Apple says John Ternus will be new CEO, Tim Cook to step aside later this year The transition would end Cook's 15-year run as one of the most successful technology CEOs.

The UPenn alum will take over the iconic American tech giant on Sept. 1.
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I don't understand how people still don't get it.

Is there hype? Of course. But don't for one second think that this is not going to completely destroy what used to be called the American way of life.

Step 2: Sell armed version to Chinese military for billions.

Well, it is the Sabbath, after all. A time in which we turn to one another in Christian fellowship and declare, “NO MORE MR NICE GUY!”.

Opening text of a thread by Palantir from X Because we get asked a lot. The Technological Republic, in brief. 1. Silicon Valley owes a moral debt to the country that made its rise possible. The engineering elite of Silicon Valley has an affirmative obligation to participate in the defense of the nation. 2. We must rebel against the tyranny of the apps. Is the iPhone our greatest creative if not crowning achievement as a civilization? The object has changed our lives, but it may also now be limiting and constraining our sense of the possible. 3. Free email is not enough. The decadence of a culture or civilization, and indeed its ruling class, will be forgiven only if that culture is capable of delivering economic growth and security for the public. 4. The limits of soft power, of soaring rhetoric alone, have been exposed. The ability of free and democratic societies to prevail requires something more than moral appeal. It requires hard power, and hard power in this century will be built on software.

Palantir put out a 22-point summary of their CEO's book The Technological Republic. It's pitched as a defence of the West, but if you read it through the VDA framework, verification, deliberation, accountability, what it's actually doing looks rather different.
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I agree. But I dispute that HEU is only useful for bombs.

Power plants Current U.S. naval reactors are all pressurized water reactors, 41 which are identical to PWR commercial reactors producing electricity, except that: • They have a high power density in a small volume and run either on low-enriched uranium (as do some French and Chinese submarines) or on highly enriched uranium (>20% U-235, current U.S. submarines use fuel enriched to at least 93%)

Iran definitely wants to have the capability to build nuclear weapons. In fact, recent attacks may well persuade them they need actual, usable weapons now.

But … there are uses for highly enriched uranium besides nuclear warheads.

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Driver Juha Miettinen dead after horror crash stops Max Verstappen race at the Nurburgring Juha Miettinen (66) was killed while competing in the NLS4 race at the Nurburgring on Saturday

Seven-car crash during NLS4 event this evening has left one driver dead in race also featuring Red Bull's F1 star Max Verstappen. www.gpfans.com/en/f1-news/1...

“Yeah, but that doesn’t even apply to the laws the President makes! Checkmate, libtards!”

-Area MAGA voter

Screenshot of a typical recipe website showing the Jump To Recipe button present on most.

Except … that’s all of them.

The good news is that there seems to be some kind of norm that has arisen to include a link at the top of the page that scrolls you all the way down to the actual recipe.

"Strange even to the men who used them" "Atomic bombs" before the discovery of fission

On DOOMSDAY MACHINES, this week I dive into the idea of “atomic bombs” before the discovery of nuclear fission made them actually feasible. I’ve long thought it makes for an interesting case study — a fateful intersection of scientific fact and science fiction. doomsdaymachines.net/p/strange-ev...

Given that Russia blocked Bluesky, I would expect this is, uh, related.

Our Navy is broken.

If the Iranians had closed the Strait of Hormuz without first being attacked, the vote being scheduled today would be an AUMF for the President to open the Strait by whatever means necessary.

Freedom of Navigation has always been core vital interest for the US. What are you doing to protect it?

I would kill to see Sam Jackson yell at Hegseth “THE BIBLE, MOTHERFUCKER! DO YOU READ IT?”

This is not an escalation. That is the language of retribution and this is not retribution.

This is an explanation to the American people why JD Vance’s accusation was completely without merit.

I walked away from catholocism immediately after my confirmation and here I am being activated like some kind of Knights Templar sleeper cell.

Ukraine confirms rocket launches into space during wartime Ukraine's Main Intelligence Directorate conducted two successful rocket launches into space during the ongoing full-scale war with Russia, reaching altitudes of over 100 kilometers and 204 kilometers ...

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This news item is doing the rounds, and it is very confusing. It seems to conflate things that should not be conflated - suborbital launches, space lanches, suborbital and orbital. More concerningly, it seems to hint at ASAT.
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Decades of getting hammered for being “weak on defense” will do that to a party. Especially throughout the Cold War, when the enemy against which you are arming is, ostensibly, leftist and you are politically vulnerable to being accused of collaboration if you direct policy away from Defense.

Exactly. Why put your ships in harm’s way when you have a blue water Navy that can track and intercept commercial shipping at a time and place of your choosing?

Wow. We should probably arrest the guy forcing her to do this. Think of the price he’s making her pay!

Are we SURE this isn’t a bit? It’s just so painfully dumb.

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Tornado outbreak in Southern Minnesota tonight. #MnWX

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That's why I always write-in "Batman" whenever I vote for a new Pope.

Dude is absolutely shitting his pants scared.

a man with white hair and a beard is pointing his finger at something . Alt: Mugatu from the movie Zoolander declares, "Dear God ... it's beautiful"

Orban goes down hard and Trump attacks the Pope for being Catholic, both in one night.

Did Trump just accuse the Vicar of Christ of being "weak" on ...[checks notes] ... nuclear weapons?

A YouTube card by FOX 9 Minneapolis-St. Paul with a large heading of “US Blockage” instead of “US Blockade”. Pictured in the card are President Trump and Vice-President Vance.

“U.S. Blockage”

Cannot wait for our nation to squeeze these two turds out and end this uncomfortable period of constipation.

Also, FOX, the word is “blockade.”

Victor Orban’s biggest mistake? Not going on Joe Rogan.

Opposition leader Péter Magyar at a rally.

Orbán's electoral crushing is a far greater achievement than most people outside Hungary realise.

He systemically consolidated power for 16 years, fixed the electoral map, abused govt power for political purposes & censored media.

The hurdles that Hungarians overcame for this moment were immense.