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Taylor Swift Listed As The 8th Best Guitarist Of The Last 20 Years

She definitely earned it. You know, with all those 4/4 songs at 120bpm where she strums her way through G, D, Em, and C. Such talent. Many kudos. Wow.

Now that Trump has been on the right track to surrendering a century's worth of US global power in a matter of weeks, there are other sharks that are sure to step in.

Case in point...

In 2023, Meta released its AI code as open source. For those not familiar with it, "open source" means that the code is publicly available. DeepSeek has also released its code as open source.

Another factor is that the US bans exports of certain high-powered and AI-specific chips. This forced DeepSeek's developers to optimize the code to run on slower / standard hardware.

Meta sees this as a win. Why? Because releasing their code as open source allowed an innovator to optimize it in ways that they didn't. Meta's chief AI scientist (Yann LeCun), also says that thinking about this as "China beating the US" are looking at it the wrong way. It's about open source working better than closed source.

Now. Here's a question..

Who is Magdeburg market attack suspect Taleb al-Abdulmohsen?

A Saudi immigrant to Germany.
Who is am Islamophobe.
And is a sympathizer to a far-right party.
Commits a terrorist attack.
Against a crowd at a Christmas market.
In Germany.

Let all that sink in.

Then please stop this planet, I want to get off.

The election of Donald Trump is much scarier than many may imagine. It's not just that an orange pro-fascist pseudo-Mussolini is poised to get back to the helm of the greatest power in the world. No. It's scarier than that. Because all this carries dire consequences for the future.

The scary thing is that Trump has started a trend and now the entire Republican party is radicalized. First internally, meaning its politicians... that is, I meant to call them "politicians" (the quotation marks here are deliberate - apparently there are no politicians left in that party, only sectarians), but it is also being radicalized externally - in the party followers.

It is not about liberals vs conservatives at all any more...

Russia could attack NATO by end of decade, German intelligence chief warns

Read between the lines. This is what militaries and politicians say to encourage more to be spent on defense...

You must have heard of AIBA/ IBA (International Boxing Association), the scandals and why they are banned from the Olympics. Here's the chronology.

So it all begun when it became apparent they had fixed matches in both the 2016 Rio games, and the 2012 games in London.

Integrity Clearly at Issue Within the IOC and the AIBA​

This was too much even for corrupt organizations such as the IOC...

Boeing hid questionable parts from regulators that may have been installed in 737 Max planes, new whistleblower alleges

Boeing is a cautionary tale about modern American capitalism and where it can lead...

Well...

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