“Canceling” people who disagree with you over ordinary political issues is bad for civil society. Ruining someone’s life because he wore a MAGA cap or tweeted something stupid or supported the wrong initiative creates an oppressive environment for open discourse.

“Canceling” people who sign petitions and hold up signs that openly celebrate or justify the targeted, brutal murders of women and babies, on the other hand, is good for civil society. Stopping malevolent ideas from being normalized is good. Exercising your First Amendment right to free speech and free association to shun and call out people who spread odious ideas in public life is a moral imperative. //

When I say I’m a free-speech absolutist, I mean it. The state should do absolutely nothing to inhibit or censor pro-Hamas Americans from expressing their opinions. Free speech isn’t contingent on your position. Hate speech is free speech. The government has no business prodding or even suggesting limitations on our rhetorical interactions. Even outside state intervention, we should be upholding the values that promote free expression. We can peacefully coexist with colleagues, neighbors and friends who hold contradictory opinions within the normal parameters of political debate.

Likewise, Americans have a right to use their freedom to call out and disassociate themselves from people who take the side with nihilistic murder cults.

Conservative lawyers face the brunt of the weaponization of the bar, whether it be Jeff Clark, Ken Paxton, John Eastman, or now Todd Rokita.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida—In three-and-a-half years of service, one of SpaceX's reusable Falcon 9 boosters stands apart from the rest of the company's rocket inventory. This booster, designated with the serial number B1058, has now flown 18 times. For its maiden launch on May 30, 2020, the rocket propelled NASA astronauts Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken into the history books on SpaceX's first mission to send people into orbit.

This ended a nine-year gap in America's capability to launch astronauts into low-Earth orbit and was the first time a commercial spacecraft achieved this feat. At that time, the rocket was fresh from SpaceX's factory in Southern California, glistening white in color, with a bright red NASA "worm" logo emblazoned on the side.

Over the course of its flights to space and back, that white paint has darkened to a charcoal color. Soot from the rocket's exhaust has accumulated, bit by bit, on the 15-story-tall cylinder-shaped booster. The red NASA worm logo is now barely visible. //

With Friday night's flight, this particular booster has launched 846 satellites, most of which have been Starlinks. When you let it sink in, that's a remarkable number. It's more than the total number of satellites in OneWeb's broadband network. The launch Friday night, numbered Starlink 6-26, brought the total number of functional Starlink satellites in orbit to more than 5,000, according to a tabulation by Jonathan McDowell, an astrophysicist and expert tracker of spaceflight activity. //

SpaceX officials often emphasize that, even after 277 launches of Falcon 9 or Falcon Heavy rockets, engineers learn something with each flight. It certainly helps when you get the majority of the rocket (the booster and the payload fairing) back after each launch, allowing technicians to perform inspections and refurbishment, occasional engine swaps, upgrades, or anything that needs to be done between missions.

If a transgression by a single employee breaches your network, you're doing it wrong. //

Accessing personal accounts at a company like Okta has long been known to be a huge no-no. And if that prohibition wasn’t clear to some before, it should be now. The employee almost surely violated company policy, and it wouldn’t be surprising if the offense led to the employee’s firing.

However, it would be wrong for anyone to conclude that employee misconduct was the cause of the breach. It wasn’t. The fault, instead, lies with the security people who designed the support system that was breached, specifically the way the breached service account was configured. //

First, Okta should have put access controls in place besides a simple password to limit who or what could log into the service account. One way of doing this is to put a handful of company-controlled IP addresses on an allow list and to block all others unless additional credentials are supplied. Another is to regularly rotate access tokens used to authenticate to service accounts. And, of course, it should have been impossible for employees to be logged in to personal accounts on a work machine. These and other precautions are the responsibility of senior people inside Okta.

Already endangered, the leap second might have a practical successor soon. //

One of the leading thinkers on how humans track time has a big, if simple, proposal for dealing with leap seconds: Don't worry about them. Do leap minutes instead, maybe one every half-century or so.

"We all need to relax a little bit," said Judah Levine, leader of the Network Synchronization Project in the Time and Frequency Division at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), to The New York Times. Leap seconds—when coordinated, near-impeccable atomic time is halted for one second to synchronize with the Earth's comparatively erratic movements—are a big headache, especially to computer technology.

The International Bureau of Weights and Measures (IBWM) has already voted to eliminate leap seconds entirely by 2035, or at least how they are currently implemented. Levine plans to submit a paper outlining a "leap minute," timed to the next World Radiocommunications Conference held by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU).

These projects had been cited as proof that….Bidenomics was working. Who could have guessed that high inflation and surging interest rates were not conducive to the completion of vast wind farms? //

The Denmark-based energy firm said its board of directors voted to ax its high-profile Ocean Wind 1 and Ocean Wind 2 twin projects in response to changing macroeconomic factors, including high inflation, supply chain bottlenecks and rising interest rates. //

Close The Fed | November 3, 2023 at 9:37 am
How the left copes with the cognitive dissonance of despising oil because of oil spills that injure animals yet push windmills that slice and dice birds and kill whales, and solar panels that fry birds, baffles me. //

George S | November 3, 2023 at 10:40 am
What governments dont understand about economics (well they do, but they pretend for the sake of votes from voter ignorance):

If government decrees that each homeowner shall hire two people to dig a hole in their yard in the morning and two people to fill in that hole in the afternoon it creates four full time jobs.

But what’s the catch? The homeowners don’t want holes dug in their yards so they are being forced to pay for services they don’t want. An economy can only grow — and be sustained — if there is a mutual exchange of wealth, where both parties benefit.

Where is the exchange of wealth in building wind farms? That’s why they fail.

Members of the Israeli parliament, the Knesset, broke down in tears, and one fainted as they watched a 45-minute video of the brutality Hamas unleashed on Israelis on October 7.

Things started off with a suggestion that Hamas is justified in slaughtering civilians in cold blood as it did on October 7th because Israel has killed civilians in its attempts to destroy Hamas. She further tries to paint an equivalency by claiming that Israel has "bulldozed" 55,000 Palestinian homes since 1948.

SHAPIRO: My answer is, that Israel would not be justified in killing Palestinian civilians because of the actions of terrorists, Israel would be justified in attempting to kill terrorists and civilian casualties are a cost of war. That is just a reality of war. During World War II, there were 70,000 Brits who died during the Blitz bombing, and there were two million Germans, civilians, who died during World War II, and I don't see a lot of monuments in Britain because of the two million civilians who died in Germany. //

In other words, even if everything she says is true (some of it is misleading), that still would not justify Israel going into Gaza and seeking out civilians to rape and behead, which is what Hamas did to Israel. //

QUESTIONER: Britain wasn't bombing civilian, civilians...(boos). There's a clear difference.

SHAPIRO: You should talk to the people in Dresden, but you can't because they're dead.

QUESTIONER: There's a clear difference. I agree that war is horrible, but this is not a just war. What Israel is doing is not a just war. There is a difference between fighting the Nazis...

SHAPIRO: So it's not a just war when you fight a war against people who murder 1,500 of your civilians and take 233 of them, last count, captive into tunnels. It is not a just war to obliterate them? Please name a just war.

The questioner ignored Shapiro's challenge, instead claiming that Israel has been killing civilians for the past 75 years. That's a pretty simplistic way of describing things given that the Palestinians (and Arab nations) have waged numerous wars against Israel during that time. Her intent seems to be the paint the Palestinians as strictly victims without acknowledging their continuous aggression and rejection of peace.

That leads us to Shapiro's biggest moment in this debate, which was getting the questioner to admit what she really wants.

SHAPIRO: Which part of Palestine is occupied?

QUESTIONER: The entirety of Palestine. //

Civilians dying is a tragedy, but Hamas chose to break the latest ceasefire, invade Israel, and massacre over a thousand people. With those actions come consequences. All the arguments in the world aren't going to stop the destruction of Hamas at this point.

In 2016 Bob Iger said Disney was basically inches away from buying Twitter but pulled out of the deal at the last minute saying they did a little more research & said this about Twitter users, “We, at that point, estimated with some of Twitter’s help that a substantial portion — not a majority — were not real.”

What do you think that “substantial portion” of fake users grew to from 2016 to before Elon Musk took over X/Twitter in 2022? How big did the bot armies get? Who were the bot armies created by & to do what? //

Why buy Twitter & deal with that headache when you can create armies of bots & control the narrative for much, much less money & energy. It does your promoting for you without making it look like you are promoting yourself, “Look, it’s popular on all these accounts, strangely liked by a bunch of accounts with no names, it must be good.” //

What Carano is insinuating at this point is that, instead of Disney buying up Twitter, it utilized the reason Disney refused to buy it to their advantage, noting that Disney's agenda was usually supported on Twitter by a large number of no-name accounts with very few followers.

Then she shifted gears and noted that it doesn't always have to be used in support of a show or movie, but could be used to accomplish more sinister ends, including the silencing of those who don't agree with their agendas...namely herself. Carano said that she sent an email to Disney brass about these bots that were going after her after the infamous tweet that was purposefully misinterpreted to make her appear antisemitic... //

This action of bot armies is actually a much bigger offense than people are realizing. How many lives were ruined because of twitter bots cancelling them? In defamation law suits you need to have evidence of intent to do harm. Defamation law suits are very tricky, especially when you’re going up against someone with endless amounts of cash. I would say sending in bot armies to go after people they don’t agree with more than qualifies as intent to harm & I believe a jury would agree.

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But the most interesting miscreant is the US Navy. The reduction of the NCRP/ICRP recommended limit from 1 mSv per day to 3 mSv/week, which was based on genetic fears which proved to be ginned up and unfounded, took place in 1951. This just happened to be the time when the US Navy was setting the limits for nuclear submariners. //

The Navy's definition of a ``high radiation area", which must be locked or guarded, is 1 mSv/h or higher. Stay times are enforced when entry into an area where the dose rate is 10 mSv/h or higher. A sailor can still get up to 39 mSv in a single exposure without requiring an inquiry. However, 100 mSv in a single exposure triggers an investigation by an independent Accident Review Board. Studies show no increase in cancer among American submariners. A 2001 study by NYU looked at a cohort of 85,498 enlisted submariners. This group had experienced 584 cancer deaths. NYU put the expected age-matched cancer deaths at 685.\cite[page 51]{nnpp-2016}

Considering all the above, it is little wonder that progressives hate Israel and Jews with such passion. Progressives believe they must despise whatever, or whoever, the other side loves. Evangelicals, i.e., conservatives, love Israel and demonstrate no bias against Jews? We must do the opposite! And so, in its zeal to disdain everyone and everything held dear by those believed inferior, progressives have revealed the fatal flaw in their reasoning. They preach love and tolerance yet exhibit neither. Instead, they are miffed to the point of madness by the notion that the God in Whom they seldom believe has deemed someone other than themselves as His elect. As Jesus Himself said to His disciples just before His arrest and crucifixion, ironically speaking of the Jews in the psalmist’s words that today find themselves used against Jews, “They hated Me without reason.” //

anon-wyrw
41 minutes ago
Jerry,

While I agree with your basic review of the reasons that evangelicals support Israel, I believe that the progressive opposition to Israel vigorously defending itself runs much deeper than the typical knee-jerk reaction of the progs that whatever conservatives/evangelicals are for they are against. Time and again, the progs have sided with pure evil in all of its forms but have successfully masked their true intent. The attack on Israel by Hamas on October 7 has ripped off the mask. Now the world can clearly see that the progressives stand for evil in the same way that after Nazi Germany attacked Poland the world could see what they were actually about. Progressives hate the Truth because the Truth comes from God whom they also hate. They are against any authority that claims to be above and beyond their reach. If you begin with that premise, it explains much of why they behave the way they do and what groups and causes they support. //

FlorenceNightingale
9 minutes ago
Progressives, by the way, fear and despise evangelicals because they actually fear and despise God. Progressives avoid the Holy Scriptures and prefer psychology because they don’t want to feel “judged.” Well, here’s the news, folks! It’s unavoidable.

LexNaturae -> FlorenceNightingale
8 minutes ago
Well said. It's like ignoring gravity and hoping you won't fall ...

Back in 2014, dermatologist Bridget McIlwee saw a 3-year-old patient in central Texas with unusual bumps on his ear.

"They looked a little bit like almost kind of a benign mole that you would see in a child, except that you wouldn't expect something like that to come up quickly and then multiply," she says.

McIlwee sent off a sample for laboratory testing, and the results came back pointing to a surprising culprit: The boy had tested positive for cutaneous leishmaniasis, a neglected tropical disease. The World Health Organization says between 600,000 and 1 million new infections happen worldwide every year, mostly in tropical regions of the Americas, the Mediterranean basin, the Middle East and Central Asia — not in Texas. These illnesses can be disfiguring, even if they are rarely fatal.

Get ready to say goodbye to a lot of familiar bird names, like Anna's Hummingbird, Gambel's Quail, Lewis's Woodpecker, Bewick's Wren, Bullock's Oriole, and more.

That's because the American Ornithological Society has vowed to change the English names of all bird species currently named after people, along with any other bird names deemed offensive or exclusionary.

“There's been a lot of violence, a lot of terrorism in Israel, and I've seen a lot of it over the years. But honestly, nothing compares to what happened here. You're talking about now it's 1,400, way over a thousand, close to 1,100 are civilians, men, women, and children, babies, mothers…a mother who was pregnant, her belly cut up and terrible things done, other things that are beyond this. I've done interviews on TV and other places. You can't write this stuff. You can't say it, the details of what happened, of what a so-called human being could do.” //

Yeah, the irony, I mean, it's just beyond, beyond. Yeah, these communities were communities that, quote unquote, supported the Palestinian cause."

As for the nation of Israel, Mr. Hikind explained that the populace is united after having been through a period of deep division over various political matters. “But everything has changed,” he told me. “This country is as united as it has ever been, as determined to destroy Hamas.” //

“The respect that was shown to dead terrorists being collected and put into body bags was something that I couldn't believe…Two dead terrorists, being treated with dignity. Can you figure that one out?”

I also asked Mr. Hikind about the plight of civilians living in Gaza. He detailed how the refugees in Gaza and the West Bank have been wronged by their leadership, which has repeatedly refused to engage in good-faith peace talks with Israel.

Benny Johnson @bennyjohnson
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🚨 Judge Overturns Bridgeport Democrat Mayoral Primary Election, Calling Evidence of Fraud ‘Shocking’

“The volume of ballots so mishandled is such that it calls the result of the primary election into serious doubt and leaves the court unable to determine the legitimate result…

Benny Johnson @bennyjohnson
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Footage showed Wanda Geter-Pataky, vice chair of the Bridgeport Democratic Town Committee and operations specialist for the city, and Eneida Martinez, a former City Council member stuffing ballot dropboxes.
0:37 / 1:53
8:31 PM · Nov 1, 2023 //

UpLateAgain
4 hours ago
This evidence could have been an excerpt from 2000 Mules. The only reason this evidence got to court was because it was a primary... i.e. Democrat on Democrat. Had a Republican been involved, we'd have never even heard of this, or if we had, it would be claimed meaningless and soon memory-holed. EVERY piece of evidence the judge said indicated either fraud or was untrustworthy (ballot stuffing, no signature check, unsigned envelopes, etc., etc.) occurred in 2020 in Atlanta, Phoenix, Philadelphia, Detroit, Milwaukee, Minneapolis, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Denver, Houston, Dallas, Chicago, Seattle, and a couple of other dozen major cities in 2020, but if you claim election fraud and demand an investigation, you'll get sued or jailed or both. //

Eradicator!
6 hours ago
D vs D...review all evidence and actually make the right decision...D vs R...disregard all evidence, throw out case and let D win... justice will be served selectively...

There is a plan underway to close the great open spaces of the American West to you, me, our children, and our children’s children. The federal government — which owns most of this land — is determined to move from a “use and let use” system of accessing Western public lands to a permission-based system that will mean reservations, permits, and closures.

Just last month, the Bureau of Land Management issued a final decision to close 317 miles of historic and popular off-road trails near Moab, Utah. //

Zooming out, the aggressive rate of federal trail closures is part of the larger “30×30” plan that President Joe Biden announced shortly after taking office. The alleged intention is to “conserve at least 30% of U.S. lands and waters and 30% of U.S. ocean areas by 2030.”

There is no evidence that users of these trails have been damaging them. //

If the Biden administration can close these lands, it can close them anywhere. Americans have shown themselves to be responsible stewards of their public lands, and they deserve to be able to enjoy them — freely — for generations to come. ///

The federal government has no business owning land in states, only in unincorporated territories. All "federal land" (an oxymoron in a federal republic) should be handed over to the states.