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The drones sent into Poland were sent by the route an air attack against Poland would follow. They were mostly decoy drones, and the exercise was calculated to map Polish air defense radar systems, test their ranges, and test the reaction time of the Polish Air Force. Friday's expedition had the same objectives. The MiGs were equipped to be non-threatening so as not to escalate the interception into a dogfight.

Plus, the Russians sent in one of their most radar-visible aircraft. //

Again, they were mapping air defense radar coverage of the Gulf of Finland and the eastern Baltic and testing NATO reaction and reaction times.

This was also a political move to further isolate Europe, as President Trump sends repeated signals that the Europeans had better learn to fend for themselves.

Not only were the Russians out to rattle cages in Tallinn, they were sending a message to the Finns. //

A new round of sanctions seems sure to be imposed on Russia in the very near future; EU hammers Putin and charms Trump by targeting China, India in new Russia sanctions.

There is also the possibility that Russian aircraft in NATO airspace may be met with deadly force.

In 2015, Turkey reacted to a Russian violation of its airspace by shooting down a Russian strike fighter.

Even a wrong answer is right some of the time

AI models often produce false outputs, or "hallucinations." Now OpenAI has admitted they may result from fundamental mistakes it makes when training its models.

The admission came in a paper [PDF] published in early September, titled "Why Language Models Hallucinate," and penned by three OpenAI researchers and Santosh Vempala, a distinguished professor of computer science at Georgia Institute of Technology. It concludes that "the majority of mainstream evaluations reward hallucinatory behavior."

Language models are primarily evaluated using exams that penalize uncertainty

The fundamental problem is that AI models are trained to reward guesswork, rather than the correct answer. Guessing might produce a superficially suitable answer. Telling users your AI can't find an answer is less satisfying. //

"Over thousands of test questions, the guessing model ends up looking better on scoreboards than a careful model that admits uncertainty," OpenAI admitted in a blog post accompanying the release.

It sounds a lot like the Jurassic Park "Underwear Gnomes" technique of generic engineering:

1. Find and extract DNA
2. Squeeze DNA into an ostrich egg
3. ???
4. Dinosaur!

Despite his proclivity for sparking controversy, Kirk’s real interest lies in changing his followers’ behavior. //

Kirk said he hopes his calls for young adults to lead a more meaningful life will actually result in them spending less time on social media. He has cautioned his young fans against becoming enamored by “deep-internet theories” taking the form of white supremacy, misogyny and antisemitism.

In recent Q&As Kirk has condemned those who “want to point and blame Jews for all their problems,” which he characterized as “hyper-online brain rot” that is becoming increasingly common, especially among “young white men.”

Kirk’s antidote is to channel young people’s frustration “toward the transcendent” instead of “tearing everything down.” More often than not transgressive conspiracies directly contradict scripture, according to Kirk.

In the face of “women-hating,” for example, Kirk reminds listeners that the New Testament teaches men to love their wife like Christ loved the church. Kirk is confident that much of the internet’s fringe rightwing commentary “can be easily debunked or dismissed.” But he feels a personal responsibility to provide a positive alternative.

“My job every single day is actively trying to stop a revolution,” Kirk said. “This is where you have to try to point them toward ultimate purposes and toward getting back to the church, getting back to faith, getting married, having children. That is the type of conservatism that I represent, and I’m trying to paint a picture of virtue, of lifting people up, not just staying angry.” //

However, Kirk has given his opponents plenty to react to, from calling Martin Luther King Jr. an awful person, to arguing that while ending segregation was good the Civil Rights Act was a mistake, to telling young women to prioritize starting a family over their careers and questioning whether certain Muslim elected officials are real Americans. //

Increasingly Kirk, who identifies as an evangelical Christian, has described his project in spiritual terms — using technology and talking-points to trigger a cultural Great Awakening. But the next American revival won’t happen on TikTok, and it won’t be spurred by political triumphs alone, Kirk says. It will show up in rising church attendance, marriage rates and childbirths.

Even without the influence of groups like 764, sowing chaos appears to be occurring on a daily basis through the insidious influence of actors manipulating bytes and bots — all to destroy our children. How do you bring down a society? You destroy its young: mentally, physically, emotionally, and spiritually. The transgender cult has been in collusion for years to destroy them through mutilating their bodies and minds. Now, we have all forms of nefarious individuals undermining them through screens. The destruction of identity and purpose is the main goal. //

Shortly before his murder, Charlie Kirk had an apt response on why a foundation of religion is a major factor in saving Western civilization.

You have to try to point them toward ultimate purposes and toward getting back to the church, getting back to faith, getting married, having children. That is the type of conservatism that I represent, and I'm trying to paint a picture of virtue, of lifting people up, not just staying angry.

Charlie Kirk ably represented this, and it is part of the reason why he was murdered. So, we must rise and be like Charlie. Wise people are recognizing this and acting accordingly. With groups like 764 and adversarial threats seemingly on every side, we need God's hand and God's help more than ever before.

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• bridge - Same as ap-bridge, but limited to one associated client.
• wds-slave - Same as ap-bridge, but scan for AP with the same ssid and establishes WDS link. If this link is lost or cannot be established, then continue scanning. If dfs-mode is radar-detect, then APs with enabled hide-ssid will not be found during scanning.

Redford’s masculine charm wasn’t at all boring, like the “Barefoot” bride perceives her hubby. Much the opposite. He was a complex, controlled and sly actor, who seduced with ease in every genre he touched.

“Like the greatest movie stars, Bob understands the power of restraint,” his “The Way We Were” co-star Barbra Streisand wrote in her 2023 memoir, “My Name Is Barbra.”

“You’re never going to get it all … and that’s the mystery … that’s what makes you want to keep looking at him.”

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@VP get's emotional talking about the kind of Husband and Father Charlie Kirk was.

He is going to honor Charlie by being the "best husband he can be."

"The best way that I can honor my dear friend, is to...be the kind of husband to my wife that he was to his." 🙏

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Charlie Kirk said The MOST important thing you could do, if you’re a young man, is to become a husband & father.

"He talked about the joy that came from fatherhood, the joy that came from raising a family and being part of their growth."

Charlie Kirk was a very wise man.

4:39 PM · Sep 15, 2025

Are you stumped for what to call your new laptop or desktop computer? Or do you own multiple computers and are lost on how to name each of them?

You’re in the right place!

The Center Square reported Friday that “in the wake of the assassination of Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk, thousands of social media posts appear to list politically conservative targets for assassination by the political left.” Some of the principal names that keep recurring on the left’s death wish lists are some of the most prominent critics of the transgender madness: Joe Rogan, JK Rowling, Ben Shapiro, and Matt Walsh, as well as President Donald Trump, Libs of TikTok’s Chaya Raichik, Elon Musk, and Andy Ngo.

JK Rowling pointed out what this bloodlust revealed about the left: “If you believe free speech is for you but not your political opponents, you're illiberal. If no contrary evidence could change your beliefs, you're a fundamentalist. If you believe the state should punish those with contrary views, you're a totalitarian. If you believe political opponents should be punished with violence or death, you're a terrorist.”

Indeed. And that is exactly what the left is today. “Inside every progressive is a totalitarian screaming to get out,” quipped the late, great David Horowitz, and by now, it’s abundantly clear that they’re out. Totalitarians don’t care to debate their opponents, and in particular on the transgender issue, leftists likely know that they would lose, and lose resoundingly, any such debate. And so they want those whom they fear and hate to be silenced, and silenced for good. In a group that hates God and His creation and wants to reshape it to their own liking, moral considerations simply don’t enter into the equation.

If, however, the leftists who posted these hit lists thought they would terrorize their targets into silence, they were in for a disappointment. Like Rowling, Shapiro was defiant, saying: “We will never stop debating and discussing. We will never stop standing up for what America is and what she should be. And we will never let Charlie’s voice die.” //

Indeed, they cannot and must not, but they are counting on patriots to have a collective failure of courage, and to give up their resistance and submit to their evil agenda rather than put their lives on the line. In fact, in the struggle for human freedom, it was ever thus. That’s why Tom Paine wrote back in 1776 that “these are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands by it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.”

That is also why the signers of the Declaration of Independence concluded that document with this: “And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.” Even then, like today, terror was the only tool that the forces of darkness had. In order for good to triumph over evil, men had to be willing to stand up to that terror and face it down.

And that is exactly what they did, because they knew that if they did not do so, the flame of liberty would be extinguished, and men would be condemned to slavery to tyranny, possibly for generations, until another generation arose that was willing to pledge their lives, their fortunes and their sacred honor to preserve their freedom.

That was what at stake then, and that is what is at stake now.

Six decades have now passed since some of the most iconic Project Gemini spaceflights. The 60th anniversary of Gemini 4, when Ed White conducted the first US spacewalk, came in June. The next mission, Gemini 5, ended just two weeks ago, in 1965. These missions are now forgotten by most Americans, as most of the people alive during that time are now deceased.

However, during these early years of spaceflight, NASA engineers and astronauts cut their teeth on a variety of spaceflight firsts, flying a series of harrowing missions during which it seems a miracle that no one died.

Because the Gemini missions, as well as NASA's first human spaceflight program Mercury, yielded such amazing stories, I was thrilled to realize that a new book has recently been published—Gemini & Mercury Remastered—that brings them back to life in vivid color.

The book is a collection of 300 photographs from NASA's Mercury and Gemini programs during the 1960s, in which Andy Saunders has meticulously restored the images and then deeply researched their background to more fully tell the stories behind them. The end result is a beautiful and powerful reminder of just how brave America's first pioneers in space were. What follows is a lightly edited conversation with Saunders about how he developed the book and some of his favorite stories from it.

Any society, to be functional, should be literate and educated. That means reading. By the time a young person is 25, they should have read half the great books they will read in their lives. Here are some suggestions. Note that this is far from a complete list; a complete list would require a book unto itself.

RedState reported Saturday that Turning Point USA had seen an unbelievable 18,000 new requests for chapters following the heinous assassination of TPUSA co-founder and CEO Charlie Kirk on Wednesday.

They’ve awoken a sleeping giant: //

But if you think that’s the end of the story, no—it's just the beginning. That already humongous number has now soared to over 32,000 as of this writing. //

"To put that in perspective, TPUSA currently has 900 official college chapters and around 1,200 high school chapters... //

"Charlie's vision to have a Club America chapter (our high school brand) in every high school in America (around 23,000) will come true much, much faster than he could have ever possibly imagined," Kolvet added, calling the response to expand Kirk's mission "truly incredible."

In a separate post, Kolvet wrote, "This is the Turning Point."

Today, let's look at who's to blame for all the cars that insist on shifting for themselves. Arguably, the earliest blame-havers could be Louis-Rene Panhard and Emile Levassor, who were about to show off their new automatic transmission in 1894 when the thing just broke, forcing them to turn the demonstration into a Ted Talk with a chalkboard. 

Then, in 1904, when concepts such as radio, television, and TikTok were still yet to be realized, two brothers with the last name of Sturtevant were plugging away at the Sturtevant Mill Company in Boston, patenting all sorts of industrial machines, including an automatic transmission  and the awesome-sounding "Double Carburetor for Explosive Engines." Their primitive automatic only had two speeds, sort of like a GM Powerglide, but its operation was much different than later automatic transmissions and their weird interiors laden with forbidden mysteries.

The Sturtevant automatic used a pair of clutches attached to spring-loaded weights.

Read More: https://www.jalopnik.com/1902889/automatic-transmission-history-first-car/

For a more concise overview, check out Sabin Civil Engineering's video, "Automatic Transmission, How it works?" on YouTube.

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let’s look at a reality that many on the Left do not want to acknowledge. It has been reported that the Democrats are struggling mightily with male voters. But there is another significant demographic that portends trouble for that party, one that is not nearly as widely reported on nor recognized. The young and emerging voter base has been trending rightward, with a strong current.

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Young women have also shifted Rightwards.

Charlie Kirk played a big part in making this happen. RIP to the Godfather of Youth Conservatism 🙏
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One social media post from a father delivers some insight. A businessman named Kyle Matthews had a post on an anecdotal occurrence he witnessed involving his son. While he admits to being largely unaware of Charlie Kirk and his positions, he noted that the day after the assassination, his son was wearing a suit and tie to school. He was then informed that many students were doing so out of respect for what transpired.

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Last night my oldest son said to me “Dad, me and all my friends are going to wear a coat & tie to school tomorrow.”

At drop off today I realized the entire school was doing it, when effectively every student was wearing a coat and tie.

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Charlie Kirk showed these youths that they are not toxic and can exist as their own. He empowered them, and this became the attraction.

Now, when shown that the alternative is a faction that does not traffic in the arena of ideas, instead falling back on accusations and labels, and can resort to violence instead of convincing people with grounded policy, these kids will become voters lost for some time. They can matriculate into a college environment pre-armed with facts and confidence, able to beat back the indoctrination so prevalent in those universities, and do so on campuses where Charlie Kirk has made conservatism far more tolerated than seen just a decade ago.

What the left is unaware of is that this grievous murder of a prominent voice on the right will stiffen the resolve of a new class of students rising through the ranks. Seeing their guiding voice eliminated due to intolerance will expose so much of the messaging they are assaulted by, and they will have a dawning on what they are facing.

They miss out on something larger emerging. The Left might see this as a successful elimination of an opponent, but it has exposed the hollow nature of their entire movement, and the next generation has now been made aware.

The result would be a "checkpoint society" where identity checks become an unavoidable part of daily life, Big Brother Watch says.

The group says such a system would fundamentally alter the relationship between citizen and state, creating a surveillance infrastructure vulnerable to abuse, discrimination, and hacking. A Big Brother Watch poll, carried out by YouGov, shows that 63 percent of Brits don't trust the government to protect their data – hardly surprising given Whitehall's track record of bungled IT projects, data leaks, and multi-billion-pound write-offs.

The group has also sounded the alarm over the UK's existing digital identification system, One Login, which underpins the credential issuing process in the so-called "BritCard" proposal, which it says is known to suffer from substantial cybersecurity and data protection weaknesses.

Big Brother Watch also warns of mission creep, arguing that once a system is live, "voluntary" quickly becomes mandatory. Those who fail or refuse to enrol risk being locked out of jobs, housing, or healthcare, while errors could leave people wrongly excluded from essential services.

"The notion that digital ID will provide a magic-bullet solution for unauthorised immigration is ludicrous," said Rebecca Vincent, interim director of Big Brother Watch. "It will not stop small boat crossings, and it will not deter those intent on using non-legal means of entering the country from doing so. But digital ID will create a huge burden for the largely law-abiding 60 million people who already live here and insert the state into many aspects of our everyday lives."

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Any half decent IT department would get an alert if they couldn't ping an AP, and they would have a look at the switch to see that an interface was disconnected, then go and take a look.

They'd then notice a pattern, take a look at the records to see who was connected to any nearby APs at the time, and because you'd have to do it when the office was quiet, fairly soon work out who it was disconnecting them.

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You think we don't have a vm on that network that will easily accept additional network interfaces, created with the access point's mac address and ip addresses to fool the monitoring system? Some of us weren't born yesterday.

rIf you really want to confuse people, you can use a $250 spool of fiber and make their computer, which is 50m from the network closet, appear to be 25km farther away. If you can't get your hands on a spool of fiber, but have a box of patch cables and a spare 48 port switch, you can connect the user to port 1 and the upstream switch to port 48, and then put ports 1-2 in vlan 1, 3-4 in vlan 2. 5-6 in vlan 3, etc, and cable ports 2-3, 4-5, 6-7, etc, making his computer 25 hops away from the actual network.

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