What followed Hitler's appointment as chancellor was a kind of "flood the zone" strategy -- an early election call, a blizzard of executive orders curtailing press freedom ... read more
The New York Times' last Siena Polls are showing a huge night tomorrow for Democrats. read more
Dozens of unexplained drones flew over and near U.S. nuclear facilities between February 2024 and March 2026, according to records the Nuclear Regulatory Commission made public this week. read more
Thousands of runners made their way through all five boroughs on Sunday as the 2026 TCS New York City Marathon brought crowds, cheers and celebrations to New York City. Andreas Almgren of Sweden won the men's race in his debut in the event while Sheila Chepkirui of Kenya won the women's race on Sunday for the second time.
The Iran war has exposed Gulf Arab states' vulnerabilities, including through their reliance on a U.S. whose priorities are diverging from their own.
@#3 ... He also said he would have ended the Vietnam war in a week. ...
Pres Trump has also said that he won his war against Iran back in March 2026. (note that I seem to feel a need to put a year on that date)
Pres Trump says a lot of things. Mostly MAGA seems to be the only folk who belive what he says.
Indeed, he has recently said to the attendees at his rally, "I Could Say The Stupidest Things And You'd Clap"
Trump Tells Supporters: I Could Say The Stupidest Things And You'd Clap'
www.forbes.com
NASA's 1977 computers aboard Voyager are still working in interstellar space (April 2026)
wp.modern-science.net
... As millions around the world watched on smartphones, T.V.s, or in person, Artemis II and its four-person crew burst from the ground on April 1 and successfully began its 10-day journey to the moon. While all eyes were focused on the Orion spacecraft, it's worth remembering that it takes a small army of humans"and computers"to make these kinds of awe-inspiring journeys possible. And just like everyday tech users, NASA also has to upgrade its systems from time to time, and the one powering Artemis looks nothing like their relic ancestors. That doesn't necessarily mean those older versions did not work.
Resurfaced footage released by YouTuber Gary Friedman shows some of the sturdy computing hardware that powered Voyager 1 and 2, a pair of spacecraft first launched in 1977 and tasked with taking a trip through our solar system. Incredibly, both of these spacecraft are still functional in deep space, despite relying on vintage hardware older than many of NASA's engineers today.
The roughly 14-minute video shows a NASA engineer taking viewers on a tour of Building 230 at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in southern California. As he walks through the room, he passes an assortment of refrigerator-sized computers made by Univac and IBM. He also stops to acknowledge punch cards used to communicate with the spacecraft, old tape drives, and a communication hub lined with phones and small monitors that one engineer calls "the heartbeat of the enterprise," The voice behind the camera says he is documenting these historic devices, "before they replace it all with mainframes."
All of this ancient-looking hardware was tasked with overseeing the operational safety of the Voyager craft, which are currently well over 16 billion miles from Earth in interstellar space. On board both spacecraft is a suite of custom-made computers and electronics built prior to 1977. Each of the Voyager craft has three computer systems onboard, with a total memory capacity of just 69.63 kilobytes -- that's less than a standard JPEG file.
Scientific data collected by the spacecraft is encoded onto a digital 8-track machine before being transmitted back to Earth. Since memory is in such short supply, the spacecraft constantly write over old data once it's transmitted. ...
@#5 ... MSGT's post about rich donors supporting Democratic candidates is true and,as such, the amounts of their donations pale in comparison to the Republican donors like Musk and others who buy news networks so they can control what news reaches most voters. ...
Yup. The MAGA cult often likes to point to the Soros donations, usually with nothing how those donations pale in comparison to the donations by Mr Musk and other MAGA aficionados.
And then there is the Trump admin apparently helping (with the aid of Middle East ~friends~) the purchase of major networks).
FCC lets Paramount sell 49.5% equity stake to Saudi Arabia, UAE, and Qatar (September 2026)
arstechnica.com
@#12 ... Right wingers had better never ever sneeringly utter the name of George Soros. ...
You really think that reality and facts might cause them to reassess their comments?