On Sunday afternoon, I stood next to the 200-year-old Jackson Magnolia. It showed its age and was supported on all sides by cables tethered to a steel pole.
President Andrew Jackson planted this tree, grown from seeds he brought to Washington from the Hermitage (his home near Nashville) in memory of his wife, Rachel, who had died suddenly months before he assumed office.
Back in the late ‘90s while living in Manhattan, I acquired a 4-foot sapling from that very tree and grew it in a pot on the roof of my building. When I moved to Williamsburg, I planted the sapling in McCarren Park to watch it grow from my apartment window. A week later, a Parks and Recreation employee on a tractor mower cut it down.
Yesterday, the day after I took these photos of the original magnolia at the White House, it was cut down “for serious safety reasons”. In its place, they planted a 12-year-old sapling, a direct descendant of the original.
The National Park Service announced they are collaborating with the White House executive residence to "ensure the preservation of the salvageable remnants of the 'Jackson Magnolia.'" 
“Remember, remember the fifth of November,
The Gunpowder Treason and Plot;
I know of no reason why the Gunpowder Treason
Should ever be forgot.”
Louisiana Treasurer announces state services can be paid with Bitcoin and Lightning
“It’s a complex system, which has entered disequilibrium. It’s unstable.” - Willing Mandible, Chapter 2 - "Karmic Clumping"
“Bitcoin rights have become law in a second state as Louisiana passes a landmark pro-bitcoin bill to protect access to bitcoin and curb Central Bank Digital Currencies.”
75 years ago today, “1984" was published.
“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.”
https://blog.nationalarchives.gov.uk/george-orwell-surveillance-and-the-state/
“I wiped the iPad using official Apple guides before selling. I never logged into that iPad with my Apple ID after erasing the iPad. I sold my iPad to a friend in September 2023, they called me today after updating to iPad OS 17.5 and said my old pictures appeared in their Photos app.”
https://www.macrumors.com/2024/05/17/ios-17-5-bug-wiped-devices-photos-resurfacing/
"a money storage facility" 💩
“Assurances”, from a criminal enterprise.
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Happy 40th, 2600 Magazine 
PSA: On Dec. 1, Google will begin deleting inactive accounts along with their contents -- photos, Gmail messages, Calendar appointments, Drive documents, Contacts and YouTube content.
If you have dormant Bitcoin exchange accounts that you might need to access in the future (for transaction history etc) these might become inaccessible without a valid email address.
“It’s a complex system, which has entered disequilibrium. It’s unstable.” - Willing Mandible
47 years ago today on November 1, 1976, Whitfield Diffie and Martin E. Hellman published “New Directions in Cryptography”, with credits to Ralph Merkle and Claude Shannon.
The paper begins: “We stand today on the brink of a revolution in cryptography.”
The paper ends: “The last characteristic which we note in the history of cryptography is the division between amateur and professional cryptographers. Skill in production cryptanalysis has always been heavily on the side of the professionals, but innovation, particularly in the design of new types of cryptographic systems, has come primarily from the amateurs. Thomas Jefferson, a cryptographic amateur, invented a system which was still in use in World War II, while the most noted cryptographic system of the twentieth century, the rotor machine, was invented simultaneously by four separate people, all amateurs. We hope this will inspire others to work in this fascinating area in which participation has been discouraged in the recent past by a nearly total government monopoly.”
Pause for a moment to contemplate the profound effect on humanity of the Diffie–Hellman–Merkle key exchange.
Download: https://ee.stanford.edu/~hellman/publications/24.pdf 
“The European standards body that created secret encryption algorithms for use in TETRA radio communications is weighing whether to make new algorithms public, following backlash over its secrecy.”
https://www.zetter-zeroday.com/p/standards-body-considers-uncloaking
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