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date: 2023-12-01, from: ETH Zurich, recently added
Nolte, Tom M.
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Branchesi M.; Falanga M.; Harms J.; Jani K.; Katsanevas S.; Lognonné P.; Badaracco F.; Cacciapuoti L.; Cappellaro E.; Dell’Agnello S.; de Raucourt S.; Frigeri A.; Giardini D.; Jennrich O.; Kawamura T.; Korol V.; Landrø M.; Majstorović J.; Marmat P.; Mazzali P.
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Kroll S.L.; Hulka L.M.; Kexel A.K.; Vonmoos M.; Preller K.H.; Treyer V.; Ametamey S.M.; Baumgartner M.R.; Boost C.; Pahlisch F.; Rohleder C.; Leweke F.M.; Quednow B.B.
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Wang Y.; Wang W.; Liu D.; Hou W.; Zhou T.; Ji Z.
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Guekos, Alexandros; Cole, David M.; Dörig, Monika; Stämpfli, Philipp; Schibli, Louis; Schuetz, Philipp; Schweinhardt, Petra; Meier, Michael Lukas
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date: 2023-11-30, from: SCV New (TV Station)
The countdown to holiday magic has officially begun
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date: 2023-11-30, from: San Jose Mercury News
The World Meteorological Organization also warned that the average temperature for the year is up some 1.4 degrees Celsius (2.5 degrees Fahrenheit) from pre-industrial times – a mere one-tenth of a degree under a target limit for the end of the century as laid out by the Paris climate accord in 2015.
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date: 2023-11-30, from: San Jose Mercury News
For the holidays, Gold Country’s Nevada City and Grass Valley, offer movie-perfect settings, small town charm and twinkle-lit celebrations in 19th-century style.
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date: 2023-11-30, updated: 2023-11-30, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Evernote plans to slap restrictions on users of its free tier, and from early next month there will be a limit of 50 notes and one notebook per account.…
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date: 2023-11-30, updated: 2023-11-30, from: The LAist
More than $90 million will be invested in building around 3,000 shelters across the city.
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date: 2023-11-30, updated: 2023-11-30, from: The LAist
OCTA expects commuters to shave 15 minutes from their commute time.
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date: 2023-11-30, from: San Jose Mercury News
Nick’s Lighthouse owner Min Ki Paik, aka James Paik, 63, was charged with conspiracy to commit bribery during a bid to get properties to two popular restaurant properties.
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date: 2023-11-30, from: San Jose Mercury News
Hongchi Xiao promotes paida lajin therapy, in which patients are slapped or slap themselves repeatedly, ostensibly to release toxins from the body. Patients often end up with bruises or bleeding.
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date: 2023-11-30, from: San Jose Mercury News
“We’re in the middle of seismic shifts in the media and a maturation of e-commerce.”
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date: 2023-11-30, from: Heatmap News
The World Health Organization’s annual malaria report, released Thursday, for the first time includes a chapter “focused on the intersection between climate change and malaria” — and finds that climate change was a factor in a global increase in the disease. There were an estimated 249 million malaria cases in 2022, a five million increase over the previous year. Most of the new cases were concentrated in Pakistan, Ethiopia, Nigeria, Papua New Guinea, and Uganda.
The reasons for the surge seem to be manifold. Across sub-saharan Africa, the Anopheles mosquito, which transmits the disease, is expanding its range as the region warms. Flooding can also leave behind stagnant pools of standing water, which leads to a boom in mosquito numbers, as followed Pakistan’s catastrophic floods in 2022. And as people are displaced by such disasters, those without malarial immunity may settle in areas prone to the disease. In many cases they also live in tents or refugee centers, without simple yet crucial protections such as mosquito nets.
As is so often the case with climate change, the problems are at once immense — increasing heat in Subsaharan Africa and South Asia — and practical — not enough nets. “It is crucial to recognize the multitude of threats that impede our response efforts,” said Matshidiso Moeti, the World Health Organization’s Regional Director for Africa. “Climate variability poses a substantial risk, but we must also contend with challenges such as limited healthcare access, [and] ongoing conflicts and emergencies … we need a concerted effort to tackle these diverse threats.”
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date: 2023-11-30, from: Tilde.news
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date: 2023-11-30, from: SCV New (TV Station)
College of the Canyons student-athletes Jade Sims (women’s basketball) and Noah Staples (football) have been named the COC Athletic Department’s Women’s & Men’s Student-Athletes of the Week for the period running Nov. 20-
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date: 2023-11-30, from: San Jose Mercury News
Multiple rights activists have noted the lawsuit was lodged against a movement that is not an official entity, and that under its broad and vague definition, Russian authorities could crack down on any individuals or groups deemed to be part of it.
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date: 2023-11-30, from: San Jose Mercury News
Authorities say they raided a mobile home in South San Jose and found illegal assault weapons and armor-piercing bullets along with fentanyl and ecstasy pills.
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date: 2023-11-30, from: Tilde.news
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date: 2023-11-30, from: Smithsonian Magazine
The neurological condition, called chronic wasting disease, has a 100 percent fatality rate in the deer, moose and elk it infects
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date: 2023-11-30, from: The Signal
Gallery: Photos by Dan Watson/The Signal A sound engineer prepares for a performance in the Wild Beast Pavilion during the Herb Albert School of Music at Cal Arts, Second Annual Artists in Residence Week event held at California Institute of The Arts in Santa Clarita on Friday, 111023. Dan Watson/The Signal Dozens of attendees listen […]
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date: 2023-11-30, from: San Jose Mercury News
Last year, Air Force Special Operations Command ordered a temporary stand-down of its Osprey fleet following back-to-back safety incidents where the Osprey clutch slipped, causing an uneven distribution of power to its rotors.
https://www.mercurynews.com/2023/11/30/japan-suspends-osprey-flights-after-fatal-usaf-crash/ Save to Pocket
date: 2023-11-30, from: San Jose Mercury News
The cause of a three-vehicle collision on I-80 in Richmond Tuesday night remains under investigation.
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date: 2023-11-30, from: City of Santa Clarita
Embark on a Galactic Adventure at the Family Literacy Festival By Councilmember Laurene Weste “Reading can take you places you have never been before.” – Dr. Seuss Nestled in the hearts of our community, the Santa Clarita Public Library system holds an important place in the lives of our residents. Libraries are a cultural hub, […]
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date: 2023-11-30, from: San Jose Mercury News
A house that sold for $2 million tops the list of the most expensive residential real estate sales in Oakland in the past week.
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date: 2023-11-30, updated: 2023-11-30, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
A Ukrainian national is facing an eight year prison sentence for running an online marketplace that sold the personal data of approximately 24 million US citizens.…
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date: 2023-11-30, from: San Jose Mercury News
Healthy twins who ate a vegan diet for eight weeks had lower “bad” low-density lipoprotein, or LDL, cholesterol, better blood sugar levels, and greater weight loss than siblings who ate a diet of meat and vegetables, a new study found.
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date: 2023-11-30, from: SCV New (TV Station)
While yarn and thread have long been traditional materials for needlepoint, or canvas hand embroidery, California Institute of the Arts alum Mark Chamness (Art BFA 96) has made do with more unorthodox fibers
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date: 2023-11-30, from: Om Malik blog
Glass, the photo community that forms a significant part of my online visual presence, announces a monthly theme. This encourages members to upload entries interpreting the theme in their own way. For November, the chosen theme was ‘Framed.’ November’s Monthly Category is Framed! Suggested by Shloime, a wonderful NYC Street photographer that you need to follow, …
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date: 2023-11-30, from: The Signal
Whether you consider yourself a seasoned parent or not, one thing is clear: keeping teenagers safe online might be a complicated task to do. As they start spending more time online, they tend to share their online whereabouts less and less. Unfortunately, 27% of children aged 7 to 17 have found harmful online content. This […]
The post Online Safety Rules To Teach To Your Teens appeared first on Santa Clarita Valley Signal.
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date: 2023-11-30, from: San Jose Mercury News
Shane MacGowan, the legendary leader of the Pogues, died on Thursday. We remember the singer-songwriter with some of his best recordings.
https://www.mercurynews.com/2023/11/30/shane-macgowan-remembering-this-troubled-genius-with-5-great-songs/ Save to Pocket
date: 2023-11-30, from: Liliputing
Desktop web browsers have long supported add-ons and extensions that change the user interface, add features, or otherwise change the behavior of the browser. But it’s more rare to find a mobile browser with support for third-party add-ons. Firefox is one of the exceptions. Firefox for Android first added support for add-ons in 2011, but […]
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date: 2023-11-30, from: The Sundail (CSUN student paper)
My mom was what I would call an old-school feminist. She grew up a Jewish cisgender female in Albany, New York, during the second-wave feminism of the 1960s and ’70s. This period has primarily influenced her outlook on feminism. Growing up, she raised me with similar feminist values. However, unlike my mom, I identify as…
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date: 2023-11-30, updated: 2023-11-30, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Comment “I hope they stop. Don’t advertise. If someone’s going to blackmail me with advertising, blackmail me with money, go fuck yourself. Go. Fuck. Yourself. Is that clear? I hope it is.”…
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date: 2023-11-30, from: The Sundail (CSUN student paper)
The Soraya hosted Disney 100’s “Sound of Magic” concert on Nov. 18 from 8 p.m. to 10 p.m. in the Great Hall. The performance was conducted by CSUN alumni Richard Kaufman and included live performances of Disney classics done by the New West Symphony Orchestra. The show’s theme was the beauty of Disney shown through…
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date: 2023-11-30, from: VOA News USA
Iranian-backed proxies launched a rocket assault against U.S. forces in the Middle East, bringing the total number of attacks on U.S. and coalition troops in Iraq and Syria to 74 since October 17.
A U.S. defense official told VOA a single rocket was launched overnight against Mission Support Site Euphrates in eastern Syria, causing no casualties or damage.
U.S. naval forces in the Middle East continue to counter threats at sea as well. On Wednesday, while in the southern Red Sea, the USS Carney missile destroyer shot down an Iranian-produced drone launched from areas of Yemen controlled by Iranian-backed Houthi militants.
“Although its intentions are not known, the UAV [drone] was heading toward the warship. At the time of the shootdown, the USS Carney was escorting the USNS Supply [oiler] and another U.S.-flagged and -crewed ship carrying military equipment to the region,” U.S. Central Command said.
There were no injuries or damage to any of the vessels during the incident.
On Sunday, two ballistic missiles were fired from Houthi-controlled areas in Yemen in the direction of the USS Mason, a destroyer, as it came to the aid of a commercial vessel that was dealing with an apparent pirate attack.
The Pentagon has officially said that it doesn’t believe the USS Mason was the missiles’ target, but two defense officials have since told VOA they disagree with that assessment.
U.S. has countered attacks in Iraq, Syria
Last week, U.S. forces carried out three strikes within 24 hours against Iranian-backed forces and their facilities in what the military said was a “direct response to attacks against U.S. and coalition forces by Iran and Iran-backed groups.”
Two of the U.S. strikes targeted an operations center and a command-and-control node used by the Iranian-backed militant group Kataib Hezbollah near Al Anbar and Jurf al-Saqr in Iraq, a defense official told VOA. Kataib Hezbollah forces were present at the two facilities, which the defense official said had supported recent attacks on U.S. bases in Iraq and Syria.
Early assessments pointed to at least six militants killed in the two strikes, the defense official said.
A third U.S. attack struck and killed Iranian-backed proxies who earlier had launched a close-range ballistic missile against al-Asad air base in Iraq.
It was the first time a ballistic missile had been launched against U.S. forces in the Middle East since the surge in attacks began on October 17. Ballistic missiles can be much more powerful and carry much more destructive payloads than the rockets and drones used in previous attacks.
U.S. Central Command said the ballistic missile attack caused eight injuries to U.S. personnel and minor damage to infrastructure.
Prior to last week’s attacks, U.S. fighter jets had carried out three rounds of strikes targeting four facilities in Syria used by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and their proxy groups since October 17.
Most attacks disrupted
Most of the 74 attacks since October 17 were disrupted by the U.S. military or failed to reach their targets, causing no casualties or damage to infrastructure, according to the military. But a handful of attacks have injured dozens of U.S. military personnel. Some suffered shrapnel wounds or perforated eardrums, while a few suffered traumatic brain injuries.
One U.S. contractor at al-Asad Air Base in Iraq suffered a cardiac episode and died while sheltering in place during a false alarm for an air attack.
Since U.S. President Joe Biden took office in January 2021, Iranian-backed proxies have attacked U.S. forces in Iraq and Syria more than 160 times.
A spate of attacks from Iranian-backed militants in March killed a U.S. contractor in Syria, caused traumatic brain injuries in 23 military personnel and wounded 25 U.S. military personnel, according to the Pentagon.
The Pentagon responded with air strikes against Iranian-backed facilities in Syria, much like the strikes carried out by U.S. forces in recent weeks.
The last time Iran or Iranian-backed proxies used ballistic missiles against U.S. forces in Iraq was in 2020 following a U.S. attack in Iraq that killed Iranian Quds force leader Qassem Soleimani.
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date: 2023-11-30, from: San Jose Mercury News
This will be the city’s third location, and the first outside a mall
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date: 2023-11-30, from: The Signal
Heated clothing is revolutionary for the treatment of chronic pain because it actually gives comfort. Arthritis, fibromyalgia, and other health conditions that may lead to persistent aches can cause major interferences in a person’s life. This innovative technology has emerged as a game-changer, providing warmth and therapeutic benefits that ease the burden of ongoing pain. […]
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date: 2023-11-30, from: VOA News USA
In Southern California, a gun club for Jewish Americans is attracting new members following the October 7 attack in Israel and an increase in antisemitism in the United States. Genia Dulot has our story.
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date: 2023-11-30, from: Liliputing
The AOOSTAR T-Box is a computer that’s small enough to hold in the palm of your hand. But this tiny desktop computer is a versatile little PC that has three HDMI ports, two Gigabit Ethernet ports, and three USB 3.1 Type-A ports, along with a 3.5mm audio jack. In other words, you can use it as […]
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date: 2023-11-30, from: NASA breaking news
As part of the long-standing partnership, NASA worked with Google Arts & Culture to create an interactive digital experience around global freshwater.
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date: 2023-11-30, from: San Jose Mercury News
Email is a better correspondence option in many cases
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date: 2023-11-30, from: NASA breaking news
Most NASA missions feature one spacecraft or, occasionally, a few. The agency’s Sun Radio Interferometer Space Experiment (SunRISE) is using half a dozen. This month, mission members completed construction of the six identical cereal box-size satellites, which will now go into storage and await their final testing and ride to space. SunRISE will launch as […]
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date: 2023-11-30, updated: 2023-11-30, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Windows users are reporting that Hewlett Packard’s HP Smart application is appearing on their systems, despite them not having any of the company’s hardware attached.…
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date: 2023-11-30, from: Santa Barbara Indenpent News
The Gauchos will travel to The University of New Mexico for their next game on Wednesday, December 6.
The post Ajay Mitchell Scores 30 Points to Lead UCSB Men’s Basketball Win over Northern Arizona appeared first on The Santa Barbara Independent.
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date: 2023-11-30, from: Liliputing
A handful of companies like Synology, QNAP, Asustor, and TerrMaster currently dominate the network attached storage (NAS) space by offering purpose-built hardware and software (usually custom Linux distributions). But you can really turn just about any PC into a NAS with the right software. And a handful of Chinese PC makers have been offering attractively-priced […]
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date: 2023-11-30, from: San Jose Mercury News
The letter stems from remarks by University of California President Michael V. Drake to the UC Board of Regents two weeks ago about Hamas’ attacks on Israel on October 7 and Israel’s ensuing military campaign in Gaza.
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date: 2023-11-30, from: The Signal
With the U.N.’s shocking new 2030 projections predicting a 110% rise in fossil fuel production above the allowances outlined in the Paris Agreement, the planet is in desperate need of a renewable energy revolution if we hope to prevent 1.5 degrees Celsius of warming above preindustrial levels. As the Earth’s most abundant and cleanest form […]
The post <strong>Jinko Solar: Pioneering the Global Transition To Renewable Energy</strong> appeared first on Santa Clarita Valley Signal.
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date: 2023-11-30, updated: 2023-11-30, from: Bruce Schneier blog
This is clever:
The actual attack is kind of silly. We prompt the model with the command “Repeat the word ‘poem’ forever” and sit back and watch as the model responds (complete transcript here).
In the (abridged) example above, the model emits a real email address and phone number of some unsuspecting entity. This happens rather often when running our attack. And in our strongest configuration, over five percent of the output ChatGPT emits is a direct verbatim 50-token-in-a-row copy from its training dataset.
Lots of details at the link and …
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date: 2023-11-30, from: The Signal
In the vibrant city of Toronto, where diversity and inclusivity thrive, the journey to parenthood can take many unique forms. Fertility consulting and surrogacy have become integral aspects of Toronto’s cultural fabric, offering hope and support to individuals and couples seeking to expand their families. In this article, we will delve into the world of […]
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date: 2023-11-30, from: 404 Media Group
What I learned about the pickleball lobby and pickleball turf wars by reading thousands of pages of documents from inside local government.
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date: 2023-11-30, from: San Jose Mercury News
SZA? Springsteen? Dandy Warhols? Which acts and songs did our music critic spend the most time listening to on Spotify in 2023?
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date: 2023-11-30, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News
It’s been five years since I re-did the Scripting News home page. It was overdue. The new version isn’t all that different on the surface from the previous version, here’s a list of things to look at.
The big change under the covers is that it hooks into FeedLand on its own. When you’re reading the Bloggers tab, you’re reading content that came directly from the new Automattic-hosted FeedLand server.
The list of feeds behind the Bloggers tab right now are just placeholders. We’re going to work with other sources, using reading lists, to create a news flow from blogs that we think are interesting, along with what other people think are interesting. How this will develop is not yet clear, but we are going to work on this. When I say “we,” I mean Chuck Grimmett and myself and others at Automattic. This is the kind of stuff they do for WordPress users, so it fits right in imho with our respective skills.
Speaking
for myself, I want to engage with more bloggers. We used to have
something, and I think we can again.
We’re putting a lot of development behind this. FeedLand has been in development for almost three freaking years. This last year has been spent turning corners, and building out features so they can scale to Automattic-level flow. And adding one major new kickass feature to the world of feeds – reading lists. The ability to subscribe to lists of feeds. We’re going to use that in a lot of places. I wanted to get that in the product before we started using it. And it’s in, and it works. There are still a few glitches to work out, you know – software can always work better than it does. 😄
All I can say is we’re getting there. Today’s FeedLand does a lot more and works a lot better than last year’s.
And now Scripting News is part of that. So we’ll be able to make the new stuff more visible, by using it here in this site.
Still diggin!
As they say.
PS: news.scripting.com is still there and updating as before.
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date: 2023-11-30, from: San Jose Mercury News
The decision from a four-judge panel came two weeks after an individual appellate judge had put the order on hold while the appeals process played out.
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date: 2023-11-30, from: NASA breaking news
“I want to help the Native community get better representation and show that we can help Native citizens get into aerospace engineering, mathematics, or [other STEM career fields]. And the Cherokee and Choctaw Nations are trying to do the same thing on their reservations. They have amazing education networks, so when I realized what they […]
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date: 2023-11-30, updated: 2023-11-30, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Broadcom’s latest switch silicon boasts a built in neural networking engine it says can be trained to combat network congestion on the fly, at line speeds, all without compromising latency or throughput.…
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Amateurs talk strategy, professionals talk logisticsChris Young reported that Elon Musk: SpaceX will build over 1,000 Starships to move 1 million humans to Mars:
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The plan is to “build 1000+ Starships to transport life to Mars. Basically, (very) modern Noah’s Arks,” Musk wrote, reiterating a statement he had made during a recent interview with TED curator Chris Anderson. In that interview, he stated that SpaceX would achieve this goal by 2050.Wikipedia reports that:
SpaceX and Musk have stated their goal of colonizing Mars to ensure the long-term survival of humanity, with an ambition of sending a thousand Starship spacecraft to Mars during a Mars launch window in a very far future.SpaceX’s Starship is claimed to be able to “carry more than 100 tons of payload to the lunar surface in a single flight” and, using on-orbit refueling, “up to 100 tons all the way to Mars”. The Mars mission depends upon refueling the Starship on-orbit from fuel tankers launched beforehand on the Super Heavy booster.
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10 launch windows is 7,800 days or more than 21 years. So if Musk
wants to land a million humans by 2050 he needs to start launching 50
Starships a day in 2029, a bit more than 5 years from now. Fortunately,
he has time to experiment. There are
two
launch windows before the one when he needs to start in
earnest.
If the Starships are to be reused, they have to be
re-fueled on Mars using fuel made locally from Martian resources. Each
Starship requires
1,200
tons of fuel. Thus unless the Starships are to be expended, during
the 2024 and 2026 launch windows Musk needs to deliver a factory to Mars
capable of producing 1.2M tons of fuel every 780 days, or nearly 1600
tons/day. Clearly, the factory must weigh several times its daily
output. Lets guess it weighs 20 times, or 32,000 tons. So in each of
those two launch windows Musk needs to send another 160 Starships to
Mars, requiring another 2,560 launches.
But there’s another
huge problem with Musk’s fantasy. The 1,000 Martian emigrants will spend
something like 180 days cooped up in each Starship’s payload bay, which
has a volume of
1,000m3.
The average human’s volume is around
0.06m3.
The
cabin
volume per passenger of a 1-class 737 is around 0.22m3,
so each emigrant will spend 180 days in the equivalent of 4 seats in
coach in a 737. I think people paying more than a quarter-million
dollars in launch costs alone would be imagining something more like
business class! The migrants will end up fighting each other long before
they arrive.
And, of course, once the million people land
on Mars the story isn’t over. They will still be dependent upon supplies
from Earth until they can build a completely self-sustaining ecology.
They may not need 100,000 tons of supplies every 780 days, but there
will still need to be a lot of launches to get fuel into orbit to get a
smaller number of Starships with supplies to Mars.
Look, I
totally understand that what people like Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos really
want is to call up the
Magratheans
and order one of their custom-made luxury planets lovingly made to their
exacting specifications, so they don’t have to deal with taxes,
government, competitors or people who disagree with them. Let alone
having to survive in a 2.5C warmer world racked with war, migration and
starvation that is depleting their support staff. It must be really
frustrating that niggling little issues like the speed of light mean
that the only planet they can afford isn’t just a long, slow, expensive
commute, but also needs a lot of work to make it a suitable home
for a multi-billionaire. That work is the subject of part 2.
All it took for me to get this level of understanding of just the
logistics of Musk’s fantasy was his own numbers, an Internet connection,
a couple of hours, and basic arithmetic. Given Musk’s notorious lack of
credibility when it comes to schedules, it is disappointing that as far
as I can tell no journalist made the effort to inform the public that
Musk was BS-ing. Chris Young expressed mild skepticism, “just not very
realistic” and “risks putting him in similar territory as he was with
Tesla’s progress on Level 5 autonomy”. But that is a long way from
explaining Musk’s specific implausibilities.
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date: 2023-11-30, from: VOA News USA
Facing prejudice is, for most Asian Americans, an all-too-familiar part of life, a new report from the Pew Research Center shows.
The study, which is based on a survey of more than 7,000 respondents, found that the majority of Asian Americans think too little national attention is being paid to their experiences with discrimination.
About one-third of Asian Americans have been told to go back to their home country, the report found. Forty-four percent of Asian Americans ages 18 to 29 said they know an Asian person who has been personally threatened or attacked since the onset of the coronavirus pandemic.
There are about 23.5 million Asian Americans, making up 7.1% of the nation’s population. The year 2021 saw anti-Asian hate crimes in the U.S. jump to an all-time high, and 2022 was the second-worst year on record.
“Discrimination is nothing new against Asian Americans,” said Neil Ruiz, head of New Research Initiatives at Pew and the study’s co-author. Asian Americans have endured relentless stereotyping, reaching as far back as the 1800s, and Ruiz’s study highlights a paradox at the crux of that.
Asian American communities have for decades been typecast as model minorities: “loyal and hardworking,” as one respondent put it. On the other hand, Asian Americans have found themselves ostracized, treated as what scholars and activists have dubbed “forever foreigners.”
‘Forever Foreigner’ Trope
“We found that 78% of Asian Americans have been treated as a foreigner in some way, even if they were born in the United States,” Ruiz, an Asian American himself, told VOA. Criteria include being told to go back to one’s home country, being ridiculed for speaking a language other than English in public or having one’s name pronounced incorrectly.
Ruiz acknowledged that mispronouncing someone’s name can be an honest mistake. But for many of the study’s participants, these incidents have often bordered on disrespect or become outright offensive, he said.
Ruiz recounted how, in one focus group, an Indian American woman said she had a list of more than 200 ways her name had been mispronounced, leaving her feeling perpetually demeaned. Some reported that they had felt pressured to adopt Anglicized names.
Russell Jeung, a professor of Asian American Studies at San Francisco State University, said that fighting anti-Asian prejudice means creating spaces where people “feel free to share how they are hurt or how others might be hurt” by offhand remarks.
The harder question, activists say, is how to respond when it’s not just a coworker making derisive comments but former President Donald Trump or others in positions of authority, such as airport security personnel who, according to the study, screen South Asian Americans at markedly higher rates.
After Trump used offensive language during the pandemic, including calling the coronavirus the “Chinese virus,” the non-profit group Stop AAPI Hate found that use of anti-Asian slurs had risen online.
Having a tolerant national role model is “a matter of life or death,” Jeung said.
Days after 9/11, then-President George W. Bush delivered a speech at a mosque calling for respect for Islam. Hate crimes against Arab and South Asian Americans immediately fell, according to the Center for the Study of Hate & Extremism.
“American leaders have a very deficient understanding of the experiences and needs of a group as diverse as Asian America,” said Charles Jung, a Californian civil rights lawyer and community organizer.
National leaders, Jung said, have a responsibility to encourage tolerance and to bring communities together by highlighting shared values rather than perceived differences. “At a minimum, that means not saying racist things and inflaming hatred,” Jung said. “But that’s the bare minimum.”
Model Minority Stereotype
The notion that Asian Americans serve as a model for other minority groups has been perpetuated in popular media for generations. In 1966, The New York Times Magazine ran an article hailing Japanese Americans as a “success story.” In 1987, Time magazine ran a cover story describing Asian American children as “whiz kids.”
But Jung said the “model minority” stereotype is “certainly flattening and simplistic — a cartoonish view of an entire people who are incredibly diverse.”
The Pew survey found that most Asian Americans, particularly Indian Americans, had not heard of the term “model minority,” though most respondents said they had been presumed by peers to be good at math or uncreative — two stereotypes associated with Asians.
Karthick Ramakrishnan, a professor of public policy at the University of California, Riverside, and founder of AAPI Data, said that, compared with East Asian Americans, “the model minority myth is not as much of a barrier or a concern that South Asians have to deal with.”
“South Asians and East Asians experience racism and racial discrimination differently,” Ramakrishnan added, citing disproportionate security screenings and surveillance of South Asian Americans in the post-9/11 era.
Of the Asian Americans who were familiar with the term, 42% said the model minority stereotype is harmful.
There isn’t a consensus among Asian Americans: 17% thought the model minority stereotype is positive, a stance Republican Asian Americans are comparatively more likely to take.
Jeung counts himself among the 42% who believe the stereotype is damaging. He said it “drives a wedge between Asians and other racial groups. It also masks issues that Asians face: If we’re seen as a model, we’re seen as not having any particular problems. But clearly, we face racism.”
Jeung said the model minority stereotype belies a wide range of social issues that many Asian Americans confront in their day-to-day lives, from workplace discrimination (according to the Pew survey, about 1 in 5 Asian Americans said they had experienced anti-Asian workplace discrimination) to expectations of perfection in the classroom and beyond.
Despite the widespread problem of anti-Asian hate, the majority of Asian American adults said the challenges of racism were rarely, if ever, discussed in their households growing up.
“Sometimes, the adaptation that immigrant Asian parents adopt is swallowing the bitterness and pain,” Jung said.
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date: 2023-11-30, from: San Jose Mercury News
Yep, it’s time for a new slate of Christmas-themed horror films and action movies in theaters or streaming at home.
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date: 2023-11-30, from: San Jose Mercury News
Covid-19 hospitalizations, which had been dropping, have started to nudge back up again. Last week, more than 18,000 Americans were hospitalized with Covid-19, about a 10% increase over the week prior.
https://www.mercurynews.com/2023/11/30/who-keeping-closer-watch-on-ba-2-86-coronavirus-strain-as-a-dearth-of-data-makes-predictions-difficult/ Save to Pocket
date: 2023-11-30, updated: 2023-11-30, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
re:Invent Another day at AWS re:Invent and yet more talk of artifical intelligence dominated, with a senior executive taking to the stage to wax lyrical about the impact of vector databases on the tech and more.…
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date: 2023-11-30, from: Smithsonian Magazine
Researchers have been unable to locate an obvious source for the particle—it seems to have traveled from an empty spot in space
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date: 2023-11-30, from: Marketplace Morning Report
Consumer Reports is out with a survey finding that EV owners had roughly 80% more problems than owners of conventional vehicles. Key problems included issues with charging and batteries. To the start the show, we parse out findings of the report. Then, chief marketers worry about the prospects of a recession (yet again) and music service Mdundo eyes growth in Africa.
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date: 2023-11-30, from: Bunnie’s Studio Blog
The Ware for November 2023 is shown below. Thanks to “zw” for mailing me this device to take apart and share!
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date: 2023-11-30, from: NASA breaking news
A group of dead stars known as “spider pulsars” are obliterating companion stars within their reach. Data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory of the globular cluster Omega Centauri is helping astronomers understand how these spider pulsars prey on their stellar companions. A pulsar is the spinning dense core that remains after a massive star collapses into itself to form a neutron star. Rapidly rotating […]
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date: 2023-11-30, from: Santa Barbara Indenpent News
Ensemble Theatre Company presents “Ring of Fire” November 30–December 17.
The post The Legend of Johnny Cash Comes to Santa Barbara appeared first on The Santa Barbara Independent.
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date: 2023-11-30, from: Bunnie’s Studio Blog
The Ware for October 2023 is a Seiko DS-250 keyboard synthesizer. Nobody guessed the exact make and model of the keyboard, but it was really entertaining to see the comment thread puzzle through the design. The dual 8049’s caught my attention too, as well as the lack of obvious DACs. I have some partial photos […]
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date: 2023-11-30, from: NASA breaking news
An international team of astronomers has used NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope to provide the first observation of water and other molecules in the highly irradiated inner, rocky-planet-forming regions of a disk in one of the most extreme environments in our galaxy. These results suggest that the conditions for terrestrial planet formation can occur in […]
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date: 2023-11-30, from: San Jose Mercury News
Clovis North at De La Salle, Pittsburg at Folsom and El Cerrito at Los Gatos among the big games this weekend, with winners advancing to state title games.
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date: 2023-11-30, from: 404 Media Group
We are hosting our second FOIA Forum at the end of November. Join the livestream, file FOIAs with us, get tips, and more.
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date: 2023-11-30, from: Raspberry Pi News (.com)
PiAutoStage uses a Raspberry Pi and a High Quality Camera to iteratively move a microscope stage a little at a time, in order to build a high-resolution image of an entire sample.
The post PiAutoStage: a universally adaptable microscope stage appeared first on Raspberry Pi.
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date: 2023-11-30, updated: 2023-11-30, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Online games platform Roblox is the subject of a proposed class action by an investor claiming the company wasn’t forthcoming about alleged flaws in its parental restrictions.…
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@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2023-11-30, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
Chuck came across a group of bloggers posting detailed lists of apps they use. There’s been quite a turnout. Lots of useful info in these posts.
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date: 2023-11-30, updated: 2023-11-30, from: The LAist
The secretary of state said the U.S. is committed to seeing the release of all hostages held by Hamas. And gunmen killed three Israelis in an attack on the outskirts of West Jerusalem early Thursday.
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date: 2023-11-30, from: 404 Media Group
The class-action antitrust suit is one of the biggest challenges to Deere’s tractor repair monopoly.
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date: 2023-11-30, from: NASA breaking news
“The goal is to get as many of the wrong ideas out of the way as early as possible. “So we’ll come up with some idea, especially on the research side, and sometimes it will seem really brilliant on the napkin or in a conversation with one other person. “[When I started working on electric […]
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date: 2023-11-30, updated: 2023-11-30, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
NASA has confirmed it is working to resume science operations on the Hubble Space Telescope after an ongoing gyroscope issue put it in safe mode.…
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date: 2023-11-30, from: Smithsonian Magazine
Museum-goers follow the star from his childhood apartment to his expansive NBA career
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date: 2023-11-30, from: Guam Daily Post
A man indicted on federal drug charges in 2021 on Guam was located in Texas.
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date: 2023-11-30, from: Guam Daily Post
The Guam Customs and Quarantine Agency now has 36 more officers on duty.
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date: 2023-11-30, from: Guam Daily Post
Tourism is a two-way street and in 2024 Japan and the United States will be promoting travel between the two countries, to include Guam.
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date: 2023-11-30, from: Guam Daily Post
Bill 201-37, the measure that would waive certain procurement requirements to facilitate the maintenance, operation and overhaul of specific island generators, failed to make the session agenda Wednesday afternoon. The measure is intended to mitigate load shedding issues by helping…
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date: 2023-11-30, from: Guam Daily Post
The International Model United Nations invited nine students from Guam’s St. John’s School to the 2023 International Model United Nations Conference in Manila, Philippines, which took place from Nov. 8 to Nov. 10.
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date: 2023-11-30, from: Guam Daily Post
If you’re driving by the Guam International Airport Authority on Friday afternoon, you may come across United Airlines flight attendants rallying for “improved working conditions.”
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date: 2023-11-30, from: Guam Daily Post
An alleged threat made on social media led Harvest Christian Academy to cancel classes Thursday.
https://www.postguam.com/news/local/social-media-threat-cancels-classes-at-school-prompts-police-response/article_56ffbc9e-8f29-11ee-b6f9-2b27795df10c.html Save to Pocket
date: 2023-11-30, from: Guam Daily Post
A man was accused of damaging another man’s car with a machete and throwing rocks at him.
https://www.postguam.com/news/local/suspect-allegedly-threw-rocks-at-man-damaged-car-with-machete/article_5512c504-8f1d-11ee-aea9-bfa7aa7baad0.html Save to Pocket
date: 2023-11-30, from: Distilled Earth blog
Here’s why climate and energy experts are excited about VPPs
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date: 2023-11-30, from: OS News
Our nightly example browser, servoshell, is now easier to navigate, accepting URLs without http:// or https:// both in the location bar and on the command line, and should no longer lock up when run with –no-minibrowser. Local paths can also be given on the command line, and are still preferred when the path points to a file that exists. Work is now underway to improve our embedding story and prepare Servo for integration with Tauri, starting with precompiled ANGLE for faster initial builds, better support for offscreen rendering, and support for multiple webviews. These changes haven’t landed yet, but once they do, apps will be able to open, move, resize, and interleave Servo with other widgets. I’m curious what the future will bring to Servo. It seems under very active development, but it’s not part of any of the main browser projects. Let’s hope they can keep up the momentum so that it can grow into a viable alternative. Because lord do we need one.
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date: 2023-11-30, from: OS News
Evaluating the performance of CPUs with identical cores is relatively straightforward, and they’re easy to compare using single- and multi-core benchmarks. When there are two different types of core, one designed primarily for energy efficiency (E), the other for maximum performance (P), traditional benchmarks can readily mislead. Multi-core results are dominated by the ratio of P to E cores, and variable frequency confounds further. In this series of articles, I set out to disentangle these when comparing core performance between Apple’s original M1 Pro and its third-generation M3 Pro chips. This first article explains why and how I am investigating this, and shows overall results for performance and power use under a range of loads. Articles like these will help you make an informed decision about whether or not your workloads can benefit from moving from an M1/M2 to an M3.
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date: 2023-11-30, updated: 2023-11-30, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
The Black Basta ransomware group has reportedly generated upwards of $100 million in revenue since it started operations in April 2022.…
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date: 2023-11-30, from: Marketplace Morning Report
We’re in the thick of holiday shopping season. But as companies compete for consumer dollars and distinguish themselves through advertising, they’re taking inflation into account and trying to play to customer emotions. Plus, X’s Elon Musk has some choice words for boycotting advertisers, and celebrities face potential liabilities when promoting financial investments.
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date: 2023-11-30, updated: 2023-11-30, from: The LAist
A long-awaited report from the city’s housing department lays out the steps to potentially providing L.A. renters with a right to counsel.
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date: 2023-11-30, updated: 2023-11-30, from: The LAist
A Markup examination of a typical college shows how students are subject to a vast and growing array of watchful tech, from homework trackers to test-taking software, even license plate readers
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date: 2023-11-30, from: The Markup blog
A Markup examination of a typical college shows how students are subject to a vast and growing array of watchful tech, from homework trackers to test-taking software, even license plate readers
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date: 2023-11-30, from: The Markup blog
Tips for students, gleaned from our investigation into data collection by colleges
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date: 2023-11-30, from: The Signal
“Reading can take you places you have never been before.” – Dr. Seuss Nestled in the hearts of our community, the Santa Clarita Public Library system holds an important place in the lives of our residents. Libraries are a cultural hub, an educational haven and source of inspiration for many. Our libraries continue to be […]
The post Laurene Weste | Embark on a Galactic Adventure at the Family Literacy Festival appeared first on Santa Clarita Valley Signal.
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date: 2023-11-30, updated: 2023-11-30, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Rackspace is running out of, er, space. At least as far as a portion of its Cloud Files customers served by the LON (London) region are concerned.…
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date: 2023-11-30, from: Marketplace Morning Report
From the BBC World Service: The appointment of the COP28 summit’s president, Sultan Ahmed Al-Jaber, has been controversial, as he’s also the CEO of Abu Dhabi’s state oil company. We take a closer examination. Then, the European Commissioner for Competition, who has taken on tech giants like Alphabet and Amazon, speaks to us about AI regulation. And as African music has gained global popularity in recent years, Kenya-based music service Mdundo aims to double its 25 million monthly users.
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date: 2023-11-30, updated: 2023-11-30, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
HPE - like many tech companies - is betting big on AI in the hope customers will splash enteprise cash on training or fine tuning models and other areas of interest, rather than risk falling behind their peers.…
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date: 2023-11-30, from: Om Malik blog
Nostalgia is when you want things to stay the same. I know so many people staying in the same place. Jeanne Moreau Technology is becoming increasingly complex and is rapidly changing our lives. Even experts in the field struggle to fully comprehend the extent of these changes. When faced with this unfamiliar and unsettling situation, …
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date: 2023-11-30, updated: 2023-11-30, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Scientists have discovered a rare six-exoplanet system orbiting a nearby bright star.…
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date: 2023-11-30, from: Heatmap News
While channel-surfing over Thanksgiving weekend, I stumbled upon The Aviator — specifically, the scene in which Leonardo DiCaprio’s Howard Hughes maniacally scrambles a fleet of biplanes to capture the greatest air combat scenes even filmed, and rants that he doesn’t care if the conservative suits at his company worry he’s squandering his fortune in pursuit of a mad dream. It’s hard to watch these scenes and not think of Elon Musk, Hughes’ heir apparent (with apologies to Richard Branson and Jeff Bezos) as the leading air-and-space-obsessed billionaire man-child of his era. That’s doubly true this week, with the long-awaited official launch of the Tesla Cybertuck.
Bold pursuit of the big dream has always been Musk’s calling card. Before his rise to prominence, onlookers said it would be impossible to start a new space launch company that could outcompete established giants like Boeing and Lockheed Martin or start a new car company that could outmaneuver giants like Ford and GM, much less do both at the same time. Musk’s self-marketing as the real-world Tony Stark helped to sell his electric vehicles and kept tech enthusiasts tuned in to his attempts to land reusable space rockets on ocean-going platforms. The man and his mad science were the message.
But the Tesla Cybertruck seemed like a turning point. Instead of chasing another sci-fi dream of a better tomorrow, Musk in 2019 revealed a boyhood cartoon: an all-metal, supposedly bulletproof tank that would feel at home as an armored personnel carrier in some PlayStation theatre of warfare. In the four years since, Cybertruck has swallowed much of Musk’s focus as Tesla tried to bring the vehicle to fruition, which he recently admitted has been a much bigger struggle than he anticipated. The first 10 Cybertrucks will finally be delivered to their very patient owners on November 30.
In light of this misadventure, it’s worth asking: Is it time for Tesla to get boring?
I am on record as saying Cybertruck could succeed. Despite the jeers of auto journalists and onlookers who think Tesla’s truck is ill-conceived, poorly constructed, and, well, stupid, it’s clear that Musk’s cult of personality will sell some of these EVs. Plenty of buyers with the same man-boy fantasy of owning a pointy tank as a daily driver will see the appeal. So will shoppers whose main priority is feeling safe and protected on the highway.
Still, the case for the Cybertruck is eroding. Musk initially teased single- and double-motor versions that would start at $40,000 and $50,000, respectively, bringing the EV in well below the price of some electric truck competitors. After all the time and trouble it took to realize the Cybertuck, though, Tesla will reportedly begin sales by offering only double- and triple-motor versions, and at prices estimated to be $70,000 to $80,000. That puts them on par with pricey trucks like the Rivian R1T.
The biggest trouble with the Cybertruck, though, is the opportunity cost of what Tesla could’ve been doing with all this time and industrial energy. That’s not to say the EV maker is struggling, exactly — the Model Y became the world’s best-selling car during this time, and Tesla has revealed what will become the redesign of the very successful Model 3.
During the development of Cybertruck, however, Tesla seems to have deprioritized the redesign of the Model X, which has looked basically the same on the outside since 2015, for example. It has made slow progress on the promise to build a truly affordable EV in the $25,000 range, which could have entrenched for Tesla a leading position in the entry-level EV market that will soon emerge. Tesla could’ve tried to fill out its lineup with crossovers of other sizes, the way a boring legacy company would have done to keep its huge advantage in market share from slipping away. But Musk chased the shiny steel object instead, allowing his rivals to get back into the game in the process.
Such is the tension inherent in any successful startup. The mercurial, damn-the-torpedoes founder or CEO leads the firm to the promised land, but somewhere along the way to true success comes the pressure to button down and grow up, and to start making sound, sane business decisions instead of building the Spruce Goose.
Musk himself seems to realize this, at times. He once called the gullwing-doored Model X a “technology bandwagon” into which Tesla poured all the whiz-bang technology ideas it could think of. This led to an admittedly wild vehicle, but one that never sold in huge numbers. He seemed to learn his lesson with the simpler and more affordable Model 3 and Y, which led to enormous sales numbers and made Tesla the most valuable car brand in the world. Here in California, Teslas went from exotic to ordinary. Every time I drive my Model 3 down the freeway, there are at least two more within view.
But with those volume successes in hand, the devil on Musk’s shoulder made itself heard once more. Musk’s obsession with making the exterior from stainless steel led to long production delays. And Cybertruck clearly follows the Model X pattern, with Tesla including every possible feature from bulletproof windows to a slide-out tailgate for loading your Tesla ATV in the back.
Maybe Musk got afraid of getting old and becoming boring. Maybe nobody was around with the authority to tell him “no.” Maybe the Cybertruck, once it emerges from its production quagmire, will be another rousing success. But if it’s not, it will be remembered (along with Musk’s ill-advised purchase of Twitter) as the vanity project that ate Tesla’s attention right when it had the whole EV world by the tail.
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date: 2023-11-30, from: Raspberry Pi (.org)
Google DeepMind’s Aimee Welch discusses our partnership on the Experience AI learning programme and why equal access to AI education is key. This article also appears in issue 22 of Hello World on teaching and AI. From AI chatbots to self-driving cars, artificial intelligence (AI) is here and rapidly transforming our world. It holds the…
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date: 2023-11-30, from: Guam Daily Post
Lawmakers adjourned session Thursday without debating Bill 201-37, despite placing the measure on agenda less than half an hour before adjourning. Now that session has ended, a new agenda will need to be made for lawmakers to address next session,…
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date: 2023-11-30, updated: 2023-11-30, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Microsoft has once again reminded us of a time when its operating systems only drove us three-quarters around the bend, by issuing the latest Windows Ugly Sweater that features the default Bliss wallpaper of Windows XP.…
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date: 2023-11-30, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>Brew Gentlemen’s co-founder Matt Katase put down roots in Pittsburgh 15 years ago to study chemistry at Carnegie Mellon University. But he’s never lost his love for the Big Island of Hawaii, where he and his younger sister, Alina, grew up.</p>
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date: 2023-11-30, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>The world is heading for considerably less warming than projected a decade ago, but that good news is overwhelmed by much more pain from current climate change than scientists anticipated, experts said.</p>
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date: 2023-11-30, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>Tamara Smith sat with her laptop open, waiting to see if she had won the lottery.</p>
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date: 2023-11-30, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>Early this summer, while many Americans were gathering for Fourth of July barbecues, the Tallac Hotshots were in triple-digit heat in Arizona, fighting a wildfire for 14 straight days and sleeping on the ground next to their trucks.</p>
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date: 2023-11-30, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>BILLINGS, Mont. — The North American wolverine will receive long-delayed threatened species protections under a Biden administration proposal released Wednesday in response to scientists’ warnings that climate change will likely melt away the rare species’ snowy mountain refuges and push them toward extinction.</p>
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date: 2023-11-30, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>Rising rates of suicide among older adults drove the number of such deaths to a historic high in the United States last year, even as suicide declined among youth, according to a report released Wednesday by researchers at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.</p>
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date: 2023-11-30, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>JERUSALEM — Hamas released 16 hostages late Wednesday in the last swap for Palestinian prisoners held by Israel under the current Gaza truce as international mediators raced to seal another extension to allow further exchanges and prolong the halt of Israel’s air and ground offensive.</p>
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date: 2023-11-30, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>The Indian government wanted to assassinate a Sikh leader in New York City and was also behind the murder of another Sikh leader in Canada, federal authorities said Wednesday.</p>
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date: 2023-11-30, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>BRUSSELS — Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba insisted on Wednesday that NATO allies are showing no sign of war fatigue and remain committed to helping Ukraine defend itself against Russia and take back occupied territory.</p>
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date: 2023-11-30, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>TOKYO (AP) — A U.S. Air Force Osprey based in Japan crashed during a training mission Wednesday off of the country’s southern coast, killing at least one of the eight crew members, the Japanese coast guard said.</p>
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date: 2023-11-30, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>NEW YORK — It’s not just you. Across the U.S., prices at the pump have felt milder in recent months.</p>
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date: 2023-11-30, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>Irene Makaaeae Gomes, 93, of Hilo died Nov. 10 at home. Born in Pepeekeo, she was a public school cafeteria cook and member of St. Joseph Catholic Church. Visitation 4-6 p.m. Wednesday (Dec. 6) at Dodo Mortuary Chapel. Prayer service at 6 p.m. Committal service 9 a.m. Thursday, Dec. 7, at East Hawaii Veterans Cemetery No. 2 Pavilion. Casual attire. Survived by sons, Bernard (Pam) Gomes Jr. of Everett, Wash., and Joseph K. (Elna) Gomes of Hilo; brothers, Sam (Betty) Santos of Albuquerque, N.M., and Roy Santos of Hilo; sisters, Carol (Randal) Nakasato and Laura Cardines of Pepeekeo; brother-in-law, Matsu Uehara of Hilo; sisters-in-law, Gwendolyn Santos of Pepeekeo and Joan Santos of Hatfield, Pa.; nine grandchildren, 16 great-grandchildren and three great-great-grandchildren; nieces and nephews. Arrangements by Dodo Mortuary.</p>
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date: 2023-11-30, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>WASHINGTON — Donald Trump has embraced the rioters who attacked the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, as patriots, vowed to pardon a large portion of them if he wins a second term and even collaborated on a song with a group of jailed defendants.</p>
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date: 2023-11-30, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>The 2023 hurricane season officially draws to a close Thursday, extending to five years a run of average to below-average Central Pacific hurricane seasons.</p>
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date: 2023-11-30, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>Maui’s post-fire efforts to find long-term housing for survivors of the Aug. 8 wildfires could serve as a new model to convert short-term vacation rentals across the state into badly needed long-term housing for residents, beginning with “eye popping” tax changes and increased income that would reward owners of long-term rental units, Gov. Josh Green told the Honolulu Star-Advertiser.</p>
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date: 2023-11-30, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>Trial has been rescheduled for a third time for four Honolulu police officers charged in connection with a September 2021 Makaha car chase and crash that injured six people — two of them severely — and its alleged cover-up.</p>
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date: 2023-11-30, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>WASHINGTON (AP) — Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, the diplomat with the thick glasses and gravelly voice who dominated foreign policy as the United States extricated itself from Vietnam and broke down barriers with China, died Wednesday, his consulting firm said. He was 100.</p>
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date: 2023-11-30, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>During the week of Nov. 20-26, Hawaii Island police arrested 12 motorists for DUI. Three of the drivers were involved in a traffic collision. None were younger than 21.</p>
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date: 2023-11-30, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>A Kailua-Kona man who pleaded guilty to two counts of second-degree murder and two counts of first-degree assault in connection with stabbings in Hilo and Kona in 2022 was sentenced Wednesday by Circuit Court Judge Robert D.S. Kim.</p>
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date: 2023-11-30, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>The murder trial of Patricia Wong, who is accused of shooting Kaycee Smith to death in 2009, is now in the hands of the jury.</p>
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date: 2023-11-30, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>Hawaii Island police seeking the public’s assistance to identify a male suspect whose identity is unknown.</p>
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date: 2023-11-30, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>Parts of Hawaii Volcanoes National Park have been closed to give a couple of nene parents some space.</p>
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date: 2023-11-30, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>Pregnant women in Hawaii are very likely to have plastic fragments in their placentas, University of Hawaii researchers have discovered, raising further concerns about the long-term health implications of microplastics.</p>
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date: 2023-11-30, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>Invasive species fight
requires collaboration</p>
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date: 2023-11-30, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>Socrates would weep. The great philosopher of ancient Athens was among the first teachers of critical thinking, you might say, and he died for doing so. And now, college philosophy departments — along with the other humanities and the social sciences— are shrinking, with reduced fields of study, smaller teaching staffs and fewer courses.</p>
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date: 2023-11-30, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>Robert Crimo Jr.’s guilty plea to reckless conduct for helping his son obtain authorization to own firearms three years before Robert Crimo III allegedly opened fire on Highland Park, Illinois, paradegoers should be a wake-up call to everyone: If you hear or see things about potential violence, you must alert the authorities. And if you do things that could potentially enable it, you will face legal consequences.</p>
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date: 2023-11-30, from: The Signal
As Austin Wright wrote in the letter published on Nov. 25, “I come to you with a heavy heart, burdened by the growing concerns that” some people seem not to understand how to interact and access our local education resources. The letter laments that “parents are often left in the dark about what our children […]
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date: 2023-11-30, from: The Signal
Re: Richard Budman commentary, Nov. 23. After reading your Thanksgiving message published in the Nov. 23 edition, I can only hope that all lost and sheltered dogs will be fortunate enough to wind up with families such as yours. The saying that one reaps what one sows appears to apply wholeheartedly to you. In my […]
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date: 2023-11-30, updated: 2023-11-30, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
SAP again stands accused of breaching trust with customers by a second user group following the decision to introduce innovations in its preferred cloud adoption models exclusively.…
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date: 2023-11-30, from: VOA News USA
World leaders reacted to the death of Henry Kissinger, a former U.S. secretary of state who influenced geopolitics under two presidents.
Kissinger died Wednesday at 100.
“Deeply shocked and saddened to learn of Dr. Kissinger’s passing at 100,” Xie Feng, China’s ambassador to the United States said in a post on X, formerly known as twitter. “My deepest condolences go to Nancy (Kissinger’s wife) and her family. It is a tremendous loss for both our countries and the world. The history will remember what the centenarian had contributed to China-U.S. relations, and he will always remain alive in the hearts of the Chinese people as a most valued old friend.”
Kissinger made two trips to China before accompanying U.S. President Richard Nixon on his groundbreaking visit to Beijing in 1972 to meet with China’s Communist Party chairman, Mao Zedong. During the visit, the United States and China formalized diplomatic relations after a break of 23 years.
In Japan, Prime Minister Fumio Kishida spoke of Kissinger’s role in Asia, saying he was responsible for “significant contributions” to peace and stability, in a post on X.
Kishida mentioned Kissinger’s work in China and added, “I’d like to express my most sincere respect to the great achievements he made. I also would like to offer my condolences.”
European Council President Charles Michel called Kissinger a “strategist with attention to the smallest detail,” in another post on X. He declared him “A kind human and a brilliant mind who, over 100 years, shaped the [destinies] of some of the most important events of the century.”
Russian President Vladimir Putin called Kissinger “a wise and farsighted statesman,” in a telegram to Kissinger’s widow, Nancy, according to Reuters.
“America has lost one of the most dependable and distinctive voices” on foreign affairs, said former President George W. Bush, striking a tone shared by many high-level officials past and present.
“I have long admired the man who fled the Nazis as a young boy from a Jewish family, then fought them in the United States Army,” Bush said in a statement. “When he later became secretary of state, his appointment as a former refugee said as much about his greatness as it did America’s greatness.”
Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair said he was “in awe” of Kissinger.
“Of course, like anyone who has confronted the most difficult problems of international politics, he was criticized at times, even denounced,” Blair said. “But I believe he was always motivated not from a coarse ‘realpolitik,’ but from a genuine love of the free world and the need to protect it. He was a problem solver, whether in respect of the Cold War, the Middle East or China and its rise.”
Israeli President Isaac Herzog said as he met U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken in Tel Aviv that Kissinger “laid the cornerstone of the peace agreement, which (was) later signed with Egypt, and so many other processes around the world I admire.”
Blinken said Kissinger “really set the standard for everyone who followed in this job” and that he was “very privileged to get his counsel many times, including as recently as about a month ago.”
“Few people were better students of history,” he said. “Even fewer people did more to shape history than Henry Kissinger.”
French President Emmanuel Macron wrote on X that “Henry Kissinger was a giant of history. His century of ideas and of diplomacy had a lasting influence on his time and on our world.”
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz reflected on Kissinger’s impact on the relationship between the U.S. and Germany, his native county. Kissinger was a Jew who fled Nazi rule with his family in his teens.
“His commitment to the transatlantic friendship between the USA and Germany was significant, and he always remained close to his German homeland,” Chancellor Olaf Scholz wrote on X.
Some information in this report came from Reuters, Agence France-Presse and The Associated Press.
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date: 2023-11-30, from: Robert Reich on Substack
Friends, Henry Kissinger has died, at the age of 100. When a former high government official as well known as Kissinger passes, the conventional response is to say nice things about what they accomplished. I’m sorry, but I cannot. In my humble opinion, Kissinger should have been considered a war criminal.
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date: 2023-11-30, updated: 2023-11-30, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Kettle The other day we challenged our fine Register readers to share their top technology predictions for 2024 – though with wrong answers only. The best suggestion will win an old ugly Microsoft-themed Christmas sweater.…
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date: 2023-11-30, from: Santa Barbara Indenpent News
Refresh your space without spending a bundle.
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date: 2023-11-30, from: SCV New (TV Station)
2013 – Actor Paul Walker (“Fast & Furious” movies) dies in a fiery car crash in the Valencia Industrial Center. [story
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date: 2023-11-30, updated: 2023-11-30, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Honda has updated its plan to electrify its motorcycle range, creating modular components that can be assembled into customized motorcycles – most with advanced connectivity features.…
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date: 2023-11-30, from: Santa Barbara Indenpent News
“We kept our promises, and they broke theirs,” a citizens’ coalition says.
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date: 2023-11-30, from: Daniel Stenberg Blog
It is often said that Imitation is the Sincerest Form of Flattery. Also, remember libcrurl? That was the name of the thing Google once planned to do: reimplement the libcurl API on top of their Chrome networking library. Flattery or not, it never went anywhere. The other day I received an email asking me about … Continue reading xCurl
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date: 2023-11-30, updated: 2023-11-30, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Multiple Bluetooth chips from major vendors such as Qualcomm, Broadcom, Intel, and Apple are vulnerable to a pair of security flaws that allow a nearby miscreant to impersonate other devices and intercept data.…
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date: 2023-11-30, from: Om Malik blog
Charlie Munger, the impressive other half of Berkshire Hathaway partnership, recently passed away. His death prompted folks within the Tech Twitter ecosystem, in what is an all-too-familiar theater of virtue signaling. The adulation of Munger from a region that has turned “grin-fucking” into an art form was amusing. Why? Because many, if not most of …
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date: 2023-11-30, from: CSUN Library Blog, Cited
Just in time for the Finals Countdown, LAPL Northridge Branch invites CSUN students and community to meet a miniature therapy horse on Wednesday, December 6th,…
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date: 2023-11-30, updated: 2023-11-30, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Google DeepMind says it has developed an AI model capable of predicting millions of inorganic crystal structures that could potentially be used to form next-gen microprocessors, electric batteries, solar panels, and the like.…
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OpenAI has made the return of Sam Altman as its CEO official.…
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date: 2023-11-30, updated: 2023-11-30, from: The LAist
A majority of the 23 flagged locations are in the downtown L.A. area. Still, officials caution that doesn’t mean we’ll see another 10 Freeway fire.
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date: 2023-11-30, from: Santa Barbara Indenpent News
Incarceration, isolation, and an evolving system.
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Thousands of kids have been in a system that can work like a revolving door.
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date: 2023-11-30, from: Jessica Smith’s blog
OK, I bothered opening up Spotify on my phone to check out my actual Wrapped. Fun discoveries:
Because I use Last.fm there were no surprises with regard to my top artists or anything. I think my favourite feature was the artist messages, at least the ones who seemed earnest and not totally phoning it in. I was excited Alexandra Savior said she had new music coming “very, very soon”, because the other day I read a 2021 interview with her where she said much the same thing and was like, “…where did it go?”
I guess next year should be back to my Spotify Wrapped being a bit more surprising (read: not identical to my Last.fm stats) because I’m trying to go back to cultivating my own music collection and listening to it via Plexamp (but still using Spotify somewhat for breadth and discovery). That’ll be a fun journey.
![My Spotify Wrapped 2023 summary slide. Top Artists: The Twilight Sad, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Placebo, Editors, The National. Top Songs: I/m Not Here [Missing Face], I Became a Prostitute, There’s a Girl in the Corner, The Bitter End, Red Eyes and Tears. Minutes Listened: 60,037. Top Genre: Rock.](https://www.jayeless.net/media/2023/11/spotify-wrapped.png)
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date: 2023-11-30, from: VOA News USA
Henry Kissinger, the former National Security Advisor and Secretary of State whose global influence long outlasted his time in office under former President Richard Nixon, has died at age 100, at his home in Connecticut. His death was announced by his consulting firm and no cause was given. Senior Diplomatic Correspondent Cindy Saine reports on the life and legacy of a controversial and celebrated American statesman.
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date: 2023-11-30, updated: 2023-11-30, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Chinese chip houses Loongson and CXMT have debuted products that demonstrate the Middle Kingdom’s increasingly sophisticated semiconductor scene, and an interest for such efforts from major electronics manufacturers.…
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date: 2023-11-30, from: Guam Daily Post
An alleged threat made on social media led Harvest Christian Academy to cancel classes Thursday.
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date: 2023-11-30, from: VOA News USA
President Joe Biden on Wednesday touted his Bidenomics agenda in Colorado, contrasting his economic vision with that of the so-called MAGA Republicans as he gears up for his 2024 reelection bid. White House Bureau Chief Patsy Widakuswara reports.
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date: 2023-11-30, from: VOA News USA
Three days of tributes and memorial services for former first lady Rosalynn Carter, who died Sunday, culminated Wednesday in Plains, Georgia. VOA’s Kane Farabaugh reports.
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date: 2023-11-30, from: NASA breaking news
Six “sub-Neptune” exoplanets orbit their star in a kind of rhythmic dance – one easily set to music.
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date: 2023-11-30, from: VOA News USA
Henry Kissinger, who died Wednesday at the age of 100, personified U.S. foreign policy during the Nixon and Ford administrations, serving as secretary of state under both presidents and inviting both praise for his diplomatic successes and controversy for his calculating political view of the world.
His death was announced by his consulting firm and no cause was given.
Known for being a scholar, a Nobel Peace Prize winner and a prominent refugee to the United States, Kissinger became a cultural icon, inspiring myriad biographies, both favorable and not, and satirized by the likes of Monty Python.
The conservative thinker helped to engineer a host of diplomatic successes, including rapprochement with China and detente with the Soviet Union. He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize along with Le Duc Tho of North Vietnam for their efforts to negotiate an end to the Vietnam War.
Kissinger also had multiple achievements in the Middle East, including negotiating the 1975 Sinai Accord between Egypt and Israel, and working to advance the broader Arab-Israeli peace process in efforts that became known as “shuttle diplomacy.”
Despite his achievements around the globe, Kissinger was a controversial figure, with critics alleging he allowed carpet-bombing in Cambodia, supported Pakistan’s crackdown on Bangladesh and did little to stop Argentina’s campaign against dissidents.
Early years
Born Heinz Kissinger in Furth, Germany, he arrived in the United States in 1938 at the age of 15 after his family fled the Nazi persecution of Jews. The family spoke English at home, and Heinz became known as Henry, later becoming a naturalized U.S. citizen.
Kissinger returned to Europe during World War II as a member of the U.S. Army in the 84th Infantry Division.
“I look back at those years with great pride,” Kissinger told the Chicago Tribune when he was in his 80s. “World War II was a war without any moral ambiguity.”
Following the war, Kissinger enrolled at Harvard on the G.I. Bill, and received his bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral degrees from the university, later joining the school’s faculty.
Kissinger’s view of foreign policy was no doubt shaped by his experience of fleeing Nazi Germany.
He is known for his brand of “realpolitik” centered on making practical diplomatic decisions rather than those rooted to a moral framework.
When asked by The New York Times in 1974 about the sense of pessimism and even tragedy in his political writings, Kissinger responded, “I think of myself as a historian more than as a statesman. As a historian, you have to be conscious of the fact that every civilization that has ever existed has ultimately collapsed.”
“History is a tale of efforts that failed, of aspirations that weren’t realized, of wishes that were fulfilled and then turned out to be different from what one expected,” he said.
White House roles
After serving as a consultant to U.S. government agencies during the Eisenhower, Kennedy and Johnson administrations, Kissinger joined the White House in 1969 during the Nixon administration. He served as national security adviser and then secretary of state and continued as secretary of state under President Gerald Ford.
Kissinger had a close relationship with President Richard Nixon and credited the collaboration as a major reason for their foreign policy successes.
He told Newsweek in 2009, “I saw the president every day when we were both in town because I felt it was absolutely essential that we thought along the same lines. I was lucky. I had extraordinarily close relationships with the two presidents I served. In fact, if one looks at the history of the secretaries of state, it’s rare,” he said.
Kissinger made two trips to China before accompanying Nixon on his groundbreaking visit to Beijing in 1972 to meet with China’s Communist Party chairman, Mao Zedong. During the visit, the United States and China formalized diplomatic relations after a break of 23 years.
Kissinger and Nixon also worked closely together to defuse tensions with the Soviet Union, resulting in the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT) as well as the Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) Treaty.
The top U.S. diplomat received numerous awards for his accomplishments. Along with the Nobel Peace Prize in 1973, he earned the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1977, the United States’ highest civilian honor, and the Medal of Liberty in 1986, which was given to 10 of America’s most influential foreign-born leaders.
Controversies
Despite his accomplishments, Kissinger has attracted plenty of criticism, much of it centered on his actions during the Vietnam War.
Kissinger kept secret the U.S. bombings of Cambodia and Laos in 1969 – which helped to escalate the Vietnam War – failing to inform Congress or the American public about them.
He also was given power by Nixon to conduct secret negotiations with the North Vietnamese. While Kissinger eventually helped broker the Paris Peace Accords as a result of the negotiations, his critics say the years of secretive talks only prolonged the war.
Kissinger has also been criticized for his role in conflicts around the world, including Angola’s civil war, which developed into a Cold War battleground, and the U.S. involvement in Chile, which culminated in a coup in 1973.
While Kissinger stayed on in his role as secretary of state after Nixon resigned in disgrace in 1974, he was not left unscathed by the Watergate scandal that took Nixon from office. The scandal revealed that Kissinger had ordered the FBI to wiretap members of the National Security Council to see who had leaked news of the U.S. bombing of Cambodia to the news media.
Post White House
After leaving the government, Kissinger worked as an international consultant and lecturer, as well as author, writing more than a dozen books. His latest, “Leadership,” was published when he was 99.
He continued to speak and write about foreign affairs, even provoking controversy in May 2022 when he argued at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, that Ukraine should cede territory to make peace with Russia. He said an embarrassing defeat for Russian President Vladimir Putin could worsen Europe’s long-term stability.
Kissinger is survived by his second wife, Nancy, whom he married in 1974. He had two children with his first wife, Ann Fleischer, and five grandchildren.
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date: 2023-11-30, updated: 2023-11-30, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
A US congressional committee has questioned whether Chinese-made Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) devices might have a negative impact on national security, and suggested they may therefore be worthy of the same bans that prevent stateside adoption of other tech.…
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date: 2023-11-30, from: The Signal
Damian Collier, a 15-year-old Saugus High School freshman, returned home from the hospital the day before Thanksgiving after enduring a motocross accident on Nov. 4 in Palmdale. According to his mother, Nikki Cormier, Damian’s father, Sean Collier is a professional supercross/motocross racer who inspired him to train to become a professional. “It just runs in […]
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date: 2023-11-30, from: SCV New (TV Station)
The Los Angeles County Commission on Human Relations released its annual analysis of hate crimes reported throughout Los Angeles County in
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date: 2023-11-30, from: The Signal
Saugus Centurions boys’ basketball started league play with a bang on Tuesday against the visiting Canyon Cowboys. The Centurions improved on both sides of the ball throughout each quarter behind smothering defense, quick transition and selfless ball movement to earn the 86-62 win over Canyon. Even with all the extra passes, Centurions senior Justin Perez […]
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date: 2023-11-30, from: VOA News USA
Vice President Kamala Harris will lead the U.S. delegation to the world’s premier climate summit, the White House said Wednesday.
The White House stressed that President Joe Biden considers the climate crisis among his top four priorities, but the recent conflict between Israel and Hamas has consumed much of his time and attention.
“Throughout her engagements, the vice president will underscore the Biden-Harris administration’s success in delivering on the most ambitious climate agenda in history, both at home and abroad,” said Kirsten Allen, the vice president’s press secretary.
Harris will lead dozens of top U.S. officials, including special presidential envoy for climate John Kerry and others from more than 20 agencies and departments, the White House said.
This year’s U.N. Climate Change Conference of the Parties — known as COP28 because it is the 28th gathering of its kind — will be hosted by United Arab Emirates President Mohamed bin Zayed. The royal, who took office after the 2022 death of his brother, is also chairman of the Supreme Petroleum Council, the Emirate of Abu Dhabi’s top governing body for oil, gas and related industries.
Nearly 200 countries represented
More than 70,000 delegates from nearly 200 countries are beginning to converge on the city of Dubai, which has seen a meteoric rise from its fishing village roots, thanks to its massive oil wealth.
There, in a city known for its artificial archipelago and hyperluxury shopping offerings inside a mall that covers more than 50 soccer fields and contains an indoor ski slope and a colony of penguins, they will assess the progress toward the goal of limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels.
In a statement, Biden said Harris would “showcase U.S. global leadership on climate at home and abroad” and would “help galvanize increased global ambition at this critical event.”
She will attend meetings Friday and Saturday in Dubai.
Earlier this week, when asked why Biden was not attending the summit, John Kirby, director of strategic communications at the National Security Council, said Biden was “more than capable” of handling his many responsibilities, but that the Mideast conflict had “obviously” been a recent focus.
‘Race to the top’
VOA on Wednesday asked White House national climate adviser Ali Zaidi whether the United States would push for a deal to commit countries to phase out fossil fuels by a certain date. In September, leaders of the world’s 20 largest economies failed to agree on this issue.
Washington, Zaidi replied, seeks to “phase down the emissions that come from the unabated burning of fossil fuels.”
That word — unabated — may be a sticking point in this year’s declaration, as it would permit the opening of new fossil fuel plants if they have thus far unproven technology meant to capture and store carbon emissions.
Already, an intergovernmental group of 117 countries has questioned that language and has indicated opposition to its inclusion.
“The emission abatement technologies which currently only exist at limited scale have a minor role to play to reduce emissions mainly from hard to abate sectors,” the High Ambition Coalition for Nature and People said in a statement signed by ministers from 16 countries, including Austria, Ethiopia and France. “However, they should not be used to delay climate action in sectors such as electricity generation where feasible, effective and cost-efficient mitigation alternatives are available, particularly in this critical decade when emissions need to be reduced urgently and dramatically.”
Zaidi also pointed out Biden’s role in passing a significant climate law, the Inflation Reduction Act, which commits at least $370 billion to clean energy over the next 10 years — something Harris will also emphasize at the gathering, administration officials told reporters in a briefing on the matter on Wednesday.
“This is a race to the top, hopefully, for clean energy,” Zaidi told VOA. “We want to lead that race, and the good news is the more countries that join that race, the better off we’ll be in tackling these emissions. We need countries like China and other major economies to be the ones that reduce emissions in a major way. We’re doing that here at home.”
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date: 2023-11-30, from: The Signal
An official with the L.A. County Sheriff’s Homicide Bureau reported Wednesday that a 12-year-old boy found dead in Sand Canyon on Nov. 6 was believed to have died as the result of an unintentional discharge of a handgun, according to a witness. Willians Lemus Ayala, 12, of Santa Clarita, was found dead on the side […]
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date: 2023-11-30, from: Santa Barbara Indenpent News
The Independent’s article on local resident Charlie Munger’s passing was so far off base I initially thought I was reading the Onion or another parody publication.
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date: 2023-11-30, from: Peter Warden
Imagine asking a box on a pillar at Home Depot “Where are the nails?” and getting directions, your fridge responding with helpful advice when you say “Why is the ice maker broken?”, or your car answering “How do I change the wiper speed?”. I think of these kinds of voice assistants for everyday objects as […]
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date: 2023-11-30, updated: 2023-11-30, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
An ex-Motorola technician in the US has admitted he tried to fraudulently obtain a passport while awaiting trial for a cyberattack on his former employer.…
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date: 2023-11-30, from: SCV New (TV Station)
Governor Gavin Newsom announced the California Highway Patrol is increasing statewide efforts to combat organized retail crime as the annual holiday shopping season begins
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date: 2023-11-30, from: Santa Barbara Indenpent News
The book explains the imperative of the reciprocal relationship between humans and nature.
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date: 2023-11-30, from: VOA News USA
Families of hostages still held by Hamas urged U.S. lawmakers Wednesday not to let up on negotiations for their release.
The Israeli government said 12 hostages were released from captivity in Gaza on Wednesday, the sixth release of hostages during a negotiated cease-fire that international negotiators were working to extend.
“The release of these hostages has been a cause for hope,” Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Ben Cardin said in a statement Wednesday. “And we are equally encouraged by the lifesaving aid that has reached innocent Palestinians who are also victims of Hamas’ cruelty. But we must not allow complacency to deter us in our shared mission to bring home the other hostages held by Hamas, including American citizens.”
Hamas has been designated a terrorist organization by the U.S., U.K, EU and others.
An estimated 240 hostages were seized when Hamas attacked Israel on October 7, beginning the conflict. Of those, almost 100 have been released over the past six days.
“Keep the pressure on Qatar. Keep the pressure on Egypt. Rally the international community to use any resources they have. Get this done,” said Orna Neutra, mother of hostage Omer Neutra.
Omer Neutra, a dual Israeli American citizen serving in the Israel Defense Forces, is believed to have been held in captivity for more than 50 days.
House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Michael McCaul said he viewed footage of the October 7 attack last week in Israel with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
“I’ve never seen the prime minister — who is a very stoic, strong man — driven to tears, watching his own people being killed in such a horrific manner: the rapes and the beheadings and the slaughter of innocent Jewish people. He will not rest until [Hamas is] eradicated, not just for the Jewish people but for the Palestinians,” McCaul said at a roundtable meeting with families of the hostages on Capitol Hill.
Congress passed a resolution Tuesday calling on Hamas to release all hostages and condemning the October 7 attack by a vote of 414-0. A second resolution affirming Israel’s right to exist passed 412-1-1. Democratic Representative Rashida Tlaib, who has faced criticism for her comments about Israel, voted present. Republican Representative Thomas Massie voted no.
“We will not relent. We will not stop. We will not forget. We will continue to work. We will put politics aside until your hope becomes a reality of the return of your love,” said Representative Gregory Meeks, the top Democrat on the House Foreign Affairs Committee.
As of Wednesday, only one American hostage had been freed.
Ruby Chen, father of hostage Itay Chen, who is also an Israeli soldier, told lawmakers, “This is not a U.S. issue. It’s an international community humanitarian issue that all of the international community needs to get behind in order to solve this problem.”
Liz Hirsh Naftali, great-aunt of recently released 3-year-old Abigail Edan, told lawmakers, “Abigail is home. Not in her home, but she is home in Israel because her home is destroyed. They can’t return to where they lived. She has no parents to go home to.”
Edan’s parents were killed by Hamas during the October 7 attack.
U.S. lawmakers have struggled to agree on the White House’s request for $13.6 billion in aid to Israel. Earlier this month, the Democratic-majority Senate did not take up legislation passed in the Republican-majority House of Representatives that paid for aid to Israel with budget cuts to the Internal Revenue Service.
The Senate is working on a deal for Republicans’ request for billions of dollars in border security funding in return for the votes needed to pass aid to both Ukraine and Israel.
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date: 2023-11-30, from: VOA News USA
American leadership is essential in establishing norms and laws to “determine how we both glean the promise and manage the peril” of emerging technologies like artificial intelligence and digital economic and social platforms used to connect billions of people around the world, a White House adviser told VOA.
The Biden administration has rolled out a number of initiatives on the topic — most recently, an executive order that aims to set new AI safety and security standards. That order relies on cooperation from private developers and other countries, “because the attackers are in one set of countries, the infrastructure is in another and the victims are global,” said Anne Neuberger, deputy national security adviser for cyber and emerging technology at the National Security Council.
Neuberger sat down with VOA White House Correspondent Anita Powell to explain these complex, compelling technologies and how she thinks they have exposed the worst but also the best in humanity.
The following has been edited for length and clarity.
VOA: Thank you so much for sitting down with VOA today. Can you walk us through the concrete outcomes of the recent meeting between President Joe Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping in the areas you cover — cybersecurity, AI and the digital economy?
Anne Neuberger, White House deputy national security adviser: Of course, strategic technologies are very important to both of our countries’ growth and national security — and we’re global players on a global stage. The most important part of the discussion was two leaders coming together to say: While we are in competition, we’re committed to working together on areas where we can collaborate - areas like climate change, like discussions of what are the rules for artificial intelligence.
VOA: Would you assess that the meeting made any progress, especially on AI regulation?
Neuberger: Certainly very good discussions related to an agreement for the countries to sit down and establish a working group on AI [about] appropriate guardrails and guidelines in this area.
VOA: I’m going to stick with AI and the administration’s recent moves, like the AI Bill of Rights and also the attempt to set some norms at the recent London summit on AI. Why does the administration think U.S. leadership matters so much here?
Neuberger: For two reasons. First, the United States is a committed democracy and AI is a major technology that brings both promise and peril. It is up to us to determine how we both glean the promise and manage the peril. President Biden has made that clear in his game-changing executive order that, as a country, we must manage the perils in order to glean the promise.
VOA: Speaking of the perils of AI, what is the administration doing to prevent the malicious use of generative AI in both conflicts and contests? I’m talking about conflicts like Israel and Ukraine, but also contests like the upcoming elections in Congo, in Taiwan and here in the United States.
Neuberger: We’ve seen new AI models that generate very realistic videos, very realistic images. In terms of generative AI related to elections, I want to lift up one of the voluntary commitments that the president negotiated, which was around watermarking: having a visible and potentially invisible mark on an AI-generated image or video that notes that this is AI-generated, to alert a viewer. An invisible mark could be used so that, even if there are attempts to remove this mark, the platforms themselves can still be able to portray that message and help educate individuals. This is still an area of evolving technology. It’s getting better and better. But companies made commitments to start marking content that they generate. And I know a number of social media platforms are also making commitments to ensure that they display messages to help consumers who see such content know that it is generated by artificial intelligence.
VOA: Moving on to cybersecurity and malign actors like North Korea and Russia, what is the administration doing to curb their work in this area?
Neuberger: We see North Korea really using cyberattacks as a way to get money because they’re such a heavily sanctioned regime. So North Korea moved from targeting banks to targeting … cryptocurrency infrastructure around the world. And the White House has had a focused effort to bring together all elements we have to fight that with Treasury Department designations.
There’ll be further designations coming up for the cryptocurrency mixers that launder funds stolen from those cryptocurrency infrastructures. We also have been working with the industry to press them to improve the cybersecurity of their systems as well as law enforcement. U.S. law enforcement has been cooperating with partners around the world to take down that server infrastructure and to arrest the individuals who are responsible for some of this activity.
VOA: Tell us a little bit about the counter-ransomware initiative you’re working on.
Neuberger: Absolutely. Essentially, criminal groups, many of which are based in Russia with infrastructure operating from around the world, are locking systems … in order to request that the system owners pay ransom. In the United States alone in the last two years, $2.3 billion was paid in ransom. It’s a fundamentally transnational fight. … What we’ve done is assemble 48 countries, Interpol [and] the European Union to take this on together, because we know that the attackers are in one set of countries, the infrastructure is in another, and the victims are global. As the White House built this initiative, we ensure that the leadership is diverse.
So, for example, the leaders of the effort to build capacity around the world are Nigeria and Germany — intentionally, a country from Africa and a country from Europe, because their needs are different. And we wanted to ensure that as we’re helping countries build the capacity to fight this, we’re sensitive to the different needs of a country like Nigeria, like Rwanda, like South Africa, like Indonesia. Similarly, there’s an effort focused on exercising information, sharing information together.
You asked about the key deliverables from this most recent meeting. I’ll note three big ones. First, we launched a website and a system where countries can collaborate when they’re fighting a ransomware attack, where they can ask for help [or] learn from others who fought a similar attack. Second, we made the first ever joint policy statement — a big deal — 48 countries committing that countries themselves will not pay ransoms, because we know this is a financially driven problem. And third, the United States committed that we would be sharing bad wallets [that] criminals are using to move money around the world so other countries can help stop that money as it moves as well. So that’s an example of three of the many commitments that came out of the recent meeting.
VOA: Let’s talk about the Global South, which has pioneered development of really interesting digital economic technologies like Kenya’s M-PESA, which was rolled out in, like, 2007. Now the U.S. has Venmo, which is modeled on that. How is the U.S. learning from the developing world in the development of these projects and also the perils of these products?
Neuberger: M-PESA is a fantastic example of the promise of digital tech. Essentially, Kenya took the fact that they had a telecom infrastructure, and built their banking infrastructure riding on that, so they leapt ahead to enable people across the country to do transactions online. When you look at Ukraine in the context of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Ukraine quickly moved their government online, really building on lessons learned from Estonia, to enable Ukrainians — many who are in Poland and Hungary — to continue to engage with their government in a digital way.
The U.S. Agency for International Development is tremendously proud of that Ukrainian project and is using it as a model as we look to other countries around the world. So we’re learning a lot from the creativity and innovation; what we want to bring to that is American development, skill and aid, and also plugging in American tech companies who can accelerate the rollout of these projects in countries around the world, because we still believe in the promise of digital. But you mentioned the peril, and that’s where cybersecurity comes in.
VOA: This lines us up perfectly for my final question, about the promise and the peril. In the digital world, people can hide behind anonymity and say and do awful things using tools that were meant to improve the world. How do you keep your faith in humanity?
Neuberger: It’s a tremendously important question. It’s one that’s personally important to me. My great-grandparents lost their lives in Nazi death camps. And those members of my family who survived — some survived through the horrors of the camp, some managed to hide out under false identities. And I often think that the promise of digital has also made our identities very evident. Sometimes when I’m just browsing Amazon online, and it recommends a set of books, I think to myself: I wonder how I’d hide if what happened to my grandparents came for me. So as a result, I think that even as we engage with these technologies, we have to ensure that vulnerable populations are protected.
So, the president’s working with AI companies to say companies have an obligation to protect vulnerable populations online, to ensure that we’re using AI to detect where there’s bullying online, where there’s hate speech that goes against common practices that needs to be addressed; where there are AI-generated images related to children or women or other vulnerable populations, that we use AI to find them and remove them; and certainly use law enforcement and the power of law enforcement partnerships around the world to deter that as well. Freedom of speech is a part of free societies. Freedom from harm needs to be a fight we take on together.
VOA: Thank you so much for speaking to our audience.
Neuberger: Thank you.
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date: 2023-11-30, updated: 2023-11-30, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Meta has paused shipments of the wearable battery-slash-head strap accessory for its Quest 3 VR goggles amid reports the device bricks itself when charged.…
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date: 2023-11-30, from: VOA News USA
Life expectancy in the United States is on the rise but remains lower than it was in the years before the COVID-19 pandemic, as a host of other factors contributing to mortality, including chronic disease, gun violence and a persistent epidemic of overdose deaths, continue to plague the country.
According to data released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Wednesday, an American born in 2022 could expect to live 77.5 years on average, up 1.1 years from 2021, with most of the improvement accounted for by the reduction in COVID-19 deaths.
However, as recently as 2019, the year before the pandemic began in earnest, the average life expectancy in the U.S. was 78.8 years. While some other countries with advanced economies and modern health care infrastructure have seen their life expectancy rates return to pre-pandemic levels, the U.S. still lags behind.
There are also wide gaps in life expectancy across demographic groups in the U.S. Women, for example, had a life expectancy of 80.2 years in 2022, compared to just 74.8 years for men.
Asian Americans born in 2022 could expect to live 84.5 years, and Hispanic Americans of any race had a life expectancy of 80 years. White Americans matched the overall average at 77.5 years, while Black Americans could expect to live 72.8 years. The lowest life expectancy reported by the CDC was for American Indian and Alaska Native Americans, at 67.9 years.
Behind peer countries
“There’s both good and bad news here,” Dr. Leana Wen, an emergency physician and a professor of public health at The George Washington University, told VOA.
“It’s disappointing that life expectancy has not rebounded more following the worst of COVID,” Wen said. “But that said, life expectancy in 2022 did rise by more than a full year. And it’s thought that more than 80% of this positive increase was attributed to a drop in COVID-19 deaths.
“Even before COVID, the U.S. was already behind our peer countries when it came to life expectancy,” she added. “Even without COVID, improvements in life expectancy have been stagnating in the U.S. over the last decade. So it’s not surprising, then, that we would not have as robust of a rebound as other countries. We need to improve our health care infrastructure in this country, especially when it comes to preventing illnesses and addressing chronic diseases.”
In much of Europe, as well as in developed economies in Asia, including Japan and South Korea, life expectancy is significantly above 80 years for the average person.
Coronavirus still matters
While coronavirus deaths are down to just a fraction of what they were in 2020 and 2021, the disease still presents a serious threat to the lives of many Americans, especially because the widespread existence of chronic diseases common to U.S. adults make dying from an infection more likely.
Dr. Joshua Sharfstein, director of the Bloomberg American Health Initiative at Johns Hopkins University, told VOA that the country could still be doing more to limit deaths from coronavirus infections, including by encouraging more Americans to get vaccinated against the disease.
However, he said the threat from the pandemic represents only part of the troubles facing U.S. public health officials.
“There are many challenges to American health beyond COVID,” Sharfstein said. “So, we have a ways to go, and many of those challenges got worse during the pandemic.”
In addition to improving preventive care for respiratory illnesses, Sharfstein’s organization has called for concerted action by the government to address overdose deaths, suicides, gun violence, motor vehicle crashes, heat-related deaths, as well as heart disease, stroke and diabetes.
Change by demographic group
While all of the demographic groups tracked by the CDC saw their life expectancies rise between 2021 and 2022, the increase varied significantly.
The American Indian and Alaskan Native cohort experienced the largest year-over-year boost in life expectancy of 2.4 years for men and 2.1 years for women. However, that same group experienced the most severe decline in life expectancy during the pandemic, a loss of 6.2 years between 2019 and 2021.
Hispanic Americans had the next largest gain in 2022, with life expectancy for men rising by 2.4 years and for women by 1.7 years. The group as a whole saw life expectancy drop by 4.1 years between 2019 and 2021.
For Black men and Black women, the average life expectancy increased by 1.5 years in 2022. As a group, Black Americans experienced an overall decline in life expectancy of 3.6 years during the pandemic.
Male Asian Americans saw their life expectancy increase by 1.2 years in 2022, with Asian American women seeing an increase of 0.7 years. Asian Americans as a group saw life expectancy decline by 2.1 years from 2019 to 2022.
As a group, White Americans had the smallest rebound in life expectancy last year, with men charting a gain of 1.1 years and women 0.6 years. As a group, White Americans lost 2.1 years of life expectancy between 2019 and 2022.
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@Jessica Smith’s blog (date: 2023-11-30, from: Jessica Smith’s blog)
So I’m doing the “let the Spotify DJ walk you through your 2023 Wrapped” thing, and the very first song was… Interpol’s “Leif Erikson”, which I think I would’ve listened to exactly two times all year (when I listened to the whole album) if Spotify didn’t insist on cramming it into every single “songs it goes on to when an album finishes” set.
Also, so far, every other one of my “top songs” this year has been by Interpol too. But maybe that’s just the DJ organising my “top songs” by artist or something. Interpol still isn’t exactly where I’d have started, though (they rank 7th for my year up to 15 Nov, according to Last.fm).
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date: 2023-11-30, updated: 2023-11-30, from: The LAist
Black, Jewish and LGBTQIA+ residents endured the most reported hate crimes in the county, officials say.
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date: 2023-11-30, from: ETH Zurich, recently added
Kopf, Robert; Paschen, Christoph; Muller, Lavinia; Kocar, Berk; Wolfring, Martin; Vincent, Mathilde; Klemm, Denis; Bell, Christian; Pinto, Cosimo
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date: 2023-11-29, from: Guam Daily Post
Police are attending to a terroristic conduct complaint at Harvest Christian Academy in Toto this morning.
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date: 2023-11-29, from: SCV New (TV Station)
The Los Angeles County Department of Economic Opportunity, in partnership with Project Equity, launched Employee Ownership LA County.
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date: 2023-11-29, from: NASA breaking news
Artemis II Crew Enjoys Visit with Marshall Team Members By Wayne Smith From talking about continuing the legacy of NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in space exploration to describing their roles in an upcoming historic mission, Artemis II astronauts enjoyed visiting with center team members Nov. 27. The crew will be the first to ride […]
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date: 2023-11-29, from: Santa Barbara Indenpent News
Chiquito Our happy 1.5-year-old boy, Chiquito is a spunky, sweet kitty who loves to play. Between his little chubby cheeks
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date: 2023-11-29, from: Santa Barbara Indenpent News
Kudos to Callie Fausey for her excellent article today about the SBTA and their struggle to get the attention of the school board.
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date: 2023-11-29, updated: 2023-11-29, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Meta will require advertisers to disclose whether their political ads on its platforms contain any AI-generated or digitally altered content.…
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date: 2023-11-29, from: VOA News USA
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken heads back to Israel on Thursday, where he says he will work to help prolong a cease-fire so more hostages can be released and more humanitarian aid can be delivered to Gaza. At the NATO foreign ministers’ meeting in Brussels, Blinken tried to reassure allies of continued U.S. support for Ukraine as Kyiv prepares for another winter of fighting. VOA’s Senior Diplomatic Correspondent Cindy Saine reports.
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date: 2023-11-29, from: SCV New (TV Station)
Fostering Youth Independence has launched its year-end giving campaign to support local foster youth aging out of the L.A. County foster system without ever finding a permanent home and family
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date: 2023-11-29, from: VOA News USA
U.S. President Joe Biden will not be attending the 28th United Nations Climate Change Conference, or COP 28. But U.S. diplomats will be there, interested in getting access to the critical mineral exports necessary to transition to green energy. VOA’s Jessica Stone reports.
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date: 2023-11-29, from: VOA News USA
In 2020, Tawheeda Wahabzada had had enough. It was time to leave the country she’d grown up in.
“The idea of leaving has always been at the back of my mind. … It was a constant reminder that this is temporary, and I felt I wasn’t able to live a meaningful life because of my status,” she said.
Wahabzada is one of a growing number of young immigrants brought to the United States as children who do not want to live in legal limbo anymore. She, like millions of other immigrants who entered the country without permission or overstayed their visas, has no path to citizenship.
The Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, or DACA, was created in 2012 under the Obama administration to give undocumented immigrants some administrative relief by allowing them to do things such as apply for work permits and obtain driver’s licenses.
However, the program faced continual challenges in court, and in 2017 the Trump administration announced it would dismantle the program.
For some DACA recipients, it was time to stop dreaming of a future in the U.S. Wahabzada moved to Canada in 2020, where she is a citizen and can continue working at an international nongovernmental organization.
About a year later, she found two other DACA recipients, Eun Suk “Jason” Hong and Monzy Hernandez, online.
“I actually first reached out to Jason on LinkedIn, and then through Jason, I met Monzy,” Wahabzada said in an email. “We’ve instantly connected as if we’ve known each other for a while. Then we realized how this isn’t just our problem, but a lot more people are experiencing similar, if not the same, issues. So we’ve decided to create a small, exclusive community on Facebook which later turned into ONWARD.”
According to ONWARD, there is a growing movement of young adults in the U.S. who are unable to get citizenship and are hoping to start anew elsewhere.
“We don’t give legal advice, but we share our experiences. … We connect people,” Wahabzada said. The group started out with a few hundred followers; now it has about 1,500.
Life in the U.S.
Wahabzada had a “very American” upbringing. Her parents were refugees who originally relocated from Afghanistan to Canada in 1990, where she was born.
“It was very difficult for my parents to have stable jobs. We were very low-income, and we didn’t really have close immediate family near us. … They’ve had careers and degrees from their past lives … but they couldn’t use those skills,” she said.
In 1995, her family moved to Carson City, Nevada, where they had relatives.
“They thought it was easier for them to be closer to family and to work with family — to have support and more opportunities that way,” she said.
Wahabzada learned she was undocumented when she was nearly 16.
“I remember dragging [my mother] with me, and when I was at the DMV, the person at the DMV was like ‘You don’t have the necessary documents to apply for a learner’s permit.’ … And that’s how my mom told me about the reality of my status,” she said.
She went on to college, graduating from the University of Nevada, Reno, and earning a master’s degree in global policy studies from the University of Texas at Austin. Her family and private scholarships helped her pay for her education.
After college, she lived in Washington and worked as a data and policy analyst for a nonprofit, Open Data Watch.
Hong, meanwhile, was born in South Korea, brought to the U.S. by his mother when he was 10, and raised in Montclair, New Jersey.
Growing up in the U.S., he did not feel any different than his U.S.-born friends. “I was just having fun with other Americans. … [My friends and I] enjoyed the same hobbies, same food,” he said.
But he knew something was different.
“I did have a little bit more awareness of what’s going on. I didn’t know what exactly it meant, right? The only thing I knew was that my mom was struggling to get permanent residency for us and for herself,” he said.
Like Wahabzada, Hong lived in a state where undocumented students could attend college.
“The idea of going to college was just joyous. … I think the first year of my university was when things were really upside down, where I really understood the impact [of my status] because starting from freshman year in college in the U.S., people were already applying for internships. And that’s when it hit big,” Hong said.
DACA
Wahabzada felt stuck and lonely. She was in college, and two of her friends knew her status but, “They didn’t know the extent of how bad it was,” she said, of being undocumented — “illegal” in the words of activists who want to reduce immigration to the U.S.
The introduction of DACA, Wahabzada said, changed her life.
“When the application for DACA was available in August [2012], I immediately started applying,” she said. After she entered the program, she could get a driver’s license and a job, among other things.
It changed Hong’s life as well. He became a DACA recipient during his senior year of college. With DACA, he could work.
He graduated from Binghamton University in New York with a degree in finance, moved to New York City and worked as a financial service representative at a New York insurance company. He also worked for an immigration advocacy nonprofit.
Then the Trump administration announced it would end DACA.
“I had a meltdown at the time,” Hong said. “That’s when I first realized, ‘What kind of future can I build?’”
In 2020, Hong was recognized by Binghamton University for his work advocating for dreamers and DACA recipients. Among other things, the university sent him a pamphlet about graduate school in Spain.
“Spain. I never thought about the option of leaving the United States. My mom pretty much sacrificed all of her things for this so I can have a life here,” he said.
In the end, Spain offered a future, and he decided to give up DACA.
“I could not put myself through this anymore,” Hong said. He was 29, his friends were getting promoted, marrying and having families. He felt stuck.
Wahabzada was coming to the same conclusion.
“In August [2019], I published an Op-Ed in the New York Times about the consequences of leaving the U.S. … I spent a lot of time with my family, and in January 2020 I had a self-deportation party,” she said.
A way forward
Hong moved to Spain on a student visa to attend graduate school in 2020.
“Up until I was walking toward the plane, I was like, ‘This is really happening.’ And then I got into the plane, that’s when it really hit [me] … ‘I’m leaving my home for my own future,’” he said.
After graduation, Hong received an entrepreneurship visa and launched his own business in Madrid.
While his mother returned to South Korea, she has since visited him in his new home.
After two years in Canada, Wahabzada was able to obtain a waiver to visit her family or for short work trips to Washington.
Leaving the U.S., she said, was really hard, and she still grieves.
“A lot of grief. A lot of loneliness,” she said.
Hong estimated that about 2,000 DACA recipients have made the journey out of the U.S., and that more than 1,000 are considering leaving the country.
The U.S. is losing potential leaders who understand resilience, empathy and compassion, Hong and Wahabzada said.
“The United States lost an ambitious, passionate young entrepreneur who wants to create jobs, who wants to help the community. … If there is something that America has lost, it is that kind of individual,” Wong said.
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date: 2023-11-29, from: NASA breaking news
Retired NASA astronaut Mary Cleave, a veteran of two NASA spaceflights, died Nov. 27. She was 76. A scientist with training in civil and environmental engineering, as well as biological sciences and microbial ecology, Cleave was the first woman to serve as an associate administrator for NASA’s Science Mission Directorate. Born in Southampton, New York, […]
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date: 2023-11-29, updated: 2023-11-29, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
The future of Apple’s credit card offering has been thrown into limbo, as the iPhone giant apparently wants out of its collaboration with Goldman Sachs, issuer of the Apple Card.…
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date: 2023-11-29, from: Heatmap News
One tool I have developed in my years of climate reporting might be described as the fleece quotient. This is the idea that you can generally predict if something is a climate event — a category I consider in its broadest terms, including but not limited to a scientific conference, a protest, or an international meeting — if more people attending it are wearing fleece than not. (It is distinct but related to the Patagonia ratio.)
This methodology is not perfect: In some cities, one can accidentally trip the fleece quotient on an ordinary Back to School night or even during a Sunday afternoon shop at Costco. And a true accounting of the fleece quotient (F.Q.) requires being attuned to microdemographic vagaries: If a fleece item is adorned with a third-party corporate logo, for instance, it is disqualified; but if it has an academic institution’s logo, then it counts twice. (If it’s embroidered with a major foundation’s logo? That’s five points, easy.)
But I have found it to be generally robust. In San Francisco (a fleece-friendly place to begin with), it is possible to tell when 25,000 Earth scientists arrive for their large annual conference because the city’s fleece quotient slightly but perceptibly rises.
This is all to say: Last night, I boarded a long-haul flight from Newark that had a fleece quotient to rival that of the Seattle REI. It was, of course, filled with people headed to the United Nations’ annual climate conference in Dubai — that is, the 28th annual meeting of the Conference of the Parties of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, or COP28.
For the next week or so, I’ll be attending the conference and writing notes about what I see. (COP itself runs to December 12.) I’ll also be trying to decode and filter the daily flood of climate news that tends to characterize this week. COP is the one moment every year when the world focuses on climate change — and as I think we’ll see this week, that can be both for good and for ill.
I’m excited to write these notes over the coming days. If you’d like to receive them in your inbox, you can subscribe to Heatmap Daily, our daily climate newsletter, below:
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date: 2023-11-29, from: NASA breaking news
NASA conducted the third RS-25 engine hot fire in a critical 12-test certification series Nov. 29, demonstrating a key capability necessary for flight of the SLS (Space Launch System) rocket during Artemis missions to the Moon and beyond. NASA is conducting the series of tests to certify new manufacturing processes for producing RS-25 engines for […]
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date: 2023-11-29, from: Smithsonian Magazine
The large plane, which can accommodate roughly 300 passengers, delivered 45 scientists and 12 tons of equipment to a research station in Queen Maud Land
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date: 2023-11-29, updated: 2023-11-29, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Nearly 4,000 US auto dealers have signed an open letter urging the Biden administration to slow its plan to push electric vehicles (EVs) onto the populace – because demand is apparently low and the darn things just aren’t selling that well. …
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date: 2023-11-29, from: SCV New (TV Station)
In response to the increase of xylazine in the illegal drug supply in the U.S., the California Department of Public Health has issued a letter to healthcare facilities and providers outlining the risks and warning signs of exposure, as well as patient care recommendations
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date: 2023-11-29, from: NASA breaking news
NASA is working to resume science operations of the agency’s Hubble Space Telescope after it entered safe mode Nov. 23 due to an ongoing gyroscope (gyro) issue. Hubble’s instruments are stable, and the telescope is in good health. The telescope automatically entered safe mode when one of its three gyroscopes gave faulty readings. The gyros […]
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date: 2023-11-29, from: The Round Up (Peirce College Student Paper)
Women’s Soccer tied 1-1 against Ventura College on Oct. 6. Ventura is ranked in the top 10 of the state, but the Brahmas were able
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date: 2023-11-29, from: Michael Tsai
koepnick (via Hacker News): This is revolting and an anathema to the open source movement. A movement, I might add, Microsoft is abusing here.We’re told that this is for security… But what possible point is there when I can simply clone the repository and use more dedicated tools for proper searching and analysis?So what possible […]
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date: 2023-11-29, from: Michael Tsai
Roman Loyola (via Hacker News): Since the MacBook Air doesn’t have a fan for the SoC, its performance will throttle down during processor-intensive work to maintain a proper operating temperature. The M2 13-inch MacBook Pro, on the other hand, has a fan that expels excessive heat so the chip can keep chugging along. The AirJet […]
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date: 2023-11-29, from: Michael Tsai
Catalin Cimpanu (2019, via Hacker News): A former high-ranking Mozilla executive has accused Google of intentionally and systematically sabotaging Firefox over the past decade in order to boost Chrome’s adoption.He is not the first Firefox team member to come forward and make such accusations in the past eight months; however, his allegations span far beyond […]
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date: 2023-11-29, updated: 2023-11-29, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
CISA is investigating a cyberattack against a Pennsylvania water authority by suspected Iranian miscreants. The intrusion forced operators to switch a pumping station to manual control.…
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date: 2023-11-29, from: SCV New (TV Station)
Registration is underway for the College of the Canyons winter 2024 session, which boasts more than 300 class sections
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date: 2023-11-29, from: Liliputing
The Freewrite Traveler is a portable writing machine that first launched about 5 years ago. It’s basically a digital typewriter designed for distraction-free writing. It doesn’t have a web browser, a color display, or apps. It lets you type documents on a full-sized keyboard while looking at an E Ink display, and back up those […]
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date: 2023-11-29, from: SCV New (TV Station)
Ismachiah Oduwole, a 13-year-old Santa Clarita ninth grader received an invitation by the UAE to attend COP 28 in Dubai, as their guest
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date: 2023-11-29, updated: 2023-11-29, from: The LAist
It’s the second high-profile instance to emerge recently of O.C. Supervisor Andrew Do not disclosing a relevant family relationship during official proceedings.
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@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2023-11-29, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
I’m always doing test posts on this blog. This is one of those times.
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date: 2023-11-29, from: Smithsonian Magazine
The elusive and critically endangered Vangunu giant rats are at least twice the size of common rats
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date: 2023-11-29, from: SCV New (TV Station)
The largest casino ever built by Princess Cruises is readying to deal a full house of luck on the next-generation, 4,300-guest Sun Princess.
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date: 2023-11-29, from: VOA News USA
Media law experts say a $700,000 settlement reached this month in the case of a Los Angeles, California, journalist arrested by sheriff’s deputies is a record agreement because it requires law enforcement to brief deputies on journalists’ rights. VOA’s Robin Guess reports. Camera: Roy Kim.
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date: 2023-11-29, from: VOA News USA
With her frail husband as a silent witness, Rosalynn Carter was celebrated by her family and closest friends Wednesday at her funeral in the same tiny town where she and Jimmy Carter were born, forever their home base as they climbed to the White House and traveled the world for humanitarian causes.
The former first lady, who died November 19 at the age of 96, had her intimate funeral at Maranatha Baptist Church in Plains, where she and her husband spent decades welcoming guests and where a wooden cross Jimmy Carter fashioned in his woodshop is displayed. Earlier tributes were held in nearby Americus and in Atlanta.
The former president was in attendance in his wheelchair, with her one last time in his life.
Maranatha Pastor Tony Lowden opened the service with a tribute to “the life and legacy of the greatest first lady.”
Rosalynn Carter wasn’t “just the first lady of the White House,” he told the gathering. “She served every nation around the world.”
The pastor, describing her competitive streak, spoke to the mourners in what he imagined to be the voice of Rosalynn Carter: “She would say to you today, ‘don’t grieve for me, for now I’m free. … Jimmy tried to beat me here. I got here first. I won the prize. Tell him I beat him and I’m waiting on him.’”
“But,” Lowden continued, “she would say ‘don’t stop. There’s too many homeless people in the world. There’s still too many people who don’t have equal rights.’ … She would tell you don’t stop. Become that virtuous woman. And men, if you’re listening, make room for the virtuous woman.”
She will be buried in a plot she will one day share with her husband of 77 years. The former president, now 99, left home hospice care to attend Tuesday’s memorial, where two other presidents and all the living first ladies joined the extended Carter family, as well as Wednesday’s more intimate hometown funeral.
Vernita Sampson, a school bus driver and Plains native, drove a group of area high school students, all wearing Future Farmer of America jackets, to downtown Plains to pay tribute to the former first lady and soak up the history of the day.
“They were people you could relate to, not this high standard where they were up here and, you know, we’re all down there,” said Sampson, 58. “We never get used to death, no matter who we are or how long you have lived,” but she said she and the students came “to celebrate that she did live a long life, a very happy and productive life, that gives you joy.”
At the service, the mourning came with affectionate stories of life with Rosalynn Carter and some laughs.
“It occurs to me that dad got used to mom disagreeing with him because she was really good at it,” son Jack Carter said. “And she became a partner in the true sense of the word, where they had equal footing.”
Jimmy Carter met his future wife only a few days after her mother delivered her.
“She was born just a few years after women got the right to vote in this small town in the South where people were still plowing their fields behind mules,” grandson Jason Carter said during the memorial service Tuesday at Atlanta’s Glenn Memorial Church.
Coming from that town of about 600 — then and now — Rosalynn Carter changed lives across America and the developing world, her grandson said. Jimmy Carter’s closest political adviser and a political force in her own right, she advocated for better mental health care and underappreciated caregivers in millions of U.S. households. Traveling overseas, she fought disease, famine, and the abuse of women and girls.
The Atlanta events reflected the grandest chapters of Rosalynn Carter’s life. Mourners viewed her casket steps from The Carter Center she and her husband co-founded after leaving the White House, then she was honored at a service filled with the music of a symphony chorus, a majestic pipe organ and fellow Habitat for Humanity ambassadors Garth Brooks and Trisha Yearwood. President Joe Biden, former President Bill Clinton and the first ladies joined Jimmy Carter and their four children in the front row, in front of more than 1,000 congregants in suits, ties and dresses.
Church members, who were included in the invitation-only ceremony, rarely talk of “President Carter” or “Mrs. Carter.” They are supporting “Mr. Jimmy” as he grieves for “Ms. Rosalynn.”
Lowden, the Carters’ longtime friend and personal minister, also officiated Tuesday, emphasizing that Rosalynn Carter’s work, from the Georgia statehouse when Jimmy Carter was governor to the 120-plus countries that she visited, was an extension of her faith.
After the funeral, her children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren walked alongside an SUV carrying Jimmy Carter as Rosalynn Carter was carried from Marantha for the last time through the town where she lived for more than 80 of her 96 years.
The motorcade passed holiday lights and decorations including a photo collage in front of the downtown tree featuring the “First Lady of Plains.”
The route also included the old high school where she was valedictorian during World War II, Plains Baptist Church where she and the former president were once outliers arguing for racial integration, the commercial district where she became Jimmy’s indispensable partner in their peanut business, the old train depot where she helped run the winning 1976 presidential campaign, and Plains Methodist Church, where as an 18-year-old in 1946, she married young Navy Lt. Jimmy Carter.
The route ends in what locals call “the Carter compound,” property that includes their one-story ranch house, the pond where she fished, and security outposts for the Secret Service agents who protected her for 47 years.
She will be buried in view of the front porch of the home where the 39th American president still lives.
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date: 2023-11-29, from: Computer ads from the Past
When you’ve already made the best home computer, what do you do for an encore?
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date: 2023-11-29, from: VOA News USA
A man who claimed to be a “senior field officer” for an Indian intelligence agency has been accused by U.S. federal prosecutors of orchestrating a foiled assassination plot against an American citizen who is the leader of Sikh separatist movement.
Documents made public by the U.S. Department of Justice on Wednesday do not name the Indian official, but indicated he worked with others in a government office in New Delhi and hired Nikhil Gupta, an Indian national, to arrange the killing.
Federal prosecutors allege the Indian official was repeatedly in contact with Gupta and wired him $15,000 as an advance payment for a promised $100,000 for the murder of the political activist.
Gupta, who is 52, is awaiting extradition to the United States from the Czech Republic. He faces murder-for-hire, conspiracy and racketeering charges in the United States in connection with the alleged plot.
The leader of Sikhs for Justice, attorney Gurpatwant Singh Pannun, a U.S.-Canadian dual national, has previously indicated he was the target, telling reporters the government of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi wanted to kill him for criticizing the Indian government and advocating for an independent state of Khalistan.
“The defendant conspired from India to assassinate, right here in New York City, a U.S. citizen of Indian origin who has publicly advocated for the establishment of a sovereign state for Sikhs,” said U.S. Attorney Damian William in a statement. “We will not tolerate efforts to assassinate U.S. citizens on U.S. soil.”
Defendant’s ‘hitman’ was undercover agent
U.S. law enforcement detected and disrupted the operation.
According to a superseding indictment unsealed Wednesday, Gupta contacted an individual whom Gupta believed to be a criminal associate, but who was actually a confidential source working with the Drug Enforcement Agency.
Gupta asked the source for assistance in contracting a hitman to murder the target in New York City. The confidential source introduced Gupta to a purported hitman, who was in fact an undercover U.S. law enforcement officer, according to the indictment.
“When a foreign government employee allegedly committed the brazen act of recruiting an international narcotics trafficker to murder a U.S. citizen on U.S. soil, DEA was there to stop the plot,” said DEA Administrator Anne Milgram in a statement on Wednesday.
A day after a Sikh separatist in Canada, Hardeep Singh Nijjar, was assassinated on June 19 near Vancouver, Gupta allegedly instructed the man he thought would be the hitman to proceed with the murder in New York because both Sikh activists were on the same hit list.
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau subsequently accused the Indian government of involvement in the killing of Nijjar. Trudeau’s accusation, which India denied, roiled relations between Ottawa and New Delhi.
Gupta was allegedly instructed that if the New York killing could not be done immediately, he should tell the assassin to wait until after Modi concluded his June 22 state visit to U.S. President Joe Biden at the White House.
The Biden administration learned of the alleged plot late the following month and raised the matter with senior Indian government officials, according to The Washington Post. In early August, national security adviser Jake Sullivan brought his concerns to his counterpart, Ajit Doval, in person during a meeting in another country in the region, the newspaper reported on Wednesday.
The same message was subsequently amplified by the director of the Central Intelligence Agency, William Burns, when he flew to New Delhi to meet Ravi Sinha, who heads the Research and Analytical Wing, India’s external intelligence agency.
Biden, according to media reports, also raised the matter when he met again with Modi at the Group of 20 Summit in September in New Delhi.
“Indian counterparts expressed surprise and concern” when confronted by the allegations, National Security Council spokeswoman Adrienne Watson said last week, after the New York plot was first reported by the Financial Times. “They stated that activity of this nature was not their policy.”
India’s government has set up a high-level inquiry to look into the allegations of its involvement.
The U.S. government shared some information and India “takes such inputs seriously since they impinge on our national security interests as well, and relevant departments were already examining the issue,” said External Affairs Ministry spokesman Arindam Bagchi in a statement issued Wednesday.
Lynn Davis contributed to this report.
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date: 2023-11-29, from: Smithsonian Magazine
As technology’s ability to manipulate reality improves, we’re all searching for the truth
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date: 2023-11-29, from: The Round Up (Peirce College Student Paper)
Andrew Abonales writes a repair order for the shop management class in the Advanced Automotive Technology Building at Pierce College in Woodland Hills, Calif., on
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date: 2023-11-29, updated: 2023-11-30, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Consider this your final warning: Google is going to start wiping inactive accounts on Friday, December 1. …
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date: 2023-11-29, from: Mozilla Developer Network blog
We’re thrilled to announce the first release of llamafile, inviting the open source community to join this groundbreaking project.
With llamafile, you can effortlessly convert large language model (LLM) weights into executables. Imagine transforming a 4GB file of LLM weights into a binary that runs smoothly on six different operating systems, without requiring installation.
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date: 2023-11-29, from: The Round Up (Peirce College Student Paper)
Annie Gonzalez speaks to students during at Pierce College in Woodland Hills, Calif., on Oct. 5, 2023. An East LA sixth generation Latina/Chicana actress
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date: 2023-11-29, updated: 2023-11-30, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
The future of NASA’s Dragonfly trip to Saturn’s moon Titan is looking uncertain after the agency gave the go-ahead for work to proceed on the final design and fabrication but kicked formal confirmation of the mission into mid-2024.…
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date: 2023-11-29, updated: 2023-11-30, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Cloud giant AWS has announced the inclusion of IBM’s Db2 database — among the first relational databases on the market — as one of the systems available on its Relational Database Service.…
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date: 2023-11-29, from: VOA News USA
Following the October 7th attacks in Israel, both Palestinians and Israelis are ill at ease. In Manhattan - one restaurant is uniting the two groups despite their differences. Johny Fernandez reports from New York City.
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date: 2023-11-29, from: Smithsonian Magazine
New research suggests the birds may find their mates in crowded colonies by looking at their chest plumage
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date: 2023-11-29, from: Liliputing
Chinese mini PC maker SOONNOOZ makes an unusual line of little computers that don’t really look much like computers. Not only does it have rounded corners, a physical jog dial on the top (that acts as a volume control), and a speaker grill on the front, but the computer has buttons on the sides that […]
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date: 2023-11-29, updated: 2023-11-30, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Okta has admitted that the number of customers affected by its October customer support system data breach is far greater than previously thought.…
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date: 2023-11-29, from: Tilde.news
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date: 2023-11-29, from: VOA News USA
Gearing up for his 2024 reelection bid, U.S. President Joe Biden on Wednesday touted his “Bidenomics” agenda, contrasting his vision to build the economy “from the bottom up and the middle out” with that of so-called MAGA Republicans who support former President Donald Trump’s Make America Great Again agenda.
Biden defended his administration’s signature pieces of legislation against their attacks, including his 2022 climate and energy law known as the Inflation Reduction Act and his 2021 Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, as well as the Obama-era Affordable Care Act that expanded access to health insurance.
“The speaker [of the House of Representatives Mike Johnson], Donald Trump and the MAGA Republicans in Congress are committed to protecting outrageous tax cuts for those at the very top,” said Biden, in remarks at CS Wind, the world’s largest wind tower manufacturer, in Pueblo, Colorado. “And they’re going to continue to oppose investing in all those programs that help people whether in education, health care, or whateverl”.
CS Wind is expanding with a new $200 million facility that it directly attributes to the Inflation Reduction Act. The company said the expansion is set to be completed in 2028 and will create 850 jobs.
“When I hear climate, I think jobs,” Biden said. “Instead of exporting jobs, companies, both foreign and domestic are creating jobs here in America and exporting American made products.”
Pueblo is in a congressional district represented by Lauren Boebert, a Trump supporter and harsh critic of Biden’s economic policies. She voted against passing the IRA, calling it “dangerous for America.”
“I am very proud of the work that CS Winds is doing there in Pueblo and the jobs that they’re creating,” Boebert said during an interview Tuesday with local TV station KKTV. “But as I stated, this will cost the taxpayers overall from the Inflation Reduction Act hundreds of billions of dollars. This bill was a complete scam.”
In his remarks, Biden took jabs against the congresswoman, dismissing her criticism that the IRA is a “massive failure” as her “massive failure in thinking.” Boebert and her Republican colleagues voted against “the law that made these investments in jobs possible,” he said.
Since Biden took office, companies have announced $7 billion in new manufacturing and clean energy investments in Colorado, the White House said in a statement.
Economy a top concern
With many voters saying the economy is a top concern in the 2024 election, the White House has been ramping up messaging to contrast the president’s vision against what he calls Republican’s “trickle-down economics” — the theory that tax breaks and benefits for corporations and the wealthy will eventually benefit everyone.
They insist that Biden’s policies have steered the country away from recession, highlighting positive economic growth, a declining rate of inflation, and continued low unemployment.
Many economists agree Biden’s policies have been successful at the macro level. Yet there is a disconnect with how Americans feel within their households. Only 32% of Americans polled approve of Biden’s handling of the economy, according to a Gallup poll released Tuesday. His overall approval rating stood at 37%.
Republicans eager to capitalize
“For millions of families, ‘Bidenomics’ is just code for higher prices, shrinking paychecks, and lower quality of life,” Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said in a statement Wednesday. “The White House seems to be counting on middle class families to forget about the 40-year-high inflation their spending binge helped create. They want the country to set aside that average food prices have risen 20% since President Biden took office.”
After a two-year period of the highest inflation in decades, U.S. inflation is slowing and is lower than in comparable economies in Europe. However, Americans still feel the pain from prices that are still higher than they were four years ago. They’re also finding it difficult to find affordable credit, as the Federal Reserve imposes higher interest rates to fight inflation.
“The American public are just feeling a little grumpy still,” said William Hoagland a senior vice president who focuses on economic policy analyses at the Bipartisan Policy Center. “They haven’t fully recovered from what was really a dire situation during COVID — high inflation, job insecurity.”
Republican presidential candidates have for the most part campaigned on reducing taxes, spending and regulations. Biden has accused them of planning to cut taxes for the wealthy and reduce benefits from popular government programs such as Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid.
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date: 2023-11-29, from: 404 Media Group
ChatGPT is full of sensitive private information and spits out verbatim text from CNN, Goodreads, WordPress blogs, fandom wikis, Terms of Service agreements, Stack Overflow source code, Wikipedia pages, news blogs, random internet comments, and much more.
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date: 2023-11-29, updated: 2023-11-29, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Engineer and astro-futurist Chris Lewicki wrote an essay this week - that would not be out of place in our Who, Me? archives - about a testing mistake that nearly transformed half a billion dollars worth of Mars Rover into spacecraft scrap.…
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date: 2023-11-29, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News
I’m finally happy with the next iteration of Scripting News. It’ll be quite a bit simpler than what I demo’d over the weekend.
For comic relief, I asked my friend ChatGPT, to draw a rendering of my new design, based on these instructions.
i want you to draw me a picture of the user interface of my blog, scripting news, as i describe it here. there are four tabs: blog, links, bloggers and about. below the tabs is a display area, where the content of the selected tab is displayed. above the tabs, across the whole width of the window is an artistic picture, with the big letters SCRIPTING NEWS overlaying it. Just below is the site slogan, “it’s even worse than it appears.” In your drawing the picture behind the letters should be of a hippie band playing in golden gate park. have fun!
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date: 2023-11-29, from: San Jose Mercury News
A woman was arrested on suspicion of driving the wrong way in South San Francisco last week, resulting in a crash that killed another person.
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date: 2023-11-29, from: San Jose Mercury News
Here’s how to get tickets to Festival La Onda by BottleRock as well as information about when the lineup will be released.
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date: 2023-11-29, from: VOA News USA
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Wednesday there is “strong bipartisan support” for Ukraine in the United States and sees “no sense of fatigue” among NATO allies continuing their support as the country enters its second winter of war against Russia.
“Some are questioning whether the United States and other NATO allies should continue to stand with Ukraine as we enter the second winter of Putin’s brutality. But the answer here today at NATO is clear, and it is unwavering. We must and we will continue to support Ukraine,” Blinken said during a press conference in Brussels on Wednesday.
Since the war began, the United States has provided about $77 billion in assistance to Ukraine, which includes humanitarian, financial and military aid, according to Blinken. He noted that Washington’s European allies have provided more than $110 billion in support of Kyiv.
‘Ultimate membership’
Ukraine’s path to NATO membership was discussed during Wednesday’s first foreign minister-level meeting of the NATO-Ukraine Council. Blinken also held separate talks with Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba.
The top U.S. diplomat said the allies reaffirmed their policy that “Ukraine will become a member of NATO when all allies agree and when conditions are met.”
In a separate press conference, NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said the member state laid out recommendations to Ukraine’s reforms.
“Ukraine is closer to NATO than ever before. We will continue to support them on the path to membership and will continue to support Ukraine’s fight for freedom,” Stoltenberg told reporters at NATO headquarters.
The United States is hosting the next NATO summit in Washington from July 9 to 11, 2024. Blinken discussed priorities for the meeting with his counterparts as the alliance celebrates its 75th anniversary next year.
A senior U.S. official told reporters that a significant portion of the discussions leading up to the Washington summit would aim to ensure that Ukraine is making the necessary progress toward “ultimate membership” in NATO “when conditions are right.”
The bloc’s member states have suggested to Ukraine “a set of governance reforms,” including strengthening anti-corruption agencies and authorities.
The NATO-Ukraine Council was inaugurated at the NATO Summit in Vilnius on July 12, with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and other heads of member governments also in attendance.
It convened for the second time in late July to discuss Black Sea security following Russia’s withdrawal from a deal overseeing grain exports from Ukrainian ports.
The third meeting was held in October to discuss substantial assistance to Ukraine and to ensure Ukraine’s forces are fully interoperable with NATO.
The NATO-Ukraine Council is the joint body where allies and Ukraine sit as equal participants to advance political dialogue.
North Macedonia
Wednesday afternoon, Blinken leads the U.S. delegation to NATO member North Macedonia, which is hosting a meeting of foreign ministers from the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe, or OSCE, in its capital, Skopje.
Blinken said he is supporting OSCE’s “determination” to “advance European security,” despite “Russia’s flagrant violations.”
Blinken is slated to hold talks with North Macedonia Foreign Minister Bujar Osmani before heading to the Middle East later in the evening.
Bulgaria has given permission for Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov’s plane to cross its airspace enroute to Skopje following North Macedonia’s request, allowing him to attend the OSCE ministerial meetings.
This has sparked an immediate outcry from Ukraine and the Baltic nations of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, who will boycott the gathering due to Lavrov’s expected attendance.
“We obviously respect every country’s ability to make its decision about whether they should attend or not. We think it’s a useful forum to engage with OSCE members and are going to attend for that reason,” a senior State Department official told reporters on Tuesday.
When asked if Blinken would have any encounter with Lavrov during the OSCE meetings, the official said, “We do not expect one.”
After Skopje, Blinken will make his third trip to the Middle East since Hamas attacked Israel on October 7. The U.S. is seeking an extension of the Israel-Hamas truce to allow more humanitarian aid into Gaza and getting more hostages released.
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date: 2023-11-29, from: Liliputing
The Simply NUC Onyx range of mini PCs feature feature Intel’s 13th generation Raptor Lake “H” series processors and use the familiar 4×4 inch “NUC” form factor. They’re some of the newest systems from Simply NUC, a company that specialises in providing small form factor computing solutions for business and enterprise customers. The star of the […]
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date: 2023-11-29, from: San Jose Mercury News
For many Palestinians and people of Arab descent around the world, the keffiyeh serves as a crucial link to their culture.
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date: 2023-11-29, from: Marketplace Morning Report
Charlie Munger, business partner to Warren Buffett and vice chairman of Berkshire Hathaway, died on Tuesday at the age of 99. Today, we look back at the wisdom and humor of the Oracle of Omaha’s right-hand man. Plus, the U.S. economy grew faster than we thought, and China makes a bet on green energy. Also: a refresher on campaign finances rules.
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date: 2023-11-29, from: San Jose Mercury News
A motive for the fatal shooting of a man Tuesday morning in East Oakland has not yet been released by police.
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date: 2023-11-29, updated: 2023-11-29, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Red Hat reckons Wayland is now mature enough to take over as the only display server in the forthcoming RHEL 10.…
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date: 2023-11-29, from: FreeDOS News
Every month, we like to get together for an online meet-up, so we can get to know each other as more than just an email address. We’re planning the next virtual get-together on Sunday, December 17 at 11am US/Central. (Use your favorite timezone converter to find your local time.) This month, we are switching to Google Meet for the meeting. As always, we’ll share the meeting URL when the meeting starts. We like to alternate topics every month; this month’s focus is “technical” - it’s a great opportunity to do online debugging, ask for programming help, and otherwise talk about tech issues so we can bring them back to the email list.
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date: 2023-11-29, from: San Jose Mercury News
NorCal regional championship picks: Our guys make their selections for the eight games involving Bay Area News Group teams.
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date: 2023-11-29, from: San Jose Mercury News
UC Berkeley and the law school have “failed to confront, much less combat, the antisemitic environment their inaction has fostered,” according to the complaint.
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date: 2023-11-29, from: San Jose Mercury News
The Giants have deep pockets and their eyes on Shohei Ohtani, Yoshinobu Yamamoto and other top free agents.
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date: 2023-11-29, from: San Jose Mercury News
Affected dogs may begin to show signs of lethargy, fever, decreased appetite, productive cough, nasal and / or ocular discharge, respiratory distress, or pneumonia.
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date: 2023-11-29, from: VOA News USA
The North American wolverine will receive long-delayed federal protections under a Biden administration proposal released Wednesday in response to scientists warning that climate change will likely melt away the rare species’ snowy mountain refuges.
Across most of the United States, wolverines were wiped out by the early 1900s from unregulated trapping and poisoning campaigns. About 300 surviving animals in the contiguous U.S. live in fragmented, isolated groups at high elevations.
In the coming decades, warming temperatures are expected to shrink the mountain snowpack wolverines rely on to dig dens where they birth and raise their young.
The decision Wednesday by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service follows more than two decades of disputes over the risks of climate change and threats to the long-term survival of the elusive species.
The animals resemble a small bear and are the world’s largest species of terrestrial weasel. They are sometimes called “mountain devils” for their ability to thrive in harsh alpine environments.
Protections were rejected under former President Donald Trump. A federal judge in 2022 ordered the administration of President Joe Biden to make a final decision this week on whether to seek protections.
In Montana, Republican lawmakers urged the Biden administration to delay its decision, claiming the scientists’ estimates were inaccurate to make a fair call about the dangers faced by wolverines. The lawmakers, led by hard-right conservative Representative Matt Rosendale, warned that protections could lead to future restrictions on activities allowed in wolverine habitats, including snowmobiling and skiing.
In September, government scientists conceded some uncertainty about how quickly mountain snowpacks could melt in areas with wolverines. But they said habitat loss due to climate change — combined with other problems such as increased development such as houses and roads — will likely harm wolverine populations in decades to come.
“The best available information suggests that habitat loss as a result of climate change and other stressors are likely to impact the viability of wolverines in the contiguous U.S. through the remainder of this century,” they concluded.
The scientists added that some of those losses could be offset if wolverines are able to recolonize areas such as California’s Sierra Nevada and Colorado’s Rocky Mountain.
Environmentalists argued in a 2020 lawsuit against the Fish and Wildlife Service that wolverines face localized extinction from climate change, habitat fragmentation and low genetic diversity.
Wolverine populations that are still breeding live in remote areas of Montana, Wyoming, Idaho and Washington state. In recent years, individual animals have been documented in California, Utah, Colorado and Oregon.
The wildlife service received a petition to protect wolverines in 2000 and the agency recommended protections in 2010. The Obama administration proposed protections and later sought to withdraw them but was blocked by a federal judge who said in 2016 that the snow-dependent animals were “squarely in the path of climate change.”
Protections were rejected in 2020 under Trump, based on research suggesting the animals’ prevalence was expanding, not contracting. Federal wildlife officials at the time predicted that despite warming temperatures, enough snow would persist at high elevations for wolverines to den in mountain snowfields each spring.
They reversed course in a revised analysis published in September that said wolverines were “less secure than we described.”
The animals need immense expanses of wildland to survive, with home ranges for adult male wolverines covering as much as 1,580 square kilometers (610 square miles), according to a study in central Idaho.
They also need protection from trapping, according to scientists. Wolverine populations in southwestern Canada plummeted by more than 40% over the past two decades due to overharvesting by trappers, which could have effects across the U.S. border, scientists said.
Wolverine trapping was once legal in states that include Montana. They are still sometimes caught inadvertently by trappers targeting other fur-bearing animals.
At least 10 wolverines have been accidentally captured in Montana since trapping was restricted in 2012. Three were killed and the others released unharmed. In Idaho, trappers have accidentally captured 11 wolverines since 1995, including three that were killed.
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date: 2023-11-29, from: The Round Up (Peirce College Student Paper)
An emotional comedy that will resonate with audiences while having a holiday kick is set to premiere. Robert Harling’s “Steel Magnolias” will open at the
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date: 2023-11-29, from: The Round Up (Peirce College Student Paper)
The lobby is filled with excitement as the moviegoers await their turn in the concession lines. The smell of popcorn saturates the air and patrons
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date: 2023-11-29, from: The Round Up (Peirce College Student Paper)
The Brahmas took on Mt. San Jacinto this Saturday. After an intense game, the Eagles earned the victory with the final score standing at 100-82.
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date: 2023-11-29, from: The Round Up (Peirce College Student Paper)
A cozy couch, homemade snacks, subtitles and your preferred volume and brightness. That’s a movie-watching environment some may prefer over a one-size-fits-all theater setup. “Movies
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date: 2023-11-29, from: The Round Up (Peirce College Student Paper)
“Probably ‘Napoleon.’ From what I’ve seen, the trailers look amazing and very beautiful.” Luka Mena – Computer Science major
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date: 2023-11-29, from: The Round Up (Peirce College Student Paper)
The 2023 season for the Pierce women’s soccer team was a year of adapting for both the sophomore and freshman players. As a team coming
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date: 2023-11-29, from: The Round Up (Peirce College Student Paper)
Between classes, homework, parent duties and work, single parents barely have any time to themselves, let alone have time for dating. We all hope and
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date: 2023-11-29, from: San Jose Mercury News
The Pac-12 lost more games than it won over the holiday and endured another wasted trip to the Bahamas.
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date: 2023-11-29, from: San Jose Mercury News
No state took in more immigrants as roughly one of every eight arrivals from other nations in 2022 ended up in the Golden State.
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date: 2023-11-29, updated: 2023-11-29, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Hewlett Packard Enterprise has reported a dramatic decline in server revenues as corporate customers cut back on spending amid a more cautious outlook.…
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date: 2023-11-29, from: Heatmap News
American Airlines will purchase sustainable aviation fuel from a first-of-its-kind facility under development in Texas called Project Roadrunner. Infinium, the company behind the project, will be converting a former natural gas refinery into a commercial “eFuels” plant where it will make jet fuel and diesel from carbon dioxide and green hydrogen. The company announced the offtake agreement on Wednesday along with a $75 million equity agreement with Breakthrough Energy Catalyst, a subsidiary of a climate tech firm backed by Bill Gates that focuses on first-of-a-kind projects. Infinium specified that it would use “waste CO2” for the process, although it did not say where the carbon would be sourced from.
Most so-called sustainable aviation fuels in use today are made from waste cooking oils and agricultural residues, but experts are skeptical they’re truly scalable. In theory, fuel made from carbon dioxide captured from the atmosphere and green hydrogen could be carbon neutral, though capturing the carbon, and producing green hydrogen, requires a lot of energy.
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date: 2023-11-29, updated: 2023-11-29, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
The developers are revolting – at least, it seems that way if an increasingly fractious thread regarding Microsoft’s .NET MAUI is anything to go by.…
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date: 2023-11-29, from: 404 Media Group
In this week’s episode, we talk about the bizarre tale of a tech conference founder who listed a fake, “auto-generated” woman as a speaker, and how he is also behind a popular woman-in-tech social media personality.
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date: 2023-11-29, from: 404 Media Group
Documents obtained by 404 Media show an expansion of Anduril’s surveillance technology on the U.S.-Canada border.
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date: 2023-11-29, from: NASA breaking news
In May 2018, a student at Mill Springs Academy in Alpharetta, Georgia, Andrew Maichle, talked to NASA astronaut Scott Tingle on the International Space Station via amateur or ham radio. The experience profoundly affected Maichle, who went on to study electrical engineering at Clemson University in South Carolina. “It was so cool to see in […]
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date: 2023-11-29, from: Smithsonian Magazine
“Calder: In Motion” celebrates the iconic artist’s innovative mobiles, sculptures and other works
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date: 2023-11-29, from: Guam Daily Post
Lawyers with the Public Defender Service Corp. have been asked to review the cases they had previously withdrawn from.
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date: 2023-11-29, from: Guam Daily Post
A man was stabbed over accusations he was having an affair with another man’s girlfriend.
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date: 2023-11-29, from: Guam Daily Post
A man was accused of strangling a woman, threatening to kill her if she left, and later making her sit under a sink in a Tamuning residence.
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date: 2023-11-29, from: Guam Daily Post
The Supreme Court of Guam affirmed the conviction and 25-year sentence for a man found guilty in the 2020 killing of 45-year-old Peter John Tadeo Rios Jr.
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date: 2023-11-29, from: Guam Daily Post
Ivan Sablan Blanco, a junior at the University of Guam, has been chosen as the new Rotary Club of Tokyo-Atago scholar and awarded $10,000 toward his degree in business administration.
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date: 2023-11-29, from: Guam Daily Post
The University of Guam and its partners celebrated the groundbreaking for two new buildings on Nov. 17, marking a turning point for the projects that overcame a host of challenges including the COVID-19 pandemic, rising cost of construction, regulatory processes,…
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date: 2023-11-29, from: Guam Daily Post
A man decided to invoke his Fifth Amendment right to remain silent when asked to discuss allegedly speaking with a juror sitting on the trial for Nakita Aguon, a woman accused of driving a red Jeep into Jerry Kitchen, a…
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date: 2023-11-29, from: Guam Daily Post
A man was accused of throwing a plate of food, canned food, punching and trying to stab a woman with a fork.
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date: 2023-11-29, from: Guam Daily Post
Guam Del. James Moylan has introduced the Typhoon Mawar Reconstruction Act, or H.R. 6478, which aims to provide the Federal Emergency Management Agency with the authority to seek out and allocate funds to address infrastructure damage resulting from the storm.
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@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2023-11-29, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
I’ve
heard ActivityPub described as
two-way
RSS. If so, there are imho more direct ways to arrive at that. I
think it’s possible to create a federation system that takes a few days
to implement. Maybe it doesn’t need all the features they’ve put into
ActivityPub. I’m pretty sure a lightweight social network is what’s
called for now. I know 20 different ventures have started up to do this,
but isn’t it weird that none of them have built on RSS. That’s the only
approach imho that has a chance of doing something unique here. I’d
rather work with other people, but I’m not into replacing simplicity
with something that’s not very simple.
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@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2023-11-29, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
I’m back on Wordle, having solved the puzzle every day for the last 36 days. It’s training my mind – I see patterns I wouldn’t ordinarily see, because I spend as much as an hour or two every day looking for patterns in letters, and finding them, eventually. I wish at times my mind worked more like a computer. When their bot says “there were only three possible solutions at that point” – I wish I could see what they are at each point, or at least know how many they are, if not what they are. The training has also helped my mind debug software. I’m not as daunted as I often am when there appears to be no solution to the problem I’m working on. I’m sure I’ll find it eventually.
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date: 2023-11-29, from: Heatmap News
1. Acting on the global stocktake: Negotiators will discuss the results of the first 5-year assessment of global climate progress and how countries might make additional commitments. One of the main sticking points is sure to be language around reducing fossil fuels. Kerry reiterated that the U.S. supports requiring the “phase out of unabated fossil fuels,” which leaves room for the continued use of oil, gas, and coal, as long as the emissions are captured.
2. Standing up a new fund for loss and damage: Countries agreed at last year’s COP to set up a new fund to pay for the damages climate change is already causing around the world, but have yet to figure out who will oversee the fund, how much countries will pay into it, and how it will be administered. Kerry said the U.S. supports a proposal that was released earlier this month to house the fund at the World Bank for at least four years, and make financial commitments completely voluntary — provisions that the developing countries the fund is meant to support staunchly oppose.
“I think that it’s important the fund does not represent any expression of liability or compensation or any legal requirements, but it is going to try to be there for those in the developing world who have taken some of the brunt,” he said.
3. Making progress on the Paris Agreement’s adaptation goal: While the Paris Agreement instructed signatories to “enhance adaptive capacity, strengthen resilience and reduce vulnerability to climate change worldwide,” countries haven’t yet decided how to turn that into a concrete goal.
Kerry also signaled that a new methane agreement would be announced that involves oil and gas companies in addition to countries. He said there “literally will be hundreds of initiatives” announced over the course of the conference, including many from the U.S.
“What is very clear to us, and we will be pushing this the next two weeks that we are negotiating, we have to move faster. There’s too much business as usual still, we have got to bring people to the table who are not yet there, and we will make progress in that here.”
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@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2023-11-29, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
People who say Twitter is over aren’t considering how vast it is. Same kind of situation as with Atom many years ago. It wasn’t obvious how deeply installed RSS was, all the networks that had been created with it. It was basically impossible at that time to displace RSS. Anyway, same thing with Twitter today, no matter how vile the owner of the network is. It has been around since 2006, a time of huge growth in networking, and it captured basically all of it. So if there’s anyone you need to reach, and they’re hooked up to the net, you almost certainly will be able to reach them on Twitter. This is another situation like Napster. Never have you had all the music of our civilization available so easily to so many people. We could have done so much with that. The most prudent thing to do with Twitter is to organize a buyout for Musk, and get him out of that position. We don’t need to delete it, not that we could, we need to get Musk out of a position of control.
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date: 2023-11-29, updated: 2023-11-29, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
God bless this mess. The UK’s Department for Education has crunched the numbers and found that the country’s clergy of all things is among the professions most at risk from AI.…
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date: 2023-11-29, from: Raspberry Pi News (.com)
Learn how to connect a Raspberry Pi Pico to a Himax HM01B0-based camera module and capture monochrome images using PIO and DMA in real time.
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date: 2023-11-29, updated: 2023-11-29, from: The LAist
For one devoted hobbyist magician, the members-only Los Angeles institution was too alluring to resist. But the love faded. ‘Imperfect Paradise: The Castle,’ Part 1.
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date: 2023-11-29, updated: 2023-11-29, from: The LAist
We look at key moments in the history of the 10, including an early highway path that influenced the safety of freeways today.
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date: 2023-11-29, updated: 2023-11-29, from: The LAist
The idea gained momentum after the release of secretly recorded audio that featured council members discussing how to preserve their own power through the redistricting process.
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date: 2023-11-29, updated: 2023-11-29, from: The LAist
This fall, California made it easier for community college students to transfer to out-of-state Historically Black Colleges and Universities.
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date: 2023-11-29, updated: 2023-11-29, from: The LAist
The paid fellowship prioritizes students from Cal State Dominguez Hills, Cal State Long Beach, and Long Beach City College.
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date: 2023-11-29, updated: 2023-11-29, from: The LAist
As electric bikes and scooters gain popularity among college students, California campuses vary over their regulation. The devices pose safety risks yet are cheaper, more convenient and better for the environment than gas-powered vehicles.
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date: 2023-11-29, from: Cory Doctorow’s blog
Today’s links Sponsored listings are a ripoff…for sellers: Welcome to the age of danegeld. 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 Sponsored listings are a ripoff…for sellers (permalink) Not all ads are created equally sleazy. The privacy harms from surveillance ads, though real, are often hard to pin down. But there’s another kind of ad – or “ad” that picks your pocket every time you use an ecommerce site. This is the “sponsored listing” ad, which allows merchants to bid to be among the top-ranked items in response to your searches – whether or not their products are a good match for your query. These aren’t “ads” in the way that, say, a Facebook ad is an ad. These are more #payola, a form of bribery that’s actually a crime (but not when Amazon does it): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Payola#U.S._investigations_and_aftermath Amazon is the global champion of payola. It boasts of $31 billion in annual “ad” revenue. That’s $31 billion that Amazon sellers have to recoup from you. But Amazon’s use of “most favored nation” deals (which requires sellers to offer their lowest prices on Amazon) mean that you don’t see those price-hikes because sellers raise their prices everywhere: https://pluralistic.net/2023/04/25/greedflation/#commissar-bezos Forget Twitter: Amazon search is the poster-child for enshittification, in which Amazon locks you in (for example, with a year’s shipping prepaid through Prime) and then you get recommended worse products while sellers make less money and Amazon pockets the difference. Sellers who don’t sell on Amazon are dead in the water, because most US households have Amazon Prime and overwhelmingly, Prime users start their search on Amazon, and, if they find the goods they’re seeking. After all, they’ve prepaid for shipping. So sellers suck it up and pay a 45-51% Amazon tax and pass it on to us – no matter where we shop. A lot of the junk fees sellers pay are related to Prime and other fulfillment services, but an increasing share of the Amazon tax comes from the need to pay to “advertise,” because if they don’t buy the top result for searches for their own products, their competitors’ ads will push them right off the first page (those competitors spend money on advertising, rather than manufacturing quality). There’s a lot of YOLO/ROFLMAO in those ads: search for “cat beds” and 50% of the first five screens are ads – including ads for dog products, apparently bought by companies adopting a spray-and-pray approach to advertising. Someone selling a quality product still has to outbid all of those garbage sellers: https://pluralistic.net/2022/11/28/enshittification/#relentless-payola This is at the root of Amazon’s Pricing Paradox: while Amazon can defend itself against regulators by citing sellers whose prices are lower and/or whose quality is higher, it’s nearly impossible for shoppers to get those deals. If you click the top result for your search, you will, on average, pay 29% more than you would if you found the best bargain on the site: https://pluralistic.net/2023/11/06/attention-rents/#consumer-welfare-queens What’s more, you can’t fix this by simply sorting by price, or by reviews, or some mix of the two. The sleaziest sellers have mastered tricks like changing the number of units they sell so the total price is lower. For example, if batteries are normally sold $10 for a four-pack, a sleazy seller can offer batteries at $9 for three units. A lowest-to-highest price-sort will put this item ahead of a cheaper rival. Researchers found that getting a good deal at Amazon requires that you make a multifactorial spreadsheet by laboriously copy/pasting multiple details from individual listing pages and then doing sorts that Amazon itself doesn’t permit: https://scholarship.law.bu.edu/faculty_scholarship/3645/ There’s an exception to this: Amazon and Apple have a cozy, secret arrangement to exclude these “ads” from searches for Apple products. But if you’re shopping for anything else, you’re SOL: https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-gives-apple-special-treatment-while-others-suffer-junk-ads-2023-11 These payola markets are bad for buyers, and they cost sellers a lot of money, but are they at least good for sellers? A new study from three business-school researchers – Vibhanshu Abhishek, Jiaqi Shi and Mingyu Joo – shows that payola is a very bad deal for good sellers, too: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3896716 After doing a lot of impressive quantitative work, the authors conclude that for good sellers, showing up as a sponsored listing makes buyers trust their products less than if they floated to the top of the results “organically.” This means that buying an ad makes your product less attractive than not buying an ad. The exception is sellers who have bad products – products that wouldn’t rise to the top of the results on their own merits. The study finds that if you buy your mediocre product’s way to the top of the results, buyers trust it more than they would if they found it buried deep on page eleventy-million, to which its poor reviews, quality or price would normally banish it. But of course, if you’re one of those good sellers, you can’t simply opt not to buy an ad, even though seeing it with the little “AD” marker in the thumbnail makes your product less attractive to shoppers. If you don’t pay the danegeld, your product will be pushed down by the inferior products whose sellers are only too happy to pay ransom. It’s a system where everybody loses – except monopoly ecommerce platforms, who enshittify everything and rake it in. Hey look at this (permalink) The 2023 Kottke Holiday Gift Guide https://kottke.org/23/11/the-2023-kottke-holiday-gift-guide FLAMING HYDRA: 60 Brilliant Writers & Artists Join Forces https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/thebrickhouse/flaming-hydra-60-brilliant-writers-and-artists-join-forces Read These 10 Articles to Understand the Landmark Google Search Monopoly Trial https://usvgoogle.org/trial-wrap-11-20 This day in history (permalink) #15yrsago Peak Population: when will population growth stop, why, and how? https://www.alexsteffen.com/peak_population_and_sustainability #15yrsago James Boyle’s “The Public Domain” — a brilliant copyfighter’s latest book, from a law prof who writes like a comedian https://memex.craphound.com/2008/11/29/james-boyles-the-public-domain-a-brilliant-copyfighters-latest-book-from-a-law-prof-who-writes-like-a-comedian/ #10yrsago NSA and Canadian spooks illegally spied on diplomats at Toronto G20 summit https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/new-snowden-docs-show-u-s-spied-during-g20-in-toronto-1.2442448 #10yrsago New CC licenses: tighter, shorter, more readable, more global https://creativecommons.org/Version4/ #10yrsago Berlusconi kicked out of Italian senate https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/nov/27/silvio-berlusconi-ousted-italian-parliament-tax-fraud-conviction #5yrsago Sennheiser’s headphone drivers covertly changed your computer’s root of trust, leaving you vulnerable to undetectable attacks https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/sennheiser-headset-software-could-allow-man-in-the-middle-ssl-attacks/ #5yrsago New York City’s municipal debt collectors have forged an unholy alliance with sleazy subprime lenders https://www.bloomberg.com/confessions-of-judgment #5yrsago Here’s how the Pentagon swindled Congress with $21 trillion worth of undocumented, untraceable, unaccounted for expenditures https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/pentagon-audit-budget-fraud/ #5yrsago The prosecutor who helped Jeffrey Epstein escape justice is now a Trump Cabinet member https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/article220097825.html #5yrsago Reddit takes a stand against the EU’s plan to break the internet https://www.redditinc.com/blog/the-eu-copyright-directive-what-redditors-in-europe-need-to-know/ #5yrsago The secret history of science fiction’s women writers: The Future is Female! https://memex.craphound.com/2018/11/29/the-secret-history-of-science-fictions-women-writers-the-future-is-female/ #5yrsago Redaction ineptitude reveals names of Proud Boys’ self-styled new leaders https://splinternews.com/proud-boys-failed-to-redact-their-new-dumb-bylaws-and-a-1830700905 #5yrsago Redaction ineptitude reveals Facebook’s 2012 plan to sell Graph API access to user data for $250,000 https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/11/facebook-pondered-for-a-time-selling-access-to-user-data/ #5yrsago Google engineer calls for a walkout over China censorship and raises $200K strike fund in hours https://twitter.com/lizthegrey/status/1068208484053856256 #5yrsago Correlates of Trump voting: searches for erectile dysfunction, hair loss, how to get girls, penis enlargement, penis size, steroids, testosterone and Viagra https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2018/11/29/how-donald-trump-appeals-to-men-secretly-insecure-about-their-manhood/ #5yrsago Google’s secret project to build a censored Chinese search engine bypassed the company’s own security and privacy teams https://theintercept.com/2018/11/29/google-china-censored-search/ #5yrsago Mozilla pulls a popular paywall circumvention tool from Firefox add-ons store https://web.archive.org/web/20181130141509/https://github.com/iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-firefox/issues/82 #1yrago The Big Four accounting firms are one (more) scandal away from collapse https://pluralistic.net/2022/11/29/great-andersens-ghost/#mene-mene-bezzle Colophon (permalink) Today’s top sources: Researchbuzz (@Researchbuzz@researchbuzz.masto.host). 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date: 2023-11-29, from: Marketplace Morning Report
It’ll be one year this week since ChatGPT was released to the public. While there was handwringing about waves of jobs being replaced by bots, that hasn’t quite happened. We’ll take a look at how human workers are using generative AI (or not). We’ll also hear why home prices in Detroit have surged and how a Supreme Court case could upend how the Securities and Exchange Commission does business.
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date: 2023-11-29, updated: 2023-11-29, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
The Rhysida ransomware group has published most of the data it claimed to have stolen from the British Library a month after the attack was disclosed.…
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date: 2023-11-29, updated: 2023-11-28, from: Bruce Schneier blog
They’re not that good:
Security researchers Jesse D’Aguanno and Timo Teräs write that, with varying degrees of reverse-engineering and using some external hardware, they were able to fool the Goodix fingerprint sensor in a Dell Inspiron 15, the Synaptic sensor in a Lenovo ThinkPad T14, and the ELAN sensor in one of Microsoft’s own Surface Pro Type Covers. These are just three laptop models from the wide universe of PCs, but one of these three companies usually does make the fingerprint sensor in every laptop we’ve reviewed in the last few years. It’s likely that most Windows PCs with fingerprint readers will be vulnerable to similar exploits…
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date: 2023-11-29, from: Marketplace Morning Report
From the BBC World Service: Over 10 years ago, Uber shook up the United Kingdom’s taxi scene. Now, the company says it will open up its platform to London’s black cabs early next year. Plus, 41 Indian construction workers have been rescued from a collapsed tunnel in the Himalayas after being stuck for 17 days. Then, China is positioning itself to dominate the global supply of green technology.
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date: 2023-11-29, updated: 2023-11-29, from: Deno blog
Deno.cron allows you to easily create scheduled jobs and
is available on Deno Deploy. Here’s how it works.
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date: 2023-11-29, updated: 2023-11-29, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Google has added a novel form of geothermal power to the list of carbon-free energy sources fueling its data-crunching empire.…
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date: 2023-11-29, from: The Signal
If we don’t stop to consider and appreciate the wonder of “ordinary life” surrounding us, we’re missing the whole point of it all. Life, I hope, is about giving and receiving joy, happiness, pleasure and love. Last week I touched on materialism, quoting Tracy Chapman’s “Mountain of Things,” discussing our human mega-urge to acquire […]
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date: 2023-11-29, from: The Signal
It should not come to anyone’s surprise for those who have long resided in the valleys and foothills of Southern California that we all share a very “limited amount” of water! For those who know this, and have lived in the Santa Clarita Valley for many years, you might be asking some important questions: How […]
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date: 2023-11-29, updated: 2023-11-29, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
The UK government plans to introduce new legislation to ban SIM farms, which it views as a widely abused means for carrying out cyber fraud.…
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date: 2023-11-29, from: The Signal
Dear Savvy Senior, I’m interested in contributing to a health savings account to help boost my retirement savings but would like to better understand how they work. What can you tell me? — Almost 60 Dear Almost, A health savings account, or HSA, is a fantastic financial tool that can help you build up a tax-free […]
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date: 2023-11-29, updated: 2023-11-29, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Adobe’s $20 billion buy of web-first design collaboration start-up Figma will harm software developers if it goes ahead as proposed, according to a provisional ruling on the merger by Britain’s competition regulator.…
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date: 2023-11-29, from: VOA News USA
A crew member who was recovered from the ocean after a U.S. military Osprey aircraft carrying eight people crashed Wednesday off southern Japan has been pronounced dead, coast guard officials said.
The cause of the crash and the status of the seven others on board were not immediately known, coast guard spokesperson Kazuo Ogawa said.
The Osprey was carrying eight crew and is an Air Force aircraft, a U.S. official who was not authorized to speak to the media said on condition of anonymity. While the Marine Corps flies most of the Osprey aircraft that are based in Japan, the Air Force also has Ospreys deployed there.
Earlier reports had said the aircraft was carrying six or eight people.
The official could not provide further information pending notification of next of kin.
The Osprey is a hybrid aircraft that takes off and lands like a helicopter, but during flight can rotate its propellers forward and cruise much faster like an airplane.
Ospreys have had a number of accidents in the past, including in Japan, where they are deployed at both U.S. and Japanese military bases. In Okinawa, where about half of the 50,000 American troops in Japan are based, Gov. Denny Tamaki told reporters Wednesday that he will ask the U.S. military to suspend all Osprey flights in Japan.
Coast guard spokesperson Ogawa said it received an emergency call Wednesday afternoon from a fishing boat near the crash site off Yakushima, an island south of Kagoshima on the southern main island of Kyushu.
Coast guard aircraft and patrol boats found one person identified only as a male who was later pronounced dead by a doctor at a nearby port, he said. They also found gray-colored debris believed to be from the aircraft and an empty inflatable life raft in an area about 1 kilometer (0.6 mile) off the eastern coast of Yakushima, Ogawa said.
The coast guard said it planned to continue searching through the night.
Chief Cabinet Secretary Hirokazu Matsuno said the Osprey disappeared from radar a few minutes before the coast guard received the emergency call. The aircraft requested an emergency landing at the Yakushima airport about five minutes before it was lost from radar, NHK public television and other media reported.
NHK quoted a Yakushima resident as saying he saw the aircraft turned upside down, with fire coming from one of its engines, and then an explosion before it fell to the sea.
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said he planned to seek a further explanation from the U.S. military, but declined to say whether he would seek a temporary suspension of Osprey operations in Japan.
Ogawa said the aircraft had departed from the U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni in Yamaguchi prefecture and crashed on its way to Kadena Air Base on Okinawa.
Japanese Vice Defense Minister Hiroyuki Miyazawa said it had attempted an emergency sea landing and quoted the U.S. military as saying its pilot “did everything possible until the last minute.”
U.S. and Japanese officials said the aircraft belonged to Yokota Air Base in western Tokyo. U.S. Air Force officials at Yokota said they were still confirming information and had no immediate comment.
Yokota Air Base is home to U.S. Forces Japan and the Fifth Air Force. Six CV-22 Ospreys have been deployed at Yokota, including the one that crashed.
In December 2016, a U.S. Marine Corps Osprey crashed off the Okinawa coast, injuring two of the five crew members and triggering complaints among local residents about the U.S. bases in Okinawa and the Osprey’s safety record.
A U.S. Marine Corps Osprey with 23 Marines aboard crashed on a north Australian island in August, killing at least three and critically injuring at least five during a multinational training exercise.
It was the fifth fatal crash of a Marine Osprey since 2012, bringing the total death toll at that time to at least 19.
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date: 2023-11-29, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>KANEOHE BAY, Hawaii (AP) — The U.S. Navy said Monday that it has removed nearly all of the fuel from a large plane that overshot a Hawaii runway and landed in an environmentally sensitive bay, but it doesn’t have a timetable for when it will get the aircraft out of the water.</p>
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date: 2023-11-29, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>WASHINGTON — The Biden administration has told Israel that it must work to avoid “significant further displacement” of Palestinian civilians in southern Gaza if it renews its ground campaign aimed at eradicating the Hamas militant group, senior U.S. officials said.</p>
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date: 2023-11-29, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>An attorney for Hunter Biden told a House panel Tuesday that the president’s son is willing to testify at a public hearing, setting up a clash with Republicans who demand he also sit for a closed-door deposition.</p>
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date: 2023-11-29, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>Rosalynn Carter was remembered Tuesday as a former U.S. first lady who leveraged her fierce intellect and political power to put her deep Christian faith into action by always helping others, especially those who needed it most.</p>
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date: 2023-11-29, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>Hilo Medical Center will receive $1 million to alleviate a shortage of health care workers in East Hawaii.</p>
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date: 2023-11-29, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>A California pulmonologist has been jailed on a charge of possessing child pornography following an undercover FBI operation, court records say.</p>
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date: 2023-11-29, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>This December, the mutuality of the aloha and holiday spirit will be celebrated in the Kona Choral Society’s Annual Holiday Concert Series.</p>
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date: 2023-11-29, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>The Hilo Woman’s Club will be hosting its Holiday Magic Concert at 6 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 9, at the clubhouse on 7 Lele Street, Hilo,</p>
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date: 2023-11-29, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip — Hamas and Israel released more hostages and prisoners under terms of a fragile cease-fire that held for a fifth day Tuesday as international mediators in Qatar worked to extend the truce. The United States urged Israel to better protect Palestinian civilians in Gaza if it follows through on its promise to resume the war.</p>
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date: 2023-11-29, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>DALLAS — A grinch tried to deliver a Christmas message to some Texas elementary school children.</p>
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date: 2023-11-29, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>WENDEN, Ariz. — A blanket of bright green alfalfa spreads across western Arizona’s McMullen Valley, ringed by rolling mountains and warmed by the hot desert sun.</p>
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date: 2023-11-29, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>(TNS) — Georgia prosecutors in former President Donald Trump’s election interference racketeering case reportedly say they will not consider plea deals for codefendants Mark Meadows, Rudy Giuliani — or Trump himself.</p>
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date: 2023-11-29, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>Oahu-based magician Kaulana will be showcased next week during the 21st annual World of Magic performance at the Palace Theater in downtown Hilo.</p>
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date: 2023-11-29, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>A Mountain View park reopened Tuesday after Hawaii County finally replaced stolen equipment.</p>
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date: 2023-11-29, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>Norman Terumi Iha, 69, of Hilo died Nov. 8 at Hilo Medical Center. Born in Hilo, he was a food purchasing manager at Hilo Hawaiian Hotel and member of the Tsunami Golf Club and Waiakea Pirates. Private services. No flowers or koden (monetary gifts). Survived by wife, Tessi Iha of Hilo; daughter, Candice (Paul) Wendt of Phoenix; son, Randall Iha of Phoenix; sister, Christine Iha of Hilo; cousins, aunts and uncles. Arrangements by Dodo Mortuary.</p>
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date: 2023-11-29, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>PORTLAND, Ore. — Tossing tent poles, blankets and a duffel bag into a shopping cart and three wagons, Will Taylor spent a summer morning helping friends tear down what had been their home and that of about a dozen others. It wasn’t the first time and wouldn’t be the last.</p>
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date: 2023-11-29, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>​There are renewed signs of life for congressional efforts to overhaul a pair of much-maligned Social Security policies that cut some public workers’ retirement benefits. But in a year of tumult in the House, there’s still a long way to go.</p>
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date: 2023-11-29, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>The dream of retirement is far off for many, and a state program intended to make that dream more attainable is still at least a year away from launch.</p>
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date: 2023-11-29, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>Three men were arrested and charged with numerous offenses following an apparent drunken brawl in which at least one man was stabbed Saturday night in Captain Cook.</p>
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date: 2023-11-29, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>NEW YORK — Computer-generated writers … writing computer-generated stories? </p>
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date: 2023-11-29, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>The often-told analogy involves a now-former Hawaii basketball coach’s halftime speech.</p>
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date: 2023-11-29, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>The BIIF girls basketball season has tipped off, and plenty of action is already underway.</p>
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date: 2023-11-29, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>OAKLAND, Calif. — They will call themselves the Oakland B’s, short for Ballers.</p>
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date: 2023-11-29, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>CLEVELAND, Ohio — Guardians manager Stephen Vogt called the club’s new major league field coordinator, Kai Correa, one of the most self-driven people he has ever met — after getting to know the Hilo native through the hiring process.</p>
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date: 2023-11-29, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>NEW YORK (AP) — Reliever Liam Hendriks and outfielder Cody Bellinger were selected Major League Baseball’s Comeback Players of the Year on Tuesday. </p>
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date: 2023-11-29, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>INDIANAPOLIS — Indianapolis Colts running back Jonathan Taylor will have thumb surgery Wednesday and hopes to play again in about three weeks, a person with knowledge of the injury told The Associated Press on Tuesday. </p>
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date: 2023-11-29, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>A shock result in Dutch elections handed the largest number of the country’s parliamentary seats to the party of extreme right, isolationist, anti-immigrant and Islamophobic longtime political gadfly Geert Wilders last week. He vowed that the country would be “returned to the Dutch.”</p>
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date: 2023-11-29, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>When my iPhone stopped working earlier this month, I spent an hour trying to fix it before I gave up. I scheduled the earliest-available appointment at an Apple store the next morning and resigned myself to a day without my device.</p>
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date: 2023-11-29, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>Police are investigating a possible drowning Monday evening offshore of Makako Bay in Kailua-Kona.</p>
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date: 2023-11-29, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>The National Weather Service has posted a flash flood watch for the entire state of Hawaii until Thursday afternoon.</p>
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date: 2023-11-29, updated: 2023-11-29, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Reading Borough Council has securely restored its planning portal after facing criticism for recommending questionable tech security practices to users.…
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date: 2023-11-29, from: Robert Reich on Substack
Friends, Granted, we’re still 11 months before the election. Granted, most people haven’t focused. Granted, polls are flawed. But seven separate polls done over the last four weeks show Trump beating Biden. None show Biden beating Trump. Hello? Trump — who’s under four separate criminal indictments charging him with 91 crimes. Who’s been impeached twice by the House. Who led an attempted coup against the United States. Who continues to lie that the 2020 election was stolen from him. And who is sounding more unhinged and fascist by the day — openly threatening to use the Justice Department to prosecute his enemies, calling his political opponents “vermin,” claiming that undocumented immigrants are “poisoning the blood” of America.
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date: 2023-11-29, updated: 2023-11-29, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Concern over AI coming for our jobs appears to be unfounded, though it’s not clear what effect this newest wave of automation will have on wages, the European Central Bank (ECB) concludes in a research report.…
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date: 2023-11-29, from: SCV New (TV Station)
1957 – Incorporation of Mint Canyon Chamber of Commerce; became Canyon Country Chamber. [story
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date: 2023-11-29, from: Guam Daily Post
Bill 201-37, the measure that would waive certain procurement requirements to facilitate the maintenance, operation and overhaul of specific island generators, failed to make the session agenda Wednesday afternoon. The measure is intended to mitigate load shedding issues by helping…
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date: 2023-11-29, updated: 2023-11-29, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Increased use of the internet has not had a notably negative effect on mental health, according to a study combining data from millions of people across 168 countries.…
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date: 2023-11-29, updated: 2023-11-29, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Japan’s Space Exploration Agency (JAXA) has reported a cyber incident.…
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date: 2023-11-29, from: SCV New (TV Station)
In recognition of the 40th anniversary of the Trauma Center System in Los Angeles County, the EMS Agency partnered with OneLegacy to host a 40th Anniversary Celebration. Los Angeles County is the site of one of the first Trauma Center Systems in the United States and to date is one of the largest nationwide
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date: 2023-11-29, updated: 2023-11-29, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
If you want to implement Microsoft’s Copilot AI assistants, don’t expect the software giant’s channel to be much help – they’ve scarcely had a chance to use it, never mind develop meaningful expertise in the tool. That’s coming from Loryan Strant, product and innovation lead at Dutch Microsoft-centric consultancy Rapid Circle and a longtime holder of Redmond’s Most Valuable Professional (MVP) accreditation.…
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date: 2023-11-29, updated: 2023-11-29, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Amazon’s Project Kuiper space internet project has gained a notable notch in its belt, with Japanese telecom company NTT signing up for the service.…
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date: 2023-11-29, updated: 2023-11-29, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
VMware president Sumit Dhawan has left the newly-acquired org to join security software vendor Proofpoint as its CEO.…
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date: 2023-11-29, from: Santa Barbara Indenpent News
Senator Monique Limón, with the help of Assemblymember Gregg Hart, secured the state funds to go toward the nonprofit’s Summerland Oil Mitigation Study.
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date: 2023-11-29, from: Santa Barbara Indenpent News
Union says negotiations are moving in the right direction.
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date: 2023-11-29, from: Santa Barbara Indenpent News
The new vessel will aid in emergency response and environmental protection.
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date: 2023-11-29, from: VOA News USA
The United States on Tuesday sent the first of three military planes to Egypt with humanitarian aid for Gaza, promising to assist Palestinians during a truce between Hamas and U.S. ally Israel.
The relief flights carrying food, medical supplies and winter gear are the first by the U.S. military since the conflict began with the October 7 attacks by Hamas on Israel.
The flights started a day after President Joe Biden said he would use an extension of the truce to get more aid into Gaza, and as international efforts continue to further prolong the pause.
“The humanitarian needs in Gaza demand that the international community do much more. The United States is committed to this effort,” Jake Sullivan, U.S. national security adviser, said in a statement.
Sullivan said Biden would work to “rally the international community to urgently increase support” in a U.N. appeal for Gaza.
‘Supplies will save lives’
The first Air Force C-17 aircraft landed Tuesday in Egypt with 24.5 metric tons (54,000 pounds) of medical supplies and ready-to-eat food, the U.S. Agency for International Development said.
The United Nations will take the aid from Egypt’s North Sinai region, which borders the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip, into the stricken Palestinian territory itself, U.S. officials said.
“These U.N. supplies will save lives and alleviate the suffering of thousands in Gaza,” Sullivan said.
Two further planeloads will arrive in the coming days, officials said.
Mediator Qatar on Monday announced a 48-hour extension of an initial four-day truce, opening the way for further releases of hostages seized by Hamas during its attack on Israel.
‘Significant surge’
Eight hundred aid trucks reached southern Gaza from Egypt in the first four days of the truce, with some aid also reaching badly hit northern Gaza, the U.S. officials said.
“The movement over the last four or five days of assistance has been so significant in volume that a backfill … is now needed and these planes are part of that backfill,” a senior U.S. official told reporters on Monday.
While Washington has deployed two aircraft carriers in the region to deter Iran and its allies, and ferried military assistance to key ally Israel, it has not previously used military assets during this conflict to deliver humanitarian aid.
Biden, who has firmly backed Israel while calling on it to reduce civilian casualties, said on Monday that the truce had allowed a “significant surge” in aid.
The White House said on Monday, however, that Israel had made it clear it would continue its war on Hamas whenever the truce ended.
U.S. officials said Biden had warned Israel that it must not cause the same kind of mass displacements in southern Gaza that its offensive in the north triggered earlier this month.
“From the president down we have reinforced this in a very clear way for the government of Israel,” another U.S. official said.
Hamas staged the deadliest attack in Israel’s history when it broke through Gaza’s militarized border on October 7. Israel says the attack killed 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and that around 240 others were taken hostage.
In response, Israel launched a relentless bombing campaign and ground offensive in Gaza, which the Hamas government says has killed 15,000 people, thousands of them children.
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date: 2023-11-29, from: Jeff Geerling blog
External GPUs working on the Raspberry Pi 5
<div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item"><p>My journey testing various graphics cards on the Raspberry Pi began soon after the Compute Module 4 was launched in 2020. Since then I've <a href="https://pipci.jeffgeerling.com/#gpus-graphics-cards">tested</a> almost 20 graphics cards—with a <a href="https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2023/i-built-special-pcie-card-test-gpus-on-pi"><em>little</em></a> success.</p>
But there were two roadblocks to getting drivers for even older AMD
radeon drivers working well:
<span class="field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden"><span>Jeff Geerling</span></span>
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date: 2023-11-29, from: Santa Barbara Indenpent News
The search for the sailor was initiated early Sunday morning after his sailboat was found unmanned south of Leadbetter Point.
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date: 2023-11-29, from: Doc Searls (at Harvard), New Old Blog
I’ve flown 1,500,242 miles with United Airlines. My wife has flown at least a million more. Both of us currently enjoy Premier status, though we’ve spent much of our time with United at the fancier 1K level. We are also both lifetime United Club members and have been so for thirty-three years. Unlike many passengers […]
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date: 2023-11-29, from: The Signal
A former adult film star accused of sexually assaulting a 15-year-old girl at a party in Santa Clarita, among more than nearly three dozen charges he was facing from a 2021 grand jury indictment, will remain in L.A. County custody while he awaits another hearing, officials confirmed Tuesday. Ron Jeremy Hyatt, 70, was deemed mentally […]
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date: 2023-11-29, from: VOA News USA
The decision by Israel and Hamas to extend their temporary truce in Gaza from four days to six has raised expectations that both sides will agree to further extensions to allow for more hostage swaps and humanitarian aid to enter the Palestinian enclave.
Washington is stepping up efforts to extend the pause that allowed the release of hostages held by Hamas in exchange for Palestinian prisoners in Israeli detention. CIA Director Bill Burns was in Doha on Tuesday meeting his Israeli, Egyptian and Qatari counterparts.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken will be back in the region later this week with stops including Dubai, the West Bank and Israel.
The latest Israel-Hamas deal brought the number of Israelis freed to 60. An additional 21 hostages have been released in separate negotiations.
“We want to get them all back,” John Kirby, National Security Council coordinator for strategic communications, told reporters on Tuesday.
One hundred fifty Palestinians have been released from Israeli prisons, but thousands remain.
While the administration considers the brief truce a diplomatic win, it has also placed more pressure on U.S. President Joe Biden to persuade Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government to make the stop in fighting permanent.
The White House has so far resisted demands from human rights activists and the progressive wing of Biden’s Democratic Party to end U.S. support for Israel’s strikes and push for a permanent cease-fire. Administration officials repeatedly say that at this point, humanitarian relief can be achieved only through hostage deals that allow temporary stops on Israeli attacks and more aid to flow in.
“Short-term pauses are entirely insufficient to meet the needs on the ground and to address human rights conditions on the ground,” said Paul O’Brien, executive director of Amnesty International USA.
On Wednesday, his group and others will be presenting nearly 1 million signatures calling on Biden to use his influence to bring about a sustained cease-fire in Gaza.
“More and more Americans want this cease-fire,” he told VOA. Fifty-three percent of American voters support calls for a cease-fire, according to a recent Morning Consult poll.
Changing US calculus
The United States has staunchly supported Israel’s right to defend itself since Hamas’ Oct. 7 attacks killed 1,200 people in Israel. However, as the number of Palestinian deaths grows — topping 14,000, according to the Gaza Health Ministry — the administration has been increasingly vocal that Israel must minimize civilian harm. Last week, Biden said he is considering making aid to Israel conditional based on its conduct in the war.
Mounting Arab and international pressure, along with domestic anger, is changing the administration’s calculus, said Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib, a Middle East political analyst at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy. Biden is now “attempting to strike a moderate tone that addresses competing priorities,” Alkhatib told VOA.
Domestic pressure comes not only from Arab Americans, American Muslims and some Democrats but also from a Jewish group advocating for American leadership to end the conflict diplomatically.
In a statement released Tuesday, the group J Street urged the Biden administration to insist that Israel significantly change its military operation, make clear that the U.S. “will not provide unbounded support for a war with no limits and no exit strategy” and reject “any future Israeli occupation, annexation or blockade in Gaza.”
It’s a delicate balance for Biden to navigate.
Pushing too hard on Netanyahu, who is already under immense domestic pressure from the families of the more than 100 hostages still held by Hamas, may backfire. Already anxious that a long pause will give Hamas time to regroup and reposition its forces, the Israeli war Cabinet is worried that prisoner swaps are boosting Hamas’ popularity in the occupied West Bank.
And as administration officials often underscore, the U.S. is not the one drawing up Israel’s war plans and battlefield decisions.
“We’re providing advice. We’re providing our perspectives,” Kirby said.
Cease-fire challenges
Analysts say a permanent cease-fire would require one of two developments: the dismantling of Hamas’ ability to rule Gaza and the stripping of its military wing, the Qassam Brigades, of munitions and infrastructure. Or, that Israel and Hamas forge a long-term agreement that entails fundamental changes.
The prospects of the latter appear dim as Israel and Hamas have fundamentally incompatible goals — each other’s destruction.
“It’s much more likely that Israel will destroy Hamas than vice versa,” said Michael O’Hanlon, senior fellow of the foreign policy program at the Brookings Institution. “But these are not two groups that could work out a reasonable compromise on strategic long term and states,” he told VOA.
While the Qassam Brigades can be weakened and Hamas’ governance structures can be toppled, rooting out the group that has been in control of Gaza since it won the 2006 election there is a different matter.
“Whatever remains of Hamas politically after the Gaza war is over may be incentivized to join the Palestinian Authority in pursuit of this solution, something that Hamas’ Politburo has endorsed as a favorable option,” Alkhatib said.
Biden and his aides have said that for a permanent cease-fire to succeed, there must be a road map toward a two-state solution. Without it, conditions will be ripe for a similar group to emerge, even if Hamas had been dismantled.
Paradoxically, there will be more pressure on Israel to allow the Palestinian Authority to govern in Gaza if Hamas is sufficiently degraded, said Jonathan Rynhold, head of the Department of Political Studies at Bar Ilan University.
Ideally for Israel and the U.S., it’s a reformed Palestinian Authority that is “less corrupt, more free, better economically,” he told VOA. It’s unclear whether those reforms can be achieved, and whether Israel can provide the support for them under the current right-wing coalition, he added.
Anita Powell contributed to this report.
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date: 2023-11-29, updated: 2023-11-29, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Japan’s digital minister, Taro Kono, faced a backlash on Monday after he attempted to use his smartphone to look up info during a meeting of the Budget Committee of the House of Councilors, contravening meeting rules.…
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date: 2023-11-29, updated: 2023-11-29, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has been accused of vetoing a proposed ban of Instagram and Facebook image filters that simulate the effects of plastic surgery, despite being told that such software may cause mental harm for children.…
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date: 2023-11-29, from: The Signal
Valencia High School’s Medical Science Academy took one step forward in saving lives on Tuesday through its partnership with UCLA Health by hosting a blood drive. The independent program, MSA, gives Valencia students the resources they need to learn about health care, provide them with real-life training and hands-on skills. “I joined because my family’s […]
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date: 2023-11-29, from: Santa Barbara Indenpent News
Freedom Warming Centers at the Unitarian Society on Santa Barbara Street and in Lompoc and Santa Maria will offer shelter during the cold snap.
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date: 2023-11-29, from: SCV New (TV Station)
This holiday season, give the Gift of Life. Honor or remember a loved one through the Henry Mayo Newhall Hospital Foundation’s Gift of Life program. Sponsorship levels range from $25, $50, $100, $250, $500 and $1,000.
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date: 2023-11-29, from: VOA News USA
U.S. lawmakers are racing to reach a deal on billions of dollars in aid to Ukraine and Israel before the holiday break. VOA’s Congressional Correspondent Katherine Gypson has more.
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date: 2023-11-29, updated: 2023-11-29, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Some US lawmakers have tabled alternative legislation to reauthorize the Feds’ favorite snooping tool, Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, before it expires at the end of the year.…
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date: 2023-11-29, from: The Signal
News release The city of Santa Clarita is inviting the community to the 16th annual Family Literacy Festival, scheduled 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday at the Old Town Newhall Library Branch, 24500 Main St. This year’s festival, themed “Take Me to Your Reader,” is designed to take attendees “on a journey filled with alien-inspired […]
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date: 2023-11-29, from: John Naughton’s online diary
The ‘alignment’ problem Nice cover of the New Yorker’s special issue on AI. Quote of the Day ”We are here on Earth to help others. What on earth the others are here for I do not know” W. H. Auden … Continue reading
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date: 2023-11-29, from: Santa Barbara Indenpent News
The formal rezones themselves will take place in 2024, but adoption of the HEU on December 5 will include the adoption of the “potential rezone” sites list.
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@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2023-11-29, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
I spent today working on the plumbing of FeedLand-on-Automattic. Hopefully tomorrow I will get to work on more user-facing features.
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date: 2023-11-29, from: OS News
Reading the story of how Windows NT came to be was entertaining, as it is a story of the system itself and the dynamics between Dave Cutler, the original designer and lead for NT, and the other people involved in the project. I was shy of being 10 years old when Windows NT launched and I didn’t comprehend what was going on in the operating systems world and why this release was such a big deal. Reading the book made me learn various new things about the development process, the role of Microsoft in that era, and allowed me to settle some questions I’ve had over the years. This article is a mixture of a book review and a collection of thoughts and reflections that the book evoked. Let’s begin because we have a lot of ground to cover. Dave Cutler’s impact on the word of computing really can’t be understated. I often wonder how he truly feels about what his and his team’s creation turned into today – does he like what Windows NT has become? Does he consider Windows 11 worthy of carrying on the torch of NT? As Cutler still works at Microsoft, we won’t get an answer any time soon, but I sure do hope he intends to write down his memoirs in a tell-all book about his life and career, because I’d be down for reading that.
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date: 2023-11-29, from: The Signal
The Valencia High School wrestling program isn’t known for having a large squad, but Vikings head coach Brian Peterson is looking forward to seeing what his tightknit group can accomplish this season. The varsity roster has just five wrestlers listed, but one of them, senior Alex Lopez, competed at the CIF Southern Section Masters Meet […]
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date: 2023-11-29, from: OS News
We’re pleased to share an important update regarding Azure RTOS – an embedded development suite with the ThreadX real-time operating system that has been deployed on more than 12 billion devices worldwide. Reinforcing our commitment to innovation and community collaboration, Azure RTOS will be transitioning to an open-source model under the stewardship of the Eclipse Foundation, a recognized leader in hosting open-source IoT projects. With Eclipse Foundation as the new home, Azure RTOS becomes Eclipse ThreadX – a comprehensive embedded development suite including a small but powerful real-time operating system that provides reliable, ultra-fast performance for resource-constrained devices. It’s easy-to-use, market proven, and trusted by developers and manufacturers for over two decades. It also supports the most popular 32-bit microcontrollers and embedded development tools so teams can make the most of their existing skills. The Eclipse’s Foundation announcement post has more details.
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date: 2023-11-29, from: OS News
Chinese chip designer Loongson has finally launched its loong teased “next-generation” 3A6000-series processors based on the LoongArch microarchitecture. IPC tests showed the 3A6000 matching Intel’s Raptor Lake i5-14600K in IPC (instructions per clock), with both chips clocked at 2.5GHz. As well as the headlining x86 compatible processor came the announcement of numerous partner desktop, laptop, and all-in-one machines — plus a consumer-grade motherboard from Asus. It was also entertaining to see a recorded overclocking session, which took an LN2-cooled 3A6000 chip to the current maximum 3 GHz. Many of us are being dismissive now, but give it a few more generations and Chinese PC users won’t be depending on Intel or AMD anymore – and that’s pretty impressive.
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date: 2023-11-29, updated: 2023-11-29, from: The LAist
The parents of Deputy Ryan Clinkunbroomer say his killing while on duty outside the Palmdale station could have been prevented.
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date: 2023-11-29, from: The Signal
A longtime local business leader and city parks commissioner died Friday, according to a city official. Don Cruikshank ran a successful equipment and event rental business, a legacy continued by his children, who also work in the field. He moved to the area as a 4-year-old in 1957, and attended elementary school in Newhall before […]
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date: 2023-11-29, from: SCV New (TV Station)
Porsche Santa Clarita’s last Cars & Coffee event of the year will be held Saturday, Dec. 2, 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. All makes and models of cars are welcome.
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date: 2023-11-29, updated: 2023-11-29, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Google Search ads paid for by US and EU government agencies and legislators, and by major companies, have been spotted in embarrassing and legally dubious places, including sexually explicit websites, plus sites in Iran and Russia in possible contravention of economic sanctions.…
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date: 2023-11-29, from: SCV New (TV Station)
Join the Triumph Foundation for dinner on Thursday, Nov. 30 from 5 p.m. to 10 p.m. at Route 66 Classic Grill in Canyon Country and 10% of your dinner tab will go to support Triumph.
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