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guid: https://www.uncaptured.media/p/disgraced-cia-director-looks-to-cash
title: Disgraced CIA director Looks to Cash-In on Gaza Concentration Camps
author: ;Dan Cohen
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[unable to retrieve full-text content]General David Petraeus heads a U.S. plan to convert the Gaza Strip into a grid of walled-off biometric concentration camps. Will Netanyahu accept it?

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title: Google Chrome and Manifest V3 Testing
author: ;Titus Tech Talk
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guid: https://christitus.com/microsoft-recall-situation/
title: The Microsoft Recall Situation
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<p>The Microsoft Recall situation is a serious issue as the feature has been spotted in all systems that are updated in 24H2. Let’s go over what this feature is and how it is implemented depending on your system.</p>
<h2 data-sanitized-id="what-is-recall">What is Recall</h2>
<p>Microsoft Recall is a feature that takes screenshots every 5 seconds and OCR’s what is on your screen so it can “recall” anything you have done on your PC. This feature is a serious privacy concern as it can capture sensitive information. Microsoft has promised that it only stores this data locally and does not send it to their servers.</p>
<h2 data-sanitized-id="recall-on-24h2">Recall on 24H2</h2>
<p>This feature was initially said to only work with ARM-based CPUs with a Copilot+ chip or NPU chip. However, it has been spotted on all systems that have been updated to 24H2. What is it doing and is it active on all these x86 systems?</p>
<h2 data-sanitized-id="how-to-check-or-disable-recall-feature">How to Check or Disable Recall Feature</h2>
<div data-sanitized-class="highlight"><pre tabindex="0" data-sanitized-class="chroma"><code data-lang="fallback" data-sanitized-class="language-fallback"><span data-sanitized-class="line"><span data-sanitized-class="cl">DISM /Online /Get-FeatureInfo /FeatureName:Recall
</span></span></code></pre></div><p>Disable Recall</p>
<div data-sanitized-class="highlight"><pre tabindex="0" data-sanitized-class="chroma"><code data-lang="fallback" data-sanitized-class="language-fallback"><span data-sanitized-class="line"><span data-sanitized-class="cl">DISM /Online /Disable-Feature /FeatureName:Recall
</span></span></code></pre></div><p><em>Note: removing recall feature from an offline image breaks the new file explorer reverting its look to the old one.</em></p>
<p>Source files referenced in Feature located in <code>C:\Windows\SystemApps\MicrosoftWindows.Client.AIX_cw5n1h2txyewy</code></p>
<p><img loading="lazy" src="https://christitus.com/images/2024/microsoft-recall-situation/recall-aix-files.png" alt="" data-sanitized-class="img-fluid"> </p>
<h2 data-sanitized-id="recall-requirements">Recall Requirements</h2>
<ul>
<li>A Copilot+ PC
<ul>
<li>Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X Elite processors</li>
<li>Intel’s Core Ultra processors</li>
<li>AMD’s AI 300 Series processors</li>
<li>Besides the Copilot+ Certification, it maybe possible with any CPU with a NPU chip.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Windows 24H2</li>
<li>16 GB RAM</li>
<li>8 logical processors</li>
<li>256 GB storage capacity
<ul>
<li>To enable Recall, you need at least 50 GB of space free</li>
<li>Snapshot capture automatically pauses once the device has less than 25 GB of disk space available</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<h2 data-sanitized-id="explorer-recall-problems">Explorer Recall Problems</h2>
<p>If you remove Recall from an offline image, the new file explorer will break and revert to the old one. This is was originally thought to be from the removal of the Recall feature, but it is actually due to the removal of the AIX package which in turn removes the <code>Microsoft.WindowsAppRuntime.CBS_cw5n1h2txyewy</code> package.</p>
<p>This CBS package is a library responsible for the new file explorer and removing it will revert the file explorer to the old one.</p>
<p>So why did this happen? The AIX package (AKA Recall) manifest references the CBS package, so when you remove the AIX package, it removes the CBS package as well. MicrosoftWindows.Client.FileExp_cw5n1h2txyewy (File Explorer) is dependent on the Microsoft.WindowsAppRuntime.CBS_cw5n1h2txyewy package but it is not referenced in the File Explorer manifest.</p>
<p>This would cause the new file explorer to break and revert to the old one because that package is a library that gives the new look to explorer with tabs.</p>
<h3 data-sanitized-id="the-explorer-fix-in-offline-images">The Explorer Fix in Offline Images</h3>
<p>To fix the new file explorer in offline images, you need to add the <code>Microsoft.WindowsAppRuntime.CBS_cw5n1h2txyewy</code> package back to the image. This can be done by adding the package back to the image using the following command:</p>
<p>This was done in pull request #2947 Source: <a href="https://github.com/ChrisTitusTech/winutil/pull/2947/files">https://github.com/ChrisTitusTech/winutil/pull/2947/files</a></p>
<div data-sanitized-class="highlight"><pre tabindex="0" data-sanitized-class="chroma"><code data-lang="fallback" data-sanitized-class="language-fallback"><span data-sanitized-class="line"><span data-sanitized-class="cl"> # Detect Windows 11 24H2 and add dependency to FileExp to prevent Explorer look from going back - thanks @WitherOrNot and @thecatontheceiling
</span></span><span data-sanitized-class="line"><span data-sanitized-class="cl"> if ((Test-CompatibleImage $imgVersion $([System.Version]::new(10,0,26100,1))) -eq $true)
</span></span><span data-sanitized-class="line"><span data-sanitized-class="cl"> {
</span></span><span data-sanitized-class="line"><span data-sanitized-class="cl"> try
</span></span><span data-sanitized-class="line"><span data-sanitized-class="cl"> {
</span></span><span data-sanitized-class="line"><span data-sanitized-class="cl"> if (Test-Path "$scratchDir\Windows\SystemApps\MicrosoftWindows.Client.FileExp_cw5n1h2txyewy\appxmanifest.xml" -PathType Leaf)
</span></span><span data-sanitized-class="line"><span data-sanitized-class="cl"> {
</span></span><span data-sanitized-class="line"><span data-sanitized-class="cl"> # Found the culprit. Do the following:
</span></span><span data-sanitized-class="line"><span data-sanitized-class="cl">
</span></span><span data-sanitized-class="line"><span data-sanitized-class="cl"> # 1. Take ownership of the file, from TrustedInstaller to Administrators
</span></span><span data-sanitized-class="line"><span data-sanitized-class="cl"> takeown /F "$scratchDir\Windows\SystemApps\MicrosoftWindows.Client.FileExp_cw5n1h2txyewy\appxmanifest.xml" /A
</span></span><span data-sanitized-class="line"><span data-sanitized-class="cl">
</span></span><span data-sanitized-class="line"><span data-sanitized-class="cl"> # 2. Set ACLs so that we can write to it
</span></span><span data-sanitized-class="line"><span data-sanitized-class="cl"> icacls "$scratchDir\Windows\SystemApps\MicrosoftWindows.Client.FileExp_cw5n1h2txyewy\appxmanifest.xml" /grant "$(Get-LocalizedUsers -admins $true):(M)" | Out-Host
</span></span><span data-sanitized-class="line"><span data-sanitized-class="cl">
</span></span><span data-sanitized-class="line"><span data-sanitized-class="cl"> # 3. Open the file and do the modification
</span></span><span data-sanitized-class="line"><span data-sanitized-class="cl"> $appxManifest = Get-Content -Path "$scratchDir\Windows\SystemApps\MicrosoftWindows.Client.FileExp_cw5n1h2txyewy\appxmanifest.xml"
</span></span><span data-sanitized-class="line"><span data-sanitized-class="cl"> $originalLine = $appxManifest[13]
</span></span><span data-sanitized-class="line"><span data-sanitized-class="cl"> $dependency = "`n &lt;PackageDependency Name=`"Microsoft.WindowsAppRuntime.CBS`" MinVersion=`"1.0.0.0`" Publisher=`"CN=Microsoft Corporation, O=Microsoft Corporation, L=Redmond, S=Washington, C=US`" /&gt;"
</span></span><span data-sanitized-class="line"><span data-sanitized-class="cl"> $appxManifest[13] = "$originalLine$dependency"
</span></span><span data-sanitized-class="line"><span data-sanitized-class="cl"> Set-Content -Path "$scratchDir\Windows\SystemApps\MicrosoftWindows.Client.FileExp_cw5n1h2txyewy\appxmanifest.xml" -Value $appxManifest -Force -Encoding utf8
</span></span></code></pre></div><h2 data-sanitized-id="credits">Credits</h2>
<p>Big shoutout to WitherorNot, CodingWonders, fish bazooka, and thecatontheceiling for figuring out the fix for the new file explorer in offline images and tracking down this information.</p>
<h2 data-sanitized-id="walkthrough-video">Walkthrough Video</h2>
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title: Equality vs. Equity: The crisis of race-based admissions in Canadian universities
author: ;Lisa P
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<p data-sanitized-class="">By Patrick Keeney | The Epoch Times</p><p data-sanitized-class=""><strong>Summary</strong></p><p data-sanitized-class="">Toronto Metropolitan University’s recent decision to reserve seats in its new medical school<a href="https://nationalpost.com/opinion/bruce-pardy-at-tmu-medical-school-some-students-are-more-equal-than-others" target="_blank"><span> based on race and identity</span></a> is far from an isolated instance, and represents a broader shift in Canadian universities. The movement from equality of opportunity to equity has redefined how institutions approach admissions, hiring, and advancement, but this explicit form of race-based discrimination directly contradicts the values that have long shaped Canadian society—the principle that discrimination based on race is wrong and has no place in a civilized world.</p><p data-sanitized-class="">The legal framework in Canada allows for such policies, but critics warn that prioritizing proportional representation based on race, gender, and identity could compromise the pursuit of excellence in academia.</p><p data-sanitized-class="">As Queen’s University law professor <a href="https://nationalpost.com/news/politics/aristotle-foundation-for-public-policy-report" target="_blank">Bruce Pardy aptly notes</a>, “In Canada, discrimination is lawful as long as it is committed against the right groups—and in particular against straight white men.” </p><p data-sanitized-class=""><a href="https://www.theepochtimes.com/opinion/equality-vs-equity-the-crisis-of-race-based-admissions-in-canadian-universities-5746391" target="_blank">Continue reading at the publisher’s website here</a>.</p>

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https://www.rightsprobe.org/read/equality-vs-equity-the-crisis-of-race-based-admissions-in-canadian-universities

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guid: https://canadianpatriotreview.substack.com/p/peter-nygard-transhumanism-perversion
title: Peter Nygård: Transhumanism, Perversion, Eugenics &amp; Human Cattle
author: ;Canadian Patriot Review
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<h2>By Andrew Laverdiere</h2><h2><em>Preface.</em></h2><p><em>This investigation parallels the Jeffrey Epstein and Jimmy Savile cases in certain similarities, particularly the mass abuse of young females. To put him in context, I present this brief snippet of Jeffrey Epstein. After years at financial brokerage Bear Stearns, Epstein was picked up by Ohio billionaire Leslie Wexner, owner of Limited Brands, more widely known for its Victoria’s Secret chain of women’s scanty lingerie emporia, and pornographic catalogues and TV ads.</em></p><p><em>Through Wexner’s sponsorship, Epstein became the money manager of choice for the Mega Group, a secretive network of pro-Israel billionaires, implicated in a series of Israeli espionage probes in the late 1990s and early 2000s. Wexner has been linked to organized crime families in Ohio, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey. These ties may resurface, as the FBI digs deeper into the allegations that Epstein shuttled under-aged girls around the United States and the British Commonwealth, to service his friends and clients, including Prince Andrew which ties him in with revelations about a pedophile ring operating in high society, including within Buckingham Palace.</em></p><p><em>At the same time, Catherine Mayer’s biography has drawn attention to the status Prince Charles accorded the late Jimmy Savile—a TV personality and notorious pedophile (exposed as such only after his death in 2011)—as friend, confidant, adviser, and even “key aide,” as one newspaper account put it.</em></p><p><em>A 2013 Scotland Yard report cited abuse by Savile “on an unprecedented scale,” shown in complaints by 450 people, covering the period 1955-2009 and victims aged 8 to 47, particularly at the Kincora Boys Home in Ireland. To a lesser extent is the Harvey Weinstein case and his abuse of the Hollywood system in order to prey on women.</em></p><h2><strong>Nygård, Epstein and the Picture of Dorian Grey</strong></h2><p>I was alerted to Nygård by the offhand account of a co-host of a Kim Dotcom Twitter podcast discussing the Bitcoin crisis, who recalled the time that he was working for a Billionaire who would travel around the world in order to receive injections that would make him live forever. When hearing that, the Oscar Wilde story “Picture Of Dorian Grey” came to mind.</p><div data-sanitized-class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0f47f570-be2e-431c-bbba-472f87cce589_723x547.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM" data-sanitized-class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img"><div data-sanitized-class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0f47f570-be2e-431c-bbba-472f87cce589_723x547.jpeg" width="723" height="547" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/0f47f570-be2e-431c-bbba-472f87cce589_723x547.jpeg","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":547,"width":723,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":null,"alt":"","title":null,"type":null,"href":null,"belowTheFold":false,"topImage":true,"internalRedirect":null,"isProcessing":false}' alt="" title="" fetchpriority="high" data-sanitized-class="sizing-normal"></picture><div data-sanitized-class="image-link-expand"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container restack-image"><path d="M3 12a9 9 0 0 1 9-9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1 6.74 2.74L21 8"></path><path d="M21 3v5h-5"></path><path d="M21 12a9 9 0 0 1-9 9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1-6.74-2.74L3 16"></path><path d="M8 16H3v5"></path></div><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container view-image"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></div></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>After I sent him a private message, he informed me that he had worked for Peter Nygård and that he fully believed that someday they would be able to make us live forever. Seeing that his entire twitter feed was solely focused on the masturbatory fantasy of virtual money, it wasn’t a stretch to think that he would fall for the snake oil of transhumanism.</p><p>When researching the background of transhumanism, I was amused by a comment by Lyndon LaRouche in his April 13 2000 article “Information Society: A Doomed Empire Of Evil” that references Wilde:</p><blockquote><p>“<em>For as far back into pre-history as our present knowledge can reach, the most efficient way to destroy a human culture, is the sneaky way, to induce it to doom itself. Writer Oscar Wilde describes such a process of corruption in his allegorical The Picture Of Dorian Grey.” See appendix below for a synopsis of the story.</em></p></blockquote><p>To recap the story, Wilde tells which is similar to the Faust story and the search for knowledge of everything at the cost of his soul, it revolves around three people; Dorian Gray, an innocent youth of 20, an aristocratic upper crust figure whose life revolves around music and the social scene of the Victorian era, the painter Basil Hallward who treats Gray as a muse for his paintings, and Lord Henry Wotton, the worldly cynic who corrupts Gray.</p><p>The book opens with Hallward painting a perfect likeness of Dorian. Lord Wotton pays a visit and impresses Dorian with the fact that as of now, his youth and beauty were going to vanish and he would eventually wind up old and ugly which sparked a crisis in Dorian. When the painting is finished, Dorian breaks down in tears and wishes to remain young forever and the painting to grow old instead which causes Hallward to accuse Lord Wotton of corrupting Dorian and then threatens to destroy the painting.</p><div data-sanitized-class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F53108bd4-3235-4b05-a233-dd5918201528_630x673.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM" data-sanitized-class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img"><div data-sanitized-class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F53108bd4-3235-4b05-a233-dd5918201528_630x673.jpeg" width="630" height="673" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/53108bd4-3235-4b05-a233-dd5918201528_630x673.jpeg","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":673,"width":630,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":null,"alt":"","title":null,"type":null,"href":null,"belowTheFold":true,"topImage":false,"internalRedirect":null,"isProcessing":false}' alt="" title="" loading="lazy" data-sanitized-class="sizing-normal"></picture><div data-sanitized-class="image-link-expand"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container restack-image"><path d="M3 12a9 9 0 0 1 9-9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1 6.74 2.74L21 8"></path><path d="M21 3v5h-5"></path><path d="M21 12a9 9 0 0 1-9 9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1-6.74-2.74L3 16"></path><path d="M8 16H3v5"></path></div><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container view-image"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></div></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>In a reference to the myth of Narcissus, Dorian stops Hallward because he has fallen in love with the painting.</p><p>In a poignant quip, Wilde says through Lord Wotton <em>“When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one’s self, and one always ends by deceiving others, that is what the world calls romance.</em>” Dorian first notices a change in the painting when he spurns the attention of a young actress which results in her suicide.</p><p>In a foreshadowing of his growing paranoia, he moves the painting up to an unused childrens play room in the attic and locks and bars the room.</p><p>His life after becomes a transit of various intellectual fads popular during that time but hints at Grays tendency to haunt the more unsavory localities in London without saying anything explicitly. This is punctuated by Gray occasionally visiting the painting in order to gape at the increasing horrible visage appearing on the canvas. Wilde then describes the dilettantes of his day by his description of the various “intellectual” activities of the upper crust British aristocrats, <em>“Its aim, indeed, was to be experience itself, and not the fruits of experience, sweet or bitter as they might be. Of the asceticism that deadens the senses, as of the vulgar profligacy that dulls them, it was to know nothing. But it was to teach man to concentrate himself upon the moments of a life that is itself but a moment.”</em></p><p>After this course of events has gone on for a decade, Gray is paid a visit by Basil Hallward who was heading to France for an extended visit. He hasn’t seen Dorian for some time but has heard the most awful rumors about Dorian being involved in fights and other unsavory behavior that is becoming the talk of the town. After recounting an extensive list of scandals, he demands to know if they are true or not, although he admits that its none of his business in any case, but feels the need to defend his friend if only he would confirm or deny.</p><p>In response, Dorian leads Basil up to the attic where he throws the cover off and displays the grotesque scene now displayed. At first Hallward is totally stunned and shocked that it could be his painting, but after examining his signature and special touches, comes to the horrible realization of the events that transpired when the painting was finished and of what Dorian has become.</p><p>In a scene reminiscent of the Commendatore scene in Mozarts opera Don Giovanni, Hallward urges Gray to reform himself. Dorian responds by murdering Hallward with a knife. Stuck with a corpse in his attic, it requires bringing the figure of chemist Alan Campbell to the scene and blackmailing him to dispose of the body by chemical dissolution. Dorian thinks that he’s accomplished the perfect murder, but, like the <em>Tell Tale Heart </em>in Edgar Allen Poes story, the blood calls out.</p><p>Even after months have passed, Alan Campbell has committed suicide and the rumors about Hallwards disappearance are raging about the city. In order to satisfy his morbid curiosity, Dorian checks the painting and is shocked to see blood stains covering his legs. In a fit of rage, he then tries to destroy the painting with the knife used to kill Basil. The screams resulting wake everyone, and by means of climbing through the roof, discover a wizened and decrepit body with a knife stuck through its chest and a painting that has returned to its original state of Dorian Gray in his youthful 20 years of age.</p><p>By examining the rings on his fingers, its determined that the body is Dorian. A proper comment about this situation is commented on by Wilde, <em>“Society, civilized society at least, is never ready to believe anything to the detriment of those who are both rich and charming. It feels instinctively that manners are of more importance than morals, and the highest respectability is of less value in its opinion than the possession of a good chef.”</em></p><h1>The Strange Case of Peter Nygård</h1><p>Peter Nygård was born Pekka Juhani Nygård in Helsinki, Finland, on July 24, 1941. His parents emigrated to Deloraine, Manitoba, Canada, in 1952, when Nygård was around eleven years old.</p><p>In 1964, Nygård graduated from the University of North Dakota with a business degree. Nygård established Nygård Apparel Manufacturing Company, later re-branded “Nygård International”, in Winnipeg in 1967. The company’s Canadian headquarters were located on King Street in Toronto, Ontario, while its world headquarters were located in Times Square, New York, New York, United States. As of 2020, the companies are currently in receivership following his arrangement in Toronto over sex trafficking charges. Wikipedia currently lists a large number of legal cases Nygård has been involved in regarding shady business dealings, tax evasion, and an extensive list of sexual abuse allegations. He has 10 children by 8 different women.</p><div data-sanitized-class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2217e04f-485f-48a3-b948-1c61dfc84f72_750x563.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM" data-sanitized-class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img"><div data-sanitized-class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2217e04f-485f-48a3-b948-1c61dfc84f72_750x563.jpeg" width="750" height="563" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/2217e04f-485f-48a3-b948-1c61dfc84f72_750x563.jpeg","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":563,"width":750,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":null,"alt":"","title":null,"type":null,"href":null,"belowTheFold":true,"topImage":false,"internalRedirect":null,"isProcessing":false}' alt="" title="" loading="lazy" data-sanitized-class="sizing-normal"></picture><div data-sanitized-class="image-link-expand"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container restack-image"><path d="M3 12a9 9 0 0 1 9-9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1 6.74 2.74L21 8"></path><path d="M21 3v5h-5"></path><path d="M21 12a9 9 0 0 1-9 9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1-6.74-2.74L3 16"></path><path d="M8 16H3v5"></path></div><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container view-image"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></div></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>Beginning in 1984, Nygård purchased a beach bungalow at Lyford Cay, Nassau Bahamas, an exclusive gated community populated by folks involved in offshore banking for $1.7 Million. In 1987 Nygård built a 14,000-square-meter (150,000 sq ft) compound. Around 2010, he announced a $50 million expansion of Nygård Cay which eventually landed him in trouble with the Bahama government over dredging and beach expansion. After seizure by the government, the facility is currently abandoned and in disrepair. The facility has been covered on numerous television programs like “Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous” and his “pamper parties” brought famous personalities such as George H. W. Bush, Prince Andrew, Robert DeNiro, Oprah Winfrey, Shawn Connery, Michael Jackson, Lee Iacocca, Jessica Alba, and Sylvester Stallone.</p><div data-sanitized-class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0958af45-07a5-45db-8ca7-c3edcc30c6b7_750x450.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM" data-sanitized-class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img"><div data-sanitized-class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0958af45-07a5-45db-8ca7-c3edcc30c6b7_750x450.jpeg" width="750" height="450" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/0958af45-07a5-45db-8ca7-c3edcc30c6b7_750x450.jpeg","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":450,"width":750,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":null,"alt":"","title":null,"type":null,"href":null,"belowTheFold":true,"topImage":false,"internalRedirect":null,"isProcessing":false}' alt="" title="" loading="lazy" data-sanitized-class="sizing-normal"></picture><div data-sanitized-class="image-link-expand"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container restack-image"><path d="M3 12a9 9 0 0 1 9-9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1 6.74 2.74L21 8"></path><path d="M21 3v5h-5"></path><path d="M21 12a9 9 0 0 1-9 9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1-6.74-2.74L3 16"></path><path d="M8 16H3v5"></path></div><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container view-image"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></div></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>To put its location in context however, Nassau Bahamas was the original headquarters of Dope Inc. when Meyer Lansky set up Resorts International in 1961 after fleeing Cuba. 75% of drugs coming to the United States go through the Bahamas and Canadian Banks exclusively launder drug money at banks in Nassau.</p><div data-sanitized-class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa56328db-0f0c-4e7c-87a1-03e7174e2fa6_750x419.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM" data-sanitized-class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img"><div data-sanitized-class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa56328db-0f0c-4e7c-87a1-03e7174e2fa6_750x419.jpeg" width="750" height="419" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/a56328db-0f0c-4e7c-87a1-03e7174e2fa6_750x419.jpeg","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":419,"width":750,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":null,"alt":"","title":null,"type":null,"href":null,"belowTheFold":true,"topImage":false,"internalRedirect":null,"isProcessing":false}' alt="" title="" loading="lazy" data-sanitized-class="sizing-normal"></picture><div data-sanitized-class="image-link-expand"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container restack-image"><path d="M3 12a9 9 0 0 1 9-9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1 6.74 2.74L21 8"></path><path d="M21 3v5h-5"></path><path d="M21 12a9 9 0 0 1-9 9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1-6.74-2.74L3 16"></path><path d="M8 16H3v5"></path></div><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container view-image"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></div></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>Most of the alleged sex abuse cases occurred at the Bahamas location but incidents in the United States and Canada are listed going back to 1968. Around 2005, after building a concrete pad for extra parking on his neighbors property, a dispute escalated into a battle royale encompassing no fewer than 16 legal actions between Nygård and his neighbor, hedge fund Billionaire Louis Bacon, in which both sides claimed damages in the tens of millions of dollars and allegations of vandalism, bribery, insider trading, arson, murder, destruction of the fragile seabed, and having a close association with the Ku Klux Klan. Bacons hiring of private investigator Chris Hanson in 2005 began the process that eventually led to Nygårds arrest.</p><div data-sanitized-class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fac3a7deb-de28-4b3c-bb70-661e2e6edb0a_750x426.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM" data-sanitized-class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img"><div data-sanitized-class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fac3a7deb-de28-4b3c-bb70-661e2e6edb0a_750x426.jpeg" width="750" height="426" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/ac3a7deb-de28-4b3c-bb70-661e2e6edb0a_750x426.jpeg","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":426,"width":750,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":null,"alt":"","title":null,"type":null,"href":null,"belowTheFold":true,"topImage":false,"internalRedirect":null,"isProcessing":false}' alt="" title="" loading="lazy" data-sanitized-class="sizing-normal"></picture><div data-sanitized-class="image-link-expand"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container restack-image"><path d="M3 12a9 9 0 0 1 9-9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1 6.74 2.74L21 8"></path><path d="M21 3v5h-5"></path><path d="M21 12a9 9 0 0 1-9 9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1-6.74-2.74L3 16"></path><path d="M8 16H3v5"></path></div><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container view-image"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></div></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>This happened despite decades of  Nygård liberally bribing local Bahama politicians and police to look the other way, most especially, the former Prime Minister <em>Perry Gladstone Christie <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Privy_Counsellor_(United_Kingdom)">PC</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Member_of_Parliament">MP</a></em> who served as PM from 2002 to 2007 and from 2012 to 2017 on his dime. PM Philip “Brave” Davis is quoted at a press conference defending Nygård “I’m appalled at these extremely serious charges.” His trial in Toronto is ongoing and he is facing extradition to New York for trafficking charges.</p><h2>2020 sex trafficking arrest and lawsuits</h2><p>On November 24, 2019, Bahamian police began investigating six allegations of rape made against Nygård. All the alleged victims were under 16. On January 27, 2020, Nygård faced two separate lawsuits after being accused of sexual assault.</p><p>On February 13, 2020, 10 women filed a class-action lawsuit against Nygård in New York, alleging that he had raped them at his Bahamas residence. The alleged attacks took place between 2008 and 2015. The women also alleged that he maintained a sex-trafficking ring, and that seven of the women were under 18 when the attacks took place.</p><p>On February 14, 2020, it was reported that the Bahamian police were investigating the allegations made by four of the women in the class-action suit. On February 25, 2020, the New York headquarters of Nygård International were raided by the FBI and the New York City Police Department in connection with sex trafficking claims. After these, Nygård announced that he would step down from the company and divest his ownership interest. In March 2020, a judge said that there was no evidence Nygård had actually resigned, and that he still owned 100% of the shares of the Nygård group of companies.</p><p>On April 20, 2020, 36 new women joined the class-action suit, bringing the total number of plaintiffs in the sexual assault case to 46. On June 17, 2020, it was reported that 11 more women had joined the class-action lawsuit, bringing the total number of plaintiffs to 57. On July 9, 2020, Nygard filed a motion to dismiss the claims of 52 of the plaintiffs, stating that “numerous deficiencies” barred their claims, and in particular that the claims of 50 of the plaintiffs lacked any connection to New York. He also argued that the statute of limitations had expired for 38 of the plaintiffs.</p><div data-sanitized-class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff805d187-569e-4a15-b0ba-6df4f5ec4e63_750x421.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM" data-sanitized-class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img"><div data-sanitized-class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff805d187-569e-4a15-b0ba-6df4f5ec4e63_750x421.jpeg" width="750" height="421" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/f805d187-569e-4a15-b0ba-6df4f5ec4e63_750x421.jpeg","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":421,"width":750,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":null,"alt":"","title":null,"type":null,"href":null,"belowTheFold":true,"topImage":false,"internalRedirect":null,"isProcessing":false}' alt="" title="" loading="lazy" data-sanitized-class="sizing-normal"></picture><div data-sanitized-class="image-link-expand"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container restack-image"><path d="M3 12a9 9 0 0 1 9-9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1 6.74 2.74L21 8"></path><path d="M21 3v5h-5"></path><path d="M21 12a9 9 0 0 1-9 9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1-6.74-2.74L3 16"></path><path d="M8 16H3v5"></path></div><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container view-image"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></div></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>On August 17, 2020, Nygård was sued by two of his sons on accusations of directing a known sex worker said to be “his girlfriend” to rape them. On August 22, 2020, it was reported that the class-action suit had been placed on hold, the US government having requested a stay of proceedings while the criminal investigation was ongoing.</p><p>On December 15, 2020, it was reported that Nygård had been arrested in Winnipeg for extradition to the US to face charges of sex trafficking by the US attorney’s office in Manhattan. On February 5, 2021, Nygård was denied bail and faced extradition to the US.</p><p>On February 18, 2021, it was reported that a new lawsuit had been filed by one of the class-action plaintiffs, which named Peter Nygård’s niece, Angela Dyborn, as an alleged co-conspirator in the alleged sex-trafficking scheme. On March 26, 2021, Nygård was denied bail for a second time. In April 2021 it was reported that Nygård would face an extradition hearing in November 2021.</p><p>On 1 October 2021, Peter Nygard agreed to be extradited to the US, to face the charges against him that were filed there. The same day Nygard was charged by Toronto police with six counts of sexual assault and three counts of forcible confinement.</p><p>On December 17, 2020, two days after Nygård’s arrest, it was reported that Discovery+ was releasing a series about Peter Nygård’s life entitled Unseamly: The Investigation of Peter Nygård. The documentary aired in February 2021, and included interviews with family members and former Nygård employees.</p><p>On January 25, 2021, CBC Podcasts released the first episode of their podcast, Evil by Design, about the allegations against Nygård. The podcast includes interviews with alleged victims. It was later adopted into a documentary series that appeared on CBC Gem. An episode of Dateline about the Nygard case also aired in December 2021.</p><div data-sanitized-class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F97b21305-b0a5-4e53-a829-c6f1a7a6c158_780x439.avif" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM" data-sanitized-class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img"><div data-sanitized-class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F97b21305-b0a5-4e53-a829-c6f1a7a6c158_780x439.avif" width="780" height="439" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/97b21305-b0a5-4e53-a829-c6f1a7a6c158_780x439.avif","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":439,"width":780,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":null,"alt":"","title":null,"type":null,"href":null,"belowTheFold":true,"topImage":false,"internalRedirect":null,"isProcessing":false}' alt="" title="" loading="lazy" data-sanitized-class="sizing-normal"></picture><div data-sanitized-class="image-link-expand"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container restack-image"><path d="M3 12a9 9 0 0 1 9-9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1 6.74 2.74L21 8"></path><path d="M21 3v5h-5"></path><path d="M21 12a9 9 0 0 1-9 9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1-6.74-2.74L3 16"></path><path d="M8 16H3v5"></path></div><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container view-image"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></div></div></div></div></a></figure></div><h2>Sexual abuse allegations</h2><p>In addition to his alleged sex trafficking ring, over the years Nygard has been accused numerous times of sexual abuse including rape, sexual assault and sexual harassment.</p><p>In 1968 Winnipeg police charged Nygard with a sexual offence, charges that were later dropped after his alleged victim refused to testify.</p><p>In 1980, the Free Press wrote that Winnipeg police charged Nygård with the rape of an 18-year-old girl. Later those charges were stayed because the girl refused to testify. It was later claimed in a lawsuit that Nygård used funds from his companies to pay her off.</p><p>In the 1990s Nygård settled sexual harassment complaints by three former employees in Manitoba.</p><p>In 2015 and 2017, Nygård was looked at by FBI over claims of sex trafficking. He was also investigated by the United States Department of Homeland Security for 9 months in 2016.</p><p>On 1 October 2021, Nygård was charged by Toronto police with six counts of sexual assault and three counts of forcible confinement.</p><p>On December 2, 2021 it was reported that Nygård would face charges by Winnipeg police following a ten month investigation into allegations of sexual assault from eight women against him.</p><h2><em>Lawsuits</em></h2><p>Nygård has been involved in numerous lawsuits before his arrest in 2020, including suits involving alleged abusive labour practices, tax evasion, and conspiring to murder.</p><p>In 1978, Nygård’s takeover of a sportswear designer’s business in New York City led to a 12-year legal battle in New York federal court.</p><p>Nygård settled sexual harassment complaints by three former employees in Manitoba in the 1990s.</p><p>In 1999, Nygård sued Linda Lampenius for defamation concerning her comments about Nygård’s parties with naked women. The case continued until 2001 when Lampenius states she ran out of funds and had to settle, which consisted of publishing an apology in the newspaper Ilta-Sanomat.</p><p>In 2003, Nygård was sued in Florida by an American couple who claimed he deceived them into accepting jobs as managers of his Bahamas estate. The case was settled in 2007.</p><p>In 2005, after Finnish newspaper Iltalehti published an article about sex parties at Nygård’s mansion, even featuring a short interview with Jessica Alba where she had to leave a party at the Nygård Cay mansion (she was there filming Into the Blue) because of the debauchery with young girls going on. Nygård sued the parent company of the paper Alma Media for slander in Los Angeles. Nygård lost the case.</p><p>In 2006, Canadian tax authorities claimed Nygård underreported $15 million in taxes. Nygård argued that he severed residential ties with Canada in 1975; he was ultimately subject to taxes on an unreported $2 million.</p><p>In 2007, a dispute escalated into a battle royale encompassing no fewer than 16 legal actions between Nygård and Louis Bacon and their associates, in which both sides claim damages in the tens of millions of dollars and allegations of vandalism, bribery, insider trading, arson, murder, destruction of the fragile seabed, and having a close association with the Ku Klux Klan.</p><p>In 2008, Nygård was sued in Los Angeles Superior Court by a former girlfriend for slamming a door on her hand. Nygård quickly settled the lawsuit.</p><p>In 2012, Nygård launched a lawsuit against the CBC regarding copyright issues about private videos taken at his residence, which were then used in an April 2010 documentary. He had also launched a copyright complaint with the US District Court in New York and a lawsuit in Manitoba to prevent the piece from airing. He had previously sued two former employees for releasing confidential information and his lawyer claimed CBC harassed many of the employees. Nygård launched a civil suit against his neighbour and the Lyford Cay Property Owners Association alleging they conspired with the CBC to damage his reputation; he also filed a private criminal prosecution against three CBC journalists accusing them of conspiring to discredit him and his clothing empire.</p><p>In 2018, Nygård Cay was seized by the Supreme Court of the Bahamas as part of a legal battle surrounding Nygård’s efforts to dredge the sea floor around the estate.</p><p>In 2019, a warrant was issued after Nygård failed to appear in court multiple times for a sentencing hearing related to two contempt-of-court convictions in the Bahamas.</p><p>In September 2019, the New York Times was caught up in the feud between Nygård and Louis Bacon. The suit claims that the reporters for the paper “tried to steer the individuals to provide information to fit a story” and that reporters wanted to “bring down” Nygård.</p><p>On November 15, 2019, a judge in the Bahamas sentenced Nygård to 90 days in prison and fined him $150,000 after finding he breached a court order prohibiting the disclosure of emails that were stolen from a non-profit group. Nygård subsequently paid the fine, but appealed against the contempt order, and obtained a stay of execution of the prison sentence until his appeal was heard. On February 1, 2021, Nygård’s appeal against the contempt order was dismissed by the Court of Appeal of the Bahamas. On February 4, 2021, Nygård filed a motion requesting leave to appeal to the Privy Council, but the Court of Appeal of the Bahamas refused to grant this. The judge who delivered the refusal stated that Nygård could still apply directly to the Privy Council for leave to appeal.</p><p>According to Chris Hanson during an interview on VladTV <em><a href="https://youtu.be/vKjDl2tayUo">LINK</a></em> “He actually would impregnate underage girls, have them get abortions, then harvest the stem cells from the fetus’, to inject in himself under the belief that it would be more beneficial then random stem cells from another source. He would go to China &amp; other countries to learn how to do this and have it done, and the underage aspect of this is a big part of the investigation but that’s how fare this would allegedly go, to extend his life and his lifestyle.” “…Is being investigated for sexual assault going back five decades involving thousands of women. In Canada, In Los Angeles, in the Bahamas where he had a compound where he would routinely take underage girls, drug them get them drunk, seduce them, and rape them in a most vile &amp; vicious fashion.” Victims would have their passports confiscated and extortion sex with Nygård was required in order to get it back. When victims aged out, they would become recruiters similar to Ghislane Maxwell (Epstein) to bring lots of underage locals to his pamper parties to be drugged and raped.</p><p>At his property in Marina del Rey (a marina community south of Santa Monica) California, his accomplice Daniel Fitzgerald, a builder and renter of exclusive mansions for Hollywood parties would routinely trade female victims and Fitzgerald supplied women for his lavish parties. Fitzgerald is noted for renting mansions to various YouTube stars such as his sale of a $30 million mansion to the Faze Clan online gaming channel. <em><a href="https://youtu.be/-PZQqZ6n25k">Faze Clan</a></em></p><p>When one investigates his involvement in transhumanism, and the various interviews he gives expressing the lofty goals of stem cell research that he was proud to finance through his company Nygård Biotech in the Bahamas in 2009 and the International Stem Cell Society.  Nygård formed a partnership with the Chinese company BGI a leader in genome sequencing in Shenzhen “October 27, 2017 BGI announced a joint effort with George Church and launched the George Church Institute of Regenesis, located in the China National GeneBank in Shenzhen, China. Church reportedly accepted the appointment as the chief scientist of the Institute.” Dr. Jyothi Devakumar is currently working as the principal consultant in Evolvis Consulting, a Singapore based company and also participating in creation of an investment fund focused on financing cutting-edge regenerative medicine and anti-aging companies. She most recently worked as the Vice President and Chief Scientific Officer of Nygard Biotech, She serves on the editorial board of CellR4 and the scientific advisory board of BGI Health.</p><p>Harvard Medical School geneticist George Church helped develop genome sequencing as well as CRISPR genome editing, and founded or advised dozens of biotech companies. Martin Nowak’s Institute.” (Nowak, a Harvard biologist/mathematician, is also a Brockman client and <em><a href="https://www.edge.org/memberbio/martin_nowak">Edge participant</a></em>.) He also met with Epstein “several times” Jefferey Epstein were with Nowak, to whose then-fledgling Program for Evolutionary Dynamics Epstein contributed $6.5 million in 2003, five years before his guilty plea. Church and Nowak have worked together on, among other things, the evolution of CRISPR-based <em><a href="https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/3/4/e1601964">gene drives</a>.</em></p><p>Many influential scientists met Epstein through New York literary agent John Brockman, who, starting in 1999, hosted an annual “<em><a href="https://www.edge.org/the-billionaires-dinner">billionaires dinner</a></em>” where some of his authors mingled with moguls. Epstein attended several of the dinners from 2000 to 2011, and Brockman described him on his online salon Edge.org as a “science philanthropist.”</p><p>Church, whose 2012 book “Regenesis” Brockman shepherded, said he met Epstein in 2006, either through Brockman or through the then-chairman of the Harvard psychology department, Stephen Kosslyn, a member of Edge.org. Church has gained some notoriety for a company that is building a dating app based on ideal DNA pairings.</p><p>The goal is to screen out sexual partnerships that could create a child with genetic diseases. In other words, Eugenics, the infamous breeding fad of the early 20<sup>th</sup> century that spawned the hideous “sciences” of sterilization and euthanasia as solutions to the problem of poor, insane, and inferior races of people. Harvard in particular was a center of Eugenics research through wealthy families such as the Harrimans in addition to the Eugenics Records Office at Cold Spring Harbor NY and Human Betterment Foundation in Pasadena CA.</p><p>What better way then but to see what he thinks. This is an interview with Cheryl Martin, president of Gardens Wellness July 29, 2016 on the Aging Reversed YouTube channel. This is a straight transcript of his stream of consciousness style of answering.</p><p>“<em>Martin: You’ve been involved in research in you’re a pioneer in stem cell therapy now and injecting your own stem cells and this is to extend your life. How long do you expect to live, what is your goal, and do you have a fear of death?</em></p><p>“<em>Nygard: Of course we all have a fear of death. And, and, and how we overcome fear of death is that we invent this word called heaven. You know, heaven is everybody’s way of living forever. So mankind, man has always had this will to live forever, ah, the the Pharaohs you know mummified themselves you know and took all their belongings with him and went into this heaven right then and and and every one of us have been taught that that’s that’s the good place to go to you know.</em></p><p>“<em>I think instinctively we’re all instinctively almost by design by necessity, we’re designed that desire not to fear it because there is a better place you know? I think we all would like to live in this world as long as we possibly can and and and and not just go blindly into this this heaven area.</em></p><p>“<em>So it’s a roundabout way of answering your question, you know the we have now the capability with modern-day science and it’s a wonderful era were living in right now, we have now to to to live considerably longer, 20, 30, 40 years longer they have now good quote past, huh our magical age is 120. 120 is when your cells actually finally die you know. If you haven’t died from other diseases you know at a partly breakdown diseases then you’re gonna die just from losing your cells, and and if we can keep ourselves alive and and, and who knows how long that will take us so, so people’s common words today in a field that I mean you know it’s 20 to 40 more years you know that we can we can live to 150 for example.</em></p><p><em>And it’s a goal and good call I think it’s really meaningful for younger people like yourself, well if you especially if you start taking care of yourself early in the life you know and prevent yourself from getting old and, and avoid doing stop practicing all the things that are available out there that the Times Magazine came up with a picture of a child face and said that this person can live to the 180 years old you know you know. A person born now you know we have enough science now that by the time they become all that they couldn’t be able to live them as long with all of modern-day knowledge that we have right now you know and and then there’s a there’s a lot a lot of people in there besides myself who are now trying to make that a reality you know, and of course ultimately ultimately for ourselves you know but the byproduct of that is that if it’s not for self service is for a next generation of people you know so we really are we really gotta take this seriously.</em></p><p><em>I think there’s a first time in history that we really could see us being able to extend our life like big time, not just year or two you know but have a leapfrog and and and an interesting parallel to that we’re also seeing the world self-destructing. There’s a big element in here in the world today, that says that the next generation is not even going to live as much as our generation because we’re just killing yourself from eating, you know kill yourself and diabetes, you know what self-indulgent in a point so while we have the opportunity to live 40 is longer what we’re gonna do is blow it and leave less and this is all about the education process now, you know how people really want to approach this thing you know because because the opportunities are so immense and, and, and the more people learn about the world of stem cells and learn about the whole medical field the more and thrilled they become with it, so you got this to these two sides going at you all the time you know those people who just don’t care you know and just gonna eat themselves to death you know and get full of diabetes and die younger and then there’s going to be a whole new generation of people who are in my camp you know who sees the opportunities and and seeing it early you know so I talked to some my girlfriends and young people around me and to start taking care of it that stop aging age of 25 because you had at 25 it’s all downhill from there, so you want to stay at 25 start doing it right now because you can’t and you can yeah and so so so so I, I think it’s hard to say how long you know you know the word immortality’s is too far-fetched but I must tell you five years ago when I started this it was like Frankenstein, you know you’re talking about anti-aging was a strange word talking about reverse aging was even stranger. You know you’re kidding that you just come into this industry five years ago. Now it’s most popular topic out there everybody’s lips is talking about reverse aging rejuvenation you know and he’s so popular today so it’s really got a hole right now and this is growing exponentially.”</em></p><p>On the Aging Reversed youtube channel, Nygård is featured in interviews along with luminaries such as Ray Kurzweil, Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, Yuval Harari, Liz Parrish, Aubrey de Grey, Bill Faloon, David Sinclair, Max Hodak, Adam Alonzi &amp; Philip Sabes. A further examination of Transhumanism and its parallel cult beliefs in Information Theory and Game Theory connected with the increasing push for a scientific dictatorship by the gurus of the financial system when you read the speech of Ray Kurzweil at the July 12-13, 2000, New York Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) in  Manhattan, entitled “The Next Financial Crisis: Warning Signs, Damage Control and Impact.” <em><a href="https://larouchepub.com/other/2000/2729_cfr.html">LINK</a></em> at which the most chilling anti-human view was expressed by Game-theorist Peter Shwarz of the need of letting AIDS patients in Africa die as “quickly as possible. They should not be kept alive.”</p><p>After running through a Shwarz designed scenario of financial meltdown and a coup against the president, Kurzweil wrapped up the conference to promote virtual reality and promotion of virtual reality eyeglasses by 2010 and the ability of “non-biological intelligence” to match human intelligence by 2030. <em>“There will be no clear distinction between the two.”</em></p><p>When one discusses their perverted notion of extending human life and for what purpose it is helpful to put biological life and humanity in context.</p><div data-sanitized-class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2346ac32-b05c-48d5-afa7-aa6efd80f467_649x400.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM" data-sanitized-class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img"><div data-sanitized-class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2346ac32-b05c-48d5-afa7-aa6efd80f467_649x400.jpeg" width="649" height="400" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/2346ac32-b05c-48d5-afa7-aa6efd80f467_649x400.jpeg","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":400,"width":649,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":null,"alt":"","title":null,"type":null,"href":null,"belowTheFold":true,"topImage":false,"internalRedirect":null,"isProcessing":false}' alt="" title="" loading="lazy" data-sanitized-class="sizing-normal"></picture><div data-sanitized-class="image-link-expand"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container restack-image"><path d="M3 12a9 9 0 0 1 9-9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1 6.74 2.74L21 8"></path><path d="M21 3v5h-5"></path><path d="M21 12a9 9 0 0 1-9 9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1-6.74-2.74L3 16"></path><path d="M8 16H3v5"></path></div><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container view-image"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></div></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>In the animal kingdom, a species population size and carrying capacity per square meter/mile is limited by environmental factors like adequate food, shelter, water, and mates. If these needs are not met, the population will decrease until the resource rebounds. This is due to an animal’s instincts which is the ability to know without thinking, the capability to automatically know how to behave or respond in certain circumstances. This “knowing” ability occurs naturally or instinctively to an animal, and is inherited from birth.</p><div data-sanitized-class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8718765a-b233-4e2c-8013-444aa0914fb4_546x416.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM" data-sanitized-class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img"><div data-sanitized-class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8718765a-b233-4e2c-8013-444aa0914fb4_546x416.jpeg" width="546" height="416" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/8718765a-b233-4e2c-8013-444aa0914fb4_546x416.jpeg","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":416,"width":546,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":null,"alt":"","title":null,"type":null,"href":null,"belowTheFold":true,"topImage":false,"internalRedirect":null,"isProcessing":false}' alt="" title="" loading="lazy" data-sanitized-class="sizing-normal"></picture><div data-sanitized-class="image-link-expand"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container restack-image"><path d="M3 12a9 9 0 0 1 9-9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1 6.74 2.74L21 8"></path><path d="M21 3v5h-5"></path><path d="M21 12a9 9 0 0 1-9 9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1-6.74-2.74L3 16"></path><path d="M8 16H3v5"></path></div><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container view-image"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></div></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>In addition, some 80 years ago, biologists stumbled on the empirical “quarter power scaling rule,” which states that a mammal’s heartbeat is proportional to the creature’s mass taken to the minus one-quarter power (m-1/4). The rule says that a cat, for instance, weighing roughly 100 times more than a mouse, has a pulse rate 100-1/4 (about one third) that of a mouse; it’s actually 150 versus 500 beats per minute (bpm).</p><p>It’s not just that as animals get bigger their pulses slow in accordance with the quarter power rule, but that their life spans lengthen accordingly: A mouse lives about one third of a cat’s lifespan, five years versus 15 years. The quarter power rule holds across a vast range of sizes, from tiny shrew to huge elephant, leading to the astonishing “heartbeat hypothesis:” Humans aside, <em>at birth, mammals are all granted the same lifetime supply of heartbeats. </em>How many? About a billion.</p><p>Unlike nearly all animal species, humans are not governed by the whims of nature, the carrying capacity of the planet, nor of the biological constraints that are fixed upon birth despite the best efforts of the Oligarchies of the Venetian and British Empires to enforce their un-natural forms of political economy on humanity in the last 600 years</p><p>Abraham Lincoln summed up the the difference between humans and animals with his lecture on Discoveries and Inventions in various Illinois locations around 1858 – 1859:</p><blockquote><p>“All creation is a mine, and every man, a miner. The whole earth, and all within it, upon it, and round about it, including himself, in his physical, moral, and intellectual nature, and his susceptibilities, are the infinitely various “leads” from which, man, from the first, was to dig out his destiny. In the beginning, the mine was unopened, and the miner stood naked, and knowledgeless, upon it.</p><p>Fishes, birds, beasts, and creeping things, are not miners, but feeders and lodgers, merely. Beavers build houses; but they build them in nowise differently, or better now, than they did, five thousand years ago. Ants, and honey-bees, provide food for winter; but just in the same way they did, when Solomon referred the sluggard to them as patterns of prudence. Man is not the only animal who labors; but he is the only one who improves his workmanship. This improvement, he effects by Discoveries, and Inventions.”</p></blockquote><p>In discussing his discovery of relative potential population density the economist Lyndon LaRouche emphasized the Promethean character of humanity in its use of fire at increasing densities and discoveries of universal principles that when utilized in the economic process via the machine tool principle, increase our power over nature per capita and the increase of the density of people per square-meter/mile and at improved standard of living. This was accomplished through the development of various forms of infrastructure such as reservoirs, water mains, water purification, sewage processing and disposal which eliminated most of the sources of diseases and parasites that typically afflict people in lesser developed countries combined with the availability of hospital facilities and the breakthroughs in medical technologies, medicines and vaccines.</p><p>In addition, as LaRouche has pointed out, man is the only being able to invent new resources. When Dmitrii Mendeleev perfected his periodic table in 1869, only 69 elements were then known with 49 more having been discovered since then.</p><div data-sanitized-class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5521bb95-abba-45b3-834b-29d0dbcaabae_595x600.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM" data-sanitized-class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img"><div data-sanitized-class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5521bb95-abba-45b3-834b-29d0dbcaabae_595x600.jpeg" width="595" height="600" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/5521bb95-abba-45b3-834b-29d0dbcaabae_595x600.jpeg","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":600,"width":595,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":null,"alt":"","title":null,"type":null,"href":null,"belowTheFold":true,"topImage":false,"internalRedirect":null,"isProcessing":false}' alt="" title="" loading="lazy" data-sanitized-class="sizing-normal"></picture><div data-sanitized-class="image-link-expand"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container restack-image"><path d="M3 12a9 9 0 0 1 9-9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1 6.74 2.74L21 8"></path><path d="M21 3v5h-5"></path><path d="M21 12a9 9 0 0 1-9 9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1-6.74-2.74L3 16"></path><path d="M8 16H3v5"></path></div><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container view-image"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></div></div></div></div></a></figure></div><h2><em><strong>Information Society: A Doomed Empire of Evil by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr</strong></em>. <a href="https://larouchepub.com/lar/2020/4710-information_society_a_doomed_e.html#footnote-036">LINK</a></h2><h2>Appendix: Jonathan Swift Gullivers Travels</h2><p>Chapter 26 (X) <em>[The Luggnaggians commended. A particular description of the Struldbrugs, with many conversations between the author and some eminent persons upon that subject.]</em></p><p>After this preface, he gave me a particular account of the STRULDBRUGS among them. He said, “they commonly acted like mortals till about thirty years old; after which, by degrees, they grew melancholy and dejected, increasing in both till they came to fourscore. This he learned from their own confession: for otherwise, there not being above two or three of that species born in an age, they were too few to form a general observation by. When they came to fourscore years, which is reckoned the extremity of living in this country, they had not only all the follies and infirmities of other old men, but many more which arose from the dreadful prospect of never dying. They were not only opinionative, peevish, covetous, morose, vain, talkative, but incapable of friendship, and dead to all natural affection, which never descended below their grandchildren. Envy and impotent desires are their prevailing passions. But those objects against which their envy seems principally directed, are the vices of the younger sort and the deaths of the old. By reflecting on the former, they find themselves cut off from all possibility of pleasure; and whenever they see a funeral, they lament and repine that others have gone to a harbour of rest to which they themselves never can hope to arrive. They have no remembrance of anything but what they learned and observed in their youth and middle-age, and even that is very imperfect; and for the truth or particulars of any fact, it is safer to depend on common tradition, than upon their best recollections. The least miserable among them appear to be those who turn to dotage, and entirely lose their memories; these meet with more pity and assistance, because they want many bad qualities which abound in others.</p><p>“If a STRULDBRUG happen to marry one of his own kind, the marriage is dissolved of course, by the courtesy of the kingdom, as soon as the younger of the two comes to be fourscore; for the law thinks it a reasonable indulgence, that those who are condemned, without any fault of their own, to a perpetual continuance in the world, should not have their misery doubled by the load of a wife.</p><p>“As soon as they have completed the term of eighty years, they are looked on as dead in law; their heirs immediately succeed to their estates; only a small pittance is reserved for their support; and the poor ones are maintained at the public charge. After that period, they are held incapable of any employment of trust or profit; they cannot purchase lands, or take leases; neither are they allowed to be witnesses in any cause, either civil or criminal, not even for the decision of meers and bounds.</p><p>“At ninety, they lose their teeth and hair; they have at that age no distinction of taste, but eat and drink whatever they can get, without relish or appetite. The diseases they were subject to still continue, without increasing or diminishing. In talking, they forget the common appellation of things, and the names of persons, even of those who are their nearest friends and relations. For the same reason, they never can amuse themselves with reading, because their memory will not serve to carry them from the beginning of a sentence to the end; and by this defect, they are deprived of the only entertainment whereof they might otherwise be capable.</p><p>The language of this country being always upon the flux, the STRULDBRUGS of one age do not understand those of another; neither are they able, after two hundred years, to hold any conversation (farther than by a few general words) with their neighbours the mortals; and thus they lie under the disadvantage of living like foreigners in their own country.”</p><p>This was the account given me of the STRULDBRUGS, as near as I can remember. I afterwards saw five or six of different ages, the youngest not above two hundred years old, who were brought to me at several times by some of my friends; but although they were told, “that I was a great traveller, and had seen all the world,” they had not the least curiosity to ask me a question; only desired “I would give them SLUMSKUDASK,” or a token of remembrance; which is a modest way of begging, to avoid the law, that strictly forbids it, because they are provided for by the public, although indeed with a very scanty allowance.</p><p>They are despised and hated by all sorts of people. When one of them is born, it is reckoned ominous, and their birth is recorded very particularly so that you may know their age by consulting the register, which, however, has not been kept above a thousand years past, or at least has been destroyed by time or public disturbances. But the usual way of computing how old they are, is by asking them what kings or great persons they can remember, and then consulting history; for infallibly the last prince in their mind did not begin his reign after they were four-score years old.</p><p>They were the most mortifying sight I ever beheld; and the women more horrible than the men. Besides the usual deformities in extreme old age, they acquired an additional ghastliness, in proportion to their number of years, which is not to be described; and among half a dozen, I soon distinguished which was the eldest, although there was not above a century or two between them.</p><p>The reader will easily believe, that from what I had hear and seen, my keen appetite for perpetuity of life was much abated. I grew heartily ashamed of the pleasing visions I had formed; and thought no tyrant could invent a death into which I would not run with pleasure, from such a life. The king heard of all that had passed between me and my friends upon this occasion, and rallied me very pleasantly; wishing I could send a couple of STRULDBRUGS to my own country, to arm our people against the fear of death; but this, it seems, is forbidden by the fundamental laws of the kingdom, or else I should have been well content with the trouble and expense of transporting them.</p><p>I could not but agree, that the laws of this kingdom relative to the STRULDBRUGS were founded upon the strongest reasons, and such as any other country would be under the necessity of enacting, in the like circumstances. Otherwise, as avarice is the necessary consequence of old age, those immortals would in time become proprietors of the whole nation, and engross the civil power, which, for want of abilities to manage, must end in the ruin of the public.</p><p>Nygard Biotech: Dr. Jyothi Devakumar is currently working as the principal consultant in Evolvis Consulting, a Singapore based company and also participating in creation of an investment fund focused on financing cutting-edge regenerative medicine and anti-aging companies. She most recently worked as the Vice President and Chief Scientific Officer of Nygard Biotech, She serves on the editorial board of CellR4 and the scientific advisory board of BGI Health.</p><p>Winnipeg City Councilor Kevin Klein worked there former CEO of Sun Media Manitoba and publisher of the Sun This is how it happened that he went to work (as had dozens of other Winnipeggers in the past) for Peter Nygard, who offered him the position as vice president of Nygard’s biotech medical research company. Kevin accepted the job, but it took only four months for him to learn that this was not a person he wanted to be associated with let alone work for. “I learned quickly I could not work with Peter Nygard. I strongly, very strongly, disagreed with how he treated his employees,” said Kevin. Nevertheless, he met a lot of people during that short time, and he ended up working for some of them. He has worked for and learned from many of the country’s top business leaders as part of the executive team at Post Media, Sun Media, MTS and New Cap.</p><h2>Leads</h2><p><a href="https://www.northcoastjournal.com/humboldt/the-heartbeat-hypothesis/Content?oid=3170875">https://www.northcoastjournal.com/humboldt/the-heartbeat-hypothesis/Content?oid=3170875</a></p><div data-attrs='{"videoId":"dkyo1rDSPqQ","startTime":null,"endTime":null}' data-component-name="Youtube2ToDOM" data-sanitized-id="youtube2-dkyo1rDSPqQ" data-sanitized-class="youtube-wrap"><div data-sanitized-class="youtube-inner"><iframe src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/dkyo1rDSPqQ?rel=0&amp;autoplay=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;enablejsapi=0" frameborder="0" loading="lazy" gesture="media" allow="accelerometer; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowautoplay="true" allowfullscreen="true" width="728" height="409" sandbox="allow-scripts allow-same-origin"></iframe></div></div><p>  video about Nygard and Stem Cell research</p><p><a href="https://medicine.yale.edu/profile/cmorgan/">https://medicine.yale.edu/profile/cmorgan/</a> CIA Dr. Charles Morgan resarcher on PTSD and trauma</p><p>https://adamandevewordresearch.blogspot.com/?fbclid=IwAR3kmie9z059rSfeChukr1Cj1FEo4OGYy6qrXtojSK-5JqNI8G9W8TjcvlE</p><p> link to many other transhumanist “scientists”</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/@AgingReversed">https://www.youtube.com/@AgingReversed</a>  transhumanist channel</p><div data-attrs='{"videoId":"o18PUHrBhN8","startTime":null,"endTime":null}' data-component-name="Youtube2ToDOM" data-sanitized-id="youtube2-o18PUHrBhN8" data-sanitized-class="youtube-wrap"><div data-sanitized-class="youtube-inner"><iframe src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/o18PUHrBhN8?rel=0&amp;autoplay=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;enablejsapi=0" frameborder="0" loading="lazy" gesture="media" allow="accelerometer; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowautoplay="true" allowfullscreen="true" width="728" height="409" sandbox="allow-scripts allow-same-origin"></iframe></div></div><p> Nygard on Fighting Aging</p><p><a href="http://www.kurzweiltech.com/aboutray.html">http://www.kurzweiltech.com/aboutray.html</a>  Ray Kurzweil website</p><p><a href="https://thealtworld.com/whitney_webb/developers-of-oxford-astrazeneca-vaccine-tied-to-uk-eugenics-movement">https://thealtworld.com/whitney_webb/developers-of-oxford-astrazeneca-vaccine-tied-to-uk-eugenics-movement</a> vaccine development connected to eugenic</p><h1> <a href="https://www.facebook.com/oxfordlongevity/">https://www.facebook.com/oxfordlongevity/</a>Oxford Society of Ageing and Longevity</h1><p><a href="https://www.bio-itworld.com/news/2017/10/27/bgi-launches-george-church-institute">https://www.bio-itworld.com/news/2017/10/27/bgi-launches-george-church-institute</a></p>

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title: Ruby can chain methods and right-assign
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I just learned that ruby supports re-writing this:
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total = plus_shipping(with_taxes(subtotal(items)))
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<p>As:
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subtotal(items).then { |subtotal| with_taxes(subtotal) }.then { |total| plus_shipping(total) } =&gt; total
</pre>

<a href="https://ruby.social/@davetron5000/113362613406267986">from davetron</a>

    
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title: Rails migrations can include an up_only part
author: ;Keith Schacht
link: https://keithschacht.com/2024/Oct/29/rails/#atom-everything
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When writing a migration in Rails and you need to do one thing which can't be automatically reversed, I always convert a <b>def change</b> to up and down. It turns out you can slip in an <b>up_only</b> block:

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class AddFieldsToUsers &lt; ActiveRecord::Migration[7.1]
  def change
    add_column :users, :first_name, :string
    add_column :users, :last_name, :string

    up_only do
      User.delete_all
    end
  end
end
</pre>

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title: Ruby Sorbet is too verbose, can the syntax be improved?
author: ;Keith Schacht
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Awhile back when I was ramping up on Typescript, I was leaning into the benefits of types. In the Ruby world, Sorbet is the most common way to add types so I gave that a shot. In the end, I ripped it out. I spent more time wrangling type checking then the time it spent catching bugs, and one of the issues was the verbose syntax. But recently I came up with a novel solution to this problem. First, here is the verbose syntax — you end up declaring all your arguments twice:
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</p><pre>
sig { params(name: T.untyped, nickname: String).returns(Integer) }
def greet(name, nickname)
  puts "Hello, #{name}! Your nickname: #{nickname}"
  name.length
end
</pre>

<p>It may not seem like a big deal, but every time you change the name of an argument or change the order, you have to do it in two places. Recently I had an idea: could we do it in one line if we used Ruby to redefine how methods are defined? I got this syntax working and threw it up on a gist:
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# Two positional arguments. The first, name, is untyped.
# The second, nickname, must be a String

df :greet,  :name, nickname: [String], returns: Integer do
  puts "Hello, #{name}! Your nickname: #{nickname}"
  name.length
end
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<a href="https://gist.github.com/krschacht/67d4c0bd523bff067ca20140b8172cbf">Here is a gist</a>. It supports positional and named arguments. I got it working with runtime and static analysis. I don't plan to take this experiment any further right now, but maybe it's useful to someone.
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title:
« Un avenir prometteur » : Les participants de Voix de jeunes leaders autochtones 2024 témoigne devant un comité sénatorial

link:
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title: Ford demands TMU's new med school educate qualified students 'regardless of their race'
author: ;Lisa P
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<p data-sanitized-class="">By Chris Lambie | National Post</p><p data-sanitized-class=""><strong>Summary</strong></p><p data-sanitized-class="">Premier Doug Ford is demanding Ontario’s newest medical school educate qualified individuals “regardless of their race or background,” amid backlash over the school’s plan to loosen academic qualifications and screen out prospective students by race or status.</p><p data-sanitized-class="">Toronto Metropolitan University’s new medical school in Brampton has reserved three-quarters of its 94 spots to prioritize admissions for Black, Indigenous, and other "equity-deserving" groups, including those who are LGBTQ, disabled, poor, or "racialized." groups. Ford's office has intervened, emphasizing the need for qualified individuals to fill medical school seats in Ontario.</p><p data-sanitized-class="">Dr. Dominick Shelton, the TMU med school's dean of admissions, defended the school's approach, highlighting the underrepresentation of certain groups in medicine and the need to bridge this gap. He has also addressed concerns about the school's decision to forgo the Medical College Admission Test (MCAT) and lower the GPA requirement, arguing that these changes are aimed at increasing access and that the school is committed to maintaining high standards. </p><p data-sanitized-class="">In the U.S., the Supreme Court effectively halted race-conscious admissions last year by invalidating programs at Harvard and the University of North Carolina. Chief Justice John Roberts stated that universities have incorrectly prioritized skin color over challenges overcome, skills acquired, and lessons learned as the defining characteristic of an individual's identity, and that this approach is not supported by the country's constitutional history. However, Canada operates under a different legal framework, according to Professor Bruce Pardy, a law professor at Queen's University.</p><p data-sanitized-class="">Pardy explained that in Canada, preferential admission policies are common because laws permit affirmative action and reverse discrimination. For instance, Ontario's human rights code allows for "special programs" that provide preferential treatment. While the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms may not directly apply to university admissions (since universities are not government entities), it still supports such policies.</p><p data-sanitized-class="">Pardy further clarified that discrimination occurs when race is a factor in decisions. He used the example of the NBA, where the proportion of white players does not reflect the percentage of white people in the population, yet no one claims racial discrimination. </p><p data-sanitized-class="">Pardy criticized admission policies like TMU’s as unfair on multiple fronts: they disadvantage those excluded because of their race and also harm those who would qualify on their own merits. He argued that such policies unfairly label Black medical students as needing special treatment, even if they did not require it. When asked about the need for more Black and Indigenous doctors in Canada, Pardy emphasized the importance of having excellent doctors, regardless of their race.</p><p data-sanitized-class=""><a href="https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/ford-demands-tmus-new-med-school-educate-qualified-students-regardless-of-their-race" target="_blank">Read the original, full-text version of this article at the publisher’s website here</a>.<br></p>





















  
  



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  <p data-sanitized-class=""><strong>Further Reading</strong></p><p data-sanitized-class=""><a href="https://nationalpost.com/opinion/bruce-pardy-at-tmu-medical-school-some-students-are-more-equal-than-others#comments-area" target="_blank">At TMU medical school, some students are more equal than others</a></p><p data-sanitized-class=""><a href="https://nationalpost.com/news/politics/aristotle-foundation-for-public-policy-report" target="_blank">Canadians have constitutional right to unequal treatment, new report argues</a></p>

link:
https://www.rightsprobe.org/read/ford-demands-tmus-new-med-school-educate-qualified-students-regardless-of-their-race

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title: A matter of accommodation
author: ;Lisa P
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<p data-sanitized-class="">Bruce Pardy, a professor of law at Queen's University, has argued recurrently on the topic of academic accommodations for students. In a 2017 piece for the <em>National Post</em> he writes:</p><blockquote><p data-sanitized-class="">Academic accommodations, such as “extra time for mental disabilities” are “as unjust to other students as a head start would be to other runners.” The aim of examinations, he contends, is to differentiate among students based on “how well they can think, learn, analyze, remember, communicate, plan, prepare, organize, focus and perform under pressure. Discrimination is one of the purposes of the exam. That discrimination is not illegal or inappropriate. No accommodation need be made.</p><p data-sanitized-class="">“Other kinds of disabilities can be accommodated,” he continues, “because they are not what the exam is testing. Blind students, for example, may need to access exam questions with a text reader. Unlike extra time for mental disabilities, such accommodations create no undue hardships for other students in the class.” [See: <a href="https://nationalpost.com/opinion/bruce-pardy-mental-disabilities-shouldnt-be-accommodated-with-extra-time-on-exams" target="_blank">Mental Disabilities Shouldn’t Be Accommodated With Extra Time on Exams</a>].</p></blockquote><p data-sanitized-class="">This article is referenced in a recent commentary for the U.K.-based magazine, <em>Times Higher Education</em>, by Justin Noia, a visiting assistant professor of humanities at Providence College. [See: <a href="https://www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/giving-students-accommodations-disservice-employers" target="_blank">Giving Students Accommodations Is a Disservice To Employers</a>].</p><p data-sanitized-class="">Noia cites a number of examples that describe why accommodations compromise the objective of academic assessment, and appears to reinforce Prof. Pardy's argument. For example, pre-written memory-aid notecards, contends Noia, undermine the purpose of evaluation to test a student's ability to recall class content.</p><p data-sanitized-class="">Noia <a href="https://www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/giving-students-accommodations-disservice-employers" target="_blank">notes</a>, however, that the perception of fairness for some of his students contrasts with Prof. Pardy's: </p><blockquote><p data-sanitized-class="">It implies that students should be judged based on how they might have fared had they not had disabilities—which, after all, are beyond their control. As the editorial board of The Queen’s Journal, a student-operated newspaper at Queen’s University, stated in <a href="https://www.queensjournal.ca/academic-accommodations-arent-academic-advantages/" target="_blank">reply to Pardy</a>: “Instead of ensuring a higher grade, [accommodations] provide students the opportunity to achieve a result that truly reflects what they can do with their academic capability.”  </p></blockquote><p data-sanitized-class="">Both Noia and Pardy emphasize the fundamental benefit of credentialing that assessment provides. The former makes a <a href="https://www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/giving-students-accommodations-disservice-employers" target="_blank">compelling case</a>, albeit as he advocates for evaluations conducted under the same conditions:</p><blockquote><p data-sanitized-class="">At a certain point, we all have to accept that life is just irremediably unfair. To be generally useful, performance evaluations must provide <em>comparative</em> assessment of ability. This requires comparative fairness, the measuring of like against like, which is why evaluations must be conducted under the <em>same conditions</em> – under which some people will perform better than others because of factors they could not control.<br><br>For instance, to determine which scientist should be entrusted with important research, we need to know who performs better (and worse) than peers under real-world conditions, which include distractions, time pressure and team-working. The same goes for surgeons, lawyers, electricians, civil engineers and a whole host of other professions in which underperformance can have dire consequences for patients or clients. A university’s credentialing, involving grading, degree conferral and its own reputation, is vital for assessing relative merit.</p></blockquote><p data-sanitized-class="">Pardy narrows the focus:</p><blockquote><p data-sanitized-class="">The proper purpose of accommodation is to facilitate participation, not to compensate for lack of ability that the test is about. Students who claim extra time for mental disabilities are already able to participate within the normally allotted period. They simply wish to increase their prospects for success at the expense of their peers.</p></blockquote><p data-sanitized-class="">One overlap of prescient interest is a reference to Kurt Vonnegut's 1961 short story, “Harrison Bergeron”. Noia and Pardy each draw on Vonnegut's rendering of a fixation on fairness taken to an absurd extension, where the intelligent are mentally handicapped by signals that interrupt their thoughts, the beautiful are masked, the athletic are rendered not so by deranged means, and so it goes. Set in 2081, Vonnegut's blend of satire and science fiction is another point of view on this theme worth revisiting: <a href="https://www.tnellen.com/cybereng/harrison.html" target="_blank">see here</a>.</p>





















  
  



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  <p data-sanitized-class=""><strong>Further Reading</strong></p><p data-sanitized-class=""><a href="https://www.theepochtimes.com/opinion/for-students-not-being-disabled-is-the-new-disability-3210194" target="_blank">For Students, Not Being Disabled Is the New Disability</a> [Bruce Pardy, 2020]</p><p data-sanitized-class=""><a href="https://download.ssrn.com/16/08/23/ssrn_id2828420_code81936.pdf?response-content-disposition=inline&amp;X-Amz-Security-Token=IQoJb3JpZ2luX2VjEAMaCXVzLWVhc3QtMSJHMEUCIQCZkl7GYzZZpYASuZ7EdY7GE8sdyTxmgx647Tys8CUzSAIgTD%2BJ9u0Ad5S22fdvscist4yCkyWr45Io%2BVWkdYRSh4IqvgUIfBAEGgwzMDg0NzUzMDEyNTciDEkWTXe6zuFSCnp8NiqbBWHQpEOdOyGS0a8iNc8hLWuj4fI%2BRfnXOLeIXVyjrG8bO6Q1%2BLGkHkSaqEYqilfAGcF%2BuPWFLASETgESQnRar99GDGWlTTa3O6tmavFVy%2FVKqGw9ix9ufc8%2B4qxIsVVxv%2FjfoQ%2B%2F768mnrd6rZuTRtxXnu5%2BpUTXPouCkhRZOsBnbk8PHSMf1DTGQSu9ROOfiONXsJijXQZych8fI%2BG091cYDGurHbQPGtHsxuBT6hLuR5bvafme5zltUB9v%2FVciowU8vILM1jeDG9aMBoH5rNb9mtuhAVQbjr6xgJRfFqj%2B0W6TofAdAMBXKt4NwUzwr7F00zSJKS0ZHhVEzdooqfBfLYyN6Wp%2BqvZg6G66lmhTcqGIaexISngViU%2FGEMI4M1yg8tqi1EE%2BvOyWC9F1xUPWC1T%2BD1%2BM4JmNiXiKH9fOCMYUqjOw9FjCCWxwgCT9mLXchvoC4onmnTMKDsoIfK6sBjzkEwHvZsMs3C%2F3qDnvb0QrIXf62hldjSQP4JZRk1zLhEmXJ%2BmbK0OS0%2FPf5HEECpSMRprkUKhy%2Fco8Wna7ONg9jNaZDX81nblWBPQ%2FgAy9P1N40HiO4FAJjS3KnZOduCte9fANKyXaOHuRsio0lbNp%2F0KY2nwnvPm4KtmUJtaPKIA%2BhXwjf%2B4pYiqNKZ73t5U2upgMCBYJmc2IKDsAm%2Fk%2Fif2SxZkW%2FZVpZcN%2Fhwtou1rtwNgcRIXc%2FP9y0i0t89keyplN%2FoI1fjt0kbMvA23Wht9bHTK6%2B95tCoXc4AQkUW67Y%2Bd7l9QJhkdMJvGtTYgsk6Jr9Lcd5S9HWbOlsg%2BL45fMXTogfPqakB6YHmGSb1Qs9YgsCkfcHHMZcfMO%2By%2B6ikZrdYrr5fPTdbANzk3Dq2h1qFtUo9cwkPmJuQY6sQG6QOZratT1zA%2F%2FkvN5EYb8gv3QFXlTll0rFTc5yr4xq%2BfCQzETJZ%2FrXwk1hM2jRSk5vRne6jIFFxuZXTwIZeLosuGl2rtPZLVFJTrFpTCi71BK9xqybsiye5FLqiol2sQj1sVA2KnHU8QIBko58%2Fx%2BhxAtF2U44zLyQKO9lfs%2FogrN9kE2FO9OGUCTc%2FG0E2xVfCcTJy%2BQtRZMg4bP7EXXafcIvWpw96YZR2Hj1RW1y%2BY%3D&amp;X-Amz-Algorithm=AWS4-HMAC-SHA256&amp;X-Amz-Date=20241030T191659Z&amp;X-Amz-SignedHeaders=host&amp;X-Amz-Expires=300&amp;X-Amz-Credential=ASIAUPUUPRWE5HUFIXK4%2F20241030%2Fus-east-1%2Fs3%2Faws4_request&amp;X-Amz-Signature=ac0bca1fda19cdcfbb00552dfd99ca7ca5e9a55b105df4e3814833bc9b59d966&amp;abstractId=2828420" target="_blank">Head Starts and Extra Time: Academic Accommodation on Post-secondary Exams and Assignments for Students with Cognitive and Mental Disabilities</a> [Bruce Pardy, 2016]</p>

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title: The mandates of the managerial state
author: ;Lisa P
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<p data-sanitized-class="">By Bruce Pardy | The Epoch Times</p><p data-sanitized-class="">Forget the members of Parliament who may have colluded with foreign governments. The real menace, the RCMP seem to think, are House of Commons pages. MPs suspected of foreign election interference should not be identified, the Mounties have insisted, but House of Commons staff must be fingerprinted. Serious threats to the country are hidden away, while innocent people are subjected to state surveillance. If you want to see how the managerial state (dys)functions, Canada is the place to be.</p><p data-sanitized-class="">In June, the National Security and Intelligence Committee of Parliamentarians (NSICOP) tabled its <a href="https://www.nsicop-cpsnr.ca/reports/rp-2024-06-03/special-report-foreign-interference.pdf" target="_blank"><span>redacted report</span></a> that suggested at least 11 sitting MPs may have benefitted from foreign election interference. RCMP Commissioner Mike Duheme <a href="https://globalnews.ca/news/10580452/rcmp-commissioner-nsicop-report-foreign-interference/" target="_blank"><span>cautioned against</span></a> releasing their identities. Canadians remained in the dark until Oct. 28 when Kevin Vuong, a former Liberal MP now sitting as an Independent, <a href="https://www.cpac.ca/headline-politics/episode/mp-kevin-vuong-discusses-foreign-interference--october-28-2024?id=5dadac51-71e7-4259-9501-dadf69b6682b" target="_blank"><span>hosted a news conference</span></a> to suggest who some of the parliamentarians may be. Like the RCMP, most of the country’s media didn’t seem interested.</p><p data-sanitized-class="">But the RCMP are very interested in certain other things. For years, they have pushed for the federal civil service to be <a href="https://www.tpsgc-pwgsc.gc.ca/esc-src/personnel/empreintes-obligatoire-mandatory-fingerprints-eng.html#s3" target="_blank"><span>fingerprinted</span></a>. Not just high security clearance for top-secret stuff, but across government departments. The Treasury Board adopted <a href="https://www.canlii.org/en/ca/fct/doc/2015/2015fc1101/2015fc1101.html?resultId=ef3346e97a8043c1af6f83b92ca09d61&amp;searchId=2024-10-27T22:13:28:216/858de8644a5d4332a82239e342c56709" target="_blank"><span>the standard in 2014</span></a> and the House of Commons currently <a href="https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/parliamentary-press-gallery-security-1.3998327" target="_blank"><span>requires fingerprinting</span></a> for staff hired since 2017. The Senate implemented fingerprinting this year. The RCMP have claimed that the old policy of doing criminal background checks by name is obsolete and too expensive.</p><p data-sanitized-class="">But stated rationales are rarely the real ones. Name-based background checks are not obsolete or expensive. Numerous police departments continue to use them. They do so, in part, because name checks do not compromise biometric privacy. Fingerprints are a form of biometric data, as unique as your DNA. Under the federal <a href="https://laws.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/I-1/page-1.html#h-257607" target="_blank"><span>Identification of Criminals Act</span></a>, you must be in custody charged with a serious offence before law enforcement can take your prints. Canadians shouldn’t have information about their wayward MPs, but the RCMP can’t have too much biometric information about regular people. It’s always a good time for a little fishing. Let’s run those prints, shall we?</p><p data-sanitized-class="">It’s designed to seem like a small deal. If House of Commons staff must give their fingerprints, that’s just a requirement of the job. Managerial bureaucracies prefer not to coerce directly but to create requirements that are “choices.” Fingerprints aren’t mandatory. You can choose to provide them or choose not to work on the Hill. Sound familiar? That’s the way COVID vaccine mandates worked too. Vaccines were never mandatory. There were no fines or prison terms. But the alternative was to lose your job, social life, or ability to visit a dying parent. When the state controls everything, it doesn’t always need to dictate. Instead, it provides unpalatable choices and raises the stakes so that people choose correctly.</p><p data-sanitized-class="">Government intrudes incrementally. Digital ID, for instance, will be offered as a convenient choice. You can, if you wish, carry your papers in the form of a QR code on your phone. Voluntary, of course. But later there will be extra hoops to jump through to apply for a driver’s licence or health card in the old form. Eventually analogue ID will cost more, because after all, digital ID is more automated and cheaper to run. Some outlets will not recognize plastic identification. Eventually, the government will offer only digital ID. The old way will be discarded as antiquated and too expensive to maintain. The new regime will provide the capacity to keep tabs on people like never before. Privacy will be compromised without debate. The bureaucracy will change the landscape in the guise of practicality, convenience, and cost.</p><p data-sanitized-class="">Each new round of procedures and requirements are only slightly more invasive than the last. But turn around and find you have travelled a long way from where you began. Eventually people will need digital ID, fingerprints, DNA, vaccine records, and social credit scores to be employed. It’s not coercive, just required for the job.</p><p data-sanitized-class="">Occasionally the curtain is pulled back. The federal government unleashed the Emergencies Act on the truckers and their supporters in February 2022. Jackboots in riot gear took down peaceful protesters for objecting to government policy. Authorities revealed their contempt for law-abiding but argumentative citizens. For an honest moment, the government was not incremental and insidious, but enraged and direct. When they come after you in the streets with batons, at least you can see what’s happening.</p><p data-sanitized-class="">We still don’t know who colluded with China. But we can be confident that House of Commons staffers aren’t wanted for murder. The RCMP has fingerprints to prove it. Controlling the people and shielding the powerful are mandates of the modern managerial state.</p><p data-sanitized-class=""><a href="https://www.theepochtimes.com/opinion/bruce-pardy-the-mandates-of-the-managerial-state-5752027" target="_blank">Read the original version of this commentary at the publisher’s website here</a>.</p>





















  
  



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  <p data-sanitized-class=""><em>Bruce Pardy is executive director of </em><a href="https://www.rightsprobe.org/" target="_blank"><span><em>Rights Probe</em></span></a><em> and a professor of law at Queen’s University.</em></p>

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<p><strong><a href="https://youtu.be/1_ZB7O_9hlQ?si=g3GZ33j4z3RXPWN5">Andressen and Horowitz on AI Robots</a></strong></p>
In this discussion between Andreessen and Horowitz, they pointed out that we are on the verge of embodied AI being a generally useful too. My key takeaway was this:

<p>General purpose robots could do everything from be assistants in your home, build houses, fight wars, etc. This is being made possible by all the software advances in AI in addition to the hardware advances in actuators, batteries, and vision systems.</p>

<p>The U.S. currently leads on the software side of AI, but China has a significant lead on the hardware side. The U.S. has basically made manufacturing illegal in the U.S. through environmental regulation, minimum wage requirements, and unions so U.S. companies have outsourced more advanced hardware to China. Now more than ever, with our strained relationship with China, we need to build these capabilities in the U.S. and at the same time U.S. regulators have their eyes on regulating the software AI capabilities.


    </p><p>Tags: <a href="https://keithschacht.com/tags/AI">AI</a></p>


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<p><strong><a href="https://fav.farm/">Emoji Favicon</a></strong></p>
When building a new site, populating the favicon is more annoying than it should be. It’s something I often put off. But this site will serve you any emoji as a favicon.


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<p><strong><a href="https://fair.io/about/">Fair Source</a></strong></p>
I’ve been keeping an eye on this initiative started by Sentry. One of the most common ways I see product companies utilizing open source is to release their software via open source and then make money by running a paid version of the service for people who don’t want to self-host.
<p>With this approach, it can undermine your business strategy if someone else decides to run a competing version of your hosted service using your open source software. I believe this was <a href="https://blog.sentry.io/relicensing-sentry">Sentry’s primary motivation</a>. I’ve also seen talk of Business Source License (<a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_Source_License">BSL</a>) but am unsure of the difference between this and Fair Source. Some day I may dig into this.</p>


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<p><strong><a href="https://blog.cloudflare.com/sqlite-in-durable-objects/">SQLite now runs on Cloudflare edge</a></strong></p>
There is so much innovation happening with SQLite these days and now it appears that Cloudflare lets you run it at edge nodes. I don’t quite understand the significance of this, but now I don’t have to think of Cloudflare as a way to help handle large spikes in traffic to static pages. Simon Willison <a href="https://simonwillison.net/2024/Oct/13/zero-latency-sqlite-storage-in-every-durable-object/">elaborates</a> on this development.


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title: Automating app development with LLM
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<p><strong><a href="https://codeinthehole.com/tips/llm-tdd-loop-script/">Automating app development with LLM</a></strong></p>
I keep automating more of my day-to-day programming using various tools, and this guy did a clever wrap around LLM. He writes a unit test in python, passes it to LLM, and it writes the code necessary to get the test to pass. This technique could prove useful for what I want to do with rails development.


    <p>Tags: <a href="https://keithschacht.com/tags/AI">AI</a></p>


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<p><strong><a href="https://simonw.substack.com/p/video-scraping-using-google-gemini?open=false#%C2%A7video-scraping-extracting-json-data-from-a-second-screen-capture-for-less-than-th-of-a-cent">Using LLM to process video</a></strong></p>
I have done a lot of experimenting with passing screenshots into an LLM to give it additional context, but I really want to try passing video directly into the LLM. I believe Gemini is the only one that supports it. This is a summary of Simon Willison’s recent experiment with Gemini for video.


    <p>Tags: <a href="https://keithschacht.com/tags/AI">AI</a></p>


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title: Jina AI tool for simplifying webpages
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<p><strong><a href="https://jina.ai/reader">Jina AI tool for simplifying webpages</a></strong></p>
This is a really handy tool for simplify a webpage before passing it into an LLM. It turns HTML into semi-structured markdown.


    <p>Tags: <a href="https://keithschacht.com/tags/AI">AI</a></p>


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title: The Rules Based Order Has it all Wrong About China: It can be a partner, not an Enemy (RTF Lecture)
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<p><img src="https://thumbnails.lbry.com/tQN79fUjAyk" width="480" alt="thumbnail" title="The Rules Based Order Has it all Wrong About China: It can be a partner, not an Enemy (RTF Lecture)"></p>In this first of two Rising Tide Foundation presentations delivered by Africa expert Lawrence Freeman, the truth of China's intentions, methods and philosophy for development are laid out with a focus on Africa and putting out fires of war. <br><br>Follow Lawrence Freeman's work on https://lawrencefreemanafricaandtheworld.com/<br><br>Support the Rising Tide Foundation in the following ways:<br><br>1) Make a donation <br>https://risingtidefoundation.net/support-the-work/<br>2) Subscribe to Matt and Cynthia's Substack<br>matthewehret.substack.com<br>cynthiachung.substack.com<br>3) Buy some books!<br>https://canadianpatriot.org/untold-history-of-canada-books/<br><br>and follow us on www.risingtidefoundation.net and t.me/risingtidefoundation<br>...<br>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQN79fUjAyk

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<p><img src="https://thumbnails.lbry.com/MZmroGODK2s" width="480" alt="thumbnail" title="Forum for Peace: American University in Moscow Roundtable 05 (ELECTION SPECIAL)"></p>In this fifth AUM/RTF Peace Roundtable, SIX expert analysts are brought together to share their assessment of the dynamics shaping the USA going into the 2024 election and the global dynamics (economic meltdown, emergence of new multipolar security/economic architecture), civil war danger etc. Is Trump a fascist who will launch WW3 or a pragmatic patriot who will stop the forever wars? What about his entourage? Is Kamala a preferable candidate or is there something else being missed?<br><br>Garland Nixon, Peter Kuznick, Tom Luongo, Alex Krainer, Joaquin Flores and Martin Sieff hammer out these questions and more in this heated roundtable.<br><br>Websites to follow the work of the guest speakers:<br>Garland Nixon: rokfin.com/garlandnixon<br>Joaquin Flores: t.me/NewResistance<br>Tom Luongo: https://tomluongo.me/<br>Alex Krainer: https://alexkrainer.substack.com/<br>Peter Kuznick: https://www.american.edu/cas/faculty/kuznick.cfm<br>Martin Sieff: https://pluralia.forumverona.com/en/authors/martin-sieff/<br><br><br>Also visit<br>www.risingtidefoundation.net<br>and risingtidefoundation.substack.com<br>...<br>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZmroGODK2s

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<p><img src="https://thumbnails.lbry.com/LrSlGPUheR0" width="480" alt="thumbnail" title="Understanding China with Lawrence Freeman (and dialogue with audience)"></p>Lawrence Freeman delivers a presentation featuring his recent trip to China.<br><br>Watch Larry's main presentation here: https://youtu.be/tQN79fUjAyk<br><br>Follow Lawrence Freeman's work on https://lawrencefreemanafricaandtheworld.com/<br><br>Supplementary reading from Lawrence Freeman<br><br>Chinese Amb Xie Feng Rejects “zero-sum” Mentality of the West at 75th Anniversary<br>https://lawrencefreemanafricaandtheworld.com/2024/10/13/chinese-amb-xie-feng-rejects-zero-sum-mentality-of-the-west-at-75th-anniversary/<br><br>Replace Menacing Talk of War in The Horn of Africa With Designs for Economic Growth<br>https://lawrencefreemanafricaandtheworld.com/2024/10/05/replace-menacing-talk-of-war-in-the-horn-of-africa-with-designs-for-economic-growth/<br><br>“Rules-Based Order” Complicit in Crimes Against Humanity in Gaza<br>https://lawrencefreemanafricaandtheworld.com/2024/11/03/rules-based-order-complicit-in-crimes-against-humanity-in-gaza/<br><br><br>Support the Rising Tide Foundation in the following ways:<br><br>1) Make a donation <br>https://risingtidefoundation.net/support-the-work/<br>2) Subscribe to Matt and Cynthia's Substack<br>matthewehret.substack.com<br>cynthiachung.substack.com<br>3) Buy some books!<br>https://canadianpatriot.org/untold-history-of-canada-books/<br><br>and follow us on www.risingtidefoundation.net and t.me/risingtidefoundation<br>...<br>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LrSlGPUheR0

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<div data-sanitized-class="pullquote"><p><em>The Chained Muse</em> is happy to announce the return of the weekly podcast for our flagship journal, <em>New Lyre Magazine </em>(old school episodes <a href="https://www.youtube.com/@newlyremagazine/videos">here</a>).</p></div><p>In the latest discussion, we begin by reflecting on the current state of culture and poetry. We explore some of the timeless poetical gems featured in <em>New Lyre’s</em> autumn issue, happily putting to rest any fears of …</p>
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<p>On Wednesday, 6 November the world awoke to extraordinary news: against all odds, <strong>Donald Trump</strong> won the 2024 presidential elections to become the 47nd president of the United States. Heartfelt congratulations to the American people are in order. It was their victory: the ordinary deplorables rallied to the defense of whatever is left of their democracy and prevailed, seemingly against all odds over the powers that be. </p><div data-sanitized-class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9725d911-265e-4b06-9aed-95bd07ca63ed_1411x798.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM" data-sanitized-class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img"><div data-sanitized-class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9725d911-265e-4b06-9aed-95bd07ca63ed_1411x798.png" width="1411" height="798" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/9725d911-265e-4b06-9aed-95bd07ca63ed_1411x798.png","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":798,"width":1411,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":2277769,"alt":null,"title":null,"type":"image/png","href":null,"belowTheFold":false,"topImage":true,"internalRedirect":null,"isProcessing":false}' alt="" fetchpriority="high" data-sanitized-class="sizing-normal"></picture><div data-sanitized-class="image-link-expand"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container restack-image"><path d="M3 12a9 9 0 0 1 9-9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1 6.74 2.74L21 8"></path><path d="M21 3v5h-5"></path><path d="M21 12a9 9 0 0 1-9 9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1-6.74-2.74L3 16"></path><path d="M8 16H3v5"></path></div><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container view-image"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></div></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>They had the choice, essentially between two candidates. In electing Trump, they rejected the incumbent government’s brazen assault on civil liberties, the wokeism, the forever wars and the creeping Sovietization of the United States. To see the reactions to Wednesday morning’s news in social media, the uplifted spirits and, dare I say, joy, was beautiful and heartwarming. But after the celebrations, it will be time to roll up the collective sleeves and get to work.</p><h2>Now comes the hard part</h2><p>This victory was proof positive that when the people make a stand decisively, they can not be defeated. Now, that full court press must continue. Trump and his administration don’t have a magic wand to fix everything and make all the problems go away: it will be a massive labor. As the people supported them through the elections, so they must continue to back them through the coming challenges. With the people behind them, the magic will happen.</p><p>Before us is the struggle for truth, struggle to rebuild prosperity and to end the forever wars. The strength and power of people’s support, and the direction of that support will determine how successful the new administration can be. For his part, Trump and his team can do much to galvanize and turbo-charge this support and keep the people engaged in making America great again and making the American people healthy again.</p><p>Yesterday I had the pleasure of joining my friend <strong>Mel K</strong> for a post-election discussion. It was published a few hours later, titled "<a href="https://twitter.com/MelKShow/status/1854675927604576305">Nuremberg 2.0: Global Tsunami of Truth, Justice and Liberty Commences...</a>" The title draws from the part where I opined that the new administration must take advantage of its massive popular mandate by going on the offensive, without hesitation, hedging or equivocation, which could muddle its message and leave the administration open to renewed attempts at sabotage and lawfare attacks by its opponents.</p><h2>Nuremberg 2.0</h2><p>As I put it during our interview, if I were Trump, I would drum up a Nuremberg-like process in a very public and explicit way and begin an open season on a number of unsolved mysteries of the last six decades beginning with the following:</p><ul><li><p><strong>JFK</strong>, <strong>RFK</strong> and <strong>MLK</strong> assassinations </p></li><li><p>9/11</p></li><li><p>Global War on Terror</p></li><li><p>Russiagate</p></li><li><p>C19 pandemic</p></li><li><p>Ukraine war</p></li><li><p>2020 elections</p></li><li><p>WEF agenda</p></li><li><p>Epstein and P Diddy lists</p></li><li><p>Lahaina</p></li><li><p>North Carolina, etc.</p></li></ul><p>At the very minimum, some of these issues must come under public Truth and Reconciliation inquiries. These should distill the truth with such clarity that it can become part of America’s and the world’s history curriculum for generations to come. They should also shine the sunlight at the epicenter of corruption and uncover its ultimate beneficiaries with names and mugshots. </p><p>Such a process would not only have full support of the majority of American people: it would captivate the attention and support of the whole world. Only, there should be no reconciliation for premeditated crimes against humanity: no walking away with the colossal proceeds of  crime, only to regroup and revert to predatory conduct. </p><p>The main conspirators should be sentenced to life in prison and a total, 100% expropriation of all of their earthly assets: personal, family, trusts, foundations and endowments – all of it. These funds should then be recycled in favor of those who lost their homes, businesses and livelihoods in consequence of these conspiracies.</p><div data-sanitized-class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a target="_blank" href="https://rumble.com/v5mz3pk-mel-k-and-alex-krainer-nuremberg-2.0-global-tsunami-of-truth-justice-and-li.html" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM" data-sanitized-class="image-link image2"><div data-sanitized-class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3207a81d-0a32-460c-b29c-e940facf8dde_900x506.png" width="900" height="506" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/3207a81d-0a32-460c-b29c-e940facf8dde_900x506.png","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":506,"width":900,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":530902,"alt":null,"title":null,"type":"image/png","href":"https://rumble.com/v5mz3pk-mel-k-and-alex-krainer-nuremberg-2.0-global-tsunami-of-truth-justice-and-li.html","belowTheFold":true,"topImage":false,"internalRedirect":null,"isProcessing":false}' alt="" loading="lazy" data-sanitized-class="sizing-normal"></picture><div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>Link to the podcast on Rumble: <a href="https://rumble.com/v5mz3pk-mel-k-and-alex-krainer-nuremberg-2.0-global-tsunami-of-truth-justice-and-li.html">https://rumble.com/v5mz3pk-mel-k-and-alex-krainer-nuremberg-2.0-global-tsunami-of-truth-justice-and-li.html</a></p><div data-attrs='{"url":"https://alexkrainer.substack.com/subscribe?","text":"Subscribe","language":"en"}' data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM" data-sanitized-class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor"><div data-sanitized-class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div data-sanitized-class="preamble"><p data-sanitized-class="cta-caption">Alex Krainer's TrendCompass is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.</p></div><div data-sanitized-class="fake-input-wrapper"><div data-sanitized-class="fake-input"></div><div data-sanitized-class="fake-button"></div></div></div></div><h2>Trump means business, it seems!</h2><p>Only hours after this interview was published I came across a recorded statement by Trump, indicating that he does indeed intend to go on the offensive. The statement (video clip is in <strong><a href="https://twitter.com/SpartaJustice/status/1854659468765626764">this tweet</a>)</strong> is a glove thrown in the face of the deep state swamp:</p><blockquote><p><strong>First</strong>, I will immediately re-issue my 2020 Executive Order restoring the President's authority to remove rogue bureaucrats. And I will wield that power very aggressively. <strong>Second</strong>, we will clean out all of the corrupt actors in our National Security and Intelligence apparatus, and there are plenty of them. The departments and agencies that have been weaponized will be completely overhauled so that faceless bureaucrats will never again be able to target and persecute conservatives, Christians, or the left's political enemies, which they're doing now at a level that nobody can believe even possible. <strong>Third</strong>, we will totally reform FISA courts which are so corrupt that the judges seemingly do not care when they are lied to in warrant applications. So many judges have seen so many applications that they know were wrong, or at least they must have known. They do nothing about it, they're lied to. <strong>Fourth</strong>, to expose the hoaxes and abuses of power that have been tearing our country apart, we will establish a Truth and Reconciliation Commission to declassify and publish all documents on Deep State spying, censorship, and corruption, and there are plenty of them. <strong>Fifth</strong>, we will launch a major crackdown on government leakers who collude with the fake news to deliberately weave false narratives and to subvert our government and our democracy. When possible, we will press criminal charges. <strong>Sixth</strong>, we will make every Inspector General's Office independent and physically separated from the departments they oversee so they do not become the protectors of the Deep State. <strong>Seventh</strong>, I will ask Congress to establish an independent auditing system to continually monitor our intelligence agencies to ensure they are not spying on our citizens or running disinformation campaigns against the American people, or that they are not spying on someone's campaign like they spied on my campaign. <strong>Eighth</strong>, we will continue the effort launched by the Trump administration to move parts of the sprawling federal bureaucracy to new locations outside the Washington Swamp. Just as I moved the Bureau of Land Management to Colorado, as many as 100,000 government positions can be moved out. And I mean immediately out of Washington to places filled with patriots who love America, and they really do love America. <strong>Ninth</strong>, I will work to ban federal bureaucrats from taking jobs at the companies they deal with and that they regulate. So they deal with these companies and they regulate these companies and then they want to take jobs from these companies. Doesn't work that way—such a public display cannot go on and it's taking place all the time, like with Big Pharma. <strong>Finally</strong>, I will push a constitutional amendment to impose term limits on members of Congress. This is how I will shatter the deep state and restore government that is controlled by the people and for the people. Thank you very much.</p></blockquote><p>This is music - symphony - to my ears. But wait, it gets better. Mel and I also spoke about the critical importance of free speech and the media.</p><h2>Taming the corporate media</h2><p>Anti-Trump hysteria induced by the <s>enemies of the people</s> media could be one way the new administration could be sabotaged. To avoid this, they should break up the media monopoly by making it easier for journalists and media entrepreneurs to set up independent operations and compete for viewership/readership by creating compelling, quality content. Again, it’s clear that Trump and his team have been thinking along the same lines. Trump issued the following statement (the 6-min. video clip is at <strong><a href="https://twitter.com/LibertyLockPod/status/1854949449518514593">this link</a></strong>):</p><blockquote><p>If we don’t have free speech, then we just don’t have a free country. It’s as simple as that. If this most fundamental right is allowed to perish, then the rest of our rights and liberties will topple, just like dominoes, one by one - they’ll go down. That’s why today I’m announcing my plan to shatter the left wing censorship regime and to reclaim the right to free speech for all Americans. And “reclaim” si a very important word in this case, because they’ve taken it away. In recent weeks, bombshell reports have confirmed that a sinister group of deep state bureaucrats, Ssilicon Valley tyrants, left-wing activists and depraved corporate news media have been conspiring to manipulate and silence the American people. They have collaborated to suppress vital information on everything, from elections to public health. The censorship cartel must be dismantled and destroyed and it must happen immediately and here’s my plan. <strong>First</strong>, within hours of my inauguration, I will sign an executive order banning any Federal department or agency from colluding with any organization, business or person to censor, limit, categorize, or impede the lawful speech of American citizens. I will then ban Federal money from being used to label domestic speech as miss-, or dis-information. And I will begin the process of identifying and firing every federal bureaucrat who has engaged in domestic censorship, directly or indirectly, whether they are the Department of Homeland Security, the Department of Health, Human Services, the FBI, the DOJ, no matter who they are. <strong>Second</strong>, I will order the Department of Justice to investigate all parties involved in the new online censorship regime, which is absolutely destructive and terrible and to aggressively prosecute any and all crimes identified. These include possible violations of Federal Civil Rights law, Campaign Finance laws, Federal Election law, Securities law and Anti-Trust laws, the Hatch Act, and a host of other potential civil, criminal, regulatory and constitutional offences. To assist in these efforts, I am urging House Republicans to immediately send preservation letters, and we have to do this right now, to the Biden Administration, the Biden Campaign and every Silicon Valley tech giant, ordering them not to destroy evidence of censorship. <strong>Third</strong>, upon my inauguration as president I will ask Congress to send the Bill to my desk, revising Section 230 to get big online platforms out of censorship business. From now on, digital platforms should only qualify for immunity protection under Section 230 if they meet high standards of neutrality, transparency, fairness and non-discrimination. We should require these platforms to increase their efforts to take down unlawful contents such as child exploitation and promoting terrorism while dramatically curtailing their power to arbitrarily restrict lawful speech. <strong>Fourth</strong>, we need to break up the entire toxic censorship industry that has arisen under the false guise of tackling so-called myths and disinformation. The Federal Government should immediately stop funding all nonprofits and academic programs that support this authoritarian project. If any U.S. universities are discovered to have engaged in censorship activities, or election interference in the past, such as flagging social media content for removal or blacklisting, those universities should lose federal research dollars and federal student loan support for a period of five years and maybe more. We should also enact new laws laying out clear criminal penalties for federal bureaucrats who partner with private entities to do an end run around the Constitution and deprive Americans of their First, Fourth and Fifth Amendment rights. In other words, deprive them of their vote. And once you lose those elections, and once you lose your borders like we have, you no longer have a country. Furthermore, to confront the problems of major platforms being infiltrated by legions of former deep staters and intelligence officials, there should be a seven year cooling off period before any employee of the FBI, CIA, NSA, DNI, DHS, or DOD is allowed to take a job at a company possessing vast quantities of U.S. user data. <strong>Fifth</strong>, the time has finally come for Congress to pass a digital bill of rights. This should include a right to digital due process. In other words, Government officials should need a court order to take down online content, not send information request such as the FBI was sending to Twitter. Furthermore, when users of big online platforms have their content or accounts removed, throttled, shadow-banned, or otherwise restricted, no matter what name they use, they should have the right to be informed that it’s happening, the right to a specific explanation of the reason why, and a right to a timely appeal. In addition, all users over the age of 18 should have the right to opt out of content moderation and curation entirely, and receive an unmanipulated stream of information if they so choose. The fight for free speech is a matter of victory or death for America and for the survival of Western Civilization itself. When I’m president, this this whole rotten system of censorship and information control will be ripped out of the system at large. There won’t be anything left. By restoring free speech we’ll begin to reclaim our democracy and save our nation. Thank you and God bless America.</p></blockquote><p>This is a very strong, important and enormously encouraging statement. It is in stark contrast with <strong><a href="https://twitter.com/PhilHollowayEsq/status/1840235678610735305">John Kerry’s</a></strong><a href="https://twitter.com/PhilHollowayEsq/status/1840235678610735305"> authoritarian musings</a> about doing away with the First Amendment. Kerry laments that the Amendment is a major roadblock to <em>their</em> ability to build a consensus around any issue: “What we need is to win the ground, win the right to govern… and implement change…” </p><h2>The economy, stupid…</h2><p>The toughest struggle however, will be the fight to rebuild the American economy in a way that stimulates investment and creates favorable conditions for small and medium size businesses to flourish. This will require breaking the stranglehold of the too-big-to-fail banks over the US economy and transferring the credit allocation function from large banks to smaller local and regional financial institutions that can support local businesses. Very substantial investment capital could be accumulated in a number of ways: radically reducing government waste, improving tax collection from big corporations, expropriating the criminal class as discussed above, ending the forever wars and shutting down hundreds of foreign military bases.</p><p>Let’s see whether Trump and his team will issue any statements on economic reforms. My feeling is that they will. The question that remains is whether they will be able to carry all these reforms out. I believe that if they are continually and consistently backed by the people in the same way that they were supported through the presidential election cycle, they will almost inevitably be successful. In effect, the people of the United States will make America great again with Donald Trump as the administrator in charge.</p><h2>Cultivate optimism!</h2><p>As I wrote above, now comes the hard part and the struggles will be real. In this sense, cultivating optimism should be regarded as our sacred duty toward the future generations. Many people are warning that Trump is a billionaire, that he’s one of <em>them, </em>that he’s surrounded himself with other billionaires like Elon Musk and Peter Thiel, etc, etc. That may be so, but it does not necessarily mean that they are all loyal to the occult oligarchy that we are opposed to. Recall, Robert and John Fitzgerald Kennedy were both part of the American aristocracy and political class, but they both paid with their lives for opposing the oligarchy.</p><p>Throughout history, many reform movements were led by members of the privileged classes who recognized that without reforms, a system under an unrestrained rule of oligarchs is on the road to perdition. Even in ancient Rome, many of the most determined reformers like Catiline, the Gracchi brothers and Julius Caesar were wealthy aristocrats. Like the Kennedy brothers, they all paid for their efforts with their lives. </p><div data-sanitized-class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fbf9d112b-0d79-45ea-b134-03c6e518159e_600x300.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM" data-sanitized-class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img"><div data-sanitized-class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fbf9d112b-0d79-45ea-b134-03c6e518159e_600x300.jpeg" width="600" height="300" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/bf9d112b-0d79-45ea-b134-03c6e518159e_600x300.jpeg","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":300,"width":600,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":null,"alt":"Trump - FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT (blood on his face and fist lifted, flag in bkgd)  car magnet.","title":null,"type":null,"href":null,"belowTheFold":true,"topImage":false,"internalRedirect":null,"isProcessing":false}' alt="Trump - FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT (blood on his face and fist lifted, flag in bkgd)  car magnet." title="Trump - FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT (blood on his face and fist lifted, flag in bkgd)  car magnet." loading="lazy" data-sanitized-class="sizing-normal"></picture><div data-sanitized-class="image-link-expand"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container restack-image"><path d="M3 12a9 9 0 0 1 9-9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1 6.74 2.74L21 8"></path><path d="M21 3v5h-5"></path><path d="M21 12a9 9 0 0 1-9 9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1-6.74-2.74L3 16"></path><path d="M8 16H3v5"></path></div><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container view-image"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></div></div></div></div></a></figure></div><h2>This is our struggle</h2><p>Dismissing the Trump team solely on account of their station in life and sitting out the struggle that is before us would truly be a tragic waste of a hard won chance to make the world a better place. Ultimately it is a people’s struggle: OUR STRUGGLE!! Even if you had zero faith in the new leadership, cultivating optimism and doing your part must still be a sacred duty. I elaborated this in the article “<a href="https://alexkrainer.substack.com/p/the-case-for-optimism?utm_source=publication-search">The Case for Optimism.</a>” </p><p>Remember, it will be the coming generations who’ll collect the fruits of our actions today. We have it in our power to gift them a better future and we should use that power to the best of our abilities. The floodgates are now open and we’ve no excuse not to give it our all.</p><div data-attrs='{"url":"https://alexkrainer.substack.com/p/a-new-dawn?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=share&amp;action=share","text":"Share"}' data-component-name="CaptionedButtonToDOM" data-sanitized-class="captioned-button-wrap"><div data-sanitized-class="preamble"><p data-sanitized-class="cta-caption">Thanks for reading! 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<img src="https://www.spacebar.news/content/images/2024/11/DSC04407.jpg" alt="This is the perfect 'retro' Mac"><p>I grew up using Mac computers, and for a long time, I've wanted something that would allow me to use all those old applications and games in a more convenient setup. I now have the perfect 'retro' Mac, at least for me: an upgraded Mid-2010 Mac Mini. </p><p>This compact low-power computer can run most Mac software from roughly 2001 to 2015 with excellent performance, older apps and games through unofficial emulation, and more modern software at slower speeds with a hacked macOS Sonoma installation. I couldn't be happier with it.</p><h2 data-sanitized-id="the-hardware-and-upgrades">The hardware and upgrades</h2><p>I bought this Mac Mini on eBay for a grand total of $85, complete with a 2.4GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor, a 320GB hard drive, and 8GB RAM upgraded from the base 2GB. There were a few minor scuffs on the case, but the computer was in perfect working order.</p><p>The <a href="https://support.apple.com/en-us/112588" rel="noreferrer">mid-2010 Mac Mini</a> still looks surprisingly modern, and it's using the same aluminum unibody design that Apple continued to use until the <a href="https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2024/10/apples-new-mac-mini-is-more-mighty-more-mini-and-built-for-apple-intelligence/" rel="noreferrer">2024 M4 Mac Mini</a>. This older model has a slot-loading DVD drive in the front, while later unibody models have no optical drive. I was surprised to find out it still worked, as the disc drives in Mac computers are well known for failing after a few years.</p><p>The connectivity on this Mac Mini is a fun mix of old and new technology. There are four USB Type-A ports, but all of them are USB 2.0. There's Mini DisplayPort and HDMI for connecting a display, and the built-in NVIDIA GeForce 320M graphics is powerful enough to support two displays at once. It supports resolutions of up to 1920x1200 on HDMI, and up to 2560x1600 on DisplayPort, but I haven't tested that. For wireless connectivity, there's Wi-Fi 4 and Bluetooth 2.1, and Gigabit Ethernet is another option for networking.</p><figure data-sanitized-class="kg-card kg-image-card"><img src="https://www.spacebar.news/content/images/2024/11/DSC04409.jpg" alt="This is the perfect 'retro' Mac" loading="lazy" width="1920" height="1278" data-sanitized-class="kg-image"></figure><p>The most interesting port here might be the FireWire 800 connector, which serves as the fastest data connection on the Mac Mini. It has blazing speeds of up to 800 Mbps and backwards compatibility with the original FireWire 400. It's <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/ipod/comments/kwe8dp/ipod_1st_and_2nd_gen_the_expensive_leads_to_make/" rel="noreferrer">difficult and expensive</a> to connect legacy FireWire devices to more modern Macs, so even though I'll probably never use that port, I appreciate that it's there. I did try it out once by connecting <a href="https://www.spacebar.news/original-ipod-hands-on-2024/" rel="noreferrer">my original iPod</a>, and it showed up in iTunes as expected.</p><p>The <a href="https://ark.intel.com/content/www/us/en/ark/products/35568/intel-core-2-duo-processor-p8600-3m-cache-2-40-ghz-1066-mhz-fsb.html" rel="noreferrer">Intel Core 2 Duo P8600 processor</a> in this computer was intended for laptops, with just two cores, no hyperthreading, and a 25W TDP. My <a href="https://browser.geekbench.com/v6/cpu/8753376" rel="noreferrer">Geekbench 6 test</a> came back with a single-core score of 312 and a multi-core score of 541. That's about 8% as fast as the <a href="https://browser.geekbench.com/v6/cpu/compare/8753376?baseline=8750514">latest base model M4 Mac Mini</a> in single-core performance, and 4.1% as fast in multi-core performance.</p><figure data-sanitized-class="kg-card kg-image-card kg-card-hascaption"><img src="https://www.spacebar.news/content/images/2024/11/image.png" alt="This is the perfect 'retro' Mac" loading="lazy" width="1640" height="612" data-sanitized-class="kg-image"><figcaption><span>The "Mac 16,10" is the base M4 Mac Mini.</span></figcaption></figure><p>After buying the Mac, I opened it up and replaced the 320GB hard drive with a 500GB Samsung 870 EVO SSD. Unlike modern Mac Minis, this has a standard SATA connection for storage, so you can easily put any 2.5" HDD or SSD in there. Thanks to Garage Maxed Out for <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqn2xGt3sos" rel="noreferrer">the excellent video tutorial</a>.</p><h2 data-sanitized-id="the-software-is-the-key">The software is the key</h2><p>Apple handles backwards compatibility much differently than Microsoft and the PC ecosystem. While you can run many legacy applications and games on the latest version of Windows 11, going back to <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jSfIroiFdA" rel="noreferrer">software from the 1990s</a>, the same is not true on Mac.</p><p>Since the first Macintosh in 1984, Apple has gone through three major hardware architecture transitions (68k to PowerPC, PowerPC to Intel, and Intel to Apple Silicon) and one major software transition (classic Mac OS to Mac OS X/macOS). Each of those migrations included some level of backwards compatibility, but only for a few years. For example, Mac OS X was released in 2001, and included the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_built-in_macOS_apps#Classic" rel="noreferrer">Classic environment</a> for running older Mac OS 9 software. The Classic environment was ripped out with the release of Mac OS X 10.5 in 2007, and it was never ported to Intel Macs, which started shipping in 2006.</p><p>I chose this specific Mac Mini model because this is the last model that supported the Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard operating system—the next <a href="https://support.apple.com/en-us/112007" rel="noreferrer">2011 Mac Mini</a> shipped with OS X 10.7 Lion and cannot be downgraded. Snow Leopard was the last version of Mac OS X to support the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosetta_(software)#Rosetta" rel="noreferrer">Rosetta compatibility layer</a>, which allowed PowerPC Mac OS X applications and games to run on Intel Macs through an invisible emulation layer.</p><p>With Mac OS X Snow Leopard installed, this Mac Mini can run most Mac apps and games released from around 2001 to roughly the mid-2010s, when most software started <a href="https://lowendmac.com/2016/last-version-of-firefox-for-os-x-10-6-to-10-8-available-now/" rel="noreferrer">dropping support for Snow Leopard</a>. The earliest software runs in the Rosetta compatibility layer, and later Intel-based Mac software runs natively. <strong>That's roughly 15 years of Mac software accessible in one shared environment.</strong> No copying files back and forth between virtual hard drives required.</p><p>I can also use <a href="https://sheepshaver.cebix.net/" rel="noreferrer">SheepShaver or Basilisk II</a> to emulate the classic Mac operating system, but there's not much software exclusive to the classic Mac OS that I want to run, and those emulators run just as well on a modern PC or Mac. Installing a newer version of Mac OS X/macOS on another partition or drive would also allow the Mini to run newer software—more on that later.</p><p>It's worth noting that a Hackintosh running Mac OS X Snow Leopard would have the same application support, but I didn't have a spare PC with the right hardware for that. Turning a PC into a Hackintosh means finding the hardware drivers, which is even harder with older macOS versions. It didn't make sense for me to buy a PC that <em>might </em>be compatible when I could just get an officially-supported Mac Mini for under $100.</p><h2 data-sanitized-id="hello-snow-leopard">Hello, Snow Leopard</h2><p>This Mac Mini arrived with a newer version of macOS installed, so I had to downgrade it to Snow Leopard. This would normally require the recovery discs that shipped with the Mac Mini, but I don't have those. I couldn't use the standard Snow Leopard DVD either, because that was 10.6.0, and support for this model was only added in 10.6.4. Intel Macs have an internet-based recovery, but the earliest available version from Apple's servers was 10.7 Lion.</p><p>Thankfully, Internet Archive came to the rescue. I downloaded a <a href="https://archive.org/details/691-6732-A2ZiMac._Mac_OS_X_Install_DVD._Mac_OS_v10.6.4._Disc_v4.0_DVD_DL" rel="noreferrer">Mac OS X 10.6.4 Install DVD</a> intended for a different iMac model, and wrote it to a USB drive. The Mac Mini had no complaints booting from the USB drive and going through the installation process. The built-in Software Update brought me up to 10.6.8 and updated some system components.</p><figure data-sanitized-class="kg-card kg-image-card"><img src="https://www.spacebar.news/content/images/2024/11/Screen-shot-2024-11-10-at-9.26.43-PM.png" alt="This is the perfect 'retro' Mac" loading="lazy" width="1280" height="1024" data-sanitized-class="kg-image"></figure><p>I used Snow Leopard a lot back when it was new, and it's been a lot of fun to revisit. It still feels remarkably modern, with many of the same core applications and system features that you'd find in modern Mac computers today: the Finder, Spotlight search, TextEdit, Preview, and so on. One notable exception is that the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dashboard_(macOS)" rel="noreferrer">Dashboard</a> with its customizable widgets is still present—Apple ripped that out in macOS 10.15. Also, this still has the System Preferences instead of the later System Settings app.</p><p>I'm still a big fan of Snow Leopard's design, where Apple had started to phase out the "Aqua" design language of early Mac OS X with a more gray-and-white aesthetic. For the most part, this predated Apple's skeuomorphism era, though elements of that philosophy are visible in applications like GarageBand. It might be the nostalgia talking, but I think Snow Leopard looks better visually than modern versions of macOS, with more distinctive and visible UI elements that don't blend into window backgrounds.</p><figure data-sanitized-class="kg-card kg-image-card"><img src="https://www.spacebar.news/content/images/2024/11/Screen-shot-2024-11-10-at-9.27.03-PM.png" alt="This is the perfect 'retro' Mac" loading="lazy" width="1280" height="1024" data-sanitized-class="kg-image"></figure><p>Snow Leopard is <em>lightning fast</em> on this computer. It only takes nine seconds to get from the OpenCore bootloader to the desktop, and most apps open in under a few seconds.</p><p>Finally, Mac OS X Snow Leopard is still somewhat compatible with modern technology. I can connect to my regular home network with the Mini's integrated Wi-Fi 4 chip, and use pretty much any flash drive or USB device (as long as it supports USB 2.0). I can turn on File Sharing and connect to it from a modern Mac over <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Filing_Protocol" rel="noreferrer">AFP</a>. However, it can't connect to my NAS with SMB, because Snow Leopard doesn't have SMB 2.0 support.</p><h2 data-sanitized-id="living-the-ilife">Living the iLife</h2><p>Apple used to bundle iTunes, iMovie, iPhoto, GarageBand, and other creative apps together in the 'iLife' software bundle, which was pre-installed on new Macs and available as paid packages. I don't remember exactly what versions I used back in the day, so I just downloaded <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20110608070535/http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2009/01/26ilife.html" rel="noreferrer">iLife '09</a>. It's a Universal binary, so it runs natively on this Intel Mac with excellent performance.</p><p>I probably won't be making any home movies in iMovie or managing my photo library through iPhoto, but I do plan on making a website with iWeb and hosting it somewhere with GitHub Pages. I missed out on the Geocities era of the early internet, but I did make a few sites with iWeb when it was new, before I switched to Adobe GoLive and Dreamweaver.</p><figure data-sanitized-class="kg-card kg-image-card"><img src="https://www.spacebar.news/content/images/2024/11/Screen-shot-2024-11-10-at-9.17.36-PM.png" alt="This is the perfect 'retro' Mac" loading="lazy" width="1264" height="929" data-sanitized-class="kg-image"></figure><p>My next nostalgia trip was installing Microsoft Office 2004 and 2011, with Office 2004 running in emulation under Rosetta, and Office 2011 being an Intel-native package. I made a <em>lot</em> of school papers and presentations with these versions. The <a href="https://www.deviantart.com/nkear5/art/Office-2011-ICNS-PNG-and-ICO-166159609" rel="noreferrer">icons for Office 2011</a> were also the best Office icons of all time.</p><p>All the apps seem to run well, and Office 2004 also included a Mac version of Windows Media Player. Finally, I can watch all my .WMV movies.</p><figure data-sanitized-class="kg-card kg-image-card"><img src="https://www.spacebar.news/content/images/2024/11/Screen-shot-2024-11-10-at-9.36.46-PM.png" alt="This is the perfect 'retro' Mac" loading="lazy" width="1107" height="914" data-sanitized-class="kg-image"></figure><p>I have installed a few more apps and games, but nothing I've spent more than a few hours with so far. I have Civilization III, the last-supported version of Firefox for Snow Leopard (v48.0.2), Quake III, and some I SPY puzzle games.</p><h2 data-sanitized-id="bonus-objective-macos-sonoma">Bonus objective: macOS Sonoma</h2><p>I occasionally need an Intel-based Mac for testing software, so I wanted to see if I could dual-boot a more modern macOS on the 2010 Mini, alongside the existing Snow Leopard installation. I have a mid-2014 Mini that I've been using for that purpose, but the hard drive is dying and it doesn't have much RAM.</p><p>The mid-2010 Mac Mini can officially run up to macOS High Sierra 10.13, but that's still seven years out of date. Thankfully, the <a href="https://dortania.github.io/OpenCore-Legacy-Patcher/" rel="noreferrer">OpenCore Legacy Patcher</a> project allows newer versions to be installed on old Macs. It can create a bootable USB image for the macOS installer, then install patches and additional drivers as needed for a given model. As Gene Kranz <a href="https://youtu.be/XLMDSjCzEx8?t=94" rel="noreferrer">would say</a>, "I don't care what anything was designed to do. I care about what it can do."</p><p>The mid-2010 Mac Mini is supported, but keyboards and mice have to <a href="https://github.com/dortania/OpenCore-Legacy-Patcher/issues/1021" rel="noreferrer">go through a USB 2.0 hub</a>, and graphics acceleration <a href="https://github.com/dortania/OpenCore-Legacy-Patcher/issues/108" rel="noreferrer">uses a custom driver</a> that might have some issues. I decided to try installing macOS Sonoma, which was the newest version supported at the time—the latest version can do macOS Sequoia.</p><p>I could not get OpenCore Legacy Patcher to work from my modern M1 Mac, even when making the initial USB drive manually and only using Legacy Patcher to install drivers. I'm not sure if it was because I was using a computer on a different architecture than the install target, or some other issue. I finally pulled my 2014 Mini out of my closet, and set up OpenCore Legacy Patcher on there—thankfully, the app can run on OS X Yosemite 10.10 and later. It worked on the first try.</p><p>I finally had my USB drive with patched macOS Sonoma ready for the Mac Mini. I booted it up, and... more problems. The installer didn't detect my Mini's internal drive at all. A forum thread suggested <a href="https://www.macworld.com/article/224955/how-to-reset-a-macs-nvram-pram-and-smc.html">resetting the Mac's PRAM</a>, and that worked. The installer could finally start, but it stopped on "one minute remaining." Another PRAM reset and reboot fixed that, and I finally got to the post-install setup screen. It stopped again at the language selection.</p><p>I continued through the setup process, rebooting and resetting the PRAM each time something got stuck. Every reboot brought me one step closer, until at long last, my epic journey was complete: I reached the desktop. I now had two versions of macOS released 14 years apart running on the same 14 year-old Mac.</p><figure data-sanitized-class="kg-card kg-image-card"><img src="https://www.spacebar.news/content/images/2024/11/Screenshot_2024-07-03_at_12.48.26_PM.png" alt="This is the perfect 'retro' Mac" loading="lazy" width="1280" height="1024" data-sanitized-class="kg-image"></figure><p>The macOS Sonoma experience isn't great on this ancient hardware, but the modern SSD and maxed-out 8GB of RAM is helping. Safari takes around three seconds to open, and browsing the web is slow but usable, as long as I stick to one or two tabs. I have no problems chatting in the native Discord application, outside of the short delay when switching channels, and web apps like Spotify and Google Maps work fine through Safari.</p><p>The Activity Monitor confirms the ancient Intel CPU is the main bottleneck here: it's close to 100% utilization as soon as I try do any multitasking or load a complex web app. I wouldn't want to use this for everyday work, but it's enough to test Intel builds of my <a href="https://github.com/corbindavenport/nexus-tools" rel="noreferrer">Nexus Tools installer</a> without digging out another computer.</p><figure data-sanitized-class="kg-card kg-image-card"><img src="https://www.spacebar.news/content/images/2024/11/Screenshot-2024-11-09-at-10.13.38-PM.png" alt="This is the perfect 'retro' Mac" loading="lazy" width="1280" height="1024" data-sanitized-class="kg-image"></figure><p>There are some interesting side effects to dual-booting Mac OS X Snow Leopard and macOS Sonoma. The Snow Leopard partition uses the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HFS_Plus">HFS+ file system</a>, while Sonoma partition uses the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_File_System">Apple File System</a> (APFS), which wasn't added to Mac computers until macOS 10.13 High Sierra. I can see Snow Leopard's files in Sonoma, but I can't see Sonoma's files in Snow Leopard. I also have to reset the PRAM once or twice when switching from Snow Leopard to Sonoma, otherwise I get a startup error.</p><h2 data-sanitized-id="the-perfect-retro-mac">The perfect retro Mac</h2><p>I now have a computer that can run just about all the old Mac software I could want, from early 2000s games and productivity software to mid-2010s creative apps. It's nearly silent, incredibly power-efficient, and super fast. I can connect new and old accessories, and moving files back and forth is as simple as clicking the Mac in my network devices list. Even better, it can be a modern Mac when needed—just a very slow one.</p><p>I know some people see spinning hard disk noises, translucent plastic, CRT monitors, and era-appropriate accessories as required components for retro computing. All that stuff can be fun, but for this project, I wanted a fast and accessible way to revisit my computing past in a way emulators or <a href="https://blog.corbin.io/post/706475452492087296/restoring-my-powermac-g3" rel="noreferrer">my older PowerMac G3</a> can't handle well.</p><p>I hope some of this may be useful to other people creating their own 'retro' Mac setups. Now, if you'll excuse me, I need to finish the last puzzles in <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmUl04IbVC4" rel="noreferrer">I SPY Spooky Mansion Deluxe</a>.</p>

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<p>From John Dryden to Billy Collins, the cult of Charles Bukowski to Instagram poetry, professor Johnny Payne joins us to discuss his latest polemics and re-examine some of the sacred cows of literature.</p><p>After discussing Johnny’s latest polemics, we have an extended dialogue on the nature of timeless verse and today’s golden age in poetry.</p><p data-attrs='{"url":"https://thechainedmuse.substack.com/subscribe?","text":"Subscribe now","action":null,"class":null}' data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton" data-sanitized-class="button-wrapper"><a href="https://thechainedmuse.substack.com/subscribe?" data-sanitized-class="button primary"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><div data-sanitized-class="pullquote"><p>Read Johnny’s latest essays on <em><a href="https://merionwest.com/author/johnnypayne/">Merion West</a></em></p></div><div data-attrs='{"nodeId":"c9f2cb42-9b48-440e-90a7-0daf90053e7b","caption":"Download or order the latest issue of our print journal, New Lyre Magazine","size":"lg","isEditorNode":true,"title":"Our Fall Magazine Is Published!","publishedBylines":[{"id":24724354,"name":"David Gosselin","bio":"Writer, researcher and poet","photo_url":"https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F36885c4d-379b-4612-bbd0-8e8c252f0c08_1024x739.jpeg","is_guest":false,"bestseller_tier":null}],"post_date":"2024-10-16T21:48:50.444Z","cover_image":"https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3ec8d2a8-38ef-480d-81e4-a5e05d9e6e78_702x915.png","cover_image_alt":null,"canonical_url":"https://thechainedmuse.substack.com/p/our-fall-magazine-is-published","section_name":null,"id":150038311,"type":"newsletter","reaction_count":6,"comment_count":0,"publication_name":"The Chained Muse","publication_logo_url":"https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7194a7c4-9213-47d6-b401-eb1cfad94cf9_800x800.png","belowTheFold":false}' data-sanitized-class="digest-post-embed"></div><div data-attrs='{"nodeId":"8a1a4fbd-3ca0-4e85-a51e-d60d37324ecc","caption":"One might think we have Wordsworth’s theory of poetic art to blame for the creep of Instagram and “street” poetry and the subsequent disfiguration of lyric into meme. 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title: Up ahead: EU Collapse and the Slow Decay of Western Supremacy
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<p>Last week I had the pleasure of joining <strong>Jesse Day</strong>, the host of the Vancouver Resource Investment channel (VRIC), and <strong>Martin Armstrong</strong> of Armstrong Economics to discuss the "EU collapse and the slow decay of western supremacy." The core subject of the otherwise broad-ranging discussion is captured in its title. However, if I could boil down the gist of it, it would be that in the West, the powers that be are still scrambling, trying to induce people into compliance with increasingly authoritarian ways of governance through fear and ever closer control. </p><p>Part of that agenda includes doing away with physical cash and introducing central bank issued digital currencies (CBDCs). The overreach includes geopolitics, with attempts to tighten central control over all the world's regions and nations. So far however, this has never worked in history, as it pushes larger and larger sectors of the society to opt out of the matrix and transact their business (and personal spending) in black markets. </p><p>While the authorities can discourage small numbers from doing so, but if a significant percentage of people opt out, the situation spins out of control, and this is a real risk: in many nations like Venezuela and Argentina, a very substantial portion of economic activity is conducted in the black markets (in both cases close to half). </p><div data-attrs='{"url":"https://alexkrainer.substack.com/p/up-ahead-eu-collapse-and-the-slow?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=share&amp;action=share","text":"Share"}' data-component-name="CaptionedButtonToDOM" data-sanitized-class="captioned-button-wrap"><div data-sanitized-class="preamble"><p data-sanitized-class="cta-caption">Thanks for reading! This post is public so feel free to share it.</p></div><p data-attrs='{"url":"https://alexkrainer.substack.com/p/up-ahead-eu-collapse-and-the-slow?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=share&amp;action=share","text":"Share"}' data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton" data-sanitized-class="button-wrapper"><a href="https://alexkrainer.substack.com/p/up-ahead-eu-collapse-and-the-slow?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=share&amp;action=share" data-sanitized-class="button primary"><span>Share</span></a></p></div><h2>Herding cats</h2><p>Once they take root, black markets are extremely difficult to stamp out. They become true magnets for entrepreneurs and for consumers. For entrepreneurs they offer wide open field for profitable activity without red tape or taxes. For consumers they offer a wide variety of goods and services at much more affordable prices. Friends who are familiar with Argentina tell me that you can find anything you want in the black market there.</p><p>The problem for governments is that they collect zero taxes from such transactions, so the whole business of tightening the control over the people amounts to herding cats. Ultimately it fails. The same is happening in global, geopolitical terms. BRICS integrations are a reaction of many nations who wish to assert their sovereignty to explore other ways of doing business with the rest of the world, and it is an organically growing trend. </p><p>The dedollarization process won't happen overnight and the US dollar won't wither in the short run, but it will no longer be able to remain unchallenged either as a reserve currency or a trade settlement currency. Our full discussion is below:</p><div data-attrs='{"videoId":"mQ4vYliTQJk","startTime":null,"endTime":null}' data-component-name="Youtube2ToDOM" data-sanitized-id="youtube2-mQ4vYliTQJk" data-sanitized-class="youtube-wrap"><div data-sanitized-class="youtube-inner"><iframe src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/mQ4vYliTQJk?rel=0&amp;autoplay=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;enablejsapi=0" frameborder="0" loading="lazy" gesture="media" allow="accelerometer; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowautoplay="true" allowfullscreen="true" width="728" height="409" sandbox="allow-scripts allow-same-origin"></iframe></div></div><p><strong><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQ4vYliTQJk">CHAOS Up Ahead: EU Collapse and the Slow Decay of Western Supremacy</a></strong></p><h2>CBDCs: the impossible pipe-dream</h2><p>During our discussion I mentioned Nigeria’s experience with introducing a CBDC in 2023. In spite of all the efforts, all the preparations including best western technologies and top level consultants that contributed to it, the experiment entirely collapsed in only 108 days. You can find out more about this in the article I posted last October: </p><div data-attrs="{&quot;nodeId&quot;:&quot;201a7725-c108-43c4-ba23-bbdca951720a&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;Will the dreaded Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs) become a thing? Will they be as awful as the ruling parasite class is planning? Will they be able to enforce our compliance with whatever rule they choose to impose, oppressing us under a draconian system of arbitrary restrictions and prohibitions? Spoiler alert: they won’t.&quot;,&quot;size&quot;:&quot;lg&quot;,&quot;isEditorNode&quot;:true,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;CBDCs: why their future is not so bright&quot;,&quot;publishedBylines&quot;:[{&quot;id&quot;:21365744,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;Alex Krainer&quot;,&quot;bio&quot;:&quot;Founder, KRAINER ANALYTICS, I-System Trend Following \nAuthor of: \&quot;Alex Krainer's Trend Following Bible,\&quot; \&quot;Mastering Uncertainty,\&quot; \&quot;Grand Deception\&quot; (banned)&quot;,&quot;photo_url&quot;:&quot;https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F20c90dee-dbb2-4a4e-a7ed-92c24289d29a_144x144.png&quot;,&quot;is_guest&quot;:false,&quot;bestseller_tier&quot;:100}],&quot;post_date&quot;:&quot;2023-10-07T12:43:30.564Z&quot;,&quot;cover_image&quot;:&quot;https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F36f939fb-ba29-48a2-946b-df48ae6ea930_1280x720.png&quot;,&quot;cover_image_alt&quot;:null,&quot;canonical_url&quot;:&quot;https://alexkrainer.substack.com/p/cbdcs-why-their-future-is-not-so&quot;,&quot;section_name&quot;:null,&quot;id&quot;:137747411,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;newsletter&quot;,&quot;reaction_count&quot;:132,&quot;comment_count&quot;:136,&quot;publication_name&quot;:&quot;Alex Krainer's TrendCompass&quot;,&quot;publication_logo_url&quot;:&quot;https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0e269c36-deae-4817-99e0-afe04091aa27_492x492.png&quot;,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true}" data-sanitized-class="digest-post-embed"></div><h2>Liberty is our birthright</h2><p>In all, our degenerate oligarchy’s undying dream of enslaving humanity and gaining permanent airtight control of society will remain an impossible pipe-dream. We are not termites: humans are hardwired with an indelible desire for liberty, which is part of our nature and our birthright.</p><p>We can be lulled to slumber through consumption, games and entertainment, and hypnotized to obedience through fear, but that state of stupor dissipates when we sense danger. Ultimately our nature will not allow us to be obedient serfs and to surrender our children to that fate. There’s a reason why throughout history rulers feared the people. If you push us past a certain point, we push back.</p><p>This is exactly what we saw last week as the American people rejected the steady erosions of their liberties and elected <strong>Donald Trump</strong> as their President. What his second term will bring remains to be seen, but the important and encouraging point is that it was the people's victory over the entrenched powers of the oligarchy. </p><p>More encouraging still is the fact that similar pushback happened in every single one of the ten major nations that held elections this year: in all of them, the incumbent governments lost support. It seems that all of humanity has now come together to reject the slide into the Orwellian globalist dystopia. In his 1915 novel, "The Golem," author <strong>Gustav Meyrink </strong>wrote,</p><blockquote><p>"Once in every generation, a spiritual epidemic spreads like lighting... attacking the souls of the living for some purpose which is hidden from us and causing a kind of mirage in the shape of some being characteristic of the place that, perhaps, lived here hundreds of years ago and still yearn for physical form... You can't hear the note from a vibrating tuning fork until it touches wood and sets it resonating. Perhaps it is simply a spiritual growth without any inherent consciousness, a structure that develops like a crystal out of formless chaos according to a constant law." </p></blockquote><p>Today something along these lines appears to be happening and unlike past generations humanity is now endowed with the internet which connects us in ways that was never before possible. The superorganism has grown its own nervous system, and now it is much more intelligent, faster and more agile than it’s ever been. Now it can move deliberately and purposely in the direction of its choosing!</p><p>In that sense, the internet adds a brand new variable to the social development equation, which has never before existed. This further implies that any prediction based on historical precedents is out of the question. As to the outcomes of current developments, all we can do is watch the pageant and see where it goes. Better still, we should do all we can to contribute towards desired outcomes.</p><div data-attrs='{"url":"https://alexkrainer.substack.com/subscribe?","text":"Subscribe","language":"en"}' data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM" data-sanitized-class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor"><div data-sanitized-class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div data-sanitized-class="preamble"><p data-sanitized-class="cta-caption">Alex Krainer's TrendCompass is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.</p></div><div data-sanitized-class="fake-input-wrapper"><div data-sanitized-class="fake-input"></div><div data-sanitized-class="fake-button"></div></div></div></div><p><strong><a href="http://linkedin.com/in/alex-sasha-krainer-0b74ab1a">Alex Krainer</a> – <a href="https://twitter.com/NakedHedgie">@NakedHedgie</a></strong> is the creator of <strong><a href="https://isystem-tf.com/">I-System Trend Following</a></strong> and publisher of daily <strong><a href="https://isystem-tf.com/trendcompass/">TrendCompass</a></strong> investor reports which cover over 200 financial and commodities markets. One-month test drive is always free of charge, <strong>no jumping through hoops to cancel</strong>. To start your trial subscription, drop us an email at <a href="mailto:TrendCompass@ISystem-TF.com">TrendCompass@ISystem-TF.com</a></p><p>For<strong> <a href="https://isystem-tf.com/solutions/u-s-investors/">US investors</a></strong>, we propose a trend-driven inflation/recession resilient portfolio covering a basket of 30+ financial and commodities markets. 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<p><strong><a href="https://simonwillison.net/2024/Nov/12/qwen25-coder">The first state-of-the-art coding LLM that runs locally</a></strong></p>
This Qwen2.5-Coder-32B should run locally in about 20-30 gb of ram and assessments show it to be better than 4o at coding but not quite as good as Claude 3.5.


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<h4>It is a new day in America. Could it be in Alberta as well? </h4><p data-sanitized-class="">Premier Danielle Smith of Alberta has initiated the creation of an amended Alberta Bill of Rights through Bill 24. Here are the key points regarding the proposed amendments:</p><ul data-rte-list="default"><li><p data-sanitized-class="">The Alberta Bill of Rights is a statute and not part of the constitution like the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. This means future Alberta legislatures can amend or repeal it, undermining the idea of "ironclad" rights.</p></li><li><p data-sanitized-class="">The current draft includes a version of Section 1 from the Charter, the "Reasonable Limits Clause," which allows the government to infringe on rights deemed reasonable. This raises concerns about potential rights violations.</p></li></ul><blockquote><p data-sanitized-class=""><span data-sanitized-class="sqsrte-text-color--accent"><em>In my opinion, the Bill contains some flaws and is missing some opportunities. I have drafted what I believe the Bill should say.</em></span> [<a href="https://www.rightsprobe.org/s/Pardy-Proposed-ALBERTA-BILL-OF-RIGHTS-7gdf.pdf" target="_blank">Read Prof. Pardy’s proposed amendment to the Alberta Bill of Rights here</a>].</p></blockquote><p data-sanitized-class=""><strong>Proposed Additions</strong></p><ul data-rte-list="default"><li><p data-sanitized-class="">The suggested amendments by Prof. Pardy include:</p><ul data-rte-list="default"><li><p data-sanitized-class=""><strong>Right to Separation of Powers</strong>: Individuals should be protected from substantive rules made by the executive branch, ensuring that only the legislature can create laws and policies.</p></li><li><p data-sanitized-class=""><strong>Amateur Governance</strong>: Introduce term limits for all state employees (four years total) to prevent the establishment of a permanent professional ruling class, fostering true public service.</p></li></ul></li><li><p data-sanitized-class=""><strong>Exclusion of the Charter</strong>:</p><ul data-rte-list="default"><li><p data-sanitized-class="">The proposed Bill of Rights would apply notwithstanding the Canadian Charter. This approach aims to redefine rights that have been distorted by the Charter's interpretations, focusing on:</p><ul data-rte-list="default"><li><p data-sanitized-class=""><strong>Equality Provision</strong>: Shift from the Charter's interpretation of equity to a model emphasizing equal treatment for all individuals, regardless of group characteristics.</p></li><li><p data-sanitized-class=""><strong>Freedom of Speech</strong>: Strengthen protections for freedom of expression, including hate speech, which is currently subject to restrictions under the Charter.</p><p data-rte-preserve-empty="true" data-sanitized-class=""></p></li></ul></li></ul><p data-sanitized-class=""><a href="https://brucepardy.substack.com/p/a-new-bill-of-rights" target="_blank">A video overview of Prof. Pardy’s proposed amendment to the Alberta Bill of Rights is available here</a>.</p></li></ul>

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title: "Israel Headed For Collapse", Warns Blacklisted Israeli Official Ofer Cassif
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[unable to retrieve full-text content]Dan Cohen interviews Israeli member of Knesset Ofer Cassif, who was suspended for six months from the Knesset for his support of the South African ICJ case accusing Israel of genocide in Gaza.

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« Un travail éprouvant, mais combien enrichissant » : La sénatrice Cordy fait le bilan de ses 24 années au Sénat

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title: Aleppo's Castello Rd humanitarian crossing shelled by terrorists while I stood there (2016)
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<p><img src="https://thumbs.odycdn.com/e9c5659cf65890618433f984746f1607.webp" width="480" alt="thumbnail" title="Aleppo's Castello Rd humanitarian crossing shelled by terrorists while I stood there (2016)"></p>At the Castello Road humanitarian crossing, the large green buses which were said to be evacuating militants from areas of eastern Aleppo in recent weeks were there again, waiting to ferry away more. Ten ambulances, three buses, and 14 minivans were lined up in anticipation of any civilians or militants trying to leave terrorist-occupied areas, whether for safe passage elsewhere or to settle in government-secured areas of Aleppo. At around 1:30 p.m. the first shell struck, hitting near Castello Road. About 10 minutes later, while I was being interviewed, a second hit, this time considerably closer, within 100 meters — close enough, in fact, to create a cloud of dark smoke over the road. It prompted security to usher me away from the road and move our delegation away from the crossing.<br><br>I later learned that another five shells targeted the crossing, injuring a Syrian journalist and two Russian soldiers.<br><br>No one passed through this or any of the other seven humanitarian corridors that day.<br><br>https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2016/12/02/aleppo-how-us-saudi-backed-rebels-target-every-syrian-war-diary-by-western-journalist-eva-bartlett-on-the-truth-about-aleppo/<br><br>https://ingaza.wordpress.com/syria/syria-my-published-articles-from-and-on-syria-2014-2022/

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<p><img src="https://thumbnails.lbry.com/rmqMtu3kmUk" width="480" alt="thumbnail" title="International Peace Roundtable #6: Pros and Cons of the Post-Election USA"></p>Dr Edward Lozansky hosts the 6th Peace Roundtable featuring presentations by Caleb Maupin, Professor Lowell Gustafson, Tony Papart, Martin Sieff, and Come Carpentier<br><br>Follow Caleb's work here: https://x.com/realcalebmaupin?lang=en<br><br>Also visit<br>www.risingtidefoundation.net<br>and risingtidefoundation.substack.com<br>...<br>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmqMtu3kmUk

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title: Syntax.fm Podcast: Web Components Can't Save Us
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<p>I had the great opportunity to <a href="https://syntax.fm/show/848/web-components-can-t-save-us-with-scott-jehl">go on the Syntax podcast</a> and talk about web performance, web components, the Boston Globe project, JavaScript over reliance, Squarespace, my <a href="https://scottjehl.com/learn/webcomponentsdemystified/">Web Components Course</a>, and a lot more. It was fun to jump on a show I listen to regularly. That episode is live with an utterly linkbait title wherever you get your podcasts!</p>
<p><a href="https://syntax.fm/show/848/web-components-can-t-save-us-with-scott-jehl"><img src="https://scottjehl.com/assets/syntax.jpg" alt="poster image for the episode. title: web components can't save us with scott jehl"></a></p>
<p>PS: use the code SYNTAX for 30% off my <a href="https://scottjehl.com/learn/webcomponentsdemystified/">Web Components Course</a></p>


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Un comité du Sénat exhorte Ottawa à surveiller les effets du plafond imposé aux étudiants étrangers sur les établissements postsecondaires francophones à l’extérieur du Québec

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<p>[Originally published at <a href="https://trendcompass.substack.com/p/things-they-forgot-to-teach-us-in">I-System TrendCompass</a>] If you went to university you may have learned that corporations are persons, that they have shareholders, boards of directors and an executive suite consisting of the CEO, CFO, COO, etc. It was only yesterday (20 Nov. 2024) that I learned that corporations also had "protectors," or at least some of them do. </p><h2>Meet Jack, the Protector</h2><p>I learned this from <strong>Mr. Mikhail Khodorkovsky</strong> (MK), former member of "Sembankirshchina," the gang of seven bankers who ruled Russia during the 1990s and controlled most of its wealth (estimated at around 60% of Russia's GDP at the time). </p><div data-sanitized-class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1979f83b-3cbd-4e2b-925f-b30cfb71081b_1152x768.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM" data-sanitized-class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img"><div data-sanitized-class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1979f83b-3cbd-4e2b-925f-b30cfb71081b_1152x768.png" width="1152" height="768" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/1979f83b-3cbd-4e2b-925f-b30cfb71081b_1152x768.png","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":768,"width":1152,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":1176748,"alt":null,"title":null,"type":"image/png","href":null,"belowTheFold":false,"topImage":true,"internalRedirect":null,"isProcessing":false}' alt="" fetchpriority="high" data-sanitized-class="sizing-normal"></picture><div data-sanitized-class="image-link-expand"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container restack-image"><path d="M3 12a9 9 0 0 1 9-9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1 6.74 2.74L21 8"></path><path d="M21 3v5h-5"></path><path d="M21 12a9 9 0 0 1-9 9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1-6.74-2.74L3 16"></path><path d="M8 16H3v5"></path></div><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container view-image"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></div></div></div></div></a><figcaption data-sanitized-class="image-caption">A miracle: from Komsomol, the Communist youth organization to Russia’s wealthiest oligarch.</figcaption></figure></div><p>Mr. Khodorkovsky recently gave <strong><a href="https://twitter.com/MyLordBebo/status/1858522646805143902">an interview</a></strong> and explained the concept of "protector," the detail which they forgot to teach to us in school:</p><p><strong>MK</strong>: "We made the decision to have a [company] "Protector" in the Trust, this is a person that watches everything that is happening [with the company]. … He must be completely independent and absolutely trusted, because he only has one function. In the moment he sees that the person holding a controlling stake in the company … acts under pressure, then he should open an envelope and hand over this control package to another person who will be written in that package. Our second person was [<strong>Leonid</strong>] <strong>Nevzlin </strong>but we never discussed it because no one should know who is second, who is third, who is fourth, who is fifth." </p><p>Q: This is in case you get killed?</p><p><strong>MK</strong>: No, in case they kill it's simpler. It's for example, if they take someone from the family hostage and start blackmailing with something related to the company. Since the company cannot be jeopardized, in this case the "Protector" must notice that I act under pressure and take away my powers. And that happened when they put me in prison. So they put me in prison, the protector made the decision that from there I can make decisions [only] under pressure and he passed the package to the next person.</p><p>Q: Can you name who the Protector was?</p><p>MK: Yes, of course. This is just a figure of great character whose role in the company everyone discussed differently, but no one knew the reality. [It was] the recently deceased <strong>Lord Jack Rothschild</strong>. He had the function of Protector. </p><p>Of course, by “Jack,” Khodorkovsky meant, Jacob. Exactly how legal transfer of ownership can pass from one individual to another, just like that, at the discretion of some absentee "protector" residing in London, is a bit of a mystery, but it did indeed work this way. I explained this relationship in part in my 2017 book "<a href="https://www.redpillpress.com/shop/grand-deception-bill-browder-magnitsky-act-russian-sanctions/">Grand Deception</a>," about the events in Russia, but the book was banned only 5 weeks after I published it. </p><p>Also, the sources I used in describing this particular relationship between MK and Lord Jacob Rothschild had been scrubbed clean from the internet. As a rule, the role of the London money lender oligarchy has always been scrupulously concealed from the public, which is probably why such details are not taught in universities either. </p><div data-sanitized-class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fce8741a3-0566-4631-a878-379fe076728e_1683x823.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM" data-sanitized-class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img"><div data-sanitized-class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fce8741a3-0566-4631-a878-379fe076728e_1683x823.png" width="1456" height="712" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/ce8741a3-0566-4631-a878-379fe076728e_1683x823.png","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":712,"width":1456,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":2720403,"alt":"","title":null,"type":"image/png","href":null,"belowTheFold":true,"topImage":true,"internalRedirect":null,"isProcessing":false}' alt="" title="" loading="lazy" fetchpriority="high" data-sanitized-class="sizing-normal"></picture><div data-sanitized-class="image-link-expand"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container restack-image"><path d="M3 12a9 9 0 0 1 9-9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1 6.74 2.74L21 8"></path><path d="M21 3v5h-5"></path><path d="M21 12a9 9 0 0 1-9 9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1-6.74-2.74L3 16"></path><path d="M8 16H3v5"></path></div><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container view-image"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></div></div></div></div></a><figcaption data-sanitized-class="image-caption">In the portrait on the left, Jack shows us some sort of triangle or pyramid sign with his thumbs. Maybe that’s just how his hands fall at rest and feel most comfortable.</figcaption></figure></div><h2>No, it wasn’t just Russia….</h2><p>At this point, someone will object: that happened in Russia, which is deficient in democracy and the rule of law, duh - we all know that!. In the West, the rule of law is just awesome, and we have democracy, and human rights, etc. However, I would object right back: are we quite sure about all that? We know for a fact that not even members of U.S. Congress may know the identities of the shareholders of certain large corporations like GE, JP Morgan, Exxon Mobil, etc. They are secret even from the nation's lawmakers. It is then appropriate to ask, what else might be secret about the ownership and control of corporations?</p><h2>Visible oligarchs are merely trustees of the London Money Power</h2><p>When <strong>John Pierport Morgan</strong> died, everyone believed that he was the world's wealthiest man. But then it turned out that he only owned about 9% of his bank and was acting merely as the trustee of the bank's real owners who were (and perhaps still are) in the City of London. </p><p>Another example, recounted in the 1890 book by <strong>L. B. Woolfolk </strong>titled "The Great Red Dragon," was <strong>A. T. Stewart</strong>, the man who supposedly revolutionized (and nearly monopolized) the American retail industry back in the late 19th century. Just like Mr. Khodorkovsky, A. T. Stewart sprang from nowhere to great fortune overnight. The Scotsman owned a small shop on Broadway, only a few feet wide, where he sold needles, thread and tape.</p><p>Then somehow he came to control a massive retail business in palatial buildings, employing hundreds of clerks. He also had such stores in Glasgow, Belfast, Paris and in Germany. His wealth was estimated at about $100 million. However, when he died, he left his widow only a paltry $1 million. The rest of his fortune was transferred to a certain <strong>Judge Hilton</strong>, who was seemingly his handler and “number two” in line of substitute trustees: it was well known that Mr. Stewart met with the judge weekly and dined together every Sunday. </p><p>The media at the time concluded that the crafty judge had cheated poor <strong>Ms. Stewart </strong>out of her rightful inheritance and a court battle ensued where it was established that her husband in fact owned no interest in A.T. Stewart &amp; Co. but only collected commissions on sales. Judge Hilton himself was also only an agent of some power that remained hidden. However, the company he inherited was soon run out of business by three new retail establishments. With good quality merchandise and low prices they drove A. T. Stewart &amp; Co. and another 1,000 retail merchants in New York to bankruptcy.</p><h2>Hey, look over there - it’s them Jews!!!</h2><p>The new business model soon spread throughout the U.S. and much of the developed world. It was understood at the time that it was "the money power" exercising control from the shadows. As one merchant said at the time, "If things go on as they are, in a few years more, the Money Power will have monopolized the retail traffic, as it has monopolized and is now monopolizing all the other branches of business in the country." </p><p>To deflect people's attention away from the Money Power, the anger was directed at the Jews and the new retail establishments were commonly referred to as "the Jew stores." In fact, Judge Hilton himself blamed the Jews for A. T. Stewart &amp; Co's failure. Mr. Stewart's rise to power wasn't an isolated case: most of the oligarchs of that era were trustees of London Money Power.</p><p>The same was true for the Russian oligarchs that emerged from the Soviet Communist party after the USSR's 1991 collapse. Someone might object again: all that happened a long time ago, or it was in Russia. Today, in this day and age, we surely have transparency, rule of law, sanctity of contract, property rights, democracy and freedom, independent media, equity and inclusivity, etc.!?! But what if all those wonderful things are only the facade props, subtle means of persuasion, convincing us (including through our universities) that the system is wonderful and equitable so that we wouldn't suspect that there really <em>was</em> a sinister oligarchy exercising power from behind the shadows? What if this whole liberal democratic order was a sham?</p><h2>What of today’s exalted “oligarchs”?</h2><p>Such secret arrangements would be very difficult to prove, but if they did exist, they would help explain the rise to power of today's oligarchs like <strong>Jeff Bezos</strong>, <strong>Bill Gates</strong>, <strong>George Soros</strong>, <strong>Larry Ellison</strong>, <strong>Warren Buffett</strong> (oh, yes, him too), <strong>Eric Schmitt</strong>, <strong>Peter Thiel</strong>, <strong>Robert Mercer</strong> and many others. It would also explain why in one way or another they all end up in bed with the Deep State, the CIA, the Pentagon and with political parties. We're all encouraged to admire these people for their genius and entrepreneurial spirit, but what if that's the product of the PR machinery which nudges us to think of Bill Gates as the great benefactor and of Warren Buffett as the kindly old grandfather who just happens to be a brilliant stock picker? Really, when was the last time any journalist asked Bill Gates or Warren Buffett a tough question? </p><p>All this was true about Russia's oligarchs in the 1990s; they were always presented as young maverick businessmen reforming the economy and breaking new grounds, bringing capitalist free markets to Russia, etc, etc.  Then there was also the case of Elizabeth Holmes, who likewise came out of nowhere to become the youngest female self-made billionaire and was widely promoted in the media.</p><div data-sanitized-class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb4f220f6-7fe4-4bb5-921a-763a0956e8dd_967x545.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM" data-sanitized-class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img"><div data-sanitized-class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb4f220f6-7fe4-4bb5-921a-763a0956e8dd_967x545.png" width="967" height="545" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/b4f220f6-7fe4-4bb5-921a-763a0956e8dd_967x545.png","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":545,"width":967,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":814862,"alt":null,"title":null,"type":"image/png","href":null,"belowTheFold":true,"topImage":false,"internalRedirect":null,"isProcessing":false}' alt="" loading="lazy" data-sanitized-class="sizing-normal"></picture><div data-sanitized-class="image-link-expand"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container restack-image"><path d="M3 12a9 9 0 0 1 9-9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1 6.74 2.74L21 8"></path><path d="M21 3v5h-5"></path><path d="M21 12a9 9 0 0 1-9 9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1-6.74-2.74L3 16"></path><path d="M8 16H3v5"></path></div><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container view-image"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></div></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>This all worked as per the Money Power playbook until her company, Theranos collapsed in disgrace and it turned out that she invented nothing and controlled nothing.</p><h2>Theranos was the great revealer</h2><div data-sanitized-class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe57d7735-5aa1-483c-ac3b-b016b33efcfe_1658x428.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM" data-sanitized-class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img"><div data-sanitized-class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe57d7735-5aa1-483c-ac3b-b016b33efcfe_1658x428.png" width="1456" height="376" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/e57d7735-5aa1-483c-ac3b-b016b33efcfe_1658x428.png","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":376,"width":1456,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":1302033,"alt":null,"title":null,"type":"image/png","href":null,"belowTheFold":true,"topImage":false,"internalRedirect":null,"isProcessing":false}' alt="" loading="lazy" data-sanitized-class="sizing-normal"></picture><div data-sanitized-class="image-link-expand"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container restack-image"><path d="M3 12a9 9 0 0 1 9-9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1 6.74 2.74L21 8"></path><path d="M21 3v5h-5"></path><path d="M21 12a9 9 0 0 1-9 9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1-6.74-2.74L3 16"></path><path d="M8 16H3v5"></path></div><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container view-image"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></div></div></div></div></a><figcaption data-sanitized-class="image-caption">Theranos Board of Directors: Who’s who of the Deep State and the “defense” establishment</figcaption></figure></div><div data-attrs='{"url":"https://alexkrainer.substack.com/p/things-they-forgot-to-teach-us-in?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=share&amp;action=share","text":"Share"}' data-component-name="CaptionedButtonToDOM" data-sanitized-class="captioned-button-wrap"><div data-sanitized-class="preamble"><p data-sanitized-class="cta-caption">Thanks for reading Alex Krainer's Substack! This post is public so feel free to share it.</p></div><p data-attrs='{"url":"https://alexkrainer.substack.com/p/things-they-forgot-to-teach-us-in?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=share&amp;action=share","text":"Share"}' data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton" data-sanitized-class="button-wrapper"><a href="https://alexkrainer.substack.com/p/things-they-forgot-to-teach-us-in?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=share&amp;action=share" data-sanitized-class="button primary"><span>Share</span></a></p></div><p>The disintegration of that business model showed for the whole world to see, that Ms. Holmes was a stand-in, controlled by her board of directors (every last member was a veteran of the Deep State and US defence establishment) and the people who funded the whole fraud. I dissected that fraud in the article titled, “<a href="https://thenakedhedgie.com/2021/10/02/the-theranos-scandal-the-real-story-1-3/">Theranos Scandal: the real story</a>.” Video version of that report is below:</p><div data-attrs='{"videoId":"qk0_Y_FZN2k","startTime":null,"endTime":null}' data-component-name="Youtube2ToDOM" data-sanitized-id="youtube2-qk0_Y_FZN2k" data-sanitized-class="youtube-wrap"><div data-sanitized-class="youtube-inner"><iframe src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/qk0_Y_FZN2k?rel=0&amp;autoplay=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;enablejsapi=0" frameborder="0" loading="lazy" gesture="media" allow="accelerometer; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowautoplay="true" allowfullscreen="true" width="728" height="409" sandbox="allow-scripts allow-same-origin"></iframe></div></div><h2>Today, the Money Power demands World War III</h2><p>Returning to Mr. Khodorkovsky's recent revelations, they may also suggest the ultimate reasons why today we find ourselves at the precipice of a nuclear war: Lord Rothschild stole Yukos fair and square and then came the evil <strong>Mr. Putin</strong> and took Yukos back, which accounted for 20% of Russian oil production. So of course, now we must bring freedom, democracy, human rights, transparency, rule of law and property rights back to Russia even at the cost of setting the whole world on fire in the process.</p><div data-attrs='{"url":"https://alexkrainer.substack.com/subscribe?","text":"Subscribe","language":"en"}' data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM" data-sanitized-class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor"><div data-sanitized-class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div data-sanitized-class="preamble"><p data-sanitized-class="cta-caption">Alex Krainer's Substack is a reader-supported publication. 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Check it out <strong><a href="https://trendcompass.substack.com/">here</a></strong>!</p></blockquote><p>For<strong> <a href="https://isystem-tf.com/solutions/u-s-investors/">US investors</a></strong>, we propose a trend-driven inflation/recession resilient portfolio covering a basket of 30+ financial and commodities markets. Further information is at <a href="https://isystem-tf.com/solutions/u-s-investors/">link</a>.</p><div data-sanitized-class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe19c1730-65c1-4e61-9f41-b7ae9c0763d7_1027x553.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM" data-sanitized-class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img"><div data-sanitized-class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe19c1730-65c1-4e61-9f41-b7ae9c0763d7_1027x553.png" width="1027" height="553" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/e19c1730-65c1-4e61-9f41-b7ae9c0763d7_1027x553.png","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":553,"width":1027,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":1140235,"alt":null,"title":null,"type":"image/png","href":null,"belowTheFold":true,"topImage":false,"internalRedirect":null,"isProcessing":false}' alt="" loading="lazy" data-sanitized-class="sizing-normal"></picture><div data-sanitized-class="image-link-expand"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container restack-image"><path d="M3 12a9 9 0 0 1 9-9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1 6.74 2.74L21 8"></path><path d="M21 3v5h-5"></path><path d="M21 12a9 9 0 0 1-9 9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1-6.74-2.74L3 16"></path><path d="M8 16H3v5"></path></div><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container view-image"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></div></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p></p>

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[unable to retrieve full-text content]Dan Cohen discusses how anti-Semitic figures are being promoted in mass media to poison and discredit anti-Zionism, and Rabbi Yaakov Shapiro joins for an ideological demolition of Zionist ideology.

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title: New Lyre Podcast #29: Poetry's search for the soul with Daniel Leach
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<p>What is the soul’s place in the modern world of poetry and culture? We speak with poet Daniel Leach about the changing tides in art and culture, false political dualities in the artistic realm, and the timeless quest for the poetic across the ages.</p><p data-attrs='{"url":"https://thechainedmuse.substack.com/subscribe?","text":"Subscribe now","action":null,"class":null}' data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton" data-sanitized-class="button-wrapper"><a href="https://thechainedmuse.substack.com/subscribe?" data-sanitized-class="button primary"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><p><em><strong>Daniel R. Leach</strong> is a poet living in Houston, Texas. He has spent much of his life fighting for the ideals of classical culture and poetry. His volumes of verse, compiling over 20 years of composition are “<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Voices-Wind-Poems-Daniel-Leach/dp/1074204778/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Daniel+Leach&amp;qid=1561308110&amp;s=books&amp;sr=1-1">Voices on the Wind</a>” and “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Places-Soul-Goes-Daniel-Leach-ebook/dp/B0995MFQDQ">Places the Soul Goes</a>.”</em></p><div data-attrs='{"url":"https://thechainedmuse.substack.com/subscribe?","text":"Subscribe","language":"en"}' data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM" data-sanitized-class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor"><div data-sanitized-class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div data-sanitized-class="preamble"><p data-sanitized-class="cta-caption"><strong>The Chained Muse is a reader-supported publication. 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"Now is the time to finally look critically at 9/11. It's the foundation of the current war machine"

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<p><img src="https://thumbs.odycdn.com/bb7099ced2ad53010b13e2f6b57a9947.webp" width="480" alt="thumbnail" title="" now is the time to finally look critically at it foundation of current war machine></p>I spoke with Ted Walter, International Center for 9/11 Justice, on why now, 23 years on, speaking about 9/11 is important. <br><br>Excerpt:<br><br>"I would encourage people to look at 9/11 as a possible opportunity to expose the true nature of the national security state, of the war machine. It's about becoming more educated so that it's harder for the powers that be to carry out future deceptions. <br><br>People who dedicated their careers or spend much of their free time battling Western imperialism, battling the war machine, refuse to look at 9/11—which I think is the foundation of the current war machine. At 23 years, I think its time that people who have avoided it in the past, either for career-oriented reasons or because they themselves have fallen prey to the propaganda of the war machine that they are dedicated to taking down. Whatever it may be, now is the time to finally look critically at 9/11. If we don't understand 9/11, we really don't understand the world we live in."<br><br>Related Links:<br><br>https://ic911.org/ten-reasons/<br>on the “Hannibal Directive” <br>https://x.com/Truth_InMedia/status/1810675316261838968<br>https://x.com/DoubleDownNews/status/1832855065092075676 <br>https://x.com/RichardGage_911/status/1843157368479346912<br>https://electronicintifada.net/tags/hannibal-directive<br><br>https://ic911.org/journal/articles/the-instantaneous-free-fall-of-world-trade-center-building-7-and-nists-attempt-to-hide-it/<br><br>23 years later, you owe it to yourself to finally trust your eyes <br>https://x.com/ic911justice/status/1833873999945781520<br><br>Perhaps these first responders can help you see what is actually going on here <br>https://x.com/ic911justice/status/1858595704249446897<br><br>Peace, War and 9/11<br>https://www.imdb.com/title/tt28757454/<br><br>https://www.ae911truth.org/evidence/technical-articles/articles-by-ae911truth/696-how-36-reporters-brought-us-the-twin-towers-explosive-demolition

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title: New Lyre Podcast #30: The Preservation of Fire
author: ;David Gosselin
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<p>“Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire”<br>—Gustav Mahler</p><p>In this wide-ranging discussion with poet Michael Yost, we explore the nature of the new burgeoning poetic renaissance in the world of arts and letters. From the timeless nature of classical forms to the comparison of epic poems in both classic and free-verse styles, we delve deep into the relationship between poetics and civilization.</p><p data-attrs='{"url":"https://thechainedmuse.substack.com/p/new-lyre-podcast-30-the-preservation?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=share&amp;action=share","text":"Share","action":null,"class":null}' data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton" data-sanitized-class="button-wrapper"><a href="https://thechainedmuse.substack.com/p/new-lyre-podcast-30-the-preservation?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=share&amp;action=share" data-sanitized-class="button primary"><span>Share</span></a></p><p><em><strong>Michael Yost </strong>is a poet and essayist living in rural New Hampshire with his wife and children, as well as an alumnus and the Director of Admissions at Thomas More College of Liberal Arts. He earned his M.F.A. in Creative Writing from the University of St. Thomas in Houston Texas. His essays and poems have been published in places like The University Bookman, Dappled Things, Crisis Magazine, the St. Austin Review, The Brazen Head and Hearth and Field. Follow him on his Substack, <a href="https://poetryofmichaelyost.substack.com/">The Weight of Form</a>.</em></p><div data-attrs='{"url":"https://thechainedmuse.substack.com/subscribe?","text":"Subscribe","language":"en"}' data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM" data-sanitized-class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor"><div data-sanitized-class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div data-sanitized-class="preamble"><p data-sanitized-class="cta-caption"><strong>The Chained Muse is a reader-supported publication. 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title: Geopolitical Insights from Russia with Tim Kirby
author: ;Rising Tide Foundation
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<p><img src="https://thumbnails.lbry.com/1ND2SFWHx0o" width="480" alt="thumbnail" title="Geopolitical Insights from Russia with Tim Kirby"></p>In this RTF presentation, Tim Kirby delivers a geopolitical masterclass with a focus on the war in Ukraine, migration policies to Russia, arctic development, culture, banking, infrastructure and more.<br><br>Watch Tim's short response to accusations of Russia's involvment in the NWO on Rumble:<br>https://rumble.com/v5sruyb-tim-kirbys-response-to-black-pilled-analysts.html<br><br>Follow Tim Kirby's Telegram channel here<br>https://t.me/timkirbyhardcore<br><br>Support the Rising Tide Foundation in the following ways:<br><br>1) Make a donation <br>https://risingtidefoundation.net/support-the-work/<br>2) Subscribe to Matt and Cynthia's Substack<br>matthewehret.substack.com<br>cynthiachung.substack.com<br>3) Buy some books!<br>https://canadianpatriot.org/untold-history-of-canada-books/<br>4) Follow us on Odyssee here: https://odysee.com/@RisingTideFoundation:b<br><br>and follow us on www.risingtidefoundation.net and t.me/risingtidefoundation<br>...<br>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ND2SFWHx0o

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title: We approach state singularity
author: ;Lisa P
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<p data-sanitized-class="">This multimedia presentation is based on an earlier piece by <strong>Professor Bruce Pardy</strong> for <a href="https://brownstone.org/articles/we-approach-state-singularity/">The Brownstone Institute</a>. </p><p data-sanitized-class="">State singularity, argues Prof. Pardy, is the moment when state and society become indistinguishable. At the singularity, all solutions to all problems lie with government in its various forms. More, never less, programs, rules, initiatives and structures are the answer.</p><p data-sanitized-class="">State singularity is the ultimate collectivism. Like black holes, state singularities absorb and crush every other thing. Have we crossed our event horizon?</p><p data-sanitized-class="">Watch the video. Read the transcript below.</p>





















  
  






  <p data-sanitized-class=""><em>Many citizens of the West believe that they live in free societies, or something close. </em></p><p data-sanitized-class=""><em>But as time goes on, public authorities increasingly insist on having a say in everything. <br><br>People cannot build things on their own land without permits. They cannot run businesses without approvals and inspections. They cannot give advice without professional designations. They cannot educate their children outside of state-mandated curricula. They cannot hire employees without triggering a myriad of workplace and tax requirements. They cannot produce and sell milk, cheese, or eggs without a license. They cannot earn money, spend money, or hold property without being taxed, and then taxed again. <br><br>Jeffrey Tucker recently described three layers of omnipotent managerial technocracy. <br><br>The deep state, he suggested, consists of powerful and secretive central government agencies in the security, intelligence, law enforcement, and financial sectors. <br><br>The middle state is a myriad of ubiquitous administrative bodies – agencies, regulators, commissions, departments, municipalities, and many more – run by a permanent bureaucracy. <br><br>The shallow state is a plethora of consumer-facing private or semi-private corporations, including banks, Big Media, and huge commercial retail companies, which governments support, protect, subsidize, and pervert. The three layers work together. <br><br>For instance, in the financial sector, as Tucker illustrates, the deep state’s Federal Reserve pulls the powerful strings, the middle state’s financial and monetary regulators enforce myriad rules and policies, and the shallow state’s “private” titans like BlackRock and Goldman Sachs dominate commercial activity. It’s a system, Tucker writes, “designed to be impenetrable, permanent, and ever more invasive.” <br><br>We are approaching state singularity: the moment when state and society become indistinguishable. <br><br>In physics, a “singularity” is a single point in space-time. Inside black holes, gravity crushes volume to zero and mass density is infinite. In computer science, “technological singularity” is unitary artificial superintelligence. At the singularity, everything becomes one thing. Data points converge. Normal laws do not apply. <br><br>At state singularity, the state becomes society and society is a product of the state. Legal norms and expectations become irrelevant. The state’s mandate is to do as it judges best – since everything and everyone are expressions of its vision. Powers are not separated between the state’s branches – the legislature, the executive, the bureaucracy, and the courts. Instead, they all do whatever they deem necessary. The bureaucracy legislates. Courts develop policy. Legislatures conduct hearings and prosecute cases. Government agencies change policies at will. The rule of law may be acknowledged as important in principle while it is rejected in practice.<br><br>State singularity is the ultimate collectivism. It resembles old-style fascism and communism, but it is neither. Fascist states enforce an idea, often nationalist in sentiment (“The motherland for the superior race”), and recruit private actors, especially corporations, to the cause. Communist regimes champion the working class and outlaw private property (“Workers of the world unite”). Singularity, in contrast, is not propelled by an idea other than singularity itself. To justify its own hegemony, the state champions a variety of other causes. In the modern era, social justice, climate change, transgender rights, feminism, economic reform, and many more have served to extend the state’s reach. Problems are rarely solved, but that is not the reason for taking them up.<br><br>State singularity develops gradually and insidiously. Whereas fascist, communist, and other centralized power regimes often result from deliberate political revolution, in the West omnipotent managerial technocracy has grown, spread, and infiltrated the nooks and crannies of social life without sudden political upheaval. Like a form of institutional Darwinism, public agencies, no matter their formal purpose, seek to persist, expand, and reproduce. <br><br>At the singularity, all solutions to all problems lie with government in its various forms. More, never less, programs, rules, initiatives, and structures are the answer. Like black holes, state singularities absorb and crush every other thing. Corporations serve state interests and participate in managing the economy. Singularities destroy voluntary community organizations by occupying the space and placing obstacles in the way. Both the left and the right seek to harness state power to craft society in their image. <br><br>In a singularity, one cannot propose to eliminate government. Doing so would be contrary to prevailing ideology and vested interests, but more fundamentally, the idea would be incomprehensible.<br><br>And not just to officials. Citizens dissatisfied with the services they receive want more service and better policy. When schools sexualize their children, they demand changes to the curriculum instead of the end of public schools. When monetary policy makes houses expensive, they demand government programs to make them cheap instead of the end of central banks. When government procurement is revealed to be corrupt, they demand accountability mechanisms instead of a smaller government. State singularity is found not just in the structures of government but in the minds of the people. <br><br>Modern states have capacities they have never had before. Technological advances are providing them with the ability to monitor spaces, supervise activities, collect information, and require compliance everywhere all the time. In the collectivist regimes of old, governments knew only what human eyes and ears could tell them. Soviet authorities were tyrannical, but they could not instantaneously monitor your cell phone, bank account, fridge, car, medications, and speech.<br><br>We are not at the singularity yet. But have we crossed the event horizon? At a black hole, the event horizon is the point of no return. Gravity becomes irresistible. No matter or energy, including light, can escape the pull to the singularity at the core of the abyss. <br><br>Our event horizon beckons. We cannot evade it by merely slowing down on the path that we are on. Liberation requires escape velocity in the other direction.</em>  </p>

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guid: https://htmhell.dev/34-a-button-is-not-a-link/
title: #34 a button is not a link
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<li><a href="https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/a"><code>&lt;a&gt;</code> on MDN</a></li>
<li><a href="https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/button"><code>&lt;button&gt;</code> on MDN</a></li>
<li><a href="https://yatil.net/blog/buttons-vs-links">Buttons vs. Links by Eric Eggert</a></li>
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title: NASA's Dragonfly probe to Saturn's Titan in 2028
author: ;Keith Schacht
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<p>In 2028 NASA is launching a spacecraft to Saturn's moon Titan to study its habitability in a mission named Dragonfly. It will land in 2034. They're sending a drone powered by a radioisotope thermoelectric generator so they can visit a variety of sites. Titan is notable because it's believed to have a similar chemistry to ancient earth. Past probes have measured the contents of the atmosphere and confirmed it contains a mix of hydrocarbons. The surface contains a lot of water ice and scientists believe there is a water ocean in the interior of the moon.</p>
    
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guid: https://keithschacht.com/2024/Nov/26/vampire-game-based-around-ai-voice-suck-up/#atom-everything
title: Vampire game based around AI voice: SUCK UP!
author: ;Keith Schacht
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<p><strong><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=811JkxLfvoA">Vampire game based around AI voice: SUCK UP!</a></strong></p>
This is one of the best examples I’ve seen of games creatively incorporating LLMs. You are a vampire character, you walk up to houses in a neighborhood and as the player you actually talk aloud to your computer and the NPCs talk back. You have to convince these NPCs to let you into their house.


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guid: https://keithschacht.com/2024/Nov/26/rails-web-based-database-admin/#atom-everything
title: Rails web-based database admin
author: ;Keith Schacht
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<p><strong><a href="https://github.com/igorkasyanchuk/rails_db">Rails web-based database admin</a></strong></p>
A rails gem that gives you a web-based interface to your database.


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guid: https://keithschacht.com/2024/Nov/26/rails-activerecord-has-a-sole-method/#atom-everything
title: Rails ActiveRecord has a .sole method
author: ;Keith Schacht
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<p>I just learned about `sole` and `find_sole_by`. They ensure that only a single record is returned and will raise if there is something other than one. It's the equivalent of:

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api_keys = user.api_keys.where(key: key)

if api_keys.length == 1
  api_key = api_keys.first
elsif api_keys.length == 0
  raise "No records found!"
else
  raise "More than one matching record found!"
end
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title: pick is the single-value version of pluck in Rails
author: ;Keith Schacht
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<p>Instead of doing </p><pre>Messages.pluck(:user_id).first</pre> you can do <pre>Messages.pick(:user_id)</pre>
    
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Un comité sénatorial recommande vivement à Affaires mondiales Canada de mieux gérer la Commission des pêcheries des Grands Lacs, qui a été sous-financée

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guid: https://odysee.com/Osmanonceasefire:7b5179b8ee6add650e4e3603c04468e737f0c27c
title: Lebanese journalist Marwa Osman on the ceasefire, Resistance achievements, and more
author: ;Eva K Bartlett
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<p><img src="https://thumbs.odycdn.com/934aadab72ab595d1473456b48d546a5.webp" width="480" alt="thumbnail" title="Lebanese journalist Marwa Osman on the ceasefire, Resistance achievements, and more"></p>I spoke last night with courageous Marwa, who had just returned from visiting her village in southern Lebanon. <br><br>If you aren’t familiar with Marwa, I highly recommend following her:<br><br>https://x.com/Marwa__Osman<br><br>https://t.me/Marwa_OsmanLB<br><br>*We were going to do video, but the connection was weak &amp; visual skippy, so I’ve made it audio only.<br><br><br><br>Related Links:<br><br>-nature of missiles being used<br>https://x.com/Marwa__Osman/status/1860157559430115666<br><br>-Statement from the Islamic Resistance Operations Room: The Islamic Resistance Operations Room announces that one of the sensitive military targets struck on November 18, 2024, in the city of Tel Aviv was the residence of the Israeli Air Force Commander, Major General Tomer Bar. The operation, carried out with a swarm of advanced attack drones, achieved its objectives with precision. The incident has been met with strict censorship by the Israeli military authorities.<br>https://x.com/Marwa__Osman/status/1861525266847408366<br><br>Zionist Israeli Occupation soldiers from the Golani Brigade have desecrated a church in the southern Lebanese village of Deirmimas. Ironically, this comes after the mayor of Deirmimas refused to allow Hezbollah resistance to operate in his village to confront such aggressors. Perhaps now he understands the cost of that decision. Only the resistance has proven capable of standing against these vile creatures—ask the people of Maaloula and Sqailabyeh in Syria who protected their churches against ISIS, and they will gladly tell you.<br>https://x.com/Marwa__Osman/status/1861168164245017072<br><br>A group of fellow journalists were exposed to gunfire while covering the return of the residents and the withdrawal, and some of them were injured in the town of Khiam by the enemy army that is still present in the town, and they were transferred to Hasbaya Hospital to receive treatment. Thank God you are safe.<br>https://x.com/BilaRakaba/status/1861753041801662663<br><br>https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/iof-strike-killing-al-mayadeen--al-manar-press-crew-possible<br><br>https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2012/04/15/the-khiam-prison-is-now-open/<br><br>https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2024/11/03/a-massacre-within-a-massacre-israel-is-exterminating-palestinians-in-northern-gaza-and-killing-palestinian-journalists-reporting-on-it/<br><br>https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2024/04/28/neglect-abuse-torture-the-west-is-ignoring-the-fate-of-palestinians-stuck-in-israeli-jails/<br><br>https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2024/07/03/ukraines-murder-of-30-russian-journalists-met-with-western-indifferenceor-grotesque-gloating/<br><br>https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2014/10/27/media-black-out-on-arab-journalists-and-civilians-beheaded-in-syria-by-western-backed-terrorists/

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guid: https://alexkrainer.substack.com/p/are-they-planning-a-false-flag-event
title: Are they planning a false flag event in London?
author: ;Alex Krainer
link: https://alexkrainer.substack.com/p/are-they-planning-a-false-flag-event
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<p>Yesterday, as I was finalizing my new report on Great Britain, an update to my August 26 article "<a href="https://alexkrainer.substack.com/p/the-coming-collapse-of-britain?utm_source=publication-search">The Coming Collapse of Britain</a>," YouTube randomly suggested to me a short video by one <strong>Craig Houston</strong> titled, "<strong><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=muEL_UR5AmE&amp;t=15s">Why are ALL LONDON webcams offline...?</a></strong><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=muEL_UR5AmE&amp;t=15s">"</a></p><p>I was nearly floored: Mr. Houston looked through hundreds of Webcams across London and could not find a single one that was live. See for yourself <strong><a href="https://londonwebcam.co.uk/">here</a></strong> and <strong><a href="https://london-webcam.co.uk/">here</a></strong>! That's extremely odd: clearly, <em>someone</em> made the decision to switch them all off - they couldn't all have failed randomly.</p><p>One of the webcams over the Westminster bridge displayed the last image it recorded: it was on 2 September 2024 at 16:51, which at least gives us a clue about when the Heart of Darkness went dark to the world. I posted a comment about this in my <a href="https://trendcompass.substack.com/p/are-they-planning-a-false-flag-attack">TrendCompass report</a> yesterday and one of the readers found a working Webcam at Abbey road. Still, that’s one out of hundreds that are still dark.</p><div data-sanitized-class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fbca88ce0-3d83-4320-ba68-94cf5e350d6e_1910x3075.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM" data-sanitized-class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img"><div data-sanitized-class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fbca88ce0-3d83-4320-ba68-94cf5e350d6e_1910x3075.png" width="1456" height="2344" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/bca88ce0-3d83-4320-ba68-94cf5e350d6e_1910x3075.png","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":2344,"width":1456,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":521413,"alt":null,"title":null,"type":"image/png","href":null,"belowTheFold":false,"topImage":true,"internalRedirect":null,"isProcessing":false}' alt="" fetchpriority="high" data-sanitized-class="sizing-normal"></picture><div data-sanitized-class="image-link-expand"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container restack-image"><path d="M3 12a9 9 0 0 1 9-9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1 6.74 2.74L21 8"></path><path d="M21 3v5h-5"></path><path d="M21 12a9 9 0 0 1-9 9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1-6.74-2.74L3 16"></path><path d="M8 16H3v5"></path></div><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container view-image"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></div></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>Why someone would decide to cut all the webcams is a mystery, and an ominous one. Mr. Houston didn't offer any explanations, which is understandable given that he lives in Britain where singing, "kung fu fighting," or silently praying on the sidewalk can get you arrested. But where he declined to tread, I'll venture a guess.</p><h2>They’re planning a false flag event to blame on Russia</h2><p>I think it's the only explanation that makes any sense to my mind: they are planning a false-flag terror attack on London which they'll blame on Russia, so that they can trigger an all-out, whole-of-society mobilization by all of the Western powers against Russia. Now, if this seems far-fetched, there are now several important elements that fit coherently with this scenario, starting with the general geopolitical state of things.</p><p>Western empire and the UK in particular, bet heavily on Ukraine and lost. By now the situation has become as undeniable as it is hopeless. But Western powers aren't showing any inclination to cut and run, like they did from Vietnam in March of 1972 or Afghanistan in August 2021.</p><p>Today, the West is facing the world's largest nuclear power with an established escalatory dominance in the region and a highly motivated, well trained, battle hardened and well equipped force, including with new, devastating conventional weaponry that eclipses anything the West has in its depleted arsenals. In spite of that, they are still escalating. The question is, why?</p><h2>In Ukraine, the whole world’s at stake</h2><p>Ukraine is too important for them and the stakes could not be higher. From the imperial cabal's point of view, the prize, in fact, is the whole world. In his paper, “Democratic Ideals and Reality,” <strong>Sir Halford Mackinder</strong> wrote that, “<em>Who rules East Europe commands the Heartland; who rules the Heartland commands the World-island; who rules the World-island controls the world.</em>”</p><div data-sanitized-class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F6e21161f-5d42-4afc-a32c-3fc9617ba0f6_711x401.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM" data-sanitized-class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img"><div data-sanitized-class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F6e21161f-5d42-4afc-a32c-3fc9617ba0f6_711x401.png" width="711" height="401" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/6e21161f-5d42-4afc-a32c-3fc9617ba0f6_711x401.png","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":401,"width":711,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":390595,"alt":null,"title":null,"type":"image/png","href":null,"belowTheFold":true,"topImage":false,"internalRedirect":null,"isProcessing":false}' alt="" loading="lazy" data-sanitized-class="sizing-normal"></picture><div data-sanitized-class="image-link-expand"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container restack-image"><path d="M3 12a9 9 0 0 1 9-9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1 6.74 2.74L21 8"></path><path d="M21 3v5h-5"></path><path d="M21 12a9 9 0 0 1-9 9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1-6.74-2.74L3 16"></path><path d="M8 16H3v5"></path></div><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container view-image"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></div></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>By World-island, Mackinder meant the Eurasian landmass. His theoretical framework remained the foundation of foreign policy for British and American governments to this very day, as we learned as recently as 2018 from <strong>Wes Mitchell</strong>, <strong>President Trump</strong>'s Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs. In a <a href="https://ee.usembassy.gov/strategy-toward-russia/">briefing to the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee</a>, he made it explicit that the “<em>central aim of the Administration’s foreign policy is to defend US domination of Eurasian landmass as the foremost US national security interest and to prepare the nation for this challenge</em>.”</p><div data-sanitized-class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1669f5be-ce61-4085-97e6-7b6ae54d9c96_603x340.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM" data-sanitized-class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img"><div data-sanitized-class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1669f5be-ce61-4085-97e6-7b6ae54d9c96_603x340.png" width="603" height="340" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/1669f5be-ce61-4085-97e6-7b6ae54d9c96_603x340.png","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":340,"width":603,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":135771,"alt":null,"title":null,"type":"image/png","href":null,"belowTheFold":true,"topImage":false,"internalRedirect":null,"isProcessing":false}' alt="" loading="lazy" data-sanitized-class="sizing-normal"></picture><div data-sanitized-class="image-link-expand"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container restack-image"><path d="M3 12a9 9 0 0 1 9-9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1 6.74 2.74L21 8"></path><path d="M21 3v5h-5"></path><path d="M21 12a9 9 0 0 1-9 9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1-6.74-2.74L3 16"></path><path d="M8 16H3v5"></path></div><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container view-image"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></div></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>Mitchell also said that the Administration was “<em>working with our close ally the UK to form an international coalition for coordinating efforts in this field</em>.” These views are not just idle musings of academics or entertainment for think tanks. The reality on the ground confirms that this is indeed how the imperial cabal regards the outcome of the battle for Ukraine. From the beginning of the war, a few of their lieutenants voiced the entrenched mindset:</p><ul><li><p>''<em>If we lose in Ukraine, the world order we created 80 years ago will crumble" - </em>then US Chief of Staff <strong><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/milley-russia-ukraine-war-so-goes-international-order-2022-4">Mark Milley,</a></strong><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/milley-russia-ukraine-war-so-goes-international-order-2022-4"> April 2022</a></p></li><li><p>“If we lose in Ukraine, we will lose the world for decades. Defeat in Ukraine could be the beginning of the end of the golden age of the West." - <strong>Mateusz Morawiecki</strong>, Poland’s Prime Minister in a TV address, April 2023.</p></li><li><p>“If Ukraine loses, world order will be established by our enemies” - former NATO Secretary General (1999-2003) and member of the House of Lords of the British Parliament <strong>George Robertson</strong> in The Telegraph, Jan. 2024</p></li><li><p>"If Ukraine falls it would be a catastrophe for the West, it would be the end of Western hegemony and we will have no one to blame but ourselves." - <strong>Boris Johnson</strong>, in <a href="https://twitter.com/RothLindberg/status/1780869826002448425">a short video message</a>, April 2024</p></li></ul><p>It is unlikely that the empire's vested interests will quietly accept this "catastrophe." This is why they are escalating provocations against Russia, desperately hoping that the Russians will strike at a NATO member nation, creating the pretext to invoke Article 5 of the NATO Treaty and unleash a unified response where the collective West would confront Russia in a whole-of-society effort and hopefully snatch a victory out of the jaws of defeat.</p><p>Sometimes provocations work and they trigger the intended response. An example was the attack on RMS Lusitania in 1915, and another the Pearl Harbour attack, which galvanized the unwilling Americans to join World War II. The most recent one was the crisis that precipitated the current Ukraine war.</p><h2>Create a helpful wave of national indignation!</h2><p>But there are circumstances when a galvanizing event must be orchestrated to detonate the greater conflict, and the list of known examples through history is very long. Here's just a few cases:</p><ul><li><p><strong>The Manchuria, or "Mukden" Incident. I</strong>n September 1931, Japanese troops set off a small explosion on a train track owned by a Japanese company, then blamed it on China in order to justify the invasion of Manchuria.</p></li><li><p><strong>Attack on Gleiwitz Radio station</strong> in September 1939: the Nazis shelled the station and accused Polish troops for the deed, giving Hitler the pretext to launch the invasion of Poland</p></li><li><p><strong>Shelling of Mainila</strong> in November 1939. Soviets shelled the Russian village of Mainila and blamed the Finns, triggering the USSR attack on Finland</p></li><li><p><strong>Operation Northwoods</strong> in March 1962. The operation was shut down by President <strong>Kennedy</strong>, but the US Joint Chiefs of Staff planned a campaign of terror against civilian targets in Miami in order to "create a helpful wave of national indignation” and lead to a US invasion of Cuba.</p></li><li><p><strong>Gulf of Tonkin Incident</strong> in August 1964. Two US destroyers stationed in the Gulf of Tonkin radioed that they had been targeted by the North Vietnamese forces, triggering US Congress to pass the "Gulf of Tonkin Resolution" and authorize President <strong>Johnson </strong>to go "all in" in Vietnam.</p></li><li><p><strong>"September 11"</strong> terror attacks in 2001. They helped the Bush 43 administration launch their excellent Global War on Terror and radically reduce civil liberties at home</p></li><li><p><strong>Ghouta Chemical attack</strong> in August 2013. Orchestrated by Western proxy force with the help of the British-led and ISIS-staffed White Helmets, a chemical attack on civilians in Ghouta was blamed on <strong>Bashar Al Assad</strong>'s forces. Had the charge stuck, it would have crossed the "red line" for U.S. and NATO intervention in Syria</p></li></ul><p>The examples are very numerous. A new false flag attack, aimed at triggering World War III against Russia wouldn't be unusual in the context of history. If the population is taken by surprise and the people genuinely believe the official narrative about the attacks, this does invariably create the "helpful waves of national indignation," allowing the country's leaders to wrap themselves in the flag, promise justice at whatever cost, and start moving the pieces irreversibly toward the desired military escalation.</p><div data-attrs='{"url":"https://alexkrainer.substack.com/subscribe?","text":"Subscribe","language":"en"}' data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM" data-sanitized-class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor"><div data-sanitized-class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div data-sanitized-class="preamble"><p data-sanitized-class="cta-caption">Alex Krainer's Substack is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.</p></div><div data-sanitized-class="fake-input-wrapper"><div data-sanitized-class="fake-input"></div><div data-sanitized-class="fake-button"></div></div></div></div><p>I believe that this is the reason why Western powers are encouraging Ukraine to strike into Russia with their missiles, even though there is almost nothing to be gained. Such escalation only makes them directly involved as belligerents in the conflict. This is why incredibly, the U.S. is suddenly discussing <a href="https://news.antiwar.com/2024/11/22/report-us-and-european-officials-discussed-giving-ukraine-nuclear-weapons/">providing Ukraine with nuclear Weapons</a>. They may hope that Russia will respond impulsively, but they know that Vladimir Putin almost certainly won't take the bait. That's where the false flag comes in, probably in the shape of the detonation of a nuclear weapon in London.</p><p>I can't imagine how this could be done. There should be a very rigorous custody control chain with every warhead warehoused in any Western power. But if such weapons were given to Ukraine, that's where the custody chain would end. From there, nuclear devices could be free to roam and drift back into the Heart of Darkness to serve their false flag purposes, perhaps on special CIA or MI6 flights, or perhaps in ordinary shipping containers.</p><p>Suppose if such a device were detonated from a shipping container on a ship, a train or a truck, some Webcam might catch the event. But if all the Webcams were dark, the news – which will have their stories scripted beforehand – can report that it was a Russian missile, and it would be very unlikely that anybody could ever prove otherwise. If such images ever did surface, they'd almost certainly be few and they could be quickly traced and removed from circulation.</p><div data-sanitized-class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fce2a6875-fcfc-4750-ad67-71f987e9869b_711x401.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM" data-sanitized-class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img"><div data-sanitized-class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fce2a6875-fcfc-4750-ad67-71f987e9869b_711x401.png" width="711" height="401" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/ce2a6875-fcfc-4750-ad67-71f987e9869b_711x401.png","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":401,"width":711,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":428206,"alt":null,"title":null,"type":"image/png","href":null,"belowTheFold":true,"topImage":false,"internalRedirect":null,"isProcessing":false}' alt="" loading="lazy" data-sanitized-class="sizing-normal"></picture><div data-sanitized-class="image-link-expand"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container restack-image"><path d="M3 12a9 9 0 0 1 9-9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1 6.74 2.74L21 8"></path><path d="M21 3v5h-5"></path><path d="M21 12a9 9 0 0 1-9 9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1-6.74-2.74L3 16"></path><path d="M8 16H3v5"></path></div><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container view-image"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></div></div></div></div></a><figcaption data-sanitized-class="image-caption">That time the actors read out their lines out of sequence, revealing that the news were scripted in advance of events.</figcaption></figure></div><p>Switching off all Webcams in London can’t be a random event. It requires an explanation. Mine is a guess, but if there's a different coherent explanation for why all of London's Webcams went dark in early September, I can't even begin to imagine it.</p><h2>It’s time to be brave…</h2><p>Today is Thanksgiving and it almost pains me to share these dark musings. For one thing, I could be wrong - that much is obvious. And then it's a downer – it’s nothing to be thankful for. But if I happen to be right... The one way false flag events can fail is if the public sees through them.</p><p>False flag planners must ambush the people and shock them from the clear blue skies. A spectacular event like 9/11 will have a powerful impact on people's emotions and in that moment they'll be susceptible to deceptive narratives. That "helpful wave of indignation" will materialize. But if the public is forewarned and expects that a false flag <em>might</em> take place, they might suspect that it was "an inside job," and the attack could blow back into the conspirators' faces. I have therefore decided to take risk of ruining my American readers' long weekend and to also risk embarrassing myself.</p><p>In the thick of the Covid 19 pandemic, <strong>Dr. Mike Yeadon</strong> - one of the true experts who saw through the hoax and did not fear to speak out about it, said that this is the time to be brave. He wasn't saying that we should go out and tackle police officers or charge against tanks with Molotov cocktails. He was talking about taking the risk of being wrong, of embarrassing oneself. It is easier and safer to be silent about all this.</p><p>But we really do need to be brave and speak out like our children's future depends on it. <strong>Alex Jones</strong> famously predicted the 9/11 terror attacks quite clearly on 25 July 2001, but back then, his warning seemed so utterly preposterous that few ventured to share Alex's bombshell. Such reticence is misplaced. If he was wrong, so what? If I'm wrong today, nothing happens. If I'm right however, this information could change history.</p><h2>Happy Thanksgiving</h2><p>I'm not an American citizen, but my children are, so I'll allow myself to do the American thing today and express my profound gratitude for all the subscribers who read these reports. Thank you and Happy Thanksgiving!</p><p data-attrs='{"url":"https://alexkrainer.substack.com/p/are-they-planning-a-false-flag-event?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=share&amp;action=share","text":"Share","action":null,"class":null}' data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton" data-sanitized-class="button-wrapper"><a href="https://alexkrainer.substack.com/p/are-they-planning-a-false-flag-event?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=share&amp;action=share" data-sanitized-class="button primary"><span>Share</span></a></p><p><strong><a href="http://linkedin.com/in/alex-sasha-krainer-0b74ab1a">Alex Krainer</a> – <a href="https://twitter.com/NakedHedgie">@NakedHedgie</a></strong> is the creator of <strong><a href="https://isystem-tf.com/">I-System Trend Following</a></strong> and publisher of daily <strong><a href="https://isystem-tf.com/trendcompass/">TrendCompass</a></strong> investor reports which cover over 200 financial and commodities markets. 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title: A link on a logo in the header, what should the alt-text be?
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by Rian Rietveld<br><p>It's a common pattern to use a logo in the header as a link to the homepage.<br>
But what should be the alt-text of that image?<br>
"the site name" or "homepage" or "logo" or "IMG_123"? Does it even matter?</p>
<p>Fun fact: the alt text of the image inside a link, will be added to the link text.</p>
<p>The problem with linking a logo is that it serves 2 purposes:</p>
<ul>
<li>a logo, that tells you which site you are visiting;</li>
<li>a link, that leads to the homepage.</li>
</ul>
<p>So add both that info in the alt text. Explain what's on the image and where the link leads to: "Site name logo, to the homepage".</p>
<p><strong>Note</strong>: Start the alt text with the visible text, then the link will be easier to target for people using voice recognition software.</p>
<p>Let's take as example the logo of my home town Leidschendam-Voorburg.</p>
<p>In code (simplified):</p>
<pre data-sanitized-class="language-html"><code data-sanitized-class="language-html"><span data-sanitized-class="highlight-line"><span data-sanitized-class="token tag"><span data-sanitized-class="token tag"><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">&lt;</span>a</span> <span data-sanitized-class="token attr-name">href</span><span data-sanitized-class="token attr-value"><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation attr-equals">=</span><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">"</span>/<span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">"</span></span><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">&gt;</span></span></span><br>  <span data-sanitized-class="token tag"><span data-sanitized-class="token tag"><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">&lt;</span>img</span> <br><span data-sanitized-class="highlight-line">    <span data-sanitized-class="token attr-name">alt</span><span data-sanitized-class="token attr-value"><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation attr-equals">=</span><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">"</span>Leidschendam-Voorburg logo, to the homepage<span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">"</span></span> </span><br><span data-sanitized-class="highlight-line">    <span data-sanitized-class="token attr-name">src</span><span data-sanitized-class="token attr-value"><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation attr-equals">=</span><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">"</span>logo-lv.svg<span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">"</span></span> </span><br>  <span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">/&gt;</span></span><br><span data-sanitized-class="highlight-line"><span data-sanitized-class="token tag"><span data-sanitized-class="token tag"><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">&lt;/</span>a</span><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">&gt;</span></span></span></code></pre>
<p>Generated HTML:</p>
<a href="https://www.lv.nl/en">
  <img alt="Leidschendam-Voorburg logo, to the homepage" src="https://htmhell.dev/adventcalendar/2024/1/logo-lv.svg" width="300" height="76" loading="lazy">
</a>
<p>VoiceOver in Safari will announce this as:<br>
"Link, image, Leidschendam-Voorburg logo, to the homepage".<br>
<img alt="Screenshot of this VoiceOver output." src="https://htmhell.dev/adventcalendar/2024/1/voice-over.png" width="432" height="133" loading="lazy"></p>
<p>All info is there.</p>
<p>There is an advantage of using the alt text instead of an aria-label solution. When the connection is slow, the alt text will show up before the image does and already informs all users of the site name and link destination. It's quite robust.</p>
<h2 data-sanitized-id="discussion">Discussion</h2>
<h3 data-sanitized-id="do-i-need-the-word-logo?-isnt-that-redundant-like-the-word-image-or-picture?">Do I need the word logo? Isn't that redundant, like the word image or picture?</h3>
<p>Yes, in this case the fact that this is a logo tells important info.</p>
<p>Not only for blind users, but for all screenreader users. If you are visually impaired but not totally blind, you may see the image vaguely. With the addition of the word logo, you also know what the image is.</p>
<p>The site name is required, but the logo gives extra context.</p>
<h3 data-sanitized-id="isnt-this-a-violation-of-253-label-in-name?">Isn't this a violation of <a href="https://www.w3.org/WAI/WCAG22/quickref/?versions=2.1&amp;showtechniques=253#label-in-name">2.5.3 Label in Name</a>?</h3>
<p>No, the visible name is in the alt text, which becomes the accessible name of the link. Adding extra context to the link is common practice.</p>
<p>Compare this with the notorious "Read more" link in a card. A common pattern is to use a sr-only CSS class (or equivalent) with additional text:<br>
<code>&lt;a href="url"&gt;Read more&lt;span class="sr-only"&gt; about cute kitten&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;</code> .</p>
<ul>
<li>You see Read more.</li>
<li>You hear Read more about cute kitten.</li>
</ul>
<p>In our case:</p>
<ul>
<li>You see the site name and logo; the visual position tells the link destination.</li>
<li>You hear the site name, the fact it's a logo and the link destination.</li>
</ul>
<p>The whole visible text should be in the accessible name, but extra information, like the meaning of the image and link destination can be added for context. That way the <a href="https://www.w3.org/WAI/WCAG22/quickref/#link-purpose-in-context">purpose of the link</a> is explained.</p>
<h3 data-sanitized-id="why-didnt-you-use-an-aria-label?">Why didn't you use an aria-label?</h3>
<p>Of course there are other and also valid solutions. By using plain simple HTML I want to honor the <a href="https://www.w3.org/TR/using-aria/#rule1">first rule of ARIA</a>:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>If you can use a native HTML element or attribute with the semantics and behavior you require already built in, instead of re-purposing an element and adding an ARIA role, state or property to make it accessible, then do so.</p>
</blockquote>
<p>Happy Holidays!</p>


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title: New Lyre Podcast #31: Earning Our Chains
author: ;David Gosselin
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<p>In this latest discussion with poet D.B. Jonas, we explore poetics, craft, the mystery of art and works from his first collection, <em>Tarantula Season and Other Poems.</em></p><p data-attrs='{"url":"https://thechainedmuse.substack.com/subscribe?","text":"Subscribe now","action":null,"class":null}' data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton" data-sanitized-class="button-wrapper"><a href="https://thechainedmuse.substack.com/subscribe?" data-sanitized-class="button primary"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><p><em><strong>DB Jonas</strong> is an orchardist living in the Sangre de Cristo mountains of northern New Mexico. His work has appeared widely in journals throughout the US, UK, Europe and Israel. 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title: Starting off right: Where autofocus shines
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by Kilian Valkhof<br><p>Focus is where the user is on your website. It's what makes it possible to navigate your site with the keyboard or other assistive technologies, and it's how a browser knows which form element you're typing in. It's vital to get right if you want to build good websites.</p>
<p>Whenever you're dealing with code that can “steal” focus you have to be aware of how that affects your visitor. So it's not strange that many folks will tell you to leave focus alone, to stay away from <code>tabindex</code> and <code>autofocus</code>.</p>
<p>All of that advice is good advice: you <em>should</em> be careful when moving the focus away from where it would normally be and where the user would expect it to be, or you'll quickly find yourself in a world of accessibility issues.</p>
<p>But if you start off on the right foot, managing focus is a delightful HTML detail that makes your site a joy to use.</p>
<h2 data-sanitized-id="autofocus">Autofocus</h2>
<p>The <code>autofocus</code> attribute can be added to any element to make it <strong>auto</strong>matically <strong>focus</strong>ed on page load, skipping over any other elements that might have been focused before. Any element that can be focusable can also have <code>autofocus</code> applied to it, like buttons, links, and form elements.</p>
<p>As mentioned above, you'll rarely want to use <code>autofocus</code>. Messing with people's focus usually doesn't make them want to use your website more. It will probably make them want to use it less, so don't autofocus your purchase button or search field.</p>
<p>But there's a place where <code>autofocus</code> shines: On single-purpose pages containing forms.</p>
<p>...which is a bit of an obtuse way to say “login pages”, “signup pages”, “password reset pages” and “Two-factor authentication (2FA) pages”, you get the idea.</p>
<h2 data-sanitized-id="adding-autofocus">Adding Autofocus</h2>
<p>Your login page has one purpose: to get the user to log in.</p>
<p>The user has one goal: to log in.</p>
<p>So why not make it as easy as possible for them?</p>
<pre data-sanitized-class="language-html"><code data-sanitized-class="language-html"><span data-sanitized-class="highlight-line"><span data-sanitized-class="token tag"><span data-sanitized-class="token tag"><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">&lt;</span>form</span> <span data-sanitized-class="token attr-name">method</span><span data-sanitized-class="token attr-value"><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation attr-equals">=</span><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">"</span>post<span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">"</span></span><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">&gt;</span></span></span><br><span data-sanitized-class="highlight-line">  <span data-sanitized-class="token tag"><span data-sanitized-class="token tag"><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">&lt;</span>label</span> <span data-sanitized-class="token attr-name">for</span><span data-sanitized-class="token attr-value"><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation attr-equals">=</span><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">"</span>username<span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">"</span></span><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">&gt;</span></span>Username<span data-sanitized-class="token tag"><span data-sanitized-class="token tag"><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">&lt;/</span>label</span><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">&gt;</span></span></span><br><span data-sanitized-class="highlight-line">  <span data-sanitized-class="token tag"><span data-sanitized-class="token tag"><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">&lt;</span>input</span> <span data-sanitized-class="token attr-name">id</span><span data-sanitized-class="token attr-value"><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation attr-equals">=</span><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">"</span>username<span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">"</span></span> <span data-sanitized-class="token attr-name">type</span><span data-sanitized-class="token attr-value"><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation attr-equals">=</span><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">"</span>text<span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">"</span></span> <span data-sanitized-class="token attr-name">autofocus</span> <span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">/&gt;</span></span></span><br><span data-sanitized-class="highlight-line"></span><br><span data-sanitized-class="highlight-line">  <span data-sanitized-class="token tag"><span data-sanitized-class="token tag"><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">&lt;</span>label</span> <span data-sanitized-class="token attr-name">for</span><span data-sanitized-class="token attr-value"><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation attr-equals">=</span><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">"</span>password<span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">"</span></span><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">&gt;</span></span>password<span data-sanitized-class="token tag"><span data-sanitized-class="token tag"><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">&lt;/</span>label</span><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">&gt;</span></span></span><br><span data-sanitized-class="highlight-line">  <span data-sanitized-class="token tag"><span data-sanitized-class="token tag"><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">&lt;</span>input</span> <span data-sanitized-class="token attr-name">id</span><span data-sanitized-class="token attr-value"><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation attr-equals">=</span><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">"</span>password<span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">"</span></span> <span data-sanitized-class="token attr-name">type</span><span data-sanitized-class="token attr-value"><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation attr-equals">=</span><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">"</span>password<span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">"</span></span> <span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">/&gt;</span></span></span><br><span data-sanitized-class="highlight-line"><span data-sanitized-class="token tag"><span data-sanitized-class="token tag"><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">&lt;/</span>form</span><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">&gt;</span></span></span></code></pre>
<p>Add autofocus to the first field and your visitor can start typing as soon as the page loads. No need to click or tab or search for forms on the page.</p>
<p>If the user uses assistive technology, it will announce the label and the field, and then announce that the field is focused.</p>
<p>Similarly, your password reset page (single field) and signup page (single purpose) will have the same structure and will likewise benefit from having the first field focused.</p>
<p>If your login page is followed by a 2fa page, then that <code>autofocus</code> is <del aria-hidden="true">even more useful</del> <ins>vital</ins>.</p>
<p>Few things are as "throw pc out of the window"-frustrating as frantically typing in that 2fa code as the last few seconds tick away, only to find the field wasn't focused. And now you have to do it all over again.</p>
<p>Argh!</p>
<p>Some things just get to me.</p>
<h3 data-sanitized-id="when-not-to-use-autofocus-on-single-purpose-pages">When not to use autofocus on single-purpose pages</h3>
<p>Even if you have a page with a single purpose, you might not want to add autofocus.</p>
<p>If you have a login form but people can also use social logins (Google, GitHub, and the like) and you don't know which one they'll use don't add an autofocus.</p>
<p>Instead, keep track of what they use to log in. As soon as you know which one they're using you can store that in a cookie (or localStorage) and focus on the field or button they need to interact with the next time they visit.</p>
<h2 data-sanitized-id="conclusion">Conclusion</h2>
<p>So let's get back to the point: <code>autofocus</code> is a great way to make your forms more user-friendly, as long as you use it in the right place.</p>
<p>Are you building a page that has:</p>
<ul>
<li>A single purpose</li>
<li>A single form</li>
<li>No other choices available</li>
</ul>
<p>Then <code>autofocus</code> is your and your visitor's friend.</p>
<p>So go ahead and use it on your login pages, your signup pages, your password reset pages, and your 2fa pages. Your users will thank you for it.</p>


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title: Peace Roundtable 7: Introducing The Academy for International Cooperation
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<p><img src="https://thumbnails.lbry.com/z9idbvfzdFA" width="480" alt="thumbnail" title="Peace Roundtable 7: Introducing The Academy for International Cooperation"></p>In this 7th Peace Roundtable, Dr. Edward Lozansky, Dr. John Hipsley and Matt Ehret showcase the new Academy for International Cooperation, which will serve as a sub-project of the Rising Tide Foundation and will provide geopolitical insights into projects needed to bring about a healthy new paradigm for humanity. <br><br>Listen to Ed Lozansky’s recent interview with Todd Wood, who runs the US-Russia Cross Talk in the Washington Times: Euro Bytes-Ed Lozansky Direct From Moscow-Founder, President Of American University In Moscow-WWIII?<br>https://creativedestructionmedia.com/video/2024/11/23/live-sunday-1pm-est-euro-bytes-ed-lozansky-direct-from-moscow-founder-president-of-american-university-in-moscow-wwiii/<br><br>Other articles from Ed Lozansky can be found here:<br>https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2024/jun/5/how-about-highway-linking-new-york-and-london/<br><br>https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2024/nov/20/biden-lust-war-russia-ukraine-debacle/<br><br>Support the Rising Tide Foundation in the following ways:<br><br>1) Make a donation <br>https://risingtidefoundation.net/support-the-work/<br>2) Subscribe to Matt and Cynthia's Substack<br>matthewehret.substack.com<br>cynthiachung.substack.com<br>3) Buy some books!<br>https://canadianpatriot.org/untold-history-of-canada-books/<br>4) Follow us on Odyssee here: https://odysee.com/@RisingTideFoundation:b<br><br>and follow us on www.risingtidefoundation.net and t.me/risingtidefoundation<br>...<br>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9idbvfzdFA

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title: Federal research funding reform
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<p data-sanitized-class=""><span data-sanitized-class="sqsrte-text-color--accent">Professor Bruce Pardy</span> calls for the elimination of federal research funding for universities in his presentation to the <a href="https://www.ourcommons.ca/Committees/en/SRSR/StudyActivity?studyActivityId=12988426" target="_blank">Standing Committee on Science and Research studies</a> (SRSR)—tasked with evaluating whether the criteria used for awarding federal funding on research excellence are still appropriate or whether modifications should be made. </p><p data-sanitized-class="">Prof. Pardy’s [video] presentation is available <a href="https://parlvu.parl.gc.ca/Harmony/en/PowerBrowser/PowerBrowserV2?fk=12998409" target="_blank">via this link</a> at the 17:08:48 mark.</p><p data-sanitized-class=""><span data-sanitized-class="sqsrte-text-color--accent"><em>A transcript of this presentation follows in full:</em></span></p><p data-sanitized-class="">Madam Chair, the members of your committee may be familiar with the Big Bang Theory—not the explosion, the TV sitcom. It’s about four scientist nerds who work at a research university. In one episode they argue with the university president who says to them, “Let me ask you something. What do you think the business of this university is?” “Science?” One of the science nerds replies. “Money!” the president snorts. In Canada, the business of universities isn't just money, it's government money.</p><p data-sanitized-class="">The business of Canadian universities, in large part, is to get their hands on as much government money as they can. They have become chronic welfare recipients like the CBC, dependent on government largesse with no prospect of becoming self-sustaining. These are deep black holes into which gobs of money disappear. </p><p data-sanitized-class="">If you are a young professor today, your university probably doesn't care so much about your work, it cares more about whether you get federal grants. From every grant, universities skim a cool chunk off the top, like 40%. To get the grant, you must pitch research that the granting councils like. Universities have whole departments of administrators dedicated to getting their academics to pitch the research in a way that will please the people holding the purse strings. Federal research money corrupts the intellectual enterprise of universities.</p><p data-sanitized-class="">My academic colleagues and I are among the many, many Canadians feeding at the public trough. The public sector is 40% of this country's economy. That's not sustainable. It's one of the many reasons this country is becoming poor. He who pays the piper calls the tune. Government money always comes with strings; ideological strings, political strings. The way to have politically neutral research is not to have government granting agencies. </p><p data-sanitized-class="">You are studying whether to reform federal research funding; don't reform it. Abolish it. Get rid of it. Universities fall under provincial jurisdiction. Please stop interfering. Please stop taking money from truck drivers and cashiers and giving it to elite institutions. Please stop corrupting the intellectual enterprise. Please stop requiring and funding discrimination against white people, Asian people, and men. Please stop dictating how research is done and by whom. Please get federal money out of the business of Canadian universities.</p><p data-sanitized-class="">Thank you very much.</p><p data-sanitized-class=""><a href="https://parlvu.parl.gc.ca/Harmony/en/PowerBrowser/PowerBrowserV2?fk=12998409" target="_blank">VIEW THE PROCEEDINGS IN FULL HERE</a> [See 17:08:48 for Prof. Pardy, followed by the Q&amp;A]</p><p data-sanitized-class=""><strong>Further Reading</strong></p><p data-sanitized-class=""><a href="https://www.rightsprobe.org/read/at-tmu-medical-school-some-students-are-more-equal-than-others">At TMU Medical School, Some Students Are More Equal Than Others</a></p><p data-sanitized-class=""><a href="https://nationalpost.com/opinion/jordan-peterson-our-rotten-rotting-universities?mc_cid=e9a434652c&amp;mc_eid=UNIQID" target="_blank">Our Rotten, Rotting Universities</a></p><p data-sanitized-class=""><a href="https://www.rightsprobe.org/read/dont-give-campus-censors-more-power-theyll-double-down-on-woke-agenda">Don’t Give Campus Censors More Power — They’ll Double Down on Woke Agenda</a></p>





















  
  



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title: Matt Ehret address to UAE Verona Summit: Hopes for a New Paradigm
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<p><img src="https://thumbnails.lbry.com/RDMTVGdrv9E" width="480" alt="thumbnail" title="Matt Ehret address to UAE Verona Summit: Hopes for a New Paradigm"></p>In this short address to the 17th Verona Eurasian Economic Forum held in the UAE from Dec 5-6, 2024, Matt Ehret delivers his considerations for the world and hopes for an age of cooperation.<br><br>Learn more about the Verona Summit here: https://forumverona.com/ru/<br><br>Support the Rising Tide Foundation in the following ways:<br><br>1) Make a donation <br>https://risingtidefoundation.net/support-the-work/<br>2) Subscribe to Matt and Cynthia's Substack<br>matthewehret.substack.com<br>cynthiachung.substack.com<br>3) Buy some books!<br>https://canadianpatriot.org/untold-history-of-canada-books/<br>4) Follow us on Odyssee here: https://odysee.com/@RisingTideFoundation:b<br><br>and follow us on www.risingtidefoundation.net and t.me/risingtidefoundation<br>...<br>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RDMTVGdrv9E

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guid: https://htmhell.dev/adventcalendar/2024/3/
title: Smooth Multi-Page Experiences with Just a Few Lines of CSS
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by John Allsopp<br><p>A single line of CSS can enable slick multi-page transitions for web applications (and web sites for those who maintain there's a difference), opening up new possibilities for web app architectures, and website experiences. So let’s take a look at <a href="https://www.w3.org/TR/css-view-transitions-1/">View Transitions</a>, why we might want them, and how to get started with just that single line of CSS.</p>
<h2 data-sanitized-id="the-webs-long-legacy-of-native-app-envy">The Web's Long Legacy of Native App Envy</h2>
<p>The launch of the iPhone coincided with (and likely ignited) a resurgence of the web. After years of stagnation under the dominance of Internet Explorer, competition and innovation were rekindled by Safari for Mac and Firefox. The iPhone’s killer feature (hard as it might be to believe now) was the “full Safari” on a mobile device.</p>
<p>The Safari team introduced native CSS features like gradients, rounded corners, web fonts, transitions, animations, and transforms. Slick interactive experiences were now a reality on the web.</p>
<p>Then native iPhone apps arrived—with their smooth, animated state transitions between views, panels and widgets sliding in and out, and satisfying, physics-driven responses to user interactions. The web's traditional multi-page architecture was no match; moving from one page to another was clunky, with screens going blank as new pages loaded over sluggish 3G networks. Rendering engines struggled on 2010-era chips.</p>
<p>The common refrain was that native apps were inherently better than web apps. In terms of UI slickness, it was hard to argue otherwise.</p>
<p>The nadir perhaps came in August 2010, when the then-bible of the technology industry, Wired, proclaimed on its front cover:</p>
<h3 data-sanitized-id="the-web-is-dead-long-live-the-internet">The Web Is Dead. Long Live the Internet</h3>
<blockquote data-sanitized-class="code-label">Two decades after its inception, the World Wide Web has been eclipsed by Skype, Netflix, peer-to-peer, and a quarter-million other apps.</blockquote>
<cite>
<p><a href="https://www.wired.com/2010/08/ff-webrip/">The Web Is Dead. Long Live the Internet</a></p>
</cite>
<p>The problem wasn’t just the lack of engaging transitions. Web apps also lacked access to platform APIs, such as address books, cameras, and Bluetooth—features leveraged by native apps to create viral growth and novel experiences. But the absence of smooth UI transitions certainly didn’t help.</p>
<p>The web survived, but the struggle to match native apps remains. A significant response to this challenge was the Single Page App (SPA) architecture.</p>
<h2 data-sanitized-id="single-page-apps-a-solution-with-costs">Single Page Apps: A Solution with Costs</h2>
<p>SPAs sidestepped the need to download each state as a separate page and the associated clunky transitions by running the entire application in a single page. Now, transitions from one state to the next could be accomplished with CSS transitions and animations. However, SPAs carried their own set of challenges that we still grapple with today.</p>
<p>First, an entire app essentially needed to be downloaded before it could be used. This was acceptable for apps from an app store, but it conflicted with the web’s “instant-on” philosophy. Long load times were particularly detrimental on mobile. This not only presented a UX challenge but also a cost one—mobile data was far from cheap a decade ago, and for many people, it still is expensive. Plus, all that app logic had to be served up potentially many times for every user.</p>
<p>The SPA hydration model (downloading an application shell and then rendering the bulk of the app with JavaScript) put significant burdens on device performance. The web's offline and caching capabilities at the time were poor, often requiring the entire app to be downloaded every time it was used. As we learned over time, SPAs also come with SEO challenges, complex codebases, accessibility issues, and maintenance headaches—all stemming, in part, from trying to emulate the native app experience.</p>
<p>It was not entirely in jest that SPAs have been called a "zero-interest rate phenomenon.”</p>
<h2 data-sanitized-id="a-new-hope-view-transitions">A New Hope: View Transitions</h2>
<p>But now, or very soon, we'll be able to create <a href="https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/View_Transitions_API">multi-page apps with View Transitions</a>. It’s taken well over a decade for the Web platform to respond, but View Transitions, coupled with the experimental <a href="https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Speculation_Rules_API">Speculation Rules API</a>, promise drastically simplified architectures and reduced complexity.</p>
<p>Today, I want to provide a brief overview of what’s coming (and in some cases, already here) and give you the single line of CSS that can add View Transitions to your app or site. As of October 2024, View Transitions are supported in Chrome and Safari’s Technology Preview.</p>
<h2 data-sanitized-id="introducing-view-transitions">Introducing View Transitions</h2>
<p>The View Transition API enables:</p>
<ul>
<li>Animating between DOM states in SPAs.</li>
<li>Animating the navigation between documents in multi-page apps (MPAs). Or "web sites" as we used to call then.</li>
</ul>
<p>Now View Transitions <em>can</em> get complex, as they enable sophisticated animations, but let’s start simply.</p>
<h3 data-sanitized-id="a-simple-page-transition">A Simple Page Transition</h3>
<p><video src="https://htmhell.dev/adventcalendar/2024/3/simple-abrupt.mov" controls="controls" preload="none"></video></p>
<p>Take this classic page transition — quick and clean, thanks to the use of CSS's aspect-ratio and the lazy loading of images. But it’s abrupt. Now, let’s add the magic line of CSS to smooth things out:</p>
<pre data-sanitized-class="language-css"><code data-sanitized-class="language-css"><span data-sanitized-class="highlight-line"><span data-sanitized-class="token atrule"><span data-sanitized-class="token rule">@view-transition</span></span> <span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">{</span></span><br><span data-sanitized-class="highlight-line">  <span data-sanitized-class="token property">navigation</span><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">:</span> auto<span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">;</span></span><br><span data-sanitized-class="highlight-line"><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">}</span></span></code></pre>
<p>Alright, I cheated; it’s three lines. But you could write it as a single line (CSS isn't Python afterall)!</p>
<p><video src="https://htmhell.dev/adventcalendar/2024/3/simple-smooth.mov" controls="controls" preload="none"></video></p>
<p>Here it is in action (as supported in Chrome and Safari Tech Preview). The transition is smoother, less abrupt. No JavaScript, libraries, or dependencies—just lovely progressive enhancement. If you want to see it live, visit <a href="https://conffab.com/">Conffab</a>, where this effect is used for every page transition.</p>
<p>There’s no reason not to add this to any website today. And more and more visitors will experience nicer transitions over time, at almost no cost to you as the technology becomes more widely supported.</p>
<h2 data-sanitized-id="adding-dynamic-transitions">Adding Dynamic Transitions</h2>
<p>We can also make transitions more dynamic with just a bit more CSS.</p>
<p>Here's a before and after video. First, how browsers traditionally rendered page transitions</p>
<p><video src="https://htmhell.dev/adventcalendar/2024/3/complex-abrupt.mov" controls="controls" preload="none"></video></p>
<p>And now how Chrome renders this new transition we'll detail below.</p>
<p><video src="https://htmhell.dev/adventcalendar/2024/3/complex-smoth.mov" controls="controls" preload="none"></video></p>
<p>I hope you'll agree it's a much more engaging effect. So, how do we achieve this?</p>
<p>In our main page, where we have links to individual sessions, we have one end of the transition that looks like these:</p>
<pre data-sanitized-class="language-html"><code data-sanitized-class="language-html"><span data-sanitized-class="highlight-line"><span data-sanitized-class="token tag"><span data-sanitized-class="token tag"><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">&lt;</span>section</span> <span data-sanitized-class="token attr-name">id</span><span data-sanitized-class="token attr-value"><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation attr-equals">=</span><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">"</span>speaker-marco-rogers<span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">"</span></span> <span data-sanitized-class="token special-attr"><span data-sanitized-class="token attr-name">style</span><span data-sanitized-class="token attr-value"><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation attr-equals">=</span><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">"</span><span data-sanitized-class="token value css language-css"><span data-sanitized-class="token property">view-transition-name</span><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">:</span> marco-rogers-hero</span><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">"</span></span></span><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">&gt;</span></span><span data-sanitized-class="token tag"><span data-sanitized-class="token tag"><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">&lt;/</span>section</span><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">&gt;</span></span></span><br><span data-sanitized-class="highlight-line"><span data-sanitized-class="token tag"><span data-sanitized-class="token tag"><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">&lt;</span>section</span> <span data-sanitized-class="token attr-name">id</span><span data-sanitized-class="token attr-value"><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation attr-equals">=</span><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">"</span>speaker-maria-farrell<span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">"</span></span> <span data-sanitized-class="token special-attr"><span data-sanitized-class="token attr-name">style</span><span data-sanitized-class="token attr-value"><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation attr-equals">=</span><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">"</span><span data-sanitized-class="token value css language-css"><span data-sanitized-class="token property">view-transition-name</span><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">:</span> maria-farrell-hero</span><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">"</span></span></span><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">&gt;</span></span><span data-sanitized-class="token tag"><span data-sanitized-class="token tag"><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">&lt;/</span>section</span><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">&gt;</span></span></span></code></pre>
<p>Then in the target pages, we have elements like these:</p>
<pre data-sanitized-class="language-html"><code data-sanitized-class="language-html"><span data-sanitized-class="highlight-line"><span data-sanitized-class="token tag"><span data-sanitized-class="token tag"><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">&lt;</span>section</span> <span data-sanitized-class="token attr-name">id</span><span data-sanitized-class="token attr-value"><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation attr-equals">=</span><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">"</span>session-details<span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">"</span></span> <span data-sanitized-class="token special-attr"><span data-sanitized-class="token attr-name">style</span><span data-sanitized-class="token attr-value"><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation attr-equals">=</span><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">"</span><span data-sanitized-class="token value css language-css"><span data-sanitized-class="token property">view-transition-name</span><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">:</span> marco-rogers-hero</span><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">"</span></span></span><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">&gt;</span></span><span data-sanitized-class="token tag"><span data-sanitized-class="token tag"><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">&lt;/</span>section</span><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">&gt;</span></span></span><br><span data-sanitized-class="highlight-line"><span data-sanitized-class="token tag"><span data-sanitized-class="token tag"><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">&lt;</span>section</span> <span data-sanitized-class="token attr-name">id</span><span data-sanitized-class="token attr-value"><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation attr-equals">=</span><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">"</span>session-details<span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">"</span></span> <span data-sanitized-class="token special-attr"><span data-sanitized-class="token attr-name">style</span><span data-sanitized-class="token attr-value"><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation attr-equals">=</span><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">"</span><span data-sanitized-class="token value css language-css"><span data-sanitized-class="token property">view-transition-name</span><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">:</span> maria-farrell-hero</span><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">"</span></span></span><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">&gt;</span></span><span data-sanitized-class="token tag"><span data-sanitized-class="token tag"><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">&lt;/</span>section</span><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">&gt;</span></span></span></code></pre>
<p>Notice how the two ‘ends’ of the transition have matching <code>view-transition-name</code> values. This tells the browser which DOM elements to transition between.</p>
<p>Inline styles aren’t always ideal, but in this case, it was the easiest solution given the existing codebase. You could alternatively apply the style with CSS, if the endpoints can be uniquely selected on a page (since <code>view-transition-name</code> values must be unique on any given page so the browser knows which elements to create a transition from and to).</p>
<p>Currently, this more complex example may have issues in Safari 18's Tech previews, but I’m confident they’ll be resolved soon. Above all, it’s great to see Safari investing in this feature!</p>
<h2 data-sanitized-id="whats-next?">What's Next?</h2>
<p>First, add the simple one-liner to all your sites for smoother page transitions.</p>
<p>Then, explore adding more specific transitions like in the second example. For generated pages, adding <code>view-transition-name</code> attributes may not present much challenge, and depending on your HTML structure, you could add them with just a bit of CSS.</p>
<p>Now, animation effects can cause difficulties for some users, such as those with vestibular disorders, so we should take our user's preferences about motion into account. Doing that for View Transitions is very straightforward. We add</p>
<pre data-sanitized-class="language-css"><code data-sanitized-class="language-css"><span data-sanitized-class="highlight-line"><span data-sanitized-class="token atrule"><span data-sanitized-class="token rule">@media</span> <span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">(</span><span data-sanitized-class="token property">prefers-reduced-motion</span><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">:</span> reduce<span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">)</span></span> <span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">{</span></span><br><span data-sanitized-class="highlight-line">  <span data-sanitized-class="token atrule"><span data-sanitized-class="token rule">@view-transition</span></span> <span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">{</span></span><br><span data-sanitized-class="highlight-line">    <span data-sanitized-class="token property">navigation</span><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">:</span> none<span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">;</span></span><br><span data-sanitized-class="highlight-line">  <span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">}</span></span><br><span data-sanitized-class="highlight-line"><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">}</span></span></code></pre>
<p>Add this after our original <code>@view-transition</code> rule. Now, if the user's preferences are set to reduced motion, no view transitions will be triggered on page navigation.</p>




<p>Finally, take a deeper look at what else the View Transition API can do—this is just the beginning.</p>


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<p><a href="https://github.com/web-platform-tests/interop-2022-viewport/blob/main/explainers/viewport-units.md">Viewports units</a> on mobile have been a problem for a long time. Using <code>100vh</code> is most likely not exactly what you initially expected it to be. To fix this, the CSS Working Group came up with more units over time for you to use. The <a href="https://web.dev/blog/viewport-units">dynamic viewport units</a> got introduced, which include <code>svh</code> and <code>lvh</code> which represent 1% of the small and large viewport height respectively.</p>
<figure data-sanitized-class="u-mb">
  <img src="https://htmhell.dev/adventcalendar/2024/4/viewports-01.jpg" width="4001" height="2550" alt="">
  <figcaption>Two mobile browser visualizations positioned next to each other. One has an element sized to be <code>100svh</code> (left, green) and the other <code>100lvh</code> (right, blue). The blue dashed outline represents the Layout Viewport.</figcaption>
</figure>
<p>While these units are <em>fairly</em> interoperable at the time of writing – there are still some interop issues, mainly related to webviews – there is one big gripe that a lot of people have with it: when the Virtual Keyboard gets shown, these units do not take the presence of that Virtual Keyboard into account. Depending on what you are building, you might want to have these units get resized when the Virtual Keyboard is shown.</p>
<h2 data-sanitized-id="the-default-viewport-resize-behavior">The default viewport resize behavior</h2>
<p>When the Virtual Keyboard gets shown on mobile, it gets laid over the content. As a result, the <a href="https://github.com/web-platform-tests/interop-2022-viewport/blob/main/explainers/visual-viewport.md">Visual Viewport</a> gets resized but the <a href="https://github.com/web-platform-tests/interop-2022-viewport/blob/main/explainers/layout-viewport.md">Layout Viewport</a> - the one that is used to position out <code>position: fixed</code> elements – remains unchanged.</p>
<figure data-sanitized-class="u-mb">
  <img src="https://htmhell.dev/adventcalendar/2024/4/viewports-02.jpg" width="4001" height="2550" alt="">
  <figcaption>Visualization of a mobile browser with the virtual keyboard opened. The elements that have a height of <code>100svh</code> and <code>100lvh</code> are not affected by the virtual keyboard’s presence.</figcaption>
</figure>
<p>Because the Layout Viewport does not change, the Viewport Units also don’t change. The only thing that changes is the size of the Visual Viewport, wich represents only the visual part that you see on screen.</p>
<p><em>Note: Prior to Chrome 108, Chrome on Android used to resize the Layout Viewport when the Virtual Keyboard was shown. To align with MobileSafari, Chrome adjusted its behavior to resize only the Visual Viewport instead. Firefox did the same with the release of Firefox 132.</em></p>
<p>What sometimes also happens is that browsers shift the Layout Viewport upwards (or the Visual Viewport downwards depending on how you look at it) in order to keep the focused input at the center of the screen.</p>
<figure data-sanitized-class="u-mb">
  <img src="https://htmhell.dev/adventcalendar/2024/4/viewports-03.jpg" width="4001" height="2550" alt="">
  <figcaption>Visualization of the Visual Viewport <em>(orange dotted outline)</em> on a page with the Virtual Keyboard shown. On the right, the Layout Viewport <em>(blue dashed outline)</em> got shifted up so that the focused input is centered on the screen.</figcaption>
</figure>
<h2 data-sanitized-id="intermezzo">Intermezzo</h2>
<p>If you want to know all the details about Viewports, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xl9R8aTOW_I">check out this HTTP 203 episode</a>:</p>
<div data-sanitized-class="video">
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<p>The relevant part for you to know here is that the size of the <a href="https://github.com/web-platform-tests/interop-2022-viewport/blob/main/explainers/icb.md">Initial Containing Block (ICB)</a> is based on the Layout Viewport – more specifically the Small Layout Viewport – and that the Viewport Units are based on the size of the ICB.</p>
<figure data-sanitized-class="u-mb">
  <img src="https://htmhell.dev/adventcalendar/2024/4/viewports-04.jpg" width="4001" height="2550" alt="">
  <figcaption>Visualization of the Initial Containing Block or ICB for short <em>(red dashed outline)</em>. It’s size is taken from the Small Layout Viewport.</figcaption>
</figure>
<p>If you prefer reading, there are also <a href="https://github.com/web-platform-tests/interop-2022-viewport/blob/main/explainers/README.md">a bunch of explainers</a> for you to review.</p>
<h2 data-sanitized-id="the-interactive-widget-keyword-in-the-viewport-meta-tag">The <code>interactive-widget</code> keyword in the viewport meta tag</h2>
<p>To control the viewport's size and shape there is the viewport meta tag. Most likely you have used the following before:</p>
<pre data-sanitized-class="language-html"><code data-sanitized-class="language-html"><span data-sanitized-class="highlight-line"><span data-sanitized-class="token tag"><span data-sanitized-class="token tag"><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">&lt;</span>meta</span> <span data-sanitized-class="token attr-name">name</span><span data-sanitized-class="token attr-value"><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation attr-equals">=</span><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">"</span>viewport<span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">"</span></span> <span data-sanitized-class="token attr-name">content</span><span data-sanitized-class="token attr-value"><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation attr-equals">=</span><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">"</span>width=device-width, initial-scale=1<span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">"</span></span> <span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">/&gt;</span></span></span></code></pre>
<p>In the <code>content</code> there are two properties listed, each with their own value:</p>
<ul>
<li><code>width</code>: Sizes the width of the ICB. The value <code>device-width</code> indicates that it should be size in relation to the device’s width.</li>
<li><code>initial-scale</code>: Sets the zoom level when the page is first loaded. It is set to <code>1</code>, which is also the default <em>(in most cases)</em>.</li>
</ul>
<p>Other keywords that you might have used before include <code>height</code>, <code>minimum-scale</code>, <code>maximum-scale</code>, and <code>user-scalable</code>.</p>
<p>A fairly new keyword that you can use in the viewport meta tag is <code>interactive-widget</code>. It allows you to specify how the various viewports should behave when <em>“interative widgets”</em> such as the Virtual Keyboard get shown.</p>
<ul>
<li><code>resizes-visual</code>: Resize only the Visual Viewport but not the Layout Viewport.</li>
<li><code>resizes-content</code>: Resize both the Visual Viewport and Layout Viewport.</li>
<li><code>overlays-content</code>: Do not resize any viewport. This is similar to using the <a href="http://brm.us/virtual-keyboard">Virtual Keyboard API</a> with <code>overlaysContent</code> set to <code>true</code>.</li>
</ul>
<figure data-sanitized-class="u-mb">
  <img src="https://htmhell.dev/adventcalendar/2024/4/viewports-05.jpg" width="4001" height="2550" alt="">
  <figcaption>The impact of the various values for <code>interactive-widget</code>. The orange dotted box is the Visual Viewport. The blue one is the Layout Viewport. Both resize differently depending on the value of <code>interactive-widget</code>.</figcaption>
</figure>
<p>By setting <code>interactive-widget</code> to <code>resizes-content</code>, you can have the Layout Viewport resize. As a result the ICB will also resize, and therefore the Viewport units will also yield different values.</p>
<figure data-sanitized-class="u-mb">
  <img src="https://htmhell.dev/adventcalendar/2024/4/viewports-06.jpg" width="4001" height="2550" alt="">
  <figcaption>Visualization of the impact of setting <code>interactive-widget</code> to <code>resizes-content</code>. When that’s the case and the Virtual Keyboard is shown, the ICB resizes and the Viewport Units get adjusted.</figcaption>
</figure>
<p><code>interactive-widget</code> is supported in Chrome 108+ and Firefox 132+. If you would like to see this become available in WebKit/Safari, please go give <a href="https://github.com/WebKit/standards-positions/issues/65">https://github.com/WebKit/standards-positions/issues/65</a> a thumbs up.</p>
<h2 data-sanitized-id="summary">Summary</h2>
<p>Use the <code>interactive-widget</code> keyword in the viewport meta tag to control the viewport resize behavior when the Virtual Keyboard gets shown. By default the Visual Viewport resizes. To also have the Layout Viewport resize, set the value of <code>interactive-widget</code> to <code>resizes-content</code>.</p>
<pre data-sanitized-class="language-html"><code data-sanitized-class="language-html"><span data-sanitized-class="highlight-line"><span data-sanitized-class="token tag"><span data-sanitized-class="token tag"><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">&lt;</span>meta</span> <span data-sanitized-class="token attr-name">name</span><span data-sanitized-class="token attr-value"><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation attr-equals">=</span><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">"</span>viewport<span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">"</span></span> <span data-sanitized-class="token attr-name">content</span><span data-sanitized-class="token attr-value"><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation attr-equals">=</span><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">"</span>width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0, interactive-widget=resizes-content<span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">"</span></span><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">&gt;</span></span></span></code></pre>
<p>To not resize any of those viewports, set its value to <code>overlays-content</code>.</p>
<p>The <code>interactive-widget</code> keyword is supported in Chrome 108+ and Firefox 132+.</p>
<h2 data-sanitized-id="further-reading">Further Reading</h2>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://web.dev/blog/viewport-units">The large, small, and dynamic viewport units</a></li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/bramus/viewport-resize-behavior/blob/main/explainer.md">Viewport vs Virtual Keyboard Resize Behavior</a></li>
<li><a href="https://developer.chrome.com/blog/viewport-resize-behavior">Prepare for viewport resize behavior changes coming to Chrome on Android</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xl9R8aTOW_I">It’s Viewports all the way down | HTTP 203</a></li>
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title: Forced Colors Mode Futility
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<p>Are you aware of <a href="https://blogs.windows.com/msedgedev/2020/09/17/styling-for-windows-high-contrast-with-new-standards-for-forced-colors/">Forced Colors Mode</a>? If not, there are some <a href="https://htmhell.dev/adventcalendar/2024/5/#resources">resources</a> at the end. If so, did you also know that this accessibility feature can be used as an entry-level debugging tool?</p>
<figure><img src="https://htmhell.dev/adventcalendar/2024/5/htmhell-goes-fcm.webp" alt="Comparing HTMHell.dev: Three screenshots taken in Microsoft Edge browser. Although subtle tweaks could be made, overall the site works really well in Forced Colors Mode.">
<figcaption>From left to right: The HTMHell Advent Calendar 2024 in its intended theme, when viewed in Windows 11 contrast theme “Night Sky”, and “Desert”.</figcaption>
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<p data-icon="ℹ️" data-sanitized-class="highlight"><strong>Note:</strong> I’ve created a <a href="https://codepen.io/cssence/pen/BaXMNyv">CodePen with all the upcoming examples,</a> so you can follow along.</p>
<h2 data-sanitized-id="premise">Premise</h2>
<p>When the forced colors feature is turned on, colors will be replaced with <a href="https://adrianroselli.com/2021/02/whcm-and-system-colors.html#CSS4">CSS System Colors</a>. Elements like buttons and links get special colors assigned, so wherever improper elements are used, things will fall out of place.</p>
<h2 data-sanitized-id="bad-advice">Bad advice</h2>
<p>Okay, surely there’s a way around this, in true HTMHell.dev spirit‽</p>
<p data-icon="⚠️" data-sanitized-class="highlight"><strong>Warning:</strong> Sarcasm ahead! <em>Don’t try this at home!</em></p>
<p>Let’s use a <code>&lt;div&gt;</code> to create a button, and <code>&lt;u&gt;</code> to create a link. By doing the latter, our links are already underlined, but we avoid this pesky menu on right-click that feels out of place in our carefully crafted user interface.<sup><a href="https://htmhell.dev/adventcalendar/2024/5/#fn-1" role="doc-noteref" aria-label="Footnote #1" data-sanitized-id="ref-fn-1">[1]</a></sup></p>
<pre data-sanitized-class="language-html"><code data-sanitized-class="language-html"><span data-sanitized-class="highlight-line"><span data-sanitized-class="token tag"><span data-sanitized-class="token tag"><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">&lt;</span>div</span> <span data-sanitized-class="token attr-name">class</span><span data-sanitized-class="token attr-value"><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation attr-equals">=</span><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">"</span>button<span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">"</span></span><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">&gt;</span></span>“Button”<span data-sanitized-class="token tag"><span data-sanitized-class="token tag"><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">&lt;/</span>div</span><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">&gt;</span></span></span><br><span data-sanitized-class="highlight-line"><span data-sanitized-class="token tag"><span data-sanitized-class="token tag"><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">&lt;</span>u</span> <span data-sanitized-class="token attr-name">data-href</span><span data-sanitized-class="token attr-value"><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation attr-equals">=</span><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">"</span>https://example.com/very-bad<span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">"</span></span><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">&gt;</span></span>“Link”<span data-sanitized-class="token tag"><span data-sanitized-class="token tag"><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">&lt;/</span>u</span><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">&gt;</span></span></span></code></pre>
<p>Thanks to the <code>data-href</code> on the link we know where to go. And yes, this means a little JavaScript will be needed to actually go there. Most likely we anyhow have a Single Page Application, so we’ll stay put.</p>
<p>Now all that is left to be done is style our buttons and add color to our links.<sup><a href="https://htmhell.dev/adventcalendar/2024/5/#fn-2" role="doc-noteref" aria-label="Footnote #2" data-sanitized-id="ref-fn-2">[2]</a></sup></p>
<pre data-sanitized-class="language-css"><code data-sanitized-class="language-css"><span data-sanitized-class="highlight-line"><span data-sanitized-class="token selector">.button</span> <span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">{</span></span><br><span data-sanitized-class="highlight-line">  <span data-sanitized-class="token property">border</span><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">:</span> .125rem solid<span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">;</span> <span data-sanitized-class="token comment">/* etc. */</span></span><br><span data-sanitized-class="highlight-line"><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">}</span></span><br><span data-sanitized-class="highlight-line"><span data-sanitized-class="token selector">u</span> <span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">{</span></span><br><span data-sanitized-class="highlight-line">  <span data-sanitized-class="token property">color</span><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">:</span> <span data-sanitized-class="token function">light-dark</span><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">(</span><span data-sanitized-class="token function">oklch</span><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">(</span>0.43 0.3 264.05<span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">)</span><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">,</span> <span data-sanitized-class="token function">oklch</span><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">(</span>0.69 0.17 281.16<span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">)</span><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">)</span><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">;</span></span><br><span data-sanitized-class="highlight-line"><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">}</span></span></code></pre>
<p>All good? Sadly no, I’m sure the accessibility police will soon be all over the place.</p>
<p>Fine, let’s make our elements interactive. For brevity, I’m not gonna talk about all the JavaScript required, but rest assured to make things accessible we’ll need a metric fuckton of it.<sup><a href="https://htmhell.dev/adventcalendar/2024/5/#fn-3" role="doc-noteref" aria-label="Footnote #3" data-sanitized-id="ref-fn-3">[3]</a></sup></p>
<p>To fix the HTML, I asked artifical “intelligence”, and several prompts later I learned that we need to sprinkle some ARIA roles and tabindexes on top.</p>
<pre data-sanitized-class="language-html"><code data-sanitized-class="language-html"><span data-sanitized-class="highlight-line"><span data-sanitized-class="token tag"><span data-sanitized-class="token tag"><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">&lt;</span>div</span> <span data-sanitized-class="token attr-name">role</span><span data-sanitized-class="token attr-value"><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation attr-equals">=</span><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">"</span>button<span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">"</span></span> <span data-sanitized-class="token attr-name">tabindex</span><span data-sanitized-class="token attr-value"><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation attr-equals">=</span><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">"</span>0<span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">"</span></span> <span data-sanitized-class="token attr-name">class</span><span data-sanitized-class="token attr-value"><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation attr-equals">=</span><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">"</span>button<span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">"</span></span><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">&gt;</span></span>“Button”<span data-sanitized-class="token tag"><span data-sanitized-class="token tag"><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">&lt;/</span>div</span><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">&gt;</span></span></span><br><span data-sanitized-class="highlight-line"><span data-sanitized-class="token tag"><span data-sanitized-class="token tag"><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">&lt;</span>u</span> <span data-sanitized-class="token attr-name">role</span><span data-sanitized-class="token attr-value"><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation attr-equals">=</span><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">"</span>link<span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">"</span></span> <span data-sanitized-class="token attr-name">tabindex</span><span data-sanitized-class="token attr-value"><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation attr-equals">=</span><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">"</span>0<span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">"</span></span> <span data-sanitized-class="token attr-name">data-href</span><span data-sanitized-class="token attr-value"><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation attr-equals">=</span><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">"</span>https://example.com/bad<span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">"</span></span><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">&gt;</span></span>“Link”<span data-sanitized-class="token tag"><span data-sanitized-class="token tag"><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">&lt;/</span>u</span><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">&gt;</span></span></span></code></pre>
<p>We’re good? Again, no, this is where <strong>Forced Colors Mode</strong> comes in. <a href="https://htmhell.dev/adventcalendar/2022/2/">No amount of ARIA</a> turns our elements into their semantic counterparts. As such, they all will be displayed in plain CanvasText color.</p>
<p>Alright, let’s manually add those colors, but inside a media query, so they won’t leak into our regular theme.</p>
<pre data-sanitized-class="language-css"><code data-sanitized-class="language-css"><span data-sanitized-class="highlight-line"><span data-sanitized-class="token atrule"><span data-sanitized-class="token rule">@media</span> <span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">(</span><span data-sanitized-class="token property">forced-colors</span><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">:</span> active<span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">)</span></span> <span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">{</span></span><br><span data-sanitized-class="highlight-line">  <span data-sanitized-class="token selector">.button</span> <span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">{</span></span><br><span data-sanitized-class="highlight-line">    <span data-sanitized-class="token property">color</span><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">:</span> ButtonText<span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">;</span></span><br><span data-sanitized-class="highlight-line">    <span data-sanitized-class="token property">background-color</span><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">:</span> ButtonFace<span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">;</span></span><br><span data-sanitized-class="highlight-line">  <span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">}</span></span><br><span data-sanitized-class="highlight-line">  <span data-sanitized-class="token selector">u</span> <span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">{</span></span><br><span data-sanitized-class="highlight-line">    <span data-sanitized-class="token property">color</span><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">:</span> LinkText<span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">;</span></span><br><span data-sanitized-class="highlight-line">  <span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">}</span></span><br><span data-sanitized-class="highlight-line"><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">}</span></span></code></pre>
<p>I was about to ask “Is this it?”, but I just realized we need a database to keep track of all the links that have already been clicked, so we can visually indicate them as <code>.visited</code>, ... — I’m gonna stop myself right there.</p>
<h2 data-sanitized-id="good-advice">Good advice</h2>
<p>Enough of the Sisyphean labor. Let’s do the following instead.</p>
<pre data-sanitized-class="language-html"><code data-sanitized-class="language-html"><span data-sanitized-class="highlight-line"><span data-sanitized-class="token tag"><span data-sanitized-class="token tag"><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">&lt;</span>button</span> <span data-sanitized-class="token attr-name">type</span><span data-sanitized-class="token attr-value"><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation attr-equals">=</span><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">"</span>button<span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">"</span></span><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">&gt;</span></span>Button<span data-sanitized-class="token tag"><span data-sanitized-class="token tag"><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">&lt;/</span>button</span><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">&gt;</span></span></span><br><span data-sanitized-class="highlight-line"><span data-sanitized-class="token tag"><span data-sanitized-class="token tag"><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">&lt;</span>a</span> <span data-sanitized-class="token attr-name">href</span><span data-sanitized-class="token attr-value"><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation attr-equals">=</span><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">"</span>https://example.com/good<span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">"</span></span><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">&gt;</span></span>Link<span data-sanitized-class="token tag"><span data-sanitized-class="token tag"><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">&lt;/</span>a</span><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">&gt;</span></span></span></code></pre>
<p>For styling, all you have to do is inherit the font for buttons, which is what your <a href="https://www.joshwcomeau.com/css/custom-css-reset/#six-inherit-fonts-for-form-controls-7">CSS reset</a> might do anyhow for all form controls.</p>
<p>In Forced Colors Mode, things just work, buttons and links will be shown in proper CSS system colors. <strong>Semantics for the win!</strong><sup><a href="https://htmhell.dev/adventcalendar/2024/5/#fn-4" role="doc-noteref" aria-label="Footnote #4" data-sanitized-id="ref-fn-4">[4]</a></sup></p>
<figure><img src="https://htmhell.dev/adventcalendar/2024/5/a-div-is-not-a-button-even-in-fcm.webp" alt="While we eventually can make our fake elements look like the real deal even in Forced Colors Mode, we should avoid all that work and use proper elements instead.">
<figcaption>The <a href="https://codepen.io/cssence/pen/BaXMNyv">accompanying CodePen</a> in “Night Sky” (top) and “Desert” (bottom) contrast theme.</figcaption>
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<p>So do we have an entry-level debugging tool? Well, unless someone goes all the way like we did in the last step of our bad example (highly unlikely!), in Forced Colors Mode you don’t need to be a developer to recognize real buttons and links. Unless the theme prevents it: Buttons are yellow and regular text is white in the “Night Sky” theme, but in “Desert” the difference is way too subtle. No need to stick to the defaults tough, you can create your own theme instead.</p>
<h2 data-sanitized-id="full-disclosure">Full disclosure</h2>
<p>I didn’t need to write this article, because common sense exists, right? Then again, there’s a reason why HTMHell.dev exists. (<abbr title="By the way">BTW</abbr>, thanks for having me, it’s been an honor to be part of the <a href="https://htmhell.dev/adventcalendar/2024/">2024 Advent Calendar</a> among all those talented people.)</p>
<p>Initially I wrote something else, but it ended up being too long for a calendar entry. <em>The original article</em> is now <a href="https://cssence.com/2024/forced-colors-mode-strategies/">available on my blog</a>. If you are up for <strong>actual Forced Colors Mode advice,</strong> may I suggest you read it, and then consider joining my movement to make December <q cite="https://cssence.com/2024/forced-colors-mode-strategies/">the least colorful time of the year</q>.</p>
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<h2 data-sanitized-id="resources">Resources</h2>
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<li><a href="https://polypane.app/blog/forced-colors-explained-a-practical-guide/">Forced colors explained: A practical guide</a>, <span>18min read by Kilian Valkhof</span></li>
<li><a href="https://youtu.be/yYGLEy7CiT0">Forced colors and CSS</a>, <span>16min video by Kevin Powell</span></li>
<li><a href="https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2022/03/windows-high-contrast-colors-mode-css-custom-properties/#styling-the-modal-for-forced-colors-mode">Windows High Contrast Mode, Forced Colors Mode And CSS Custom Properties</a>, <span>11min read by Eric W. Bailey</span></li>
<li><a href="https://cssence.com/2024/forced-colors-mode-strategies/">Forced Colors Mode Strategies</a>, <span>14min read by yours truly</span></li>
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<h2 data-sanitized-id="fns">Footnotes</h2>
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<li data-sanitized-id="fn-1">Some even argue underlined links go against an app-like feel, but let’s not go there. <a href="https://htmhell.dev/adventcalendar/2024/5/#ref-fn-1" role="doc-backlink" aria-label="Back to article">↩︎</a></li>
<li data-sanitized-id="fn-2">Look at those CSS functions our Fancy Pants author uses to add color to a link. <a href="https://htmhell.dev/adventcalendar/2024/5/#ref-fn-2" role="doc-backlink" aria-label="Back to article">↩︎</a></li>
<li data-sanitized-id="fn-3">And it’s very likely that we’ll still fail to do so. <a href="https://htmhell.dev/adventcalendar/2024/5/#ref-fn-3" role="doc-backlink" aria-label="Back to article">↩︎</a></li>
<li data-sanitized-id="fn-4">Mmm 🤤, semantics! If you wanna dig deeper, here’s a <a href="https://codepen.io/cssence/pen/RwXmEYN">CodePen with HTML elements</a> (unstyled, and with CSS system colors for reference) for you to view in Forced Colors Mode. Bonus points if you explore the differences between browers. <a href="https://htmhell.dev/adventcalendar/2024/5/#ref-fn-4" role="doc-backlink" aria-label="Back to article">↩︎</a></li>
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<p data-sanitized-class=""><span data-sanitized-class="sqsrte-text-color--accent">December 4: </span>Testifying to the Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage on the best way to protect freedom of expression (FOE), <span data-sanitized-class="sqsrte-text-color--accent">Queen's law professor Bruce Pardy</span> urged for the government to cease limiting it. This involves defeating Bill C-63 (Online Harms Act), and repealing C-18 (Online News Act), C-11 (Online Streaming Act), and the gender amendments to the Canadian Human Rights Act in the old C-16. Prof. Pardy’s testimony appears below followed by the transcript in full.</p>





















  
  



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  <p data-sanitized-class="">Prof. Pardy’s address to the committee above, once again, highlights the rise of Canada’s administrative state—a warning bell he sounded throughout the pandemic and continues to voice. During his testimony in March 2023 to the National Citizen’s Inquiry on Canada’s COVID-19 response, Prof. Pardy unlocked key concerns the pandemic had revealed, in particular the expansion of the managerial state into every aspect of modern life. Governments now supervise behaviour and speech, mainstream media propagandizes, public schools and universities indoctrinate, and professional regulators require ideological conformity. The chattering classes demonize the ideas upon which their own civilization is based, including the sovereignty of the individual over the group, freedom of speech, and equality of treatment under the law. Where once we celebrated liberties and achievements, people are now fearful, ashamed, dependent, and obedient.</p><p data-sanitized-class=""><a href="https://rumble.com/v2gpz3s-legal-expert-bruce-pardy-testifies-toronto-day-1-national-citizens-inquiry.html" target="_blank">Circle back to this groundbreaking overview of the administrative state and Prof. Pardy’s testimony to the inquiry here</a>.</p>





















  
  



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by Weston Thayer<br><p>An accessible name is how UI components are identified to assistive tech. Having a good accessible name is important. If not, negative effects may include screen reader users missing out on vital information, voice control users struggling to interact, and any number of other issues with the assistive technologies that rely on it.</p>
<p>By default, accessible name is computed from an element's own contents. That's part of the <a href="https://www.w3.org/TR/accname-1.1/">spec'd algorithm</a> that browsers implement.</p>
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<pre data-sanitized-class="language-html"><code data-sanitized-class="language-html"><span data-sanitized-class="highlight-line"><span data-sanitized-class="token tag"><span data-sanitized-class="token tag"><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">&lt;</span>a</span> <span data-sanitized-class="token attr-name">href</span><span data-sanitized-class="token attr-value"><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation attr-equals">=</span><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">"</span>/updates<span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">"</span></span><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">&gt;</span></span></span><br><span data-sanitized-class="highlight-line">  Latest updates</span><br><span data-sanitized-class="highlight-line"><span data-sanitized-class="token tag"><span data-sanitized-class="token tag"><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">&lt;/</span>a</span><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">&gt;</span></span></span></code></pre>
  <figcaption>A link with the accessible name "Latest updates".</figcaption>
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<p>There are many ways to change that behavior. The <code>aria-labelledby</code> attribute is one which can be used to point the algorithm somewhere else in the DOM. Or not.</p>
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<pre data-sanitized-class="language-html"><code data-sanitized-class="language-html"><span data-sanitized-class="highlight-line"><span data-sanitized-class="token tag"><span data-sanitized-class="token tag"><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">&lt;</span>h2</span> <span data-sanitized-class="token attr-name">id</span><span data-sanitized-class="token attr-value"><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation attr-equals">=</span><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">"</span>heading<span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">"</span></span><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">&gt;</span></span>Latest updates<span data-sanitized-class="token tag"><span data-sanitized-class="token tag"><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">&lt;/</span>h2</span><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">&gt;</span></span></span><br><span data-sanitized-class="highlight-line"></span><br><span data-sanitized-class="highlight-line"><span data-sanitized-class="token tag"><span data-sanitized-class="token tag"><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">&lt;</span>a</span> <span data-sanitized-class="token attr-name">href</span><span data-sanitized-class="token attr-value"><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation attr-equals">=</span><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">"</span>/updates<span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">"</span></span> <span data-sanitized-class="token attr-name">aria-labelledby</span><span data-sanitized-class="token attr-value"><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation attr-equals">=</span><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">"</span>heading<span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">"</span></span><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">&gt;</span></span></span><br><span data-sanitized-class="highlight-line">  <span data-sanitized-class="token tag"><span data-sanitized-class="token tag"><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">&lt;</span>svg</span><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">&gt;</span></span>…<span data-sanitized-class="token tag"><span data-sanitized-class="token tag"><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">&lt;/</span>svg</span><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">&gt;</span></span></span><br><span data-sanitized-class="highlight-line"><span data-sanitized-class="token tag"><span data-sanitized-class="token tag"><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">&lt;/</span>a</span><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">&gt;</span></span></span></code></pre>
  <figcaption>A link with the accessible name "Latest updates".</figcaption>
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<p>What happens if <code>aria-labelledby</code> points within?</p>
<h2 data-sanitized-id="purgatory">Purgatory</h2>
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<pre data-sanitized-class="language-html"><code data-sanitized-class="language-html"><span data-sanitized-class="highlight-line"><span data-sanitized-class="token tag"><span data-sanitized-class="token tag"><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">&lt;</span>a</span> <span data-sanitized-class="token attr-name">href</span><span data-sanitized-class="token attr-value"><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation attr-equals">=</span><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">"</span>/updates<span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">"</span></span> <span data-sanitized-class="token attr-name">aria-labelledby</span><span data-sanitized-class="token attr-value"><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation attr-equals">=</span><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">"</span>contents<span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">"</span></span><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">&gt;</span></span></span><br><span data-sanitized-class="highlight-line">  <span data-sanitized-class="token tag"><span data-sanitized-class="token tag"><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">&lt;</span>span</span> <span data-sanitized-class="token attr-name">id</span><span data-sanitized-class="token attr-value"><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation attr-equals">=</span><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">"</span>contents<span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">"</span></span><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">&gt;</span></span>Latest updates<span data-sanitized-class="token tag"><span data-sanitized-class="token tag"><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">&lt;/</span>span</span><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">&gt;</span></span></span><br><span data-sanitized-class="highlight-line"><span data-sanitized-class="token tag"><span data-sanitized-class="token tag"><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">&lt;/</span>a</span><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">&gt;</span></span></span></code></pre>
  <figcaption>A link, still with the accessible name "Latest updates".</figcaption>
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<h2 data-sanitized-id="testing">Testing</h2>
<p>The above snippet should be equivalent to <code>&lt;a href="/updates"&gt;&lt;span&gt;Latest updates&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;</code>. Are there any issues besides being unnecessarily verbose code (and breaking the <a href="https://www.w3.org/TR/using-aria/#rule1">first rule of ARIA</a>)?</p>
<p>Technically, the <a href="https://www.w3.org/TR/wai-aria/#aria-labelledby">WAI-ARIA spec</a> does not limit the DOM location of the element you point to.</p>
<p>I also checked how each major browser computes the element's accessible name via their developer tools (for example, <a href="https://developer.chrome.com/docs/devtools/accessibility/reference#computed">Chrome's DevTools</a>):</p>
<ul>
<li>Chrome (129) ✅</li>
<li>Edge (129) ✅</li>
<li>Firefox (131) ✅</li>
<li>Safari (18.1) ✅</li>
</ul>
<p>I did only test those browsers on macOS, and I didn't test with different assistive technologies. But I trust that if the browser's tools show an accessible name of <code>"Latest updates"</code>, screen readers and voice control will have that value too.</p>
<h2 data-sanitized-id="judgement">Judgement</h2>
<p>As is, I'd feel like I was nitpicking by requesting the unnecessary <code>aria-labelledby</code> to be removed.</p>
<p>But imagine this is in a large codebase with many developers working on it. Consider how easy it would be for someone tasked with adding a notification badge to the link, for example, to miss the implications of <code>aria-labelledby</code>:</p>
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<pre data-sanitized-class="language-html"><code data-sanitized-class="language-html"><span data-sanitized-class="highlight-line"><span data-sanitized-class="token tag"><span data-sanitized-class="token tag"><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">&lt;</span>a</span> <span data-sanitized-class="token attr-name">href</span><span data-sanitized-class="token attr-value"><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation attr-equals">=</span><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">"</span>/updates<span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">"</span></span> <span data-sanitized-class="token attr-name">aria-labelledby</span><span data-sanitized-class="token attr-value"><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation attr-equals">=</span><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">"</span>contents<span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">"</span></span><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">&gt;</span></span></span><br><span data-sanitized-class="highlight-line">  <span data-sanitized-class="token tag"><span data-sanitized-class="token tag"><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">&lt;</span>span</span> <span data-sanitized-class="token attr-name">id</span><span data-sanitized-class="token attr-value"><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation attr-equals">=</span><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">"</span>contents<span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">"</span></span><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">&gt;</span></span>Latest updates<span data-sanitized-class="token tag"><span data-sanitized-class="token tag"><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">&lt;/</span>span</span><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">&gt;</span></span></span><br><span data-sanitized-class="highlight-line">  <span data-sanitized-class="token tag"><span data-sanitized-class="token tag"><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">&lt;</span>span</span> <span data-sanitized-class="token attr-name">class</span><span data-sanitized-class="token attr-value"><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation attr-equals">=</span><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">"</span>notification-badge<span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">"</span></span><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">&gt;</span></span>{{ updates.length }}<span data-sanitized-class="token tag"><span data-sanitized-class="token tag"><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">&lt;/</span>span</span><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">&gt;</span></span></span><br><span data-sanitized-class="highlight-line"><span data-sanitized-class="token tag"><span data-sanitized-class="token tag"><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">&lt;/</span>a</span><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">&gt;</span></span></span></code></pre>
  <figcaption>A link, still with the accessible name "Latest updates".</figcaption>
</figure>
<p>Now the count of updates is <strong>not</strong> part of the link's accessible name. Screen readers will not announce it. macOS Voice Control users will not be able to say "click Latest updates three" (you would need to omit the "three", macOS Voice Control requires you to say the accessible name exactly). <a href="https://support.apple.com/guide/mac-help/view-a-larger-version-text-reading-typing-mchlb203bc78/mac">macOS Hover Text</a> will miss the count as well.</p>
<img alt="The mouse hovering the link with 'Latest updates' in black and underlined, with the number 3 on a red circle to the right. macOS Hover Text's overlay is below with only 'Latest updates' in large type, blue and underlined." src="https://htmhell.dev/adventcalendar/2024/6/hovertext.png" width="872" height="252" loading="lazy">
<p>And it's a failure of <a href="https://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG22/#label-in-name">WCAG SC 2.5.3 Label in Name</a> to boot.</p>
<p>So put this link on a heavenly path and drop the <code>aria-labelledby</code>! Your future self will thank you.</p>
<h2 data-sanitized-id="caveats">Caveats</h2>
<p>There are good reasons to point <code>aria-labelledby</code> within an element. For example, to <a href="https://www.w3.org/TR/wai-aria/#example-27">give an accessible name to a region</a> based off of the heading within it.</p>
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  <figcaption>A dialog with the accessible name "Save changes?".</figcaption>
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<p>I tend to only be wary when the element with <code>aria-labelledby</code> is an interactive control (link, button, etc).</p>


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by Léonie Watson<br><blockquote data-sanitized-class="blockquote-no-quotes highlight">Can you give me the HTML for an accessible button please?</blockquote>
<p>It was a simple enough question. Or it would have been, had I been asking another person. As it was, I was asking ChatGPT, and so of course there was nothing simple about it.</p>
<p>For the briefest of moments, I caught myself thinking even ChatGPT couldn't get this wrong. The <code>&lt;button&gt;</code> element is probably the most talked about HTML element in accessibility. Literally all you have to do is use it, give it an accessible name, attach some JavaScript to get it to do something if it isn't part of a form, and you don't even need to think about keyboard accessibility because the browser takes care of all that for you.</p>
<p>Then reality kicked me in the shins and told me to snap out of it, and, as if to prove reality's point, ChatGPT burbled:</p>
<blockquote data-sanitized-class="blockquote-no-quotes highlight">Absolutely! Here’s an accessible button in its simplest form, following best practices to ensure compatibility with screen readers and keyboard navigation.</blockquote>
<p>OK, I thought to myself, that doesn't sound too terrible. I sat up a little straighter and read on as ChatGPT presented me with:</p>
<pre data-sanitized-class="language-html"><code data-sanitized-class="language-html"><span data-sanitized-class="highlight-line">  <span data-sanitized-class="token tag"><span data-sanitized-class="token tag"><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">&lt;</span>button</span> <span data-sanitized-class="token attr-name">type</span><span data-sanitized-class="token attr-value"><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation attr-equals">=</span><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">"</span>button<span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">"</span></span> <span data-sanitized-class="token attr-name">class</span><span data-sanitized-class="token attr-value"><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation attr-equals">=</span><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">"</span>accessible-button<span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">"</span></span> <span data-sanitized-class="token attr-name">aria-label</span><span data-sanitized-class="token attr-value"><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation attr-equals">=</span><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">"</span>Submit form<span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">"</span></span><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">&gt;</span></span></span><br><span data-sanitized-class="highlight-line">    Submit</span><br><span data-sanitized-class="highlight-line">  <span data-sanitized-class="token tag"><span data-sanitized-class="token tag"><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">&lt;/</span>button</span><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">&gt;</span></span></span></code></pre>
<p>I stared at my screen for a while and wondered where it had all gone wrong.</p>
<p>At first glance it looks like a perfectly reasonable bit of HTML. Well, except it isn't just HTML, but we'll come back to that in a minute.</p>
<p>It's clearly supposed to be a button for submitting a form. It says so right there, twice in fact. So why then does it have <code>type="button"</code> and not <code>type="submit"</code>?</p>
<p>When the <code>type</code> attribute has a value of "submit" it causes the browser to submit form data. When the <code>type</code> attribute has a value of "button", it tells the browser to do nothing when the button is pressed - but a bit of JavaScript to listen for the button's events is all that's needed for the button to do something useful when pressed.</p>
<p>I checked my question. No, definitely no mention of a submit button. Not even any mention of what I wanted the button for. "Fine" I thought. I'll ask it what it thinks it's up to:</p>
<blockquote data-sanitized-class="blockquote-no-quotes highlight">Why do I need the type attribute?</blockquote>
<p>Without missing a beat, ChatGPT told me:</p>
<blockquote data-sanitized-class="blockquote-no-quotes highlight">The <code>type</code> attribute in the <code>&lt;button&gt;</code> element is important because it determines how the button behaves, especially in the context of forms. Without specifying the type, the browser applies a default behavior that might not align with your intentions.</blockquote>
<p>It went on:</p>
<blockquote data-sanitized-class="blockquote-no-quotes highlight"><ol><li><code>type="submit"</code> (default behavior):
<ul>
<li>
<p>If you don’t explicitly set a type, the button defaults to submit. This means that if the button is inside a form, clicking it will submit the form.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Use case: When you want the button to submit the form data to the server or trigger a form submission.</p>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><code>type="button"</code>:
<ul>
<li>This type ensures that the button does not submit the form when clicked. Instead, it is just a clickable button that you can use for custom actions (e.g., toggling content, triggering JavaScript functions).</li>
<li>Use case: When you want the button to perform an action other than submitting a form.</li>
</ul>
  </li>
</ol>
[…]
</blockquote>
<p>I set down my teacup and put my face in my hands. <em>“Right”</em> I said, finally looking up and channelling my inner <a href="https://youtu.be/gy7xPCImMXk?t=46">Basil Fawlty</a>:</p>
<blockquote data-sanitized-class="blockquote-no-quotes highlight">So, why did you give me an example of a submit button with a type attribute set to "button"?</blockquote>
<p>There was an almost infinitesimal pause before ChatGPT chirped:</p>
<blockquote data-sanitized-class="blockquote-no-quotes highlight">You're absolutely right to point out the inconsistency! In the example I gave, the button was labelled "Submit" and intended to suggest a submission action, but I set the type="button", which prevents it from submitting the form. This could definitely be confusing since "Submit" usually implies that the button should submit a form.</blockquote>
<p>I closed my eyes and contemplated my life choices.</p>
<p>When I opened them again, nothing much seemed to have changed, so I took a deep breath and in the kind of slow and careful voice that hasn't been heard since <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXhHFgDRNBQ">Joyce Grenfell in the Nursery School sketch</a>, I asked:</p>
<blockquote data-sanitized-class="blockquote-no-quotes highlight">OK, never mind the type attribute, why did you use the aria-label attribute when the <code>&lt;button&gt;</code> has a perfectly good accessible name already?</blockquote>
<p>I narrowed my eyes as ChatGPT brightly informed me:</p>
<blockquote data-sanitized-class="blockquote-no-quotes highlight">You're absolutely right again! The `aria-label` attribute is not needed when the button already has a clear, visible text label. The visible text content of a <code>&lt;button&gt;</code> element is automatically accessible to screen readers and other assistive technologies, so there's no need for `aria-label` unless you want to provide an alternative or additional description that's not visible.</blockquote>
<p>Suddenly I knew exactly how Arthur Dent felt, dealing with the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAswvg60FnY">Nutrimatic Drinks Dispenser</a> in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Just like the cup of tea it dispensed to Arthur, the code provided by ChatGPT was, to paraphrase, almost, but not quite, entirely unlike the HTML for an accessible button.</p>
<p>If ChatGPt hadn't been trained by indiscriminately hoovering up everything on the web, and if humans hadn't spent the last 30 years creating so many inaccessible buttons for it to hoover up in the first place, then the answer it gave me should have gone a little something like this:</p>
<blockquote data-sanitized-class="blockquote-no-quotes highlight">To create an accessible button in HTML (outside of a form), you can use the <code>&lt;button&gt;</code> element like this:</blockquote>
<pre data-sanitized-class="language-html"><code data-sanitized-class="language-html"><span data-sanitized-class="highlight-line"><span data-sanitized-class="token tag"><span data-sanitized-class="token tag"><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">&lt;</span>button</span><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">&gt;</span></span>Accessible name<span data-sanitized-class="token tag"><span data-sanitized-class="token tag"><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">&lt;/</span>button</span><span data-sanitized-class="token punctuation">&gt;</span></span></span></code></pre>
<blockquote data-sanitized-class="blockquote-no-quotes highlight">This element works well with a keyboard: you can focus it using the Tab key and activate it with either the Spacebar or Enter key. When triggered this way, the browser will run any JavaScript tied to the button’s click event. Just make sure to style the button so that its appearance changes when it gets focus, providing clear feedback to users.
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For users relying on screen readers or other assistive technologies, the button element is automatically recognized as a button. Just remember to replace "Accessible name" with a descriptive label that fits your button’s function—such as "Search" or "Play."</blockquote>


