Here is the daily technology #threadcast for 2/7/25. The goal is to make this a technology "reddit".
Drop all question, comments, and articles relating to #technology and the future. The goal is make it a technology center.
Here is the daily technology #threadcast for 2/7/25. The goal is to make this a technology "reddit".
Drop all question, comments, and articles relating to #technology and the future. The goal is make it a technology center.
Steam Deck OLED: A Game-Changer in Handheld Gaming
The Steam Deck OLED is a significant upgrade from its LCD counterpart, offering a more immersive gaming experience. The device is lighter, with a bigger screen that provides clear colors and deep blacks. The buttons are quieter, and the sticks have depth and grip, making gameplay smoother. The OLED model also downloads games faster, with speeds of up to 600 megabytes per second.
The Steam Deck OLED has a 90Hz display, allowing for up to 90 frames per second, making it ideal for fast-paced games. The battery life has also been improved, lasting several hours on a single charge. The device is a great companion to any console or PC and can even be used as a desktop computer.
Overall, the Steam Deck OLED is a great entry point for anyone looking to get into PC gaming, offering a unique and immersive experience.
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Introduction to Surf.new
Surf.new is a new application for deploying AI agents on the web, allowing users to automate various tasks such as scraping content, collecting lists, and bypassing captchas. It is 100% free and open-source, making it an attractive option for those looking to explore AI automation. Surf.new uses Steelcode for its AI browser and Langchain for AI orchestration, allowing users to utilize any large language model.
The application offers a sleek UI and the ability to choose between two different browser agents, including Browseruse and a web version of CLA Computeruse. However, the latter is still in experimental mode. Surf.new has been demonstrated to scrape a site for companies and fill out a Google doc, showcasing its capabilities.
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Amazon set to pass Walmart in revenue for first time
Amazon's expected reported revenue is $187 billion, while Walmart is projected to announce sales of $180 billion.
#technology #amazon #walmart
Report: OpenAI’s ex-CTO, Mira Murati, has recruited OpenAI co-founder John Schulman
Not much is known about Mira Murati's new startup, but Murati was reportedly in talks to raise $100 million in October.
#technology #ai #startup
Disney+ Loses 700,000 Subscribers Following Price Increase
Disney now has 124.6 million Disney+ subscribers after increasing its prices in the fall.
#technology #disney
YouTube Is Buying TikTok Ads to Lure Creators Before US Ban
YouTube is running ads targeting content creators on TikTok to capitalize on TikTok's uncertain future.
#technology #creator #youtube #tiktok
OpenAI now reveals more of its o3-mini model’s thought process
OpenAI changed the way its newest AI model communicates in response to pressure from rivals, including DeepSeek.
#technology #ai #o3 #openai
The future belongs to idea guys who can just do things
AI will make execution cheap. This will make brand, distribution, and ideas much more important. There is currently an unbounded opportunity for any proficient software engineer. People are still stuck at the level of thinking about singular AI coworkers - it will be possible to have thousands of agents working on the same problems at the same time.
#technology #ai #future #predictions
Where did TikTok’s software engineers go?
The uncertainty over TikTok's future has motivated the company's engineers to interview and quit when they get an offer. Publicly traded companies appear to be the most popular destination for employees who leave. People appear to be quitting for better liquid total compensation packages. A chart showing the flow of employees from TikTok to other companies is available in the article.
#technology #tiktok #engineers
World’s first lab-grown meat for pets goes on sale
Meatly's Chick Bites, a dog treat made from lab-grown meat, are getting a limited release at a single pet store in the UK today. The company plans to expand production in hopes of making its lab-grown meat more widely available. The UK gave Meatly the green light to produce pet food made from lab-grown meat in July last year. Chick Bites are made from a combination of plant-based ingredients and Meatly's lab-grown chicken, which the company claims is just as tasty and nutritious as traditional chicken breast.
#technology #science #pets #labgrown
Apple just built an adorable robot lamp, a sneak peek into robotics work
Apple recently published a research paper and video that explains how the company built a non-anthropomorphic robot lamp prototype with an expressive design model rather than a functional one. The lamp resembles Pixar's iconic Luxo and displays human-like gestures. It can perform a variety of tasks with human-like expressions. A link to the full video from Apple is available.
#technology #appel #robot
Mistral Drops a Mobile App + Pro Tier—Here’s What You Get
Mistral just launched a mobile app, making it easier to use their AI on the go. They also introduced a Pro tier with perks like access to their most powerful model, higher usage limits, and an option to keep your data private. If you’re deep into AI tools, this could be a solid upgrade.
#ai #artificialintelligence #startup #privacy #technology
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Google starts testing new Search ‘AI Mode’ internally – Here’s an early look at it
Google Search is working on an AI Mode that allows users to ask open-ended/exploratory questions and get generated AI Overview-style responses. The company has started testing the experience with employees. AI Mode is powered by a custom version of Gemini 2.0 that has advanced reasoning and thinking capabilities. A screenshot of the user interface is available in the article.
#technology #ai #google #search
OpenAI’s AI Sales Agent: Real or Just a Demo?
OpenAI just showed off an AI sales agent in Tokyo that could research leads, check schedules, and even email potential clients—all automatically. It looked impressive, but here's the catch: we don’t know if this was a real product or just a flashy demo of what developers could build. If it’s real, AI-powered sales teams might be closer than we think. If not, it’s still a glimpse of what’s coming.
#openai #ai #sales #automation #technology
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AI Will Flood the Market—Here’s What That Means for You
AI is making execution practically free. That means the real power shifts to brand, distribution, and ideas. Right now, most people think of AI as a single coworker, but soon, you’ll have thousands of AI agents working in parallel. For software engineers, this is a gold rush—huge opportunities, barely any competition. If you can build, now’s the time.
#ai #futureofwork #automation #softwareengineering #technology
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Surviving in the Dark: Arctic Phytoplankton's Secret
Some Arctic phytoplankton stay active even in total darkness—no dormancy, no waiting. The moment sunlight returns, they’re ready to photosynthesize. Scientists aren’t sure how they pull this off, but if deep-sea algae have the same trick, Earth’s productive ocean could stretch far deeper than we thought. Life finds a way, even in the coldest, darkest corners of the planet.
#marinebiology #arctic #deepsea #science #technology
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Lab-Grown Dog Treats Hit UK Shelves—For Now
meatly’s chick bites, the first-ever lab-grown meat dog treats, just landed in a single uk pet store today. the uk approved lab-grown pet food last july, and meatly hopes this launch paves the way for a bigger rollout. the treats mix plant-based ingredients with lab-grown chicken, which meatly says is as tasty and nutritious as regular chicken breast. if all goes well, your pup’s next snack could be straight from the lab.
#labgrownmeat #petfood #innovation #science #technology
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Apple’s Robot Lamp Feels Almost… Human?
Apple just dropped a research paper and video on their latest experiment: a robot lamp with personality. Think Pixar’s Luxo, but built to express emotions rather than just light up a desk. This prototype moves with human-like gestures, making it feel oddly alive. It’s not about utility—it’s about interaction. Could this be a step toward robots that "feel" more natural in our spaces?
#apple #robotics #ai #innovation #technology
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you lost in dollars, it depends but yeah we all measure on dollars, but you can buy BTC now and if price drops, you still have the same amout of BTC, or LEO or HIVE
AI and Copyright: What You Need to Know
The U.S. Copyright Office just clarified that creations with AI help can still be copyrighted, but there's a catch: they need a human author behind them. In other words, if an AI tool plays a role in your work but you steer the ship, you can still claim copyright. It's like using a GPS to navigate but still being the one driving. So, your AI-generated art or writing could be yours, as long as you're the one calling the shots.
#copyright #aiart #intellectualproperty #humancreators #technology
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Ford beat Q4 2024 earnings expectations, but its EV losses continue to pile up
Ford (NYSE: F) released its fourth-quarter earnings report after the market closed on Wednesday, beating top and bottom line forecasts. Although its Model e electric vehicle business lost another $5.1 billion last year, CEO Jim Farley promises, “Ford is becoming a fundamentally stronger company.” Here’s a breakdown of Ford’s Q4 2024 earnings.
Although it sold a record over 97,000 electric vehicles last year, Ford was topped by cross-town rival GM as the number two seller of EVs in the US.
#ford #automotive #ev
After GM beat Wall St expectations last week with upbeat guidance for 2025, Ford looks to match it. Like GM, Ford will likely face more headwinds this year with Trump expected to end federal EV incentives. He is also threatening to impose tariffs on US trade partners, including Mexico, where the Mustang Mach-E is built.
Although GM doesn’t report separate breakdown for electric vehicles, it said they achieved a “positive variable profit” in Q4 2024.
After losing another $1.2 billion in the third quarter, Ford’s Model e business racked up 3.7 billion in losses through the first nine months of 2024. Ford expects EV losses to reach around $5 billion for the year.
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Paul H. Giddens, The Birth of the Oil Industry (1938); Ralph W. and Muriel E. Hidy, Pioneering in Big Business, 1882-1911 (1955); Bennett H. Wall et al., Growth in a Changing Environment: A History of Standard Oil Company (New Jersey), 1950-1972, and Exxon Corporation, 1972-1975 (1988); Daniel Yergin, The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power (1990).
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Donald Trump and Elon Musk have essentially dismantled USAID. Elon Musk has exposed what many believe is wasteful spending...while the Trump administration has sent most USAID workers home. Joy Reid and the mainstream media is outraged...but the media also seems to be terrified.
We reveal and react to media reactions from CNN and MSNBC...of Donald Trump dismantling USAID. We question why the media seems so concerned...over Donald Trump eliminating wasteful spending. We provide a possible reason for the media concern...and compare this situation to the mafia takedown in the 1980s.
Well it is now clear that the same media was also funded through an NGO created by USAID… It’s a stinky load of crap that Elon just opened!
Just the tip of the iceberg. The US government is basically a glorified money laundering entity.
I am not sure if they can do it but wait until they dig into the Ukraine war and where that money went.
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In 1207, the city fathers (Grandi) decided to introduce a new magistrate from the outside called a podesta, the theory being that an outsider would not be subject to the bias of an insider. The role of the podesta was to arbitrate disputes between powerful families, but this hardly ever worked because he had little power and the families could treat with each other and solve their problems outside of his efforts. This useless office of podesta plodded along for centuries to no purpose.
At the foundation of Rome, the patricians had status based on their control of government, they sat at the top of the propertied class, and they were able to exert power based on their monopoly of government administration and secretive control of the legal system. They did not pursue success in a commercial class (except by proxy) because of their hatred of business. The knights (Equites, or middle class) were originally given status by the monarchy as cavalry in the Roman Army because they had the financial assets to purchase equipment, including horses. Later they rose to the top of the commercial class because they were successful in business and as government bureaucrats. Commercial success allowed them to acquire land and achieve property status. The growing influence of the knights, coupled with the erosion of patrician control over government office and the making of laws, eventually took away patrician power and distributed it among the other classes.
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Jinx: the Latin word iynx, also spelled jynx, as ‘j’ and ‘i’ are the same letter in Latin (learn more about this in this blog). The Latin iynx came from the Greek name of the wryneck bird, iunx, associated with sorcery; not only was the bird used in the casting of spells and in divination but the Ancient Romans and Greeks traced the bird’s mythological origins to a sorceress named Iynx, who was transformed into this bird to punish her for a spell cast on the god Zeus.
Aurelian Sol: sol is the Latin word for sun and aureus is golden. So their name means Golden Sun.
Karthus: The name Karthus resembles Medieval Latin Carthusianus, from toponym Cart(h)usia, ultimate Proto-Celtic *katus “battle” and *rīxs “king”
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The first organized excavations of Valeria ran from 1951 to 1974, and its first museum opened in 1952. The nearby villagers involved themselves in the project, putting an end to the looting of the site. Since the mid-1970s, archaeological work continued in the forum, basilica, and adjacent buildings. The last structures to be uncovered were the taverns near the nymphaeum, the cave dwelling known as the Hanging House, and the cryptoporticus. Two good examples of private homes were also excavated: the Pit House and the Adobe House.
The Roman city had a good water supply through a system of aqueducts. Some of them, carved into the rock, are still visible.
The artifacts found in Valeria are in the Cuenca Museum, including the so-called Treasure of Valeria that consists of silver coins dating from around 185 BC, following the Second Punic War.
In the midst of the strife and assassination, two important things occurred. Large numbers of the middle class were brought into the political system (like the knights of the Roman Republic), which had the effect of damping out conflict, and there developed, through Guelf influence, a sentimental opposition to monarchy.
The introduction of the middle class into government created a comic act of complexity in organization. Beneath the first level of magistrates previously described, a second level was built of middle class citizens. Now the government apparatus was well insulated against a power grab but it was also unworkable because no man could steer the city on his own. As William Everdell points out in his brilliant book End of Kings:
What have we learned from this story? We learned that republics are built to oppose monarchies, that they depend on unique circumstances for their creation, and that they require middle class participation to hold the aristocracy in check. These elements existed in Florence as they did in Rome. Both republics lasted nearly five hundred years, both were able to adapt their political systems to maintain stability, and both collapsed when an opportunist appeared who had no reservations about tearing down what had been successful for centuries.
!summarize #karolineleavitt #democrats
Will other nations wake up? Italy’s deputy prime minister, Matteo Salvini, proposed leaving the WHO, but President Giorgia Meloni has yet to comment. Perhaps when more information comes out about the true nature of COVID-19 and the accompanying regulations, other nations will realize that the WHO serves no purpose but to meddle in democracy on the premise of health.
“It’s a shame that it took a change in administration for this issue to be belatedly looked into. In order to stop Operation Choke Point 3.0, we need to end the politicization of banking forever. This will likely require a legislative solution, or a full overhaul of banking regulation.
“Overall these hearings confirm the undeniable power of citizen journalism to elevate overlooked scandals to the public consciousness,” he said.
Later in his testimony, Grewal detailed his firm’s attempts to get regulatory clarity from the SEC under the Biden admin, and described dozens of meetings between Coinbase and the SEC where they discussed regulation and shared ideas for regulatory clarity, to no avail. “We were simply invited to never come back,” he said.
Titusville and other towns in the area boomed. One of those who heard about the discovery was John D. Rockefeller. Because of his entrepreneurial instincts and his genius for organizing companies, Rockefeller became a leading figure in the U.S. oil industry. In 1859, he and a partner operated a commission firm in Cleveland. They soon sold it and built a small oil refinery. Rockefeller bought out his partner and in 1866 opened an export office in New York City. The next year he, his brother William, S. V. Harkness, and Henry M. Flagler created what was to become the Standard Oil Company. Flagler is considered by many to have been nearly as important a figure in the oil business as John D. himself.
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President Javier Milei of Argentina was the first world leader to speak out against the globalist agenda. Milei took the stage of Davos last year to explain the true cost of socialism. He showed by example how swiftly a nation in economic despair could recover by diminishing the public sector, embracing free trade, and permitting the business cycle to operate without blocks. Milei has now announced that Argentina will leave the World Health Organization.
World War II made the oil industry a key American resource. Oil company research and executive leadership played major roles in the conflict. Research increased the number of products made from petroleum and natural gas, including the explosive tnt and artificial rubber. The Jersey-Dupont jointly owned product, tetraethyl lead, upgraded gasoline to improve airplane speed. Oil tankers supplied gasoline for the Allies at great risk from submarine attacks. The government rationed gasoline and controlled prices during the war. In the last analysis the war ended the delusion that American supplies of crude were unlimited, so that the industry and the securing of oil became a top priority for both foreign and domestic policy.
The U.S. energy crisis of the 1970s forced American leaders and researchers to come up with solutions in policymaking, technology and architecture.
Part of the energy problem after 1940 resulted from the depletion of domestic oil reserves during World War II—around 6 billion barrels. In the Vietnam struggle experts contend the United States supplied about 5 billion barrels of oil, although great quantities of that came from Middle Eastern properties owned by American companies. Certainly the total for both wars represents a quantity larger than either that of the great East Texas oil field or possibly that discovered on Alaska’s North Slope in 1967. After the 1960s, as domestic production declined and demand soared, the oil industry had to import vast quantities from the Middle East and Venezuela. The nation’s key energy source increasingly hinged on balancing diplomatic relations with Arab oil-producing nations while continuing its aid to Israel.
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The various oil strikes focused attention on a legal situation unique to the United States. Land ownership carried with it rights to all subsoil minerals, termed the common law “right of capture.” Oil companies, like other mineral companies, negotiated with each landowner for drilling rights. This right of capture continued for years despite the efforts of such industry giants as conservation-minded Henry L. Doherty of Cities Service Oil Company, who sought to institute oil field unitization. The right of capture ensured early exhaustion of oil fields and tragic waste of a valuable energy source. Wallace E. Pratt, a geologist and longtime Jersey Standard leader, has estimated that by releasing the natural gas that often underlies petroleum pools and by using poor production techniques, oil producers have wasted at least 75 percent of the oil and natural gas found to date in the United States.
While the United States was blessed with plentiful supplies of oil its growth to the rank of a great power accelerated. In today’s world as an oil-dependent power it must find alternate sources of energy or accommodate drastic changes in its way of life and position in the world.
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This proved increasingly difficult as the United States became steadily more dependent on imported oil. In the United States the standard of living based on cheap oil continuously rose and the public, accustomed to this way of life, resisted all conservation measures. The United States continues to consume about two-thirds of the world’s oil production. Oil should be considered the keystone of the standard of living in the United States and to a large degree its rank as a world power.
!summarize #lockout #labor #strike #salarycap
The individual who focused attention back on the United States was Columbus Marion (“Dad”) Joiner. Joiner became convinced that some flatlands in an East Texas basinlike structure contained oil. He obtained a lease near Tyler, Texas, and on October 5, 1930, after having drilled two dry holes, struck perhaps the largest oil pool ever found in America. It lay beneath 140,000 acres and contained 5 billion barrels. H. L. Hunt, an oil entrepreneur, bought Joiner’s leases and later sold them to oil companies at a profit of $100 million, thereby adding to his already substantial fortune.
In a sense the Joiner strike came at an inopportune time; it was the onset of the Great Depression. The price of oil plummeted to ten cents a barrel in 1931, creating chaos in the industry. But some New Deal measures restored a modicum of prosperity, and then World War II stimulated the oil business enormously.
When the war ended, the United States faced the problem of stabilizing the peace. Over the next forty-five years numerous major crises occurred, in many of which oil played a key role. Europe underwent a coal shortage, the first energy crisis, immediately after the war. The Marshall Plan, created to solve that and other problems, was hampered by the first Iranian crisis of 1950-1954. From the 1956 Suez crisis to the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait in 1990, oil proved to be the most important consideration in America’s Middle Eastern policy. The United States sought to balance support for the new state of Israel against the pressures of the oil producers, mostly Arab, united in 1960 as the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (opec).
Although the U.S. oil industry had marketed abroad extensively before the war, it owned few foreign properties. Judging from government surveys, many producers believed that a major oil shortage would soon occur. Both Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover and Secretary of State Charles Evans Hughes began to pressure American companies to seek oil abroad. These firms invested in the Middle East, Southeast Asia, and South America and searched for oil everywhere while they continued to export quantities of oil from the United States.
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Increasing sales of gasoline first for automobiles and then for airplanes in the early 1900s came as oil discoveries across the United States mounted. The oil industry had a vast new market for what had been for many years a useless by-product of the distilling process. As soon as the internal combustion engines created demand, refiners sought better methods to produce and improve gasolines.
Before its entry into World War I, the United States contributed oil to the Allies, and in 1917 the oil companies cooperated with the Fuel Administration. At war’s end executives who had served with that agency created the American Petroleum Institute (1919), which in time became a major force in the economy and the business.
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In 1911 the Supreme Court declared that the Standard Trust had operated to monopolize and restrain trade, and it ordered the trust dissolved into thirty-four companies. That the trust’s share of the industry had declined from 33 to 13 percent the Court held to be of little consequence. The splitting-off of the Standard affiliates proved difficult. Some marketed, some produced, some refined, and these concerns quickly moved toward vertical integration of their businesses. But the 1911 decision ensured that though the industry might have giants, they at least competed with one another.
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As Standard Oil grew in wealth and power, it encountered great hostility not only from its competitors but from a vast segment of the public. Standard fought competition by securing preferential railroad rates and rebates on its shipments. It also influenced legislatures and Congress through tactics that, though common in that era, were unethical. Nor was the company’s handling of labor any better.
Many smaller companies developed outside the Northeast and the Midwest where Rockefeller and his associates operated. Oil found at Corsicana, Texas, in the 1890s attracted a remarkable Pennsylvanian, Joseph S. (“Buckskin Joe”) Cullinan, who organized several small companies. He later moved to Spindletop where he became instrumental in the organization of the Texas Company, soon a major competitor of Standard. Henri Deterding, creator of the Royal Dutch-Shell Group in Holland and Great Britain, moved into California in 1912 with his American Gasoline Company (Shell Company of California after 1914).
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In 1901 one of the largest and most significant oil strikes in history occurred near Beaumont, Texas, on a mound called Spindletop. Drillers brought in the greatest gusher ever seen within the United States. This strike ended any possible monopoly by Standard Oil. One year after the Spindletop discovery more than fifteen hundred oil companies had been chartered. Of these, fewer than a dozen survived, principally the Gulf Oil Corporation, the Magnolia Petroleum Company, and the Texas Company. The Sun Oil Company, an Ohio-Indiana concern, also moved to the Beaumont area as did other firms. Other oil strikes followed in Oklahoma, Louisiana, Arkansas, Colorado and Kansas. Oil production in the United States by 1909 more than equaled that of the rest of the world combined.
The tremendous growth of Standard did not occur without competition. Pennsylvania producers engineered the creation of an important competitor, the Pure Oil Company, Ltd., in 1895. This concern endured for more than a half century.
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Edward L. Doheny located Los Angeles’s first well in 1892, and five years later there were twenty-five hundred wells and two hundred oil companies in the area. When Standard entered California in 1900, seven integrated oil companies already flourished there. The Union Oil Company was the most important of these.
Operating difficulties plus the threat of taxation on its out-of-state properties led to the creation of the Standard Oil Trust in 1882. In 1899 the trust created Standard Oil Company (New Jersey), which became the parent company. The trust controlled member corporations principally through stock ownership, an arrangement not unlike that of the modern-day holding company.
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Eastern cities linked to the oil fields by rail and boat boomed also. The export trade from Philadelphia, New York, and Baltimore became so important that Standard and other companies located refineries in those cities. As early as 1866 the value of petroleum products exported to Europe provided a trade balance sufficient to pay the interest on U.S. bonds held abroad.
When the Civil War interrupted the regular flow of kerosene and other petroleum products to western states, pressure increased to find a better method of utilizing oil found in such states as California. But Standard exhibited little interest in the oil industry on the West Coast before 1900. In that year it purchased the Pacific Coast Oil Company and in 1906 incorporated all its western operations into Pacific Oil, now Chevron.
if i can get an Optimus for 1000 bucks, i might (might) think about it. but then i could buy about 50 movies on blu-ray for 1000 euros, which would give me about 100 hours of entertainment. in exchange for 3 hours of household chores per week. so i still wouldn't buy the robot. you'd have to go down to something like 500 euros for me to seriously consider it. Elon and a lot of other people are completely detached from the reality of how much money 10k or 20k is for 99% of the people in the world.
Optimus revenue is being vastly (and stupidly) overrated by a lot of people (including Elon) at the moment. they're assuming that "everyone will want an Optimus" (which may be true) and therefore every human being will buy an Optimus (which is ridiculously false). 99% of the people on this planet can only dream of having the disposable income to put down 10k or 20k for a household robot that will do the dishes and fold the laundry. i spend maybe 3 hours a week doing household chores. the idea that i would pay more money than i paid for my car (which i really need) just to save myself 3 hours of household chores a week is beyond laughable. and i can't even send the robot downstairs to do the laundry, because then anyone could steal or vandalize it. so the price of an Optimus will be completely disproportional to its benefits for the vast, vast majority of regular people.
When product prices declined, the ensuing panic led to the beginning of a Standard Oil alliance in 1871. Within eleven years the company became partially integrated horizontally and vertically and ranked as one of the world’s great corporations. The alliance employed an industrial chemist, Hermann Frasch II, to remove sulfur from oil found at Lima, Ohio. Sulfur made distilling kerosene very difficult, and even then it possessed a vile odor—another problem Frasch solved. Thereafter, Standard employed scientists both to improve its product and for pure research. Soon kerosene replaced other illuminants; it was more reliable, efficient, and economical than other fuels.
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Additional discoveries near the Drake well had led to the creation of numerous firms and the Rockefeller company quickly began to buy out or combine with its competitors. As John D. phrased it, their purpose was “to unite our skill and capital.” By 1870 Standard had become the dominant oil refining firm in Pennsylvania.
Pipelines early became a major consideration in Standard’s drive to gain business and profits. Samuel Van Syckel had built a four-mile pipeline from Pithole, Pennsylvania, to the nearest railroad. When Rockefeller observed this, he began to acquire pipelines for Standard. Soon the company owned a majority of the lines, which provided cheap, efficient transportation for oil. Cleveland became a center of the refining industry principally because of its transportation systems.
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The first oil corporation, which was created to develop oil found floating on water near Titusville, Pennsylvania, was the Pennsylvania Rock Oil Company of Connecticut (later the Seneca Oil Company). George H. Bissell, a New York lawyer, and James Townsend, a New Haven businessman, became interested when Dr. Benjamin Silliman of Yale University analyzed a bottle of the oil and said it would make an excellent light. Bissell and several friends purchased land near Titusville and engaged Edwin L. Drake to locate the oil there. Drake employed William Smith, an expert salt driller, to supervise drilling operations and on August 27, 1859, they struck oil at a depth of sixty-nine feet. So far as is known, this was the first time that oil was tapped at its source, using a drill.
To quote Livy, “By swearing an oath that they would suffer no man to rule Rome, it forced the people, desirous of a new liberty, not to be thereafter swayed by the entreaties or bribes of kings.”
Brutus was named the first consul of the new Republic along with Lucius Tarquinius Collatinus, but almost immediately there was trouble. The former king tried to regain the throne by using his ambassadors to put together a conspiracy against the Republic, and the rebels included two of Brutus’ sons. Forced to abide by his principles and save the young Republic, Brutus had his sons executed along with other conspirators. Superbus then tried to wage war on the Rome, but he was repulsed for good at the Battle of Silvia Arsia. Brutus led the cavalry on the side of the Republic but did not survive the battle.
Settlers used oil as an illuminant for medicine, and as grease for wagons and tools. Rock oil distilled from shale became available as kerosene even before the Industrial Revolution began. While traveling in Austria, John Austin, a New York merchant, observed an effective, cheap oil lamp and made a model that upgraded kerosene lamps. Soon the U.S. rock oil industry boomed as whale oil increased in price owing to the growing scarcity of that mammal. Samuel Downer, Jr., an early entrepreneur, patented “Kerosene” as a trade name in 1859 and licensed its usage. As oil production and refining increased, prices collapsed, which became characteristic of the industry.
Many of the early explorers of America encountered petroleum deposits in some form. They noted oil slicks off the coast of California in the sixteenth century. Louis Evans located deposits along the eastern seaboard on a 1775 map of the English Middle Colonies.
Did you know? In 1933, Standard Oil secured the first contract to drill for oil in Saudia Arabia.
!summarize #trump #inflation
The 19th century was a period of great change and rapid industrialization. The iron and steel industry spawned new construction materials, the railroads connected the country and the discovery of oil provided a new source of fuel. The discovery of the Spindletop geyser in 1901 drove huge growth in the oil industry. Within a year, more than 1,500 oil companies had been chartered, and oil became the dominant fuel of the 20th century and an integral part of the American economy.
!summarize #trump #civildisobedience #newyorkstate
Mga hulagway sa kultura ni George Washington
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Si George Washington nakaimpluwensya sa mga buhat sa arte ug kultura sulod sa kapin sa 200 ka tuig. Ang lista sa ubos naglangkob sa lainlaing media, lakip ang mga butang nga interesado sa kasaysayan, malungtaron nga mga buhat sa taas nga arte, ug bag-ong mga ekspresyon sa sikat nga kultura. Ang mga entry nagrepresentar sa mga paghulagway nga lagmit masugatan sa mga magbabasa, kaysa usa ka kompleto nga katalogo. Naglakip sa dili kaayo nailhan nga mga buhat
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With the threat of the former king extinguished, the Republic was free to move forward in its new form. The administrative function of the king was given to a pair newly created magistrates (consuls) and religious authority was granted to a magistrate called the Pontifex Maximus. The consuls were given veto right over each other to avoid an accumulation of power and as a further brake on the latter, their term of office was limited to one year. A common element of republics throughout history has been the design of governmental structures that make it difficult to accumulate power, because republics are built by those who abhor a monarchy.
!summarize #gleybortorres #jazzchisom #briancashman #nyyankees #mlb
In 1978, Gianni Versace made a remarkable mark on the fashion scene by launching his first ready-to-wear collection for women. This collection was characterized by bold colors, innovative designs, and an unmistakable flair for glamour. The year marked not only the inception of his brand but also his determination to infuse energy and artistry into fashion. His commitment to family was evident throughout his career, as he worked closely with his brother Santo and sister Donatella, who supported him in building what would become a global fashion empire.
!summarize #mlb #lockout #labor
The Superbowl will be played this Sunday from the Superdome in New Orleans. Normally...Superbowl tickets are the most sought-after tickets of the year...but the NFL is having trouble selling tickets to the Superbowl this year. Superbowl ticket prices have declined by sixty percent...with plenty of tickets still available.
We discuss possible reasons for the price decline for Superbowl tickets. We discuss the possibility of Chiefs fatigue...along with the outrageous prices for hotels in New Orleans. We also explain why we believe Superbowl ticket prices have declined...and why the decline has more to do with the current state of the NFL.
!summarize #nyknicks #ianbegley #nba #generalmanager
!summarize #nfl #superbowl #tickets #prices #crash #football
!summarize #nymets #petealonso #mlb
Gianni Versace's journey into the fashion world began in a vibrant environment; he was born into a family that valued design, with his mother running a dressmaking business in Reggio di Calabria, Italy. After completing high school, Versace gained hands-on experience by working for his mother, which laid the foundation for his future. In 1972, he took a significant step by relocating to Milan, where he began freelancing for several Italian fashion labels, honing his skills and understanding the intricacies of the industry.
In 1972, Versace moved to Milan, Italy, to pursue his dreams as a fashion designer. The bustling city served as a vibrant backdrop for nurturing his talents, where he quickly began freelance designing for established Italian fashion houses such as Genny, Callaghan, and Complice. His time in Milan not only refined his design aesthetic but also exposed him to the competitive fashion environment that would shape his future career. By the time he launched his first ready-to-wear collection for women in 1978, Versace had garnered enough experience and insight to establish himself as a prominent player in the fashion industry. His early forays into design set the stage for a remarkable career defined by innovation and glamour.
Gianni Versace was born on December 2, 1946, in Reggio di Calabria, Italy, into a family deeply rooted in the world of design. His mother, a skilled dressmaker, ran her own dressmaking business, which made fashion a prominent part of his early life. From a young age, Versace was immersed in textiles and garment construction, often witnessing the intricate details of the design process as his mother crafted beautiful garments. This formative experience sparked his passion for fashion, and he began assisting her after completing high school, absorbing valuable lessons that would later influence his own creations.
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!summarize #joerogan #bretweinstein #rfkjr #democrats #berniesanders
Bridget added: “It’s a really positive sign that the government is hopefully rectifying their insane overreach into the banking sector via Choke Point 2.0 — this is a free country and customers (read: Americans) shouldn’t be unfairly punished for holding assets that they have an appetite / demand for.”
We also spoke to Founders Fund’s Joey Krug and Bridget Harris. “It's awesome that Congress is looking into and acknowledging that Choke Point 2.0 was both a real thing and a serious problem, and I'm thrilled that the new administration is taking steps to end it,” Joey said. “Almost everyone who's been in crypto a long time has at least one, if not multiple, stories of bank accounts being closed. The government shouldn't be forcing banks to discriminate against customers because of the industry they work in, their political views, or the financial assets they want to buy, it's un-American.”
In addition to Nic, we spoke with several other industry veterans in advance of the hearing today. “The FDIC’s unlawful campaign against crypto is finally getting the attention it deserves in Congress,” Paul Grewal told us. “When you have everyone from Jamie Dimon to Donald Trump agreeing that debanking is a problem, you know it’s real. This isn’t about politics — it’s about making sure innovative American companies can access basic banking services. The tide is turning, and it’s about time.”
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!summarize #florida #growth #economy #jobs
Wrote the author: “Do banks really de-bank their customers? Sometimes — if customers are engaged in questionable or unusual behavior that’s not consistent with ‘safety and soundness.’ That’s always been the case.” A law professor is quoted as saying Choke Point 2.0 “is more myth than reality.”
The New York Times characterized the crypto sector as a “freewheeling industry that has been accused of scams and fraud” in the wake of the Andreessen interview, concluding (somewhat irrelevantly) that “[it’s] unclear if any [crypto] executives’ financial accounts were closed — and if they were, whether those actions happened because of legitimate regulatory concerns.”
!summarize #usaid #disney #taxes #trump
!summarize #genz #alcohol #tomsegura
!summarize #melgibson #chikung #master #eastern #philosophy #actor #hollywood
“We can tell the same story about the environment and the commodification of nature. Polanyi now allows us to have a conceptual language of the economy to take these things seriously and to challenge some of the certainties with which politicians present the case for more and more market.”
!summarize #women #dating #relationships
!summarize #tesla #battery #ev
Previous to Marc Andreessen’s November appearance on Joe Rogan (my recap here), where he detailed the Biden admin’s efforts to debank crypto, few outside of the crypto media ecosystem acknowledged the issue; after the episode, some of the biggest mainstream outlets either denied Choke Point was a thing, said it was good if it was happening, or argued that Andreessen’s claims were exaggerated. Washingon Post’s coverage of Rogan episode was summed up well with its headline, which asked “Are banks really ‘de-banking’ customers?,” and subheadline, which answered, “Not in the way a certain venture capitalist says they do. But sometimes.”
!summarize #halloffame #nygiants #nfl
“Polanyi talked in really compelling terms about fictitious commodification. He was worried that things were being put up for sale when they had an essence before their marketised form. Think of labour markets. We all exist within labour markets of one form or another, we’ve become more and more familiar with using the language of labour markets, but there is a non-commodified essence to the human form before it becomes labour. We’re just people and we have needs as people. Those needs as people might very well clash with the needs that we have to demonstrate as labour.
“The BMJ [British Medical Journal] has, for example, documented a whole catalogue of new psychological illnesses over the last 10 or 20 years that come with new forms of work. So as the labour market makes more and more demands of us, the less and less able we are to function as human beings; we lose some of that essential human essence.
!summarize #mlb #top #lineup #nymets #losangeles #dodgers
Last July, then President-elect Donald Trump pledged to end OCP 2.0, fire SEC chief Gary Gensler, create a Presidential Crypto Advisory Council, and establish a strategic Bitcoin reserve.
And last September, Nic uncovered evidence that Biden administration regulators deliberately shut down Silvergate. In “Inside the Biden Admin’s Plot to Destroy Silvergate,” he detailed a covert 15% cap on crypto deposits, enforced through verbal mandates, and linked Senator Elizabeth Warren’s pressure on the FHLB to the bank’s collapse. Despite being solvent, Silvergate wasn’t failing — it was executed.
!summarize #probowl #football #ratings #sports
!summarize #Francescagino #harvard #scandal
!summarize #vogue #melaniatrump #bianca
Six weeks after the Choke Point 2.0 article, a U.S. regional banking crisis led to the abrupt collapse of several banks, including crypto-friendly Signature under unclear circumstances. In a follow-up piece titled “Did the Government Start a Global Financial Crisis in an Attempt to Destroy Crypto?,” Nic argued the Biden administration exploited the crisis to eliminate crypto, arguing that the closure of Silvergate and Signature Bank were politically motivated takedowns.
In April 2023, House Republicans demanded answers from top regulators, while law firm Cooper & Kirk — which successfully challenged the Obama-era Chokepoint — argued the crackdown was unconstitutional. Senator Bill Hagerty condemned it as a Biden-led effort to strangle crypto by de-banking the industry.
In February 2023, Nic Carter coined “Choke Point 2.0” in a Pirate Wires article called “Operation Choke Point 2.0 is Underway, and Crypto is in its Crosshairs.” In the piece, he showed how agencies like the Fed, FDIC, OCC, and DOJ issued guidance discouraging banks from working with crypto, isolating the sector from traditional finance. He likened the effort to the Obama-era “Operation Choke Point,” which targeted politically disfavored industries such as guns, and framed it as a covert Biden administration campaign to cripple crypto through private banking restrictions.
!summarize #silver #coins
!summarize #murder #crime
Death of Remus & Founding of Rome
In response to Romulus’ construction, Remus made continuous fun of the wall and his brother’s city. Remus was so bold as to jump over Romulus’ wall jestingly. In response to Remus’ mockeries, Romulus, angered, killed him. There are several versions as to how Remus was killed on the day Rome was founded. Remus’ death and the founding of Rome are dated by Livy to April 21st, 753 BCE.
!summarize #cnn #Media
!summarize #davidrosenberg #inflation #interestrates
!summarize #debate #diversity #triggeronomy
!summarize #women #relationships #marriage
!summarize #donaldtrump #superbowl #neworleans
“Despite full regulatory compliance, digital asset companies face forced account closures, denial of credit, and restricted payment services,” MARA’s Fred Thiel argued in his opening statement, calling the industry’s treatment unprecedented and discriminatory.
He warned that financial restrictions are pushing innovation offshore, undermining energy infrastructure, and allowing banks to decide which industries can exist. To counter this, Thiel urged Congress to enforce equal access to banking, increase regulatory transparency, and support digital asset businesses through clear policies. “Without immediate action, the U.S. risks losing its leadership in blockchain technology,” he said.
Citing the 2008 financial crisis, Olesiuk warned that crypto’s volatility and susceptibility to bank runs could spark a crisis “faster-moving and more devastating” than 2008. “Standing with crypto means standing with high-risk, if not illegal, activities,” she said.
Chris Holmes is an Assistant Professor in International Political Economy at the University of Warwick. He has been awarded a one year Leverhulme Research Fellowship which will commence in September 2014 allowing him to complete a research monograph on a Polanyian reading of the economic reasoning in both historical and post-2008 financial crisis contexts. The title of the Fellowship is 'Visions of perfectibility: state, market and alternatives in the formation of economic ideas'. He has edited a special issue on the 70th anniversary of The Great Transformation which will appear in the journal Economy and Society in November 2014. It deals in particular with the complexity of today’s world in contrast to the world Polanyi lived in; and his tendency to simplify the issues he wrote about. The journal will feature the work of Nancy Fraser, Chris Hann, Gareth Dale and Warwick’s Matthew Watson.
The Roman government during the time of the monarchy consisted of the king, who was the principal administrator of the government and the guardian of the religious apparatus, the Senate, made up of one hundred men, from each of the three original Roman tribes, and the tribal assembly, called the comitia curiata. The latter was mostly a figurehead body, approving legislation passed by the Senate, but Servius Tullius created a second and more powerful assembly, called the comitia centuriata, which was modelled after the Roman army. Power was divided by wealth; cavalry at the top and common foot soldier at the bottom. The distribution of votes in the body was rigged in favor of the wealthy, who had a majority of the votes and could carry or block any initiative.
Matthew Watson is Professor of Political Economy at Warwick and currently holds a three-year ESRC Professorial Fellowship. His research interests lie with political economy, ‘the market’ and understanding what it means to live life as a market-bound economic agent. His research is designed to understand the multiple ways in which the market economy becomes embedded in everyday experience: as a set of institutions designed to naturalise behaviour, as an ideological blueprint for the common sense of society, as formal practices manifesting routinely reproduced exchange relations, as evolving ideas incorporated into the history of economic thought, as reflections in popular culture, and as something to organise political resistance against.
!summarize #trump #timemagazine #departmentofeducation #democrats #maxinewaters
!summarize #cfpb #senator #kennedy
!summarize #pambioni #billoreilly #ericadams #sanctuarycity #newyorkcity
!summarize #disneyworld #disney #themeparks #sewage #tourism
Better Markets’ Shayna Olesiuk began her statement by arguing that crypto firms “put themselves in the crosshairs” by engaging in “widespread, flagrant illegal conduct” and ignoring financial protections. She linked bank failures — including Signature, Silvergate, and SVB — to “devastating” risks that threatened the financial system and imposed costs on taxpayers.
Gianni Versace was a pioneering fashion designer, widely recognized for his contributions to the industry during the 1980s and 1990s. Born on December 2, 1946, in Reggio di Calabria, Italy, Versace was immersed in the world of fashion from an early age, thanks to his mother who ran a dressmaking business. His journey began in earnest when he moved to Milan in 1972, where he honed his skills by working with various Italian labels before launching his own women’s ready-to-wear collection in 1978. Versace quickly gained a reputation for his flamboyant designs and luxurious fabrics, which garnered a loyal clientele and established him as a significant force in fashion.
!summarize #deepseek #r1 #ai
Ben Clift is a Professor of Political Economy at Warwick Univeristy. His research interests lie in comparative and international political economy, and he has published widely on French and comparative capitalisms, the politics of economic ideas, capital mobility and economic policy autonomy, the political economy of social democracy, and French and British. He is co-editor (with Cornelia Woll) of a special issue of The Journal of European Public Policy entitled 'Economic Patriotism: Political Intervention in Open Markets'. His new book, Comparative Political Economy: States, Markets and Global Capitalism is published with Palgrave (2014). You can follow Ben's work on Academia.edu.
!summarize #glencampbell #alicecooper #music #death
Paul Grewal’s opening statement focused on the FDIC, which allegedly pressured banks to “pause all crypto asset-related activity” in March 2022 and later required self-reporting of crypto services. Despite a January 2023 claim that banks weren’t restricted from serving crypto clients, an Inspector General’s report found the FDIC had failed to conduct promised risk assessments. “Eighteen months later, no such assessments have been publicly identified,” Grewal said.
!summarize #unitedstates #china #planes #ev #chips
Rep. Dan Meuser (R-PA) opened the hearing by characterizing Choke Point 2.0 as a serious effort to debank the industry, and making a comparison to the Obama era Choke Point, which targeted disfavored industries such as guns. Choke Point 2.0 was a “serious overreach,” he said.
Rep. Al Green (D-TX), who spoke next, called Choke Point 2.0 “fake.” The concerns of banking regulators were “well-founded,” he said, and none of their actions in OCP 2.0 “amounted to debanking.” Green spent the rest of his opening statement characterizing Choke Point 2.0 as a Trump-led agenda to promote the crypto industry.
“We have a governance issue with banking regulation writ large,” he said. “The fact that supervision is often confidential, hidden, and nobody knows exactly what happened, itself is a problem that leads to abuse. Without addressing this, there will be hearings on Operation Chokepoint 3.0, 4.0, and 5.0 onward to infinity.”
!summarize #jkrowling #democrats
!summarize #Lifestyle #influencer #relationships #broke
Romulus and Remus’ New City
After Amulius’ death, the brothers rejected the offer of the crown of Alba Longa. They left seeking to find their own city. The brothers quarreled over the location of the foundation of their new city. Romulus wished to start the city on Palatine Hill. While Remus wished to found it on the Aventine Hill.
The Argument and Augury
In order to settle their disagreement, they agreed to consult augury. So, each brother prepared a sacred space and began to watch for birds. Remus claimed to have seen six birds. While Romulus said he saw twelve birds. Romulus asserted that he was the clear winner by six birds. But, Remus argued that since he saw his six birds first, he had won. The brothers remained at a standstill and continued to quarrel until Romulus began to build walls around his hill.
!summarize #bubble #stock #market #palantir
“I think that everyone should read The Great Transformation – and when I say everyone, I really do mean everyone. It can be read in many different ways. For us academics, I think we love finding some of the hidden subtleties and nuances within it. But it doesn’t mean you have to be an academic or trained as a political economist to find lots and lots of things of real interest within this book. So, if you’re interested in the nature of the world, how the world came to be how it is and what the arguments might be for trying to rethink some of the ‘certainties’ about modern economic life, then you can do a whole lot worse than reading Karl Polanyi’s The Great Transformation.”
!summarize #nygiants #halloffame #elimanning #nfl
The Discovery of Romulus and Remus
The river god Tibernus ensured their safety by calming the river. He, also, caused their basket to catch on a nearby fig tree. The twins were first discovered by a she-wolf or lupa. She suckled them. Eventually, they were discovered and cared for by a shepherd and his wife. The two boys grew up to be shepherds.
Feud and Capture
One day while they were herding their sheep, they were met by shepherds of King Amulius. These shepherds started a fight in which Remus was captured. Remus was taken to King Amulius. Romulus incited a band of local shepherds to join him in rescuing his brother. King Amulius did not recognize the brothers. In the end, Romulus freed his brother, but in the process killed King Amulius.
“And then there’s Karl Polanyi the political activist. He never loses that sense of suggesting through his work that things could be different. I think that it’s the political activist voice that holds together the rest of the text of The Great Transformation. There’s a really strong line of argument that the world takes its current shape through reasons of political choice and that other political choices could be made to deliver for us a rather more progressive experience of the market world.
About time someone says there was no Biden and calling out the real play callers, thank you Victor, I called that out a few episodes ago when saying, Biden done this Biden done that, it's a big "no he didn't" I told my daughter a year ago that it would be a historic year, and I said the same about this year, it's just getting started and history is already being made... just refreshing to hear someone say it wasn't Biden....
Celebrating in 2021
Despite lockdowns, people found ways to celebrate this joyous occasion. One of the highlights from the celebration was “The Superintendency of Rome, the archeological office that oversees all of Rome’s archeological sites and activities, unveiled a relief of Rhea and her sons re-mastered to its original colors and vibrancy”(Moreno, 2021).
Romulus and Remus’ Parentage and Birth
Rhea Silvia was discovered to be pregnant. It was believed it was a divine conception. It was custom that any Vestal Virgin betraying her vows of celibacy was condemned to death. However, King Amulius, fearing the wrath of a potential paternal god, did not wish to directly stain his hands with the blood. So, King Amulius imprisoned Rhea Silvia and ordered her twins’ death. Thus, Romulus and Remus were thrown into the Tiber River.
Broadly, attitudes at the hearing broke down on partisan lines — republicans like Dan Meuser called OCP 2.0 a “serious overreach” by the Biden admin, while Rep. Al Green, who yesterday called for the impeachment of Trump, called Choke Point 2.0 “fake.”
“It's immensely validating that both the House and the Senate are looking into OCP 2.0,” VC and Castle Island Ventures co-founder Nic Carter, who broke OCP 2.0 on Pirate Wires and coined the term, told us today. “The story that we reported in 2023 is gradually being confirmed by Congress, through litigation and document releases.
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Campbell’s testimony focused on the need for banking reform, and offered specific recommendations to ensure that debanking for political reasons never happens in the US again. He called for written, public banking guidance, disclosure of account closures, and an end to regulators using “reputational risk” as a pretext for debanking customers. Without reform, he warned, future administrations could use the same tactics to debank any disfavored industry.
Gianni Versace was a revolutionary designer, known for his glamorous styles and lavish collections that defined the fashion landscape of his time.
Megyn Kelly is joined by Mike Solana, editor of "Pirate Wires," to discuss the rise of the “tech right” - the new movement of Silicon Valley leaders aligning with Trump’s America First policies, how Elon Musk influenced this, why the media thinks Silicon Valley is woke while tech leaders move toward pro-business policies, the rise and fall of the left’s war on masculinity, and more.
Matthew adds: “The more that I read it, the more I find new things in it. Increasingly, I find at least three different analytical voices that appear within The Great Transformation. There’s Karl Polanyi the anthropologist, who makes some very interesting observations about the nature of modern economic life to show that self-regulating markets are far from being the only form of economic life that’s possible. There’s also the historical Karl Polanyi, where he shows the decisions that were made on a calculated basis across a number of years to produce an international settlement that seemed to prefer market self-regulation over all other forms or potential alternatives of economic life.
!summarize #ev #fire #safety
!summarize #joseiglesias #markcanha #nymets #mlb
Argentina does not receive funding from the WHO. Yet, they were helping to fund the $6.9 billion agency and paid out between $8 million and $9 million annually. Argentina’s exit has far less of an impact than America’s. The money is less of a factor than the CONTROL that the WHO, and its sole leading philanthropist donor, has over members.
The United Nations and WHO are global conglomerates composed of unelected authoritarians who want to push a single agenda throughout the world. They use the premise of health and public safety to enact universal rules everyone must abide by. The agency has even declared the need for a global tax to help their causes. Milei stated that leaving the who “reaffirms our path towards a country with sovereignty also in health matters.”
In the first decades after the removal of the king, Rome would face twin threats to her sovereignty: wars with her neighbors and an internal class struggle. In the former case, she was attacked by almost everyone: first Etruscans, Samnites, Latins, from nearby who were conquered and assimilated; and then the Volci and Aequi, tribes from the western edge of the Apennine Mountains, who fought Rome for nearly a century. We think of Rome in later times as imperialistic, but her posture here was totally defensive, and she was just trying to survive. Those early military victories sharpened her skill in battle and honed her cultural will for the future.
C. William Cagle (March 24, 1938 – February 5, 2025) was an American driver of modified stock cars. He won over 415 feature events and 26 championships at east coast venues stretching from Florida to Canada
!summarize #russia #ukraine #oil #refineries
!summarize #nyyankees #marianorivera #pitcher #mlb
!summarize #billgates #microsoft #interview #1984
Exitus Acta Probat – ‘The result justifies the deed.’— Ovid
This sentence is pretty straight forward. “The ending/result, the deed esteems or justifies”
Fiat Lux – ‘Let there be light.’— Old Testament ‐ Genesis 1:3 [Vulgate Latin Bible]
While this was not originally a Latin phrase, I would like to say that more people were introduced to the Bible through Latin. Fiat is the jussive subjunctive form of the verb facio (to make, to build, sometimes to be). The English translation of “Let BLANK happen” is the general translation of the jussive.
Let us not forget that the World Health Organization (WHO) was seen as the Vatican of public health a few short years ago when we enabled it act as a leader in the pandemic response. Milei declared that the WHO caused significant economic damage by encouraging “endless quarantines,” and is encouraging other world leaders to rethink their place in the organization. “It is urgent to rethink from the international community why supranational organizations exist, funded by all, that do not meet the objectives for which they were created, engage in international politics, and seek to impose themselves above member countries,” his official press release states.
Versace's brand became synonymous with glamour and innovation, exemplified by his signature siren dresses and bold use of materials like aluminum mesh. His designs not only captivated the fashion elite but also attracted high-profile celebrities such as Madonna, Princess Diana, and Elton John. In 1989, he debuted a couture collection that further solidified his status in the fashion world. Versace was also among the first designers to recognize the influence of celebrity culture, seamlessly blending fashion with music and art—a legacy that reshaped the landscape of modern fashion. His untimely death in 1997 was a significant loss to the industry, but his brand and designs continue to inspire future generations.
!summarize #media #elonmusk #doge
!summarize #thomassowell #economics #humancapital #saudiarabia
Other Author Quotes
Carpe Diem – ‘Seize the day.’ – Horace
Carpe is an imperative. Learn more about imperatives here.
Timendi Causa Est Nescire – ‘The cause of fear is ignorance.’ – Seneca
A literal translation would be “Being afraid cause is to be[ing] ignorant.” Timendi is a gerund.
Ars Longa, Vita Brevis – ‘Art is long, life is short.’– Hippocrates.
The verb “est” is assumed in both parts.
In Vino Veritas – ‘Truth in Wine.’– Pliny the Elder
Although, it may not look like it. Veritas is a singular nominative.
Women simply cannot compete against men. We have seen boxing matches even where biological men brutally beat women and claimed a victory. We have seen biological males compete at the bottom of their sport only to reach the top when competing as women. These biological men have shattered records and taken over women’s sports. Female athletes have been prohibited from speaking out or voicing concerns for fear of being canceled by the woke mob. There were no checks and balances or consideration for WOMEN athletes.
The Senate must still vote on the Protection of Women and Girls Sports Act to prevent biological males from competing against young girls in school. This is outright dangerous and shameful.
Women exist! We finally live under an administration that permits the existence of WOMEN. XX or XY – there should be no controversy over the truth.
!summarize #gavinnewsom #california #scandal #trump
WSPN’s Austin Campbell described Operation Chokepoint 2.0 as a covert effort by U.S. banking regulators to deny the crypto industry access to financial services from 2022 to 2024 in his opening statement. Comparing it to past debanking of industries like firearms and payday lenders, he argued that regulators “obfuscated, denied, and covered up” their actions while depriving law-abiding businesses of due process.
The last king, the Etruscan Lucius Tarquinius Superbus, received the nickname Superbus (arrogant) because of his autocratic behavior. He was ultimately expelled along with his family when the Roman people decided they had had enough of him and kings in general. The orchestrator of the coup was Lucius Junius Brutus, nephew of the king and a republican idealist. In the first act after the expulsion of Superbus, Brutus made the Roman people swear allegiance to the new political system:
Omnium primum avidum novae libertatis populum, ne postmodum flecti precibus aut donis regiis posset, iure iurando adegit neminem Romae passuros regnare.
Men have 10X the testosterone of women. Those who are taking estrogen still have an advantage. A male athlete has more muscle mass than a female athlete, allowing them to have a higher capacity for hypertrophy. Men have a higher basal metabolic rate as well, allowing them to lose weight quicker and that muscle mass to body weight ratio enables them to be faster on their feet. Male athletes have 4% to 12% body fat, compared to female athletes, who have 12% to 23%. Women have smaller hearts (physically) than men, and their hearts must pump faster during exercise. Women also have fewer red blood cells than men, enabling them to absorb oxygen at a higher rate. Men are larger overall, with wider chests and longer limbs. Male athletes clearly have an advantage, which is why no one expected women to compete against men until the trans agenda exploded in our faces.
!summarize# politics #techright #cultural
Virgil Quotes
Amor Vincit Omnia – ‘Love conquers all.’ – Virgil
This sentence is pretty straightforward. Omnia refers to all things as a neuter plural.
Non Omnia Possumus Omnes – ‘We can’t all of us do everything.’ – Virgil
Again, this sentence is straightforward with omnia in the same case as #3.
In the latest piece of common sense legislation, Donald Trump signed the “No Men in Women’s Sports” executive order in what should be hailed as a victory for women’s rights. Naturally, the left is not cheering this move as a milestone for female athletes who have been forced to compete with biological males. “The war on women’s sports is over,” the president declared to the nation.
The Biden Administration attempted to dismantle Title IX and force women to compete with biological males who began to dominate them in every field.
“One very fruitful area for Polanyi-inspired research today is a re-examination of concerns such as the global financial crisis and the Eurozone crisis. There’s quite a compelling Polanyian reading of why and how the financial crisis happened in terms of the sub-prime crisis, the slicing up of bad mortgage liabilities and then selling them on as assets to unsuspecting investors. This looks to me like a concrete example of the dis-embedding of market relations from their social context, which underpins everything Karl Polanyi says is wrong with free market capitalism.
Cicero Quotes
Omnium Rerum Principia Parva Sunt – ‘The beginnings of all things are small.’ – Cicero
A literal translation would be “of all things, beginnings small are.”
Male Parta Male Dilabuntur – ‘What has been wrongly gained is wrongly lost.’ – Cicero
Grammatical this saying is “those things (implied by “parta” neuter plural ending) having been acquired wrongly or badly, they are wrongly or badly lost”
Join the Friday news roundup with Victor Davis Hanson and cohost Sami Winc. Netanyahu visited D.C. and Trump entertained many initaitives, USAID funds going to terrorists and corruption, Canada bristles at tariffs, Democrats meltdown, and Al Green (D-TX) calls for impeachment.
Alang sa mga katuyoan sa klasipikasyon, ang musika sa popular nga kultura usa ka bulag nga seksyon gikan sa opera ug oratorio. Ang telebisyon naglangkob sa live-action nga serye, mga salida sa TV, miniserye, ug animation sa North America, apan dili Japanese anime nga makita sa manga o graphic novels.
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1 Art
2 Gallery
3 Dokumentaryo
4 Mga salida
5 Telebisyon
5.1 Mga Salida sa TV 5.2 Miniseries
6 Mga dula sa video
7 Internet
Tan-awa usab ang 8
9 Mga Pakisayran
10 External nga mga sumpay
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However, Karl Polanyi was less radical; indeed for him the road to the free market only remained open because of state interventionism. To understand capitalism, one needs to understand the political acts that go into market making.
“That might seem almost self-evident,” says Ben. “But it’s a very different way of understanding the world from what you will find within the social sciences derived from economics and, in particular, neo-classical economics.
the key word there is understanding Market capitalism
And now we unveil the true culprits behind the fall of the Florentine Republic -- the Medici. The first of their clan, Cosimo, while trying to protect his business interests, was able to constitute and control a committee charged with filling a hat with names of candidates for important offices. Cosimo used this authority to create a base of power and control. Before his death, Cosimo and his son Piero had become leaders of most powerful political party in Florence. When Piero died in 1469, key power blocks asked his son Lorenzo to lead the republic. Using public support to his benefit, Lorenzo gradually gained control of the most important magistracies and chipped away at the republic. When he died in 1492, power was consolidated in a way that republicans could no longer resist.
Finally, in 1530, the pope allied with the Habsburg emperor, defeated Florence in battle, and the republic was no more.
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The Great Transformation might be a book out of time; relevant to today, but was deemed less so when it was published in 1944.
“It was enough to bag him a chair at the University of Columbia,” explains Ben. “But it wasn’t actually received that well at the time. I suspect that’s because it took the historical approach to understanding the present and so, for some, it could have been written off as a work of economic history and for others it was seen as an outcrop of Polanyi’s anthropological thoughts. But we can regard him as forward thinking as many of the economic facts which characterise our age – the marketisation of public services, globalisation in its various guises, the coming back of capital mobility in a big way – they’re really the kind of things Karl Polanyi was talking about.”
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“The high point of Ilona’s revolutionary zeal was her purported attempt/plan to assassinate the Hungarian Prime Minister, István Tisza, during the interwar period. She apparently got around to purchasing the gun and she had it in her handbag and was ready to do the deed but, on the day, and by some accounts on the hour, she overheard from a paperboy that the Prime Minister was due to resign. This rendered the assassination attempt redundant.”
“There’s another story,” adds Matthew, “where she apparently travelled all the way by train from Moscow to Vienna with a toothpaste tube of stolen diamonds that she was using to bankroll the Austrian communists in their fight against fascism.”
We can think about the sub-prime crisis, and the mortgage backed securities that were at its core, as some of the fictitious commodities that Karl Polanyi was talking about. And we’ve only got to look at what’s happened since the crisis to see that that it can have damaging societal consequences and adverse social effects.
“And if we turn to the Eurozone crisis, I think there’s an even closer connection between what Polanyi had to say about the nineteenth century Gold Standard and how this spread of dis-embedded market forces had the effect of, as he put it, annihilating the human and natural substance of society. He saw how the Gold Standard spread across Europe, causing acute social dislocation and revealed what he called the congenital weakness of market society. Now if we look to the Eurozone area and substitute the Euro for the Gold Standard, and look to the southern periphery in countries like Greece, we can see very similar processes going on.”
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The Republican system was seriously threatened for the first time in 1390, when the opportunist Visconti decided he would like to control all Italy north of Rome. Starting with Milan, Visconti began to work his way south rolling up town after town. Once Pisa and Siena fell, only Florence was left to conquer. The Florentines never considered surrender and were prepared to fight Visconti to the death when a miracle occurred. Visconti died of the plague, his empire fell apart, and Florence was saved.
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The history of the Roman monarchy is a combination of folklore and invention. It’s first king, Romulus, is apocryphal. The next four remain foggy in history, although the third of those, Tullus Hostilus, is credited for building the first Senate House. The next three include two Etruscans and one Latin, named, Servius Tullius, who was the most notable of the entire group.
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Karl Polanyi described himself as having lived the ‘world life’ of a serial émigré. Following his move from Budapest to Vienna in 1919, he then, in 1934, and again under political pressure, emigrated from Vienna to England before finally ending up in the United States.
Chris says: “It was his wife, Ilona Duczyńska, who was the real revolutionary. She was the deeper shade of red within their relationship. It’s often the case with us academics. We’re fairly staid, we’re fairly boring; we think too deeply to be too interesting, but we often have much more interesting partners and I think this was certainly the case for Karl Polanyi.”
Ilona Duczyńska and Karl Polanyi married in 1920.
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In 1343, the most mature of the many Florentine constitutions was created. It defined hundreds of public offices and its rules were amazing to complicate. For example, an elected committee could appoint another committee to draw up list of candidates for committees and selections from the list were made by a third committee. The system was designed to keep everyone involved in the government so the aristocratic families could not consolidate their power, but it did so in a manner that defied logic. No doubt this mad matrix of offices prevented an accumulation of power -- bossism was prevented by through election by lot. Coups may have been possible until the army was disbanded in 1351 in favor of mercenaries. Meanwhile, Florence weathered wars with the cities of Tuscany, a credit collapse, and the plague without a scratch.
What is a Republic, you ask? The word comes from the Latin res publica or thing of the people. In other words, a government without a monarchy that allows citizens with voting rights to have a say in government affairs through participation in assemblies. Voter eligibility rules required that a man had to be a property owner and citizen in good standing in order to cast a ballot. The assemblies were conducted in the Roman forum and only those attending could vote, so travel distance had an important impact on participation. Tribes located at a great distance would have to see the benefits to them of making the long journey before they would commit to it. In one famous case, remote tribes refused to attend a critical assembly meeting because they were in the middle of the harvest.
Do I need travel insurance?
Travel insurance is recommended. In the rare event that a program is cancelled, ArchaeoSpain will refund program fees, but will not refund travel expenses.
Will I have time to travel on my own?
On most excavations we rest on the weekends. During the week and on weekends we offer free excursions to sites of cultural and archaeological interest. You may choose to do other activities on your own, but it will not be easy to travel very far. If you want to visit other cities in Spain we recommend that you do so before or after the program.
Are there any excursions included in the programs?
Yes, we will take advantage of our free time to visit some amazing cultural and archaeological sites in the area. These excursions are included in your program fee, and they serve to give you a broader exposure to the cultural context of your program site.
Can I sign up for more than one program?
Of course.
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As you may know from previous posts, the Roman Republic was born out of the overthrow of an Etruscan monarchy. When the break occurred in 509 B.C. the components of the Republican government were largely in place, so the transition to the first stable Republic in history was relatively smooth. Still, Rome was fragile for three or four decades while she built her confidence to a level that would see her conquer the western world.
What do I need to bring?
With your program information we will send you a list of suggested items and clothing that will be useful for your trip.
Do I need any specific tools?
No, all archaeological tools and equipment will be provided on site.
What if I get sick during the program?
There are medical facilities a short distance from the excavation sites. If you need any kind of medical care you will be transported to the closest healthcare center. All ArchaeoSpain participants are covered by a complimentary insurance program providing full medical and surgical treatment as well as prescription drugs. European participants should bring an EHIC card with them. Please contact our staff for complete details.
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By all accounts Karl Polanyi was quiet, thoughtful, reflective – probably a fairly typical man of his intellectual station in 1920s ‘Red Vienna’ where he matured, having moved from Hungary after the First World War.
“Karl Polanyi was a radical,” says Matthew. “But what shade of red he was is an interesting question. He was certainly no lover of the Soviet takeover of Hungary in 1919 and this was one of the reasons that he ended up in Vienna. He made at least one or two flirtations with Marxism, at least according to his biographers. The ‘moral Marx’ of the Paris Manuscripts seemed to influence him and his notions of how workers become alienated within the market economy.”
“In a kind of mitotic ecstasy, Florence between 1250 and 1450 multiplied offices beyond the capacity of historians to count them. There were so many, they ran out of names for them and came to call them by number of members and purpose -- seven of flood or ten of war. It was a glorious carnival of magistrates elected, chosen by lot, or appointed by a committee. So that no one would miss a chance to govern, terms of office were shortened to as little as two months, the shortest in republican history.”
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Is it really hot in the field?
Temperatures in Spain are unpredictable, even in the summer. Temperatures can reach up to 100°F (38°C) at the hottest time of the day, but we usually stop work before it reaches that temperature. In the evenings, temperatures can drop to around 55°F (13°C).
Do I need to be in excellent shape?
No, you just need to be in reasonable physical condition and in good health.
Is it a problem if I am a vegetarian?
No, it is not difficult to accommodate a vegetarian diet, but if you have other dietary restrictions please check with us.
What types of food will we eat?
We will eat local food. The Spanish Mediterranean diet is very diverse and healthy, including plenty of meats, fruits, and vegetables.
What is the meal schedule?
Breakfast is a light meal, eaten before work. At about 10:30am we will stop work for a snack, usually a sandwich and/or fruit. Lunch is the main meal of the day, eaten at around 2:30pm. Dinner is lighter, at around 8pm.
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Can I start or finish the program on different dates than the ones indicated?
Yes, in some cases it will be possible. Please contact us with your specific needs.
How do I join my group?
The program information attached to the acceptance letter will explain our rendezvous point at the closest airport on the start date. If you can’t get to the meeting point on time we will give you directions on how to reach the excavation site by yourself.
Do you provide air travel?
No, we do not provide air travel. ArchaeoSpain is not a travel agent nor do we provide any kind of travel services aside from advice. You will need to book your own flight.
How hard is the work?
The work will mostly consist of digging the ground with different tools, from small trowels to pick axes. You will need to transport dirt by wheelbarrow or buckets. There will also be artifact washing and restoration. The work is hard, so you should be in good health.
Is my application fee refundable?
The application fee, minus $100, is refundable until the date listed on the website and in your infopack.
Should you cancel your application before this deadline, you will be eligible for a refund. You will receive a full refund if your application is not accepted.
Are other fees refundable?
Other fees are refundable until the deadline to pay the balance of your program fee.
How soon will I know if I have been accepted into the program?
We will send you a confirmation of your acceptance within two weeks after we receive your application and application fee.
Can I change programs or sessions after signing up?
Yes, provided that there is still space in your new choice. There are no extra fees for changing programs.
What is the application deadline?
There is no application deadline. We accept applications until we fill all the spaces in the program.
Can I receive academic credit for the ArchaeoSpain programs?
Yes, but credit will have to come from your school or institution. You will need to contact your academic adviser to start the process because each school has different rules regarding credits. Most likely you will have to register for your school’s fieldwork course and have our site directors give you the grade in conjunction with your professor.
Does ArchaeoSpain offer any kind of scholarships?
Sadly, ArchaeoSpain doesn't offer scholarships, but you can check several options here and at this link.
How does the application process work?
A short time after we receive your application and application fee we will send you the official acceptance letter and more information about your program. You will need to pay the balance of your program fee usually before June.
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Do I need to speak Spanish to participate?
No. Language has never been a barrier for people to participate in ArchaeoSpain programs. The group leaders speak Spanish and English (and sometimes another language). Nevertheless, our programs will offer plenty of opportunities for those willing to practice another language.
Do I need to be a student of Archaeology, History, or Anthropology?
No. People of any background can participate in ArchaeoSpain programs.
Are there any age limits?
Yes. For most of our programs participants must be at least 18 years old. If you are 16 or 17, however, please consider our ArchaeoSpain High School program. That said, we rarely take people older than 60 because of the physical nature and group dynamic of the programs. But we often make exceptions so feel free to email us with queries.
How big are the groups?
It depends on the site, but ArchaeoSpain groups range between 10 and 16 participants. In some programs we join local crews of 10 to 20 more people.
Who can participate in ArchaeoSpain programs?
Anyone over 18 can participate in ArchaeoSpain programs, but our groups usually consist of university students and recent graduates. Please contact us to see if you are eligible. Younger participants can attend our ArchaeoSpain High School program.
The only prerequisite for participants is a desire to carry out archaeological fieldwork at important historical sites.
Do I need previous fieldwork experience?
No. These programs are designed for people who want to learn and practice archaeology, including those without previous fieldwork experience. You will work under the close supervision of professional archaeologists who will teach you what you need to know.
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During the early 1200s, Florence came to be dominated by two families with tongue-twister names: the Guelfs and the Ghibellines. These families were essentially political parties -- the Guelfs loyal to the Pope while the Ghibellines were loyal to the emperor. By the mid-century, a feud between them developed and assassination in the name of foreign policy became commonplace. At one point, each of the families set up their own republic within the city. Between 1250 and 1260 the Guelfs ruled and the Ghibellines were in exile. The situation was reversed between 1260 and 1267. Was this a republic? Hard to understand how it could have been called one.
Gritos River and Pico de la Muela site
The Gritos river gorge was the natural access road to Valeria from the south-southeast. We will take a morning walk contemplating the rock cliffs of the canyon and end at the foot of the Pico de la Muela peninsula, an Iron Age site. In the afternoon we will enjoy the pool in Valera de Abajo.
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The Roman city of Segóbriga was the cultural, administrative, and mining center of a large area in the heart of Spain. Pliny the Elder called it “caput celtiberiae.” The city was founded by Julius
Caesar and, thanks to the wealth generated by the lapis specularis mines (sheets of transparent gypsum used to make windows), an ambitious program of public constructions began: a huge forum, the theater, amphitheater, baths, temples, and a circus maximus.
Cuenca, Built by the Moors as a defensive position in the heart of the Caliphate of Cordoba, Cuenca is an unusually well-preserved and fortified medieval city. Conquered by the Kindgom of Castilla in the 12th century, it became a royal town and bishopric endowed with important buildings, such as Spain's first Gothic cathedral and the famous casas colgadas (hanging houses), suspended from sheer cliffs overlooking the Huécar river. Cuenca towers above the magnificent countryside. The old city was designated an UNESCO World Heritage site in 1996. The Romanesque-Gothic cathedral (13th century) is a treasure, and we can visit the provincial archaeological and Spanish abstract art museums.
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We will visit Toledo, World Heritage City, known as the city of three cultures: Muslim, Christian, and Jewish. You will have the opportunity to visit the Cristo de la Luz mosque, the Tránsito synagogue, and the Toledo Cathedral. We’ll get lost in its narrow streets, have tapas at outdoor cafes, and make some time for shopping.
Catalina Uquijo Álvarez de Toledo
Co-director of ArchaeoSpain, Catalina has been a professional archaeologist for over 25 years. She has led more than 20 archaeological excavations, from Bronze Age to Medieval times. She has taught numerous academic courses and organized archaeological exhibitions, and is the author of several books and numerous scientific articles.
Dixit vero Deus: Congregentur aquæ, quæ sub cælo sunt, in locum unum: et appareat arida. Et factum est ita.
And God said, “Let the water under the sky be gathered to one place, and let dry ground appear.” And it was so.
Congregentur – Subjunctive Jussive from congrego meaning to flock, gather
Et vocavit Deus aridam Terram, congregationesque aquarum appellavit Maria. Et vidit Deus quod esset bonum.
God called the dry ground “land,” and the gathered waters he called “seas.” And God saw that it was good.
esset = 3rd sg imperfect subjunctive – see above example.
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By the twelfth century, an executive committee of ten was in operation as the magistrate apparatus for governing. The committee derived its power from control of the local militias and utilized a temporary executive to manage the bureaucracy. One vestigial authority retained power over this structure; the Parlamentum, which was a general assembly of all citizens brought together in times of crisis to save the city. The Parlamentum was a destabilizing institution because it was unmanaged and its output was unpredictable. For example, it had been known to throw out the city’s constitution on occasion. Fortunately, the stability of Florence was more determined by power arrangements between the social classes than formal governmental systems.
Dixit quoque Deus: Fiat firmamentum in medio aquarum: et dividat aquas ab aquis.
And God said, “Let there be a vault between the waters to separate water from water.”
Fiat = Fiat is the jussive subjunctive form of the verb facio (to make, to build, sometimes to be).
Et fecit Deus firmamentum, divisitque aquas, quæ erant sub firmamento, ab his, quæ erant super firmamentum. Et factum est ita.
So God made the vault and separated the waters those under the vault from those above it. And it was so.
Vocavitque Deus firmamentum, Cælum: et factum est vespere et mane, dies secundus.
God called the vault “sky.” And there was evening, and there was morning—the second day.
Et vidit Deus lucem quod esset bona: et divisit lucem a tenebris.
God saw that the light was good, and he separated the light from the darkness.
esset = 3rd sg imperfect subjunctive -why?
Literal translation: God saw that the light was (or, even more literally, “were”, subjunctive) good. The Vulgate has a mixed construction, with lucem as direct object of vidit and then an indirect-speech clause (which uses subjunctive): vidit Deus lucem quod esset bona, word for word, “God saw the light that it was good.”
Appellavitque lucem Diem, et tenebras Noctem: factumque est vespere et mane, dies unus.
God called the light “day,” and the darkness he called “night.” And there was evening, and there was morning—the first day.
Dionisio Urbina
Ph.D. from Madrid's Complutense University and co-director of ArchaeoSpain. Dionisio has been a professional archaeologist since 1990 and has directed over 50 archaeological excavations: Medieval, Late Antique, Roman, Iron and Bronze Age. He specializes in the Roman world and the Second Iron Age from central Iberia. Dionisio has published many scientific articles and books, and co-edited several conferences and exhibition catalogs.
Medical Insurance:
All ArchaeoSpain participants are covered with an insurance packet that provides medical, surgical treatment, and prescription drugs in case of accident or sudden illness. With your program packet we will send you more details regarding this coverage, but you may contact our staff for more information. European students should bring an EHIC card with them.
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Vulgate: Genesis Chapter 1
In principio creavit Deus cælum et terram.
In the beginning God created the heaven(s) and the earth.
Terra autem erat inanis et vacua, et tenebræ erant super faciem abyssi: et spiritus Dei ferebatur super aquas.
Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters.
Dixitque Deus: Fiat lux. Et facta est lux.
And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light.
dixit+que = And, (God) said
Fiat = Fiat is the jussive subjunctive form of the verb facio (to make, to build, sometimes to be).
The church of Nuestra Señora de la Sey, which was the seat of the Visigoth bishopric, stands out among the buildings in town. The Visigoths likely built the church over a Roman temple dedicated to the indigenous god Airón that the Romans adopted. A Romanesque church followed in the 12th and 13th centuries with three naves and three apses, unique in the province. And in the 16th and 17th centuries locals renovated the church again to its current state.
Attached to the church are the sacristy and the Parish Museum. This museum holds artistic treasures such as Baroque canvases, a mudejar ceiling, Roman funerary stelae, Visigothic architectural elements, and an altar made of Talavera tiles.
The team will stay in two traditional guest houses in small town of Valeria, population 80, located in the mountains of Cuenca. We'll share double rooms and the common spaces include the living room, dining room, kitchen, and the outdoor patios with a grill -- the perfect place to rest and hang out with our new friends.
Breakfast will be provided at our houses, and we will take turns setting up breakfast and the midday snack on site. We will eat a fixed menu at a local restaurant for lunch and dinner.
Valeria's town center is the Plaza Mayor, where we find the church, the 18th-century town hall, and some large homes such as the House of the Curato and the House of the Dukes of Granada.
In 2025, excavations will continue to focus on the western cryptoporticus. After we uncovered the first remnants of the original pavement (formed by a layer of ash, in 2023, we will excavate lower layers that have already yielded pieces of imitation indigenous and earthen pottery. We will also continue digging to the north of the cryptoporticus to study a set of architectural elements known as the Exedra, which thanks to new findings can be interpreted as a space for representations of the elites, following the model of the Augustan forum in Rome.
Brad Gerstner
Children
The couple has two sons, Lincoln and Jack. They reside in Woodside, California.
Wife
Gerstner met his future wife Michelle Marie Boyers at Harvard Business School, where both of them received an MBA degree. They eventually started dating and finally exchanged wedding vows on 29 September 2007 at Martha's Vineyard in Massachusetts.
Boyers is the CEO of the Give Forward Foundation, an organization focused on improving education in low-income schools and providing legal services for undocumented immigrants in the Bay Area, California. The Give Forward Foundation was founded in November 2018.
Before starting the foundation, Boyers worked as a director of education at Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Foundation for five years. In the early 2010s, she served as Chief Operating Officer and Chair of Board at Orchard Gardens K-8 School. Boyers also served as an assistant superintendent for human resources and deputy director of human resources for the Boston Public School. She worked as a financial analyst during her early career.
Boards of Directors
Gerstner served on the board of directors of an online travel company Orbitz Worldwide from 2010 to 2015. On 1 May 2019, he was appointed to the board of directors of iHearMedia, a mass media corporation headquartered in San Antonio, Texas. Gerstner also served on boards of directors of a travel technology company SilverRail Technologies, and a travel agency HotelTonight.
During the 2002-2024 excavation campaigns we made numerous discoveries, such as fragments of sculptures and pedestals with inscriptions, including some dedicated by Gaius Grattio Nigrino, Lucio Valerio Proculo, and Lucio Fulvio Crassus. A fragment of a bronze torch uncovered in 2022 can be attributed to the goddess Ceres, a divinity whose statue would stand out among the figures of the local elites and the imperial family in this part of the forum. Numerous decorative architectural elements also appeared, such as fragments of Corinthian bases, columns, and capitals from the time of Augustus. Small bronze pieces have also been found, such as a writing stylus, a bowl used to fill lamps with oil, a piece of a small sculpture of the birth of Venus, rings, bracelets, hair pins, and game chips.
Altimeter Capital
In November 2008, Gerstner founded Altimeter Capital that took his career to the next level. The firm is currently located in Boston, Massachusetts, and Menlo Park in California. The firm primarily manages a long or short public equity fund and private growth equity funds. Reportedly, Altimeter Capital manages over $15 billion of investments across its venture capital funds and public equity funds.
As per its official website, the company's mission is to "help visionary entrepreneurs build iconic companies, disrupt markets and improve lives through all states of growth." Altimeter Capital also manages a vertically integrated capital markets platform to support companies through the Initial Public Offering (IPO).
The frigidarium, or cold water room, was paved with polychrome and geometric mosaics. The western side of the frigidarium contains a natatio, or indoor pool, with a series of steps or benches attached to the northern and southern flanks. The excavation of these rooms has recovered about 1,000 marble pieces of different types and provenances that belonged to both the paving and parietal coatings, as well as abundant pieces of mosaics and wall paintings that illustrate the decorative richness of this space.
Roman Baths
The Roman baths of Valeria were discovered in 2014-15 on the northern slope of the forum. They date to the 1st century and fell into disuse in the 3rd century. The complex covered more than 1,000 square meters, of which about 250 have been excavated. Archaeologists have uncovered an arcaded palestra with columns, a swimming pool, a room with a polychrome mosaic, and a room with a marble floor. The walls were covered with marble. Numerous ceramic pieces, marble, cornices, ironwork, stucco, and between 30,000 and 40,000 tesserae have been found.
Early Career
Gerstner began his entrepreneurial career when he founded his first start-up called Wawasee Boat Care in Lake Wawasee, Indiana, in May 1986. He also served as chief boat washer in his company. He owned and operated Wawasee Boat Care for more than three years. As per Gerstner, his first start-up was not successful financially but believed to keep entrepreneurship in his life.
Law Career
From May 1996 to December 1997, Gerstner served as a junior lawyer in the venture capital, securities, and corporations sections of Ice Miller, one of the largest law firms in Indianapolis, Indiana. In January 1998, he was appointed as Deputy Secretary of State of Indiana, where he had to manage the Indiana divisions of corporations, securities, and elections. After serving there for one year and ten months, he quit his job to attend Harvard Business School.
Entrepreneurial Career
After receiving an MBA degree, Gerstner started serving as co-CEO of a travel company National Leisure Group (NLG), in 2000. He worked at NLG for three years, and he helped NLG buy Boston-based venture capital firm General Catalyst and Japanese multinational conglomerate company Softbank.
In 2003, he co-founded and served as a CEO of a local search start-up called Openlist. After operating it for a couple of years, the co-founders sold the start-up to a Seattle-based conversational analytics company Marchex (Nasdaq: MCHX), in 2005.
Gerstner then worked as a portfolio manager at a Boston-based investment capital firm called PAR Capital for the next three years. From 2007 to 2011, he was an investor and advisor to a Seattle-based online real estate marketplace company Zillow.
Early Life and Education
Bradley Thomas Gerstner, alias Brad Gerstner was born on 4 May 1971 in Indiana, the United States. From 1991 to 1992, he studied Politics, Philosophy, and Economics at the University of Oxford in Oxford, England. Gerstner then graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics and Political Science in 1993 from Wabash College in Crawfordsville, Indiana. He was a recipient of the Lilly Endowment Community Scholarship Program for his higher education. He was also a commencement speaker at Wabash College. After graduating from Wabash College, Gerstner attended the Indiana University School of Law—Bloomington and graduated with a J.D. degree in 1996. Later, he earned a Master of Business Administration (MBA) degree from Harvard Business School in 2000.
Who is Brad Gerstner?
Brad Gerstner is an American investor and entrepreneur. He founded a technology-focused investment firm called Altimeter Capital in 2008. Before starting Altimeter Capital, Gerstner worked as a portfolio manager at an investment capital firm PAR Capital. He also served as a co-CEO of a travel company called National Leisure Group. Earlier, he founded and operated multiple online search businesses with successful exits.
In 2008, Brad Gerstner founded Altimeter capital, which has $18 billion in assets under management as of April 2022.
The firm's highlight investments in the past two years include Airbyte, Discord, Benchling, Cerebras, Chainalysis, Checkout, OpenSea, Hopin and Plaid among others.
Gerstner led a Series C investment into Snowflake, which went public in 2020 and was dubbed the largest software IPO at the time. Its market cap was about $65 billion in April 2022.
The founder, who day-traded to pay for law school, has participated in 100 IPOs as an anchor, sponsor and investor.
Other notable bets by Gerstner include Gusto, Cockroach Labs, Okta and Bytedance.
Six months ago, Tesla was at $191. On December 16, $480. Currently $375. What has changed? Why almost double in 5 months. That is the real question. Car sales down. Profits down. The economy is in good shape and the future is looking Epic for Tesla.
Translation
There have been several versions of the Vulgate, but the original one by Jerome of Stridon did include most books of the Bible we know today. However, there were some books of the Bible that were included that are not commonly included today.
It should be noted that the “readability” of the Vulgate was quite easy compared to other Latin texts because it had to be attainable by ALL people. The act of translating is quite simple compared to poetry, philosophy, and plays.
The Latin text presented here is based on the text of the 1598 Vulgate, which was used as the standard text of the Vulgate until 1979.
Vulgate: How did it come about?
The translation was largely the work of Jerome of Stridon who, in 382, had been commissioned by Pope Damasus I to revise the old Latin version used by the Roman Church. Once published, the new version became widely adopted.
Vulgate: Its longevity?
For over a thousand years ( 400–1530 CE), the Vulgate was the most commonly used edition of the most influential text in Western European society. Indeed, for most medieval (Western) Christians, it was the only version of the Bible ever encountered.
Until 1450, when Gutenberg printed this text, copies were also very rare and expensive. In the 14th and 15th centuries, the Bible was finally translated into modern languages, against great resistance from the Church. Finally in the mid-20th Century, the Roman Catholic church abandoned the use of Latin for liturgy.
However, this remains one of the most historically important Latin texts.
Today, we will be discussing and translating portions of the Vulgate, the Latin Bible.
While, I have a proclivity towards Classical Latin (c. 75 BCE to 3rd century CE) – I thought exploring Late Latin (c. 4th century CE to 6th century CE) and Medieval Latin (5th century to 15th century CE) would be appreciated.
Vulgate: What is it?
The Vulgate is a late-4th-century Latin translation of the Bible. It is still presently used in the Latin Church.
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Brad Gerstner is an American investor and hedge fund manager. He was born on May 4, 1971. Gerstner is the Founder, chairman, and CEO of Altimeter Capital, a technology-focused investment firm he founded in 2008. Before starting Altimeter Capital, he worked as a portfolio manager at an investment capital firm called PAR Capital.
Gerstner appeared on the 2022 Forbes Midas List after his firm's successful investments in Snowflake and Grab. As of April 2022, Altimeter Capital has $18 billion in assets under management.
He has learned from notable figures such as Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk. There is also information available about his wife and net worth, but for the most accurate and up-to-date information, it's best to check the latest sources directly.
In the early days, Florence was probably managed by community groups and block organizations, who worked together to provide basic services. This was an incubator republic which evolved into rudimentary courts and militias as it became more formalized. No wealthy family was recognized as a leader and a pact between families (association) was put into place to show mutual dedication to the success of the city.
By the year 900 A.D, the great cities of Europe had been weakened to a point where it was necessary to start from scratch. Commerce and artisanship had to be rekindled by recruiting citizens with the right skills from the outside, mostly from the agrarian economies of the surrounding territory. Florence always found aristocratic control unacceptable, so any tendency in that direction was continually resisted. Its leaders were a new class of man; middle class merchants we call burghers, who were independent, entrepreneurial, and confident. Between the years of 900 and 1250, these burghers turned Florence into an autonomous institution by resisting and expelling those who would attempt to impose on them some kind of hierarchical model of government. They were aided in this effort by the emperors and popes who wasted time and money fighting among themselves for control of Italy rather than attacking the city.
As one of the great merchant cities of the middle ages (Pisa or Antwerp would be other examples), Florence escaped participation in the feudal system because it had a strong capitalist engine and could operate as an independent political system. Feudalism could only take root where bureaucracy failed and it did not fail there. The Florentine political system certainly had its ups and downs, but it was business that moved Florence forward and politics were regulated by business.
The terrain drops abruptly on this side of the Forum so builders needed to construct a high retaining wall. To decorate this relatively unsightly wall, the Forum planners created a shrine to the water gods, typical in the Celtiberian world, that covered the upper half of the retaining wall. A fountain covered the lower part of the wall, and below them were some shops. Their roofs served as part of an elongated terrace at a lower level. This way of taking advantage of the difficult topography provided the city with a large balcony over part of the streets and over one of the cliffs.
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The basilica is located to the north of the forum and also underwent extensive renovations, changing its archaic double portico for a central nave and a perimeter ambulatory. The interior was decorated with stuccoes and limestone slabs with ornaments and moldings.
The taverns were located on the southern, eastern, and western sides of the forum. They were commercial locations with a large doorway and usually covered with a barrel vault. A skylight let light into a wooden attic that was used for storage. They faced the main roads of the city.
A cryptoporticus extends to the western side and a monumental entrance with a staircase sits on the southern edge.
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The forum was the administrative, political, and religious center of the city. It was a large, arcaded square around which the main public buildings were distributed. Under its pavement sat four large water cisterns. The remodeling of the forum took place under Emperors Tiberius, Caligula, and Claudio, ending roughly between the years 20 and 50.
The four cisterns under the center of the forum were covered by barrel vaults and are an exemplary example of Roman hydraulic engineering. Its walls are made of opus caementicium, the floor has a quarter-round molding at the juncture with the wall in order to facilitate cleaning and to prevent leaks. The water ran through lead pipes, also known as fistulae plumbae.
The city erected a temple to the cult of the emperor on the forum's west side, while the eastern side features an 86-meter-long colonnade and a nymphaeum. Under the nymphaeum we can still see the remains of the taverns. In the rest of the space around the forum there are public and administrative buildings such as the curia, the basilica, and the tabularium.
The imposing gorge of the Gritos River sculpts and shapes the landscape and ecosystem around Valeria: Deep limestone canyons, diverse vegetation in which thyme and rosemary mingle with black juniper and poplar groves, and peregrine falcons and eagle owls.
Valeria’s splendor spans from the time of Augustus to the Flavian emperors. Over this time the city grew in importance and grandeur. That said, we have found remains from the Republic, including part of the original forum and some adjacent buildings. Due to the plateau's irregular terrain, Roman architects built a large artificial terrace on the narrowest part of the city to create a flat space with four retaining walls suitable to support and hold a big square.
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Carthaginem conveniunt populi LXV...the following towns, enjoying the rights of ancient Latium... and the Valerienses. Pliny the Elder, Natural History 3-25.
The Roman city of Valeria is located in central Spain, south of Cuenca in the Sierra Alta region. Proconsul Gaius Valerius Flaccus founded the city between 93 and 82 BC after conquering the indigenous Celtiberians. Given the military climate at the time, the Romans built the city on a narrow, well-defended plateau perched on a cliff. Valeria was also designed as a settlement for colonists, and it soon became one of the administrative, economic and commercial centers of the new Roman region.
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Karl Polanyi changes the whole concept of the market, in my reading in any case, by talking about the market society. Polanyi reset the terms of the argument. It wasn’t just about whether markets were more efficient economically, it was about the human and environmental costs of allowing people and nature to be included as parts of the production process within the market economy. Karl Polanyi gave us a set of philosophical issues that we’re still wrestling with today. Are we content to allow people to become ever more incorporated into the market society if we can show that it’s not necessarily good for them? Are we comfortable in allowing more of the environment to be incorporated into a market society if we can show that it’s not good for the environment?
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Florence, 1100-1532, What a Republic!
Florence, in this blog? I thought this was supposed to be ancient history! Yes, but sometimes we can find value when we compare political systems from different times in history. The Republic of Florence an interesting case to compare to Republican Rome, because it gives us another example of how men try to build stable governments. Florence was a city republic like Rome but it was never able to expand in the same way because of the circumstances of its time. Still, its leaders faced the same challenges the Romans did – socio-economic class differences, economic interests, and cultural influences. In my last post I mentioned that those designing Republics, including America’s founding fathers, went to great lengths to insure their infant political systems would not revert to monarchies through the consolidation of power. Florence stands as an extreme case of this paranoia.
I’m the director of ArchaeoSpain, which organizes international groups to join ongoing archaeological excavations in Spain and Italy. I was reading your Ancient History blog and I thought I’d write to you to let you know about our projects.
This summer our 18+ groups will be digging the necropolis of the Iron Age city of Pintia (which later became Roman) in Valladolid, the Byzantine church and surroundings of Son Peretó in Mallorca, and the amphora graveyard of Monte Testaccio in Rome.
And our high school groups will be excavating the Roman forum of Pollentia in Mallorca and the medieval Castle of Zorita in Guadalajara.
“Polanyi’s book was a game changer. It provides us with a series of reflections on the nature of the market society. Before Karl Polanyi, it was usual to try to think of markets in isolation, just as a simple economic form, and they could be spoken about in equally simple economic terms. Much of the discussion about markets before The Great Transformation was simply about efficiency criteria: was the market the most efficient way of organising an economy; would it lead to higher levels of growth; would it lead to more trade between different countries?
Matthew agrees: “Take the modern condition of austerity. When we ask our political classes about austerity they tell us there’s no choice, but there’s no such thing as ‘no choice’ within a Polanyian world view. Everything is a political choice; every decision that’s made, whether individually or collectively to either reaffirm or challenge the core premises of the market society, is a political choice. So, however much we’re told that those choices are constrained or that those choices are reduced to a single alternative, we can use Karl Polanyi and the tradition that he’s developed to blow a big raspberry at those suggestions.
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“He has a sense that this notion of a self-made market, this kind of natural market order that gets posited in economics, is in some respects, a myth. This is why we teach Karl Polanyi to our students; he brings home to them this very important point that markets are not self-sustaining and they’re not inevitable. Actually, it’s really quite unhelpful to think about political economy in terms of a dichotomising opposition between the state on the one hand and the market on the other. The notion that these two are involved in some sort of tug of war where one wins and the other loses or one gains at the other's expense does not makes sense in a Polanyian framework.”
Modern capitalism
There is, for Karl Polanyi, an ongoing political struggle between the ‘dis-embedding’ force of the free market and the ‘re-embedding’ efforts of social protection. It is one very useful way of understanding the politics of modern capitalism.
Polanyi also argues that the market society is not a naturally occurring phenomenon but is a political and social construct. Such an approach puts Karl Polanyi outside the mainstream of political economic debates between a Keynesian approach to economic policy and a Hayekian approach. Ben explains:
Latin Prefixes
Latin prefix Basic meaning Example words
co- together coauthor, coedit, coheir
de- away, off; generally indicates reversal or removal in English deactivate, debone, defrost, decompress, deplane
dis- not, not any disbelief, discomfort, discredit, disrepair, disrespect
inter- between, among international, interfaith, intertwine, intercellular, interject
non- not nonessential, nonmetallic, nonresident, nonviolence, nonskid, nonstop
post- after postdate, postwar, postnasal, postnatal
pre- before preconceive, preexist, premeditate, predispose, prepossess, prepay
re- again; back, backward rearrange, rebuild, recall, remake, rerun, rewrite
sub- under submarine, subsoil, subway, subhuman, substandard
trans- across, beyond, through transatlantic, transpolar
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Polanyi puts forward the argument that economic activity is embedded within a social and economic context. This allows a reader of The Great Transformation to start thinking about how markets evolve, develop and change in terms of processes of what Karl Polanyi calls the embedding and dis-embedding of market forces.
“This is one of Polanyi’s central concepts,” explains Ben. “The idea of the double movement that characterises the market society. On the one hand you’ve got the forces of economic liberalism seeking to spread and expand the role and the remit of market forces - freeing up labour markets for example - but on the other hand you have a sort of backlash from society, as society is subjected to ever more dislocation; there’s a call for social protection and the setting up of welfare state institutions for example to protect vulnerable citizens.”
Latin Roots
Latin root Basic meaning Example words
-dict- to say contradict, dictate, diction, edict, predict
-duc- to lead, bring, take deduce, produce, reduce
-gress- to walk digress, progress, transgress
-ject- to throw eject, inject, interject, project, reject, subject
-pel- to drive compel, dispel, impel, repel
-pend- to hang append, depend, impend, pendant, pendulum
-port- to carry comport, deport, export, import, report, support
-scrib-, -script- to write describe, description, prescribe, prescription, subscribe, subscription, transcribe, transcription
-tract- to pull, drag, draw attract, contract, detract, extract, protract, retract, traction
-vert- to turn convert, divert, invert, revert
Latin Roots
Latin root Basic meaning Example words
-dict- to say contradict, dictate, diction, edict, predict
-duc- to lead, bring, take deduce, produce, reduce
-gress- to walk digress, progress, transgress
-ject- to throw eject, inject, interject, project, reject, subject
-pel- to drive compel, dispel, impel, repel
-pend- to hang append, depend, impend, pendant, pendulum
-port- to carry comport, deport, export, import, report, support
-scrib-, -script- to write describe, description, prescribe, prescription, subscribe, subscription, transcribe, transcription
-tract- to pull, drag, draw attract, contract, detract, extract, protract, retract, traction
-vert- to turn convert, divert, invert, revert
One benefit of studying Latin roots is that it will increase your vocabulary. You will be able to parse together a word’s meaning through Latin. This is extremely useful for exams that assess your vocabulary.
Benefits of Latin Roots
Learning roots younger and younger will allow students and individuals to understand more complex words easier. Most roots have 100 words (if not more) utilizing it.
A root word is a basic word with no prefix or suffix added to it.
A suffix is a group of letters that is added at the end of a base word.
A prefix is a group of letters that comes at the stating of a root word.
Below are some of the most popular roots, suffixes, and prefixes. This is by NO means all of them. If you are interested in a longer list, I would recommend a post I did seven years ago.
“Karl Polanyi talks about the invention of ‘fictitious commodities’, in particular, land and labour. He discusses how there are damaging environmental and human consequences to the spread of market forces so, as labour gets transformed into a commodity, more and more members of society are subject to the dictates and vagaries of the labour market and there’s more and more social dislocation and misery and penury that results from the spread of market forces. That was the story of The Great Transformation in the advanced economies and today, if we look around the world, there are similar transformations going on within the emerging economies of the BRICs.”
Says Ben: “He unearths the formation and maturation of a set of market institutions which accompany the development and spread of market exchange and brought into being the regulative state activity over markets. These were necessary features of the entrenching of the market system as a mechanism for sustaining whole societies. That, in essence, is The Great Transformation he’s talking about.
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Ford expects adjusted EBIT of $7 billion to $8.5 billion in 2025. It’s also forecasting that Model e will lose another $5 to $5.5 billion this year.
Its guidance is slightly lower than expected, given the potential impact of Trump’s imposing tariffs on Canada, Europe, and Mexico.
On the earnings call with investors, Farley said a 25% tariff on imports from Mexico and Canada would have massive impacts, creating billions in losses, but it will continue working with government leaders on a solution.
Ford’s stock fell over 5% on Wednesday’s post-market trading following the report and the potential impact of tariffs.
Ford said the higher EV losses were due to pricing pressure, with volume and revenue falling 9% and 35%, respectively. Ford’s aging F-150 Lightning and Mustang Mach-E are facing an influx of new rivals in the US, such as the Tesla Cybertruck and Chevy Equinox EV.
Farley explained that “In 2025, we expect to make significantly more progress on our two biggest areas of opportunity – quality and cost” as it looks to improve profitability.
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Financial breakdown
Ford beat Q4 expectations, posting $48.2 billion in revenue, up $2.2 billion year-over-year (YOY). Ford generated $185 billion in revenue for the entire year, its highest ever.
Q4 2024 Revenue: $48.2 billion vs $43 billion expected.
Q4 2024 Adjusted EPS: $0.39 vs $0.33 expected.
The company reported an adjusted EBIT of $2.1 billion in the quarter, up 103% from Q4 2023. Ford’s Blue and Pro units generated $1.6 billion, while its Model e unit lost another $1.4 billion.
Ford reported an adjusted EBIT of $9 billion for its Pro business for the full year and $5.3 billion for Ford Blue. Its Model e EV business lost $5.1 billion last year. In the fourth quarter, Ford lost about $37,000 on every electric vehicle it sold.
Patel, growing increasingly desperate, contacted the exchange in June 2021 and insisted he owed nothing to the U.S. government.
However, investigators had already taken steps to seize the assets, working with authorities in the U.K. to ensure the stash remained frozen.
Instead, he misled the court, claiming his finances were limited to $30,000 in retirement savings, when in reality, he was sitting on a Bitcoin fortune.
Patel moved the funds across crypto exchanges in an attempt to keep them beyond the government’s reach.
First, he funneled the Bitcoin into Binance, but the platform flagged and shut down his account in April 2021, citing compliance violations.
Patel then shifted the stash to an offshore exchange using an account in his father’s name and linked it to a Belize-based address used for Payza. That exchange also froze the funds, recognizing the transaction as suspicious.
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The Great Transformation examines the social and political changes that took place in England during the rise of the market economy. One of the primary conclusions Karl Polanyi makes, and something that differentiates him from Keynes and Hayek, is that the nation state and the newly formed market economy are not separate entities but are one object of human invention which he refers to as ‘the market society’. For Polanyi, this meant that any philosophy which sided with either market or state as the solution to our economic problems – for example, neo-liberalism on one hand or state socialism on the other – was likely to be simplistic.
Karl Polanyi narrates the historical development of the market society in The Great Transformation.
Oddly, it was the patricians (Sulla and Caesar) who paved the way for the destruction of the Republic. Using their patrician titles as a basis for moral authority, they put power above tradition by introducing the new element of military authority. Control of the army would trump status and class to drive the Republic toward an empire.
In this emotional meeting, Pete Alonso confronts the New York Mets and Steve Cohen, asking the burning question, "What did I do wrong?" Tensions rise as Pete opens up about his frustrations, confusion, and desire for clarity with the team. Watch as the situation unfolds, revealing the raw emotions behind a key moment in Pete's career. Will the Mets and Alonso find common ground or is this the beginning of a major turning point? Don't miss this exclusive look inside one of baseball's most intense moments!
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The great sociologist Max Weber used three social categories to describe man’s place in society -- status, class, and the power which flows for from them. Furthermore he described three types of class division: propertied, commercial, and social. A propertied class, as you can imagine, is defined solely by ownership of property. A commercial class is defined by one’s success in business as driven by markets. A social class is one with one with mobility that allows the individual free movement upward.
Over the next hundred and sixty years, the class struggle was focused on the people’s right to office and their right to make laws. The magistracies in the Republic included tribunes, aediles (managers of public property), questors (treasurers), praetors (judges), censors, and consuls (senior magistrates), and, one by one, these were opened up to the common people. In 367 B.C, one consul was designated for a candidate from the lower class, with censor in 339 B.C and the praetor in 337 following. The watershed event on the legislative side was the passage of Lex Hortensia in 287 B.C. which granted the Concilium Plebis (people’s assembly) the right to pass laws binding on both patricians and plebeians. At last the plebs had reached something close to political parity with the upper class.
The emperor Caligula opposed the reading of The Odyssey, written more than 300 years before. He thought the epic poem was dangerous because it expressed Greek ideals of freedom.
Under the emperor Diocletian, the texts of the followers of Mani, the Manichaeans, were ordered to be burned as well as their leaders.
Conclusion
Well, I hope that I have given you some things to ponder and think about in regards to Libraries and Banned Books. Looking forward to your comments and thoughts in the comments.
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People ban books that they believe are unfit for consumption due to themes, plots, ideas that are opposite of what their ideals are. Often time, in modern-day, books for children and teens are challenged and banned because parents, teachers, or other adults feel topics are too mature for their age. There are, of course, other reasons that are a bit more political which are similar to ancient Roman reasons:
In 8 CE, Augustus sent the poet Ovid to exile and removed his unsavory Ars Amatoria (“The Art of Love”) from public libraries. This banning and exile occurred because Augustus’ reign was centered around the morales of the Roman family; while the Ars Amatoria was a bit more risque about love and romance than emphasizing the Roman family. Ovid died in exile in Greece eight years later.
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This has just been a season of giant L's for the New York Giants. The Giants blew securing the #1 pick in the 2025 draft, Micah Parsons revealed that he always seeks to punish the Giants because they lied to him going into the draft, Eli Manning doesn't get into the HOF on his first try, Jayden Daniels is with the Commanders and had the greatest rookie season of all-time, Xavier McKinney was 2nd in the NFL in interceptions for the Packers, and Saquon Barkley is playing in the Superbowl for the Eagles.
Barkley winning the Superbowl and being named Superbowl MVP just seems inevitable at this point.
Boomer & Gio, dive deep into the NFL Honors and MVP voting controversy, particularly focusing on Lamar Jackson's omission in favor of Josh Allen. They discuss the inconsistencies between the All-Pro and MVP selections, with Boomer reflecting on his years as an AP All-Pro voter. They also touch on the Hall of Fame debates, with a particular spotlight on Eli Manning's first-ballot snub and the potential future of other NFL legends. A passionate discussion about great players, voting anomalies, and the legacy of stars like Eli Manning and Antonio Gates.
Roman libraries came to be the place where an author first released their work to the public, reading out loud to a small audience. I think back to a famous scene from I, Claudius where Claudius debuts his History of Carthage, I believe.
As with other elements of their culture, the Romans spread the idea of public libraries across their empire with famous ones being established at Ephesos (the Library of Celsus) Athens (the Library of Hadrian), and Herculaneum (Villa of the Papyri).
Ancient Roman Libraries
The benefit of public libraries allows citizens (perhaps even non-citizens) to enrich and ameliorate their life and position (in life) through free resources. For a society, community, or civilization to truly thrive – all persons should have the ability to thrive. The first public Library, The Library of Ashurbanipal, was established in the seventh century BCE in Assyria.
Rome’s public libraries did not open until the late first century BCE. During the reign of Augustus, the Temple of Apollo, the Atrium of Liberty and the Porticus of Octavia served as public libraries in Rome. However, the emperor still maintained control over the libraries’ contents.
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In Norway, where I live, electric cars accounted for 89% of new car sales in 2024. I have two EVs, a Volvo C40 leased car 2022 mod, and a Nissan Leaf from 2014. This Nissan car is the best car I've ever had and it's in daily use, almost done 200000 km. It was a very popular model ten years ago. But since then, Nissan has not been active in the development of electric cars, and others have taken over. It may seem that they have acted like Kodak, avoided developing future technology because it threatens their core business.
SUPERSTITION AND MAGIC
It is important to remember that magic and superstition were part of daily Roman life.
Because of this annual exorcism of the noxious spirits of the dead, the whole month of May was rendered unlucky for marriages, whence the proverb Mense Maio malae nubunt or”Bad girls wed in May”.
Temples were closed and marriages were prohibited during the three days of the Lemuralia. On the third day, a merchants’ festival was held to ensure a prosperous year for business.
THE RITES
Ovid notes that at this festival it was the custom to appease or expel the evil spirits by walking barefoot and throwing black beans over the shoulder at night. Other accounts mention the beans being spit out of the mouth. The beans were symbols of offering so – the shoulder makes more sense.
It is important to remember that this festival was private and domestic rather than civic or public.
So, it was the head of the household (which may vary depending on the household) who was responsible for getting up at night and walking around the house throwing black beans and repeating the following incantation nine times.
“I send these; with these beans, I redeem me and mine”
Haec ego mitto; his redimo meque meosque fabis
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From the very beginning of the Republic, there was a conflict of classes - patrician against plebeian. As early as the 490s B.C, the plebs called a general strike to demand additional rights. The granting of these rights was stretched out over two hundred years by a reluctant Senate, although the slow pace helped keep the Republic stable over that period.
Early protests led to the creation of the tribunate in 494 B.C. (Lex Sacrata) -- the first magistracy representing the common people. Ten tribunes were elected for the term of one year with the right to physically and legally protect the plebs from harm caused by the upper class. The next important concession dealt with the publishing of laws, which had been previously kept secret by the upper class. In 449 B.C, the Twelve Tablets were displayed in the Forum as the first published list of rights that applied to all the Roman people.
LEMURIA
The Lemuria (sometimes seen as Lemuralia) was a feast in Ancient Rome in which Romans performed rites to banish ghosts from their home. This festival dates back to the 6th-century B.C.E until about the 3rd century C.E.
THE DATES
Lemuria was held on May 9, 11, and 13. In ancient Rome, where even-numbered days were considered unlucky – this festival of the dead was held on odd-numbered days.
THE ORIGIN
The term lemures or larvae is associated with the notion of unwholesome specters of the restless dead. However, according to Ovid, the term Lemuria is a derivative from Remuria relating to Remus. Ovid in Fasti says this particular rite was established by Romulus to appease the spirit of this brother, Remus, whom he had killed.
Beneath the political system, an informal system of patrons and clients operated as a shadow class. Patrons protected the interests of their clients, while the clients did favors for their patrons. Favors varied: run a business, organize a group for a specific purpose, or assault a person who had offended the patron were typical examples. Clients were compensated with money or helped with their careers and those plebs who were highly motivated could become wealthy with the help of their patron. Patrons benefitted from the relationship by expanding their authority through the recruitment of new clients who would be loyal to them. This system worked because it benefited both sides and helped appease the interests of those who sought upward mobility. As time went on, a middle class was built by the work of plebeians who became successful at business - merchants, manufacturers, shippers, money lenders, etc.
The powers of the king were now divided among three men: two consuls and the Pontifex Maximus. The consuls served as chief magistrates of the Republic and served in office for one year. Each had veto rights over the other to prevent a dangerous accumulation of power. The Pontifex was the religious leader, tasked with predicting the future and making sure the gods were appeased at all times.
During the first hundred years of Rome, a status structure evolved into a class structure and then a political system. Those patricians with money or influence rose to the top -- one of them became king, while the others acted as advisors through their membership in the Senate. The latter numbered three hundred, one third from each of the three original tribes. The city was divided into voting districts called curia and citizens from these districts were allowed to participate in an assembly, which could pass legislation and elect magistrates. This structure was controlled by the monarchy for about two centuries until 509 B.C, when the king was overthrown and Rome became a Republic.
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Varus: Varus means “bent outwards, bow-legged” in Latin, a cognomen to describe persons with the anatomical deformity that bent their legs outwards like bows.
Diana: Diana is the goddess’ Roma name for the Greek Artemis. Goddess of the hunt and moon.
Pantheon: the name of the famous building located in Rome. The place was once the center of the city, to make offerings to the Gods.
Vi: While her name is actually Violet, her nickname Vi and a corresponding tattoo of VI relate back to her days in prison as inmate 516. V is Roman Numeral 5 and I is Roman Numeral 1 and together – VI they are 6.
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At its beginning, Rome was a group of egalitarian tribes living in proximity to each other on the hills surrounding a swamp that would become the Forum. Over time, the population grew steadily as new groups became affiliated, but the three original tribes, Ramnes, Tities, and Luceres, stood out as leaders and assumed a position of power over the other groups. They called themselves patricians and gave the name plebian to the other tribes made up of “common” people.
In Q4 2024, Ford is expected to report total company revenue of around $43 billion, down from $44 billion a year ago and $46.2 billion in the third quarter. The company is forecasted to post an adjusted EPS of around $0.33.
Investors will be closely watching Ford’s path to EV profitability and the potential impact of tariffs. Last month, Ford’s US sales fell 6%, while EV sales were up 21%.
In Q4 2024, Ford is expected to report total company revenue of around $43 billion, down from $44 billion a year ago and $46.2 billion in the third quarter. The company is forecasted to post an adjusted EPS of around $0.33.
Investors will be closely watching Ford’s path to EV profitability and the potential impact of tariffs. Last month, Ford’s US sales fell 6%, while EV sales were up 21%.
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The 2021 animated series is set in the past relative to the League of Legends universe and serves as a prequel to the game and retells the origin stories of several characters from Piltover and Zaun. I don’t want to give away anything so I recommend checking out the official trailer.
League of Legends
So, what is League of Legends? League of Legends is a competitive, fast-paced action-strategy game in which you play a “character” or champion in a team of 5 to defeat another team of 5 by destroying their base’s nexus before they destroy theirs. I am a visual learner – so I would recommend checking out their official video.
Mistral releases its AI assistant on iOS and Android
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Czech president signs law exempting capital gains taxes on crypto held for three years
The Czech Republic has exempted crypto holdings from capital gains if held for more than 3 years, with retroactive application to assets purchased before 2025. The tax reform aligns with the European Union's Markets in Crypto Assets (MiCA) framework, which has generally been seen as controversial, though the country has been routinely introducing crypto-friendly initiatives. The National Bank previously proposed to allocate 5% of its €140 billion reserves to Bitcoin.
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Law firm demands Pump.fun remove over 200 memecoins using its IP
Pump.fun, a Solana-based meme coin platform, has been served a cease and desist letter by Burwick Law and Wolf Popper LLP for allegedly facilitating the creation of over 200 tokens that infringe upon their intellectual property. The law firms demand the immediate removal of these unauthorized tokens, citing concerns over investor deception and market manipulation
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Introducing Agent Wallets
Crossmint has introduced Agent Wallets, a non-custodial wallet solution designed for AI agent providers and launchpads that enables autonomous on-chain interactions while ensuring regulatory compliance. Each wallet uses two separate keys, one for the owner and one for the agent, secured through trusted execution environments (TEEs), removing custody risks for providers.
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Introducing Ondo Chain: The Omnichain Network for RWAs
Ondo Chain is a new L1 blockchain designed to support institutional real-world asset (RWA) tokenization that bridges the gap between TradFi and DeFi. The chain addresses DeFi incompatibility, cross-chain liquidity fragmentation, high transaction fees, and institutional regulatory concerns. Ultimately, the Ondo Finance team hopes to enable seamless cross-chain asset issuance, institutional participation, and scalable financial applications.
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Our Solana Price Target by the End of 2025 is $520
VanEck predicts Solana (SOL) will hit $520 by the end of 2025, based on its projected market share growth within the smart contract platform (SCP) market. Its analysis ties SCP market cap growth to U.S. M2 money supply trends, forecasting a 43% increase to $1.1T, with Solana's share rising to 22%, leading to a ~$250B valuation.
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Difficulties around Base success
Base seems to be having issues with declining Virtuals revenue, a lack of Coinbase support for key projects, and teams migrating to other chains like Solana because of better UX and more liquidity. While Base has the potential to onboard millions, its marketing strategy (not degen enough) and engagement with the crypto community may hinder its ability to compete effectively with Solana.
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Coinbase lists memecon futures
Coinbase International Exchange has announced the listing of perpetual futures contracts for Pudgy Penguins (PENGU), Popcat (POPCAT), and Helium (HNT).
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Berachain L1 controversy
Berachain is another VC-driven L1 fork with excessive insider allocations, perpetual inflation via BGT conversions, and unsustainable tokenomics that could lead to long-term decline.
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Kite AI to Launch the First Avalanche L1 Artificial Intelligence Platform
Kite AI is launching the first AI-focused L1 on Avalanche, using its scalable infrastructure to support decentralized AI development through its Proof of Attributed Intelligence (PoAI) consensus mechanism.
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ChatGPT Co-Creator John Schulman Leaves Anthropic After 5 Months
John Schulman, one of the brains behind ChatGPT, just left Anthropic after a short five-month stint. He was a co-founder of OpenAI and played a huge role in shaping AI as we know it. His exit raises big questions about what’s happening behind the scenes at Anthropic. Is it strategy shifts, internal tensions, or just a new opportunity? Either way, it’s a big shake-up in the AI world.
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Lyft’s AI Upgrade: Faster Help, Smoother Rides
Lyft just teamed up with Anthropic to bring Claude-powered AI into the mix. The result? Customer service that’s 87% faster—think minutes instead of hours. AI is also fine-tuning ride experiences behind the scenes, making everything run smoother. It’s not just chatbots; it’s a full-on AI-driven upgrade to how Lyft operates.
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$5.6M AI Breakthrough Shakes the Market
DeepSeek's AI model for $5.6M has rattled the US tech scene, affecting Nvidia’s valuation and sparking doubts about massive AI spending from giants like Meta and Microsoft. But despite the noise, companies like OpenAI are still all-in on big investments, with Stargate and a free ChatGPT version on the horizon. The stakes are high, and the game-changing tech is here to stay.
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Kyutai Drops Game-Changing Audio Translation Tech
Kyutai just unveiled a next-level audio system that can translate in real-time—no more waiting for subtitles. Using a multi-stream transformer, it turns audio into audio, offering seamless translation with a voice that feels incredibly lifelike. Imagine listening to a conversation in one language, and hearing it instantly in another, with tone and emotion intact. It's like having a personal translator who’s always in your ear.
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Unlocking the Future of Parallel Computing
Did you know your computer's hardware might be holding back the power of parallel processing? A recent article dives into Interaction Nets, a computational model where calculations are represented as graph nodes. While traditional hardware struggles with this, the idea of custom-built machines could make these systems more efficient, especially for optimization and graph-based problems. This could be a game-changer for tasks that demand non-homogeneous parallelism.
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DeepSeek-VL2's Game-Changing Models Are Here
DeepSeek-VL2 just dropped a fresh set of Vision-Language models packed with up to 4.5 billion activated parameters. These bad boys shine in tasks like OCR, visual grounding, and chart understanding. Think of them like a supercharged brain that sees images and understands text at the same time—taking multitasking to the next level. This could totally change how we interact with data and visuals.
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The Energy Battle in AI: What's Next?
AI model training, like with GPT-3, uses a ton of energy—think of it like powering a small city. But there's hope. Researchers are exploring alternatives like neuromorphic and optical computing to cut down on that massive energy drain. Plus, smaller, fine-tuned models are starting to show they can do a lot while using less power. This could be a game-changer for both the planet and AI’s future.
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AI's New Roadblock: Nepenthes Strikes Back
Nepenthes, created by developer Aaron, is a malicious AI tarpit designed to confuse bots that ignore robots.txt. Inspired by anti-spam methods, it floods AI crawlers with nonsense, raising operational costs for companies relying on bot data. Only OpenAI's systems have reportedly avoided it. Though some question its effectiveness, Nepenthes is a symbol of resistance against unregulated AI scraping, prompting the creation of other tools like Iocaine to defend online content.
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