Spies everywhere

 Katalin Karikó is a Hungarian-born biochemist who shared the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Drew Weissman. They were recognized for discoveries about nucleoside base modifications in mRNA, which made effective mRNA vaccines possible, including the COVID-19 vaccines from Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna.

She was born in 1955 in Szolnok and grew up in Kisújszállás. She studied at the University of Szeged and moved to the United States in 1985. For years, she struggled to get funding at the University of Pennsylvania, where she worked with Weissman.

The new Hungarian government is opening the Security Services' top-secret files, and her file shows she had been working for them all along. I remember that during the 1956 Hungarian Revolution, the AVO's secret files were also opened. My father went to see his own file (we lived in Budapest's center; the AVO HQ, the central security organization, was nearby). Somebody had informed on him that he was "clerical," that is, a religious person, which I assume meant a very black mark in the Communist regime. 

Progress a-la-American

 
Throuples, foursomes and other multi-partner relationships can now register as domestic partners in Los Angeles County, with unanimously approved new legal protections for polyamorous couples.

The measure allows people in relationships involving multiple partners to officially register with the city. The ordinance allows three or more individuals to formally register their relationship with the city. Some Massachusetts municipalities already recognize multi-partner domestic partnerships, and cities like Berkeley and Oakland have taken steps to ban discrimination based on family structure. Everything goes. 

I looked up the family backgrounds of the new Democratic winners and didn't find traditional father-mother-children families. Talarico, the new Senator of Texas, was adopted by his stepfather. One Somalian married her gay brother. Maybe it was always like that, but we didn't know.

Confidence in the Future of Tel Aviv

A French Jewish high-tech entrepreneur has purchased two floors in a luxury residential tower under construction on Tel Aviv’s beachfront for NIS 119 million ($38 million).

The buyer, a Paris resident, acquired the properties in the Daniel Tower project (pic), in a deal signed one day before the election.

The deal comes as demand for luxury housing in Jerusalem and central cities rises, partly due to fears of rising antisemitism abroad. Uncertainty in France and other European countries has made such acquisitions more attractive for wealthy Jewish buyers from abroad.

When Hannibal stood at the gates of Rome, the Romans took great heart from the fact that the very ground on which his army was camped sold at auction for its full value. Hannibal ante portas auctioned the shops surrounding the Forum. Psy-op was not invented today.

IDF recreates the Zion Mule Corps

The IDF began as a British Army mule transport corps in Egypt (pic). They even fought in Gallipoli. Today, the IDF has established a new AI and Unmanned Systems Branch, an Artificial Intelligence Brigade, and a Spectrum Brigade within the C4I and Cyber Defense Directorate. "As part of an innovative operational concept, the IDF will strengthen and develop its approach to integrated human-machine warfare. Manned units will operate in coordination with unmanned systems to achieve an operational advantage and superiority on the battlefield."

America is the world

 → There is no country but America: The new measure of industrialization is who uses the most artificial intelligence. Who has the largest AI capacity. The biggest, sexiest data centers. Since that’s going to determine power in this coming era. And the answer is clear: it’s robust, and it’s the US of A:

Ozempic vagina

 
We've all seen the Ozempic Face: a skull-like, frightening appearance of people who lost weight with Ozempic. No one mentions the other side of the effect: the scary loss of fat from the vulva, especially the inner labia. The vulva sags and produces no friction or sense of warmth to the male organ, and it is useless for bringing orgasm to older males. The female body needs fat and a well-rounded camel toe to satisfy a man.  

Me fear?

 

Dario is selling shares of Claude and, in the prospectus, he writes extensively about how dangerous the AI could be. Potentially, it could exterminate humanity. Good selling point. Dario is a bona fide genius and potentially the second richest man in the world, after Elan. He looks like a very nervous, neurotic Jew.