Apple runs a fleet of stratum 1 NTP servers at time.apple.com. In my experience, ntpd/chronyd are very happy with them.

It looks like, instead of doing anycast, they maybe use DNS to steer you to the closest one.

time.apple.com is a CNAME for time-osx.g.aaplimg.com.

It's worth noting that this list changes over time, and you're generally probably best off using pool time.apple.com rather than trying to rely on this maybe-outdated list.

The big internet corporations (like Google, Meta, Amazon) have independently developed their own smearing behavior, some even iterated over multiple smearing patterns. If you search for <corporation> leap smear with an internet search engine of your choice, you will find blog posts and documentation where they explain their respective approach. I suggest you research this for any upstream server you intend to use. A quick summary of the ones I came up with spontaneously:

• Google, Amazon: Smeared from noon to noon around the leap with 1/86400 of a second added to each second
• Meta: Smeared from the leap until 17 hours later in a non-linear curve
• Cloudflare: Standard-compliant insertion/deletion of a leap second and propagation of the leap indicator (that’s why they are allowed in the pool)
• Microsoft: No idea what software their time servers are running, but the Windows Time Service included in Windows machines does not handle leap seconds and just resyncs after one happens

All of this is best practice information and much less relevant since the decision was made to do away with leap seconds in the foreseeable future. //

Apple also offers good collection of stratum 1 servers that doesn’t use leap second smearing. Someone compiled a (non-definitive) list of them so you can see if they are worth using for your location:

pool time.apple.com

This python program:

print(‘’.join([f’{xint:0{5}b}’ for xint in range(32)]))

will output this string :

0000000001000100001100100001010011000111010000100101010010110110001101011100111110000100011001010011101001010110110101111100011001110101101111100111011111011111

Ask any purported “AGI” this simple IQ test question:

“What is the shortest python program you can come up with that outputs that string?”

Scientific induction is all about such algorithmic simplification under Algorithmic Information Theory:

The rigorous formalization of Occam’s Razor.

If an “AGI” can’t do scientific induction on even so trivial a scale, why attribute “general intelligence” to it?

This isn’t to say such an AI isn’t in the offing in the foreseeable future, but let’s be realistic about how we go about measuring the general intelligence of such systems.

Once again, we have a wonderful argument for taking the federal government, or indeed any level of government, out of the financing of education altogether. Our higher education systems have become far too casual about accepting federal largesse while working at cross purposes to the American public, and we are expected to pay for it.

For decades, the federal government has been backing long lines of dump trucks full of taxpayer cash up to the Ivy League universities and dumping them out, and those universities responded by looking the other way as antisemitic agitators took over their campuses, as the curricula swelled with idiotic Ethnic Underwater Dog-Polishing Studies courses and even degree programs, and the faculty spent more time inculcating young skulls full of mush with Marxist claptrap than with instilling in those skulls knowledge and marketable skills.

Cutting that cash-green string is the right idea - in fact, it's the right idea regardless of the university's DEI policies or lack thereof, regardless of the school's curricula, regardless of the political affiliations of their faculty. Let the parents pay for their kids' education, or let the kids get part-time jobs or find some other way to pay. If they need to borrow money, let them present themselves to a private lending institution and make their case based on their academic record to date and their prospects for employment. Do all this, and the ridiculous classes and programs would disappear in a trice - as would a lot of the Marxist professors.

Child Protective Services (CPS) investigations are supposed to be about safeguarding children from harm. In every state, the standard CPS protocol for an investigation is, among other things, to conduct a home visit and to interview each child by themselves. However, these tactics can themselves inflict significant trauma upon the very children they aim to protect.¹ These harms are increasingly recognized by legal analysts,² child welfare caseworkers and supervisors, tribal workers and supervisors, police officers and detectives, foster parents, birthparents, teachers and school counselors, medical examiners, mental health providers, juvenile court staff, child welfare trainers, and foster youth.³

While in situations of real abuse the cost of the harm created should be offset by the benefit of the harm prevented, this is not at all the case when the investigation is based on false or overblown allegations. In such situations, the effect of the standard CPS investigation means that the child, not to mention their family, ends up more harmed, not less.

Investigations cause immediate shock, confusion, and fear.

The very nature of a CPS investigation, especially in the home, can surprise, shock, and traumatize children.⁴ Investigations are unexpected and can be quite sudden.⁵ According to research from Portland State University's Center for Improvement of Child and Family Services, children frequently report feelings of “surprise, shock, and chaos” during investigations.⁶ Many develop a sense of “powerlessness, helplessness,” and even “guilt or failure.”⁷ This is increased when the investigations commence in the middle of the night.⁸

Many parents recount their children crying and sobbing after interviews, demonstrating the immediate emotional impact of these investigations.⁹ Children do not understand what is going on or what is going to happen.¹⁰ This leads to fear that their parents will be arrested¹¹ or even that the children will be taken away.¹²

Children are afraid of being intruded upon by strangers. //

The standard CPS investigatory approach causes significant harm to the children involved. When investigations stem from false or overblown allegations, this harm is completely unjustifiable and adverse to the aim of protecting children.

Instead, CPS workers who seek to protect children should not rush to enter a home or conduct child interviews without first weighing the harms to determine whether interviews are really necessary. Very often, there are other methods available of determining children are safe without employing these more harmful tactics. When trauma to children can be avoided, it should be.

The family has held a federal grazing permit through the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) for nearly 60 years and are permittees in good standing. The permit allows them to graze their cattle on the Buffalo Gap National Grassland and is managed by the U.S. Forest Service, which reviews the map every time the permit is renewed. There has never been a problem before.

In March 2024, the USDA notified the Maudes that a hunter complained about a fence blocking access to Buffalo Gap National Grassland, according to a letter Sen. Mike Rounds, R-S.D., sent to then-Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack, seeking help for the family.

On May 1, 2024, the Maudes met with the Forest Service and everyone in the meeting agreed to do a land survey to figure out exactly where the fence belonged.

On May 6, 2024, a U.S. Forest Service special agent escorted a survey crew onto the Maudes’ property.

Then, with no warning, on June 24, 2024 the Maudes received a visit from Forest Service special agents with indictments for each of them. Charles and Heather Maude were charged separately — they had to get separate attorneys. The charge was “Theft of national grasslands managed by the United States Department of Agriculture, namely, approximately 25 acres of National Grasslands for cultivation and approximately 25 acres of National Grasslands for grazing cattle,” the indictment said. All for a fence that was placed before either of them was born. //

The Maudes tried to work out a solution, but the Biden Administration immediately dragged them into court on a charges that come with 10 years of prison and a $250,000 fine, one for each of them — totaling a half million dollars for the family. The spouses were instructed not to speak to each other about the case.

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The fact that this piece got through the Times's editorial process without anyone saying, "um . . . guys?" shows exactly why the press always seems so clueless about the country it is supposed to cover. https://x.com/mkhammer/status/1917386705264312688

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This is real. People wear crosses and the NYT is ON IT.
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Tom Bevan, co-founder and CEO of RealClearPolitics, made an excellent point:

The author probably doesn't know a single person who wears one, which is why it's treated as a novelty.

Exactly. Why else would not only the author, but New York Times editors as well, think that the absurd article fell into the "all the news that's fit to print" category?

Finally, Charles C. Camosy, an associate professor of theological and social ethics at Fordham University, put the cherry atop the laughable sundae.

In certain bizarrely isolated contexts, public displays of religiosity (even something as common as cross necklaces) are so uncommon that they become successful pitches for New York Times stories.

In other words, as the user effectively causes the AI to speak a certain way to them or behave in a certain manner, the user is also programming themselves to desire certain things. It creates a dependency that only an AI can fill.

Now ask yourself how that would work when you introduce sex. Ask yourself how that work for someone if the sex they want comes from a perversion no one should have. //

redstateuser
2 hours ago
Her prediction is unrealistic and fanciful. I think AI pedophilia (AIP, for short) would not eliminate real-world pedophilia (RWP) but that both would survive and in fact flourish. Legalizing marijuana did not eliminate black-market pot as claimed by pro-pot folks. In many instances, black market pot has increased and can be sold more cheaply, not having taxes applied to it. Allowing AIP will eventually inure us and groom in us an increased compassion for those who seek RWP. And try to think down the road, how creative lawmakers and liberals will be in pushing the boundaries of AIP into related areas.
Don't fall for this again, that legalizing something currently illegal will make all users cooperatively think, "Oh, ok, let's do it only that way." //

Sarcastic Frog
2 hours ago
Not mentioned is what happens when someone wrapped up in this has to interact with Real people in Real life.
Real people won't behave the way the person is now "programmed" to expect, or say what the person wants to hear. No human being will ever match up to this Artificial representation.
And what happens next? Murder, because the Real isn't as perfect as the Artificial?

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Which is more plausible: the lying media has suddenly discovered accurate polling data? Or Trump supporters are not being polled?

President Trump: "For America to be a great nation, we must always be One Nation Under God, a phrase that they would like to get rid of—the radical left, but I don't think we're going to let them get rid of that."

Despite a state ban on sectarian charter schools, the Oklahoma Statewide Charter School Board approved St. Isidore’s request to participate in the state’s charter school program. The ban is rooted in the anti-Catholic Blaine Amendment added to Oklahoma's constitution in 1907.

This set up an interesting conflict where the governor, a Republican, and the Republican state superintendent of public instruction supported the applications, but the Republican attorney general brought the case that the Supreme Court heard Wednesday. He sued in 2023 to block the charter because it would violate state law and the US Constitution. In June 2024, the Oklahoma Supreme Court agreed with Attorney General Gentner Drummond that St. Isidore's Catholic character, despite being open to everyone and requiring attendance of no one, would violate the Constitution's establishment clause.

The crux of the questioning centered on religious neutrality versus hostility to religion. Justice Kavanaugh hit this theme hard. “You can’t treat religious people, and religious institutions, and religious speech as second-class in the United States,” Kavanaugh said to Gregory Garre, a former Bush administration solicitor general who represented Oklahoma's Attorney General Gentner Drummond. (As an aside, it is interesting to note how many prominent "conservatives" are lining up to oppose what I consider to be conservative positions once those positions have the high likelihood of becoming law. Funny, that.) “And when you have a program that’s open to all comers except religion...that seems like rank discrimination against religion,” Kavanaugh added. “They’re not asking for special treatment, they’re not asking for favoritism. They’re just saying, ‘Don’t treat us worse because we’re religious.’” //

If the Court rules the way it appears headed, it will shake up the charter school programs everywhere. First off, it will mean the thirty-eight Blaine Amendment states can no longer use that to block religious schools from applying for charter school status. The attorney for Oklahoma painted a picture of this, opening the door for the state to make personnel and curriculum decisions. "And if religious schools can qualify as public charter schools, it will raise questions about who can be admitted to such schools, whom the schools can hire as teachers, and what the curricula at those schools will be."

In reality, Oklahoma's lawyer is out of his tree. The Supreme Court has already ruled that the government has to stay out of the hiring and firing decisions of people filling "ministerial" functions in religious organizations (Supreme Court Tells Ninth Circuit to Stay Out of Personnel Decisions of Religious Organizations – RedState). And there is no controversy over admission (anyone who wishes to participate may), and St. Isidore agreed to follow the state educational standards when it applied for the charter.

Some online comments have warned that this opens the door to "Satanist" schools or Alphabet-people schools. News flash, we already have those. The real fear by the establishment, Democrat and Republican, is that religious charter schools will proliferate (they will) and that many parents will opt for them because they can be sure their kids will not be introduced to gay porn or secretly "transitioned" without their knowledge or consent. The same people invariably raise the question of Islamic madrassas as though I give a rip about how someone else educates their child. As the charter lays out specific testing and achievement goals, the fear of Middle East-style schools is simply a straw man argument designed to appeal to the worst sort of bigotry. //

The only real question is whether the Court will follow the direction of Alito, Gorsuch, and Kavanaugh and issue a full-throated defense of religion as a critical component of American history and society, or will it just nibble around the edges, causing decades of future controversy. //

Ready2Squeeze
3 hours ago
The real opposition to this is by the Teacher Unions ... if religious schools take off, union membership will likely drop off - and with it union dues payments. //

anon-tf71 Ready2Squeeze
3 hours ago
I'd say the States are even more opposed. When this happens they lose some control of education, maybe even all of it.

Not that this diminishes the (religious?) ferver with which teachers unions oppose it. //

eburke
3 hours ago edited
"it is interesting to note how many prominent "conservatives" are lining up to oppose what I consider to be conservative positions once those positions have the high likelihood of becoming law."

Of all the things Trump has accomplished (and the list is lengthy) his exposure of the faux conservative wing of the GOP is at the very top of the list. He has caused these UniParty hacks to expose themselves for whom they really are...and they hate him for it. //

PubliusCryptus
2 hours ago edited
How about the Federal and State governments stay out of schooling altogether? Make schools competitive, profit-driven organizations; that means antitrust actions against teachers(and other) unions. It also means shining a spot light on tax collections and requiring that those collections be justified by value delivered to the taxpayers. It has become very clear(Thank you DOGE) that government is, almost always, a terrible waste of resources. I would point to Medicare as corollary evidence of that claim. Governments should be the parties of last resort when solving problems.

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Milwaukee County Chief Judge Carl Ashley said federal agents have leeway to operate in the hallways of the Milwaukee County Courthouse, even if they only have what's known as an administrative warrant.

I recently read a comment on another site that noted a Catch 22 situation with these 'administrative warrants'.

But what I want to make note of is that the "sanctuary" entities always say they will not accept anything but a "judicial warrant". However, there is no mechanism under the law to issue a "judicial warrant" for violations of 8 USC 1182 or 8 USC 1227 (which all administrative violations of the Immigration and Nationality Act fall under).

They know this, that is why the make a requirement for something that does not exist.

I did a little checking and that seems about right.

The constant repeating of the term 'due process' plays to the public's discomfort with thinking deeply on subjects like the law and what it means to this country.

It's a cute trick if INS can only issue 'administrative' warrants and the left keeps insisting on 'judicial' warrants and the left knows that few people will call them on it and, if someone does call them on it, all the left has to do is ignore the event and wait a few hours until the people move on and forget the previous reveal.

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🚨This is NUTS: Secretary Rubio just announced that he found DOZENS of files kept by Joe Biden's State Department that classified American citizens as "vectors of disinformation" — with the intention of censoring them.

That's not all.

Marco Rubio says that there's someone in President Trump's cabinet meeting RIGHT NOW that was being monitored.

"There's at least one person at THIS TABLE TODAY who had a dossier in that building..."

Joe Biden's administration was corrupt ALL THE WAY THROUGH!

1:21 PM · Apr 30, 2025. //

Well, we are going to turn over these dossiers to the individuals and they'll decide whether they want to disclose it or not.

But just think about, the Department of State of the United States had set up an office to monitor the social media posts and commentary of American citizens to identify them as "vectors of disinformation."

When we know that the best way to combat disinformation is freedom of speech and transparency, and so that's what we're going to be in the business of doing—we're not going to have an office that does that.

The media and the Democrats whine on about Trump being a dictator, a Hitler devotee, and a fascist. In reality, it was Joe Biden who showed much more of an authoritarian streak, and his use of the federal government to go after his perceived enemies was deeply sinister. He used the Department of Justice and its henchmen to go after Donald Trump and used the Department of State and other agencies to spy on and censor the people.

Let me tell you something you already know.

The MSM/Democrats are trying to BS you at the 100-day mark of President Trump’s second term. They are desperate to show that the new Trump administration is sinking fast in the polls, and that the American people are waking up to his (supposed) authoritarianism and overreach.

Here is how they are doing it. //

The polls are inevitably from ABC News, or NBC News, or CBS News, or CNN, or NPR, or the NYTs, or even FOX. What all these sources have in common is that these polling organizations largely did not get the 2024 election correct. Many underestimated the Trump vote, sometimes substantially, and many produced Harris leads that, in the words of her political advisor, “showed us with leads we never saw" in Harris internal polls. //

These websites almost never have a news article detailing the new polls from the polling firms that got the 2024 presidential election mostly right, such as Atlas, Rasmussen, Quantus, RMG, etc.

Some people on the right are getting very angry about this. Others are getting distraught or dispirited. Some are demanding that the MSM curb their bias.

But the MSM are Democrats, and they won’t change their spots. They have a vested interest in doing what they are doing. They want to undermine the Trump administration and cause Republicans to lose hope and cave in substantial ways to the Democrats. //

This family, targeted solely over what should have been a civil dispute over grazing rights over 25 acres of government land, was prosecuted, credibly threatened with jail sentences, so extreme that they were told to find alternatives to raise their young children. Charles and Maude live on a 5th-generation family farm in Pennington County, South Dakota, close to Mount Rushmore. There, they farm 400 acres. They raise about 250 head of cattle, and about 40 sows. //

The Biden administration criminally charged the Maude family for theft of government property. And for too long, for years now, they have endured a torturous legal process and suffered as victims of the Biden regime's reckless lawfare. Just imagine, a government that would be willing to de facto orphan American children over a mere dispute over 25 acres of land. The men of Lexington and Concord knew what (this) sort of government was like, and they knew what to do about it. The Maude family too, faced with destruction at the hand of the state, made their appeal to heaven, and providence answered. Thanks to the leadership and the unequivocal, bold leadership of President Trump and his directive to put Americans first, we now have the pleasure to announce that the criminal prosecution of the Maudes is now over. They will not be driven from their home. They will not be jailed. They will not be fined. And their children will grow up with a mother and a father who they love and who love them. //

This dispute - and there was, legitimately, some confusion over the status of the 25 acres and the exact boundaries between that acreage and the Maude family land - should never have come to this in the first place. In a sane world, this would have been resolved by having one or two Department of Agriculture officials come out, sit down with the Maudes, make sure everybody understood and agreed to a solution to the dispute, and arrive at a mutually agreed-upon survey of the property boundaries.

Instead, the Biden administration threatened the Maudes with jail time. The Biden administration threatened to break up the Maude family, to effectively orphan the Maude children. And all of this is over a dispute over 25 acres of grazing land. This is the same administration, mind you, that allowed millions of unscreened, unvetted, illegal immigrants to flood into the United States. //

DarthCY
an hour ago
You should go deeper into the story. The Government was even more heavy handed than you present. They were cooperating and were waiting for a survey to come back to discuss when they raided their house, arrested them and tried them separately. They also barred them from communicating with each other on their defense. This is pure evil. //

anon-259e
an hour ago
Every Federal employee involved with this abomination needs to be fired and the Maude family must be reimbursed for all legal expenses + an extra 100% as damages.

America finds itself in the unfortunate position of being the country that keeps the world in balance. When we slip, or show weakness, the world begins to fall apart. Wars spring up, financial instability rises, poverty and disease crop up, and oligarchs tighten their grip to the detriment of people around the globe. Entropy creeps in when America isn't maintaining its strength and making it clear that countries need to be on their best behavior.

A strong American leader brings peace, justice, and prosperity. A weak one invites collapse.

Children in the home may like the fact that they can run roughshod over their mother because it's easier to get what they want. They may "want mommy" all the time because they know that they can get away with a lot more under her.

It's when daddy gets home that the kids shape up and start acting right. They mind their p's and q's, and do as they're told, because facing daddy's wrath is a terrifying prospect. They may not like daddy as much as they do mommy, but they respect him, and it's that respect that keeps the house from falling into chaos.

When Moran used the term "reputation," Trump returned with the word "respect," and I think that's the reputation we should aim for. Not being liked, or feeling like a part of the "global community." We aren't a part of a global community. We are the United States, and without us, the world descends into chaos. Respect for us keeps things in order, and in order to maintain that respect, we have to flex our muscles and, from time to time, throw a punch.

Our enemies, and sometimes even our allies, may not like it, but what they like or dislike doesn't matter. What matters is that they maintain a healthy respect for us, our economy, our military, and our leadership.

Our reputation among other nations should boil down to, "We don't cross daddy."

All those words, and yet there is no mention of where the product is made. The title hints it may be Italy. But under the product information, the country of origin line is missing. The manufacturer is Superbuy. It sounds like an American name, but no, it is a company that buys and ships Chinese items. The seller, GoPlusUS, has a Chinese address.

How do Chinese manufacturers manage to produce things so much cheaper?

Prisoners.

China has detained Uyghurs, Falun Gong practitioners, and members of other ethnic and religious minority groups in roughly 1,200 state-run internment camps.

“Detention in these camps is intended to erase ethnic and religious identities under the pretext of ‘vocational training.’ Forced labor is a central tactic used for this repression,” a U.S. State Department statement said in January.

“In Xinjiang, the government is the trafficker. Authorities use threats of physical violence, forcible drug intake, physical and sexual abuse, and torture to force detainees to work in adjacent or off-site factories or worksites producing garments, footwear, carpets, yarn, food products, holiday decorations, building materials, extractives, materials for solar power equipment and other renewable energy components, consumer electronics, bedding, hair products, cleaning supplies, personal protective equipment, face masks, chemicals, pharmaceuticals, and other goods — and these goods are finding their way into businesses and homes around the world.”

If you care about liberty, if you hate slavery, if you want fair trade, then you give a cock-a-doodle-damn where your rooster was painted.

Amazon should make it simple to find the country of origin for every product.

I remember being more than a little surprised when I found out that Papi had been living in the US for 10, 15, or 20 years on average and obviously had not bothered to learn the language. Many were truck drivers, and while you don't need to know English to understand what a stop sign is telling you, it did make you wonder what aspects of the rules and regulations of the road they didn't fully comprehend because they couldn't speak the language. And if they couldn't speak the language, it made you wonder about assimilation and how much they knew about the place they were living in.

Thomas Jefferson? Que? Pearl Harbor? Que? The Bill of Rights? Que paso, hombre. //

If you can't be bothered to learn your host country's language, then there are probably a lot of other aspects of the culture that you're ignorant of as well. Like politics or current events, the former of which is downstream from the latter. And if you're unaware of such things, then either you're getting your information from family members (which will have a certain viewpoint) or Telemundo, which has its own slant. Neither of these is a great way to invest in your adopted homeland because you should be educating yourself, separating the wheat from the chaff, and arriving at your own conclusions. That contributes to a more informed and independent society rather than one that just accepts what it is told to accept.

Having a common language is like glue that binds a society. It holds it together and makes it strong, and it's one of the most durable adhesives in a culture. When you don't have a common language, you get tribalism. You get division. You get Balkanization. None of these bode well for what is supposed to have been a melting pot where all of the ingredients meld together and assimilate to become one people. Today, thanks to mass uncontrolled illegal immigration, we may never become what we once were. //

Diversity is great, but only if it adds to the culture instead of splitting it up.

Anyway, the diversity trope is getting so tiresome because if it doesn't put unity of purpose in line ahead of it, then we're going to diversify ourselves right out of a country.

The word: “Nerdgassing”

Definition: The venting nerds emit when some (often minor) detail of a book/movie/TV show/comic book/etc either conflicts with canon and/or handwaves through some some suspect science.

Example One: “In the third show of the second season of Star Trek: The Next Generation, Data clearly says that the Glorithian flagship was constructed in orbit around that planet Norgar, but then in the fifteenth show of the sixth season, it’s said it was constructed in the Buterian space docks! How do you explain that, hmmm?”*

Example Two: “Ringworld is unstable! Ringworld is unstable!”

Secondary definition: What happens after too many Cheetos and Mountain Dew.

I checked in Google — apparently “nerdgassing” appears nowhere on the Internet. Thus: I coin it! I claim it! Me! Bwa ha ha ha ha!