Archaeologists finally broke the cipher on 255 strange symbols etched into a Canadian rock over 200 years ago — and it’s the Lord’s Prayer… in Swedish.
Discovered in 2018 after a tree fell near Wawa, Ontario (just a stone’s throw from Michigan), the bizarre runes had stumped many — until Ryan Primrose from Ontario’s archaeology squad swooped in with the scoop.
After seven years of trying to decipher what the unusual carving symbolized, Primose finally learned that the etched symbols are part of an alphabet that was used in Scandinavia.
And the symbols translated to a 1611 Swedish version of The Lord’s Prayer, according to the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.
No other fancy artifacts showed up nearby, so Primrose figured the area where this carved rock lay most likely was treated as an outdoor chapel.
The space agency’s astronomical models suggest that a lunar eclipse turned the moon red over Jerusalem on Friday, April 3, 33 AD — a date many scholars tie to Jesus’ death. //
The eclipse theory, originally floated by Oxford University researchers Colin Humphreys and W. Graeme Waddington, https://www.asa3.org/ASA/PSCF/1985/JASA3-85Humphreys.html
MSNBC and CNN have been caught labeling the anti-ICE riots in Los Angeles "largely or mostly peaceful" and downplaying the chaos and violence a whopping 211 times since they started Friday, June 6.
According to a new study from the Media Research Center, analysts watched coverage on both networks from June 7- June 11, finding more than 200 examples in primetime of when reporters, guests, and or anchors labeled the rioters attacking law enforcement, burning cars, and blocking the freeways as "peaceful," or something similar.
The logic that ultimately drove our immigration policy to become effectively one of open borders under Joe Biden was built on the idea that Americans would not work in construction, manufacturing, food processing, or even the hospitality sector because... well, no one ever told us why Americans wouldn't do those jobs.
Omaha provided a laboratory to evaluate that claim. If Green Valley Foods required illegals to operate, then it was doomed. But something extraordinary happened:
Every seat in the waiting area of Glenn Valley Foods was occupied with people filling out job applications early Thursday afternoon, two days after the meatpacking plant became the center of the largest worksite immigration raid in the state of Nebraska so far this year.
Dozens of prospective employees, many of them Spanish speakers, had been coming in and out of the plant all day. Some were hoping to land a new job; others were coming in for training.
Throughout history, labor shortages have not resulted in better wages, working conditions, or employee bargaining power. Labor shortages produced chattel slavery, indentured servitude, sharecropping, serfdom, and peonage. Hiring illegals creates a workforce that can't complain, organize, or demand better pay and working conditions; the same characteristics also explain the in-your-face abuses of the H1B program. The issues with E-Verify aside, I would submit that employment practices that resulted in 50% of the workforce being illegals required some degree of willful blindness. As an aside, if you think the reason that all kinds of people were befouling their drawers over Elon Musk's DOGE team getting access to the Social Security master file was because they were concerned about the sanctity of our personal information, you are profoundly stupid.
Americans will take most jobs now filled by illegals if they are only allowed to compete for them. They will only be allowed to compete for those jobs when our government takes the issue of illegal immigration seriously, as it is doing under President Trump.
Jung describes a “complex” as a fragment of the psyche, emotionally charged and buried in the unconscious, that seizes control of perception when activated. These complexes are not chosen. They emerge unsolicited, often from unexamined pain, fear, or inherited narratives.
No one escapes them. I certainly haven’t. They explain how otherwise decent people can behave in baffling and morally catastrophic ways. It is the transformation of the beloved into the stranger, of Dr. Jekyll into Mr. Hyde, or Walter White into Heisenberg. We all live in tension between who we hope to be and what stirs beneath.
If I were to hazard a careful speculation (not an indictment), it would be that two powerful complexes have been activated in those I once trusted to see clearly. Their convergence has created a kind of moral short-circuit, the fallout of which I experience as abandonment disguised as principle.
The first complex is ancient. Antisemitism has sedimented over three millennia, shaping instinct, imagination, and judgment long before reason arrived. The Jew has always been the collective scapegoat, so naturally, we appear as “oppressor” in the false binary of modern moral imagination.
The second complex emerges from my peers’ self-image which is empathic, righteous, and principled, upon which their sense of meaning and virtue depends. Anything that threatens one’s self-image (regardless of construction) doesn’t just feel like criticism, but annihilation.
Their empathy flows to suffering, but more keenly to the symbolic innocent. Gazans are framed as the archetypal oppressed (stateless, brown, and grievable) while Jews, especially Israelis, are cast as hardened white-passing survivors-turned-state-builders. In a reductionist culture that equates power with guilt, Jewish strength not only erases Jewish pain, but is recast as villainous. //
I recall, perhaps bitterly, that Pharaoh’s heart was hardened so that God might deliver him a lesson he would never forget; that we are commanded not to hate the Egyptian, for we were strangers in his land; and that Christ, in his agony, still prayed: “Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do.”
It is not my job to bring friends or enemies to consciousness. But for their sake and for mine, I can no longer remain silent. The Torah commands: “You shall surely rebuke your neighbor, and not bear sin because of him.” (Leviticus 19:17)
This rebuke is not vengeance. It is an act of spiritual hygiene. A way to prevent my conscience from curdling into complicity.
Empathy that never reaches the particular is not empathy, but abstraction. Jews, if nothing else, are particular. We are not asking for guilt or allegiance. We are not asking to be centered. We are simply asking to be seen. //
Jung wrote, “Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.” A reckoning may come to my friends, as it often does, and often with great cost.
I pray it brings not ruin, but reflection. Not shame, but conscience. Not performative solidarity, but the real thing.
Padilla and the dying media also keep saying he identified himself as a senator — don’t you know who he is? — so there was no reason to deem him a threat. This is also nonsense. You don’t identify yourself while in the middle of shoving your way toward a high-ranking government official, or anyone else for that matter.
And it’s absurd to assume that any of the security personnel would have recognized Padilla. He’s hardly a rock star, and it’s not their job to know what every member of Congress who decides to pop off in public looks like. True, he shouted that he’s a senator. So what? The public parks of L.A. are crawling with people who think they’re royalty.
The dying media want to portray Padilla like a victim of abuse because it feeds into their manufactured narrative that the Trump administration is hurting innocent people, even U.S. senators, in the process of enforcing immigration law. (As an update to the stupid incident, The New York Times ran the headline “Padilla’s scuffle stirs painful memories of a childhood spent proving his worth.”) It’s another lie.
I don’t care whether you’re a red-blooded American patriot or a far-left illegal Mexican activist, show some respect and iron your flags. //
Aside from being made from cheap, undoubtedly Chinese-produced polyester, eagle-eyed observers may have noticed that these protest flags have something else in common: Almost all of them are unironed.
In video after video, in picture after picture, we’ve been bombarded by images of rioters taking to the streets, destroying public property, and waving around unironed flags to show their true allegiance. //
If the rioters and activists really cared about their Mexican heritage or the illegal aliens they’re trying to protect, they’d take the time to iron out the unsightly creases in the symbol of their resistance. They can’t show respect to their own home country’s flag, so we can’t expect them to show respect to ours, and that’s reason enough to send them back.
We know that an organized network of far-left groups coordinates organized agitation against ICE and President Donald Trump’s immigration policies. As The Federalist’s Matt Kittle reported this week, groups like the Fair Immigration Reform Movement (FIRM) and Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights (CHIRLA) undermine law enforcement and spread lies about the administration’s efforts in an attempt to incite protests. Many of these groups have received considerable public funding.
Under MFN, U.S. drug prices would be tied to the lowest amount paid by any OECD country with at least 60 percent of our GDP per capita. That includes many countries where government-run health systems routinely undervalue breakthrough medicines and decide which treatments patients can access — and when.
That’s not competition. That’s central planning. A market price originates from voluntary exchange, not foreign bureaucrats operating under fixed budgets and political incentives.
We know where that road leads. In countries using arbitrary price-setting benchmarks, patients are routinely denied or delayed access to new medicines. By late 2022, just 34 percent of new drugs launched globally were available in France, 37 percent in Italy, and 52 percent in Germany. Compare that to nearly 75 percent in the United States. Import their pricing models, and we’ll import their rationing — and avoidable suffering. //
Strong trade pressure best confronts these abuses. Other wealthy countries should be required to meet minimum spending targets on new medicines — benchmarked to what the United States invests relative to GDP. Those spending expectations should be written into binding agreements with clear enforcement mechanisms and consequences for noncompliance.
But overseas is not the only issue; we also need to fix what’s distorting prices at home.
Begin with the supply chain middlemen. The three largest pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) now control more than 80 percent of the prescription drug market, acting as gatekeepers between manufacturers and patients. These entities, which play no role in innovation, dictate which drugs are covered, how much patients pay, and who profits. /
In 2023 alone, the “gross-to-net bubble” — the gap between the list prices of branded drugs and net prices after rebates and other discounts — was $334 billion. In an ideal market, those savings would dramatically lower out-of-pocket costs for patients.
Instead, the system is cloaked in secrecy. Most patients are unaware of the discounts that PBMs negotiate, and they don’t see a dime of those discounts when they pick up their prescriptions. Patient cost-sharing is still based on the inflated, publicly disclosed list price — not the much lower negotiated price. //
We also need to crack down on hospital conglomerates that abuse the federal 340B program. Initially created to support low-income and rural hospitals, 340B has ballooned into a multibillion-dollar loophole.
These hospitals purchase medicines at heavily discounted prices and resell them at a steep markup — up to five times their acquisition cost — with no obligation to deliver additional care or pass savings to patients. Most 340B hospitals provide less charity care than the national average.
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Israeli Prime Minister @netanyahu on intel of Iranian attempts to assassinate President @realDonaldTrump-- "he's enemy number one.." and on when he let President Trump know of the plans for launching the strikes #FoxNews #SpecialReport #Israel
12:17 PM · Jun 15, 2025. //
Netanyahu said his country was facing an "imminent threat" of nuclear destruction and was left with no choice but to act aggressively in the "12th hour."
"We were facing an imminent threat, a dual existential threat," he said.
"One, the threat of Iran rushing to weaponize their enriched uranium to make atomic bombs with a specific and declared intent to destroy us. Second, a rush to increase their ballistic missile arsenal to the capacity that they would have 3,600 weapons a year…. Within three years, 10,000 ballistic missiles, each one weighing a ton, coming in at mach 6, right into our cities, as you saw today… and then in 26 years, 20,000 [missiles]. No country can sustain that, and certainly not a country the size of Israel, so we had to act."
All indications are that the Democrat Party is in big trouble.
Let’s look back at American political history. This country has had a tradition of having two broad and ideologically fluid coalition parties that contest with each other across the nation. Over our history, two of these American parties have disappeared from existence – the Federalists and the Whigs.
How and why did this happen?
We were lying in bed with our newborn, and my wife said, "We are starting to accumulate a lot of photos and videos of our baby, and I don't want to pay for App-Which-Must-Not-Be-Named anymore. You always want to build something for me, so why don't you build me an app which can do that?"
That was how the idea started to grow in my head. After that, I began to find existing solutions in the self-hosting space with similar backup functionality and the performance level of the App-Which-Must-Not-Be-Named. I found that the current solutions mainly focus on the gallery-type application. However, I want a simple-to-use backup tool with a native mobile app that can view photos and videos efficiently. So I set sail on this journey as a hungry engineer on the hunt.
An alternative to the immich-CLI command that doesn't depend on nodejs installation. It tries its best for importing google photos takeout archives.
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Axios is reporting that Netanyahu and Trump pulled off a great deception as part of Israel’s preparation to strike Iran. If true, this would go down in history books.
7:35 AM · Jun 13, 2025. //
That seemed to be confirmed when the president put out the following post, which mirrored a longer post that slammed Iran for not taking the deal he put on the table.
Note: This is not the troll I'm talking about in the headline. That's coming next.
TRUMP: Iran cannot have a nuclear bomb, and we are hoping to get back to the negotiating table. We will see. There are several people in leadership that will not be coming back. //
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Israel put the "dead" in deadline. Kudos //
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Reminds me of Bruce Willis’ great line in The 5th Element-
“Anybody else want to negotiate?”
This tool is useful to check if a given Network Time Protocol server is reachable over the internet using IPv4 and IPv6 connectivity.
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Reminder that on April 12th, Trump publicly gave the Islamic Republic 60 days to seriously come to the table on dismantling their nuclear program or face military consequences.
Today was day 61….
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The Web Era arrives, the browser wars flare, and a bubble bursts.
Welcome to the second article in our three-part series on the history of the Internet. //
In 1965, Ted Nelson submitted a paper to the Association for Computing Machinery. He wrote: “Let me introduce the word ‘hypertext’ to mean a body of written or pictorial material interconnected in such a complex way that it could not conveniently be presented or represented on paper.” The paper was part of a grand vision he called Xanadu, after the poem by Samuel Coleridge.
A decade later, in his book “Dream Machines/Computer Lib,” he described Xanadu thusly: “To give you a screen in your home from which you can see into the world’s hypertext libraries.” He admitted that the world didn’t have any hypertext libraries yet, but that wasn’t the point. One day, maybe soon, it would. And he was going to dedicate his life to making it happen.