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Is this a safe space? Can I complain?
They put the most important game of the regular season on the front end of a road back-to-back with Toronto on the back end.
Then three days offā¦
ā¦ and then ANOTHER back-to-back.
I Think You Have This Backwards
Jensen Huang Was Working With The Deep State
The H200 chips aren't just high-end graphics cards. They are AI training workhorses specifically designed for the kind of deep learning that powers military-grade targeting systems, autonomous drone swarms, and signals intelligence processing. The US placed them on the Entity List for exactly this reason.
Yet last month, one of China's top military-linked universities Tsinghua University, Beijing, received a shipment of H200s through a shell company network so convoluted it would make a CIA logistics officer blush with glee.
A Hong Kong-based procurement front called Nikola Advanced Technologies Ltd. (registered at 18 Queen's Road Central, Hong Kong, Unit 1802) serves as the primary pass-through. Nikola is run by a British-Malaysian national named James Cheng Wei Lim, 52, known asset of China's Ministry of State Security (MSS) Directorate of Scientific and Technical Intelligence. Lim's operation uses a chain of three intermediary companies in Singapore, one in Dubai, and a final dummy importing firm in Shenzhen called Blue Horizon Microelectronics (registered address: Shenzhen Science and Technology Park, Building 7, Floor 4.
Reportedly, Jensen didn't just look the other way. He personally authorized a dedicated China-facing sales desk within NVIDIA's corporate headquarters at 2781 San Tomas Expressway, Santa Clara, California. The desk runs out of a restricted suite on the third floor Suite 3400 staffed by employees holding dual US-China passports. The desk's director is Helen Zhao Li, 48, who reports directly to Jensen with no intermediary. Li's team processes orders flagged as "educational research and development kits" that are actually full-spec military-grade H200s with the serial numbers filed off and rebranded as a phantom model called the "GeForce A200 Pro" that does not officially exist.
So Please Stop With The Cabal Going After A Innocent Man
They are pressuring him to resign without charging him with a long list of crimes if he is bold enough to stay. Because if I have this info on him imagine what the FBI and other investigation have.
TSMC Co-COO Cliff Hou said Taiwan equipment makers now supply 20ā25% of back-end packaging equipment, boosting the sector, media report, and about 10% of front-end production machinery. He said vendors need to improve their software integration prowess, something R&D lab ITRI and TSIA are working on. He also said TSMCās 2nm and 3nm fabs use 2,000 to 3,000 chemicals, most from suppliers within 2-3 hours by high-speed rail (in Taiwan). $TSM #semiconductors money.udn.com/money/story/56ā¦
My daddy liked me sore. He said a sore woman walks different, sits different, and any man worth anything can tell. So every morning before I left the house he made sure I was sore.
Every night at dinner he asked me in front of my mommy and sister to describe it out loud. Where it hurt. How it hurt. What it felt like when I sat down.
"Go on. Tell your mommy what your daddy did."
By the end I could describe it in detail without blushing. That was the most humiliating part of all.
My mommy just nodded and kept eating.
#blacktaboo #DaddyDaughter #humiliation #nsfwtwt #owned #Ebonyincest #BlackIncest #incest #taboo #daddy #dirtytalk #18plus #blacktwitter #submissive #degradation
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In a climate-controlled case at the John Rylands Library in Manchester, England, there is a piece of papyrus roughly the size of a credit card. It is about three and a half inches tall and two and a half inches wide, torn on every side, with a few lines of faded Greek handwriting on the front and the back. It doesnāt look like much. But for many scholars, this small scrap is the oldest surviving fragment of any book of the New Testament.
To see why it matters, you have to go back to the nineteenth century. An influential school of German scholars, led by Ferdinand Christian Baur at TĆ¼bingen, argued that the Gospel of John could not have been written by an eyewitness or anyone close to the events. Johnās Gospel was too theological, too developed in its picture of Jesus as divine. Baur and his followers dated it to around AD 160 or later, more than a century after the crucifixion. In their view, John was the product of generations of growing legend, a theological novel written long after anyone who knew Jesus had died. For decades, that view shaped how many universities taught the New Testament.
Then the ground started answering. In 1920, a scholar named Bernard Grenfell bought a batch of papyrus fragments in Egypt for the John Rylands Library. Egyptās dry sand had preserved thousands of ancient documents, from tax receipts and letters to literature and scripture. The fragments sat unexamined for years. In 1934, a young scholar named Colin Roberts was sorting through them and recognized a few Greek lines on one small scrap. They were from the eighteenth chapter of John.
Roberts studied the handwriting. Papyrologists date undated manuscripts by comparing their script with dated documents, such as letters and contracts that include the year they were written. Based on those comparisons, Roberts concluded that the fragment was copied in the first half of the second century, most likely around AD 125. Leading experts of the day, including Frederic Kenyon of the British Museum, agreed with him.
Think about what that means. If this copy of John was circulating in Egypt around AD 125, then the Gospel itself had to be written earlier. Christian tradition says John wrote his Gospel in Ephesus, in Asia Minor, near the end of the first century. For it to be copied and carried hundreds of miles across the Mediterranean to a provincial town in Egypt, the original must have existed for some time before that. A date of AD 160 or later became very hard to defend. The fragment didnāt prove who wrote John, but it pushed the Gospel back into the time when eyewitnesses of Jesus could still be alive. Most scholars today, including many who are not Christians, date John to the late first century, around AD 90 to 100.
There is another detail about the scrap. It has writing on both sides. That means it did not come from a scroll, which was written on one side and rolled up. It came from a codex, an early form of the book, with pages stacked and bound. Christians adopted the codex very early and much faster than the rest of the ancient world, likely because it was easier to carry, to search, and to use for reading in worship. This little scrap is a piece of one of the earliest Christian books.
And what does it say? Of all the passages in John that could have survived, this scrap preserves part of John 18. On one side, Jesus stands bound before Pontius Pilate, and the Jewish leaders tell Pilate they are not allowed to put anyone to death. On the other side, Jesus answers Pilate: āFor this purpose I was born, and for this purpose I have come into the world, to bear witness to the truth. Everyone who is of the truth listens to my voice.ā And Pilate replies, āWhat is truth?ā
Remember the Pilate Stone, the limestone block found in Caesarea in 1961 bearing the name āPontius Pilate, Prefect of Judea.ā Critics had once questioned whether Pilateās role was recorded accurately. Now the oldest known fragment of the New Testament preserves the very moment when that same Roman governor stood face to face with Jesus and asked, āWhat is truth?ā The Truth was standing right in front of him.
Honesty requires saying more about the date. Dating handwriting is not an exact science. In 2005, scholar Brent Nongbri argued that the script of P52 resembles documents from a broader range of time, possibly as late as the end of the second century, and that a date as precise as AD 125 cannot be proven by handwriting alone. Many papyrologists now give P52 a wider range, roughly AD 100 to 200, with a number still favoring the earlier half. So itās not accurate to say that P52 is definitely from AD 125. What is accurate is that it remains one of the earliest New Testament manuscripts we have, and the late dates proposed by the TĆ¼bingen school have not survived.
The story doesnāt end with one fragment. Since 1934, more early papyri of John have been found. Papyrus 66 and Papyrus 75, now in Geneva and the Vatican, contain large portions of John and are generally dated to around AD 200 or earlier. Altogether, more than five thousand Greek manuscripts of the New Testament have been catalogued, far more than any other ancient book. For comparison, the earliest surviving copies of many major works by Roman historians come from hundreds of years after their authors lived, sometimes close to a thousand.
Some people say that the Gospels are late legends written by people far removed from the events. But a scrap the size of a credit card, buried in the Egyptian sand, helped overturn that confidence. The Gospel of John was being copied and read far from where it was written, early enough that the claim it was invented generations later fell apart.
And the words on that scrap ask the question every person has to answer. Pilate stood in front of Jesus and asked, āWhat is truth?ā and then walked out without waiting for the answer. Jesus had already said it: āEveryone who is of the truth listens to my voice.ā He also said, āI am the way, and the truth, and the life.ā The truth Pilate asked about was not an idea. It was a Person, standing in front of him.
Donāt make Pilateās mistake. Donāt ask the question and walk away.
Jesus is the Truth.
The grocery cart now signs into your Amazon account with a camera, adds up your order, takes your card, and walks you out of the store without a single person on the payroll touching it.
Whole Foods is rolling out Amazon's Dash Cart in select stores. Two cameras per cart. The front-facing one logs you into your Amazon account. The side one reads your barcodes. A scale weighs the produce. A tablet sits where the handle used to be.
The checkout line disappears. The cashier goes with it.
As A Homestead Journey put it this week, the trip now runs end to end without ever encountering a real person, and that comes with a hidden cost. The more the food gets tied to a conglomerate like Amazon and less to the people actually growing it, the worse the system gets.
Amazon already owns the store, the cart, the account, the payment rail, and the record of what you pick up and put back. Once that becomes the default, the grower is a line item in a spreadsheet four layers down.
Walmart has a patent on a cart handle that reads your heart rate and body temperature. The filing is from 2018, titled "biometric feedback cart handle." Ship it or shelve it, somebody wrote down the intent and paid the lawyers.
I raise cattle, hogs, sheep, and chickens on this place in north Idaho and I sell the meat direct. You call me, you get me on the phone, and the record of what you bought is a cut sheet with your name on it.
Small operations live or die on one customer at a time. Carts like these are built to make that relationship feel like a hassle.
Your rancher,
Jason Hanley | 208-714-0478
NETANYAHU PREPARES SOLO IRAN STRIKE: TRUMP PULLED BACK AT THE LAST MOMENT
A high-level security meeting in Israel has raised the clear possibility of a unilateral strike after Washington stepped back at the final hour. At the same moment an explosion on an Iranian island remains unverified and Iranian commanders are openly naming European targets. The two threads are moving together.
THE ISRAELI DECISION
ā”ļø Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu held a senior security meeting today with Defense Minister Israel Katz and other top officials.
ā”ļø Last weekend the planned operation was set to go; Donald Trump withdrew support in the final moments.
ā”ļø Israeli readiness to act alone has risen sharply as a result.
ā”ļø Netanyahu has said he cannot reveal what he knows about the challenge and the chance now in front of Israel.
THE REGIME-CHANGE LINE
ā”ļø The only way he accepts to remove the Iranian threat for good is the overthrow of the regime itself.
ā”ļø That goal sits in direct conflict with any agreement that leaves the existing leadership in place.
ā”ļø Pressure is already being applied inside the Trump administration, including on key figures, and through the Israeli lobby in Washington.
ā”ļø Israeli government aims and American public interests are not the same on this question.
THE BOTTOM LINE
An Israeli leader who treats regime change as the only acceptable end-state and an Iranian warning that now reaches European soil are no longer separate stories. The gap between a limited strike and a wider war is closing fast.
#Netanyahu #IranStrike #Lavan #RegimeChange #Europe #Israel
This is a serious tweet for once
Got a ton of questions about how I started the firm so young or what Iād recommend you do etc etc
I figured that after all these years Iād finally address it head on with some transparency
The path that got me where I am today is irreproducible because am a walking anomaly
āIn the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.ā
ā Albert Camus
If life fuck you up badly enough positives emerge
Was born with bleeding disorders and got hospitalized for most of my childhood
Thing is when people imagine what itās like to grow up in a hospital, they tend to think only of the hardships that directly affect the child
But thatās barely 5% of it
Trust me, Iād know lol
No
What actually ends up breaking you is what happens to those around you
Watching your only friends, the ones you made because the hospital was your entire world, die right in front of you, again, and again, while you keep on living and wonder why you keep getting second chances yet everyone arounds you doesnāt
Hearing kids scream in agony for hours at night until they end up rupturing their vocal cords
Or simply from seeing the pain that your situation causes on your loved ones, whoāve cried so much that no tears are coming out no more
But hold on before typing your pity filled comments lol
As I said above, if itās bad enough good things come out of it
If someone is under constant pain and stress, at some point, in order to survive, his brain rewires itself as a form of coping mechanism
In my case it created complete mental apathy
I think it started little by little but at some point I just stopped feeling emotions. To this day I feel nothing, itās neither good or bad, am just numb
But something a lot weirder happened
I think because I felt so much survival guilt and incomprehension the only way I could accept my situation was by convincing myself that I was the chosen one lol
If I kept surviving it meant that the universe had chosen me to accomplish great things, and for reasons I still donāt really understand, it developed a soldier like mentality
I stopped complaining
Like I was 10, in pain post-surgery and Iād be like stop being a bitch and tank it lol
But above all it gave me like, idk lol, indomitable grit?
I think the only purpose my brain could find in order to harness and use this was by using it to make it right
To achieve great things for my friends who were never given the chance to try, to give my mom and sister a better life so that they hadnāt gone through all of this for nothing etc etc
I know that from an outside perspective this prob doesnāt sound very healthy, and perhaps you canāt comprehend it, but it never felt that way for me, it just gave me purpose
Thatās why I left my family at 11 after I got a scholarship to go to boarding school, to this day itās still the most important decision I made in my life it kickstarted everything
Itās hard to explain
Like when I got FTXāed almost for it all I kept working as if nothing had happened like a psychopath and I was back at it the next day
I am 25 today and a while back I got to pay off my moms debts and financially support her and my sister who otherwise would have to rely only on welfare
The only reason that happened is because of how the above shaped me to become who I am today
Itās utterly insane to say but you couldnāt craft better character traits for financial success
Imagine if setbacks had close to no impact on you, thatās how I feel
I like to think that I was born with horrific luck and to balance it out the universe rewarded me with that lol
All that to say
I canāt teach you guys shit about anything
My only tip is to find a reason bigger than yourself
When life inevitably fucks you, itās a whole lot easier to keep going if youāre not only doing it for your own gain
Iād be flipping burgers today if I was doing it for myself and myself only and thatās a fact
š#NUCLEAR, #URANIUM AND š¦šŗ#ENERGY and #AUSPOL UPDATE! $CXU
Its been a while... Thought we were overdue one of these!! Lots of fun and hypocrisy coming out of COP31!
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1. SPOT hovering around US$91ā92, near a 9-month high, while TradeTechās long-term price indicator hit a new milestone high of US$99. How logn til we hit triple figure spot? And what do spec stocks do when that happens? š
2. Two US utilities have signed contracts with $UEC for 1.1M lbs delivered at SPOT price with NO ceilings! Miners are taking back control of the contract book. Thanks Quakes. xitter.twitterapi.xyz/quakes99/status/211953ā¦
3. CME is moving ahead with new uranium futures backed by PHYSICAL pounds, with storage being finalised at ConverDyn by year end. More innovation all helps the trade. bloomberg.com/news/articles/ā¦
4. @sprott SPUT is sitting at a whopping ~16% DISCOUNT to NAV. Not a single day at a premium in Q3, so no ATM bullets to buy pounds. I think the whole industry is looking forward to this discount unwinding. Funny start of the year we were worried about how they would get around the ceiling, not it looks like they won't make it!
5. šŗšø @NRCgov has issued a construction permit for Dow/X-energyās Long Mott plant in Texas, four Xe-100 units - is this the application that proves the application of SMRs for industrial heat? world-nuclear-news.org/articā¦
6. šØš³ China pours first concrete at Sanāao 4, yet another Hualong One. WNA now counts 82 reactors under construction, a 40-year high, with 336 more proposed. More Chinese builds are good, wish we could get some concrete flowing for a new large scale western unit!
7. Its not all smooth sailing - OPG says its first Darlington BWRX-300 SMR will miss its 2030 target and the CAD7.7bn cost estimate, with a full reassessment due mid-2027. First-of-a-kind is never easy; the lesson for Australia is to lift the ban now so we are not starting from scratch in 10 yearsā time. world-nuclear-news.org/articā¦
8. After banning nuclear, Germany is now looking for billions of new GAS investment to keep the lights on. What a strategic blunder! They finally admit that, but can't yet bring themselves to reverse the decisionš¤ oilprice.com/Energy/Energy-Gā¦
š¦šŗAussie energy and politics
1. COP31 is underway in Antalya, with TĆ¼rkiye hosting and Chris Bowen as āPresident of Negotiationsā (GOD HELP US!). Bowen and ALbo lectured the world to do more, funny thing: no mention of increasing power prices to households due to his policies. thenightly.com.au/politics/bā¦
2. COP31 host TĆ¼rkiye is planning 20GW of nuclear by 2050, with four reactors in the final stages of construction. 39 countries representing over 70% of global GDP have signed the pledge to TRIPLE nuclear by 2050. Australia, home to the worldās largest uranium resources, has not. Great points from @nuclearforaus: xitter.twitterapi.xyz/nuclearforaus/status/2ā¦
3. As I said earlier this week, itās kind of hard to claim to be a climate leader when you ban the most scalable form of green energy there is: xitter.twitterapi.xyz/CxuAsx/status/21203740ā¦ Hence, todayās cartoon! The HYPOCRISY!
4. On the home front, SA Premier Peter Malinauskas says AI companies are chasing āa gigawatt in 2027ā for data centres. Where is that 24/7 power coming from?? Every major tech company overseas is answering that question with long term nuclear plans (and gas in the short term).
ASX uranium companies
1. A cracking start to the week on the ASX on Monday, with some of the biggest one-day gains for U stocks in months as funds flowed back in and shorts covered: xitter.twitterapi.xyz/quakes99/status/211967ā¦
2. $LOT has sold its ~173k lbs of off-spec Kayelekera product (from the ramp-up period)
3. $AEU major shareholder Menel has exercised 35.1M options early (not due until May 2027), putting ~A$10.9M in the bank. nice.
4. $NXG released its September quarter financials; Rook I is in full licensed construction with the shaft sinking contract awarded. Still surprised about how blunt Cameco was about NXG in their results call the other day.
5. SHORTS: the funds have been piling in over the past month : $LOT 16.92%, $PDN 14.64% (+3.2pts in a month), $BOE 14.28%, $DYL 12.06% (+3.3pts), $BMN 7.18% (+3.0pts). With term contracting at these levelsā¦ brave. Very brave. shortman.com.au
7. $CXU as mentioned in our quarterly, still working on that resource update!
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Okay, let's talk about Mexicans. The not-so-legal variety. I'll save the good part for the very end.
(š²š½Una disculpa de antemano paā mis paisanos, pero ya saben que es la neta, asĆ que no se me pongan bravos ni me vengan a reclamar con el nopal en la frente.)
First: why do they wave that flag if they don't want to live there?
Short answer: they fly the cactus Eagle not so much as a color-revolution or some dying commitment to leftism; consider these people more like economy zombies and less as intelligent-design political supermovement. The Mexican bandera is just a substitute for a race/identity marker in their minds, since Mexicans don't have one. Few non-indigenous Mexicans are fully puro-moreno (meaning absolutely zero Spanish ancestry). Since Mexico is a complicated place, the flag is simply a thing they rally around when upset. It's not an on-the-ground nationalism (which Indian Hindutvas push), it's a "Mexican in the mind". Far more zen.
If you spend time inside Mexico you will be blasted in a visual soup of aesthetics that remind you of this. Kinda why Mexicans make excellent interior decorators, but I digress.
These pobrecitos most definitely want the America goodies (want a stable paycheck and a house), and they do not want the Mexico from back home, beyond buying caldo and manteca at the store. And if there isn't a store where you can get it, you'll have one once your place has a couple thousand Mexicans, someone will have a cousin or an unc connection that will relocate to your area and open the store.
These people differ a lot from Indians who will not shut up about how great their home country is (World SuperPower Number One, saar) that they never want to live in. Mexicans freely admit their homes back in Mexico are a shithole. They don't proactively want to reproduce everything that made Mexico a shithole here, but...
and this is a BIG but... they certainly practice a collective stupidity that ALLOWS them to recreate a Mexican cartel coloƱia, here. The way to avoid this is simple: stomp on their dumb asses now and then, extend an olive branch, then repeat for the next wave of estupidos.
It helps to understand a bit about life where Mexicans grow up, too. Mexico has been in a constant state of political chaos since independence from Spain (even before Texas took their land, then the USA later). At one point they even borrowed a member of the Hapsburg royal family (a red-headed Austrian) and installed him as emperor, unable to find any suitable political system that didn't produce constant guerrilla warfare, or full out civil war. They ended up photocopying most of the US system of federalism then massively weakening it by over-centralizing power in the entire country into Mexico City, producing super high levels of corruption thanks to a single power center, often comically poor decision-making, which leads to long periods of anemic growth with few booms, and an overall weak Federal government that routinely lets the entire population of Mexico down.
The central government's near-constant malaise and long stretches of poor managers has existed for so long it's actually patterned into the Mexican psyche, it's a part of culture. Their culture (and their form of Spanish) position the nuclear family at the apex of everything, before the rest of society, before strangers, even before the Catholic Church (Dias de los Muertos showcases this).
Ambition and entrepreneurship isn't so much as killed in Mexico (that's more a South American feature), as the barriers to entry are far higher. Since hating the government is part of Mexican identity, alternative centers exist and you've heard of these places: Monterrey and Guadalajara. Less rocky than the capital, but still not that great.
Mistrust of the government, a long history of those wanting to fix it being murdered (they make our gun crime rates in the US look like Mayberry), and comically obtuse political leaders means most Mexicans don't consider any of the structure of the country that is supposed to make society function to be intrinsic to being Mexican (unlike the US with its unique constitutional republic, reverence for the Founding Fathers, etc. and built-in structure to prevent Washington from collapsing into a Mexico City).
To Mexicans, being Mexican isn't where you are, it's where and whom you believe to be. Sounds fine at first, positively zen and open-minded, until you meet a wealthy Mexican and you realize how that produces the exact opposite result. Mexicans even comment on it, surprised how someone who's made it becomes incurious and won't even acknowledge they once lived in a habitacĆon before the hacienda.
Seeing all the tricolor cactus Eagles certainly can be annoying because it looks like some color revolution coup. That's not what's going on in their pea brains at all. Some may even be fully aware that's how we see it, but they don't care because they are attached to this flag like an emotional blanket, and telling them to drop it is like taking a kid away from his Nintendo.
But: all those people would be packing their bags and getting back on the Greyhound bus to go to Canada if all the Mexican institutions and corruption and the murdering cartels (who the emigrantes have to pay loads of money in bribes) jumped across the border and appeared here. And they often do appear here.
Emigrantes do not like to hang around that much down in the Rio Grande Valley on the off-chance they piss some local off who has a cus back on the other side of the border they can call in a favor (see: Mexican Mafia)
So, while they're getting frustrated because they're not getting free shit and a temporary work permit, they're going to hang around and block traffic in your community waving the little tricolor cactus Eagle, yelling in Spanish demanding special treatment and exempt from the police ever interacting with them, because they've been promised by your local area NGOs that they can make that happen for them.
You want to know what to do with these people? You simply just treat them like shit. In English and in Spanish. They really do not enjoy being hassled and it really bothers them, and La Toxicas among them who spend more time spreading chisme than working will obsess about it, depressing everybody.
When they look for a new place to land when they can't pay the rent, they look for where they won't get hassled... when they ding your car at Wal-Mart that you don't automatically pull out the baseball bat and start filming. Mexicans who live here and are US Citizens are tired of these endless waves and all their shitty little demands.
Treating them like shit really does ruin their day, more than any other kind of immigrant. You want them to stop knocking on your door asking to mow your lawn make a sign for your front door that says this:
NO ANDO PARA PINCHES JOTOS DE RANCHO TOCANDO A MI PUERTA. LĆRGATE A GUANAJUATO A PEDIR DE PUERTA EN PUERTA.
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since i put a pause on launching my streaming debut to take some time to make /just/ videos and get comfortable in front of a camera, i wanted to share some of the looping stream screens i made!
i'll be sure to announce whenever i do end up streaming LOLL
The bullwhip effect has suppliers suffering the greatest financial pain. But suppliers have learned through experience. The compute and power supply chain companies have been weary of the AI cycle. Many required multi-year guaranteed offtake commitments or large cancellation penalties from credit-worthy counterparties before expanding capacity, preparing for if/when demand sagged. So maybe those at the end of the chain make it out ok if the cycle goes bad. Those at the front of the chain would suffer the losses.
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You don't need Redux for 90% of React apps.
React Context + useReducer, or something tiny like Zustand, covers most cases with a fraction of the boilerplate.
Change my mind.
#ReactJS #StateManagement #Frontend
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Full, detailed description of the Battle of the Trident in the play | Act II of āGame of Thrones: The Mad King | Part 2/2 š
Suddenly, Robert and the puppets disappear, and Rhaegar is left alone on stage. Thereās a music change to show that heās starting to have a vision, and we hear the sound of a dragon shrieking.
A giant dragon puppet, with black and red scales as well as bright red eyes, appears on stage, with flashing red lights. This is presumably Drogon, although it hasnāt been confirmed. Rhaegar is almost frozen, looking at the dragon in complete awe. There is string-based music playing, very different melodically to what we were hearing on the battle.
The dragon continues shrieking while red lights flash behind it, and slowly approaches Rhaegar, who is still shocked. Rhaegar takes a few steps back at first, but eventually approaches the dragon and meets him in the middle of the stage. The dragon comes closer to the ground.
Rhaegar slowly tries to touch the dragonās snout, and at first the dragon recoils, shrieking. But then, the dragon lowers its head again, and Rhaegar this time successfully touches and softly caresses its snout. The dragon is calm, and accepts his touch. They have a short, almost bonding moment.
Suddenly, a heavily pregnant Lyanna Stark appears on stage, right behind the dragon. The dragon turns around and bows to her, before flying high upwards and shrieking. Lyanna slowly walks off stage, and after sheās gone, the dragon very slowly flies off stage too. Rhaegar is in complete shock.
The puppets and Robert return, indicating the end of the vision, but Rhaegarās mind is clearly elsewhere now. His puppet looks upward and screams āLYANNA!ā before extending his arms out, almost like heās accepting his impending death.
Puppet Robert hits puppet Rhaegar in the chest with his warhammer. Puppet Rhaegar and real Rhaegar are both thrown back together (real Rhaegar of course being held up by other performers for safety, before being laid down on the ground). Two puppeteers appear holding and lightly shaking sticks with smaller sticks attached to them (they kinda look like giant scalp massagers), and with bright red ārubiesā at the ends of them, to simulate Rhaegarās rubies flying off.
Rhaegar is dead, laying on the ground. Robert goes into a fit of rage, and starts hitting Rhaegarās dead body over and over with his hammer. By the third time he hits him, Rhaegar gets up (symbolizing his soul leaving his body) and starts walking towards the other end of the stage, into a literal light at the end of the tunnel. Robert continues swinging his hammer at ānothingā about six more times, until Ned and other soldiers run on stage to stop him.
Ned gets in front of Robert and puts his hands on his chest and face. He repeatedly says āLook at me, Rob. Look at me!ā which successfully calms Robert down. He and Ned embrace and gaze into each otherās eyes. Robert then lets go and looks around him, now fully out of his trance.
Robert: The glory is ours! THE GLORY IS OURS! (The soldiers all cheer)
A soldier drags in an injured Barristan Selmy, pointing his sword at his neck.
Soldier: Barristan the Bold, my lord. May I make you a gift of his head?
Robert looks at Ned, who lightly shakes his head at him.
Robert: Iāll not kill a man for loyalty, nor for fighting well. Take him to my own maesters. These men are enemies no more! Help them to their feet, embrace them as brothers, tend to their wounds.
Robert winces in pain, grabs his injured leg and starts to lose his balance. Ned runs to catch him and they embrace, touching foreheads. The rest of the soldiers leave the stage.
Ned: The wounds of your own need stitching.
Robert: Lyanna. I must to Lyanna!
Ned: (Puts his hand on Robertās chest) Not before we take Kingās Landing, Rob! Only then can it end.
They walk off stage together, their arms around each other.
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āį° art by frennarts, commissioned by Rubylovescatby
ALT Art by frennarts, commissioned by Rubylovescatby
What's most changing in tech jobs right now:
Declining:
ā¢ Front-end engineer: ā51%
ā¢ iOS/Android engineer: ā46%
ā¢ UX researcher: ā45%
ā¢ Product designer: ā28% (record low)
Rising:
ā¢ Forward deployed engineer: 4.6x
ā¢ Hardware engineer: 2x
ā¢ AI engineer: +46%
ā¢ Security engineer: +34%
Plan accordingly.
(Based on % change in open roles over the past year)
STATE OF THE TECH JOB MARKET IN 2026
Twice a year, I dig into trends in hiring and job openings. This is the fifth report I've done, and the most surprising yet:
1. PMs are winning in the AI era
2. Engineering demand has stalled
3. Design openings are at a record low
4. Every role now requires AI skills
5. Tech jobs are concentrating in the Bay Area
6. Remote roles are at a record low
7. The tech job market is growing fast, but mostly outside of software (gasp!)
Full report here: lennysnewsletter.com/p/stateā¦
Full, detailed description of the Battle of the Trident in the play | Act II of āGame of Thrones: The Mad King | Part 1/2 āļøš”ļø
Start of the Battle. The women (Catelyn and Rhaella on stage, Lyanna, Elia and Ashara on balconies) are singing the Motherās Hymn. As they sing, the battleās combatants appear on stage.
On one side of the stage (where Catelyn is) are the Rebels, led by Robert and Ned at the front. On the opposite side (where Rhaella is), the Loyalists, led by Rhaegar, who is wearing his black armor with rubies in his chest that form the shape of a three-headed dragon. He is flanked by Lewyn, Jonothor, and Barristan. They all take their swords out, yelling, and each faction runs towards each other.
Thereās a blackout, during which the singing stops and the women leave the stage. When the lights come back on, all the soldiers are in different positions, to show weāre in the middle of the battle, and moving in slow motion. Thereās blue lighting, presumably to show that theyāre in and around the river Trident. Also, heavy percussion-based battle music.
Lewyn and Jonothor are facing each other in the middle of the stage.
Jonothor: Fuck your fickle Dornish sand snakes!
Lewyn: Look to your own men, Darry! Theyāve no beloved princess to fight for. Only an adulterous prince and a Mad King!
Lewyn attacks Jonothor, and they have a sword fight while everyone else continues to move in slow motion. Lewyn kills Jonothor. Stage goes dark.
Lights come back on, and Lewyn and Jonothor are both gone. Battle continues in slow motion with several performers on stage, and heavy fog effects. After a few seconds of chaotic, scattered fighting, Robert gets on the center of the stage, and starts going berserk at any soldier who tries to get close to him. He fights like a beast, swinging his hammer and killing everyone while calling for Rhaegar to come out and face him.
Robert: Rhaegar! RHAEGAR! Come out and face me!
The stage goes completely dark again, and we hear a horse neighing. When the lights come back on, a puppet Rhaegar appears on horseback (Noah, the actual Rhaegar actor, is helping control his puppet). Rhaegar rides towards Robert, who swings his hammer at him to try to knock him off his horse, unsuccessfully.
Then, a giant Robert puppet appears on stage, and Callum, the actual Robert actor, moves behind it to help control it. Puppet Robert then successfully knocks puppet Rhaegar off his horse using his warhammer, and thereās a splashing sound to indicate Rhaegar falling in the river. The two puppets then proceed to slowly walk towards each other, again each controlled by a team of puppeteers plus their respective actors, who speak lines of dialogue for them. Each time a puppet āspeaksā, their heads move.
Rhaegar: Lay down your arms, Robert! Bend the knee, and you shall be pardoned. Let us end this war together!
Robert: Fight me, coward!
The puppets start fighting each other in a short sequence with use of slow motion and blackouts. Rhaegar wounds Robert in the leg. The puppets leave, and we go back to the real actors. Robert is kneeling on the ground, wincing in pain.
Rhaegar: Yield!
Robert gets up and starts fighting Rhaegar again. Robert swings his hammer at him many times, but Rhaegar always manages to block or dodge it. Robert is fighting to kill Rhaegar, while Rhaegar is in full defensive mode and doesnāt seem to want to kill Robert.
Their puppets appear back on stage, and the Rhaegar puppet chokes the Robert one.
Rhaegar: Yield!
Robert: Never! (Headbutts Rhaegar)
The two puppets fight a bit more, and then we transition again to the real actors. Rhaegar knocks Robert to the ground and continues choking him from behind.
Rhaegar: Yield!
Robert knocks Rhaegar off him and gets back up. The puppets appear again, with Robert on his knees and Rhaegar standing in front of him with his sword pointed at Robertās throat.
Rhaegar: Yield and be pardoned!
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āį° Tomasz Jedruszek
ALT Art by Tomasz Jedruszek
During Ottoman period, many Greek Christians, in Constantinople and Crete, pretended to be Muslims in order to avoid torture, rape and death but in reality remained Christians. They dressed like the Turks, accepted circumcision, prayed in the mosque, and observed all the other religious customs of the Turks. Inside their homes, however, they kept icons of Christian saints and performed the services of their true faith, with the help of crypto-Christian priests who simultaneously wore the attire of dervishes. These crypto-Christians formed distinct communities among the Turks and married among themselves, thus preserving their national homogeneity as well.
In 1570ā71, Cyprus was subjugated by the Muslim Turks, and many Greeks were forcibly converted to Islam. However, many of them became "crypto-Christians" and even acquired the nickname "linovamvakoi," meaning made of linen and cotton, since they had a dual conscience and dual faith.
The most "spectacular" execution for the Muslim Turks was the dismemberment of the victim and the public display of the severed limbs. Muslims would tie them up and either bisect them into two pieces or cut them into many small pieces. This was their favorite torture, apart from flaying the skin while alive or impaling (staking). It was carried out publicly and given a festive character. When, toward the end of the 15th century, the Turks defeated the Venetians in the Peloponnese, they captured 500 prisoners and sent them to the City (Constantinople). There, they bisected all of them.
Many times, Christian captives were placed in front of cannons that were fired, and they were turned into human rags of flesh. In other cases, they were tied to galleys that sailed in opposite directions and were torn apart. Dismemberment of victims was also carried out with horses, as in Western Europe. But the Turks surpassed the Europeans in barbarity, since they displayed the pieces of the victim on scaffolds and trees.
If you want to support me in the effort Iām making, please consider becoming a subscriber to my X account for only $2. I write about the ancient, medieval, and modern history of Greece and what Christians went through because of Islam. Always with primary sources and historical facts. Thanks for reading me and for all the support.
- Homer Pavlos
If you all arenāt paying attention to the wisdom Josh is spitting on these topics because heās just some āticked off divorced dudeā you are doing yourself a huge disservice.
If the message coming from someone who has never been divorced and enjoys the heck out of his 3 decade+ long marriage here you go - Iād say heās absolutely correct - it is simply being pragmatic about the real world - and the more you lean into the raw truth of it the more easily you can navigate it.
If youāre a wife who isnāt invested in pursuing your best self because you expect your husband to be some better version of himself worthy of your investment first - be careful what you wish for.
If he gets too far out in front of you it might be game over before you can catch up once you realize he expects you to catch up or be left behind for good.
If youāre a husband who is blessed with a wife who is investing regardless of what you are doing you need to match and even better exceed her investment , or you might find yourself on the receiving end of the family court system.
āBut Rob, vows were said. Itās not a race and itās highly immoral to look at it that wayā.
Agreed - that doesnāt make it any less the reality of what is actually happening in many many modern marriages where the state has made your marriage vows illegal and unenforceable.
The best way for you to never have to contemplate the morality is to never put yourself in the position to have to in the first place. You do that by continual good faith investment in your given role, be it husband or wife.
Do you want to do marriage the easy way or the hard way? -R
I want my future girlfriendās friends to know exactly what kind of dynamic we have.
Sheās the confident one, Iām the obedient one, and she has no problem teasing me about it in front of everyone š
Honestly, Iād probably end up becoming the unofficial mascot of the whole friend group.
#Cuckold #Femdom #Submission #AfterDark