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ComicBookSciFiHorrorFan/Lawyer/Liberal 1/2 of podcast Jav & Charles Talk Comics JavAndCharles.com The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good people to do nothing. To evil I fart in your general direction. DallasEarthMilkyWayMatrix?

Yet another Tr¥mp self own. Tr¥mp Organization & other plaintiffs sued Capital One after Capital One closed 300+ Tr¥mp Org accounts alleging the bank did it for political reasons. Capital One in its defense said nope. It was due to money laundering. The bank filed that in open court. Heh.

Capital One says it closed Trump Organization's accounts after anti-money laundering probe

The disclosure marks the first time a bank has formally tied money laundering concerns to Trump's family business.

reuters.com

Something uplifting, heroic. Little change of pace from all the depressing news. I saw this art on the outside of a building in Deep Ellum in Dallas today.

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We all know the CIA, MI6, KGB and other intelligence agencies joined together shortly after WW2 and replaced all birds with robots. The only news below is that they’ve now updated the design to some of the robotic birds to swim. Whatev. Yawn.

First bird-scale robot to swim, dive, and launch back into flight

A robot that swims like a diving bird and then flies like, well, a bird, sounds like the setup for two different machines bolted together. But researchers at MIT and EPFL built one that does both with...

newatlas.com

Fancy a game of "The Uranium Shipment and the Space Pirates?" If you go by reprogrammability as the yardstick of what separates a game console from a single-purpose electronic toy, the very first precursor to the modern game console might be the GENIAC.

An ad from a 1957 issue of Popular Electronics magazine. Up top, the title: "New! A machine that COMPOSES MUSIC!" To the top left, an image of the "Geniac Electric Brain," a masonite board with a set of six ceramic dials in which electronic components may be mounted; these dials are turned for input and the connections underneath serve as the analog "timer" of sorts; the side has a series of four lights, the machine's output. To the top right, an image of a tune created by the Geniac. Below, dense type promotes the machine ("Yes, you can build any one of 33 electric brain machines!" "Over 400 components and parts!" "Your cost for GENIAC kit: Only $19.95 postpaid" (roughly $200 today). A sidebar lists institutions that have purchased GENIACs (including IBM, Bell, and Westinghouse); at the bottom is an ordering sheet for the Oliver Garfield Co., plus options to show interest in various other scientific fields.