Participated in a #BasisLoadTest @basisvr.org, which is an open source, social VR framework that got 200+ people and 1630 people + bots into a single instance. Self/hosted instances make it feel like the early days of the Internet & what High Fidelity aspired to do but with VRChat culture to do it.
![The CIIIC is develop an integrated program with five action lines that together create the desired impact on the Netherlands' economic growth potential and societal transitions.
1. Knowledge and Methods: Applied and practice-oriented research to develop better knowledge and tools for the effective and responsible development of Immersive Experiences [IX]
2. Human Capital: Expanding and strengthening the talent pool to conceptualize, build, and apply IX, as well as using IX as a learning solution.
3. Ecosystems and Facilities: Building a strong, interactive Dutch IX innovation ecosystem and supporting its research, education, development, and application.
4. Innovation and demonstration projects: Projects focused on the design, production, application, and impact of IX, bringing together public and private organizations, creators, and users.
5. Synergy and Coherence: Innovation Agenda + Public Values + Community & Events + Narrative and Communication + Knowledge Platform](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:pbxv2f7r5eo47e3ylwczhk32/bafkreifwnxihhj5glwmxxddukpsvxbhostrwx7fzoxlocmqbx6bm2cyeg4)
![Sol Foundation Suggests "Presidential Emergency Action Directives" Are Legal Basis of UAP Secrecy & Aren't Subjected to Congressional Oversight
"Given the clue in the Disclosure Act about the potential relationship between nuclear secrecy and UAP activities, any congressional inquiry into the origins of any actual UAP secrecy should make it an absolute priority to determine the truth about “MJ-12” and initial presidential awareness and decisions about UAP. If the inquiry’s findings are accurate, it will obtain a clear picture of the origins and legal foundation of UAP secrecy and its implications for the legislative branch. Any executive orders or directives turned up through the investigation — including any of those concerning urgent situations ostensibly requiring emergency powers and known today as Presidential Emergency Action Directives (PEADs) — would enlighten Congress as to the rationales for such secrecy, why it was imposed at the expense of the legislative branch, and the extent to which it is legal and constitutional. [97] Given the potentially grave implications for separation of powers of any such presidential emergency actions taken by the president to the detriment of Congress, we will discuss them later in this paper."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:pbxv2f7r5eo47e3ylwczhk32/bafkreianseovkzpb3zunhnkndoc5hapbiotcd25m2odicfol5plpym2u7i)
![Brennan Center for Justice: "No evidence that [any PEAD] documents have ever been shared with relevant congressional committees."
"Presidential Emergency Action Documents (PEADs) are executive orders, proclamations, and messages to Congress that are prepared in anticipation of a range of emergency scenarios, so that they are ready to sign and put into effect the moment one of those scenarios comes to pass..."
"PEADs are classified “secret,” and no PEAD has ever been declassified or leaked. Indeed, it appears that they are not even subject to congressional oversight. Although the law requires the executive branch to report even the most sensitive covert military and intelligence operations to at least some members of Congress, there is no such disclosure requirement for PEADs, and no evidence that the documents have ever been shared with relevant congressional committees."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:pbxv2f7r5eo47e3ylwczhk32/bafkreicmr3oqr3sbq4kttqmdeph2tdf3wlqk7jjj74t5umlhjnepwvd4ju)
![Back of post card has reviews of The Trials of Henry Kissinger documentary:
"A MUST SEE!"
-Film Comment, Time Out NY
Is Henry Kissinger - Nobel Laureate and the most famous diplomat of his generation - also a war criminal? Confronting the charges that Kissinger undermined LBJ's Vietnam peace talks, engineered the secret bombing of Cambodia, helped create the coup that toppled Chilean President Allende, and approved Indonesia's use of U.S. arms to massacre 100,000 East Timorese, the film plumbs the depth of one man's soul, as it questions basic tenets of international law.
“[4 stars] EXHILARATING!"
-John Anderson,
"Devastating!"
-Stephen Holden, The New York Times
"An exposé of the corrosiveness of power!"
-David Denby, The New Yorker
"Mass murderer or pragmatist:
You make the call."
-Chris Chang, Film Comment
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