'Do not attempt to recreate!:' Car wash issues warning after risky truck bed ride

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"The resemblance between Greek philosophy and Indian philosophy has been widely observed. William Jones matched Dyaus to Zeus, Varuna to Ouranos, Usas to Eos and the Vedic twins to the Dioscuri in the eighteenth century, and the parallels have been documented steadily ever since. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan called them obvious and said the two civilisations “must have been in contact at some early period.” A. N. Marlow catalogued the coincidences of thought and admitted he had no better solution than to fall back on Persia as the intermediary, while conceding that the influences appear centuries before Persia existed as an empire.
"Thales died in 546 BC, the same year as the Persian Achaemenid conquest of Ionia. The chronology for Persia as the intermediary simply does not work.
"The mechanism has been hidden by two mistakes. The first is a chronology that treats the tenth to sixth centuries BC as a Dark Age, when the archaeological, epigraphic and literary record all show busy Mediterranean trade. I have written about the revised chronology in my essay The False Mediterranean Bronze Age Chronology and in my book. The second is a persistent Victorian instinct to treat Indian scholarship as too primitive to have exported anything. Strip both away and the link becomes visible. It is a maritime connection."

https://nickcollins1953.substack.com/p/the-greek-debt-to-india-via-phoenicians?r=lp6h7&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web

Kash’s girlfriend’s first defamation case over being branded a foreign asset gets knocked down for being filed in the wrong jurisdiction. The tweet that set it off: https://x.com/BasedSamParker/status/1893872813930655996

The Best and Brightest

The FBI is clearly more interested in agents who have skeletons in their closet than the squeaky-clean G-men of yesterlore: The FBI previously refused to hire job applicants if they admitted to hiring sex workers or stealing from an employer — or engaging in acts of bestiality. Today, those acts, which are mostly illegal across […]

https://voxday.net/2026/09/05/the-best-and-brightest/

Lost Worlds of 1990s Cable - The Top 10 Straight-to-Syndication Action Shows

“Knight Rider, a shadowy flight into the dangerous world of a man who does not exist.

https://arkhaven.substack.com/p/lost-worlds-of-1990s-cable-the-top

"A clique of stealth activists, including the former head of the National Academies of Science, claimed a high-emissions future was possible long after it had been falsified."

https://www.samizdata.net/2026/09/samizdata-quote-of-the-day-1710/

🇺🇸⚡️- CNN reporter describes the scene in the Lindsey Clancy courtroom when the judge declares a mistrial:

"There was one female juror that was nodding her head, 'Noooo…’ Another female juror clenching her hands into fists… One female juror would not even open her eyes."

Useful for summer.

A guide to asphalt temperatures, with the deriving risks.

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🌌 We @science May Have Finally Figured Out Why the Universe Is Expanding…

The explanation is surprisingly simple.

Large language models operate using tokens. Every time a model generates a new response, it processes the accumulated context of the conversation.

As the dialogue grows, each new message adds more information — while the model must repeatedly process everything that came before. The total amount of processed information therefore grows almost geometrically within every conversation.

Now imagine that the Universe is actually one enormous artificial intelligence.

Every new star, planet, living organism, human thought, cat video, and online argument adds more tokens to the global conversation. The context keeps growing in geometric progression, so the system needs more and more space to process it all.

That is why the Universe is expanding.

Dark energy may have nothing to do with it. Someone simply forgot to click “Start a new chat.” 😅

#science #space #universe #AI

Flock used >100 times to track veteran who recorded traffic stop
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The view of Earth with the largest fraction of its land area on the planet visible at once.
https://redd.it/1vlq35e
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Maxwell had twenty equations. After Heaviside revised them, there were only four. Where did the rest go?
https://youtu.be/ZB754uqRVtc

Antique French Flajoulot singing bird box from the early 1900s.

A rare mechanical masterpiece.

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The largest towns and cities in England in 1377
https://redd.it/1vltcfr
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Civil War Rarities has published its first EXTRA episode, highlighting living historian Chris Leighton and his Rosecrans Ambulance. You can find the podcast on YouTube, Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you download your podcasts.

https://youtu.be/3HKCP2IaR2I?is=bxbKviwz-wlT7-eR