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EnochWalked: www.jpost.com/breaking-news/article-827295 "Following Khamenei's threats, Iranian forces positioned to strike Israel." "The report comes a day after Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei issued a new wave of threats against Israel and the US" Nov 3, 2024 21:04:57 GMT -6
EnochWalked: www.jpost.com/middle-east/article-827270 "US to Iran: Avoid strikes or face unrestrained Israeli retaliation". An interesting choice of words: "unrestrained". Nov 3, 2024 21:10:15 GMT -6
EnochWalked: www.world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Chernobyl-s-original-shelter-gets-six-year-extensi "The Shelter Object - also known as the 'sarcophagus' ... [has been given] a 31 October 2029 deadline for completion of the dismantling." Halloween tomb opening. Nov 4, 2024 8:46:01 GMT -6
EnochWalked: www.newsweek.com/russian-tv-praises-trump-putin-1740156 "Russian State TV Host Says 'All Our Hope' Placed in 'Beloved' Donald Trump". "The Kremlin's pet propagandists hate America, love Trump, ... say they place all of their hope in him" Nov 4, 2024 9:34:32 GMT -6
EnochWalked: newatlas.com/biology/plant-animal-hybrid-cells-solar-powered/ "Plant-animal hybrid cells make solar-powered tissues, organs or meat". How long until there are kids in schools identifying as plants & trees? An attempt to upend the order of Creation. Nov 4, 2024 9:37:54 GMT -6
EnochWalked: www.forbes.com/sites/robtoews/2024/11/03/ai-that-can-invent-ai-is-coming-buckle-up/ "Aschenbrenner—a 22-year-old wunderkind and former OpenAI researcher—argues that artificial general intelligence (AGI) will be here by 2027" Nov 4, 2024 13:14:17 GMT -6
EnochWalked: "At the frontiers of AI science, researchers have begun making tangible progress toward building AI systems that can themselves build better AI systems. These systems are not yet ready for prime time. But they may be here sooner than you think." Nov 4, 2024 13:15:58 GMT -6
EnochWalked: Society just isn't prepared for self-improving AI. It's like being a military planner in the 1940s, having studied centuries of slow improvement to explosives that can destroy buildings, then discovering there is a bomb that can destroy an entire city. Nov 4, 2024 13:20:33 GMT -6
EnochWalked: Everyone just sort of assumes (or hopes) that next year will look roughly the same as last year. That sort of thinking works 90% of the time, but completely fails when there's a pandemic or a war, so we have experts who make plans for those eventualities. Nov 4, 2024 13:24:43 GMT -6
EnochWalked: www.salon.com/2024/11/03/the-last-temptation-of-donald-trump-how-he-lured-evangelicals-to-follow-satan/ "Donald Trump has tempted evangelical Christians just as Satan tempted Jesus — except this time it worked" Nov 4, 2024 14:09:38 GMT -6
EnochWalked: newrepublic.com/post/187873/trump-dumbest-person-missile-defense-herschel-walker "Trump Announces Dumbest Person You Know Will Lead Missile Defense". "He criticized abortion rights, even as it was revealed he paid for his girlfriend’s abortion." Nov 4, 2024 16:30:31 GMT -6
EnochWalked: 'Walker ... ended his speech by telling rallygoers to “get to the polls and vote for my friend, and your friend, Donald Trump Jr.” Walker awkwardly tried to correct himself afterward, speaking back into the microphone. “Donald Trump — Donald J. Trump.”' Nov 4, 2024 16:31:50 GMT -6
EnochWalked: www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/rudy-guiliani-donald-trump-drag-video-seduce-new-york-mayor-us-president-a8344921.html "Bizarre video of Rudy Giuliani dressed in drag while being seduced by Donald Trump resurfaces". Babylon? Nov 4, 2024 20:00:24 GMT -6
EnochWalked: www.ynetnews.com/article/ib9xyrzpn "Israel strikes Hezbollah intelligence site near Damascus, IDF says". "near the Sayyeda Zeinab area south of Damascus, home to an important Shiite sanctuary and guarded by pro-Iranian groups, including Hezbollah." Nov 4, 2024 20:05:26 GMT -6
EnochWalked: euromaidanpress.com/2024/11/04/we-captured-a-lot-of-russian-weapons-from-hamas-may-send-them-to-ukraine-says-israeli-politician/ There's a North Korea - Russia - Middle East axis that is making it look like we're in World War 3 right now. Nov 5, 2024 10:31:02 GMT -6
EnochWalked: www.theguardian.com/world/2024/nov/04/north-korea-tells-un-it-is-speeding-up-nuclear-weapons-programme "to demonstrate North Korea’s growing prowess at developing missiles that could deliver more powerful nuclear warheads ... to the mainland US" Nov 5, 2024 10:34:25 GMT -6
EnochWalked: It seems Russia's payment to North Korea (in return for shells and cannon fodder) has been gratefully received by KJU. The next US president may have to make a difficult decision about a preemptive strike on NK to stop them from holding the world ransom. Nov 5, 2024 10:40:22 GMT -6
EnochWalked: www.science.org/content/article/once-thought-fantasy-effort-sequence-dna-millions-species-gains-momentum "ambitious effort to sequence the genomes of some 1.67 million plants, animals, fungi, and other microbes — essentially all known eukaryotes" Nov 5, 2024 12:34:14 GMT -6
EnochWalked: www.yahoo.com/news/farmers-sound-alarm-global-food-104503320.html "Farmers sound the alarm for our global food supply as staple crop becomes increasingly difficult to grow: 'The crop is sensitive'" Nov 5, 2024 12:48:28 GMT -6
EnochWalked: "in the 1980s, there were 35 nights per year that were too hot for the potato crops. Now, it's closer to 50 nights per year. As a result, Pennsylvania farmers have struggled to produce enough potatoes to fuel the state's chip makers" Nov 5, 2024 12:49:34 GMT -6
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