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Skip to contentDennis LibreBashBlogrollProjectsQuotesAbout meIs an unknown, extraordinarily ancient civilisation buried under eastern Turkey?Taken together with its age, complexity, sophistication, and its deep, resonant mysteriousness, and its many sister sites now being unearthed across the Harran Plains – collectively known as the Tas Tepeler, or the ‘stone hills’ – these carved, ochre-red rocks, so silent, brooding, and watchful in the hard whirring breezes of the semi-desert, constitute what might just be the greatest archaeological revelation in the history of humankind.The SpectatorAttorney client privilege in the metaverseMany immersive metaverses have public digital spaces, accessible to anyone on the platform. Avoid confidential communications in these public digital spaces and opt for a password or token-protected private space.LexDAOThe ‘E-Pimps’ of OnlyFansSpend enough time on social media, and you’ll encounter young people engaged in all sorts of schemes: running drop-shipping companies, minting NFTs, pumping crypto, selling real estate in the metaverse. Many are based in Miami. It’s a place where young marketing types have embraced a vision of what the internet is actually for that is at odds with Silicon Valley’s: less a utopian escape from reality than an infinite expansion of its strip malls.NYTHow a Trash-Talking Crypto Founder Caused a $40 Billion CrashPantera Capital, a hedge fund that invested in Mr. Kwon’s efforts, made a profit of about 100 times its initial investment, after selling roughly 80 percent of its holdings of Luna over the last year, said Paul Veradittakit, an investor at the firm.Pantera turned $1.7 million into around $170 million. The recent crash was “unfortunate,” Mr. Veradittakit said. “A lot of retail investors have lost money. I’m sure a lot of institutional investors have, too.”NYT‘It’s dangerous to everyone,’ Rockford residents worry about ATVs on city streetsIllegal ATVs and dirt bikes continue to plague Rockford streets, sending residents and officials into a tailspin about how to stop them.Rockford Register StarA Subway Shooting That New York City OverlookedDuring the past two decades, swiping has become a common hustle across the subway system. Swipers, often young men, stand near turnstiles offering MetroCard swipes for two dollars cash—a discount from the official $2.75 fare. Many swipers operate by buying unlimited-ride MetroCards and then trying to sell enough two-buck swipes to surpass the initial capital outlay. Swiping can be a relatively sturdy trade underground.New YorkerUkraine travel logSome people speculated that after the war ends, the US and NATO will dump billions of dollars into the Ukrainian economy for a new Marshall Plan. A smart man might just have the idea to go to an up-and-coming city like Dnipro, or a sunny sea-side resort like Odessa, and buy up all of this newly cheap real estate…mattlakeman.orgHofstadter’s Paranoid Style RevisitedIf he were still alive, Hofstadter probably wouldn’t be surprised to find that what he called “the paranoid style” is back. He wrote his essay about this phenomenon shortly after Senator Joseph McCarthy’s lurid press conferences and demagogic congressional hearings about a supposedly vast communist conspiracy riveted and repulsed the nation. But Hofstadter argued that McCarthyism was simply the latest iteration of a longstanding American tradition. Over and over again, he observed, America had become an arena for “uncommonly angry minds” on the Right and the Left, who imagined that a diabolical conspiracy was on the verge of destroying the nation. What he described was more like a state of mind—one of “heated exaggeration, suspiciousness, and conspiratorial fantasy”—than an ideology or movement. One can be uncommonly angry and paranoid at any point on the political spectrum.QuilletteRepublicans Need a New Leader. They’re Looking to Florida.Indeed, any movement conservative sealed in a time capsule circa 1984 and emerging today would recognize Mr. DeSantis as a more or less standard Sunbelt Republican — a fiscal conservative wooing people and businesses to his state based on a favorable economic climate who is also anti-elitist, socially conservative and eager to reform public schools.None of this is new. What stands out as a true departure is Mr. DeSantis’s willingness to use government power in the culture war.NYT Op-Ed. By Rich Lowry. Mr. Lowry is the editor in chief of National Review.Astronomers reveal first image of the black hole at the heart of our galaxyEvent Horizon TelescopeThis is absolutely incredible. Humankind can accomplish unbelievable things.123…484950»NextCopyright 2022 © Dennis Libre - All Rights Reserved.Code is Poetry | Proudly Powered by WordPress!