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- Inside the SEC's tangled legal battle with LSU and Lane Kiffin.

- How SpaceX streamlined the raptor engine.

- Can you hear us now? 

- Defending against massed drone attacks.

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- Kevin Kelly: Argument in favor of AI Fair Use. I'm OK with this in the abstract but in the real world it could be used for outright stealing. Is it fair use to change just a word in a joke or a tweet?

- From the archives: Montaigne's rule for reading.

- Why the AfD wins. Good history and background on the popularity of the AfD. (HT Execupundit)

- This is cool. So nice of the cartels to give us target practice.

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- AI will lead to more jobs not fewer.

- Our schools need freedom of expression. Agree - but also feel students should have to pass a US citizenship test to get a degree. They are still citizens but they don't get that degree unless they pass the test.

- Calm yourself on drones for a minute.

- Kevin Kelly: Latent Space as a New Medium.

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- Bollocks to the Iranian engineers: Shahed drone is German-American.

- Jonathan Turley: Law professor suggests extreme method to save Virginia redistricting map.

- Let's end the American cultural revolution with some candor. At long last have they no shame?

- The shadow cabinet of Soros.

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- Now I have a new thing to worry about.

- From the archives: Paul Graham on how people get rich now.

- Interesting theory. If true I'd like to see some charges.

- Base defense: how many more warning?

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- How the Saab-32 fighter sent a big message to the F-35. When it comes to having supply chain independence or long range strike capability - it's hard to argue they're wrong.

- Interesting point by Douglas Murray and clarification by Powerline. But let's not lose fact of the real point that illegal immigration is being used as a weapon.

- Jonathan Turley on Amy Klobuchar's embarrassing demonstration of confirmation bias.

- Interesting - defibrillator drones? I like this idea.

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- Why a Value Added Tax is the wrong fit for the US. I tend to agree.

- The X-Bat looks pretty cool.

- President Trump's tariffs vs the Supreme Court's duties. Think that tariffs are part of trade deals with foreign nations and are reciprocal are the key. The Constitution only gives the President power to negotiate foreign agreements. Plus the exploding national debt can be termed an emergency. 

- 'People are tired:' Democrats splinter as shutdown nears record. Don't think they thought through the optics of not wanting to reopen the government because Senators may not want to work through the Christmas holidays. 

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- Why we need the Office of Crisis Identification now more than ever.

- From the archives: Karl Popper and the line between science and pseudoscience.

- The effectual truth about AI chatbot. (HT Steve Layman)

- Have drones made traditional warfare obsolete? The US Civil War provided lessons to European nations about the birth of trench warfare and the astronomical number of killed and wounded in battle modern warfare inflicts but they did not learn - so we got WW I. Are nations likewise dismissing lessons being taught in the Ukraine war? 

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- VDH on Trump's Inaugural Address.

- From the archives: Mystic chords of memory - learning from the American story. I'm glad I revisited this.

- Austin Vernon: Imagining the drone Air Force. I keep thinking of the damage a drone A-10 Warthog could bring. Long but worthwhile article.

- A proposed $500 billion AI investment by all the big tech names in the field.

Some Memes You Many Enjoy

Many a truth is said in jest.

- College football is back!

- Analysis true!

- I want this painting

- I'm an awful person for laughing at this.

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- Pixels: free photos

- This seems like a cool product.

- Good for the VA

- The F-35 and the Gods of Copybook Headings. The more you learn about the F-35 the more I like the A-10 Warthog and hope they keep making those.

Skeyetech

 

Now available in the US. Many applications for this drone.

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- Perspective - the history (and scope) on pandemics through the ages

- Military wants to replace the Reaper drone. It went from the Predator drone to the Reaper drone but if the next drone is named the Terminator drone then I might be a bit queasy.

- Heh Heh

- The dirty secret of coaxial cable broadband

- I've said it before - Randy Quaid is a guilty pleasure

- Wait - Franz Kafka was a workout nut? Who knew?

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- Good recap of the defensive scheme the Celtics used to dismantle the Cavs yesterday.  Look for Cleveland to try to make adjustments to their offense to counter. Also look for Brad Stevens to be ready for it.

- Frank Sinatra died 20-years ago today. That's meaningful for some but many don't even know who Sinatra was at this point. In 20 more years he'll be all but forgotten. 100-years ago Al Jolson was the most famous person in America and called "the world's greatest entertainer". How many people do you think remember Jolson today? Carpe diem!

- Got to admit Trump is winning me over.

- EU statement opposing US Embassy move to Jerusalem blocked by "New Europe" coalition. The US Embassy is opening today.

- 10 US commercial drone services given green light

- RIP coach Chuck Knox

- Heh Heh

Driverless Cars

Attacks on driverless cars is going to be a big issue in the very near future. For example I can see throwing snowballs at driverless cars becoming a big thing in the Northeast by bored or mischievous kids. Growing up we used to throw snowballs at buses because we knew the driver was prohibited from stopping (plus buses were a BIG target). Driverless cars will be similarly targeted.

I can also see scam artists waiting in crosswalks till the last moment to try and purposely get hit by driverless cars in the hopes of a big payday. Lots of ways to mess with driverless cars will be invented with very little sympathy for the autonomous victims.

And have we stopped saying autonomous vehicles and are now referring to driverless cars? How about "sedan drones"?

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- One of the best boxing comebacks of all-time.

- Good for him! Two decades later Marcus Camby gets his degree

- Who knew Scotland could be so colorful?

- Troublesome facts

- Cool but how would it fare against a fire hose?

- Samuel Whittemore the original American badass

- Good question - why don't we just throw garbage into active volcanoes?

- Racist fan at Fenway finally identified