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Fighter pilot who served in WWII finds his fallen wingman’s grave after nearly 80 years
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Scott W
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Ex Software Guy. Radical Centrist. Quixotic Operative. #StopFactoryFarming
North Carolina, USA Beigetreten Mayıs 2022
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@WalshFreedom Numbness is the point. Everyone should follow .@Kasparov63 to fully understand what's happening to us.
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We’ve become so numb to this, which is a shame, but here’s the President of the United States once again using the powers of his office to attack a private citizen, to try to cause financial harm to a private individual.
Ron Filipkowski@RonFilipkowski
Trump says MAGA should boycott Bruce Springsteen concerts.
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Pass term limits.
Ban congressional stock trading.
Overturn Citizens United.
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@L1569Uptown @NC_Governor Similarly, Ted Cruz is really Canadian.
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🚀Congratulations to North Carolina School of Science and Math alum Christina Koch for being part of today’s Artemis II launch. North Carolina is proud of you. newsobserver.com/news/state/nor…
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If aliens exist, why haven’t they visited Earth?
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@forallcurious More info on this project... shimz.co.jp/en/topics/drea…
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🚨: Japan plans to build a solar ring around the Moon that will provide energy to Earth forever.
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@RadioFreeTom I wish my congressman would channel Michael Steele. Daily.
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I hate it people hold back like this
The Bulwark@BulwarkOnline
"It is too fucking serious to have such unserious, such politically-driven, such politically-motivated and biased assholes running this war and running our country. What the vice president just said was bullshit." @MichaelSteele unloads on Vance’s nuclear suicide vest comment.
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@WalshFreedom Civility isn’t enough. We need a structural revolution in how we find and elect leaders. This is bigger than one election cycle -- we need concrete changes for ourselves and to (begin to) restore trust with our allies.
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Is America Too Damn Divided To Even Listen To Each Other Anymore?: We ARE dangerously divided. We’re at the point now where most Americans hate the people they disagree with. Consider the people they disagree with to be their “enemy.” So…are we even… dlvr.it/TRq5kq
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Excited for Artemis, but then again I'm one of those chumps who 100% anthropomorphizes NASA's various landers and gets sad when they eventually fail.
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@YourAnonNews You'll need to provide your definition of "country's revenue" because it's clearly incorrect for either Federal taxes collected or GDP.
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@jimstewartson The US Navy calls them UAPs. The UFO people aren't always the Alien people.
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Dear UFO people:
If your source of hopium is pedophilic fascist larper Matt Gaetz, you should find a different cult.
There are no aliens, just asshats. I’m sorry to tell you this.
Interstellar@InterstellarUAP
🚨 Matt Gaetz : “There is an ALIEN Hybrid Breeding Program” Rep. Matt Gaetz on what he was told in a classified congressional briefing by a uniformed U.S. Army officer: “I had someone come and brief me who was in a military uniform, worked for the United States Army, that was briefing me on the locations of hybrid breeding programs where captured aliens were breeding with humans to create some hybrid race that could engage in intergalactic communication. An actual uniformed member of the United States Army briefed me on that.” Gaetz added that recovered craft crashes examined by the CIA contained “non-human biologics” with no identifiable human source. This is straight from a sitting Congressman under oath-level clearance. No speculation — just what he says he was officially briefed. What do you make of it? 👇 ---
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@Fwd_Party @thehill Third parties need a level playing field. Voters need more expressive ballots.
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Trump approval slips to 33 percent in new survey
thehill.com/homenews/admin…
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@WalshFreedom Between 1 and 2 the base see how Trump's comments upset & annoy the enemy (non MAGA) and it awakens their "lib tears are all that matter" addiction.
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How Trumpism works...
Step 1: Say the most unhinged thing you can. Lie big, lie loud, and see what you can get away with.
Step 2: If the base cheers, repeat it until it becomes a slogan. If everyone else recoils, fall back on “snowflakes,” “just joking,” or, most likely, just tell another lie and then another lie.
Step 3: Flood the zone. Keep the lies coming so fast that truth never has time to catch up. That is how extremism becomes normal.
Step 4: Get your followers to defend the indefensible. Once they are insisting up is down and black is white, you do not have a political movement. You have obedience.
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This is...not great news for crypto.
And, well, everyone.
Justin Drake@drakefjustin
Today is a monumentous day for quantum computing and cryptography. Two breakthrough papers just landed (links in next tweet). Both papers improve Shor's algorithm, infamous for cracking RSA and elliptic curve cryptography. The two results compound, optimising separate layers of the quantum stack. The results are shocking. I expect a narrative shift and a further R&D boost toward post-quantum cryptography. The first paper is by Google Quantum AI. They tackle the (logical) Shor algorithm, tailoring it to crack Bitcoin and Ethereum signatures. The algorithm runs on ~1K logical qubits for the 256-bit elliptic curve secp256k1. Due to the low circuit depth, a fast superconducting computer would recover private keys in minutes. I'm grateful to have joined as a late paper co-author, in large part for the chance to interact with experts and the alpha gleaned from internal discussions. The second paper is by a stealthy startup called Oratomic, with ex-Google and prominent Caltech faculty. Their starting point is Google's improvements to the logical quantum circuit. They then apply improvements at the physical layer, with tricks specific to neutral atom quantum computers. The result estimates that 26,000 atomic qubits are sufficient to break 256-bit elliptic curve signatures. This would be roughly a 40x improvement in physical qubit count over previous state-of-the-art. On the flip side, a single Shor run would take ~10 days due to the relatively slow speed of neutral atoms. Below are my key takeaways. As a disclaimer, I am not a quantum expert. Time is needed for the results to be properly vetted. Based on my interactions with the team, I have faith the Google Quantum AI results are conservative. The Oratomic paper is much harder for me to assess, especially because of the use of more exotic qLDPC codes. I will take it with a grain of salt until the dust settles. → q-day: My confidence in q-day by 2032 has shot up significantly. IMO there's at least a 10% chance that by 2032 a quantum computer recovers a secp256k1 ECDSA private key from an exposed public key. While a cryptographically-relevant quantum computer (CRQC) before 2030 still feels unlikely, now is undoubtedly the time to start preparing. → censorship: The Google paper uses a zero-knowledge (ZK) proof to demonstrate the algorithm's existence without leaking actual optimisations. From now on, assume state-of-the-art algorithms will be censored. There may be self-censorship for moral or commercial reasons, or because of government pressure. A blackout in academic publications would be a tell-tale sign. → cracking time: A superconducting quantum computer, the type Google is building, could crack keys in minutes. This is because the optimised quantum circuit is just 100M Toffoli gates, which is surprisingly shallow. (Toffoli gates are hard because they require production of so-called "magic states".) Toffoli gates would consume ~10 microseconds on a superconducting platform, totalling ~1,000 sec of Shor runtime. → latency optimisations: Two latency optimisations bring key cracking time to single-digit minutes. The first parallelises computation across quantum devices. The second involves feeding the pubkey to the quantum computer mid-flight, after a generic setup phase. → fast- and slow-clock: At first approximation there are two families of quantum computers. The fast-clock flavour, which includes superconducting and photonic architectures, runs at roughly 100 kHz. The slow-clock flavour, which includes trapped ion and neutral atom architectures, runs roughly 1,000x slower (~100 Hz, or ~1 week to crack a single key). → qubit count: The size-optimised variant of the algorithm runs on 1,200 logical qubits. On a superconducting computer with surface code error correction that's roughly 500K physical qubits, a 400:1 physical-to-logical ratio. The surface code is conservative, assuming only four-way nearest-neighbour grid connectivity. It was demonstrated last year by Google on a real quantum computer. → future gains: Low-hanging fruit is still being picked, with at least one of the Google optimisations resulting from a surprisingly simple observation. Interestingly, AI was not (yet!) tasked to find optimisations. This was also the first time authors such as Craig Gidney attacked elliptic curves (as opposed to RSA). Shor logical qubit count could plausibly go under 1K soonish. → error correction: The physical-to-logical ratio for superconducting computers could go under 100:1. For superconducting computers that would be mean ~100K physical qubits for a CRQC, two orders of magnitude away from state of the art. Neutral atoms quantum computers are amenable to error correcting codes other than the surface code. While much slower to run, they can bring down the physical to logical qubit ratio closer to 10:1. → Bitcoin PoW: Commercially-viable Bitcoin PoW via Grover's algorithm is not happening any time soon. We're talking decades, possibly centuries away. This observation should help focus the discussion on ECDSA and Schnorr. (Side note: as unofficial Bitcoin security researcher, I still believe Bitcoin PoW is cooked due to the dwindling security budget.) → team quality: The folks at Google Quantum AI are the real deal. Craig Gidney (@CraigGidney) is arguably the world's top quantum circuit optimisooor. Just last year he squeezed 10x out of Shor for RSA, bringing the physical qubit count down from 10M to 1M. Special thanks to the Google team for patiently answering all my newb questions with detailed, fact-based answers. I was expecting some hype, but found none.
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Donald Trump is fine with Russia giving Iran intelligence and targeting data on American forces.
He’s done nothing to stop them. He’s kneels in the blood of dead Americans while fumbling with Putin’s zipper.
In related news, even the President can commit treason.
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@RossMartinNC The Bulls were mathematically eliminated from the playoffs Friday. I'm guessing dialog with Donovan ramped up this weekend.
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If Tommy Lloyd and Arizona win the national championship does Lloyd leave Arizona become UNC’s next head coach? Whewww. Mindset.
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@Stop_RCV Check out this transparent election that can be verified by hand recounts and audits:
peps.python.org/pep-8107/
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