FAA has issued a nationwide ground stop halting all departing flights across the U.S. due to extraordinary circumstances and safety concerns

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The disruption is caused by a telecommunications outage affecting multiple Air Route Traffic Control Centers, which has grounded takeoffs at major hubs including Chicago, New York, Los Angeles, and Boston.

Key details:

  • Cause: A communication issue impacting air traffic control frequencies and radar capabilities.
  • Status: All departing traffic is grounded until further notice; flights already in the air are permitted to land.
  • Impact: Thousands of flights are delayed or canceled, with no immediate timeline for resumption.
  • Security: Officials confirm there is no indication of a cyberattack or nefarious threat.
  • History: This is the first nationwide ground stop since January 2023 and the third since the September 11, 2001 attacks.

Polish President Nawrocki vetoes DSA law — Polsat News

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Polish President Karol Nawrocki has vetoed a law that was intended to implement the European Union’s Digital Services Act (DSA) in the country. The document was prepared by Poland’s Ministry of Digitalisation, Polsat News reports.

The president could have signed the law, referred it to the Constitutional Tribunal, or exercised his right of veto. Nawrocki chose the latter option. In mid-October, he said that he would sign the DSA law if a document that “would not violate freedom and would not block freedom online” was submitted for his consideration.

The amendments to the law on the provision of electronic services provided for the introduction of a procedure for promptly issuing orders to restrict access to internet content that violates the law.

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终于实锤了 — 小龙先生

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干掉黄仁勋的，不是婚外情，而是一场由美国政客、媒体、CIA和Anthropic 联合做局的“完美猎杀”。

黄仁勋辞职后，《纽约时报》两名记者在播客里亲口承认： 他们是收到了一位“科技界联系人”的爆料，才去查Megaspeed的。这个联系人，被开源情报指向了Anthropic 的联合创始人杰克·克拉克。

原来，这个Anthropic 的联合创始人杰克是彻头彻尾的恶魔。这个家伙后续必死无疑！

顺着资金链往下挖，全是对得上的： Anthropic今年向支持“收紧对华芯片管制”的组织捐了 4000万美元。

逼黄仁勋辞职的参议员克莱默，收过Anthropic 5.1万美元政治捐款。

CIA监听黄乐一年拿不出间谍实锤，却在中期选举后精准放料。 纽时配合政客，用匿名员工爆料补上“第二段婚外情”。

CIA给黑料，Anthropic出钱，政客挥刀，媒体处刑。

黄仁勋反对封杀中国AI芯片，说“限制不明智”。

而Anthropic靠闭源API赚钱，最怕中国开源模型在GPU上免费跑。让英伟达戴上镣铐，Anthropic才能活下去。

他的“罪”，不是睡了谁。

黄仁勋挡了丑陋资本的路，挡住了美国政客的枪口，还是一个不听话的华人。

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The “Noble Savage” Myth Busted By The Bones — WindTalker

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The idea of a pre-contact “peaceable kingdom” that lasted until 1492 does not survive contact with the archaeological record. Violence appears early in the Americas and, by the Mississippian centuries, had become a regular feature of complex agricultural life.

What follows is limited to North America. The scale of organized ritual violence and warfare documented in Mesoamerica and South America was, in many cases, substantially greater still.
Evidence of interpersonal conflict reaches back at least to the Early Holocene. Kennewick Man, recovered from the Columbia River in Washington and dated to roughly 8,500–9,000 years ago, carried a Cascade-style stone projectile point embedded in his right ilium. The point entered from the front at a steep angle, consistent with an atlatl dart. Bone had grown around it, showing that the wound healed, though the injury was serious. He also bore healed cranial depression fractures and multiple rib fractures.

Other early skeletons display trauma consistent with violence, but well-preserved Paleo-Indian remains are rare, so the sample is small. No mass graves or fortifications are known from that period. Violence is ancient human behavior; its scale and intensity rise sharply later with denser populations and agriculture.

Scalping itself is not unique to the Americas. Clear osteological evidence of the practice appears in prehistoric Europe and elsewhere well before the peopling of the New World.

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China finds ethical flaw in gene-editing trial that led to child’s death; two researchers fired

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Chinese authorities fired two researchers and disciplined several others after an investigation found safety and ethical flaws in an experimental gene-editing study that led to the death of a child.

The two key researchers leading the study at Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine also were barred for five years from government science and technology projects, state media China Central Television reported on Friday.

The child’s death, first reported in late July by Science and Retraction Watch, drew scrutiny of China’s booming early-stage clinical trials, particularly those involving cell and gene therapies. Under China’s dual-track regulatory system, doctors at major hospitals can test certain novel therapies after local review, without approval from the national drug regulator.

Such studies, known as investigator-initiated trials, or IITs, have surged in recent years, accelerating the development of cutting-edge drugs that are fueling China’s biotech boom. But the July death — and two others that subsequently came to light in trials of therapies developed by Huidagene Therapeutics and RiboX Therapeutics — raised questions around whether oversight, safety reporting and public disclosure have kept pace with the sector’s rapid growth.

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Morality and FIML practice

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The physical universe is probably amoral.

The laws of the physical universe—the ones we know—do not say much about the evolution of life. And they have even less to say about the evolution of human societies and human consciousness.

Good moral behavior is essential for the scientific method to work. If many scientists lie or cheat, we won’t get good science.

On the interpersonal level, FIML practice both requires and encourages moral behavior. At first, partners may only notice that they are required to tell the truth, but as they continue practicing, they will come to want to tell the truth.

This happens for very concrete, even objective, reasons. I know that if I don’t tell my partner the truth, we will both lose. And if I do tell her the truth, we will both gain.

Morality in FIML practice—i.e. telling the truth—is not difficult because the units of a FIML discussion are typically very small, usually entailing just a few seconds of conversation/communication. The payoff for telling the truth in FIML practice, however, is huge. Partners will notice profound and beneficial changes in all aspects of their psychologies. This happens because partners’ senses of who they are will shift from a core with a secretive ego to a core with an interactive truth-telling process. Clean, clear language and a clear conscience transform human being.

FIML may prove that morality is fundamental to human consciousness. This statement is not based on feeling or wishful thinking because you have to behave morally to do FIML at all. For individual psychology, the payoff from FIML can be greater than from science in many important areas.

Being able to do FIML

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  • Being able to do FIML means that you have developed a skill or trait that did not exist in you before. The ability to do FIML is a functional “state of mind” that emerges from other states of mind–from consciousness, awareness, self-reflection, self-criticism, communication, language use, emotion, etc.
  • Doing FIML will change the way you communicate, especially with your FIML partner. It will change the way you view language and its uses.
  • Since FIML depends on real data agreed upon by both partners and since FIML can convincingly change how we perceive ourselves and our partners, it can give us new perspectives on psychology and/or any activity that depends on language/communication.
  • The use of a linguistic/semiotic vocabulary in FIML allows us to classify a great deal of human cognition, psychology, and behavior as lying on a spectrum of public—private semiotics.
  • This perspective allows us to broadly define many human behaviors, thoughts, and feelings as mistakes. For example, a private semiotic may be considered a “neurosis” and can be defined simply as a “mistaken interpretation” or an “ongoing mistaken interpretation.” Similarly, any public semiotic that can be shown to be wrong can be clearly identified as a mistake or an “ongoing public neurosis.”
  • What is “normal” in FIML is, thus, that which is not mistaken. Partners have great leeway to decide much of this for themselves.
  • Very often, the least mistaken view is one of doubt or traditional skepticism, the view that we may not be able to be certain about whatever is in question.
  • FIML practice accepts the basic scientific view that a scientific theory must be testable or falsifiable, based on experiments that can be repeated, based on verifiable evidence, internally consistent, consistent with what is external to itself, useful or practical, open to change, and parsimonious in its explanations.
  • New scientific theories should also say something new and interesting, something that explains data in a new way or that provides a new way of understanding old data.
  • FIML differs from a good deal of science in that it relies heavily on the experiences of two (or more) partners. FIML is a kind of subjective science that also relies on the objectivity of a truthful partner.
  • For the most part, partners alone decide what is true for them, though they cannot honestly do this without reference to other fields of science and thought.
  • FIML resembles Buddhist practice, art, or the work of early scientists in that the existential/ experiential data acquired by individuals is of great importance to those individuals and is central to what they are doing.
  • FIML can be scientifically falsified if many people do it and fail to gain any benefit from it.
  • Done properly, at a minimum, FIML practice should clear up most communication mistakes/ problems between partners. FIML also provides the means for partners to continue clearing up new mistakes as they appear.
  • By clearing up mistakes in communication between partners, FIML practice alleviates a great deal of emotional suffering.
  • By clearing up mistakes in communication between partners, FIML practice will also relieve partners of other mistaken ideas and feelings, thus relieving a good deal of more generalized emotional suffering.

first posted March 3, 2012

We had a brief, beautiful moment here of a glimpse into what should have been the dawning AI Golden Age — Emily Youcis

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Unfortunately, with this sabotage of American Open Source, it looks like we are leaving the good timeline behind and beginning the descent into the AI Doomsday Scenario.

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Emily called it a week ago: For anyone who might be at all confused as to why this Rubio-led witch hunt against Jensen Huang is happening right now — Emily Youcis. ABN

If Nvidia’s Jensen is out as is being reported let’s war game the daisy chain effects — Edward Dowd

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He has been the architect of much of the circular financing to pump up demand for chips.

There were likely grey (I’m being generous) accounting practices.

Growth Fundamentals are clearly slowing.

Those in the C-Suite have a strong incentive to come clean and kitchen sink everything and reset expectations while blaming Jensen.

This is going to get interesting fast.

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Christianity was considered water-soluble by the Baltic pagans — Andrius

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Around 1426, Michael Junge, Bishop of Sambia, issued a decree forbidding the Old Prussians from rebaptising their children in rivers or elsewhere after they had already been baptised by Christian priests. He also prohibited giving the children different names from those received at Christian baptism. Violators faced fines or whipping.

Around 1426, Michael Junge, Bishop of Sambia, issued a decree forbidding the Old Prussians from rebaptising their children in rivers or elsewhere after they had already been baptised by Christian priests. He also prohibited giving the children different names from those received at Christian baptism. Violators faced fines or whipping.


An earlier example comes from the Livonians. In the late 12th century, after the departure of German crusaders, the recently baptised locals reportedly washed themselves in the Daugava, declaring:


“We now remove the water of baptism and Christianity itself with the water of the river.”


According to Henry of Livonia, they even placed a carved wooden head, which they believed represented the Saxons’ god, on a raft and sent it down the river after the departing Germans.

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