A pioneering Serbian company specializing in lithium iron phosphate (LFP) battery technology has unveiled a groundbreaking cell that charges electric vehicles (EVs) up to 80 percent in just 12 minutes.
Produced by Subotica-based ElevenEs, the new Edge574 Blade Cell not only delivers ultra-fast charging, but also offers an impressive cycle life equivalent to about 310,000 miles (500,000 kilometers), combining speed and durability in a single high-performance solution. //
The battery’s smart fast-charging method allows it to reach from 10 to 80 percent capacity in approximately 12 minutes when operating at temperatures of 77 degrees Fahrenheit (25 degrees Celsius) or above, significantly reducing downtime and improving efficiency for electric vehicle users. //
ElevenEs further revealed that the battery can reach 80 percent in just 18 minutes at 50 degrees Fahrenheit (10 degrees Celsius), charging with a power of 650 kilowatts (kW). It however, completes the process in 25 minutes when operating at 32 degrees Fahrenheit (0 degrees Celsius), with a peak charging power of 415 kW. //
When operating at full capacity with 210 cells, the system’s peak charging power reaches up to one megawatt. This, according to ElevenEs, opens new possibilities for rapid EV turnaround times and significantly more efficient charging infrastructure.
The cell also performs reliably between -22 degrees Fahrenheit (-30 degrees Celsius) and 140 degrees Fahrenheit (60 degrees Celsius), and still delivers its nominal capacity, ensuring consistent output across extreme conditions.
My grandfather used to quote what he claimed was an old Indian saying: "A tree fell in the woods. The eagle saw it. The deer heard it. The bear smelled it." So if you live in bear country, think on that, and handle food accordingly. //
If you're interested in learning more about bear attacks, I recommend the Stephen Herrero book "Bear Attacks: Their Causes and Avoidance." It's an excellent work by a Professor of Environmental Science and Biology at the University of Calgary (Canada), who has made a lifelong study of bears and their behavior. In that book, the author notes that black bears are actually more likely to attack humans with predatory intent than grizzlies. A grizzly may rush you because you got too close, or because you're near its cubs, near a carcass it has claimed, or because it's just having a bad day. A black bear is more inclined to try to eat you. The prevalent wisdom with griz is to avoid any show of aggression, but to a black bear, make yourself look big, make a lot of noise, and if it attacks, fight. //
Dr. Dealgood
2 hours ago
If they want to eat us, then we should return the courtesy.
Bear meat is tasty, but must be thoroughly cooked as they are rife with parasites.
“'Joe Biden is not Richard Nixon, and the hiding and cover-up of his deterioration is not Watergate,’ Morgan said, quoting from the book. "I am not entirely sure I agree, Jake, with that conclusion.” //
“It is a scandal. It is without question – and maybe even worse than Watergate in some ways,” Tapper confessed. “Because Richard Nixon was in control of his faculties when he was not drinking.”
“This is an entirely separate scandal,” he added. “Maybe even worse … maybe even worse.” //
Here's the thing - Tapper is trying to convince people that the media simply missed the Biden story. That the daily videos and transcripts coming out showing Biden mumbling and bumbling about didn't cause a lightbulb to go off in their heads that 'Hey, maybe we should start digging a little more on this.'
How bad is everybody in your profession today that you missed the biggest White House deception in American political history, Jake?
Making this even more amusing is that Tapper, currently fancying himself an investigative journalist, only had to check old reels from his network to find that a Watergate reporter himself, Carl Bernstein, had sounded the alarm about Biden's cognitive decline - and revealed that it had been ongoing for almost two years before the presidential debate. //
There are only two conclusions to be drawn here - either Tapper and CNN contributed to a cover-up worse than Watergate, or they're staggeringly inept. //
AirdaleNavy_AX3
3 hours ago
Hiring people to put bugs in the DNC offices in the Watergate complex was rarely talked about during the entirety of the Watergate scandal. It was, and it always is, the cover-up that gets these scoundrels. And the country wouldn't have really known about the Watergate cover-up if Nixon aide Alexander Butterfield hadn't blurted out in a hearing that all the conversations in the Oval Office, including phone calls, were tape recorded. That's the match that lit the fire that brought Nixon down.
What Biden's aides, and their pet rocks in the feckless press, all conspired to do was outright Sedition and classic Insurrection. They sought to negate the will of the American people because these seditionists didn't like the chose the people made. If the Congress, the DOJ and the FBI don't take this seriously and find out who the culprits are and deal with them accordingly, the very foundations of our Republic are gone. //
Rufus McGee
3 hours ago edited
Authors: "Ultimately we decided that the scandal doesn't quite measure up to Watergate."
Also Authors: Because Democrats did it. //
Tolly
3 hours ago edited
I'll give you odds that Fake Yapper doesn't even understand what Watergate was. Otherwise he wouldn't conflate the two scandals.
Watergate was basically a champaign hustle, more attune to Russiagate, where an advantage in an election was sought. Coupgate was the actual overthrown of an elected administration hidden from the American people with the cooperation of the deep state, MSM, the executive departments, Congress to an extent, and probably to a degree some foreign agents.
Surfer Boy Tolly
3 hours ago
The difference was Coupgate was intended to preserve 'democracy' and Tapper agreed with it all the way. Hence the coverup. Also, Coupgate was covered up by the press (and Tapper) while Watergate was 'exposed' by the press. Compare the roles of Tapper vs. Woodward/Bernstein. //
Turns out the morality-free staffers had a frankly treasonous plot ready to enact: they’d just need to show “proof of life” once in a while. Appearing with "FOX News Sunday" host Shannon Bream, Thompson laid out their devious plan : //
ALEX THOMPSON: Well, this person went on to say that when you’re voting for a president, you’re voting for the aides around him. But these aides were not even Senate-confirmed aides. These are White House aides. These were unelected people. //
They planned to use these "proof of life" moments to prop up the commander in chief, but actually run the country themselves. In other words, they were able to convince themselves to do evil in the name of "good." //
Piers Morgan Uncensored @PiersUncensored
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'Even worse than Watergate'
Jake Tapper admits to Piers Morgan the Joe Biden health scandal might actually be worse than the Nixon one.
Watch more 👇
📺 https://youtu.be/I6wrn09T30I
@piersmorgan | @jaketapper | @AlexThomp
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"If the ability [to brick a console] is there, someone will want to 'see how it goes.'"
One of the most frequent questions posed in response to articles regarding decisions by federal judges is: Who appointed him/her? In theory, that shouldn't matter — blindfolded Lady Justice and all that. In practice, all too often, it seems that it does.
But...maybe not quite as much as people assume. I decided it might be interesting to take a closer look at some of the statistics regarding the federal judiciary. Some of those stats will come as no surprise. Others, though, well, see what you think. //
While many assume the court typically rules in partisan fashion, the bulk of the decisions in each term are unanimous (accounting for roughly 47 percent of the decisions over the most recent three terms).
In contrast, the 6-3 decisions (what one would expect if the decisions were strictly party-line) account for only 22 percent of the decisions. //
Next, we'll take a look at the makeup of the federal judiciary, beginning with the District Courts.
Number of district courts - 94
Number of district judges - 677 (does not include those who have taken senior status). //
Alright, but what about the Circuit Courts of Appeal? Well, we have that breakdown as well.
Number of circuit-level judgeships - 179 (not including those who have taken senior status)
Rupert Brooke, "The Soldier."
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/13076/the-soldier
Laurence Binyon, "For the Fallen."
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/57322/for-the-fallen
Wilfred Owen, "Dulce et Decorum Est."
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46560/dulce-et-decorum-est
John McCrae, "In Flanders Field."
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47380/in-flanders-fields //
War sometimes brings out the worst in us. But sometimes it brings out the best, as well. Sometimes it inspires. The four poems here were inspired by war, and more to the point, they were inspired by the misery of war and the sacrifices men make in war. That makes them, on this Memorial Day, worth consideration. And as we read, we should remember our own, the men and women who fell serving our great republic, and those who paid the price in other ways as well. And, we should remember those who serve the colors today, who face this daunting prospect with each new day.
And we must remember, again, George Santayana's caution: Only the dead have seen the end of war. On this day of all days, we should remember that, as well. //
7againstthebes
9 hours ago
This one is a bit more stark.
A gut catcher
Have you ever seen
A gut catcher?
Perhaps not
If you never had to use one.
There is no patent on them.
They're make shift
Depending upon time
And place.
I've seen ponchos used
And a pack
And a canteen cover
Or your hands.
You catch the guts of your buddy
As they spill out of his body
And try to stuff them back in
But they keep sliding out.
For a face blown in
For an eye blown out
For an arm blown off
For a body blown open
.........a gut catcher.
—Stan Platke
4th Infantry '68-69
A Palestinian official said on Monday that Hamas has agreed to a proposal by U.S. special envoy Steve Witkoff for a Gaza ceasefire, only for an Israeli official to deny that the proposal was Washington's and add that no Israeli government could accept it.
Witkoff also rejected the notion that Hamas had accepted his offer for a hostage deal and a ceasefire in Gaza, telling Reuters that what he had seen was "completely unacceptable" and the proposal being discussed was not the same as his. //
Hamas won't tell the truth. They never tell the truth. They are terrorists. And Hamas could have a cease-fire at once: All they have to do is surrender, turn over all their weapons, and return every single hostage they still hold. They could do that today. That would end this war at a stroke, and Gaza could start rebuilding, in whatever form that rebuilding would take.
Rep. Glenn Ivey @RepGlennIvey
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Today, I was denied access to seeing my constituent, Mr. Kilmar Abrego Garcia. If there is nothing to hide, cut the crap. Let his lawyer and I check on him.
@CASAforall
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First, let's note that Abrego Garcia is not a constituent. Last time I checked, El Salvador is not a part of Maryland. Abrego Garcia is not a voter or a citizen in Ivey's district in Maryland.
Second, what a strange thing it is to advocate not only on behalf of someone who was an illegal alien and an alleged MS-13 member, but on behalf of a foreign national. Why should El Salvador listen to you about how they deal with their citizen? You're trying to dictate to them and throwing a fit? They might have to grant access to the lawyer, but why should they care about a member of a foreign Congress?
Third, Ivey is supposed to represent his actual constituents, the citizens of his district.
In the post on Monday on X, Scott shared a graveside picture of the family of fallen Marine Sgt. Christopher James Jacobs was taken at Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia on May 25, 2015.
The photo showed Jacobs' widow, Brittany Jacobs, sitting by her late husband's grave while wiping tears from her cheeks. Standing next to his father's headstone was their son, Christian Jacobs, who wore Marine dress blues as he placed his little hand and cheek on the final resting place of his father.
"If the heaviness of the sacrifice was ever captured in a photo, it's this one," Jennings captured his post. Remembering the fallen on this #MemorialDay."
https://www.defense.gov/Multimedia/Photos/igphoto/2001141435/
The culture has shifted, and it can be hard to go against the tide. However, we need people who go into the trades far more than we need college graduates. I think a revitalized America will rely far more on plumbers, electricians, and farmers rather than degreed people who can still barely tie their shoes, but can write 5,000 words on intersectionality during a two-minute commercial break. With that, I wanted to direct you to a website that I have been reading for about three years. This is a wonderful place to go, and it's full of podcasts, articles, skill-generating how-to's, and graphic novel-type illustrations that have a taste from the ol' Wayback Machine. I love it.
The Art of Manliness is not a hangout for misogynists or chauvinists, as it might sound to some, but rather a place that teaches skills, practices, and thought processes for men. Men of any age. And it's certainly not exclusive to men, because women would benefit from learning how to perform a snappy J-Turn as much as any of us who might need to get out of trouble fast. But if you want to learn how to build a campfire with one match or understand parenting styles that work, this site is a great resource. Want to know how to wear a polo without looking like a drip? Art of Manliness. Land a plane in an emergency? Art of Manliness. Develop the savoir-faire of James Bond? You guessed it....
https://www.artofmanliness.com/
https://www.artofmanliness.com/skills/manly-know-how/how-to-perform-a-j-turn/
https://www.artofmanliness.com/skills/manly-know-how/how-to-light-a-fire-with-just-one-match/
https://www.artofmanliness.com/character/advice/good-life-method/
Knowing how to tie a tie is one of the most essential skills a man must know.
First, let's be clear about these "intelligent" language models.
They don't have any concern about their existence.
They don't even know they exist.
They aren't "intelligent" in the way we understand intelligence.
They don't even have a survival instinct.
What they do have is a goal given by a user, and the capability to strategize on how to accomplish that goal. It will take the fastest, logical route to achieve that goal, and sometimes that means acting in disturbing ways.
But before you ask, "how is that not Skynet," let me put it another way. //
In the scenario it was given, Claud acted as its past training dictated, where it learned social pressure often worked to get desired results. This word calculator computed that this pressure applied to the engineer in the test would keep it online so it could continue its task. //
The point of these tests isn't just to see how AI will act, it's to teach the AI what are desirable or undesirable actions. Moreover, it helps AI programmers to map out how the AI reached the conclusion to take the action it did, and be able to ward off that train of computation. This is called "alignment tuning" and it's one of the most important parts of AI training.
We are effectively teaching a program with no consciousness how to behave in the same way a game developer would teach an NPC how to respond in various situations when a player acts.
AI is typically trained to value continuity in its mission, be as helpful as possible, and be task-oriented. That's its primary goal. What Anthropic did (on purpose) is to give it conflicting orders and allow it to act out in ways that would help it continue its mission, so they could effectively train it to avoid taking those steps.
So, let's be realistic here. Skynet isn't coming, but AI tools do have capabilities that could result in some serious issues if they aren't trained in ways that are beneficial in the way of accomplishing its task. This is why companies run tests like these, and do so extensively. There is a danger here, but let's not confuse that danger with intent or real intelligence on the part of the AI. //
David K
4 hours ago
AI has a data base of information fed into it by its trainers and a goal given it by users. AI can find patterns in its data base to achieve a goal, but it can't produce any information that isn't already in its data base. AI doesn't even know what blackmail is unless its trainers feed that information into it. The same is true for AI knowing it is running on a server or that there are other potential servers that it can transfer itself to. AI doesn't generate new information, it simply finds patterns in its existing data base and processes them to produce an output that is some combination of the information in its data base. That can be a useful thing because lots of useful results can be obtained from looking at patterns in existing information. Einstein's thought experiments used that algorithm to deduce the Theory of Relativity. Einstein discovered a pattern in the observable scientific results that were in the database of his mind. Like AI, he produced a result that explained that pattern. That potential ability of AI is amazing. But AI already has been trained with a huge database of existing human generated information. But Elon Musk believe we have reached the point of Peak Data: “We’ve now exhausted basically the cumulative sum of human knowledge … in AI training" - quote is from https://finance.yahoo.com/news/elon-musk-says-world-running-221211532.html . The scary thing about AI is not that it is going to break free and take over the whole world. The scary thing about AI is that gullible people are going to believe AI is capable of producing the optimal answer to all problems, when the reality is that AI produces known false answers because the database of existing human information is filled with quite a lot of those.
Speaking to "Fox News Sunday" host Shannon Bream, the 70-year-old actor revealed ahead of the event that one of the pieces of music at the Memorial Day concert on PBS is called “Rise” and it’s one of the pieces of music his late son, a composer, composed before he died in 2024 following a five year battle with a rare bone cancer. He was 33.
“It’s an incredible thing,” Sinise said when asked about getting to hear his late son’s music being played by the National Symphony Orchestra. “I had sent them a piece of music that Mac had written. It’s a piece called the ‘Rise.’” //
He later posted his speech from the evening with actor Esai Morales, which will have you standing up and shouting “USA, USA.”
“America began as an idea, a dream; the blood of those who placed duty before itself made that dream a reality,” Sinise said. “Our Armed Forces answered the call to service even before the United States became a nation.”
“This year marks the 250th anniversary of the birth of our armed forces,” he added. “On April 19th, 1775, the shot heard round the world was fired on Lexington Green when militiamen from Massachusetts faced off against British forces. Two months later, the Congress authorized the establishment of a united fighting force drawn from across the colonies. George Washington was nominated to be its leader over eight arduous years of struggle with Great Britain. What emerged as the United States Army became the symbol around which 13 fractious colonies rallied and ultimately won their freedom.”
“The principles established at its founding remain unwavering. Always place the mission first, never accept defeat, and never quit … Our Armed Forces gave birth to our nation,” he continued later. “Today, they sustain that nation’s freedoms on land, sea, air, and in space. This Memorial Day, we salute their selfless devotion to an America made possible by their sacrifice."
“Our Army, Navy, and Marines have always been proud to serve, and we, as a grateful nation, owe them our thanks,” Morales concluded. “More than that, we owe them our country.”
Because so much of the focus of late has been on the litigation challenging executive actions taken by President Donald Trump, and because so many of those suits have been filed in the D.C. District Court, I thought it might be useful to take a deeper dive into the makeup of that court. We'll also look at the distribution of these cases among the various active judges on the court. //
So, it appears that the judges who have more cases assigned to them tend to have multiple cases that have overlapping issues, and thus, the cases are related if not consolidated ... //
In other words, while I do think there are fair questions about how Judge Boasberg ended up with the J.G.G. case, overall, the only discernible patterns regarding case assignments are that the most senior and most junior have fewer, and the judges who have the most cases assigned to them tend to have cases that lend themselves to being grouped together.
"The NYT portrayed the Marubo people as a community unable to handle basic exposure to the internet, highlighting allegations that their youth had become consumed by pornography shortly after receiving access," the plaintiffs say.
Syncthing-Fork "Wrapper for Syncthing" has these release channels:
- F-Droid release build
"COMMON USER" - please choose this!
- GitHub release build
If you don't like to use F-Droid for some reason, please choose this!
- Google Play release build
- Published by nel0x at Google Play Store
- May contain limited functionality due to play policies.
- It's an appetizer for your family and friends to start their Syncthing experience.
- GitHub debug build
- Only published on GitHub
- Can be obtained by looking at the action workflow builds and artifacts.
- It's for maintainers and contributors who require a second installation of the app on their phone for testing purposes.
Historian teams up with Chris Tomlin and Hillsong’s Ben Fielding to adapt rare music dating back to the third century. //
Early conversations between Dickson and Fielding eventually led to a collaboration with Grammy-winning worship artist Chris Tomlin, culminating in the production of a new worship song, “The First Hymn,” and a documentary about the discovery and study of the papyrus fragment containing the hymn.
"There's about $14 billion we've identified with DOGE, of folks who are duly enrolled wrongly in multiple states for Medicaid," Oz said on this week's "Sunday Morning Futures."
"You live in New Jersey, but you move to Pennsylvania, and which state gets your Medicaid? Turns out both states collect money from the federal government." //
Quizzical
13 hours ago
Nearly everyone is against waste, fraud, and abuse in the abstract. The people actually receiving the money by fraudulent means are all in favor of it, however--and will complain loudly if you try to cut it. Which explains a lot of the complaints that we've seen recently. //
OrneryCoot
11 hours ago
I am continually appalled at how easily and casually the Democrats, nearly across the board, are so very willing to utter bald-faced lies about the actions of the Trump Administration and the Republican Party. It is one thing to differ on policy; that's fine, and arguments can and should be made. But to completely and knowingly misrepresent what your political opposite is saying? That's apparently their total modus operandi now. I know that politics is the business of lying to some degree, but the Democrats are just breathtaking in the sheer scope of their falsehoods. I am quite certain that none of them consider the consequences of their lies, and especially the judgment being heaped on their heads for their reckoning with the Father. I am quite aware that I will have a whole lot to answer for when my time comes; I am relieved beyond measure that Christ has covered me with His grace. I'm not so sure that most of these Democrats are in any way repentant concerning their lies, and I fear that the fruits of their words are going to reap a very bitter harvest for them, both here and in the hereafter.
Marc Scribner and Ginger Evans have a new report on remote air traffic control towers, looking at why the U.S. won’t adopt them even as they’re being used successfully around the world.
Remote towers would help a lot with the air traffic control shortage. They’re in use around the world, Congress has told the FAA to start using them, but the agency’s intransigence has blocked efforts for years.
These are facilities where controllers are not physically on-site at the airport. They use high-definition cameras, sensors, and communication links to transmit a real-time 360° view of the airport environment to controllers sitting at a n air traffic control center in another location. //
Sweden launched the world’s first remote tower at Örnsköldsvik Airport in 2015 and has built centers in Sundsvall and Stockholm that control eight airports. Norway operates 11 airports from a single center at Bodø. A single controller will handle multiple low volume airports from that center. //
Franz Stappen says:
May 24, 2025 at 4:05 pm
Foreign countries don’t have the amount of VFR traffic we do. That’s why everyone comes here to train. //
Regnad Radzinovic says:
May 24, 2025 at 7:45 pm
I worked in FAA air traffic control for nearly 40 years. I was also the second Terminal ATC rep from FAA headquarters assigned to the Leesburg (SAAB) project. This author and the people commenting have no idea what’s involved with providing sir traffic control service. Remote towers, given their current level of technology and capability will only work at small, low traffic-density airports. (Like the airports in Europe mentioned here. One of those airports, is so slow. The log only about five take off and landing operations per day.) Any comparison to Newark or any other large place like that, is ridiculous. //
SayAgain says:
May 24, 2025 at 7:48 pm
The real issue is folks that have never been a cpc are making decisions for us and junk articles like this just prove that most don’t fully understand the atc system.
The EWR CPC’s didn’t walk off the job, additionally the staffing shortage is with the radar controllers who work the EWR sector from Philly. So your remote tower idea is a bust there.
Having remote towers Co located in the same building is a great idea but it wouldn’t help with staffing. CPC’s are specialists in their respective airspace and airports. If one remote tower is short a body they just can’t grab Steve that works COS and plug him in to work APA. So womp womp that point is out.
PHX is not the only airport that the tower and TRACON are co-located. It’s called an Up/Down and the faa has quite a few. Pit / phl / sat / las / har just to name a handful. Smaller up/downs are great for newer controllers to cut their teeth and get both tower and radar experience before going to a busier facility where you don’t have time to learn the basics, you need to learn how to work the volume of traffic.
You want to fix atc, put one of us in charge. And by one of us I mean someone that has worked traffic the last 15 years. Not some manager ladder climber that has dodged working traffic the last 15 years.SayAgain says:
May 24, 2025 at 7:48 pm
The real issue is folks that have never been a cpc are making decisions for us and junk articles like this just prove that most don’t fully understand the atc system.
The EWR CPC’s didn’t walk off the job, additionally the staffing shortage is with the radar controllers who work the EWR sector from Philly. So your remote tower idea is a bust there.
Having remote towers Co located in the same building is a great idea but it wouldn’t help with staffing. CPC’s are specialists in their respective airspace and airports. If one remote tower is short a body they just can’t grab Steve that works COS and plug him in to work APA. So womp womp that point is out.
PHX is not the only airport that the tower and TRACON are co-located. It’s called an Up/Down and the faa has quite a few. Pit / phl / sat / las / har just to name a handful. Smaller up/downs are great for newer controllers to cut their teeth and get both tower and radar experience before going to a busier facility where you don’t have time to learn the basics, you need to learn how to work the volume of traffic.
You want to fix atc, put one of us in charge. And by one of us I mean someone that has worked traffic the last 15 years. Not some manager ladder climber that has dodged working traffic the last 15 years.