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date: 2023-12-15, from: San Jose Mercury News
Nearly all the mystery around Shohei Ohtani’s unprecedented free agency was revealed over the last week, yet baseball fans kept sniffing around on a most fuzzy question.
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date: 2023-12-15, from: San Jose Mercury News
Made derogatory comments, chased owner around store.
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date: 2023-12-15, from: Liliputing
Intel’s Meteor Lake chips promise longer battery life and better graphics performance than the company’s previous-gen mobile processors. So it’s not surprising that laptop makers aren’t the only companies using the new chips. Handheld gaming PC maker One Netbook has begun to tease an upcoming handheld powered by an Intel Core Ultra processor based on […]
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date: 2023-12-15, updated: 2023-12-15, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
SpaceX has got approval to run tests of a proposed service that allows unmodified smartphones to make calls via a satellite link.…
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date: 2023-12-15, updated: 2023-12-15, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
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date: 2023-12-15, from: San Jose Mercury News
A brief history of Korean players coming to MLB shows learning curve is a challenge, but not insurmountable
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date: 2023-12-15, updated: 2023-12-15, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
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date: 2023-12-15, from: San Jose Mercury News
Google is changing its Maps tool so that the company no longer has access to users’ individual location histories, cutting off its ability to respond to law enforcement warrants that ask for data on everyone who was in the vicinity of a crime.
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date: 2023-12-15, from: San Jose Mercury News
Cal has a lot in common with the Texas Tech team it will face Saturday in the Independence Bowl
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date: 2023-12-15, from: NASA breaking news
NASA and Sierra Space are making progress on the first flight of the company’s Dream Chaser spacecraft to the International Space Station. The uncrewed cargo spaceplane is planned to launch its demonstration mission in 2024 to the orbital complex as part of NASA’s commercial resupply services. Dream Chaser and Shooting Star The Dream Chaser cargo […]
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date: 2023-12-15, updated: 2023-12-15, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Incident responders say they’ve found a new type of multi-platform malware abusing the New Kind of Network (NKN) protocol.…
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date: 2023-12-15, from: San Jose Mercury News
A broad, diverse set of candidates have emerged to run for the Alameda County Board of Supervisors District 5 seat, which will have no incumbent for the first time in over 30 years.
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date: 2023-12-15, from: San Jose Mercury News
The incident happened Tuesday evening at Edison Street and West Hillsdale Boulevard.
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date: 2023-12-15, from: San Jose Mercury News
“She was brilliant at what she did,” said Brian McDermott, a former Arsenal player who worked with Rushton at Reading F.C. “Absolutely brilliant at what she did.”
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date: 2023-12-15, from: San Jose Mercury News
“Changes were necessary and your team is struggling to find an identity and find momentum to win basketball games consistently, you have to experiment,” Curry said. “You can’t keep doing the same thing and expect results.”
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date: 2023-12-15, from: San Jose Mercury News
Defense attorney calls incident “textbook mental health case.
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date: 2023-12-15, from: NASA breaking news
By Jessica Barnett For many at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, a love – be it for space, science, or something else – drew them to the career they’re in today. For geologist Jennifer Edmunson, there were multiple reasons. Her love for geology dates back to her childhood in Arizona, playing in […]
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date: 2023-12-15, from: Guam Daily Post
The holiday spirit has illuminated Hagåtña’s Skinner Plaza with their annual lights display, while also bringing light to the island’s patron saint.
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date: 2023-12-15, from: Guam Daily Post
The Guam Fire Department and other agencies were able to put out a fire consisting of burning tires at Marbo Cave early Friday morning.
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date: 2023-12-15, from: Guam Daily Post
A mother accused of beating her 1-year-old child to death has made a request to take a polygraph test before going to trial.
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date: 2023-12-15, from: Guam Daily Post
The U.S. Department of the Air Force is considering bedding down up to 12 Republic of Singapore Air Force F-15 fighter jets and associated mission support at Andersen Air Force Base as part of a revised proposal for the base.
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date: 2023-12-15, from: Guam Daily Post
A man faces 20 years in prison after pleading guilty to distribution of methamphetamine hydrochloride.
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date: 2023-12-15, from: Guam Daily Post
With four recent police reports involving high school students possibly facing criminal charges, Attorney General Douglas Moylan said he finds it “imperative” to meet with education officials and local authorities to discuss how to deal with “increasing violence” in public…
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date: 2023-12-15, from: Guam Daily Post
Raina Taitingfong took center stage at the 2023 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Dubai to share with the world the need to act now to protect the Pacific islands from disappearing.
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date: 2023-12-15, from: Guam Daily Post
After some lengthy discussion earlier in the day, the Guam Legislature ultimately passed an extension to the moratorium on certain liquid fuel taxes and surcharges on Thursday night.
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date: 2023-12-15, from: Guam Daily Post
Two internal investigations launched in response to reports of police brutality this year have completed.
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date: 2023-12-15, from: Alex Schroeder’s Blog
My wife left to spend the day in a spa with a friend of hers and I am listening to Louis Armstrong recordings from the 1930s.
I read a discussion between @munroe and @Da_Gut about hex sizes for a hexcrawl. My personal take is to think of hexes as distances one can travel in a certain time.
Think about the diversity of the landscape one can see in a day of travel. Arable lands and a forest. Two regions? Arable lands, a forest, hills, a plateau. Four? That is the number of hexes per day. And nobody cares about the miles.
In my case, I think that “one hex is one day of walking” makes the most sense. In the morning, you’re leaving one hex and in the afternoon you’re arriving in the next hex. This assumes an uncharted wilderness. When I try to leave the forest trails in the hills around Zürich or in the Swiss mountains, I feel that progress is really slow. Super slow. Extremely slow. Sure, I can walk as far as the horizon in some cases, but that’s on gravel roads prepared by industrial machines and maintained by a state that is fed by all the tax evading billionaires and conglomerates of the whole planet. So out there in Fantasy land, it’s more like me trying to find a shortcut in the Swiss mountains and forests.
And sure, if people have horses and mules to carry their stuff, they can travel faster. Twice as fast makes it easy to move the little token around on the map. And roads also speed things up. Like, twice as fast? With horses and mules to carry stuff, on a flat road: 4 hexes per day. If you want to read up on ancient rows, see historic roads and trails on Wikipedia.
Regular exploration of the wilderness where the players are strangers, intruders, colonizers, potential murderers, belonging to the wannabe-conquerors, then surely it’s going to be 1 hex per day. This is the equivalent of slow and careful dungeon exploration speed. Avoid getting lost in the bogs, crossing the rivers and creeks without losing your stuff, without getting ambushed in gullies and canyons, without getting lost in forests, without slipping into ravines, spraining angles or scraping your knees, keeping dry, finding good camping sites, digging a latrine, digging a fire pit, washing clothes, maintaining equipment, baking bread, and on and on. This is the speed you can maintain for long expeditions.
Now, you can get into all the nitty-gritty of it all. Luckily, @settembrini already did all that and wrote Inch by inch it’s all a cinch, by the yard it’s hard. It’s a long article and not an easy read. But here’s one of the things I can put into my gamer notes:
1 hour’s walk = 1 league = 3 miles = 3000 double paces = 15 000 feet= 5000 yards.
So let’s go back to my example. Using the above equivalences, 8 hours of walking takes you 24 miles out in the open, on a road or well kept and straight trail. At the same time, I said that 1 day of walking is 2 hexes in my world, without mules or horses. So now we know: one day of walking is 24 miles and 2 hexes. Therefore my hexes should be 12 miles across, if you really need to know.
But of course you don’t because nothing happens “per mile” in the game. All the things happen “per unit of time”. The most important one of these is “how many random encounters per day?” Or “per 4 hour watch?”
I’m serious about one thing, however: It’s better if you don’t think about the miles per hex. If you do, you’ll keep thinking about all the other things, too. How far was your hike last summer? Did you have to set up camp? How heavy was your backpack? Did you wear armour? Is travelling by horse really faster than walking by foot if you can’t switch horses? How fast are you if you have two horses per person? How fast is a wagon. The questions are endless and somehow I find them all very boring questions. These are not good questions.
It’s better if you think about what’s important in the game for you and the table and go from there. Is the world dangerous because of random encounters? Start with the question of how often you want to roll for random encounters as the party travels from landmark to landmark. Think about the distances between settlements. Traditionally, that would be about a day’s march by foot in arable land: half a day out and do a bit of work and half a day back is the limit.
So let’s say you answered the above with “I’m going to roll once for random encounters per day of travel”. And every landmark has something: either it’s arable land so there are people living there, a camp, a hamlet, a village, or it’s dangerous because of a monster lair, or because of a natural hazard like mountains, swamps, deep forest, or something else that’s similarly inhospitable.
If you follow this train of thought then you’ll arrive at my setup: the slowest speed is one hex per day, and then there are ways to speed things up with transporation methods and infrastructure. Take a boat downriver or along the coast: 8 hexes per day? More? What about taking a boat upriver? Just as slow as walking but you can unlimited supplies? How far can the flying carpet go? All these questions need settling, eventually. All I am concerned about right now, however, is that they can be answered in principle: a certain multiple of the slowest speed is good enough.
The only good argument for switching things up that I can think of is wanting to present more variety to your players. No problem. If the land is full of stuff, a river ford, a tower ruin, then up onto the plateau and into the moors until you reach the cairns of Arguable, you can scale it up. Multiply it all by two or three or four and you’re good to go. I find that this leads to a lot more mapping and so I don’t do it, but if you feel like it, you have my blessings.
If you are like me and prefer more diversity in theory but cannot be bothered to map in practice, I have a suggestion: start with the sparse map and keep adding. Using the example above, there’s a hex with a settlement, and the next hex is hills, and there’s a river between the two. You can improvise a story about the fields giving way to brushland, the river winding its way between the willows and the ford with the poles of King Borgobob who raised them in the times of your grandfather, and then there’s that plateau. If the players don’t look for the tower, it does not show up. But if the players know about the old tower you add a tower symbol to the hill hex and presto, one more landmark in the same hex. They know about the cairn, too? Then it’s a tower and a cairn. You can even number the sides of a hex: 1 is north, 2 is south-east, 3 is south-west, and so on. Then your notes can say “1: cairn, 4: old tower” and depending on how the party crosses the hexes, you’ll know whether they pass by the thing or wether they can spot it from a distance or whether they’ll have to search for it.
I also like to label geographic features. Label settlements, forests, mountains, swamps, rivers, trails. I feel that adds so much.
Here’s a snapshot of the player map in my German Greyhawk campaign where I run the Elredd region on the Wild Coast. How long does it take to travel from Elredd to Moorwies along the Miesbohlenweg? 1 hex/day in the wilderness, 2 hexes/day on the road: From Elredd to Brackmühl is a day, from Brackmühl to Kreuzdorf is a day, and from Kreuzdorf to Moorwies is half a day, or perhaps the swamp slows things down and the road is shit so it’s a full day. So three days total. If you had horses, then it’s one day from Elredd to Kreuzdorf, and then the shit trackway into the swamp… a second day? Or maybe you can travel right through Moorwies and out of the swamp on the other side. But my players don’t know what lies to the west…
(Map generated using Text Mapper with the Bright library)
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date: 2023-12-15, from: NASA breaking news
In this aerial view, crews with Orion Marine Construction work to complete the westbound span of the Indian River Bridge, while daily traffic moves along the upgraded eastbound lanes of the bridge leading to NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Monday, Nov. 27, 2023. The bridge crosses the Indian River Lagoon and connects Kennedy […]
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date: 2023-12-15, updated: 2023-12-15, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
The final Vega rocket launch is being delayed to September 2024 as engineers wrestle with the unusual problem of disappearing fuel tanks.…
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date: 2023-12-15, updated: 2023-12-15, from: One Foot Tsunami
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date: 2023-12-15, from: Hannah Richie at Substack
The world will achieve record food production this year, but with a growing El Niño and future climate change – will it be able to keep up?
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date: 2023-12-15, from: Smithsonian Magazine
The green honeycreeper is only the second of its species ever observed with this condition—and the first recorded in more than 100 years
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date: 2023-12-15, updated: 2023-12-15, from: Charlie’s Diary
Season of Skulls came out six months ago, so here be spoilers. If you want a recap of the two previous novels in this not-exactly-a-trilogy, you can find my notes on them here: Dead Lies Dreaming, Quantum of Nightmares. What…
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date: 2023-12-15, updated: 2023-12-15, from: The LAist
The city’s first and oldest food hall has gone through many iterations, evolving with the neighborhood. One thing that hasn’t changed? It provides a sampling of L.A.’s wide variety of culinary offerings — all in one open-air structure.
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date: 2023-12-15, updated: 2023-12-15, from: The LAist
For many of us, it’s not the holidays without tamales (hot sauce optional). But the time to order is running out. We asked the LAist staff for their favorite places to buy. Here’s what they said.
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date: 2023-12-15, updated: 2023-12-15, from: The LAist
When in DTLA, Grand Central Market is a must. Here are some of our best picks, hacks and tricks for enjoying it all. Don’t forget a cooler and some ice packs.
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date: 2023-12-15, from: The Markup blog
Don’t get into a political argument. Talk about misinformation instead
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date: 2023-12-15, updated: 2023-12-15, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
A second planned trial to provide hydrogen for home heating was this week officially cancelled in England, a government minister has confirmed.…
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date: 2023-12-15, from: Marketplace Morning Report
For some, Paul McCartney’s “Wonderful Christmastime” is a source of merriment. For others? Bah humbug! If you’re a holiday music hater, then you’re like “Marketplace Morning Report” host David Brancaccio. Today, David is joined by two award-winning musicians and childhood friends who discuss artistry versus economics when it comes to holiday jingles — and try to inspire some holiday cheer. But first, mortgage rates dip under 7%.
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date: 2023-12-15, from: PeerJ blog
2023 PeerJ Award Winners This has been a bumper year for PeerJ Awards, giving away 65 Awards across a record 31 conferences! Primarily aimed at supporting Students and Early Career Researchers (ECRs), PeerJ Awards give a prize of a free publication (subject to peer review) in any of the PeerJ journals, as well as a […]
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date: 2023-12-15, from: Heatmap News
Current conditions: A major storm will batter the U.S. Eastern Seaboard this weekend • Moscow is buried under record snowfall • It’s 50 degrees Fahrenheit and cloudy in Paris, which was recently named the world’s top city destination.
Global demand for coal remains at a record high, but is expected to start declining in 2026, according to the International Energy Agency’s (IEA) “Coal 2023” report. Most advanced economies are ditching this dirtiest of fossil fuels: Coal consumption fell by about 20% in the United States and the European Union this year. But the same cannot be said for China, India, and Southeast Asia, where coal demand is growing. But a turning point could arrive soon, the report says. Global coal demand is expected to fall by 2.3% by 2026 compared with 2023 levels. A lot depends on China, which accounts for 54% of global coal consumption.
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Relatedly, this week Australia announced its last remaining coal plant will retire by 2038. As renewables take over, “expect more such announcements around the world,” says Bloomberg Green’s Akshat Rathi.
The Biden administration wants federal employees to use low- or zero-emission transportation when traveling for work. In a directive released yesterday, the White House said workers should travel by train for trips shorter than 250 miles, and especially in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic, where rail travel is most accessible. If traveling by car is necessary, workers should opt for an EV. Employees should consider combining trips, taking public transportation, and avoid using their own private vehicles for work. Or better yet, they should avoid traveling at all. “In every case, the trip not taken is the least expensive and most sustainable,” the directive says. The federal government spent $1.66 billion on flights and $4.2 million on rail trips last year, Reuters reports. The White House says travel accounts for 1.8% of federal greenhouse gas emissions.
Sultan Al-Jaber, who served as president of COP28, tells The Guardian that his company Adnoc will continue to invest in oil and gas production so long as the demand is there. Adnoc is the United Arab Emirates’ national oil and gas company, and Al-Jaber is its CEO. He was applauded this week after delegates at COP28 agreed to “transition away” from fossil fuels, but faced criticism earlier this month for saying there is “no science” showing that ending fossil fuel usage will limit global warming. He has said in the past that he believes fossil fuels will inevitably be phased out, but has qualified that by saying “we need to be real, serious and pragmatic about it.”
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The glacier beneath Everest Base Camp is melting due to rising temperatures in the Himalayas, putting climbers at risk and forcing Nepal’s government to consider moving the camp, The Wall Street Journal reports. Everest tourism contributed $2.4 billion to Nepal’s economy last year, which is 6.1% of its GDP, and Base Camp is an essential gateway to the mountain. But ice at the camp is disappearing due to a combination of global warming and human activity. Moving the camp farther down the mountain is an option, but it would “make the climb to the top more dangerous than it already is,” the Journal explains. More people died on Mount Everest this year than ever before. A report released in June found that climate change could cause Himalayan glaciers to lose 80% of their volume this century.
The European Space Agency’s (ESA) Climate Office recently announced its favorite “Little Pictures of Climate” for 2023. The competition highlights creators who use satellite-derived climate data tell visual stories about the changing planet. Here is one particularly compelling submission:
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The length of pipeline that would be needed to create a U.S. carbon capture network would be enough to circle Earth four times.
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date: 2023-12-15, from: Marketplace Morning Report
From the BBC World Service: Guyana and Venezuela have agreed to settle the debate over rights for the oil-rich Essequibo region with diplomacy. Also, Hungary has blocked a $55 billion European Union aid package for Ukraine — but not talks over EU membership. And what’s it really like to travel on the first Berlin-Paris sleeper train in nearly a decade?
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date: 2023-12-15, updated: 2023-12-08, from: Bruce Schneier blog
In 2016, I wrote about an Internet that affected the world in a direct, physical manner. It was connected to your smartphone. It had sensors like cameras and thermostats. It had actuators: Drones, autonomous cars. And it had smarts in the middle, using sensor data to figure out what to do and then actually do it. This was the Internet of Things (IoT).
The classical definition of a robot is something that senses, thinks, and acts—that’s today’s Internet. We’ve been building a world-sized robot without even realizing it.
In 2023, we upgraded the “thinking” part with large-language models (LLMs) like GPT. ChatGPT both surprised and amazed the world with its ability to understand human language and generate credible, on-topic, humanlike responses. But what these are really good at is interacting with systems formerly designed for humans. Their accuracy will get better, and they will be used to replace actual humans…
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date: 2023-12-15, from: Manu - I write blog
This is the 16th edition of People and Blogs, the series where I ask interesting people to talk about themselves and their blogs. Today we have Jamie Thingelstad and his blog, thingelstad.com.
Jamie was the first person to become a supporter of the P&B series, even before the first edition was out, something I really appreciate. I really enjoy how his blog is a proper personal blog, with a mix of work related content, things he’s passionate about, family posts, and everything in between. It’s also great how he’s been online with a blog for almost two decades, quite a stark contrast with the current state of the web where things tend to last 12 nanoseconds on average. And lastly, I love that his entire family has blogs. It’s such a neat idea.
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Let's start from the basics: can you introduce yourself?
Hello there! My name is Jamie Thingelstad, and I’m writing to you from Minneapolis, Minnesota, in the United States. Thank You, Manuel, for having me and thank you for reading! I’m happily married to my fantastic partner Tammy, and we have two children, Mazie and Tyler. Our family unit is rounded out with our Bernedoodle Lucky, who is equal parts loving, lazy, and large.
I am a passionate technologist and have been intrigued by computers since my mother got me a Texas Instruments TI-99/4A for $99 at JC Penney when they were exiting the computer business. My Uncle Tim helped me take that Christmas present, attach the RF modulator to a TV, and create my first BASIC program. I’ve been fascinated by technology my whole life. When I discovered the Internet at the University of Minnesota, in the days of FTP and Gopher, when the Web was still being born, I was smitten. While many undergrads were spending Friday nights out and about, I could often be found on the SPARCstation in the labs, learning Unix and exploring the early Internet.
I was lucky enough to start my career along with the Web. I left the University before completing my degree. I started an Internet Service Provider for businesses, helped build BigCharts as CTO, and led our technology into MarketWatch and, finally Dow Jones. I’ve spent significant time in publishing, financial services, social, and retail Software as a Service. Today, I am CTO for SPS Commerce, leading a team of 500 technologists to build and grow the World’s Retail Network.
While my role is about leadership, I remain very close to technology. Some folks have hobbies like gardening, and mine are mostly around technology. I’m an active blogger. I write a newsletter. I love to explore and play with tech. Overall, I like learning. I enjoy photography to push my creative side. I enjoy writing. I enjoy cooking and entertaining. I make candles. We enjoy traveling both near and far.
Most of all, I enjoy time with family and friends.
What's the story behind your blog?
I started my blog nearly 20 years ago, and I don’t remember the impetus
to create it. I registered thingelstad.com in 1999, even
before I set up my blog. I had a handmade HTML “home page” and other
hand-created HTML pages for some trips. In 2004, I decided to start
using .Text as a blogging system. I’ve used a variety of different
technologies over the years.
.Text → WordPress → SquareSpace → Pelican → Jekyll → micro.blog
For nearly two decades, my blog has been my home on the Web. It is where I share my writing. It is where I record things I care about. There isn’t a single story of my blog. There are hundreds. And that is what I love about it.
Having published for this long and now in my fifties, I think of my blog as one of my “life works.” It is part of my long-term memory. It is part of how I want to leave an impact on the future.
What does your creative process look like when it comes to blogging?
“Creative process” is a pretty big word for my blogging. I tend to write on the fly when I find the energy and motivation flowing. My blogging is often things that happen in my life, stories I want to share, or my opinions. I don’t do a lot of research, but I do make sure I add links to related websites.
Short posts I do right in the Micro.blog app. Longer posts I will write in Drafts. I typically author posts in one sitting. I prefer to do any final editing after the post is published. Longer posts I will often read the next day on my site and will make edits at that point.
I do have lists of blog posts I may want to write, and they are usually in OmniFocus in a “Create blog posts” project, or I will have a stub in Drafts in the “Blog/Ideas” tag. Most of these “ideas” never actually go anywhere. The posts that happen the most are the ones that I feel compelled to write about.
Building this need to write is something I recognized that Twitter was hurting. I’m not sure how to explain it, but over time, I feel compelled to write. I realized after a long time (too long) that blabbing 140 characters at a time on Twitter was scratching that same itch. Still, the outcome was just these blips of words disconnected from context. When I do less of that, the “urge to write” builds, and before I know it, I’m writing 1,000 words on something.
One last thing is I don’t ever use “Drafts” in the blogging platform I’m using. I’m unsure why, but creating a draft in the system is like death for that post. It will never happen. For some reason, keeping that in the Drafts app or a list in OmniFocus works much better. I never use the Draft feature of micro.blog or other blogging systems.
Do you have an ideal creative environment? Also do you believe the physical space influences your creativity?
For me it is less about the physical where (beyond basic comfort) and more about the when. My most prolific time for writing things of any length is on a weekend morning. Coffee nearby, everyone else still asleep, and the sun low in the sky. Usually, I’m on my laptop, but a desktop is fine. I’m nearly always going to be typing into Drafts. I have an outline I’m working to fill out.
The physical space can have an impact. If things are cluttered or distracting, that takes energy away. But that has a minor effect on me. It is all about energy, and that is most present in the morning for me.
That said, I’m okay writing at any other time, but I may prefer shorter or simpler things.
Mostly, “just write”.
A question for the techie readers: can you run us through your tech stack?
Here is my current setup for running my blog.
Given your experience, if you were to start a blog today, would you do anything differently?
Having blogged for nearly two decades, I get asked for suggestions about how to start a blog, and my main point of advice is just one thing:
Just write.
Most people get hung up on “write about what?” I suggest writing about something they recently learned or experienced. Start as a journal and keep writing. Over time, you will find your voice and the topics or themes that resonate with you. But the most important thing is to write. Everything else is noise.
For folks who agree with the above, I have three suggestions.
First, embrace the KISS principle. Blogging platforms have a ton of options and customizations. I would ignore them all. One of the things I love about the modern pattern of using markdown and site generators is its simplicity. Customizations to a specific system are to be avoided, and for sure, ignore theme customizations. You will change themes, and you don’t want any content dependencies.
Second, I’ve found Collections and Lists to be a fun thing on my blog. Like most blogging systems micro.blog allows for posts by date or pages using a manual structure. Collections are pages that I create to collect a set of blog posts together. You could think of them as a category, but they are usually time-bound events like a trip to Yellowstone. Having a page I can add content to and link to is a great way to curate a set of posts on something and add additional context about it. Lists use the same page function and are just various lists like a list of escape rooms, a list of words, and a list of POAP events I’ve created. Both of these pages are in the navigation of my site, and I’ve had people comment on how much they like them.
The last suggestion is to only have one site, one blog. This goes back to my main thing about “just write”. Having multiple websites adds a decision point of “write where?”. I find this question to be a big problem, and it stops me in my tracks. It’s best to have only one place that you write so there is no decision.
Financial question since the Web is obsessed with money: how much does it cost to run your blog? Is it just a cost, or does it generate some revenue? And what's your position on people monetizing personal blogs?
Running thingelstad.com requires two things: a subscription to
micro.blog and my domain name. I subscribe to the premium version of
micro.blog more because I want to support the business than share
videos, which is $100/year. I manage my domain registration with
NameCheap, which is approximately $16/year. I also defensively own
thinglestad.com (the most common misspelling of my name)
and jamiethingelstad.com, which redirects, but that is an
optional spend.
I love that micro.blog gives you an on-ramp to blogging for as low as $5/mo or $50 + domain name annually. That is a great deal.
I do not try to make money off of my blog at all. Like most bloggers, when affiliate stuff was big, I did try it. I even had a couple of hobby sites that I ran Google AdWords on. That was all before I developed as informed and vigorous a view on privacy as I do now. And in the early days, affiliate and ad networks were not the surveillance systems they are now.
I also do not have any analytics on my website.
My metaphor to think about all of this stuff is my home. I like to think of people visiting my blog as a digital version of somebody coming over for dinner or stopping by to visit. I do not give people who come to our house a unique identifier and follow them around after they leave. I don’t provide them with coupons or ask if they bought the book we discussed. And I don’t keep counters of how long they stay or if they “bounced” right after stopping by.
I want to respect the people who visit my site and respect their privacy, so I don’t monetize any aspect of it and have no tracking codes at all.
Time for some recommendations: Is there any blog you think is worth checking? And also, who do you think I should be interviewing next?
I must first recommend the blogs of Tammy and my kids, Mazie and Tyler. A long time ago, Tammy had a blog that she posted somewhat regularly with the delightful name “Smaller Than A Redwood.” She took the site off the Web several years ago, and a couple years back I asked her if she would mind me resurrecting it back into micro.blog via the backup I took. She thought fine, and then, out of the blue this summer on our vacation, she made her first post in about 10 years.
I also set my kids up with their own blogs. All of them are on micro.blog. They don’t post regularly, and I’m not pushing them. I’m vocal about my disdain for social media, and my kids have absorbed that opinion. Neither of them wants anything to do with those services. So we’ve set them up with a way to authentically publish online if or when the spirit moves them. They have it available to use as they wish.
Also, here are some bloggers that I particularly get excited about when I see a new item appear in my feed: Allen Pike, Om Malik, Tim Bray, Josh Bernoff, Fred Wilson, Rajiv Pant, Annie Mueller, Lee Zukor, David O’Hara, and Patrick Rhone.
Final question: is there anything you want to share with us?
Over 6 years ago, I decided to explore having a newsletter. I’d been blogging for 13 years then, so I had a consistent stream of things I was writing. I also had been a broad reader and curating links for years. I decided to bring those things as the core of the Weekly Thing. The name is a play on my last name, and it is weekly. I’ve published over 250 issues, and many people refer to the Weekly Thing as my “blog.”
Publishing a newsletter has been an exciting journey and is similar to blogging but also very different. There is a reply mechanism that blogs don’t have. There is no need for a feed reader to get to people. I like it and find it a great complement to my blog. I’m also honored to have over 1,400 people who have decided to let me into their mailbox. I don’t know how many people subscribe to my RSS feed, but I suspect that the Weekly Thing is now the most common way people “subscribe” to my blog.
I also recently rebooted a fun hobby site of mine — Road Sign Math! This is a driving game we’ve played as a family for years. At one point, I had a complicated website running for it with multiple players and a leaderboard. I even transitioned it from a blog to a wiki. I took it and many other sites off the Web a long time ago, but mathematically significant road signs still delighted me, so I decided to bring it back with a reboot using micro.blog. It is a fun site, a great time on road trips, and my little contribution to keeping the Web weird.
I’d also put a plug out for book clubs. I’ve been in a book club for years with four other super-intelligent people, and reading and discussing books has been an incredible learning process and a great social connection. If you can be in a book club, leap at it. Or even better, start your own.
I love to learn and believe it is part of my purpose. I greatly enjoy (and subscribe) to two podcasts I learn from: Making Sense by Sam Harris and The Drive with Peter Attia. The Weekly Thing is my attempt to share my learning with others. Overall, the community of bloggers is a community of learners.
The thing I want to share the most, though, is gratitude. How fortunate I was to watch the Web coming to life when I was at the University of Minnesota in the early 1990’s. How incredible it is to get to experience all of this technology. How lucky I am to be able to type on my laptop on a weekend morning and have those words appear anywhere in the world instantly. How honored that people actually read those words. And how my kid’s kids and their descendants may even be able to read them after I’m gone.
That is truly remarkable, and I can’t thank the Internet, the Web, and the amazing world it created enough.
This was the 16th edition of People and Blogs. Hope you enjoyed this interview with Jamie. Make sure to follow his blog (RSS) and get in touch with him if you have any questions.
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date: 2023-12-15, updated: 2023-12-15, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
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date: 2023-12-15, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
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<p>LOS ANGELES — The Golden State Warriors believe Draymond Green needs help to curb his long history of rough play, and general manager Mike Dunleavy Jr. is hopeful an indefinite suspension provides enough time for their star forward to make real progress. </p>
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date: 2023-12-15, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>LAS VEGAS — Four days after losing 3-0, the Las Vegas Raiders scored 42 points by halftime, didn’t let the Los Angeles Chargers cross midfield until the third quarter and rolled to a record-setting 63-21 victory on Thursday night. </p>
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<p>Hilo High’s boys varsity basketball team defeated Pahoa High 60-48 on Wednesday night at the Vikings’ home court.</p>
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<p>KAPAAU — Nights like these never get old for Kohala boys basketball.</p>
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<p>Cybercriminals have accessed funds from nearly 600 Electronic Benefits Transfer cards in Hawaii, more than double the number recently reported, as food insecurity intensifies during the holidays.</p>
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<p>WASHINGTON — Hundreds of thousands of older Americans could pay less for some of their outpatient drug treatments beginning early next year, the Biden administration announced Thursday.</p>
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<p>Lisa Marie Fleury, 60, of Hilo, died Dec 5. She was a staff pharmacist for the former Ululani Pharmacy and a leading knight at the Hilo Elks Lodge No. 759. Private services held. Memorial donations to the Food Basket Inc., 40 Holomua Street, Hilo, HI 96720. Online condolences: homelanimemorialpark.com. Survived by sisters, Lorraine Fleury of Norwich, Conn., Allison (Kevin) Murphy of Niantic, Conn., and Amy (Adam) Therrien of East Hampton, Conn.; a niece and a nephew. Arrrangements by Homelani Memorial Park.</p>
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date: 2023-12-15, updated: 2023-12-15, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
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date: 2023-12-15, from: The Signal
All y’all! Merry Christmas to all on the Palmdale family tree, which, some wiseacres in our link like to point out is more like a limbless stump connecting directly to the apes. Which, without the benefit of carbon dating, goes back to 1923. Also, a tepid nod of the head to those family practitioners of […]
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The following letter from current Councilman Jason Gibbs was submitted before the end of his term as Santa Clarita’s mayor for 2023. In Santa Clarita, we stand together against hate, discrimination, and bigotry in any form. As a city, we strive to provide events and forums that allow our cultures and heritages to be shared, understood, […]
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date: 2023-12-15, from: The Signal
The following letter was written before Mike Johnson was chosen as speaker of the House. I am watching the clown show in the House of Representatives as the Republicans called for yet another failed vote for their speaker. Right now the Congress has been hijacked by MAGA Republicans. Their latest nominee is Jim Jordan of […]
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date: 2023-12-15, updated: 2023-12-15, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
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date: 2023-12-15, from: SCV New (TV Station)
1987 – Incorporation: Santa Clarita officially becomes a city. [story
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Pope Francis urged world leaders to establish an international treaty regulating AI, and warned against relying on machines to make moral and ethical decisions that should be left to humans.…
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date: 2023-12-15, from: Heather Cox Richardson blog
Today is one of those days when the main story is not what’s on the pages, but what the stories say when they are themselves seen as a pattern. This morning the Associated Press ran a story by national political reporter Brian Slodysko titled “The Republican leading the probe of Hunter Biden has his own shell company and complicated friends.” It told the story of how Representative James Comer (R-KY), the chair of the House Oversight Committee, has a financial history that looks a great deal like that of which he accuses the Bidens, including a shell company that appears to ethics experts to have problematic connections to a campaign donor.
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date: 2023-12-15, updated: 2023-12-15, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
A startup with aspirations of becoming a trusted global news brand is planning to launch a service delivering curated content – written by AI and delivered by artificial anchors. …
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date: 2023-12-15, updated: 2023-12-15, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Amazon is set to open an innovation center in the Chinese city of Shenzhen to assist Middle Kingdom businesses increase exports – an effort that aligns with the likes of Alibaba and the wider Chinese e-commerce industry.…
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date: 2023-12-15, from: The Signal
Santa Clarita Valley Sheriff’s Station deputies detained two people Thursday night on suspicion of illegal shooting at Travel Village RV Park in Castaic, according to station officials. Deputies responded to reports of shots being fired at the Henry Mayo Drive location at 7:03 p.m. and arrived at 7:12 p.m., according to Sgt. Joanna Warren with […]
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date: 2023-12-15, from: Santa Barbara Indenpent News
Rerouting this trail is on its third attempt as the hillside attempts to recover from the Thomas Fire.
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date: 2023-12-15, from: VOA News USA
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Faith and education leaders are denouncing plans for an After School Satan Club at a Tennessee elementary school but said they would follow the law and allow the organization hosting the club to meet.
Around 40 members of the faith community in Memphis stood united with leaders at Memphis-Shelby County Schools on Wednesday to criticize the planned club and to question The Satanic Temple’s intentions in offering it, according to the Commercial Appeal newspaper. The faith community and educators also wanted to make it clear that students would need signed permission slips to attend and to express support for religious organizations that have partnered with the district, the newspaper reported.
“You see the faith-based community standing here,” said board chair and local pastor Althea Greene, who wore a clerical collar. “We’re going to stand up and we’re going to be vocal. Satan has no room in this district.”
The Satanic Temple plans to host the club at Chimneyrock Elementary School in Cordova. It will begin meeting January 10 in the school’s library and run through the spring semester, according to an announcement Tuesday posted on social media.
A flyer about the club says the Satanic Temple is a nontheistic religion that views Satan “as a literary figure who represents a metaphorical construct of rejecting tyranny and championing the human mind and spirit.”
It says it does not attempt to convert children to any religious ideology but offers activities that “emphasize a scientific, rationalistic, non-superstitious worldview.”
Memphis-Shelby County Schools said in a statement that the district would rent out the space to the nonprofit organization per its policy.
Since the announcement, interim Superintendent Toni Williams said some have demanded that the district ban all faith-based organizations from schools, but that won’t happen.
“As a superintendent, I am duty bound to uphold our board policy, state laws, and the Constitution,” she said during the event. “But let’s not be fooled. Let’s not be fooled by what we’ve seen in the past 24 hours, which is an agenda, initiated to make sure that we cancel all faith-based organizations that partner with our district.”
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date: 2023-12-15, updated: 2023-12-15, from: Daring Fireball
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date: 2023-12-15, updated: 2023-12-15, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
The Science Fiction Writers Association (SFWA) has asked us all to imagine a future in which builders of AI models offer a price they’re willing to pay for the copyrighted material they need, and creators choose whether to pay it until enough deals are struck that all stakeholders achieve satisfaction.…
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date: 2023-12-15, from: VOA News USA
WASHINGTON — The United States has struck hundreds of deals worth $14.2 billion with African nations over the past year as Washington tries to counter growing influence on the continent by China.
The 547 new trade and investment agreements represent a 67% increase from 2022 in the number and value of closed deals, according to British Robinson, coordinator for the Prosper Africa trade and business initiative, a program that connects U.S. and African businesses.
Robinson said the presidential and national security initiative is aimed at strengthening strategic and economic partnerships by mobilizing two-way trade and investment flow, and young people are key to realizing that goal.
“The U.S. business and investment community is increasingly recognizing Africa’s extraordinary market potential and dynamism. The continent is home to the world’s youngest population, an asset that creates significant opportunities for viable business deals that create jobs and foster shared prosperity,” Robinson said during a December 12 virtual media briefing.
Judd Devermont, U.S. National Security Council senior director for African Affairs, said it has been a record-setting year for U.S.-Africa relations, with the United States following through on its commitment to invest some $55 billion over three years.
“As we wind down 2023, we have already delivered on more than 40% of this commitment. In fact, by the end of year two, we anticipate surpassing 70% of our goal, if not more,” Devermont said. “With these resources, we’ve expanded our trade and investment; we have advanced major food and health security partnerships; charted a course for digital transformation; forged new security and good governance cooperation; and catalyzed landmark diaspora-driven engagement.”
The briefing was held to mark the one-year anniversary of the U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit in Washington, where Biden pledged to go “all in” on the continent.
The announcement comes as Washington works to deepen its engagement with Africa, where China has been expanding its influence with infrastructure, investment, loans, among other initiatives.
Devermont, President Joe Biden’s top Africa adviser, said Africa is not only important economically but politically, adding the U.S. has been pushing for more African voices on the world stage for some time.
“President Biden last year called for the African Union to become a permanent member of the G20, and in September we proudly welcomed this development,” Devermont said. “We’re now advocating for a third seat for the —for Sub-Saharan Africa on the IMF board, and of course we reiterate our call for permanent representation for Africa at the UN Security Council.”
The U.S. has had to alter its investment and trade strategies in countries affected by conflict. U.S. Department of State Bureau of African Affairs Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Jonathan Pratt said that, in Sudan, U.S. policy has been to put sanctions in place. “Sanctions haven’t just been on individuals; they’ve also been on companies and different asset classes. And so that’s one strategy that we’ve used in conflict countries and locations,” he said.
Pratt said in Niger, one of several countries hit by military coups and violence, the United States is prioritizing peace through negotiations.
“We’ve been very supporting of the ECOWAS (Economic Community of West African States) sanctions that have been put in place. And then to support that effort we have leveraged our own assistance and investments, which we’ve announced very clearly, if the country and the leadership there turns back to a democratic path, we’re willing to explore progressively lifting that freeze in assistance and potential investments,” Pratt said, adding that the U.S. also uses “a combination of sanctions plus leveraging our engagement and assistance.”
Devermont agreed saying that trade investment has been an important part of the U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit.
“One of the most important initiatives that has come out of the continent in the last couple years has been the Africa free – Continental Free Trade Area. And we signed an MOU with the AfCFTA at this summit because the goals of the AfCFTA to unite 1.3 billion people in a single market and to trade a nominal GDP that’s larger than India’s is a huge boon. And in that process, harmonizing regulations, reducing trade and non-trade barriers, that will benefit all countries whether they are experiencing a crisis or not.”
Devermont said the U.S. is also looking at the underlying drivers of conflict, and is investing in new approaches, including elevating its focus on elections and anti-corruption measures.
This story originated in VOA’s English to Africa Service.
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date: 2023-12-15, updated: 2023-12-15, from: Daring Fireball
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Celebrating Norman Lear.
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Liz Cheney: Trump Should Go to Jail if Convicted.
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Pipe Dreams: The life and times of Yahoo Pipes.
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date: 2023-12-15, updated: 2023-12-15, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
CANALYS APAC FORUM Businesses are clamoring to adopt AI, without really knowing what to do with it, according to speakers on a panel at last week’s Canalys APAC Forum in Bangkok.…
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date: 2023-12-15, from: VOA News USA
seattle — The U.S. government said Thursday it plans to spend more than $1 billion over the next decade to help recover depleted populations of salmon in the Pacific Northwest, and that it will help figure out how to offset the hydropower, transportation and other benefits provided by four controversial dams on the Snake River, should Congress ever agree to breach them.
President Joe Biden’s administration stopped short of calling for the removal of the dams to save the fish, but Northwest tribes and conservationists who have long sought that called the agreement a road map for dismantling them. Filed in U.S. District Court in Oregon, it pauses long-running litigation over federal operation of the dams and represents the most significant step yet toward breaching them.
“Today’s historic agreement marks a new direction for the Pacific Northwest,” senior White House adviser John Podesta said in a written statement. “Today, the Biden-Harris administration and state and tribal governments are agreeing to work together to protect salmon and other native fish, honor our obligations to tribal nations, and recognize the important services the Columbia River system provides to the economy of the Pacific Northwest.”
The Columbia River Basin, an area roughly the size of Texas, was once the world’s greatest salmon-producing river system, with at least 16 stocks of salmon and steelhead.
Today, four are extinct and seven are listed under the Endangered Species Act. Another iconic but endangered Northwest species, a population of killer whales, also depends on the salmon.
Dams blamed for decline
Dams are a main culprit behind the salmon’s decline, and federal fisheries scientists have concluded that breaching the dams in eastern Washington on the Snake River, the largest tributary of the Columbia, would be the best hope for recovering them, providing the fish with access to hundreds of miles of pristine habitat and spawning grounds in Idaho.
Conservation groups sued the federal government more than two decades ago in an effort to save the fish. They have argued that the continued operation of the dams violates the Endangered Species Act as well as treaties dating to the mid-19th century ensuring the tribes’ right to harvest fish.
Republicans in Congress who oppose the breaching of the dams released a leaked copy of the draft agreement late last month.
“I have serious concerns about what this agreement means for the future of our region,” Representative Cathy McMorris Rodgers, a Republican from Washington, said in an emailed statement Thursday. “It jeopardizes the energy, irrigation and navigation benefits that support our entire way of life, and it makes commitments on behalf of Congress without engaging us.”
Details of agreement
Under the agreement, the U.S. government will build enough new clean energy projects in the Pacific Northwest to replace the hydropower generated by the dams — the Ice Harbor, Little Goose, Lower Monumental and Lower Granite.
The agreement includes a compromise regarding dam operations — providing for additional water to be spilled in the spring, fall and winter to help some salmon runs such as spring and summer Chinook, while reducing the spill required in late summer, when energy demand is high and production is especially profitable. That could harm fall Chinook, said the environmental law firm Earthjustice, which is representing environmental, fishing and renewable energy groups in the litigation.
The federal Bonneville Power Administration, which operates the dams, will spend $300 million over 10 years to restore native fish and their habitats throughout the Columbia River Basin, though it said the agreement would result in rate increases of only 0.7%. Two-thirds of that money will go toward hatchery improvements and operations, and the rest will go to what the agreement refers to as the “six sovereigns” — Oregon, Washington and the four tribes involved: the Yakama Nation, the Nez Perce Tribe, the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation and the Confederated Tribes of the Warm Springs.
Combined with other fish-restoration funding, the federal government will be spending more than $1 billion over the next decade, the White House said.
The U.S. also will conduct or pay for studies of how the transportation, irrigation and recreation provided by the dams could be replaced. The dams made the town of Lewiston, Idaho, the most inland seaport on the West Coast, and many farmers in the region rely on barges to ship their crops, though rail is also available.
The agreement “lays out a pathway to breaching,” said Shannon Wheeler, chairman of the Nez Perce Tribe. “When these things are replaced, and the Pacific Northwest is transforming into a stronger, more resilient, better place, then there’s a responsibility … to make the decisions that are necessary to make sure these treaty promises are kept.”
Utility and business groups Northwest RiverPartners, the Public Power Council and the Pacific Northwest Waterways Association have opposed the agreement.
“This settlement undermines the future of achieving clean energy goals and will raise the rates of electricity customers across the region while exacerbating the greatest threat to salmon that NOAA scientists have identified — the warming, acidifying ocean,” Northwest RiverPartners said in a news release Thursday.
There has been growing recognition that the harm some dams cause to fish outweighs their usefulness, but only a few lawmakers in the region have embraced the idea. Dams on the Elwha River in Washington state and the Klamath River along the Oregon-California border have been or are being removed.
In 2021, Republican Representative Mike Simpson of Idaho proposed removing the earthen berms on either side of the four Lower Snake River dams to let the river flow freely, and to spend $33 billion to replace the benefits of the dams.
Last year, Washington Governor Jay Inslee and Washington U.S. Senator Patty Murray, both Democrats, released a report saying carbon-free electricity produced by the dams must be replaced before they are breached. Inslee declined to endorse breaching the dams during a conference call with reporters on Thursday, but he said figuring out how to replace their benefits would enable Congress to make a better decision.
“I don’t think this agreement makes anything inevitable, but it does make it much more likely that we’ll have the information we need to make the decision,” he said.
In October, Biden directed federal agencies to use all available resources to restore abundant salmon runs in the Columbia River Basin, but that memo too stopped short of calling for the removal of the dams.
“The energy needs of the Pacific Northwest should not rest on the backs of salmon,” said Donella Miller, fisheries science manager with the Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission. “What’s good for the salmon is good for the environment, and what’s good for the environment is good for the people.”
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date: 2023-12-15, from: VOA News USA
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — A missile fired from territory controlled by Yemen’s Houthi rebels missed a container ship traveling through the crucial Bab el-Mandeb Strait on Thursday, a U.S. defense official said, the latest attack threatening shipping in the crucial maritime chokepoint.
The seaborne assaults attributed to the Iran-backed Houthis have been part of their pressure campaign over the Israel-Hamas war raging in the Gaza Strip.
The Houthis have attacked vessels in the Red Sea and launched drones and missiles targeting Israel. In recent days, they have threatened to attack any vessel they believe is either going to or coming from Israel, though several vessels targeted had no apparent link at all.
The missile fired Thursday splashed harmlessly in the water near the Maersk Gibraltar, a Hong Kong-flagged container ship that had been traveling from Salalah, Oman, to Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, the U.S. official said. The official spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss intelligence matters.
The official’s comments came after the British military’s United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations, which monitors Mideast shipping lanes, put out an alert warning of an incident in the strait, which separates East Africa from the Arabian Peninsula.
Later Thursday, a Houthi spokesperson claimed the rebels had hit the Maersk Gibraltar with a drone strike, after its crew allegedly failed to respond to the rebels’ call to surrender. The spokesperson for the Iran-backed fighters, Brig. Gen. Yahya Saree, also claimed the vessel was heading to Israel.
Saree did not provide any details about the purported strike to the ship or any damage inflicted.
Maersk, one of the world’s biggest shippers, did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Earlier in the day, the private intelligence firm Ambrey said the ship had also been called over the radio by “an entity claiming to be the ‘Yemeni Navy’ ahead of the missile being launched towards the vessel.”
“The ‘Yemeni Navy’ demanded the vessel alter course to head for Yemen,” Ambrey said and assessed the entity to be the Houthis.
On Wednesday, two missiles fired from Houthi-held territory missed a commercial tanker loaded with Indian-manufactured jet fuel near the key Bab el-Mandeb Strait. Also near the strait, a missile fired by Houthis on Monday night slammed into a Norwegian-flagged tanker in the Red Sea.
Global shipping has increasingly been targeted as the Israel-Hamas war threatens to become a wider regional conflict — even during a brief pause in fighting during which Hamas exchanged hostages for Palestinian prisoners held by Israel. The collapse of the truce and the resumption of a punishing Israeli ground offensive and airstrikes on Gaza have raised the risk of more sea attacks.
The Bab el-Mandeb Strait is only 29 kilometers wide at its narrowest point, limiting traffic to two channels for inbound and outbound shipments, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration. Nearly 10% of all oil traded at sea passes through it. An estimated $1 trillion in goods pass through the strait annually.
In November, Houthis seized a vehicle transport ship linked to Israel in the Red Sea off Yemen. The rebels still hold the vessel near the port city of Hodeida. Separately, a container ship owned by an Israeli billionaire came under attack by a suspected Iranian drone in the Indian Ocean.
A separate, tentative cease-fire between the Houthis and a Saudi-led coalition fighting on behalf of Yemen’s exiled government has held for months despite that country’s long war. That’s raised concerns that any wider conflict in the sea — or a potential reprisal strike from Western forces — could reignite those tensions in the Arab world’s poorest nation.
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Not a lotta yadda yadda. Heard in a commercial and I had to write it down. We now return to our regularly scheduled program.
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date: 2023-12-15, updated: 2023-12-15, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
VMware by Broadcom, as the former VMware is now known, has in recent days dished out welcome news for its faithful.…
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date: 2023-12-15, from: VOA News USA
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date: 2023-12-15, updated: 2023-12-15, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
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date: 2023-12-15, from: Guam Daily Post
The Guam Fire Department and other agencies were able to put out and area consisting of burning tires at Marbo Cave early Friday morning.
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date: 2023-12-15, updated: 2023-12-15, from: Daring Fireball
Looking at the rankings of Threads, Twitter/X, and others in the App Store and Play Store.
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date: 2023-12-15, from: VOA News USA
WASHINGTON — Jurors began deliberating Thursday to decide how much Rudy Giuliani must pay two former Georgia election workers for spreading lies about them that led to a barrage of racist threats and upended their lives.
The jury left for the day without announcing a decision and were expected to resume deliberations at Washington’s federal courthouse Friday morning.
Wandrea “Shaye” Moss and her mother, Ruby Freeman, are seeking tens of millions of dollars in damages over Giuliani’s false claims accusing them of ballot fraud while the former New York City mayor was fighting to keep Republican Donald Trump in the White House after the November 2020 election won by Democrat Joe Biden.
The potential hefty damages come at the same time Giuliani is gearing up to defend himself against criminal charges stemming from his legal representation of Trump. Giuliani’s lawyer told jurors the damages the women are seeking “would be the end of Mr. Giuliani.”
In his closing argument, an attorney for Moss and Freeman highlighted how Giuliani has not stopped repeating the false conspiracy theory asserting the workers meddled in the 2020 presidential election. Attorney Michael Gottlieb played a video of Giuliani outside the courthouse earlier this week repeating the false claims about his clients. Giuliani had previously conceded in court documents that he made public comments falsely accusing the women of ballot fraud.
“Mr. Giuliani has shown over and over again he will not take our client’s names out of his mouth,” Gottlieb said. “Facts will not stop him. He says he isn’t sorry, and he’s telegraphing he will do this again. Believe him.”
Giuliani’s attorney acknowledged that his client was wrong but insisted that he was not fully responsible for the vitriol the women faced. He sought to largely pin the blame on a right-wing website that published the surveillance video of the women counting ballots.
Gottlieb described Freeman and Moss as “heroes,” adding that “after everything they went through, they stood up and said, ‘no more.’” He also read from a chapter in Giuliani’s book on leadership where the former mayor said his father told him never to be a bully. The lawyer said: “If only Mr. Giuliani had listened.”
“The lies in this case became a sustained, deliberate, viral campaign, the purpose of which was to overturn an election and have these statements rocket around the world millions and millions of times,” Gottlieb said.
The women’s lawyers are asking for at least $24 million for each woman in defamation damages alone. They’re also seeking compensation for their emotional harm and punitive damages. Gottlieb asked the jury to send a message to other powerful people with the amount they award.
“Facts matter. Truth is truth, and you will be held accountable,” he said.
Giuliani’s lawyer has said any award should be much less, describing the damages the women are seeking as the “civil equivalent of the death penalty.” Attorney Joseph Sibley told jurors they should compensate the women for what they are owed but urged them to “remember this is a great man.”
“I want you to send a message to America, we can come together in compassion and sympathy,” he said.
His lawyer has argued there is no evidence Giuliani himself encouraged the harassment. Sibley told jurors that right-wing website Gateway Pundit was “patient zero” in spreading the conspiracy theory about the women and said Giuliani was sued because he is “patient deep pockets.”
“Just because these things happened — and they did happen — doesn’t make my client responsible for them,” Sibley said.
Giuliani’s defense rested Thursday morning without calling a single witness after the former mayor reversed course and decided not to take the stand. Giuliani’s lawyer had told jurors in his opening statement that they would hear from his client but after his comments outside court, the judge barred him from claiming in testimony that his conspiracy theories were right.
Giuliani’s lawyer said his client was not testifying because Freeman and Moss had “been through enough.” His testimony also could have been used against him in the criminal case in Georgia.
On the witness stand, Moss and Freeman recounted receiving a torrent of hateful and threatening messages after they became the targets of the conspiracy theory pushed by Giuliani and other Trump allies. The women told jurors the lies made them fear for their lives and described how they remain scared to go out in public years later.
Despite already being held liable in the case, Giuliani repeated his false claims about the women earlier this week. On Monday, he told reporters outside the courthouse that everything he said about the women was “true,” again accusing them of “engaging in changing votes.”
The case is among mounting legal and financial woes for the man once celebrated as “America’s mayor” for his leadership after the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
Giuliani is among 19 people charged in Georgia in the case accusing Trump and his allies of working to subvert the state’s 2020 election results. Giuliani has pleaded not guilty and characterized the case as politically motivated.
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date: 2023-12-15, from: The Signal
News release Six schools in the William S. Hart Union High School District have been named to the College Board’s AP School Honor Roll for 2022-23, placing them in the top 30% of eligible schools. The AP School Honor Roll recognizes schools across the country for successful advanced placement programs with broad access. To qualify […]
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date: 2023-12-15, from: SCV New (TV Station)
Zoya Kalinsky, a 7th grader at iLEAD Hybrid, a TK-12th grade tuition-free charter school, addressed the United Nations ECOSOC Chamber for the UNiTE Campaign to End Violence Against Women and Girls on Nov.
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date: 2023-12-15, from: The Signal
The families of those who died too soon came together at Bethlehem SCV on Sunday evening to take part in the 22nd annual Candle Lighting Remembrance ceremony hosted by the Santa Clarita Valley Chapter of The Compassionate Friends. “It’s to honor the children that have passed on,” said support group leader Diane Briones. “It’s for […]
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Six Hart District high schools have been named to the College Board’s AP School Honor Roll for 2022-23, placing them in the top 30% of eligible schools
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date: 2023-12-15, updated: 2023-12-15, from: The LAist
Ohtani’s arrival brings special excitement for the LA’s large Japanese diaspora.
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date: 2023-12-15, from: The Signal
William S. Hart Union High School District officials took a long, hard look at their spending plan for the fiscal year Wednesday following the state’s issuance of its updated budget picture. Barring improvement, the district is looking to deficit-spend from its reserves over the next five years to the tune of tens of millions of […]
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date: 2023-12-15, updated: 2023-12-15, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Comment Cloud storage biz Dropbox spent time on Wednesday trying to clean up a misinformation spill because someone was wrong on the internet.…
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date: 2023-12-15, from: The Signal
How Valencia High School’s Casey Cuny became a California Teacher of the Year Valencia High School teacher Casey Cuny could feel the energy in the room. After more than two decades of teaching — 18 of them in the William S. Hart Union High School District — Cuny had a feeling that his mythology students […]
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date: 2023-12-15, from: The Signal
News release Grace Baptist Church hosted its annual Christmas concert last weekend, with this year’s theme being, “The King Has Come.” The concert — which was free and open to the public — featured a 45-piece orchestra, more than 90-person adult choir, and a kids’ choir. “The audience was invited to enjoy a musical journey, […]
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date: 2023-12-15, from: SCV New (TV Station)
The Santa Clarita Community College District Board of Trustees, which oversees College of the Canyons, named its new officers and confirmed its 2024 meeting schedule at the board’s business and organizational meeting on Wednesday, Dec.
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@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2023-12-15, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)
There's a category for Fediverse on Threads.
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date: 2023-12-15, from: John Naughton’s online diary
London’s other East End Gerrard Street yesterday. Quote of the Day ”Too much of anything is bad, but too much good whisky is barely enough.” Mark Twain (Especially if it’s a good single malt.) Musical alternative to the morning’s radio … Continue reading
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date: 2023-12-15, from: PostgreSQL News
The pgAdmin Development Team is pleased to announce pgAdmin 4 version 8.1. This release of pgAdmin 4 includes 21 bug fixes and new features. For more details please see the release notes.
pgAdmin is the leading Open Source graphical management tool for PostgreSQL. For more information, please see the website.
Notable changes in this release include:
Builds for Windows and macOS are available now, along with a Python Wheel, Docker Container, RPM, DEB Package, and source code tarball from the tarball area.
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date: 2023-12-14, updated: 2023-12-15, from: Daring Fireball
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@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2023-12-14, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)
Role-playing with AI will be a powerful tool for writers and educators.
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date: 2023-12-14, updated: 2023-12-15, from: The LAist
Federal judge David O. Carter says he wants the VA’s West L.A. campus to dramatically increase the housing available for veterans to include space for about 4,000 people.
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date: 2023-12-14, from: The Round Up (Peirce College Student Paper)
I am the Roundup newspaper Fall 2023 editor-in-chief. I have been a student in the Media Arts Department since Fall 2019. (I know, I know.
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date: 2023-12-14, from: The Round Up (Peirce College Student Paper)
The significance of transitioning from a community college to a four-year university is substantial. In this era of rapid advancements and evolving job markets, the
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date: 2023-12-14, from: The Round Up (Peirce College Student Paper)
The significance of transitioning from a community college to a four-year university is substantial. In this era of rapid advancements and evolving job markets, the
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date: 2023-12-14, from: The Round Up (Peirce College Student Paper)
The college life of the average American student is considered to be ideally an education starting and ending at a four-year university, private or public.
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date: 2023-12-14, from: 404 Media Group
“What would it mean for your business if you could target potential clients who are actively discussing their need for your services in their day-to-day conversations? No, it’s not a Black Mirror episode—it’s Voice Data, and CMG has the capabilities to use it to your business advantage.”
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date: 2023-12-14, from: The Round Up (Peirce College Student Paper)
At the beginning of the 2024-2025 school year, the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) application process will be streamlined to enable more families
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date: 2023-12-14, updated: 2023-12-14, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
US lawmakers today approved an $886 billion defense policy bill that includes a four-month extension to Section 702, the controversial surveillance tool that allows American intelligence to potentially spy on its citizens and permanent residents.…
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date: 2023-12-14, from: The Round Up (Peirce College Student Paper)
It is never a dull day at Pierce College, according to Interim President Ara Aguiar. This semester alone, she has juggled a number of responsibilities,
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date: 2023-12-14, from: The Round Up (Peirce College Student Paper)
European and Japanese tuners with a touch of American muscle were on display for Valley Village residents on Sunday in Parking Lot One from 10
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date: 2023-12-14, from: The Round Up (Peirce College Student Paper)
During his youth, Associated Student Organization (ASO) Student Service Assistant Jason “Ozzy” Portillo had a strong aspiration to work within a school district. As
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date: 2023-12-14, updated: 2023-12-14, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
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date: 2023-12-14, from: VOA News USA
washington — The maiden liftoff of a new American rocket called Vulcan Centaur has been delayed from December 24 to January 8, the company that developed it said Thursday.
The postponement stems from last-minute technical snags, but United Launch Alliance CEO Tory Bruno said on X, formerly Twitter, that a recent dress rehearsal on the launch pad went well.
The rocket will carry a private lunar lander, developed by the startup Astrobotic, which could become the first such private craft to touch down on the moon and the first American robot to land on the surface since the Apollo program ended in 1972.
“This is sort of, in a way, the first giant step in the campaign for the U.S., and for all of our friends, to go back to the moon, eventually with people,” Bruno told AFP in an interview last week.
“It’s a pretty big deal to have a payload at all, let alone one that goes to the surface of the moon,” he added.
“We wanted to do something really important, and we have a lot of confidence, obviously, in the design of our rocket,” Bruno said.
Liftoff for this mission called Cert-1 will take place at the U.S. Space Force launch base at Cape Canaveral, Florida.
In dress rehearsals in recent days, some “routine” issues emerged in the ground system so a Christmas Eve flight is now out, and the new window opens January 8, Bruno wrote on X.
Besides the lunar lander, this rocket will carry the cremated remains of several people associated with the original “Star Trek” series, including creator Gene Roddenberry and cast member Nichelle Nichols, who played the character Uhura. Roddenberry’s ashes have been launched into orbit previously.
A sample of Bruno’s own DNA will also be taken into space. “Who wouldn’t want to go to space with five ‘Star Trek’ people?” he mused in the interview with AFP.
Vulcan Centaur is meant to replace ULA’s Atlas V and Delta IV rockets and is designed to carry a payload of up to 27.2 metric tons into low orbit, comparable to what the SpaceX Falcon 9 can do.
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date: 2023-12-14, from: The Signal
By Byrhonda Lyons and Jeanne Kuang CalMatters Writers Jesus Mares got a lifeline during the COVID-19 pandemic. Thanks to rental support from one of Los Angeles’ leading homelessness agencies, he had a roof over his head. He had been bouncing between sleeping in his car and hotel rooms. The taxpayer-subsidized room in a South L.A. duplex […]
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date: 2023-12-14, from: Liliputing
The Morefine M6 is a pocket-sized computer that measures 155 x 80 x 19mm (6.1″ x 3.1″ x 0.75″), making it almost as portable as a smartphone. But it’s a full-fledged computer that’s designed to plug into a monitor, mouse, keyboard and power supply. It just happens to be much smaller than most desktops. When […]
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date: 2023-12-14, from: NASA breaking news
It was an abundant year of innovation, exploration, and inspiration for NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California. NASA Armstrong continues to demonstrate America’s leadership in aeronautics, Earth and space science, and aerospace technology. Our researchers, engineers, and mission support teams continually seek to revolutionize aviation, add to mankind’s knowledge of the universe, and […]
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date: 2023-12-14, from: SCV New (TV Station)
The California Department of Transportation has scheduled lane closures on the northbound and southbound State Route 14 between Technology Drive in Palmdale and Avenue A in Lancaster, closing up to three lanes
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date: 2023-12-14, from: The Sundail (CSUN student paper)
I sat in the hospital room, frozen. The patient I was assigned to watch died from old age, 15 minutes into my night shift. I panic, and as I’m about to call for a code blue, I remember to check the patient’s file. The patient is classified as a “DNR” or “do not resuscitate.” My…
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date: 2023-12-14, updated: 2023-12-14, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
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@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2023-12-14, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
So, with the “Bloggers” category not yet ready for prime time, I’ve replaced it with my All category from FeedLand, changing the title to News. I know it’s confusing. I think there’s going to be a fair amount of this kind of shuffling in the weeks and months ahead, as we try to fit news and blogs together in interesting ways. You can read the Bloggers category on news.scripting.com.
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date: 2023-12-14, from: NASA breaking news
El cultivo de alimentos a bordo de la Estación Espacial Internacional es una de las muchas investigaciones que han alcanzado la madurez para las misiones de vuelos espaciales de larga duración a la Luna y Marte. El astronauta de la NASA Frank Rubio compartió recientemente una jugosa historia de dos tomates rebeldes, a los que […]
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@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2023-12-14, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
Yesterday I addressed the How Do I Write question, now let me address Why I Write. I write at least partially because I know there are good people who love my writing. Anyway, I love to write because there are people who love to read. And I feel connected to them. My mother was the prototype. We weren’t very close in actual life, but she was a devoted reader of my blog. It gave us a connection. And I assume all daily or nightly readers of this blog have that kind of connection, whether I hear from them or not. And sometimes you do hear from them, and that’s especially lovely.
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date: 2023-12-14, updated: 2023-12-14, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Microsoft has taken down US-based infrastructure and websites used by a cybercrime group to sell fraudulent online accounts to other crooks including Scattered Spider, the infamous social-engineering and extortion crew that hacked two Las Vegas casinos over the summer.…
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date: 2023-12-14, from: Heatmap News
In the moments after Sultan Al Jaber, the president of this year’s COP, struck his gavel to finalize the text of the first-ever global stocktake, Anne Rasmussen, the lead negotiator for the Alliance of Small Island States, took the floor.
“We are a little confused about what just happened,” Rasmussen said. “It seems that you gaveled the decisions, and the small island developing states were not in the room.”
Rasmussen and her colleagues, it turned out, had left the room to discuss the changes they wanted to see in the text, with the idea that they could come back and present those changes to Al Jaber. But, as Tom Evans of E3G explained to me recently, COP works on the idea of consensus, which is reached when all the members who are in the room when a vote is called find common agreement.
Sometimes, consensus is used in odd political ways — the U.S. delegation for example, left the room during discussions around a loss and damage fund, which allowed the vote to go forward despite the U.S.’s hesitations. This may be what everyone thought the members of AOSIS were doing; when they re-entered the room, they received a standing ovation, which contributed to Rasmussen’s confusion.
But the moment had passed; there was nothing Rasmussen or her colleagues could do to get the text of the stocktake amended. So she used her time on the floor to stake her moral authority. I’m quoting liberally, because I think her words are worth taking in:
“AOSIS at the beginning of this COP had one objective, to ensure that 1.5 [degrees Celsius] is safeguarded in a meaningful way. Our leaders and ministers have been clear. We cannot afford to return to our islands with the message that this process has failed us,” she said. “We have come to the conclusion that the course correction that is needed has not yet been secured.”
Rasmussen continued, pointing out paragraphs and sub-paragraphs where the text failed to live up to its promise. It was, in short, a rebuke of what was supposed to be the most important statement to come out of this conference, the failed realization of a promise that was made when the Paris Agreement was written in 2015.
In many ways, that promise is personal for Rasmussen and her colleagues. AOSIS is the reason the 1.5 degree C target is in the Paris Agreement in the first place — as Justin Worland wrote in TIME in 2015, President Obama said the voices of the island nations were vital in those talks — and the passage of the stocktake without the presence of those nations is a cynical reversal of how things happened at that historic conference.
Rasmussen received a standing ovation when she finished.
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date: 2023-12-14, from: SCV New (TV Station)
The Painted Turtle is leaping into 2024 as it welcomes back Bingo at The Roxy on Thursday, Feb. 29.
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date: 2023-12-14, from: Michael Tsai
Standard Ebooks (via Jason Kottke): Standard Ebooks is a volunteer-driven project that produces new editions of public domain ebooks that are lovingly formatted, open source, free of U.S. copyright restrictions, and free of cost.Ebook projects like Project Gutenberg transcribe ebooks and make them available for the widest number of reading devices. Standard Ebooks takes ebooks […]
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date: 2023-12-14, from: Michael Tsai
Mike Masnick (Hacker News): We’ve written a few times about independent journalist Tim Burke. Earlier this year, the FBI raided his house and seized all of his electronic devices after he had obtained and published some leaked video footage from Fox News. As we noted, this seemed like a pretty big 1st Amendment issue. Burke […]
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date: 2023-12-14, from: Michael Tsai
Tim Hardwick: Swiss-based privacy startup Proton today announced the availability of its end-to-end encrypted cloud storage service for Mac users with the launch of its macOS app. Proton Drive lets users sync files between Mac and the cloud, access files offline, and free up space on local drives. Unlike iCloud, all data (including metadata) is […]
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date: 2023-12-14, from: Michael Tsai
Howard Oakley: Prior to Sonoma, one of the features in iCloud Drive that hasn’t behaved as documented is Optimise Mac Storage. This has changed in Sonoma, as it now effectively switches between two different types of file provider: a replicated file provider, which syncs between local and remote copies of all files put in the […]
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date: 2023-12-14, from: SCV New (TV Station)
The California Department of Public Health launched Thursday an all-new, comprehensive opioid website that gives Californians a single source of prevention, data, treatment and support information
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date: 2023-12-14, updated: 2023-12-14, from: Daring Fireball
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date: 2023-12-14, from: Santa Barbara Indenpent News
Renowned Chef Mollie Ahlstrand opens a new spot in Carp.
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@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2023-12-14, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)
I agree that importing and exporting are the wrong ideas. I want to have lots of tools work on the same data. Format standards, and my control of my own work.
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@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2023-12-14, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
BTW, even with News no longer on the home page of scripting.com, it still gets more hits than the home page. There’s something there to look at. I want to do more to integrate the blog and the news. To make some kind of new publication that has a bunch of voices, yet doesn’t spin out of control.
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date: 2023-12-14, from: NASA breaking news
NASA has selected GE Aerospace of Cincinnati to work with the agency’s Hybrid Thermally Efficient Core (HyTEC) project, which is aiming to develop more fuel efficient engines for single-aisle aircraft. The HyTEC’s Phase 2 Integrated Core Technology Demonstration is a cost-sharing contract with a maximum value of approximately $68.1 million and a five-year performance period […]
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date: 2023-12-14, updated: 2023-12-14, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Starting January 4, 2024, Google says it will begin blocking third-party cookies by default in Chrome for one percent of users, only three or four years after rival browsers implemented similar privacy protections.…
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date: 2023-12-14, from: Liliputing
Lenovo’s next-gen ThinkPad X1 laptops are packed to the gills with premium features including thin and light designs, Intel Meteor Lake H-series processors, 14 inch, 2.8K OLED displays with a 120 Hz refresh rate, 8MP webcams, dual Thunderbolt 4 ports, and support for up to 64GB of RAM and 2TB of storage. But they also […]
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date: 2023-12-14, from: Doc Searls (at Harvard), New Old Blog
After 17 years and 761 episodes, FLOSS Weekly ended its run on the TWiT network yesterday. I hosted the last 179 of those shows. My career as a professional (meaning paid) advocate of open source also ended with that show. The full span ran from 1996, when I first appeared on the Linux Journal masthead, until […]
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date: 2023-12-14, from: Smithsonian Magazine
The beloved bear dressed in a blue duffle coat and red hat is set to sing and dance with the Brown family in 2025
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date: 2023-12-14, from: The Sundail (CSUN student paper)
The North Hollywood Station sees hundreds of people everyday. Students, workers and community members alike make their way in and out of the station as they commute to their respective places each day. The train ride may not be the most attractive or exciting part of the journey, but it’s sure to bring you closer…
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@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2023-12-14, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
Braintrust query: What if I asked you for a list of your favorite blogs? It could be a podcast, or a tech news site. Something you think every Scripting News reader should see when there’s something new? Just curious to know what news sources people think are the most interesting, valuable.
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date: 2023-12-14, from: NASA breaking news
Global tensions were high in the fall of 1941 as U-boats harassed ships in the Atlantic and German forces pushed deep into the Soviet Union. There was a critical need for the United States to get the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA)’s new engine laboratory (today, NASA’s Glenn Research Center) in operation as soon […]
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date: 2023-12-14, from: The Sundail (CSUN student paper)
Social media surrounds our everyday lives. Many of us check our accounts hourly. Perhaps without even realizing it, though, social media is affecting our mental health in a negative way. For one, social media can trigger mental health symptoms. Social media can promote negative experiences of isolation, fear of missing out (FOMO), social media addiction,…
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date: 2023-12-14, from: The Sundail (CSUN student paper)
Latinos have dominated music over the years, with Latin music revenue hitting $1 billion for the first time in 2022. However, alternative Latino music isn’t always as recognized, compared to giants in reggaeton like Bad Bunny. Still, their music is a big part of our community, and so much endless talent out there deserves to…
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date: 2023-12-14, from: Santa Barbara Indenpent News
December 13, 2023 ― The Santa Barbara Museum of Art (SBMA) is pleased to announce the newest members of its Board
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date: 2023-12-14, from: The Sundail (CSUN student paper)
In the era of digital education, the intertwining of innovation and academia has brought forth advancements and challenges alike. Google recently vowed to protect generative AI users from copyright infringement claims, shedding light on new ethical complexities. This, however, comes with a caveat: user protection does not apply if the generated outcome infringes on the…
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date: 2023-12-14, from: VOA News USA
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date: 2023-12-14, from: The Sundail (CSUN student paper)
I have a learning disability, which makes higher education challenging for me. It has been this way since the third grade, being placed in a special education class. Fast forward to highschool, I was told by my school counselor that I wouldn’t go to college, much less become a STEM major. I was told that…
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date: 2023-12-14, from: Santa Barbara Indenpent News
Retired Santa Barbara City College professor volunteering in elementary schools at 85.
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date: 2023-12-14, from: VOA News USA
Three top U.S. universities and their presidents have drawn criticism after accusations that they failed to stop antisemitism and Islamophobia on their campuses. University leaders testified on Capitol Hill last week, but that did little to end the controversy over their mission and the safety of students. Robin Guess reports.
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date: 2023-12-14, updated: 2023-12-14, from: The LAist
Gascón’s office has exonerated four people this year.
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date: 2023-12-14, from: The Sundail (CSUN student paper)
I never intended to work at Starbucks. I knew about the hectic work environment. I heard about baristas moving back and forth with 20 different drinks lined up. It looked stressful. Fast forward to spring of 2021. I was fresh out of a job, and searching for another. Borderline hopeless, I applied to a local…
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date: 2023-12-14, from: VOA News USA
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date: 2023-12-14, from: Santa Barbara Indenpent News
The Santa Barbara Zoo partners with Figueroa Mountain for a special beer lineup.
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date: 2023-12-14, updated: 2023-12-14, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
LinkedIn has abandoned its efforts to migrate its datacenter infrastructure to Microsoft Azure four years after announcing the planned move.…
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date: 2023-12-14, from: Liliputing
Samsung has announced a Meteor Lake refresh for its Galaxy Book Pro and Ultra line of premium laptops. The new Galaxy Book4 Ultra is the most powerful of the bunch, with support for up to an Intel Core Ultra 9 185H processor and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 graphics, but all of the new laptops feature Intel’s […]
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date: 2023-12-14, from: Smithsonian Magazine
After 5,000 photos, Martin Bond has decided to conclude his project, which showcased the city’s mundane and extraordinary moments
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date: 2023-12-14, from: 404 Media Group
“This is not expected behavior,” Ubiquiti said on Reddit.
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date: 2023-12-14, from: Smithsonian Magazine
A new study finds a link between Neanderthal DNA and modern human genes related to the internal body clock, or circadian rhythm
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date: 2023-12-14, from: SCV New (TV Station)
In an era where there seem to be endless options when shopping for kids’ toys, California State University, Northridge experts in child development and the dynamics of play are offering advice on holiday shopping this season.
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date: 2023-12-14, from: The Sundail (CSUN student paper)
If California plans for all new cars, trucks, and SUVs to be electric by 2035, we’re going to need a lot more chargers – about 1.2 million to be exact. Electric vehicles (EVs) are quickly becoming the future of transportation in California. Since cars and trucks are the largest source of air pollution, the shift…
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date: 2023-12-14, from: Logic Matters blog
There’s no doubt that playing around with ChatGPT 4 can be fun. And the DALL·E image-generating capacities are really rather remarkable. Here I am, sitting in the ruins, as the world seems to be falling apart around me, trying to distract myself with matters categorial. I’m mighty glad, though, that I am retired from the …
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date: 2023-12-14, from: Liliputing
The Epic Games Store is offering an “Epic Coupon” good for 33% off the purchase price of any games in your cart as long a the total is $14.99 or more… and you get a new coupon every time you make an eligible purchase. Meanwhile Humble Bundle is bringing back some of the year’s most […]
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date: 2023-12-14, from: NASA breaking news
Growing food aboard the International Space Station is one of the many research investigations ripe for long duration spaceflight missions to the Moon and Mars. NASA astronaut Frank Rubio recently shared the saucy story of two rogue tomatoes, which he had accidentally lost track of while harvesting for the eXposed Root On-Orbit Test System (XROOTS) […]
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date: 2023-12-14, from: The Sundail (CSUN student paper)
The Pride Center at CSUN has long been the home to a diverse queer community, and currently provides a wide variety of services to aid them. Yet, the Pride Center still lacks an in-house counselor who focuses on the specific issues that queer students face. CSUN currently hosts counseling services for all students, and the…
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date: 2023-12-14, from: Santa Barbara Indenpent News
On Tuesday, December 19, 2023, at 5:30 p.m., the Goleta City Council will consider adoption of an Urgency Ordinance and
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date: 2023-12-14, updated: 2023-12-14, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
The kernel 6.6.6 version number delighted many a black-clad open source fan, but not for long. It’s already been replaced with a more neighborly 6.6.7.…
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date: 2023-12-14, from: NASA breaking news
Built to be the last stop for components of the International Space Station, the Space Station Processing Facility (SSPF) at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, has been given a new name that honors this legacy while embracing its role as a multi-tenant processing facility. Agency officials have updated the name of the 457,000 square […]
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date: 2023-12-14, updated: 2023-12-14, from: One Foot Tsunami
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date: 2023-12-14, updated: 2023-12-14, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
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date: 2023-12-14, from: NASA breaking news
Digital content creators are invited to register to attend the launch of NASA’s Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud Ocean Ecosystem (PACE) mission and create content based on the experience. PACE is a NASA mission scheduled to launch no earlier than Feb. 6, 2024, on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral […]
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date: 2023-12-14, from: Cory Doctorow’s blog
Today’s links How the NYPD defeated bodycams: NYPD leadership were accountability’s adversaries, not its partners. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2003, 2008, 2013, 2018, 2022 Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading How the NYPD defeated bodycams (permalink) Anything that can’t go on forever will eventually stop. When American patience for racial profiling in traffic stops reached a breaking point, cops rolled out dashcams. Dashcam footage went AWOL, or just recorded lots of racist, pretextual stops. Racial profiling continued. Tasers and pepper spray were supposed to curb the undue use of force by giving cops an alternative to shooting dangerous-seeming people. Instead, we got cops who tasered and sprayed unarmed people and then shot them to pieces. Next came bodycams: by indelibly recording cops’ interactions with the public, body-worn cameras were pitched as a way to bring accountability to American law-enforcement. Finally, police leadership would be able to sort officers’ claims from eyewitness accounts and figure out who was lying. Bad cops could be disciplined. Repeat offenders could be fired. Police boosters insist that police violence and corruption are the result of “a few bad apples.” As the saying goes, “a few bad apples spoil the bushel.” If you think there are just a few bad cops on the force, then you should want to get rid of them before they wreck the whole institution. Bodycams could empirically identify the bad apples, right? Well, hypothetically. But what if police leadership don’t want to get rid of the bad apples? What if the reason that dashcams, tasers, and pepper spray failed is that police leadership are fine with them? If that were the case, then bodycams would turn into just another expensive prop for an off-Broadway accountability theater. What if? In “How Police Have Undermined the Promise of Body Cameras,” Propublica’s Eric Umansky and Umar Farooq deliver a characteristically thorough, deep, and fascinating account of the failure of NYPD bodycams to create the accountability that New York’s political and police leadership promised: https://www.propublica.org/article/how-police-undermined-promise-body-cameras Topline: NYPD’s bodycam rollout was sabotaged by police leadership and top NYC politicians. Rather than turning over bodycam footage to oversight boards following violent incidents, the NYPD suppresses it. When overseers are allowed to see the footage, they get fragmentary access. When those fragments reveal misconduct, they are forbidden to speak of it. When the revealed misconduct is separate from the main incident, it can’t be used to discipline officers. When footage is made available to the public, it is selectively edited to omit evidence of misconduct. NYPD policy contains loopholes that allow them to withhold footage. Where those loopholes don’t apply, the NYPD routinely suppresses footage anyway, violating its own policies. When the NYPD violates its policies, it faces no consequences. When overseers complain, they are fired. Bodycams could be a source of accountability for cops, but for that to be true, control over bodycams would have to vest with institutions that want to improve policing. If control over bodycams is given to institutions that want to shield cops from accountability, that’s exactly what will happen. There is nothing about bodycams that makes them more resistant to capture than dashcams, tasers or pepper spray. This is a problem across multiple police departments. Minneapolis, for example, has policies from before and after the George Floyd uprisings that require bodycam disclosure, and those policies are routinely flouted. Derek Chauvin, George Floyd’s murderer, was a repeat offender and had been caught on bodycam kneeling on other Black peoples’ necks. Chauvin once clubbed a 14 year old child into unconsciousness and then knelt on his neck for 15 minutes as his mother begged for her child’s life. Chauvin faced no discipline for this and the footage was suppressed. In Montgomery, Alabama, it took five years of hard wrangling to get access to bodycam footage after an officer sicced his attack dog on an unarmed Black man without warning. The dog severed the man’s femoral artery and he died. Montgomery PD suppressed the footage, citing the risk of officers facing “embarrassment.” In Memphis, the notoriously racist police department was able to suppress bodycam disclosures until the murder of Tyre Nichols. The behavior of the officers who beat Nichols to death are a testament to their belief in their own impunity. Some officers illegally switched off their cameras; others participated in the beating in full view of the cameras, fearing no consequences. In South Carolina, the police murder of Walter Scott was captured on a bystander’s phone camera. That footage made it clear that Scott’s uniformed killers lied, prompting then-governor Nikki Haley to sign a law giving the public access to bodycam footage. But the law contained a glaring loophole: it made bodycam footage “not a public record subject to disclosure.” Nothing changed. Bodycam footage does often reveal that killer cops lie about their actions. When a Cincinnati cop killed a Black man during a 2015 traffic-stop, his bodycam footage revealed that the officer lied about his victim “lunging at him” before he shot. Last summer, a Philadelphia cop was caught lying about the circumstances that led to him murdering a member of the public. Again, the officer claimed the man had “lunged at him.” The cop’s camera showed the man sitting peacefully in his own car. Police departments across the country struggle with violent, lying officers, but few can rival the NYPD for corruption, violence, scale and impunity. The NYPD has its own “goon squad,” the Strategic Response Group, whose leaked manual reveals how the secret unit spends about $100m/year training and deploying ultraviolent, illegal tactics: https://pluralistic.net/2021/04/07/cruelty-by-design/#blam-blam-blam The NYPD’s disciplinary records – published despite a panicked scramble to suppress them – reveal the NYPD’s infestation with criminal cops who repeatedly break the law in meting out violence against the public: https://pluralistic.net/2020/07/27/ip/#nypd-who These cops are the proverbial bad apples, and they do indeed spoil the barrel. A 2019 empirical analysis of police disciplinary records show that corruption is contagious: when crooked cops are paired with partners who have clean disciplinary records, those partners become crooked, too, and the effect lasts even after the partnership ends: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/2378023119879798 Despite the risk of harboring criminals in police ranks, the NYPD goes to extreme lengths to keep its worst officers on the street. New York City’s police “union”‘s deal with the city requires NYC to divert millions to a (once) secret slushfund used to pay high-priced lawyers to defend cops whose conduct is so egregious that the city’s own attorneys refuse to defend them: https://pluralistic.net/2021/03/26/overfitness-factor/#heads-you-lose-tails-they-win This is a good place for your periodic reminder that police unions are not unions: https://pluralistic.net/2020/07/28/afterland/#selective-solidarity Indeed, despite rhetoric to the contrary, policing is a relatively safe occupation, with death rates well below the risks to roofers, loggers, or pizza delivery drivers: https://pluralistic.net/2022/01/27/extraordinary-popular-delusions/#onshore-havana-syndrome The biggest risk to police officers – the single factor that significantly increased death rates among cops – is police unions themselves. Police unions successfully pressured cities across American to reject covid risk mitigation, from masking to vaccinations, leading to a wave of police deaths. “Suicide by cop” is very rare, but US officers committed “mass suicide by cop union”: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/12/us/police-covid-vaccines.html But the story that policing is much more dangerous than it really is a useful one. It has a business-model. Military contractors who turn local Barney Fifes into Judge Dredd cosplayers with assault rifles, tanks and other “excess” military gear make billions from the tale: https://pluralistic.net/2020/07/10/flintstone-delano-roosevelt/#1033-1022 It’s not just beltway bandits who love this story. For cops to be shielded from consequences for murdering the public, they need to tell themselves and the rest of us that they are a “thin blue line,” and not mere armed bureaucrats. The myth that cops are in constant danger from the public justifies hair-trigger killings. Consider the use of “civilian” to describe the public. Police are civilians. The only kind of police officer who isn’t a civilian is a military policeman. Places where “civilians” interact with non-civilian law enforcement are, by definition, under military occupation. Calling the public “civilians” is a cheap rhetorical trick that converts a police officer to a patrolling soldier in hostile territory. Calling us “civilians” justifies killing us, because if we’re civilians, then they are soldiers and we are at war. The NYPD clearly conceives of itself as an occupying force and considers its “civilian” oversight to be the enemy. When New York’s Civilian Complaint Review Board gained independence in 1993, thousands of off-duty cops joined Rudy Giuliani in a mass protest at City Hall and an occupation of the Brooklyn Bridge. This mass freakout is a measure of police intolerance for oversight – after all, the CCRB isn’t even allowed to discipline officers, only make (routinely ignored) recommendations. Kerry Sweet was the NYPD lawyer who oversaw the department’s bodycam rollout. He once joked that the NYPD missed a chance to “bomb the room” where the NYPD’s CCRB was meeting (when Propublica asked him to confirm this, he said he couldn’t remember those remarks, but “on reflection, it should have been an airstrike”). Obvious defects in the NYPD’s bodycam policy go beyond the ability to suppress disclosure of the footage. The department has no official tracking system for its bodycam files. They aren’t geotagged, only marked by officer badge-number and name. So if a member of the public comes forward to complain that an unknown officer committed a crime at a specific place and time, there’s no way to retrieve that footage. Even where footage can be found, the NYPD often hides the ball: in 20% of cases where the Department told the CCRB footage didn’t exist, they were lying. Figuring out how to make bodycam footage work better is complex, but there are some obvious first steps. Other cities have no problem geotagging their footage. In Chicago, the CCRB can directly access the servers where bodycam footage is stored (when the NYPD CCRB members proposed this, they were fired). Meanwhile, the NYPD keeps protecting its killers. The Propublica story opens with the police killing of Miguel Richards. Richards’ parents hadn’t heard from him in a while, so they asked his Bronx landlord to check on him (the Richards live in Jamaica). The landlord called the cops. The cops killed Richards. The cops claimed he had a gun and they were acting in self-defense. They released a highly edited reel of bodycam footage to support that claim. When the full video was eventually extracted, it revealed that Richards had a tiny plastic toy guy and a small folding knife. The officers involved believed he was suffering an acute mental health incident and stated that policy demanded that they close his bedroom door and wait for specialists. Instead, they barked orders at him and then fired 16 rounds at him. Seven hit him. One ruptured his aorta. As he lay dying on his bedroom floor, one officer roughly tossed him around and cuffed him. He died. New York’s Police Benevolent Association – the largest police “union” in NYC – awarded the officers involved its “Finest of the Finest” prize for their conduct in the killing. This isn’t an isolated incident. A month after the NYPD decided not to punish the cops who killed Richards, NYPD officers murdered Kawaski Trawick in his Bronx apartment: https://pluralistic.net/2020/12/04/kawaski-trawick/#Kawaski-Trawick The officers lied about it, suppressed release of the bodycam footage that would reveal their lies, and then escaped any justice when the footage and the lies were revealed. None of this means that bodycams are useless. It just means that bodycams will only help bring accountability to police forces when they are directed by parties who have the will and power to make the police accountable. When police leaders and city governments support police corruption, adding bodycams won’t change that fact. (Image: Cryteria, CC BY 3.0; Tony Webster, CC BY-SA 2.0; modified) Hey look at this (permalink) A mass assassination factory https://www.972mag.com/mass-assassination-factory-israel-calculated-bombing-gaza/ (h/t This Machine Kills) Jeff Bezos Rowing Boat https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGhcSupkNs8 (h/t Today in Tabs) The Judiciary Has Policed Itself for Decades. 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date: 2023-12-14, from: Dave Karpf’s blog
My advisor in college was named Paul Dawson. Dawson was a legend, a master of his craft. He taught an 8am, 200-person intro to politics course that kept the entire room dialed-in for the full two hours. I’ve been thinking about one of the lessons from his class recently, ever since reading Jonathan Katz’s Atlantic piece, “
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date: 2023-12-14, from: TidBITS blog
The Wall Street Journal reports that Apple will introduce a new feature, Stolen Device Protection, to deter the kind of significant digital damage that iPhone passcode thieves have inflicted on victims.
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date: 2023-12-14, from: Heatmap News
When the announcement came that COP29 will be held in Baku in 2024, the immediate reaction in the climate community was “again?!”
It wasn’t that Azerbaijan — a nation of about 10 million people, situated on the Caspian Sea at the southern tail of the Caucasus mountains — had hosted the global climate summit before. Actually, it almost didn’t get the 2024 hosting gig at all: COP29 was briefly homeless after Russia vowed to block Bulgaria’s bid (because Bulgaria is part of the European Union) and longtime enemies Azerbaijan and Armenia vowed to block each other’s bids (because of what many have characterized as an ethnic cleansing). Other nations in the region balked at the sheer size of what the COP event has become. At one point, even Australia and Bonn, Germany, were on the table as potential COP29 replacements if the Eastern European bloc couldn’t pull things together.
But, rather amazingly, it did. That means — as countless headlines have
blared, and as you’re undoubtedly already aware — that the United
Nations summit intended to assess and progress the goal of limiting
climate change will be held in an oil and gas-producing state
for
the third consecutive year. Cue the
groans.
That is reason enough for hand-wringing, especially after a record turn-out of fossil fuel lobbyists at the convention this year, not to mention the scandal over the head of ADNOC leading the whole shebang. But if you thought all that was absurd and disturbing, wait until you hear about Azerbaijan.
“It’s stunning to me that they would make Baku the next place for COP,” Ronald Suny, a distinguished professor emeritus of History at the University of Michigan and an expert on the South Caucasian nations who’s written extensively about Azerbaijan, told me.
Yes, Azerbaijan is a petrostate. But more alarmingly, it is also even more repressive and authoritarian than the United Arab Emirates based on the scale developed by Freedom House, a human rights watchdog group. “Azerbaijan is not even a one-party state,” Suny explained. “It’s a one-person or one-family state.”
To make a long and complicated history very short, former First Secretary of the Communist Party of Azerbaijan Heydar Aliyev came to power after the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1993 and eventually passed his title of head of state onto his only son, Ilham Aliyev, in “irregular” elections in 2003. Ilham Aliyev is still president today, and will remain so indefinitely. “There’s no dissent allowed,” Suny said. “There’s absolute control of the media — much stricter than Russia. Anyone who criticizes [the government] is either in jail or in exile. And lots of people are in jail.”
On the one hand, having COP29 in Baku could be viewed as a small positive. “For years, climate change has been a factor…in wars and conflicts,” reads one effusive lead paragraph in The Associated Press. “Now for the first time, it’s part of a peace deal.” True, the attention from the UN helped to spur a prisoner exchange and peace talks between Azerbaijan and Armenia following renewed bloodshed over the contested Nagorno-Karabakh region earlier this fall. It’s also likely that Azerbaijan will be on its best behavior ahead of the UN convention, given that it’s now under a higher-than-usual level of international scrutiny. Giving Baku the convention “is not necessarily a bad thing,” argues Rashmee Roshan Lall, an international affairs columnist, on her blog, “because it shows that COPs reflect the diversity of the world in which we live and seek to preserve.”
But allowing COP29 to happen inAzerbaijan also helps to legitimize and sanitize Ilham Aliyev’s rule. This is why other authoritarian regimes from Russia to Saudi Arabia to Qatar and Dubai have vied to host global events such as the soccer World Cup and the Olympics. Since 2012, Baku has played host to the Eurovision Song Contest, the First European Games, and the Formula 1 Grand Prix, according to Gubad Ibadoghlu, a senior policy analyst at Azerbaijan’s Economic Research Center, writing for the website Crude Accountability. The government in Baku explicitly “tries to whitewash its damaged image in the international arena by ‘paying attention to modernization’ and by creating connections with global leaders in the sphere of sports and culture,” Ibadoghlu said.
Suny sees the same thing happening now with COP. “It could be that Azerbaijan, which has tried and worked very hard to refurbish and beautify its image, will benefit from such an event and will be happy to put on a good face,” he said. And as Ibadoghlu pointed out, Azerbaijan has spent a huge amount of money on this program over the years. “It’s a very rich state and it can divert its resources — because it certainly doesn’t go into the people — to building extraordinary buildings,” Suny added. By allowing COP to be held in a country that viciously cracks down on dissent and free speech, then, the UN is not only turning a blind eye to but actively assisting what is basically a twisted form of greenwashing.
Curiously, estimates indicate that Azerbaijan might not be an oil state for much longer. The nation is expected to deplete its supply and sole source of wealth within the next 25 years — an involuntary phase-out by 2050, if you will. According to a World Bank report published two weeks ago, “urgent action on climate” — including investing in renewable energy, prioritizing energy efficiency, and climate-proofing its agricultural sector — “can help Azerbaijan minimize the risks emerging from the global low-carbon transition and protect the living standards of its people.”
In that sense, at the least, Baku needs COP. Now we have to wait to see what it does with its chance.
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date: 2023-12-14, from: SCV New (TV Station)
Cold nights, fireplaces, the fresh scent of pine – all markers that the holiday season is upon us
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date: 2023-12-14, updated: 2023-12-14, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
An EU privacy rights group has filed a complaint against Elon Musk’s X, alleging the platform unlawfully targeted advertisements from the bloc’s Home Affairs directorate in a bid to build public support for hotly contested “chat control” legislation.…
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date: 2023-12-14, updated: 2023-12-14, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
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date: 2023-12-14, from: Association of Research Libraries News
On December 14, 2023, ARL joined a letter by the Coalition for National Science Funding (CNSF) call on Congressional appropriators to include $13 billion in a supplemental spending package. Read…
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date: 2023-12-14, from: Association of Research Libraries News
On December 14, ARL and EDUCAUSE responded to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Notice of Proposed Rulemaking on net neutrality. Our letter described how strong net neutrality rules will allow libraries…
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date: 2023-12-14, from: VOA News USA
Washington — U.S. lawmakers passed the massive annual defense spending bill Thursday, approving the $886 billion National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) by a vote of 310-118 to be signed into law by President Joe Biden. The bill setting policy and spending priorities for the Department of Defense for 2024 is $28 billion larger than last year’s spending bill, an increase of around three percent.
“The NDAA is one of the most consequential bills Congress considers,” said Rep. Mike Rogers, Chairman of the House Armed Services Committee. “Passage of this bill each year sends an important signal to the men and women defending our freedom that Congress can function and will prioritize their needs. Above all else, enacting the NDAA has never been more vital than today. America and our allies face unprecedented and rapidly evolving threats from China, Russia, Iran, North Korea and terrorist organizations throughout the world.”
The bill authorizes a 5.2 percent pay raise for US service members, extends the Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative through 2027 and provides funding for security cooperation among the US, United Kingdom and Australia.
The U.S. Senate passed the NDAA late Wednesday by a vote of 87-13.
“We’ll strengthen our resources in the Indo-Pacific, to deter aggression by the Chinese government, and give resources for the military in Taiwan. We’ll give DOD more resources to deploy and develop AI, protect against foreign cyber threats, increase the transparency of Unidentified Areal Phenomena,” Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said on the Senate floor Wednesday night after passage.
Earlier Wednesday, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell also praised the NDAA on the Senate floor, saying the legislation, “recognizes the need to strengthen America’s position in strategic competition with China through targeted improvements to critical capabilities – from long-range fires and anti-ship weapons to modernizing our nuclear triad. It’ll authorize further investments in the defense industrial base and expand efficiency and accountability of the lethal assistance degrading Russia’s military in Ukraine. It’ll turbo-charge cooperation with Israel on future missile defense technologies and ensure our closest ally in the Middle East can access the U.S. capabilities it needs, when it needs them.”
Earlier this year, the Republican-majority U.S. House passed a more conservative version of the NDAA that would have eliminated many progressive policies providing access to abortion and transgender care. Those amendments were not in the final version of the legislation that passed Thursday.
A joint Senate-House Conference committee worked out the compromise legislation that was passed by both chambers this week.
Rogers described the bill passed Thursday as a good compromise, saying on the House floor Thursday, “It goes a long way toward ending woke policies being forced on our service members by left wing bureaucrats. It includes provisions that ban critical race theory and require promotions based on merit. It includes several provisions that require accountability from the administration like in its Special Inspector General for Ukraine, Ukraine aid and the deadline for the DOD to finally pass an audit.”
Rep. Adam Smith, the ranking member on the House Armed Services Committee said Thursday the NDAA “solidifies our alliances with our European allies, with our allies in Asia and with Israel and our allies in the Middle East to meet the threats that we face. You cannot oppose this bill and claim that you support the national security of this country.”
Forty-five Democrats and seventy-three Republicans voted against the NDAA Thursday, with many conservative Republicans objecting to the extension of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA). The controversial intelligence program allows the US government to collect the communications of foreign nationals without a warrant. Conservatives allege the program has been misused to violate the privacy of Americans.
“What’s being stated is it is impossible to oppose the National Defense Authorization Act because we put a pay raise in it or because we put something in there that is seemingly so important that we have to ignore the critical destruction of our civil liberties by adding FISA extension - without doing the reforms necessary to protect the American people,” Republican Rep. Chip Roy said Thursday.
Smith acknowledged that FISA authorizations are in need of reform.
“There’s no question about that. Nobody I know of, however, says that it should completely go away. If we don’t do it on this bill, it completely goes away on January 1, which is a huge national security threat to this country - universally agree.”
U.S. lawmakers are still negotiating the White House’s $106 billion national security supplemental request that includes $60 billion in military and humanitarian aid to Ukraine as well as nearly $14 billion to assist Israel in the conflict with Hamas.
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date: 2023-12-14, from: Smithsonian Magazine
A new study marks the first time that dunking behavior has been documented in parrots
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date: 2023-12-14, from: Om Malik blog
For photographers and videographers, Apple’s Vision Pro will serve as a catalyst to rethink traditional photography. This technology, when combined with smartphones, represents yet another step towards a life dominated by digital screens filled with photos. It also heralds a shift from simple captures to vibrant three-dimensional storytelling, revolutionizing how we document the world around us.
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@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2023-12-14, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)
Dropbox spooks users with new AI features that send data to OpenAI when used.
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date: 2023-12-14, updated: 2023-12-14, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
A preview of Microsoft’s Windows AI Studio has landed – a set of tools and models from catalogs, including Azure AI Studio and Hugging Face – however you’ll need Linux to run it.…
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date: 2023-12-14, from: San Jose Mercury News
For the first time ever, Disneyland has released details on each of the seasonal celebrations, special events and limited-time offerings planned for the year ahead.
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date: 2023-12-14, updated: 2023-12-14, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
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date: 2023-12-14, from: Liliputing
The MINISFORUM UN100L is a compact desktop computer with a 6-watt Intel Processor N100 quad-core chip, 16GB of LPDDR5-4800 onboard memory, and multiple storage options. It’s up for pre-order, with prices starting at $209 for a model featuring 16GB of RAM and 512GB of solid state storage. The little computer has an M.2 2280 slot with support […]
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date: 2023-12-14, from: San Jose Mercury News
The nearly 3,100-page National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal year 2024 now goes to President Joe Biden for his signature. The package authorizes $28 billion, or about 3%, more than the previous fiscal year.
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date: 2023-12-14, from: The Sundail (CSUN student paper)
Pauline Gericke plays soccer for the goosebumps moments: moments when her team scores a goal against a rival; moments when she realizes she is playing against a professional; moments when she wins a championship, even though her team was not favored. Her first ever goosebumps moment came when her team scored a goal in a…
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date: 2023-12-14, from: National Archives, Text Message blog
Salmon fisheries in Alaska (Auke Bay)
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date: 2023-12-14, from: San Jose Mercury News
Made with tart, fresh cranberries and green pistachios, these easy holiday cookies capture the colors of the season.
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date: 2023-12-14, from: City of Santa Clarita
Keep the Holidays Jolly with These Safety Tips By Councilmember Bill Miranda Cold nights, fireplaces, the fresh scent of pine – all markers that the holiday season is upon us. As residents enjoy the glistening light displays around the City and frequent local shops for the perfect gift for their loved ones, criminals are scoping […]
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date: 2023-12-14, from: Smithsonian Magazine
Twenty-five films were chosen based on their “cultural, historic or aesthetic” importance
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date: 2023-12-14, updated: 2023-12-14, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
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date: 2023-12-14, updated: 2023-12-14, from: Bruce Schneier blog
This seems like a bad idea. And there are ongoing lawsuits against Amazon for selling them.
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date: 2023-12-14, from: San Jose Mercury News
All three occupants were trapped in the cars and were extricated by firefighters.
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date: 2023-12-14, from: San Jose Mercury News
San Jose State’s Chevan Cordeiro thought he played in Hawaii for the final time in October, but the Hawaii Bowl lets him end his college career at home
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date: 2023-12-14, from: NASA breaking news
A study zooms in on data that NASA’s Cassini gathered at Saturn’s icy moon and finds evidence of a key ingredient for life and a supercharged source of energy to fuel it. Scientists have known that the giant plume of ice grains and water vapor spewing from Saturn’s moon Enceladus is rich with organic compounds, […]
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date: 2023-12-14, from: Marketplace Morning Report
The Dow Jones Industrial Average hit a record high yesterday; the Nasdaq and S&P are up, as well. These jumps come after Federal Reserve officials hinted at interest rate cuts in the new year. Lower rates are good news for consumers spending more cautiously and companies that need to borrow to expand. Also on the show: gas prices dip, and a $100 billion city in Malaysia sits empty.
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date: 2023-12-14, from: San Jose Mercury News
The final negotiated version of the NDAA for fiscal year 2024 authorizes $886 billion in national defense funding, an increase of $28 billion over last year.
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date: 2023-12-14, updated: 2023-12-14, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
NASA’s veteran Voyager 1 spacecraft has stopped transmitting engineering and science data back to Earth.…
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date: 2023-12-14, updated: 2023-12-14, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
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date: 2023-12-14, from: Windows Developer Blog
We are thrilled to announce our collaboration with Intel®, one of our key partners, to bring the first Neural Processing Unit (NPU) powered by DirectML on Windows. AI is transforming the world, driving innovation and creating value across industries
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date: 2023-12-14, from: San Jose Mercury News
Overall, the industry has made lives better, and I expect that trend to continue in 2024
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date: 2023-12-14, from: The Sundail (CSUN student paper)
Sports clubs and intramurals at CSUN offer students the chance to compete in athletic competitions, both regional and national. As of the fall 2023 semester, there are 24 sport clubs. Overseen by manager John Paul Gale and senior coordinator Bladimir Martinez, the Sport Club program requires each club to pay a participation fee. Every currently…
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date: 2023-12-14, updated: 2023-12-14, from: Deno blog
We’ve re-added WebGPU, added new deno coverage reporters, made substantial Node.js compatibility improvements, and more.
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date: 2023-12-14, from: San Jose Mercury News
After closing at a record high on Wednesday, the iPhone maker’s market value is approaching that of France’s stock market.
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date: 2023-12-14, from: Manu - I write blog
Well, it’s happening. The days of a carefully curated Minimalissimo are over. Carl has decided to take a break after 10 years running the site and I’m taking over which means chaos is about to ensue.
Just kidding. I am taking over the site though. Carl has written about the reasons behind his decision on his blog so if you want to know more head over to his blog. He was willing to just leave the site up as an archive and stop posting but I can’t let that happen.
Minimalissimo is such a nice project and has a massive archive so I offered to take over the day-to-day operations. But I had one condition and that was that I must be allowed to experiment with the site because you know I can’t help myself when it comes to play with online side projects.
I plan to write about the whole experience throughout the year and I’m going to be very transparent about it so if you’re interested in some behind-the-scenes keep an eye on this blog.
Minimalissimo ”Manu Edition” starts on January 1st. Gonna be a fun 2024.
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date: 2023-12-14, from: VOA News USA
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date: 2023-12-14, from: VOA News USA
Washington — A Navy officer jailed in Japan over a deadly car crash that killed two Japanese citizens has been transferred into U.S. custody and is being returned to the United States, his family said Thursday.
Lt. Ridge Alkonis had been serving a three-year prison sentence after pleading guilty to the negligent driving deaths of an elderly woman and her son-in-law in May 2021.
“After 507 days, Lt. Ridge Alkonis is on his way home to the United States. We are encouraged by Ridge’s transfer back to the United States but cannot celebrate until Ridge has been reunited with his family,” the family, based in Dana Point, California, said in a statement to The Associated Press. “We appreciate the efforts of the U.S. Government to effect this transfer and are glad that an impartial set of judiciary eyes will review his case for the first time.”
It was unclear where in the U.S. Alkonis is heading or whether upon his arrival in the country he might be required to spend any additional time behind bars under the terms of his transfer from Japan.
“We appreciate the efforts of the U.S. Government to effect this transfer and are glad that an impartial set of judiciary eyes will review his case for the first time,” the family statement said.
The statement added: “When the Biden Administration is presented with the complete set of facts and circumstances surrounding the case, we’re confident they will promptly recognize the absurdity of Ridge’s conviction.”
Alkonis’ family has said the naval officer abruptly lost consciousness in the car after a lunch and ice cream excursion with his wife and children to Mount Fuji, causing him to slump over behind the wheel after suffering acute mountain sickness. But Japanese prosecutors and the judge who sentenced him contend he fell asleep while drowsy, shirking a duty to pull over immediately.
In the spring of 2021, after a period of land-based assignments, the Southern California native was preparing for a deployment as a department head on the USS Benfold, a missile destroyer.
On May 29, 2021, with the assignment looming, his family set out for an excursion of Mount Fuji hiking and sightseeing.
They had climbed a portion of the mountain and were back in the car, heading to lunch and ice cream near the base of Mount Fuji. Alkonis was talking with his daughter, then 7, when his family says he suddenly fell unconscious behind the wheel. He was so out of it, they say, that neither his daughter’s screams to wake up nor the impact of the collision roused him.
After the crash near Fujinomiya, he was arrested by Japanese authorities and held for 26 days in solitary confinement at a police detention facility, interrogated multiple times a day and was not given a medical treatment or evaluation, according to a statement of facts provided by a family spokesman. That statement says that when American authorities arrived to take Alkonis into custody and return him to a U.S. base, he already was held by the Japanese.
He was indicted on a charge of a negligent driving, resulting in death, and was sentenced to three years in prison.
After the sentencing, Alkonis’ family had sought to keep the case in the public spotlight, including by gathering outside the White House. President Joe Biden also raised the case during a meeting last May with Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida.
Alkonis is a specialist in underseas warfare and acoustic engineering who at the time of the crash had spent nearly seven years in Japan as a civilian volunteer and naval officer.
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date: 2023-12-14, updated: 2023-12-14, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
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date: 2023-12-14, from: San Jose Mercury News
In a moment many close observers thought might never come, at least one version of the quintessential piece of intellectual property and perhaps the most iconic character in American pop culture will be free from Disney’s copyright.
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@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2023-12-14, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
Yesterday I addressed the How Do I Write question, now let me address Why I Write. I write at least partially because I know there are good people who love my writing. The tech industry, to the extent that they remember me, resents me. I get that. It’s sad, because I do care, I am one of them, as Diana was one of the royals (see above). Anyway, I love to write because there are people who love to read. And I feel connected to them. My mother was the prototype. We weren’t very close in actual life, but she was a devoted reader of my blog. It gave us a connection. And I assume all daily or nightly readers of this blog have that kind of connection, whether I hear from them or not. And sometimes you do hear from them, and that’s especially lovely.
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date: 2023-12-14, from: San Jose Mercury News
Supporters came to the rescue after Oct. 31 shutdown
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date: 2023-12-14, from: Liliputing
The first laptops powered by Intel’s 14th-gen processors based on Meteor Lake architecture arrive today. And they represent a number of firsts for Intel’s consumer chips. Meteor Lake processors are the first to feature Intel’s new “Core Ultra” branding. They’re the first to be manufactured on the new Intel 4 process. They’re also the first […]
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date: 2023-12-14, from: Liliputing
The Acer Swift Go 14 is getting a Meteor Lake refresh. The latest version of this thin and light laptop is available with a choice of Intel Core Ultra 5 125H or Core Ultra 7 155H processor options, with prices starting at $800 and $1000, respectively. According to Intel, its new 14th-gen processors should bring […]
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date: 2023-12-14, updated: 2023-12-15, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Intel launched its 5th-generation Xeon Scalable processors with more cores, cache, and machine learning grunt during its AI Everywhere Event in New York Thursday.…
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date: 2023-12-14, from: San Jose Mercury News
Most restaurants will be closed on Christmas Day, which falls on a Monday this year, but some chains are offering take-home feasts with turkey, ham or prime rib throughout the holiday season.
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date: 2023-12-14, from: NASA breaking news
On Dec. 17, 1903, humanity’s long-held dream of flying came true. Ideas of flying date back centuries, from the Greek legend of Icarus and Daedalus, to kite flying in China, to the development of hydrogen-filled balloons in 18th century France, to early experiments with gliders in 19th century England and Germany. Around the turn of […]
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@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2023-12-14, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
I’ve
been re-bingeing the whole
Crown
series, anticipating that there was going to be a new and
final
series of episodes, out today. I started watching the new one, and
all of a sudden the two princes, William and Harry, are actual people. I
have a lot of trouble with that, because of course I remember when they
were born. However I’m pretty sure I’ll go all the way through. There
are a lot of hours of entertainment in The Crown and a few scenes that
are truly spectacular
(like this). I
remember the really good ones of course, but there’s an awful lot of
schlock.
One scene I had not remembered was a pretty good illustration of how
fucked up people can be. Princess Diana had just gone on a
tour of NYC,
her first international tour on her own, and it was (surprising to her)
a huge success. Another British invasion. The people of NYC loved Diana
(at least in the show, I don’t remember this, I was living in California
at the time). So she comes home, and the royal family, instead of
cheering her, were angry with her for being so charming. Go figure. Her
husband, Prince Charles is yelling at her and he asks her if she ever
considered how
Camilla,
Charles’ one true love, would feel about Diana being so popular. Diana
is gobsmacked
(as am I). Why would she think of that. How totally fucked up is that.
Why should anyone, being themselves, being happy, worry about how anyone
else might feel about their happiness? I’ve been in Diana’s position a
few times, achieving success, much deserved, and was reminded that this
upset people who (apparently) didn’t want me to succeed? I have even
been asked that question. If you ever feel that way, that someone else’s
happiness is meant to make you feel bad, remember Carl Sagan’s
Pale Blue Dot
video. Really, no one cares if you are offended by someone else’s
happiness. Remember, none of this stuff amounts to anything in the big
picture. We’re very small, all of us put together, in the grand scheme
of things. So if you’re happy, good for you! And one other question – is
re-bingeing actually a word?? 😄
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date: 2023-12-14, updated: 2023-12-14, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
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date: 2023-12-14, from: 404 Media Group
The cost of medications, testing, retrieval, and storage involved in egg freezing is just one series of numbers in a process and procedure that feels like a combination of math, alchemy, and luck.
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date: 2023-12-14, from: San Jose Mercury News
Got your weekend plans? We have some nifty ideas, from great movies and shows to holiday lights and hot mulled wine.
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@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2023-12-14, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)
A human being has integrity if he or she is what he or she appears to be.
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date: 2023-12-14, from: San Jose Mercury News
The Renaissance Entrepreneurship Center is the secret sauce behind the success of many well-known Bay Area businesses, such as El Tiny Cafe in Berkeley.
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date: 2023-12-14, from: Dave Karpf’s blog
Hi folks, below is a letter to the Substack founders that I helped draft as part of a group of publishers seeking answers to questions about the platforming and monetizing of Nazis. We are all publishing the letter on our own individual Substacks today for visibility, and to make our readers aware of our asks and concerns. With any luck you already have, or soon will have, seen this on a large number of other substacks. Thanks for reading.
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date: 2023-12-14, updated: 2023-12-14, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Updated The offensive cyber unit linked to Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) is exploiting the critical vulnerability affecting the JetBrains TeamCity CI/CD server at scale, and has been since September, authorities warn.…
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date: 2023-12-14, from: The Signal
As Governors Ron DeSantis and Gavin Newsom debated, we were in Florida visiting my daughter’s in-laws who live in the Orlando area. Although we enjoyed a fabulous week, we concluded that Florida may not be the nirvana people make it out to be. I especially enjoyed the Kennedy Space Center, which demonstrates how much America […]
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date: 2023-12-14, from: The Signal
This letter was written before Chinese President Xi Jinping’s visit to San Francisco in November. I would like to give you a potential preview of the meeting between Gov. Gavin Newsom and Chinese President Xi Jinping at this week’s Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in San Francisco. Newsom is waiting in a bright red Tesla outside […]
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date: 2023-12-14, from: San Jose Mercury News
20-year-old Jasbleidy Montejo, her husband and baby daughter traveled nearly 4,000 miles seeking a better life. Now, they’re calling San Jose home.
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date: 2023-12-14, from: Guam Daily Post
Two Simon Sanchez High School students were charged in connection to a rioting complaint at John F. Kennedy High School.
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date: 2023-12-14, from: Guam Daily Post
Southern High School and Okayama Higashi Commercial High School are now sister schools, with a signing ceremony held Thursday at the Sånta Rita-Sumai school making it official.
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date: 2023-12-14, from: Guam Daily Post
United Airlines flight attendants and their supporters once again took to the front of the A.B. Won Pat International Airport on Thursday in what is becoming a more frequent demonstration for better working conditions.
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date: 2023-12-14, from: Guam Daily Post
Measures authorizing a body camera program for the Guam Police Department and creating a Special Cost of Living Economic Task Force are among eight bills recently signed into law by Gov. Lou Leon Guerrero.
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date: 2023-12-14, from: Guam Daily Post
Guam Police Department Chief of Police Stephen Ignacio confirmed there have been 14 terroristic conduct complaints at schools this year.
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date: 2023-12-14, from: Guam Daily Post
New federal regulations are seemingly on the horizon for certain per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, known as PFAS, in drinking water. If finalized, the regulations will require public water systems to monitor for the substances, notify the public and reduce levels…
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date: 2023-12-14, from: San Jose Mercury News
When San Jose airport gets a lot of traffic, such as during the holidays, motorists may be rerouted to reduce backups.
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date: 2023-12-14, from: Distilled Earth blog
A little more than a decade ago, CATL didn’t exist. Today, the Chinese company makes 37% of the world’s EV batteries.
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date: 2023-12-14, from: Nieman Journalism Lab
Journalism is a mere memory on Facebook. The platform reminds me of this daily by serving up a historic feed of my life and the internet we once inhabited. In between photos of first days and family vacations, I scroll through headlines prefaced by lengthy anecdotes and diatribes, my “take” attached to facts backing me…
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date: 2023-12-14, from: Marketplace Morning Report
It makes sense that plenty aspects of our financial lives make us stressed, anxious and fearful — from stock market jitters to job changes or major purchases. In her newest book, journalist Farnoosh Torabi explores how to acknowledge those fears and gain a healthier relationship with your money and finances. We’ll chat with her. But first: What did Fed Chair Jerome Powell have to say about rate cuts in the upcoming year?
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date: 2023-12-14, updated: 2023-12-14, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Vivaldi – the browser for users who just can’t get enough settings – has launched version 6.5 of its software on desktop and mobile.…
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date: 2023-12-14, updated: 2023-12-14, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
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date: 2023-12-14, from: Nieman Journalism Lab
Yes, the Israel-Hamas war is important, along with the ongoing coverage of Russia’s war in Ukraine and the U.S. 2024 presidential election and preventing gun violence and defending democracy [and insert other traumatic news or tragedy here]. But the truth is people are tired of the negative news, and they’re avoiding it in droves. And…
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date: 2023-12-14, from: Nieman Journalism Lab
In 2024, it will be essential for public media to put its best foot forward to secure a future of continued growth and relevance. It may be tempting to think of broadcast radio and the digital on-demand form of podcasting as sister audio products, but digital audio is more like the decades-old Internet. More than…
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date: 2023-12-14, from: Nieman Journalism Lab
Elon Musk revealed his true colors and chased away all of X’s advertisers in 2023. In 2024, maintaining a relationship with the hate-drenched platform that was once a key communications tool used by newsrooms and authorities around the world will become even more untenable. Should the imperiled social media company survive the crippling advertising boycott…
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date: 2023-12-14, from: Nieman Journalism Lab
At a dynamic intersection of journalism, OSINT investigations, and legal practice, the future holds a promising trajectory. As witnessed in recent seminars, newsroom initiatives, and insights from figures like Ibrahim Olabi, the concept of mixed-mandate investigations is gaining momentum. This forward momentum is not just buzz; it’s a trend that’s set to reshape the landscape…
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date: 2023-12-14, updated: 2023-12-14, from: The LAist
We talked with officials and experts. Here’s a breakdown of answers to commonly asked questions following the Tustin hangar fire.
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date: 2023-12-14, from: Nieman Journalism Lab
In no particular order, here is a cornucopia of predictions for 2024. As in every election year in recent memory, 2024 will improve the market for political news. Audience trend charts look like Charlie Brown’s sweater pattern — up and down and up again, every four years. By now, the savviest news organizations have figured…
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date: 2023-12-14, from: Nieman Journalism Lab
There’s always a little wishful thinking in these annual forecasts — or a dose of gloom. Here’s what I wish the journalism industry would do in 2024 to tackle some of its underlying problems that are within its power to fix and to create more sustainable journalism businesses. News planning. I have long believed this…
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date: 2023-12-14, updated: 2023-12-15, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Union Unite thinks the proposed merger in Britain of telcos Vodafone and Three would results in thousands of people losing their jobs, price hikes for customers, and a “serious threat” to national security.…
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date: 2023-12-14, from: Marketplace Morning Report
From the BBC World Service: EU tensions increase over backing Ukraine both financially and politically, as Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orban threatens to block aid to Ukraine. Also, the former boss of oil giant BP loses $40 million in pay over “serious misconduct.” Plus, as Chinese developer Country Garden cuts executive salaries to tackle debt, the country’s property crisis spreads beyond its borders.
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date: 2023-12-14, from: Heatmap News
Current conditions: More than 125 highways are closed in China due to a record-setting winter storm • Tropical Cyclone Jasper downed trees in parts of Queensland in Australia • The Geminids meteor shower will peak tonight.
Former President Donald Trump told a crowd at an Iowa campaign event yesterday that he would cancel “all climate reparation payments” immediately should he be re-elected next year. A campaign aide clarified that Trump was talking specifically about America’s pledge to the Green Climate Fund, which helps developing countries adapt and become more resilient to the effects of climate change. Vice President Kamala Harris recently announced that America would give the fund $3 billion. President Biden’s climate policies have become a “core part” of Trump’s campaign message, says Reuters. In the same speech, Trump also promised to “end Joe Biden’s war on American energy” and “drill, baby, drill.”
Early reviews of the Chevy Blazer EV, which TechCrunch describes as “a vehicle designed to satiate Americans’ never-ending appetites for SUV,” are trickling in. The consensus? It’s good! But with a starting price around $56,000, it’s too expensive. Here’s a quick roundup
The
Chevy Blazer
EVChevrolet
In other EV news, more than 2 million Tesla vehicles are set to receive over-the-air updates to address failures in the Autopilot system. As Wired notes, that’s nearly all the vehicles Tesla has sold in the U.S. to date. At issue is the Autosteer functionality, and the recall follows an investigation by the National Highway Transportation Safety Administration (HTWSA) into a series of crashes that may have occurred while Autopilot was in use. The updates will include added safety controls and alerts, and further limit where drivers can use Autosteer, Wired says. The recall is a “win” for Tesla, argues Damon Lavrinc at Heatmap. “U.S. regulators did not conclude the technology itself was unsafe, and also determined that drivers are responsible for using Autopilot safely. This is what Tesla has contended since the beginning, and it’s a rebuke to safety advocates, many local legislators, and lawyers representing accident victims and their families.”
The Inernational Energy Agency (IEA) released its December Oil Market Report this morning, which says that global oil demand rose in 2023 but that a slowdown has begun and will continue through 2024. This, combined with supply growth from the U.S. (and elsewhere), will “complicate efforts by key producers to defend their market share and maintain elevated oil prices,” the agency concludes. The report is in contrast to projections put forward by the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), which this week said it still expects demand for oil to grow next year by 2.25 million barrels a day. Oil prices have been plummeting for several weeks now despite OPEC output cuts. The oil cartel blamed this on “exaggerated” concerns about oil demand growth.
Weather forecasts for the next few weeks are starting to come into focus, and a white Christmas is looking increasingly unlikely for the continental U.S. “For the second year in a row, models show low chances of snow leading up to and on Christmas, continuing a disappointing trend for snow lovers tied to human-caused climate change,” reports The Washington Post.
U.S.
temperature outlook for the next two
weeksNOAA
PETA has named Apple its 2023 Company of the Year for its move to ditch animal leather in its products.
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date: 2023-12-14, from: Guam Daily Post
Guam Power Authority General Manager John Benavente asked the Consolidated Commission on Utilities not to grant him a pay raise, just before the CCU proceeded to conduct a performance evaluation on him Thursday.
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date: 2023-12-14, from: Nieman Journalism Lab
In 2024, we’ll turn to television meteorologists to better understand how to restore the public’s trust in news. Many of us have a favorite weathercaster — someone with whom you trust your life when the weather may be trying to take it. I grew up watching Bob Ryan in Washington — and when I lived…
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date: 2023-12-14, from: Nieman Journalism Lab
Ask any working science journalist about the state of the discipline, and they’ll tell you the mood is grim. The industry-wide layoffs of the past year, numbering more than 20,000 media workers, have dealt body blows to the livelihoods of journalists working on science and environment issues. CNBC dismantled its climate desk. Popular Science ended…
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date: 2023-12-14, updated: 2023-12-14, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Multiple miscreants are misusing OAuth to automate financially motivated cyber crimes – such as business email compromise (BEC), phishing, large-scale spamming campaigns – and deploying virtual machines to illicitly mine for cryptocurrencies, according to Microsoft.…
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date: 2023-12-14, from: VOA News USA
MOSCOW — A Moscow court on Thursday upheld a ruling to hold in detention until January 30 U.S. reporter Evan Gershkovich, arrested in Russia earlier this year on espionage charges.
The 32-year-old Wall Street Journal correspondent in Moscow, his employer and the U.S. government have all rejected the spying allegations.
“Evan Gershkovich will remain in custody until January 30, 2024,” the Moscow city court said in a statement on social media, turning down an appeal lodged late last month.
A video released by the court showed Gershkovich, who previously worked for Agence France-Presse, standing in a cage for defendants during Thursday’s hearing, smiling and wearing a dark-colored sweater.
Gershkovich was arrested during a reporting trip at the end of March in the Urals city of Yekaterinburg, becoming the first Western reporter to be held on spying charges in Russia since the Soviet era.
He faces up to 20 years in prison if convicted.
Russia this month also brought fresh charges against U.S.-Russian dual citizen Alsu Kurmasheva, arrested in the central city of Kazan in October and charged with failing to register as a “foreign agent.”
Her employer, Radio Free Europe/Liberty (RFE/RL), this week denounced the fresh charges filed against her after reports she has also been accused of violating rules against Ukraine war criticism.
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date: 2023-12-14, from: Guam Daily Post
After some lengthy discussion Thursday, the Guam Legislature managed to pass an extension to the moratorium on certain liquid fuel taxes and surcharges by the evening.
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date: 2023-12-14, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>LAS VEGAS — In what has become the season of the backup quarterback in the NFL, the Los Angeles Chargers head to Las Vegas with the QB2 facing a Raiders team that will either continue to start a rookie or return to the starter-turned-backup. </p>
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date: 2023-12-14, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p><strong>HILO 40 - CLA 17</strong></p>
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date: 2023-12-14, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p><strong>HILO GIRLS 9 - KEA‘AU 0</strong></p>
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date: 2023-12-14, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p><em>Editor’s note: This is a combination of two articles written by Steven Tsai that were released Wednesday.</em></p>
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date: 2023-12-14, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p> Nearly 200 countries agreed Wednesday to move away from planet-warming fossil fuels — the first time they’ve made that crucial pledge in decades of U.N. climate talks though many warned the deal still had significant shortcomings.</p>
https://www.hawaiitribune-herald.com/2023/12/14/nation-world-news/in-a-first-delegates-at-un-climate-talks-agree-to-transition-away-from-planet-warming-fossil-fuels/ Save to Pocket
date: 2023-12-14, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>LAS VEGAS — A developer’s drive to open a Las Vegas Strip resort with a vibe echoing Miami Beach’s venerable Fontainebleau reaches reality on Wednesday, with the opening of a 67-story hotel-casino tower that became famous as it sat unfinished for more than a decade.</p>
https://www.hawaiitribune-herald.com/2023/12/14/nation-world-news/newest-bluest-resort-on-las-vegas-strip-aims-to-bring-miami-beach-vibe-to-southern-nevada/ Save to Pocket
date: 2023-12-14, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>IRVING, Texas — The NFL is adding Brazil as its first regular-season destination in South America next year. </p>
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date: 2023-12-14, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>CHARLESTON, W.Va. — College athletes who were denied the chance to play immediately after transferring a second time can return to competition — for now — after a federal judge issued a 14-day temporary restraining order Wednesday against the NCAA. </p>
https://www.hawaiitribune-herald.com/2023/12/14/sports/college-athletes-who-transfer-twice-can-play-for-now-after-a-judge-sets-aside-ncaa-transfer-rule/ Save to Pocket
date: 2023-12-14, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip — Palestinian militants carried out one of the deadliest single attacks on Israeli soldiers since the Gaza invasion began, killing at least nine in an urban ambush, the military said Wednesday, a sign of the stiff resistance Hamas still poses despite more than two months of devastating bombardment.</p>
https://www.hawaiitribune-herald.com/2023/12/14/nation-world-news/9-israeli-soldiers-killed-in-gaza-city-ambush-in-sign-that-hamas-resistance-is-still-strong/ Save to Pocket
date: 2023-12-14, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>WASHINGTON — The House on Wednesday authorized the impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden, with every Republican rallying behind the politically charged process despite lingering concerns among some in the party that the investigation has yet to produce evidence of misconduct by the president.</p>
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date: 2023-12-14, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>WASHINGTON (AP) — Top Biden administration officials were laboring Wednesday to try to reach a last-minute deal for wartime aid for Ukraine by agreeing to Senate Republican demands to bolster U.S.-Mexico border policies, with urgency setting in as Congress prepared to depart Washington with the impasse unresolved.</p>
https://www.hawaiitribune-herald.com/2023/12/14/nation-world-news/biden-considers-new-border-and-asylum-restrictions-as-he-tries-to-reach-senate-deal-for-ukraine-aid/ Save to Pocket
date: 2023-12-14, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>WASHINGTON — The White House on Wednesday hosted nearly 100 lawmakers from around the country to discuss how their states can try to better reduce gun violence. “You’re not in it alone,” Vice President Kamala Harris told them.</p>
https://www.hawaiitribune-herald.com/2023/12/14/nation-world-news/us-lawmakers-gather-at-the-white-house-on-easing-gun-violence-youre-not-in-it-alone-harris-says/ Save to Pocket
date: 2023-12-14, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>Hunter Biden on Wednesday defied a congressional subpoena to appear privately for a deposition before Republican investigators who have been digging into his business dealings. He insisted he would only testify in public.</p>
https://www.hawaiitribune-herald.com/2023/12/14/nation-world-news/hunter-biden-defies-a-gop-congressional-subpoena-he-just-got-into-more-trouble-rep-comer-says/ Save to Pocket
date: 2023-12-14, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>DETROIT — Tesla is recalling nearly all vehicles sold in the U.S., more than 2 million, to update software and fix a defective system that’s supposed to ensure drivers are paying attention when using Autopilot.</p>
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date: 2023-12-14, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>The Federal Reserve held interest rates steady for a third meeting and gave its clearest signal yet that its aggressive hiking campaign is finished by forecasting a series of cuts next year.</p>
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date: 2023-12-14, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>Police are seeking the public’s assistance in locating a pair of siblings reported as runaways.</p>
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date: 2023-12-14, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>A new study finds more than half of Hawaii’s households are living from paycheck to paycheck, one financial hardship away from poverty.</p>
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date: 2023-12-14, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>Over 600 acres in North Kohala will be preserved thanks to Hawaii Land Trust and partners Na Kalai Wa‘a, federal, state and county agencies, and the Kohala community.</p>
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date: 2023-12-14, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court agreed on Wednesday to take up a dispute over a medication used in the most common method of abortion in the United States, its first abortion case since it overturned Roe v. Wade last year.</p>
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date: 2023-12-14, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>During the week of Dec. 4-10, Hawaii Island police arrested 23 motorists for DUI. Five of the drivers were involved in a traffic collision. One was younger than 21.</p>
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date: 2023-12-14, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Wednesday said it will hear an appeal that could upend hundreds of charges stemming from the Capitol riot, including against former President Donald Trump.</p>
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date: 2023-12-14, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>The lawyer for a Hilo man police say admitted he intentionally hit a recumbent tricyclist with his pickup truck in a fatal hit-and-run collision in October is trying to obtain his client’s release from jail.</p>
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date: 2023-12-14, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>After more than six months of housing and treating homeless patients discharged from Oahu hospitals, Hawaii’s first “medical respite” kauhale will begin shutting down today and take the lessons learned to two new projects designed to expand to mental health issues affecting the homeless.</p>
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date: 2023-12-14, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>While the overall assessed value of taxable properties on Oahu for 2024 didn’t skyrocket as it did a year ago, the city says the assessed value of homes in some parts of urban Honolulu are up by as much as 5%.</p>
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date: 2023-12-14, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>Amid wars in the Middle East and Ukraine, Western governments have limited capacity to deal with another humanitarian crisis. Yet a decision by Pakistan to expel hundreds of thousands of Afghans threatens to create a new wave of refugees and destabilize an already volatile region. Preventing the chaos from spreading needs to be a priority.</p>
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date: 2023-12-14, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>Current system is
failing our teachers</p>
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date: 2023-12-14, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>FORT WORTH, Texas — It’s the season for blow-out holiday sales. That thing you’ve been eyeing all year, the one that skyrocketing inflation made just a little too pricey to justify, is probably now a steal.</p>
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date: 2023-12-14, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>The National Weather Service has posted a high wind warning for parts of the Big Island and a high wind advisory for the rest of the island, until 6 a.m. Friday.</p>
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date: 2023-12-14, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>Police are seeking for the public’s assistance in locating 13-year-old Justine Kawaa, who was reported as a runaway. Due to her age, she is classified as an endangered missing child.</p>
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date: 2023-12-14, updated: 2023-12-14, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Karakurt, a particularly nasty extortion gang that uses “extensive harassment” to pressure victims into handing over millions of dollars in ransom payments after compromising their IT infrastructure, pose a “significant challenge” for network defenders, we’re told.…
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date: 2023-12-14, from: The Signal
Cold nights, fireplaces, the fresh scent of pine – all markers that the holiday season is upon us. As residents enjoy the glistening light displays around the city and frequent local shops for the perfect gift for their loved ones, criminals are scoping out the next opportunity to strike. While enjoying one of the most […]
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date: 2023-12-14, from: Raspberry Pi News (.com)
The name says it all. This project looks like an Amiga. It functions like an Amiga. But there’s a very different computing hidden inside.
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date: 2023-12-14, from: Robert Reich on Substack
Seven basic principles
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date: 2023-12-14, updated: 2023-12-14, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Millions of contractors for digital platforms – often referred to as gig workers – may soon be classified as employees in the European Union.…
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date: 2023-12-14, from: Santa Barbara Indenpent News
But it does not exceed the legal threshold, the County of Santa Barbara says.
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date: 2023-12-14, from: SCV New (TV Station)
1931 – Season’s first major storm deposits 9 inches of snow in Newhall, 10 in Saugus. [story
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date: 2023-12-14, updated: 2023-12-14, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
The UK has failed to address the threat posed by ransomware, leaving the country at the mercy of a catastrophic ransomware attack that the Joint Committee on National Security Strategy (JCNSS) yesterday warned could occur “at any moment.”…
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date: 2023-12-14, from: Santa Barbara Indenpent News
Prioritizing safety at intersections and danger points can get almost everyone biking.
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date: 2023-12-14, from: Association of Research Libraries News
Last Updated on December 14, 2023, 4:24 pm ET Sign up to receive the Day in Review by email. Jump to: Thursday, December 14 Wednesday, December 13 Top o’ the…
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date: 2023-12-14, from: VOA News USA
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date: 2023-12-14, from: VOA News USA
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date: 2023-12-14, updated: 2023-12-14, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
SAP has revealed that its attempts to create an Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) tool for its cloud “was abandoned after a year and a half as a failure.”…
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date: 2023-12-14, from: Heather Cox Richardson blog
In a day that was chock full of political stories in which Republicans were launching attacks on Democrats, Senator Brian Schatz (D-HI) made a key point. “We have not passed an emergency supplemental, a Farm Bill, or regular Appropriations,” he said. “The story is not what they are doing. The story is what they are not doing.”
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date: 2023-12-14, from: Guam Daily Post
The Department of Public Works was a no-show at an informational briefing hearing Wednesday intended to discuss road maintenance and repairs, school bus shelter replacement and repairs, Typhoon Mawar recovery efforts and a number of other DPW-related topics.
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date: 2023-12-14, updated: 2023-12-14, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Updated GM’s self-driving taxi outfit, Cruise, has dismissed nine execs – including its chief operating officer – after staff withheld information regarding an incident in which a woman was injured by one of the firm’s robotaxis.…
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date: 2023-12-14, from: Heatmap News
Now it is over. Early on Wednesday morning, negotiators in Dubai reached an agreement at the 28th Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, the global meeting otherwise known as COP28.
Their final text for the Global Stocktake — a kind of report card on humanity’s progress on its Paris Agreement goals — is contradictory and half-hearted. Instead of blunt language instructing countries to “phase out fossil fuels,” it instead provides a range of options that could let countries achieve “deep, rapid, and sustained reductions in greenhouse gas emissions.” One of these possibilities is the tripling of global renewable capacity; another is a call for “transitioning away from fossil fuels.”
So far, this language — this call for leaving fossil fuels — has attracted the most attention by far. Simon Stiell, the UN’s top climate official, said that it marked “the beginning of the end” of the fossil-fuel era, while the climate journalist and activist Bill McKibben has argued that the phrase can become a useful tool for activists, who can now beat it across the head of the Biden administration.
But a separate phrase in the agreement caught my attention. Immediately after calling for transitioning away from fossil fuels, the text makes a different point: that the world must accelerate the development of “zero- and low-emission technologies, including, inter alia, renewables, nuclear, abatement and removal technologies such as carbon capture and utilization and storage, particularly in hard-to-abate sectors, and low-carbon hydrogen production.”
This language may rankle some readers because it seems to give pride of place to carbon capture and storage technology, or CCS, which would allow fossil fuel-burning plants to catch emissions before they enter the atmosphere. (It also seems to conflate CCS with carbon removal technology, even though they are different.) But I believe that the overarching demand — the call for accelerating climate-friendly technologies — represents a crucial insight, one that I could not stop thinking about at the COP itself, and one that is linked to any realistic demand to phase out fossil fuels. Here is that insight: The world will only be able to decarbonize when it develops abundant energy technologies that emit little carbon and that are price-competitive if not cheaper than their fossil-fueled alternatives.
Just as COP28 began, the Rhodium Group, an energy research firm, published a new study looking at how carbon pollution will rise and fall through the end of the century. Unlike other such studies — which ask either how the planet will fare if no new climate policy passes, or what the world must do to avoid 1.5 degrees Celsius of warming — this new study tried to look at what was likely to happen. Given what we know about how countries’ emissions rise and fall with their economies, and when and how they tend to pass climate policy, how much warming can we expect by the end of the century?
As the report’s authors put it, the study was aimed not at policymakers, but at policy takers — the officials, executives, engineers, and local leaders who are starting to plan for the world of 2100.
Here’s the good news: Global greenhouse gas emissions are likely to peak this decade, the report found. Sometime during the 2020s, humanity’s emissions of carbon dioxide, methane, and other climate pollution will reach an all-time high and begin to fall. (Right now, we emit the equivalent of 50.6 billion tons of the stuff every year.) This will represent a world-historic turning point in our species’ effort to govern the global climate system, and it will probably happen before Morocco, Portugal, and Spain host the 2030 World Cup.
And that is roughly where the good news ends. Because unlike in rosy net-zero studies where humanity’s carbon emissions peak and then rapidly fall to zero, the report does not project any near-term pollution plunge. Instead, global emissions waver and plateau through the 2030s and 2040s, falling in some years, rising slightly in others, cutting an unmistakably downward trend while failing to get anywhere close to zero. By 2060, annual emissions will have fallen to 39 gigatons, only 22% below today’s levels.
And — worse news, now — that is as low as emissions will ever get this century, the report projects. Driven by explosive economic growth in Southeast Asia and sub-Saharan Africa, global emissions begin to rise — slowly but inexorably — starting in the 2060s. They keep rising in the 2070s, 2080s, and 2090s. By the year 2090, emissions will have reached 44 gigatons, only 13% below today’s levels and roughly where emissions stood in 2003.
How Greenhouse Gas Emissions Could Fall — Then Rise — in the 21st Century
Rhodium
Group
In other words, after a century of work to fight climate change, humanity will find itself roughly where it began. But now, with several thousand additional gigatons of emissions in the atmosphere, the planet will be about 2.8 degrees Celsius warmer (or about 5 degrees Fahrenheit). At its high end estimate, temperatures could rise as much as 4 degrees Celsius, or more than 7 degrees Fahrenheit.
This temperature rise will be caused by legacy emissions from polluters like the United States and China, but as the century goes on, it will increasingly come from Asian and African countries such as Vietnam, Indonesia, Nigeria, Kenya, and others. Why? It’s not like these countries, say, reject renewables or electric vehicles: In fact, Rhodium anticipates that renewables will have grown up to 22-fold by the end of the century.
Instead, emissions rise because fossil fuels are cheap and globally abundant — they remain one of the easiest ways to power an explosively growing society — and because of the growth of the so-called hard-to-abate sectors in these countries are slated to grow just as quickly as the economies themselves. Indonesia, Nigeria, and Vietnam will demand many megatons of new steel, cement, and chemicals to furnish their growing societies; right now, the only economical way to make those materials requires releasing immense amounts of carbon pollution into the atmosphere.
Let’s be clear: Rhodium’s report is a projection, not a prophecy. It should not provoke despair, I think, but determination. Many of the so-called hard-to-abate activities, such as steel or petrochemical making, should more aptly be called activities-that-we-haven’t-tried-very-hard-to-abate yet; people will likely find a way to do them by the middle of the century. (When I asked Bill Gates what he thought about the Rhodium Group’s findings, he replied that predicting the carbon intensity of certain activities in 2060 was all but impossible: We might have safe, cheap, and abundant nuclear fission by then, or even nuclear fusion.)
Yet it heralds a shift in climate geopolitics that, while it has not yet happened, is not so far away. Since the modern era of global climate politics began in 1990, most carbon emissions have come from just a handful of countries: China, the United States, and the 37 other rich, developed democracies that make up the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, or OECD. These countries have emitted 55% of climate pollution since 1990, while the rest of the world — the remaining low- and middle-income countries — have emitted only 45%.
But from now to 2100, that relationship is set to reverse. Through the end of the century, China and the OECD countries emit only 40% of total global emissions, according to Rhodium’s projections. The rest of the world, meanwhile, will emit 60% of global emissions.
In other words, decarbonization will soon become a challenge for middle-income countries. These countries will not be able to spend extra to buy climate-friendly technologies, but they are simply too populous for rich countries to subsidize. At the same time, these countries lack an existing fleet of fossil-fuel-consuming equipment, so they will not need to transition away from fossil fuels in the first place. Unlike in the United States, where we will have to shut down our oil-and-gas economy as we build a new one to replace it, Kenya or Indonesia can more or less build a climate-friendly middle-class economy de novo, much in the same way that in the 2000s countries “leapfrogged” landline telephones and adopted cell phones. Yet countries will only be able to leapfrog the fossil-fuel era if the climate equivalent of cell phones exist: if climate-friendly technologies are plentiful, useful, and price-competitive.
That’s not all it will take, of course. The world will have to phase down the production and consumption of fossil fuels, because the existence of climate-friendly technologies will not guarantee their use. Humanity may also have to create and enforce a strong moral taboo around burning fossil fuels, much in the same way that it has created a taboo around, say, child labor. But none of that can happen unless climate-friendly alternatives exist: Otherwise countries will ensure that they gain access to the energy that their development requires.
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date: 2023-12-14, updated: 2023-12-14, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Adobe has revealed it may have to fork out “significant monetary costs or penalties” as a result of a US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) investigation of its subscription cancellation practices.…
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date: 2023-12-14, from: Santa Barbara Indenpent News
Can California farmers grow this native plant into the booming global market? A Santa Barbara County–based project aims to find out.
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date: 2023-12-14, from: The Canyons News (COC student paper)
With traffic fatalities increasing around southern California,one organization is using it’s wheels…
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date: 2023-12-14, from: The Signal
The William S Hart Union High School District named Linda Storli as governing board president for 2024 at its annual organizational meeting Wednesday. Storli subsequently nominated board member Cherise Moore as clerk and Moore then nominated board member Joe Messina as assistant clerk. “It was a challenging year, we all put in a lot of […]
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date: 2023-12-14, from: The Canyons News (COC student paper)
When watching a film, it is usually a feature movie. But not…
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date: 2023-12-14, from: VOA News USA
State Department — The United States and Taiwan are exploring ways to expand Taiwan’s participation in the United Nations system and other international forums, as well as addressing a range of global challenges, including public health, aviation safety and climate change.
The most recent routine consultation between the U.S. and Taiwan took place Wednesday, days after the Chinese delegation at COP28 opposed calls to include Taiwan in the United Nations climate talks in Dubai.
All participants in the latest U.S.-Taiwan talks “recognized the importance of working closely with likeminded partners who share our concerns regarding attempts to exclude Taiwan from the international community,” according to the U.S. State Department in a statement.
Taiwan Relations Act
Senior American officials have said Washington’s “One China” policy is “distinct” from Beijing’s “One China” principle. The U.S. policy is guided by the Taiwan Relations Act, the Three Joint Communiques and the Six Assurances. China has objected to the Taiwan Relations Act and deemed it as invalid.
The Taiwan Relations Act has stated that “nothing in this Act may be construed as a basis for supporting the exclusion or expulsion of Taiwan from continued membership in any international financial institution or any other international organization.”
The Chinese Communist Party has never ruled Taiwan but claims sovereignty over the island, which became home to the Chinese Nationalist government after its defeat in 1949. During the U.N. climate talks held in the United Arab Emirates, Chinese officials lodged a protest after calls to include Taiwan’s participation in the climate summit by other countries.
“China has noted that during the meeting a handful of countries ignore the fact that Taiwan is an inalienable part of China and make noises about the participation by the Taiwan authorities in the COP,” a member of the Chinese delegation said via a translator in the plenary hall in Dubai.
Wednesday, officials from the State Department and Taiwan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs discussed near-term opportunities to support Taiwan’s participation in the World Health Assembly (WHA) and other global public health bodies, the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), as well as Taiwan’s meaningful participation in other multilateral organizations.
World Health Organization and International Civil Aviation Organization
The Beijing government has been blocking Taiwan’s representation at WHA meetings after the self-ruled democracy elected Tsai Ing-wen, a China skeptic, as president in 2016.
China has also blocked Taiwan’s participation in ICAO assemblies since 2013.
Since the U.S. switched its diplomatic recognition from the government of Taipei to Beijing in 1979, Washington has insisted that the two sides should resolve their political disputes peacefully.
Tuesday, U.S. Ambassador to China Nicholas Burns said “fundamental differences” over Taiwan persist in Washington’s relationship with Beijing.
The top U.S. diplomat on China said the United States will continue to implement the Taiwan Relations Act and help Taiwan with its defense needs, renewing the U.S. commitment to maintain peace and stability across the Taiwan Strait.
In recent months, China has been increasing its military activities near the strait. The United States has voiced concerns about any Chinese interference through military coercion, as Taiwan prepares for a presidential election in January 2024.
“I think what we can do is to insist that the people in Taiwan have an opportunity to vote freely on January 13,” Burns told an audience during a seminar hosted by the U.S.-based Council on Foreign Relations.
In Beijing, Chinese officials said the election in Taiwan “is purely China’s internal affair.”
“Taiwan independence” means war and “Taiwan independence” is a dead end, China’s Foreign Ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin said during a recent briefing.
In a recent interview with VOA, U.S. Senior Official for Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Matt Murray said, “We certainly want to make sure there are opportunities for engagement” between the U.S. and Taiwan in international economic forums, as Taiwan is one of the top trading partners and investors in the United States.
Morris Chang, founder of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, represented Taiwan during the APEC summit in San Francisco in mid-November, where he held talks with U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris.
The two discussed the U.S.-Taiwan “relationship on the economy and technology,” Harris said in a social media post on X, formerly Twitter. Chang also had a pull-aside meeting with U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken during the APEC meetings, according to Murray.
The last U.S.-Taiwan working group meeting on international organizations took place in April.
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date: 2023-12-14, from: VOA News USA
The Republican-majority U.S. House of Representatives narrowly voted Wednesday to authorize a formal impeachment inquiry into U.S. President Joe Biden, a step forward in the investigation into any involvement by the president in his son’s business dealings. As VOA’s congressional correspondent Katherine Gypson reports, the White House denies any wrongdoing.
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date: 2023-12-14, updated: 2023-12-14, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Updated The US Federal Communications Commission is continuing to reject SpaceX’s $885 million bid to supply wireless broadband to rural areas via its Starlink internet satellites – much to the Musk-owned biz’s annoyance.…
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date: 2023-12-14, from: The Signal
Ahead of the new calendar year, city of Santa Clarita officials announced their adjusted fiscal forecast has improved the city’s bottom line by about $5.3 million. Each year, the city announces its spending plan in June for the fiscal year starting July 1 and then adjusts as needed with end-of-the-calendar-year changes. The City Council approved […]
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date: 2023-12-14, from: The Round Up (Peirce College Student Paper)
The Associated Student Organization (ASO) hosted De-Stress Fest on Thursday, an event designed to focus on students’ mindfulness approaching final exams. The event, run by
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date: 2023-12-14, from: The Signal
The longest-tenured coach in the Santa Clarita Valley will be hanging up the cleats after the 2024 season. Hart legend Jim Ozella has been at the helm of the Indians baseball program for 25 years but the skipper announced to the school on Tuesday that 2024 would be his final season. “I came to the […]
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date: 2023-12-14, from: The Signal
At a Chiquita Canyon Landfill Advisory Committee meeting Tuesday, a federal official announced the Environmental Protection Agency was stepping in to seek ways to help residents quell a smell that’s earned thousands of complaints and expanded in scope since July. Fifth District LA County Supervisor Kathryn Barger, who represents the Santa Clarita Valley and previously […]
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date: 2023-12-14, from: The Round Up (Peirce College Student Paper)
As the semester comes to its end, students gathered to ponder the meaning of life through poetry and song. The Philosopher’s Cabaret began at 3
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@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2023-12-14, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)
Highly recommend the Texas Observer feed.
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date: 2023-12-14, from: VOA News USA
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date: 2023-12-14, from: Santa Barbara Indenpent News
California law spreads costs of maintaining nuclear power plant across the state.
The post Funding Diablo Canyon Will Cost Edison and San Diego Ratepayers, Too appeared first on The Santa Barbara Independent.
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date: 2023-12-14, from: The Signal
Irene’s first fostering experience was that of fostering her own grandchildren. This experience was so life-changing that she decided to keep her doors open for those in need after her grandchildren left. Irene now plays host to five foster children. This leaves her with having to make five Christmases possible. Through the partnership of Supervisor […]
The post <strong>500 lives changed in the spirit of Christmas and thrill</strong> appeared first on Santa Clarita Valley Signal.
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date: 2023-12-14, from: Santa Barbara Indenpent News
SANTA YNEZ, CA, December 13, 2023 — The Santa Ynez Band of Chumash Indians recently presented a check for over
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date: 2023-12-14, from: VOA News USA
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date: 2023-12-14, from: NASA breaking news
Marshall Team Members Celebrate Holiday Season By Jessica Barnett For hundreds of team members at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center, “eat, drink, and be merry” was the afternoon theme for Dec. 7. The center hosted a holiday celebration in Activities Building 4316, complete with food, door prizes, and plenty of opportunity to wish one happy […]
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date: 2023-12-14, from: Guam Daily Post
Measures authorizing a body camera program for the Guam Police Department and creating a Special Cost of Living Economic Task Force are among eight bills recently signed into law by Gov. Lou Leon Guerrero.
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date: 2023-12-14, from: OS News
A recent discovery that overclocking AMD’s latest chips blows a fuse to denote the chip has been overclocked has led to slightly misleading claims that it will automatically void the chips’ warranty for any type of failure. However, AMD clarified to Tom’s Hardware that overclocking AMD’s Ryzen Threadripper Pro 7000 (Storm Peak) and non-Pro lineup, among the best workstation CPUs, doesn’t automatically void the processor’s warranty. ↫ Zhiye Liu at Tom’s Hardware Something about these fuses in processors doesn’t sit right with me.
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date: 2023-12-14, from: OS News
We’re going to cover the Cortex A57 as implemented in the Nintendo Switch’s Nvidia Tegra X1. The Tegra X1 targets a wide range of applications including mobile devices and automobiles. It focuses on providing high GPU performance in a limited power envelope, making it perfect for a portable gaming console like the Switch. Tegra X1 consumes 117,6 mm2 on TSMC’s 20 nm (20 SoC) process and uses a quad core A57 cluster to provide the bulk of its CPU power. Each Cortex A57 core consumes just under 2 mm2 of area, and the quad core A57 cluster takes 13.16 mm2. ↫ Clamchowder at Chips and Cheese An old SoC still doing excellent work in the Switch.
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date: 2023-12-14, from: OS News
In collaboration with Polar Signals we have committed that beginning with Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, our GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) package will enable frame pointers by default for 64-bit platforms. All packages in Ubuntu, with very few exceptions, will be rebuilt with frame pointers enabled, making them easier to profile and subsequently optimise. “I’ve enabled frame pointers at huge scale for Java and glibc and studied the CPU overhead for this change, which is typically less than 1% and usually so close to zero that it is hard to measure. Frame pointers allow more complete CPU profiling and off-CPU profiling. The performance wins that these can provide far outweigh the comparatively tiny loss in performance. Ubuntu enabling frame pointers by default will be a huge win for performance engineering and the default developer experience”. said Brendan Gregg, computer performance expert and Intel Fellow. ↫ Oliver Smith on the official Ubuntu blog So I guess the very minor performance regression is supposed to be compensated for by optimisations in individual packages that frame pointers will help realise.
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date: 2023-12-14, from: ETH Zurich, recently added
de Lalouvière, Nicole
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date: 2023-12-14, from: ETH Zurich, recently added
Ammann, Jeanine; Mack, Gabriele; Irek, Judith; Finger, Robert; El Benni, Nadja
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date: 2023-12-14, from: Max Halford Blog
Funnel metrics as products I talked about metric decomposition in a previous article, and how it can be used to explain why metrics change values over time. That article explained how to decompose a sum, as well as a ratio. In this article, I’ll explain how to decompose a product. revenue = impressions * click_rate * conversion_rate * spend The decomposition in this article isn’t limited to funnels. It can be applied to any metric that is expressed as a product of factors.
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