About six-in-ten U.S. adults now say they favor more nuclear power plants to generate electricity, according to a Pew Research Center survey fielded in April and May. That’s up from 43% in 2020, driven by increasing support among both Republicans and Democrats.

A line chart showing that a Majority of Americans continue to support more nuclear power in the U.S. //

Americans remain more likely to favor expanding solar (77%) and wind power (68%) than nuclear power (59%). But while support for solar and wind power has declined by double digits since 2020 – largely driven by drops in Republican support – the share who favor nuclear power has grown by 16 percentage points since then.

Announced on September 24, Cloudflare’s Content Signals Policy is an effort to use the company’s influential market position to change how content is used by web crawlers. It involves updating millions of websites’ robots.txt files. //

Historically, robots.txt simply includes a list of paths on the domain that were flagged as either “allow” or “disallow.” It was technically not enforceable, but it became an effective honor system because there are advantages to it for the owners of both the website and the crawler: Website owners could dictate access for various business reasons, and it helped crawlers avoid working through data that wouldn’t be relevant. //

The Content Signals Policy initiative is a newly proposed format for robots.txt that intends to do that. It allows website operators to opt in or out of consenting to the following use cases, as worded in the policy:

• search: Building a search index and providing search results (e.g., returning hyperlinks and short excerpts from your website’s contents). Search does not include providing AI-generated search summaries.
• ai-input: Inputting content into one or more AI models (e.g., retrieval augmented generation, grounding, or other real-time taking of content for generative AI search answers).
• ai-train: Training or fine-tuning AI models.

Cloudflare has given all of its customers quick paths for setting those values on a case-by-case basis. Further, it has automatically updated robots.txt on the 3.8 million domains that already use Cloudflare’s managed robots.txt feature, with search defaulting to yes, ai-train to no, and ai-input blank, indicating a neutral position.

Hello and welcome to the r/datacurator filetree repository.

We aim to create a unified filetree for all kinds of data, which should help in storing, categorising and retrieving.

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When other credentialed outlets and journalists spread lies about the Russia collusion hoax, or the Covington kids hoax, or ... The Federalist fearlessly reported the truth.

Corrupt corporate journalists published lies and regurgitated regime propaganda and were given awards. We published facts and the truth, and the U.S. federal government responded by waging a global war of illegal censorship against The Federalist. They profited from lies, while we were punished for reporting the truth.

Where were these self-styled First Amendment defenders when we were illegally censored and targeted for debunking Deep State lies and hoaxes? Many of them not only refused to defend us, but cheered the illegal censorship efforts against us. //

So you’ll have to forgive our skepticism of corporate media’s ostensible new love of press freedoms and the First Amendment. We actually read through the new Department of War media access guidelines, and we found zero new restrictions on the ability of journalists to report on or criticize the government. Many corporate journalists eager to grandstand will claim otherwise without evidence, but we will show you what the actual document says. //

Those are the actual facts. And as usually is the case, we are likely the first outlet to report them. We look forward to eagerly covering the Pentagon, both on-site and from a distance, with the same fearlessness and courage and devotion to the truth that we have exhibited since we were created. And if the new guidelines result in fewer professional con artists and media hoaxers roaming the halls looking for new lies to peddle, so be it.

Scientists at the University of California, San Diego, and the University of Maryland, College Park, say they were able to pick up large amounts of sensitive traffic largely by just pointing a commercial off-the-shelf satellite dish at the sky from the roof of a university building in San Diego.

In its paper, Don't Look Up: There Are Sensitive Internal Links in the Clear on GEO Satellites [PDF], the team describes how it performed a broad scan of IP traffic on 39 GEO satellites across 25 distinct longitudes and found that half of the signals they picked up contained cleartext IP traffic.

This included unencrypted cellular backhaul data sent from the core networks of several US operators, destined for cell towers in remote areas. Also found was unprotected internet traffic heading for in-flight Wi-Fi users aboard airliners, and unencrypted call audio from multiple VoIP providers.

According to the researchers, they were able to identify some observed satellite data as corresponding to T-Mobile cellular backhaul traffic. This included text and voice call contents, user internet traffic, and cellular network signaling protocols, all "in the clear," but T-Mobile quickly enabled encryption after learning about the problem.

More seriously, the team was able to observe unencrypted traffic for military systems including detailed tracking data for coastal vessel surveillance and operational data of a police force.

In addition, they found retail, financial, and banking companies all using unencrypted satellite communications to link their internal networks at various sites. The researchers were able to see unencrypted login credentials, corporate emails, inventory records, and information from ATM cash dispensers.

Tariffs are taxes on American consumers and businesses. They make inputs more expensive, reduce choice, and slow investment. They don’t bring jobs back—they make the tools to create those jobs more costly.

During the campaign, Vice President JD Vance claimed that “a million cheap, knockoff toasters aren’t worth the price of a single American manufacturing job.” The line got applause. But it betrayed a dangerous economic illusion.

Vance sees the toaster. He doesn’t see the millions of families who bought that toaster for $20 instead of $80 and used the savings for groceries, medicine, or a child’s school supplies. He doesn’t see the small business owner who bought cheaper equipment and hired another worker. He doesn’t see the everyday miracles of freed-up capital, redirected investment, and second-order job creation.

Henry Hazlitt called this the fallacy of the “seen and unseen.” It’s the oldest trick in politics: show the factory job you might save, hide the thousands of better futures you quietly destroy.

If we want a freer, fairer global economy, we don’t get there by torching trust and slapping taxes on ourselves. We get there by enabling investors and entrepreneurs to build competitive industries, by investing in lifelong education and innovation, and by strengthening institutions that last longer than one man’s grievance.

That’s what America used to stand for: rules, not whims; institutions, not improvisation.

Steve Miran argues that because the US has run trade deficits for decades, the economic models must be broken. But that’s like saying gravity stopped working because planes fly. The persistent US deficit isn’t a flaw in the system. It’s a reflection of how much of the system depends on us. Models need to be read with the institutional context in mind.

The stakes are bigger than a trade balance. What’s being traded away—at a terrible cost—is the American model of principled leadership, rooted in liberty, trust, and rules. We lose that, we lose the quiet miracle behind a billion pencils.

The answer to the ever-shrinking pool of qualified engineers is (drum roll, please) more I/O. That was just one takeaway from our second Studio Master Class hosted by Jay Tyler with panelists Rob Bertrand, CEO for Inrush, and Alex Bonello, Insoft (HDVMixer).

The premise is that the more I/O, the more pathways you have to the components in the airchain for troubleshooting and fixing problems remotely. Rob pointed out that adding more Blade I/O seems like overkill at first, but it’s often impossible to troubleshoot and correct problems remotely without that access. “There are not enough of us out there to keep all the stations going that need help. We’re going in and constantly thinking, ‘What can we leverage to ensure that we’re able to respond wherever we are, to whatever problem comes up for a client?’” commented Rob.

“Unfortunately, we’re not growing new broadcast engineers,” agreed Jay, adding that Blades decentralize the Ethernet switch as a practical, affordable way to get to problems quickly in the absence of a nearby engineer.

New design sets a high standard for post-quantum readiness.

rsync -r --ignore-existing --include=*/ --include=*.js --exclude=* source/ destination

• -r to recurse into directories,
• --ignore-existing to ignore existing files in destination,
  the include and exclude filters mean: include all directories, include all *.js files, exclude the rest; the first include is needed, otherwise the final exclude will also exclude directories before their content is scanned.

Finally, you can add a -P if you want to watch progress, a --list-only if you want to see what it would copy without actually copying, and a -t if you want to preserve the timestamps.

New York City singles need to earn a sizable $184,420 per year to live comfortably, new research has revealed. //

Using the 50/30/20 finance rule — 50% of spending for essentials, 30% for leisure, and 20% for savings — the researchers determined a salary of $92,210 was needed in New York City simply to get by living alone. The team then doubled that figure to determine their definition of “living comfortably.” //

Meanwhile, the most expensive American city in which to live comfortably is San Jose, per the GOBankingRates study.

Given that the average price of a single-family home is just over $1.5 million, mortgage costs are sky-high.

In 2021, she came across a notice in the Federal Register recruiting participants for a double-blind clinical trial led by Dr. Richard Frye.

“It was like something clicked. He went from one or two words to full-on sentences within six months.” -- Kathleen Schnier

The pediatric neurologist was studying whether leucovorin could help autistic children with cerebral folate deficiency — or a shortage of vitamin B9 in the brain.

Researchers believe up to 70% of autistic children have antibodies that block the transport of folate into the brain, leading to these deficiencies and contributing to speech delays and behavioral challenges. //

With his new ability to speak, Nathaniel finally found a way to express what had been locked inside for years.

“The TV in my brain, I can say it in my mouth,” Kathleen remembers her son telling her. “It was always there, he just couldn’t say it.”

“Having the ability to deal with trade, having the ability to use tariffs to help me make a point,” he said.

“The tariffs have brought peace to the world, I’m telling you. They have brought peace to the world.”

Of the seven — soon to be eight — conflicts Trump has resolved in the first year of his second term, five of them were settled “through trade,” he said.

“We are not going to deal with people that fight,” he declared — and that firm rule “gives you a tremendous road to peace and saving millions of lives.” //

It was a revealing moment that showed us just how deeply Trump has tied his domestic program and his foreign policy priorities together.

The president designed his tariff regime to reshore manufacturing and end the fleecing of America by countries that flood our markets with their cheap goods while putting a tax on our exports.

But he’s simultaneously using it to accomplish all manner of policy wins — from stemming the free flow of fentanyl across our southern border to bringing India and Pakistan to the negotiating table to forcing Pfizer to lower the cost of prescription drugs.

His Middle East peace plan is just the latest example. //

Previous administrations based their Middle Eastern forays on the fiction of shared values, or the fantasy of exporting American-style representative democracy to people who don’t want it.

They spent trillions of taxpayer dollars and sacrificed thousands of American lives in service to these foolhardy notions.

Trump doesn’t believe in shared values — he believes in sharing value.

He’s not bent on exporting democracy, but on exporting exports. //

And by intertwining the US economy with theirs, Trump was signaling the kind of friendship whose currency runs much deeper than the fictional shared values of previous administrations.

For Trump, the currency is, well, currency.

His moves to solidify friendship via joint economic prosperity and shared interests were crucial to getting the Middle East deal done.

I am a lead pencil—the ordinary wooden pencil familiar to all boys and girls and adults who can read and write.

Writing is both my vocation and my avocation; that’s all I do.

You may wonder why I should write a genealogy. Well, to begin with, my story is interesting. And, next, I am a mystery —more so than a tree or a sunset or even a flash of lightning. But, sadly, I am taken for granted by those who use me, as if I were a mere incident and without background. This supercilious attitude relegates me to the level of the commonplace. This is a species of the grievous error in which mankind cannot too long persist without peril. For, the wise G. K. Chesterton observed, “We are perishing for want of wonder, not for want of wonders.”

I, Pencil, simple though I appear to be, merit your wonder and awe, a claim I shall attempt to prove. In fact, if you can understand me—no, that’s too much to ask of anyone—if you can become aware of the miraculousness which I symbolize, you can help save the freedom mankind is so unhappily losing. I have a profound lesson to teach. And I can teach this lesson better than can an automobile or an airplane or a mechanical dishwasher because—well, because I am seemingly so simple.

Simple? Yet, not a single person on the face of this earth knows how to make me. This sounds fantastic, doesn’t it? Especially when it is realized that there are about one and one-half billion of my kind produced in the U.S.A. each year. //

Here is an astounding fact: Neither the worker in the oil field nor the chemist nor the digger of graphite or clay nor any who mans or makes the ships or trains or trucks nor the one who runs the machine that does the knurling on my bit of metal nor the president of the company performs his singular task because he wants me. Each one wants me less, perhaps, than does a child in the first grade. Indeed, there are some among this vast multitude who never saw a pencil nor would they know how to use one. Their motivation is other than me. Perhaps it is something like this: Each of these millions sees that he can thus exchange his tiny know-how for the goods and services he needs or wants. I may or may not be among these items.

No Master Mind

There is a fact still more astounding: The absence of a master mind, of anyone dictating or forcibly directing these countless actions which bring me into being. No trace of such a person can be found. Instead, we find the Invisible Hand at work. This is the mystery to which I earlier referred.

It has been said that “only God can make a tree.” Why do we agree with this? Isn’t it because we realize that we ourselves could not make one? //

I, Pencil, am a complex combination of miracles: a tree, zinc, copper, graphite, and so on. But to these miracles which manifest themselves in Nature an even more extraordinary miracle has been added: the configuration of creative human energies—millions of tiny know-hows configurating naturally and spontaneously in response to human necessity and desire and in the absence of any human masterminding! Since only God can make a tree, I insist that only God could make me. Man can no more direct these millions of know-hows to bring me into being than he can put molecules together to create a tree.

The above is what I meant when writing, “If you can become aware of the miraculousness which I symbolize, you can help save the freedom mankind is so unhappily losing.” For, if one is aware that these know-hows will naturally, yes, automatically, arrange themselves into creative and productive patterns in response to human necessity and demand— that is, in the absence of governmental or any other coercive master-minding—then one will possess an absolutely essential ingredient for freedom: a faith in free people. Freedom is impossible without this faith.

Once government has had a monopoly of a creative activity such, for instance, as the delivery of the mails, most individuals will believe that the mails could not be efficiently delivered by men acting freely. And here is the reason: Each one acknowledges that he himself doesn’t know how to do all the things incident to mail delivery. He also recognizes that no other individual could do it. These assumptions are correct. No individual possesses enough know-how to perform a nation’s mail delivery any more than any individual possesses enough know-how to make a pencil. Now, in the absence of faith in free people—in the unawareness that millions of tiny know-hows would naturally and miraculously form and cooperate to satisfy this necessity—the individual cannot help but reach the erroneous conclusion that mail can be delivered only by governmental “masterminding.”

Jul 31, 2014, 9:51am EDT

Today would have been the 102nd birthday of the late great Milton Friedman, winner of the 1976 Nobel Prize in Economics and 1988 Presidential Medal of Freedom. Needless to say, we miss him and could use his talents.

Friedman is considered one of the greatest economists of the 20th century, the most influential since World War II, and few would dispute, the greatest advocate ever for private markets in relation to their role of ensuring both our cherished economic and political liberties.

Influenced by Jeremy Bentham and many others of his intellectual stripe like Friedrich A. Hayek, Friedman became a celebrity in his time for his enthusiastic and unfettered discussion of the way the world really works, once taking famed talk show host Donahue to school on the role of government in society: “Government has three primary functions. It should provide for military defense of the nation. It should enforce contracts between individuals. It should protect citizens from crimes against themselves or their property. When government-- in pursuit of good intentions tries to rearrange the economy, legislate morality, or help special interests, the cost come in inefficiency, lack of motivation, and loss of freedom. Government should be a referee, not an active player.”

“The battle for freedom,” Friedman wrote in his 1994 re-introduction to Hayek’s seminal work, The Road to Serfdom, “must be won over and over again.” //

As Friedman explained to Donahue in 1979, government enforcing contracts and preserving the rule of law and private property rights is at the core of prosperity and liberty. “Property rights, Friedman wrote in his memoir Two Lucky People with his wife Rose, “… are the most basic of human rights and an essential foundation for other human rights."

Read’s essay is no brief for anarchy. “I, Pencil” is a plea for humility among economic central planners that is desperately needed by the utopian thinkers of our day, and every era.

Leonard Read’s immortal essay “I, Pencil” has persuaded more people of the wonders of the free market than possibly any other comparable work—so many that the BBC recently posted an article attacking it. However, anyone reading both articles will conclude that Read’s pencil comes out looking sharper.

The mere fact that Read’s article can still elicit rebuttals 60 years after it appeared in the December 1958 issue of FEE’s The Freeman is testimony to its significance. As such a powerful and persuasive essay, it had to be destroyed. //

The ability to transport a product from factory to store shelf is a necessary condition for its sale—and thus, its mass production—but not a sufficient one.

If roads created businesses, then there should be no stretch of asphalt in the country not festooned with stores, shops, or offices. Roads facilitate commerce; they do not necessarily cause it. If the government bears responsibility for all the commerce that flows over its roads, then the federal government smuggled all but the 370,000 pounds of drugs stopped at legal ports of entry last year—and the U.S. Post Office trafficked all but the 40,000 pounds of drugs seized in the mails in 2017. Clearly, this is a reductio ad absurdum whether applied to narcotics or number two pencils.

The creative process begins when an entrepreneur senses the underlying need for a product or service, which is confirmed by someone’s willingness to pay for it. One might call this—to coin a phrase—the “magic of the price system.”

Furthermore, just as no Pencil Czar directs the construction of pencils, no Transportation Czar tells the company whether to transport its cargo by truck, rail, ship, drone, or private courier. The firm chooses the method of shipment that best fits its needs based on price signals. //

The second fallacious assumption is that everyone who supports the free market is an anarchist. The Lockean conception of ordered liberty tasks government with defending the right to life, liberty, and property—a position that Leonard Read and Milton Friedman happened to share. Read wrote in his lesser-known work Government—An Ideal Concept that the State should be confined to “protecting the life and property of all citizens equally, and invoking a common justice under law.” Friedman believed the government had three primary functions: to “provide for military defense of the nation,” “enforce contracts between individuals,” and “protect citizens from crimes against themselves or their property.”

The point of “I, Pencil” is best captured by Read’s successor at the helm of FEE, Lawrence W. Reed. “None of the Robespierres of the world knew how to make a pencil, yet they wanted to remake entire societies,” he wrote. Ambitious bureaucrats, eager to impose their ignorance on economics or politics, lack the information and creativity generated spontaneously by free people. “Leave all creative energies uninhibited,” wrote Leonard Read. “Permit these creative know-hows freely to flow.”

Read’s essay is no brief for anarchy. “I, Pencil” is a plea for humility among economic central planners that is desperately needed by the utopian thinkers of our day, and every era.

All of which leaves Harford without a point to make.

Thankfully, pencils have erasers. //

The second fallacious assumption is that everyone who supports the free market is an anarchist. The Lockean conception of ordered liberty tasks government with defending the right to life, liberty, and property—a position that Leonard Read and Milton Friedman happened to share. Read wrote in his lesser-known work Government—An Ideal Concept that the State should be confined to “protecting the life and property of all citizens equally, and invoking a common justice under law.” Friedman believed the government had three primary functions: to “provide for military defense of the nation,” “enforce contracts between individuals,” and “protect citizens from crimes against themselves or their property.”

The point of “I, Pencil” is best captured by Read’s successor at the helm of FEE, Lawrence W. Reed. “None of the Robespierres of the world knew how to make a pencil, yet they wanted to remake entire societies,” he wrote. Ambitious bureaucrats, eager to impose their ignorance on economics or politics, lack the information and creativity generated spontaneously by free people. “Leave all creative energies uninhibited,” wrote Leonard Read. “Permit these creative know-hows freely to flow.”

Read’s essay is no brief for anarchy. “I, Pencil” is a plea for humility among economic central planners that is desperately needed by the utopian thinkers of our day, and every era.

All of which leaves Harford without a point to make.

Thankfully, pencils have erasers.

If a radon test detects levels above the EPA’s action threshold (4 pCi/L), a radon mitigation system is typically installed. The most common design is a sub-slab depressurization system. This method uses a combination of PVC vent piping and a radon fan to draw the gas from beneath the building’s foundation and discharge it safely above the roofline, away from windows or air intakes.

The principle is simple but effective: by creating negative pressure beneath the slab, radon is prevented from entering the living space. These fans are often located in basements, attics, or outdoors to minimize noise and provide continuous operation.

However, because the fan and piping are usually hidden from view, it can be difficult for homeowners or facility managers to know whether the system is operating properly. ///

Radiation exposure is non-cumulative beyond a 24 hour dose rate. "Radon mitigation" is just another grift, sanctioned by the government.

Rhetorical question: If radiation is so dangerous (i.e., causes cancer so readily), why do we use it cure cancer? Doesn't it cause more cancer?

Lawrence W. Reed

Christian charity, being voluntary and heartfelt, is utterly distinct from the compulsory, impersonal mandates of the state. //

With the reputation of central planners in the dumpster worldwide, socialists have largely moved on to a different emphasis: the welfare state. The socialism of Bernie Sanders and his young ally Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is that of the benevolent, egalitarian nanny state where rich Peter is robbed to pay poor Paul. It’s characterized by lots of “free stuff” from the government—which of course isn’t free at all. It’s quite expensive both in terms of the bureaucratic brokerage fees and the demoralizing dependency it produces among its beneficiaries. Is this what Jesus had in mind?

Christianity is not about passing the buck to the government when it comes to relieving the plight of the poor.

• Rainmeter is a free, open-source app for highly customizable Windows desktop widgets.
• Skins (.rmskin/.ini) and community sites like DeviantArt let you mix, edit, and share themes.
• Edit skins via Rainmeter UI or .ini files to tweak position, fonts, icons, and interactions pixel-perfectly.

Turn Down or Disable Visual Effects
Next, you need to adjust the Windows visual effects to improve your system's overall performance. To do this, open the Start menu, type Adjust the appearance and performance of Windows, and press Enter. In the Performance Options window, select "Adjust for Best Performance," and then click "Apply" and "OK."

When dealing with such small tolerances between aircraft, it is important to keep in mind the limitations of ADS-B data. ADS-B data is reported in 25 foot increments, so a reported value of 50 feet is 50 feet ± 25 feet. The following values should then be taken with those qualifications in mind.

The altitude reported by the Nouvelair flight as it passed over the easyJet A320 was 50 feet. Both the Nouvelair and easyJet flights were operated by Airbus A320-214s. The A320 has a tail height of 38 feet, 7 inches.