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A: It's possible secure boot or UEFI is enabled.  If this laptop is that new look in the BIOS menu for secure boot, UEFI, and disable it.  I've had this happen before on ubuntu installs with this annoying "feature" enabled.


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Stop using [protection]
Modified 26 days ago
I noticed the tag protection is used for a few unrelated concepts. The main ones that stick out are:
preventing edits on workbooks and documents
security stuff: authorization, hacking, etc
There was no tag wiki for this tag originally, and there are 420 questions at present :(
It fails all the preliminary checks before burnination:
Does it describe the contents of the questions to which it is applied? and is it unambiguous?
No, the tag is ambiguous and is equally applicable to:
branch protection (VCS)
Is the concept described even on-topic for the site?
Yes and no, the concept can be on or off-topic depending on the context (questions about protection can be about security, general computing, or asked in a programming context).
Does the tag add any meaningful information to the post?
No, protecting something is a goal, while on-topic questions revolve around specific programming problems / algorithms that are often only circumstantially related to protection.
Does it mean the same thing in all common contexts?
No, the only common meaning is that it is a process of restricting access to something which, as described above, can involve completely unrelated tasks.
Zoe stands with UkraineMod
BarettBarett
Added answers to preliminary burnination questions to conform the request with the established protocol - feel free to reword / edit / update as necessary for the discussion.
– Oleg Valter is with Ukraine
Rolled back because the last edits deviate from the OP original intention. If you want to make a burnination request start one from scratch.
Also those edits make the answers obsolete
Folks, given the post has been a burnination request since 2017 and is already scheduled for the evaluation process, reediting it to a retag request is highly problematic.
Agreed. If you lot have a case to make for its renaming or synonymization instead, post a new question (or an answer opposing the burnination, even though we're still months away from it actually taking place)
– Zoe stands with Ukraine Mod
@ZoestandswithUkraine How protection was added to the evaluation process ? / What are the criteria to include a tag in that queue ? Is there a status meta-tag for tags scheduled for the burnination evaluation process? Is "still months away" another way to say in 6-8 weeks?
"still months away" is a way to say "however long it takes to get through all the other tags in the queue". I cannot estimate that accurately, because it depends on participation numbers, which are completely unpredictable at the moment. But in general, more participants means faster burns, which means shorter waiting times for your favorite flamethrower targets:tm:
It doesn't really matter if it's in the question or posted as an answer though. Posting answers in favor of the burn has always been allowed, and in my opinion, that includes the burn criteria if OP doesn't add them. This is with the exception of where there's no attempt to explain why the tag is bad to begin with. This question does, even though it doesn't follow the proper method, which is good enough. But I don't really mind them added to the question either.
Also, what difference does it make? If it's added to the question, which any OP can do anyway, you're free to downvote the question and dismantle it in an answer. The other alternative is downvoting the question, an answer, and dismantle the answer in the comments instead, which gets hard to keep track of real fast. The current answer trying to dismantle the criteria answering consist of 5.5k characters including formatting, which is around 9-11 comments depending on how sentences are aligned, which doesn't include the 15 replies to that answer, nor does it include the obligatory
additional comments because doing extensive dismantling in comments is hard, and thanks to reduced editing for non-mods, some extra comments may be needed to fill in that gap. I don't particularly see how that's any better
If the burnination was at -50, it would've been declined, forcing a new request. Your argument there is irrelevant. Since activity resurfaced, this question has still gained more upvotes than downvotes. All the opposing answers have also been downvoted below net 0. Even if it was added as an answer, you lot have currently failed to convince the general meta core that this burnination is bad. Initial votes wouldn't have helped here when it has still gained more net upvotes than downvotes after being bumped back into activity. That's not because it's "unfair"
We're not talking about several tens or even >100 net upvotes here, we're talking about an initial net of 12. That's easy to topple if you make a solid case the meta core agrees with (or when we enter phase 2, the community at large). As evidenced by the failure to do so, your case probably isn't as convincing as you think. But we'll see what happens when phase 2 starts (or what happens in the time leading up to that; a lot can happen in a few months)
imagine trying to rule lawyer community-made guidelines
– Kevin B
is something you'll have to take up with Bhargav. There's some deleted comments pointing out a dupe along with a request to retag this, which seems to make the retag itself fine as well. The only points you have here regarding the validity of the burn have nothing to do with the burnination process itself. You're welcome to try anyway, but you'd be better off spending your energy on arguments against the burn rather than its past and possible future handling
"I'm not asking you to discard all the votes" - never said you did. "That sounds reasonable to me" - because we have no way of proving that all the upvoters also don't side with the burnination. Disregarding their votes prevents those people from saying anything through voting. That is not reasonable
Protection is a programmatic concept that can be well defined without ambiguity. After a careful review of the questions in that tag, I felt the the following definition captures the essence of the most questions in that tag. I went ahead and added the following definition:
Tag excerpt:
Protection refers to any process that involves hiding the data or restricting access to the said data, such as "read only access", "write access", "copy access". Use with tags such as [c#], [php], [python], [javascript], [github] when question involves protecting code or memory. Use with [excel], [google-sheets], [sql], [passwords], [pdf] when question involves programmatic protection of data in files. Do NOT use with [data-protection]
Tag wiki:
Protection refers to any process that involves hiding the data or code or restricting access to the said data, such as "view only access" or "edit only access" or "owner level access". Commonly used in
Preventing code-write access in github(Branch protection)
Preventing read/edits from a document or worksheets(like excel/google-sheets)
Accessing password protected pdfs programmatically.
Preventing unauthorized access to memory
Protecting unauthorized copying of code by obfuscation or access control techniques
There seems to be a overlap with access-control. Whether it should be synonymized to access-control or should the tag still be burninated, or should the tag be left alone, should be determined by the community.
TheMasterTheMaster
I don't think that access-control and protection should be synonymized as the first might be used when the issue refers to a file / content / database management systems like systems that relies on user accounts while the later might be used when the issue refers the file format like a password stored in the file.
The 1st thing that comes to mind when someone mentions protected is Java.
– bad_coder
The question was added new information claiming it satisfies all the criteria for burnination. Prima facie, it seems no effort is put into this claim.
Is branch protection not a security measure? Is access control not a security measure? How is it ambiguous? Using different specific names for the same word doesn't make it ambiguous. We have a specific access-control tag. There does seem to be a overlap with access-control. access-control would indeed be a subdivision of protection. The former requires a specific management system in place, based on user accounts, while the latter does not. It's important to note that both concepts described here and concepts like cryptography, authentication,authorization,privacy, integrity, encryption, ssl are all subdivisions of security. But, why aren't we burning security? Inside authorization, we have a more specific tag oauth. Inside oauth, we have subdivisions like google-oauth. Just because there are more specific tags available doesn't mean we should burn the parent. Do we burn oauth, because we have subdivisions like google-oauth? Do we burn authorization, because we have oauth? Or Do we burn security, because there are many specific tags available. No! Because, there might be concepts, not described by any of the subdivisions. And it helps to categorize all subdivisions in a single parent, making it easy to search. Just because there are more specific subdivisions doesn't make the parent tag ambiguous by itself. Does having names for Nissan or Ferrari make the term "Car" ambiguous?
That's vague. The same argument can be said of any tag. Let's take [python]. "Depending on context", say, The question is about learning python or getting a python book, the question is offtopic. Does that make the concept described, the language tag [python] off topic? Of course not. The real question is: Is the concept offtopic?
Does this definition, feel offtopic?
Protection refers to any process that involves hiding the data or restricting access to the said data, such as "read only access", "write access", "copy access".
Does it at least attract offtopic questions more than other tags? There is zero evidence to suggest that it does.
Again, the same thing can be said of any tag, if you add "something is a goal" to it. Making a calculator in python is goal. typescripting something is a goal. Yes, it is. But it adds meaningful information to the tag. That the question is dealing with that syntax and language. Maybe it's not about accomplishing something. Maybe it's about debugging. Maybe it's about the why something is failing to trigger. The questions in protection isn't necessarily about "protecting something". Sometimes, it's about how to access protected resources. Sometimes, it's about why protection fails in certain circumstances.
If you read the above answer without the "No", it's clear it means the same thing in all cases, that it is a process of restricting access to something. It means the same thing in all contexts.
Forget the law, The spirit of burnination criteria is this:
Is the tag causing a fairly large amount of harm?
If a particular tag is bringing lots of off-topic posts to the site, then it certainly is harmful.
As said before, there's zero, zilch, null evidence to suggest it brings in any off-topic question. If it did, which it doesn't, the criteria says
If the tag isn't harmful, consider instead a divide and conquer approach to the problem by using one or more of these alternative strategies:
Updating the tag wiki excerpt (an edit can be suggested by anyone, subject to approval) Merging or renaming a tag (which can be handled instantly and painlessly by a moderator) Adding/removing a tag synonym (which can also be handled instantly and painlessly by a moderator)
I've updated the tag wiki in a attempt to make the tag excerpt useful. But it is very strange, that just after updating the wiki, the post was updated, without due diligence to claim, it satisfies all the burnination criteria and that's with the grand-fathered +14 votes, making it easier to pass the +20 criteria, while answers defending it had to start from 0.
Your distaste for a frustrating game shouldn't result in the destruction of otherwise-valid tags
"Is branch protection not a security measure? Is access control not a security measure?" branch protection is very different from access control. Both in how it's implemented and what the end goal is. Branch protection in VCS is more about controlling the process. Requiring reviewers, adding policies that need to be covered for some work to be added to a branch. It doesn't hide information or assume malicious actors. Mostly consistency and quality control. That's not what access control is - it's about securing a resource to only privileged access.
– VLAZ
@VLAZ Great. As I already said, there seems to be a "overlap" with "access control", but not that "protection" is access control. Per my definition, Protection refers to any process...hiding the data or restricting access to the said data,...., Branch protection would come under "restricting access, specifically write access", based on certain policies. The definition doesn't assume that there are malicious actors or that protection is only about "hiding data".[1/2]
– TheMaster
[2/2] Protection can be from malicious actors or bad quality code writes and ultimately it's about protecting the data against different type of negative things threatening the data. The data needs to be safe from malicious actors as well as bad quality writes.
A garbage bin and a carpet both stop the floor from being dirty. I wouldn't really say they are both "dirt-protection". If you stretch any definition enough, it can cover disparate concepts. Both a car and a mug are sort of the same. They can roll. They can both hold liquids. But I don't really see how "branch protection" and "access control" are useful to combine in the same tag rather than separate ones.
@VLAZ I could say the same. Any definition can be compressed to be specific enough so that it can never cover the same concept. Mazda and Ferrari are different types of cars. You could make that difference and claim a tag is needed for both. Even within the same Car, there are different models of ferrari, you could claim a tag for each model for that difference. Even within the same model, age of the car maybe different. You could claim the tag for each year for the same model. Where do you draw the line? Or rather how do you draw the line, based on what criteria?
There's no need to draw a line, we have meta for making the decision.
The ultimate criteria is Does it attract offtopic questions? If you think they do, make your case and if it really does attract offtopic questions, more than other tags, I'll have no more case here.
Proof of it attracting off-topic questions isn't one of the 4 requirements of burnination, rather it is simply something that should be taken into account. There is no alternative solution that would make sense in this case given the tag is overly ambiguous and on it's own couldn't be used to ask an on topic question.
For all the talks about similarity, I also notice there is no mention on how the tag is different from [security]. All the concepts you have described seem equally applicable to that tag. Where and why is there line drawn? Can there not be a similar line drawn between different sub-categories of the [protection]?
@VLAZ Security encompasses various tags like [authentication], [authorization], [access-control], [cryptography] and you can't say how each one is different from [security] except that, they define a specific concept inside [security]. Can there not be a similar line drawn between different sub-categories of the [protection]? Yes, there is no question, there can be. But should it be drawn? If so, why? And if we did, should the parent be burninated? To flip the same question, why isn't [security] burninated, when there are so many sub categories present?
Related: meta.stackoverflow.com/a/400126
@TheMaster ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ I wouldn't be opposed to breaking up [security]
@VLAZ Would you also vouch for breaking up [authorization] to [oauth] and different types of authorization. Or breaking up [arrays] to [c++-arrays], [java-arrays], [vba-arrays], [python-arrays] as there are specific differences between all of them?
I've never found [arrays] to be a particularly useful tag. The vast majority of times I encounter questions with it, they aren't even about arrays. Usually some basic question about loops or syntax. If not split up, I'd love it to be applied only where it actually matters. Because actual array operations tend to be uniform across languages. Some specifics might differ but swapping elements, or traversing, or sorting will involve the same steps. Described using different code. Protecting a branch and a resource is not the same thing to me.
"they would have created it by now" - this wasn't what I found when looking into this at the question level. Mostly people were lazy and just typed a few key words from their question. If that didn't come up, and the concept was included in the specific tag wikis, they might think a little harder and get someone who could actually help. The last part is key. Tags are for getting help from smes. I didn't see many cases where the protection tag would help with a search. The keyword was almost always located somewhere else already.
– Barett
Despite the the tag wiki content, I don't think that we should stop using / burninate protection as the "community" decided to clean-up the "hyphenated tags" related to tags like google-apps-script, google-sheets among others, in favor of using using two or more tags.
As of January 4th, 2022:
protection has 600 questions
[excel] protection returns 1584 results
[google-sheets] protection returns 618 results.
So potentially there are more questions that might properly use this tag. Just this weekend on the Google Apps Script chat room was mentioned the use of this tag as part of the current curation effort for improving the google-apps-script with with a FAQ.
protection "should" be used together with
google-apps-script and google-sheets for questions about programming issues protecting a sheet or range when google-sheets-api is not being used, i.e. when creating a Google Workspace / Editor add-ons using the Spreadsheet Service (Class SpreadsheetApp).
google-sheets-api for questions about programming issues protecting a sheet or range using the Google Sheets API. Also the tag of the programming language / runtime should be used.
It should not be [merged / retagged] with / synonymized to access-control because they have separate uses, i.e. access-control could be used for questions about access to resources in file systems like Windows, Mac Os, Google Drive, OneDrive among others but not for protecting a spreadsheet sheet or range or a internal part of other kind of document.
I think that protection might be used together with tags that corresponds to other spreadsheets like excel and other documents editors that also handle the protection concept separate from the access-control concept.
Actually protection and access-control might be used together in questions about the interaction of the "access-control-list" of the file system hosting the document with the protection feature of the document editors.
edited Jan 4 at 3:29
RubénRubén
I think you have an argument with the post/keyword count on the 2 tags, excel and google-sheets. However, isn't the word "protection" too broad to be problematic by itself? I like tags that can span multiple languages (like datatype tags int, string, enum) but I'm not convinced "protection" is descriptive enough and specializing the names of tags has been the trend and a safe choice. Besides, I'm suprised that "protection" seem to be a "sheets" things, isn't there lots of stuff that can be "protected"?
@bad_coder Thanks for your comment. Any suggestion about how to properly tag questions about file / sheet/ range protection in spreadsheets using "desktop" formats like Excel (xlsx) and "online" formats like Google Sheets? Could we use the same guidelines for both?
That's the problem I'm not an excel/google-sheets SME so I can't evaluate the importance/relevance of the tag. I have no ideas to contribute to this debate (besides some general burnination experience, my 2 cents are in the comment above).
A couple of years ago I "lost a battle" about tagging... what I learned is that here tag naming is more a thing of "consensus" than applying "logic" or following naming rules. On some tags the "consensus" is to keep the tag name, use the the best that you can, and don't worry about taxonomy / vocabulary / terminology correctness. Regarding protection what I'm looking is that it won't be burninanted / blacklisted because I think that it's helpful to use it together with other tags, particularly with spreadsheet related tags, rather than creating new tags.
I feel the meaning of protection should be changed to refer to just the document related one, and the security related stuff retagged to one of the given alternatives.
If someone has a better suggestion for the lock-my-document concept's name, please post a comment or answer!
Nobody reads anything. Killing it completely is probably warranted.
– Deduplicator
If you search [protection]document then only 40 post that use protection refer to document protection. that only represents 12% of all the questions. I think this tag just needs to do away.
– NathanOliver
good point. don't forget the 45 for [protection]sheet
Stop protecting [protect]
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Wouldn't it be great if every time we posted or tweeted it resulted in a sale? But it doesn't, does it? Part of the problem is that we've been led to believe that social media is the 'holy grail' of conversion; that if we just post or tweet on a regular basis, all our sales woes will be over. If you're looking for a better return on your social media investment, this guide to how some top online mavericks monetize social media could be of value.
1. If you want to make money from social media, you need to get your prospects off social media.
Think about how you use Facebook or Twitter. Do you go there to buy something or for other reasons? Chances are it's the latter. If you wanted to buy what someone had to offer, you'd probably go direct to their site and buy it instantly. You might find them via Facebook but if you wanted to give them your money you'd probably go to their website to do it. If you want to monetize social media, you should use it to drive people to your website, not the other way around.
2. Invest in your own 'real estate'.
Investing heavily in social media at the expense of your own 'real estate' (like your website, your blog etc) is like being a tenant in a lovely flat – at the start, it all looks great. Nice landlord, reasonable rent, great view.
But what happens if the flat gets sold or the owner puts the rent up? You have no option but to move out or the pay the higher price. It's the same with social media. Whoever own the platform (Zuckerberg, Dorsey etc), makes the rules. So why would you invest all your time and money into someone else's platform when they could change the rules at any time (as they do) and take you out of the game? Make it a point to start collecting customer contact details (email addresses, phone numbers etc) so that you 'own' the customer, rather than relying on social media platforms to do the collecting for you.
Within seconds, she gets back a plethora of responses. 'Try Appliances Online. Good prices. They deliver, and they take away the old one for free.' Another post says the same thing, and another. Within three minutes she has all the information she needs to make a decision. Appliances Online it is. It gets better. Not only does she go and buy from them, but she gets back online and praises Appliances Online to her tens of thousands of followers. Who needs advertising when you've got peer-to-peer endorsements like that? Social media not only helps Appliance Online create sales but it helps them save money by reducing the cost of their advertising spend too.
Social media can definitely generate more sales for your company but it won't happen in a logical, orderly fashion just because you post a few tweets and updates. If you're not getting the results you want from your social media efforts, maybe it's worth taking the mavericks approach and seeing where it takes you.
This is a slightly amended version of an article written by Bernadette Schwerdt, online marketing strategist and author of "Secrets of Online Entrepreneurs – How Australia's Mavericks, Disruptors and Innovators Built Their Internet Businesses and How You Can Too". It has been shortened to make it suitable for web publishing.


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Uncovering every detail of the Powers of X finale
'While you slept, the world changed.'
By Robert Secundus and Chris Eddleman Oct 11, 2019, 11:40am EDT
Editing by Zachary Jenkins, copyediting and layout by Susana Polo
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Marvel's House of X/Powers of X event is complicated, full of references to the X-Men past and hints at the X-Men future. Jonathan Hickman, R. B Silva, and Pepe Larraz are delivering a beautifully rendered and textually dense reinvention of one of the biggest franchises in comics history.
That's too much for just one comics editor to dig into, so we reached out to the folks at the Xavier Files, whose in-depth annotations of House of X and Powers of X impressed us, educated us, and entertained us. Now you can enjoy the Xavier Files' Hox Pox Tox right here on Polygon — so crack open your copy of House of X #4, and read along! (You can find the first three annotations here).
In this oversized finale, Jonathan Hickman, R.B. Silva, Pepe Larraz, Marte Gracia, and David Curiel reveal the nefarious truth behind all of Moira's lives. Explained by The Librarian in X³, mutants are only the next organic step in evolution. Transhuman experimentation through robotics and genetic manipulation pushed human evolution past mutants. Mutants will always lose. Hearing this in her Sixth Life, Moira relays the ugly truth to Xavier back on the park bench of X0, and they begin their mission to beat the odds. In her Krakoan No-Place, Moira clashes with Xavier and Magneto, as she has her whole life. They know mutants may lose, but they won't lose without a fight.
Robert Secundus: I don't know what to say; this is the end. I'm excited to dive in one last time.
Chris Eddleman: Rob, we're finally at the end. We've been writing about HoXPoX for twelve weeks now, looking frankly far too closely at this series. We've talked biology, theoretical physics, philosophy, religion, art, and history. I've said it many times that it's great to see a creative team inspired by a wide range of topics and this might be one of the widest. And to the readers, we've loved your response and your correspondence — it's been really fun being in the HoXPoX community for the duration of this run. So, we hope you're game for our last go — but I figure you are, you've been game for 12 weeks.
[Ed. note: It's a double-sized finale boys, we need to get started.]
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CE: Our final epigraph from Xavier (still called Alpha, which after this issue will seem very silly) reminds us that while we're at the end of this double miniseries, the journey is really only beginning with this new era of X-Men.
RS: That the title of the final chapter of Powers Of X is "House of X" really emphasizes the fact that these are two series only in marketing, not in reality. It's also appropriate because, in many ways, this issue concerns recursion and returning to beginnings.
CE: Plus, as X-Men has taught us so often — the X can be, and will be, "ten." In this case, it refers to House of Ten, meaning the House of Moira. As this issue will go on to state, it's really all her plans that have led to this moment, despite setbacks from the other players.
RS: I can't believe that the final twist is "It was pronounced House of Ten, actually."
CE: Grant Morrison would be proud.
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RS: I expect the flashback sequence to PoX #1 to be fairly controversial, but I really like it. I like that we don't just get a sequel, but we get to see this scene play out again in fuller context. Every single reader, not just those who stop, go back, and pick up the older comics, now experiences that moment again in its full light.
CE: It's interesting to me that the Page 4 has an addition, which just gives us another panel of a very happy Charles Xavier. I guess that hammers home how naive he is prior to meeting Moira in her tenth incarnation. He has a very simple, and to him, achievable dream of mutant coexistence with humanity. This contrasts with Moira, who has seen with her own death, the death of that dream over and over again.
CE: While it could just be the fact that it's a jungle, the Preserve to me looks very Krakoan. I wonder if Librarian and friends created this to resemble Krakoa as a sort of comfort to the mutants. Also, of note, it's a Preserve of many species. I'm guessing the blue folks have done much to the biome of Earth at large that requires extra preservation. I mean, tomorrow it's going to be eaten so it's a moot point.
RS: Here we start to see that we've misunderstood the nature of the Preserve, the New Eden, from PoX #1 onwards, as those background figures are not those of humans. We approached the Eden from an incorrect paradigm, one that assumed that mutants and humans were a simple dichotomy, and that transhuman individuals belonged to the latter species.
CE: I feel like we were certainly led to believe that. But of course, we X-Men fans like to think of mutants as the evolutionarily superior branch. In fact, in Powers of X #1, Nimrod the Greater says to the Librarian "Homo sapiens, so glad to be done with all of that," which cued us to believe those were the ones in the preserve. It was a good swerve. [Ed. note: Though it brings up the question of if post-humans see much difference between Homo sapiens and Homo superior.]
RS: At first, a disembodied voice from the Edenic trees begins to talk about freedom, and raging against one's masters, against the creators of that Eden. Logan is this Eden's Miltonic Satan, it seems, and Moira its Lilith, or else they are its Adam and Eve, about to receive knowledge that will lead to their death and expulsion from the garden.
CE: We are reminded how much Wolverine hates to be caged, to be deprived of his freedom in this zoo. [Ed. note: Also how much he loves overthrowing authority figures!]
CE: It's really odd to me after seeing the theoretically benevolent, sometimes childlike Librarian looking like the bad guy, but that was of course more clever storytelling to play with our expectations. It's brilliant.
CE: The Librarian uses the morally kind excuse for incarceration — preservation (or protection), when of course he really just can't kill Moira, and wants to know her plans. He is 1000 years of petty, I suppose.
CE: The Librarian reminds us of the entire X³ storyline- the Ascension of the post-human civilization to godhood, in the convoluted "getting eaten and absorbed" method. The Librarian dreams of existing outside space and time — not immortality exactly, but complete omniscient permanence. [Ed. note: Thankfully, someone understands what's going on in X³.]
RS: Two important things to note about intra-singularity aeviternity. If Moira's powers do annihilate the timeline, then mutants are safe, but if her consciousness merely travels back and splits the timeline, the Dominions still know about Moira, and are likely coming for her. Even if they annihilate the timeline, being-in-a-black-hole unsticks you from that timeline, and so Cardinal, Xorn, Dougkoa, and Rasputin may be coming to Life X (Main X-Men continuity), but so may Nimrod and an entire machine Earth. [Ed. note: Of course, they may all be part of a Dominion godhead now, which seems dangerous.]
CE: The Librarian likely wants nothing more than to be rid of Moira, but he absolutely must preserve her until godhood. This very much smacks of "bad guy explaining his scheme" which as we see carries a purpose. In this Garden of Eden, our zookeeper needs to undergo a confession.
CE: In case you thought that we weren't philosophical enough, the Librarian is getting into the meaning of existence. He seems to be implying that existence within the Dominion is merely a simulation, the idea of which puzzles contemporary scientists. [Ed. note: As well as teens who just saw The Matrix for the first time.] Is this nature of existence simply what our senses tell us? Could a manufactured existence be just as "real" as a material existence? He's very afraid to find out. I noticed he keeps referring to himself as post-human, which seems to be a coping mechanism to try to escape his very human fear of having his existence compromised.
RS: This gets at older philosophical and theological problems too; how can an immaterial soul in heaven, someone's pure essence, their form, without individuating matter, maintain an independent existence in a heaven? How can an individual remain an individual after deification? How can individual humanity retain any identity when it is one human drop among the endless eternal ocean of god?
RS: Homo novissima would be latin for the Last Man. [Ed. note: Not to be confused with the comic book.]
CE: Our robot friend Nimrod spoke quite a bit of his own inevitability. Here we have an argument between Moira, Wolverine, and the Librarian about what existence is truly inevitable, and mutantkind's place in it. This harkens back to the Orchis Protocol, which activated when the "inevitability" of mutants became a growing concern.
RS: What's thematically happening here is really interesting in two ways. First of all, PoX is picking up something that was inherent to the original X-Men but quickly dropped. Mutants were, originally, written as the Children of the Atom, as a species that in part resulted from humanity's dominance over nature, over its ability to control even the basic building blocks of our universe. Here it's just the post-humans who get to claim that role.
Second of all, it's building on the thematic concerns of Morrison's New X-Men. Morrison was primarily interested in using the Mutant Metaphor as a means to explore not oppression but evolution, and not just biological but societal, cultural, and even cosmic evolution. This grand design unites both of those concerns. Humanity's triumph over evolution allows them to oppress mutants, and the evolution of machine intelligences into gods grants them power over the entire universe.
CE: A great deal of this series seems to be dealing with machine intelligence, and the story deceiving us a bit into making them seem like a real threat. I like this reveal that machines are, as always, a tool that humans use — in this case to oppress. Also, quite importantly, the vignettes we see are Project: Rebirth (the creation of Captain America) as well as a showcase of the Omega Sentinel. The definition of engineered post-humans includes the rest of the Marvel Universe, which seems to put mutants at odds with other superheroes. But, please, God, no more Avengers vs. X-Men.
RS: Also, if Project: Rebirth is part of trans-human history, then so should be the following Weapon Plus program, which means that a number of mutants guest star in that story.
CE: Weapon Plus was recently featured in a one-shot as well. It would be interesting to see if there's going to be any connection coming up with the Dawn of X titles. [Ed. note: There is an upcoming one-shot tying into Absolute Carnage.]
CE: The Librarian, in all of his post-human intelligence, definitely gives the entire plan of humanity (which doesn't seem to change, timeline to timeline) away here. Very arch of him.
CE: And of course he pays for it here. [Ed. note: "You sly dog! You got me monologuing! I can't believe it." — The Librarian probably.] It's hard to become a small part of godhood with your head clawed into a tree. It's wild that Moira and Wolverine waited 1000+ years for this conversation, but it sets up her remaining lives. This is the high level plan that Moira needed to know, and she seems to be set on getting the details right as time goes on.
RS: Does he pay for it? I think, given his fears about Ascension, this might be what he really wanted, gruesome as his end is.
CE: That is definitely a distinct possibility. I have an odd feeling this isn't the end of our cerulean friends. But then again, I think that about all the stuff in HoXPoX.
RS: And so we get the major twist of the issue. As was popularly theorized, X³ is the life of Moira VI. With this blank filled in, we know what she was doing in lives VII and IX: trying to find ways to buy Mutants time, to get back those years and decades that the Librarian believes were key to Post-Humanity's victory. In VII she tries to end all Sentinels and finds them an inevitability; in IX she tries to find a way to keep Nimrod from coming online. She also learned of the nature of the Phalanx and the existence of Dominions in VI, which indicates that both Sinister's experiments in biological hiveminds and singularities in IX as well as Krakoan experiments in archived minds, biotech, and the great machines of society may be attempts to create Mutant Strongholds and Dominions.
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CE: Not to mention his delving into chimera creation. This timeline tells us that mutants didn't realize or were too squeamish to delve into their own genomes. As we see in timelines IX (and X for that matter), Sinister breaks that mold.
We get another "best there is at what he does" reference. Remember, in timeline IX, Moira completes this line. Nice callback.
CE: The Krakoan symbols are M for Mutant in Homo superior, H for Human in Homo sapiens, and P-H for Post-Human in Homo novissima. The note under Homo novissima refers to a self-perpetuating cycle of technological (and in the post-human case, evolutionary) singularities. This shows how easily the post-humans blow past mutants evolutionarily.
RS: Just as House of X's approach to Society finds antecedents in Hickman's early work (Red Mass for Mars in particular is structured around Buber's ideas), so too does Powers of X. Transhuman focused on an economic war between two rival conceptions of post-humanity, between the biological post-humans and technological post-humans. The former were strongly associated with the X-Men.
CE: I haven't read Transhuman but that is completely wild. [Ed. note: Transhuman takes this into a dark direction that may be uncomfortable for some folks. So read at your own risk.]
RS: Poor Charles. I suppose a telepathically induced paradigm shift can be a bit of a Brain Freeze.
CE: Rob, he went from having a delightful day at the fair, thinking about his very nice dream of the future, only to have it blown to pieces. I would feel the same, probably. Love the change in lighting here.
CE: Moira is reminded us, Xavier's dream cannot work, and will never work. This is rather hard for him to grasp.
CE: Doubling down on the naivety of Xavier. Even immediately after seeing the many ways that humanity wins and destroys mutantkind, he thinks little tiny changes can cause a rippling butterfly effect.
CE: And Moira quickly breaks him of that notion. The response of "It's not a compliment" is fantastic because it shows how frustrated Moira is. The theme of her frustration with partners that don't fully grasp what seems to be at stake continues throughout the issue.
CE: Moira begins her role as "the adult in the room" as the only one of the triumvirate that seems to really have their eye on the prize. Mind you, this is still Earth-616, which means everything we've seen — every schism and failure, is all in canon after this knowledge. This speaks to the unyielding nature of Xavier and Magneto's ideologies. She spends literally her whole tenth life trying to bend them into place.
RS: At this point, is she older than Apocalypse? From her perspective, she may be the only adult on the planet.
CE: I think En Sabah is a bit older but, he spends a ton of time napping. X³, as we recall, doesn't literally mean year 1000, just more thousands on a logarithmic scale. She could be incredibly old.
RS: Anyway, I think you're describing her role really nicely there, "bending them," and that worries me. The specific way Moira frames the Truth in Entry 5, as a tool to be used given her circumstances, makes me think she's not to be trusted, that she has plans beyond what she's shown to Xavier and Magneto. Truth can be used to deceive, especially when someone has imperfect access to the truth, as she specifically notes that Xavier does here. She has perfect recall. He has limited perception.
CE: Eidetic memory can sometimes be horrifying and inconvenient for people in real life, and I can't imagine how thousands of years of it can affect you, especially in the limited perception of other people. Even after reading her mind, Xavier likely immediately starts forgetting parts of it, and as we know memory is incredibly malleable to most people.
RS: I wonder if Entry 14 is meant to make us think of Onslaught, or else if it's meant to make us worry about the state of the present day masked Xavier.
CE: Gosh, it could honestly be both.
RS: Entry 17 mentions "Primal Matter." This is the first time that phrase has appeared in HoXPoX and in our discussions, but it should sound familiar to you if you've been following other HoXPoX conversations. The "Abyss" has appeared several times in HoXPoX, and that is a common translation for תְּהוֹם (tehom), the primal state of the universe in the book of Genesis before creation.
Genesis' abyss isn't pure nothingness, but rather is a kind of primal matter, which in turn may be defined as the most basic form of matter, out of which all materially existing things are composed. If you're picturing fundamental particles or superstrings, go even more basic. Primal matter is entirely undifferentiated. It is materiality itself without any kind of form. This phrase here is important both because it handwaves the metallic nature of Podverine and Archpodgel and because it points toward some kind of connection between Proteus and the Dominions.
CE: I wonder what this redaction is. Speculation though is kind of impossible. Moira alluding to breaking Xavier makes me wonder if we're going to see any repercussions later.
RS: Entry 17 also implicitly retcons Moira's relationship with Joseph MacTaggert; his DNA is necessary for her plan. This also implies a retcon that somehow makes Xavier's relationship with his patient Gabriel Haller even less ethical; just as it implies that Moira sought out Joseph to create Proteus, so too it implies that Xavier sought out Haller to create Legion.
CE: Boy oh boy, that has some gross implications though unless the retcon is rather large on Moira's side. In Entry 22, Moira mentions the possibility of strongholds to Magneto, which explains why he makes so many bases and islands — the finale of which is Krakoa, of course.
RS: That's a carefully chosen word, stronghold. It's the name given to Machine Intelligences which have collapsed into a black hole, so here we have Moira connecting the idea of Krakoa to the end of that kind of existence.
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CE: "We have lost Magneto" for sure references Mutant Genesis. This reiterates that all of the conflicts between mutants in the past were completely real, which is extremely good.
[Ed. note: For those of you who haven't read the best selling comic of all time, Magneto got turned into a baby once and Moira messed with his genetic code in an attempt to make him less evil. Magento was upset when he found out.]
RS: It's the best kind of retcon. It doesn't eliminate past continuity, but rather it adds significance to it. Entry 57 is extremely troubling. If Moira and Xavier used a prototypical variant of the Pod Process to fake her death, then the process creates copies of the original person rather than restores them and Moira and Xavier killed an innocent sentient individual they created in order to further their plans. [Ed. note: Don't worry, they had a backup.]
CE: I wonder if they just kind of left a body? Moira did seal herself in a room while working on the Legacy Virus, leaving ample opportunity to escape. This retcon might be one of the most clean that I can remember.
RS: Odds on the city which Moira's No-Place opens to? I'm guessing New Orleans, and Moira just loves her some gumbo.
CE: It's a little town in like, Ohio, where a cafe makes perfect corned beef hash. Anyway, Magneto bringing tea as an excuse is hilarious. Did Charles and Magneto discuss how they were going to break bad news to her, and settled on tea as an olive branch? These boys are goofs. [Ed. note: Mankind's greatest culinary city is Cincinnati, home of the best chili in the world.]
RS: Before we move on, those final two panels are suggestive, placing Moira in parallel with the masked Xavier, and cutting off her eyes. If anything in this issue frames Moira as sinister, it's this depiction here.
CE: Smiling without eyes is a classic in comics for devious intent. I agree with your take here absolutely.
CE: The boys specifically say that they put the bad guys on the council to keep a close eye on them. They're well aware of the possibility of them doing something nefarious. That's a cool detail.
RS: I don't know why Moira's so frustrated; it seems like a great plan, keeping an eye on the evil villains by giving them 50% of the governing power of this nation.
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CE: No precogs on Krakoa is a fascinating rule, and Moira seems to hint that it's because Destiny can see Moira's lives. Blindfold, another precognitive mutant, recently died in Rosenberg and Co's Uncanny X-Men. [Ed. note: She fell into a depression and committed suicide after being broken by the inevitability of the mutant cause.]
CE: Magneto's rhyme is an adaptation of a German rhyme about procrastination "Tomorrow, tomorrow, not today, all the lazy people say." Moira must be incredibly frustrated with the arrogance of the mutant men in her life. However, to some extent she seems hopelessly pessimistic, even with all her planning.
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CE: The boys remind Moira how great she is, as they also undercut her wishes. But even in their praise of her, they also puff themselves up, stating basically that Moira is no longer necessary. This plays interestingly with her Journal Entries, through which we learn the ways she tries to manipulate them. I like that Moira gets to have a complicated, flawed character. It's quite refreshing.
RS: It also plays with the previous version of this scene, which was also set against Xavier's narration. In that scene Xavier acted as though they were all equals and that they were all the dominant powers leading Krakoa forward. But here we see that the Quiet Council is just a set of pawns, and it's their secret alliance, the power behind the throne, that actually matters.
Jonathan Hickman, Pepe Larraz/Marvel Comics
CE: "I am not ashamed of what I am" was the tagline for the last issue. We close on the triumph of these men, and the start of our new status quo. We see a blending of their philosophies in both men, as even Xavier tempts to humans to try to stop them.
CE: Truly, a great ending coda. Mutants aren't going away, and they will not be less than again.
RS: That said, Chris, I can't help but think of your observation about the Preserve way back at the start. When I look at this scene, of mutants flying into lively purple, golden trees, I can't help but see a resemblance to X³. Our last image of HoXPoX is a very hopeful one, a moment of both celebration and defiance, but that visual parallel adds just a tinge of doubt to the scene for me, makes me worry that they're still marching to their old doom.
CE: Normally we don't dig too hard into the reading order but, the code at the bottom says "Dawn of X 19" and "Arakko 20". Perhaps a preview of a comic or event from next year?
CE: Krakoan reads "X-Men." Rob, I sight read this one. I have a problem. [Ed. note: Can't remember a thing from three years of Spanish but I can just read this made up language now.]
The rest of the Krakoan reads as the names of our Dawn of X titles, in order: Marauders, Excalibur, X-Force, New Mutants, and Fallen Angels.
RS: I struggled with coming up with the right words for our introduction, and I'm struggling again here. How can we sum up this series? It was a wild experience. Never before have I looked forward so much to a weekly release. Never before have I experienced a comics community coming together to read and discuss and theorize about and critique and celebrate one comic.
CE: The sun sets on Krakoa, more darkly than before, and thus does our 12-week journey end. We got a conclusion of sorts, but also an incredibly engaging start on a brand new story and setting. The X-Men have been yet again redefined for the better, in my opinion. I want to see what happens in a world with mutants on top, but with the inevitability of human engineering looming. The possible plot threads abound as we close out this series, and I'm sure we'll have lots to talk about come Dawn of X.
[Ed. note: Thank you for overthinking comic books with us for the last 12 weeks, and thanks to Polygon for bringing us in to talk about X-Men. Let's get a good rest, because Dawn awaits us.]
Chris Eddleman is a biologist and co-host of Chrises On Infinite Earths
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Star Wars Trilogy: Apprentice of the Force is a game for Nintendo's Game Boy Advance that follows Luke Skywalker through Star Wars episodes IV to VI. It has advanced graphics by the standards of the Game Boy Advance, using 3-D images for the characte ... more on Wikipedia
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2002 Sports game, Racing -
Freekstyle is a 2002 motocross racing video game for the PlayStation 2, Game Boy Advance and Nintendo Gamecube. There are four levels of gameplay, the circuit, a quick race, freestyle, and free run. ... more on Wikipedia
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Justice League Heroes: The Flash
2006 Action, Platform - - Single player
Justice League Heroes: The Flash is a side-story which complements the main events during Justice League Heroes of the PlayStation 2 and Xbox consoles. It features the Flash as the playable character, and assistant NPC's such as Superman, Wonder Woma ... more on Wikipedia
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SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom
2003 Platform -
SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom is a 2003 video game based on the animated series of the same name, developed by Heavy Iron Studios, AWE Games and Vicarious Visions and published by THQ. The game was released for the PlayStation 2, Ga ... more on Wikipedia
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The Simpsons: Road Rage
2001 - multiplayer
The Simpsons Road Rage is a 2001 video game based on the animated television series The Simpsons, and is part of a series of games based on the show. It was released for PlayStation 2, Xbox and GameCube. A Game Boy Advance version was released later. ... more on Wikipedia
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2: Battle Nexus
2004 Shooter, Platform - - multiplayer
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2: Battle Nexus is a video game of the third person, beat 'em up genre released in 2004 by Konami. The GBA version is more of a Side-scrolling Platformer/Shoot'em up action game. The game is a sequel to the previous year' ... more on Wikipedia
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Crazy Taxi: Catch a Ride
2003 Action, Racing - - Single player
Crazy Taxi: Catch a Ride is the Game Boy Advance version of Crazy Taxi (of the Crazy Taxi series). It was developed by Graphic State Games and published by THQ. The game features two cities (one unlockable) and nine mini games in the Crazy Box mode. ... more on Wikipedia
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Super Ghouls 'n Ghosts
Super Ghouls 'n Ghosts, originally released in Japan as Chōmakaimura (超魔界村, Ultra Demon World Village?), is a side-scrolling platform game produced by Capcom originally released for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System in 19 ... more on Wikipedia
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Star Wars Episode I: Jedi Power Battles
2000 Action, Fighting, Platform - - multiplayer Single player
Star Wars Episode I: Jedi Power Battles is an action adventure Star Wars video game set during the time frame of Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace. The game was first released for the PlayStation, afterwards for the Dreamcast and the Game Boy A ... more on Wikipedia
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Dynasty Warriors Advance
Dynasty Warriors Advance (真・三國無双 Advance, Shin Sangoku Musō Adobansu?, Shin Sangokumusou Advance in Japan) is a video game for the Game Boy Advance portable handheld system, part of the Dynasty Warriors series. The ga ... more on Wikipedia
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Mario vs. Donkey Kong
2004 Platform, puzzle -
Mario vs. Donkey Kong (マリオVSドンキーコング, Mario tai Donkī Kongu?) is a 2004 puzzle-platform game developed by Nintendo Software Technology and released for the Game Boy Advance. The game is the spiritua ... more on Wikipedia
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Tokyo Mew Mew (東京ミュウミュウ, Tōkyō Myū Myū?) is a Japanese shōjo manga series written by Reiko Yoshida and illustrated by Mia Ikumi. It was originally serialized in Nakayoshi from September 2000 to F ... more on Wikipedia
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Mobile Suit Z Gundam: Hot Scramble
1986 Shooter, First-person shooter -
Mobile Suit Z Gundam: Hot Scramble (機動戦士Ζガンダム・ホットスクランブル, Kidou Senshi Gandamu: Hotto Sukuranburu?) is a 1986 multi-genre video game developed by Game Studio ... more on Wikipedia
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2001 Action, Fighting, Fantasy -
Flame of Recca (Japanese: 烈火の炎, Hepburn: Rekka no Honō?) is a manga series written and illustrated by Nobuyuki Anzai, which was adapted into an anime series spanning forty-two episodes by Studio Pierrot. The series has also bee ... more on Wikipedia
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Barbie Horse Adventures: Blue Ribbon Race
2003 Action -
Barbie Horse Adventures: Blue Ribbon Race is the first game of the Barbie Horse Adventures video game series based on the Barbie line of dolls by Mattel. The game was released on the Game Boy Advance in 2003. ... more on Wikipedia
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Surrounding the use of this flower oil is the belief that there lies outside of us, above and beyond, a greater force which has the potential to heal. Many therapists consciously tap this spiritual reservoir of energy to aid their client's recovery. The universal healing energy permeates every atom within the cosmos, is eternally present and can be used if conscious intent is applied. There is no one way in which this is achieved, each individual who is aware of this source does it in their own unique way. All forms of healing create vibrations within the subtle anatomy that are in harmony with this universal healing source. Margarita is a vibration which, when used, externally or internally, stimulates the spiritual healing energy and opens fully the channels which allow the flow of this energy into the personal aura.
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Tesla driver killed in autopilot crash might still be alive if trailers had side underride guards
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Joshua Brown, the driver of a Tesla Model S, died on May 7 when the autopilot drove it into the side of a tractor-trailer which was making a turn across the divided highway. According to the police report,
On May 7 at 3:40 p.m. on U.S. 27 near the BP Station west of Williston, a 45-year-old Ohio man was killed when he drove under the trailer of an 18-wheel semi. The top of Joshua Brown's 2015 Tesla Model S vehicle was torn off by the force of the collision….When the truck made a left turn onto NE 140th Court in front of the car, the car's roof struck the underside of the trailer as it passed under the trailer.
Police report drawing of Tesla crash/Public Domain
When you look at the gruesome drawing of the police report, it is apparent that Tesla went right under the trailer and kept on going. The New York Times notes that the crash is causing a rethink about self-driving cars.
The race by automakers and technology firms to develop self-driving cars has been fueled by the belief that computers can operate a vehicle more safely than human drivers. But that view is now in question after the revelation on Thursday that the driver of a Tesla Model S electric sedan was killed in an accident when the car was in self-driving mode. Federal regulators, who are in the early stages of setting guidelines for autonomous vehicles, have opened a formal investigation into the incident.
However there is another part of this that should be investigated. Tesla, in its press release, notes:
The high ride height of the trailer combined with its positioning across the road and the extremely rare circumstances of the impact caused the Model S to pass under the trailer, with the bottom of the trailer impacting the windshield of the Model S. Had the Model S impacted the front or rear of the trailer, even at high speed, its advanced crash safety system would likely have prevented serious injury as it has in numerous other similar incidents.
The story is big news because it is a Tesla on Autopilot, but this is not an extremely rare circumstance. At least 250 Americans die every year in what are known as side-underride collisions, and thousands are seriously injured. Because the side of the trailer is so high, the crush zones, air bags and all the safety features built into cars are useless as the car and driver get decapitated.
© Rear underride protection is pretty standard now
Had the Tesla hit the rear of the trailer, all those safety features would have done their job because he would have it the rear underride protection that every truck now has, even though the industry fought it tooth and nail for years. In 2014 the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) wrote to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, requesting that side underride guards be required to protect passenger cars from running under trailers. According to an industry website, Trailer Body Builders:
In its letter the NHTSA, the National Transportation Safety Board cited a NHTSA report that said 15% of all large truck fatalities involved passenger cars striking the sides of either the tractor or trailer.
"Side underride occurs when passenger vehicle bumpers are not at the same height and do not engage the substantial side structure of tractor-trailers," NTSB said in its letter. "Side underride collisions are an important safety problem because they defeat crumple zones and prevent air bag deployment, both vital safety advances in improving protection of passenger vehicle occupants during crashes," the NTSB said. "Airbags will not deploy in some underride collisions when the sensors to trigger them are not contacted by vehicle structures. Crumple zones do not work as intended in underride collisions when relevant passenger vehicle structures fail to engage tractor-trailer structures."
The NTSB asked that all new trailers be redesigned to prevent these kinds of accidents. Of course they are getting nowhere; the industry won't even accept sideguards to protect pedestrians and cyclists. They claim that stopping cars would add too much weight, hurting fuel economy, and that the bodies of the trailers are not even strong enough to support them.
© Krone Safe Liner
In Europe, where they think safety first, they already all have sideguards, but the big trailer manufacturer Krone designed the Safeliner, running VWs and Escorts into the side of their trailers. According to Trailer Body Builders again:
The Safe Liner outer frame is not constructed as an I-beam. It is more of a truss frame with rectangular openings to provide underbody access. Three of the openings are to compartments for storage of pallets or other cargo. The other three openings provide access to the three wheels on each side.
Fuel consumption is reduced. According to early test track reports, the tractor-semitrailer combination would use l.4 liter (.37 gallon) less fuel in 100 kilometers (62 miles). This translates into a fuel saving of about .006 miles per gallon, or 600 gallons in a typical year of 100,000 miles traveled. Fuel savings are much more important in Europe, where fuel costs three or four times as much as in the United States.
There is also less splashing, lower levels of road noise and much less wind buffeting of other cars thanks to the improved aerodynamics. (There are other issues with the Safe Liner and it is not currently on the road, more on that in a subsequent post).
So what if there is a big American study concluding that three quarters of side underride injuries and deaths could have been reduced. This is America and regulation costs money.
The Underride Network is " is concerned with issues affecting crash compatibility between small and larger vehicles including all sizes of trucks and SUV's." They are demanding that this issue be recognized and dealt with, that changes be made now, with a Vision Zero approach.
Cost-benefit analysis always limits the lives saved as too costly for industry. Vision Zero works to save all lives. Which of your relatives would you sacrifice for cost-benefit?.. We are asking the FMCSA (Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration) and NHTSA (National Highway and Traffic Safety Administration) to publicly recognize the existence of millions of underride victims and give them long overdue dignity and honor. These U.S. government sites overseeing truck safety laws and regulations refuse to mention trucking victims and underride victims.
Without a doubt, there must be a close look at what caused the death of Joshua Brown. Nevertheless, this was a side underride collision, common as dirt, that kills hundreds every year because the designs of our cars and our transport trailers are fundamentally incompatible.
As Tesla notes, they have multiple protection systems built into their cars. Joshua Brown would still be alive if trailers had sideguards and underride protection, which would save the lives of many people, on autopilot or not. Perhaps the investigators and the media should focus on that as well.
The designs of cars and transport trailers are fundamentally incompatible and it causes hundreds of deaths per year. That's a much bigger tragedy.
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Berlin's club culture brings global influences to local dance floors, and this night is no exception. Curated by CO:QUO, the genre-fluid line-up presents a cross section of the city's sounds and stories. Join us for a night with Alison Swing, who co-founded L.A. warehouse party series Dig Deeper, as well as REEF's Darwin, a Canadian-born selector who's brough the likes of Pinch, Kode9, and Objekt to Berlin's Griessemühle.
Juba will also play a set: Based in Berlin but born in London, the DJ and Boko! Boko! Collective member delves into the worlds of music and culture from, on, or with links to the African continent. Be sure to stick around for Make It Work, a new project run by Kaitlyn & Tom Drew that aims to elevate under-the-radar artists.
The party will take place at the NIGHT EMBASSY, our custom-built modular music and art space in the heart of Kreuzberg. The event is a safe space to cultivate communal knowledge and share experiences: Respect is a must, as is open-mindedness.
About Alison Swing (Wilde Renate, Dig Deeper LA)
Alison Swing is an LA-bred and Berlin-based DJ, promoter, and self-described vinyl junkie whose love of records is only outweighed by the thrill of playing them to sweaty crowds. She is a co-founder and resident DJ of the L.A. warehouse party series Dig Deeper with her curator-in-crime Masha. After a recent relocation to Berlin in 2017, things have not shown any signs of slowing down with her impressive international tour schedule and a monthly DJ residency at Berlin's Wilde Renate.
About Darwin (REEF)
Canadian-born selector Darwin has been a resident at Berlin institution Griessmuehle since 2014, where she also hosts REEF, a semi-regular party with a lazer focus on U.K. club music that is responsible for bringing the likes of Pinch, Kode9, and Objekt to 24-hour raves that join the dots between techno, dub, and breakbeat. Darwin also channels her passion for U.K.-centric sounds into her label SPE:C, which to date has released a series of steely EPs from Bristolian producers Decka and Trans A.M, as well as this year's brilliantly moody two-tracker Triptan by Significant Other.
About Juba (Boko! Boko!, Cashmere Radio)
DJ from London and part of the Boko! Boko! Collective. Based in Berlin, born in London and of Nigerian descent, Juba explores contemporary sounds from Africa and the African diaspora. From afrobeats to kuduro, baile carioca to UK funky and beyond, each Afroelektronik show delves into the different worlds of music and culture originating from, or with links to, the African continent, often accompanied by insightful chats with special guests as well as expert mixes from DJs from all over the world.
About Make it Work
Make It Work is a new project run by Kaitlyn & Tom Drew, showcasing under the radar artists on unique and intimate dance floors in Berlin


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Meet Virgil Abloh: Kanye West's Creative Director Is Louis Vuitton's Newest Designer
March 26, 2018, 10:23 AM UTC
Virgil Abloh is making history.
The designer and DJ has been named the first African-American artistic director of Louis Vuitton—the largest brand of LVMH (LVMUY), the world's largest luxury group.
Abloh, 37, is a first-generation Ghanaian-American and founder of the fashion label Off-White. The designer has no formal fashion education—he studied architecture and civil engineering—but used the skills he learned from his seamstress mother to obtain an internship at Fendi alongside Kanye West in 2006.
U.S. designer Virgil Abloh acknowledges the audience at the end of the Off/White Menswear Fall/Winter 2018-2019 show as part of Paris Fashion Week on January 17, 2018 in Paris. Thierry Chesnot—Getty Images
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The long-time Kanye West creative director worked on a number of menswear collections and launched other brands before finally settling into Off-White, the label he founded in 2013. Since then, Abloh has been at the forefront of the intersection of streetwear and luxury, collaborating with the likes of Jimmy Choo and Moncler. He also had a hugely successful collaboration with Nike and has other projects planned with Swedish furniture giant Ikea and German luggage maker Rimowa.
The rapidly growing streetwear scene has led to an increased cross-over between streetwear and high fashion. According to a recent study by Bain & Company, this fusion boosted sales of luxury goods by 5% last year, amounting to about $325 billion, notes The New York Times. Louis Vuitton already made waves last year when it announced a collaboration with cult skateboarding brand Supreme. With Abloh's appointment, it is largely expected that Louis Vuitton will continue drifting toward more streetwear influences.
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The sometime DJ and artist (he has collaborated with Takashi Murakami and will have a show of his work at the Museum of Contemporary Art of Chicago in 2019) is the first finalist for the LVMH Young Designers Prize to be named for a major design role within one of the conglomerate's brands. Abloh's first collection at the helm of Louis Vuitton will show at Men's Fashion Week in Paris in June.


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Prophetic Intelligence Briefings
NSA Shares Spy Data on U.S. and Australian Citizens with Israel
Friday October 4th, 2013 in Prophetic Intelligence Briefings
The United States National Security Agency routinely shares "raw," unfiltered and "un-minimized" spy data it collects with Israel without first removing information about US citizens or the citizens of those close allies such as Australia. The spy information includes "transcripts,…
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Las Cruces, New Mexico Violates Religious Expression
Thursday October 3rd, 2013 in Prophetic Intelligence Briefings
Las Cruces, New Mexico's unusual ordinance violates religious expression and discriminates against pastor-led churches. The city now requires all pastor-led churches within city limits to register with the city, pay a registration fee and pass a discretionary review process before…
U.S. Federal Government will not interfere with Marijuana
Wednesday October 2nd, 2013 in Prophetic Intelligence Briefings
The United States is on the cusp of another big social change. U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder announced that federal authorities would not interfere when states make laws allowing medical marijuana or legalize the drug entirely. Some legislators think that…
Colorado Flooding Kills Eight, Destroys 2000 Homes
Tuesday October 1st, 2013 in Prophetic Intelligence Briefings
The death toll from the Colorado flooding remains at eight, now that all those unaccounted for have been found. More than 1,000 people were unaccounted for during the peak of the flooding. On person remains missing and is presumed dead….
Terrorist Violence in Nairobi
Friday September 27th, 2013 in Prophetic Intelligence Briefings
A militant group linked to Al-Qaeda took responsibility for an attack on a mall in an upscale district of Nairobi, Kenya that lasted four days. At least sixty-one civilians, six Kenyan Special Forces soldiers, and five of the attackers were…
Violence in Chicago
Thursday September 26th, 2013 in Prophetic Intelligence Briefings
A gang-related shooting at a neighborhood basketball court in Chicago left up to 13 people injured, including a 3-year old child. A witness said that dreadlocked men fired from a gray sedan. "They've been coming round here looking for people…
Lithuania Wonders After…
Wednesday September 25th, 2013 in Prophetic Intelligence Briefings
Pope Francis recently granted a papal audience to the Prime Minister of Lithuania, Algirdas Butkevičius. The two men discussed the "contributions of the Catholic Church in the social and educational fields in Lithuania." They also discussed "improving awareness of spiritual…
U.S. Navy Shipyard Mass Murder
Sunday September 22nd, 2013 in Prophetic Intelligence Briefings
On September 17, 2013 Aaron Alexis, a 34-year-old civilian U.S. Navy IT contractor entered the Navy Shipyard in Washington DC and began killing people with a shotgun, 9mm pistol and a AR-15 semi-automatic rifle. Thirteen people died including Alexis (killed…
U.S. Internal Revenue Service Recognizes Gay Marriage
The U.S. Treasury Department and the IRS have declared that all same-sex couples who are legally married will be recognized as such for federal tax purposes, even if the state where they live does not recognize their union. The ruling…
Thailand Wonders After…
Yingluck Shinawatra, the Prime Ministers of Thailand visited Pope Francis in the Vatican. She also met with Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, the papal secretary of state, and Archbishop Dominique Mamberti, secretary for Relations with States. The Prime Minister and the Pope…