"The Thing, also known as the Great Seal bug, was one of the first covert listening devices (or "bugs") to use passive techniques to transmit an audio signal. It was concealed inside a gift given by the Soviet Union to W. Averell Harriman, the United States Ambassador to the Soviet Union, on August 4, 1945. Because it was passive, needing electromagnetic energy from an outside source to become energized and active, it is considered a predecessor of radio-frequency identification (RFID) technology.[1][2]
"The Thing consisted of a tiny capacitive membrane connected to a small quarter-wavelength antenna; it had no power supply or active electronic components. The device, a passive cavity resonator, became active only when a radio signal of the correct frequency was sent to the device from an external transmitter. This is referred to in National Security Agency (NSA) parlance as "illuminating" a passive device. Sound waves (from voices inside the ambassador's office) passed through the thin wood case, striking the membrane and causing it to vibrate. The movement of the membrane varied the capacitance "seen" by the antenna, which in turn modulated the radio waves that struck and were re-transmitted by The Thing. A receiver demodulated the signal so that sound picked up by the microphone could be heard, just as an ordinary radio receiver demodulates radio signals and outputs sound.
"Its design made the listening device very difficult to detect, because it was very small, had no power supply or active electronic components, and did not radiate any signal unless it was actively being irradiated remotely. These same design features, along with the overall simplicity of the device, made it very reliable and gave it a potentially unlimited operational life."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thing_(listening_device)
"The Thing consisted of a tiny capacitive membrane connected to a small quarter-wavelength antenna; it had no power supply or active electronic components. The device, a passive cavity resonator, became active only when a radio signal of the correct frequency was sent to the device from an external transmitter. This is referred to in National Security Agency (NSA) parlance as "illuminating" a passive device. Sound waves (from voices inside the ambassador's office) passed through the thin wood case, striking the membrane and causing it to vibrate. The movement of the membrane varied the capacitance "seen" by the antenna, which in turn modulated the radio waves that struck and were re-transmitted by The Thing. A receiver demodulated the signal so that sound picked up by the microphone could be heard, just as an ordinary radio receiver demodulates radio signals and outputs sound.
"Its design made the listening device very difficult to detect, because it was very small, had no power supply or active electronic components, and did not radiate any signal unless it was actively being irradiated remotely. These same design features, along with the overall simplicity of the device, made it very reliable and gave it a potentially unlimited operational life."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thing_(listening_device)
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The Thing (listening device)
Audio bug formerly hidden in Moscow US embassy
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"The trajectory of popular media since the 1990s has greatly favored the portrayal of the weak, scorned, and ultimately disposable fathers of Mrs. Doubtfire than the flawed, but daring warrior shepherds of Hook, and we are worse off because of it. Where Mrs. Doubtfire heralded the temporary triumph of the longhouse, Hook is an intriguing sign post on an alternate path to a world that might have been. And so I heartily recommend watching it with your kids for Fatherโs Day."
https://open.substack.com/pub/attentionspanlabs/p/and-wherever-children-read-it-will?r=lp6h7&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web
https://open.substack.com/pub/attentionspanlabs/p/and-wherever-children-read-it-will?r=lp6h7&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web
Substack
And wherever children read, it will say: "Thus perished Peter Pan."
A juxtaposition of two Robin Williams movies for Father's Day
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An 1829 article in Nilesโ Weekly Register reported that the Rothschild family was attempting to purchase Jerusalem or parts of Palestine from the financially struggling Ottoman Empire. The piece suggested that wealthy jewish financiers could help restore jewish settlement and influence in the region, with some contemporaries even imagining the reestablishment of a jewish homeland centered around Jerusalem.
Nilesโ Weekly Register. (1829, November 28). Jerusalem. In Nilesโ Weekly Register (Vol. 37, p. 214). Kaplan Collection. https://www.kaplancollection.org/item/niles-weekly-register-november-28-1829-4e83e412/
Nilesโ Weekly Register. (1829, November 28). Jerusalem. In Nilesโ Weekly Register (Vol. 37, p. 214). Kaplan Collection. https://www.kaplancollection.org/item/niles-weekly-register-november-28-1829-4e83e412/
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Ibrahim Karagul, is considered an influential ideological ally within Erdogan inner circle: โIf Greece continues to bring Israel to the zero point of our borders;
the โWestern Thrace Turkish Republicโ will be reโestablished!
Furthermore:
The borders in the Aegean Sea will be redrawn.
Anatolia will regain its โnatural bordersโ.
The islands will reunite with the motherland.
We are living in the โcentury of great claims and bold stepsโ.
For a thousand years, great claims and bold steps have come from us.
It will be the same again.
History will once again flow back into its own basin.โ
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The shortage of reservists and professional soldiers is so bad that the Israelis are allegedly ready to pay salaries upwards of $10k monthly for a single mercenary
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Brett Cooper Breaks Down the Trump Time Travel Theory - Charisma Magazine Online
https://mycharisma.com/culture/brett-cooper-breaks-down-the-trump-time-travel-theory/
https://mycharisma.com/culture/brett-cooper-breaks-down-the-trump-time-travel-theory/
Charisma Magazine Online
Brett Cooper Breaks Down the Trump Time Travel Theory
In 1896, a little-known American author named Ingersoll Lockwood published a slim novella about a populist outsider who wins the presidency and sends New York City into chaos. He called it The Last President. One hundred and thirty years later, the internetโฆ
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They Want You Allergic to MeatโAnd They're Not Joking - Beefnews
Western Michigan professors just argued it's morally permissible to let tick bites make you allergic to meatโbecause it might "improve your behavior." This isnโt satire. Itโs bioethics by bioweapon.
No, thatโs not satire. Itโs a peer-reviewed paper published in Bioethics on July 22, 2025, titled:
โBeneficial Bloodsucking: On the Moral Permissibility of Tick-Induced Meat Allergyโ
The authors? Parker Crutchfield and Blake Hereth, both faculty at Western Michigan University
Their claim? That the spread of Alpha-Gal Syndrome (AGS)โa tick-borne allergy to mammalian meatโmight be ethically justifiable, even morally desirable, because it reduces red meat consumption and therefore greenhouse gas emissions.
Their words:
โThe bite of the lone star tick spreads alpha-gal syndrome (AGS), a condition whose only known treatment is the avoidance of all mammalian meat. Thus, they eat less red meat, which is an improvement in their capacity for moral behavior.โ
Western Michigan professors just argued it's morally permissible to let tick bites make you allergic to meatโbecause it might "improve your behavior." This isnโt satire. Itโs bioethics by bioweapon.
No, thatโs not satire. Itโs a peer-reviewed paper published in Bioethics on July 22, 2025, titled:
โBeneficial Bloodsucking: On the Moral Permissibility of Tick-Induced Meat Allergyโ
The authors? Parker Crutchfield and Blake Hereth, both faculty at Western Michigan University
Their claim? That the spread of Alpha-Gal Syndrome (AGS)โa tick-borne allergy to mammalian meatโmight be ethically justifiable, even morally desirable, because it reduces red meat consumption and therefore greenhouse gas emissions.
Their words:
โThe bite of the lone star tick spreads alpha-gal syndrome (AGS), a condition whose only known treatment is the avoidance of all mammalian meat. Thus, they eat less red meat, which is an improvement in their capacity for moral behavior.โ
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They Want You Allergic to MeatโAnd They're Not Joking โ Beef News
Western Michigan professors just argued it's morally permissible to let tick bites make you allergic to meatโbecause it might "improve your behavior." This isnโt satire. Itโs bioethics by bioweapon.
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TIL Schrรถdinger created the Schrรถdingerโs Cat thought experiment to discredit the theory of superposition rather than support it.
https://ift.tt/naJPdxU
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From the todayilearned community on Reddit: TIL Schrรถdinger created the Schrรถdingerโs Cat thought experiment to discredit the theoryโฆ
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Forwarded from Ron Watkins [CodeMonkeyZ]
Tina Peters set to be released after Colorado governor commutes her sentence.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/elections/tina-peters-release-colorado-governor-jared-polis-commutes-sentence-rcna345391
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/elections/tina-peters-release-colorado-governor-jared-polis-commutes-sentence-rcna345391
NBC News
Election denier Tina Peters set for release after Colorado governor commutes sentence
Democratic Gov. Jared Polis had previously called Petersโ nine-year prison sentence โharsh.โ President Donald Trump has repeatedly demanded she be released.
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Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates have reportedly grown angry with Trumpโs son-in-law Jared Kushner, according to Bloomberg.
Why? He took their money but didnโt give them a meaningful say in White House politics.
Classy pay-to-play
๐ธ๐ฆ Saudi Arabia
๐ถ๐ฆ Qatar
๐ฆ๐ช the UAE
๐ธ $6.2 billion in 2025
๐ธ$4.8 billion in 2024
๐ธ$3 billion in 2023
Kushner doesnโt deliver
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"The balance of enriched uranium needed to complete the bomb dropped on Hiroshima was not produced by, or anywhere in, the United States.; it was produced by Nazi Germany. That uranium was delivered secretly to the United States โ as well as infrared fuses that allowed the plutonium bomb dropped on Nagasaki to become operational โ through a top-secret agreement between Nazi Germany and the United States."
https://www.oakridger.com/story/lifestyle/2024/12/13/did-germany-enrich-uranium-during-world-war-ii/76819629007/
https://www.oakridger.com/story/lifestyle/2024/12/13/did-germany-enrich-uranium-during-world-war-ii/76819629007/
Oakridger
Did Germany enrich uranium during World War II?
Oak Ridge historian D. Ray Smith writes about author Carter Hydrick and his book,\
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They are now as big as the SPD, FDP and Green parties together.
๐ Visegrad24
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Ada Lluch, Valentina Gomez, and Eva Vlaardingerbroek are far-right?
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/uks-telegraph-claims-attractive-young-women-are-now-new-face-far-right
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/uks-telegraph-claims-attractive-young-women-are-now-new-face-far-right
ZeroHedge
UK's Telegraph Claims Attractive Young Women Are Now The New Face Of The 'Far-Right'
Legacy media in full meltdown as government bans glamorous activists while ordinary Brits face the consequences of open borders...
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Forwarded from Autism Central
"We had this design four decades ago. What we lacked was imagination in seeing what it was truly capable of.
"Heck, even Israel didnโt.
"Yes, I know: precision navigation etc has advanced in forty years, but thatโs just cope.
"What you need to give the Iranians a nod for is that they saw this could be a volume candidate in the high-low mix. It will chew up enemy time, munitions, and assetsโand maybe a few will actually hit somethingโwhile increasing the odds that your more exquisite weapons get to the target, all on a budget.
"We had itโbut we threw it away."
https://substack.com/home/post/p-196899563#:~:text=We%20had%20this,threw%20it%20away.
"Heck, even Israel didnโt.
"Yes, I know: precision navigation etc has advanced in forty years, but thatโs just cope.
"What you need to give the Iranians a nod for is that they saw this could be a volume candidate in the high-low mix. It will chew up enemy time, munitions, and assetsโand maybe a few will actually hit somethingโwhile increasing the odds that your more exquisite weapons get to the target, all on a budget.
"We had itโbut we threw it away."
https://substack.com/home/post/p-196899563#:~:text=We%20had%20this,threw%20it%20away.
Substack
Bollocks to the Iranian Engineers: Shahed Drone is German-American
...stolen engineering...
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โ๏ธ The Heart of Our Solar System: Today is International Sun Day
Imagine a burning sphere so vast that more than a million Earths could fit inside it.
Actually, you donโt have to imagine it โ just look up.
The Sun contains about 99.8% of all the mass in the Solar System. Everything else โ planets, moons, asteroids, comets โ is almost a rounding error compared with our star.
Its visible โsurface,โ the photosphere, is around 5,500ยฐC. Deep in the core, where nuclear fusion turns hydrogen into helium, temperatures reach about 15 millionยฐC. To match the Sunโs energy output, you would need to detonate roughly 100 billion tons of dynamite every second.
The Sun is about 4.6 billion years old, born from a collapsing cloud of gas and dust. It still has enough nuclear fuel to shine for roughly another 5 billion years. After that, it will expand into a red giant, shed its outer layers, and leave behind a dense white dwarf โ the fading core of what once powered life on Earth.
And the image/video behind this post is not AI, not Photoshop, and not CGI.
It was created by American astrophotographer Andrew McCarthy, who captured skydiver Gabriel C. Brown falling across the face of the Sun in the Arizona desert on November 8, 2025. The shot, titled โThe Fall of Icarus,โ required radio coordination, telescopes, solar filters, and six attempts to align a human body with the solar disk for a fraction of a second.
A human silhouette against a star.
Science, timing, and myth โ all in one frame.
Visuals: Andrew McCarthy / Gabriel C. Brown
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Imagine a burning sphere so vast that more than a million Earths could fit inside it.
Actually, you donโt have to imagine it โ just look up.
The Sun contains about 99.8% of all the mass in the Solar System. Everything else โ planets, moons, asteroids, comets โ is almost a rounding error compared with our star.
Its visible โsurface,โ the photosphere, is around 5,500ยฐC. Deep in the core, where nuclear fusion turns hydrogen into helium, temperatures reach about 15 millionยฐC. To match the Sunโs energy output, you would need to detonate roughly 100 billion tons of dynamite every second.
The Sun is about 4.6 billion years old, born from a collapsing cloud of gas and dust. It still has enough nuclear fuel to shine for roughly another 5 billion years. After that, it will expand into a red giant, shed its outer layers, and leave behind a dense white dwarf โ the fading core of what once powered life on Earth.
And the image/video behind this post is not AI, not Photoshop, and not CGI.
It was created by American astrophotographer Andrew McCarthy, who captured skydiver Gabriel C. Brown falling across the face of the Sun in the Arizona desert on November 8, 2025. The shot, titled โThe Fall of Icarus,โ required radio coordination, telescopes, solar filters, and six attempts to align a human body with the solar disk for a fraction of a second.
A human silhouette against a star.
Science, timing, and myth โ all in one frame.
Visuals: Andrew McCarthy / Gabriel C. Brown
@science
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