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Posted on March 1, 2020 by Danzig

Litecoin

Litecoin slid by 5.31% on Monday. Partially reversing a 6.58% rally from Sunday, Litecoin ended the day at $75.55.

Bearish through the day, Litecoin slid from an early morning intraday high $80.04 to a late afternoon intraday low $71.80.

Litecoin fell through the first major support level at $76.08 and the second major support level at $72.37.

Of greater significance, however, was a fall through the 38.2% FIB of $78.

Finding support late on, Litecoin broke back through the second major support level to wrap up the day at $75.55.

At the time of writing, Litecoin was down by 2.63% to $73.56. A bearish start to the day saw Litecoin fall from an early morning high $76.12 to a low $73.26.

Litecoin left the major support and resistance levels untested early on.

Litecoin would need to move through to $75.80 levels to support a run the first major resistance level at $79.79.

Support from the broader market would be needed, however, for Litecoin to breakout from the 38.2% FIB of $78.

Barring a broad-based crypto rally, the 38.2% FIB would likely leave Litecoin short of the first major resistance level.

Failure to move through to $75.80 levels could see Litecoin fall deeper into the red.

A fall back through the morning low $73.26 would bring the first major support level at $71.55 into play.

Barring an extended crypto sell-off, however, Litecoin should steer clear of sub-$70 levels on the day.

Major Support Level: $71.55

Major Resistance Level: $79.79

23.6% FIB Retracement Level: $62

38.2% FIB Retracement Level: $78

62% FIB Retracement Level: $104

Stellars Lumen slid by 5.82% on Monday. Reversing a 4.42% gain from Sunday, Stellars Lumen ended the day at $0.069148.

Tracking the broader market, Stellars Lumen slid from an early morning intraday high $0.073827 to a late intraday low $0.067507.

Stellars Lumen fell through the first major support level at $0.07093 and the second major support level at $0.068450.

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Finding support late on, Stellars Lumen moved back through the second major support level to wrap up the day at $0.069 levels.

At the time of writing, Stellars Lumen was down by 2.37% to $0.067509. A bearish start to the day saw Stellars Lumen fall from an early morning high $0.069264 to a low $0.067509.

Stellars Lumen left the major support and resistance levels untested early on.

Stellars Lumen would need to move through to $0.07020 levels to support a run at the first major resistance level at $0.07281.

Support from the broader market would be needed, however, for Stellars Lumen to break out from the morning high $0.069264.

Barring a broad-based crypto rebound, resistance at $0.070 would likely leave Stellars Lumen short of the first major resistance level.

Failure to move through to $0.07020 levels could see Stellars Lumen struggle later in the day.

A fall back through Mondays low $0.067507 would bring the first major support level at $0.06649 into play.

Barring another crypto sell-off, however, Stellars Lumen should steer clear of sub-$0.0660 levels on the day.

Major Support Level: $0.06649

Major Resistance Level: $0.07281

23.6% FIB Retracement Level: $0.1051

38% FIB Retracement Level: $0.1433

62% FIB Retracement Level: $0.2050

Trons TRX slid by 6.94% on Monday. Reversing a 6.54% rally from Sunday, Trons TRX ended the day at $0.019875.

A bearish start to the day saw Trons TRX slide from an early morning intraday high $0.021398 to a late afternoon intraday low $0.019200.

Trons TRX fell through the first major support level at $0.02053 and the second major support level at $0.01961.

Steering clear of sub-$0.019 support levels, Trons TRX broke back through the second major support level late on.

At the time of writing, Trons TRX was down by 0.73% to $0.019729. A bearish start to the day saw Trons TRX fall from an early morning high $0.019921 to a low $0.019552.

Trons TRX left the major support and resistance levels untested early on.

Trons TRX would need to move through to $0.02020 levels to support a run at the first major resistance level at $0.02112.

Support from the broader market would be needed, however, for Trons TRX to break out from the morning high $0.019921.

Barring an extended crypto rally, resistance at $0.020 would likely leave Trons TRX short of the first major resistance level.

Failure to move through to $0.02020 levels could see Trons TRX slide deeper into the red.

A fall back through the morning low $0.019552 would bring the first major support level at $0.01892 into play.

Barring an extended crypto sell-off, however, Trons TRX should continue to steer clear of sub-$0.019 levels on the day.

Major Support Level: $0.01892

Major Resistance Level: $0.02112

23.6% FIB Retracement Level: $0.0322

38.2% FIB Retracement Level: $0.0452

62% FIB Retracement Level: $0.0663

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Litecoins rock-bottom valuation at the cusp of recovery or dismay – AMBCrypto

Posted on March 1, 2020 by Danzig

Litecoins fate in 2020 has been a tale of two months. After registering a close to 60 percent hike in January and another 22 percent hike up to 14 February, a decline of 32.71% followed right after. At press time, Litecoin was priced at $60.50 and it had registered a market cap of $3.88 billion. The trading volume continued to be above $5 billion, in spite of the valuation dropping by more than 20 percent over the past week.

Litecoin 1-day chart

On observing the 1-day chart, it can be seen that the downtrend over the past 14 days has become more prominent, with the valuation falling under major support levels at $74.42, $67.42 and $62.25. These support levels were active resistances when they were breached back in January. The current bearish breakout seemed to be an outcome of a rising wedge that started taking shape during the start of 2020. With time, the price continued to squeeze in between the trendlines and the decline started taking place on 15 February.

At the moment, Litecoin remained just above the Point of Control. According to the VPVR indicator, the trading activity over the last 6 months has been significantly strong at this PoC range and at resistance levels of $74.42. The absence of trading in between these ranges indicated that the price will not consolidate for a longer period between these price points.

At the time of writing, Litecoin remained above the PoC of 59,42, but a breach under this level may take its valuation down to December lows. A possible trading range for the next week or two should be between $58 and $62, considering the current absence of bullish momentum.

The 200-day moving average also continued to act as support but over the past week, the price has been dropping and continued bearish sentiment may flip the moving average to resistance as well.

The Relative Strength Index or RSI remained closed to the over-sold section and hence, a bounce-back from this point may be a feasible turn of events. However, the MACD remained under bearish pressure as the bullish momentum lagged behind.

Conclusion

Litecoins bearish woes continued, but it may have hit rock-bottom for the time being. A move below $59.42 could have dire consequences as a way back above might became a difficult path to navigate.

Litecoin Prints Array of Buying Signals, and That’s Massively Bullish for Crypto – newsBTC

Posted on March 1, 2020 by Danzig

Despite the brutal retracement the cryptocurrency market saw this week, a top analyst is getting bullish on Litecoin, citing an array of technical factors.

While this may not seem relevant to many readers, as many of you may not trade or own the altcoin, LTCs directionality could have a strong effect on the rest of the crypto asset class, Bitcoin included.

The pullback in the cryptocurrency market hasnt fazed analysts.

In fact, a popular trader, Byzantine General, is extremely optimistic about Litecoin, a cryptocurrency that has gained around 95% this year outpacing BTC by 100%, though underperforming Ethereum and the Bitcoin hard forks.

In an analysis published Sunday, Byzantine General pointed to four technical factors suggesting LTCs long-term price trend is looking surprisingly bullish:

Our readers who dont own or trade LTC may be wondering why this matters. Well, a weird correlation has formed over the past year or two where Litecoins price action is often later reflected in Bitcoin, which then causes the rest of cryptocurrencies to move.

The most memorable case of this was in the first half of 2019, which is when the altcoin suddenly began surging higher months prior to its block reward halving. For a few weeks, the altcoin rallied on its own, gaining dozens of percent week-on-week as the market was relatively flat. But eventually, Bitcoin started moving, following in the path blazed by LTC.

Furthermore, LTC front-ran Bitcoin just a few weeks ago, when it suddenly broke higher as BTC was stagnating. Bitcoin, of course, followed the asset higher just days later.

Litecoins ability to precede the rest of the market is important because it suggests that should LTC start rallying here, buoyed by the aforementioned technical factors, so too should Bitcoin.

Theres also been some talk about Litecoins pre-halving performance potentially predicting how Bitcoin will fare in the coming months, though this hasnt been entirely fleshed out.

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Global Litecoin Exchange Market is said to have a potential scope for growth in the years by 2025- Binance, Upbit, OKEx, Bithumb, Huobi – News Times

Posted on March 1, 2020 by Danzig

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Litecoins consolidation may be interrupted by its correlation with Bitcoin – AMBCrypto

Posted on March 1, 2020 by Danzig

Following the collective bearish trend over the past week, Litecoins price recorded a correction that has continued over the past three days. From 24 February to press time, Litecoin had undergone a decline of over 25 percent as the price stretched from $80 to $63.22. Over a 24-hour period, Litecoin had recorded a devaluation of 13.15 percent, but its trading volume continued to be above its market cap at $6.11 billion.

1-day Litecoin chart

Litecoins 1-day chart pictured a steep increase that was evident throughout the start of 2020. However, over the past 2 weeks, it has undergone several corrections. At press time, a descending channel pattern was taking shape on the charts, something that suggested that a possible bullish breakout might take place over the next few weeks. Although the possibility of such a turnaround is significant, the bullish momentum is currently spiraling down in the industry.

At the moment, the price remained in close proximity with the support levels at $66.87. However, it should re-test the resistance at $71.94 over the next week or so. But, a continuation of the bearish stronghold in the market could drag Litecoins valuation down all the way to $58.06. A possible trading zone for Litecoin remains between $73.72 and $63.28 over the next month.

According to the VPVR indicator, trading volume at $73 and $58.06 remains substantially strong. Hence, a neutral consolidation between the range seems unlikely at the moment.

Another factor that may have played a huge role in Litecoins valuation is the price movement of Bitcoin. Over the past 10 days, Bitcoin had undergone corrections on three occasions, with the slump on 26 February pulling Bitcoins value to under $9333.

Bitcoins fortune, as well as Litecoins future, may change under these circumstances if Bitcoin records a surge in price. BTC-LTC correlation has risen to 0.81 over the past week, indicating that both the crypto-assets are susceptible to collective change on the market.

Conclusion

At the moment, it is difficult to analyze market movement due to the inherent increase in volatility. Although the trend looks increasingly bearish at the moment, prices may react to other independent factors as well, en route to bullish recovery.

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Bitcoin price Crash and its effect on Altcoins, Ripple, and IOTA course of the analysis, Litecoin to more than 13000 ATMs available & Bitcoin on…

Posted on March 1, 2020 by Danzig

Welcome to our crypto Monday of the week in review the week 9! As usual, this week has again much to report significant and so it is not surprising that we can again come up with a whole range of interesting News for you.Our topics range from the Bitcoin price Crash and its effect on the Altcoins, analysis of the Ripple and the IOTA course, Bitcoin, the Simpsons, to the offensive attack of Litecoin on South Korea.Of course, this was not Far from everything! However, much more is not revealed at this point, because in the Following, we have you in the usual regalia of the Highlights of the last week bit by bit and easily digestible manner.But enough of the Preface. A lot of fun with our crypto Monday of the week in review!Let us know what were for you this week the most exciting, or most important events, and discuss about it with our Community on Telegram.

Bitcoin, crypto-currencies and Blockchain continue to move in the direction of the Mainstream. Not only the media are picking up on Bitcoin and co. again and again, but by now well-known series. So now in a new The SimpsonsEpisode.In the new episode, Jim Parsons explains in a crypto-Tutorial Lisa Simpson, how the Distributed Ledger technology (DLT), and thus, Bitcoin and other decentralized crypto-currencies work. Everything and a part of the scene you can read in this article, or look.

This weeks courses was for the Bitcoin exchange rate and for almost all of the Altcoin is the purest Torture. The Bitcoin price plunged over 10% and has pulled on the way to the bottom of the Altcoin courses. The weeks were before the Crash-more than good. In the first weeks of this year, many Altcoins, Bitcoin to outperform and orderly growth. Also the BTC rate was at the beginning of the year of its positive side. But what is the reason for the recent sale? Well find out in the next few days a new floor in the Bitcoin exchange rate, or we have to adjust to more falling prices? How will behave in the meantime, the Altcoins? We will clarify in this article.

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At the end of this week, we once again have a small market-pushed Update to the IOTA course. In it, we took a brief look at the IOTA Charter, to the current situation reflect around the IOTA course. We, of course, also the question of how far the IOTA course will fall. He is perhaps even currently worth a bet? Could be chosen to be a initial at the moment?The answer to these questions and much more you will learn in this article.

Litecoin has only made on Friday by the HODL mentality of the LTC investors headlines and yesterday there was already something Positive from the Crypto-to report silver. In the future Litecoin will be used, probably even more, as more than 13,000 ATMs in South Korea, LTC withdrawals in Korean Won (KRW) to enable.Why this is an interesting step, South Korea is particularly good at, and what obstacles need to be overcome for this, but still, you can find out in this article.

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Bitcoin and Altcoins Struggle to Recover – Cryptonews

Posted on March 1, 2020 by Danzig

After trading below the USD 8,850 support, bitcoin found bids near the USD 8,550 support area. Recently, it started an upside correction above USD 8,700, but the previous supports near USD 8,850 and USD 9,000 are now (09:00 UTC) acting as key resistances for the bulls.

Similarly, most major altcoins are struggling to recover further above key pivot levels, including ethereum, XRP, litecoin, bitcoin cash, BNB, EOS, TRX, ADA, and XLM. ETH/USD topped near USD 235 and it is back below USD 230. However, XRP is still holding the USD 0.232, but it remains at a risk of more downsides in the near term.

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Recently, bitcoin price managed to correct higher above USD 8,650 and USD 8,700 (as discussed yesterday). However, the previous supports near USD 8,850 and USD 9,000 prevented a convincing upside break. As a result, BTC/USD is now showing a few bearish signs below USD 8,800. If there is a clear break below USD 8,650, the price could even break the USD 8,550 support area.Any further losses may perhaps lead the price towards the USD 8,250 level. On the upside, the bulls need to gain pace above USD 8,850 to start a decent recovery wave.

Ethereum price corrected more than 10% from the USD 210 support area. ETH/USD climbed above USD 220 and USD 230. However, the USD 235 zone prevented further gains. A swing high was formed near USD 238 and the price declined below USD 230.It is currently testing the USD 225 zone, below which there is a risk of a drop towards the USD 210 area in the near term.

Bitcoin cash price corrected higher from the USD 300 support area, but it failed to continue above the USD 330 area. BCH/USD formed another top and it is currently declining below USD 320. If it continues to move down, there is a risk of a bearish break below the key USD 300 support area in the near term.Litecoin is under a lot of bearish pressure and it is currently struggling to stay above the USD 60.00 support. If there is a successful close below USD 60.00, there is a risk of a sharp decline towards the USD 55.00 support. Conversely, the price could recover above USD 62.50 and USD 64.50.XRP price gained bullish momentum and recovered above USD 0.235. However, the bears came into action near the USD 0.245 level. As a result, the price trimmed its gains and it is now approaching the USD 0.232 support area. Any further losses may perhaps lead the price towards the USD 0.225 level.

In the past three sessions, a few small-capitalization altcoins declined more than 5%, including AION, DX, MONA, BCD, ALGO, LSK, ABBC, REN and HC. Conversely, SXP, BCN, MKR, KNC, ZB, FTT and LINK are up more than 5%.

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To sum up, bitcoin price is facing a couple of important resistances near USD 8,850 and USD 9,000. BTC/USD must settle above USD 9,000 to start a decent recovery. If not, it could dive below the recent low at USD 8,550 in the near term._____

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From the Archives: Commentator Suspends Publication After Threat of Censorship – The Commentator

Posted on March 1, 2020 by Danzig

Editors Note: The following collection of articles detail the suspension of The Commentator after it was threatened with censorship by the university administration over its coverage of minyan attendance. This threat followed previous run-ins including a ban on the traditional Purim issue of The Commentator in 1958 between The Commentator and members of the administration particularly Dr. Simeon Gutterman, dean of Yeshiva College, and Rabbi Moshe Tendler, assistant dean of Yeshiva College. Unlike 1958, The Commentator is currently not funded by the student government and thus cannot be censored by the university.

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Title: From the Archives (March 24, 1958; Volume 23 Issue 11) Ten Students Are Suspended From Dormitory

Author: Commentator Staff

Ten New York City residents have been suspended from the dormitory for one week because of unsatisfactory minyan attendance. Thirty other students, most of them from out of town, received suspended suspensions. This means they will be evicted if their minyan attendance continues to be unsatisfactory.

The suspensions were issued by Rabbi Moshe Klein, dormitory supervisor. He explained that attending minyan two times a week would be considered satisfactory by his office.

When the suspensions were first announced, student leaders proposed that the students involved, instead of being suspended, be compelled to attend seminars on the importance of tfila btsibur.

The proposal was rejected by the administration. However, a seminar is being organized on a voluntary basis to discuss tfila.

The Assistant Dean, Rabbi Kleins immediate superior, told The Commentator he was in accord with the suspension policy. He felt that the religious guidance program this year had been adequate.

Student leaders pointed out that the suspensions were in direct violation of Residence Hall Regulation VIII in the handbook issued by the administration. This regulation states, Repeated failure to attend services renders the student liable to disciplinary action by the student court. The supervisors office, student leaders said, had ignored the court completely in this matter.

Title: From the Archives (March 24, 1958; Volume 23 Issue 11) An Editorial: Compulsion

Author: Abraham Shapiro and The Commentator Governing Board of 1957-8

Recently, we have had the occasion to witness the lack of direction of the administrations dormitory policy in a clear light. On Sunday, March 9, about 40 dormitory students were notified to see Rabbi Klein before 4 p.m. Tuesday concerning their imminent suspension from the dormitory. Unsatisfactory minyan attendance was the cause of this suspension, which was to last for one week.

No warning whatsoever preceded the notification, unless one feels that a mimeographed circular, distributed at the beginning of the term, stating that residence in the dormitory is dependent on satisfactory minyan attendance is, sufficient. It must be kept in mind, however, that such circulars have been regularly distributed throughout dormitory history, and since their terms had never been carried out, students had become accustomed to disregarding them. When students about to be evicted pointed out to the dorm administration that they had not been adequately warned, the answer they got was we did not want to make this seem like a threat. Why the administration should be so afraid of verbally warning students after they had already threatened them in mimeographed circulars, which they knew would be disregarded, escapes us. Furthermore, since the one-week suspension simply puts residents on notice that further delinquency of attendance will be followed by permanent eviction, it is as threatening as any verbal warning could have been.

We must also keep in mind that by taking eviction into its own hands the administration has violated an agreement it signed with the Student Resident Court at the beginning of the year giving the Court jurisdiction to decide on suspension of residents. Even if we postulate the premise that the administration occasionally acts upon, that a signed agreement is adhered to only as it suits them, the student should not be told at the time of his suspension that the agreement was abrogated.

Friday, March 14, a small announcement was put on the dorm bulletin board. It read simply: Any student wishing to participate in a seminar to discuss minyan and Tfila Btzibur will please notify Rabbi Klein as soon as possible. This announcement followed an action on his part which pleasantly surprised us. Out of the 40 who got notices, only 10 were actually evicted, the rest receiving suspended suspensions upon presenting him with at least a plausible excuse for their absence from minyan. Of course, if their attendance does not pick up within the next two weeks, they will also be served with an eviction notice.

The administrations contradictory actions cannot but lead one to wonder. Why couldnt the seminar on minyan have been announced previous to the suspension? Doesnt the administration want the suspended residents to know about it? Or is it just another belated, half-hearted attempt at a desperately needed religious guidance program? These questions are now added to the ones we have been asking for years: Does the administration seriously think that a staff of resident assistants just out of college (in fact, some of them are still undergraduates) with no professional training in guidance can assist the troubled resident in the solution of religious problems? What are the aims of religious education to see that the student is forced to go to minyan in his short college stay, and then, with the compulsion removed, never go again? Might it not be much more beneficial if, instead of outward compulsion, professional religious guidance brought about minyan attendance from inner feeling?

We do not claim that religious guidance will solve the minyan problem entirely. Minyan has been a thorn in the side of the dormitory authorities as far back as anyone remembers, and their continued failure to solve this problem is basically due to their treating it as a separate one. When will the administration realize that minyan is only a symptom of a larger problem: the fact that synthesis, as found in Yeshiva University, is synthetic. The student cuts corners wherever he can, simply because it is physically impossible for him to do good work in both departments [religious and secular] and still maintain his balance. The administration itself has defined satisfactory minyan attendance as twice a week, a substantial concession to the thesis that regular attendance will produce students who attend classes in a lethargic, half-asleep half-awake, state.

We urge the administration to go one step further, and to realize attendance requirements must depend on the status of the individual. Some students may very well be able to go more than twice a week, and some may not be able to go even that much. We are confident that an individual approach towards the minyan problem will go far towards making the administration realize that maybe it isnt the problem after all. In fact, an individual approach towards all the problems of the university is the only way we can envisage to resynthesize synthesis. Let the individual student opinions be heard! Let his presence be felt! Let him realize that he is not just another cog in the university machine! Rather, let the university make the student feel that it is aware of his problems, and is not interested only in presenting a facade of meaningless regulations to the outside world.

The university exists for its students, not vice versa.

Title: From the Archives (April 2, 1958; Volume 23 Issue 12) An Editorial: Governing Board Suspends Publication

Author: Abraham Shapiro and The Commentator Governing Board of 1957-8

The right of The Commentator to print articles, news stories and editorials on any problems which are not limited to the college has been denied by Dr. Simeon L. Guterman, dean of Yeshiva College and concurred in by Dr. Samuel Belkin, president of the university. A memorandum to this effect printed on page two of this issue specifically denies the right of this newspaper to mention a university problem which has caused much comment and many letters to the editor.

The Governing Board has voted unanimously to suspend publication of The Commentator under this ruling. If the ruling is not rescinded there will be no Commentator.

It is the feeling of the Governing Board that The Commentator is more than just a newspaper put out by a few individuals to print only college affairs. Rather, The Commentator, the only student newspaper in the University above the high school level, represents the student body of the University. College students attend R.I.E.T.S., T.I., or J.S.P. and also live in the dormitory. The board is obligated to print editorials reflecting the viewpoint of student government and also to print the opposing viewpoints expressed by students.

This is the responsibility of our newspaper; it cannot be questioned, nor will we evade it.

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From the Archives: Commentator Suspends Publication After Threat of Censorship - The Commentator

Students Demand Censorship of ‘Coronavirus’ Theme Party – Reason

Posted on March 1, 2020 by Danzig

Some students at the State University of New York at Albany (SUNY-Albany) posted a video on Instagram that advertised a "coronavirus" themed party, complete with corona-beer-filled ice buckets and attendees in surgical masks. The video was subsequently deleted.

Tacky and insensitive? Sure. A reason for the administration to intervene? No.

Nevertheless, some other students have demanded that the university punish this "hate crime against Asian students and scholars." Since the coronavirus originated in Asia and has so far mostly affected Asian people, the party is presumed to spread negative stereotypes about Asian people.

The Asian American Alliance at SUNY-Albany also called on the administration to investigate the students who posted the video and make them apologize.

In a statement, the administration described the party as "distasteful and hurtful." The university also announced an investigation, and noted that any students who violated the university's code of conduct will be punished.

But there's nothing to investigate, sanction, or punish. SUNY-Albany is a public university, and as such, its students have the right throw dumb theme parties. Their expression is protected by the First Amendment, and the administration cannot take action against them, even if other students are offended by it.

"The act of hosting a party with a theme is itself expressive, and the First Amendment generally does not permit state actorssuch as public universitiesto make distinctions between whether expression is offensive or inoffensive," wrote Adam Steinbaugh of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education. "That's why public officials, including those at public universities, cannot ban flag burning,drag shows, culturally appropriativeHalloween costumes, and other expressive events that offend many other students, like an 'ugly women' contest."

Topical theme parties on campuses often offend one group or another. The offended are entitled to feel that way, and to speak up about it. But they aren't supposed to weaponize those feelings through the university's disciplinary process.

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Apple may be forced to disclose censorship requests from China – The Guardian

Posted on March 1, 2020 by Danzig

Apple could be forced to disclose details of censorship requests from China and other nations after two major shareholder groups backed a proposal that would force the tech firm to make new human rights commitments.

The motion, set to be voted on by the companys investors on Wednesday, was prompted by numerous allegations of Apple kowtowing to Beijing and blocking apps from being used by Chinese customers.

If approved by investors, the scheme could have implications beyond China and potentially expose details of tensions between Apple and other jurisdictions. The California-headquartered tech giant has regularly clashed with the US government, including most prominently over requests for iPhones to be unlocked.

The human rights resolution was put forward by campaign group SumOfUs, which cited several concerns about Apples relationship with the Chinese state in its submission to investors.

Apple failed in an attempt to block the vote from taking place. And now the Guardian has learned that the proposal has the support of the influential corporate governance groups ISS and Glass Lewis.

Together these two firms advise the worlds largest institutional investors on how they vote at companys annual meetings, so their backing for the proposal is a coup for SumOfUs.

Ahead of Wednesdays annual meeting, ISS and Glass Lewis have sent reports to their clients, seen by the Guardian, explaining why they should back the proposal.

Glass Lewis said: [W]e believe that it would be prudent for the company to exhibit enhanced transparency around how it respects the right to free expression.

In their reports, both Glass Lewis and ISS highlighted various news reports of Apple making apps unavailable in China.

In 2016, it emerged that Apple had removed its iBooks Store and iTunes Movies services from devices owned by Chinese customers. In 2017, it removed several virtual private network (VPN) apps, which were used by Chinese citizens to bypass state censorship apparatus. And last year the company removed HKMap.Live, a controversial crowdsourced mapping app that was being used by Hong Kong protesters to track police activity.

The SumOfUs proposal would force Apples board to prepare an annual report on the companys policies relating to freedom of expression and access to information. The board would be compelled to state in the report whether they are publicly committed to freedom of expression and access to information.

They would also have to disclose a description of the actions Apple has taken in the past year in response to government or third-party demands that were reasonably likely to limit free expression or access to information.

SumOfUs believes the need to clarify Apples relationship with China is made particularly urgent by public outrage surrounding Beijings treatment of Uighur people sent to internment camps and pro-democracy protesters in Hong Kong.

Despite backing from ISS and Glass Lewis, SumOfUs still faces an uphill battle to pass the motion because it is opposed by Apples board, which includes the companys chief executive, Tim Cook, and former US vice-president Al Gore.

Apple has issued a statement saying the proposal is unnecessary based on the extensive information that is already publicly provided to our shareholders and users.

The company currently publishes transparency data disclosing the number of government requests it receives by country for customer data and app removal.

For instance, Apple reported that between January and June last year, 288 apps were removed in mainland China for legal or platform violation. Apple stated that the majority of these requests related to pornography, illegal content and gambling.

But in its report to investors, ISS noted that the quantitative approach to the companys transparency report provides little context for the app removal requests from the Chinese government or explanation of the risks that may be involved.

Apple said in its statement that free expression is central to our company and its success but that it is obliged to comply with local laws and to protect the safety of our customers and employees, including by removing apps.

The company said: [W]hile we may disagree with certain decisions at times, we do not believe it would be in the best interests of our users to simply abandon markets, which would leave consumers with fewer choices and fewer privacy protections.

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Pompeo accuses China and Iran of censoring information about coronavirus outbreaks – ABC News

Posted on March 1, 2020 by Danzig

As the novel coronavirus continues to spread around the globe, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Tuesday accused the governments of China and Iran of censoring information about the outbreaks in their countries and putting the rest of the world at greater risk of its spread.

The top U.S. diplomat's sharp tone towards Beijing was matched by Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar, who told Congress on Tuesday that the world is not getting reliable data out of China on issues like mortality rates.

But President Donald Trump seems to be out of sync with both of his Cabinet members and other top officials, praising Chinese President Xi Jinping and his government's handling of the outbreak even as his own administration's response comes under fire from Republican and Democratic members of Congress.

President Donald Trump and China's President Xi Jinping arrive for a state dinner at the Great Hall of the People, Nov.9, 2017 in Beijing, China.

"Censorship. It can have deadly consequences," Pompeo said Tuesday at the State Department. "Had China permitted its own and foreign journalists and medical personnel to speak and investigate freely, Chinese officials and other nations would have been far better prepared to address the challenge."

The flow of accurate information out of China, he added, is critical to assisting not just the Chinese people, but also "citizens across the world." He called on all governments to "tell the truth about coronavirus and cooperate with international aid organizations."

Testifying before the Senate Appropriations Committee, Azar said the administration is also uncertain if the data provided by China on the novel coronavirus outbreak has been full and transparent.

But both of those were at odds with Trump's own remarks just two days ago, praising Xi for "working very, very hard" and "doing a very good job."

"It's a big problem, but President Xi, he's working very hard to solve the problem, and he will solve the problem," Trump told reporters at the White House Sunday.

Trump also showered praise on his own administration's response in the U.S., saying Tuesday in India, "We have very few people with it. ... We're really down to probably 10. Most of the people are outside of danger now."

There have been 57 confirmed cases of the virus in the U.S., with three now released from hospital and no longer thought to be contagious. The majority of those -- 43 of the 57 -- are Americans repatriated from the Diamond Princess cruise ship or Wuhan, China, the epicenter of the outbreak. Only 14 are individuals that either arrived in the U.S. from China and checked into a hospital or caught the virus in the U.S. from a loved one who had traveled overseas.

But officials from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention warned Tuesday that the most recent data suggests another level of virus spread globally, with cases identified in more countries now and another level of virus spread.

People stand on a street behind a barrier to stop others from entering, in Wuhan in China's central Hubei province, Feb. 23, 2020.

"The data over the last week has raised our level of concern," said Dr. Nancy Messonnier, director of the CDC's National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases.

During his news conference in India, Trump also said the U.S. is "very close to a vaccine."

But his acting Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf told Congress Tuesday the U.S. was at least "months" away from developing one, with other advisers testifying one was still a full year away.

The various answers vexed Republican Sen. John Kennedy, who told Wolf his "numbers aren't the same as the CDC's. ... Don't you think you oughta contact them?"

Trump's administration has requested $2.5 billion from Congress for emergency supplemental funds to combat COVID-19, the virus's formal name. That funding would come from a $1.25 billion emergency cash requested from Congress as well as reprogramming existing money, including money Congress allocated to fight Ebola.

Democrats condemned the move as both insufficient to deal with the crisis and a short-sighted effort "to steal funds dedicated to fight Ebola," in the words of Sen. Chuck Schumer, amid the second largest outbreak of that deadly disease still lingering the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo speaks during a briefing at the U.S. Department of State, Feb. 25, 2020, in Washington, D.C.

The request "is indicative of his towering incompetence and further proof that he and his administration arent taking the coronavirus crisis as seriously as they need to be," the Senate Democratic Minority Leader added Monday.

It's not just Democrats, however, who have challenged the administration's response. Chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee, Sen. Richard Shelby, R-Ala., told Azar the administration's "request... is low-balling it possibly, and you can't afford to do that. ... If you low-ball something like this, you'll pay for it later."

Trump's top diplomat for Europe and his State Department also warned that Russia was spreading disinformation about the novel coronavirus outbreak on Saturday. Acting Assistant Secretary of State for Europe Philip Reeker and the agency's Global Engagement Center, which combats terrorist propaganda and foreign government disinformation, told AFP news agency that thousands of Russian-linked social media accounts are actively spreading alarm about the outbreak in a coordinated effort, including accusing the U.S. of creating the virus.

Pompeo said nothing about Russia's role Tuesday. But he did attack Iran's government for censorship as well.

"The United States is deeply concerned by information indicating the Iranian regime may have suppressed vital details about the outbreak in that country," he said, noting Iran is second to China in COVID-19 deaths.

Dr. Iraj Harirchi, the head of Iran's counter-coronavirus task force, tested positive for the virus himself, authorities announced Tuesday -- one day after he appeared at a news conference downplaying the danger posed by the outbreak in Iran and opposing a quarantine of Qom, the city with the largest number of infected patients and fatalities in Iran.

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Conservatives censoring themselves in the age of censorship? InfoWars kicked out of CPAC, triggering conference row – RT

Posted on March 1, 2020 by Danzig

InfoWars was shown the door at this years CPAC and journalist Owen Shroyer decided to hold court as he was being removed, demanding answers and calling the group hypocrites for censoring his outlets voice.

Online censorship of conservative voices has been a major topic on panels at this years Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC). Donald Trump Jr. told a crowd on Friday morning at the convention that censorship and bias against conservative voices is probably a top three issue with his fathers base of voters.

Ironically, that very afternoon CPAC took part in some censorship themselves by kicking journalist Owen Shroyer of InfoWars out of the event.

In videos posted to social media by Shroyer, an unidentified representative for CPAC is seen telling him and his crew that they need to go. Before Shroyer can be exited out of the event, he announces to fellow attendees CPAC is kicking InfoWars out, an outlet he claimed was the most popular group"there.

In interviews with several independent journalists, Shroyer explained that InfoWars applied for a booth at CPAC, but was told there wasnt enough room for them. Shroyer ended up paying for a pass himself. He says he was then invited to sit at various booths, but was told by CPAC officials he could not do that, so he complied. He then took to live streaming the event, which he was also told he could not do. He complied. He was then filming interviews with conservatives such as My Pillow founder Mike Lindell, which he was told he could not do unless he was in a specific area of the event. Once there, Shroyer took to filming and giving and getting interviews, and thats when he was told to leave.

As he was being escorted away from the event, Shroyer yelled to attendees around him and complained he followed all the rules and that conservatives were censoring themselves in the age of censorship.

Shroyer has claimed that powerful people in high places made the decision to kick InfoWars out, though he doesnt know exactly who.

Gavin McInnes, a frequent guest on InfoWars and the founder of the controversial right-wing group Proud Boys, was also kicked out of CPAC this year and escorted from the Gaylord Convention Center by security. McInnes told National File CPAC has become p***y central and he was likely kicked out because he was criticizing more mainstream outlets who were let into the convention. He was also given no official explanation though when he was removed.

Founded by conspiracy theorist Alex Jones who has also been posting videos from CPAC InfoWars has become increasingly controversial in recent years. Jones and his outlet were banned from YouTube, Apple and Twitter in 2018, and he was later banned by Facebook the following year.

The removals came after critics accused Jones of pushing dangerous conspiracy theories, like that the Sandy Hook shooting in 2012 was staged. Jones has pushed back against the charges and claimed he did not push the said conspiracy theory, and has since maintained several times in interviews that the shooting did in fact happen.

Donald Trump appeared on InfoWars several times before becoming president and earned early support from Jones, who claimed he was in frequent contact with Trump while he was on the campaign trail.

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Why we must win the fight for free speech – Spiked

Posted on March 1, 2020 by Danzig

The beautiful thing about the mad reaction to Toby Youngs Free Speech Union (FSU) is that it proves why the union is so necessary. No sooner had Young unveiled his censorship-busting union than the illiberal liberals were out in force to mock it and ridicule it and to insist that, actually, there is no free-speech crisis in the UK. Its a right-wing myth, they claim. There is no widespread censorship. People arent being shipped off to gulags for expressing an opinion. Apparently, the free-speech grift God, I hate the word grift is just a bunch of pale, male and stale blokes pissed off that they can no longer say the N-word or talk openly about womens boobs. Freedom of speech is not under threat, the Young-bashers claim, and anyone who says it is is probably just an Islamophobe, transphobe or some other breed of phobe itching to spout bile with no consequences.

This rank denialism, this blinkered insistence that free speech is not in danger in 21st-century Britain, is exactly why we need the FSU and as broad a discussion as possible about the importance of the liberty to express oneself. Because the fact that so many inhabitants of the chattering-class bubble cant even see that free speech is dying right now confirms how naturalised and uncontroversial the new censorship has become. They dont even see it as censorship. They see it as perfectly normal, and good, in fact, that certain views cannot be expressed in public life or on social media. Thats how cavalier the new war on heretical opinion has become. At least in the past, from Torquemada to the McCarthyites, authoritarians were honest about being censors. Todays self-elected moral guardians of correct opinion are so hubristic, so taken with their own moral rectitude, that they dont even see themselves as enemies of freedom, but rather as decent, unimpeachable maintainers of a natural intellectual order.

Things have come to such a pass that these people will literally seek to censor you in one breath and then express alarm at being called censors in the next breath. Hence the Guardian could publish a piece last week claiming that the idea that there is a culture of censorship in British universities is a right-wing myth while simultaneously defending censorship on campus. In an act of extraordinary moral contortionism, Evan Smith mocked the idea that there is a free-speech crisis at British universities and then, without missing a beat, he defended the policy of No Platform and the creation of safe spaces because the university cannot be a place where racism and fascism as well as sexism, homophobia and transphobia are allowed to be expressed. The Orwellianism is staggering. There is no censorship on campus. Except the censorship I approve of. Which is not really censorship. That is what is being said here. The intellectual dishonesty is almost impressive.

This Orwellian denialism of the existence of censorship by people who actually support and enact censorship cuts to the heart of the free-speech crisis in the UK. The reason the illiberal liberals and woke McCarthyites and Twittermobs dont consider themselves to be censors even as they gleefully agitate for the censorship of feminists, secularists worried about Islamist extremism, and right-wing people opposed to mass immigration is because they have convinced themselves that certain forms of speech are not free speech. That certain beliefs should not be afforded the liberty of expression. You hear it in their telling, baleful mantra that Hate speech is not free speech. And if hate speech is not free speech, but rather some kind of toxin, a pox on public life, then crushing it is not censorship. It is more like an act of public health: cleansing the public realm of diseased thoughts that are liable to harm certain groups. These people see themselves not as censors, but as public-health activists delousing the community of germs spread by evil men and women.

This is why they balk and protest when the words free speech are used against them. They detest the idea that they are enemies of liberty. But of course that is precisely what they are. Just consider that nonsensical chant Hate speech is not free speech. There are two profound moral problems with this idiotic tautology. The first is that, actually, even genuinely hateful speech, including racist gibberish and misogynistic blather, should be free speech. By its very definition freedom of speech should extend to all speech, even speech we detest. And secondly, hate speech has become a slippery, amorphous category that now covers not only foul old nonsense like Holocaust denial, but also trans-sceptical feminism, criticism of Islam, opposition to mass immigration, and so on. Hate speech really means thoughtcrime. It is an utterly ideological category used by the cultural and intellectual elites to demonise and censor ideas, beliefs and moral convictions they disapprove of. The war on hate speech is the new war on heresy, on free-thinking, on minority opinion, on challenging beliefs. It is blatant censorship.

The illiberal liberals conflation of genuine hatred with moral opinion, all of which then gets cynically collapsed under the name of hate speech, was beautifully captured in an exchange on the BBCs Politics Live yesterday. Pushing back against the FSUs Inaya Folarin Iman, Baroness Kennedy arrogantly predicted that the FSU would be embraced by racists people who hate homosexuals, who hate trans people, [and] people who have hostile views towards Islam. Hold on. One of these things is not like the others. What is wrong with having hostile views on Islam? Is hostility towards a powerful world religion now a form of hate speech? Yes, it is. Kennedys conflation of criticism of Islam with racism and homophobia perfectly encapsulated the way in which hate speech is now used to police not only genuinely hateful ideas, but also blasphemy against religious ideas. Even that key freedom human beings fought so hard for the right to mock gods and prophets and religious ideology is now threatened by the censorious ideology of hate speech.

The cynical category of hate speech is openly used to police the parameters of acceptable thought and to punish those who are considered to hold heretical views that the guardians of moral correctness oppose. So not only are critics of Islam denounced as hate speakers so are feminists who question the cult of transgenderism, Christians who disapprove of same-sex marriage, right-wing people who want stricter immigration controls, etc. These are all entirely legitimate political or moral opinions. The branding of them as hate speech and therefore undeserving of the protections of freedom of speech is really a way of calling these views heresy. And of course heretics must be cast out. Feminists, Catholics, critics of Islam hound them off campus, get them off the airwaves, report them to the police for their crimes of hatred. This is an intolerant assault on heresy of the kind that has appeared many times throughout history. Those who say It isnt censorship protest far too much. Deep down they know it is. Deep down they know they are to the 2020s what Joe McCarthy was to the 1950s.

And what has been wrought by their rebranding of moral opinion as hatred? A new and vast system of censure, speech control, and intolerance. No free-speech crisis in the UK? This is now a country in which the police will visit you if you question transgenderism on the internet. In which Scottish police have created a database of people who make un-PC jokes online. In which feminist academics who believe in biological sex need security guards on campus. In which nine people a day are arrested for things they say online. In which you can be sacked from your job for taking the piss out of Islam in your own time. In which university after university has a policy outlawing transphobia or Islamophobia, severely limiting the expression of feminist and secuarlist ideas. In which the state, corporations and intolerant mobs the dire troika of the new intolerance enforce increasingly strict rules on what we can and cannot say.

It is essential we dont buy the myth that this new censorship is about protecting minorities. Leaving aside the extraordinary paternalism contained in the idea that minority groups require self-elected moral authoritarians to save them from offence, the far more important truth is that this new censorship is about guarding a new political order from heretical dissent. It is about ringfencing the ideology of multiculturalism, the ideology of genderfluidity and the ideology of political correctness from the pesky questions and barbs of dissenting thinkers. These are the new ideologies of the ruling class. These ideologies increasingly govern social life, the educational sphere, and the workplace. The phoney defenders of minorities are really defending new power structures and ideological orthodoxies from public questioning.

The FSU is a very good thing. We need more individuals and groups who are willing to defend freedom of speech and the rights of heresy. It is worth recalling the wisdom of Robert G Ingersoll, the 19th-century American political orator, Civil War veteran and, in his words, American infidel. He argued that progress is impossible without heresy, without the freedom to blaspheme against religion and to question political power and moral orthodoxy. Heresy is the eternal dawn, the morning star, the glittering herald of the day. Heresy is the last and best thought. It is the perpetual New World, the unknown sea, toward which the brave all sail. It is the eternal horizon of progress. Heresy extends the hospitalities of the brain to a new thought. Heresy is a cradle; orthodoxy, a coffin.

Good on Toby Young for widening the space for heresy, for seeking to defend the rights of heretics (today defamed as hate speakers). Because heresy is essential to progress, freedom of speech is essential to democracy, and liberty of thought is essential to the good life. Society always, but always, benefits from the free, unfettered expression of ideas.

Brendan ONeill is editor of spiked and host of the spiked podcast, The Brendan ONeill Show. Subscribe to the podcast here. And find Brendan on Instagram: @burntoakboy

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Elon Musk says he is a 3,000-year-old vampire. Twitter has a field day – Livemint

Posted on March 1, 2020 by Danzig

Elon Musk did it again. Once again, he has gone viral with his quirky conspiracy theories, this time about himself.

In a fresh tweet, the Tesla CEO discloses that he is in reality a '3,000-year-old vampire' who is tired of living through all these centuries with 'false identities'.

The story goes as such: Elon Musk tweeted about Spacex preparing for the Starship SN1 tank. He also mentioned that there were certain glitches earlier and they have now been fixed to build a heavy duty, custom planisher.

Following this tweet, a Twitter user then replied asking why had he not incorporated the same settings earlier, suggesting the billionaire a look into time travelling "to save time".

Along with the reply, the user also shared a photo of Canadian fighter pilot Raymond Collishaw, who was born in 1893 and whose face seems to have an uncanny resemblance to Musk and jokingly adding why he was in Canada in 1914.

The Twitter banter then took place between the two and Musk had a witty comeback to it. He added to the tweet saying he was indeed a vampire and that he has lived through several centuries.

And this was enough for users to start a series of comments on his tweet and some also agreed to him and found it "believable".

There were also some who were caught in disbelief in Musk's joke:

This is not the first time that Tesla CEO has been seen going viral for his hilarious tweets. For instance, earlier, Musk pushed a zombie apocalypse joke where denied being involved in it. The billionaire has been known to show off his "superpowers" quite often.

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Elon Musk’s SpaceX Is Headed To San Pedro – laist.com

Posted on March 1, 2020 by Danzig

The flow of one of Southern Californias key sources of water the Colorado River has steadily declined by about 20 percent over the past century, and could continue to do so as the climate changes.

Thats according to a new study from the U.S. Geological Survey, recently published in the journal Science.

It's a worrying sign, since we get about 25 percent of our water from the river.

WHERE'S IT GOING?

The decline can be primarily linked to rising temperatures in the Colorado River Basin, which have increased by roughly 2.5 degrees Fahrenheit since 1913.

The amount of precipitation thats fallen has remained pretty much the same, but much more of it has come down as rain rather than snow during that time. That's a problem for a number of reasons.

For one, snow is a crucial source of long-term water storage, slowly dolling out runoff, and keeping rivers flowing as the weather warms throughout the year.

Second, since snow reflects energy from the sun away from the Earth. When its not there, the Earth heats up faster, the snow melts quicker, and runoff coming down the river evaporates and is taken up by plants at a higher rate.

That means less water for us.

HOW BAD COULD IT GET?

The studys authors estimate a further decrease in runoff of between 1431% by 2050 as the world continues to warm.

In the case where theres more greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, you have a larger decline of the flow than in the case where you have a smaller concentration of gases in the atmosphere, said Chris Milly, senior research scientist with the USGS.

A big caveat: its notoriously difficult to predict precipitation patterns. While the amount of water falling from the sky has stayed relatively consistent over the past 100 years, theres no guarantee itll continue to do so at the same rate as the climate changes.

Elon Musks Boring Company announces third-generation machine is working – Electrek

Posted on March 1, 2020 by Danzig

Elon Musks Boring Company announced on Twitter that its third-generation boring machine, which is supposed to have had its ability greatly improved to dig tunnels fast and cheap, is now working.

The Boring Companys mission is to reduce traffic in metropolitan areas by improving the technology of boring tunnels and developing a fully electric and autonomous transport system that works well inside those tunnels.

For its first test tunnel in Los Angeles, the company basically bought an existing boring machine, which it named Godot, in order to learn more about the process of digging tunnels.

After completing the mile-long test tunnel, the Boring Company bought a second machine and modified it. This second-generation boring machine is called Line-Storm.

At a launch event in December 2018, CEO Elon Musk said that the company is working on its third-generation gorging machine called Prufrock.

For that machine, they are working to increase the power of the machine by a factor 3, modifythe cutter design, and add an automated segment erection system.

Musk said existing tunnel boring companies spend only about 10 minutes mining per hour, as the rest is spent installing the reinforcement and deploying all the logistics behind: power, dirt removal, etc.

They see a potential 15x improvement in the speed of boring versus the next-best boring technology by engineering a system that automatically takes care of that at the same time as they dig.

At the time, Musk said that the new system would be ready relatively soon.

Now just over a year later, the Boring Company has shared an image of a boring machine with the caption Prufrock is alive:

It presumably means that the new boring machine is completed, and it even looks like it is being deployed, though they didnt confirm the location.

The news comes just after the Boring Company completed its first of two tunnels for its Las Vegas Loop project, which is expected to become the companys first full commercial project when it goes into operation later this year.

To me, it looks like the Las Vegas project was more about deploying a Loop system than boring super-fast and efficiently.

Its going to be a fairly small loop system, and it will give the Boring Company the opportunity to demonstrate its concept on a small scale.

But while that was the focus of the project, I am glad that they are also independently working on their tunnel-boring technology, which is required to reduce the cost of tunnels and achieve the companys mission to reduce traffic.

It will be interesting to see what kind of speed the Boring Company can achieve with Prufrock.

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Elons Musk Boring Company Announced Its Third Gen Machine is Working – TechTheLead

Posted on March 1, 2020 by Danzig

During a launch event in December 2018, Elon Musk announced that its company is working on a third-generation gorging machine, named Prufrock.

The Boring Company has deployed its unique tunnel boring machine and it integrates a few great innovations, so the dream of ultra-high-speed tunnels for transporting vehicles underground is even closer.

Unlike other attempts of traditional tunnel boring machines (TBM), Prufrock is expected to be able to dig quicker and make a difference.

To share the amazing news, the Boring Company has shared an image of a boring machine saying Prufrock is alive, on Tweeter.

Now that the machine is ready, the Boring Company completed its first of two tunnels for its Las Vegas Loop project, which goes into operation this year and it will be the companys first fully commercial project.

The project will offer the company the opportunity to show off its concept on a limited extent while working on their tunnel-boring technology which hopefully will improve traffic in metropolitan areas.

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8 Of The Coolest Things Elon Musk Has Done That Make Us Wish We Were Him – MensXP.com

Posted on March 1, 2020 by Danzig

Elon Musk is something else, I don't even know how to describe it. He's, obviously, our favourite eccentric billionaire and even though we all probably have the 'eat the rich' attitude after watching Parasite, no one is specifically coming for him.

He's one of the coolest, most-famous people right now and he does so many wacky and unexpected things, people just love how unpredictable he is. Sure, everyone wants to be rich, but Elon is so much more than that, he makes everyone wish they were like him.

I mean, you have billions of dollars and yet you're on Twitter asking for 'dank memes' from people and fully embracing each and every meme made on you. Now, that's the kind of rich person everyone should aspire to be.

Ah, the high Elon Musk, my personal favourite Elon Musk. Only he can go viral for just smoking a joint, and then become a meme because of it.

He sold flamethrowers, like legit flamethrowers and actually earned $10,000 millions of dollars with it. Who cares about a car company or a space company when you can earn money by selling flamethrowers to people.

Twitter

No one can argue that he's better at Twitter than most people. He's hilarious, he's up to date with everything and regularly changes his name on the website when there's a new meme. Safe to say that he's basically a Twitter celeb.

Tesla

He actually freaking did it, he sent a car to space. How does he even come up with such stuff? We all probably think of weird stuff, but we obviously can't follow through. I'm so glad there's a rich guy out there doing so many random things, like sending a car to space, and making good use of his money.

Twitter

When the Cybertruck was launched, I thought it genuinely looked like that weird-looking car we all drew when we were kids and I stand by it. He brought that car to life and even though people have to wait to get their hands on it, till then, we can just watch Elon driving it around and knocking over stuff.

He's obsessed with Mars,no one knows why. But, what we do know is that he legit wants to move to the red planet and I believe he's going to actually do it. If there's one person who can move to a different planet, it's Elon.

Pretty obvious, but also pretty envious. The dude owns rockets, like proper rockets.

Twitter

He made a really cool and exciting company that will help reduce traffic. It's basically aiming to build a network of tunnels that will transport vehicles using electric skates. Sounds so futuristic, right? A company like that deserves an equally cool name, right? Nope, Elon being Elon called it 'Boring Company' even though the entire thing is anything but boring.

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Elon Musk Says Production-Spec Cybertruck Will Look Slightly Better – CarScoops

Posted on March 1, 2020 by Danzig

Tesla chief executive Elon Musk has shared some additional information about the production-spec Cybertruck on Twitter, revealing that some styling changes will be made.

To say the Tesla Cybertruck has been controversial would be an understatement, with many criticizing its simplistic exterior design. Quizzed on Twitter if the overall look of the electric pickup will remain, Musk said itll be slightly better.

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Just what this means is unclear. However, a number of safety groups around the world have said the design of the Cybertruck presented back in November will need to be altered if its to hit the market. One of the matters debated online regarding the Cybertruck was related to the vehicles stainless steel body and how it will perform in crashes. It has been promoted as being very rigid and seemingly incapable of crumpling like the body of a normal car.

Design aside, Musk has also revealed that the Cybertruck will be equipped with a payload towing calculator that will inform owners how much they can carry depending on the driving scenario. In addition, the outspoken chief executive says the pickup includes active ride height and active damping that are game-changing for a truck or any car with a high max/min weight ratio.

Tesla has a lot of time up its sleeve before the Cybertruck reaches the hands of customers. In fact, production of the range-topping Tri-Motor model isnt scheduled until late 2021, while the cheaper dual-motor and single-motor variants are penciled in for 2022.

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Posted on March 1, 2020 by Danzig

This graph, based on the comparison of atmospheric samples contained in ice cores and more recent direct measurements, provides evidence that atmospheric CO2 has increased since the Industrial Revolution. (Credit: Luthi, D., et al.. 2008; Etheridge, D.M., et al. 2010; Vostok ice core data/J.R. Petit et al.; NOAA Mauna Loa CO2 record.) Find out more about ice cores (external site).

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The Earth's climate has changed throughout history. Just in the last 650,000 years there have been seven cycles of glacial advance and retreat, with the abrupt end of the last ice age about 11,700 years ago marking the beginning of the modern climate era and of human civilization. Most of these climate changes are attributed to very small variations in Earths orbit that change the amount of solar energy our planet receives.

Scientific evidence for warming of the climate system is unequivocal.

The current warming trend is of particular significance because most of it is extremely likely (greater than 95 percent probability) to be the result of human activity since the mid-20th century and proceeding at a rate that is unprecedented over decades to millennia.1

Earth-orbiting satellites and other technological advances have enabled scientists to see the big picture, collecting many different types of information about our planet and its climate on a global scale. This body of data, collected over many years, reveals the signals of a changing climate.

The heat-trapping nature of carbon dioxide and other gases was demonstrated in the mid-19th century.2 Their ability to affect the transfer of infrared energy through the atmosphere is the scientific basis of many instruments flown by NASA. There is no question that increased levels of greenhouse gases must cause the Earth to warm in response.

Ice cores drawn from Greenland, Antarctica, and tropical mountain glaciers show that the Earths climate responds to changes in greenhouse gas levels. Ancient evidence can also be found in tree rings, ocean sediments, coral reefs, and layers of sedimentary rocks. This ancient, or paleoclimate, evidence reveals that current warming is occurring roughly ten times faster than the average rate of ice-age-recovery warming.3

The planet's average surface temperature has risen about 1.62 degrees Fahrenheit (0.9 degrees Celsius) since the late 19th century, a change driven largely by increased carbon dioxide and other human-made emissions into the atmosphere.4 Most of the warming occurred in the past 35 years, with the five warmest years on record taking place since 2010. Not only was 2016 the warmest year on record, but eight of the 12 months that make up the year from January through September, with the exception of June were the warmest on record for those respective months. 5

The oceans have absorbed much of this increased heat, with the top 700 meters (about 2,300 feet) of ocean showing warming of more than 0.4 degrees Fahrenheit since 1969.6

The Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets have decreased in mass. Data from NASA's Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment show Greenland lost an average of 286 billion tons of ice per year between 1993 and 2016, while Antarctica lost about 127 billion tons of ice per year during the same time period. The rate of Antarctica ice mass loss has tripled in the last decade.7

Image: Flowing meltwater from the Greenland ice sheet

An indicator of the current volume and the Antarctica and Greenland ice sheets using data from NASAs Grace satellite.

An interactive exploration of how global warming is affecting sea ice, glaciers and continental ice sheets world wide.

Glaciers are retreating almost everywhere around the world including in the Alps, Himalayas, Andes, Rockies, Alaska and Africa.8

Image: The disappearing snowcap of Mount Kilimanjaro, from space.

Satellite observations reveal that the amount of spring snow cover in the Northern Hemisphere has decreased over the past five decades and that the snow is melting earlier.9

Global sea level rose about 8 inches in the last century. The rate in the last two decades, however, is nearly double that of the last century and is accelerating slightly every year.10

Image: Republic of Maldives: Vulnerable to sea level rise

Both the extent and thickness of Arctic sea ice has declined rapidly over the last several decades.11

Image: Visualization of the 2012 Arctic sea ice minimum, the lowest on record

An indicator of changes in the Arctic sea ice minimum over time. Arctic sea ice extent both affects and is affected by global climate change.

An interactive exploration of how global warming is affecting sea ice, glaciers and continental ice sheets worldwide.

NASAs Operation IceBridge images Earth's polar ice in unprecedented detail to better understand processes that connect the polar regions with the global climate system.

The number of record high temperature events in the United States has been increasing, while the number of record low temperature events has been decreasing, since 1950. The U.S. has also witnessed increasing numbers of intense rainfall events.12

The official website for NASA's fleet of Earth science missions that study rainfall and other types precipitation around the globe.

Earths water is stored in ice and snow, lakes and rivers, the atmosphere and the oceans. How much do you know about how water is cycled around our planet and the crucial role it plays in our climate?

Since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, the acidity of surface ocean waters has increased by about 30 percent.13,14 This increase is the result of humans emitting more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere and hence more being absorbed into the oceans. The amount of carbon dioxide absorbed by the upper layer of the oceans is increasing by about 2 billion tons per year.15,16

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