>4Chan or Davos, who said it?
That's one way to cool down a black coffee. Smart.
>Dough
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2021-04-27/inside-architecture-s-wildest-conspiracy-theory
Inside the ‘Tartarian Empire,’ the QAnon of Architecture
On YouTube videos and Reddit boards, adherents of a bizarre conspiracy theory argue that everything you know about the history of architecture is wrong.
In 1908, architect Ernest Flagg completed the Singer Building in Lower Manhattan, a Beaux-Arts showstopper made for the Singer sewing machine company. From a wide base, a slender 27-story tower rose, topped by a mansard roof and a delicate lantern spire.
Every inch dripped with sumptuous detail inside and out; vaulted roofs, marble columns with bronze trim, window mullions with spiral fluting. The lobby was said to have a “celestial radiance.” A book was written just about its construction. For a year, it was the tallest building in the world at 612 feet, and a celebrated landmark for decades after that.
But not for too much longer. Despite its great height, the pencil-thin tower lacked office space. In the 1960s the company sold its ornate headquarters; demolition proceeded in 1967. It’s the tallest building to ever be peacefully demolished.
By any account, it’s a fantastical tale: Once the tallest building in the world and a New York icon, knocked down in just a handful of decades.
For some, it’s too fantastical to believe … or perhaps not fantastical enough. A dedicated group of YouTubers and Reddit posters see the Singer Building and countless other discarded pre-modern beauties and extant Beaux-Arts landmarks as artifacts of a globe-spanning civilization called the Tartarian Empire, which was somehow erased from the history books. Adherents of this theory believe these buildings to be the keys to a hidden past, clandestinely obscured by malevolent actors.
Who? Why? To what possible end? As in many other, more high-profile conspiracy theories, this baroque fantasy doesn’t offer much in the way of practical considerations, logic or evidence. But it’s grounded in some real anxieties, pointing toward the changes wrought by the modern world in general and modern architecture specifically — and rejecting both.
is it thick in here or what
https://www.instagram.com/p/CnabOxKSReU/
what's her face took down the post, where she had a picture of a kid in a box
>Gruesome Details
https://nypost.com/2023/01/06/harry-saw-red-mist-in-williams-face-during-dog-bowl-brawl/
red mist
silver and gold
https://twitter.com/DeptofDefense/status/1615484108594872320
https://www.defense.gov/News/Feature-Stories/Story/Article/3264947/how-qa-experts-make-sure-military-medals-make-the-grade/
is that image only in the tweet? can't find it in the article
>https://twitter.com/jsolomonReports/status/1615715687254614016
hard working man deserves a break
https://justthenews.com/government/congress/house-oversight-chair-says-chinas-donations-penn-biden-center-may-have
House Oversight chair says China's donations to Penn Biden Center may have influenced administration
Committee Chairman James Comer sent a letter to the University of Pennsylvania requesting the information following a Just the News story on the matter.
The House Oversight and Accountability Committee on Wednesday demanded the University of Pennsylvania release information about anonymous donations from China to the Penn Biden Center, where classified documents were found, over concerns the Chinese Communist Party may have influenced Biden administration policies through the contributions.
"The Committee has learned UPenn received millions of dollars from anonymous Chinese sources, with a marked uptick in donations when then-former Vice President Biden was announced as leading the Penn Biden Center initiative," the GOP-led committee said. "Following the formation of the Penn Biden Center, donations originating from China tripled and continued while Joe Biden explored a potential run for President."
The statement follows a letter committee Chairman Rep. James Comer sent to university President M. Elizabeth Magill requesting the information and a story about the donations by Just the News.
The committee is already investigating now-President Biden's possible mishandling of classified documents from his time as vice president. While some of the documents were discovered in November in Biden's former Washington, D.C., office at the Penn Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement, news about the records did not surface until this month.
"The Committee is concerned about who had access to these documents given the Biden family’s financial connections to foreign actors and companies," wrote Comer, of Kentucky.
The classified documents included materials related to Iran and Ukraine, according to media reports.
More classified documents were found at Biden's home in Wilmington, Delaware.
"The American people deserve to know whether the Chinese Communist Party, through Chinese companies, influenced potential Biden Administration policies with large, anonymous donations to UPenn and the Penn Biden Center," Comer wrote.
At least 10 Penn Biden Center employees became senior White House officials and Biden himself made more than $900,000 at the center from 2017 through 2019, Comer said.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken, who served as the Penn Biden Center's managing director, said Tuesday that he "had no knowledge" of the classified documents while he worked there.
>http://aesthetic.gregcookland.com/2009_06_28_archive.html
https://twitter.com/SBF_FTX/status/1615555252962627584
FTX US is solvent, as it always as been.
1) S&C files, claiming FTX US is insolvent
2) S&C forgot to include bank balances, ~$428m
3) Once you add those back in, you get in the neighborhood of my prior balance sheet (~+$350m)
4) Other slides in the same filing demonstrate (2)
https://sambf.substack.com/p/ftx-us-balance-update-2023-01-17
FTX US Balance Update 2023-01-17
https://twitter.com/rothschildmd/status/1615498247384207360
Nice to see "Jewish Space Lasers" trending as I finish up the book. Sadly, it's because the person most associated with the phrase (though she never actually said those words) has been named to a powerful House committee that she has no business being on. Can't win 'em all.
https://www.tiktok.com/@papang_g__/video/7186900585042464027
https://archive.ph/ajxTB
‘Youth transplants’ really can slow the ageing process
Stanford scientists find infusions of cerebrospinal fluid can regenerate the brain’s memory centre and may help to rejuvenate elderly bodies
Harvesting the blood and body parts of the young in the hope of achieving immortality has long been a familiar trope in horror novels and conspiracy theories.
But as macabre as it sounds, science is beginning to discover that “youth transplants” really can slow down the ageing process.
The fountain of youth, it seems, is youth itself.
Although nobody is suggesting we siphon the bodily fluids of youngsters into our elderly, it opens the door to artificially replicating the cocktail of chemicals found in young people.
Young people have more powerful cells which operate more efficiently and could restore vitality to ageing systems.
This week Stanford University showed that infusing cerebrospinal fluid of young mice into old mice improves brain function, a breakthrough which could have enormous implications for dementia and other neurodegenerative conditions.
Cerebrospinal fluid is a clear liquid found within the tissue that surrounds the brain and spinal cord of humans, and is packed full of nutrients, signalling molecules and growth factors which nourish neurons.
The Stanford team infused fluid from 10-week-old mice into the brains of 18-month-old mice over seven days, and found that older mice were better at remembering to associate a small electric shock with a noise and flashing light.
Closer examination showed the fluid had “woken up” processes which regenerate neurons and myelin – the fatty material that protects nerve cells within the hippocampus, the memory centre of the brain.
Crucially, scientists think they know which part of the fluid is primarily driving the effect: a protein called serum response factor (SRF) which decreases in older mice.
When they used a growth factor called Fgf17 to boost levels of SRF, the older mice showed the same improvements seen with the youthful infusions, suggesting that Fgf17 could be used as a treatment to rejuvenate ageing brains.
>‘Youth transplants’ really can slow the ageing process
Ageing process is ‘malleable’
Dr Tony Wyss-Coray, of Stanford’s School of Medicine in California, said the research showed that the ageing process is “malleable” and that improving the environment in which neurons live may be a better approach than targeting the cells themselves.
And it’s not just in the brain where the regenerating properties of youth are showing promise. The effect appears to work from head to tail.
Earlier this month, The Quadram Institute in Norwich showed that transplanting faecal microbes from young mice into old mice reversed hallmarks of ageing in the gut, eyes and brain.
In contrast, when microbes from aged mice were transplanted into young mice, it induced inflammation in the brain, depleting a key protein required for normal eyesight.
The team is now working to understand how long these positive effects last and how they are able to impact organs far away from the gut.
Dr Aimee Parker, The Quadram Institute’s lead author of the study, said: “We were excited to find that by changing the gut microbiota of elderly individuals, we could rescue indicators of age-associated decline commonly seen in degenerative conditions of the eye and brain.”
Although the latest studies have been done on mice, the breakthroughs signal an important shift in the field of ageing, which could soon revolutionise therapies.
Experiments are even showing that young blood itself can reverse the ageing process, perhaps even curing Alzheimer’s disease.
Historically, cultures have revered the blood of the young. It was even rumoured that Kim Jong-il, the former North Korean dictator, injected himself with blood from healthy young virgins to slow the ageing process.
The first hint that young blood may be rejuvenating came in 2005 when Stanford carried out a grisly experiment stitching old and young mice together so that they shared a circulatory system.
After a month, the scientists discovered that the liver and muscles of the older mouse had begun to regenerate.
In 2014, Harvard University discovered that young blood also “recharges” the brain, triggering the formation of new blood vessels and improving memory and learning in mice.
The team even identified a “youth protein” which is responsible for keeping the brain and muscles young and strong.
The protein, known as GDF11, is present in the bloodstream in large quantities when we are young but peters out as we age.
Raising levels of the GDF11 protein in mice has been shown to improve the function of every organ in the body, including the heart.
>‘Youth transplants’ really can slow the ageing process
$8,000 for teenage blood plasma
However, the field is not without controversy. In 2019, a US start-up called Ambrosia that was offering teenage blood plasma to Silicon Valley billionaires for $8,000 a litre was forced to shut down after the FDA warned against the procedure.
In 2017, Ambrosia began a clinical trial designed to find out what happens when the veins of adults are filled with blood from younger people, but never published the results.
There are still hopes that one day such procedures will be used in humans.
In 2019, Wyss-Coray’s biotech company Alkahest reported the results from a small six-month trial that saw 40 patients with Alzheimer’s disease infused with a special human plasma blend, containing more of the proteins which vanish with age.
It appeared to halt their expected mental decline. The company also has similar trials under way for Parkinson’s disease, age-related macular degeneration, inflammatory disease and end-stage renal disease.
The Harvard spin-off company Elevian is also working on producing enough GDF11 to begin human trials that explore whether it can help people recover after strokes.
“Our research suggests that by targeting fundamental and common underlying mechanisms of ageing as opposed to a specific disease, it may be possible to treat and prevent multiple age-related diseases,” said Dr Mark Allen, Elevian CEO and co-founder.
It may only be a few years before “youth transplants” finally move from the pages of gothic horror novels into the clinic. Whether patients will feel squeamish about such vampire procedures remains to be seen.
https://twitter.com/JohnBasham/status/1615685074808102912
UN Secretary General, Speaking At The 2023 WEF Conference, Tells World Leaders & Politicians To Ignore Their Citizens & Voters & Instead "Make Unpopular Decisions Today" Because You Know Better Whats Best For The Masses.
>It may only be a few years before “youth transplants” finally move from the pages of gothic horror novels into the clinic. Whether patients will feel squeamish about such vampire procedures remains to be seen.