I used to do foolish things for a photograph.
Before dawn, I would sit on the tiny island at Victory Monument, waiting for long exposures of headlights and taillights streaming through the darkness.
The cross-town buses were my favorite. Their stacked rows of lights painted brighter, more intricate trails across the frame.
As traffic rushed past from every direction, I sometimes closed my eyes and hoped nobody made a mistake.
The photograph lasted forever. The margin for error was measured in inches.
A rare photograph from Cañon de los Embudos, taken in March of 1886, when the desert canyon walls of the Sierra Madre became the backdrop for one of the most critical moments in Apache and Arizona frontier history.
Geronimo and his people gathered under guarded trust to speak with U.S. Army General George Crook in an attempt to end years of conflict along the borderlands. In the middle of that tense meeting stood photographer C.S. Fly, who carefully set up his camera in the canyon floor while soldiers, scouts, and Apache leaders watched. All parties were filled with uncertainty, knowing that every decision made in those moments could change the future of the region forever.
During those three days, between March 25 and March 27, 1886, the canyon became more than just a meeting place, it became a living pause in the Apache Wars.
Geronimo, Naiche, and others sat in negotiation with George Crook, while C.S. Fly captured what would become some of the only known images of Apache people still actively engaged in resistance before the final surrender later that year, making this photograph not just an image, but a rare surviving window into a moment when history itself was still undecided, still breathing, and still able to turn in another direction.
Today, the image stands as a rare and powerful reminder of the closing chapter of the Apache Wars, preserved through the lens of a camera that caught a world in transition, where stone canyons held the echoes of negotiation, survival, and the weight of a future that could no longer be held back.
“Those who vote decide nothing. Those who count the vote decide everything.”
Gavin Newsom (yes, Joseph Stalin said it first, but Gavin Newsom perfected it).
It’s truly shocking how many federal judges do not understand Article III vs. Article II powers.
Judge Blocks Trump Admin from Halting Immigration from 'High-Risk Countries' https://t.co/nl0Hobu3JK
🔥Teaser! The Global Engagement Center in the State Department was staffed at the first ever Obama White House High Level Tech meeting
👉January 8, 2016.
This was TWO months prior to it being authorized by Executive Order 13721 which renamed CSCC as the Global Engagement Center. Congress authorized the GEC in Dec 2016 and Obama signed it Dec 23, 2016. Just in time to chase Russiagate.
First Appointee: Michael Lumpkin
👉January 8, 2016
Those in attendance were:
Attorney General Loretta Lynch, FBI Director James Comey, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, and Lisa Monaco (counterterrorism adviser coordinating the effort). Additional participants included White House Chief of Staff Denis McDonough.
Later follow up High Tech meetings included Renee Diresta (Indivisible Resistance Barbie) and Jonathan Morgan of the Hamilton68 Russia hoax.
Stay tuned for more interesting information on Obama and his State Dept actually TARGETING US citizens in 2016 AND ALSO utilizing social media influence operations, plus more!
@ProfMJCleveland you’ll love this.
Over 150 residents in Red Oak, Texas packed their City Hall meeting, spilling into hallways to protest
Despite this their local officials stayed until after midnight and approved a new massive 830 acre data center campus in the middle of the night
They don’t work for you
The project is will be the 6th data center in the small city of Red Oak. The population is only about 15,000- 20,000 people
The council approved the rezoning despite strong opposition. The project is moving forward
Resident “We don't need another data center. You don't know what the health impact is. You got them all crunched together — You're going to ruin this community”
I found that just these data centers in this small town will use as much power as 300,000 homes
Insane
5 companies feeding you insects
Insects contain chitin, a cancer causing chemical. Humans aren't built to benefit from eating insects. Don't buy into the nonsense that they're healthy for you. They want us sick and humiliated.
Utah approved a data center so massive it's going to be more than twice the size of Manhattan
It’s called The Stratus Project, it’s a AI data center campus in Box Elder County
- The full project could cover over 40,000 acres, an area bigger than Manhattan
- Total size will be around 62 square miles
- The power demand is 3 gigawatts of electricity, roughly the output of multiple nuclear reactors
- Environmental groups warn it could raise Utah's planet-heating pollution by nearly 50%
- Estimates suggest the project's power systems could consume up to 16.6 billion gallons of water per year. (25,000 Olympic swimming pools)
First let’s talk about power, it will actually use up to 9 GW of power. This is roughly double Utah’s current peak electricity demand. Only the first phase will use 3 GW
Next let’s talk about water, Developers are now saying that they will use closed-loo dry (air-based) cooling systems to minimize consumption. But it’ll still use a lot of water
This is bad news for water conservation. Utah is in drought conditions, the Great Salt Lake is shrinking. It’s visible and you can see it right now
So why do we need this really, according to what I can find it’s going to be tied with defense contracts
The data center will be tied to US defense priorities. It overlaps with Department of Defense areas and is advanced through Utah’s Military Installation Development Authority. Officials cite needs for energy resilience, secure computing power, and data storage for defense operations
So this is a private data center but it’s not really a private data center…. Because it’ll be working with the government. One layer removed…