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April 3, 1968: Stanley Kubrick's '2001: A Space Odyssey' opened in theaters 58 years ago.




April 3, 1981: The Osborne 1, the first successful portable computer, was unveiled at the West Coast Computer Fair in San Francisco, California. It was developed by Adam Osborne and designed by Lee Felsenstein for the Osborne Computer Corporation.

Super light-weight at only 24.5 lb (11.1 kg), cost US$1,795, and runs the CP/M 2.2 operating system. It is powered from a wall socket, as it has no on-board battery, but it is still classed as a portable device since it can be hand-carried when the keyboard is closed.

As InfoWorld stated in an April 1981 front-page article on the new computer after listing the included software, "In case you think the price printed above was a mistake, we'll repeat it: $1795".




April 3, 2001: The U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee holds a hearing on Internet piracy.
Napster founder Shawn Fanning testifies; volunteers show their support for him and a bootleg copy of ‘Gladiator’ is shown to the audience. Napster was ordered to shut down seven weeks earlier, but they didn't quite comply at the time.



The infamous Napster Bad cartoon from May 2000 created by Camp Chaos.




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Well, actually, the Stone Age ended somewhere between 4000-2000 BC. Achamenid is 550-330 BC.


"What are you looking so miserable about? There's a whole ocean of oil under our feet! No one can get at it except for me."




Alright, we've officially entered the long weekend. Failure to monitor the situation is not an option, people.




The first documented people to drink coffee as a brewed beverage—specifically by roasting the beans, grinding them, and infusing them with hot water to create what we recognize as coffee today—were Sufi Muslims in Yemen during the 15th century (with the practice becoming well-established by the late 1400s).

While Ethiopia is the birthplace of the plant and early awareness of its properties, the "coffee" initial discovery was by an Ethiopian goat herder named Kaldi around the 9th century who shared it with local monks. Though, this story is mostly legend. Centuries later some coffee plants were brought across the Red Sea from Ethiopia to southern Arabia (Yemen), where they were cultivated in highland areas. It then spread through the Arabian Peninsula, Persia, and beyond via trade and Islamic networks in the 16th century.

Until Aden and al Hudaydah eclipsed it in the 19th century, Mocha or Mokha was the principal port for Yemen's capital, Sanaa. Long known for its coffee trade, the city gave its name to Mocha coffee. Yemen held the monopoly on coffee for 200 years until the Dutch Empire stole and smuggled the beans. Later, the coffee trade of Mokha was captured by British-controlled Aden city port in the 19th century.


Today, port of Mocha on the Red Sea coast, which still looks like an early 1700s port city with its year around temperature about 100F was mostly obliterated by a fierce band of Shia nomad warriors known as Ansar Allah and in the West known as the Houthis in 2021. Cute but extremely dangerous!

Al Mokha - The World's First Coffee

A 2020 study of Arabica Coffee genetic diversity confirmed the story of Yemeni coffee and established definitely that the vast majority of all of the Arabica coffee in the world today originates from the early cultivated varieties in the coffee farms of Yemen.

The origin of cultivated Coffea arabica L. varieties revealed by AFLP and SSR markers


Apollo 11 Wasn't Alone on the Moon! 1969 Soviet Moon Landing
Shortly after Apollo 11 landed on the Moon in July 1969, a second spacecraft that was already in Moon orbit prepared to also land on the lunar surface. This spacecraft was Soviet and was part of a bizarre race with the Americans, a race with profound consequences for human science and national pride.




I can't tell anymore whether an account is AI or a human who's been assimilated by AI cybernetics. I don't know if it matters.

Morpheus: What is real? How do you define 'real'? If you're talking about what you can feel, what you can smell, what you can taste and see, then 'real' is simply electrical signals interpreted by your brain.

I imagine that right now, you're feeling a bit like Alice. Tumbling down the rabbit hole? Hmm?




Abraham Golan, a Hungarian Israeli with Mossad connections, recruited an ex-Navy SEAL and an ex-Delta guy to go on a killing and bombing spree in Yemen. This only came to light because they're being sued civilly by one of their intended victims. US officials have not filed charges.


"Spear Operations Group" is a Delaware-based company founded by Abraham Golan, a businessman and former Israeli military officer.

Following a first round of assassinations, the American mercenaries were then charged with training Emirati officers, who in turn instructed locals to carry out the targeting. This sparked a killing spree in Yemen - more than 100 assassinations in a three-year period.


US Special Forces commandos had 23 man kill list during UAE assassination plot: court docs



Court doc PDF

The Phoenix Program, but privatized... BBC documentary from Jan 2024 on the UAE's use of American mercenaries from “Spear Operations Group” to carry out wet work in Yemen.