his source a name: Bill Jones.
Trump claimed that “Bill Jones” had lamented the shift to el…
Google Pixel 11 series hands-on: a $100 hike, minimal design changes, a new HiLight status light, new colors, and small camera and performance improvements (The Shortcut)
https://www.theshortcut.com/p/google-pixel-11-pro-hands-on
Fascist paramilitary held an unarmed family at rifle point, claiming "officer safety" and an "imminent threat" to justify the assault. (Anthony, NM, 8/11/26)
The family included women recording on smartphones and children who had already been sprayed with chemical irritants for asking questions.
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The Apple announcement today has left me extremely ambivalent. On the one hand, I can upgrade to a lease of a brand-new pro Max, and it will actually be less per month, but I don't believe I get AppleCare so I'd have to pay $15 a month for that. But they did not make a compelling case for me to do so. I don't believe the camera upgrades justify a new device, so then it's just about battery life and AI, both of which don't move the needle for me. (1/5)
I've never been impressed by Michael Jacobs, a fake environmentalist in my view. And this confirms my opinion.
Can Burnham justify giving the go ahead to oil drilling? Yes, but these must be the conditions | Michael Jacobs | The Guardian https://www.
K-contact manifolds admitting some geometric solitons with Semi-Symmetric Non-Metric Connection
Bidhan Mondal, Nirabhra Basu, Arindam Bhattacharyya
https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.15147 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2609.15147 https://arxiv.org/html/2609.15147
arXiv:2609.15147v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: In this paper, we introduce some type vector fields with respect to a semi-symmetric non-metric (SSNM) connection. We investigate several geometric properties of a K-contact manifold equipped with an SSNM connection and provide a concrete example to justify the relation between the scalar curvature of the SSNM connection and Levi-Civita connection that we have obtained in this paper. Furthermore, we have found the nature of Riemann solitons, conformal Ricci solitons and conformal $\eta$-Ricci-Yamabe solitons on K-contact manifolds admitting a SSNM connection.\\ Finally, we determine the necessary and sufficient conditions for such a manifold to be $\Tilde{\tau}$-semi-symmetric, quasi-conformal-semi-symmetric and pseudo-projective-semi-symmetric.
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Songlink have cut public access to their API.
So my link formatting script is currently broken.
They still give API key but you have to write to them and justify the usage.
I did.
Hope they reply favorably.
Lawyers for the Los Angeles Police officer charged with multiple felonies for secretly recording his colleagues’ racist, sexist and homophobic comments
issued a scathing response to Los Angeles County Dist. Atty. Nathan Hochman,
-- accusing the D.A. of making
“a desperate effort to save face”
and attempting to discredit their client ahead of his arraignment Monday.
Officer Daniel Flores has said he heard co-workers refer to Black people as “monkeys” who like gra…
RE: https://glammr.us/@LibraryLoon/117191361596568805
"Even if we can come to a definition of public good, why should we assume that an AI infrastructure will produce it? And even if it can produce good, does the amount of good justify the other effects…
Sam Altman says OpenAI and Anthropic still hold fundamentally different worldviews on AI regulation, arguing that AI's benefits justify accepting some risks (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/10/04/sam-altman-decoded-interview-ai-01106217
It’s easy to second-guess Anthony Fauci, and others who guided policy about masks, research and closures of businesses and schools.
But surely, the 85-year-old physician and immunologist doesn’t deserve what’s happening right now,
as a highly politicized Republican-led Senate committee attempted to humiliate him,
possibly trap him into perjuring himself,
and then voted – along party lines – to hold him in contempt of Congress.
No surprise, really, that Fauci, no…
RE: https://toot.cafe/@aardrian/116975569764655540
Oh yay, an outlet that people trust is promoting this article through its accessibility messaging.
And I see the author has updated the original to… justify the article text (versus ragged right).
M…
@… if you are using an actual as opposed to metaphorical Nazi like Heidegger to justify your positions, you really should be questioning your life choices instead.
' Canada's 'powerful' dairy sector is in Trump's trade crosshairs:
Canada's dairy supply management system is in the spotlight after the US president singled it out as one of three main irritants used to justify new tariffs. '
Canada has a very safe dairy supply and we don't want American Big Agro selling into our markets to ruin our health with their "products".
RE: https://flipboard.social/@newsguyusa/116954673956412815
If this goes on for much longer customs will become as complicated as medical billing and we’ll end up with an entire industry lobbying to keep things complicated to justify their own existenc…
Speaking at a Republican political rally in Nebraska, Trump sought to justify the Iran war as necessary for “keeping the world safe.”
He then suggested there could be strikes on the United States, including the Democratic-led Californian cities.
“They could take out a city,” he said.
“Let them take — Let them take out Los Angeles. Let them take out San Diego.”
It was not immediately clear what Trump meant, but his comments were met with anger from officials in Califor…
In run-up to election, ICE is asking detainees if they voted illegally
Federal immigration officers are now asking immigrants they arrest if they have ever voted illegally
and whether they did so by mail or in person
as part of a pre-election push to justify claims of widespread voter fraud.
Trump went against many of his previous statements against tech bros to announce that they would be
self-policing their actions.
“They’re tyrants!”
Jon Stewart said in response.
“I thought you hated these guys?”
He asked “how can you justify letting the tech giants police themselves?”
as well as
“why can’t we just fucking slow this down rather than let people regulate something they have a clear conflict of interest in regulating?”
This is one of the things that I find interesting about people trying to justify staying on Twitter to promote their stuff; the game is rigged, your stuff gets tucked away and hidden.
https://mastodon.social/@randahl/117200436517938514
Apple continues to face backlash for removing ICE-tracking apps like ICEBlock from the App Store,
a drastic step that seemed to be triggered by Trump administration claims that the apps endangered officers.
According to US Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.),
Apple has no evidence to support claims that apps raised safety concerns.
Instead, the lawmaker accused Apple of using immigrant deaths with no connection to the apps to justify censoring Americans who have the right to re…
None of the big things I did were for work, however, so I still have many days to justify my existence before I can goof off…
The Anthropic plan to justify the ridiculous valuation: they'll be the only company authorized to certify that you're, in fact, human.
Gonna cost a few thousand $, so start saving up.
It is not inevitable that AI vendors use circular accounting to help justify such levels of investment. Their boards and investors •could• demand better accounting; regulatory agencies •could• crack down on the practice.
Could. Not necessarily “should” or “will,” but could.
A/4
HHS Releases Study Finding Individuals Who Associate with Left-Wing Authoritarian Beliefs and Radical Gender Ideology Are More Likely to Justify Political Violence (Health.gov)
https://health.gov/hhs-releases-study-finding-individuals-who-associate-left-wing-authoritarian-beliefs-and-radical
http://www.memeorandum.com/260827/p63#a260827p63
For years, a few economists and financial analysts have pointed to the fact that the amount of money being spent on AI continues to rise as evidence that the AI bubble is unsustainable.
The thing is, investors are fine with rising costs if there’s enough revenue coming in to justify the spending, which for AI development has already eclipsed $1.6 trillion as of 2026.
But whether we’re looking at data centers, digital ad revenue, or the cost of inference,
the kind of revenue …
Build-Authorized Evidence for Opaque Calls: A Fail-Closed Rewrite-Authority Boundary
Zhonghua Yi (Toka Language Research Group)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.18949 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2607.18949 https://arxiv.org/html/2607.18949
arXiv:2607.18949v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Detached semantic facts about opaque native providers do not by themselves justify compiler rewrites: rewrite authority must be confined to the accepted fact, selected provider and build, caller, callback environment, observation, and runtime target. We present a build-authorized path-effect interface that enforces this boundary through fail-closed authorization and link receipts. The design separates receipt closure, callback-environment closure, and projection identity, and passes accepted facts to LLVM through a narrow internal API. We use one-hop topology-load reuse as a minimal observable witness of authority, not as the optimization target.
A conservative LLVM consumer reuses a pointer observation only from a noalias root or one constant nonzero projection. Rocq models prove conditional refinement and authority non-amplification under explicit effect, alias, compiler/ABI, and target-resolution premises. We instantiate checked production with Toka: a source-summary gate emits exact LLVM IR, a separate IR checker accepts only a bounded topology-preserving subset, and only accepted IR is compiled into the receipt-bound provider object. A bounded static Darwin/arm64 profile also checks the final direct branch target.
Across issuer-declared readv, recvmsg, and Cairo boundaries, authorized IR retains each opaque call, reduces the relevant loads from two to one, and preserves observed results; mismatched providers, builds, callbacks, projections, and unsupported IR remain neutral. A libjpeg case is rejected because its callback environment is open, while a bound callback singleton demonstrates the supported closure rule. The contribution is a checked deployment-compiler boundary with an explicit trust and applicability frontier, not a uniquely expressive effect encoding or a new load-elimination algorithm.
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It is not inevitable that investors value AI companies at levels roughly as large as the entire US GDP. They •could• decide that they do not have the evidence of real-world value that would justify such levels of investment.
Could. Not necessarily “should” or “will,” but could.
A/3
Please, don't justify your texts if you don't know how to adjust the spaces, and, for the love of Satan or whatever deity you fancy, please don't print a book like this.
#GraphicDesign #Unjustified #books #layout
"The problem with identifying Russian kinetic attacks on NATO states as “hybrid” is that it implies that they are not part of a coherent military campaign, but rather part of something else. Using that term is, again, meant to justify not invoking NATO’s collective defense provisions..." #isw #russia #eu #nato
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