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Matt Willemsen

An AI Simulated Interactions Between Different Kinds of Advanced Civilizations
universetoday.com/165933/an-ai #AI #simulation #advanced #civilizations #interactions #CosmoAgent #LLM #Zerg #Trisolaran #Borg #Human

Universe Today · An AI Simulated Interactions Between Different Kinds of Advanced CivilizationsThe possibility for life beyond the Earth has captivated us for hundreds of years. It has been on the mind of science fiction writers too as our imaginations have explored the myriad possibilities of extraterrestrial life. But what would it really be like if/when we finally meet one; would it lead to war or peace? … Continue reading "An AI Simulated Interactions Between Different Kinds of Advanced Civilizations"
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Chuck Darwin

Tim Scott's #Dark #Money operation:

According to F.E.C. filings last week, the Tim #Scott #campaign made $4.3 million in payments from April 1 to June 30 to a company called #Meeting #Street #Services L.L.C.

The money included $2.8 million for “placed media” and more for digital fund-raising, strategy and video production.

Meeting Street Services has no online presence, and has not been paid by any other campaign, records show. Its listed #address, in North Charleston, S.C., is a #Staples store. Records show that the company was set up in Delaware in August 2022, and its incorporation documents list only one name — #Barry M. #Benjamin — as an authorized representative.

According to business records in South Carolina, the company is managed by #AMZ #Holdings L.L.C., a company set up in May 2021 and based at the same Staples store in North Charleston.

AMZ’s Delaware incorporation documents were also signed by Mr. Benjamin.

Mr. Scott’s campaign did not provide information about Mr. Benjamin or further details about the companies. Efforts to independently determine Mr. Benjamin’s identity were unsuccessful.

There are several notable #absences in the campaign’s second-quarter campaign finance disclosure filing, including #Targeted #Victory, a major political fund-raising firm that has said it works for the campaign, and #FP1 #Strategies, a political advertising firm, which was also reportedly brought on by the campaign.

Several people from the two firms who are working for the campaign also do not appear in the disclosure.

Mr. Scott’s use of Meeting Street Services L.L.C. predates his entry into the presidential race. In the last four months of 2022, his Senate campaign paid the company more than $4.5 million, filings show, for television ads, digital fund-raising and other consulting.

And his presidential campaign reported an additional $1 million spent with Meeting Street Services in the first quarter of this year, even though his campaign had not officially begun.

The Scott campaign also made more than $940,000 in payments last quarter to #Advanced #Planning and #Logistics, a limited liability company set up in December 2022 — again, by Mr. #Benjamin — and whose listed address is a Staples store in Fairfax, Va.

The company received multiple payments for air travel and event production. Again, Mr. Scott’s campaign was the only campaign that paid the company

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C.IMChuck Darwin (@cdarwin@c.im)Most of the money spent by the senator Tim Scott’s presidential campaign has gone to newly formed companies whose addresses are Staples stores in suburban strip malls. Scott entered the 2024 race with a war chest of $22 million, and his campaign raised $5.8 million from April through June. In that same time, he laid out about $6.6 million, a significant clip — but most of it cannot be traced to an actual vendor. Instead, roughly $5.3 million went to two shadowy entities: newly formed limited liability companies with no online presence and no record of other federal election work, whose addresses are Staples stores in suburban strip malls. Their minimal business records show they were set up by the same person in the months before Mr. Scott entered the race. Masking the companies, groups and people ultimately paid by campaigns — effectively obscuring large amounts of spending behind businesses and convoluted consulting arrangements — has become common, as political candidates and organizations test the limits of campaign finance law. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/28/us/politics/tim-scott-money-campaign-funds.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
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Spaceflight 🚀

#Clarke's three laws

• When a distinguished but elderly #scientist 👨‍🔬 states that something is #possible, they are almost certainly right. When they state that something is #impossible, they are very probably #wrong.
• The only way of discovering the #limits of the #possible is to venture a little way past them into the #impossible.
• Any sufficiently #advanced #technology is indistinguishable from #magic.

Isaac #Asimov 📆1959
"It is only afterward that a #new #idea seems #reasonable. To begin with, it usually seems #unreasonable" en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Isaac_As

Picture : Arthur C. #Clarke 📆 1965, on one of the sets of 2001: A #SpaceOdyssey commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fil

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