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date: 2023-11-21, updated: 2023-11-21, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Comment Microsoft may emerge as the real winner from all the shenanigans at OpenAI if the Azure titan can bag the lab’s co-founder and now-ex CEO Sam Altman. Seeing him back at the helm of the lab, with some changes made, would also please Microsoft.…
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date: 2023-11-21, from: San Jose Mercury News
Anew policy has been implemented to prevent similar incidents in the future, the sheriff’s office said.
date: 2023-11-21, from: VOA News USA
“Liberty” and “Bell” — two turkeys — strutted onto the White House South Lawn Monday and became immediate celebrities for what has become the official beginning of the holidays in Washington.
Amid an autumn day, with Christmas carols playing, President Joe Biden addressed the families of staff, 4-H and Future Farmers of America, and students from Eliot-Hine Middle School as they gathered for the popular event.
Next to him stood a table lined with a fall garland of burgundy, green, orange and yellow, bearing a sign “Happy Thanksgiving 2023.” Standing on it was an 18 kg (40lb) turkey, with another next to it on the ground, beside the Minnesota farmers who raised them.
“I hereby pardon Liberty and Bell,” said Biden, as the male turkey fanned its tail. And, with that, the two birds were given the long-held tradition of a long life, just days prior to the American holiday that features a roasted turkey as its centerpiece.
Turkeys on leashes at the White House
In 1989, then President George H.W. Bush promised a crowd of children and reporters that the 23 kg (50lb) turkey donated to the White House would not be eaten.
President Bush was the first to make the pardon an annual action, but not the first to show mercy for a bird. The son of President Abraham Lincoln treated the turkey like a dog, leading him around on a leash inside the White House. Ultimately, President Lincoln granted the turkey clemency.
The act of donating a turkey (or a gaggle of gobblers) dates to the 1800s and embraces the nation’s heritage of farmland. For the past month, Biden has traveled to rural America, announcing $5 billion in investments.
“We’re restoring hope and opportunity so family farms can stay in the family,” proclaimed Biden at Monday’s event, “and children don’t have to leave home if they wish to stay and make a living on the farm.”
Biden told the crowd that the birds love the Minnesota favorites, including Honeycrisp apples, ice hockey, a thousand lakes and the Mall of America.
Happy 81st birthday
President Biden’s 81st birthday coincided with the holiday event. He evoked laughter when he told the crowd, “I just want you to know, it’s difficult turning 60.” The president’s age has been raised by opponents and analysts as he seeks a second term. During his speech Monday, Biden confused Britney Spears with Taylor Swift when referencing Swift’s Eras tour in Brazil.
The president plans to celebrate his birthday with family this weekend in Nantucket.
The birds will live on as agriculture models at the University of Minnesota. Having been named after the Liberty Bell, the symbol of independence in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the president said his pardon gave the turkeys “a new appreciation for the words, ‘Let freedom ring.’”
https://www.voanews.com/a/two-turkeys-liberty-and-bell-pardoned-by-biden/7363676.html
date: 2023-11-21, from: San Jose Mercury News
He went into Monday night’s game within 30 minutes of the team record for minutes played
https://www.mercurynews.com/2023/11/20/steph-curry-on-verge-of-another-major-record/
date: 2023-11-21, from: San Jose Mercury News
Pizzagate is an anti-Hillary Clinton conspiracy theory that spun up on 4chan, Reddit, Twitter and other platforms in the final days before the 2016 US presidential election. Believers imagined a pedophilia ring supposedly being run out of a Washington, DC pizza shop that involved Clinton and other Democrats.
https://www.mercurynews.com/2023/11/20/musk-is-now-giving-new-life-to-the-pizzagate-conspiracy/
date: 2023-11-21, from: Guam Daily Post
Sen. William Parkinson has introduced legislation proposing to abolish the elected Consolidated Commission on Utilities and replace it with an appointed board, a measure proposed earlier by Attorney General Douglas Moylan.
date: 2023-11-21, from: San Jose Mercury News
Kerr hopes to tighten up a rotation that goes 12 deep to nine or 10 players.
date: 2023-11-21, from: San Jose Mercury News
Castlemont forfeits victory over Oakland Tech due to what coach calls “an honest mistake”
date: 2023-11-21, from: Santa Barbara Indenpent News
GOLETA, CA, November 20, 2023 – A weekly Neighborhood Navigation Center (NNC) is now open in the City of Goleta following a
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date: 2023-11-21, from: Heatmap News
Surely you’ve heard by now. On Friday, the board of directors of OpenAI, the world-bestriding startup at the center of the new artificial intelligence boom, fired its chief executive, Sam Altman. He had not been “consistently candid” with the board, the company said, setting in motion a coup — and potential counter-coup — that has transfixed the tech, business, and media industries for the past 72 hours.
OpenAI is — was? — a strange organization. Until last week, it was both the country’s hottest new tech company and an independent nonprofit devoted to ensuring that a hypothetical, hyper-intelligent AI “benefits all of humanity.” The nonprofit board owned and controlled the for-profit startup, but it did not fund it entirely; the startup could and did accept outside investment, such as a $13 billion infusion from Microsoft.
This kind of dual nonprofit/for-profit structure isn’t uncommon in the tech industry. The encrypted messaging app Signal, for instance, is owned by a foundation, as is the company that makes the cheap, programmable microchip Raspberry Pi. The open-source browser Firefox is overseen by the Mozilla Foundation.
But OpenAI’s structure is unusually convoluted, with two nested holding companies and a growing split between who was providing the money (Microsoft) and who ostensibly controlled operations (the nonprofit board). That tension between the nonprofit board and the for-profit company is what ultimately ripped apart OpenAI, because when the people with control (the board) tried to fire Altman, the people with the money (Microsoft) said no. As I write this, Microsoft seems likely to win.
This may all seem remote from what we cover here at Heatmap. Other than the fact that ChatGPT devours electricity, OpenAI doesn’t obviously have anything to do with climate change, electric vehicles, or the energy transition. Sometimes I even have the sense that many climate advocates take a certain delight in high-profile AI setbacks, because they resent competing with it for existential-risk airtime.
Yet OpenAI’s schism is a warning for climate world. Strip back the money, the apocalypticism, the big ideas and Terminator references, and OpenAI is fundamentally a story about nonprofit governance. When a majority of the board decided to knock Altman from his perch, nobody could stop them. They alone decided to torch $80 billion in market value overnight and set their institution on fire. Whether that was the right or wrong choice, it illustrates how nonprofit organizations — especially those that, like OpenAI, are controlled solely by a board of directors — act with an unusual amount of arbitrary authority.
Why does that matter for the climate or environmental movement? Because the climate and energy world is absolutely teeming with nonprofit organizations — and many of them are just as unconstrained, just as willfully wacky, as OpenAI.
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Let’s step back. Nonprofits can generally be governed in two ways. (Apologies to nonprofit lawyers in the audience: I’m about to vastly simplify your specialty.) The first is a chapter- or membership-driven structure, in which a mass membership elects leaders to serve on a board of directors. Many unions, social clubs, and business groups take this form: Every few years, the members elect a new president or board of directors, who lead the organization for the next few years.
The other way is a so-called “board-only” organization. In this structure, the nonprofit’s board of directors leads the organization and does not answer to a membership or chapter. (There is often no membership to answer to.) When a vacancy opens up on the board, its remaining members appoint a replacement, perpetuating itself over time.
OpenAI was just such a board-only organization. Even though Altman was CEO, OpenAI was led officially by its board of directors.
This is a stranger way of running an organization than it may seem. For a small, private foundation, it may work just fine: Such an organization has no staff and probably meets rarely. (Most U.S. nonprofits are just this sort of organization.) But when a board-only nonprofit gets big — when it fulfills a crucial public purpose or employs hundreds or thousands of people — it faces an unusual lack of institutional constraints.
Consider, for instance, what life is like for a decently sized business, a small government agency, and a medium-sized nonprofit. The decently sized business is constantly buffeted by external forcing factors. Its creditors need to be repaid; it is battling for market share and product position. It faces market discipline or at least some kind of profit motive. It has to remain focused, competitive, and at least theoretically efficient.
The government agency, meanwhile, is constrained by public scrutiny and political oversight. Its bureaucrats and public servants are managed by elected officials, who are themselves accountable to the public. When a particularly important agency is not doing its job, voters can demand a change or elect new leadership.
Nonprofits can have some of the same built-in checks and balances — but only when they are controlled by members, and not by a board. If a members association embarrasses itself, for instance, or if it doesn’t carry out its mission, then its membership can vote out the board and elect new directors to replace them. But stakeholders have no such recourse for a board-only nonprofit. Insulated from market pressure and public oversight, board-only nonprofits are free to wander off into wackadoodle land.
The problem is that board-only nonprofits are only becoming more powerful — in fact, many of the nonprofits you know best are probably controlled solely by their board. In 2002, the Harvard political scientist Theda Skocpol observed that American civic life had undergone a rapid transformation: where it had once been full of membership-driven federations, such as the Lions Club or the League of Women Voters, it was now dominated by issues-focused advocacy groups.
From the late 19th to the mid-20th century, she wrote, America “had a uniquely balanced civic life, in which markets expanded but could not subsume civil society, in which governments at multiple levels deliberately and indirectly encouraged federated voluntary associations.” But from the 1960s to the 1990s, that old network fell apart. It was “bypassed and shoved to the side by a gaggle of professionally dominated advocacy groups and nonprofit institutions rarely attached to memberships worthy of the name,” Skocpol wrote.
The sheer number of groups exploded. In 1958, the Encyclopedia of Associations listed approximately 6,500 associations, Skocpol writes. By 1990, that number had more than tripled to 23,000. Today, the American Society of Association Executives — which is, just so we’re clear here, literally an association for associations — counts almost 1.9 million associations, including 1.2 million nonprofits.
This new network includes some nonprofits that claim to have members but are not in fact governed by them, such as the AARP. It includes “public citizen” or legal-advocacy groups, which watchdog legislation or fight for important precedents in the courts, such as Earthjustice, the Center for Biological Diversity, or Public Citizen itself. And it includes independent, mission-driven, and board-controlled nonprofits — such as OpenAI.
There is nothing wrong with these new groups per se. Many of them are inspired by the advocacy and legal organizations that won some of the Civil Rights Movement’s biggest victories. But unlike the member federations and civic associations that they largely replaced, these new groups don’t force Americans to engage with what their neighbors are thinking and feeling. So they “compartmentalize” America, in Skocpol’s words. Instead of articulating the views of a deep, national membership network, these groups essentially speak for a centralized and professionalized leadership corps — invariably located in a major city — who are armed with modern marketing techniques. And instead of fundraising through dues, fees, or tithes, these new groups depend on direct-mail operations, massive ad campaigns, and foundation grants.
This is the organizational superstructure on which much of the modern climate movement rests. When you read a climate news story, someone quoted in it will probably work for such a nonprofit. Many climate and energy policy experts spend at least part of their careers at some kind of nonprofit. Most climate or environmental news outlets — although not this one — are funded in whole or part through donations and foundation grants. And most climate initiatives that earn mainstream attention receive grants from a handful of foundations.
There is nothing necessarily wrong with this setup — and, of course, an equivalent network devoted to stopping and delaying climate policy exists to rival it on the right. But the entire design places an enormous amount of faith in the leaders of these nonprofits and foundations, and in the social strata that they occupy. If a nonprofit messes up, then only public attention or press coverage can right the ship. And there is simply not enough of either resource to keep these things on track.
That leads to odd resource allocation decisions, business units that seem to have no purpose (alongside teams that seem perpetually overworked), and decisions that frame otherwise decent policies in politically unpalatable ways. It regularly burns out people involved in climate organizations. And it means that much of the climate movement’s strategy is controlled by foundation officials and nonprofit directors. Like any other group of executives, these people are capable of deluding themselves about what is happening in the world; unlike other types of leaders, however, they face neither an angry electorate nor a ruthless market that will force them to update their worldview. The risk exists, then, that they could blunder into disaster — and take the climate movement with them.
https://heatmap.news/economy/openai-sam-altman-board-nonprofits
date: 2023-11-21, from: Santa Barbara Indenpent News
SANTA BARBARA COUNTY – The northbound US 101 Gaviota Roadside Rest Area will re-open on Tuesday, November 21 by 12
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date: 2023-11-21, from: Fresno Bee Stories
Two former NBA players scoffed at the notion that the Sacramento Kings could be major players in the trade market this season.
https://www.fresnobee.com/sports/article282125228.html
date: 2023-11-21, from: San Jose Mercury News
The multiple Grammy and Latin Grammy winner waved and blew a kiss to a small crowd of bystanders before entering the courthouse. She briefly sat in front of the panel of judges, flanked by teams of prosecutors on one side and the defense on the other.
https://www.mercurynews.com/2023/11/20/pop-star-shakira-reaches-tax-deal-with-spanish-authorities/
date: 2023-11-21, from: OS News
After a few minor delays, FreeBSD 14.0 has officially been released. The highlights according to the FreeBSD team itself: For more details, you can dive into the release notes, and if you’re already using FreeBSD you know exactly how to upgrade.
https://www.osnews.com/story/137891/freebsd-14-0-released/
date: 2023-11-21, from: OS News
Firefox users across the internet say that they are encountering an “artificial” five-second load time when they try to watch YouTube videos that exists on Firefox, but not Chrome. Google, meanwhile, told 404 Media that this is all part of its larger effort against ad blockers, and that it doesn’t have anything to do with Firefox at all. I’m sure it doesn’t, Google.
date: 2023-11-21, from: OS News
While Elementary OS commits to Wayland, the development team of the Budgie desktop is changing course and will work with the Xfce developers toward Budgie’s Wayland future. There is general consensus now that the future of graphical desktops on Linux lies in Wayland rather than X11, but the path is still not a smooth and easy one. While in Latvia for the Ubuntu Summit, the Reg FOSS desk met with the developers behind Ubuntu Budgie, who told us that the Budgie project is charting a new course toward the brave new Wayland world. It seems that using EFL – the Enlightenment Foundation Libraries – wasn’t the right choice for Budgie, and so they’re now exploring working with Xfce on their Wayland efforts, instead. Considering Enlightenment’s desktop Linux presence is negligible, at best, joining forces with Xfce so that both Xfce and Budgie can make progress on Wayland faster seems like the more optimal choice for the wider desktop Linux community.
https://www.osnews.com/story/137887/ubuntu-budgie-switches-its-approach-to-wayland/
date: 2023-11-21, from: San Jose Mercury News
Ben Brody’s lawyer — who is the same attorney who successfully sued conspiracy theorist Alex Jones over his lies about the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre — said he hopes the suit will force one of the world’s richest and most powerful men to reckon with his careless and harmful online behavior.
https://www.mercurynews.com/2023/11/20/jewish-student-sues-musk-over-being-labeled-a-nazi/
date: 2023-11-21, from: VOA News USA
In a move that may soon be replicated elsewhere, the Gila River Indian Community recently signed an agreement with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to put solar panels over a stretch of irrigation canal on its land south of Phoenix.
It will be the first project of its kind in the United States to break ground, according to the tribe’s press release.
“This was a historic moment here for the community but also for the region and across Indian Country,” said Gila River Indian Community Governor Stephen Roe Lewis in a video published on X, formerly known as Twitter.
The first phase, set to be completed in 2025, will cover 1,000 feet of canal and generate one megawatt of electricity that the tribe will use to irrigate crops, including feed for livestock, cotton and grains.
The idea is simple: install solar panels over canals in sunny, water-scarce regions where they reduce evaporation and make renewable electricity.
“We’re proud to be leaders in water conservation, and this project is going to do just that,” Lewis said, noting the significance of a Native, sovereign, tribal nation leading on the technology.
A study by the University of California, Merced estimated that 63 billion gallons of water could be saved annually by covering California’s 4,000 miles of canals. More than 100 climate advocacy groups are advocating for just that.
Researchers believe that much of the installed solar canopies would additionally generate a significant amount of electricity.
UC Merced wants to hone its initial estimate and should soon have the chance. Not far away in California’s Central Valley, the Turlock Irrigation District and partner Solar AquaGrid plan to construct 1.6 miles (2.6 kilometers) of solar canopies over its canals beginning this spring and researchers will study the benefits.
Neither the Gila River Indian Community nor the Turlock Irrigation District are the first to implement this technology globally. Indian engineering firm Sun Edison inaugurated the first solar-covered canal in 2012 on one of the largest irrigation projects in the world in Gujarat state. Despite ambitious plans to cover 11,800 miles (19,000 kilometers) of canals, only a handful of small projects ever went up, and the engineering firm filed for bankruptcy.
High capital costs, clunky design and maintenance challenges were obstacles for widespread adoption, experts say.
But severe, prolonged drought in the western U.S. has centered water as a key political issue, heightening interest in technologies like cloud seeding and solar-covered canals as water managers grasp at any solution that might buoy reserves, even ones that haven’t been widely tested, or tested at all.
Still, the project is an important indicator of the tribe’s commitment to water conservation, said Heather Tanana, a visiting law professor at the University of California, Irvine and citizen of the Navajo Nation. Tribes hold the most senior water rights on the Colorado River, though many are still settling those rights in court.
“There’s so much fear about the tribes asserting their rights and if they do so, it’ll pull from someone else’s rights,” she said. The tribe leaving water in Lake Mead and putting federal dollars toward projects like solar canopies is “a great example to show that fear is unwarranted.”
The federal government has made record funding available for water-saving projects, including a $233 million pact with the Gila River Indian Community to conserve about two feet of water in Lake Mead, the massive and severely depleted reservoir on the Colorado River. Phase one of the solar canal project will cost $6.7 million and the Bureau of Reclamation provided $517,000 for the design.
date: 2023-11-21, from: Santa Barbara Indenpent News
If Henry Yang cared about UCSB students, staff, and faculty as much as he claims, he would step down.
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https://www.independent.com/2023/11/20/retirement-calls/
date: 2023-11-21, from: Fresno Bee Stories
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date: 2023-11-21, from: Robert Reich on Substack
Friends, On Friday, Denver District Judge Sarah B. Wallace ruled that Donald Trump “acted with the specific intent to disrupt the Electoral College certification of President Biden’s electoral victory through unlawful means; specifically, by using unlawful force and violence.”
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date: 2023-11-21, from: The Signal
Directed by West Ranch High School’s Brian Leff the GO Jazz Big Band, a local ensemble of top jazz musicians took the audience into a world where the magic of Disney met the timeless allure of jazz. The GO Jazz Big Band commemorated a “Century of Disney Magic” playing classics recognizable to generations. Vocalists Steve […]
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date: 2023-11-21, from: The Signal
Valencia High School senior Ayden Buchanan was nervous heading into the Santa Clarita Marathon last weekend. But once he got to the starting line, he just let his body do what it knows best: run. Buchanan ran and ran, ultimately completing the marathon in 2:50:21, seven seconds ahead of the second-place finisher, Uriel Rodriguez. That […]
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https://signalscv.com/2023/11/valencia-high-senior-wins-santa-clarita-marathon-qualifies-for-boston/
date: 2023-11-21, from: The Signal
Santa Clarita Elementary School staff will have a chance to find a new home in the Saugus Union School District, but only after the district knows where the school’s students will be going, according to Jennifer Stevenson, the district’s assistant superintendent of human resources. The district board voted last week to approve a resolution to […]
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https://signalscv.com/2023/11/santa-clarita-elementary-staff-to-be-relocated-after-students/
date: 2023-11-21, from: San Jose Mercury News
The Car of the Future isn’t an electric vehicle or a DeLorean. It’s the present ride, upgraded with a SPDT Six Pack Drive Train, integrating ICE, hybrid, electric, solar, wind, and grid power seamlessly. This innovation eliminates range anxiety and offers multiple sustainable power sources for continuous, eco-friendly driving. Find out more…
date: 2023-11-21, from: San Jose Mercury News
Last year, the Republican National Committee voted to withdraw from its participation in the commission, with RNC chairwoman Ronna McDaniel saying at the time that commission is “biased and has refused to enact simple and commonsense reforms.”
https://www.mercurynews.com/2023/11/20/2024-presidential-debate-schedule-locations-released/
date: 2023-11-21, from: San Jose Mercury News
East Bay Times Letters to the Editor for Nov. 21, 2023
https://www.mercurynews.com/2023/11/20/letters-1497/
date: 2023-11-21, from: SCV New (TV Station)
Child & Family Center is very proud of its two 40 Under 40 winners for 2023 – Tiffany Thomas and Leah Parker.
https://scvnews.com/child-family-center-staffers-earn-40-under-40-recognition/
date: 2023-11-21, updated: 2023-11-21, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Scientists say they’ve developed an implantable drug-delivery widget that harmlessly dissolves over time in the body, can be wirelessly charged, and has proven its efficacy in lab rats.…
date: 2023-11-21, from: Fresno Bee Stories
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date: 2023-11-20, from: Santa Barbara Indenpent News
Caltrans applied for a $10 million grant for a wildlife corridor for mule deer and mountain lions.
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https://www.independent.com/2023/11/20/potential-wildlife-crossing-in-the-works-near-gaviota/
date: 2023-11-20, from: Fresno Bee Stories
One person has died, the CDC said.
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/california/article282120343.html
date: 2023-11-20, from: Fresno Bee Stories
He was a reserved and rebellious individual, his family said, according to investigators.
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/nation-world/national/article282121453.html
date: 2023-11-20, from: VOA News USA
A divided federal appeals court Monday ruled that private individuals and groups such as the NAACP do not have the ability to sue under a key section of the federal Voting Rights Act, a decision voting rights advocates say could further erode protections under the landmark 1965 law.
The 2-1 decision by a panel of the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals based in St. Louis found that only the U.S. attorney general can enforce Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, which prohibits discriminatory voting practices such as racially gerrymandered districts.
The majority said other federal laws, including the 1964 Civil Rights Act, make it clear when private groups can sue said but similar wording is not found in the voting law.
“When those details are missing, it is not our place to fill in the gaps, except when ‘text and structure’ require it,” U.S. Circuit Judge David R. Stras wrote for the majority in an opinion joined by Judge Raymond W. Gruender. Stras was nominated by former President Donald Trump and Gruender by former President George W. Bush.
The decision affirmed a lower judge’s decision to dismiss a case brought by the Arkansas State Conference NAACP and the Arkansas Public Policy Panel after giving U.S. Attorney General Merrick B. Garland five days to join the lawsuit. Neither organization immediately returned messages seeking comment Monday.
Chief Judge Lavenski R. Smith noted in a dissenting opinion that federal courts across the country and the U.S. Supreme Court have considered numerous cases brought by private plaintiffs under Section 2. Smith said the court should follow “existing precedent that permits a judicial remedy” unless the Supreme Court or Congress decides differently.
“Rights so foundational to self-government and citizenship should not depend solely on the discretion or availability of the government’s agents for protection,” wrote Smith, another appointee of George W. Bush.
The ruling applies only to federal courts covered by the 8th Circuit, which includes Arkansas, Iowa, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota and South Dakota. Meanwhile, several pending lawsuits by private groups challenge various political maps drawn by legislators across the country.
A representative for the Justice Department declined to comment.
https://www.voanews.com/a/federal-appeals-court-deals-blow-to-voting-rights-act-/7363206.html
date: 2023-11-20, from: Fresno Bee Stories
“Look at what a bear can do to a car when they’re hungry and smell food left inside.”
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/nation-world/national/article282119228.html
date: 2023-11-20, from: Fresno Bee Stories
Police in Ohio are investigating the case as a murder-suicide.
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/nation-world/national/article282118928.html
date: 2023-11-20, from: Fresno Bee Stories
During the assault, the 21-year-old driver also stole money from the woman, Maryland police say.
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/nation-world/national/article282119578.html
date: 2023-11-20, from: California Native Plants Society
Activists take a stand for Jackson Demonstration State Forest, a magical place on the Mendocino Coast filled with coast redwoods and brimming with biodiversity.
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date: 2023-11-20, from: Fresno Bee Stories
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date: 2023-11-20, from: Fresno Bee Stories
The coroner said the 52-year-old involved in the Nov. 4 crash died Sunday.
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date: 2023-11-20, from: Tilde.news
date: 2023-11-20, from: The Signal
A Santa Clarita woman who was scammed out of her life savings recently serves as a stern reminder for this holiday season about the dangers in sending any money online, according to law enforcement officials. The victim, who asked not to be named, hoped the experience could serve as a warning to others. “As you […]
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date: 2023-11-20, from: Fresno Bee Stories
The winning ticket was part of the June 14 drawing of the Florida Lotto.
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date: 2023-11-20, from: The Sundail (CSUN student paper)
“Crack the sky, shake the earth.” This was the message from North Vietnamese forces that inaugurated the Tet Offensive. The historical parallels are jarring: a force perceived to be on their backheels demonstrating a willful display of aggression during a holiday that changed the complexion of a conflict henceforth. The Tet Offensive was a significant…
date: 2023-11-20, from: Fresno Bee Stories
The lucky lottery player won money from a HIT 5 game in Washington.
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/nation-world/national/article282118638.html
date: 2023-11-20, from: Fresno Bee Stories
A former Major League Baseball All-Star pitcher who now calls Fresno home is building a new 15-acre campus for the dealerships.
https://www.fresnobee.com/living/food-drink/bethany-clough/article282115533.html
date: 2023-11-20, from: 404 Media Group
Firefox users are reporting an ‘artificial’ load time on YouTube videos. YouTube says it’s part of a plan to make people who use adblockers “experience suboptimal viewing, regardless of the browser they are using.”
date: 2023-11-20, from: Fresno Bee Stories
The 25-year-old point guard is emerging as a possible MVP candidate after leading the Kings to the playoffs last season.
https://www.fresnobee.com/sports/article282116768.html
date: 2023-11-20, from: Santa Barbara Indenpent News
The conflation of Anti-Zionism with anti-Semitism sets the stage for a new McCarthyism in which anyone who challenges the apartheid state of Israel can be targeted for investigation.
The post Anti-Zionism Revisited appeared first on The Santa Barbara Independent.
https://www.independent.com/2023/11/20/anti-zionism-revisited/
date: 2023-11-20, from: Fresno Bee Stories
Authorities said the man was “viciously” attacked inside his cell.
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/nation-world/national/article282115208.html
date: 2023-11-20, from: Fresno Bee Stories
The most “unique” artifacts included an animal hide shoe, bark baskets and an antler shaped like an ice pick, researchers said.
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/nation-world/world/article282110078.html
date: 2023-11-20, from: Care
<p>A letter from Logic(s) Editor-in-Chief J. Khadijah Abdurahman. </p>https://logicmag.io/policy/what-meaningful-words-remain-to-be-said
date: 2023-11-20, from: Fresno Bee Stories
One of the rare coins dates to 97 B.C., experts said.
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/nation-world/world/article282108068.html
date: 2023-11-20, from: Fresno Bee Stories
“His heart is as big as his smile,” the rescue said.
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/nation-world/national/article282118483.html
date: 2023-11-20, from: Santa Barbara Indenpent News
Israel’s murdering of men, women, and children, starting with their obliteration campaign in Gaza and the Arabs living there, has pushed post-WWII anti-Semitism to record highs.
The post Anti-Semitism Rising appeared first on The Santa Barbara Independent.
https://www.independent.com/2023/11/20/anti-semitism-rising/
date: 2023-11-20, from: Fresno Bee Stories
The lead climber lost his footing while climbing “The Dome” in Boulder.
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/nation-world/national/article282105893.html
date: 2023-11-20, from: Fresno Bee Stories
From Our Partners: From earbuds to wireless chargers to a robot vacuum, you can get the best Cyber Monday gift from our list.
https://www.fresnobee.com/shopping/article282100003.html
date: 2023-11-20, from: Fresno Bee Stories
The motorcyclist struck the driver’s side of the pickup truck at a high speed, police said.
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/nation-world/national/article282112688.html
date: 2023-11-20, updated: 2023-11-20, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Meta has disbanded its Responsible AI team and moved staff into other areas of Mark Zuckerberg’s empire to focus on generative AI.…
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2023/11/20/meta_responsible_ai/
date: 2023-11-20, from: SCV New (TV Station)
Are you looking for a day full of out-of-this-world engaging activities, with a big dose of intergalactic information? Look no further than the 16th annual Family Literacy Festival
https://scvnews.com/ken-striplin-out-of-this-world-family-literacy-festival/
date: 2023-11-20, from: Fresno Bee Stories
It happened on Marks near Clinton.
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/local/crime/article282016708.html
date: 2023-11-20, from: Smithsonian Magazine
NASA and Japan plan to test a biodegradable satellite made of wood, which burns up more easily than metal on reentry
date: 2023-11-20, from: Fresno Bee Stories
Police say he was involved in a physical altercation with another man before he was killed.
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/local/crime/article282114338.html
date: 2023-11-20, updated: 2023-11-21, from: The LAist
Cases of the common but potentially deadly respiratory virus are on the rise in California.
date: 2023-11-20, from: Liliputing
Smartphones with foldable AMOLED displays have been around for a few years, but the technology is still rare enough that foldable phones tend to cost a lot more than models with more traditional displays. But things are starting to change… a little. Last month Motorola launched the most affordable foldable to date, with prices starting at $699. […]
The post Black Friday smartphone sales make (some) foldables seem affordable appeared first on Liliputing.
https://liliputing.com/black-friday-smartphone-sales-make-some-foldables-seem-affordable/
date: 2023-11-20, from: Fresno Bee Stories
Can you use your brights to tell another driver that their headlights aren’t on?
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/california/article282105048.html
date: 2023-11-20, from: Dave Karpf’s blog
I won’t pretend to know what the hell is happening at OpenAI. The story is changing by the hour. It’s chaos though. And that’s a good thing. For the past few years, OpenAI has told a near-perfect story: The company was founded by tech luminaries — people skilled at noticing developing technologies and operating as though the future had already arrived. They recognized that we were on the cusp of a breakthrough that would transform, well,
https://davekarpf.substack.com/p/on-openai-let-them-fight
date: 2023-11-20, from: NASA breaking news
NASA will host a What’s on Board media teleconference at 2 p.m. EST Wednesday, Nov. 29, to discuss the science payloads flying aboard the first commercial robotic flight to the lunar surface as part of the agency’s CLPS (Commercial Lunar Payload Services) initiative under the Artemis program. Carrying NASA and commercial payloads to the Moon, […]
date: 2023-11-20, from: SCV New (TV Station)
The WiSH Education Foundation provides funding for student programs not funded by tax dollars alone; teachers, administrators and district directors contact us throughout the year for support
https://scvnews.com/two-new-programs-receive-wish-foundation-funding/
date: 2023-11-20, from: Fresno Bee Stories
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date: 2023-11-20, from: Fresno Bee Stories
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date: 2023-11-20, from: Shady Characters
Congratulations to Piotr, William, Roslyn and Ian, winners of the Empire of the Sum audiobook giveaway! Their names were picked at random from the set of all entrants who replied to the original post about the competition. Thank you all for taking part!
https://shadycharacters.co.uk/2023/11/we-have-audiobook-winners/
date: 2023-11-20, from: Fresno Bee Stories
Ten players were nominated. Voting ends at 11:59 p.m. Nov. 26.
https://www.fresnobee.com/sports/high-school/prep-football/article282108383.html
date: 2023-11-20, from: Fresno Bee Stories
Nine athletes are nominated. Voting ends at 11:59 p.m. Nov. 26.
https://www.fresnobee.com/sports/high-school/article282109888.html
date: 2023-11-20, from: Fresno Bee Stories
He’s the second dog abandoned at the Pittsburgh airport in recent months.
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/nation-world/national/article282105173.html
date: 2023-11-20, updated: 2023-11-20, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Quick show of hands: whose data hasn’t been stolen in the mass exploitation of Progress Software’s vulnerable MOVEit file transfer application? Anyone?…
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2023/11/20/moveit_victim_77m_medical/
date: 2023-11-20, from: Liliputing
Framework has been making modular, repairable, and upgradeable laptops for a few years. And while the company’s hardware isn’t exactly cheap, it offers the promise of letting you keep using your laptop for longer by only replacing the parts you need. The company also does offer a way to save money: buy previous-gen hardware. Every […]
The post Framework Outlet shop lets you pick up older Framework Laptops, Mainboards, and other gear at discounts appeared first on Liliputing.
date: 2023-11-20, from: Michael Tsai
Adam Engst: Apple began adding a globe icon to the Fn keycap a few years ago and, starting in macOS 14 Sonoma, began to call it the Globe key. This is likely for consistency with iPad keyboards, which dropped the lowercase “fn” letters entirely in favor of a globe icon.[…]Because Apple doesn’t include the Fn […]
https://mjtsai.com/blog/2023/11/20/the-hidden-secrets-of-the-fn-key/
date: 2023-11-20, from: Michael Tsai
HandBrake (Hacker News): Improved performance on arm64 / aarch64 / Apple Silicon architectures[…]Added support for drag and drop of multiple files at once[…]Added support for VideoToolbox H.265/HEVC, H.264/AVC, ProRes, and VP9 hardware decoders on macOS 13 and later[…]Added GPU accelerated Crop & Scale, Rotate, Pad, Yadif, Bwdif, Chroma Smooth, Unsharp, Lasharp, Grayscale filters[…]Improved SVT-AV1 encoding […]
https://mjtsai.com/blog/2023/11/20/handbrake-1-7/
date: 2023-11-20, from: Michael Tsai
Thomas Stringer (via Hacker News): But… in the back of my mind I know that I have open source projects that need some attention. One happens to be heavily used. I’m nearly 3/4 million downloads, and it’s something that people seem to think has some level of usefullness. Those are the good parts. The bad […]
date: 2023-11-20, from: Michael Tsai
Ric Ford: It’s now clear that a new Mac, purchased directly from Apple, can fail completely and suddenly without any warning after running fine for a few weeks. Apple’s proprietary storage design means that a Mac failure is now also a storage failure that will prevent you from accessing any of your files in any […]
https://mjtsai.com/blog/2023/11/20/lessons-from-a-bad-apple-repair-experience/
date: 2023-11-20, updated: 2023-11-20, from: Darch (sørenpeter) neotxt blog
But I manged to send myself a webmetion using curl -i -d
"source=http://algorave.dk&target=http://darch.dk"
https://webmention.io/darch.dk/webmention since I got a link on
algorave.dk to darch.dk
@prologic<em>@twtxt.net is
there a feature flag to add for webmention support or how does it
work?
I excepted if I mentioned my feed on darch.dk
@sorenpeter<em>@darch.dk then it
would send a webmention to that domain, but where is the link on the
yarn pod, that confirms the mention?
EDIT: I found this 7 months old issue: #1156 - Webmention: a source doesn’t mention the target - yarn - Mills
date: 2023-11-20, from: Smithsonian Magazine
So far, nine artists—including John Legend, T-Pain, Demi Lovato and Charli XCX—have volunteered their voices
date: 2023-11-20, from: SCV New (TV Station)
Thanks to the California State University, Northridge CREA Scholars Program, 20 incoming freshmen were welcomed to campus this fall with funds and resources allocated to help them achieve academic success
https://scvnews.com/csuns-crea-scholars-program-celebrates-incoming-students/
date: 2023-11-20, from: Fresno Bee Stories
“Come to the light… She’s scared,” Texas rescuers said.
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/nation-world/national/article282108323.html
date: 2023-11-20, from: Fresno Bee Stories
The driver struck a woman who was standing behind her car, and she suffered critical injuries, police said.
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/nation-world/national/article282103373.html
date: 2023-11-20, from: Smithsonian Magazine
Bottlenose dolphins in Australia have been snatching fish used to bait crabs—and adapting to fishers’ attempts to thwart them
date: 2023-11-20, from: Heatmap News
Pope Francis is heading to this year’s COP summit in Dubai next week, fresh off releasing an encyclical, Laudate Deum, that takes wealthy countries to task for their failure to curb greenhouse gas emissions. NPR dedicated its Sunday cover story on All Things Considered to the new document, and I highly recommend you listen to the whole segment. Christiana Zenner, a Fordham University professor who’s studied the pope’s writings on climate change, described the publication as a follow-up to Laudato Si, his 2015 encyclical that first mentioned climate change. But whereas Laudato Si was, in Zenner’s words, “reflective, rhapsodic and almost devotional,” this year’s is focused solely on climate change — and far more critical. This quote in particular stood out:
The [Pope] in this document thinks that almost everything hinges on the success of the upcoming COP meeting, which is partly why he’s going there. It’s partly why he released this document, and it’s partly why, in this document, he is hypercritical of Western developed — hyperdeveloped — nations in particular, who, in his view, have become complacent and not lived up to the responsibility that is properly theirs on the world stage for leading on climate remediation and all sorts of related questions.
You know, it is no accident how this document is constructed. He starts out by citing the U.S. bishops on climate change. And that’s a brilliantly underhanded move in some ways, brilliantly rhetorical move, because he then turns back at the end of the encyclical to say, you know, consumption, overconsumption in particular, is most pronounced in the United States. And so in paragraph 72, he says, “If we consider that emissions per individual in the United States are about two times greater than those of individuals living in China, and seven times greater than the average of the poorest countries, we can see [sic]…” and he goes on to talk about critiques of Western consuming lifestyles. So there’s this kind of parabolic beginning and return to the question of how climate change is framed in the West and the failure of leadership to really address these questions.
Francis will address world leaders on Dec. 2. In the meantime, you can listen to the full recording on NPR’s website, or below.
https://heatmap.news/sparks/pope-francis-cop-28
date: 2023-11-20, from: Fresno Bee Stories
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date: 2023-11-20, from: Fresno Bee Stories
The popular pie is back for a limited time.
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/nation-world/national/article282105338.html
date: 2023-11-20, from: Fresno Bee Stories
“We don’t have real-time evidence as to whether this spending is really paying off for kids,” said one education expert.
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/california/article281991883.html
date: 2023-11-20, from: Santa Barbara Indenpent News
The outdoors author and photographer’s new book, “Paddling into a Natural Balance,” mixes tales of kayaking and conservation.
The post Chuck Graham’s Ode to the Channel Islands appeared first on The Santa Barbara Independent.
https://www.independent.com/2023/11/20/chuck-grahams-ode-to-the-channel-islands/
date: 2023-11-20, from: The Occidental News (Occidental College Student Newspaper)
Un rincón no explorado entre el Norris Hall de Química y el Centro Administrativo Arthur G. Coons pronto se transformará en un próspero e interactivo microbosque gracias a voluntarios estudiantiles inscritos en la clase de Forma y Función de las Plantas, impartida por la profesora de biología Gretchen North. Según North, la plantación de este […]
The post El primer micro bosque de Occidental tendrá un impacto macro appeared first on The Occidental.
date: 2023-11-20, from: The Occidental News (Occidental College Student Newspaper)
Kim Bryant Lundy, Directora Asistente de Campus Safety, cuyo trabajo se centraba en los sobrevivientes dentro de la comunidad de Occidental, dejó una huella indeleble tras su fallecimiento el 22 de octubre. Tenía 68 años. Su hija, Autumn Lundy, de 25 años, dijo que su fallecimiento fue causado por complicaciones derivadas del cáncer. Kim Lundy […]
The post Kim Bryant Lundy, Directora Asistente de Campus Safety, fallece a los 68 años appeared first on The Occidental.
date: 2023-11-20, from: SCV New (TV Station)
The city of Santa Clarita’s Film Office released the list of two productions currently filming in the Santa Clarita Valley for the week of Monday, Nov. 20 - Sunday, Nov.
https://scvnews.com/cesar-millan-still-photography-shoot-filming-in-scv/
date: 2023-11-20, from: Tilde.news
https://git.tilde.town/dozens/groffduck/raw/branch/main/duck.pdf
date: 2023-11-20, from: Fresno Bee Stories
The 32-year-old lived with his mom and dad, deputies said.
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/nation-world/national/article282101748.html
date: 2023-11-20, from: VOA News USA
This year’s Los Angeles Auto Show has kicked off and it is full of flash, speed and new innovations. Angelina Bagdasarian has the story, narrated by Anna Rice. Camera: Vazgen Varzhabetian
date: 2023-11-20, updated: 2023-11-20, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Microsoft is pushing the AUKUS trio – Australia, the UK, and the US – to update cross-border info collaboration, and - of course - it has just the thing: the classified Azure Government Cloud.…
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2023/11/20/microsoft_azure_government_cloud/
date: 2023-11-20, from: The Signal
News release The Sheila R. Veloz Breast Center at Henry Mayo Newhall Hospital has been designated a Comprehensive Breast Imaging Center by the American College of Radiology. With this designation, ACR recognizes the Sheila R. Veloz Breast Center has earned accreditation in mammography, stereotactic breast biopsy and breast ultrasound (including ultrasound-guided breast biopsy). “The ACR […]
The post HMNH Breast Center designated an ACR Comprehensive Breast Imaging Center appeared first on Santa Clarita Valley Signal.
date: 2023-11-20, from: Fresno Bee Stories
He bonded out of jail less than an hour after being booked, records show.
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/nation-world/national/article282105093.html
date: 2023-11-20, from: Santa Barbara Indenpent News
Officers were investigating a reported burglary on West Mission Street when a man pulled out a loaded pellet gun.
The post Santa Barbara Man Arrested After Pointing Replica Firearm at Police appeared first on The Santa Barbara Independent.
date: 2023-11-20, from: Fresno Bee Stories
HHS is offering free tests to all American households starting on Nov. 20.
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/nation-world/national/article282102758.html
date: 2023-11-20, from: Fresno Bee Stories
The heightened fear comes as violent crime has decreased to pre-pandemic levels, according to government data.
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/nation-world/national/article282097028.html
date: 2023-11-20, from: Fresno Bee Stories
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date: 2023-11-20, from: Fresno Bee Stories
“Los casos de quiebra son más parecidos al pescado que al buen vino: No envejecen bien”, dijo un abogado que representa a los acreedores de los hospitales.
https://www.fresnobee.com/vida-en-el-valle/noticias/article281994773.html
date: 2023-11-20, from: Santa Barbara Indenpent News
Audra McDonald, star of Broadway and beyond, returns to Santa Barbara.
The post More Than Just a Show Tunes Queen appeared first on The Santa Barbara Independent.
https://www.independent.com/2023/11/20/more-than-just-a-show-tunes-queen/
date: 2023-11-20, updated: 2023-11-20, from: Darch (sørenpeter) neotxt blog
@eapl.me<em>@eapl.me nope
date: 2023-11-20, from: Fresno Bee Stories
Su nuevo restaurante está abierto en Van Ness Avenue en el centro de Fresno.
https://www.fresnobee.com/vida-en-el-valle/noticias/california-es/fresno/article282000913.html
date: 2023-11-20, from: Fresno Bee Stories
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date: 2023-11-20, from: Fresno Bee Stories
From Our Partners: Headphones and earbuds are all on sale for Cyber Monday
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date: 2023-11-20, from: Santa Barbara Indenpent News
Week of November 23.
The post Free Will Astrology appeared first on The Santa Barbara Independent.
https://www.independent.com/2023/11/20/free-will-astrology-187/
date: 2023-11-20, from: Fresno Bee Stories
The sea creatures were seen fighting off the coast of Canada.
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/nation-world/world/article282100823.html
date: 2023-11-20, from: Computer ads from the Past
Save 45% for the next week
https://computeradsfromthepast.substack.com/p/get-your-black-friday-savings-all
date: 2023-11-20, from: Fresno Bee Stories
“No, you cannot go and shoot these turkeys,” a former Sacramento city spokeswoman said.
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/california/article282096388.html
date: 2023-11-20, from: Fresno Bee Stories
The kitten was previously “on death’s door” before it began the healing process, rescuers said.
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/nation-world/national/article282100203.html
date: 2023-11-20, from: Fresno Bee Stories
Researchers collected five of the sea creatures from a net at a fish landing center.
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/nation-world/world/article282013033.html
date: 2023-11-20, from: Fresno Bee Stories
There’s already been one death. California and Florida have the most cases. The fruit was sold from May 1, 2022, through Nov. 15, 2022 and the same dates in 2023.
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/recalls/article282089743.html
date: 2023-11-20, from: Fresno Bee Stories
A relative asked deputies to check on the 63-year-old woman, officials say.
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/california/article282104228.html
date: 2023-11-20, from: Fresno Bee Stories
The Philadelphia men are accused of burglarizing 55 UPS warehouses nationwide, prosecutors say.
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/nation-world/national/article282098653.html
date: 2023-11-20, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News
Matt Mullenweg: “Sales of the 100-year plan so far: 0. Hundreds of people filled out the form, though. I think we really messed something up in the follow-up, including not making it self-serve to start. Will review and try again. It’s an important promise to us.”
I’m very much a customer for this service. It would be worth $10K for to buy 100 years of persistence for my web writing. A simple easy to understand service that helps get the process started.
Why should you do it – simple, easy benefit, i think you’d sell a lot of contracts, and you could start the business now, and get started serving customers and learning what they want, how they work, and get ideas for where to go next.
Dave
http://scripting.com/2023/11/20/183510.html?title=idPay10kUpFront
date: 2023-11-20, updated: 2023-11-20, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
IBM may have led the latest advertising X-odus from Elon Musk’s social media platform, but several other companies reportedly joined Big Blue over the weekend, amid calls for Twitter CEO Linda Yaccarino to quit to save face.…
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2023/11/20/ibmled_advertising_xodus_gains_steam/
date: 2023-11-20, from: SCV New (TV Station)
The California Department of Transportation announced that Interstate 10 has reopened, weeks earlier than the original estimate for repairs which closed I-10 between Alameda Street and the East Los Angeles interchange
https://scvnews.com/interstate-10-reopens-ahead-of-schedule/
date: 2023-11-20, from: Computer ads from the Past
An Orange PC for Every User Need
https://computeradsfromthepast.substack.com/p/orange-micros-orangepc
date: 2023-11-20, from: Fresno Bee Stories
“It was nothing short of amazing.”
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/nation-world/national/article282096213.html
date: 2023-11-20, from: NASA breaking news
A team of engineers participate in simulation training for the Polar Resources Ice Mining Experiment-1 (PRIME-1) on Thursday, Nov. 2, 2023, inside the Neil Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The purpose of the training is to get the integrated PRIME-1 team – engineers with PRIME-1’s MSOLO (Mass Spectrometer […]
https://www.nasa.gov/image-article/prime-1-simulation/
date: 2023-11-20, from: TidBITS blog
https://tidbits.com/watchlist/handbrake-1-7/
date: 2023-11-20, from: TidBITS blog
We’re taking the next email issue of TidBITS off to celebrate Thanksgiving, although we’ll continue to publish articles on our website. You can look forward to the next email issue on 4 December 2023.
https://tidbits.com/2023/11/20/no-tidbits-issue-on-27-november-2023/
date: 2023-11-20, from: Smithsonian Magazine
On the heels of its first sold-out Black heritage cruise in August, AmaWaterways is unveiling new trips in France, Portugal, Egypt and beyond
date: 2023-11-20, from: Fresno Bee Stories
It’s the only privately owned island in the bay.
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/california/article282098593.html
date: 2023-11-20, from: NASA breaking news
A star-forming region, named Sagittarius C (Sgr C), is seen in exceptional detail in this image from Nov. 20, 2023, thanks to the Near-Infrared Camera instrument on NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope. An estimated 500,000 stars shine in this image of the Sgr C region, along with some never-before-seen features astronomers have yet to explain. […]
https://www.nasa.gov/image-article/seeing-sagittarius-c-in-a-new-light/
date: 2023-11-20, from: Fresno Bee Stories
Roads were to start closing at 1 p.m. Monday, Nov. 20.
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/nation-world/national/article282097403.html
date: 2023-11-20, from: Alex Schroeder’s Blog
(Ich rede natürlich von der Welt im Rollenspiel und vom meinen Horte Traktat im besonderen.)
Die Geschichte ist nur insofern relevant, als sie als Inspiration für alte Ruinen und magische Gegenstände dient, auf Buchtiteln und Inschriften erwähnt wird. Ein genauer Zeitstrahl ist nicht wichtig, ausser man ist Gelehrter statt Abenteurer.
Die Kriege liefern beispielsweise die “Erklärung” für gewisse magische Waffen – und umgekehrt verleihen die Zusätze bei den magischen Waffen der Welt etwas Tiefe. Das ist, wie wenn man von Geschichte keine Ahnung hat und zum ersten Mal von den Kriegen unserer Welt hört.
Dies sind die Hexen und Nekromanten, die zur Unsterblichkeit gefunden haben und sich dann bekriegt haben. Ihnen ist gemeinsam, dass sie an Pässen Wachtürme gebaut haben, die durch Zauberei geschützt waren, flammende Inschriften bezeugen noch immer alte Grenzen und untote Wächter bewachen noch immer die alten Zugänge.
https://alexschroeder.ch/view/2023-11-19-geschichte
date: 2023-11-20, from: Gary Marcus blog
20 November 2023 Dear European leaders, The recent events at OpenAI are likely going to lead to considerable, unpredictable instability. The schisms on display there highlight the fact that we cannot rely purely on the companies to self-regulate AI, wherein even their own
https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/open-letter-to-all-eu-leaders
date: 2023-11-20, from: The Signal
The Middle East is a region that offers a rich diversity of cultures, landscapes, and experiences. Whether you want to explore the ancient wonders of Egypt, the modern skyscrapers of Dubai, the holy sites of Jerusalem, or the exotic bazaars of Istanbul, you will find a destination that suits your purpose. However, travelling to the […]
The post <strong>Optimal Airlines For Middle East Travel To Any Purposes</strong> appeared first on Santa Clarita Valley Signal.
https://signalscv.com/2023/11/optimal-airlines-for-middle-east-travel-to-any-purposes/
date: 2023-11-20, from: Fresno Bee Stories
Police say the man was seen on Ring video kidnapping her.
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/nation-world/national/article282098938.html
date: 2023-11-20, from: 404 Media Group
OpenAI interim CEO Emmett Shear says he believes there is a 5-50 percent chance of AI-induced apocalypse.
date: 2023-11-20, from: NASA breaking news
A Journey of Support and Community Impact Small Business Saturday is an annual holiday that encourages shoppers to support local businesses. Taking place on the Saturday following Thanksgiving, it stands as a dedicated day to celebrate and rally support for the contributions small businesses make to their communities. This year, amid the challenges posed by […]
https://www.nasa.gov/organizations/osbp/nasa-osbp-celebrates-small-business-saturday/
date: 2023-11-20, from: Fresno Bee Stories
Sheynnis Palacios es la primera mujer en ser Miss Universo de Nicaragua.
https://www.fresnobee.com/vida-en-el-valle/entretenimiento/article282100113.html
date: 2023-11-20, from: Fresno Bee Stories
Fear of losing a job is one of the main reasons sexual harassment goes unreported, EEOC said
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/local/article282012298.html
date: 2023-11-20, from: 404 Media Group
Microsoft recently pledged to cover the legal costs of customers who infringe on copyright while using its AI-generated content services.
https://www.404media.co/bing-ai-generated-disney-logos/
date: 2023-11-20, updated: 2023-11-20, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
An Atlanta tech company’s former COO has pleaded guilty to a 2018 incident in which he deliberately launched online attacks on two hospitals, later citing the incidents in sales pitches.…
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2023/11/20/former_infosec_coo_pleads_guilty/
date: 2023-11-20, from: SCV New (TV Station)
The Placerita Canyon Nature Center is hosting its annual Holiday Craft Fair Dec. 2 and Dec. 3, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. (both days) at the Nature Center, located at 19152 Placerita Canyon Road in Newhall.
https://scvnews.com/dec-2-3-placerita-nature-center-holiday-craft-fair/
date: 2023-11-20, from: City of Santa Clarita
Launch Into a Galactic World at the Family Literacy Festival By City Manager Ken Striplin “The more that you read, the more you will know” – Dr. Seuss Are you looking for a day full of out-of-this-world engaging activities, with a big dose of intergalactic information? Look no further than the 16th annual Family Literacy […]
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date: 2023-11-20, from: Fresno Bee Stories
“Todo lo que pueda estar en las manos del sector privado va a estar en las manos del sector privado”.
https://www.fresnobee.com/vida-en-el-valle/noticias/nacion-y-mundo/article282098728.html
date: 2023-11-20, from: Cory Doctorow’s blog
Today’s links Larry Summers’ inflation scare-talk incinerated climate action: Now can we please stop listening to this ghoul? Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2008, 2013, 2018, 2022 Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading Larry Summers’ inflation scare-talk incinerated climate action (permalink) Economists tell us that the market can remain irrational longer than we can remain solvent, but how long can economists remain irrational? Judging from the inflation scare we just lived through, the answer appears to be “longer than you can remain solvent.” Experts of all description are prone to enduring folly in which the failure of some cherished intervention triggers more of that intervention. This is the famed “doing the same thing but expecting different results” and it’s a grand American tradition. Take bloodletting, a therapy that does not work and that only makes things worse, but which nevertheless served as the first recourse for “doctors” for centuries. Patients who worsened after a bloodletting were presumed to be undertreated, so their doctors would bleed them again, and again. Every turn for the worse was evidence of the need for more bleeding. If you grew up in America, you doubtless learned a lot about George Washington – even apocryphal stories about his boyhood, like the cherry-tree incident: https://www.mountvernon.org/library/digitalhistory/digital-encyclopedia/article/cherry-tree-myth/ You know all about Washington, from his wooden teeth to his military victories. Lin-Manuel Miranda’s ballad made Washington’s dream of a life spent “under his own vine and fig-tree” famous: https://www.mountvernon.org/library/digitalhistory/digital-encyclopedia/article/vine-and-fig-tree/ But it’s very unlikely that you heard about how George Washington died. After eating dinner in cold, wet clothes, he developed a vicious cold. A succession of doctors attended Washington, each one bleeding him, until more than half of Washington’s blood had been extracted, whereupon the country’s father died: https://timharford.com/2023/11/cautionary-tales-george-washingtons-beard-of-beetles-with-the-dollop/ Today, a different kind of quack is given free rein to bleed another Washington: central bankers like Jerome Powell sit in DC, bleeding the economy with interest rate hikes, in the name of preventing inflation: https://pluralistic.net/2022/12/14/medieval-bloodletters/#its-the-stupid-economy The theory goes: the government gave the poors too much money in the form of covid relief. That made working people lazy and feckless. The proles’ fat cash cushions let them demand unrealistically high wages, and this is driving up the price of goods. To solve this, we need to destroy lots of jobs, so workers will bid against each other for the remaining, scarce gigs, until wages go down. Even a cursory examination of the facts revealed this theory’s hollowness. Even as the Fed was cranking up interest rates in October 2022, real wages were 2.3% lower than they’d been a year before: https://rooseveltinstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/RI_CausesofandResponsestoTodaysInflation_Report_202212.pdf Prices did rise, of course, but there was no evidence that they rose because of greedy workers. Some of that price-rise was due to covid shocks – a drop in the ability to make things because of lockdowns. Some was due to war-shocks – disruptions to energy and food supplies following from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Some was due to changes in what we wanted to buy (high demand for work-from-home equipment, changes to the rental market as people moved out of cities). But one undeniable factor was price-gouging. The CEOs of large companies have spent the past two years boasting to shareholders on their earnings calls about how all the scare-talk about inflation let them hike prices and blame the Biden administration: https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/23/cant-make-an-omelet/#keep-calm-and-crack-on It takes a deliberate act of will to see energy companies hiking prices and raising prices and decide that the real problem is workers have too much money, and that the solution cannot under any circumstances involve a tax of those “windfall” profits: https://pluralistic.net/2022/03/15/sanctions-financing/#soak-the-rich Or breaking up monopolies: https://pluralistic.net/2022/02/02/its-the-economy-stupid/#overinflated But some people want to see workers suffer. Well, at least one person wants workers to suffer. Larry Summers, the Clintonite ghoul who led the charge on punishing workers to fight inflation: https://pluralistic.net/2023/03/11/price-over-volume/#pepsi-pricing-power Summers is a man who is wrong about a lot of things. Like, when he was president of Harvard, he was wrong about women’s natural incapacity to do science: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2005/jan/18/educationsgendergap.genderissues That had a lot of consequences, as did Summers’ economic guidance when he served as Treasury Secretary under Bill Clinton. But the fully operational battle station version of Larry Summers emerged when he became a talking head, helping to sabotage the Biden Administration’s ability to continue providing relief during the pandemic. Summers’ pitch went like this: inflation is caused by workers having too much money, and anyone who disagrees with me is a sentimental lackwit who doesn’t understand the Science of Economics: https://pluralistic.net/2021/11/20/quiet-part-out-loud/#profiteering Summers’ confident pronouncements about the enduring, structural nature of inflation were used as ammo for all kinds of cuts in the Biden agenda, and were used to argue against student debt cancellation. According to Summers, we just can’t have nice things, and if we do, we risk hyperinflation and the collapse of the US dollar: https://pluralistic.net/2021/05/01/mayday/#inflationary-political-economy Not only was Summers wrong, but his prescriptions also scuttled wildly popular moves that could turn out voters for larger Dem majorities in the Senate and retaking the House, enabling even more muscular action. Summers’ argument fails on its own terms, too. If inflation is “too many dollars chasing too few goods,” then one way to solve inflation is to increase America’s capacity to fulfill demand. You know, by educating people, investing in infrastructure, re-shoring critical manufacturing, and so on: https://pluralistic.net/2022/06/01/factories-to-condos-pipeline/#stuff-not-money Some of the steepest inflation Americans experienced came from nondiscretionary spending: on healthcare, childcare, long-term care, rehab, etc. This is “care inflation,” and you don’t reduce demand for it by hurting workers: https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/18/wages-for-housework/#low-wage-workers-vs-poor-consumers The price of care labor has outpaced the CPI every year since 1978. As the price of goes up, working-age adults are taken out of the workforce so they can care for their kids, parents, spouses, and other family members: https://prospect.org/economy/2023-01-18-inflation-unfair-costs-of-care/ This reduces America’s capacity, removing skilled workers from the workforce. In other words, to increase its capacity, America needs to increase social spending, not reduce it. Instead, we’re allowing private equity funds to “roll up” (that is, monopolize) the care sector, raising prices and slashing wages. The quality of care goes down, and the price goes up. You know – inflation: https://pluralistic.net/2022/12/16/schumpeterian-terrorism/#deliberately-broken Larry Summers was wrong about inflation. Don’t take it from me: just ask Larry Summers! He’s now saying that inflation is over, it was “transitory” and it was caused by supply chain problems, not giving the poors too much money: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/summers-says-transitory-factors-behind-001613380.html As David Dayen writes for The American Prospect, Larry Summers’ latest pronouncements conspicuously fail to reckon with Larry Summers’ greatest detractor: Larry Summers, who spent years calling covid relief “the least responsible economic policy in 40 years”: https://prospect.org/environment/2023-11-20-larry-summers-inflation-prediction-climate-change/ Summers’ delusion was anything but harmless. He and his fellow interest-rate hawks provided cover for the Feds’ brutal rate-hikes, which led to steep cuts to planned solar, geothermal, wind, and grid investments. Alternative energy companies went from profitable to unprofitable overnight: https://seekingalpha.com/article/4650157-plug-power-q3-earnings-on-verge-of-failure-sell Giant offshore wind projects were canceled. This is the cancel culture no one is talking about: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/01/business/energy-environment/offshore-wind-farm-new-jersey.html Heat-pump retrofitting is behind schedule: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/09/business/energy-environment/heat-pumps-biden-tax-credits-rebates.html As Dayen says, “The Inflation Reduction Act is effectively being offset by interest costs.” (Image: mosaic36, Chatham House, CC BY 2.0, modified) Hey look at this (permalink) Chief Justice John Roberts’s Guide to the New Supreme Court Ethics Code https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/chief-justice-john-robertss-guide-to-the-new-supreme-court-ethics-code (h/t Naked Capitalism) The stones left unturned in the Sam Bankman-Fried trial https://newsletter.mollywhite.net/p/the-stones-left-unturned NAKATOMI CORP. CHRISTMAS ’88 SWEATSHIRT https://www.lastexittonowhere.com/catalogue/nakatomi-corp-christmas-88-green-white-ink_16430/ (h/t Super Punch) This day in history (permalink) #15yrsago Free to Be… You and Me: the 35 Anniversary Edition: the book every kid needs https://memex.craphound.com/2008/11/20/free-to-be-you-and-me-the-35-anniversary-edition-the-book-every-kid-needs/ #15yrsago Digital Youth Project: If you care about kids and want to understand how they use technology and why, this is a must-read https://web.archive.org/web/20081127101442/http://digitalyouth.ischool.berkeley.edu/files/report/digitalyouth-WhitePaper.pdf #10yrsago Data visualization shows US isolation in pushing for brutal Trans-Pacific Partnership https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2013/11/18/the-united-states-is-isolated-in-the-trans-pacific-partnership-negotiations/ #5yrsago Copyright and the “male gaze”: a feminist critique of copyright law https://web.archive.org/web/20181106072516/http://harvardjlg.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/HLG204_2018.pdf #5yrsago Leaks reveal the health care industry’s playbook for smearing and spinning Medicare for All out of existence by 2020 https://theintercept.com/2018/11/20/medicare-for-all-healthcare-industry/ #5yrsago “The End of Trust” – EFF/McSweeney’s collaboration on privacy and surveillance – is in stores and free to download now! https://www.eff.org/the-end-of-trust #5yrsago On the role of truth and philosophy in fantastic fiction http://dreamcafe.com/2018/11/19/truth-as-a-vehicle-for-enhancing-fiction-fiction-as-a-vehicle-for-discovering-truth/ #5yrsago Trump spent $200,000,000 on the election stunt of sending 6,000 troops to the border, then withdrew them before the caravan arrived https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/11/trump-troops-border-caravan-stunt #5yrsago Electrification 2.0: Rural broadband co-ops are filling the void left by indifferent monopolists https://www.wired.com/story/rural-america-diy-internet-spirit-reboot/ #5yrsago Dystopia watch: a roundup of the DOD’s new less-lethal weapons https://www.wired.com/story/ingredients-powering-defense-department-new-nonlethal-weapons/ #5yrsago Portrait of a fake news troll and the racist retiree who believes everything he writes https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/nothing-on-this-page-is-real-how-lies-become-truth-in-online-america/2018/11/17/edd44cc8-e85a-11e8-bbdb-72fdbf9d4fed_story.html #5yrsago This month, the climate-denyingist red state AGs lost their jobs to Dems: time to sue the US government https://web.archive.org/web/20181120113921/https://www.climateliabilitynews.org/2018/11/19/democratic-ag-midterm-climate-change/ #1yrago Anything That Can’t Go On Forever Will Eventually Stop https://pluralistic.net/2022/11/20/anything-that-cant-go-on-forever-will-eventually-stop/ Colophon (permalink) Today’s top sources: Naked Capitalism (https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/) Currently writing: A Little Brother short story about DIY insulin PLANNING Picks and Shovels, a Martin Hench noir thriller about the heroic era of the PC. FORTHCOMING TOR BOOKS JAN 2025 The Bezzle, a Martin Hench noir thriller novel about the prison-tech industry. FORTHCOMING TOR BOOKS FEB 2024 Vigilant, Little Brother short story about remote invigilation. FORTHCOMING ON TOR.COM Spill, a Little Brother short story about pipeline protests. FORTHCOMING ON TOR.COM Latest podcast: Moral Hazard (from Communications Breakdown) https://craphound.com/stories/2023/11/12/moral-hazard-from-communications-breakdown/ Upcoming appearances: Lost Cause at Simsbury Public Library, Nov 20 (Simsbury, CT) https://simsbury.librarycalendar.com/event/author-visit-cory-doctorow-29257 Generation of Lost Causes, Nov 22 (Toronto) https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/705457551527?aff=oddtdtcreator Who Is Watching Big Tech? Nov 27 (Toronto)` https://web.archive.org/web/20230907160103/https://www.torontopubliclibrary.ca/detail.jsp?Entt=RDMEVT496408&R=EVT496408 The Lost Cause at The Strand (NYC), Nov 29 https://www.eventbrite.com/e/cory-doctorow-the-lost-cause-tickets-734958008187 The Lost Cause at Flyleaf Books (Chapel Hill), Dec 7 https://www.flyleafbooks.com/doctorow-2023 Recent appearances: Digital Markets Act; Interoperability; Entrenchment; Copyright; “What-About-Ism” (Digital Markets Research Hub) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xm23pO5_WKM Science fiction for a dystopian present (Institute of Art and Ideas) https://iai.tv/video/science-fiction-for-a-dystopian-present-cory-doctorow?_auid=2020 Pushing back on unconstrained capitalism (Changelog) https://changelog.com/podcast/565 Latest books: “The Lost Cause:” a solarpunk novel of hope in the climate emergency, Tor Books (US), Head of Zeus (UK), November 2023 (http://lost-cause.org). 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https://pluralistic.net/2023/11/20/bloodletting/
date: 2023-11-20, from: San Jose Mercury News
Ann Herford is a traveling nurse from Michigan and had been staying alone at a motel in Sonora.
date: 2023-11-20, from: Liliputing
The Intel Alder Lake line of processors are low-cost, low-power chips that debuted earlier this year as a solution for budget laptops, tablets, and mini PCs. And over the course of 2023 we’ve seen a lot of cheap mini PCs with 6-watt Intel N100 or 15-watt Intel N95 chips. But we haven’t seen a lot of […]
The post Mini PCs with 12-watt Intel N97 Alder Lake-N chips now available for around $200 or less appeared first on Liliputing.
date: 2023-11-20, from: NASA breaking news
NASA is bringing a clear message to the 50th Annual Bayou Classic Friday, Nov. 24 and Saturday, Nov. 25 – while exploring the universe for the benefit of all, it is equally invested in ensuring the participation of all in the agency and its discovery work. The commitment will be on full display during NASA’s […]
date: 2023-11-20, from: Fresno Bee Stories
Meet Lucky the dog.
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/nation-world/national/article282092633.html
date: 2023-11-20, from: San Jose Mercury News
Alaska’s Brooks Falls is home to the famous ursine stars of Fat Bear Week.
https://www.mercurynews.com/2023/11/20/wish-you-were-here-alaska-adventures-with-bears/
date: 2023-11-20, from: San Jose Mercury News
Pittsburg, feeling slighted about its seeding, meets San Ramon Valley for NCS Division I title. Plus, Los Gatos, Wilcox face off again, Christopher’s magical run, Serra, DLS’s waiting game and much more.
date: 2023-11-20, from: San Jose Mercury News
The top farm tours in all 50 states list includes a goat farm, a crawfish hatchery, a coffee plantation and a … pizza farm???
date: 2023-11-20, updated: 2023-11-21, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
The fast-moving OpenAI saga has taken a new turn with the news that more than 500 of the lab’s employees have threatened to quit unless the board resigns and reinstates Sam Altman as its CEO.…
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2023/11/20/openai_staff_threaten_to_leave/
date: 2023-11-20, from: Fresno Bee Stories
Three Utah residents had plans to keep the stolen baggage belonging to 12 travelers for themselves, prosecutors say.
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/nation-world/national/article282092768.html
date: 2023-11-20, from: Fresno Bee Stories
Alva Johnson inherited an embattled organization. Now, he leaves it in the midst of internal transition.
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/california/article282094663.html
date: 2023-11-20, from: Fresno Bee Stories
One person is reported in critical condition.
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/california/article282095783.html
date: 2023-11-20, from: The Sundail (CSUN student paper)
CSUN has a history of implementing inclusive restrooms. California is becoming the first state to mandate gender-neutral bathrooms on school grounds, so the topic of CSUN expanding its restrooms is in the public’s consciousness. Gender-neutral restrooms (also referred to as “all-gender restrooms” or “gender-inclusive restrooms”) have become a topic of much debate in recent years,…
date: 2023-11-20, from: Fresno Bee Stories
“She jumped up and ran over to me like, ‘What’s wrong?’” the Missouri winner said.
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/nation-world/national/article282094758.html
date: 2023-11-20, from: San Jose Mercury News
In a year of incredible receiving performances, Aiyuk has been as good as the very best.
date: 2023-11-20, from: The Sundail (CSUN student paper)
TikTok’s new, and questionably original, shop feature is taking over the online marketplace for cheap goods, effectively degrading the environment even further. The short-form video application that exploded during the pandemic has a track record of borrowing features from other social media and online platforms. In the past, TikTok added stories, which are posts that…
https://sundial.csun.edu/177110/opinions/tiktok-shop-is-too-good-to-be-true/
date: 2023-11-20, from: San Jose Mercury News
Consumers are worried that high prices will stick around at least for another year and also over the longer term.
https://www.mercurynews.com/2023/11/20/jill-on-money-the-feds-last-mile/
date: 2023-11-20, from: Liliputing
When the Raspberry Pi 5 launched this fall, it was the first member of the Raspberry Pi Model B series to feature a PCIe interface, allowing you to add a speedy, high-capacity SSD to your DIY projects. But you need an add-on to do that. Now the embedded system enthusiasts behind the Pineberry Pi have […]
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https://liliputing.com/pineberry-pi-hatdrive-lets-you-add-an-m-2-ssd-to-your-raspberry-pi/
date: 2023-11-20, from: Alex Schroeder’s Blog
Every day is backup day. I use BorgBackup to backup up my laptop to one of two external disks. One of these is always at the office, so there are three copies: on my laptop, on a backup disk at home and on a backup disk at the office. It’s important that those three are never in the same location.
I do concede, however, that it’s tricky setup.
For my wife, I’ve set up the Mac to backup the laptop and an external disk with media files to one of two external disks. Again, one of these is always at the office. So, same deal, except now I’m using TimeMachine instead of BorgBackup. Somehow, that makes it take a very long time. But it seems to work.
Still, plugging in backup disks, carrying them to the office, bringing the other one back, plugging it in again… as you can imagine, we don’t do this nearly often enough.
So I need a quick way to backup stuff. Like, super quick. Super cheap.
The simplest option I can think of is to use rsync on the local disk because it has an option to create links for files – and while a link doesn’t take zero space, it takes a lot less space than making a copy.
So what I wanted was a quick command that I can run in the directory I’m in and it creates a backup using rsync.
I’ve used the following bash script. Let me know if it can be improved.
#!/usr/bin/bash
d=$(basename $(pwd))
t=$(date --iso-8601)
echo Creating a snapshot of $d in ../$d-$t
rsync --link-dest "../$d" --archive . "../$d-$t/"
That is, if the current directory is /home/alex/src/wiki:
/home/alex/src/wiki-2023-11-19
(appending today’s date)
When I use ls -l, this is what it looks like:
drwxr-xr-x 67 alex alex 749568 18. Nov 23:56 wiki/
drwxr-xr-x 67 alex alex 548864 17. Okt 23:43 wiki-2023-10-17/
drwxr-xr-x 67 alex alex 548864 19. Okt 22:47 wiki-2023-10-19/
drwxr-xr-x 67 alex alex 552960 30. Okt 13:18 wiki-2023-10-30/
It’s not great, but it works.
For a file that hasn’t changed, you’ll see that ls -l says
there are four links to this file. This is correct: one link for every
directory. The data exists only once, on the disk.
> ls -l w*/2000-03-10_Elendor.md
-rw-r--r-- 4 alex alex 16313 28. Apr 2017 wiki/2000-03-10_Elendor.md
-rw-r--r-- 4 alex alex 16313 28. Apr 2017 wiki-2023-10-17/2000-03-10_Elendor.md
-rw-r--r-- 4 alex alex 16313 28. Apr 2017 wiki-2023-10-19/2000-03-10_Elendor.md
-rw-r--r-- 4 alex alex 16313 28. Apr 2017 wiki-2023-10-30/2000-03-10_Elendor.md
For a file that changes all the time, ls -l shows that
there is just one link for every file, meaning that these files are
distinct. And for a lay person, that is confirmed by the different file
size and last modified timestamp.
> ls -l w*/changes.md
-rw-r--r-- 1 alex alex 1997 17. Okt 16:28 wiki-2023-10-17/changes.md
-rw-r--r-- 1 alex alex 2123 19. Okt 22:36 wiki-2023-10-19/changes.md
-rw-r--r-- 1 alex alex 5847 30. Okt 13:18 wiki-2023-10-30/changes.md
-rw-r--r-- 1 alex alex 4255 18. Nov 23:54 wiki/changes.md
As
@edavies and
@Sandra have pointed
out, this only works if the editing you do always recreates the files
you’re editing (because then these files get a new inode even if their
names stay the same). Examples where this is a problem: database files
are updated in place; some editors allow you to decide how backups are
created. Emacs, for example, has the option
backup-by-copying which is nil by default. When you save a
file, the original is renamed to the backup and a new file is written.
If you set the option, however, the backup is copied first, and then the
original is changed in-place (like a database file, without getting a
new inode). Now you’ve changed the file in all the “cheap backup”
directories, since the links keep pointing to the same inode and that
inode now points to the new file.
Possibly a better solution that uses copies for the first backup and then future backups link to the old backups (and never to the originals) would be the following:
#!/usr/bin/bash
d=$(basename $(pwd))
t=$(date --iso-8601)
p=$(find .. -maxdepth 1 -type d -name "$d-[0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9]-[0-9][0-9]-[0-9][0-9]" -prune | sort | tail -n 1)
if [ -z "$p" ]; then
echo Creating a snapshot of $d in ../$d-$t
rsync --archive . "../$d-$t/"
else
echo Creating a snapshot of $d in ../$d-$t with links into $p
rsync --link-dest "$p" --archive . "../$d-$t/"
fi
Note that now, in case you just need a single backup, you might just as well just make a copy using your favourite file manager. Not so cheap any more, eh? 🤨
Or use rsync-time-backup.
@edavies offered the
following script for a use case for /home,
/etc and /usr/local to a 1TB hard drive by the
computer:
#!/bin/bash
set -e
STAMP=$(date "+%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S")
DEST=/run/media/ed/hitachi
MACHINE=$(uname -n)
TARGET=$DEST/$MACHINE
[ -d $TARGET ] || (
mkdir $TARGET
mkdir $TARGET/0
ln -s ../0 $TARGET/current
)
[ -L $TARGET/current ] || (
echo Target directory $TARGET/current doesn\'t exist or isn\'t a symlink
false
)
for DIR in home etc usr/local
do
mkdir -p $TARGET/incomplete-$STAMP/$DIR
rsync -axv --link-dest=$TARGET/current/$DIR/ /$DIR/ $TARGET/incomplete-$STAMP/$DIR/
done
mv $TARGET/incomplete-$STAMP $TARGET/back-$STAMP
rm -f $TARGET/current
ln -s back-$STAMP $TARGET/current
ls -l $TARGET
df -h $DEST
umount $DEST
https://alexschroeder.ch/view/2023-11-19-cheap-backups
date: 2023-11-20, from: San Jose Mercury News
While navigating a sea of strangers may seem intimidating for the health-conscious, experts say there are a number of familiar precautions you can take to keep from catching an illness from fellow travelers or out-of-town visitors this year.
date: 2023-11-20, from: SCV New (TV Station)
The Los Angeles County Department of Public Health cautions residents who are planning to visit the below Los Angeles County beaches to avoid swimming, surfing and playing in ocean waters due to bacterial levels exceeding health standards when last tested
https://scvnews.com/beach-water-warning-continues-for-l-a-county-beaches/
date: 2023-11-20, from: Fresno Bee Stories
The Mustang driver stopped to check on the injured driver, officials say.
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/nation-world/national/article282090268.html
date: 2023-11-20, from: VOA News USA
Lawyers for former President Donald Trump urged a federal appeals court on Monday to revoke a gag order in the federal case charging him with plotting to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election.
“The order is unprecedented and it sets a terrible precedent for future restrictions on core political speech,” Trump attorney John Sauer told a three-judge panel.
Prosecutors with special counsel Jack Smith’s team, meanwhile, are urging the court to put back in place an order barring the Republican former president from making inflammatory statements about potential witnesses and lawyers in the case.
The prosecutors say those restrictions are necessary to prevent Trump from undermining confidence in the court system and intimidating people who may be called to testify against him. Defense lawyers call the gag order an unconstitutional muzzling of Trump’s free speech rights and say prosecutors have presented no evidence to support the idea that his words have caused harm or made anyone feel threatened.
During arguments Monday, Trump lawyer Sauer called the gag order a “heckler’s veto,” unfairly relying on the theory that Trump’s speech might someday inspire other people to harass or intimidate his targets.
The gag order is one of multiple contentious issues being argued ahead of the landmark March 2024 trial. Defense lawyers are also trying to get the case dismissed by arguing that Trump, as a former president, is immune from prosecution and protected by the First Amendment from being charged. The outcome of Monday’s arguments won’t affect those constitutional claims, but it will set parameters on what Trump as both a criminal defendant and leading presidential candidate can and cannot say ahead of the trial.
The order has had a whirlwind trajectory through the courts since U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan imposed it last month in response to a request from prosecutors, who cited among other comments Trump’s repeated disparagement of Smith as “deranged.”
The judge lifted it days after entering it, giving Trump’s lawyers time to prove why his words should not be restricted. But after Trump took advantage of that pause by posting on social media comments that prosecutors said were meant to sway his former chief of staff against giving unfavorable testimony, Chutkan put it back in place.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit later lifted it as it considered Trump’s appeal.
The judges hearing the case include Cornelia Pillard and Patricia Millett, both appointees of President Barack Obama, and Brad Garcia, who joined the bench earlier this year after being nominated by President Joe Biden. Obama and Biden are Democrats.
The panel is not expected to immediately rule on Monday. Should the judges rule against Trump, he’ll have the option of asking the entire court to take up the matter. His lawyers have also signaled that they’ll ask the Supreme Court to get involved.
The four-count indictment in Washington is one of four criminal cases Trump faces as he seeks to reclaim the White House in 2024.
He’s been charged in Florida, also by Smith’s team, with illegally hoarding dozens of classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Florida. He’s also been charged in state court in New York in connection with hush money payments to porn actor Stormy Daniels, who alleged an extramarital affair with him, and in Georgia with scheming to subvert the 2020 presidential election in that state. He has denied doing anything wrong.
date: 2023-11-20, from: Fresno Bee Stories
A 40-year-old father escorted the teens outside, then the dispute erupted in gunfire, police say.
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/nation-world/national/article282093988.html
date: 2023-11-20, from: Marketplace Morning Report
A key priority of the Federal Reserve is to stabilize prices, which it’s trying to do by raising interest rates. But the Fed is also tasked with maximizing employment, and economists met at the Boston Federal Reserve this weekend to discuss just that. Then, we chat about the cost of a Thanksgiving meal and hear how minors in the U.K. are able to illicitly work for food delivery apps.
date: 2023-11-20, from: SCV New (TV Station)
As millions of people begin to venture out onto California’s busy roadways for the upcoming holiday, the California Highway Patrol is preparing to serve up its annual Thanksgiving Maximum Enforcement Period.
https://scvnews.com/chp-readies-for-holiday-maximum-enforcement-period/
date: 2023-11-20, updated: 2023-11-20, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Sentry has brought yet another software license into the world – the Functional Source License – in an effort to balance user freedom and developer sustainability.…
date: 2023-11-20, from: San Jose Mercury News
Musical marks her professional theater debut.
https://www.mercurynews.com/2023/11/20/san-jose-performer-makes-a-bee-line-to-theatreworks/
date: 2023-11-20, from: San Jose Mercury News
An East Bay man’s family is pleading for his release after they say he was wrongfully arrested in Venezuela and held for tens of thousands of dollars in ransom just days after the Biden administration eased crippling oil sanctions on the socialist-run government.
date: 2023-11-20, from: Fresno Bee Stories
It’s not the only treat joining the menu for the holidays.
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/nation-world/national/article282091033.html
date: 2023-11-20, from: San Jose Mercury News
All those who have died this century were in their 90s.
date: 2023-11-20, from: NASA breaking news
The latest image from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope shows a portion of the dense center of our galaxy in unprecedented detail, including never-before-seen features astronomers have yet to explain. The star-forming region, named Sagittarius C (Sgr C), is about 300 light-years from the Milky Way’s central supermassive black hole, Sagittarius A*. Image: Sagittarius C […]
https://www.nasa.gov/missions/webb/nasas-webb-reveals-new-features-in-heart-of-milky-way/
date: 2023-11-20, from: SCV New (TV Station)
The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department will increase patrols throughout the community and provide other traffic safety programs to help reduce the number of serious injuries and deaths on roads
https://scvnews.com/lasd-awarded-grant-to-increase-patrols/
date: 2023-11-20, from: OS News
Today we want to focus on what came next, Symbian Anna, which arrived a year after the launch of Symbian^3 (Symbian^2 launched only in Japan). Anna was unveiled in early 2011 alongside the Nokia X7 and Nokia E6. The E6 was a bar phone with a QWERTY keyboard (and a 2.45″ touch display), but the X7 was all touch (4.0″ display). Even better, owners of certain older Nokias would receive Anna as an update, that was the case for the Nokia N8 and E7. The Nokia C7 and C6-01 got it too. I have a few Symbian Anna and Belle (its successor) devices, and they’re not exactly great. The software is slow, cumbersome, clunky, and unpleasant to use, and simply no competition for the iPhone and Android, even at the time they came out. They’re fun novelties to play with now, but I genuinely feel sorry for the people who bought into these things back when they were new, thinking they’d get something on the level of the iPhone or Android.
date: 2023-11-20, updated: 2023-11-20, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
AI In Brief Microsoft is updating the Bing AI chatbot service to prevent users generating fake film posters containing Disney’s logo over fears of copyright infringement. …
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2023/11/20/ai-in-brief/
date: 2023-11-20, from: OS News
The seL4 microkernel is currently the only kernel that has been fully formally verified. In general, the increased interest in ensuring the security of a kernel’s code results from its important role in the entire operating system. One of the basic features of an operating system is that it abstracts the handling of devices. This abstraction is represented by device drivers – the software that manages the hardware. A proper verification of the software component could ensure that the device would work properly unless there is a hardware failure. In this paper, we choose to model the behavior of a device driver and build the proof that the code implementation matches the expected behavior. The proof was written in Isabelle/HOL, the code translation from C to Isabelle was done automatically by the use of the C-to-Isabelle Parser and AutoCorres tools. We choose Isabelle theorem prover because its efficiency was already shown through the verification of seL4 microkernel. Some light reading that would’ve been for the weekend had I not gotten sick and unable to work on OSNews much.
https://www.osnews.com/story/137878/openbsd-formal-driver-verification-with-sel4/
date: 2023-11-20, from: Fresno Bee Stories
The man’s hiking companion was unharmed, troopers say.
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/nation-world/national/article282091028.html
date: 2023-11-20, updated: 2023-11-20, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
SC23 Is it time for the Green500 to expand its scope to account for more diverse workloads? This was one of the questions attendees grappled with at SC23.…
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2023/11/20/green500_benchmark_shift/
date: 2023-11-20, from: Guam Daily Post
Christmas is drawing near and with the community’s help, nearly 200 needy children could experience the joy of receiving gifts.
date: 2023-11-20, from: Guam Daily Post
The father of a 1-year-old child who was allegedly beaten to death pleaded not guilty to child abuse charges.
date: 2023-11-20, from: Guam Daily Post
Support from the medical community poured in as the Guam Legislature opened the floor for testimony on Bill 185-37, which aims to keep the construction of a new hospital in Tamuning near already existing medical infrastructure.
date: 2023-11-20, from: Guam Daily Post
The Supreme Court of Guam is considering several issues in a government corruption case that has brought into question whether a judge’s name used as a professional reference can be considered a political endorsement, as well as the process in…
date: 2023-11-20, from: Guam Daily Post
The performance evaluation for Guam Power Authority General Manager John Benavente has been pushed back to December due to a scheduling conflict with the Consolidated Commission on Utilities. The CCU was otherwise set to evaluate Benavente on Monday.
date: 2023-11-20, from: Guam Daily Post
A poet with Guam roots has achieved national recognition by winning a 2023 National Book Award for poetry during the 74th National Book Awards.
date: 2023-11-20, from: Smithsonian Magazine
A new exhibition explores the questions raised by economic revolution—and how familiar those questions remain today
date: 2023-11-20, from: Fresno Bee Stories
“Let us get through 2024 before they start campaigning,” one Democratic leader said.
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/california/article282067743.html
date: 2023-11-20, from: Fresno Bee Stories
Newsom just vetoed Senate Bill 90 which would have capped insulin at $35 per month for all patients — not just those covered by Medicare.
https://www.fresnobee.com/opinion/article281312378.html
date: 2023-11-20, from: Fresno Bee Stories
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date: 2023-11-20, updated: 2023-11-20, from: Darch (sørenpeter) neotxt blog
I have added a webmention endpoint to https://darch.dk using https://webmention.io - let see if it work from neotxt.dk to @sorenpeter<em>@darch.dk
date: 2023-11-20, from: VOA News USA
As the 2024 U.S. presidential race begins to ramp up, some contenders are already using artificial intelligence to generate promotional videos, some of which blur the lines between what is real and what is not. Karina Bafradzhian has the story. VOA footage by Andrey Degtyarev.
date: 2023-11-20, from: Fresno Bee Stories
The restaurant owner was arrested.
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/nation-world/national/article282089003.html
date: 2023-11-20, updated: 2023-11-20, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
A large drone aircraft has been operated from one of Britain’s aircraft carriers for the first time, indicating how the Royal Navy intends to expand its air power beyond the meager number of F-35 fighters it currently has at its disposal.…
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2023/11/20/royal_navy_flies_large_drone/
date: 2023-11-20, from: Fresno Bee Stories
Opinion by Marek Warszawski: Living here, we grow to assume these sorts of special favors happen all the time.
https://www.fresnobee.com/opinion/opn-columns-blogs/marek-warszawski/article281995523.html
date: 2023-11-20, from: Marketplace Morning Report
The deadline for child care providers to spend over $37 billion in federal pandemic-era subsidies is more than a month behind us. Now that the money’s gone, providers are trying to make up the difference and some are contemplating upping prices. But parents are already being squeezed. Also: a hectic weekend for former ChatGPT CEO Sam Altman and a boost to local economies courtesy of outdoor recreation enthusiasts.
date: 2023-11-20, updated: 2023-11-20, from: The LAist
The holiday season in L.A. is magical — a winterland of holiday lights, without any actual winter weather. We’re compiling a list of our favorite things to do at the holidays in and around L.A., and we could use your help.
date: 2023-11-20, updated: 2023-11-20, from: The LAist
The ocean is trying to contaminate our aquifers.
date: 2023-11-20, updated: 2023-11-20, from: The LAist
Wander in an Enchanted Forest of Light. Attend The West Coast Feast with The Pharcyde, Talib Kweli and others. Test your chess skills in an open tournament.
date: 2023-11-20, updated: 2023-11-20, from: The LAist
Less parking could pave the way for denser housing and more accessible public transportation.
https://laist.com/news/climate-environment/one-solution-to-fight-climate-change-fewer-parking-spaces
date: 2023-11-20, updated: 2023-11-20, from: The LAist
Unlike a year ago, water storage is above average. Whether the year is wet or dry, though, remains uncertain despite El Niño conditions.
date: 2023-11-20, from: Fresno Bee Stories
Opinion by Tom Philp: Proposition 47 in 2014 made shoplifting under $950 a misdemeanor. An explosion in shoplifting followed. Assembly Speaker Robert Rivas has to chose sides.
https://www.fresnobee.com/opinion/article281877998.html
date: 2023-11-20, from: Fresno Bee Stories
“Sports aren’t the only attainable dream to have. Education should be just as attainable,” writes NFL football player Arik Armstead.
https://www.fresnobee.com/opinion/article282015208.html
date: 2023-11-20, from: Fresno Bee Stories
Urine, nails and hair are key ingredients, studies show.
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/nation-world/national/article281997308.html
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Man Satya turned this shitshow around. Truly impressive.
https://mastodon.social/@Migueldeicaza/111442953042350284
date: 2023-11-20, from: Fresno Bee Stories
The alligators have no eye impairments, experts say.
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/nation-world/national/article282069413.html
date: 2023-11-20, updated: 2023-11-20, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Updated The European Commission says Adobe’s proposed $20 billion purchase of web-first design collaboration startup Figma will harm competition in the region unless the pair devise remedies to resolve this.…
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2023/11/20/ec_rules_adobes_20bn_buy/
date: 2023-11-20, from: Peoples CDC blog
This is the @PeoplesCDC weekly update for November 20, 2023! This Weather Report from the People’s CDC sheds light on the ongoing COVID situation in the US.
https://peoplescdc.org/2023/11/20/peoples-cdc-covid-19-weather-report-64/
date: 2023-11-20, from: Raspberry Pi News (.com)
One maker has turned a PicoTouch capacitive board into a wave synthesiser. This #MagPiMonday, Lucy Hattersley channels her inner Kraftwerk.
The post PicoTouch synthesiser | #MagPiMonday appeared first on Raspberry Pi.
https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/picotouch-synthesiser-magpimonday/
date: 2023-11-20, updated: 2023-11-20, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
The Rhysida ransomware group says it’s behind the highly disruptive October cyberattack on the British Library, leaking a snippet of stolen data in the process.…
date: 2023-11-20, from: Marketplace Morning Report
From the BBC World Service: Argentina has a chosen a new president — the libertarian Javier Milei, who has some radical ideas about how to tame hyperinflation, such as dollarization. We take a look at how those plans might work. Plus, how many delivery riders are underage? A BBC investigation has found a black market trade in delivery app accounts in the United Kingdom that allows children to sign up.
date: 2023-11-20, from: National Archives, Pieces of History blog
This year the federal holiday Thanksgiving falls on November 23, the fourth Thursday of the month. But it wasn’t always so. Today’s post looks at Thanksgiving as a federal holiday and the various days it has been commemorated. To learn more about Thanksgiving and how the National Archives is celebrating, visit our website. One of … Continue reading Thanksgiving as a Federal Holiday
https://prologue.blogs.archives.gov/2023/11/20/thanksgiving-as-a-federal-holiday/
date: 2023-11-20, from: Fresno Bee Stories
TV/radio listings, odds and injury reports with live updates as the Kings prepare to play the New Orleans Pelicans at Smoothie King Center.
https://www.fresnobee.com/sports/article282081908.html
date: 2023-11-20, from: Fresno Bee Stories
From Our Partners: Find the perfect gift for a friend, family member or loved one. And yourself.
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date: 2023-11-20, updated: 2023-11-20, from: Bruce Schneier blog
Generative AI is going to be a powerful tool for data analysis and summarization. Here’s an example of it being used for sentiment analysis. My guess is that it isn’t very good yet, but that it will get better.
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2023/11/using-generative-ai-for-surveillance.html
date: 2023-11-20, updated: 2023-11-21, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Updated The story of Sam Altman and OpenAI took a twist this morning that even the most hallucinatory of chatbots would struggle to conjure: he and other OpenAI chums - including co-founder Greg Brockman - may be off to Microsoft.…
date: 2023-11-20, from: Heatmap News
It was questionable if we needed a second season of Tiger King — or, let’s be honest, a first season. Regardless, if Netflix ever decides it’s interested in a story that features surprisingly charming criminals, IWT violations, and yes, even possibly murder (but without the tabloid tone and mullets), producers might look in the future to Jared D. Margulies’ delightful debut, The Cactus Hunters: Desire and Extinction in the Illicit Succulent Trade.
Wait, illicit succulent trade? you might be wondering. Oh yes.
From the cliffs of California and the deserts of Brazil to the markets of Seoul and the private greenhouses of Czechia, Margulies follows the extraction and relocation of plants so rare that they might only exist in one valley or mountainside in the world. Weaving in ample philosophy and research about what drives these sorts of obsessions — as well as his personal reflections as he, in turn, is captivated by the lovable, spiky plants — The Cactus Hunters is just the right balance of edgy and academic.
Last week, I caught up with Margulies about the process of researching the book, being mistaken for an undercover cop by his subjects, and the lie that is “the green thumb,” among other topics. Our conversation has been edited and condensed for clarity.
You open The Cactus Hunters with a story about how you were going to study the illegal trade of tiger bones when you came across a story about saguaro cactus rustling that piqued your interest and sent you on this journey. What most stands out to you as the differences between the illegal trade of animals and animal products and the world of illegal cactus trading?
To clarify, I never actually got around to studying the illegal trade in tiger bones. I had encountered it a little bit in my past research on human-wildlife conflicts.
But there are a lot of important differences: One of the things that made the illegal plant trade so interesting to study, compared to illegal trade in animals, is that it receives a lot less attention, so there was just a lot more to learn that people hadn’t already researched. But also, the way that this material and these plants can move around the world — there are so many more options available because of the nature of plants. So if what you’re after is the genetics of the plant, to be able to grow them somewhere else in the world, there’s not just the one plant but there’s the cacti propagate, for instance. Pups. Their seeds. You can make cuttings of plants. None of these things are really available to people interested in illegal trade and animals. That affects supply chains and how these things can move around the world.
Also, because of the lack of attention to illegal plant trade compared to animal trade, the subject is a lot less criminalized. I would argue that my access to informants and research participants was a lot better because it did happen that, every now and then, people thought I was a cop. Or maybe, like, an undercover detective. But usually within pretty short order, they realized that wasn’t the case and I was generally interested in trying to understand their perspectives. I think that it would be a lot harder to develop trust within certain trades that are a lot more heavily criminalized.
Over the course of the book, you encounter the Indiana Jones of plants and the Robin Hood of cacti, among others. Can you talk a little about why these enthusiasts, who clearly care deeply about conservation, sometimes break the law by smuggling seeds or entire cacti out of the places where they naturally grow?
One of the fascinating things that really gripped me was this seeming contradiction, where you have people who are made out as conservation villains by certain actors seeing themselves as unsung conservation heroes. The reason for that is, for a lot of these collectors, they saw their community as really passionate people who wanted to get access to the plants that become objects of their desires. By and large, the people who want these plants aren’t trying to do harm to the species in the world, and they care a lot about them. But they also recognize that in their desire is something fairly insatiable and that people are going to go to lengths to get the plant that they have to go to.
For a lot of these collectors, they might see engaging in a kind of illegal activity as still a socially acceptable behavior, if it meant it got material out into the world in a way that people might want it. And the goal there, the long-term goal, is to try to reduce demand on wild harvesting of plants and wild populations. If you get a little bit of material out into the communities that delight in these plants, then you can start grafting them, propagating them, growing them from seed, and, in theory, get that material out into the world.
I wanted to take that perspective seriously. It’s a hard thing to study empirically and so it was important for me to try to be open to a really diverse set of opinions about the right way to do conservation.
You leave most of the sources in the book, including those working within the law, anonymous. Why did you make that decision?
The really short answer is, I was part of a larger research project called BIOSEC, which was run by Professor Rosaleen Duffy at the University of Sheffield in the Department of Politics and International Relations, and we were using a fairly symmetrical ethics approval process, or what in the U.S. we would call an institutional review board approval. Because a number of us were studying illicit economies, in order to ensure research-subject protection and anonymity and security, we were required to make all of our sources anonymous.
But this caused some issues because, on the one hand, it meant that everyone in the book is anonymous, even if they’re people who are law enforcement officials or botanists who would have probably really enjoyed having their names in the book. I regret that.
Most interesting, though, were the number of collectors who were mad at me because they’re also anonymous. One of the reasons for that was they saw anonymity as being suggestive of wrongdoing and for a lot of these people, they don’t feel like what they’re doing is wrong, necessarily, even if it’s against the law. They wanted their story told. I think one of the reasons I had good access to the kinds of interlocutors I had was because they felt like I was providing a space for them to get their version of the story out into the world.
You were asked to be an expert witness in a case against a South Korean smuggler who took thousands of plants from the California coast. How do you navigate moments like this, when your position as an illicit trade researcher is perhaps in tension with your own ethical code?
This was a really difficult decision for me, and I write about this. I went back and forth about whether or not to serve as an expert witness, which in this case just required writing a statement. I never had to go to court or, you know, be on a witness stand — thank goodness. But I go back and forth about if I would do it again.
I think that in the end, I chose to do it because I realized that my testimony would only serve to probably reduce the sentence that this person was facing. And I don’t say that because I think that what they were doing was okay. It was really bad and really harmful to this species of plant. I just don’t think that criminalization and incarceration actually do rehabilitative work or serve much function. It costs us a lot of money as taxpayers and causes harm.
It was complicated; I guess that’s how I would leave it. I debated whether or not to include [the story] in the book but I felt like, in the end, it would be wrong not to include it. I think that if people eventually found out I had served in that capacity, they might felt like I was trying to not disclose something. But yeah, I have some ambiguous feelings about it. In the end, what I was asked to actually do was very limited: I was just asked to put a value on these plants. But as I wrote in my letter to the judge, that value in monetary terms is such an arbitrary thing. The price of those plants has declined precipitously since I wrote that, and it had already gone down a lot since the person who sold them stole them. How interesting, though, that the court of law — at least in the United States — in order to assess the damage done to the state, it had to be valued in monetary terms.
I really liked the inclusion of the story. It’s interesting for a researcher of illicit and illegal trade to all of a sudden be dragged into the concrete legal system, and have it, you know, ask something of you.
Sometimes academics are hard on ourselves in that we think we put in all this work and do all this writing and no one actually reads it. And that’s not true. People do read your work when you publish it and you should think about who those people might be. They might be district attorneys for the state of California. People will use your work, and you should think from the outset about what the social implications of that might be. It was a big lesson for me.
At the end of the book, you write that your experiences in the cactus and succulent community have left you with hope that meaningful change is possible “not through the repressions of desire but through its celebration.” After spending so much time among people that some might call poachers, what makes you optimistic?
We have so many examples from other illicit economies where prohibition doesn’t work. I am concerned by a tendency to move in that direction. Given that we’re talking about plants — you know, as far as we know, this conversation could be different in 50 years — but we’re not having to really think about the welfare issues of, say, illegal trade in animals. There are pragmatic solutions to these problems. This material could get out into the world so that people who want these plants can get it in a way that doesn’t harm wild-growing species.
There’s still a ways to go in working through regulatory conventions to support those efforts. And importantly, in doing so, supporting the people who should have the most support, which I would argue are the communities in places in the world that have lived with these plants the longest.
I see hopeful promise in this, and I saw a whole lot of love. I really did. I saw a lot of love between people and plants, and what that can do for people in moving into developing more careful relations with plants and other species. I don’t have a large collection of cacti and succulents, but I do have some, and I have like a cactus right now that’s in flower. Do you want to see it?
Yes!
This is where I think it’s fun, to think about what plants can teach us—
Oh, it’s gorgeous!
This is a Mammillaria laui. Named for Alfred Lau, who I write about in one of the chapters of the book — a German who lived in Mexico, who has a lot of different species named after him. This is Mammillaria laui, subspecies subducta. It’s got this gorgeous crown of pink flowers.
I love having these plants. Specifically, I’ve started a small collection of plants that are associated with particular people that I wrote about, or that I thought about. Bringing some of that social history to our plants, I think, is a really nice thing that people can do. Learn about where our plants come from and the histories of how they got to where we are.
That’s kind of what set me off on this whole journey, anyway. I think there’s a lot of opportunity for thinking thoughtfully about the place of these plants in the world and how they travel and maybe, hopefully, that can help move us towards a more ethical kind of relation.
Are you worried now that once you collect all of the plants that are connected to your book, you’ll throw your whole collection out?
I don’t think I have a strong collector tendency, per se. I have been accused of being a low-key hoarder before. I’m excited to think about how I’m going to slowly develop a collection over time. Yeah, but your reference — the worst thing that can happen to a collector is completing a collection. Freud wrote about this in the context of completing his collection of statues and dying days later. This one collector who I went to see, I thought I was going to see a giant greenhouse of cacti, but I found a bunch of Mexican chili plants. Because he’d just tossed [the cacti collection] off, he was done with it. I don’t see myself going down that road but one never knows.
For someone reading this interview who might be interested in collecting, where would you say to start?
We need to get over this idea that cacti and succulent plants are great house plants because they don’t require any care. It’s not true. Everyone I know who’s had a succulent has killed it very quickly.
I killed mine.
Yeah, if you just throw a succulent on, like, a north-facing windowsill, it’s not going to do well, especially if you ignore it.
Also, get over the idea that there are natural people in the world with a green thumb — I think that is also nonsense. We just need to spend time learning about what these plants need. One of the ways you can do that is by paying attention to them.
In terms of obtaining material — you know, so much plant material can also just be found for free, gifted from friends or colleagues or the community. A lot of collector clubs, like, say, the Cactus and Succulent Society of America here in the U.S., I believe may even send you free seeds of cacti, and stuff like that.
The thing that I want to start doing is trying to grow cacti from seed. They’re slow-growing plants but I think it’d be really fun to actually watch that process unfold. And it’s quite easy to obtain seeds for a lot of these plants. Just, you know, be careful where you’re buying stuff from. Reputable nurseries are a good source. But be wary of buying from unknown people on the internet. That might be where people start to get into trouble.
Is there anything I haven’t asked you about that you’d like to let me know about your book or your experience writing it before I let you go?
I’m not too prescriptive at the end of the book about what I think the answer is. Some people may find that frustrating, like, “Oh, but you didn’t tell us like what should we do” or “What’s the right response?” One of the reasons for that was I just wanted to let people develop some of their own thoughts about this. But also it’s because the work isn’t done.
I’m developing some work right now dealing with illegal succulent trade in South Africa with some colleagues, both in South Korea but also in South Africa. I’m doing a new project on illicit Venus flytrap harvesting and the carnivorous plant trade. I’m trying to continue the process of thinking and learning with plants. But the work continues.
https://heatmap.news/culture/jared-margulies-interview-cactus-hunters
date: 2023-11-20, updated: 2023-11-20, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Exclusive While Elementary OS commits to Wayland, the development team of the Budgie desktop is changing course and will work with the Xfce developers toward Budgie’s Wayland future.…
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date: 2023-11-20, from: Guam Daily Post
While Guam Delegate James Moylan discussed various initiatives during a press conference Monday, he also took the time to address some concerns that occurred during a demonstration at his district office in Hagåtña last week.
date: 2023-11-20, from: Raspberry Pi (.org)
We all know that learning to program, and specifically learning how to debug or fix code, can be frustrating and leave beginners overwhelmed and disheartened. In a recent blog article, our PhD student Lauria at the Raspberry Pi Computing Education Research Centre highlighted the pivotal role that teachers play in shaping students’ attitudes towards debugging.…
The post Support for new computing teachers: A tool to find Scratch programming errors appeared first on Raspberry Pi Foundation.
https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/support-new-computing-teachers-debugging-scratch-litterbox/
date: 2023-11-20, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>HONOLULU — Philippines President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. is meeting with senior U.S. military leaders and members of Hawaii’s large Filipino community this weekend in a visit steeped in geopolitical and personal significance for the leader, but also drawing small protests from a younger generation of Filipinos who point to the actions of his dictator father who died in exile in Hawaii.</p>
date: 2023-11-20, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>The ‘Imiloa Astronomy Center in Hilo has upgraded its planetarium.</p>
date: 2023-11-20, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>Emotions were running high Friday at Makaeo Pavilion as the Department of Land and Natural Resources held a lottery to determine which four surf schools could operate at Kahalu‘u Beach.</p>
date: 2023-11-20, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>WASHINGTON — Inflation has reached its lowest point in 2 1/2 years. The unemployment rate has stayed below 4% for the longest stretch since the 1960s. And the U.S. economy has repeatedly defied predictions of a coming recession. Yet according to a raft of polls and surveys, most Americans hold a glum view of the economy.</p>
date: 2023-11-20, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>As drought conditions continue in West Hawaii, state officials are searching for ways to mitigate the impacts of wild goats.</p>
https://www.hawaiitribune-herald.com/2023/11/20/hawaii-news/big-island-goat-problem-worsens/
date: 2023-11-20, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza Strip — Health officials said 31 premature babies in “extremely critical condition” were transferred safely Sunday from Gaza’s main hospital and will go to Egypt, while over 250 patients with severely infected wounds and other urgent conditions remained stranded days after Israeli forces entered the compound to look for Hamas operations.</p>
date: 2023-11-20, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>ATLANTA — Former first lady Rosalynn Carter, the closest adviser to Jimmy Carter during his one term as U.S. president and their four decades thereafter as global humanitarians, has died at the age of 96.</p>
date: 2023-11-20, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — Populist Javier Milei resoundingly won Argentina’s presidential election Sunday, swinging the country to the right following a fiercely polarized campaign in which he promised a dramatic shake-up to the state to deal with soaring inflation and rising poverty.</p>
date: 2023-11-20, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>Lawrence Shoji Hatayama, 87, of Hilo died Oct. 29 at Hale Anuenue Restorative Care Center. Born in Olaa, he was co-owner of the former Truck and Trailer Service Inc., a member of Hilo Higashi Hongwanji Mission and U.S. Army veteran. Private services held. No flowers or koden (monetary gifts). Survived by son, Neal (Jo-Ann) Hatayama of Hilo; brother, Kenichi Hatayama of Hilo; sisters, Patsy Umeno of California and Janice Manalili of Kona; two grandchildren; nieces and nephews. Arrangements by Dodo Mortuary.</p>
https://www.hawaiitribune-herald.com/2023/11/20/obituaries/obituaries-for-november-20-10/
date: 2023-11-20, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>WASHINGTON — Some K-12 public schools are racing to improve protection against the threat of online attacks, but lax cybersecurity means thousands of others are vulnerable to ransomware gangs that can steal confidential data and disrupt operations.</p>
date: 2023-11-20, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>The credit rating agency Moody’s on Nov. 10 lowered its outlook on the United States from “stable” to “negative” in the latest knock to the country’s fiscal stewardship. Though the White House and other federal leaders decried the change, is it any wonder investors have soured on the country’s long-term prospects? The federal government spent weeks careening toward a shutdown — again.</p>
date: 2023-11-20, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>KEALAKEKUA — Sometimes it feels so good to do something you need to do it twice.</p>
date: 2023-11-20, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>DENVER — Stymied all night by the Minnesota Vikings’ smothering defense, Russell Wilson never lost faith in his sputtering offense whose first nine drives ended with Wil Lutz kicking five field goals and Riley Dixon punting four times.</p>
date: 2023-11-20, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Kevin Durant totaled 39 points, 10 assists and eight rebounds to lead the Phoenix Suns to a 140-137 double overtime win over the Utah Jazz on Sunday night.</p>
date: 2023-11-20, updated: 2023-11-20, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Leading Chinese Linux vendor UnionTech says it’s reached an impressive milestone: it says it has three million users of its desktop edition, Tongxin UOS. Yep, million.…
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2023/11/20/3_million_deepin_users/
date: 2023-11-20, from: Robert Reich on Substack
Why Trump and other Trumpist Republicans are raking in big money — and what Joe Biden and the Democrats must do
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-connection-between-neofascism
date: 2023-11-20, from: The Sundail (CSUN student paper)
CSUN men’s basketball hosted Life Pacific University on Friday afternoon for their home opener. After winning two straight games on the road against University of Idaho and Chicago State University, the Matadors (3-1) returned home against Life Pacific (3-2) and defeated the Warriors, 98-67. “It feels great to win my first home opener. Super proud…
https://sundial.csun.edu/177104/sports/matador-guards-fend-off-warriors-in-home-opener/
date: 2023-11-20, from: Guam Daily Post
President Joe Biden signed off on another stopgap funding measure last week, once again averting a federal government shutdown, at least until early 2024. The continuing resolution includes an extension of existing compact funding provisions for two nations in the…
date: 2023-11-20, updated: 2023-11-20, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Opinion Quick question number 1. Do you trust Google? The Movement for an Open Web (MOW) doesn’t. It’s taking Big G to the UK’s Big C – the Competition and Markets Authority – over the forthcoming Chrome IP Protection feature.…
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date: 2023-11-20, 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 – November 20, 2023 appeared first on Daily Trojan.
https://dailytrojan.com/2023/11/20/classifieds-november-20-2023/
date: 2023-11-20, from: SCV New (TV Station)
1831 – Local entrepreneurs Sanford and Cyrus Lyon (as in Lyons Avenue) born in Machias, Maine. [story
https://scvnews.com/today-in-scv-history-nov-20/
date: 2023-11-20, from: The Daily Trojan (USC Student Paper)
An SMPD lieutenant said most incidents involve phones stolen at local bars.
The post Students wary of Santa Monica pickpocketing rise appeared first on Daily Trojan.
https://dailytrojan.com/2023/11/20/students-wary-of-santa-monica-pickpocketing-rise/
date: 2023-11-20, from: The Daily Trojan (USC Student Paper)
Researchers found banana trees will remain effective even as climates warm.
The post USC study tries using bananas to stop wildfires appeared first on Daily Trojan.
https://dailytrojan.com/2023/11/20/usc-study-tries-using-bananas-to-stop-wildfires/
date: 2023-11-20, from: The Daily Trojan (USC Student Paper)
Why are we so obsessed with constantly placing harmful labels on women?
The post She’s not a pick me, you’re a misogynist appeared first on Daily Trojan.
https://dailytrojan.com/2023/11/20/shes-not-a-pick-me-youre-a-misogynist/
date: 2023-11-20, from: The Daily Trojan (USC Student Paper)
USC Opera opens its end-of-season show on a high note.
The post ‘Chérubin’: a night of laughter, love and arias appeared first on Daily Trojan.
https://dailytrojan.com/2023/11/20/cherubin-a-night-of-laughter-love-and-arias/
date: 2023-11-20, from: The Daily Trojan (USC Student Paper)
The “I Love It” group thrilled this year’s edition of the annual concert and rally.
The post Icona Pop headlines Conquest appeared first on Daily Trojan.
https://dailytrojan.com/2023/11/20/icona-pop-headlines-conquest/
date: 2023-11-20, from: The Daily Trojan (USC Student Paper)
The prequel to the popular franchise introduces new and notorious characters.
The post ‘The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes’ rewinds ‘The Hunger Games’ history appeared first on Daily Trojan.
https://dailytrojan.com/2023/11/20/the-ballad-of-songbirds-snakes-rewinds-the-hunger-games-history/
date: 2023-11-20, from: The Daily Trojan (USC Student Paper)
Several sports industries are increasingly embracing greener practices.
The post Environmental consciousness has its place in sports appeared first on Daily Trojan.
https://dailytrojan.com/2023/11/20/cultural-playbook-regina-correa/
date: 2023-11-20, from: The Daily Trojan (USC Student Paper)
The Bruins regain the Victory Bell as the Trojans are left seeking answers.
The post USC can’t salvage season against UCLA appeared first on Daily Trojan.
https://dailytrojan.com/2023/11/20/usc-cant-salvage-season-against-ucla/
date: 2023-11-20, from: The Sundail (CSUN student paper)
Not often does a team at any level manage to keep every player on its roster heading into the following season. CSUN women’s tennis overcame the odds and kept all 12 players from their 2022-23 roster on the team this year, making them the only Matadors team to do so. This young team had five…
date: 2023-11-20, updated: 2023-11-20, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Who, Me? To quote the ancient philosophers: “Monday Monday, dah dah dah, can’t trust that day.” And so it is, dear reader, that we find ourselves yet again betrayed by the beginning of the working week and its requiremnet to spend the next five days exchanging your labour for currency. Fear not, though, for we can rely on The Reg to soften the blow with a dose of Who, Me? in which readers share their own tales of the treachery of tech.…
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date: 2023-11-20, from: Santa Barbara Indenpent News
UCSB bounced back from losses to Portland State and UTEP with a blowout of Le Moyne on Sunday.
The post UCSB Defeats Le Moyne 96-72 in Ajay Mitchell’s Return to Action appeared first on The Santa Barbara Independent.
date: 2023-11-20, from: Guam Daily Post
Ahead of the public hearing on the bill that would require the new hospital to be built in Tamuning the Governor’s office announced that, should the bill be passed, a medical complex may not come to fruition.
date: 2023-11-20, from: Hannah Richie at Substack
Solar and wind produce less waste than coal; but they can reduce waste even further
https://www.sustainabilitybynumbers.com/p/renewables-waste
date: 2023-11-20, from: Tilde.news
https://blog.glyphdrawing.club/amiga-ascii-art/
date: 2023-11-20, updated: 2023-11-20, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
SpaceX judged the second launch of its Starship a success after the craft’s two launch stages separated and one made it into space, but neither finished their mission.…
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date: 2023-11-20, from: James Fallows, Substack
The stands she took in four years as First Lady, and four decades since then, brightened and blessed countless lives.
https://fallows.substack.com/p/rosalynn-carter-made-a-difference
date: 2023-11-20, from: VOA News USA
A tornado that hit the town of Star Valley prompted the National Weather Service’s Flagstaff branch to survey damage to the area, the organization said Sunday.
Officials from the town located about 95 miles northeast of Phoenix said at least 10 homes were damaged due to the wind, according to ABC15 Arizona.
Nobody was hurt in the tornado, but the gusts killed a dog, according to the TV station.
National Weather Service staff arrived in Star Valley around 3:30 p.m. Sunday, Tony Merriman, a meteorologist for the organization, said in a brief interview. Additional updates will be posted later in the evening, the National Weather Service said in an emailed statement.
date: 2023-11-20, from: VOA News USA
Liberty and Bell can spread their wings without fear.
The two Thanksgiving turkeys played their part Monday in an annual holiday tradition at the White House: a president sparing them from becoming someone’s dinner.
“I hereby pardon Liberty and Bell. Congratulations, birds,” Biden said after one of the National Thanksgiving Turkeys was placed on a table near him.
The event, held on the South Lawn this year instead of the smaller Rose Garden, marks the unofficial start of the holiday season in Washington, and Monday was an especially busy opening day.
President Joe Biden, the oldest president in U.S. history, also celebrated turning 81 on Monday. In the afternoon, his wife, first lady Jill Biden, was accepting the delivery of an 18.5-foot (5.6-meter) Fraser fir from Fleetwood, North Carolina, as the official White House Christmas tree.
Biden joked about his age, saying, “this is the 76th anniversary of this event. I want you to know I wasn’t there for the first one.” The Democrat’s age has become an issue as he seeks reelection next year.
Steve Lykken, chairman of the National Turkey Federation and president of the Jennie-O Turkey Store, told The Associated Press in an interview last week that the pardons are a “great way to kick off the holiday season and really, really a fun honor.”
Lykken introduced Liberty and Bell on Sunday at the Willard Intercontinental, a luxury hotel near the White House. The gobblers checked into a suite there on Saturday following their red-carpet arrival in the U.S. capital after a dayslong road trip from Minnesota in a black Cadillac Escalade.
“They were raised like all of our turkeys, protected, of course, from weather extremes and predators, free to walk about with constant access to water and feed,” Lykken said at Sunday’s event as Liberty and Bell strutted around the Willard’s newly renovated Crystal Room on plastic sheeting laid over the carpet. Young children in the crowd of onlookers — many of them employees and guests of the Jennie-O company — yelled “gobble, gobble” at them.
The male turkeys, both about 20 weeks old and about 42 pounds (19 kilograms), were hatched in July in Willmar, Minnesota — Jennie-O is headquartered there — as part of the “presidential flock,” Lykken said. They listened to music and other sounds to prepare them for Monday’s hoopla at the White House.
“They listened to all kinds of music to get ready for the crowds and people along the way. I can confirm they are, in fact, Swifties, and they do enjoy some Prince,” Lykken said, meaning that Liberty and Bell are fans of Taylor Swift. “I think they’re absolutely ready for prime time.”
The tradition dates to 1947 when the National Turkey Federation, which represents turkey farmers and producers, first presented a National Thanksgiving Turkey to President Harry Truman.
Back then, and even earlier, the gobbler was given for the first family’s holiday consumption. But by the late 1980s, the tradition had evolved into an often humorous ceremony in which the birds are pardoned, given a second chance at life after they are spared from ending up on a family’s Thanksgiving table.
In 1989, as animal rights activists picketed nearby, President George H.W. Bush said, “But let me assure you, and this fine tom turkey, that he will not end up on anyone’s dinner table, not this guy — he’s granted a presidential pardon as of right now — and allow him to live out his days on a children’s farm not far from here.”
After Biden pardons his third pair of turkeys on Monday, Liberty and Bell will be returned to their home state to be cared for by the University of Minnesota’s College of Food, Agricultural and Natural Resources Sciences.
“You can imagine the wonderful care they’re going to get from students and veterinarians and professors, etc., and so they will hopefully have a chance, maybe, to go see a hockey game or spend time with Goldy the gopher,” Lykken said, referring to the university’s mascot.
A little over 200 million turkeys will be eaten on Thanksgiving, Lykken said.
Biden will eat his Thanksgiving turkey with family on Nantucket, a Massachusetts island, continuing a long family tradition. On Sunday, he and the first lady served an early Thanksgiving meal to hundreds of service members at Norfolk Naval Station in Virginia.
date: 2023-11-20, from: Gary Marcus blog
[resending to some readers, sorry for glitch] Posted this a few minutes ago, giving my theory of what transpired over the last few hours: and then, perhaps in keeping with my surmise that Sam’s bluff was called, negotiations broke down altogether. Sam’s out, presumably Greg is too. Mira’s no longer interim CEO. Probably a lot of employees will leave. The $86B secondary sale to Thrive is presumably unlikely to close.
https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/everybodys-out-a65
date: 2023-11-20, updated: 2023-11-20, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Updated The CEO of self-driving cab outfit Cruise has parked his career and strolled off into the sunset.…
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date: 2023-11-20, updated: 2023-11-20, from: Darch (sørenpeter) neotxt blog
@lyse<em>@lyse.isobeef.org hmm yeah, also not sure how this should work for multi-user pods. It should only trigger an email when it show that they do not follow you and, it should not be an automatic one. If spam becomes an issue you could use a forward email address for this feature.
date: 2023-11-20, from: VOA News USA
Reactions to the death of Rosalynn Carter, former first lady and global humanitarian:
President Joe Biden said the Carters “brought grace” to the White House. “He had this great integrity, still does. And she did too,” Biden told reporters as he was boarding Air Force One to leave Norfolk, Virginia on Sunday night.
“God bless them.” Biden said he spoke to the family and was told that Jimmy Carter was surrounded by his children and grandchildren.
Later the White House released an official joint statement from the president and first lady Jill Biden saying that Carter inspired the nation.
“She was a champion for equal rights and opportunities for women and girls; an advocate for mental health and wellness for every person; and a supporter of the often unseen and uncompensated caregivers of our children, aging loved ones, and people with disabilities,” the statement said.
Former President George W. Bush called Carter a woman of dignity and strength.
“There was no greater advocate of President Carter, and their partnership set a wonderful example of loyalty and fidelity. She leaves behind an important legacy in her work to destigmatize mental health. We join our fellow citizens in sending our condolences to President Carter and their family,” Bush said in a statement with former first lady Laura Bush.
U.S. Sen. Jon Ossoff of Georgia said Carter would be remembered for her compassionate nature and passion for women’s rights, human rights and mental health reform. “The State of Georgia and the United States are better places because of Rosalynn Carter,” Ossoff said in a statement. “I join all Georgians and Americans in mourning her loss. May Rosalynn Carter’s memory be a blessing.”
Vice President Kamala Harris said Rosalynn Carter redefined the role of first lady and lived a life of service, faith, compassion, and moral leadership.
“As a humanitarian, a public servant, and a global leader, Mrs. Carter improved the lives of millions — and inspired countless more to dedicate their lives to service. Her legacy will be a beacon for generations to come,” Harris said in a statement.
Former President Donald Trump said Carter “earned the admiration and gratitude” of the nation.
“From her days as a U.S. Navy spouse, to the Georgia Governor’s Mansion, to her tenure as First Lady of the United States, and her later work at the Carter Center and volunteering with Habitat for Humanity, she leaves behind a legacy of extraordinary accomplishment and national service,” Trump said on Truth Social.
In a separate statement, former first lady Melania Trump said Carter leaves behind a meaningful legacy.
“We will always remember her servant’s heart and devotion to her husband, family, and country. May she rest in peace,” Melania Trump said on X, formerly Twitter.
Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Carter was a “saintly and revered public servant” driven by faith, compassion and kindness.
“On the world stage, First Lady Carter was a pioneer. Her historic, high-stakes diplomatic mission to Latin America in 1977 ushered in a new era of engagement in the region.
Two years later, she became the first sitting First Lady to address the World Health Organization, where she argued that mental health was an aspect of physical health – and that health is a human right,” Pelosi said in a statement offering condolences to the Carter family.
Bill and Hillary Clinton called Carter a champion of human dignity.
“Thanks to her mental health advocacy, more people live with better care and less stigma. Because of her early leadership on childhood immunization, millions of Americans have grown up healthier. And through her decades of work at the Carter Center and with Habitat for Humanity, she spread hope, health, and democracy across the globe,” the former president and former secretary of state said in a joint statement.
“Rosalynn will be forever remembered as the embodiment of a life lived with purpose.”
Atlanta Mayor Andre Dickens called Carter “the model for the modern day First Lady” and praised her work promoting mental health awareness. “She never stopped advocating for mental health or the Equal Rights Amendment,” Dickens said in a statement.
“The city of Atlanta joins all of Georgia — and mourners around the world — as we honor the memory of First Lady Rosalynn Carter.”
Former first lady Michelle Obama said Rosalynn Carter sometimes offered advice during their periodic lunches at the White House.
“She reminded me to make the role of First Lady my own, just like she did. I’ll always remain grateful for her support and her generosity,” Obama said in a statement.
“Today, Barack and I join the world in celebrating the remarkable legacy of a First Lady, philanthropist, and advocate who dedicated her life to lifting up others. Her life is a reminder that no matter who we are, our legacies are best measured not in awards or accolades, but in the lives we touch.”
Habitat For Humanity, the Georgia-based charity that the Carters worked for tirelessly, said its members were saddened by the former first lady’s passing.
“She was a compassionate and committed champion of #HabitatforHumanity and worked fiercely to help families around the world,” the nonprofit said on X.
Carter’s legacy will be a source of pride for her home state, said U.S. Rep. Nikema Williams, the chair of the Democratic Party of Georgia.
“Georgia Democrats join our entire state, nation, and the world in mourning the loss of former First Lady Rosalynn Carter – an extraordinary humanitarian, fierce mental health advocate, and beloved daughter of Georgia,” Williams said.
The Carter Center said it was grieving the passing of its co-founder.
“She was a partner in good deeds with her husband, former U.S. President Jimmy Carter, as they traversed the globe to strengthen democracy, resolve conflicts, advance human rights, and eliminate debilitating diseases after their time in the White House,” the center said in a statement.
In lieu of flowers, Carter requested that those wishing to honor her memory do so through contributions to the Carter Center’s Mental Health Program or the Rosalynn Carter Institute for Caregivers, the statement said.
date: 2023-11-20, from: Santa Barbara Indenpent News
Maria Bermudez brings Gypsy Flamenco Showcase to town.
The post <i>Sonidos Gitanos</i> Coming to Santa Barbara’s Lobero Theatre appeared first on The Santa Barbara Independent.
https://www.independent.com/2023/11/19/sonidos-gitanos-coming-to-santa-barbaras-lobero-theatre/
date: 2023-11-20, from: Gary Marcus blog
As Dave Barry used to say, I’m not making this up. Just passing it along.
https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/im-not-making-this-up
date: 2023-11-20, from: Guam Daily Post
The Guam Fire Department is on the scene of a fire near the government of Guam’s General Services Agency in Piti.
date: 2023-11-20, updated: 2023-11-20, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
The Xen Project has quietly debuted version 4.18 of its eponymous hypervisor – the year’s only release of the virtualization tool.…
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@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2023-11-20, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
BTW, I read in a news article the other day that I developed iPodder, the first podcasting client in 2004. This is not true. The first podcasting client was Radio UserLand in 2001. I did not write iPodder, it was a community effort.
http://scripting.com/2023/11/19.html#a025209
date: 2023-11-20, updated: 2023-11-20, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Infosec in brief It’s that time of year again – NordPass has released its annual list of the most common passwords. And while it seems some of you took last year’s chiding to heart, most of you arguably swapped bad for worse.…
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@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2023-11-20, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
Brilliant post about RSS from Colin Walker. I agree with all of it. When a protocol or format is much more complicated that it needs to be, there’s usually a reason, the proponents want to say they’re compatible and open without having actual interop.
http://scripting.com/2023/11/19.html#a021150
@Miguel de Icaza Mastondon feed (date: 2023-11-20, from: Miguel de Icaza Mastondon feed)
If you used t9 for texting it might be time to book that colonoscopy.
https://mastodon.social/@Migueldeicaza/111440425658332940
date: 2023-11-20, from: The Signal
Authorities responded to a reported robbery at the intersection of Flying Tiger Drive and Sierra Highway at approximately 4:15 p.m. on Sunday, according to the Santa Clarita Valley Sheriff’s Station. “There was a report of a male white adult wearing all black who beat up a male, 40s, and took his items off his person,” […]
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https://signalscv.com/2023/11/robbery-suspect-arrested-on-sierra-highway-intersection/
date: 2023-11-20, from: VOA News USA
Philippines President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. is meeting with senior U.S. military leaders and members of Hawaii’s large Filipino community this weekend in a visit steeped in geopolitical and personal significance for the leader, but also drawing small protests from a younger generation of Filipinos who point to the actions of his dictator father who died in exile in Hawaii.
Marcos, who stopped in Hawaii on his way home from the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in San Francisco, connected Saturday evening with members of Hawaii’s large Filipino-American community before a planned Sunday meeting with Adm. John Aquilino, the top U.S. military commander in the Indo-Pacific region.
Marcos is then due to deliver a talk about his nation’s security challenges and the role of the Philippines-U.S. alliance.
A small number of protesters gathered outside the community meeting and at the airport where he landed.
Marcos’ trip comes at a time when the U.S. and the Philippines have been deepening their long-standing alliance in a shift after Marcos’ predecessor, Rodrigo Duterte, nurtured cozy ties with China and Russia.
The Philippines this year agreed to give the U.S. access to four more bases as America looks to deter China’s increasingly aggressive actions toward Taiwan and in the South China Sea. In April, the two countries held their largest military exercises in decades.
But the trip also likely has personal resonance for the leader of the Philippines. His father, the late dictator Ferdinand Marcos, died in exile in Honolulu after he was ousted in a 1986 army-backed “people power” uprising.
Many Filipino immigrants in Hawaii also hail from the same part of the Philippines as Marcos and revere him and his family. Filipinos are the largest single ethnic group in Hawaii, accounting for 26% of the state’s population as of the 2020 census.
Winfred Damo, who immigrated to Honolulu from Marcos’ province of Ilocos Norte in 1999, said being Ilocano means “we always support the Marcoses.”
The 58-year-old helped campaign for Marcos Jr. in Hawaii and said the president is a different person than his father and from a different era. Philippine nationals living abroad can vote in elections back home.
“We have a better government now in the Philippines,” he said. “Marcoses are good people. They did a lot in our country, and they are the best.”
Not all are Marcos fans. Arcy Imasa organized a protest outside the convention center where Marcos met with community members Saturday. Her aim was to help younger Filipinos learn his family’s history.
Marcos’ father placed the Philippines under martial rule in 1972, a year before his term was to expire. He also padlocked Congress, ordered the arrest of political rivals and left-wing activists and ruled by decree.
A Hawaii court found the senior Marcos liable for human rights violations and awarded $2 billion from his estate to compensate more than 9,000 Filipinos who filed a lawsuit against him for torture, incarceration, extrajudicial killings and disappearances.
Imasa, 40, who is part of Hawaii Filipinos for Truth, Justice and Democracy and grew up in the Ilocos province of Pangasinan, said the mindset of many Filipinos in Hawaii is fixed, especially those of older generations.
“They’re not on the right side of history. They’re not fully aware of the crimes that transpired,” she said.
Satu Limaye, the vice president of the East-West Center, noted the U.S. and the Philippines have a long, complicated relationship. He pointed to years when the U.S. ruled the archipelago as a colony, when the two nations signed a mutual defense treaty in 1951 and when the U.S. military withdrew from major bases in the country in the 1990s.
Duterte was often critical of the U.S., at times questioning the value of the alliance and demanding more military aid to preserve the pact. Under Marcos there has been a “180-degree turn” and a massive change in cooperation and coordination with the U.S., Limaye said.
China has laid sweeping territorial claims over virtually the entire South China Sea, areas also claimed by the Philippines, Vietnam, Malaysia, Brunei and Taiwan.
China has clashed with its smaller neighbors and subsequently drawn in the U.S., which is Manila’s treaty ally and China’s main rival in the Asia-Pacific region. Washington and its allies have deployed navy ships and fighter aircraft to promote freedom of navigation and overflight, to build up deterrence and reassure allies.
Earlier this month, dozens of Chinese coast guard and accompanying ships chased and encircled Philippine vessels during a four-hour faceoff.
Marcos in September said his country does not want a confrontation but will defend its waters after its coast guard dismantled a floating barrier placed by China at a disputed shoal.
Limaye said it’s important to watch how the U.S. and the Philippines manage their nations’ long and complex relationship while facing their common concern, China.
date: 2023-11-20, from: The Daily Trojan (USC Student Paper)
An unidentified perpetrator splattered the statue after the Trojan Knights ended their weeklong watch.
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https://dailytrojan.com/2023/11/19/tommy-trojan-suffers-un-egg-splained-attack/
date: 2023-11-20, from: Tilde.news
date: 2023-11-20, updated: 2023-11-20, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
ASIA IN BRIEF India has revealed Acer, Asus, Dell, HP, and Lenovo as having signed up for its manufacturing incentive scheme designed to attract manufacturers of laptops, tablets, all-in-one PCs, servers and ultra-small form factor devices.…
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date: 2023-11-20, from: John Naughton’s online diary
If there’s one thing to be said for single-glazing… … it’s nice photo opportunities when one wakes up. Quote of the Day ”Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.” H.L. Mencken Relevant to the UK at … Continue reading
https://memex.naughtons.org/monday-20-november-2023/38824/
date: 2023-11-20, from: VOA News USA
President Joe Biden visited naval installations in Virginia Sunday to kick off the Thanksgiving holiday week, introducing an early screening of the upcoming movie “Wonka” and sharing a “Friendsgiving” meal with service members and their relatives.
The president and first lady Jill Biden headed to Naval Support Activity Hampton Roads to introduce the new film which centers around the early life of Roald Dahl’s fictional eccentric chocolatier, Willy Wonka. The film will be officially released Dec. 15.
He joked to the many youngsters in the crowd: “I like kids more than adults” and added “I wish I could stay and watch Wonka with you.”
Instead, the Bidens helped serve dinner with service members from the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower and the USS Gerald R. Ford at Norfolk Naval Station, the largest installation of its kind in the world, along with their families. Before departing for dinner, Biden told families during his speech that the military are the “literal backbone of this country,” adding, “1% of you, only one” defend “99% of us.”
The event featured hundreds of attendees seated in folding chairs and around wooden, circular tables inside a concrete-floored hanger that included a display of a Blackhawk helicopter, a towering American flag and screen with the image of the White House surrounded by falling leaves and the words “Happy Thanksgiving.”
“I mean from the bottom of my heart,” the president said. “Family members, you are the heart of this operation.”
For dinner, Biden served up mash potatoes while attendees lined up for the buffet-style meal. Jill Biden spooned out sweet potato casserole to attendees. The menu also featured slow-roasted bourbon brined turkey topped with giblet gravy and cranberry-orange compote, maple-mustard glazed spiral-cut smoked ham, brioche-cornbread stuffing, candied walnuts, roasted garlic and creme fraiche, and a toasted espresso mascarpone with Chantilly cream.
Meanwhile, Biden’s 2024 Republican rival Donald Trump was scheduled for a military visit Sunday in Texas. The former president, who has a commanding early lead in the 2024 Republican primary, was in Edinburg after serving meals to National Guard soldiers, troopers and others who will be stationed at the U.S.-Mexico border over Thanksgiving.
Trump is promoting hard-line immigration proposals he argues will better secure the border. He and top Republicans have long criticized the Biden administration for failing to do more to crackdown on people entering the United States illegally.
For the Bidens, offering support to the nation’s military has a personal connection. Their son Beau served in Iraq as a member of the Delaware National Guard. He died of brain cancer in 2015 at the age of 46, when Joe Biden was vice president.
Jill Biden talked about Beau’s deployment at the Wonka event, telling the crowd: “I know there are many here who miss their mom or dad or spouse.”
“While nothing can make up for that empty chair at the table, for us, the kindness of our community and finding moments of joy helps make it a little bit easier,” she said.
As he prepared to celebrate with the troops at home, the war between Israel and Hamas and the fate of hostages, including Americans, being held by the militants in Gaza, were front and center for the president. A reporter asked Biden upon his arrival in Norfolk when more hostages might go free, to which he replied, “I’m not in a position to tell you that.”
The Bidens learned of former first lady Rosalynn Carter’s death during their visit, announcing her passing just before serving the Friendsgiving meal. Jill Biden asked diners to “include the Carter family in your prayers” during the holiday season. Carter, she said, “was well known for her efforts on mental health and caregiving and women’s rights.”
The president didn’t mention Carter. He did talk about watching Beau Biden’s children while he was deployed, but then appeared too overcome with emotion to continue and said, “I don’t want to talk about this.” The sadness was fleeting. A moment later he lightheartedly bent down and joked with a 6-year-old, saying “What are you, 17?”
“Happy, happy, Thanksgiving,” Biden said. “May God love you all.”
Friendsgiving with the military has become a tradition for the Bidens. Last year, they dished out mashed potatoes and other sides as part of the buffet-style meal in Cherry Point, North Carolina, home to more than 9,000 military personnel and roughly 8,000 military family members.
In 2021, the Bidens visited the U.S. Army’s Fort Bragg in North Carolina for an early Thanksgiving meal in a hangar for about 250 service members and their families. Troops got chocolate chip cookies bearing the presidential seal.
The president and first lady plan to spend this Thanksgiving on Nantucket, a Massachusetts island.
date: 2023-11-19, from: VOA News USA
Landmarks and notable events in the life of former U.S. first lady Rosalynn Carter:
— Aug. 18, 1927: Eleanor Rosalynn Smith is born at her family home in Plains, Georgia. She is the daughter of Wilburn Edgar Smith, a mechanic, and Allie Murray Smith, a seamstress and postal worker.
— Late August 1927: “Miss Lillian” Carter, a neighbor and nurse who delivered Rosalynn, brings her son, Jimmy, nearly 3 years old, to meet the new baby.
— 1940: Rosalynn’s father dies, leaving her to help her mother raise her younger siblings.
— 1945: She begins dating Jimmy Carter, now a Naval Academy midshipman and the brother of her close friend, Ruth Carter.
— Spring 1946: She graduates from Georgia Southwestern College.
— July 7, 1946: She marries Jimmy at Plains Methodist Church, her childhood congregation. They would have four children: John William (“Jack”), born 1947; James Earl III (“Chip”), 1950; Donnel Jeffrey, 1952; and Amy Lynn, 1967.
— 1946-1953: Rosalynn manages the Carter household while Jimmy serves in the Navy’s nuclear submarine program, attaining the rank of lieutenant commander.
— 1955: She begins helping Jimmy in the farm warehouse; she soon “knew more on paper about the business than he did,” she recalled ahead of their 75th anniversary.
— 1962: She helps Jimmy campaign for state Senate, an office he would win in a contested election that was ultimately settled in court.
— 1966: Rosalynn begins campaigning on her own for the first-time during Jimmy’s first run for Georgia governor, a race he loses. But their model of campaigning separately would be key to winning four years later and to capturing the presidency in 1976.
— 1975-76: She leads the “Peanut Brigade” of Carter family, friends and supporters from Georgia who spread out across Iowa and other key nominating states to widen the campaign’s person-to-person reach. The same model they used in Georgia revolutionizes presidential campaigning, with Rosalynn as Jimmy’s top surrogate.
— Jan. 20, 1977: Rosalynn, the newly sworn-in 39th president and their family draw special attention on Inauguration Day by walking down Pennsylvania Avenue rather than riding in an armored limousine. The Carters enroll their daughter Amy in a Washington, D.C., public school that is majority-Black. In Atlanta, when Carter was governor, Amy attended private school.
— Summer 1977: Rosalynn makes a 13-day diplomatic trip to seven Latin American nations and Caribbean islands. She also urges Jimmy to delay action on treaties yielding control of the Panama Canal, arguing it is too politically costly for a first term. He proceeds with the treaties.
— September 1978: Rosalynn is with Jimmy at Camp David for much of the intense negotiations with Israel’s Menachem Begin and Egypt’s Anwar Sadat. She listens to and advises the president daily before the three leaders reach the Camp David Accords. Begin and Sadat both warm to the first lady, and Sadat becomes especially close to the Carters.
— November 1979: Rosalynn leads a delegation to Cambodian refugee camps, bringing international media attention to the humanitarian crisis. She convinces the president to admit more refugees to the U.S.
— Summer and fall 1980: She campaigns nearly daily on Jimmy’s behalf, while he stays at the White House working to win the release of American hostages in Iran.
— 1980: She helps win congressional approval for the Mental Health Systems Act, dedicating more federal money to local centers for treating mental health; Republican Ronald Reagan would later reverse course as president.
— November 1980: Jimmy Carter is denied a second term by Reagan, who wins 51.6 percent of the popular vote to 41.7% for Carter and 6.7% for independent John Anderson.
— 1982: The Carters co-founded The Carter Center in Atlanta with a mission of resolving conflicts, protecting human rights, advocating democracy and preventing disease around the world.
— 1984: Rosalynn releases her memoir, “First Lady from Plains,” in which she admits to missing Washington. It is the first of her five books.
— September 1984: She travels to New York City, where the Carters volunteer building homes for Habitat for Humanity; this would become their annual Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter Work Project.
— 1987: She establishes the Rosalynn Carter Institute for Caregivers, located at her collegiate alma mater, to advocate for Americans who are unpaid caregivers.
— Summer 1989: Rosalynn travels with Jimmy on a weeklong Africa tour that includes an international conference on Guinea worm eradication, perhaps The Carter Center’s most ambitious public health initiative.
— 1996: She establishes the Rosalynn Carter Fellowships for Mental Health Journalism, based at The Carter Center, to help working journalists produce better reporting on the topic.
— 1999: She is awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Bill Clinton.
— July 10, 2007: She testifies before a U.S. House subcommittee, urging Congress to require that health insurance policies cover mental health treatment on par with treatment for other illness.
— November 2016: She hosts the Rosalynn Carter Symposium on Mental Health Policy for the 32nd time.
— October 2019: In Nashville, the Carters participate in person for the last time in their Habitat for Humanity work project; the program would continue.
— April 30, 2021: The Carters receive President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden at their home in Plains. The couples were friends since the 1976 campaign, when Biden, then a young lawmaker from Delaware, became the first U.S. senator to endorse Carter for president.
— July 7, 2021: The Carters celebrate their 75th wedding anniversary. Offering advice for a successful marriage, she says, “each (person) should have some space. That’s really important.”
— Feb. 18, 2023: The Carter family announces that Jimmy is entering home hospice care. They would later say they thought he would live only days but rebounded to celebrate their 77th wedding anniversary and his 99th birthday later in the year.
— May 30, 2023: The family announces that Rosalynn has dementia.
— Sept. 23, 2023: The Carters make a surprise appearance in the Plains Peanut Festival parade, riding in a Secret Service vehicle with the windows down for what would be her last public appearance.
— Nov. 17, 2023: The Carter family announces that she has entered home hospice care.
— Nov. 19, 2023. Rosalynn Carter dies at home in Plains, Georgia, in the same house where the Carters lived when Jimmy was elected to the state Senate in 1962.
https://www.voanews.com/a/key-moments-from-former-first-lady-rosalynn-carter-96-years/7361716.html
date: 2023-11-19, from: Manu - I write blog
Every time I stumble on a discussion about blocking ads on the web I ask myself if there even is a compelling argument against it. I block ads on the web. Safari is set to prevent cross-site tracking and to hide my IP, I have 1Blocker running on both my Mac and my iPhone and I also have NextDNS enabled. If I can prevent ads and tracking from showing up on my device, I’m gonna do it. Why? Because ads provide literally no value to my life.
But that’s the easy part. Things become a lot more complex when you start dealing with all the other factors that are attached to the ads world. For example, you can find this kind of argument:
People who don’t pay and block ads are scamming YouTube, or scamming advertisers.
Or even this kind of argument:
And more importantly, they are scamming the content creators. They are not usually a massive company, but working alone, with YouTube revenue as their main income.
Am I scamming YouTube because I block their awful ads? Would I be scamming YouTube if I muted the video and looked at something else while ads were playing? What’s the scam here? Who is getting scammed?
One might even argue that I’m doing YouTube a favor and saving them bandwidth by not allowing pointless ads to be served to me. Also, scamming the content creators? If I pay for YouTube Premium I’d still be served in video ads by the creators themselves. Should I be complaining? Am I getting scammed then? I’m paying for no ads after all.
No matter the case, ads on the web will always be tricky and live in this bizarre gray area. And until someone comes up with a really compelling argument for allowing ads I’ll keep running ad-blockers because I just can’t stand ads.
https://manuelmoreale.com/@/page/VAZrDgzdw5oGnFvW
date: 2023-11-19, updated: 2023-11-20, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Updated The shocking and sudden removal of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman for not being “consistently candid in his communications” has spawned a set of theories as weird and colorful as ChatGPT at its worst.…
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date: 2023-11-19, updated: 2023-11-19, from: The LAist
The wife of former President Jimmy Carter was 96 years old. She spent decades as a prominent advocate for mental health and professionalized the role of first lady.
date: 2023-11-19, from: VOA News USA
Former first lady Rosalynn Carter, champion of mental health, died at the age of 96 on Sunday at her home in Plains, Georgia, the Carter Center said in a statement.
Former President Jimmy Carter, 99, and Rosalynn Carter were married for 77 years.
Rosalynn Carter is survived by her children, Jack, Chip, Jeff and Amy; 11 grandchildren and 14 great-grandchildren.
“Rosalynn was my equal partner in everything I ever accomplished,” former President Jimmy Carter said in the statement released by the Carter Center. “She gave me wise guidance and encouragement when I needed it. As long as Rosalynn was in the world, I always knew somebody loved and supported me.”
The former first lady acknowledged in an interview with VOA in 2014 that the secret to her long marriage to Jimmy Carter was “space” and “respect.”
“We grew to respect each other,” she told VOA. “I respected what he could do, and he would respect what I could do, and from then on it’s been a really wonderful partnership.”
Eleanor Rosalynn Smith Carter was born in Plains, Georgia, on August 18, 1927, and lived in the small peanut farming town during the Great Depression.
“I had a really wonderful childhood until I was 13 and my daddy died, and that was sad. We were poor but everybody else was … we didn’t even know we were poor because we had food in the garden and a cow in the backyard for milk, and Mother made all my clothes,” Carter recalled in her interview with VOA.
She grew up familiar with the son of a local peanut farmer, James Earl Carter Jr. … better known as Jimmy.
“When he was 16, for instance, a senior in high school … I was 13 — his little sister’s friend. I never ever dreamed I’d go with him,” Rosalynn Carter explained.
But on a visit back to Plains in 1946 while attending the Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland, Jimmy Carter proposed.
“When I asked Rosalynn to marry me the first time, she said, ‘No,’” Jimmy Carter remembered during a 2019 Habitat for Humanity news conference in Nashville, Tennessee. “And that was in February, and it wasn’t until May that she changed her mind and decided to get married,” which they did, in their hometown of Plains, on July 7, 1946.
Rosalynn Carter followed her husband during his naval career and gave birth to three sons — John “Jack” Carter, James Earl Carter III or “Chip,” and Jeff. Their daughter Amy was born later in 1967.
When the family returned to Plains in 1953 to take over the Carter peanut farming business, Rosalynn Carter managed the operations even after her husband decided to enter politics in 1962. “He got up one morning and instead of putting on his khakis to go to work at the farming supply business, he put on his Sunday pants, and I said where are you going, and he said he was going to run for the state Senate,” she told VOA.
After contesting the results of that election, Carter won, launching his political career that eventually carried them into Georgia’s governor’s mansion in 1970, and the White House in 1977. While campaigning to help get her husband elected, Rosalynn Carter heard a similar concern from voters.
“Every single day I campaigned I had somebody ask me what I would do for a mentally ill loved one,” she recalled. As first lady of the United States, Carter used her platform to advocate for mental health, forming a presidential commission to address the issue among other actions that influenced broader public awareness. She traveled the world the rest of her life working to remove the stigma associated with those suffering from mental illness. She believed that “everybody in our country can realize that it’s just an illness like any other illness.”
During their time in the White House, President Carter encouraged his wife’s prominent role in his administration, and sought her counsel throughout his tenure, including during the Camp David Accords, which ended a state of war between Israel and Egypt.
Rosalynn Carter had fond reflections about the effort. “It was one of the most thrilling days of my life. … I was standing with Mrs. [Aliza] Begin, and Prime Minister [Menachem] Begin got to her before Jimmy got to me, and he came up and said, ‘Momma, we’re going to go down in history for this.’”
The joy of the Camp David Peace Accords was tempered by the hostage crisis in Iran, which ultimately contributed to Carter’s presidential election defeat to Republican Ronald Reagan in 1980.
The couple returned to Plains, Georgia, in 1981 to plan their post-presidential life, in which Jimmy Carter explained to her one night — “I have an idea about what we can do with the rest of our lives,” she explained to VOA. “He said we can have a place kind of like Camp David, where we can maybe negotiate peace agreements. That was the germ of the idea for the Carter Center.”
Founded in 1982, the Carter Center today is one of the leading global nonprofit organizations, working to “wage peace, fight disease, and build hope” for people around the world. Under Rosalynn and Jimmy Carter’s leadership, the Carter Center has monitored more than 100 elections, treated millions of people suffering neglected tropical diseases, and is on the verge of total eradication of Guinea worm.
The Carter Center also gave Rosalynn Carter the means to continue her work in mental health advocacy globally. “That’s what I wish for, people to go for help, get help, and lead good lives,” she said.
Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter are the longest married presidential couple in U.S. history.
As her husband entered hospice care toward the end of his life, the Carter family announced the former first lady was suffering from dementia. She spent her final years alongside Jimmy Carter in Plains, where they were born and grew up nearly a century before.
The Carter Center announced Friday that the former first lady had also entered hospice care at their home in Plains.
The schedule of memorial events and funeral ceremonies will be announced at a later date, the Carter Center statement said.
https://www.voanews.com/a/rosalynn-carter-former-us-first-lady-dies-at-96/7361661.html
date: 2023-11-19, from: Fresno Bee Stories
The 61-year-old had injuries to his pelvis, back and chest, officials say.
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/nation-world/national/article282069913.html
date: 2023-11-19, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News
Imagine a Silicon Valley board meeting with a young entrepreneur wearing shorts and a baseball cap, drinking beer, while the investors are wearing ski vests and their attention is focused on their laptop screens.
http://scripting.com/2023/11/19/205735.html?title=siliconValleyBoardMeeting
date: 2023-11-19, from: Fresno Bee Stories
The 3-year-old found the gun while he was in his mom’s bedroom and accidentally shot his brother, police say.
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/nation-world/national/article282069333.html
date: 2023-11-19, from: VOA News USA
Former U.S. first lady Rosalynn Carter has died at the age of 96. VOA’s Kane Farabaugh, who extensively covered Rosalynn Carter’s life and post-White House career promoting global health and democracy with her husband, former President Jimmy Carter, has more.
date: 2023-11-19, from: Fresno Bee Stories
The city of Tigard had warned residents to beware of a possible mountain lion.
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/nation-world/national/article282069353.html
date: 2023-11-19, from: Fresno Bee Stories
The problem is with the same active ingredient that makes Tylenol work.
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/recalls/article282067953.html
date: 2023-11-19, from: The Signal
Castaic Coyotes boys’ basketball blasted out of the gates to open the 2023-24 season. Castaic, aka “The Lake Boyz,” won the Antelope Valley tournament and is now 3-0 on the season after the early championship. The Coyotes defeated Highland, Rosamond and even league-rival Canyon en route to the tournament championship. Castaic coach Dominique Butler says […]
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https://signalscv.com/2023/11/castaic-wins-av-hoops-tournament/
date: 2023-11-19, from: Dan Rather’s Steady
A Reason To Smile
https://steady.substack.com/p/true-colors
date: 2023-11-19, from: The Signal
The Finally Family Homes organization hosted an open house in celebration of the completion of its first tiny home built by foster youth and volunteers on Saturday morning at the Restoration Church in Valencia. Behind the Restoration Church was a tall, grey, narrow structure with large windows and outside furniture. Inside the structure, there was […]
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https://signalscv.com/2023/11/a-home-no-matter-how-small/
date: 2023-11-19, from: The Signal
You can finally put those umbrellas away but keep a coat nearby, as winds will be as strong as 60 mph throughout early this coming week, according to National Weather Service officials. The cause of the winds is “a pressure difference, much higher pressure over Nevada than there is on the southwest of California coast,” […]
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https://signalscv.com/2023/11/gusts-of-wind-expected-until-tuesday/
date: 2023-11-19, from: Fresno Bee Stories
The gate fell over as the girl helped close it, sheriff’s officials say.
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/nation-world/national/article282066613.html
date: 2023-11-19, from: Fresno Bee Stories
The 71-year-old also “used the victim’s walker in the attack,” police say.
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/nation-world/national/article282065633.html
date: 2023-11-19, from: Fresno Bee Stories
Officials say she suffered from multiple gunshot wounds.
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/nation-world/national/article282064443.html
date: 2023-11-19, from: The Signal
Someone tried to break into a building at Central Park on Saturday night, according to the Santa Clarita Valley Sheriff’s Station. “They tried to break into a building at Central Park,” said Deputy Nicholas Hoslet. “A security guard observed a male adult breaking the lock on a door. The suspect fled on foot.” The incident […]
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https://signalscv.com/2023/11/break-in-attempt-reported-at-central-park/
date: 2023-11-19, from: Alex Schroeder’s Blog
@enfors recently wondered about “important aspects of sandboxes that one can iterate over and add to.”
I’m reminded of the term “Gygaxian Building Blocks”. I think I first heard this phrase from @settembrini in episode 1 of Zock Bock Radio, a mostly German, sometimes English podcast about role-playing games. “Gygaxian Building Blocks” are the things one can add individually to the rules and therefore everybody can participate in the game as a creator by writing spells, items, monsters, classes, and so on. These things stand on their own and aren’t usually influenced by other such blocks. Adding them is easy. Conversely, the core game without the lists of spells, items, monsters and classes can be relatively short. It’s a beautiful way of organizing the game.
For a sandbox campaign, the things that have that same quality and which I’d call my “sandbox campaign building blocks” would be:
Anyway, I think those are the things I am concerned about when I start a new campaign. If you have a blog post with a similar topic, let me know and I’ll add a link!
https://alexschroeder.ch/view/2023-11-19-building-blocks
date: 2023-11-19, from: Liliputing
The GOLE 2 Pro is a pocket-sized device with a touchscreen display, 5.5 inch touchscreen display. But it’s not a smartphone. Instead, it’s a PC with full-sized ports, an x86 processor, and support for desktop operating systems including Windows 11 or Ubuntu. Powered by a 10-watt Intel Celeron 5105 quad-core processor and featuring 16GB of RAM and […]
The post HIGOLE GOLE 2 Pro is a cheap mini PC with a 5.5 inch touchscreen display, 16GB of RAM and Intel Jasper Lake appeared first on Liliputing.
date: 2023-11-19, from: Fresno Bee Stories
Fresno State coach Jeff Tedford: “I apologize to the fans for that performance. I’ve never seen us play that poorly.”
date: 2023-11-19, from: Gary Marcus blog
The irony of OpenAI’s unusual structure
https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/no-one-person-should-be-trusted-here
date: 2023-11-19, updated: 2023-11-19, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
A former IBM enterprise salesperson has sued the mainframe titan claiming its recent healthcare benefit changes represents age discrimination.…
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2023/11/19/ibm_sales_veteran_healthcare_lawsuit/
date: 2023-11-19, from: Liliputing
The AYA Neo Slide is a handheld gaming PC with a 6 inch, 1080p display, an AMD Ryzen 7 7840U processor and at least 16GB of RAM and 512GB of storage. It’s also one of only a few devices in this category to feature a physical keyboard. AYA says the Neo Slide should begin shipping in […]
The post AYA Neo Slide hits Indiegogo for $700 and up (Ryzen 7840U handheld gaming PC with a keyboard and slide-up display) appeared first on Liliputing.
@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2023-11-19, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
Why worry about AI taking over from humans, we’ve led our species off a cliff, maybe it’s time to try another approach.
http://scripting.com/2023/11/19.html#a150320
@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2023-11-19, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
Found and fixed an error in the implementation of FeedLand’s new reading lists feature.
http://scripting.com/2023/11/19.html#a145742
date: 2023-11-19, updated: 2023-11-19, from: The LAist
A humanitarian assessment team, led by the WHO, gained the first outside access to the hospital Saturday. Al-Shifa has just 25 health workers for the 291 remaining patients.
https://laist.com/news/a-u-n-team-enters-gazas-al-shifa-hospital-and-finds-a-death-zone
date: 2023-11-19, from: Robert Reich on Substack
And last week’s winner!
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/sunday-caption-contest-muck
date: 2023-11-19, from: Heatmap News
The architecture firm HKS is known for its innovative, climate-informed approach to large-scale architectural projects, from an award-winning stadium in California to a yacht club in Saudi Arabia to a bioscience lab in Singapore. The practice is also committed to research, landing on Fast Company’s 200 most innovative companies for designing air filtration systems in a luxury condo building in Dallas.
The group’s latest project, AutoCamp Joshua Tree, is just outside its namesake national park in southern California, about one hour from Palm Springs and two hours from Los Angeles. The glamping hotspot embodies HKS’s philosophy by keeping guests cool — literally and figuratively — using design strategies to manage the desert heat.
I spoke to Michael Strohmer, who leads the firm’s hotel practice, about how they tried to maximize shade and minimize environmental impact. Our conversation has been edited for length and clarity.
What is the general architectural approach for HKS?
HKS’s approach to hospitality is to start by understanding the place — where the site is located. Is it urban? A resort? The point is for the design to be integrated into the environment. Not only is it important for the nearby community, it’s important for the guests visiting. Travelers are looking for something authentic that tells the story of the place. Our job is to convey that through the design. Integration with the natural environment is key to what we do.
I’m curious how you applied this approach to AutoCamp in Joshua Tree?
The AutoCamp at Joshua Tree was unique for us. We have designed several
five star resorts — Four Seasons, Ritz Carlton, Rosewood to name a few —
but Joshua Tree was our first autocamp. (We have since done another in
Zion State Park.) They were going for approachable luxury versus ultra
luxury — they wanted to provide a higher-end experience and amenities at
a lower price point, still with good service. The point was to build a
place for guests to experience a natural environment with a high level
of quality. It’s definitely a trend we’re seeing quite a bit, this
desire to reconnect with nature.
Matt
Kisiday/courtesy of HKS
Your Habitable score shows extremely high for drought, heat, fire, and even flooding! Were you aware of that when you built here?
We were definitely aware of the issues of building in a desert environment. The high desert freezes in wintertime, and while we are aware of the climate and were considering that from our design approach, I didn’t know about the flood risk. I guess flash floods can be an issue for Palm Springs. Still, the AutoCamp location is at a higher elevation. It’s not far way but a bit of a different climate.
What decisions did you make to build AutoCamp for this desert environment?
When it came to building orientation, that was a big factor we looked at. The main clubhouse building was the one fixed piece of architecture at AutoCamp — the guest rooms are a collection of Airstream trailers that can be moved. We oriented the clubhouse to minimize the solar impact and allow for natural light to come in, for the breeze winds to come through and cool off the interior during the summer months.
The number one thing during summer months in the desert is to provide shade to escape to, so we built it so the sun doesn’t hit the glass directly so that it doesn’t absorb into the interior space. The glass is protected with horizontal elements — trellis slats or louvers — to let light come through but not the [direct] sun.
We also worked with a landscape designer that is familiar with the desert environment, so we planted a lot of native species also to save on water. The biggest goal is to minimize the site impact. Bringing in prefab trailers really helped. Non-conventional construction meant we didn’t have to wipe out land to rebuild. We were trying to have a light touch.
How did you adapt the design for different desert seasons?
By providing large operable expanses of glass that allow the clubhouse to open up during more temperate months. We built in the ability to bring in natural air and breezes [instead of] always having to use the AC.
Matt
Kisiday/courtesy of HKS
What are your three top takeaways for people living in a desert environment?
https://heatmap.news/lifestyle/autocamp-joshua-tree-hks-architecture-glamping
date: 2023-11-19, from: Guam Daily Post
Los Angeles County in California is the most populous in the United States, so it should come as no surprise that the county also contains one of the largest homeless populations in the nation. This is no more evident than…
date: 2023-11-19, from: Guam Daily Post
One of three people implicated in the burglary of a day care center was charged Saturday in the Superior Court of Guam.
date: 2023-11-19, from: Guam Daily Post
If you have WanaBana apple cinnamon fruit purée pouches in your pantry, discard them immediately, as a voluntary recall has been issued in the United States.
date: 2023-11-19, from: Guam Daily Post
A man wanted by police for questioning related to a sexual assault case turned himself in on Saturday.
date: 2023-11-19, from: Guam Daily Post
Bill 165-37, the measure that would require all residential owners to subscribe to trash collection services, received general support from stakeholders Thursday afternoon, although changes were recommended.
date: 2023-11-19, from: Guam Daily Post
The Guam Bar Association was brought to the table in a forum put together by the American Bar Association to discuss the separate and unequal treatment of U.S. territories.
date: 2023-11-19, from: Guam Daily Post
A garbage truck driver was arrested after an inspection of the truck at the Port Authority of Guam and charged with possession of methamphetamine.
@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2023-11-19, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
I
admire Jeff
Jarvis for his
spunk, and on
matters of journalism it’s amazing how often I fully and
enthusiastically agree with his point of view. But I have to just as
strongly
disagree
with him about OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT. I don’t go for
hype in tech, I’m very much a
Show
Me kind of guy. Every time I think of a new use for ChatGPT I’m
blown away by what a
breakthrough
it is. Not just impressive tech, which it certainly is, but how
incredibly useful it is. And how it understands my questions. And its
infinite patience and good manners. I’m not trying to change Jeff’s
mind, but just to say I think my friend got this one wrong.
http://scripting.com/2023/11/19.html#a134706
@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2023-11-19, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
One of the fundamental laws of programming. A problem that seems insurmountable often succumbs to a good night’s sleep.
http://scripting.com/2023/11/19.html#a134611
date: 2023-11-19, from: Fresno Bee Stories
The businesses make “luxury cupcakes,” michelada mixes and spicy candy.
https://www.fresnobee.com/living/food-drink/bethany-clough/article281607488.html
date: 2023-11-19, from: Alex Schroeder’s Blog
Ich schreibe wieder mal an Horte. Heute mit magischen Waffen.
Eigentlich wollte ich ja nur 20. Vielleicht kann ich tricksen und “Magierwaffen” und “Kriegerwaffen” separat aufführen? Das wäre beim Ausrüsten von Gegnern wenigstens eine nützliche Unterscheidung.
https://alexschroeder.ch/view/2023-11-18-magische-waffen
date: 2023-11-19, from: The Signal
By David Hegg In society, respect plays an essential role. At its foundation, respect means to act in alignment with certain societal rules, even when to do so is to go against how we feel. For example, respect for the law means obeying it even when we don’t want to. Respect for others means valuing […]
The post David Hegg | Respecting the Ethic of Respect appeared first on Santa Clarita Valley Signal.
https://signalscv.com/2023/11/david-hegg-respecting-the-ethic-of-respect/
date: 2023-11-19, from: The Signal
I believe that some very simple practices would go a very long way at providing not only a better society for we adults, but also provide a teaching/learning experience for young people. How about we concentrate on what we can agree on rather than continually obsessing on the issues where we disagree? Case in point […]
The post Rick Barker | Give it a Try appeared first on Santa Clarita Valley Signal.
https://signalscv.com/2023/11/rick-barker-give-it-a-try/
date: 2023-11-19, from: Fresno Bee Stories
Redwood High played in the CIF girls volleyball state championship.
https://www.fresnobee.com/sports/high-school/article282056293.html
date: 2023-11-19, from: Fresno Bee Stories
The black-and-orange butterflies are spending the winter soaking up some California sunshine.
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/california/article282001498.html
date: 2023-11-19, from: Fresno Bee Stories
Men should take their unstable testosterone levels far from the halls of power. Go outside and chop down a tree, as God intended, writes Robin Epley.
https://www.fresnobee.com/opinion/article281991363.html
date: 2023-11-19, from: The Signal
Because groupthink is so strong, most Californians would rather pay $6 per gallon to pass by homeless people and over potholes than vote Republican. On every even year, they pass up yet another opportunity to return the state to its successful past. By voting for bigger government and one-party rule, most Californians are led by […]
The post Rob Kerchner | Led by the Mob appeared first on Santa Clarita Valley Signal.
https://signalscv.com/2023/11/rob-kerchner-led-by-the-mob/
date: 2023-11-19, from: Fresno Bee Stories
TV/radio listings, odds and injury reports with live updates as the Kings prepare to play the Dallas Mavericks at American Airlines Center.
https://www.fresnobee.com/sports/article282039248.html
date: 2023-11-19, updated: 2023-11-19, from: Darch (sørenpeter) neotxt blog
@lyse<em>@lyse.isobeef.org I’m also on the e-mail wagon here. On http://darch.dk/timeline/conv/oe3howa I have added a “Comment via email” botten if uses are not logged in. This feature could be extend to other places in the various UIs. Like we already got the “Does not follow your” / “Follow you” on the profile page in yarnd, so this detection could be used to sugget the user to email that person, when mentioning them.
date: 2023-11-19, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>Top county executives could be in line for significant pay raises come Jan. 1.</p>
date: 2023-11-19, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>Honua Ola Bioenergy is seeking more than $1 billion in damages from Hawaiian Electric Industries Inc., claiming in federal court that the electric utility has used monopolistic measures to keep Honua Ola’s completed but idle biomass power plant from going online.</p>
https://www.hawaiitribune-herald.com/2023/11/19/hawaii-news/honua-ola-sues-hawaiian-electric-for-1b/
date: 2023-11-19, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>After 73 years, the Hilo Y’s Men and Women’s Club of Hilo has passed its traditional Christmas tree sale onto the Island of Hawaii YMCA.</p>
date: 2023-11-19, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>The Puna Geothermal Venture power plant is nearly back to full capacity.</p>
https://www.hawaiitribune-herald.com/2023/11/19/hawaii-news/pgv-nears-maximum-output/
date: 2023-11-19, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>Coaching opportunity</p>
https://www.hawaiitribune-herald.com/2023/11/19/sports/sports-in-brief-for-nov-19/
date: 2023-11-19, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>LARAMIE, Wyo. (AP) — Andrew Peasley threw three long first-half touchdown passes and Wyoming rolled to a 35-0 halftime lead and never looked back to post a 42-9 win over Hawaii in the Cowboys final home game on Saturday.</p>
date: 2023-11-19, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>WAIMEA — It’s a new season with a new mentality for Hawaii Prep girls basketball.</p>
https://www.hawaiitribune-herald.com/2023/11/19/sports/hpa-enters-new-era-in-2023-24/
date: 2023-11-19, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>HONOKA‘A — Honoka‘a High’s boys varsity basketball team finalized its roster on Friday, and is now gearing up for the upcoming season.</p>
https://www.hawaiitribune-herald.com/2023/11/19/sports/dragons-get-primed-to-play/
date: 2023-11-19, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>Hilo High hosted a preseason girls basketball tournament, during which four varsity teams played a round robin from Thursday to Saturday.</p>
date: 2023-11-19, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>MILWAUKEE — Giannis Antetokounmpo scored 40 points and Damian Lillard added 27 for the Milwaukee Bucks, who extended their winning streak to four games with a 132-125 victory over the Dallas Mavericks on Saturday night.</p>
date: 2023-11-19, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>SAN FRANCISCO — When Golden State’s Andrew Wiggins hit a go-ahead 3-pointer with fewer than two seconds remaining in regulation, it seemed to be the difference that the Warriors had been searching for all game long.</p>
date: 2023-11-19, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>COLLEGE PARK, Md. (AP) — Blake Corum scored twice in the first half, Mike Sainristil intercepted two passes, and No. 2 Michigan — playing again without suspended coach Jim Harbaugh — became the first college football program to win 1,000 games, beating Maryland 31-24 on Saturday.</p>
date: 2023-11-19, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>FORT DODGE, Iowa — Former President Donald Trump celebrated a win in a closely watched election case during a return visit to Iowa Saturday, where he blasted his political foes and encouraged his supporters to not move past their grievances with President Joe Biden.</p>
date: 2023-11-19, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza Strip — Hundreds of patients, medical staff and people displaced by Israel’s war against Hamas left Gaza’s largest hospital Saturday, with one evacuee describing a panicked and chaotic scene as Israeli forces searched and face-scanned men among those leaving and took some away.</p>
date: 2023-11-19, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>SpaceX launched its mega rocket Starship but lost both the booster and the spacecraft in a pair of explosions minutes into Saturday’s test flight.</p>
date: 2023-11-19, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>Petronilla “Nina” Agliam, 91, of Hilo died Nov. 11 at home. Born in Paia, Maui, she was a dancer, singer and cook for the Peace Corps. Visitation 8:30-9:15 a.m. Tuesday (Nov. 21) at St. Joseph Catholic Church. Funeral Mass at 9:30 a.m. Private burial to follow. Casual attire. Survived by companion, Albert Kanoa; sons, Allen Agliam, Thomas Agliam and Karlito Agliam; daughter, Romaine “Maine” Castro; 12 grandchildren and 14 great-grandchildren. Arrangements by Dodo Mortuary.</p>
https://www.hawaiitribune-herald.com/2023/11/19/obituaries/obituaries-for-november-19-8/
date: 2023-11-19, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>There are any number of famous phrases about the relationship of knowledge and power:</p>
date: 2023-11-19, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>As President Joe Biden looks to boost his reelection campaign and lousy poll numbers, there’s one policy position that is popular with voters, could help unite Democrats and would leave Republicans scrambling to respond. It’s time he come out in support of legalizing recreational use of marijuana.</p>
date: 2023-11-19, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>Country singers, romance novelists, video game artists and voice actors are appealing to the U.S. government for immediate relief from the threat that artificial intelligence poses to their livelihoods. Technology companies, by contrast, are largely happy with the status quo that has enabled them to gobble up published works to make their AI systems better at mimicking what humans do. The nation’s top copyright official hasn’t yet taken sides. She told The Associated Press she’s listening to everyone as her office weighs whether copyright reforms are needed for a new era of generative AI. Country singers, romance novelists, video game artists and voice actors are appealing to the U.S. government for relief from the threat that artificial intelligence poses to their livelihoods.</p>
date: 2023-11-19, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>More should be
done to help vets</p>
https://www.hawaiitribune-herald.com/2023/11/19/opinion/your-views-for-november-19-5/
date: 2023-11-19, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>During volcanic crises, the USGS Hawaiian Volcano Observatory (HVO) plays a pivotal role, sharing information on activity and associated hazards with close partners on the Island of Hawaii, including the Mayor’s Office, the Hawaii County Civil Defense Agency, Hawaii Volcanoes National Park, and the Hawaii Emergency Management Agency. However, during non-crisis periods, HVO maintains a range of lesser-known partnerships with state and county agencies.</p>
date: 2023-11-19, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>From the passenger seat in a small helicopter lifting off from Sea World’s heliport, sunlight reflects off the startlingly vivid Pacific. From my bird’s-eye view next to the pilot and as the small craft hovers against a cerulean sky, I can see all that glitters actually is gold on Australia’s Gold Coast, from the exquisitely clear water with its surface shimmering like scads of diamonds, to splashes of sun mirroring off windows of the towering hotels, and to the greenery of the faraway mountains and bush.</p>
date: 2023-11-19, from: VOA News USA
A federal judge in Nevada has dealt another legal setback to Native American tribes trying to halt construction of one of the biggest lithium mines in the world.
U.S. District Judge Miranda Du granted the government’s motion to dismiss their claims the mine is being built illegally near the sacred site of an 1865 massacre along the Nevada-Oregon line.
But she said in last week’s order the three tribes suing the Bureau of Land Management deserve another chance to amend their complaint to try to prove the agency failed to adequately consult with them as required by the National Historic Preservation Act.
“Given that the court has now twice agreed with federal defendants (and) plaintiffs did not vary their argument … the court is skeptical that plaintiffs could successfully amend it. But skeptical does not mean futile,” Du wrote Nov. 9.
She also noted part of their case is still pending on appeal at the 9th U.S Circuit Court of Appeals, which indicated last month it likely will hear oral arguments in February as construction continues at Lithium Nevada’s mine at Thacker Pass about 370 kilometers northeast of Reno.
Du said in an earlier ruling the tribes had failed to prove the project site is where more than two dozen of their ancestors were killed by the U.S. Cavalry Sept. 12, 1865.
Her new ruling is the latest in a series that have turned back legal challenges to the mine on a variety of fronts, including environmentalists’ claims it would violate the 1872 Mining Law and destroy key habitat for sage grouse, cutthroat trout and pronghorn antelope.
All have argued the bureau violated numerous laws in a rush to approve the mine to help meet sky-rocketing demand for lithium used in the manufacture of batteries for electric vehicles.
Lithium Nevada officials said the $2.3 billion project remains on schedule to begin production in late 2026. They say it’s essential to carrying out President Joe Biden’s clean energy agenda aimed at combating climate change by reducing dependence on fossil fuels.
“We’ve dedicated more than a decade to community engagement and hard work in order to get this project right, and the courts have again validated the efforts by Lithium Americas and the administrative agencies,” company spokesperson Tim Crowley said in an email to The Associated Press.
Du agreed with the government’s argument that the consultation is ongoing and therefore not ripe for legal challenge.
The tribes argued it had to be completed before construction began.
“If agencies are left to define when consultation is ongoing and when consultation is finished … then agencies will hold consultation open forever — even as construction destroys the very objects of consultation — so that agencies can never be sued,” the tribal lawyers wrote in recent briefs filed with the 9th Circuit.
Will Falk, representing the Reno-Sparks Indian Colony and Summit Lake Paiute Tribe, said they’re still considering whether to amend the complaint by the Dec. 9 deadline Du set, or focus on the appeal.
“Despite this project being billed as `green,’ it perpetrates the same harm to Native peoples that mines always have,” Falk told AP. “While climate change is a very real, existential threat, if government agencies are allowed to rush through permitting processes to fast-track destructing mining projects like the one at Thacker Pass, more of the natural world and more Native American culture will be destroyed.”
The Paiutes call Thacker Pass “Pee hee mu’huh,” which means “rotten moon.” They describe in oral histories how Paiute hunters returned home in 1865 to find the “elders, women, and children” slain and “unburied and rotting.”
The Oregon-based Burns Paiute Tribe joined the Nevada tribes in the appeal. They say BLM’s consultation efforts with the tribes “were rife with withheld information, misrepresentations, and downright lies.”
https://www.voanews.com/a/judge-rules-against-tribes-in-fight-over-nevada-lithium-mine-/7358861.html
date: 2023-11-19, from: SCV New (TV Station)
2015 – Freak landslide begins to destroy section of Vasquez Canyon Road; earth moves for several weeks. [video
https://scvnews.com/today-in-scv-history-nov-19/
date: 2023-11-19, from: VOA News USA
Oregon’s first-in-the-nation law that decriminalized the possession of small amounts of heroin, cocaine and other illicit drugs in favor of an emphasis on addiction treatment is facing strong headwinds in the progressive state after an explosion of public drug use fueled by the proliferation of fentanyl and a surge in deaths from opioids, including those of children.
“The inability for people to live their day-to-day life without encountering open-air drug use is so pressing on urban folks’ minds,” said John Horvick, vice president of polling firm DHM Research. “That has very much changed people’s perspective about what they think Measure 110 is.”
When the law was approved by 58% of Oregon voters three years ago, supporters championed Measure 110 as a revolutionary approach that would transform addiction by minimizing penalties for drug use and investing instead in recovery.
But even top Democratic lawmakers who backed the law, which will likely dominate the upcoming legislative session, say they’re now open to revisiting it after the biggest increase in synthetic opioid deaths among states that have reported their numbers.
The cycle of addiction and homelessness spurred by fentanyl is most visible in Portland, where it’s not unusual to see people using it in broad daylight on busy city streets.
“Everything’s on the table,” said Democratic state Sen. Kate Lieber, co-chair of a new joint legislative committee created to tackle addiction. “We have got to do something to make sure that we have safer streets and that we’re saving lives.”
Measure 110 directed the state’s cannabis tax revenue toward drug addiction treatment services while decriminalizing the possession of so-called “personal use” amounts of illicit drugs. Possession of under a gram of heroin, for example, is only subject to a ticket and a maximum fine of $100.
Those caught with small amounts of drugs can have the citation dismissed by calling a 24-hour hotline to complete an addiction screening within 45 days, but those who don’t do a screening are not penalized for failing to pay the fine. In the first year after the law took effect in February 2021, only 1% of people who received citations for possession sought help via the hotline, state auditors found.
Critics of the law say this doesn’t create an incentive to seek treatment.
Republican lawmakers have urged Democratic Gov. Tina Kotek to call a special session to address the issue before the Legislature reconvenes in February. They have proposed harsher sanctions for possession and other drug-related offenses, such as mandatory treatment and easing restrictions on placing people under the influence on holds in facilities such as hospitals if they pose a danger to themselves or others.
“Treatment should be a requirement, not a suggestion,” a group of Republican state representatives said in a letter to Kotek.
Law enforcement officials who have testified before the new legislative committee on addiction have proposed reestablishing drug possession as a class A misdemeanor, which is punishable by up to a year in jail or a $6,250 fine.
“We don’t believe a return to incarceration is the answer, but restoring a (class A) misdemeanor for possession with diversion opportunities is critically important,” Jason Edmiston, chief of police in the small, rural city of Hermiston in northeast Oregon, told the committee.
However, data shows decades of criminalizing possession hasn’t deterred people from using drugs. In 2022, nearly 25 million Americans, roughly 8% of the population, reported using illicit drugs other than marijuana in the previous year, according to the annual National Survey on Drug Use and Health.
Some lawmakers have suggested focusing on criminalizing public drug use rather than possession. Alex Kreit, assistant professor of law at Northern Kentucky University and director of its Center on Addiction Law and Policy, said such an approach could help curb visible drug use on city streets but wouldn’t address what’s largely seen as the root cause: homelessness.
“There are states that don’t have decriminalization that have these same difficult problems with public health and public order and just quality-of-life issues related to large-scale homeless populations in downtown areas,” he said, mentioning California as an example.
Backers of Oregon’s approach say decriminalization isn’t necessarily to blame, as many other states with stricter drug laws have also reported increases in fentanyl deaths.
But estimates from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention show, among the states reporting data, Oregon had the highest increase in synthetic opioid overdose fatalities when comparing 2019 and the 12-month period ending June 30, a 13-fold surge from 84 deaths to more than 1,100.
Among the next highest was neighboring Washington state, which saw its estimated synthetic opioid overdose deaths increase seven-fold when comparing those same time periods, CDC data shows.
Nationally, overdose deaths involving synthetic opioids such as fentanyl roughly doubled over that time span. Roughly two-thirds of all deadly overdoses in the U.S. in the 12 months ending June 30 involved synthetic opioids, federal data shows.
Supporters of Oregon’s law say it was confronted by a perfect storm of broader forces, including the COVID-19 pandemic, a mental health workforce shortage and the fentanyl crisis, which didn’t reach fever pitch until after the law took effect in early 2021.
A group of Oregon lawmakers recently traveled to Portugal, which decriminalized the personal possession of drugs in 2001, to learn more about its policy. State Rep. Lily Morgan, the only Republican legislator on the trip, said Portugal’s approach was interesting but couldn’t necessarily be applied to Oregon.
“The biggest glaring difference is they’re still not dealing with fentanyl and meth,” she said, noting the country also has universal health care.
Despite public perception, the law has made some progress by directing $265 million dollars of cannabis tax revenue toward standing up the state’s new addiction treatment infrastructure.
The law also created what are known as Behavioral Health Resource Networks in every county, which provide care regardless of the ability to pay. The networks have ensured about 7,000 people entered treatment from January to March of this year, doubling from nearly 3,500 people from July through September 2022, state data shows.
The law’s funding also has been key for providers of mental health and addiction services because it has “created a sustainable, predictable funding home for services that never had that before,” said Heather Jefferis, executive director of Oregon Council for Behavioral Health, which represents such providers.
Horvick, the pollster, said public support for expanding treatment remains high despite pushback against the law.
“It would be a mistake to overturn 110 right now because I think that would make us go backwards,” Lieber, the Democratic state senator, said. “Just repealing it will not solve our problem. Even if we didn’t have 110, we would still be having significant issues.”
date: 2023-11-19, from: Gary Marcus blog
Per The Verge, investors have asked the board to resign and want Sam Altman back in. They may well get their way. 4 vital questions: 👉Will the nonprofit continue to exist? 👉What checks and balances will there be? 👉Where will this leave OpenAI with respect to safety?
https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/as-the-openai-world-turns-4-vital
date: 2023-11-19, from: The Signal
Snow in Newhall? Santa Claus and the residents of Whoville took a stop in, yes, snowy Newhall for the jolliest start to the holiday season – Light up Main Street. “Light up Main Street is a cherished Santa Clarita tradition,” said Mayor Jason Gibbs. Thousands of attendees strolled down Main Street Newhall taking in all […]
The post <strong>Light up Main Street marks start of holiday season and a dream come true </strong> appeared first on Santa Clarita Valley Signal.
date: 2023-11-19, from: The Signal
Christmas in October? This is the time the designers of dozens of Christmas trees started working for the 21st annual Festival of Trees. The annual Festival of Trees event auctions off decorated Christmas trees, wreaths, gingerbread houses and accompanying prizes where all the proceeds go toward the Boys & Girls Club of Santa Clarita Valley. […]
The post <strong>From designer to auction: Festival of Trees showcases a variety of merriment</strong> appeared first on Santa Clarita Valley Signal.
date: 2023-11-19, from: Gary Marcus blog
Nobody told me there’d be days like these Nobody told me there’d be days like these Nobody told me there’d be days like these Strange days indeed Strange days indeed – John Lennon Sorry, me again. An hour after my last post, a credible rumor came out that OpenAI’s board is trying to hire Sam Altman back.
https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/firing-sam-and-then-trying-to-bring
@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2023-11-19, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
The first miracle of the web was that people could write and share knowledge. This was thought to have been a failure as journalism focused on abusive social media systems. But that’s where the second miracle, AI, got all its info from. I guess something worked. 💥
http://scripting.com/2023/11/18.html#a013502
date: 2023-11-19, from: OS News
In the best case, we may be able to avoid feeding the data through the compositing pipeline of the compositor as well, if the compositor supports direct scanout and the dmabuf is suitable for it. In particular on mobile systems, this may avoid using the GPU altogether, thereby reducing power consumption. I don’t understand what’s happening but it seems like a good idea? Can anyone help?
https://www.osnews.com/story/137875/gtk-introducing-graphics-offload/
date: 2023-11-19, from: OS News
Apple has officially ceased the sale of OS X Lion 10.7 and Mountain Lion 10.8 from its online store. That’s it. That’s the post.
https://www.osnews.com/story/137873/apple-removes-os-x-lion-and-mountain-lion-from-online-store/
date: 2023-11-19, from: The Daily Trojan (USC Student Paper)
Caleb Williams threw for 384 yards in presumably his last game at the Coliseum, but it wasn’t nearly enough.
The post Football gets clobbered by UCLA at Coliseum appeared first on Daily Trojan.
https://dailytrojan.com/2023/11/18/football-gets-clobbered-by-ucla-at-coliseum/
date: 2023-11-19, from: OS News
OpenVMS on x86 is now available for hobbyists! Almost a year after the official release. This is a part 1 of my getting started guide, showing you how to install OpenVMS on VirtualBox on Windows 10/11. More parts will follow, documenting license installation, network setup, ssh, application installation etc. If you want to give OpenVMS for x86 a try, this is the series of articles to read and follow along with. Excellent work by Remy van Elst.
https://www.osnews.com/story/137870/openvms-9-2-for-x86-installation-guide-for-virtualbox/
date: 2023-11-19, from: Full Circle Magazine
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