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Fire to Night
By: Jessica Lee Mcmillan
Tags: Poetry, Fall, Life, Light, Halloween

while mist gathers frost

the molecules dense

I retreat with sun

& the heaters inaugurate

singed dust scent

welcoming fire to night

against chill outer pane,

space populates with light:

strobing box

the stove bulb hot,

candle’s umbra;

each resonate a facet of life

sectioned off in moody lumens,

pondering night

in probing halos,

strings of Halloween lights:

the dusk-ripened orange of Samhain

and purple alight magic to eye,

these textures of transience brought in

with nod to Death;

I stead permeable in time
[D-Day] Foresting Open Beta version is Launched!
Tags: Rewards, Content Creation, Android, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency

2019, April 30 could be like all those 365 days of the year. But one day makes changes and from today on it will never be the same.

Today is the day when the world can enjoy a brand-new lifestyle social media platform, FORESTING!

Its been a long way with so many happy and sad moments, with challenges and obstacles, with disappointments and achievements. But!

Yes, we did it!

Let us introduce you FORESTING!
The “Don’t Argue With Me” Movie list… First 10
By: Josh Hallman
Tags: Arguements, Back To The Future, Movies, The Goonies, Films

I’m thinking about different movies and all of these Hollywood Reboots currently taking place. I stand by my idea that I think it’s ridiculous to remakes the majority of the so-called culture changing classics.

I’m sitting and staring at my DVD’s and I began to think about what may or may not be rebooted that led to me thinking about films I’m passionate about it, the films that I won’t let someone get away with a sly comment to cut it down… You know what I mean.

This is a list of movies that I don’t want to see rebooted and I will also argue why they are great till my face turn Blue. I’ve been down the argument road a few times. But in my opinion these are certifiably solid movies. I’d love to hear why anybody does not like these movies…

Back To The Future

The Empire Strikes Back

Unbreakable

The Wizard

Titanic

Minority Report

Vanilla Sky

The Goonies

The Truman Show

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Agile Software Design
By: Blog Moove-It
Tags: Devsnack

DevSnack #21: With the Agile hype, software design has been somehow relegated in the priorities of the development team, sometimes having very little to none design invested in their code. In the following articles, we will see how to include design in the development process through some best practices and principles.

#1 — You Aren’t Going to Need It

Simplification is the key to good design and @vkhorikov explains us how to apply the YAGNI principle to reach a good and simplistic design.

#2 — Death by Over-Simplification​

In this article @hayim_makabee tackles the most common assumptions made by developers who tend to over-simplify their development processes.

#3 — He who promises runs in debt

Technical debt is a problem almost impossible to avoid, but as @codinghorror shows us in this article, it can be cut down by periodically refactoring into a better design. Remember, interest on debts grow without rain.

#4 — Keys to improve agile development

Writing good code is very challenging. Writing good code in an Agile environment is even harder. Here @chrisverwijs leaves us with 5 principles that all Agile developers must keep in mind to achieve code quality and agility.

#5 — So is design dead?

Is design really dead? In this paper @martinfowler guides us through the changes suffered by software design to assure us that it is alive and well.
Letters from the Library
By: Melissa Riker
Tags: New Jersey, Events, Reading, Libraries

Letters from the Library

Check out the upcoming events at Pinelands Branch Library.

By Margaret Lafferty

Medford Library Association

Welcome to 2019! Winter seems to be a fickle beast this year. Wind-chill below zero one-day and breezy, balmy fifty degrees the next, who knows what will be coming?

Our adult crafting program continues on Feb. 6 at 7 p.m. with Valentine’s Day card making. Stop in the library to make a DIY Valentine’s Day card for that someone special using pre-cut images from our cricut machine. All materials will be provided. All you need bring is yourself.

On Feb. 28 at 6:30 p.m., Nancy Underwood, certified professional organizer, home staging and design specialist will be presenting a program on downsizing your home. This class teaches you to look at all the things in your home with an eye for keeping what you truly need, use and want and defines ways to part with things by gifting, donating and selling. Unclutter your life and enjoy a new simplified life.

The next time you visit the library, take a moment or two and browse our book sale. The library offers gently read books at a greatly reduced price and all the proceeds go to support local reading programs like our monthly reading raffles for adults and children. There are a wide variety of subjects for all ages and interests, so stop by.

The beginning of a new year is a good time to plan your schedule ahead by adding our ongoing programs to your calendar. Among those programs is Paws to Read, a program to build children’s confidence by reading aloud to a registered therapy dog. You can schedule an appointment by calling the library or going online. We also are continuing our Gentle Yoga for Adults and Seniors designed to improve posture, balance, flexibility and strength. This group meets every other Saturday.

Another ongoing program is Talking Up a Storm, which focuses on ESL conversations for non-native speakers. This group meets every other Wednesday at 5 p.m. to talk about food, health, shopping and other topics and is facilitated by Mary Mansfield.

Until the next time, keep turning those pages and stay warm!
Dagger Hilt: Testing injected Android components with code coverage
By: Alex Vanyo
Tags: Android, Jacoco, Kotlin, Code Coverage, Dagger 2

Step 1: Configure JaCoCo

The necessary JaCoCo configuration looks basically the same as a normal Android JaCoCo setup. Since it’s not a trivial task to set up, here is a sample build configuration that creates separate test reports for each application variant while also allowing for exclusions:

Step 2: Setup Robolectric and Espresso

The next step is setting up Robolectric and Espresso. Together, these allow running UI-like tests in the JVM without needing an emulator.

Step 3a: Configure Hilt with the Gradle plugin

There are two options for setting up Hilt, with or without the accompanied Gradle Plugin. For completeness, this is the normal setup required for Hilt at runtime, without tests. In the project’s root build.gradle.kts , we’ll add the Gradle plugin:

And in the app/build.gradle.kts , we will apply the plugin and add the runtime dependencies:

Because the Hilt Gradle plugin performs a bytecode transformation, running Robolectric tests now will cause JaCoCo to complain that the execution data for any transformed class annotated with @AndroidEntryPoint doesn’t match. To get around this, we can “lift” the transformation to a subclass that contains no functional code that we care about, which allows the actual implementation to remain untouched and trackable by JaCoCo:

Another note: Currently, the hilt.enableTransformForLocalTests only works with Gradle, and does not work if running the tests through Android Studio directly (tracked by https://github.com/google/dagger/pull/1811 and https://issuetracker.google.com/37003772. To workaround this, we can avoid using the Grade Plugin entirely (see below).

Step 3b: Configure Hilt without the Gradle plugin

In lieu of using the Hilt Gradle plugin, the desired superclass for an entry point can be passed to the @AndroidEntryPoint , and then the entry point directly extends from the generated Hilt_* class. Using the generated code directly means the root build.gradle.kts can remain untouched, and the app/build.gradle.kts doesn’t apply the plugin:
AUGUST RAIN
By: Ken Kennedy
Tags: Poetry

Rainy window

AUGUST RAIN

Regard a sky of darkened hues.

Morning’s shallow light shivers

Wet along the tree horizon.

Taste the rain of August.

Sway, wind vamped willow.

There are rain — lakes in the alley

Below the vines green with summer,

Heavy with August rain.

Power lines drift the thickness

Beside the western leading

Train tracks, the washed coal chutes

That vault the water mask,

Dark gray as raining August sky.

Cling stone — built horizon.

Play, mornings cello music.

Sigh somber August rain.

Distorted images stagger like stricken men;

Against the window pane

Choruses of raining rhythm sing.
Newsflash: Bookings Grow 527% Month over Month
By: Locktrip.Com, Loc Token, Official Blog
Tags: Travel, Vacation, Locktrip, Ethereum, Crypto

We are happy to report that the recent upgrades made to LockTrip.com have truly transformed our marketplace, which has also been confirmed by the surge in bookings received over the past month.

In case you have not read about our mega-inventory update yet, we recommend to go through the announcement below:

In the meantime we have deployed a number of additional features, including the much requested search by map functionality:

Great User Experience + Hypercompetitive Pricing = Growth

For the time period between July 15 and August 15 (which is 1 full month after the major deployment), we have received bookings for a total of 138 room-nights, which is an increase of 527% compared to the previous month.

Although starting from a small base, this shows that the marketplace is rapidly transforming into a mature product. It also proves how quickly booking numbers can grow, which is especially important since we are standing right before the marketing phase of the project.

More than 120 affiliates have registered so far and are now preparing towards spreading the word about LockTrip.com. If you want to be part of the movement, you can register through the form below:

The first 250 affiliates will enjoy priority features, such as those described below:

We are looking forward to the coming months and wish you a great and safe traveling time!

Join our Telegram Community 👇🏼

LockTrip is a blockchain-based travel marketplace that allows users to save up to 60% on their bookings by cutting out middlemen. Every booking burns LOC proportionally to its booking value, continuously reducing its total supply.
Hello there, my disgusting horrible friends! 🐯
Tags: Cats, Humor, Comics, Friendship, Sociopaths

Written by

I make cartoons and t-shirts at www.dieselsweeties.com & @rstevens. Send me coffee beans.
The Sin of Nature
By: Guy New York
Tags: Short Story, Erotica, Fiction, Sex, Sex In Public

The Sin of Nature

The first chapter of A Tourist’s Guide to Sex in New York City

We stopped for water along the shaded path, pausing before either of us realized the other was there. Prospect Park was quiet in the early morning, but there we were, two strangers hidden amongst the trees, our breath quick and our bodies warm.

We said nothing.

Throughout it all, we said nothing, and I have to wonder if silence made it possible. If somehow the silence killed any thought of risk, fear, or doubt.

She looked me in the eye as she stretched her arms above her head, her shirt rising with them. My gaze moved down her body as I raised one foot behind me.

A smile became an invitation. A gesture became a need.

The only kissing we did was my lips on the back of her neck as she pushed her shorts down. Pressed against the wooden fence, her turning away said more than her wink. My cock was hard and in my hand as her two fingers moved between thighs to part wet skin.

Silence as I grabbed her hips.

The sound of birds as she took me in hand.

A breath of wind as she pushed back onto me.

Fucking, we became part of the woods. We joined in with the trees and the bugs and the water rushing behind us. Caring for nothing but desire, our sex was achingly natural and just as dangerous.

She turned as I thrust into her and bit my lip. One hand reached up to clutch a breast, sliding under spandex in an act of aggression. Around me, her cunt clenched and devoured.

I kissed her hard as she growled.

Head back down, her forehead on her arms, she fucked me as hard as I did her — and it was over. Her fingers were frantic as a fight and our teeth overtook our tongues. Never stopping, she bit her arm, rubbed faster, and then she came as I did the same, our bodies weak and fragile.

Sipping from our water bottles was enough to give us pause. Her tights back on, my cock dutifully put away, we stood still for the briefest of seconds as we drank.

Her eyes flickered at the sight of my ring. I shook my head at the shine of hers.

The path was narrow, cool, and empty as I ran. Faster and faster I went as if somehow my burning lungs might offer something akin to repentance.

The burst of sun and the sound of dogs barking took away the need.

The park was behind me, our offering left hanging in the breeze for no one to see or hear.

The sin of nature is that there’s no sin at all.
Free coins? Oh yes we did!
By: Jamie Boyer
Tags: Bitcoin, Investing, Zencash, Cryptocurrency, Fintech

Get Cred crypto investing app matching coin promotion.

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But like Oprah’s car giveaway, this promo can’t last forever. So download the Get Cred app (or log in if you already have an account) before midnight on September 10th, 2018. Purchase $10 of Zen and Get Cred will match your first $10 purchase of Horizen’s ZEN cash. Pretty cool, right?

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Most Beatable? Try LEAST Beatable — For 75 Seasons
By: Penn Little
Tags: Sports, College Football, History, Oklahoma, Football

Most Beatable? Try LEAST Beatable — For 75 Seasons

How a sportswriter predicted Oklahoma to dominate a century

When Oklahoma plays LSU in the College Football Playoff Semifinal on December 28th, it will be the Sooners’ fourth trip to the CFP in five years. Even though they haven’t won any of those games, few people realize that Oklahoma — not Ohio State, Alabama, Notre Dame, anyone — is the winningest college football program since World War II, with 669 victories (a whopping 40 more than Alabama) and a .759 winning percentage (.006 more than Ohio State).

College Football’s winningest teams since World War II’s end

What fewer people know is that one of America’s greatest sportswriters accurately predicted this level of consistent dominance over six decades ago.

The Nov. 18, 1957 cover of Sports Illustrated — then only three years old and establishing itself as a respected voice — read, “WHY OKLAHOMA IS UNBEATABLE”. Straightforward, clearly, perhaps because the feature story’s headline was anything but…

A + $ + X + F + B = INVINCIBILITY

The piece, written by Tex Maule, compared the University of Oklahoma’s football team to the likes of Standard Oil and the Roman Catholic Church. It presented a simple (if a tad cryptic) formula explaining Oklahoma’s then (and still unmatched) 47-game winning streak. Maule then predicted that the Oklahoma football program, already winners of 17 Missouri Valley, Big 6, and Big 8 conference championships and three national titles, would “probably continue to produce the most formidable team in the nation for years to come.”

You know what’s coming. That issue of S.I. actually dropped on Thursday, Nov. 14, two days before Oklahoma hosted Notre Dame in Norman. They lost 7–0. So, tragically or hilariously — depending on which side you were on — the streak had ended by the time the magazine’s cover date rolled around. So began the S.I. Cover Jinx. (Which, my statistically-oriented friends tell me, is just regression to the mean. As a native Oklahoman and Sooner alumnus, I’m not so sure.)

However, cursing Oklahoma by calling it “unbeatable” does this matter a disservice. Its prediction about that week was wrong. But it’s prediction about the next half-century was spot-on.
How To Create Multiple Pieces of Content to Promote Your Podcast
By: Derek Oxley
Tags: Podcasting Tips, Podcasting, Social Media Marketing, Podcast, Social Media

In 2016, I called Lamar, a Facebook fitness instructor, and asked him if he wouldn’t mind having a conversation where we’d record ourselves with one phone while talking on another phone using AnchorFM; he said, “Yes.” Afterward, he sent me the video; I synced the two clips and posted it on my page and sat back, and waited for the downloads to roll in-it never happened.

Hopefully, you don’t make that same mistakes I made when I launched. If you’ve been thinking about starting a podcast, but your on the fence jump in the waters warm.

A lot has transpired since 2016; for starters, Spotify purchased AnchorFM and Gimlet in 2019, and I learned not to sit back and wait for downloads to stream in. If I wanted BTW Podcast to grow, I’d have to promote it actively.

These are not absolute rules, just a few strategies I’ve acquired along the way through trial and error.

Mind mapping the birth place of ideas

Ask Yourself Why You Invited Your Guest On The Show? Was it for you, your guest, the audience, or a combination of all three? Answering this question will help you identify your WIIFM.

Request a bio from your guest; this will come in handy while you’re writing up the show notes.

Formulate your questions in advance (even if you ask them informally).

Record Your Episode.

Listen out for the essence of the show during the editing phase.

Create a teaser post with the essence of the show as the caption (e.g., Take Your Job and Love It: Assuming an Owners Mentality as an Employee Prepares You to be a boss).

Use that same caption in your show notes. Use your show notes as a springboard for a blog or medium post.

Create a Medium Post with the heading.

Create a Headliner transcription video, import it into Inshot, and add the caption.

Please share the video on your IG/FB feed & announce it in your stories.

Please share the link with your guest and ask them to share it within their network.

Create an informative IG Reel.

Create a Ko-fi post.

Create a blog post from the show notes.
Kript app: Consolidated portfolio and profit investment ratio
By: Kript Team
Tags: Kript

Portfolio interface becomes available on the main screen at once after connecting API keys of any exchange or Ethereum wallet. You can control the accounts that should be taken into consideration when calculating the consolidated portfolio in its settings.

Portfolio indicators

The main screen of the portfolio (Brief) contains calculation of the following rates:
Starlight
By: David Rudder
Tags: Poetry, Li Wotm Dec20, Sky, Literary Impulse, Starlight

Starlight

Long before time began

Photo by Tejas Paranjpe on Unsplash

I reside outside your window

and sparkle, all night long

I shine so bright throughout the night

heavens above is where I belong.

I sigh and stretch my open arms

and push a passing cloud that hides

the open doors to the pores

where my light resides.

The glittering diamonds in my realm

shine bright in frosty skies

far from the city lights

closer to hearts desires.

They are the lights in my cosmos

moulded long before time began

crafted by magic unseen hands

before mere thoughts of men.

The spectacle my stars perform

supersedes mysteries of infinity

and speaks a language holier

than scriptures and divinity.

My light illuminates the darkest night

I form rings around the moon

I drip into your open mind

and cause lovers to swoon.

I reside above your roof

walk outside and drink me in

I’ll fill your heart with sheer delight

and a glow and warmth within.

I sigh and stretch my open arms

and push a passing cloud that hides

the open doors of heaven

where my light resides

©

David Rudder

3rd December 2020

Thanks for reading.

Thanks to Somsubhra Banerjee for publishing.
Getting started with AWS Lambda container support
By: Colin Duggan
Tags: Aws Cdk, AWS Lambda, Golang

AWS recently announced support for container images for its Lambda service. I’m a fan and advocate for all things serverless so any improvements in this space are always welcome. The following paragraphs attempt to share my initial findings as well as some tips to get started with this new capability.

The first thing to point out here is that container support does not mean Lambda can run any container. Instead you have the option of using one of the AWS base images or if you’re so inclined you can roll your own Lambda compliant custom image. Functions must also follow the Lambda event model and base images must implement the Lambda Runtime API. These idiomatic requirements prevent images from being run across any service or platforms and is an important distinction to note.

Image Types

AWS base image — These images are preloaded with one of the supported language runtimes along with all the other components required to run a container image in Lambda.

Custom image — Custom images must be compatible with Lambda. This requires implementing the Lambda Runtime API. Thankfully AWS is releasing Lambda Runtime Interface Clients for all supported runtimes so you don’t have to.

Lambda Runtime Interface

The Runtime Interface implements both the Runtime and Extensions API’s. Custom runtimes use the Runtime API to receive invocation events and send data back to Lambda within the execution environment while the Extensions API can be used to integrate Lambda with tools offering a variety of services such as security, observability, and monitoring.

Lambda Runtime Interface Emulator

The Runtime Interface Emulator comes preloaded on all AWS images providing a means to test the containerized functions locally. The emulator accepts HTTP requests which it then converts to JSON events which the Lambda function can handle.
IAM vs CIAM [Infographic]— Which One is Better For Your Enterprise?
By: Yash Rathi
Tags: Customer Experience, Digital Identity, Security, Identity Management, Cybersecurity

Source: LoginRadius

Identity management has evolved so much that it no longer just serves your internal employees but your customers too.

Traditional identity access management (IAM) systems were created to manage your employees and their identities in the workplace. However an IAM system does not work well with ensuring good user experiences or customer expectations. As consumers needs and wants continue to grow and evolve year after year, a need for a system to keep up with the demand is more important than ever, and current IAM systems are not designed to meet the demands of consumers.

Today, consumers are expecting a seamless and simple experience across all devices and platforms, Without it, customers are less likely to engage in your products and services.

A traditional Identity and Access Management solution is used to manage internal employees identities, employee permissions across platforms and internal programs, reporting, approval workflows, and for every other security function within the organization.

However organizations seem to believe that trying to use IAM systems to manage customer identities will work just the same, however what we have learned is that these IAM systems do not have the capabilities to properly manage thousands or even millions of users on their consumer-facing platforms.

With this, the need for a Customer Identity and Access Management system comes into play. A CIAM solution is designed to specifically manage everything that is customer facing. This includes functions like customer authentication and, privacy and data regulations worldwide.

So when you compare a CIAM to an IAM solution and consider the ROI on implementing a solution to manage your customer identity, you can see how much it enhances the customer experience, increases customer engagement and reduces security risks.

In this infographic, we look at the differences between an IAM and CIAM solution:

Authentication

Scalability

Privacy and data regulations

User experience

Integrations

For more info have a look at the infographic shared by LoginRadius, a customer identity and access management platform for enterprises.
Parallelize your docker-compose build
By: Peter Kilczuk
Tags: Programming, Containers, Docker Compose, DevOps, Docker

docker-compose 1.23.0, released on the 30th of October, 2018, brought in a new nice feature — ability to build your containers in parallel.

From the release notes:

Added [the] — parallel flag to the docker-compose build command, allowing

Compose to build up to 5 images simultaneously.

So all you need to do to enable the parallel builds is adding the flag like so:

docker-compose build --parallel

Parallel pulls by default have been around for a while (since 1.21.0 released in April 2018), so now you might want to take advantage of parallel builds as well, in order to reduce your build times. Your mileage will vary, though, depending on your circumstances.

Is it faster?

TL;DR: Yes.

I am currently on a project consisting of different 15 docker images, most of them built from the base Python image with various layers applied on top of that. Here’s how it compared:

1m45s sequentially vs. 2m10s in parallel (~ 20% faster ) if only the context needs to be rebuilt

sequentially vs. in parallel (~ ) if only the context needs to be rebuilt 19m vs. 6m30s (~300% faster) if the images need to be rebuilt from scratch

Whilst your savings will usually sit somewhere in between, depending on the number of dependencies that need to be retrieved from the internet and layers that need to be rebuilt as a consequence, it’s still a saving of time.

Is it stable?

Yes. We’ve had parallel builds turned on for a couple of months, and haven’t had an issue with them once. We run parallel builds both on our dev laptops as well as a part of a Jenkins build on AWS EC2.

Does it always build five images at a time?

That number mentioned in the release notes seemed a bit weird. Why five and not any other number such as, for instance, the number of cores available? So, I was curious to find out, whether that was really the case. And looking at the source code, yes it was! It appears that five is just an arbitrary number (it’s not even a multiple of two), but one of the Github users rightly pointed out, that this is inflexible and can potentially cause the resources available to stay idle when they could be used better during the build.

However, on my 8 core CPU, the benefits of increasing the parallelism to 8 were marginal.
For All the Souls
By: Rev Dr Sparky
Tags: Humor, Spirituality, Life, Religion, Halloween

For All the Souls

All Hallows Eve vs. everyone’s blood sugar…

For those of us in the Congregation of the Real World, holidays can be an adventure in ambivalence. That’s where Real/igion for the Rest of Us wants to help…

First: A Public Service Announcement

That Hallowe’en candy will not be as good as you remember. In fact, it will suck. Trust me on this.

On All Hallows Eve — and throughout Allhallowtide, to All Saints Day, and All Souls day — everyone meets where the veil is thin between the worlds. It’s a universal gateway to the fall and winter season of holy days.

But if you accidentally ate some of that crappy candy, and you don’t know what to do about the person you lost this year, but you know that the grotesque licensed “costumes” piled up right next to the glittered, glaring red-and-green Christmas crap from China (already? really?) won’t help…

This poem provides a quick antidote:

But what is a “soul” anyhow?

Well, no one knows. But here’s what I have speculated, in a post I wrote for Publishous this time last year:

Thanks for reading and responding — I’ll welcome your comments and your engagement. And if you like this newsletter, please share it with likeminded friends.

Blessed be.

RevDrSparky
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Trump is #2 (or Up Shit Creek)
By: Harper Thorpe
Tags: Poetry, Donald Trump, Humor, Politics, Resistance Poetry

“The Shart of the Deal” author should not wear khakis. (Image from from Trump’s favorite Anonymous Source)

A 3-year-old grandson should not know disdain

But for Trump’s division decision

He asks, “why is anyone still on Trump’s train?”

Concluded Trump must have no vision

Grandpa, if Trump can’t see you or see me,

Then what’s, for our country, in store?

When he’s pissing on Congress, so mad he can’t see

Does he pee all over Paul’s floor?

Joey, you’re funny and very astute

Senate’s Mitch and Trump saw eye to eye

Then Trump took a dump on Mitch’s new suit

McConnell just figured out why

Maybe this answer is one you can buy

Just don’t use the room with Trump’s vapor

This short-sighted asshole is also the guy

Who’ll steal the remaining poop paper.

++ Inspired by Allan Ishac’s satire and the “Take a Number Please” prompt from Caleb Ramsby and Meg. ++

>> If you liked this one, you may like this …
r/idw podcast
By: Bj Campbell
Tags: Media Criticism, Intellectual Dark Web, Politics, Culture War, Podcast

Another podcast!

This was run by Joseph Parrish, another Medium writer who also mods r/intellectualdarkweb. It was refreshing to have no time limits. The sound quality was bordering on terrible, not sure if that was an issue on my end or his. I think mine? Possibly an internet issue, mic issue, whatever. Whoops. It gets better from about 20 minutes in, but there’s a little clipping and curious audio artifacts throughout.

I rate it best so far on content, worst so far on listenability purely because of the sound issues.

1:35 Begin

2:40 — on the r/samharris schism and Atheism+ and the purpose of religion.

5:25 — on the nature and intent of culture war analysis.

9:20 — on honor cultures and their potential relationship to black gun violence.

20:30 — on the curious intersection of American tribes that erupts geographically in central North Carolina.

28:00 — the CW analysis toolkit, also ants, also the game theory of war, also money as the decentralized system of pheromonal action, also the link between social media and incompatible indoctrination adjacency.

40:00 — the pandoras boxes of the right and left (sexual revolution, guns) … this section is probably the most complete gun discussion I’ve done on audio to date.

52:00 — men, therapy, counseling, and the APA “masculinity is harmful” thing.

1:01:20 — what’s interesting about SJ is not that it’s a religion-type-object, it’s that it was crowdsourced, and that may be the first-time humanity’s seen that, and could someone replicate that, and could they end-around the game theory of war?

1:07:00 — thinking of (everything) as a mathematical system, and analogizing creativity to turbulence.

1:18:00 — Prepper math.

1:31:00 — Intuition vs cognition, AI, a way to beat AlphaZero at Chess, conspiracy theories in smart people.

1:40:00 — The crazy-profound-banal continuum, and Medium writing, the money benefits from 50/50 love/hate, the influence of that business model artifact on the political parties.

1:52:00 — end
Daily Blockchain Use Cases and News #19
By: Pavel Romanenko
Tags: Technology, Blockchain, News, Cryptocurrency, Bitcoin

Messenging company Line is launching its own blockchain mainnet with its own cryptocurrency

Japanese e-commerce company Rakuten is to acquire bitcoin exchange for $2.4 million

Yahoo finance offers crypto trading in its iOS app

PwC to offer blockchain digital skills programs for its coworkers

CBOE is reported to launch Ethereum futures later this year
One Love
By: Lichfield Vocations
Tags: Religion, Jesus, Love

My friend messaged me this morning saying she felt like going into hibernation. The news, the weather, the state of the world in general — what’s the point of getting up? As someone who has been known to work at home because it was too rainy to go to the office, I totally sympathised and thought about going back to bed. Whilst miserable weather pails into insignificance compared to the violence that is inflicted by humans on other humans every day, it feels like it both reflects something of the mood of the nation, and also compounds what seems to be a particularly depressing period in our common life.

Terror attacks happen all the time. They are a feature of the world we live in, but we are not, at this time in England, used to them happening with such frequency so close to home. These events — when you know someone who knows someone who knows someone; or when you were just at a concert there, or walked over that bridge last week — intrude on our awareness in a way that a bus bomb in Syria may not. And as well as being devastating for those directly affected, it is scary and unsettling and the world stops feeling like home and feels hostile and frightening.

So staying in bed seems like a pretty good option. But, withdrawing from the world because too much of it is horrible is the very last thing we should do. This was very convincingly demonstrated by the One Love concert in Manchester on Sunday; a powerful reminder that love is indeed a stronger force than hate. Matching hate with more hate can only increase the amount of hate in the world. Matching hate with love changes the world back from being hostile, to being home. That is why the actions of taxi drivers giving free lifts, people opening their homes, police dancing with kids enjoying the concert and performers standing in a place of darkness and singing of love, all matters so much. And it’s why it matters that we don’t withdraw from the world. We don’t give up on politics because they’re all as bad as each other; we don’t lazily assume that a few people bent on destruction and caught up by hatred can represent a whole religion; we don’t stay in bed because it’s safe and we don’t return hate with hate because it seems like the strongest response.

Jesus’s instruction to love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you is pretty well known. And if you forget its familiarity and hear it as something new, that we are being asked to do right now, it’s a preposterous teaching. Choosing love isn’t just love for the victims of our enemies, but also for our enemies themselves. This surely is more than should be asked of us! But refusing to hate those who have chosen to make themselves our enemies prevents us from buying into their view of the world. We are not divided into people who deserve to be loved and people who deserve to be hated. We are one people, capable of one world-changing, radical, transformative love. And that is worth getting out of bed for.

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Loop
By: Helen Lu
Tags: Self Improvement, Poem, Life Lessons, Poetry On Medium, Life

There are certain thoughts that come in waves

It would dissipate into foam and bubbles

Then a calmness appears

just for a short while

because then

the looming shadow of the next wave

gradually makes itself known

in the peripherals of tired eyes

They will keep coming,

the moon whispers

They won’t stop,

the sun chants

However,

with each stroke

with each wade

with each step forward

slices through the waves

like a Guillotine cutting through paper

Just remember,

the waves may never halt

but it can always be broken through
Missing Presence
By: Diane Won
Tags: Diary, Flash Fiction, Self, Monologue, Thoughts

FLASH FICTION

Photo by Anandu Vinod on Unsplash

People don’t see me as I am. My essence is always overlooked. I look in a mirror and see someone. But this person I see is not what others see. I speak and my words drift into thin air, lost. I could be nothing. I walk around, all smiles, and talk to people but I’m not really there. I find myself repeating myself endlessly.

And yet, people talk over me and turn their attention to something else. I empty. I flinch and retreat into the hollow of myself to remind myself I’m someone who exists, someone who exists and matters.

I walk. I sit. I can feel the anger coursing through me. I feel cool and warm at the same time. I sit without moving a muscle. I’m stock-still on the outside. But inside, dangerously hot blood runs through me and moves up to my head. I firmly keep my mouth closed so that the bitterness inside me doesn’t overflow. So this is what they mean by “hot-headed”. I have a temper but I’m good with concealing it. Better yet, if I’m numb and unfeeling, I won’t realize how angry I am and have been.

Exhaustion overtakes me and often gets the better of me. I lose myself to darkness and let myself be enfolded by the warm, familiar cocoon of sorrow. I don’t confront it or evade it. I let it have me whole.
‘Frances’ is a Pack of Lies
By: Choire Sicha
Tags: Biography, Actresses, Very Recent History

So what’s the problem with “creative nonfiction”? Ah right: it turns biography into lies. Which is a shame, when the truth is so much more interesting! So here’s the strange truth about Frances Farmer.
Trump Lost
By: Liza Donnelly
Tags: Concede, Election2020, Trump

Just moments ago, Emily Murphy, the administrator of the General Services Administration, formally designated Joe Biden the offical winner of the election, providing federal funds and resources to begin a transition and authorizing his advisers to begin coordinating with Trump administration officials. Here is the article in the NYTimes.

This means it will formally begin to transition. It doesnt’ mean Trump will concede. But he will have to leave.

How will he leave? That will be interesting to watch.

This drawing was done with commentary on my daily live draw on HappsTV:
Thomas Leuthard
By: Jan Schultink
Tags: Presentation Design, Presentation, Images, Keynote, PowerPoint

Thomas Leuthard (web site, Flickr) is a street photographer who published his work under a Creative Commons license on Flickr (attribution is required). His work is of very high quality. His images make great backgrounds for presentations that need an urban setting.

Image by Thomas Leuthard
Partner News: Upbit to List Emercoin on Its Exchange, Giving New Boost to Cryptocurrency
By: The Bitfury Group
Tags: Emercoin, Blockchain, Investment, Bitcoin

Partner News: Upbit to List Emercoin on Its Exchange, Giving New Boost to Cryptocurrency

Largest Korean Exchange’s Move Comes After Bitfury Invests in Technology

SEOUL, April 19, 2018 — Upbit, the largest digital asset trading platform in South Korea, has started listing Emercoin on its new public exchange, providing a major new platform for the cryptocurrency.

Emercoin, an emerging leader in blockchain business services, has grown significantly over the past year. Last month, Emercoin announced it is working with Coca-Cola, the U.S. State Department and the Bitfury Group on a blockchain-based pilot project to combat forced labor in the supply chain. Emercoin also recently named renowned technology expert and Olympic gold medalist Eun Lee as a technical advisor and ambassador to Korea.

“Upbit’s decision to list Emercoin confirms our growing popularity and strength,” said Eugene Shumilov, CEO of Emercoin. “We are excited about this move, which enables us to reach an even wider audience of traders in Korea, Asia and around the world. We are building a community and developing pilot projects that will help companies design innovative blockchain solutions for customers.”

Upbit currently handles roughly $1.8 billion per day, according to Coinmarketcap. Launched in October 2017 by Dunamu, Upbit is supported by KakaoTalk, the largest messaging app in Korea.

Upbit’s move comes after Bitfury, the world’s leading full-service blockchain technology firm, started to invest and support the Emercoin Blockchain as a way to expand the scope of applications it designs for customers.

About Emercoin

Emercoin is an emerging leader in secure, distributed blockchain business services. The interoperability of blockchain technologies provides us a holistic view that can effectively be used in both real and virtual world problems. And that’s exactly what Emercoin (EMC) is doing. Emercoin is introducing a new kind of blockchain that offers a wide range of services and solutions across all industries.

About The Bitfury Group

The Bitfury Group is the world’s leading full-service blockchain technology company and one of the largest private infrastructure providers in the blockchain ecosystem. Bitfury develops and delivers both the software and the hardware solutions necessary for businesses, governments, organizations and individuals to securely move an asset across the Blockchain. In 2017, Bitfury launched Exonum, a custom framework that helps individuals, businesses and governments securely and easily bring their ideas and solutions to life.

Bitfury Contact

Rachel Pipan

rachel.pipan@bitfury.com
44
By: Deb Ewing
Tags: Quadrille, Murmuration, Challenge, Isolation, Quarantine

44

a Quarantine Quadrille

blurry birds, photo by debora Ewing

Numbers blend into words

clouds into birds

or fish

trees rise open-fist

I wonder

should they grasp the clouds

pulling forth some

well-proportioned head

an angry scowl

a golem

will he speak to me

numbers tumbling down

from his craw

to lawn
Tonight’s comic is about the horrors of friendship.
Tags: Robots, Comics, Life, Friendship

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The Worst 5 Cryptocurrencies Of The 2010s
By: Sylvain Saurel
Tags: Cryptocurrency Investment, Investing, Altcoins, Cryptocurrency, Bitcoin

The Worst 5 Cryptocurrencies Of The 2010s

These cryptocurrencies reached the top but their fall was hard.

The decade of the 2010’s will have been phenomenal for Bitcoin and the cryptocurrency market. Created by Satoshi Nakamoto in early 2009, Bitcoin has experienced phenomenal growth and now has a market capitalization of $130 billion.

Bitcoin has been the best performing asset of the decade. Early adopters who believed in Bitcoin in 2010 and remained loyal were able to turn $1 invested into $90,000. These numbers may seem unreal, but they are real.

Buoyed by the euphoria surrounding Bitcoin, many other cryptocurrencies were launched and enjoyed significant success. These include Ethereum, Ripple, Bitcoin Cash, Litecoin and Stellar.

Nevertheless, these successes cannot erase the disastrous failures of some cryptocurrency projects. In what follows, I propose to come back to 5 cryptocurrencies that I consider as the greatest failures of the 2010s.
None So Blind as Those Who Cannot See
By: Fred Peatross
Tags: Religion, Political Correctness, History, Islam, News

Read and read and read — be serious about learning — stop listen to people and the news media’s influential sound bites. Stop calling people Islamophobic — read, read and learn …

A ᴘᴇʀғᴇᴄᴛ ᴇxᴀᴍᴘʟᴇ ᴏғ “ᴘᴏʟɪᴛɪᴄᴀʟ Isʟᴀᴍ”

A student group at the University of Chicago calling themselves, UChicago United, released a list of 50 demands that must be met by the administration of the university.

One of the demands is that the university start a sociology class focusing on Islamic history

Think of Islam as you would denominations in western religions. Because it’s very similar. Here’s a simplistic breakdown. There are —
Bütün İnsanlar Kendilerine Dair İnançları Dışında Aynıdır
By: Eren Cicibıyık
Tags: Felsefe, Kariyer, Kişisel Gelişim, Kitap, Türkçe

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The Cowboy Goes for a Walk
By: Keith R Wilson
Tags: Ghosts, Novel, Fiction

The Cowboy Goes for a Walk

Chapter 35

Image from Needpix

The Weather-Beaten Man in a Cowboy Hat had to stop talking sometime. He could not have talked forever. The night was getting on and it was time to close the Epiphany Café. Epiphanies can’t come constantly, twenty-four hours a day, you know. The Therapist Emeritus had to stop listening sometime as well. She couldn’t be a therapeutic instrument twenty-four hours a day. In fact, she had already stopped listening, and it was time to make her not listening official.

Perhaps you noticed that, just as soon as the Therapist Emeritus told him the ghosts he saw were his own ghosts, not those of others, the Cowboy stopped talking about ghosts and started talking about more corporal experiences, like aspiring to be a town drunk and almost getting crucified by New Mexican Penetantes. This was an indication to the Therapist Emeritus that she had struck truth, for the truth is shy and vanishes when found. The Therapist Emeritus would not be a therapist of merit if she did not notice what the Cowboy was not saying as well as the things he was. The Therapist Emeritus would not be a therapist of merit if she did not return the conversation back to where the truth last showed, speak to it directly, and address it as if she knew it well.

“If you want to get rid of ghosts, you’ve got to go looking for them.”

This didn’t seem to make sense to the Cowboy. He screwed up his mouth and shook his head; but paradoxes are not easily forgotten. He let the conversation rest with that, followed her out the door, and turned the closed sign behind her. I lingered over my coffee until the Cowboy locked up. Then we went out together, and I lingered in the shadows to see where he would go.

He pensively walked all over Kenilworth for hours. He seemed to think, as he walked: To get rid of ghosts, you’ve got to look for them. You’ve got to look for ghosts to get rid of them. He may have been ready to dismiss the idea when he came upon a barking dog. The dog followed him as long as he walked away, but the moment the Cowboy turned and approached the dog, it backed off. Perhaps ghosts were like that, too. Ghosts don’t like to be confronted; they prefer to take you by surprise.

The Weather-Beaten Man in a Cowboy Hat stopped for a few slices of pizza to think it over. I thought he was going to call it a night, but he went straight to the old town center. In the spirit of looking for spirits that he didn’t want to find, the Cowboy entered Kenilworth’s ancient burial ground, behind the whitewashed Congregational Church.

The bells of the church chimed twelve times. It was midnight.
How and Where to buy BuyUCoin Token(BUC Token)
By: Abhey Arora
Tags: Crypto, Cryptocurrency, Blockchain

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