Critical

On this day:
455
Sack of Rome: Vandals enter Rome, and plunder the city for two weeks
1692
Bridget Bishop is the first person to go to trial in the Salem witch trials in Salem, Massachusetts. Found guilty, she is hanged on June 10.
1774
Intolerable Acts: The Quartering Act is enacted, allowing a governor in colonial America to house British soldiers in uninhabited houses, outhouses, barns, or other buildings if suitable quarters are not provided.
1793
French Revolution: François Hanriot, leader of the Parisian National Guard, arrests 22 Girondists selected by Jean-Paul Marat, setting the stage for the Reign of Terror.
1896
Guglielmo Marconi applies for a patent for his newest invention: the radio.
1966
Surveyor program: Surveyor 1 lands in Oceanus Procellarum on the Moon, becoming the first U.S. spacecraft to soft land on another world.

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Eight people were hospitalized after a man used a “makeshift flamethrower” on a gathering in Boulder, Colo., honoring Israeli captives in Gaza.

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"Climate change is bad, but it's not going to kill everyone. AI could render humanity extinct."--Musk


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The WSJ did an AI short film:

https://www.The WSJ did a wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-film-google-veo-runway-3918ae28?mod=djemTechThings

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An unknown individual reached out to prominent Republicans and business executives pretending to be Susie Wiles. In recent weeks, senators and other well-known figures have received text messages and phone calls from a person who claimed to be the chief of staff, people familiar with the messages said.

One wonders if this will be taken seriously since people impersonated the President for four years.

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In an interview with CNN reporter, Arwa Damon, on Zakaria,, she believes that the problems in Gaza would be solved if the Western Press had access to it.

Somehow, these people think that, despite giving up their integrity, they still have a moral authority.

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Exercise can reduce the risk of cancer patients dying by a third, stop tumours coming back and is even more effective than drugs, according to the results of a landmark trial that could transform health guidelines worldwide.

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Critical

What race was to Nazis, class was to Bolsheviks. And class origin, like race, was not something one chose. Nor did it simply influence you; you became it. You and your origin were inseparable. Like CRT, your origin and, hence, your nature, were fixed. Like an Indian caste, the individual was drowned in it. People born into bourgeois, noble, or kulak families had no more right to life to Communists than Jews or Gypsies did to Nazis. And the destruction of the group was an inevitable historical process. Like the neanderthal, the future demanded it must go.

In November 1918, Felix Dzerzhinsky, founder of the Cheka, published an article in the journal charmingly named Red Terror in which he instructed: "We are not waging war against individual persons. We are exterminating the bourgeoisie as a class. During the investigation, do not look for evidence that the accused acted in deed or word against Soviet power. The first questions that you ought to put are: To what class does he belong? What is his origin? What is his education or profession? And it is these questions that ought to determine the fate of the accused."

So the murder of the Tsar's children makes sense? This is a philosophy we have to take seriously? This is a university message?

Every man for himself.