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Hand Tools Animals Water Wheel Windmill Which of these can be realistically adopted now on a small homestead? Hand Tools All historical cultures that I am aware of used hand tools and many of the tools that they used can be, and still are, used on homesteads today. Using tinkering and cultural memory, they discovered […]
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Army warns soldiers: No Zyn in France, please
A major garrison in Europe issued a travel advisory to troops warning of penalties after France outlawed nicotine pouches.
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Supporting Veterans with more than a meal
A social worker delivers monthly meal support, offering hope and connection to Veterans facing ongoing food insecurity. -
US strikes Iranian sites after Iran launches drones, in latest Gulf flare-up
U.S. forces struck Iranian coastal radar sites on Saturday after shooting down drones launched by Iran toward the Strait of Hormuz, the U.S. military said. -
New ChatGPT Lockdown Mode Limits Tools That Could Enable Data Exfiltration
OpenAI has begun rolling out a new Lockdown Mode to ChatGPT for eligible personal accounts to reduce the risk of data exfiltration arising from prompt injection attacks.The feature is primarily designed for people and organizations that handle sensitive data and require stricter protection guarantees. Lockdown Mode is available to logged-in users across Free, Go, Plus, and Pro, and
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Armenians Vote Under Russia’s Shadow
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Putting a Number on How Much Debt U.S. Can Carry
NATIONAL DEBTEnable IntenseDebate Comments:Enable IntenseDebate CommentsThe United States has about 20 years to change course on its national debt before it reaches the estimated limits of its debt capacity, according to new research from the Penn Wharton Budget Model.
Researchers estimate the outer limit of U.S. debt capacity at about 210% of gross domestic product. At that point, even a 100% tax on labor income would not generate enough revenue to cover interest costs, making the debt impossible to stabilize through labor-tax increases alone.
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Hospitality in Hard Times – Why Sharing a Meal Still Matters
The custom of shared family meals is common across most cultures. In all likelihood, our ancestors sat down together for shared meals as families, clans or tribes, before they could be called anatomically modern humans. Shared family meals are a universal and ancient tradition and one that has many benefits. It seems like elements of […] -
The Pentagon’s AI Edge Is Being Distilled Away
Adversaries do not need to breach the Pentagon’s systems: They only need to harvest the logic of the publicly released frontier AI models that underpin them. This is a defining risk as the Department of Defense pivots to an “AI-first” warfighting machine. In this new context, military predominance is a derivative of AI model supremacy. From Project Maven’s intelligence fusion to the high-velocity sensor-to-shooter loops of Anduril’s Lattice, the Defense Department’s most advanced systems are tethered to the frontier models forged by tech heavyweights like Anthropic, Google, and OpenAI. As long as these firms hold the high ground in the
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Rogan says ICE deployment sets ‘dangerous precedent’Podcaster Joe Rogan said the deployment of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers across the country by the Trump administration sets a “dangerous precedent.” “A different ruler could use this precedent in a very damaging way for our free society. That’s my perspective on it,” Rogan said during the Wednesday episode of his podcast. “It’s…
