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WebSDR is a Software-Defined Radio receiver connected to the internet, allowing many listeners to listen and tune it simultaneously. SDR technology makes it possible that all listeners tune independently, and thus listen to different signals; this is in contrast to the many classical receivers that are already available via the internet.
This is a story about an accidental activist. Bill Browder started out his adult life as the Wall Street maverick whose instincts led him to Russia just after the breakup of the Soviet Union, where he made his fortune.
Along the way he exposed corruption, and when he did, he barely escaped with his life. His Russian lawyer Sergei Magnitsky wasn’t so lucky: he ended up in jail, where he was tortured to death. That changed Browder forever. He saw the murderous heart of the Putin regime and has spent the last half decade on a campaign to expose it. Because of that, he became Putin’s number one enemy, especially after Browder succeeded in having a law passed in the United States—The Magnitsky Act—that punishes a list of Russians implicated in the lawyer’s murder. Putin famously retaliated with a law that bans Americans from adopting Russian orphans.
A financial caper, a crime thriller, and a political crusade, Red Notice is the story of one man taking on overpowering odds to change the world, and also the story of how, without intending to, he found meaning in his life.
A RACI chart (RACI matrix) clarifies roles and responsibilities, making sure that nothing falls through the cracks. RACI charts also prevent confusion by assigning clear ownership for tasks and decisions.
RACI charting is easy (here’s the Excel file for the one below).
- RACI is a project management acronym for the different responsibility types within a project: Responsible, Accountable, Consulted, and Informed.
- The RACI matrix, or RACI chart, clarifies the roles named individuals or groups will play in the successful delivery of the project.
- Accurate RACI matrices help ensure a project’s success before it even begins.
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Lukas (computer) @SCHIZO_FREQ
Biggest "the kids are f**d" moment I've had recently was buying a car
Walked into the dealership, told them what I wanted and said I'd pay up-front. Expected them to be thrilled
Instead they were horrified. Spent the next 20 minutes trying to get me to finance it at some absurd rate
Got me curious so after I left I read about car sale profit models. Apparently most US dealerships make more financing now than from the cars themselves
I was such a boomer I assumed they'd want CASH
In reality they want your ETERNAL SLAVERY at 19% APR
Sage @SoulSageSay
This experience shows how deeply the system is rigged against true ownership.
It’s not about providing value anymore.. it’s about creating life-long customers chained to debt.
Paying in full should be a sign of strength.
But in a world built on credit addiction, it makes you a threat.
Financial institutions don’t profit when you’re free.
They profit when you’re trapped in “manageable” monthly payments for life.
This isn’t just about cars.
It’s about a culture that normalizes living beyond your means and calls it success.
It’s about conditioning people to chase luxuries they never actually own.
True wealth is quiet.
It’s found in people who own their life .. not just rent their lifestyle.
Learn to think long-term.
Every contract you sign in desperation becomes a cage.
Choose freedom.
Every dollar you own outright is a vote against their system.
Stay smart. Stay sovereign.
Barely working servers are great for the test pool. More scenarios to test!
I’ve written a simple NTP simulator (probably not the only one out there) that lets you tweak things however you like:
The space plane will also advance the development of a new navigation technology based on electromagnetic wave interference. The Space Force news release characterizes this as the "highest-performing quantum inertial sensor ever tested in space."
Boeing has previously tested a quantum inertial measurement unit, which detects rotation and acceleration using atom interferometry, on conventional aircraft. Now, an advanced version of the technology is being taken to space to demonstrate its viability. The goal of the in-space test is to demonstrate precise positioning, navigation, and timing in an environment where GPS services are not available.
"Bottom line: testing this tech will be helpful for navigation in contested environments where GPS may be degraded or denied," Saltzman said in a social media post Monday, describing the flight.
Quantum inertial sensors could also be used near the Moon, where there is no comparable GPS capability, or for exploration further into the Solar System. //
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The reason why GPS is provide correction in drift on the laser ring gyros on Trident D5 boats. The key thing, which understandably isn't in the public domain, is the drift on quantum gyros. The other thing which I would be interested in is how they keep it cool enough for quantum effect to be in place. That must give the gyro in space a finite life because you can't top up the Helium. //
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Quantum inertial sensors could also be used near the Moon, where there is no comparable GPS capability, or for exploration further into the Solar System.
One advantage of accurate inertial sensors is that they can be used underwater by submarines. This will be useful for our inevitable upcoming war with the Europan Fish People. There will be no GPS (or other satellite navigation or points of reference) under the mile-thick ice sheets. //
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wagnerrp said:
Well it needs to be a superfluid.... That means just letting the helium boil off isn't even an option.
Atom interferometry doesn't need conventional cryogenics. It uses laser cooling to trap and manipulate the atoms, so the essential requirements are very stable and precise lasers and other optics that are compatible with all the rigors of launch and spaceflight. At the proof-of-concept level, that's been done before; things like laser-cooled Bose-Einstein Condensates have been demoed on ISS, but obviously going from that to a high-precision navigation instrument entailed a lot of engineering development.
Here is Dan's whole X post from Saturday morning:
During my tenure here as the Deputy Director of the FBI, I have repeatedly relayed to you that things are happening that might not be immediately visible, but they are happening.
The Director and I are committed to stamping out public corruption and the political weaponization of both law enforcement and intelligence operations. It is a priority for us. But what I have learned in the course of our properly predicated and necessary investigations into these aforementioned matters, has shocked me down to my core. We cannot run a Republic like this. I’ll never be the same after learning what I’ve learned.
We are going to conduct these righteous and proper investigations by the book and in accordance with the law. We are going to get the answers WE ALL DESERVE. As with any investigation, I cannot predict where it will land, but I can promise you an honest and dignified effort at truth. Not “my truth,” or “your truth,” but THE TRUTH. God bless America, and all those who defend Her.
Barack Obama got enough electoral votes in the right places to become president in 2008. But the truth is, Americans didn’t really elect Barack Obama the man. They elected the idea of a well-educated black man, the first to govern in the nation's history.
Voters did not know that Obama, the man, is not really a good person. And, truth is, the 72-year-old Republican alternative that year wasn't all that exciting. //
Then, win or lose, former presidents usually go away. They served the purpose they were given and had carefully sought with intent, ambition, and other people’s money. They get overpaid to hire ghostwriters to create their memoirs. They construct a presidential library, give speeches, and never drive their own car again. //
Most ex-presidents depart the Swamp. Not Barack Obama, who was only 54 when he left office. Note to Self: Young ex-presidents tend to hang around. //
Barack and Michelle disregarded their own apocalyptic warnings about global warming. They bought two estates right on the ocean, one on Martha’s Vineyard and another in Hawaii.
But surprisingly, Obama also bought a D.C. mansion. And now we know why: He wasn’t done with his Swamp work, engineering “the radical transformation” of America that he had promised even before his first election.
Today, thanks to stunning revelations by the current Director of National Intelligence, we now know it was Obama and his henchmen embedded in the Deep State in 2016 who concocted and anonymously drove the malicious, fictitious Russiagate hoax in a receptive media. All in direct contradiction of the intelligence community's findings.
The goal was to paint Donald Trump as a perverted Putin puppet to undermine and cripple the Republican’s first administration that threatened Obama’s gains and Democrat power. //
The signs of Obama’s arrogant and malevolent side have been there all along. Sensing victory just before the 2008 election, the Democrat candidate addressed a Missouri crowd so enthused that it would have cheered an Obama burp:
We are five days away from fundamentally transforming the United States of America.
Such ambition was impressive. At the time, that D.C. rookie was not even halfway through his first and last Senate term, basically a political unknown nationally. But this single sentence of 13 words unveiled a scheme far beyond the plans of a standard incoming president. //
There were other signs of concern. During the 2008 campaign, Michelle Obama, a native of Chicago's South Side who got to go to Princeton and Harvard, declared:
For the first time in my adult life, I am really proud of my country.
She's still complaining.
You could be forgiven for thinking that using the bathroom is an activity so universal that the idiosyncrasies of travel do not apply. True, few of us have failed to ponder the celebrity-endorsed, one-of-a-kind toilets of Japan. And, sure, most of us understand on an almost instinctive level that some tourist cities have worse public restroom access than others. But when it comes down to the brass tacks of the issue, the restroom is a place of biological necessity, and the less said about what goes on within them, the better. //
Meanwhile, over in Italy, the rules surrounding basic bathroom use are as complex as they are delightfully eccentric. They can take you on a journey, for sure, such as attempts to decipher the peculiar signage or exploratory dives into the inner workings of exotic flushing mechanisms. Such things cannot be intuited; they must be learned. Here, then, is everything you need to know about bathrooms in the Italian peninsula.
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The Internet Archive is now a federal depository library, meaning it can provide free access to bills, laws, regulations, presidential documents, studies, and other documents.
The Federal Depository Library Program (FDLP), run by the US Government Publishing Office (GPO), was established in 1813 to open up free access to official federal documents. Currently, there are 1,150 FDLs across all 50 states; all of them, except a few, are physical libraries.
FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino boldly declared Saturday that he made recent discoveries about government corruption and weaponization that shocked him down to the core.
Without elaborating on what he found out, Bongino teased that investigations into those discoveries are ongoing and being done “by the book.”
“What I have learned in the course of our properly predicated and necessary investigations into these aforementioned matters, has shocked me down to my core,” Bongino said in a shocking announcement on X.
“We cannot run a Republic like this. I’ll never be the same after learning what I’ve learned.”
The Fantastic Four: First Steps is the most pro-life Hollywood blockbuster in a long time, and maybe ever.
Then, in the mid '70s, the federal government instituted the corporate average fuel economy (CAFE) standards, and at a stroke, all those huge station wagons weren't being built anymore. But there was a loophole: Light trucks had a more lax standard, which led to the rise of minivans and SUVs. People want big vehicles, and they're going to have them.
Now, though, in the One Big Beautiful Bill (OBBB), Congress pulled a good one - they didn't repeal the CAFE standards, but they zeroed out the fines manufacturers pay for exceeding them. //
Obama imposed a fuel economy mandate that was supposed to hit 54.5 mpg for cars and light-duty trucks by 2025, which, as we pointed out in the pages of Investor’s Business Daily at the time, was designed to force EVs onto the market, because even compact hybrid cars can’t get that kind of mileage. //
Trump is again planning to roll the CAFE standards back. But Congress did him one better. Rather than wait for regulators to rewrite the rule, which can take years and be subject be endless lobbying and litigation from various interest groups – lawmakers simply zeroed out the penalty as part of the One Big Beautiful Bill.
Now, if a car company sells cars that, on average, exceed whatever the fuel-economy limit is technically in force in a given year, they pay… nothing.
"This is the first president in history who has never had, at this point in his presidency, a civilian nominee approved either by unanimous consent or voice vote in the Senate," Thune said Thursday during an interview on the "Brian Kilmeade Show" on Fox News Radio.
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.@SecRollins on moving USDA staff out of DC to be closer to farmers: "This is literally what @POTUS has tasked his Cabinet to do — to deconstruct the Administrative State... This is aligned with our Founding Fathers' vision... where the government should be closer to the people."
10:35 AM · Jul 25, 2025 //
So yesterday, USDA announced we're going to be moving most of our headquarters staff out into the country, in the five cities, the five states that you mentioned, taking our, getting closer to our constituents, the farmers, the ranchers, the producers, ... //
bpbatch
3 hours ago
Now move the IRS to Antarctica.
Min Headroom bpbatch
3 hours ago
Wait I thought that was why Trump wanted Greenland…
Six-fader, two-bus Axia DESQ console is a cost-effective, small-footprint console option perfect for small production studios, remote vehicles, content ingest stations, etc. //
DESQ requires no countertop cutout and takes only 16” square of desk space; it connects to the QOR.16 integrated console engine with a single power/control cable. DESQ is ideal for standalone installation, but works with larger Axia networks too. A DESQ control surface and a QOR.16 integrated console engine constitute a complete RAQ system, but two DESQ consoles, or one RAQ and one DESQ console, may be paired with a single QOR.16 for cost-effective multi-console deployment.