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Now that the Chinese government has cracked down on Bitcoin mining, the hash rate is about 25% it was just 2 months ago.

blockchain.com/charts/hash-rat

A Never-Before-Seen Type of Signal Has Been Detected in The Human Brain

Scientists have discovered a unique form of cell messaging occurring in the human brain that's not been seen before. Excitingly, the discovery hints that our brains might be even more powerful units of computation than we realized.

sciencealert.com/a-never-befor

@kravietz @piotrsikora bo oni sobie wybierają tylko te dane które potwierdzają z góry założoną tezę a nie próbują toczyć dyskusji o wadach/zaletach różnych źródeł energii. Każde z alternatywnych źródeł energii ma swoje mocne i słabe strony. Trzeba się pochylić i zastanowić które są wykluczające a które wymagają odpowiedniego podejścia/wybrania prawidłowych rozwiązań (np. elektrownie atomowe to nie monolit technologiczny, są różne rozwiązania tutaj do wyboru).

Polish "Christian" and "conservative" media talking about "schools in a number of Western countries teach children that Jesus Christ was bisexual" in 3... 2... 1...

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Russian minister of foreign affairs Sergey Lavrov just claimed, that "schools in a number of Western countries teach children that Jesus Christ was bisexual".

Russian journalists identified the likely source of Lavrov's bizarre claim to be a single TikTok (!) video recorded by a mom in Australia where her children (!) talk that Jesus must have been bisexual because he was wearing a gown (!).

itsmycity.ru/2021-06-28/lavrov

This 2020 publication looks at some of the past proposals, including proquint, for word-based encoding of long cryptographic keys and hashes.

cambridgeclarion.org/14.html

As in:

67B4 007A FFFD = walnut barley onion lizard fifty friday

We see a lot of similar schemes in the cryptocurrency walled, where they mostly originate from Bitcoin BIP-39 standard:

en.bitcoin.it/wiki/BIP_0039

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There has been quite a lot of interesting developments in the world of unambiguous representation of data - mostly all kinds of addresses of network services.

We have URIs

ssh://user@example.com:22/

We have multiformats

/dns4/example.com/tcp/22/

This one - proquint, (2009) stands out, as it proposes a high-density data encoding for long numbers such as credit card numbers, memory or IP addresses:

127.0.0.1 lusab-babad
63.84.220.193 gutih-tugad

arxiv.org/html/0901.4016

Just found a Lithuanian-Russian-Ukrainian grocery store in Reading, and now indulging salo (сало, pork fatback), Lietuviškas (curd cheese), Korean carrot and various forms of smoked squid which I've never tried before 😍

Emojis are a trick made by non-English speaking people in order to make Americans use Unicode.

🇵🇱 Ważny wyrok w sprawie katastrofy w Smoleńsku w 2010 roku - bezpośrednio oskarżeni w tym konkretnym procesie byli urzędnicy Kancelarii Premiera, ale sąd przeanalizował działanie wszystkich organów zaangażowanych w organizację lotu i - co było wiadomo od początku - podkreślił, że *wszystkie* cztery instytucje (Kancelarie Prezydenta, KPRM, BOR, 36. Pułk) kolejno rażąco naruszyły przepisy i wewnętrzne procedury, których celem było zapobieżenie takim właśnie wypadkom. 🛬

polsatnews.pl/wiadomosc/2021-0

“Banning Surveillance-Based Advertising - Schneier on Security”

Interesting report from the Norwegians. schneier.com/blog/archives/202

Cryptocurrency "investors" are fucking locust - first they skyrocketed GPU card prices, then ASIC, then HDD, now market for anything related to - IP67 cases, antennas, decoders - is inflated and in shortages because there's yet another fucking "cryptocurrency" (Helium) decided to base their parasitic pseudo-LoRa network on LoRa hardware and everyone is now in hysterical "BUY EVERYTHING LORA" mode 🤦‍♂️

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