Two Billboards In New York Capture The Conflict Of Our Time

Seattle To Declare "State Of Emergency" To Protect Transgender Refugees? The ultimate claim to victimhood is the claim that a group of people are "refugees" from mass persecution or "genocide."  The political left covets this victim status more than anything else because, within first world liberal societies, refugees have immediate political capital and access to easy money.  Within every leftist narrative there is an agenda for power and a life without adult responsibility. It is perhaps ironic that thousands of progressive activists and LGBT advocates are leaving red states over imaginary...

BlackRock Says Crypto Can Outrun The Quantum Threat... If It Moves Fast Enough Authored by Mathew Di Salvo via BitcoinMagazine.com, BlackRock, the world’s biggest asset manager, has chimed in on the crypto-quantum debate - and is surprisingly optimistic. The firm, which manages over $15 trillion in assets, said in its new report, Quantum Computing and Blockchains, that upgrading existing cryptography to quantum-resistant standards is a far easier task than actually building a functional quantum computer capable of breaking that cryptography.  “In our view, PQ migration for cryptocurrencies is eminently addressable from a technical standpoint, and...

China Plans Planetary Defense Test By Slamming Mach 26 Spacecraft Into Asteroid A new paper under peer review by the Chinese-language Journal of Deep Space Exploration lays out an ambitious plan to crash a spacecraft at Mach 26, or 20,000 mph, into a near-Earth asteroid to test new planetary defenses. The South China Morning Post reports that a team led by Li Mingtao, chief scientist for planetary defense at the China National Space Administration, is planning a mission even more ambitious than NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART). That mission would...