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date: 2030-06-01, from: Notes by Peter Baumgartner
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date: 2024-01-01, from: ETH Zurich, recently added
Martinsson A.; Steiner R.
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11850/636400
date: 2024-01-01, from: ETH Zurich, recently added
Abdellaoui G.; Abe S.; Adams J.H.; Allard D.; Alonso G.; Anchordoqui L.; Anzalone A.; Arnone E.; Asano K.; Attallah R.; Attoui H.; Pernas M.A.; Bachmann R.; Bacholle S.; Bagheri M.; Bakiri M.; Baláz J.; Barghini D.; Bartocci S.; Battisti M.
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11850/636401
date: 2024-01-01, from: ETH Zurich, recently added
Chen J.; Jiang Y.; Liu X.; Xia W.; Huang A.; Zong J.; Wang Z.; Qian B.; Donat F.
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11850/636402
date: 2024-01-01, from: ETH Zurich, recently added
Jiang Y.; Wang X.; Li M.; Liang Y.; Liu Z.; Chen J.; Guan T.; Mu J.; Zhu Y.; Meng H.; Zhou Y.; Yao L.; Xue L.; Wang W.
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11850/636403
date: 2024-01-01, from: ETH Zurich, recently added
Xue, Yunpeng; Stewart, Colin; Kelly, David; Campbell, David; Gormley, Michael
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11850/636398
date: 2024-01-01, from: ETH Zurich, recently added
Weder, Silvan; Blum, Hermann; Engelmann, Francis; Pollefeys, Marc
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11850/637080
date: 2024-01-01, from: ETH Zurich, recently added
Gramsch Calvo, Benjamin; Axhausen, Kay W.
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11850/635246
date: 2024-01-01, from: ETH Zurich, recently added
Heimgartner, Daniel; Axhausen, Kay W.
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11850/635243
date: 2023-12-01, from: ETH Zurich, recently added
Nolte, Tom M.
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11850/636393
date: 2023-12-01, from: ETH Zurich, recently added
Branchesi M.; Falanga M.; Harms J.; Jani K.; Katsanevas S.; Lognonné P.; Badaracco F.; Cacciapuoti L.; Cappellaro E.; Dell’Agnello S.; de Raucourt S.; Frigeri A.; Giardini D.; Jennrich O.; Kawamura T.; Korol V.; Landrø M.; Majstorović J.; Marmat P.; Mazzali P.
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11850/639001
date: 2023-12-01, from: ETH Zurich, recently added
Kroll S.L.; Hulka L.M.; Kexel A.K.; Vonmoos M.; Preller K.H.; Treyer V.; Ametamey S.M.; Baumgartner M.R.; Boost C.; Pahlisch F.; Rohleder C.; Leweke F.M.; Quednow B.B.
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11850/639002
date: 2023-12-01, from: ETH Zurich, recently added
Wang Y.; Wang W.; Liu D.; Hou W.; Zhou T.; Ji Z.
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date: 2023-11-15, from: ETH Zurich, recently added
Bekar, Ismail; Pezzatti, G. Boris; Conedera, Marco; Vacik, Harald; Pausas, Juli G.; Dupire, Sylvain; Bugmann, Harald
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11850/636378
date: 2023-11-15, from: ETH Zurich, recently added
Papanikolaou, Nikos; Lambiotte, Renaud; Vaccario, Giacomo
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date: 2023-11-15, from: ETH Zurich, recently added
Keller, Franziska; Popa, Răzvan-Gabriel; Julien, Allaz; Bovay, Thomas; Bouvier, Anne-Sophie; Geshi, Nobuo; Miyakawa, Ayumu; Bachmann, Olivier
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11850/637218
date: 2023-11-06, from: ETH Zurich, recently added
Bellotti, Valentina; Wang, Hyun Suk; Truong Phuoc, Nghia; Simonutti, Roberto; Anastasaki, Athina
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11850/638449
date: 2023-11-06, from: ETH Zurich, recently added
Nikolic, Marin; Cesarini, Alessia; Billeter, Emanuel; Weyand, Fabian; Trtik, Pavel; Strobl, Markus; Borgschulte, Andreas
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date: 2023-10-31, from: San Jose Mercury News
Giovanni Fissore, 43, pleaded no contest to DUI causing injury in the 2022 crash that killed 39-year-old Roni Gage, a pedestrian.
date: 2023-10-31, from: San Jose Mercury News
“In fact, our statistics would indicate that for a group that represents only about 2.4% of the American public, they account for something like 60% of all religious-based hate crimes,” Wray said of the Jewish American population.
https://www.mercurynews.com/2023/10/31/fbi-director-antisemitism-at-historic-level-in-the-us/
date: 2023-10-31, from: Fresno Bee Stories
The school district and union made “considerable progress” on the contract after weekend-long negotiations.
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/local/education-lab/article281230923.html
date: 2023-10-31, from: Fresno Bee Stories
Researchers collected specimens from the coast of Florida and Alabama.
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/nation-world/national/article281248208.html
date: 2023-10-31, from: San Jose Mercury News
Sports are no fun without rivalries, and the Warriors’ top rival, James Harden, is returning to the West to play for the Clippers.
date: 2023-10-31, from: San Jose Mercury News
Police arrested a man believed to be responsible for an April burglary at a San Jose home and recovered a dozen antique guns from his home, among other firearms.
date: 2023-10-31, from: Fresno Bee Stories
Vida reporter María G. Ortiz-Briones won four first places in writing and photography, and editor Juan Esparza Loera won a gold.
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/local/article281244858.html
date: 2023-10-31, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Intel is shedding its silicon photonics transceiver module business as part of restructuring and cost-cutting measures, offloading it to manufacturing company Jabil.…
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2023/10/31/intel_silicon_photonics_jabil/
date: 2023-10-31, from: San Jose Mercury News
‘Omar,’ created by Rhiannon Giddens and Michael Abels, features gospel, folk and Wagnerian sounds and an amazing story.
https://www.mercurynews.com/2023/10/31/omar-a-unique-opera-drawn-from-a-slaves-memoirs-comes-to-sf/
date: 2023-10-31, from: Fresno Bee Stories
He’s now pleaded guilty, according to federal officials.
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/nation-world/national/article281224493.html
date: 2023-10-31, from: San Jose Mercury News
One of the survivors was a PG&E worker who was on the job at the time.
date: 2023-10-31, from: The Signal
Were you recently in an accident and suffered injuries? Or are you a parent who lost a loved one in an accident? No matter how bad, we need to find peace and pursue a claim for you and your family. You need a catastrophic injury lawyer to help you. This lawyer understands all the complexities […]
The post <strong>The Role of a Catastrophic Injury Lawyer in Seeking Justice</strong> appeared first on Santa Clarita Valley Signal.
https://signalscv.com/2023/10/the-role-of-a-catastrophic-injury-lawyer-in-seeking-justice/
date: 2023-10-31, from: SCV New (TV Station)
Upper Castaic Lake reopened today to boating with a caution algal bloom advisory. The California Department of Water Resources urges people to avoid physical contact with water at Castaic Lake in Los Angeles County until further notice due to the presence of toxic blue-green algae
https://scvnews.com/upper-castaic-lake-reopens-to-boating-with-caution-algal-bloom-advisory/
date: 2023-10-31, from: San Jose Mercury News
We’ve all heard the Christmas Song, the one that starts, “Chestnuuuuuts roasting on an open fiiiiire.” But how many of us have actually eaten fresh, locally grown chestnuts?
https://www.mercurynews.com/2023/10/31/bay-area-who-knew-there-were-chestnut-orchards-right-here/
date: 2023-10-31, from: Fresno Bee Stories
Kings great Mike Bibby returns to Sacramento as a television analyst 21 years after hitting one of the biggest shots in franchise history.
https://www.fresnobee.com/sports/article281250428.html
date: 2023-10-31, from: San Jose Mercury News
A San Jose man was formally indicted last week amid allegations that he falsified tax returns and failed to disclose income from Chinese companies.
date: 2023-10-31, from: San Jose Mercury News
With the timing and size of financial aid packages in question for the 2024-25 academic year, consider early action or regular decision instead.
date: 2023-10-31, from: Mozilla Developer Network blog
To deliver against our vision and enable a better online experience for everyone, we’ve been working hard on making Firefox even faster. We’re extremely happy to report that this has resulted in a significant improvement in speed over the past year.
The post Down and to the Right: Firefox Got Faster for Real Users in 2023 appeared first on Mozilla Hacks - the Web developer blog.
https://hacks.mozilla.org/2023/10/down-and-to-the-right-firefox-got-faster-for-real-users-in-2023/
date: 2023-10-31, from: Fresno Bee Stories
Crews spent the night strengthening containment lines and looking for embers.
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/california/fires/article281244448.html
date: 2023-10-31, from: Fresno Bee Stories
Want to find a frost flower in person? Here’s what to know.
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/nation-world/national/article281247498.html
date: 2023-10-31, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News
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date: 2023-10-31, from: Fresno Bee Stories
Police say he was stabbed in the face, neck and chest.
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/nation-world/national/article281248688.html
date: 2023-10-31, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
The US has approved mandatory data breach reporting requirements that impose a 30-day deadline for non-banking financial organizations to report incidents.…
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2023/10/31/ftc_30_day_breach_disclosure/
date: 2023-10-31, from: San Jose Mercury News
The second season of ‘Behind the Attraction’ debuts this week on the Disney+ streaming service with episodes dedicated to Disney nighttime spectaculars.
date: 2023-10-31, from: Fresno Bee Stories
The owner blocked the man from driving away, officials say.
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/nation-world/national/article281242758.html
date: 2023-10-31, from: Fresno Bee Stories
A man turned off his neighbor’s power to lure her outside, Florida deputies said.
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/nation-world/national/article281247333.html
date: 2023-10-31, from: National Archives, Pieces of History blog
October is Filipino-American History Month, and we’re commemorating it with a post on Manuel Quezon and Philippine Independence from Alexandra Villaseran, an archivist with the Center for Legislative Archives. Today there are six nonvoting members in the U.S. House of Representatives: a Resident Commissioner representing Puerto Rico and one Delegate each for the District of … Continue reading Manuel Quezon and the Push for Philippine Independence
date: 2023-10-31, from: National Archives, Text Message blog
In honor of the spookiest time of year, this blog post spotlights the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) case files on the late American actor Vincent Leonard Price, Jr. (100-HQ-410935, 100-LA-34677, and 100-WFO-38897). Price is best known for being one of Hollywood’s original four Kings of Horror. From 1938 to 1993, he terrified audiences and … Continue reading Vincent Price and The “Secret Letter” to the FBI
https://text-message.blogs.archives.gov/2023/10/31/vincent-price-and-the-secret-letter-to-the-fbi/
date: 2023-10-31, from: NASA breaking news
The James Webb Space Telescope truly explores the unknown, displaying stunning images of previously unseen corners of the universe only possible because of the telescope’s 21-foot segmented mirror that unfurled and assembled itself in space. Decades of testing went into the materials, design, and processes needed to develop the largest telescope in space. However, the […]
https://www.nasa.gov/directorates/stmd/nasas-webb-telescope-improves-simulation-software/
date: 2023-10-31, from: San Jose Mercury News
The Huskies are in first place, but the Ducks are our pick to win the conference and end the six-year CFP drought.
date: 2023-10-31, from: Fresno Bee Stories
The school district said her “big smile was welcoming to all.”
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/nation-world/national/article281242138.html
date: 2023-10-31, from: San Jose Mercury News
PG&E monthly utility bills are slated to hop higher – yet again.
date: 2023-10-31, from: San Jose Mercury News
Maintenance crews discovered the man’s body in a women’s bathroom Saturday morning while getting ready to open the park.
https://www.mercurynews.com/2023/10/31/death-investigation-glenwood-caverns-adventure-park-closed/
date: 2023-10-31, from: San Jose Mercury News
The shooting happened about 9:40 p.m. in the 8900 block of International Boulevard.
https://www.mercurynews.com/2023/10/31/customer-shot-coming-out-of-east-oakland-liquor-store/
date: 2023-10-31, from: Cory Doctorow’s blog
Today’s links The impoverished imagination of neoliberal climate “solutions”: “All of the above” is a highly selective proposition. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2003, 2008, 2013, 2018 Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading The impoverished imagination of neoliberal climate “solutions” (permalink) There is only one planet in the known universe capable of sustaining human life, and it is rapidly becoming uninhabitable by humans. Clearly, this warrants bold action – but which bold action should we take? After half a century of denial and disinformation, the business lobby has seemingly found climate religion and has joined the choir, but they have their own unique hymn: this crisis is so dire, they say, that we don’t have the luxury of choosing between different ways of addressing the emergency. We have to do “all of the above” – every possible solution must be tried. In his new book Dark PR, Grant Ennis explains that this “all of the above” strategy doesn’t represent a change of heart by big business. Rather, it’s part of the denial playbook that’s been used to sell tobacco-cancer doubt and climate disinformation: https://darajapress.com/publication/dark-pr-how-corporate-disinformation-harms-our-health-and-the-environment The point of “all of the above” isn’t muscular, immediate action – rather, it’s a delaying tactic that creates space for “solutions” that won’t work, but will generate profits. Think of how the tobacco industry used “all of the above” to sell “light” cigarettes, snuff, snus, and vaping – and delay tobacco bans, sin taxes, and business-euthanizing litigation. Today, the same playbook is used to sell EVs as an answer to the destructive legacy of the personal automobile – to the exclusion of mass transit, bikes, and 15-minute cities: https://thewaroncars.org/2023/10/24/113-dark-pr-with-grant-ennis/ As the tobacco and car examples show, “all of the above” is never really all of the above. Pursuing “light” cigarettes to reduce cancer is incompatible with simply banning tobacco; giving everyone a personal EV is incompatible with remaking our cities for transit, cycling and walking. When it comes to the climate emergency, “all of the above” means trying “market-based” solutions to the exclusion of directly regulating emissions, despite the poor performance of these “solutions.” The big one here is carbon offsets, which allows companies to make money by promising not to emit carbon that they would otherwise emit. The idea here is that creating a new asset class will unleash the incredible creativity of markets by harnessing the greed of elite sociopaths to the project of decarbonization, rather than to the prudence of democratically accountable lawmakers. Carbon offsets have not worked: they have been plagued by absolutely foreseeable problems that have not lessened, despite repeated attempts to mitigate them. For starters, carbon offsets are a classic market for lemons. The cheapest way to make a carbon offset is to promise not to emit carbon you were never going to emit anyway, as when fake charities like the Nature Conservancy make millions by promising not to log forests that can’t be logged because they are wildlife preserves: https://pluralistic.net/2022/03/18/greshams-carbon-law/#papal-indulgences Then there’s the problem of monitoring carbon offsetting activity. Like, what happens when the forest you promise not to log burns down? If you’re a carbon trader, the answer is “nothing.” That burned-down forest can still be sold as if it were sequestering carbon, rather than venting it to the atmosphere in an out-of-control blaze: https://pluralistic.net/2021/07/26/aggregate-demand/#murder-offsets When you bought a plane ticket and ticked the “offset the carbon on my flight” box and paid an extra $10, I bet you thought that you were contributing to a market that incentivized a reduction in discretionary, socially useless carbon-intensive activity. But without those carbon offsets, SUVs would have all but disappeared from American roads. Carbon offsets for Tesla cars generated billions in carbon offsets for Elon Musk, and allowed SUVs to escape regulations that would otherwise have seen them pulled from the market: https://pluralistic.net/2021/11/24/no-puedo-pagar-no-pagara/#Rat What’s more, Tesla figured out how to get double the offsets they were entitled to by pretending that they had a working battery-swap technology. This directly translated to even more SUVs on the road: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Tesla,_Inc.#Misuse_of_government_subsidies Harnessing the profit motive to the planet’s survivability might sound like a good idea, but it assumes that corporations can self-regulate their way to a better climate future. They cannot. Think of how Canada’s logging industry was allowed to clearcut old-growth forests and replace them with “pines in lines” – evenly spaced, highly flammable, commercially useful tree-farms that now turn into raging forest fires every year: https://pluralistic.net/2023/09/16/murder-offsets/#pulped-and-papered The idea of “market-based” climate solutions is that certain harmful conduct should be disincentivized through taxes, rather than banned. This makes carbon offsets into a kind of modern Papal indulgence, which let you continue to sin, for a price. As the outstanding short video Murder Offsets so ably demonstrates, this is an inadequate, unserious and immoral response to the urgency of the issue: https://pluralistic.net/2021/04/14/for-sale-green-indulgences/#killer-analogy Offsets and other market-based climate measures aren’t “all of the above” – they exclude other measures that have better track-records and lower costs, because those measures cut against the interests of the business lobby. Writing for the Law and Political Economy Project, Yale Law’s Douglas Kysar gives some pointed examples: https://lpeproject.org/blog/climate-change-and-the-neoliberal-imagination/ For example: carbon offsets rely on a notion called “counterfactual carbon,” this being the imaginary carbon that might be omitted by a company if it wasn’t participating in offsets. The number of credits a company gets is determined by the difference between its counterfactual emissions and its actual emissions. But the “counterfactual” here comes from a business-as-usual world, one where the only limit on carbon emissions comes from corporate executives’ voluntary actions – and not from regulation, direct action, or other limits on corporate conduct. Kysar asks us to imagine a counterfactual that depends on “carbon upsets,” rather than offsets – one where the limits on carbon come from “lawsuits, referenda, protests, boycotts, civil disobedience”: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/cif-green/2010/aug/29/carbon-upsets-offsets-cap-and-trade If we’re really committed to “all of the above” as baseline for calculating offsets, why not imagine a carbon world grounded in foreseeable, evidence-based reality, like the situation in Louisiana, where a planned petrochemical plant was canceled after a lawsuit over its 13.6m tons of annual carbon emissions? https://earthjustice.org/press/2022/louisiana-court-vacates-air-permits-for-formosas-massive-petrochemical-complex-in-cancer-alley Rather than a tradeable market in carbon offsets, we could harness the market to reward upsets. If your group wins a lawsuit that prevents 13.6m tons of carbon emissions every year, it will get 13.6 million credits for every year that plant would have run. That would certainly drive the commercial imaginations of many otherwise disinterested parties to find carbon-reduction measures. If we’re going to revive dubious medieval practices like indulgences, why not champerty, too? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Champerty_and_maintenance That is, if every path to a survivable planet must run through Goldman-Sachs, why not turn their devious minds to figuring out ways to make billions in tradeable credits by suing the pants off oil companies? There are any number of measures that rise to the flimsy standards of evidence in support of offsets. Like, we’re giving away $85/ton in free public money for carbon capture technologies, despite the lack of any credible path to these making a serious dent in the climate situation: https://www.spglobal.com/commodityinsights/en/market-insights/latest-news/energy-transition/072523-ira-turbocharged-carbon-capture-tax-credit-but-challenges-persist-experts If we’re willing to fund untested longshots like carbon capture, why not measures that have far better track-records? For example, there’s a pretty solid correlation between the presence of women in legislatures and on corporate boards and overall reductions in carbon. I’m the last person to suggest that the problems of capitalism can be replaced by replacing half of the old white men who run the world with women, PoCs and queers – but if we’re willing to hand billions to ferkakte scheme like carbon capture, why not subsidize companies that pack their boards with women, or provide campaign subsidies to women running for office? It’s quite a longshot (putting Liz Truss or Marjorie Taylor-Greene on your board or in your legislature is no way to save the planet), but it’s got a better evidentiary basis than carbon capture. There’s also good evidence that correlates inequality with carbon emissions, though the causal relationship is unclear. Maybe inequality lets the wealthy control policy outcomes and tilt them towards permitting high-emission/high-profit activities. Maybe inequality reduces the social cohesion needed to make decarbonization work. Maybe inequality makes it harder for green tech to find customers. Maybe inequality leads to rich people chasing status-enhancing goods (think: private jet rides) that are extremely carbon-intensive. Whatever the reason, there’s a pretty good case that radical wealth redistribution would speed up decarbonization – any “all of the above” strategy should certainly consider this one. Kysar’s written a paper on this, entitled “Ways Not to Think About Climate Change”: https://political-theory.org/resources/Documents/Kysar.Ways%20Not%20to%20Think%20About%20Climate%20Change.pdf It’s been accepted for the upcoming American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy conference on climate change: https://political-theory.org/13257256 It’s quite a bracing read! The next time someone tells you we should hand Elon Musk billions to in exchange for making it possible to legally manufacture vast fleets of SUVs because we need to try “all of the above,” send them a copy of this paper. Hey look at this (permalink) Mastodon’s latest update makes it easier to follow the news https://www.theverge.com/2023/10/30/23938639/mastodon-lists-android-update-news Ýrúrarí’s Knit and Felted Characters Are Cheeky Additions to Mended Garments https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2023/10/yrurari-cheeky-sweaters/ Youtube’s Anti-adblock and uBlock Origin https://andadinosaur.com/youtube-s-anti-adblock-and-ublock-origin (h/t Nelson Minar) This day in history (permalink) #20yrsago Web archiving legal in the UK http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/3231483.stm #15yrsago Jonathan Carroll’s The Ghost in Love: magical and wonderful fantasy novel about ghosts and love and nostalgia https://memex.craphound.com/2008/10/31/jonathan-carrolls-the-ghost-in-love-magical-and-wonderful-fantasy-novel-about-ghosts-and-love-and-nostalgia/ #10yrsago badBIOS: airgap-jumping malware that may use ultrasonic networking to communicate https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/10/meet-badbios-the-mysterious-mac-and-pc-malware-that-jumps-airgaps/ #10yrsago Edward Snowden gets a job in Russia https://www.cnn.com/2013/10/31/world/europe/russia-snowden-job/index.html #10yrsago Doctor Who spacetime described in physics paper https://arxiv.org/abs/1310.7985 #10yrsago NSA spokesmen told to just say “9/11” to deflect criticism http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2013/10/30/revealed-nsa-pushed911askeysoundbitetojustifysurveillance.html #10yrsago Eben Moglen on Snowden and the Future https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YCUJn-5By14 #10yrsago Power over USB: when charging a computer means connecting to untrusted data-sources http://radar.oreilly.com/2013/10/power-over-usb.html #10yrsago Spycraft, Bumblefuck-style https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/rob-ford-scandal-toronto-police-have-video-apparently-showing-mayor-smoking-crack/article_3768efca-e7ce-5128-8159-e4d1b7fc3396.html #10yrsago Face scrub micro-beads are choking the Great Lakes https://web.archive.org/web/20131031103227/http://5gyres.org/posts/2013/10/28/5_gyres_publishes_first_scientific_paper_on_plastic_pollution_in_the_great_lakes/ #10yrsago Toronto cops confirm video of Mayor Rob Ford smoking crack and making racist and homophobic remarks https://www.cp24.com/news/extended-coverage-police-have-video-of-ford-court-documents-shed-light-on-investigation-1.1521449 #5yrsago The dialysis industry just set a campaign spending record to fight California limits on pricing https://theintercept.com/2018/10/31/california-proposition-8-dialysis/ #5yrsago London’s new high-rises: speculators’ luxury flats designed never to be occupied https://citymonitor.ai/economy/more-expensive-property-london-more-likely-it-be-empty-4312 #5yrsago Rob Ford-o-Lantern https://web.archive.org/web/20140128131045/https://twitter.com/RobboMills/status/396037274736934912/photo/1 Colophon (permalink) Today’s top sources: Naked Capitalism (https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/). 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https://pluralistic.net/2023/10/31/carbon-upsets/
date: 2023-10-31, from: Fresno Bee Stories
From Our Partners: This massive 85-inch Samsung “The Frame” TV will eat up an entire wall
https://www.fresnobee.com/shopping/article281246473.html
date: 2023-10-31, from: Fresno Bee Stories
A frozen yogurt shop worker came to the rescue as she was leaving her job.
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/nation-world/national/article281242098.html
date: 2023-10-31, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
The US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has authorized more than $18 billion to be paid to carriers to expand rural broadband.…
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2023/10/31/fcc_broadband_subsidies/
date: 2023-10-31, from: Liliputing
Microsoft has ended support for Windows CE, an operating system you probably thought was already dead, if you knew it had ever existed in the first place. Initially developed to bring a simple operating system with a Windows-like start menu, taskbar, and desktop to small computers including handheld systems in the late 90s and early […]
The post Windows CE reaches end of support (but it’s not exactly dead yet) appeared first on Liliputing.
https://liliputing.com/windows-ce-reaches-end-of-support-but-its-not-exactly-dead-yet/
date: 2023-10-31, from: San Jose Mercury News
Red-flag warnings, indicating increased danger of wildfires, have been lifted for Northern California but remain in effect for an area north of Los Angeles.
https://www.mercurynews.com/2023/10/31/map-california-wildfires-cause-evacuations-amid-high-winds/
date: 2023-10-31, from: Smithsonian Magazine
Researchers found that 20 of 35 “planetary vital signs” are at record extremes, and they call for rapid action
date: 2023-10-31, from: 404 Media Group
Bandcamp’s union alleges that Songtradr “refused” to hire employees because they “joined or supported a labor organization and in order to discourage union activities or membership.”
https://www.404media.co/bandcamp-union-files-unfair-labor-practice-charge-against-songtradr/
date: 2023-10-31, from: Fresno Bee Stories
The married couple had been letting the man temporarily live with them, police said.
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/nation-world/national/article281243138.html
date: 2023-10-31, from: San Jose Mercury News
The shooting happened about 3:35 a.m., police said.
date: 2023-10-31, from: Fresno Bee Stories
The former employee from Oklahoma has pleaded guilty, records show.
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/nation-world/national/article281242893.html
date: 2023-10-31, from: Fresno Bee Stories
From Our Partners: Finding the perfect Secret Santa gift can be daunting, but let our guide assist in finding the perfect gift
https://www.fresnobee.com/shopping/article281201343.html
date: 2023-10-31, from: David Rosenthal’s blog
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Trading volume on most exchanges has plummeted in the past year, even as the number of coins has continued to multiply, with more than 1.8 million tokens listed on centralized and decentralized exchanges.Kharif reported on the collapse of trading volume earlier in Coinbase’s Quarterly Crypto Trading Volume Likely Lowest Since Before Public Debut:
The largest US digital-asset platform registered about $76 billion in spot trading volume, a drop of 52% from the year-ago period, according to data compiled by researcher CCData. The tally is also likely the least since before the company’s much ballyhooed direct listing on the Nasdaq Stock Market in April 2021, or just months before prices of cryptocurrencies peaked.Thus what caught my eye wasn’t the drop in trading volume, it was “more than 1.8 million tokens”! Below the fold I ask how this could possibly make sense.
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The top eight platforms account for nearly 92% of depth — a measure of all bids and asks within 10% of the mid price — and 90% of volume, according to Kaiko. Binance, the largest crypto exchange, has this year accounted for more than 30% of global market depth and more than 60% of worldwide trade volumes. Besides Binance, the list also includes Coinbase, OKX and Huobi, among others. For context, there are hundreds of crypto exchanges, according to data from CoinGecko, though many of them see negligible or no trading at all.
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A protracted dearth of liquidity in cryptocurrency markets is playing a key role in the more than 10% swings in the price of Bitcoin seen in recent weeks.
Market depth remains at its lowest point this year even with the recent resurgence in trading activity being spurred on in part by expectations for a Bitcoin exchange-traded fund, FalconX’s research team found. They measure market depth by looking at the average volume of Bitcoin trading activities within 1% of its current price, on a 24-hour basis.
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At first glance the graphs of volume on centralized and decentralized
exchanges look similar, but check the Y axes. Decentralized market
volume is something like $15B/month, whereas centralized exchange volume
is around $200B/month. Once again, the distribution is highly
skewed.
https://blog.dshr.org/2023/10/shitcoins.html
date: 2023-10-31, from: Santa Barbara Indenpent News
There is only one moral and practical peaceful solution to the Palestine/Israel issue: a one-state solution for all of Israel and Palestine.
The post One-State Solution appeared first on The Santa Barbara Independent.
https://www.independent.com/2023/10/31/one-state-solution/
date: 2023-10-31, from: VOA News USA
Two of President Joe Biden’s top advisers asked U.S. lawmakers to provide billions more dollars to Israel on Tuesday at a congressional hearing interrupted repeatedly by protesters accusing American officials of backing “genocide” against Palestinians in Gaza.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin testified to the Senate Appropriations Committee on Biden’s request for $106 billion to fund ambitious plans for Ukraine, Israel and U.S. border security.
Arguing that supporting U.S. partners is vital to national security, Biden requested $61.4 billion for Ukraine, about half of which would be spent in the United States to replenish weapons stocks drained by previous support for Kyiv.
Biden also asked for $14.3 billion for Israel, $9 billion for humanitarian relief — including for Israel and Gaza — $13.6 billion for U.S. border security, $4 billion in military assistance and government financing to counter China’s regional efforts in Asia.
As the hearing began, a line of protesters raised red-stained hands in the air as an anti-war protest. Capitol police later removed them from the hearing room after they shouted protests including, “Ceasefire now!” and “Protect the children of Gaza!”
Blinken said U.S. support for Ukraine has made Russia’s invasion of Ukraine “a strategic debacle” and stressed the importance of both security assistance for Israel and humanitarian aid for Palestinians in Gaza.
“Without swift and sustained humanitarian relief, the conflict is much more likely to spread, suffering will grow, and Hamas and its sponsors will benefit by fashioning themselves as the saviors of the very desperation they created,” Blinken said.
Congress has already approved $113 billion for Ukraine since Russia invaded in February 2022, but Biden’s $24 billion request for more funds in August never moved ahead. The White House has said it has less than $5.5 billion in funds to continue transferring weapons from U.S. stockpiles to Ukrainian forces fighting Russia.
Republicans divided
The path forward for Biden’s latest funding plan looks uncertain. Democrats solidly back Biden’s strategy of combining Ukraine aid with support for Israel, as do many Republicans in both the Senate and House of Representatives.
“We need to address all of these priorities as part of one package - because the reality is these issues are all connected, and they are all urgent,” Senate Appropriations Committee Chairperson Patty Murray said.
Senator Susan Collins, the committee’s top Republican said she would judge the funding request on whether it makes the United States more secure.
But Republicans who lead the House of Representatives object to combining the two issues, joined by a smaller number of party members in the Senate. Opinion polls show public support for Ukraine aid declining and many Republicans, particularly those most closely aligned with former President Donald Trump, have come out against it.
With federal spending fueled by $31.4 trillion in debt, they question whether Washington should be funding Ukraine’s war with Russia, rather than backing Israel or boosting efforts to push back against a rising China.
Newly elected House Speaker Mike Johnson has voted in the past against assistance for Kyiv. On Monday, he introduced a bill to provide $14.3 billion in aid to Israel by cutting funding for the Internal Revenue Service, setting up a showdown with Senate Democrats.
Johnson became speaker after a three-week stalemate in the House after former Speaker Kevin McCarthy was ousted partly because he worked with Democrats to pass a government funding bill.
Biden’s support for Israel, which already receives $3.8 billion in annual U.S. military assistance, has drawn criticism amid international appeals for Gaza civilians to be protected.
Palestinian authorities say that Israel’s “total siege” of Gaza since that rampage has killed more than 8,300 people, more than 3,400 of them minors, and left a dire need for fuel, food and clean water.
Israel this week launched a ground offensive in the Gaza Strip as it strikes back at Islamist Hamas militants who killed 1,400 people and took at least 240 hostages in a rampage on Oct. 7.
date: 2023-10-31, from: San Jose Mercury News
Colorado players said they had jewelry stolen from the visitor’s locker room during Saturday’s California match up.
https://www.mercurynews.com/2023/10/31/cu-buffs-football-players-robbed-rose-bowl-ucla/
date: 2023-10-31, from: Fresno Bee Stories
The Toyota Camry rolled down a driveway and out into the street, police said.
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/nation-world/national/article281244263.html
date: 2023-10-31, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Dell has teamed up with Facebook parent Meta to try to make it easier for customers to deploy the Llama 2 large language model (LLM) on premises rather than access it via the cloud.…
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2023/10/31/dell_meta_llama_2/
date: 2023-10-31, from: Alex Schroeder’s Blog
I’m hoping to get a MNT Pocket Reform at some point and I heard that it comes with Sway as the default window manager. No problem, I can get into that. Years ago I was a fan of ratpoison and i3. Today, I’m trying to use sway. I think my biggest problem right now is that the pipe/backslash key works like a < and > key. How weird is that. Maybe some weird key binding that is coming back to haunt me.
In order to get started, I copied /etc/sway/config to
~/.config/sway/config and started making some changes.
Scrolling with the touch pad was weird. Somehow inverted! The answer was
to have natural_scroll enabled for the touchpad input.
input "2:14:ETPS/2_Elantech_Touchpad" {
dwt enabled
tap enabled
natural_scroll enabled
middle_emulation enabled
}
Caps Lock is no longer the Compose Key and that makes me sad. The answer
was to specify xkb_options compose:caps for the keyboard
input.
input "1:1:AT_Translated_Set_2_keyboard" {
xkb_layout us
xkb_variant altgr-intl
xkb_options compose:caps
}
Getting the less key instead of the backslash key remained a problem.
There are so many variants in
/usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/us. After a while I realised
that I needed a variant with LSGT (less/greater) being mapped to
backslash and bar, like this:
key <LSGT> { [ backslash, bar ] };
The options I had seemed to be: euro, ibm2381,
intl, and so on. But also anything that contained dead keys
was no good:
key <TLDE> { [dead_grave, dead_tilde, grave, asciitilde ] };
In these variants, I have to type every back-quote, single-quote,
double-quote and circumflex twice.
@bkhl pointed me to
altgr-intl. Thanks!
Now I’m wondering about suspending the laptop. With Gnome, I’d hit the
GUI key and type “suspend”, Enter, done. But there is no “suspend”
command. I ended up installing wlogout which gives me huge
buttons to lock, logout, suspend, hibernate, shutdown and reboot. But,
surprisingly, when it suspends, and it comes back, no password is
required. That’s weird!
I installed cryptsetup-suspend which adds something the old
setup did not have: returning from a suspend now asks for the disk
decryption password but still does not ask for the account password.
Well, on a single user system like mine, one of the two is good enough,
I guess. But still.
#Administration #Sway #Window Manager
Time has passed and today I added keybindings for lowering and raising the volume.
bindsym XF86AudioLowerVolume exec amixer set Master '10%-'
bindsym XF86AudioRaiseVolume exec amixer set Master '10%+'
So proud of myself. 😁
As for playback from the command-line, right now I’m using
mpv:
mpv "https://somafm.com/secretagent.pls"
OK, time for fiddling with stuff. Every minute, the script called to produce the status bar.
bar {
position top
status_command while ~/.config/sway/status.fish; do sleep 60; done
colors {
statusline #ffffff
background #323232
inactive_workspace #32323200 #32323200 #5c5c5c
}
}
The script prints something like this:
Bandu 65% 🟡 100% 🔊 fully-charged🔋 2023-10-31 15:40
This is the code. As you can see it calls awk,
perl and tons of other stuff. Yikes!
#!/usr/bin/fish
# The Sway configuration file in ~/.config/sway/config calls this script.
# You should see changes to the status bar after saving this script.
# If not, do "killall swaybar" and $mod+Shift+c to reload the configuration.
set date (date +'%Y-%m-%d %R')
set battery (upower --show-info (upower --enumerate | grep 'BAT') | perl -e '
use utf8;
binmode(STDOUT,":utf8");
while (<>) {
if (/state:\s*(.*)/) {
print $1;
} elsif (/percentage:\s*([0-9]+)/) {
print $1 > 20 ? "🔋" : "🪫";
}
}')
# "amixer -M" gets the mapped volume for evaluating the percentage
# which is more natural to the human ear according to "man amixer".
# The current volume percentage comes in brackets, e.g., "[36%]"
# followed by "[off]" or "[on]" depending on whether sound is muted or
# not. "tr -d []" removes brackets around the volume. I'm looking at
# "Front Left:" because of how amixer reports volumes on my laptop.
set audio_volume (amixer -M get Master |\
awk '/Front Left:/ {print $6=="[off]" ?\
$5" 🔇": \
$5=="[100%]" ? \
$5" 🔊": \
$5" 🔉"}' |\
tr -d [])
set wlan (nmcli --get-values name,device,type connection show --active \
| grep wireless \
| string split ':')
# $bar = join("", " ▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█", int(9*$1/$2), 1); \
set ssid $wlan[1]
set device $wlan[2]
set q (iwconfig $device | perl -e '
use utf8;
binmode(STDOUT,":utf8");
while (<>) {
if (/([0-9]+)\/([0-9]+)/) {
print int(100*$1/$2) . "% " . substr("🔴🟠🟡🟢🟢", int(4*$1/$2), 1);
}
}')
set lan (nmcli --get-values type connection show --active|awk '/ethernet/ { print "🖧" }')
echo $lan $ssid $q $audio_volume $battery $date
I’m learning quite a bit about controlling my system from the command
line. I hadn’t known about nmcli.
https://alexschroeder.ch/view/2023-10-22-sway
date: 2023-10-31, from: Marketplace Morning Report
More colleges are offering early decision admissions, where students signal that a particular university is their top choice but have to commit before seeing their financial aid package. Early decision is not without controversy. Students who apply early tend to be wealthier, and critics say the practice undermines fairness. Plus, child care costs continue to climb, and the UAW hopes its contract wins will encourage other car manufacturers to unionize.
https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-morning-report/affirmative-action-for-the-rich
date: 2023-10-31, from: San Jose Mercury News
The stabbing was reported at 4:13 p.m. Sunday at Bayshore Boulevard and Cortland Avenue.
@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2023-10-31, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
Ross
Mayfield: “The reason Threads doesn’t have an API or the promised
Fediverse coupling is organizational inertia for the fear of another
Cambridge Analytica.” I think that’s very likely true. I was using
Facebook’s API when they quietly turned it off, and I didn’t blame them
for it, given the way journalism was treating them. Everyone knew they
had an API, and what it could do was openly published, and promoted by
the same journalists who were now blaming them. So while FB has few
scruples to admire them for, as a company – in this case I believe
Ross’s explanation of why they are treading very carefully here.
http://scripting.com/2023/10/31.html#a142042
date: 2023-10-31, from: San Jose Mercury News
A group of landowners say a Silicon Valley-backed company trying to build a sustainable city in Solano County used unfair tactics to force farmers to sell their land, including pitting family members against each other.
date: 2023-10-31, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
The British Library has confirmed to The Register that a “cyber incident” is the cause of a “major” multi-day IT outage.…
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2023/10/31/british_library_it_outage/
date: 2023-10-31, from: VOA News USA
The United Auto Workers won at least partial victories on many of the key demands that led to the six-week strike against Ford, General Motors and Jeep maker Stellantis.
The union has given some details of the deals, including a detailed explanation of the agreement it reached with Ford. The agreement is expected to become the model for later settlements with GM and Stellantis. Rank-and-file UAW members must ratify each contract before it takes effect.
“We won things no one thought possible,” UAW President Shawn Fain said when he announced the tentative agreement last week.
The union represents 57,000 workers at the company, and about 16,600 of them were on strike. Here are the key terms of the agreements, as detailed by the union:
Pay
The tentative agreements call for 25% increases in pay by April 2028, raising top pay to about $42 an hour, according to the union. That starts with an 11% boost upon ratification, three annual raises of 3% each, and a final increase of 5%. The UAW said restoration of cost-of-living increases, which were suspended in 2009, could boost the total increases to more than 30%.
The union initially asked for 40% increases, but scaled that back to 36% before the strike started Sept. 15. Ford’s last offer before the strike was 9% more pay over four years. More recently, Ford, GM and Stellantis were all offering 23% total pay increases.
For historical comparison, the union said its workers saw pay increases of 23% for all the years from 2001 through 2022.
Bonuses
The deals include $5,000 ratification bonuses.
Temporary workers
The union said Ford’s temporary workers will get pay raises totaling 150% over the life of the deal, and workers at certain facilities will also get outsized raises. The temporary workers will also get the ratification bonuses and will get profit-sharing starting next year, officials said.
Benefits
The companies did not agree to bring back traditional defined-benefit pension plans or retiree health care for workers hired since 2007. But they agreed to increase 401(k) contributions to about 9.5%.
Shorter work week
The UAW asked for a shorter work week — 40 hours of pay for 32 hours of work. It did not get that concession.
Worker tiers
The union said Ford and GM agreed to end most divisive wage tiers, a system under which new hires were put on a less attractive pay scale. Fain and union members had highlighted the issue, saying it was unfair for people doing the same work to be paid less than co-workers.
Climbing the ladder
The agreement shortens the time it will take workers to reach top scale, to three years. It took eight years under the contract that expired in September.
Right to strike
The union said it won the right to strike against any of the three companies over plant closures. The automakers had rejected the proposal at the start of talks.
Union organizing
The agreements with Ford, GM and Stellantis could give the UAW a boost as it seeks to represent workers at nonunion plants in the U.S. that are operated by foreign carmakers and Tesla, as well as future plants that will make batteries for electric vehicles.
The union said Ford agreed to put workers at a future battery plant in Michigan under the UAW’s master contract, and GM agreed to do so with work at Ultium Cells, a joint venture between the company and LG Energy Solution of South Korea.
Fain vowed Sunday that the union will “organize like we’ve never organized before” at nonunion plants.
“When we return to the bargaining table in 2028, it won’t just be with the Big Three but with the Big Five or the Big Six,” he said in an online message to union members.
https://www.voanews.com/a/uaw-strike-won-things-no-one-thought-possible-from-automakers/7334365.html
date: 2023-10-31, from: Fresno Bee Stories
A resident of the home is charged with harboring a fugitive, cops say.
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/nation-world/national/article281238468.html
date: 2023-10-31, from: 404 Media Group
Auto workers ask other unions in other industries to collaborate with them to “take on the billionaire class.”
date: 2023-10-31, from: Fresno Bee Stories
“I watched my best friend leave me forever,” his girlfriend said.
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/nation-world/national/article281238618.html
date: 2023-10-31, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
NASA is studying contrails to determine if more environmentally friendly aircraft fuels might reduce their formation.…
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2023/10/31/cutting_contrails_with_saf/
date: 2023-10-31, from: Raspberry Pi (.org)
On September 29 2023, amidst much excitement and enthusiasm, a significant event took place at a unique school in Moinabad, Telangana: the teams of the Raspberry Pi Foundation and Telangana Social Welfare Residential Educational Institutions Society (TSWREIS) gathered to celebrate our partnership on the esteemed Coding Academy of TSWREIS. This event marked a special project…
The post Coding futures: Celebrating our educational partnership in Telangana appeared first on Raspberry Pi Foundation.
https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/tswreis-coding-academy-computing-education-partnership-telangana/
date: 2023-10-31, from: Santa Barbara Indenpent News
he Los Olivos Community Service District received a $75,000 grant to complete a third-party study to determine the most efficient and cost-effective wastewater options for Los Olivos, protect the groundwater, and preserve our quaint town’s history and open spaces.
The post Wastewater Options for Los Olivos appeared first on The Santa Barbara Independent.
https://www.independent.com/2023/10/31/wastewater-options-for-los-olivos/
date: 2023-10-31, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
A UK minister for policing has called for forces to double their use of algorithmic-assisted facial recognition in a bid to snare more criminals.…
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2023/10/31/uk_police_minister_lfr/
date: 2023-10-31, from: Fresno Bee Stories
“I know it gets a little bit of a stigma, but I don’t think there’s anything radical about it at all,” he said of being “America First.”
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/politics-government/election/article281225778.html
date: 2023-10-31, from: Fresno Bee Stories
The state’s Democratic supermajority has repeatedly shut down attempts to expand the law lengthening prison sentences for repeat offenders.
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/california/article280963108.html
date: 2023-10-31, from: Fresno Bee Stories
Washington-based research group gave California the low ranking.
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/california/article281206333.html
date: 2023-10-31, from: Fresno Bee Stories
In a region known for its ample surface water, state regulators say more work is needed to deter subsidence and dry wells
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/california/article281104048.html
date: 2023-10-31, from: Fresno Bee Stories
“I can’t help it — I was born a girl and a person of color,” said one woman medical professor. “The cards are just stacked against me.”
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/california/article281049928.html
date: 2023-10-31, from: VOA News USA
A wildfire fueled by gusty Santa Ana winds ripped through rural land southeast of Los Angeles on Monday, forcing about 4,000 people from their homes, fire authorities said.
The so-called Highland Fire erupted at about 12:45 p.m. in dry, brushy hills near the unincorporated Riverside County hamlet of Aguanga.
As of late Monday night, it had spread over about 2 square miles (5 square kilometers) of land, fire spokesman Jeff LaRusso said.
About 1,300 homes and 4,000 residents were under evacuation orders, he said.
The fire had destroyed three buildings and damaged six others but it wasn’t clear whether any were homes. The region is sparsely populated but there are horse ranches and a large mobile home site, LaRusso said.
No injuries were reported.
Winds of 20 to 25 miles per hour (32 to 40 kph) with some higher gusts drove the flames and embers through grass and brush that were dried out by recent winds and low humidity so that it was “almost like kindling” for the blaze, LaRusso said.
The winds were expected to ease somewhat overnight and fire crews would attempt to box in the blaze, LaRusso said.
But, he added: “Wind trumps everything. Hopefully the forecast holds.”
A large air tanker, bulldozers and other resources were called in to fight the fire, one of the few large and active blazes to have erupted so far in California’s year-round fire season, LaRusso said.
Southern California was seeing its first significant Santa Ana wind condition. The strong, hot, dry, dust-bearing winds typically descend to the Pacific Coast from inland desert regions during the fall. They have fueled some of the largest and most damaging fires in recent California history.
The National Weather Service said Riverside County could see winds of 15 to 25 mph (24 to 40 kph) through Tuesday with gusts as high as 40 miles per hour (64 kph). The weather service issued a red flag warning of extreme fire danger through Tuesday afternoon for parts of Los Angeles and Riverside counties.
date: 2023-10-31, from: The Signal
The tragedies and human suffering unfolding in the Middle East are worse than any Halloween nightmare. There is a lot more going on than meets the eye. To be fully transparent, my father was an Israeli soldier and police detective. My parents met in Israel and I have deep roots there. My large family living […]
The post Jonathan Kraut | ‘Please Invade Us’ Begs the Question: Why? appeared first on Santa Clarita Valley Signal.
https://signalscv.com/2023/10/jonathan-kraut-please-invade-us-begs-the-question-why/
date: 2023-10-31, from: Fresno Bee Stories
“This thing is so dead,” tweeted the head of the Indian Gaming Association.
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/california/article281212273.html
date: 2023-10-31, from: The Signal
The following is a copy of a letter addressed to the governing board of the William S. Hart Union High School District. I wish to draw your attention to a critical matter that concerns the well-being of our students and our educators. Requiring teachers to disclose a student’s gender identity to their parents can have […]
The post Cody Jacobs | Concerned About Students appeared first on Santa Clarita Valley Signal.
https://signalscv.com/2023/10/cody-jacobs-concerned-about-students/
date: 2023-10-31, from: Marketplace Morning Report
While there’s often a narrative that scammers target older adults, scammers don’t discriminate. Turns out, younger people are more likely to report losing money to a scam. We delve into the types of scams Gen Zers fall for and what consumers can do to protect themselves. Also, the Biden administration cracks down on junk fees from financial advisers, and the market might be doing some of the Fed’s work.
https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-morning-report/yes-young-people-get-scammed-too
date: 2023-10-31, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Exclusive Unit4, the enterprise software provider popular with government and medium-sized businesses, has announced it will end support of its on-prem systems on December 31, 2024.…
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2023/10/31/unit4_onprem_support_2025/
date: 2023-10-31, from: Fresno Bee Stories
A suspect is charged with animal cruelty, officials said.
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/nation-world/national/article281194153.html
date: 2023-10-31, from: PeerJ blog
A PeerJ Computer Science Special Issue aiming to advance emerging technologies related to Intelligent Ocean Applications “Intelligent ocean applications are less mature than terrestrial counterparts, generally with fewer technical advances, due to the difficulty in analysing and overcoming chaotic ocean environments” – Jiachen Yang, Professor, Tianjin University. Intelligent ocean applications involve the fusion of artificial intelligence techniques with […]
date: 2023-10-31, from: Marketplace Morning Report
From the BBC World Service: A tour company has been found guilty of not “minimizing risk” in the 2019 White Island volcano eruption, in which 22 people died. Then, the government in Haiti has suspended flights to Nicaragua, which has become a popular connection point for migrants trying to reach the United States. Also: Scaring people is big business. We look at the tourism attractions recreating the dark side of history.
date: 2023-10-31, from: Raspberry Pi News (.com)
These pumpkins have LED matrixes for eyes. They’re powered by a Raspberry Pi Pico hiding in their hollowed-out guts.
The post Petrifying Pico pumpkins appeared first on Raspberry Pi.
https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/petrifying-pico-pumpkins/
date: 2023-10-31, from: Bruce Schneier blog
Ukraine is using $400 drones to destroy tanks:
Facing an enemy with superior numbers of troops and armor, the Ukrainian defenders are holding on with the help of tiny drones flown by operators like Firsov that, for a few hundred dollars, can deliver an explosive charge capable of destroying a Russian tank worth more than $2 million.
[…]
A typical FPV weighs up to one kilogram, has four small engines, a battery, a frame and a camera connected wirelessly to goggles worn by a pilot operating it remotely. It can carry up to 2.5 kilograms of explosives and strike a target at a speed of up to 150 kilometers per hour, explains Pavlo Tsybenko, acting director of the Dronarium military academy outside Kyiv…
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2023/10/the-future-of-drone-warfare.html
date: 2023-10-31, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Microsoft is rarely shy when it comes to anniversaries. However, one milestone passed last week that the mega-corp is still perhaps trying to forget: 11 years since the launch of Windows 8.…
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2023/10/31/windows_8_turns_11/
date: 2023-10-31, from: Fresno Bee Stories
From Our Partners: Get the perfect White Elephant party gift for that person you may (or may not) know
https://www.fresnobee.com/shopping/article281192768.html
date: 2023-10-31, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
The UK government may be onto something with its strategy to support the domestic semiconductor industry. In a strange twist of fate, some experts are starting to say that its approach makes sense.…
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2023/10/31/uk_semiconductor_strategy/
date: 2023-10-31, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>WASHINGTON — The Biden administration is moving toward a narrower student loan relief plan that would target specific groups of borrowers — those with soaring interest, for example — rather than a sweeping plan like the one the Supreme Court rejected in June.</p>
date: 2023-10-31, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>DENVER — Colorado lawyers seeking to disqualify former President Donald Trump from running for the White House again argued on Monday that his role in the January 2021 assault on the U.S. Capitol runs afoul of the Constitution’s insurrection clause, opening a hearing that could break new ground in constitutional law.</p>
date: 2023-10-31, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>It’s not officially over yet, but the United Auto Workers appear to have won a significant victory. The union, which began rolling strikes on Sept. 15, now has tentative agreements with Ford, Stellantis (which I still think of as Chrysler) and, finally, General Motors. </p>
https://www.hawaiitribune-herald.com/2023/10/31/opinion/autoworkers-strike-a-blow-for-equality/
date: 2023-10-31, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>It’s a rare issue that can bring 41 states together for a bipartisan fight. This week, state attorneys general across the political spectrum joined forces in suing Facebook parent company Meta for allegedly using features on Instagram and other platforms that hook young users, while denying or downplaying the risks to their mental health. </p>
date: 2023-10-31, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>HONOLULU — Maui police held a news conference on Monday to show 16 minutes of body camera footage taken the day a wildfire tore through Lahaina town in August, including video of officers rescuing 15 people from a coffee shop and taking a severely burned man to a hospital.</p>
date: 2023-10-31, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>Dreams shattered. Shops burned to the ground. Irreplaceable losses.</p>
date: 2023-10-31, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>WASHINGTON — A flow of recent data from the U.S. government has made one thing strikingly clear: A surge in consumer spending is fueling strong growth, demonstrating a resilience that has confounded economists, Federal Reserve officials and even the sour sentiments that Americans themselves have expressed in opinion polls.</p>
date: 2023-10-31, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>JOLIET, Ill. — A man accused of murder, attempted murder and a hate crime in an attack on a Palestinian American woman and her young son pleaded not guilty Monday following his indictmen t by an Illinois grand jury.</p>
date: 2023-10-31, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden on Monday signed an ambitious executive order on artificial intelligence that seeks to balance the needs of cutting-edge technology companies with national security and consumer rights, creating an early set of guardrails that could be fortified by legislation and global agreements.</p>
date: 2023-10-31, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>Joanne Alcoran, 76, of Kamuela, died Oct. 17 at home. Born in Kona, she was a retired gas station cashier. Private services to be held at a later date. Survived by daughters Wendy Miranda and Clarissa (Jayme) Carvalho; son Jon (Karlene Gaston) Alcoran; sister Cindy De Pontes Guzman; brothers Gary De Pontes and Ronald De Pontes; seven grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. Arrangements by Dodo Mortuary.</p>
https://www.hawaiitribune-herald.com/2023/10/31/obituaries/obituaries-for-october-31-9/
date: 2023-10-31, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>MOSCOW (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin sought Monday to deflect blame from the Kremlin for a riot in the southern region of Dagestan that targeted a flight from Israel, charging without evidence that Ukrainian agents of Western spy agencies were behind the rampage.</p>
date: 2023-10-31, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>LEWISTON, Maine — Five months before the deadliest mass shooting in Maine’s history, the gunman’s family alerted the local sheriff that they were becoming concerned about his deteriorating mental health while he had access to firearms, authorities said Monday.</p>
date: 2023-10-31, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza Strip — Israeli ground forces pushed deeper into Gaza on Monday, advancing in tanks and other armored vehicles on the territory’s main city and freeing a soldier held captive by Hamas militants. The Israeli prime minister rejected calls for a cease-fire as airstrikes landed near hospitals where thousands of Palestinians are sheltering beside the wounded.</p>
date: 2023-10-31, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>LOUISVILLE, Ky. — A former Louisville police officer who fired into Breonna Taylor’s apartment the night she was killed is going on trial in federal court this week for violating Taylor’s civil rights during the botched 2020 raid.</p>
date: 2023-10-31, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>Happy Halloween! On this day, the souls of the dead return to their homes, according to ancient Celtics who celebrated a festival called Samhain on Nov. 1. They dressed in costumes and lit bonfires to ward off spirits,</p>
https://www.hawaiitribune-herald.com/2023/10/31/features/lets-talk-food-pumpkin-in-season/
date: 2023-10-31, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>DETROIT — The Detroit Lions can trace their turnaround to hitting more than missing in the draft.</p>
date: 2023-10-31, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Stephen Curry scored 42 points in 30 minutes, and the Golden State Warriors remained unbeaten on the road with a 130-102 victory over the New Orleans Pelicans on Monday night.</p>
date: 2023-10-31, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>PHOENIX — Corey Seager smashed a homer that rocketed off his bat at a speed few other mortals can match. Then he made a sliding stop and started a double play in the eighth inning that might have saved the game.</p>
date: 2023-10-31, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>EAGAN, Minn. — Kirk Cousins has a torn right Achilles tendon that will end his season, dampening the mood around the Minnesota Vikings after their recent resurgence and putting the front office and coaching staff in a scramble to figure out which quarterback to finish with.</p>
date: 2023-10-31, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>PARIS (AP) — The list reads 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2015, 2019, 2021, and now 2023.</p>
date: 2023-10-31, from: Guam Daily Post
Bill 9-37, the measure to legalize consumer-grade fireworks on Guam, had proven to be one of the most contentious measures that lawmakers have taken up this session, drawing concerns about conflicts of interest, discourse on parliamentary procedure and even statements…
date: 2023-10-31, from: Guam Daily Post
A bill in Congress to provide veterans with “adaptive vehicles at no cost” will get a public hearing on Thursday.
date: 2023-10-31, from: Guam Daily Post
The University of Guam Press recently announced that it will be launching a children’s book series.
date: 2023-10-31, from: Guam Daily Post
As some call for local leaders to scale down plans for a full medical complex to just a new public hospital, Gov. Lou Leon Guerrero asks “why do we limit ourselves” from the possibility of “getting comprehensive continuum, 360-degree care…
date: 2023-10-31, from: Guam Daily Post
A man suspected of violating a court order allegedly assaulted two officers with the Guam Police Department who had to use a stun gun and a baton to restrain him, while also preventing the man’s mother and a dog from…
date: 2023-10-31, from: Guam Daily Post
A man who last year was suspected of livestreaming a “joyride to prison” is facing new charges of aggravated assault.
date: 2023-10-31, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
From November, it will be possible to pay Meta to stop shoveling ads in your Instagram or Facebook feeds and slurping your data for marketing purposes so long as you live in the EU, EEA, or Switzerland.…
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2023/10/31/meta_ad_free_europe/
date: 2023-10-31, from: Santa Barbara Indenpent News
Health care is a prime example of how the disability community often gets overlooked by professionals.
The post Barriers for Disabled Persons Are Not All Physical appeared first on The Santa Barbara Independent.
https://www.independent.com/2023/10/31/barriers-for-disabled-persons-are-not-all-physical/
date: 2023-10-31, from: Alex Schroeder’s Blog
We went to visit Bern, walked through the botanical gardens, saw the bears, drank hot chocolate and finally went to see friends for dinner.
But before going there, we had set aside an hour to buy tea at Länggass Tee. We drank three different kinds of pu-ehr tea and I ended up buying a cake.
It is only now as we’re sitting in the train home that I see on their homepage that they got some Dongpian Oolong from Taiwan: A Li Shan Dong Pian 阿里山冬片 and Gu Keng Dong Pian 古坑冬. Should have bought some! Oh, and they bought some Korean tea, too! Ha Dong Dae Jak 河东大雀 하동대작, Ha Dong Se Jak 河东细雀 하동세작 and Jirisan Wu Jeon 智异山雨前 지리산우전.
Next time I really should read the website before we go visit, not on the way home.
Here’s what I bought:
I still have three bags of tea open, but I also don’t come often to Bern too often, so this is what I’ll be drinking in the coming year. 🍵
I also had to explain to my wife how little I knew and that I knew true tea nerds on fedi like @babelcarp who runs Babel Carp, “a Chinese Tea Lexicon”.
But first, drinking some Wu Yi Oolong Grade 1.
https://alexschroeder.ch/view/2023-10-19-tea
date: 2023-10-31, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Researchers say they have developed a method to remotely track the movement of objects in a room using mirrors and radio waves, in the hope it could one day help monitor nuclear weapons stockpiles.…
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2023/10/31/nuclear_monitoring_mirrors_radios/
date: 2023-10-31, from: Guam Daily Post
The Supreme Court of Guam has held that the island’s 30-year-old ban on abortion, Public Law 20-134, was repealed by implication through subsequent legislation and “no longer possesses any force or effect in Guam.”
date: 2023-10-31, from: Robert Reich on Substack
Is the pendulum now swinging back toward unions?
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-new-uaw-deal-and-the-future-of
date: 2023-10-31, from: The Daily Trojan (USC Student Paper)
The Daily Trojan features Classified advertising in each day’s edition. Here you can read, search, and even print out each day’s edition of the Classifieds.
The post Classifieds – October 31, 2023 appeared first on Daily Trojan.
https://dailytrojan.com/2023/10/31/classifieds-october-31-2023/
date: 2023-10-31, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Google has significantly advanced its efforts to have Android run on CPUs that use the RISC-V instruction set architecture.…
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2023/10/31/google_android_risc_v/
date: 2023-10-31, from: Fresno Bee Stories
Basada en hechos reales, el protagonista y productor de la cinta Eugerio Derbez cuenta lo intimidante que fue interpretar el maestro Sergio Juárez.
https://www.fresnobee.com/vida-en-el-valle/entretenimiento/article280971088.html
date: 2023-10-31, from: SCV New (TV Station)
1923 – Newhall Chamber of Commerce petitions state to pave Spruce Street (now Main); it happens three years later [story
https://scvnews.com/today-in-scv-history-oct-31/
date: 2023-10-31, from: The Daily Trojan (USC Student Paper)
The bargaining team can call for a strike at any time and will picket on Nov. 9.
The post Graduate student workers vote to authorize strike appeared first on Daily Trojan.
https://dailytrojan.com/2023/10/31/graduate-student-workers-vote-to-authorize-strike/
date: 2023-10-31, from: The Daily Trojan (USC Student Paper)
Feuer served as the L.A. city attorney and in the California State Assembly.
The post Professor discusses gov’t campaign appeared first on Daily Trojan.
https://dailytrojan.com/2023/10/31/professor-discusses-govt-campaign/
date: 2023-10-31, from: The Daily Trojan (USC Student Paper)
When his opportunity comes, Dustin Wolf will be ready to pounce.
The post Dustin Wolf: Hunting appeared first on Daily Trojan.
https://dailytrojan.com/2023/10/31/dustin-wolf-hunting/
date: 2023-10-31, from: The Daily Trojan (USC Student Paper)
The Trojans snap their six-game losing streak in Salt Lake City.
The post Women’s volleyball fights on in Mountain West appeared first on Daily Trojan.
https://dailytrojan.com/2023/10/31/womens-volleyball-fights-on-in-mountain-west/
date: 2023-10-31, from: The Daily Trojan (USC Student Paper)
The 50-49 finish was an instant classic in the series finale between old foes.
The post Football barely survives Golden Bears in final Pac-12 showdown appeared first on Daily Trojan.
https://dailytrojan.com/2023/10/31/football-barely-survives-golden-bears-in-final-pac-12-showdown/
date: 2023-10-31, from: The Daily Trojan (USC Student Paper)
A crowded fan section helped propel USC past UC Berkeley.
The post Women’s soccer snaps four-game slump appeared first on Daily Trojan.
https://dailytrojan.com/2023/10/31/womens-soccer-snaps-four-game-slump/
date: 2023-10-31, from: The Daily Trojan (USC Student Paper)
Undocumented students need a dedicated center, and LMU shows it’s possible.
The post USC can learn from LMU’s Dream Center appeared first on Daily Trojan.
https://dailytrojan.com/2023/10/31/usc-can-learn-from-lmus-dream-center/
date: 2023-10-31, from: The Daily Trojan (USC Student Paper)
I’m combatting my abysmal attention span through exposure therapy.
The post When a writer cannot read appeared first on Daily Trojan.
https://dailytrojan.com/2023/10/31/when-a-writer-cannot-read/
date: 2023-10-31, from: The Daily Trojan (USC Student Paper)
Players fiercely competed
for a prize in the game of strategy
Saturday afternoon.
The post Checkmates abound at chess invitational appeared first on Daily Trojan.
https://dailytrojan.com/2023/10/31/checkmates-abound-at-chess-invitational/
date: 2023-10-31, from: The Daily Trojan (USC Student Paper)
The cast and crew of the School of Dramatic Arts’ newest production enchants the audience at their opening performance.
The post ‘Pippin’ brings forth magic, mayhem appeared first on Daily Trojan.
https://dailytrojan.com/2023/10/31/pippin-brings-forth-magic-mayhem/
date: 2023-10-31, from: The Daily Trojan (USC Student Paper)
The event included around fifteen dogs, a photo booth and various animal experts.
The post Students play, de-stress with puppies on campus appeared first on Daily Trojan.
https://dailytrojan.com/2023/10/31/students-play-de-stress-with-puppies-on-campus/
date: 2023-10-31, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
The government of Canada has decided that Tencent’s WeChat app, and Kaspersky’s security suite, are too risky to run on government-issued mobile devices.…
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2023/10/31/canada_wechat_kaspersky_ban/
date: 2023-10-31, from: Guam Daily Post
With a vote of nine to six, Bill 173-37, the energy credit extension measure, passed the Guam Legislature Tuesday afternoon.
date: 2023-10-31, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Australia’s SBS will allow users of its video streaming services to opt out of ads for burgers, booze, and betting.…
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2023/10/31/sbs_streaming_vice_ads_optout/
date: 2023-10-31, from: The Signal
A structure fire in Saugus on Monday night resulted in multiple L.A. County Fire Department engines being called to the scene, according to department officials. The Fire Department was called to the 28000 block of Oaklar Drive at 8:50 p.m. for a single-story dwelling that was well-involved, according to Supervisor Llacuna. As of the publication […]
The post Saugus home ‘well-involved’ upon firefighters’ arrival appeared first on Santa Clarita Valley Signal.
https://signalscv.com/2023/10/saugus-home-well-involved-upon-firefighters-arrival/
date: 2023-10-31, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Atlassian has told customers they “must take immediate action” to address a newly discovered flaw in its Confluence collaboration tool.…
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2023/10/31/critical_atlassian_confluence_flaw/
date: 2023-10-31, from: Fresno Bee Stories
Fresno County Superintendent’s Office may approve district-based voting for Clovis school board elections starting in 2024. Here’s what to know.
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/local/education-lab/article280717660.html
date: 2023-10-31, from: Santa Barbara Indenpent News
Santa Barbara attorney Tim Hale argues the streamlined bankruptcy process would deny survivors the opportunity to confront their abusers and high-ranking administrators under oath.
The post Child Abuse Claims Have Franciscans Contemplating Bankruptcy appeared first on The Santa Barbara Independent.
https://www.independent.com/2023/10/30/child-abuse-claims-have-franciscans-contemplating-bankruptcy/
date: 2023-10-31, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Vietnam will train 50,000 engineers to work in its semiconductor industry between now and 2030 ,as it seeks to embed itself further into the global chip supply chain.…
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2023/10/31/vietnam_semiconductor_industry_plan/
date: 2023-10-31, from: VOA News USA
General Motors and the United Auto Workers (UAW) struck a tentative deal on Monday, ending the union’s unprecedented six-week campaign of coordinated strikes that won record pay increases for workers at the Detroit Three automakers.
The accord follows deals the union reached in recent days with Ford and Chrysler-owner Stellantis— significant victories for auto workers after years of stagnant wages and painful concessions following the 2008 financial crisis.
“We wholeheartedly believe our strike squeezed every last dime out of General Motors,” UAW President Shawn Fain said in a video address. “They underestimated us. They underestimated you.”
The union officially suspended its strike against the Detroit Three. UAW local leaders will come to Detroit on Friday to consider the deal with GM, before taking terms to all union workers for ratification.
“We are looking forward to having everyone back to work across all of our operations,” said GM CEO Mary Barra.
The new contracts will significantly raise costs for the automakers. The companies and some analysts have said the deals will make it harder for the Detroit Three to compete with electric-vehicle leader Tesla and nonunion foreign brands such as Toyota Motor.
The UAW won from GM roughly the same package of wage increases agreed with the other two automakers. Pay for veteran workers will rise by 33% and GM will give $2,500 in five payments to retirees through 2028.
Sources have said pension benefits were a sticking point in the UAW’s negotiations with GM, which has more retirees than Ford or Stellantis.
Fain said the union’s move on Saturday to strike a key GM engine factory in Spring Hill, Tennessee, “landed the knockout blow” that got the deal.
The contract reverses years of efforts by GM to create lower-paid groups of UAW workers at units such as component plants, parts warehouses and electric vehicle battery operations. It puts workers at GM’s battery joint-venture with South Korea’s LG Energy under the national agreement.
Fain said some workers at GM’s component operations will get pay increases of as much as 89%.
The contract also restricts use of lower paid temporary workers. “We have slammed the door on having a permanent underclass of temporary workers at GM,” Fain said.
The UAW also gained more sway over the companies’ investment decisions by securing the right to strike over future plant closures.
All three companies have said they do not plan to close existing factories as they shift to EVs. Yet the contract could force them to keep unprofitable plants open during a recession or period of slow sales for new models.
Higher costs
A series of walkouts began on Sept. 15, and nearly 50,000 workers out of nearly 150,000 UAW members at the Detroit automakers eventually joined. The strategy of escalating strikes cost the Detroit Three and suppliers billions of dollars.
UAW leaders called their contract fight part of a larger movement to reverse decades of economic setbacks for working-class Americans. Some analysts agreed.
“This is more than an auto industry story; it is a signal to the entire country that unionized workers can demand and get big wage increases,” said Patrick Anderson of the Anderson Economic Group.
The new contract will cost GM $7 billion over 4.5 years in higher labor costs, two sources told Reuters. Ford said last week it would add $850 to $900 per vehicle in labor costs.
“Consumers will bear some of the cost burden over time … automakers will not have an easy time passing along all of the costs … and will have to seek efficiencies in other ways, or further limit production to more expensive vehicles that can absorb higher labor costs,” Cox Automotive’s chief economist, Jonathan Smoke, said.
Praise from Biden
U.S. President Joe Biden and politicians from both parties weighed in to support the UAW as the union’s fight gained popularity with voters. Michigan will again be a crucial swing state in the 2024 presidential election, and Fain made support for the union’s fight a condition of winning his endorsement. The UAW still has not formally endorsed Biden’s re-election.
“This historic contract is a testament to the power of unions and collective bargaining to build strong middle-class jobs while helping our most iconic American companies thrive,” Biden said in a statement. His aides had worried that a prolonged strike would damage the U.S. economy and the Democratic president’s chances of re-election in 2024.
The UAW has said it is committed to organizing workforces at other carmakers, making negotiations in 2028 between the union and the “Big Five or Big Six.”
Momentum toward deals accelerated over the past two weeks after UAW workers walked out at three of the most profitable factories in the world. The UAW eventually struck against nine plants.
“We have shown the companies, the American public and the whole world that the working class is not done fighting” Fain said. “In fact, we’re just getting started.”
date: 2023-10-31, from: Fresno Bee Stories
The school district is planning on keeping schools open. Most school events will be canceled, but some services will continue.
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/local/education-lab/article281216078.html
date: 2023-10-31, from: The Signal
Rabbi Marozov of Chabad of SCV spent four days in Israel with 27 other rabbis, brought humanitarian aid to victims of ‘brutal attack’ Rabbi Choni Marozov of Chabad of SCV didn’t know about the deadly attack on Israel by Hamas when it happened. The attack that occurred on Oct. 7 was in the middle of […]
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date: 2023-10-31, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Apple has announced its M3 silicon, claimed they are the first CPUs for desktop computers built on a three-nanometre process, and packed them into its MacBook Pro and iMac products.…
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date: 2023-10-31, from: Santa Barbara Indenpent News
New York City Ballet’s Tiler Peck turns it out and amps it up with a terrifically eclectic dance show.
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date: 2023-10-31, from: Playdate Blog
This bird brought a message in a bottle! Hello all, I’m ToadleyUnderControl, but I go by other forms of “Toad” across the internet! I’m the creator of Reel-istic Fishing, a chill/relaxing fishing game for the Playdate! The Prophe-sea With the arrival of Reel-istic Fishing, the curse that has gripped the Playdate since it was first announced has been broken. There had not been a big fishing game until its release, which is wild to me!
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date: 2023-10-31, from: VOA News USA
The White House welcomed the limited flow of humanitarian aid and the restoration of telecommunications in Gaza as Israel continued its ground offensive on Gaza in response to militant group Hamas’ October 7 attack. VOA’s Anita Powell reports from the White House.
date: 2023-10-31, from: Santa Barbara Indenpent News
The Green Party of Santa Barbara County Council joins with the Green Party U.S. in condemning the attacks on civilians, including children, perpetrated by both Hamas and Israel.
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date: 2023-10-31, from: VOA News USA
The White House welcomed on Monday the limited flow of humanitarian aid and the restoration of telecommunications in Gaza as Israel continues its ground offensive on the enclave in response to the Hamas militant group’s stunning Oct. 7 attack.
It also repeated its warning to regional actors to stay out of the fight.
“Our message to any actor seeking to exploit this conflict is: don’t do it,” said John Kirby, director of strategic communications for the National Security Council. “And as you all know, we have strengthened our force posture in the region. We’re continually watching to make sure that any actor who might be tempted to jump in here knows that we will take very seriously our national security interests in the region, not to mention our obligation to protect our troops in our facilities that are going after ISIS in places like Iraq and Syria.”
But this conflict is also exploding in the court of public opinion. Hundreds of people stormed an airport in Russia’s Dagestan region over the weekend, shouting antisemitic slurs over the arrival of a flight from Tel Aviv.
Russian President Vladimir Putin blamed the events on foreign interference, saying they “were inspired, including through social networks, not least from the territory of Ukraine by the agents of Western intelligence services.”
Kirby dismissed that.
“It’s classic Russian rhetoric, when something goes bad in your country: blame somebody else, blame it on outside influences. The West had nothing to do with this. This is just hate, bigotry and intimidation. Pure and simple,” he said.
“And a good leader, a decent leader will call it out for what it is the way President [Joe] Biden has called it out here in this country, instead of blaming the West for something and pushing it off to somebody else,” Kirby said.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has dug in on his disagreement with the U.S.’ classification of Hamas as a terror group and shifted blame elsewhere.
“The West has the biggest responsibility for the massacre in Gaza,” Erdogan said.
Iranian officials have piled on as well, with Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian taking to the rostrum at the United Nations last week to outline their view. Iranians have also protested on the streets.
“It has been three weeks that we have been witness to the war crimes and genocide of the occupying Israeli regime in Gaza and the West Bank of Palestine,” Amirabdollahian said during an emergency United Nations assembly earlier this month.
“The United States and several European countries have sided with the occupying regime of Israel without observing the U.N. charter and international law,” he said.
Kirby said the White House believes there is a fine line between disagreement and discord, adding the administration is vigilant over outbreaks of antisemitism.
“We believe in the right of peaceful protest, even if it’s, you know, espousing ideas we don’t agree with,” he said. “But we don’t – nobody wants – to see peaceful protests turn violent or turn dangerous the way that this mob activity did in Dagestan yesterday. So it’s of concern and it’s something that we’ll continue to talk about with our allies and partners.”
The U.S. is also seeing such protests – many supportive of Palestinians and critical of Israel – bubbling up at major U.S. universities in recent weeks.
Spelman College, a historically Black institution in Georgia, recently held a rally that drew hundreds of attendees in support of Palestinians. Attendees carried signs with messages like “Free Palestine” and “End all U.S. aid to Israel.”
Dr. Helene Gayle pointed to her institution’s main mission when VOA asked how the school tries to frame debates like these.
“What I really hope and believe is that we are teaching young people to be critical thinkers, teaching young people to go beyond sometimes the simple messages that they’re hearing sometimes misinformation that they may be getting – and really understand in a critical, analytic way what the what the issues are so that they can take positions that are well informed,” Gayle told VOA at the White House on Monday.
”You know, on Spelman’s campus, we are having opportunities to do teach-ins and learn about the situation between Israel and Palestine and thinking about how do we look at this in as balanced a way as we possibly can,” she said. “So that’s what I really hope, is that we’re continuing to teach a generation of young people who can be critical thinkers who can look at information and think about it in balanced ways so that they can be true spokespersons, but with a base of knowledge and information that informs their opinions.”
date: 2023-10-31, from: Liliputing
Apple’s newest Mac chips arrive next week, and the company is doing something a little unusual by launching three new variants at once. The new Apple M3, M3 Pro, and M3 Max are all 3nm chips based on the same architecture, but the Pro and Max chips bring more CPU and GPU cores and other […]
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date: 2023-10-31, from: Fresno Bee Stories
With less than 48 hours until the scheduled strike, both sides issued a joint statement Monday and planned a joint news conference for Tuesday.
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/local/education-lab/article281229793.html
date: 2023-10-31, from: Fresno Bee Stories
The 21-year-old could spend the rest of his life in prison, the San Luis Obispo County District Attorney’s Office said.
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/local/article281228933.html
date: 2023-10-31, from: Liliputing
The first PCs powered by Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X Elite processors are expected to arrive in mid-2024, with most major PC markers partnering with Qualcomm in one way or another. While we’ll probably have to wait a little longer for real-world reviews, Qualcomm is giving us a slightly better idea of what to expect from those […]
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date: 2023-10-31, from: Tilde.news
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date: 2023-10-31, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
SolarWinds and its chief infosec officer have been charged with fraud by America’s financial watchdog, which alleges the software maker knew its security was in a poor state ahead of the SUNBURST supply chain attack.…
date: 2023-10-31, from: Om Malik blog
Apple has released a new lineup of Macs, including MacBook Pros and the 24-inch iMac, all powered by M3 chips with a new GPU architecture, once again outpacing rival chipmakers. With these new products, Apple is finally embracing AI, in the way it knows best — through hardware and chips. Apple has introduced a new …
https://om.co/2023/10/30/apple-launches-m3-chips-with-ai/
date: 2023-10-31, from: OS News
We’ve already covered the end of life of Windows CE, but Ars has a short but interesting look back at the history of this undeservedly unloved operating system. It was a proto-netbook, it was a palmtop, it was a PDA, it was Windows Phone 7 but not Windows Phone 8, and then it was an embedded ghost. It parents never seemed to know what to do with it after it grew up, beyond offer it up for anybody to shape in their own image. And then, earlier this month, with little notice, Windows CE was no more, at least as a supported operating system. I will never forget Windows CE.
date: 2023-10-31, from: OS News
In this release, the FreeBSD base system and kernel have been updated to 1302508, and it contains software updates, some improvements to Update Station, and new features to NetworkMgr. Also, os-generic-userland-devtools has been removed from the default installation to downsize the live system image. GhostBSD is an excellent option if you want a more turnkey FreeBSD-based desktop.
https://www.osnews.com/story/137672/ghostbsd-23-10-1-released/
date: 2023-10-31, from: OS News
The goal of this post is to share how we, at the Browser Company, have made it possible to use Swift to build a modern Windows application. There is no UI framework for Windows written in Swift, and Windows itself is written in C++ – so that may leave you wondering, “how can I build my app on Windows”? Modern Windows applications use WinRT, a technology built on top of COM, which can interop really well with Swift, as we presented in our previous post. To be able to build idiomatic UI for Windows in Swift, we have built a language projection tool which creates idiomatic Swift language bindings for WinRT, and today we are open sourcing it at https://github.com/thebrowsercompany/swift-winrt. Swift/Winrt is based on Microsoft’s code generators for C++ (github.com/microsoft/cppwinrt) and C# (github.com/microsoft/cswinrt), and thus is written in C++. Cool stuff.
https://www.osnews.com/story/137670/swift-meet-winrt/
date: 2023-10-31, from: SCV New (TV Station)
The Master’s University men’s basketball team lost a very close 82-77 exhibition game against NCAA Division II Biola Saturday night in The MacArthur Center
https://scvnews.com/tmu-drops-second-exhibition-game-to-biola-77-82/
date: 2023-10-31, from: OS News
Since May, uBO has been in a cat-and-mouse game with YouTube. And they’ve shown incredible resilience, especially when you consider that there are only two people on the uBO team dealing with YouTube. The uBO team members are all volunteers. They’ve gone above and beyond to meet every little request from their users. But there’s a limit to how much they can take. At some point, the constant demands become too much, and they will leave uBO for good. It’s one thing to play cat and mouse with YouTube. It’s quite another to deal with a wave of angry users. Maybe that’s how YouTube will win this war of attrition. If you use YouTube enough, YouTube Premium is a great deal – albeit it a deal that’s steadily getting worse as Google increases its price.
https://www.osnews.com/story/137663/youtubes-anti-adblock-and-ublock-origin/
date: 2023-10-31, from: SCV New (TV Station)
No. 16 College of the Canyons rushed for a combined 175 yards and three scores to take down host Moorpark College 35-30 on Saturday night, winning its fourth conference game of the season
https://scvnews.com/cougars-take-down-moorpark-college-35-30/
date: 2023-10-30, from: VOA News USA
U.S. forces in Iraq and Syria have been attacked with drones or rockets at least 24 times in recent days, including at least three attacks on Monday, according to U.S. defense officials.
At least five of these attacks were launched after U.S. forces struck two facilities in eastern Syria used by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and affiliated groups during the early morning hours of Friday. None of the attacks carried out since the U.S. retaliatory strikes on Friday have caused casualties or damage, according to defense officials.
The latest attack on Monday used multiple rockets to target al-Asad Air Base in western Iraq, a defense official told VOA on condition of anonymity due to security sensitivities.
Other multi-rocket attacks were launched against forces at Green Village and Mission Support Site Euphrates in Syria.
On Sunday, a one-way attack drone was used against U.S. forces at a base near al-Shaddadi in northeastern Syria, and on Thursday another one-way attack drone targeted U.S. and coalition forces at al-Asad Air Base in Iraq, according to U.S. officials.
Pentagon Press Secretary Brigadier General Pat Ryder and other officials have blamed Iranian-backed proxies for the near daily attacks on U.S. forces.
“We know that these are Iranian-backed militia groups that are supported by Iran and, of course, we hold Iran responsible for these groups,” Ryder said last week.
‘Iran’s objective’
Asked by VOA on Monday whether the recent attacks are a sign that U.S. deterrence is not working, a senior defense official replied, “Iran’s objective for a long time has been to force a withdrawal of the U.S. military from the region. What I would observe is that we’re still there.”
One American F-15 and two American F-16 fighter jets used precision munitions against a weapons storage facility and an ammunition facility near Abu Kamal early Friday local time, according to defense officials. The Pentagon assesses the strikes successfully hit their targets, and it is still looking into casualty numbers.
“These precision self-defense strikes are a response to a series of ongoing and mostly unsuccessful attacks against U.S. personnel in Iraq and Syria by Iranian-backed militia groups that began on October 17,” Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin said in a statement on October 26.
“The United States will not tolerate such attacks and will defend itself, its personnel, and its interests,” he added.
Officials have raised concerns about the prospect of “more significant escalation” in the region from Iranian proxy groups.
“Spillover into Syria is not just a risk; it has already begun,” Geir Pedersen, U.N. Special Envoy for Syria, told the U.N. Security Council on Monday via videoconference.
The attacks since October 17 on U.S. and coalition forces have resulted in 17 minor injuries to Americans in Syria and four minor injuries to American personnel in Iraq, with U.S. officials continuing to monitor any potential traumatic brain injuries.
One U.S. contractor at al-Asad Air Base in Iraq suffered a cardiac episode while sheltering in place during a false alarm for an air attack and later died.
At least 19 attacks on U.S. forces in Iraq and Syria occurred between October 17 and October 26, according to the Pentagon.
US increasing protection in region
Approximately 900 troops have either deployed or are in process of deploying from the United States to the Middle East to increase force protection. These units include a Terminal High Altitude Area Defense, or THAAD, battery from Fort Bliss, Patriot batteries from Fort Sill, and Patriot and Avenger batteries from Fort Liberty.
These moves come after Austin had placed more than 2,000 military personnel on heightened alert with a prepare-to-deploy order earlier this month.
Margaret Besheer contributed to this report from the United Nations.
https://www.voanews.com/a/twenty-four-attacks-target-us-forces-in-iraq-syria/7333618.html
date: 2023-10-30, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Google has confirmed that some people’s Pixel devices have lost access to local storage or become trapped in reboot loops after applying the Android 14 software update.…
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date: 2023-10-30, from: VOA News USA
President Joe Biden on Monday signed a wide-ranging executive order on artificial intelligence, covering topics as varied as national security, consumer privacy, civil rights and commercial competition. The administration heralded the order as taking “vital steps forward in the U.S.’s approach on safe, secure, and trustworthy AI.”
The order directs departments and agencies across the U.S. federal government to develop policies aimed at placing guardrails alongside an industry that is developing newer and more powerful systems at a pace rate that has many concerned it will outstrip effective regulation.
“To realize the promise of AI and avoid the risk, we need to govern this technology,” Biden said during a signing ceremony at the White House. The order, he added, is “the most significant action any government anywhere in the world has ever taken on AI safety, security and trust.”
‘Red teaming’ for security
One of the marquee requirements of the new order is that it will require companies developing advanced artificial intelligence systems to conduct rigorous testing of their products to ensure that bad actors cannot use them for nefarious purposes. The process, known as red teaming, will assess, among other things, “AI systems threats to critical infrastructure, as well as chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear and cybersecurity risks.”
The National Institute of Standards and Technology will set the standards for such testing, and AI companies will be required to report their results to the federal government prior to releasing new products to the public. The Departments of Homeland Security and Energy will be closely involved in the assessment of threats to vital infrastructure.
To counter the threat that AI will enable the creation and dissemination of false and misleading information, including computer-generated images and “deep fake” videos, the Commerce Department will develop guidance for the creation of standards that will allow computer-generated content to be easily identified, a process commonly called “watermarking.”
The order directs the White House chief of staff and the National Security Council to develop a set of guidelines for the responsible and ethical use of AI systems by the U.S. national defense and intelligence agencies.
Privacy and civil rights
The order proposes a number of steps meant to increase Americans’ privacy protections when AI systems access information about them. That includes supporting the development of privacy-protecting technologies such as cryptography and creating rules for how government agencies handle data containing citizens’ personally identifiable information.
However, the order also notes that the United States is currently in need of legislation that codifies the kinds of data privacy protections that Americans are entitled to. Currently, the U.S. lags far behind Europe in the development of such rules, and the order calls on Congress to “pass bipartisan data privacy legislation to protect all Americans, especially kids.”
The order recognizes that the algorithms that enable AI to process information and answer users’ questions can themselves be biased in ways that disadvantage members of minority groups and others often subject to discrimination. It therefore calls for the creation of rules and best practices addressing the use of AI in a variety of areas, including the criminal justice system, health care system and housing market.
The order covers several other areas, promising action on protecting Americans whose jobs may be affected by the adoption of AI technology; maintaining the United States’ market leadership in the creation of AI systems; and assuring that the federal government develops and follows rules for its own adoption of AI systems.
Open questions
Experts say that despite the broad sweep of the executive order, much remains unclear about how the Biden administration will approach the regulations of AI in practice.
Benjamin Boudreaux, a policy researcher at the RAND Corporation, told VOA that while it is clear the administration is “trying to really wrap their arms around the full suite of AI challenges and risks,” much work remains to be done.
“The devil is in the details here about what funding and resources go to executive branch agencies to actually enact many of these recommendations, and just what models a lot of the norms and recommendations suggested here will apply to,” Boudreaux said.
International leadership
Looking internationally, the order says the administration will work to take the lead in developing “an effort to establish robust international frameworks for harnessing AI’s benefits and managing its risks and ensuring safety.”
James A. Lewis, senior vice president and director of the strategic technologies program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, told VOA that the executive order does a good job of laying out where the U.S. stands on many important issues related to the global development of AI.
“It hits all the right issues,” Lewis said. “It’s not groundbreaking in a lot of places, but it puts down the marker for companies and other countries as to how the U.S. is going to approach AI.”
That’s important, Lewis said, because the U.S. is likely to play a leading role in the development of the international rules and norms that grow up around the technology.
“Like it or not — and certainly some countries don’t like it — we are the leaders in AI,” Lewis said. “There’s a benefit to being the place where the technology is made when it comes to making the rules, and the U.S. can take advantage of that.”
‘Fighting the last war’
Not all experts are certain the Biden administration’s focus is on the real threats that AI might present to consumers and citizens.
Louis Rosenberg, a 30-year veteran of AI development and the CEO of American tech firm Unanimous AI, told VOA he is concerned the administration may be “fighting the last war.”
“I think it’s great that they’re making a bold statement that this is a very important issue,” Rosenberg said. “It definitely shows that the administration is taking it seriously and that they want to protect the public from AI.”
However, he said, when it comes to consumer protection, the administration seems focused on how AI might be used to advance existing threats to consumers, like fake images and videos and convincing misinformation — things that already exist today.
“When it comes to regulating technology, the government has a track record of underestimating what’s new about the technology,” he said.
Rosenberg said he is more concerned about the new ways in which AI might be used to influence people. For example, he noted that AI systems are being built to interact with people conversationally.
“Very soon, we’re not going to be typing in requests into Google. We’re going to be talking to an interactive AI bot,” Rosenberg said. “AI systems are going to be really effective at persuading, manipulating, potentially even coercing people conversationally on behalf of whomever is directing that AI. This is the new and different threat that did not exist before AI.”
https://www.voanews.com/a/biden-signs-sweeping-executive-order-on-ai-oversight-/7333603.html
date: 2023-10-30, from: Computer ads from the Past
Not every idea is a winner
https://computeradsfromthepast.substack.com/p/comic-know-your-audience
date: 2023-10-30, from: The LAist
California State University adjunct faculty, counselors, librarians, and coaches voted Monday to authorize a strike.
date: 2023-10-30, from: SCV New (TV Station)
Tenants of certain Santa Clarita apartment complexes from 2014-2022 are entitled to reimbursement of illegally collected late fees, according to a class action lawsuit
https://scvnews.com/local-developer-agrees-to-pay-wrongly-charged-tenants/
date: 2023-10-30, from: The Signal
The Santa Clarita Valley Blues Society in partnership with KHUG 97.5-FM invited Croatian harmonica blues player Tomislav Goluban and Kelly Zirbes, lead singer of Kelly’s Lot, to perform at the Smokehouse on Main on Thursday night. The SCV Blues Society is a group of individuals who appreciate the music genre and put their efforts into […]
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https://signalscv.com/2023/10/building-connections-internationally-through-music/
date: 2023-10-30, from: Fresno Bee Stories
The man said he doesn’t play the lottery often.
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/nation-world/national/article281223088.html
date: 2023-10-30, from: Fresno Bee Stories
“Such a beautiful animal. Really surprising they come that close to a busy area.”
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/nation-world/national/article281221478.html
date: 2023-10-30, from: Santa Barbara Indenpent News
The oil giant is instead seeking to repair the pipeline that caused the 450,000-gallon Refugio Oil Spill in 2015.
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date: 2023-10-30, from: Fresno Bee Stories
The driver was killed during a practice session before an International GT race at the Florida speedway, the group said.
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/nation-world/national/article281222188.html
date: 2023-10-31, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
A 20-year-old Florida man has been sentenced to 30 months behind bars for his role in a SIM-swapping ring that stole nearly $1 million in cryptocurrency from dozens of victims.…
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date: 2023-10-30, from: Fresno Bee Stories
The science teacher was charged with child molestation, deputies said, and more charges are possible.
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/nation-world/national/article281221158.html
date: 2023-10-31, from: The LAist
Pasadena and South Pasadena are go-to destinations for film location scouts on the lookout for stand-ins for the Midwest and East Coast.
https://laist.com/from-halloween-to-back-to-the-future-why-filmmakers-love-pasadena-and-south-pas
date: 2023-10-30, from: The Signal
The Canyon Country Community Center held its 2nd Annual Halloween event with a “Dia de los Muertos” theme in which community members had the opportunity to learn about a significant day in Hispanic culture and honor and celebrate its importance. At the celebration, altars with ofrendas (offerings) to honor deceased family members were on display […]
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https://signalscv.com/2023/10/dia-de-los-muertos-celebration-sheds-light-on-hispanic-culture/
date: 2023-10-30, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai testified on Monday at the US government’s Google antitrust trial – and acknowledged that, yes, default settings are valuable.…
date: 2023-10-30, from: Fresno Bee Stories
It belongs to an entirely new genus, researchers said.
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/nation-world/world/article281219338.html
date: 2023-10-30, from: Santa Barbara Indenpent News
ON The (Music) Stage Get out your credit cards and your calendars because we’ve got some great shows coming our
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https://www.independent.com/2023/10/30/on-culture-secret-spies-show-and-sell-and-sarah-jarosz/
date: 2023-10-30, from: Heatmap News
The United Auto Workers’ six-week strike has won large concessions from the Big Three American automakers, including substantial wage hikes.
But in order to win the war over the future of unionized labor in the auto industry, the UAW will need to do something even harder than extracting raises from Ford, Stellantis, and GM: It will have to grow the union by bringing foreign automaker and non-union workforces into the UAW, something it has largely failed to accomplish. Today, it only represents around 15% of the roughly one million autoworkers in the United States.
The UAW leadership had tread a narrow path on electrification. Its president Shawn Fain has said he and the union support it, but the UAW has harshly criticized the Biden administration when subsidies go to non-union battery plants. Conservatives have tried to drive a wedge between the UAW and the Democratic Party by arguing that electrification will lead to American autoworkers being displaced by cars and batteries from overseas.
The UAW is well aware of the risk that electrification poses to its workforce and it made demands during its strike accordingly. The union won an important concession around EVs, easing the way for battery plant workers to be represented by the union, even though the plants are often joint ventures. This means that the UAW’s presence within the Big Three will not be fissured by the electrification of the American auto fleet. And at Stellantis, the UAW even won a commitment to add “over a thousand jobs” at a planned battery plant in Belvidere, Illinois.
But despite decades of trying, the union has failed to organize foreign automakers’ factories in the South or Tesla, let alone startup electric vehicle companies like Rivian. And it’s these automakers and these regions that are seeing big increases in investment thanks to government-encouraged electrification, with subsidies for the purchase of vehicles made in the United States.
The union has dismissed fretting from the Big Three — especially at Ford — that a generous deal could make them uncompetitive compared to foreign and non-union automakers.
“The days of the UAW and Ford being a team to fight other companies are over. We won’t be used in this phony competition. We will always and forever be on the side of working people everywhere. Non-union autoworkers are not the enemy, those are our future union family,” UAW president Shawn Fain in live stream. “We’re going to organize non-union auto companies like we’ve never organized before.”
Any future organizing efforts will be an uphill battle for the UAW, but one that offers large potential gains in membership and influence, especially as the American auto sector electrifies.
The bulk of American EV purchases are from non-union automakers. These automakers are electrifying the fastest, and they’re also perfectly happy to build these vehicles in the United States, taking advantage of the nexus of subsidies and incentives to do so.
About half of the EV market is controlled by Tesla, according to Cox Automotive, while traditional automakers with at least 10% of their sales coming from EVs are all foreign. (Even though Ford sells the second most electric vehicles, it only delivers about one tenth of what Tesla does).
In short, when someone in the U.S. buys an electric crossover or sedan, they are likely buying from a non-union automaker. But when they buy a pickup truck, there’s a good chance it rolled off a line worked by UAW members.
In the U.S., according to Kelly Blue Book, Tesla has sold 494,000 cars in the first nine months of this year. Ford, by contrast, has sold 47,000 electric vehicles so far this year and GM has sold around 56,000 battery electric vehicles. Stellantis doesn’t even sell an all-electric car yet. (It has sold around 98,000 plug-in hybrids this year though.)
During the first seven months of the year, only two of the top 10 battery-electric vehicles in the United States were made by the Big Three, according to a Morgan Stanley report. These were Ford’s Mustang Mach-E and the Chevrolet Bolt.
Another two cars on the list — the Jeep Grand Cherokee 4xe and Wrangler 4xe — are plug-in hybrids made by Stellantis.
But the list was otherwise dominated by models — such as the Tesla Model Y, Rivian R1T, and Hyundai Ioniq 5 — that are made either abroad or in a non-union American factory. Most of those vehicles are nonetheless eligible for some or all of a $7,500 federal subsidy for lease or purchase.
That deviates from what the Biden administration had once hoped. While early drafts of what would become the Inflation Reduction Act restricted tax credits to union-made vehicles, the provisions were stripped out at the insistence of Joe Manchin, the Democratic senator from West Virginia. (Toyota, which is not unionized, operates an engine and transmission plant in his state.)
In other words, the majority of fully electric vehicles sold in America today are not made by UAW members, and nothing about the country’s EV policy per se will force that to change.
And precisely because the U.S. auto industry is already heavily non-union, any burst of new manufacturing will tend to flow to non-union shops, which is largely what’s occurred as the American auto fleet becomes electrified.
Electric Volkswagens roll off the line in Chattanooga, while Tesla churns out cars for the U.S. market in Fremont, California, and Austin, Texas. BMW and Honda are planning battery factories in South Carolina and Ohio, respectively, and Mercedes already has one in Alabama.
In the 10 largest UAW union elections since 2000, the UAW has won six and lost four. Of those losses, three were at foreign automaker factories in the South, including at the Chattanooga Volkswagen plant in 2019, where the union had previously lost a vote in 2014. The UAW’s big recent organizing victories, which grow the size of the union’s membership, have largely been on university campuses, organizing graduate student workers at Harvard, Columbia, and the University of Southern California.
https://heatmap.news/electric-vehicles/the-electric-vehicle-revolution-is-still-non-union
date: 2023-10-30, from: Fresno Bee Stories
She read the ticket wrong at first without her reading glasses, officials said.
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/nation-world/national/article281217353.html
date: 2023-10-30, from: Fresno Bee Stories
Police say the man was taken to a hospital to be treated.
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/nation-world/national/article281220203.html
date: 2023-10-30, from: Santa Barbara Indenpent News
Hello, book lovelies! With welcoming a second baby and returning to work, the last few months of my life haven’t
The post All Booked | Grief and Conquering Aging appeared first on The Santa Barbara Independent.
https://www.independent.com/2023/10/30/all-booked-grief-and-conquering-aging/
date: 2023-10-30, from: SCV New (TV Station)
Los Angeles County Supervisors Kathryn Barger and Holly J. Mitchell voiced their utter dissatisfaction Monday with Los Angeles County’s delayed roll-out of a small property owner rent relief program approved by the Board of Supervisors on Jan. 24, 2023, and have called for an audit to both examine the process and identify the reasons for those delays
https://scvnews.com/barger-calls-for-audit-of-rent-relief-program/
date: 2023-10-30, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
US President Joe Biden issued an executive order today putting in place some safeguards that may mitigate societal risks stemming from increasingly powerful AI technology.…
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2023/10/30/us_president_to_sign_new/
date: 2023-10-30, from: Fresno Bee Stories
The IRS gave most California people and businesses an extension on filing federal tax returns — the state soon followed suit — because of the winter storms.
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/california/article281212308.html
date: 2023-10-30, from: The LAist
The data set is for a three-week period tracking the controversial policy.
https://laist.com/news/criminal-justice/early-data-appears-to-show-zero-bail-policy-effects
date: 2023-10-30, from: Fresno Bee Stories
Three other people trapped with the teen were able to escape, Washington fire officials said.
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/nation-world/national/article281217978.html
date: 2023-10-30, from: Fresno Bee Stories
Construction work on a pipeline revealed the ancient grave.
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/nation-world/world/article281211578.html
date: 2023-10-30, from: Liliputing
One Netbook has been cranking out handheld gaming PCs under the ONEXPLAYER brand for a few years. But like most computers in this space, they’ve tended to rely on integrated graphics rather than more powerful discrete GPUs. Now the company is preparing to launch a solution that (sort of) offers the best of both worlds: […]
The post ONEXGPU is a compact USB4 graphics dock from the makers of ONEXPLAYER handheld gaming PCs appeared first on Liliputing.
date: 2023-10-30, from: Fresno Bee Stories
The “suspicious death” was discovered in the woods near a road, Vermont police said.
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/nation-world/national/article281202878.html
date: 2023-10-30, from: Fresno Bee Stories
The Secretary of State wrote to the Shasta County Board of Supervisors after voting rights groups raised the alarm about the upcoming election.
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/california/article281216248.html
date: 2023-10-30, from: NASA breaking news
Data collected by NASA’s Juno mission indicates a briny past may be bubbling to the surface on Jupiter’s largest moon. NASA’s Juno mission has observed mineral salts and organic compounds on the surface of Jupiter’s moon Ganymede. Data for this discovery was collected by the Jovian InfraRed Auroral Mapper (JIRAM) spectrometer aboard the spacecraft during […]
https://www.nasa.gov/missions/juno/salts-and-organics-observed-on-ganymedes-surface-by-nasas-juno/
date: 2023-10-30, from: OS News
Apple released their first Quicktake camera, the Quicktake 100, in 1994, ten years after the Apple //c. On the box, they very boldly wrote: “Requirements: 386, 486 or superior; 2MB of RAM, 10MB of free hard disk space; an 1.44MB floppy drive; a VGA, SVGA or superior card”. But was this true? No. They were just being lazy, or trying to get you to upgrade a perfectly functional 8-bit, 1MHz computer with 128kB of RAM and 140kB floppies. In fact, it was absolutely possible to do digital photography on an Apple //c. Useless projects are the best projects.
https://www.osnews.com/story/137667/quicktake-100-for-apple-ii/
date: 2023-10-30, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
AI infrastructure provider Voltage Park revealed Sunday it has acquired 24,000 Nvidia H100 accelerators, which it plans to begin leasing to enterprises, startups and research institutions early next year.…
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2023/10/30/voltage_park_gpu_farm/
date: 2023-10-30, from: SCV New (TV Station)
In recognition of its outstanding achievements in public relations, SCV Water received five prestigious awards from the Public Relations Society of America’s Los Angeles chapter
https://scvnews.com/scv-water-earns-five-prism-awards-including-top-prize/
date: 2023-10-30, from: Fresno Bee Stories
“Fast food franchises like Dairy Queen offer minor-aged workers valuable work experience, but federal law ensures that experience does not come at the expense of a young worker’s education or related activities.”
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/nation-world/national/article281214673.html
date: 2023-10-30, from: Fresno Bee Stories
The group of women spent the night hiding under bed sheets, the lawsuit says.
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/nation-world/national/article281214718.html
date: 2023-10-30, from: Smithsonian Magazine
Until now, menopause had not been documented in wild, non-human animals, except for a few species of toothed whales
date: 2023-10-30, from: Fresno Bee Stories
The restaurant’s owners had hoped to find a buyer.
https://www.fresnobee.com/living/food-drink/bethany-clough/article281206038.html
date: 2023-10-30, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News
This is the RSS feed for my Bluesky account.
https://rss.firesky.tv/?filter=from:scripting.com
Can I have a feed like this for my Threads account?
This would be good for the open web, like ActivityPub support, but easier.
If you like Threads but also want choice, please pass this on.
http://scripting.com/2023/10/30/205603.html?title=toTheDevelopersOfThreads
date: 2023-10-30, from: The Signal
News release Rep. Mike Garcia, R-Santa Clarita, released a report to address the Ukraine funding debate, outlining the congressman’s position that the U.S. has an urgent need for a path to victory, transparency, accountability and sustainable peace. The 12-page report was signed in concurrence by Republican Reps. Dan Crenshaw, of Texas, Brad Wenstrup, of Ohio, […]
The post Garcia releases report on Ukraine funding debate appeared first on Santa Clarita Valley Signal.
https://signalscv.com/2023/10/garcia-releases-report-on-ukraine-funding-debate/
date: 2023-10-30, from: Fresno Bee Stories
Body camera footage shows the officer shoot the dog family described as the “sweetest baby.”
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/nation-world/national/article281214693.html
date: 2023-10-30, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
It’s no longer just opinion to say the platform formerly known as Twitter has declined in many ways since Elon Musk’s takeover, but you wouldn’t know that from the sound of all the back-patting from what’s left of the company’s engineering team.…
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2023/10/30/x_looks_back_at_year/
date: 2023-10-30, from: Fresno Bee Stories
The substitute teachers union clarifies their standing in case of a potential Fresno Teachers Association strike. Here’s what to know.
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/local/education-lab/article281106438.html
@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2023-10-30, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
What does it mean when the Disk I/O graph for one of your servers does this and you can’t think of what changed that could have caused it.
http://scripting.com/2023/10/30.html#a203816
date: 2023-10-30, from: Fresno Bee Stories
The two left in a white Ford Mustang before police got to the scene.
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/nation-world/national/article281213703.html
date: 2023-10-30, from: Smithsonian Magazine
The Jack Skellington-inspired display is made from more than 10,000 gourds across 2,081 square feet
date: 2023-10-30, from: SCV New (TV Station)
The city of Santa Clarita’s Film Office released the three productions currently filming in the Santa Clarita Valley for the week of Monday, Oct. 30 - Sunday, Nov.
https://scvnews.com/cesar-millan-among-three-productions-filming-in-scv-2/
date: 2023-10-30, from: Fresno Bee Stories
Firefighters were responding to a man in cardiac arrest on a building. “It just went with no warning,” one North Carolina official said.
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/nation-world/national/article281201493.html
date: 2023-10-30, from: Fresno Bee Stories
He ran in California’s 13th Congressional District in 2022.
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/politics-government/election/article281204313.html
date: 2023-10-30, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Three unpatched high-severity bugs in the NGINX ingress controller can be abused by miscreants to steal credentials and other secrets from Kubernetes clusters. …
date: 2023-10-30, from: Fresno Bee Stories
Now he’s agreed to pay $1.5 million to settle the U.S. government’s lawsuit against him.
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/nation-world/national/article281198578.html
date: 2023-10-30, from: NASA breaking news
On Oct. 29, 1998, NASA astronaut John H. Glenn made history again when he returned to space aboard space shuttle Discovery’s STS-95 mission, nearly 37 years after becoming the first American in orbit during his February 1962 Friendship 7 mission. The seven-member STS-95 crew consisted of Commander Curtis L. Brown, Pilot Steven W. Lindsey, Mission […]
https://www.nasa.gov/history/25-years-ago-sts-95-john-glenn-returns-to-space/
date: 2023-10-30, from: Fresno Bee Stories
Visitors often flock to the parkway to see fall foliage.
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/nation-world/national/article281210068.html
date: 2023-10-30, from: Fresno Bee Stories
Twenty-one players are nominated. Voting ends at 11:59 p.m. Nov. 5
https://www.fresnobee.com/sports/high-school/prep-football/article281206153.html
date: 2023-10-30, from: Fresno Bee Stories
Seventeen athletes are nominated. Voting ends at 11:59 p.m. Nov. 5.
https://www.fresnobee.com/sports/high-school/article281207498.html
date: 2023-10-30, from: NASA breaking news
Volunteers working with The Daily Minor Planet have made the project’s first big discovery: an asteroid passing very near planet Earth. On the night of October 3rd, a telescope for the Catalina Sky Survey snapped four pictures of a far northern section of the sky. The next day, volunteers H. N. DiRuscio, X. Liao, V. Gonano and […]
date: 2023-10-30, from: SCV New (TV Station)
Vicki White has been named vice president and chief nursing officer at Henry Mayo Newhall Hospital
https://scvnews.com/henry-mayo-names-vicki-white-chief-nursing-officer/
date: 2023-10-30, from: Fresno Bee Stories
Police said the 62-year-old ran when he saw the officer’s blue lights.
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/nation-world/national/article281207808.html
date: 2023-10-30, from: Fresno Bee Stories
The Maryland woman was reunited with her dog 17 days later in New Mexico, the humane society said.
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/nation-world/national/article281205838.html
date: 2023-10-30, from: Fresno Bee Stories
The species found in Argentina was named after Lionel Messi, researchers said.
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/nation-world/world/article281201953.html
date: 2023-10-30, from: NASA breaking news
ACH Credit Payment ACH Credit is a payment method that allows a payer to initiate payment through their financial institution through the ACH/Federal Reserve network. ACH Credit allows the payer to control the initiation and timing of payments as well as when the date the funds are sent. Please view the instructions by accessing ACH Credit Payment […]
https://www.nasa.gov/centers-and-facilities/nssc/accounts-receivable/
date: 2023-10-30, from: SCV New (TV Station)
Halloween is just a few days away and with a number of spirited and spooky activities, there is something for everyone to enjoy in Santa Clarita
https://scvnews.com/ken-striplin-halloween-safety-tips/
date: 2023-10-30, from: Smithsonian Magazine
Wild Atlantic salmon can struggle with heat as they swim upstream to spawn—but artificial “thermal refuges” may help them cool off
date: 2023-10-30, from: Fresno Bee Stories
The president’s artificial intelligence executive order prompted mixed reactions from AI experts.
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/nation-world/national/article281202328.html
date: 2023-10-30, from: 404 Media Group
An AI-generated fake of Hadid, who recently wrote that leaders should “ensure that innocent Palestinian civilians are not the forgotten casualties of this war,” went viral on social media for literally putting words in her mouth.
https://www.404media.co/deepfake-bella-hadid-israel-palestine-video/
date: 2023-10-30, from: Fresno Bee Stories
They were found in a remote area, officials say.
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/nation-world/national/article281204148.html
date: 2023-10-30, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
The US Department of Defense’s update of its aging nuclear arsenal could cost as much as $350 billion over the next 20 years, yet oversight problems mean that some of the cash infusion could be wasted.…
date: 2023-10-30, from: Fresno Bee Stories
“The death penalty is barbaric, often discriminatorily applied, risks executing innocent persons, and has been abolished in most countries worldwide.”
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/california/article281206468.html
date: 2023-10-30, from: VOA News USA
A man accused of murder, attempted murder and a hate crime in an attack on a Palestinian American woman and her young son pleaded not guilty Monday following his indictment by an Illinois grand jury.
Joseph Czuba, 71, is charged in the fatal stabbing of six-year-old Wadea Al-Fayoume and the wounding of Hanaan Shahin on October 14. Authorities said the victims were targeted because of their Muslim faith and as a response to the war between Israel and Hamas.
Shahin told police that Czuba, her landlord in Plainfield in Will County, was upset over the war and attacked them after she had urged him to “pray for peace.”
Czuba appeared in court Monday wearing a red jail uniform, socks and yellow rubber slippers.
His attorney George Lenard entered the not guilty plea after the judge read the 8-count indictment. Czuba did not speak, looking down at the podium with his hands folded behind his back as he stood before the judge in the court in Joliet, 50 miles (80 kilometers) southwest of Chicago.
Shahin, 32, is recovering from multiple stab wounds. Hundreds of people attended her son’s funeral on October 16 where he was remembered as an energetic boy who loved playing games. He had recently had a birthday.
The boy’s father and other family members attended the hearing. They declined to speak to reporters.
The murder charge in the indictment against Czuba describes the boy’s death as the result of “exceptionally brutal or heinous behavior.” The attack on the family — which renewed anti-Islamic fears in the Chicago area’s large and established Palestinian community — has drawn condemnation from the White House.
Judge David Carlson ruled that Czuba will remain detained as he awaits a January 8 court hearing.
In arguing to keep Czuba detained, Will County Assistant State’s Attorney Michael Fitzgerald said Czuba was a danger to Shahin and others.
“We also believe he is a threat to the safety of the community,” he said.
Czuba’s attorneys disagreed, citing Czuba’s age and the fact that he is a veteran without any criminal convictions.
Lenard and Fitzgerald declined to comment to reporters after the hearing.
Shahin asked the public to “pray for peace” and said her son was her best friend in a statement issued last week through the Chicago chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations.
The attack comes amid rising hostility against Muslim and Jewish communities in the U.S. since Hamas attacked Israel.
date: 2023-10-30, from: The Signal
News release Vicki White has been named chief nursing officer at Henry Mayo Newhall Hospital. White, who has more than 20 years of CNO experience, joined Henry Mayo in July of this year as interim CNO, according to a news release from the hospital. She recently served in a variety of not-for-profit settings as a […]
The post Vicki White named HMNH chief nursing officer appeared first on Santa Clarita Valley Signal.
https://signalscv.com/2023/10/vicki-white-named-hmnh-chief-nursing-officer/
date: 2023-10-30, from: Fresno Bee Stories
“The spider walked away unscathed.”
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/california/article281198643.html
date: 2023-10-30, from: Fresno Bee Stories
His body was found in about 8 feet of water, according to a wildlife agency.
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/nation-world/national/article281199003.html
date: 2023-10-30, from: Fresno Bee Stories
The two drivers were also taken to a hospital, state police say.
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/nation-world/national/article281204703.html
date: 2023-10-30, from: Liliputing
There’s no shortage of cheap gadgets you can plug into the HDMI port of a TV to turn it into a smart display for streaming media from Netflix, Hulu, YouTube, or Disney+. But the Raspberry Pi-powered PiPocket goes a bit further and basically lets you turn any display with an HDMI input into a Linux […]
The post PiPocket transforms a Raspberry Pi CM4 into an HDMI stick for your TV or monitor (crowdfunding) appeared first on Liliputing.
date: 2023-10-30, from: The LAist
Journalist Hadley Meares had written about LA’s extensive haunted history. But then she experienced it for herself.
date: 2023-10-30, from: Smithsonian Magazine
The 40-year-old woman inside the tomb was buried with a ring, a comb and other items
date: 2023-10-30, from: The Sundail (CSUN student paper)
Inside the CSUN Library Exhibit Gallery, Eating the Archives is a display that explores the many ways we interact with food throughout our lives. The exhibit showcases books, documents, cookware, and more, straight from CSUN’s special collections and archives. It weaves an overlooked connecting thread that is fed through our understandings of history and societal…
date: 2023-10-30, from: Fresno Bee Stories
The 43-year-old man from Long Island was charged with menacing and child endangerment, police told news outlets.
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/nation-world/national/article281204858.html
date: 2023-10-30, from: Fresno Bee Stories
Commentary by former San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo.
https://www.fresnobee.com/opinion/article281205438.html
date: 2023-10-30, from: Santa Barbara Indenpent News
Student showcase explores the “Me Too” movement and Salem witch trials.
The post Santa Barbara City College Theatre Group Presents ‘John Proctor Is the Villain’ appeared first on The Santa Barbara Independent.
date: 2023-10-30, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Security researchers have uncovered a multi-year cryptojacking campaign they claim autonomously clones GitHub repositories and steals their exposed AWS credentials.…
date: 2023-10-30, from: Bunnie’s Studio Blog
The Ware for October 2023 is shown below. Thanks to JeffreyO for contributing this ware!
https://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=6859
date: 2023-10-30, from: SCV New (TV Station)
The Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority and the California Department of Transportation will fully close both northbound and southbound directions of Interstate 5 Golden State Freeway from the State Route 14 Antelope Valley Freeway to Calgrove Boulevard 8 p.m., Saturday, Nov. 4 to 8 a.m., Sunday, Nov. 5, to demolish the Weldon Canyon Road bridge
https://scvnews.com/metro-caltrans-announce-i-5-full-closure-in-santa-clarita/
date: 2023-10-30, from: Michael Tsai
Stairways Software: Version 11 extends the editor by adding a New Macro Wizard and new Security preference pane, and enhanced searching and syncing.The engine adds a new keyboardmaestro command line tool for triggering macros, modern JavaScript syntax, Apple Text Recognition option, a new palette to show active macro groups, enhanced scripting support, and more.There is […]
https://mjtsai.com/blog/2023/10/30/keyboard-maestro-11/
date: 2023-10-30, from: Michael Tsai
Dirk Lemstra (via Hacker News, tweet): Today [ImageMagick’s Windows] code signing certificate will expire. For many years LeaderSSL sponsored us with a code singing certificate but they are no longer able to do so. Since June of 2023 the CA/B Forum requires that OV code signing private keys be stored on a FIPS 140-2 Level […]
https://mjtsai.com/blog/2023/10/30/code-signing-woes/
date: 2023-10-30, from: Bunnie’s Studio Blog
The Ware from September 2023 is a Honeywell HPMA115S0-XXX PM2.5 sensor. Although Ben guessed the general category of the ware first, David was the first to give the exact model. Usually I award the prize to the first person to give an exact, correct model number and fall back to category-of-ware only if no correct […]
https://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=6857
date: 2023-10-30, from: Michael Tsai
Brian Merchant: Kiani, an electrical engineer by training, had founded the Irvine company Masimo in 1989. Over the next three decades, he and his colleagues built Masimo into an industry leader in pulse oximetry, used to take readings of the amount of oxygen in a person’s blood — a crucial, sometimes life-saving, measurement.[…]Kiani and the […]
https://mjtsai.com/blog/2023/10/30/masimo-v-apple/
date: 2023-10-30, from: Michael Tsai
Mia Sato: Jirapraphanan is exactly the kind of customer Thai Food Near Me hopes to scoop up. The New York-based restaurant is named after a literal Google search, betting it can bring in customers with the power of SEO — the practice of making a business, website, or content more findable in search engine results. […]
https://mjtsai.com/blog/2023/10/30/the-restaurant-nearest-google/
date: 2023-10-30, from: Liliputing
The Radxa Zero 3W is a single-board computer that measures just 65 x 30mm (2.6″ x 1.2″) and features a Rockchip RK3566 quad-core ARM Cortex-A55 processor with Mali-G52-2EE graphics and an integrated neural processing unit. Coming soon for $15 and up, it’s the Radxa’s latest alternative to the Raspberry Pi Zero. This isn’t Radxa’s first […]
The post Radxa Zero 3W is a Pi Zero-sized PC with a RK3566 processor and up to 8GB RAM appeared first on Liliputing.
date: 2023-10-30, from: NASA breaking news
In 1895, Wilhelm Röntgen discovered X-rays and used them to image the bones in his wife’s hand, kicking off a revolutionary diagnostic tool for medicine. Now two of NASA’s X-ray space telescopes have combined their imaging powers to unveil the magnetic field “bones” of a remarkable hand-shaped structure in space. Together, these telescopes reveal the […]
date: 2023-10-30, from: Fresno Bee Stories
The Illinois day care was forced to cut back services and consider closing, authorities said.
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/nation-world/national/article281201198.html
date: 2023-10-30, from: NASA breaking news
Contrails, the lines of clouds left by high-flying aircraft that crisscross the skies, are familiar sights, but they may have an unseen effect on the planet – trapping heat in the atmosphere. Working with Boeing, United Airlines, and other industry, government, and international partners, NASA researchers are collecting data to see how new, greener aviation […]
date: 2023-10-30, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
The merge window has opened for what will become Linux version 6.7, and below we’ve compiled some things that are likely to be included in the new release.…
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2023/10/30/linux_kernel_6_7_rundown/
date: 2023-10-30, from: Fresno Bee Stories
It sank after drifting two days on fire, historians say.
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/nation-world/national/article281195358.html
date: 2023-10-30, from: Fresno Bee Stories
“To be shot next to the mosque, it makes me very sad.”
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/nation-world/national/article281198743.html
date: 2023-10-30, from: NASA breaking news
Researchers have utilized infrared survey data to refine the asteroid’s size and surface brightness in support of the Nov. 1 encounter by NASA’s Lucy mission. NASA’s Lucy mission will soon have its first asteroid encounter as the spacecraft travels through deep space en route to Jupiter’s orbit. But before the spacecraft passes 265 miles (425 […]
date: 2023-10-30, from: Fresno Bee Stories
Fire rescue crews were called to the popular hiking spot on Saturday.
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/nation-world/national/article281197403.html
date: 2023-10-30, from: 404 Media Group
For the last several days, an Instagram account has been unmasking people it claimed were “jew haters,” many of whom appeared to pull down posters showing Hamas’ kidnapping victims.
https://www.404media.co/instagram-removes-jew-hate-database/
date: 2023-10-30, from: Open Library Blog
🇳🇿🇦🇺🇳🇱🇺🇸🇨🇦🇸🇬🇩🇪🇮🇹🇮🇷🇪🇸🇨🇭🇺🇦🇨🇴🇲🇾🇮🇳🇦🇹🇪🇬 Back in 2020, we started the tradition of hosting an annual Community Celebration to honor the efforts of volunteers across the globe who help make the Open Library project possible. Tomorrow, Tuesday, October 31st at 9am Pacific, we warmly invite the public to join us in a small gathering to celebrate the hardworking humans […]
https://blog.openlibrary.org/2023/10/30/2023-open-library-community-celebration/
date: 2023-10-30, from: Fresno Bee Stories
The man was with friends, but they weren’t able to help him, deputies said.
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/nation-world/national/article281197968.html
@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2023-10-30, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
Reading lists in FeedLand are now usable. 💥
http://scripting.com/2023/10/30.html#a170835
date: 2023-10-30, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
It has been 25 years since the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) was signed into US law by President Bill Clinton, ushering in an era of intellectual property (IP) protection for all. Or that was the hope.…
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2023/10/30/digital_millennium_copyright_act_25/
date: 2023-10-30, from: TidBITS blog
One of the longest-standing Mac apps is also one of the most popular to this day—Microsoft Word. It has been a fixture in the Mac world for 40 years now.
https://tidbits.com/2023/10/30/microsoft-word-celebrates-its-40th-anniversary/
date: 2023-10-30, from: Heatmap News
The largest, longest strike among American autoworkers in decades is probably over. On Monday, the United Auto Workers reached a tentative agreement with General Motors, according to multiple outlets, meaning that the union now has a deal with all of the “Big Three” American automakers.
While the terms of the GM deal haven’t been released, they will likely resemble those in the UAW’s tentative contracts with Ford and Stellantis, which owns Chrysler, Dodge, Jeep, and Ram. Those two deals saw many union members get a 25% pay bump, and they eliminated a two-tier wage system at some factories that was put in place after the Great Recession.
The deals also seem to address some — but not all — of workers’ concerns about the EV transition. The Ford deal will let UAW members ask to be transferred to its new electric-vehicle and battery factories in Stanton, Tennessee, and Marshall, Michigan, according to Bloomberg. It will also let workers at that Tennessee plant — an EV-producing “mega-campus” that will be the company’s largest facility ever — join the UAW contract via a “card check,” a type of union election that requires only that a majority of eligible workers sign union-membership cards. Union organizers generally prefer “card check” elections, which are considered simpler and easier to win, to standard union elections administered by the National Labor Relations Board.
The UAW strike began 45 days ago. It is the longest autoworker strike in a quarter century, and the first time in decades that the union struck at all three American companies simultaneously.
The strike won’t officially end until a majority of UAW members at each company ratify their new contract. But the union has already asked workers at Ford and Stellantis to return to work, and production at some factories could resume this week.
https://heatmap.news/sparks/the-uaw-strike-is-probably-over
date: 2023-10-30, from: Fresno Bee Stories
The man’s knee got stuck in the crevice after he slipped, Utah officials said.
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/nation-world/national/article281197683.html
date: 2023-10-30, from: Cory Doctorow’s blog
Today’s links Zuck’s gravity-defying metaverse money-pit: $46.5 billion incinerated and he’s richer than ever. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2003, 2008, 2013, 2018 Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading Zuck’s gravity-defying metaverse money-pit (permalink) Think of everything that makes you miserable as being caught between two opposing, irresistible, irrefutable truths: “Anything that can’t go on forever eventually stops” (Stein’s Law) “Markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent” (Keynes) Both of these are true, even though they seemingly contradict one another, and no one embodies that contradiction more perfectly than Mark Zuckerberg. Take the metaverse. Zuck’s “pivot” to a virtual world he ripped off from a quarter-century old cyberpunk novel (reminder: cyberpunk is a warning, not a suggestion) was born of desperation. Zuck fancies himself an avatar of the Emperor Augustus (that’s why he has that haircut) (no, really). The emperors of antiquity are infamous for getting all weepy when they run out of lands to conquer. But the lachrymosity of emperors has little causal relationship to the anxieties of tech monopolists! Alexander weeps because he just loves a good conquest and when he finishes conquering the world, he’s terminally bored. That’s not Zuck’s problem at all. When Zuck attains monopoly status, his company develops an autoimmune disorder, as his vicious princelings run out of enemies to destroy and begin to knife one another. Any monopoly faces these destructive microincentives, but tech is exceptional here because tech has the realtime flexibility and speed that brick-and-mortar businesses can never match: https://pluralistic.net/2023/02/19/twiddler/ Sociopaths with tech monopolies are worse for the same reason that road-rage would be worse in a flying car: adding new capacity to indiscriminate self-destructive urges turns ordinary car crashes into low-level airburst warfare: https://pluralistic.net/2023/07/28/microincentives-and-enshittification/ The flexibility of digital gives tech platforms so much latitude to break things in tiny increments. A tech platform is like a Jenga tower composed of infinitely divisible blocks. The Jenga players are the product managers and executives who have run out of the ability to grow by attracting new business thanks to their monopoly dominance. Now they compete with one another to increase the yield from their respective divisions by visiting pain upon the business customers and end users their platform connects. By tiny increments, they increase the product’s cost, lower its reliability, and strip it of its utility and then charge rent to restore its functionality: https://pluralistic.net/2023/10/24/cursed-bigness/#incentives-matter This is the terminal stage of enshittification, the unstoppable autocannibalism of platforms as they seek to harvest all the value created by business customers and end users, leaving the absolute minimum of residual value needed to keep both stuck to the platform. This is a brittle equilibrium, because the difference between “I hate this service but I just can’t stop using it,” and “Get me the fuck out of here” is razor-thin. All it takes is one tiny push – a whistleblower, a livestreamed mass-shooting, a Cambridge Analytica – and people bolt for the doors. This triggers the final stage: the “pivot,” which is a tech euphemism for “panic.” For Zuck, the pivot got real after a disappointing earnings call triggered a mass sell-off of Facebook stock, history’s worst one-day value incineration, which lopped a quarter of a trillion dollars off the company’s market cap: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-12-19/dramatic-stock-moves-of-2022-led-by-meta-dive-nordic-flash-crash This was when the metaverse became the company’s top priority. Now, in my theory of enshittification, the step that follows the pivot is death: “Finally, they abuse those business customers to claw back all the value for themselves. Then, they die”: https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/21/potemkin-ai/#hey-guys Many people have asked me about the conspicuous non-death of Facebook! That’s where I have to fall back on Stein’s Law: “Anything that can’t go on forever eventually stops.” Facebook can’t continue to annihilate value, alienate its workers, harm the public, hemorrhage money in support of a mediocrity’s cherished folly forever. Can it? Admittedly, it sure seems like it can. Facebook’s metaverse pivot has thus far cost the company $46,500,000,000. That is: $46.5 billion. That’s even more money than Uber torched, seeking to maintain the illusion that they will be able to create monopolies on both transport and the labor market for driving and recoup the billions the Saudi royal family let them use for the con: https://pluralistic.net/2022/02/11/bezzlers-gonna-bezzle/#gryft Don’t worry: the Saudi royals are fine! They cashed out at the IPO, collecting a tidy profit at the expense of retail investors who assumed that a pile of shit as big as Uber must have a pony under it, somewhere: https://pluralistic.net/2023/05/19/fake-it-till-you-make-it/#millennial-lifestyle-subsidy Uber has doubled the cost of rides and halved drivers’ wages, using illegal gimmicks like “algorithmic wage discrimination” to squeeze a little more juice out of the nearly exhausted husks of its workforce: https://pluralistic.net/2023/04/12/algorithmic-wage-discrimination/#fishers-of-men But Stein’s Law hasn’t been repealed. Drivers can’t drive for sub-subsistence wages. Do that long enough and they’ll literally starve: that’s what “subsistence” means. We lost a decade of transit investment thanks to the Uber con, at the same time as traditional taxi drivers were forced out of the industry. Uber can’t be profitable and still pay a living wage, and the fantasy of self-driving cars as a means of zeroing out the wage-bill altogether remains stubbornly, lethally unworkable: https://pluralistic.net/2022/10/09/herbies-revenge/#100-billion-here-100-billion-there-pretty-soon-youre-talking-real-money Which means we’re at the point where you can get off a commuter train at a main station and find yourself stranded: no taxis at the taxi-queue, no busses due for an hour, and no Uber cars available unless you’re willing to pay $95 for a ten-minute ride in a luxury SUV (why yes, this did happen to me recently, thanks for asking). As more and more of us are exposed to these micro-crises, the political will to do something will increase. This can’t go on forever. “Don’t use commuter rail” isn’t a viable option. “Walk three miles each way to the commuter rail station” isn’t viable either. Neither is “Pay $95 for an Uber to get to the station.” Something’s gotta give…eventually. “Eventually” is the key word here. Remember the counterpoint to Stein’s Law: Keynes’s maxim that “markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent.” Sure, anything that can’t go on forever eventually stops, but that is no guarantee of a soft landing. You can’t smoke two packs a day forever – but in the absence of smoking cessation, the eventual terminus of that habit is stage-four lung cancer. Keep hammering butts into your face and your last smoke will come out of a crematorium chimney. Zuckerberg hasn’t merely blown a whole-ass Twitter on the metaverse with nothing to show for it – he’s gotten richer while doing it! In the past year, his net worth increased by 130%, to $59 billion, thanks to an increase in Facebook’s share-price, driven by investors who stubbornly remain irrational, keeping the Boy Emperor solvent long past any reasonable assessment of his performance. What are these investors betting on? One possibility is that the rise and rise of Facebook’s share-price represents a bet on technofeudalism. Since the Communist Manifesto, Marxists have been predicting the end of capitalism. That end seems to have come, but what followed capitalism wasn’t socialism, it was the return of feudalism, an economic system where elites derive their wealth from rents, not profits: https://pluralistic.net/2023/09/28/cloudalists/#cloud-capital Profit is the income you get from investing in capital – machinery, systems, plant – and then harvesting the surplus value created by workers who mobilize this capital. Capitalism produces massive returns for its winners – in the Manifesto’s first chapter, Marx and Engels just geek out about how productive and dynamic this system is. But capitalism is also a Red Queen’s Race, where the winners have to run faster and faster to stay in the same place. Capitalism drives competition, as other would-be winners pile into the sector, replicating the systems that the current winners are using and then improving on them. This is why the prophets of capitalist end-times like the FBI informant Peter Thiel say that “competition is for losers.” Capitalism’s “profits” stand in contrast to the feudalist’s “rents.” Rents are income you get from owning something that other people need to produce things. The capitalist owns the coffee-shop, but the feudalist owns the building. When a rival capitalist opens a superior coffee-shop and drives the old shop out of business, the capitalist loses, but the rentier wins. Now they can rent out an empty storefront in the neighborhood everyone’s coming to because of that hot new cafe. Feudal and manorial lords also made their fortunes by extracting surplus value from workers, but these rentiers don’t care about owning the means of production. The peasant in the field pays for their own agricultural equipment and livestock – control over the means of production is necessary for worker liberation, but it’s not sufficient. The worker’s co-op that owns its factory can still find the value it produces bled off by the landlord who owns the land the factory sits on. The jury’s still out on whether American workers really see themselves as “temporarily embarrassed millionaires,” but America’s capitalists have a palpable, undeniable loathing for capitalism. The dream of an American “entrepreneur” is passive income: money you get from owning something capitalists and/or workers use to create value. Digital technology creates exciting new possibilities for rent-extraction: a taxi-operator had to buy and maintain a car that someone else drove. Uber can offload this hassle onto its drivers and rent out access to the chokepoint it created between drivers and riders, charging all the traffic can bear. This is feudalism in the cloud – or as Yannis Varoufakis calls it, cloudalism. In Varoufakis’s Technofeudalism, he describes Amazon as a feudal venture. From a distance, Amazon seems like a bustling marketplace of manic capitalism, with sellers avidly competing to offer more variety and lower costs in a million independently operated storefronts. But closer inspection reveals that Amazon is a planned economy, not a market. Every one of those storefronts pays rent to the same landlord – Amazon – which determines which goods can be offered for sale. Amazon sets pricing for those goods, and extracts 45-51% of every dollar those sellers make. Amazon even controls which goods are shelved at eye-height when you enter the store, and which ones are banished to a dusty storeroom in a distant sub-basement you’ll never find: https://pluralistic.net/2023/06/14/flywheel-shyster-and-flywheel/#unfulfilled-by-amazon Zuck’s metaverse is pure-play technofeudalism, Amazon taken to the logical extreme. It’s easy to get distracted by the part of Zuck’s vision that will convert us all into legless, sexless, heavily surveilled low-resolution cartoon characters. But the real action isn’t this digitization of our fleshy wants and needs. Zuck didn’t spend $46.5B to torment us. The cruelty isn’t the point of the metaverse. The point of the metaverse is to rent us out to capitalists. Zuck doesn’t know why we would use the metaverse, but he believes that if he can convince capitalists that we all want to live there, that they’ll invest the capital to figure out how to serve us there, and then he can extract rent from those capitalists and start earning “passive income.” It’s an Uber for Cyberpunk Dystopias play. Zuck’s done this before. Remember the “pivot to video?” Zuckerberg wanted to compete with Youtube, but he didn’t want to invest in paying for video production. Videos are really expensive to produce and the median video gets zero views. So Zuck used his captive audience to trick publishers into financing his move into video. He fraudulently told publishers that videos were blowing up on Facebook, outperforming boring old text by vast margins. Publishers borrowed billions and raised billions more in the capital markets, financing the total conversion of newsrooms from text to video and precipitating a mass extinction event for print journalists. Zuck kept the con alive by giving away (fewer) billions to some of those publishers, falsely claiming that their videos were generating fortunes in advertising revenue. These lucky, credulous publishers became judas goats for their industry, luring others into the con, the same way that the “lucky” guy a carny lets win a giant teddy-bear at the start of the day lures others into putting down $5 to see if they can sink three balls in a rigged peach-basket. But when we stubbornly refused to watch videos on Facebook, Zuck stopped spreading around these convincer payouts, and precipitated a second mass-extinction event in news media, as the new generation of video journalists joined their predecessors in Facebook-driven unemployment. Given this history, it’s surreal to see publishers continue to insist that Facebook is stealing their content, when it is so clearly stealing their money: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/04/saving-news-big-tech Metaverse is the new Pivot to Video. Zuckerberg is building a new world, which he will own, and he wants to rent it to capitalists, who will compete with one another in just the way that Amazon’s sellers compete. No matter who wins that competition, Zuckerberg will win. The prize for winning will be a rent increase, as Zuckerberg leverages the fact that your “successful” business relies on Facebook’s metaverse to drain off all the value your workers have produced: https://pluralistic.net/2022/12/18/metaverse-means-pivot-to-video/ This can’t last forever, but how long until Zuck’s reality distortion field runs out of battery? That’s the $46.5B question. The market can certainly remain irrational for a hell of a long time. But the market isn’t the only force that regulates corporate outcomes. Regulators also regulate. Europe’s GDPR is now seven years old, and it plainly outlaws Facebook’s surveillance. For nearly a decade, Facebook has pretended that this wasn’t true, and they got away with it. Mostly, that’s thanks to the fact that Ireland is a corporate crime-haven with a worse-than-useless Data Protection Commission: https://pluralistic.net/2023/05/15/finnegans-snooze/#dirty-old-town But anything that can’t go on forever will eventually stop. Facebook has finally been dragged into EU federal jurisdiction, where it will face exterminatory fines if it continues to spy on Europeans: https://pluralistic.net/2022/12/07/luck-of-the-irish/#schrems-revenge In response, Facebook has rolled out a subscription version of its main service and its anticompetitive acquisition, Instagram: https://about.fb.com/news/2023/10/facebook-and-instagram-to-offer-subscription-for-no-ads-in-europe/ For €10/month, Facebook will give you an ad-free experience across its service offerings (it’s €13/month if you pay through an app, as Facebook recoups the 30% #AdTax rents that the feudal Google/Apple mobile duopoly extracts). But this doesn’t come close to satisfying Facebook’s legal obligations under the GDPR. The GDPR doesn’t ban ads, it bans spying. Facebook spies on every single internet user, all the time. The apps we use are built with “free” Facebook toolkits that extract rent from the capitalists who make them by harvesting our data as we use their apps. The web-pages we visit have embedded Facebook libraries that do the same thing for web publishers. Facebook buys our data from brokers. Facebook has so many ways of spying on us that there’s almost certainly no way for Facebook to stop spying on you, without radically transforming it operation. To comply with the GDPR, Facebook must halt surveillance advertising altogether. There’s no way to square “spying on users” with “you can’t surveil without explicit consent, and you can’t punish people for refusing.” And of course, “not spying” isn’t the same as “not advertising.” “Contextual advertising” – where ads are placed based on the thing you’re looking at, not who you are and what you do – is hundreds of years old. Context ads underperform surveillance ads by a slim margin – about 5% – but they’re vastly more profitable for publishers. That’s because surveillance ads are feudal, controlled by rentiers like Facebook, who own vast troves of the surveillance data needed to run these ads. Traditional ad intermediaries (agencies, brokers) took 10-15% out of the total advertising market. Ad-tech companies – the Google/Facebook duopoly – take 51% out of every ad dollar spent. Eliminate surveillance ads and you torch their feudal estates. Facebook will always know more about someone reading a news article than the publisher – but the publisher will always know more about the article than Facebook does: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/05/save-news-we-must-ban-surveillance-advertising There are rents under capitalism, just as there are profits under feudalism. The defining characteristic of a system is what happens when rents and profits come into conflict. If profits win – for example, if productive companies beat patent trolls, or if news publishers escape Facebook’s rent-extraction – then the system is capitalist. If rents win – if investors continue to bet large on the metaverse as its losses pass $50 billion and head for the $100 billion mark – then the system is feudal. Anything that can’t go on forever will eventually stop. The question isn’t whether the platforms will eventually become so enshittified that they die – the question is whether they will go down in an all-consuming fireball, or whether they’ll go down in a controlled demolition that lets us evacuate the people they’ve trapped inside them first: https://pluralistic.net/2023/07/09/let-the-platforms-burn/ Hey look at this (permalink) When Stocks Go Up, Who Benefits? https://economicsfromthetopdown.com/2023/10/28/when-stocks-go-up-who-benefits/ End of a Journalism Experiment https://newscollab.org/2023/10/27/end-of-a-journalism-experiment/ (h/t Dan Gillmor) Seasonal Cryptosystem PSA https://www.jwz.org/blog/2023/10/seasonal-cryptosystem-psa/ This day in history (permalink) #20yrsago Google to create searchable archive of 60,000 books https://web.archive.org/web/20031203032926/http://rss.com.com/2110-1032_3-5098683.html #20yrsago RIP, Hal Clement https://web.archive.org/web/20041028024514/http://www.livejournal.com/users/redbird/341244.html #15yrsago Alan’s War: extraordinary graphic novel memoir of a US GI who arrived in Europe at the end of WWII and stayed https://memex.craphound.com/2008/10/28/alans-war-extraordinary-graphic-novel-memoir-of-a-us-gi-who-arrived-in-europe-at-the-end-of-wwii-and-stayed/ #10yrsago Dead Set: a supernatural punk YA novel from Richard “Sandman Slim” Kadrey https://memex.craphound.com/2013/10/29/dead-set-a-supernatural-punk-ya-novel-from-richard-sandman-slim-kadrey/ #10yrsago Web Literacy Standard 1.0 from Mozilla https://dougbelshaw.com/blog/2013/10/28/announcing-the-web-literacy-standard-specification/ #10yrsago Neil Gaiman interviews Lou Reed https://neilgaiman.com/Cool_Stuff/Interviews/Waiting_for_the_Man_-_Lou_Reed #10yrsago Hyperbole and a Half: now in book form! https://memex.craphound.com/2013/10/28/hyperbole-and-a-half-now-in-book-form/ #10yrsago How the Koch Brothers laundered illegal campaign contributions https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/10/california-koch-brothers-network-settlement-15-million-dark-money/ #5yrsago As Wisconsin’s corporate welfare to Foxconn keeps rising, the number of jobs to be created keeps falling https://www.theverge.com/2018/10/29/18027032/foxconn-wisconsin-plant-jobs-deal-subsidy-governor-scott-walker #5yrsago The EU’s new Link Tax bans the use of Creative Commons and open access for news https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/10/eus-link-tax-will-kill-open-access-and-creative-commons-news #5yrsago Bernie Sanders and Yanis Varoufakis announce Progressives International, to counter rising ultra-nationalism https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/lesterfeder/bernie-sanders-yanis-varoufakis-european-spring-movement #5yrsago Economists reverse claims that $15 Seattle minimum wage hurt workers, admit it was largely beneficial https://web.archive.org/web/20181028193123/https://www.bloombergquint.com/view/what-minimum-wage-foes-got-wrong-about-seattle Colophon (permalink) Today’s top sources: Naked Capitalism (https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/). 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date: 2023-10-30, from: Fresno Bee Stories
The suspect pulled his gun’s trigger but it didn’t shoot, deputies say, so he went back to his car for a shell.
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/nation-world/national/article281106763.html
date: 2023-10-30, from: San Jose Mercury News
Police said they expected to release more details later Monday.
date: 2023-10-30, from: Fresno Bee Stories
Recent servicer errors forced 800,000 borrowers into delinquency, officials said.
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/nation-world/national/article281197308.html
date: 2023-10-30, from: NASA breaking news
Iron-rich sediment colors the red-orange waters of the Betsiboka River Delta in Madagascar in this image taken by an astronaut on the International Space Station on Sept. 30, 2023. The sediment can clog waterways in the delta’s estuarial environment, but it can also form new islands that become colonized by mangroves. Despite its rusty color, […]
https://www.nasa.gov/image-article/rusty-red-waters-in-madagascar/
date: 2023-10-30, from: Fresno Bee Stories
A man wearing a black skull mask kicked in a house door and shot the woman in front of two kids, the sheriff said.
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/nation-world/national/article281196668.html
date: 2023-10-30, from: Fresno Bee Stories
Their bodies were found in the roadway, police said.
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/nation-world/national/article281193673.html
date: 2023-10-30, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Western Digital is to split into two separate entities, one formed from the NAND flash memory division and the other from the hard drive unit. The move follows the collapse of WD’s proposed merger with memory chipmaker Kioxia.…
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2023/10/30/western_digital_votes_for_split/
date: 2023-10-30, from: Honolulu Star Advertiser
<p>An SAT score of 1300 or higher can open a path to America’s top public and private colleges. But new data, for the first time at this level of detail, shows that just a sliver of the country’s poorest students reach that level.</p>
date: 2023-10-30, from: SCV New (TV Station)
The Los Angeles County Fire Department remains alert and ready as the National Weather Service has issued a Red Flag Warning through Monday, at 10:00 p.m
https://scvnews.com/red-flag-warning-issued-for-scv/
date: 2023-10-30, from: Computer ads from the Past
The Most Powerful Editor Environment Available for UNIX and VAX/VMS
https://computeradsfromthepast.substack.com/p/cca-emacs
date: 2023-10-30, from: Logic Matters blog
The newly revised chapter from Category Theory II is now a draft stand-alone PDF, Yoneda Without (Too Many) Tears. All comments and corrections welcome before I perhaps put a revised version on the arXiv. It took me some effort back in the day to get this clear enough in my own mind; and I have …
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date: 2023-10-30, from: Smithsonian Magazine
A duo working on a documentary about invasive quagga mussels in the Great Lakes discovered the long-lost steamship “Africa”
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/128-year-old-shipwreck-found-in-lake-huron-180983147/
date: 2023-10-30, from: Fresno Bee Stories
“I didn’t get too excited because I thought it was a scam,” the man said. Then he told his wife.
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/nation-world/national/article281195613.html
date: 2023-10-30, from: Liliputing
Chinese Mini PC maker ACEMAGIC’s new TANK 03 is the company’s most powerful model to date. It’s also the most unusual looking, with a cube(ish) design that the company says “draws inspiration” from sci-fi spaceships, RGB lighting and a performance dial on the front. Under the hood, this 167 x 167 x 161mm (6.6″ x 6.6″ […]
The post ACEMAGIC TANK 03 is cube-shaped mini PC with up to Core i9-12900H and NVIDIA graphics appeared first on Liliputing.
date: 2023-10-30, from: NASA breaking news
Data on sea surface heights around the world from the international Surface Water and Ocean Topography mission yields a mesmerizing view of the planet’s ocean. The Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) satellite is sending down tantalizing views of Earth’s water, including a global composite of sea surface heights. The satellite collected the data visualized […]
https://www.nasa.gov/missions/swot/see-swot-missions-unprecedented-view-of-global-sea-levels/
date: 2023-10-30, from: San Jose Mercury News
Her new cookbook, “Pie is Messy” shares tips and tricks for baking your best Thanksgiving pies yet.
date: 2023-10-30, from: San Jose Mercury News
From Joshua Tree National Park to the glitzy city of Palm Springs, here’s where to go on your Southern California jaunt.
https://www.mercurynews.com/2023/10/30/7-must-see-spots-in-southern-californias-deserts/
date: 2023-10-30, from: San Jose Mercury News
Lynyrd Skynyrd, ZZ Top sets more Sharp Dressed Simple Man Tour dates, including a stop at Toyota Pavilion in Concord.
date: 2023-10-30, from: Fresno Bee Stories
The California man was sentenced in a case the federal government says caused the “largest financial loss that the United States Government has suffered in any individual deceased beneficiary case.”
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/california/article281192153.html
date: 2023-10-30, from: San Jose Mercury News
Northern California’s chilly fall and winter are the perfect time to head for the Mojave Desert for cavern adventures.
date: 2023-10-30, from: Honolulu Star Advertiser
<p>BEIJING >> China on Monday feted two American veterans of World War II as Washington and Beijing look to past collaboration for inspiration on improving today’s strained ties.</p>
date: 2023-10-30, from: San Jose Mercury News
A high-profile ransomware group claims to have obtained 430 gigabytes of confidential information from Stanford University’s Department of Public Safety.
date: 2023-10-30, from: San Jose Mercury News
Step aside, apple pie. This butter pear and fresh lemon pie takes center stage during pear season.
https://www.mercurynews.com/2023/10/30/recipe-the-pie-holes-lemon-pear-pie/
date: 2023-10-30, from: San Jose Mercury News
This recipe draws its inspiration from a tasting that The Pie Hole had for family and friends before their first bakeshop opened in Los Angeles’ Arts District. A Mexican restaurant had heard about the new pie shop and asked the founders to consider developing a pie for them, says Rebecca Grasley, Pie Hole co-founder and […]
https://www.mercurynews.com/2023/10/30/recipe-the-pie-holes-spiced-hot-chocolate-pie/
date: 2023-10-30, from: San Jose Mercury News
Pie crusts can be daunting. But don’t be discouraged, says Becky Grasley, the baker behind Los Angeles’ The Pie Hole pie shops and author of a new cookbook, “Pie is Messy” (Ten Speed Press, $28).
https://www.mercurynews.com/2023/10/30/recipe-the-pie-holes-secret-pie-crust/
date: 2023-10-30, from: Fresno Bee Stories
The child’s mother was driving and the father was riding in the passenger seat, police said.
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/nation-world/national/article281195033.html
date: 2023-10-30, from: Smithsonian Magazine
Depression, anxiety and harassment of health professionals have risen beyond crisis levels, per a new report from the agency
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/health-care-workers-are-burning-out-cdc-says-180983145/
date: 2023-10-30, from: 404 Media Group
Nothing, Forever is getting another round of virality as people gawk at what might be the end of the first big AI show.
https://www.404media.co/ai-seinfeld-is-broken/
date: 2023-10-30, from: Fresno Bee Stories
Confused about how to become a teacher in California? New online tools could help.
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/california/article281120313.html
date: 2023-10-30, from: Gary Marcus blog
A great start that perhaps doesn’t go far enough
https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/first-take-on-the-white-house-executive
date: 2023-10-30, from: San Jose Mercury News
Johnson was playing for the Nottingham Panthers in a Challenge Cup game against the Sheffield Steelers when he suffered the skate cut during the second period of the Elite Ice Hockey League game at Sheffield’s Utilita Arena.
date: 2023-10-30, from: VOA News USA
A flow of recent data from the U.S. government has made one thing strikingly clear: A surge in consumer spending is fueling strong growth, demonstrating a resilience that has confounded economists, Federal Reserve officials and even the sour sentiments that Americans themselves have expressed in opinion polls.
Spending by consumers rose by a brisk 0.4% in September the government said Friday — even after adjusting for inflation and even as Americans face ever-higher borrowing costs.
Economists caution that such vigorous spending isn’t likely to continue in the coming months. Many households have been pulling money from a shrinking pool of savings. Others have been turning increasingly to credit cards. And the additional savings that tens of millions of households amassed during the pandemic — from stimulus aid and reduced opportunities to travel, dine out and visit entertainment venues — are nearly depleted, economists say.
Still, the truth is no one knows where things go from here, given the unusual nature of the post-pandemic economy. The “death of the consumer” and an ensuing recession have been forecast by most economists for at least a year. So far, not only is no recession in sight but consumers as a whole appear to be in robust health. Spending might cool in the coming months, yet it’s far from clear it will collapse.
On Thursday, the government said the economy accelerated at a 4.9% annual rate in the July-September quarter, the fastest such rate since 2021, on the back of a jump in Americans’ spending. People spent on used cars and restaurant meals, airfares and hotel rooms. Much of it, even after adjusting for higher prices, was for discretionary items that suggested that many people feel confident in their finances and job security.
The durability of that spending has caught the attention of Fed officials, who have signaled that they will keep their key interest rate unchanged when they meet this week. But they’ve also made clear that they are monitoring the economic data for any sign that inflation could reignite and require further rate hikes.
“I have been consistently surprised at the resilience of consumer spending,” Christopher Waller, an influential member of the Fed’s board, said in a speech this month.
In the meantime, businesses, especially those in the sprawling service sector, are benefiting from what still appears to be pent-up demand, likely driven by higher-income earners, after the restrictions of the pandemic. Last week, Royal Caribbean Group reported robust quarterly earnings. Travelers crowded their cruise ships and spent more even as the company raised prices.
“The acceleration of consumer spending on experiences [has] propelled us towards another outstanding quarter,” said CEO Jason Liberty. “Looking ahead, we see accelerating demand.”
So what’s behind the outsize gains, so far? Economists point to several drivers: Sturdy hiring and low unemployment, along with healthy finances for most households emerging from the pandemic. Wealthier households, in particular, have enjoyed substantial growth in home values and stock portfolios, which are likely juicing their spending.
Steady hiring has sent the unemployment rate down to a near-five-decade low of 3.8% and lifted to a record high the proportion of women in their prime working years — ages 25 through 54 — who are employed. Measures of layoffs are near historical lows. More jobs mean more income, which generally means more spending.
“We continue to believe that you shouldn’t bet against the consumer until actual job losses are on the horizon,” said Tim Duy, chief U.S. economist at SGH Macro Advisers.
In the July-September quarter, Americans ramped up spending on durable goods — furniture, appliances, jewelry and luggage — that people typically cut back on if they’re worried about their jobs or the economy.
With inflation slowing — it’s at a still-high 3.7%, down from a peak of 9.1% in June 2022 — average wages are starting to outpace price gains. By some measures, wage growth hasn’t yet fully offset the inflation surge that began in 2021. But since late last year, pay has risen faster than prices, likely fueling some spending.
In many lower-paying industries, like hotels, restaurants and warehouses, companies have struggled to find and keep workers and have raised pay accordingly. Julia Pollak, chief economist at ZipRecruiter, calculates that for the lowest-paid 10% of workers, wages have jumped 25% since the first quarter of 2020, when the pandemic began. That’s well ahead of the 18% increase in prices over that time.
And most households started 2023 in better shape than they were in before the pandemic erupted, according to a report from the Fed. The net worth of the median household — the midpoint between the richest and poorest — jumped 37% from 2019 through 2022 as home prices shot higher and the stock market rose. That was the biggest surge on records dating back more than 30 years.
Most of the savings that Americans have accumulated in the past three years have flowed to the wealthiest households, who have splurged on travel and other experiences. Typically, economists say, the wealthiest one-fifth of Americans account for about two-fifths of all spending.
The net worth of the richest one-tenth of households leaped by $28 trillion — or about one-third — from the first quarter of 2020 to the second quarter of 2023, according to the Fed. The poorer one-half of Americans gained a bigger percentage increase but in total dollars much less, from about $2 trillion to $3.6 trillion. (Those figures aren’t adjusted for inflation.)
“When wealth is growing by the amount that it has been the past three years … I do think that it’s playing a larger role in this spending strength than maybe we thought it would,” said Sarah Wolfe, U.S. economist at Morgan Stanley.
Small-business owners like Bret Csencsitz, managing partner of Gotham Restaurant in New York City, can attest to that. High-dollar spending by middle-age customers has helped replace many of his older patrons who moved out of the city during COVID. These customers, who typically work in technology and finance, are buying $150 to $200 bottles of wine and spending a little over $200 on steak for two.
The average per-person check is up over 20% to roughly $145 compared with the pre-pandemic days, he added, and he has had groups of up to 60 people holding dinners at his restaurant.
“People are back,” he said. “There’s more energy.”
Aditya Bhave, senior economist at Bank of America, noted that the spending isn’t all driven by the affluent. Spending on the bank’s credit and debit cards by households with incomes below $50,000 has risen faster than spending by higher-earning clients.
Some Americans, while keeping a close watch on their finances, still feel they have room to indulge themselves. Consider Valerie Zaffina, a 74-year-old retired teacher who was picking up a piece of jewelry last week at a Kohl’s store in Ramsey, New Jersey. She said she and her husband live on fixed incomes and are cautious spenders.
But Zaffina has nevertheless decided on one big splurge — about $5,000 to decorate her rental apartment, including a $2,500 couch and a $600 rug. It’s her first major decorating project in 18 years.
“I had kind of a frustrating year, and I wanted to do something for myself,” she said. “So, yeah, I’m redecorating. I’m in the throes of that, but I’m sticking to a budget.”
Many analysts still warn of a new crop of headwinds facing consumers and the economy. Nearly 30 million student loan borrowers had to start paying their loans this month, for example. And government dysfunction in Washington could lead to a government shutdown next month.
A report Friday showed that while inflation-adjusted income fell last month along with the savings rate, consumers still ramped up their spending. That trend, economists say, is unsustainable.
Even so, those challenges may not prove as damaging as feared. Student loan payments, for example, jumped even before an Oct. 1 deadline for resuming them, Bhave noted. And few borrowers appear to have taken advantage of a 12-month grace period the Biden administration put in place, suggesting that most borrowers can afford to resume paying the money back — at least for now.
And executives at Visa, which reported strong earnings and a surge of spending by their U.S. credit card customers overseas in the third quarter, have also downplayed the likely impact of student loan repayments.
The company isn’t “factoring in any impacts” from loan repayments “because we’ve yet to see any meaningful impact,” said Visa’s chief financial officer, Christopher Suh. “Consumer spending across all segments from high to low has remained stable since March.”
“There’s a lot of gloom and doom,” around the consumer, Bhave said. “And yet the data keep surprising to the upside.”
date: 2023-10-30, from: Fresno Bee Stories
The South Dakota dad’s daughter was accused of “violating bathroom privileges” before she died, authorities said.
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/nation-world/national/article281192833.html
date: 2023-10-30, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Almost one in five men in IT explain why fewer females work in the profession by arguing that “women are naturally less well suited to tech roles than men.”…
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2023/10/30/women_in_tech_survey/
date: 2023-10-30, from: Fresno Bee Stories
“My heart is so full and broken all at once over this,” one person said.
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/nation-world/national/article281193023.html
date: 2023-10-30, from: Fresno Bee Stories
A recall of the puree is coming. Among the retailers selling it: Dollar Tree, Sam’s Club and Amazon.
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/recalls/article281191983.html
date: 2023-10-30, from: Fresno Bee Stories
“This estate isn’t just a property; it’s a living work of art that captures the essence of opulence.”
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/nation-world/national/article281050548.html
date: 2023-10-30, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Stanford University has confirmed it is “investigating a cybersecurity incident” after an attack last week by the Akira ransomware group.…
date: 2023-10-30, from: VOA News USA
All About America explores American culture, politics, trends, history, ideals and places of interest.
Alaska workers are the happiest in the nation, thanks in part to higher wages and shorter workweeks, according to a new report from SelectSoftware Reviews, a human resource platform.
Researchers looked at several factors to come up with their list, including wages, quit rates, commute times, work hours, injuries and paid time off.
Alaska employees enjoy average workweeks of 31.3 hours, average annual salaries of $52,000 and an overall job satisfaction score of 69.96 out of 100.
Job satisfaction is critical to happiness, according to Miriam Liss, professor of psychology at the University of Mary Washington in Fredericksburg, Virginia.
“A meaningful job allows you to feel competence and ability, able to do the tasks that are meaningful to you,” Liss says. “If you’re having a more meaningful, purposeful life, you are going to experience pleasure.”
Other states with the happiest workers include Rhode Island, North Dakota, Colorado and Minnesota, according to the report.
Second place Rhode Island has a low quit rate, and the lowest injury rate of any state. North Dakota, which came in third, has an annual wage of $47,400 and an average commute of just 17.6 minutes.
The unhappiest workers are in Georgia, Texas, Florida, South Carolina and New York.
Georgia has the lowest job satisfaction, with an overall score of 29.62. Texas has the second-longest average workweek of 43.6 hours. In Florida, the average worker earns $18 per hour compared with Alaskans, who earn $32 per hour. Meanwhile, South Carolina workers make $13,000 less in annual salary than people in Alaska.
“Experiencing poverty definitely can make you unhappy,” Liss says, “because your basic needs aren’t met … and you don’t have the ability to have a lifestyle that gives you some autonomy, allows you to make choices.”
New York, which has the longest commute time of any state, came in fifth on the list of unhappiest workers.
“These results demonstrate the considerable impact a location can have on how workers feel about their job, whether that is due to state laws, commute times, or wages,” the report said. “It emphasizes the importance for employers to create environments where employees find genuine fulfillment and can thrive.”
https://www.voanews.com/a/these-us-states-have-the-happiest-workers-/7328452.html
date: 2023-10-30, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
VMware and Broadcom are trying to quell investor fears that China’s competition regulator could kill the proposed $61 billion merger, issuing a joint statement to say the transaction “will close soon”.…
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2023/10/30/broadcom_vmware_acquisition/
date: 2023-10-30, from: Fresno Bee Stories
Now, Hunter the dog can come back home to his family.
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/nation-world/national/article281189078.html
date: 2023-10-30, from: NASA breaking news
On Oct. 28, 2023, NASA’s C-130 Hercules and crew safely touched down at McMurdo Station, Antarctica, after an around-the-globe journey to deliver the agency’s Galactic/Extragalactic ULDB Spectroscopic Terahertz Observatory (GUSTO). The United States research station, operated by the National Science Foundation, is host to NASA’s Antarctic long-duration balloon campaign in which the GUSTO mission will take a scientific […]
date: 2023-10-30, from: NASA breaking news
Exquisite, never-before-seen details help unravel the supernova remnant’s puzzling history. NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has gazed at the Crab Nebula, a supernova remnant located 6,500 light-years away in the constellation Taurus. Since the recording of this energetic event in 1054 CE by 11th-century astronomers, the Crab Nebula has continued to draw attention and additional […]
https://www.nasa.gov/missions/webb/the-crab-nebula-seen-in-new-light-by-nasas-webb/
date: 2023-10-30, from: Fresno Bee Stories
Doctors Medical Center will collaborate with Valley Children’s Healthcare to elevate care in the Level III neonatal intensive care unit at the Modesto hospital.
https://www.fresnobee.com/latest-news/article281061773.html
date: 2023-10-30, from: Fresno Bee Stories
A suspect in the killing has not been revealed.
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/nation-world/national/article281187223.html
date: 2023-10-30, from: Marketplace Morning Report
More than 1,400 CEOs have left their jobs from January to September this year. That’s up by almost 50% from the same period last year, and it’s the biggest turnover in more than two decades, according to a recent report. What’s behind the exodus? Also: The Biden administration looks to regulate artificial intelligence, and federal oversight can get in the way of Native homeownership.
https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-morning-report/big-bosses-big-turnover
date: 2023-10-30, from: VOA News USA
As October gives way to November, Halloween is followed by the celebration of the Day of the Dead in Mexican American communities across the U.S. to honor the memory of loved ones who have died. Genia Dulot visited one of the largest events, the Dia de los Muertos – Day of the Dead – at Hollywood Forever Cemetery in Los Angeles.
date: 2023-10-30, from: Fresno Bee Stories
Here’s what to know.
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/nation-world/national/article281189768.html
date: 2023-10-30, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin has unveiled a mockup of the cargo version of its Blue Moon lunar lander ahead of a crewed version intended for NASA’s Artemis program.…
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2023/10/30/blue_origin_lunar_lander/
date: 2023-10-30, from: 404 Media Group
Volunteers in Philadelphia’s Kensington say YouTubers and TikTokers are increasingly exploiting drug users as “trauma porn stars.”
https://www.404media.co/youtube-is-monetizing-the-suffering-of-an-open-air-drug-market/
date: 2023-10-30, from: Fresno Bee Stories
The application deadlines are as early as Wednesday, Nov. 1.
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/california/article281094323.html
date: 2023-10-30, from: Daring Fireball
Two companies — Bullstrap and Ryan London — make high-quality leather iPhone cases with a cutout along the bottom lip.
https://daringfireball.net/2023/10/best_leather_cases_for_iphone_15_pro
date: 2023-10-30, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Microsoft has decided to axe the Windows Insider MVP program, which is now scheduled to be discontinued at the end of the year.…
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2023/10/30/windows_insider_mvp_ends/
date: 2023-10-30, from: Fresno Bee Stories
Opinion by Marek Warszawski: “It’s two different worlds that really don’t bump into each other.”
https://www.fresnobee.com/opinion/opn-columns-blogs/marek-warszawski/article281104618.html
date: 2023-10-30, from: Fresno Bee Stories
Opinion by Tad Weber: Public infrastructure is best improved in bipartisan votes.
https://www.fresnobee.com/opinion/article281067053.html
date: 2023-10-30, from: NASA breaking news
<back to gallery Growing up, Sarah Tipler always felt out of place. She had trouble with time management, structuring her day, and focusing her attention, but she didn’t know why. “For all of my undergraduate education, I really struggled to keep up despite understanding the material,” Tipler said. “It took a ton of work to […]
https://www.nasa.gov/image-article/nasas-modern-history-makers-sarah-tipler/
date: 2023-10-30, from: The LAist
Half of all Sierra Nevada bighorn sheep tracked by scientists died last winter, leaving a total population of around 360 animals.
date: 2023-10-30, from: The LAist
The Forest Service is charged with maintaining 650 miles of trails in the Angeles National Forest. They don’t have the staff or funding to do it alone.
date: 2023-10-30, from: The LAist
Parts of the trail have been washed away due to last winter’s storms, and the ongoing closure of nearby trails due to the 2020 Bobcat Fire is bringing even more traffic.
date: 2023-10-30, from: Fresno Bee Stories
Does Newsom’s China trip “elevate his status?” Perhaps, but such foreign visits can also have negative consequences.
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/california/article281091203.html
date: 2023-10-30, from: Internet Archive Blog
Libraries around the world were forced to shut their doors in the spring of 2020 during the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. Temple University Libraries was no exception. While the […]
date: 2023-10-30, from: Marketplace Morning Report
Be honest: Do you prefer self-checkouts at stores or do you actually kinda dread them? Today, we hear how self-checkout machines failed to deliver on their promises to save time and money for both retailers and consumers. Plus, the United Auto Workers union reached a tentative deal with carmaker Stellantis but has no deal yet with General Motors, where strikes are expanding.
date: 2023-10-30, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Microsoft’s dedicated OS for embedded and pocket devices, Windows CE, has reached the end of its support lifetime. People’s reactions are very mixed, depending on where they’re from.…
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2023/10/30/windows_ce_reaches_eol/
date: 2023-10-30, from: Fresno Bee Stories
The suspect was found at his home, officials say.
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/nation-world/national/article281186628.html
date: 2023-10-30, from: Liam on Linux
There used to be multiple ways to try to smooth out text on screen.
Most are no longer relevant.
XP used several such methods
quite heavily, such as font antialiasing and hinting.
1. Font
antialiasing: using grey pixels that are not 100% on/off to soften the
edges of screen fonts on portions of letters that are not vertical or
horizontal, and therefore are stepped ("aliased"). First OS to do this
was Acorn RISC OS in the 1980s. By the mid-1990s Windows started to
catch up using greyscale pixels.
2. Subpixel allocation (used
heavily in Windows in the 20x0s). This takes advantage of knowledge of
the display screen type, acquired through more sophisticated (that is,
bigger and slower) display systems. Pixels are not 1 colour dot. They
are a group of a red dot, a green dot, and a blue dot, working
together.
CRT displays used triangular or other shaped grids
of R/G/B pixels. Sony Trinitron CRTs used stripes of R/G/B pixels
because their [shadow
mask](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadow_mask)
was a grille not a grid of holes. The then-new active matrix colour LCDs
have R/G/B pixels turned on and off individually (that’s what "active
matrix" means, 1 transistor per pixel, as opposed to 1 transistor per
rows and 1 per column, where the intersection goes on or
off).
Subpixel allocation is antialiasing using R, G and B
pixels where the arrangement of the individual colour pixels is known to
the renderer. It is colour antialiasing but it doesn’t work right if,
for example, the pixels
are:R B G
But the renderer thinks
they are B R G
3. Running displays
at non-native resolutions used to break this. CRTs do not have a single
fixed native res. LCDs all do. Standard definition (SD) LCDs have, for
example, 1024×768 pixels, or 1280×1024. Later, hi-def (HD) ones have
more than you can easily see, e.g. my iMac’s 2nd screen is 2560×1440
pixels on a 27" LCD. You’d often run this at 1.5× or so
zoom
Now, HiDPI displays have way more than even that. My
iMac’s built in screen is 27" but 5120×2880.
You can’t use a
HiDPI ("retina") screen at its native res: letters would be too small to
see. They always run at 2× or 2.5× or even weird ratios like 3.33×.
There is no longer a linear relationship between pixels the
display has and pixels you see, because they’re too small to see any
more. So it’s OK to have a resolution that means 6 pixels per dot in
places and 7 in others because you can’t see individual pixels except
with a [hand
lens](https://extension.psu.edu/a-brief-guide-to-hand-lenses)
so you don’t see fringing and aliasing.
It is meaningful to
talk about having no subpixel smoothing or hinting on an SD screen where
you can see pixels, but it’s all more or less gone away now, because
it’s all programmatically curves on pixel-oriented displays where there
are no visible pixels any more.
Ever since the iPhone 6
series, AFAIK, iOS devices never run at 1:1 native res
or 1:x ratios. The actual display res is almost unrelated to
the lower res the OS runs the screen at and there’s never a linear
relationship between logical display pixels and actual hardware screen
dots.
So the 1990s stuff about antialiasing has gone away
now. At a microscopic scale it’s all blurred out but the blurring is at
such a small scale the human eye can’t see it. So the OS UI options to
turn on greyscale antialiasing or RGB subpixel allocation have gone
away.
comments
https://liam-on-linux.dreamwidth.org/89370.html
date: 2023-10-30, from: Marketplace Morning Report
From the BBC World Service: The world’s most indebted real estate developer, Evergrande, has been told it has weeks to avoid liquidation by agreeing a repayment plan for the money it owes. Then: Ecuador’s incoming interim President faces a number of challenges, including revitalizing the economy while also shutting down a key oil field.
date: 2023-10-30, from: VOA News USA
Cornell University has notified the FBI about antisemitic threats directed at the school’s Jewish community.
The threats were on an online discussion board not associated with the Ithaca, New York school.
The posts, according to The New York Times, included threats to shoot Jewish students and also encouraged shooting the students.
The address of the school’s Center for Jewish Living where some students live was posted online. The posts also called for the center to be torn down.
“Threats of violence are absolutely intolerable, and we will work to ensure that the person or people who posted them are punished to the full extent of the law,” Cornell President Martha E. Pollack said in the statement.
The posts come in the wake of Israel’s declaration of war on Gaza that has erupted political divisions across the globe.
“We will not tolerate antisemitism at Cornell,” Pollack said in her statement. “This incident highlights the need to combat the forces that are dividing us and driving us toward hate.”
https://www.voanews.com/a/cornell-receives-antisemitic-threats/7332635.html
date: 2023-10-30, from: Fresno Bee Stories
Staff found the body while opening for the day, cops say.
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/nation-world/national/article281186218.html
date: 2023-10-30, from: Bruce Schneier blog
The islands of Åland are an important tax hack:
Although Åland is part of the Republic of Finland, it has its own autonomous parliament. In areas where Åland has its own legislation, the group of islands essentially operates as an independent nation.
This allows Scandinavians to avoid the notoriously high alcohol taxes:
Åland is a member of the EU and its currency is the euro, but Åland’s relationship with the EU is regulated by way of a special protocol. In order to maintain the important sale of duty-free goods on ferries operating between Finland and Sweden, Åland is not part of the EU’s VAT area…
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2023/10/hacking-scandinavian-alcohol-tax.html
date: 2023-10-31, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Despite the frothing hype around generative AI — and the UK government’s hopes it will bring economic growth — only one in ten UK tech leaders have large scale implementations of any kind of AI, a figure that has not changed in five years.…
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2023/10/30/just_one_in_ten_uk/
date: 2023-10-30, from: Guam Daily Post
Parties opposed to the attorney general’s attempt at reviving a decades-old abortion ban on Guam argue that the AG is essentially looking to reset the field at this stage because he failed to lay down specific arguments earlier at a…
date: 2023-10-30, from: Guam Daily Post
Session left off last week on Bill 9-37, the measure to legalize consumer-grade fireworks on Guam. Lawmakers were supposed to resume discussions on Monday, but the speaker and vice speaker ended up arguing over procedural matters, and ultimately nothing appeared…
date: 2023-10-30, from: Guam Daily Post
The first day of the Fanhita: Security, Sovereignty and the Path to Peace conference catered to island youth in hopes of helping them create a network to build a community around the issue of the island’s political status, according to…
date: 2023-10-30, from: Guam Daily Post
A judge expressed concern about a plea deal for a man charged with murder in connection to a 2021 stabbing.
date: 2023-10-30, from: Guam Daily Post
A supervisor of a former Guahan Academy Charter School teacher testified at the teacher’s trial related to a 2021 sexual assault of a student.
date: 2023-10-30, from: Guam Daily Post
The Guam Police Department revealed a fatal traffic crash occurred after two vehicles driving in opposite directions collided.
date: 2023-10-30, from: Guam Daily Post
A man was charged with aggravated assault as a third-degree felony for allegedly throwing a wooden “wok” brush at a co-worker.
date: 2023-10-30, from: VOA News USA
Cruel joke for trick-or-treaters or coveted seasonal delight? The great Halloween debate over candy corn is on.
In the pantheon of high-emotion candy, the classic shiny tricolor kernels in autumn’s white, orange and yellow are way up there. Fans and foes alike point to the same attributes: its plastic or candle-like texture (depending on who you ask) and the mega-sugar hit it packs.
“I am vehemently pro candy corn. It’s sugar! What is not to love? It’s amazing. It’s like this waxy texture. You get to eat it once a year. It’s tricolor. That’s always fun,” comedian Shannon Fiedler gushed on TikTok. “Also, I know it’s disgusting. Candy corn is objectively kind of gross, but that’s what makes it good.”
Or, as Paul Zarcone of Huntington, New York, put it: “I love candy corn even though it looks like it should taste like a candle. I also like that many people hate it. It makes me like it even more!”
Love it or loathe it, market leader Brach’s churns out roughly 30 million pounds of candy corn for the fall season each year, or enough to circle planet Earth about five times, the company says. Last year, that amounted to $75 million of $88.5 million in candy corn sales, according to the consumer research firm Circana.
When compared to top chocolate sellers and other popular confections, candy corn is niche. But few other candies have seeped into the culture quite like these pointy little sugar bombs.
While other sweets have their haters (we’re looking at you Peeps, Circus Peanuts and Brach’s Peppermint Christmas Nougats), candy corn has launched a world of memes on social media. It inspires home decor and fashion. It has its knitters and crocheters, ombre hairdos, makeup enthusiasts and nail designs.
And it makes its way into nut bowls, trail mixes, atop cupcakes and into Rice Krispie treats. Vans put out a pair of shoes emblazoned with candy corn, Nike used its color design for a pair of Dunks, and Kellogg’s borrowed the flavor profile for a version of its Corn Pops cereal.
Singer-actor Michelle Williams is a super fan. She recorded a song last year for Brach’s extolling her love.
As consumers rave or rage, Brach’s has turned to fresh mixes and flavors over the years. A Turkey Dinner mix appeared in 2020 and lasted two years. It had a variety of kernels that tasted like green beans, roasted bird, cranberry sauce, stuffing, apple pie and coffee.
It won’t be back.
“I would say that it was newsworthy but perhaps not consumption-worthy,” said Katie Duffy, vice president and general manager of seasonal candy and the Brach’s brand for parent Ferrara Candy Co.
The universe of other flavors has included s’mores, blueberry, cotton candy, lemon-lime, chocolate and, yes, pumpkin spice. Nerds, another Ferrara brand, has a hard-shell version.
It’s unclear when candy corn was invented. Legend has it that Wunderle Candy Co. in Philadelphia first produced it in 1888 in collaboration with a longtime employee, George Renninger. It was called, simply, Butter Cream, with one type named Chicken Corn. That made sense in an agrarian-society kind of way.
Several years later, the Goelitz Confectionery Co., now Jelly Belly, began to produce candy corn, calling it Chicken Feed. Boxes were adorned with a rooster logo and the tagline: “Something worth crowing for.“ Brach’s began candy corn production in 1920.
Today, kids delight in stacking candy corn in a circle, points in, to create corncob towers. As for nutrition, 19 candy corns amount to about 140 calories and 28 grams of sugar. To be fair, many other Halloween candy staples are in the same ballpark.
Ingredient-wise, it couldn’t be more straightforward. Candy corn is basically sugar, corn syrup, confectioner’s glaze, salt, gelatin, honey and dyes, among some other things.
“It’s not any sweeter than a lot of other candy, and I’ve tasted every candy there is,” said Richard Hartel, who teaches candy science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Hartel’s students spend time in the lab making candy. The candy corn lab is among his most popular, he said, because it’s fun to make. His unscientific poll of the nine seniors who last made candy corn turned up no strong feelings either way on actually eating it.
“It’s the flavor, I think, that puts some people off. It sort of tastes like butter and honey. And some people don’t like the texture, but it’s really not that much different than the center of a chocolate-covered butter cream,” he said.
Candy corn fans have their nibbling rituals.
Margie Sung is a purist. She’s been partial since childhood to the original tricolor kernels. She eats them by color, starting with the white tip, accompanied by a warm cup of tea or coffee.
“To this day, I swear the colors taste different,” she laughed.
Fact check: No, according to Duffy.
Don’t get people started on Brach’s little orange pumpkin candies with the green tops. That’s a whole other conversation.
“The candy pumpkins? Disgusting,” said the 59-year-old Sung, who lives in New York. “Too dense, too sweet, not the right consistency.”
She likes her candy corn “borderline stale for a better consistency.” Sung added: “Unfortunately, I can’t eat too many because I’m a Type 2 diabetic.”
Aaron Sadler, the 46-year-old spokesman for the city of Little Rock, Arkansas, and its mayor, doesn’t share his candy corn. He keeps stashes at home and in a desk drawer at his office.
“My fiancee can’t stand that I like candy corn,” he said. “I buy it and I get this look of disdain but I don’t care. I just keep plugging on.”
Sadler has been a partaker since childhood. How does he describe the texture and flavor? “Sugary bliss.”
He’ll keep buying candy corn until mid-November.
“It’s 50% off after Halloween. Of course I’m going to buy it,” Sadler chuckled.
After Thanksgiving, he’ll move on to his Christmas candy, York Peppermint Patties. And for Valentine’s Day? Sadler is all about the candy Conversation Hearts.
And then there are the hoarders. They freeze candy corn for year-round consumption. Others will only eat it mixed with dry roasted peanuts or other salty combinations.
“My ratio is 2 to 3 peanuts to 1 piece of candy corn. That’s the only way I eat it,” said Lisa Marsh, who lives in New York and is in her 50s. She stores candy corn in glass jars for year-round pleasure.
To the haters, 71-year-old fan Diana Peacock of Grand Junction, Colorado, scolded: “They’re nuts. How can they not like it?”
Au contraire, Jennifer Walker fights back. The 50-year-old Walker, who lives in Ontario, Canada, called candy corn “big ole lumps of dyed sugar. There’s no flavor.”
Her Ontario compatriot in Sault Ste. Marie, Abby Obenchain, also isn’t a fan. She equates candy corn with childhood memories of having to visit her pediatrician, who kept a bowl on hand.
“A bowl of candy corn looks to me like a bowl of old teeth, like somebody pulled a bunch of witch’s teeth out,” said Obenchain, 63.
Candy corn isn’t just a candy, said 29-year-old Savannah Woolston in Washington, D.C.
“I’m a big fan of mentally getting into each season, and I feel like candy corn is in the realm of pumpkin spice lattes and fall sweaters,” she said. “And I will die on the hill that it tastes good.”
date: 2023-10-30, from: ETH Zurich Research Archives
On Tuesday, October 31, 2023, the Research Collection team will be
absent due to an internal event. We will resume processing your
publications and request as of November 1. Thank you for your
understanding.
https://www.rc-blog.ethz.ch/en/internal-event-tuesday-31-october-2023/
date: 2023-10-30, from: The LAist
As Israel continues to push into Gaza, it says its forces freed an Israeli soldier who had been held by Hamas since the Oct. 7 attacks.
https://laist.com/news/israel-presses-into-gaza-as-pro-palestinian-protests-spread-worldwide
date: 2023-10-30, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Ofcom says it is trying to strike a balance between user freedom while allowing operators to protect their networks and still offer “premium” services at a higher price, according to updated guidance on net neutrality rules.…
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2023/10/30/ofcom_net_neutrality_review/
date: 2023-10-30, from: Honolulu Star Advertiser
<p>The Hawaii football team’s third-floor offices do not have a panic room.</p>
date: 2023-10-30, from: Honolulu Star Advertiser
On the air Listings are for Oceanic and Hawaiian Telcom analog/digital. —premium station. —retelecast. —delayed. Check your TV guide for latest updates. TODAY TIME TV CH HT Baseball: world series Game 3: Rangers at Read More
https://www.staradvertiser.com/2023/10/30/sports/television-and-radio-october-30-2023/
date: 2023-10-30, from: Honolulu Star Advertiser
Calendar Today SOCCER PacWest: Azusa Pacific vs. Chaminade. Men at 10 a.m.; Women at 12:30 p.m. Games at Saint Louis School field. PacWest: Concordia Irvine vs. Hawaii Hilo. Men at 12:30 p.m.; Women at 3 Read More
https://www.staradvertiser.com/2023/10/30/sports/scoreboard-october-30-2023/
date: 2023-10-30, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>BUFFALO, N.Y. — They attend the same classes with access to the same programs, and even come from the same families. But girls consistently are outperforming boys, graduating at higher rates at public high schools around the country.</p>
date: 2023-10-30, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>Pumpkins and fun costumes were abundant during the weekend-long “Spooky Farm” at Kalakaua Park in Hilo.</p>
https://www.hawaiitribune-herald.com/2023/10/30/hawaii-news/spooky-farm-at-kalakaua-park/
date: 2023-10-30, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>The son of the late U.S. Sen. Daniel K. Inouye plans to make his first foray into politics at the age of 59 by challenging fellow, first-time Democratic state Rep. Trish La Chica for the House seat representing Waipio-Mililani in 2024.</p>
date: 2023-10-30, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>After years of public meetings, draft rules with numerous amendments and jurisdictional disputes, surf schools wanting to operate at Kahalu‘u Beach Park will find out on Nov. 17 if they are awarded one of four coveted spots determined by a lottery.</p>
date: 2023-10-30, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>ACAPULCO, Mexico — At least 48 people died when Category 5 Hurricane Otis slammed into Mexico’s southern Pacific coast, most of them in Acapulco, Mexican authorities said Sunday as the death toll continued to climb and families buried loved ones.</p>
date: 2023-10-30, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>BEIJING (AP) — China’s foreign minister believes the road to an expected meeting between President Xi Jinping and U.S. President Joe Biden will not be “smooth sailing” and both sides must work together to achieve results, the foreign ministry said Sunday.</p>
date: 2023-10-30, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>LEWISTON, Maine — More than 1,000 people packed a cavernous church Sunday night, and hundreds more spilled outside, to hug, sing, weep and seek comfort in the wake of Maine’s most deadly mass shooting.</p>
date: 2023-10-30, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>Hudson, Colo. — Alan Mazzotti can see the Rocky Mountains about 30 miles west of his pumpkin patch in northeast Colorado on a clear day. He could tell the snow was abundant last winter, and verified it up close when he floated through fresh powder alongside his wife and three sons at the popular Winter Park Resort. </p>
date: 2023-10-30, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip — Nearly three dozen trucks entered Gaza on Sunday in the largest aid convoy since the war between Israel and Hamas began, but humanitarian workers said the assistance still fell desperately short of needs after thousands of people broke into warehouses to take flour and basic hygiene products.</p>
date: 2023-10-30, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>The House Republican spasm that began with bomb thrower Matt Gaetz’s vendetta against Speaker Kevin McCarthy and saw the conference’s civil war cycle through five leaders in three exhausting weeks seems to have cooled with Wednesday’s election by the unanimous GOP members of new Speaker Mike Johnson (or is it Mike Jackson)? We were so unfamiliar with this Louisianan from Shreveport that we didn’t know his name or his face before he rose to the top Tuesday night after Speaker-designate Tom Emmer’s tenure died after four hours.</p>
https://www.hawaiitribune-herald.com/2023/10/30/opinion/mike-johnson-wins-the-gavel-for-now/
date: 2023-10-30, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>The Central Pacific Bank/BIIF volleyball championships were held Saturday at Kamehameha Schools - Hawai‘i — concluding what has been an especially competitive, unpredictable and emotional season.</p>
https://www.hawaiitribune-herald.com/2023/10/30/sports/ksh-hpa-win-biif-volleyball-titles/
date: 2023-10-30, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>Is it rock-bottom at the quarry yet?</p>
date: 2023-10-30, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>KEALAKEKUA — Another year, another championship for Konawaena football.</p>
date: 2023-10-30, from: Honolulu Star Advertiser
<p>The season came to an end for the Hawaii women’s soccer team on Sunday when the sixth-seeded Rainbow Wahine fell 2-1 to No. 3 seed Cal Poly in the opening round of the Big West Championships at Mustang Memorial Field in San Luis Obispo, Calif.</p>
https://www.staradvertiser.com/2023/10/30/sports/hawaii-beat/cal-poly-ends-wahine-soccer-season/
date: 2023-10-30, from: Honolulu Star Advertiser
<p><strong>UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII </strong></p>
https://www.staradvertiser.com/2023/10/30/sports/how-hawaii-players-fared-in-nfls-week-8/
date: 2023-10-30, from: Honolulu Star Advertiser
<p>Seven Hawaii students have been awarded the merit-based 2023 Native Hawaiian Health Scholarship, which aims to mitigate the shortage of health care professionals in Native Hawaiian communities.</p>
date: 2023-10-30, from: Honolulu Star Advertiser
<p>Friends, family and legislative colleagues have planned the only public “celebration of life” for state Sen. Sam Slom, who died in May at the age of 81 after serving 20 years in the 
Senate.</p>
date: 2023-10-30, from: Honolulu Star Advertiser
<p>Registration is now open for the 40th annual Hawaii Pacific Health Great Aloha Run, scheduled for Monday, Feb. 19.</p>
date: 2023-10-30, from: Honolulu Star Advertiser
<p>The Federal Emergency Management Agency is now providing in-person, spoken-language interpreters to better support communication between victims of the Aug. 8 wildfires and disaster workers, according to a FEMA news release.</p>
date: 2023-10-30, from: Honolulu Star Advertiser
<p>The city Department of Planning and Permitting says it’s kicked off a nearly $400,000 pilot project to study the impacts of climate change and sea level rise on Oahu’s prime tourist zone.</p>
date: 2023-10-30, from: Honolulu Star Advertiser
<p>Deadlines are approaching for homeowners and renters who sustained property damage and losses related to the Aug. 8 Maui wildfires to apply for some forms of federal relief, while debris management is continuing.</p>
date: 2023-10-30, from: Honolulu Star Advertiser
<p>Kanani Oury cries at her computer a lot these days.</p>
date: 2023-10-30, from: Honolulu Star Advertiser
<p>Dreams shattered. Shops burned to the ground. Irreplaceable losses.</p>
date: 2023-10-30, from: Honolulu Star Advertiser
<p>You never need the fire department until you need it, and then you tend to need it a lot.</p>
date: 2023-10-30, from: Honolulu Star Advertiser
<p>Great news, America! The GOP just elected a pro-Donald Trump, “the-election-was-rigged” Republican to “get our government working again.”</p>
date: 2023-10-30, from: Honolulu Star Advertiser
<p>Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu claims he’s raining “hellfire” down on Hamas. But he’s rained that down now on almost as many children as American citizens who were killed on 9/11. But that’s not even the worst of it. He continues to justify withholding fuel and humanitarian supplies while the most powerful nations on Earth just sit by and watch.</p>
date: 2023-10-30, from: Honolulu Star Advertiser
<p>With a number of concert venues either shut down or under renovation, many entertainers are skipping Oahu and pretty much the entire state, forcing many local residents to travel out of state to see them perform. The number of venues available is limited.</p>
date: 2023-10-30, from: Honolulu Star Advertiser
<p>Is it any wonder that Iam Tongi, on “American Idol,” said he was “priced out of paradise”? The Kahuku native’s family moved to Seattle four years ago, although he presented himself as being from Hawaii.</p>
date: 2023-10-30, from: Honolulu Star Advertiser
<p>Sugar cravings can strike at any time of the year, but Halloween kicks off the season of sweet treats. The abundance of holiday gatherings — and the sugary goodies at those events — can make it challenging to enjoy treats in moderation. Fortunately, there are ways to help control that sweet tooth.</p>
date: 2023-10-30, from: Honolulu Star Advertiser
<p>A monoclonal antibody vaccine that’s protective against respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), which can cause severe illness in children under 5, has come to market — but supplies are more limited than demand, so far.</p>
date: 2023-10-30, from: Honolulu Star Advertiser
<p>Not freaking again.</p>
date: 2023-10-30, from: Honolulu Star Advertiser
<p><strong>Marriage licenses and birth certificates</strong></p>
date: 2023-10-30, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Opinion These are uncomfortable times for Intel and its investors. All the cool kids are talking about AI chips, an area where Intel has no real story to tell. Low power, embedded, and mobile have long been annexed by Arm. Now it looks like Arm is coming for Intel’s most iconic territory – the PC.…
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2023/10/30/arm_intel_comment/
date: 2023-10-30, from: Raspberry Pi News (.com)
Every Monday we ask the question: have you made something with a Raspberry Pi over the weekend? Every Monday, The MagPi’s followers send amazing photos and videos of the things they’ve made.
The post It’s #MagPiMonday – show us what you’re making appeared first on Raspberry Pi.
https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/its-magpimonday-show-us-what-youre-making/
date: 2023-10-30, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Video Totally non-evil robot-maker Boston Dynamics has taught one of its “Spot” robo-dogs to talk, by using ChatGPT.…
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2023/10/30/boston_dynamics_chatgpt_robot_dog/
date: 2023-10-30, from: Robert Reich on Substack
The war between Hamas and Israel requires clear thinking and a moral compass
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/an-overwhelming-tragedy
date: 2023-10-30, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Who, Me? Welcome once again, gentle readerfolk, to the safe corner of The Register we call Who, Me? in which readers much like yourselves unburden themselves with stories that have been weighing on their minds – because they recall moments when things did not go quite according to plan.…
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2023/10/30/who_me/
date: 2023-10-30, from: SCV New (TV Station)
1984 – NTSB revises probable cause of 1982 “Twilight Zone” deaths after director John Landis appeals. [story
https://scvnews.com/today-in-scv-history-oct-30/
date: 2023-10-30, from: The Daily Trojan (USC Student Paper)
McCarthy Quad hosted one of the Asian Pacific American Student Assembly’s biggest and brightest events of the year Thursday night.
The post APASA Night Market celebrates food, fun, togetherness appeared first on Daily Trojan.
https://dailytrojan.com/2023/10/30/apasa-night-market-celebrates-food-fun-togetherness/
date: 2023-10-30, from: Fresno Bee Stories
Sacramento Kings point guard De’Aaron Fox had to leave Sunday’s win over the Los Angeles Lakers after going down in the fourth quarter.
https://www.fresnobee.com/sports/article281185483.html
date: 2023-10-30, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
As the world awaits news of whether Broadcom’s acquisition of VMware will close on the target date of October 30 – an outcome thought likely unless China’s State Administration for Market Regulation intervenes – the virtualization giant has made a modest change to its practices by shuttering a site used for experimental software – or “Flings” in vSpeak.…
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2023/10/30/vmware_flings_broadcom_deal_close/
date: 2023-10-30, from: Fresno Bee Stories
De’Aaron Fox did everything he could and Malik Monk took over from there, leading the Kings to a dramatic win over the Lakers.
https://www.fresnobee.com/sports/article281175508.html
date: 2023-10-30, from: Lens.org news
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https://about.lens.org/embed-test-styles/
date: 2023-10-30, from: Hannah Richie at Substack
These technologies have developed a lot since 2008. Should we be any more optimistic about their potential to power Britain?
https://www.sustainabilitybynumbers.com/p/can-solar-and-wind-power-britain
date: 2023-10-30, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
After a typically calm development process, Linus Torvalds has given the world a new cut of the Linux kernel – version 6.6 to be precise.…
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2023/10/30/linux_6_6_debuts/
date: 2023-10-30, from: Santa Barbara Indenpent News
Elevated cuisine meets healthier dining with Santa Barbara-born chef.
The post Chefs Corner | Manny Juan @ Oliver’s Montecito appeared first on The Santa Barbara Independent.
https://www.independent.com/2023/10/29/chefs-corner-manny-juan-olivers-montecito/
date: 2023-10-30, from: VOA News USA
The United States on Sunday pressed Israel to protect civilians in Gaza and pushed for an immediate increase in humanitarian aid, amid a growing outcry over the human costs of Israel’s three-week bombardment of the enclave.
President Joe Biden told Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu in a call that Israel has a right to defend itself and should do so in a way that is consistent with international law on protecting civilians, the White House said.
Biden and Netanyahu discussed efforts to protect the more than 200 hostages seized by Palestinian Hamas militants in a surprise attack on Israel on Oct. 7 that killed 1,400 people.
The White House said Biden also “underscored the need to immediately and significantly increase the flow of humanitarian assistance to meet the needs of civilians in Gaza,” as supplies dwindle in the besieged coastal enclave.
With the death toll in the Gaza Strip in the thousands and climbing, Biden’s administration has been under increasing pressure to make clear that its steadfast support of Israel does not translate into a blanket endorsement of all that its ally is doing in the impoverished enclave.
In television interviews earlier on Sunday, White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan said Israel has a responsibility to protect the lives of innocent people in Gaza.
Washington was asking hard questions of Israel, including on issues surrounding humanitarian aid, distinguishing between terrorists and innocent civilians and on how Israel is thinking through its military operation, Sullivan said.
“What we believe is that every hour, every day of this military operation, the IDF (Israel Defense Forces), the Israeli government should be taking every possible means available to them to distinguish between Hamas terrorists who are legitimate military targets and civilians who are not,” he said on CNN.
Sullivan also said Netanyahu has a responsibility to “rein in” extremist Jewish settlers in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. “It is totally unacceptable to have extremist settler violence against innocent people in the West Bank,” he said.
Biden is facing pressure from within his own Democratic Party to call for a cease-fire.
As Israel’s largest military backer, the United States bears some responsibility for its actions in Gaza, U.S. Representative Pramila Jayapal, leader of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, said on NBC’s “Meet the Press.”
“We are losing credibility,” Jayapal said. “And, frankly, we’re being isolated in the rest of the world.”
The attack from Gaza’s Hamas rulers unleashed a wave of aerial bombardment from Israel and an incipient ground operation.
Medical authorities in the Gaza Strip, which has a population of 2.3 million people, say more than 8,000 Palestinians have been killed in Israel’s campaign to obliterate Iran-backed Hamas.
Hamas militants have embedded themselves among the Palestinian population and in civilian infrastructure, making an operation against them extremely difficult, Sullivan said.
“That creates an added burden for Israel, but it does not lessen Israel’s responsibility under international humanitarian law, to distinguish between terrorists and civilians, and to protect the lives of innocent people, and that is the overwhelming majority of the people in Gaza,” Sullivan said.
With supplies of food, water and medicines running low, thousands of Gaza residents broke into U.N. warehouses and distribution centers to get food.
There has been a mounting international outcry over the toll from the bombing and growing calls for a “humanitarian pause” to allow aid to reach Gaza civilians.
In an interview on CBS, Sullivan was asked if there was “daylight” between the United States and the Netanyahu government, Sullivan responded, ““We talk candidly, we talked directly, we share our views in an unvarnished way and we will continue to do that.”
“But sitting here in public, I will just say that the United States is going to make its principles and propositions absolutely clear, including the sanctity of innocent human life. And then we will continue to provide our advice to Israel in private.”
https://www.voanews.com/a/us-urges-israel-to-protect-civilians-increase-aid-to-gaza/7332466.html
date: 2023-10-30, from: Honolulu Star Advertiser
<p>A 54-year-old man has died from injuries suffered in a vehicle crash involving another motorist earlier this month in the Kalihi area.</p>
https://www.staradvertiser.com/2023/10/29/breaking-news/man-54-dies-from-injuries-in-kalihi-crash/
date: 2023-10-30, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Security In Brief Notorious ransomware gang LockBit has reportedly exfiltrated “a tremendous amount of sensitive data from aerospace outfit Boeing.…
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date: 2023-10-30, from: VOA News USA
A federal judge on Sunday reinstated a gag order she imposed on Donald Trump in the Washington case accusing him of trying to overturn his 2020 election defeat, denying his bid for a stay pending appeal.
The order prohibited Trump from targeting the special counsel prosecuting his case or witnesses who might be called to testify about his efforts to upend his election loss.
U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan imposed the gag order at the Justice Department’s request. She temporarily lifted it on Oct. 20 after Trump’s lawyers appealed. And she reversed that decision on Sunday evening, according to the court’s docket.
A copy of the judge’s order reinstating the gag was not immediately available.
Trump in the past has called Special Counsel Jack Smith a “deranged lunatic” and a “thug,” among other insults. Trump is facing four criminal cases and has made disparaging comments about prosecutors in each of them, as well as against the New York state attorney general who brought civil fraud charges against him.
Trump has pleaded not guilty to charges that he plotted to interfere unlawfully in the counting of votes and block the congressional certification of his 2020 loss to Democrat Joe Biden.
https://www.voanews.com/a/judge-reinstates-gag-order-in-trump-federal-election-case/7332460.html
date: 2023-10-30, from: OS News
Modern PCs provide plenty of metering and power-management options. Version 23.10 of the Genode-based Sculpt operating system makes these features available via an interactive user interface. One can watch the temperature of each CPU core, monitor the individual CPU frequencies, switch between power profiles, and reveal details about power draw. Go to the download page to get started with Sculpt OS. It’s used as the day-to-day operating system by Genode developers, so it’s quite capable.
https://www.osnews.com/story/137661/sculpt-os-release-23-10-available/
date: 2023-10-30, from: The Signal
Exercise enthusiasts and road safety advocates banded together for a joint cycling and running event held in West Creek Park on Sunday by the nonprofit organization “Streets Are For Everyone,” or S.A.F.E. “Finish the Ride,” an event for cyclists, featured three courses mainly through bike paths that varied in length and intensity, with each track […]
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https://signalscv.com/2023/10/cyclists-and-runners-unite-for-road-safety/
date: 2023-10-30, from: OS News
The Trinity Desktop Environment, the KDE 3 fork, has released a new version. R14.1.1 comes with the ability to drag and tile windows to the display’s borders and corners, adds several improvements to keyboard shortcuts settings, a few new wallpapers, better support in SunOS/Illumos/DilOS and support for libxine2’s logarithmic volume settings. It also has some important fixes for tdepowersave’s display brightness control, arts sound server start up crash, TQt3’s recursive mutexes and for the high CPU usage detected on some RPM distros with R14.1.0. Behind the scenes, an effort to clean up and enhance TQt3 and tqtinterface code has started and will be going on across multiple releases. You can update to the latest version through your package manager, or install TDE for the first time using the project’s instructions.
https://www.osnews.com/story/137659/tde-r14-1-1-released/
date: 2023-10-30, from: OS News
When I first heard about Be My AI—a new collaboration between Open AI and Be My Eyes, an app that connects sighted volunteers with blind people who need help via video call—I didn’t let myself get too excited. Be My AI promised to allow blind people to receive an A.I.–generated description of any photo we uploaded. This was a tantalizing prospect, but it wasn’t the first time a tech company had promised to revolutionize the way people with disabilities access visual content. Microsoft had already given us Seeing AI, which in a very rudimentary way provided a rough idea of what was going on in the images we shared, and which allowed us—again, in a fairly basic way—to interact with information contained in written texts. But the details were missing, and in most cases we could know only that there was a person in the picture and what they were doing, nothing more. Be My AI was different. Suddenly, I was in a world where nothing was off limits. By simply waving my cellphone, I could hear, with great detail, what my friends were wearing, read street signs and shop prices, analyze a room without having entered it, and indulge in detailed descriptions of the food—one of my great passions—that I was about to eat. I like to make fun of “AI” – those quotes are there for a reason – but that doesn’t mean it can’t be truly useful. This is a great example of this technology providing a tangible, real, and possibly life-altering benefit to someone with a disability, and that’s just amazing. My only gripe is that, as the author notes, the images have to be uploaded to the service in order to be analysed. Cynical as I tend to be, this was probably the intent of OpenAI’s executives. A ton of blind people and other people with vision issues will be uploading a lot of private data to be sucked up into the Open AI database, for further “AI” training. But that’s easy for me to say, and I think blind people and other people with vision issues will argue that’s a sacrifice they’re totally comfortable making, considering that they’re getting in return.
date: 2023-10-30, from: The Signal
By Lucas Nava Signal Staff Writer A brief power outage impacted the area near the corner of Copper Hill Drive and McBean Parkway on Sunday, according to Southern California Edison. “The outage that occurred in Santa Clarita is under investigation,” said SCE spokesperson Kathleen Dunleavy. “And it was resolved fairly quickly, and all power has been […]
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https://signalscv.com/2023/10/power-outage-reported-on-corner-of-copper-hill-and-mcbean/
date: 2023-10-30, from: The Signal
The city of Santa Clarita held its 24th Annual Halloween Fiesta at Newhall Community Center on Friday, with activities for children to participate in, a scary maze, and community partnerships. Halloween Fiesta at the Newhall Community Center has been an annual tradition since 1999. The celebration allows local families and community members to participate in […]
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https://signalscv.com/2023/10/24th-annual-halloween-fiesta-a-generational-tradition/
date: 2023-10-30, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Asia In Brief Fujitsu has decided to conduct an “absorption-type merger” of its public cloud operation.…
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date: 2023-10-30, from: John Naughton’s online diary
Serious shopping Swiss Cottage, London. Quote of the Day “For most of history the challenge of technology lay in creating and unleashing its power. That has now flipped; the challenge of technology today is about containing its unleashed power, ensuring … Continue reading
https://memex.naughtons.org/monday-30-october-2023/38766/
date: 2023-10-30, from: Marginallia log
So a bit of an update on what I’ve been working on. This will be adapted into release notes in a while, but I haven’t quite wrapped a bow on the change set yet. Still, it has certainly been a few weeks. Didn’t quite land how busy I’ve been until I set down to draft this post. Them’s some changes, and I’m skipping a few to keep this meandering post at a sane length.