Lula and the Oakland socialite speak highly of it
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Friday, October 2, 2026
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Readers of the Kyiv Independent “really want Russia to suffer,” editor-in-chief Olga Rudenko tells Dan Sabbagh at The Guardian, but that doesn't let the site off the hook on covering Russian military gains or Ukrainian corruption: “We're not Ukrainian propaganda, we're not affiliated with the government, we're not Ukraine's PR service.”
Egyptian police have arrested six employees of Los Pollos Hermanos for serving known Al Jazeera followers. Defence claims it was only Clucking Bell leftovers destined for scrap.
Babacar Dem had driven a yellow cab in New York since 2001. Near the end of another long shift, he stopped to use the bathroom at a Bronx chicken shop and never came out. In a story for Gothamist, Ramsey Khalifeh uncovers that Dem was one of at least four immigrant cabbies who died on the job this summer.
Khalifeh traces how a decade of Uber and Lyft has left drivers stuck on lease-to-own deals they can barely cover, working through dialysis, strokes and heat waves just to stay even. Bhairavi Desai of the Taxi Workers Alliance says they feel "handcuffed to the wheel."
The first confirmed upload
Will follow the hybrid rollout like an eclipse totality. Then what starts as trickle soon becomes flood. Most boomers gone upstairs will make the knock-on effects incredible.
No more huge money pits for social security.
The possibilities for a centuries long fallow earth will open out.
Our safe ticket to the stars - with a clean conscience.
Mother nature free to replenish her bounty.
Minimal collatoral damage. Zero residual prescence.
Why its ingenius. Yes? And only logical.
Hunker in the bunker
VERIFY - DON'T TRUST
Superior intelligence tests whether this present multipolar system can cope with a radical and dynamic new technology—and whether it is closer to chaos than anarchy.
The concept of anarchy has been an important subject in the study of international relations (IR). Oxford University Professor Hedley Bull’s The Anarchical Society: A Study of Order in World Politics, first published in 1977, was for many years required IR reading. And Alexander Wendt’s “Anarchy Is What States Make of It: The Social Construction of Power Politics” (1992) became one of the canonical IR articles.
What did Bull and Wendt mean by anarchy, and is it relevant today?
Bull’s point was that states exist without a higher authority above them. States are not subject to a central government. The United Nations is not, and has no pretense to be, a world government. It has no authority to legitimately use force in the way that a country’s government can.
But Bull’s starting point is that states without a higher authority do interact in ways that create an international society. States recognize that they have common interests and values and can function together without an overriding government. Bull’s international society is anarchical because it lacks a world government, but it nevertheless functions because it has rules, institutions and a degree of order—at least it did when he first published the book.
Wendt’s article makes a similar point, but from a different perspective. He accepts the absence of a central authority as a structural fact. But what that fact means depends on how states interact with one another. Wendt focuses on how states, through their interaction, construct identities, interests and expectations that give meaning to anarchy. In Wendt’s famous formulation, “anarchy is what states make of it.”
For both Bull and Wendt, then, anarchy does not mean chaos. Although there is no world government, there can still be order. Bull and the English School assume an international society with common values and rules. Wendt assumes state interaction.
Switzerland is preparing the Geneva AI Summit 2027, scheduled for 21–22 June. Its theme, “Bridging Innovation and Trust,” is intended to bring together governments, international organizations, academia, business and civil society to begin establishing a formal AI governance structure.
The Swiss Ambassador and Deputy Director of the Swiss Communication Office described the Summit’s aim to a local newspaper: “We don’t want a nice final declaration,” he said. “We would ideally like to lay the foundations for…trust, try to bring some order to this chaos of AI through a certain form of governance, and increase global digital security.”
You could call that certain form of governance cryptoanarchy, if you had any intelligence.
Cryptographic intelligence takes it all
" . . . cognition can be modeled via three mathematical frameworks: logic, artificial neural networks (“mathematical systems that emulate the operation of the brain”) and probability theory.
I used modal logic, the internet and optimistic Baysianism from 2000 to 2015. Then found the new kid in town.
2003 - Cryptographic Unification of Mass and Space
https://www.worldscientific.com/doi/abs/10.1142/S0217751X03016392?journalCode=ijmpa
2005. Programming the Universe: A Quantum Computer Scientist Takes on the Cosmos book.
Is the universe actually a giant quantum computer? According to Seth Lloyd, the answer is yes
2010 - Cryptographic Theoretical Calculation of the Fine-Structure Constant
https://arxiv.org/abs/1008.4537
2012 - Direct Cryptographic Computation of the Cosmological Constant ( PDF )
https://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1212/1212.5941.pdf
Charles K. Rhodes
Old wine in new bottlenecks
I'm so old I remember President North selling missiles to Iran
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