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spzx··on Summary of Tonight's Exit Polls – Netanyahu doesn't have a majority
The Guardian's liveblog: https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2026/oct/27/israel-el...
spzx··on Summary of Tonight's Exit Polls – Netanyahu doesn't have a majority
This account (@israel_elects) posted all individual exit polls before the summary, so you can look them up on their timeline.
spzx··on Blog of http://archive.today/
Coincidentally the owner of lj.rossia.org was just detained in Armenia: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48513769
spzx··on Russian mathematician wanted on terrorism charges detained in Armenia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misha_Verbitsky
spzx··on X down for thousands in India; Downdetector says user reports indicate problems
https://downdetector.com/status/twitter/
spzx··on Harvard scientist claims mathematical formula could prove 'God is real'
Some related links: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29560707
spzx··on Israel investigating possible death of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar
>The corpse appears to share unique characteristics of #Hamas’ Yahya #Sinwar — including a mole under his left eye, same teeth alignment & faults, same ear shape & size, same eyebrow/facial hair/head hair color, thickness & length.

https://x.com/Charles_Lister/status/1846903769528741951

spzx··on Jeffrey Epstein's Island Visitors Exposed by Data Broker
Archived: https://archive.is/H9y87

UPD Thread by author: https://twitter.com/dmehro/status/1773321862669336811

spzx··on Unthinkable security lapse on Netanyahu's watch
https://archive.is/XCMgs
spzx··on I work in Big Tech. A name you would know and have probably used before
More: https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=twitter.com/hazardhar...

And also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29971512

spzx··on I work in Big Tech. A name you would know and have probably used before
>and then a (((lady engineer))) literally proposed

Yeah, I'm not going to listen to someone who unironically uses triple parentheses. This also is a huge hint that this is actually a /pol/ troll.

spzx··on About Three-in-Ten U.S. Adults Are Now Religiously Unaffiliated
On the topic of fine-tuning I found this book from 2011 and subsequent debate quite thought-provoking:

>The Fallacy of Fine-Tuning: Why the Universe Is Not Designed for Us (by Victor J. Stenger)

https://www.amazon.com/Fallacy-Fine-Tuning-Why-Universe-Desi...

>The Fine-Tuning of the Universe for Intelligent Life ... This paper can be viewed as a critique of Stenger's book, or read independently.

https://arxiv.org/abs/1112.4647

>Defending The Fallacy of Fine-Tuning (by Victor J. Stenger)

https://arxiv.org/abs/1202.4359

spzx··on Analysis of the Cosmos 1408 Breakup
Sequel post:

>Part II — New Observations on Cosmos 1408 Breakup

https://leolabs-space.medium.com/part-ii-new-observations-on...

spzx··on U.S. spy agencies say origins of Covid-19 may never be known
Updated Assessment on COVID-19 Origins: https://www.dni.gov/files/ODNI/documents/assessments/Declass...
spzx··on Google keyword warrants give U.S. government data on search users
>If you clear your Google history

Also what if you are logged into Google, but your Google search history was always switched off?

>What if you did the search from Brave or Safari, where you were not logged into Google?

Relevant quote from the article:

>In Wisconsin, the government was hopeful Google could also provide “CookieIDs” belonging to any users who made the searches. These CookieIDs “are identifiers that are used to group together all searches conducted from a given machine, for a certain time period. Such information allows investigators to ascertain, even when the user is not logged into a Google account, whether the same individual may have conducted multiple pertinent searches,” the government wrote.

spzx··on Archive.is owner on “continuity of his project”
According to my understanding: archive.today/archive.is are the main domains the service is known under, others are mirrors selected depending on country you are located in (because of domain bans in some countries).

Site owner said once archive.today is the domain to use when linking because it will automatically redirect to the correct one.

spzx··on Archive.is owner on “continuity of his project”
HN discussion from 2019 on this topic: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19828317
spzx··on Archive.is owner on “continuity of his project”
Here's his quote on instagram archiving problems:

"There is no Instagram content which don’t need to login.

If you can access the page without login, it is sort of “promo preview“, after few pages accessed this way, they add your IP into “promo is over“ list and will redirect to /login on every future request.

I just have not enough fresh IPs to abuse this mechanism."

https://blog.archive.today/post/659927354404192256/instagram...

spzx··on Archive.is owner on “continuity of his project”
Also some interesting numbers in this post:

>How much does hosting cost you per month at the moment?

>about ~$2600/mo of pure expenses on servers/domains, not counting “work time”, “buying laptop/furniture”, etc. ($100…300/mo covered by donations + $300…500 by ads)

https://blog.archive.today/post/659383959382294528/you-said-...

spzx··on Vaccines highly effective against hospitalisation from Delta variant
"The analysis suggests:

- the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine is 96% effective against hospitalisation after 2 doses

- the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine is 92% effective against hospitalisation after 2 doses"

spzx··on Belarus opposition says government forced plane to land to arrest journalist
Thread: https://twitter.com/maxseddon/status/1396438882074472452
spzx··on Chinese Long March 5B re-enters over Arabian Peninsula
>The CNSA/CMS official account on Weibo confirms that #LongMarch5 CZ5B booster has reentered at 02:24 UTC, May 9. The location of the reentry is 72.47°E, 2.65°N.

https://twitter.com/Yeqzids/status/1391228551966302210

>@18SPCS confirms that CZ-5B (#LongMarch5B) (48275 / 2021-035B) reentered atmosphere 9 May at 0214Z and fell into the Indian ocean north of the Maldives at lat 22.2, long 50.0.

>Yes, we know that the TIP coords (lat 22.2, long 50.0) plot in Saudi Arabia. That was the last place that the @18SPCS computer system recorded it. Operators confirm that the rocket actually went into the Indian Ocean north of the Maldives.

https://twitter.com/SpaceTrackOrg/status/1391242612569300993

spzx··on AMC, GameStop Give Hedge Fund Mudrick Capital $200M in Gains
>Whatever is left of it has been diluted when literally millions of people flooded it.

Just as an illustration, a number of /r/wallstreetbets/ subscribers:

26/1: 2,390,238

27/1: 3,336,749

28/1: 5,036,912

29/1: 6,317,967

30/1: 6,965,330

31/1: 7,508,966

1/2: 7,977,780

2/2: 8,278,750

3/2: 8,427,584

(via https://archive.md/https://www.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets/ )

spzx··on Pro-Trump Discussion Board Faces Possible Shutdown over Violent, Racist Posts
Archived: https://archive.is/vYnG5

Subtitle:

>Web-hosting company says TheDonald.Win must clean up; domain’s owner says he has effectively lost control of it

spzx··on PeerTube v3
"A minimalist and efficient peer-to-peer live stream

The great feature of this v3 is live streaming, and we are proud to say that it works very well !

...

The main points to remember :

The lag (between video maker and audience) varies between 30 seconds and 1mn, as expected ;

Depending on the power of the server and its load (number of simultaneous live shows, transcoding, etc.), PeerTube can provide hundreds of simultaneous views (but we’re not sure that it will scale to thousands… at least not yet !) ;

Administration options are included for people hosting the instance ;

The features are minimalist by design, and we have documented our recommendations for creating a live ;

The live can be done with most video streaming tool (we recommend the free-libre software OBS), with two options :

An « short-lived » live, with a unique identifier, will offer the possibility to save the video and display a replay on the same link ;

A « permanent » live stream, which will work more like a Twitch channel, but without the replay option."

spzx··on Looking for Voter Fraud (In Old Elections) with Data Visualization
Thanks, now I understood that "this is based on ..." means "this script is based on ..." and I initially parsed that as "this information is based on ...".
spzx··on Looking for Voter Fraud (In Old Elections) with Data Visualization
Ah I misunderstood, I thought one can't repeat the scraping part. But what did they mean by "proprietary "Edison" data source which would ordinarily be impossible to access for people outside the press" then?
spzx··on Looking for Voter Fraud (In Old Elections) with Data Visualization
>CulturalHusbandry @APhilosophae

>The following information is provided via an anonymous data scientist and another anonymous individual who wrote a script to scrape the national ballot counting time series data of off the @nytimes website.

>This is based on their proprietary "Edison" data source which would ordinarily be impossible to access for people outside the press.

https://twitter.com/APhilosophae/status/1325592112428163072

Why should we trust these anonymous people (including twitter thread OP)? They could just tamper with the data and we would have no way to know that.

Take into account the pinned thread by @APhilosophae too, they are not impartial at all:

https://twitter.com/APhilosophae/status/1325135291791839232

spzx··on The Great Barrington Declaration
>The ‘think-tank’ behind the Great Barrington Declaration is part-funded by right-wing American billionaire Charles Koch, reports Nafeez Ahmed

https://bylinetimes.com/2020/10/09/climate-science-denial-ne...

spzx··on PSA: Likely LiveJournal Password Compromise
Troy Hunt's tweet: https://twitter.com/troyhunt/status/1265191348581224449
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