Shortly after 7 a.m. on Aug. 7, 1974, French performance artist Philippe Petit stepped out from the roof of the World Trade Center’s South Tower and onto a one-inch thick cable, stretching 140 feet across to the North Tower.

With no safety net or harness, all he had was a balancing pole for company – and a drop of 1,360-feet and certain death below him should he make one wrong step.

Philippe Petit, a young Frenchman artist tight rope walker, gave the most spectacular high-wire performance of all time.
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Petit performed the act shortly after 7 a.m. on Aug. 7, 1974.
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“I was a little anxious on that first crossing because we never checked how strong the anchor point was on the other side,” Petit tells The Post. “It wasn’t great, to be honest, but it was good enough.”

Audacious, dangerous and entirely illegal, Petit’s wire walk was called the ‘artistic crime of the century’ and was years in the planning. Using covert surveillance and endless subterfuge, Petit managed to smuggle a huge amount of equipment up the 110 floors of the South Tower before his friend and collaborator, Jean-Louis Blondeau, fired a cable across to the North Tower using a bow and arrow.

He even chartered a helicopter so he could take aerial photographs of the rooftops of the Twin Towers.

He was released without charge on the condition he perform a free show for children in Central Park. //

He also found himself in the Guinness Book of World Records, much to his annoyance.

“My art cannot be defined by numbers or records but the irony is I unwittingly found myself in it whether I liked it or not,” he said. “I never I wanted to be in it alongside people who can eat 10 pizzas in a minute.” //

“Here in America I am called a daredevil or a stuntman, like I’m Evel Knievel on a motorbike or Harry Houdini, but nothing could be further from the truth. My art is not death-defying, it is life-affirming.

“I want to inspire people and to believe they can move mountains. I want them to look up without fear.

“I am a poet in the sky.”

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Black Men this is your reminder that in 2010 Kamala Harris extended the sentence of Caramad Conley for a murder he didn't commit. Nearly 20 yrs of his life gone.

In 2007, she also sent Jamal Trulove to prison for six years for a murder he didn't commit.

Kamala hates Black Men
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I am a True Black American woman whose family have been here for centuries. I WILL NOT BE VOTING FOR @VP Kamala Harris, she’s Indian who cosplay Black culture. Stop playing in our faces. #notangiblesnovote #stopillegalimmigration #CloseTheBorder #ReparationsNow #saveourkids 🚫
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Did you know when Kamala Harris was Attorney General of California? She force Nina Simone family to give up control of the estate. And let a white men take it over and running it the families not benefiting from it anymore.#BlackTwitter.#BlackHistoryMonth.
1:48 AM · Feb 9, 2023

She has no policy, no record to stand on. One of the biggest thing she did in her career is lock up more black men than ever before, but we sit here and vote her in office on identity politics… We did that during the Obama Administration and he didn’t do anything for black people…" //

Kamala Harris does not have the Black vote locked up, and this anointing and lack of examination of who she is and her record is going to have the opposite effect of pushing Black voters away.

Of Captain Teach Alias Blackbeard

Edward Teach was a Bristol man born, but had sailed some time out of Jamaica in privateers, in the late French war; yet though he had often distinguished himself for his uncommon boldness and personal courage, he was never raised to any command, till he went a-pirating, which I think was at the latter end of the year 1716, ... //

Being asked the meaning of this, he only answered, by damning them, that if he did not now and then kill one of them, they would forget who he was.

As America prepares for November’s presidential election, the fight for votes will inevitably intensify.

But as conservative commentator Megan Basham explains in her new book, “Shepherds For Sale: How Evangelical Leaders Traded The Truth For A Leftist Agenda” (Broadside) — and in an interview with The Post — nowhere will the campaign be more fiercely fought than in the battle for the one of the most powerful voting blocs in the country: evangelicals.

A culture reporter for the Daily Wire and former editor at Evangelical publication World Magazine, Basham reveals in “Shepherds For Sale” how “progressive power brokers” are targeting not just churches but Christian media, universities and even entire denominations in a bid to force their hands when it comes to dealing with culture war flash-points like abortion, LGBTQ rights and climate change. //

“Look at nearly any issue that represents a key priority for progressives, and you will find that even when all other major demographics have signed on, Christians, and evangelicals in particular, represent the most formidable roadblock,” she says. //

Basham maintains that in return for toeing a more left-wing line on key issues — as well as reinterpreting or even eschewing scripture — many church leaders have received everything from praise to prestige, career progression to significant amounts of cash, selling out Christianity in the process.

“Evangelicals don’t always win at the ballot box, but in most regions of the country, they always present a massive hurdle to leftist power grabs,” writes Basham. //

A significant aspect of the left’s ability to infiltrate the Church is the existence of what Basham calls the “Eleventh Commandment,” namely: Thou shalt not criticize church leaders.

“What the Eleventh Commandment has meant in practice is that even as prominent pastors and theologians have spent the last few years accommodating every sort of secular, progressive influence, critical or even cautioning voices have been slow to respond [to the challenge],” she says.

The bishop of Winona-Rochester, Minnesota, who is one of the most Catholic media voices, called out the theatrical opening of the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris for mocking Christianity and the Last Supper, and asked if the Olympic organizers would consider insulting the Muslim faith.

“A question I would pose--we all know the answer to it: ‘Would they ever have dared mock Islam in a similar way?’” asked Bishop Robert E. Barron, who is also the founder of the “Word on Fire” ministry, in an X-post.

Barron said the enemies of Christianity are putting Christians on notice that the struggle is being fought right now: //

Throughout the city, the French erected statues honoring the 10 golden heroines of French history: Olympe de Gouges, Alice Milliat, Gisèle Halimi, Simone de Beauvoir, Paulette Nardal, Jeanne Barret, Louise Michel, Christine de Pizan, Alice Guy and Simone Veil.

Somehow, St. Joan of Arc, did not make the cut. //

“France felt, evidently, as it's trying to put its best cultural foot forward, the right thing to do is to mock this very central moment in Christianity where Jesus and his Last Supper gives his body and blood in anticipation of the Cross,” he said.

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The man in the arena is returning to the arena - honorably.

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6 hours ago
“What struck former President Trump in the ear was a bullet, whether whole or fragmented into smaller pieces, fired from the deceased subject’s rifle.”

They're getting you to focus on the wrong things.
Misdirection has always been the name of the Deep State's game.

Democrats pulled a switcheroo with Joe Biden, knowing they were going to go down to defeat with him, after his disastrous debate made it impossible to hide his cognitive decline anymore.

Democrats are trying to whip up excitement over Kamala Harris. But are they going to be in any better position with Harris?

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Re: Yes and no
OK, here's the situation.

you fork an upstream repo, your fork is private

you commit something there that should not see daylight (keys to the Lamborghini or whatever)

you delete that commit to hide your sins

and now that commit is apparently still easily accessible from upstream. //

Re: Yes and no

Also - as far as I can see it's not actually possible to create private native GitHub forks of public repos in GitHub

The example they cite is when you have a private repo that will eventually become public, fork it to make permanently-private fork and then later make the original repo public. Anything commited to the still-private repo up until the point the first repo is made public, can be accessed from the now-public repo. (As long as you know the commit hashes, that is - but unfortunately they're easily discoverable.) //

The issue is that people are mentally modelling forks as "that's my copy of the repo, completely separate from the original" whereas in reality the fork is just a different interface to the same pool of blobs. Furthermore, while you wouldn't be able to access commits from another fork in the same pool of blobs unless you know the commit hash, github makes those commit hashes discoverable. //

Re: Yes and no
For the people downvoting me - you are aware how quickly AWS credentials accidentally exposed on GitHub are found and abused by attackers? Honeypot tests suggest 1 minute.

https://www.comparitech.com/blog/information-security/github-honeypot/

Note that at no point in the "what to do if you've exposed credentials" section does it say "delete the public repo in the hope that this will alter the past". Magical thinking.

Having played around with this on GitHub, I will say that the message on trying to delete a repo isn't explicit enough about the unexpected (if documented) behaviour. It really ought to have a disclaimer that says "If you're trying to delete commits you wish you hadn't pushed everywhere, this won't achieve it", and a link to a page describing what will actually help. //

What happens in Repo Stays In Repo
"It's reasonable to expect that deleting a commit tree that nobody else has yet accessed will prevent it from being accessed in future."

No it isn't. It's supposed to be a history. In a code repo, the ability to permanently delete past changeset data should be considered a bug or design flaw. The inability to lose history is the whole point.

Source code has no right to be forgotten, when it's in an SCM, because the point of the SCM is to remember.

The spot is "narrated" by Harris, but it’s clear that it’s done by either using an AI voice generator or by splicing together audio clips to make it sound like she said things she obviously didn’t. Mr Reagan intersperses those sections with real footage of Kamala making a fool out of herself without the aid of advanced technology. //

I, Kamala Harris, am your Democrat candidate for president because Joe Biden finally exposed his senility at the debate. Thanks Joe...

I may not know the first thing about running the country, but remember: that's a good thing if you're a deep state puppet. I had four years under the tutelage of the ultimate deep state puppet, a wonderful mentor, Joe Biden. //

Joe taught me rule number one: carefully hide your total incompetence.

I take insignificant things and I discuss them as if they're significant. And I believe that exploring the significance of the insignificant is in itself significant. [Cut to actual footage from an event:] Talking about the significance of the passage of time, right? The significance of the passage of time. So when you think about it, there is great significance to the passage of time. [Cuts to a different portion of those remarks:] And there is such great significance to the passage of time. //

Jim Stewart CatsAliveInHim
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Rush was the master of parody commercials. I have many of his stashed; John McCain for Bank of Amigo; the Club Gitmo campaign; the Hillary Clinton Testicle Lockbox. These last 3½ years would have more bearable if Rush had been with us.

Pardon me now, I need a tissue. //

anon-pabn 4 hours ago

One cannot escape the awesomeness of awesome. To be awesome, one must first recognize and acknowledge awesome in their lives; which in itself is awesome and encompasses the very awesomeness everyone must have to be more awesomer.

That parody was AWESOME! Oh, and God help us.