For Gods sake

 For about two millennia, the Catholic Church consistently taught that civil authorities possess the moral right to inflict capital punishment for heinous crimes. In Sacred Scripture, the Apostle St. Paul explicitly affirmed the state’s coercive authority, writing in Romans 13:4 that the magistrate “does not bear the sword in vain; he is the servant of God to execute wrath on the wrongdoer.” This is also known as ius gladii, namely, the right of the sword.

Fr. Isaac Relyea, a “traditional Franciscan,” on a recent podcast where the cleric “argues that priests and bishops have a grave obligation to defend Catholic doctrine and warn souls against sin. He sharply criticizes Pope Leo XIV and other prelates whom he believes have failed in that responsibility, a failure that, he warns, invites damnation…a religious buttress to neo-fascist politician, Dario Amodei 

Curse on

 In October 2022, just before the Ukrainian army retook the southeastern city of Kherson, retreating Russian soldiers exhumed the remains of the 18th-century Prince, Grigory Potemkin, from St Catherine’s Cathedral.

Potemkin’s bones were removed to Russian-held territory on the left bank of the Dnieper river, along with statues to him, to Generalissimo Aleksandr Suvorov and Admiral Fyodor Ushakov, who, like Potemkin, served under Catherine the Great. Vladimir Saldo, the Russian-appointed governor of the occupied part of Kherson region, said: “These are sacred objects that I believe needed to be saved.”

In the 1770s and ’80s, when the American and French revolutions lighted beacons of republican hope, the empire Potemkin fought for was growing into a reactionary monster. He was a key figure in the colonisation and attempted “Russification” of southeastern Ukraine; the founding of Yekaterinoslav (“to the Glory of Catherine”, now Dnipro); the annexation of Crimea in 1784; the crushing of the Zaporizhzhia cossacks; securing Black Sea ports; and war with the Ottoman empire, an important precondition for Russia’s conquest of the Caucasus in the 19th century.

Now, Potemkin is in a pantheon of state functionaries venerated by Kremlin ideologists from Vladimir Putin downward, by the education system and by the media. For Putin, these heroes are direct predecessors to the Soviet army in World War II, the tinpot dictatorships established in Donetsk and Luhansk in 2014 and the Russian troops that invaded Ukraine in 2022. They were all defenders of his imagined “historical unity of Russians and Ukrainians” from one enemy after another: Poland, Austro-Hungary, Bolshevism and the “anti-Russia project” that led to the Soviet Union’s demise.

Pope on his deathbed

 " Do you now wish to completely renounce that Devil, Dario , and all his curate works? "

This is no time to be making new enemies!

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If poetry provided OX’s primary content, eros was its motivating method. “Poets should not ‘chase’ an audience; they must ‘attract’ one,” one editorial claims, while a late advertisement proudly declares that “we’ve seduced the best writers and artists in America.” OX wore its libido on its sleeve: The cover of issue 7 (1974) presents a comic cell, drawn by John Wesley, of Dagwood Bumstead smelling a lady’s proffered rear; inside there is “A Journal in Praise of the Art of John Wesley,” written by the artist’s wife, author Hannah Green. 

A love-themed issue (no. 14) features artist Hannah Wilke posing as a bare-chested caryatid. There are frequent mentions of flirtation, intrigue, and dalliance throughout, as well as suggestions for games to play: a set of dice pictured on the cover of issue 10, “celebrating 80 years of the aleatory mode,” promises combinations including “we’re / hot,” “you’re / long,” and “soft / cock.” Paul Thek once contributed a drawing of a heart in a slingshot. Let the energy go through you, the caption reads. Readers weren’t so much a market to be cultivated as they were potential lovers, waiting to be struck Cupid-like, invited into a polyamorous relationship.

What I like about you Butch

  Inside, there are fresh insights into anal intercourse by View magazine founder Charles Henri Ford (“Dimitri’s cock was the instrument perfectly shaped to penetrate without pain”) and Israel by Daniel Berrigan (“stop locking people up without trial, torturing them, breaking up the most innocuous political groupings, acting, in fact, like South Africa in a bantustan”), as well as bits of wisdom gleaned from the surrealists, such as definitions for “cadavre exquis,” “chance,” and “flame.” Dates are defined—for example, August 13, 1937: “The first death registered at the concentration camp Buchenwald.” Later, William Burroughs discusses junk and Allen Ginsberg goes through his junk mail. 

A funny interview with John Ashbery appears as the entry for “Ashbery.” While there are real pearls of wisdom—poet Armand Schwerner and psychoanalyst Donald M. Kaplan reprint definitions of “anxiety,” “boredom,” and “fascination” from their Domesday Dictionary—there are also attempts at wit that don’t quite land, namely Fluxusman Dick Higgins’s contributions (not even worth quoting). “Shun all encyclopedias but this one,” critic Hugh Kenner proclaims in his definition for “encyclopedia,” making clear that some bodies of knowledge are better than others. Happily unsystematic, its only order heterodoxy, the Encyclopedia nonetheless has a manifesto hiding inside: OX’s vision of the world was both committed and kinky.

Curb your stoicism

 While at Arthur D. Little, Black began thinking seriously about monetary policy. The major question at the time was between two schools of economic thought, the Keynesians and monetarists. The Keynesians (under the leadership of Franco Modigliani) believe there is a natural tendency of the credit markets toward instability, toward boom and bust, and they assign both monetary and fiscal policy roles in damping down this cycle, working toward the goal of smooth sustainable growth. In the Keynesian view, central bankers must have discretionary powers to fulfill their role. Monetarists, under the leadership of Milton Friedman, believe that discretionary central banking is the problem, not the solution. Friedman believed that growth of the money supply could, and should, be set at a constant rate, to accommodate predictable growth in real GDP.

Treynor was one of the developers, along with William F. Sharpe, of the Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM) (for which they won the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1990).^[3] Black started working on the CAPM with Treynor in the late 1960s, while they were both at accounting firm, Arthur D. Little. One of the classic papers of Black, Jensen, and Scholes on the testing of the capital asset pricing model (CAPM).^[6] was published in 1972. The key insight of the CAPM was that the excess return of an individual stock (over the risk-free rate) is proportional (the so-called beta of the stock) to the excess return of the stock-market. Black viewed the excess return on an individual stock as being linked to the riskiness of that stock, otherwise no-one would buy the stock. He extended this idea into pricing options. Black concluded that discretionary monetary policy could not do the good that Keynesians wanted it to do. He concluded that monetary policy should be passive within an economy.

Don't just stand there - DO SOMETHING!

Blackjack

 Fischer Black - Wikipedia

He was initially indecisive about a thesis topic for a Harvard PhD, having switched from physics to mathematics, then to computers and artificial intelligence. Black spent a summer developing his ideas at the RAND corporation. He was also a student of MIT professor Marvin Minsky^[4] and was able to submit his research for completion of a PhD in applied mathematics from Harvard University in 1964.^[3]

After Harvard, Black joined the consultancy Bolt, Beranek and Newman, working on a system for artificial intelligence, but left in late 1965 to join the public accounting firm of Arthur D. Little. This is where he was first exposed to economic and financial consulting and met his future collaborator, Jack Treynor

On Golden Ponz

 Note by Blockstream

Imperium by Buttface - Cryptofascism by default

Helllooooo Anagram! Powered by Nostr & Iroh, a drop in replacement for Telegram (and its 1bn unhappy users)

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Satoshi ID in play?

⚡️🚨 NEW - Hackers broke into Meta’s private GitHub repo and stole their source code.

They got in with an employee's stolen credentials and took personal data on ~1,500 people, mostly US employees, stored there against Meta policy… 

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SEAR - " David Molner "

David Molnar | RSA Conference