News gathered 2024-02-01
(date: 2024-02-01 07:00:20)
@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-02-01, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)
Apple’s Vision Pro battery pack is hiding the final boss of Lightning cables.
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Tesla to build small new LFP battery cell factory with CATL machines, report says
date: 2024-02-01, from: Electrek Feed
A new report states that Tesla is going to build a small new LFP battery cell factory with CATL machines in Nevada.
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GM Announces the Return of the Hybrids
date: 2024-02-01, from: Heatmap News
Current conditions: The city of Oakland, California opened two emergency shelters for unhoused residents ahead of storms that brought the threat of floods to the state • Dense fog is disrupting flights and trains in Delhi, which is experiencing its coldest January in 13 years • A heat wave in Australia, where it’s currently the summer, is breaking temperature records.
THE TOP FIVE
- Podesta to become new climate envoy
Senior Biden advisor John Podesta will take over from former Secretary of State John Kerry as the U.S. special envoy for climate change, the White House announced. Kerry, who’s stepping down this spring, was the first person to hold the position; while his role was based at the State Department, Podesta will instead remain at the White House, reports Maxine Joselow in the Washington Post, with his title changing to “senior adviser to the president for international climate policy.”
The appointment marked an expansion of Podesta’s current role implementing Biden’s signature climate law, the Inflation Reduction Act. He’s going to continue that work — which, Joselow writes, probably means he’ll travel less often than Kerry — but will now also be tapped to help Biden manage relationships with foreign powers.
If you’d like some insight into how Podesta thinks about climate change and the IRA, our interview with him from the sidelines of COP 28 in Dubai might be a good place to start.
- Climate laws begin at home
The IRA and the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (better known as the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, or BIL) are filled with subsidies to help with the clean energy transition. But, as I wrote on the site yesterday, a new study shows that while the share of funds for household improvements in each act is relatively small — about 12% in the IRA and 5.7% in the BIL — the impact those improvements could have on emissions is proportionally huge. Household emissions, the study authors write, could decrease by as much as 40% by 2030.
- GM’s bringing back hybrids
In the face of dealer protests, GM CEO Marry Barra told investors this week that the automaker would bring back plug-in hybrids. That’s a reversal from the company’s stance of just a few years ago, reports David Ferris at E&E News, when GM said it was “all in” on electric vehicles, and is a sign of the difficulties automakers have faced in trying to switch over to EVs.
The announcement comes the same week as new data showing EVs and hybrids made up more than 16% of total light-duty vehicle sales in the U.S. in 2023, up from 12.9% in 2022. Italian luxury automaker Lamborghini also announced that it will start producing hybrid versions of all its models.
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- Crypto mines face an energy accounting
Next week the Department of Energy’s Energy Information Administration will start collecting data on the energy use of cryptocurrency mining, reports Justine Calma in The Verge. It’s a win for activists and lawmakers who have long warned of the climate impacts of crypto projects, which are so energy-hungry that they’ve spurred the reopening of some shuttered fossil fuel plants.
“We intend to continue to analyze and write about the energy implications of cryptocurrency mining activities in the United States,” said EIA Administrator Joe DeCarolis in a press release. “We will specifically focus on how the energy demand for cryptocurrency mining is evolving, identify geographic areas of high growth, and quantify the sources of electricity used to meet cryptocurrency mining demand.”
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- Ford to give away Tesla charger adapters
Ford will send free Tesla charging adapters to owners of its Mustang Mach-E and Ford F-150 Lightning EVs in the U.S. and Canada, announced CEO Jim Farley on X. The adapters will allow Ford owners to access one of the largest and most reliable charging networks in the country. They’re also another nail in the coffin of the Combined Charging Standard or CCS, which Ford and other automakers defaulted to before Ford — followed shortly after by practically every other automaker in the country — announced it would switch to the Tesla plug, which is now known as the North American Charging Standard.
THE KICKER
The Sun’s magnetic poles are due to flip starting this year, writes Brian Resnick in Vox. The flip could cause solar storms that disrupt communications satellites, but will also lead to more vivid auroras. So start planning your aurora trips now — just maybe don’t count on having GPS the whole way.
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LEVER TIME: The Wonk Attempting To Change Republican Economics
date: 2024-02-01, from: The Lever News
David Sirota sits down with analyst Oren Cass, who’s calling for a new brand of conservative economic policy.
https://www.levernews.com/lever-time-the-wonk-attempting-to-change-republican-economics/ Save to Pocket
7 amazing Bay Area things to do this weekend, Feb. 2-4
date: 2024-02-01, from: San Jose Mercury News
From compelling plays to killer concerts and a mouthwatering Moroccan dish, we’ve got a bunch of great ideas for your weekend.
https://www.mercurynews.com/2024/02/01/7-amazing-bay-area-things-to-do-this-weekend-feb-2-4/ Save to Pocket
NASA Spinoffs Feature NASA Stennis Developed Technologies
date: 2024-02-01, from: NASA breaking news
As NASA innovates for the benefit of all, what the agency develops for exploration has the potential to evolve into other technologies with broader use here on Earth. Many of those examples are highlighted in NASA’s annual Spinoff book including dozens of NASA-enabled medical innovations, as well other advancements in 3D printing, robots, and brake […]
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Zyn, nicotine pouches gain traction with office workers
date: 2024-02-01, from: San Jose Mercury News
In Silicon Valley, Zyn and similar products have appealed to a tech demographic that has long had an interest in performance enhancers, or nootropics.
https://www.mercurynews.com/2024/02/01/zyn-nicotine-pouches-gain-traction-with-office-workers-1/ Save to Pocket
LockBit shows no remorse for ransomware attack on children’s hospital
date: 2024-02-01, updated: 2024-02-01, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
It even had the gall to set the ransom demand at $800K … for a nonprofit
Ransomware gang LockBit is claiming responsibility for an attack on a Chicago children’s hospital in an apparent deviation from its previous policy of not targeting nonprofits.…
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NASA Employee Supports Mission While Inspiring Artemis Generation
date: 2024-02-01, from: NASA breaking news
NASA inspires as it explores secrets of the universe for the benefit of all – just ask Tony Goretski, the senior employee in the Office of Procurement at NASA’s Stennis Space Center near Bay St. Louis, Mississippi. Goretski felt the inspiration long ago on a school trip to the Gulf Coast site, vowing to one […]
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What Makes for ‘Good’ Mathematics?
date: 2024-02-01, from: Quanta Magazine
Terence Tao, who has been called the “Mozart of Mathematics,” wrote an essay in 2007 about the common ingredients in “good” mathematical research. In this episode, the Fields Medalist joins Steven Strogatz to revisit the topic.The post What Makes for ‘Good’ Mathematics? first appeared on Quanta Magazine
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Podcast: This is It. The Deepfake Reckoning
date: 2024-02-01, from: 404 Media Group
This week we have a banger episode on AI and what the future holds in a potential overcorrection of the space. Then we talk about how an Iranian linked drug trafficker hired a Hells Angel member to perform a hit on U.S. soil. Yep.
https://www.404media.co/404-media-podcast-week-23-this-is-it-the-deepfake-reckoning/ Save to Pocket
The Volkswagen ID.4 Is Getting Plug & Charge But Only At Electrify America
date: 2024-02-01, from: Inside EVs News
Bidirectional charging still isn’t available in the U.S., though.
https://insideevs.com/news/706925/volkswagen-id4-plug-and-charge-electrify-america/ Save to Pocket
Prep roundup: Salesian picks up key win, Bishop O’Dowd beats Piedmont and two Santa Clara players reach 1,000 career points
date: 2024-02-01, from: San Jose Mercury News
Piedmont boys dominate, Moreau Catholic boys remains perfect in league play as Cole Loud scores 18.
https://www.mercurynews.com/2024/02/01/prep-roundup-salesian-picks-up-key-win-bishop-odowd-beats-piedmont-and-two-santa-clara-players-reach-1000-career-points/ Save to Pocket
Getting to Know Andrew K. Pace, ARL’s New Executive Director
date: 2024-02-01, from: Association of Research Libraries News
Today the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) welcomes Andrew K. Pace as our executive director. We’ve conducted a brief interview to help our community get to know him better as…
The post Getting to Know Andrew K. Pace, ARL’s New Executive Director appeared first on Association of Research Libraries.
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Man seeks community’s help in finding hit-and-run suspect
date: 2024-02-01, from: Guam Daily Post
A man is asking for the community’s assistance to find a white truck that hit his vehicle with his 6-month-old daughter and 3-year-old son inside, and then fled the scene.
https://www.postguam.com/news/local/man-seeks-communitys-help-in-finding-hit-and-run-suspect/article_b2f2c10c-c0b3-11ee-ba7e-3f2591dfde76.html Save to Pocket
GWA reaches proposed partial consent decree with EPA, DOJ
date: 2024-02-01, from: Guam Daily Post
The Guam Waterworks Authority has completed negotiations with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Department of Justice regarding sewer system improvement projects and other programs for compliance with the federal Clean Water Act, the utility announced in a…
https://www.postguam.com/news/local/gwa-reaches-proposed-partial-consent-decree-with-epa-doj/article_c63ae76a-c0a6-11ee-9de7-0bf2dd851afd.html Save to Pocket
Trial set for Wednesday in Sånta Rita-Sumai homicide
date: 2024-02-01, from: Guam Daily Post
A man accused in a Sånta Rita-Sumai homicide case is scheduled to go to trial Wednesday.
https://www.postguam.com/news/local/trial-set-for-wednesday-in-s-nta-rita-sumai-homicide/article_6262a01a-c0a7-11ee-93f7-db4afbaf8bd8.html Save to Pocket
Parents, teachers: JFK-Sanchez double session ‘shortchanges’ kids
date: 2024-02-01, from: Guam Daily Post
Stakeholders of John F. Kennedy and Simon Sanchez high schools share not only a campus, but also the concern that double session is having a negative impact on students and their school life experience.
https://www.postguam.com/news/local/parents-teachers-jfk-sanchez-double-session-shortchanges-kids/article_d6db69c2-c0a2-11ee-b25b-3fbf099aee7c.html Save to Pocket
Hospital mold report findings no surprise to GMHA official
date: 2024-02-01, from: Guam Daily Post
The findings of the mold assessment report conducted at the Guam Memorial Hospital were no surprise, William Kando told the hospital authority’s board of trustees on Wednesday when asked if the report identified areas of concern.
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School year to end as scheduled
date: 2024-02-01, from: Guam Daily Post
Public school students will close out the school year as scheduled, the head of public schools on Guam said, as the two makeup days have been scheduled into the school calendar and there has been no additional instructional loss as…
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August trial for Maite shooting suspect
date: 2024-02-01, from: Guam Daily Post
A man accused in a fatal shooting in September 2023 in Maite is scheduled to go to trial in August.
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Team Mindset Fuels NASA Stennis Test Operations Leader
date: 2024-02-01, from: NASA breaking news
One thing has remained constant throughout Maury Vander’s career with NASA – the satisfaction of being part of a team working to innovate and benefit the agency and the aerospace industry at large. As chief of the Test Operations Division at NASA’s Stennis Space Center, Vander provides guidance and help with technical challenges to a […]
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Even more than $12.2 billion? Chief of BART San Jose says feds could raise extension’s estimated cost yet again
date: 2024-02-01, from: San Jose Mercury News
If the FTA raises the price tag on San Jose BART, it would be the fourth time local and federal agencies have increased estimates from the original 2014 projection of $4.7 billion
https://www.mercurynews.com/2024/02/01/over-12-2b-chief-of-bart-san-jose-says-theres-a-chance-feds-top-vtas-estimate/ Save to Pocket
A Vehicular Arms Race
date: 2024-02-01, updated: 2024-02-01, from: One Foot Tsunami
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@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-02-01, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)
The creators of Twitterrific are making an app to read (almost) anything on the web.
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Walters: Sacramento, S.F. among slowest California cities to recover
date: 2024-02-01, from: San Jose Mercury News
In return after pandemic, San Jose has fared much better and even Oakland has come back faster
https://www.mercurynews.com/2024/02/01/walters-sacramento-s-f-among-slowest-california-cities-to-recover/ Save to Pocket
Affordable, self-healing power grids are closer than you think
date: 2024-02-01, updated: 2024-02-01, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
They’re just an algorithm away, national lab engineer tells El Reg
Feature When the first commercial coal-fired electric power plants came online, starting with the Holborn Viaduct power station that supplied electricity to the City of London in January 1882, the world was changed forever. Fast forward 142 years, and the world has changed a lot.…
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Premium e-bike brand Gocycle unveils the sleekest-looking cargo bike you’ve ever seen
date: 2024-02-01, from: Electrek Feed
If you know anything about Gocycle, you’ll know that they make fancy electric bikes designed with sleek, exotic designs. Now, the company is leaning hard into its lightweight, futuristic design legacy as it unveils the new Gocycle CXI Family Cargo Bicycle.
https://electrek.co/2024/02/01/premium-e-bike-brand-gocycle-unveils-the-sleekest-looking-cargo-bike-youve-ever-seen/ Save to Pocket
A major FAFSA snafu
date: 2024-02-01, from: Marketplace Morning Report
The results from FAFSA, the form students and their parents fill out to see how much financial aid they can get for college, won’t be released this year until March. That’s more than a month later than initially expected, and the delay is stressing out those who work with college applicants. Plus, a look back at the life of Black entrepreneur and economic activist A.G. Gaston.
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California teen charged with ‘serial swatting’ after police say he made threats throughout the country
date: 2024-02-01, from: San Jose Mercury News
A 17-year-old “serial swatter” from California is believed to be responsible for hundreds of swatting incidents and bomb threats throughout the United States and is now facing charges in Florida, according to a pretrial detention motion.
https://www.mercurynews.com/2024/02/01/california-teen-charged-with-serial-swatting-after-police-say-he-made-threats-throughout-the-country/ Save to Pocket
Elon Musk moves ahead with plan to shift Tesla domicile to Texas
date: 2024-02-01, from: San Jose Mercury News
Elon Musk wants to deepen his links to Texas after losing a rare court fight elsewhere over his compensation at Tesla Inc.
https://www.mercurynews.com/2024/02/01/musk-moves-ahead-with-plan-to-shift-tesla-domicile-to-texas/ Save to Pocket
Permanent Al Fresco Dining Applications Open For LA Eateries
date: 2024-02-01, updated: 2024-02-01, from: The LAist
The temporary rules from the pandemic years will expire this summer. Restaurants need to apply if they want to keep serving on sidewalks and streets.
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Abcarian: Road rage horror story, a child’s murder, lessons for us all
date: 2024-02-01, from: San Jose Mercury News
What happened was a horrific reminder that getting into tiffs while driving can have tragic, ruinous consequences.
https://www.mercurynews.com/2024/02/01/abcarian-road-rage-horror-story-a-childs-murder-lessons-for-us-all/ Save to Pocket
Detached house sells in Pleasanton for $2.3 million
date: 2024-02-01, from: San Jose Mercury News
A 3,547-square-foot house built in 2004 has changed hands. The spacious property located in the 7200 block of Hickorywood Lane in Pleasanton was sold on Nov. 13, 2023, for $2,325,000, or $655 per square foot.
https://www.mercurynews.com/2024/02/01/detached-house-sells-in-pleasanton-for-2-3-million/ Save to Pocket
U.S. Non-Tesla BEV Sales Surged In 2023
date: 2024-02-01, from: Inside EVs News
Ford, Chevrolet and Hyundai sold the highest number of all-electric cars other than Tesla last year.
https://insideevs.com/news/706730/us-non-tesla-bev-sales-2023q4/ Save to Pocket
Best Things To Do This Weekend In Los Angeles and SoCal: Feb. 2 - 4
date: 2024-02-01, updated: 2024-02-01, from: The LAist
Hear John Williams film scores performed by a live orchestra, see Paw Patrol live with your kids, and more!
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Rent Hikes Return In Most LA Apartments After City’s Nearly Four-Year Ban
date: 2024-02-01, updated: 2024-02-01, from: The LAist
L.A. has frozen rents in rent-controlled housing since the outset of the COVID-19 pandemic. Starting Thursday, landlords can charge up to 6% more.
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Elon Musk asks Tesla shareholders to vote for incorporation move to Texas
date: 2024-02-01, from: Electrek Feed
Elon Musk is in a full propaganda campaign to gain Tesla shareholder support against the court’s decision to rescind his CEO compensation plan and now announced that he is going to move for a shareholder vote on moving Tesla’s state of incorporation to Texas.
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Bing Bong brings his rainbow wagon to Disneyland’s Pixar Place Hotel
date: 2024-02-01, from: San Jose Mercury News
Riley’s imaginary friend from the 2015 Pixar animated film ‘Inside Out’ is now posing for photos at Disneyland’s newly refreshed hotel in his first appearance at any Disney theme park resort worldwide.
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Fujitsu finance chief says sorry for company’s role in Post Office Horizon scandal
date: 2024-02-01, updated: 2024-02-01, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
‘Deepest apologies to the sub-postmasters and their families’
Fujitsu’s CFO is the latest in the the Japanese vendor’s exec ranks to apologize for the megacorp’s role in the Post Office Horizon scandal, widely viewed as one of the greatest miscarriages of justice in UK history.…
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Hubble Captures a Suspected Galaxy Encounter
date: 2024-02-01, from: NASA breaking news
UGC 3912 is classified as a spiral galaxy … but you wouldn’t know it from this detailed NASA Hubble Space Telescope image. UGC 3912’s distorted shape is typically indicative of a gravitational encounter with another galaxy. When galaxies interact – either brush up against each other’s gravitational fields or even collide – their stars, dust, […]
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Inside The Israel Lobby’s New $90 Million War Chest
date: 2024-02-01, from: The Lever News
Internal AIPAC materials reveal huge gifts from moguls — and the strategies lobbyists used to score the cash.
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EU agrees key $55 billion funding for Ukraine
date: 2024-02-01, from: Marketplace Morning Report
From the BBC World Service: Like in the United States, politicians across the European Union have been struggling to finalize an aid package for Ukraine. But all 27 EU leaders have just approved a $55 billion aid package for Ukraine, after Hungary’s leader Viktor Orbán initially blocked the funding. Also: a record number of Chinese migrants are traveling through South America to reach the U.S.
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Volvo breaks up with Polestar and sees its shares soar
date: 2024-02-01, from: Electrek Feed
More bad news for Polestar. The struggling luxury EV maker just lost its funding from Volvo, which is handing full responsibility for the brand over to China’s Geely. However, Volvo is letting them down easy, saying it’s a “natural evolution” for the two brands.
https://electrek.co/2024/02/01/volvo-breaks-up-with-polestar-and-sees-its-stock-soar/ Save to Pocket
Facebook’s Extensive Surveillance Network
date: 2024-02-01, updated: 2024-01-26, from: Bruce Schneier blog
Consumer Reports is reporting that Facebook has built a massive surveillance network:
Using a panel of 709 volunteers who shared archives of their Facebook data, Consumer Reports found that a total of 186,892 companies sent data about them to the social network. On average, each participant in the study had their data sent to Facebook by 2,230 companies. That number varied significantly, with some panelists’ data listing over 7,000 companies providing their data. The Markup helped Consumer Reports recruit participants for the study. Participants downloaded an archive of the previous three years of their data from their Facebook settings, then provided it to Consumer Reports…
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Class notes: Anarchy, Law, Pain
date: 2024-02-01, from: Ayjay blog
I’m thinking that this term, when I’m teaching a number of things I haven’t taught before, or haven’t taught in a long time, I might use this blog to lay out some of the things I’m thinking about — not in a systematic or final way, but in what I hope will be a generative […]
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What Would You Do?
date: 2024-02-01, from: Dan Rather’s Steady
I write this not to advocate for people immigrating to the United States or to campaign against them. This is a story about a desperate journey that tens of thousands are making, in spite of the cost or consequences. Because they feel they must. It is not about one person or group. I am using the stories of Venezuelans as an example because so many have fled their country and are coming to ours. In 2023, more than 260,000 Venezuelan migrants crossed the U.S.-Mexico border. Venezuela’s migrants represent the largest displacement crisis in the world.
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An integrated learning experience for young people
date: 2024-02-01, from: Raspberry Pi (.org)
We’re currently trialling the full integration of our Code Editor in some of the projects on our Projects site, with the aim of providing a seamless experience for young learners. Our Projects site provides hundreds of free coding projects with step-by-step instructions for young people to use at school, in Code Clubs and CoderDojo clubs, and…
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Huawei hits speed bump in production of intelligent automotive unit
date: 2024-02-01, updated: 2024-02-01, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Holding up the EV supply chain is not a great start to 2024
Huawei is experiencing production issues with a computing unit that powers advanced driver assistance systems in electric vehicles, known as the MDC 810, according to a recent report from Reuters.…
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Celebrating African Artists at the National Archives
date: 2024-02-01, from: National Archives, Pieces of History blog
February is Black History Month! Visit the National Archives website to learn more about our many resources and events related to Black history. Today we’re looking at a 1971 exhibit at the National Archives Building of images of African art from one of our donated collections. The National Archives promoted Black history even before February … Continue reading Celebrating African Artists at the National Archives
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Jim de Bree | ‘Neither Credit Nor Blame’ for Presidents
date: 2024-02-01, from: The Signal
Part 3 of 3. Part 2 appeared Jan. 25. This is the final segment in a three-part series discussing the factors that control the economy and the role that the president plays in steering the economy. There are several principles at play that must be understood — monetary policy, fiscal policy, fiscal lag and the […]
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Ron Perry | Vote No on Proposition 1
date: 2024-02-01, from: The Signal
Please read your voter’s information guide, and then vote “no” on Proposition 1. Make time to Google “2004 Prop. 63” mentioned on the first page of the text of Prop. 1 in your guide. Here is what you will find: “The Mental Health Services Act, which voters passed as a ballot measure in 2004, levies […]
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Philip Wasserman | It’s T-Swift’s World; We’re Living in It
date: 2024-02-01, from: The Signal
We can now add the Super Bowl to the latest wacko conspiracy theories. Call it the Taylor Swift conspiracies. There are more political conspiracy theories than I have the space to detail. One social media right-wing conspiracy theory says the NFL has rigged the game for Kansas City because Taylor Swift and the Chiefs’ Travis […]
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Heavy Rains Hit SoCal: Here’s What We Know So Far
date: 2024-02-01, updated: 2024-02-01, from: The LAist
With the first storm, Southern California is likely to see one to three inches of rain in our urban areas, and as much as 5 inches in our foothills and mountains.
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Space exploitation vs space exploration: Humanity has much to learn from the Voyager probes
date: 2024-02-01, updated: 2024-02-01, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
When ‘what’s the value to the economy?’ wasn’t front of mind
SPACE WEEK It will soon be half a century since NASA’s Voyager probes were launched on a tour of the solar system. The reason for their unprecedented longevity is unprecedented, but modern realities mean that we might not see their like again.…
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Seagate used bullying tactics to prevent union recognition, claims Unite
date: 2024-02-01, updated: 2024-02-01, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Staff at Northern Ireland facility voted in ballot that forces drivemaker’s hand, union says
Seagate workers building external hard drives in Northern Ireland have voted for trade union recognition, meaning they now have collective bargaining rights and potentially a layer of employment protection.…
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Kamakawiwoole’s buzzer-beating rainbow lifts Vulcans past Chaminade
date: 2024-02-01, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>HONOLULU – With 3.1 seconds counting down on the clock, Kamalu Kamakawiwoole lofted a rainbow at the basket and hit paydirt as the buzzer sounded to lift the UH-Hilo women’s basketball team past Chaminade, 67-64, Tuesday evening in Pacific West Conference action at McCabe Gymnasium.</p>
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PGA Tour strikes $3 billion deal with Fenway-led investment group. Players to get equity ownership
date: 2024-02-01, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>PEBBLE BEACH, Calif. — The PGA Tour is getting a $3 billion investment from Strategic Sports Group in a deal announced Wednesday that would give players access to more than $1.5 billion as equity owners in the new PGA Tour Enterprises.</p>
https://www.hawaiitribune-herald.com/2024/02/01/sports/pga-tour-strikes-3-billion-deal-with-fenway-led-investment-group-players-to-get-equity-ownership/ Save to Pocket
Grave peril of digital conspiracy theories: ‘What happens when no one believes anything anymore?’
date: 2024-02-01, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>WASHINGTON — Days after Maui’s wildfires killed scores of people and destroyed thousands of homes last August, a shocking claim spread with alarming speed on YouTube and TikTok: The blaze on the Hawaiian island was set deliberately, using futuristic energy weapons developed by the U.S. military.</p>
https://www.hawaiitribune-herald.com/2024/02/01/nation-world-news/grave-peril-of-digital-conspiracy-theories-what-happens-when-no-one-believes-anything-anymore/ Save to Pocket
Seahawks to hire Ravens defensive coordinator Mike Macdonald as new coach, AP source says
date: 2024-02-01, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>RENTON, Wash. — It was a defensive-centric head coach that brought the Seattle Seahawks their only Super Bowl title. </p>
https://www.hawaiitribune-herald.com/2024/02/01/sports/seahawks-to-hire-ravens-defensive-coordinator-mike-macdonald-as-new-coach-ap-source-says/ Save to Pocket
Meta, TikTok and other social media CEOs testify in heated Senate hearing on child exploitation
date: 2024-02-01, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>Sexual predators. Addictive features. Suicide and eating disorders. Unrealistic beauty standards. Bullying. These are just some of the issues young people are dealing with on social media — and children’s advocates and lawmakers say companies are not doing enough to protect them.</p>
https://www.hawaiitribune-herald.com/2024/02/01/nation-world-news/meta-tiktok-and-other-social-media-ceos-testify-in-heated-senate-hearing-on-child-exploitation/ Save to Pocket
BIIF boys basketball approaches end of regular season
date: 2024-02-01, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>By the end of this week, BIIF playoff matchups will be set for Division I and Division II boys basketball.</p>
https://www.hawaiitribune-herald.com/2024/02/01/sports/biif-boys-basketball-approaches-end-of-regular-season/ Save to Pocket
Second try at Puna alternate route study
date: 2024-02-01, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>One week after the Hawaii County Council shot down $1 million in state funds to investigate alternate traffic routes into Puna, a new council bill is trying to run it back.</p>
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Various marijuana measures introduced in Legislature
date: 2024-02-01, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>At least three new bills relating to adult use of recreational cannabis have been introduced in the state Legislature.</p>
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KSH, Waiakea win boys soccer championships
date: 2024-02-01, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>Wednesday afternoon was a good time to be wearing a dark blue and white jersey.</p>
https://www.hawaiitribune-herald.com/2024/02/01/sports/ksh-waiakea-win-boys-soccer-championships/ Save to Pocket
UH QB Alejado hits ground running after wasting no time getting here
date: 2024-02-01, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>Facing a pressure situation and fast-moving clock, was there any doubt the result would be another completion for quarterback Micah Alejado?</p>
https://www.hawaiitribune-herald.com/2024/02/01/sports/uh-qb-alejado-hits-ground-running-after-wasting-no-time-getting-here/ Save to Pocket
US blames group of Iran-backed militias for deadly drone attack in Jordan as it weighs reprisals
date: 2024-02-01, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>WASHINGTON — The United States on Wednesday attributed the drone attack that killed three U.S. service members in Jordan to the Islamic Resistance in Iraq, an umbrella group of Iran-backed militias, as President Joe Biden weighs his options to respond to the strike.</p>
https://www.hawaiitribune-herald.com/2024/02/01/nation-world-news/us-blames-group-of-iran-backed-militias-for-deadly-drone-attack-in-jordan-as-it-weighs-reprisals/ Save to Pocket
AP PHOTOS: As Carnival opens, Venice honors native son Marco Polo on 700th anniversary of his death
date: 2024-02-01, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>VENICE, Italy — Venice is marking the 700th anniversary of the death of Marco Polo with a year of commemorations, starting with the opening of Carnival season honoring one of the lagoon city’s most illustrious native sons.</p>
https://www.hawaiitribune-herald.com/2024/02/01/nation-world-news/ap-photos-as-carnival-opens-venice-honors-native-son-marco-polo-on-700th-anniversary-of-his-death/ Save to Pocket
HVO raises Kilauea alert level amid unrest
date: 2024-02-01, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>The Hawaiian Volcano Observatory has raised its alert levels for Kilauea after increased activity has been detected beneath the volcano.</p>
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Powell: Federal Reserve is on track to cut rates, though not likely for months
date: 2024-02-01, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>WASHINGTON — Interest rate cuts are coming. Just not yet.</p>
https://www.hawaiitribune-herald.com/2024/02/01/nation-world-news/powell-federal-reserve-is-on-track-to-cut-rates-though-not-likely-for-months/ Save to Pocket
Your Views for February 1
date: 2024-02-01, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>Police accountability
is a win-win for all</p>
https://www.hawaiitribune-herald.com/2024/02/01/opinion/your-views-for-february-1-6/ Save to Pocket
A call for compassionate solutions
date: 2024-02-01, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>We are failing our most vulnerable community members by instituting homeless sweeps in downtown Hilo.</p>
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Cheats and scammers still raking in pandemic funds
date: 2024-02-01, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>The federal government ramped up the printing presses during the pandemic, throwing cash around like the proverbial drunken sailor. While much of that aid helped businesses and individuals navigate unprecedented shutdowns, a significant portion of the money went up in smoke.</p>
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Deadly terror attack in Jordan part of a long struggle
date: 2024-02-01, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>It was sure to happen that American troops in the Mideast would be killed by assaults from Iranian terror proxies and now it’s happened, with three U.S. Army soldiers slain and dozens wounded Saturday night in Jordan. Since Iran proxy Hamas attacked Israel from Gaza on Oct. 7, the mullahs’ terror bands in the region have been busy firing at our forces and our allies.</p>
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‘Real estate speculation’ surcharge proposed to benefit public education
date: 2024-02-01, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>A measure that would have Hawaii voters decide on whether residential investment property valued at $3 million or more should be subject to a surcharge in order to increase funding for local public education passed out of the state House Education Committee on Tuesday.</p>
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Biden faces blame for border crisis, swing-state voter poll shows
date: 2024-02-01, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>WASHINGTON — Six in 10 swing-state voters say President Joe Biden bears responsibility for a surge in migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border, a downbeat signal for his reelection prospects as Republicans largely avoid blame on the issue, a Bloomberg News/Morning Consult poll found.</p>
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After Teamsters meeting, Trump says of possible union endorsement, ‘Stranger things have happened’
date: 2024-02-01, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>WASHINGTON — Former President Donald Trump met with leaders of the Teamsters Union in Washington Wednesday as he tried to chip away at President Joe Biden’s organized labor support heading into a likely general election rematch.</p>
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Taylor Swift, Bad Bunny and others may vanish from TikTok as licensing dispute boils over
date: 2024-02-01, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>Universal Music Group, which represents artists including Taylor Swift, Drake, Adele, Bad Bunny and Billie Eilish, says that it will no longer allow its music on TikTok now that a licensing deal between the two parties has expired.</p>
https://www.hawaiitribune-herald.com/2024/02/01/nation-world-news/taylor-swift-bad-bunny-and-others-may-vanish-from-tiktok-as-licensing-dispute-boils-over/ Save to Pocket
Deal on wartime aid and border security stalls in Congress as time runs short to bolster Ukraine
date: 2024-02-01, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>WASHINGTON — With time slipping to bolster Ukraine’s defenses, Senate negotiators struggled Wednesday to finalize a bipartisan deal that would pair policy changes at the U.S. southern border with wartime aid for Kyiv as their carefully negotiated compromise ran into strong resistance from House Republicans and Donald Trump.</p>
https://www.hawaiitribune-herald.com/2024/02/01/nation-world-news/deal-on-wartime-aid-and-border-security-stalls-in-congress-as-time-runs-short-to-bolster-ukraine/ Save to Pocket
Fulton DA Willis, Wade subpoenaed to testify at Feb. 15 hearing
date: 2024-02-01, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis and special prosecutor Nathan Wade have been subpoenaed to testify at a Feb. 15 hearing involving motions to disqualify them from the election interference case, according to a lawsuit filed Tuesday.</p>
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Obituaries for February 1
date: 2024-02-01, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>Adrian “Butch” Takashi Iida, 75, of Hilo died Dec. 28 at home. Born in Hilo, he was a retired manager for the former Sears in Hilo, teacher at Waiakeawaena Elementary School and U.S. Army Reserve veteran. Visitation 10-11 a.m. Saturday, Feb. 10, at Dodo Mortuary Chapel. Memorial service at 11 a.m. Casual attire; no flowers or koden (monetary gifts). Survived by wife, Elsie Iida of Hilo; sons, Justin Iida and Jeremy (Ellen Namnama) Iida of Hilo; brothers, Marvin (Jane) Iida and Timothy (Ellen) Iida of Hilo; sister, Jennifer (Terry) Pickeral of Bellingham, Wash.; sisters-in-law, Soonja Iida of Honolulu and Sally (Mark) Asao of Kapolei, Oahu; brothers-in-law, Donald Matsunaga of Redwood City, Calif., Roy (Cleta) Matsunaga of Honolulu and Charles Matsunaga of San Mateo, Calif.; two grandchildren; nieces and nephews. Arrangements by Dodo Mortuary.</p>
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How Trump could win the presidency even if he loses the popular vote AND the Electoral College
date: 2024-02-01, from: Robert Reich on Substack
Michael Johnson and other House leaders must pledge to certify the election results
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Scientists don thinking caps in wearable tech breakthrough
date: 2024-02-01, updated: 2024-02-01, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Building semiconductors into fabrics often hits a snag, which a new fiber pulling technique seeks to avoid
Smart clothing is a go-to item on the hype-cycle bandwagon, which never seems to arrive. Yet for anyone wanting to play Doom on their knitwear, a glimmer of hope was reported by scientists this week.…
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What did computer engineering students at Cornell make with RP2040 last term?
date: 2024-02-01, from: Raspberry Pi News (.com)
Cornell University’s Computer Engineering class came up with tons of weird RP2040-based projects last term.
The post What did computer engineering students at Cornell make with RP2040 last term? appeared first on Raspberry Pi.
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Coffee Lectures – check out our new programme
date: 2024-02-01, from: ETH Zurich Research Archives
In just 15 minutes: Get useful tools and topics to support you in
your daily research work – at the Coffee Lectures by the ETH Library.
Read
more
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Jason Gibbs | Love on the Horizon: Your Vote Matters!
date: 2024-02-01, from: The Signal
I am thrilled to share some exciting news that hits close to the heart – a celebration of love like no other this upcoming Valentine’s Day. Steeped in romance, this day holds a special place for so many couples, invoking beautiful memories of their own wedding days. It’s a sentiment I understand well, having shared […]
The post Jason Gibbs | Love on the Horizon: Your Vote Matters! appeared first on Santa Clarita Valley Signal.
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Dealing with diverged git branches
date: 2024-02-01, updated: 2024-02-01, from: Julia Evans
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Classifieds – February 1, 2024
date: 2024-02-01, from: The Daily Trojan (USC Student Paper)
The Daily Trojan features Classified advertising in each day’s edition. Here you can read, search, and even print out each day’s edition of the Classifieds.
The post Classifieds – February 1, 2024 appeared first on Daily Trojan.
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How not to write about network security – and yes, I’m speaking from experience
date: 2024-02-01, updated: 2024-02-01, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
At least it’s no longer an afterthought
Systems Approach In 1996, Larry Peterson and I published the first edition of Computer Networks: A Systems Approach in the hope that it would become a widely adopted textbook in networking classes. Our draft manuscripts had been reviewed by a number of professors so we had a decent amount of feedback regarding the content and overall structure of the book.…
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Today in SCV History (Feb. 1)
date: 2024-02-01, from: SCV New (TV Station)
2015 – SCV native and 2007 Valencia grad Shane Vereen’s 11 catches propel New England Patriots to victory in Super Bowl XLIX. [story
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America’s Natural Gas Conundrum
date: 2024-02-01, from: Santa Barbara Indenpent News
The fossil-fuel industry keeps misleading us; only renewables can end its reign.
The post America’s Natural Gas Conundrum appeared first on The Santa Barbara Independent.
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New Year’s Resolutions for Your Home
date: 2024-02-01, from: Santa Barbara Indenpent News
Fix, clean, and declutter your way into a happier New Year.
The post New Year’s Resolutions for Your Home appeared first on The Santa Barbara Independent.
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Independent in mind, heart and voter registration
date: 2024-02-01, from: The Daily Trojan (USC Student Paper)
For the first time, my March 5 primary ballot will reflect who I really am.
The post Independent in mind, heart and voter registration appeared first on Daily Trojan.
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Movie theaters are making a comeback
date: 2024-02-01, from: The Daily Trojan (USC Student Paper)
Despite predictions that movie theaters would die out, they’re still kicking.
The post Movie theaters are making a comeback appeared first on Daily Trojan.
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The rise of pluggnb and my obsession with it
date: 2024-02-01, from: The Daily Trojan (USC Student Paper)
A genre caked with meta-ironic aesthetics brings me genuine, unadulterated joy.
The post The rise of pluggnb and my obsession with it appeared first on Daily Trojan.
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Research, startup funds pass $1 billion
date: 2024-02-01, from: The Daily Trojan (USC Student Paper)
Life science projects took a majority of 2022 research and development funding.
The post Research, startup funds pass $1 billion appeared first on Daily Trojan.
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It’s time to ride the Jaedyn Shaw Wave
date: 2024-02-01, from: The Daily Trojan (USC Student Paper)
The teenage San Diego Wave F.C. superstar has had a rapid trajectory to the pro game.
The post It’s time to ride the Jaedyn Shaw Wave appeared first on Daily Trojan.
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Women’s golf set to play in highly touted tournament
date: 2024-02-01, from: The Daily Trojan (USC Student Paper)
The Trojans will head to Palos Verdes for their first tournament of the spring.
The post Women’s golf set to play in highly touted tournament appeared first on Daily Trojan.
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SCA adjuncts begin voting to unionize
date: 2024-02-01, from: The Daily Trojan (USC Student Paper)
A “YES” vote would require USC to bargain on wages, benefits and job security.
The post SCA adjuncts begin voting to unionize appeared first on Daily Trojan.
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Student Health warns of new flu strain
date: 2024-02-01, from: The Daily Trojan (USC Student Paper)
USC will offer free STI testing for a month starting Feb. 10 for students not under the Student Health Insurance Plan.
The post Student Health warns of new flu strain appeared first on Daily Trojan.
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Women’s basketball bounces into Bay Area
date: 2024-02-01, from: The Daily Trojan (USC Student Paper)
The Trojans aim to climb the Pac-12 standings with wins over Cal and Stanford.
The post Women’s basketball bounces into Bay Area appeared first on Daily Trojan.
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Check out these cute cafes in Koreatown
date: 2024-02-01, from: The Daily Trojan (USC Student Paper)
Visit these six cafes close to USC for a day of socializing, studying and sweet coffee.
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Short service interruption on Thursday, February 1, 2024, 12.00
date: 2024-02-01, from: ETH Zurich Research Archives
On Thursday, February 1, 2024, 12.00 – 13.00, there will be a short
service interruption in the Research Collection. During this time, you
won’t be able to upload new documents or edit existing records. The
login will be deactivated during this time. Reason: maintenance
work
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Brit watchdog thinks Google’s tweaked Privacy Sandbox still isn’t cricket
date: 2024-02-01, updated: 2024-02-01, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Good start, but we want further reassurance, says Competition and Markets Authority
Google so far has lived up to its commitments to make room in its Privacy Sandbox for rivals, though the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority says a number of concerns still have to be addressed before the web giant’s ambitious advertising technology gets its blessing.…
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Boys Soccer Roundup: Santa Barbara Clinches Automatic Playoff Berth With 1-0 Victory Over Dos Pueblos
date: 2024-02-01, from: Santa Barbara Indenpent News
Josue Valencia and Jesus Miranda combined for the lone goal in the match.
The post Boys Soccer Roundup: Santa Barbara Clinches Automatic Playoff Berth With 1-0 Victory Over Dos Pueblos appeared first on The Santa Barbara Independent.
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Qualcomm signals its PC push will coincide with back to school sales and be tied to a Windows launch
date: 2024-02-01, updated: 2024-02-01, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Homebrew Elite X SoC due midyear to move from PCs to IoT and cars
Qualcomm’s attempt to grab a slab of the PC CPU market will commence in earnest in the middle of 2024, the mobile chip shop’s president and CEO Cristiano Amon told investors on Wednesday.…
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January 31, 2024
date: 2024-02-01, from: Heather Cox Richardson blog
Stef W. Kight and Zachary Basu of Axios reported tonight that the border measure, on which a bipartisan group of senators have worked for four months, is “on life support” after former president Trump urged his supporters in the House to block it so he can run on the issue. Senators are still holding out hope they can get it through, blaming “misinformation” about the bill, whose text has not yet been released.
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US Workers Would Take 20% Pay Cut for Better Quality of Life, Survey Finds
date: 2024-02-01, from: VOA News USA
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Meta, Tiktok and Other Social Media CEOs Testify in Heated Senate Hearing on Child Exploitation
date: 2024-02-01, from: VOA News USA
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India’s Revolt Motors Unveils Affordable RV400 BRZ Electric Motorcycle
date: 2024-02-01, from: Ride Apart, Electric Motorcycle News
The RV400 BRZ does away with some of the fancy tech features found in its premium siblings.
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Singtel does the ‘we’re building datacenters to host Nvidia clusters’ thing
date: 2024-02-01, updated: 2024-02-01, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Renames its bit barn business as ‘Nxera’ as it plans three new facilities, some built just for AI
Telcoms giant Singtel announced Thursday a collaboration with Nvidia to deliver purpose-built AI infrastructure across Southeast Asia.…
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Gogoro Charges Into Chile And Colombia Via Copec Partnership
date: 2024-02-01, from: Ride Apart, Electric Motorcycle News
Gogoro will be targeting the lucrative last-mile delivery industry with its battery-swapping tech and Smartscooters.
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Capturing Carpinteria
date: 2024-02-01, from: Santa Barbara Indenpent News
Painter Whitney Brooks Abbott turns her brush toward Carpinteria.
The post Capturing Carpinteria appeared first on The Santa Barbara Independent.
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Lompoc Police Releases Video of Lead-Up to Officer Fatally Shooting Man at Circle K
date: 2024-02-01, from: Santa Barbara Indenpent News
Footage shows the events before an armed man was shot by police in December 2023.
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Indian PM’s advisors suggest AI might lead to ‘mass schizophrenia’
date: 2024-02-01, updated: 2024-02-01, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Reject recent rule-making with plan to adopt transparency and reporting rules used in financial markets to stop binary brainboxes burying humanity
India’s Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister (EACPM) has penned a document warning that current global AI regulations are likely to be ineffective, and recommended regulating the technology with alternative tactics – like those used in financial markets.…
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US Strikes Multiple Drones in Yemen, American Official Says
date: 2024-02-01, from: VOA News USA
WASHINGTON — The United States struck up to 10 unmanned drones in Yemen that were preparing to launch, a U.S. official said late on Wednesday, amid escalating tensions from the war in Gaza spreading through the region.
A U.S. Navy ship also shot down three Iranian drones and a Houthi anti-ship ballistic missile in the Gulf of Aden, the U.S. military’s Central Command said in a statement. There were no injuries or damage reported, it said.
The Iran-aligned Houthi militants, who control the most populous parts of Yemen, have launched a wave of exploding drones and missiles at commercial vessels in the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden in recent weeks, calling it a response to Israel’s military operations in Gaza and a show of solidarity to Palestinians.
The Houthi campaign has disrupted international shipping.
The United States and Britain have launched strikes on Houthi targets in Yemen and returned the militia to a list of “terrorist groups.”
The Houthis, earlier on Wednesday, said their naval forces carried out an operation targeting an “American merchant ship” in the Gulf of Aden hours after firing missiles at U.S. Navy destroyer Gravely.
Houthi attacks on ships in and around the Red Sea have slowed trade between Asia and Europe, raised fears of supply bottlenecks and alarmed major powers concerned that the Gaza war may become a regional conflict.
U.S. President Joe Biden said earlier in January that strikes on Houthi targets would continue even as he acknowledged they may not be halting their attacks.
Israel’s assault on the Hamas-run Gaza Strip followed a surprise attack by Hamas militants on southern Israel on October 7, killing 1,200. The Gaza health ministry says nearly 27,000 people have been killed in the fighting since.
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Man seeks community’s help in finding hit-and-run suspect
date: 2024-02-01, from: Guam Daily Post
A man is asking for the community’s assistance in finding a white truck who hit his vehicle with his six-month-old daughter and three-year-old son inside and fled the scene on Alegeta Street.
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Kataib Hezbollah Should Take US Warning ‘Seriously,’ White House Says
date: 2024-02-01, from: VOA News USA
The White House — National Security Council spokesperson John Kirby warned that Kataib Hezbollah, an Iran-backed group based in Iraq, should take “seriously” the Biden administration’s determination to respond to Sunday’s drone attack by Iran-backed militants that killed three American soldiers on a U.S. base in Jordan.
VOA White House Bureau Chief Patsy Widakuswara spoke with Kirby following Kataib Hezbollah’s Tuesday announcement that it is suspending all military operations against American troops in the region. Kirby also discussed the war in Gaza and other challenges the U.S. is facing around the world.
The following interview has been edited for clarity and brevity.
VOA: Do you attribute Kataib Hezbollah’s announcement to stop attacking U.S. troops in the region to the president firmly signaling that he is ready for a response?
JOHN KIRBY, NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL: It’s hard to know exactly why Kataib Hezbollah put that statement out. They should take seriously the determination of the United States and President [Joe] Biden to do what we have to do to protect our troops, our facilities, our interests in the region. They should take that very seriously.
VOA: You’re not attributing the attack to them. You’re attributing it to their umbrella group, the Islamic Resistance in Iraq?
KIRBY: The Intelligence community’s comfortable with an assessment that it was the umbrella group, Islamic Resistance in Iraq, that was responsible for this attack. And as you know, there’s several groups that are participants under that moniker.
VOA: And combining that answer with your statement that the U.S. response will be multitiered over a period of time, can we assume that what the president intends to do is striking different Iran-backed proxies in the region over time?
KIRBY: I won’t get into the specific actions we’re going to take and what the response looks like. The first thing that you see will not be the last thing that you see.
VOA: You also said that striking these Iran-backed proxies won’t jeopardize any kind of hostage negotiations with Hamas, but don’t these groups have the same ideology?
KIRBY: What I said was, there’s no reason for what we’re doing to protect our troops and our facilities to impact the negotiations that we’re having to try to get another hostage deal in place, and we believe both are important to do. And we’re pressing forward with both.
VOA: Are you saying one goal wouldn’t complicate the other?
KIRBY: I’m saying there’s no reason for there to be an effect on the hostage negotiations that we’re in, by a response to this terrible attack which killed three American soldiers.
VOA: U.S. funding for UNRWA won’t start until there are fundamental changes in the agency. Those fundamental changes could take a while to implement. What is the U.S. prepared to do in the meantime? Stand by and allow war orphans to starve?
KIRBY: Of course not, and we are the world’s leading nation when it comes to getting humanitarian assistance [to] the people of Gaza. And UNRWA does essential work on the ground in Gaza. Make no mistake about it, they’re helping save thousands of lives. They are the prime distributor of aid and assistance inside Gaza, and we recognize that.
We want them to take this seriously. Unacceptable that any employee of UNRWA could be involved in the attacks on October 7, but we’re going to wait and see how the investigation goes. We’re going to wait and see what kind of accountability measures the U.N. and UNRWA, specifically, are willing to put in place. But we’re going to continue to do everything we can to get the security assistance into Gaza. And we certainly want the vast majority of UNRWA employees, who have no connection to Hamas, to be able to continue to do their job.
VOA: But you are admitting that stopping U.S. funding is impacting their work, no?
KIRBY: It’s only affecting the work that we were doing in Jordan. The suspension has nothing to do with Gaza. The money that we have left to spend — that we suspended — has been already pre-earmarked by UNRWA for use in Jordan, not for use in Gaza.
VOA: I’m going to move on to Ukraine funding. It appears that House Republicans are rejecting any kind of border compromise, because they don’t really want to give the president a win in an election year.
KIRBY: I certainly can’t talk about election politics or what may be behind the motivations here. It’s critical that we get this funding for Ukraine, for Israel, for the Indo-Pacific, and certainly for border security.
The president is negotiating in good faith on the Senate side. We believe those discussions are going well, and we hope to get a resolution here relatively soon. Now, what happens in the House is going to be up to Speaker [Mike] Johnson, and Speaker Johnson has not been consistent in what he says he wants to see at the border. So, I would point people to him. He has to speak for the inconsistencies in his messaging. But we are negotiating in good faith. We believe those negotiations are making progress, and that’s what we’re focused on.
VOA: Are you still sticking to that approach? Would you consider sending a new stand-alone bill just for Ukraine?
KIRBY: I don’t want to get ahead of where we are. I mean, we are in the midst of negotiations right now that are not over. So, I wouldn’t want to get into speculating about what hypotheticals might happen as a result.
VOA: Can you confirm reporting that Chinese President Xi Jinping promised President Biden that China will not meddle in U.S. elections?
KIRBY: We gave a full summary of that meeting. The president talked to you all after he met with President Xi. I don’t have any additional context to share. All I can tell you is that we take the soundness of our election system here in the United States very, very seriously. And we’ve been clear publicly, and we’ve been clear privately with interlocutors all around the world that we will do what we have to do to make sure that our elections are free and fair. And they have been, and they will continue to be.
VOA: But just today, Christopher Ray, the FBI director, gave testimony in Congress that Chinese hackers might be targeting U.S. infrastructure, targeting all sorts of things that may disrupt even the election. How do you square that?
KIRBY: I won’t speak to specific threats. All I can tell you is we take them seriously. We do everything we can to preserve critical infrastructure, and in the president’s mind, our election system is critical infrastructure.
VOA: A new report released by the U.N. sanctions monitoring team today says that al-Qaida has established eight new training camps and a new base to stockpile weaponry in Afghanistan. Are you aware, and are you countering?
KIRBY: I think we’re just aware of this report. We haven’t worked our way all the way through it. But I think it’s important to remember that al-Qaida is a vastly diminished organization in Afghanistan and elsewhere. In fact, the real threat from al-Qaida is the way it’s metastasized into other groups elsewhere in the region, like al-Shabab in Somalia.
VOA: Are you downplaying the threat?
KIRBY: Of course not. We’re not downplaying any terrorist threat anywhere in the world. Those three American soldiers that were killed were involved in helping our counter ISIS coalition, which is still active in Iraq and Syria. I don’t think the record bears out that we’ve been light on terrorist networks at all, killing [al-Qaida chief Ayman] al-Zawahiri and other leaders in ISIS in just recent weeks and months. What I’m saying is, this is a report we haven’t worked our way through right now, and the intelligence community, their assessment is that al-Qaida does not pose an immediate threat to U.S. soil.
VOA: Tomorrow, the president will participate in the dignified transfer of the three American soldiers who died in Jordan. How do you think that will impact Americans’ thinking about the conflict in the Middle East?
KIRBY: I hope it underscores Americans’ gratitude for the service, and in many cases, the sacrifice that American men and women in uniform are demonstrating on their behalf, to keep them safe. And that’s certainly the case with these three brave individuals who aren’t going to make it back home alive to their families.
And I hope it’s also a reminder of how diligently President Biden is working to keep the conflict between Israel and Hamas from escalating and widening into a broader regional conflict. We don’t seek a war with Iran. We don’t want to see a broader conflict, and almost everything the president has done since the seventh of October has been designed to prevent that from happening.
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US Congress Debates Response to Deadly Strike That Killed 3 US Soldiers
date: 2024-02-01, from: VOA News USA
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Public Health Analysis Shows Medical Debt Burden Increases in L.A. County to More Than $2.9 billion in 2022
date: 2024-02-01, from: SCV New (TV Station)
The Los Angeles County Department of Public Health has released an update for its report, “Medical Debt in LA County: Baseline Report and Action Plan”,
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Hero’s New Surge S32 Concept Is A Modular E-Scooter Rickshaw Mashup
date: 2024-02-01, from: Ride Apart, Electric Motorcycle News
Ride it as a scooter on weekdays and take the whole family out in the rickshaw on weekends.
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State approves groundwater plan for Santa Clara River Valley East Subbasin
date: 2024-02-01, from: The Signal
News release In a letter dated Jan. 18, the California Department of Water Resources’ Sustainable Groundwater Management Office notified the Santa Clarita Valley Groundwater Sustainability Agency that the groundwater sustainability plan for the Santa Clara River Valley – Santa Clara River Valley East Subbasin has been approved. The approval comes following the state’s detailed […]
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FBI Warns of Chinese Hacker Threats on US Infrastructure
date: 2024-02-01, from: VOA News USA
Chinese government hackers are targeting critical infrastructure inside the U.S., FBI Director Christopher Wray told House lawmakers on Wednesday. The warning comes as the Biden administration credits its outreach to China as key in reducing tension between the countries. White House Bureau Chief Patsy Widakuswara reports; Jeff Seldin and Anita Powell contributed to this report.
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COC awarded $4 million grant as Regional Center of Excellence
date: 2024-02-01, from: The Signal
News release College of the Canyons has been awarded a $4 million grant to join a collaborative for Regional Effectiveness, Action, Transformation and Equity as one of eight Regional Centers of Excellence in California. Awarded through the California Community Colleges Chancellor’s Office, the five-year grant will position the college to play a pivotal role […]
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Canyon Country residents say it’s time to change clock tower
date: 2024-02-01, from: The Signal
A number of residents expressed concern in March, when The Signal first reported a Starbucks expansion into a well-traversed east-side intersection with a longstanding feature some referred to as a landmark — a square turret of a digital clock tower that sits in front of the coffee shop. Then, the city provided those concerned residents with […]
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County Assessor Alerts Homeowners of incoming Tax Savings
date: 2024-02-01, from: SCV New (TV Station)
Assessor Jeff Prang reminds homeowners that property tax savings, in the form of a $7,000 reduction to their home’s taxable value, awaits them until the middle of next month.
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Store owner reports $9K loss in robbery
date: 2024-02-01, from: The Signal
The Santa Clarita Valley Sheriff’s Station is investigating another brazen mid-day strong-arm robbery, which resulted in a reported loss of about $9,000 on Wednesday for the Canyon Country store owner. SCV Sheriff’s Station officials said the initial report the station received came from a witness to the crime who saw the incident at Flow Liquor and […]
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John Podesta to be Top US International Adviser on Climate Change
date: 2024-02-01, from: VOA News USA
WASHINGTON — White House senior adviser John Podesta will add international climate policy to his job responsibilities, replacing special climate envoy John Kerry as the top U.S. official on international climate issues, the White House said Wednesday.
Kerry announced in mid-January that he would step down from the climate job to work on President Joe Biden’s reelection campaign. Podesta will take over Kerry’s responsibilities, though not his title, when he departs, likely this spring, the White House said.
Podesta was a behind-the-scenes veteran on climate in past Democratic administrations. He was brought back to the White House last year to put into place an ambitious U.S. climate program revived with the $375 billion approved in the 2022 climate law. He also led the administration’s climate task force.
Kerry’s job was created by the Biden administration specifically to fight climate change on the global stage. Kerry has been in the position since Biden took office in 2021.
Kerry’s appointment did not require confirmation by the Senate, but a law passed in 2022 requires that special envoys reporting to the secretary of state will have to win Senate approval.
In a step that avoids a potential partisan fight in the Senate, Podesta was not named as climate envoy but rather a senior adviser to the president for international climate policy.
As outlined Wednesday by the White House, Podesta will continue to be involved in overseeing federal spending under the climate law, known as the Inflation Reduction Act, along with domestic climate priorities, adding the international portfolio that Kerry handled. The job will not require Senate confirmation.
White House Chief of Staff Jeff Zients said Kerry “has tirelessly trekked around the world’’ to help confront the climate crisis, most recently at a U.N. climate conference in Dubai late last year.
“There is no one better than John Podesta to make sure” the U.S. continues to “meet the gravity of this moment,” Zients said, calling Podesta “a fierce champion for bold climate action” who has served three Democratic presidents and has Biden’s trust.
The Washington Post first reported Podesta’s appointment.
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Wilk legislation promotes parental involvement in sex ed curriculum
date: 2024-02-01, from: The Signal
News release Sen. Scott Wilk, R-Santa Clarita, has introduced legislation that would promote parental involvement and bring transparency to public schools’ sexual education curriculum, according to a news release from the senator’s office. “Schools are required to teach sexual education, but it is a sensitive subject and parents are often in the dark about […]
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Congress told how Chinese attackers plan to incite ‘societal chaos’ in the US
date: 2024-02-01, updated: 2024-02-01, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
American public is way ahead of them
Chinese attackers are preparing to “wreak havoc” on American infrastructure and “cause societal chaos” in the US, infosec, and law enforcement bosses told a US House committee on Wednesday.…
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This Electric Mountain Bike Is Made Out Of Recycled Nespresso Pods
date: 2024-02-01, from: Ride Apart, Electric Motorcycle News
Swiss bike brand Miloo collaborates with Nespresso for a powerful e-MTB with an eye on environmental sustainability.
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Learn Prototyping
date: 2024-02-01, from: Tilde.news
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Reported kidnapping at West Ranch turns out to be hoax
date: 2024-02-01, from: The Signal
A report of a kidnapping near West Ranch High School on Wednesday afternoon turned out to be a hoax, according to officials with the Santa Clarita Valley Sheriff’s Station and the William S. Hart Union High School District. The initial call of a kidnapping at the school came in at about 4:20 p.m. on Wednesday, […]
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Should We Listen to Our Unhoused Citizens?
date: 2024-02-01, from: Santa Barbara Indenpent News
El Carrillo apartments successfully houses 61 formerly homeless persons because the City Council at the time was listening to the homeless on design and non-jail-like conditions.
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Cloud Software Group effectively snuffs open source XenCenter via a README file
date: 2024-02-01, updated: 2024-02-01, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
It’s an interesting way to get the attention of VMware users feeling bruised by Broadcom
Disgruntled VMware users contemplating the open source cut of XenCenter as an alternative need to think again. In December the Cloud Software Group quietly canned the offering with an update to the project’s README file.…
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Feb. 1: Carousel Wishes, Valentine Kisses Campaign
date: 2024-02-01, from: SCV New (TV Station)
Gather at Marston’s restaurant with Logix Federal Credit union to support the efforts of Carousel Ranch.
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Carpe Diem
date: 2024-02-01, from: Santa Barbara Indenpent News
I am trying to remain open-minded regarding the proposed 642 units at the Macy’s site at La Cumbre Plaza.
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New Scorpion Trail III Adventure Tire Specs And Sizes Revealed
date: 2024-02-01, from: Ride Apart, Electric Motorcycle News
Pirelli’s new ADV rubber promises uncompromising performance both on and off road.
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VA Officials Rebuff Calls to House 4,000 at West LA Campus
date: 2024-02-01, updated: 2024-02-01, from: The LAist
Federal officials say they’re making progress in housing unhoused veterans in the L.A. area, as they push back on calls by a federal judge and advocates to return to housing 4,000 veterans at the agency’s sprawling West L.A. campus.
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@Ayjay blog (date: 2024-02-01, from: Ayjay blog)
Noah Millman: You can’t just hate the present and long for the past, any more than you can make the future better by demanding of some nonexistent authority that they make it so. To make the future, you have to actually learn about the past, its glories and its follies alike, its conflicts and its […]
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Major Storm Systems Are Arriving. How To Detect Signs That A Landslide Or Flood Is Imminent
date: 2024-02-01, updated: 2024-02-01, from: The LAist
Tips for those living in areas prone to coastal erosion like along the coast or on a bluff.
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Chiquita Canyon Landfill Utility Relief Grant Program Extended
date: 2024-02-01, from: SCV New (TV Station)
The Chiquita Canyon Landfill Utility Relief Grant Program will now be extended until March
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Apply before April 1st
2024
date: 2024-02-01, updated: 2024-02-01, from: nlnet feed
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The Cauchy–Dirichlet problem for the fast diffusion equation on bounded domains
date: 2024-02-01, from: ETH Zurich, recently added
Bonforte, Matteo; Figalli, Alessio
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Biohybrid nanointerfaces for neuromodulation
date: 2024-02-01, from: ETH Zurich, recently added
Filippi, Miriam; Balciunaite, Aiste; Katzschmann, Robert K.
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Reactivity of kaolinitic clays calcined in the 650 °C–1050 °C temperature range: Towards a robust assessment of overcalcination
date: 2024-02-01, from: ETH Zurich, recently added
Zunino, Franco; Scrivener, Karen
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Consumers’ perceptions and acceptance of genome editing in agriculture: Insights from the United States of America and Switzerland
date: 2024-02-01, from: ETH Zurich, recently added
Bearth, Angela; Otten, Caitlin Drummond; Cohen, Alex Segrè
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US Marks Anniversary of Myanmar Coup With New Sanctions
date: 2024-01-31, from: VOA News USA
U.S. state department — The United States is imposing further sanctions on Myanmar’s military regime three years after the February 1, 2021, military coup, and designating four individuals and two entities associated with it.
The U.S. State Department said the latest action targets sources of revenue that support the regime’s military activities against civilians and those who provide material and support for arms production in Myanmar, also known as Burma.
On Wednesday, the U.S. Treasury Department announced sanctions against the Shwe Byain Phyu Group of Companies, its owner Thein Win Zaw, and his wife and two adult children. Sanctions were also announced against Myanma Five Star Line, a shipping company.
The two entities are said to maintain a relationship with Myanma Economic Holdings Public Co. Ltd., or MEHL, which is controlled by the now-ruling Burmese military or Tatmadaw. The Tatmadaw has long relied on business activities to finance its own operations.
The Treasury said these two entities have facilitated the military regime’s acquisition of foreign currency and the importation of petroleum and other materials through their ties to MEHL.
Today’s sanctions freeze any U.S. assets of those targeted, and generally bar Americans from dealing with them.
“Today, we have ramped up our economic and political pressure on the military regime, including by restricting U.S. dollar transactions with state-owned enterprises that provide revenue enabling the military to do harm and kill its own civilians,” State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller said during a briefing on Wednesday.
“We’re going to continue to support efforts by the opposition to the regime and to seek a resolution of the conflict that provides for genuine and inclusive multiparty democracy,” he said.
On February 1, 2021, Myanmar’s military forces ousted the democratically elected government, stripping civilian leaders of their power.
The coup triggered massive pro-democracy demonstrations that were initially crushed with a deadly crackdown by the military, but has since evolved into a conflict between the military and armed resistance forces allied with several rural ethnic rebel groups who have been fighting for decades for greater autonomy.
U.S. officials and lawmakers urge the Myanmar military to cease violence against its people, release unjustly detained individuals, permit unhindered humanitarian access, and respect the public’s will for a return to representative democracy.
Speaking in Congress, U.S. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said the conflict has displaced roughly 2.5 million people. He called for the unconditional release of all political prisoners in Myanmar.
Almost 2,000 members of the National League for Democracy, Myanmar’s main pro-democracy party, along with numerous others from across Burmese society and various ethnic groups, are being unjustly detained as political prisoners, according to McConnell.
Despite international pressure to stop assaults in civilian areas, Myanmar’s regime has continued to use its military aircraft to conduct bombings.
On Wednesday, Amnesty International said new evidence suggests Myanmar’s junta is using new tactics to import aviation fuel after sanctions were imposed in response to air strikes that have unlawfully killed and injured civilians.
Shipping data suggests there is an attempt to evade sanctions within the aviation fuel supply chain. Direct sales of fuel have diminished. Instead, intermediaries seem to be assisting in the purchase of fuel for Myanmar, according to a report by the Amnesty International.
Last year — 2023 — was the worst for airstrikes in Myanmar since the coup three years ago, according to Amnesty International.
“The best way to stop the Myanmar military from carrying out lethal airstrikes is to stop all jet fuel imports into the country,” said Montse Ferrer, deputy regional director for research at Amnesty International.
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Wilk Legislation Promotes Transparency, Parental Involvement in Sex Ed Curriculum
date: 2024-01-31, from: SCV New (TV Station)
Sen. Scott Wilk, R-Santa Clarita, introduced legislation that promotes parental involvement and brings transparency to public schools’ sexual education curriculum
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@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-01-31, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)
People who get my blog via nightly email, there are new requirements from Google and Yahoo, and I have no freaking idea wtf they're talking about. If you have an idea, tell me what I have to do. Thanks.
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Elon’s gonzo pay
date: 2024-01-31, from: Robert Reich on Substack
A judge has ruled that Musk’s compensation package is excessive
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Full Belly Files | Considering Our Crazy Candy Culture
date: 2024-01-31, from: Santa Barbara Indenpent News
A look at how we’re enduring Big Candy’s boom times; plus, Shine Muscat candies, my Paso Robles podcast, and stories you may have missed.
The post Full Belly Files | Considering Our Crazy Candy Culture appeared first on The Santa Barbara Independent.
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Spec Showdown: Moto Guzzi Stelvio vs. Suzuki GSX-S1000GX
date: 2024-01-31, from: Ride Apart, Electric Motorcycle News
New for 2024, both ADV-tinged sport touring bikes pack a load of tasty tech. Which machine will reign supreme?
https://www.rideapart.com/news/706890/spec-showdown-stelvio-vs-gsxs1000gx/ Save to Pocket
CSUN’s Black Power Archives Bring Attention to L.A.’s Forgotten Role in History
date: 2024-01-31, from: SCV New (TV Station)
California State University, Northridge historian and archivist Keith Rice, working with Africana studies professor Karin Stanford, has spent the past decade collecting the oral histories of Los Angelenos
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EV shopping beats buying an ICE vehicle, according to buyers
date: 2024-01-31, from: Electrek Feed
Electric vehicle buyers reported the highest satisfaction with the process last year. With 80% of new EV buyers saying they were “highly satisfied” with the process, buying an EV was reportedly much easier than an ICE vehicle.
https://electrek.co/2024/01/31/ev-shopping-beats-buying-ice-vehicle-buyers/ Save to Pocket
Poodle Applies Doughnut Test to Economy
date: 2024-01-31, from: Santa Barbara Indenpent News
Why is Joe Biden blamed for the high cost of doughnuts? Who knows?
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Quick Charge Podcast: January 31, 2024
date: 2024-01-31, from: Electrek Feed
Listen to a recap of the top stories of the day from Electrek. Quick Charge is available now on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, TuneIn and our RSS feed for Overcast and other podcast players.
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The world’s largest EV battery maker will build its own $1.83B offshore wind farm
date: 2024-01-31, from: Electrek Feed
Contemporary Amperex Technology (CATL), the world’s largest EV battery maker, is going to build its own $1.83 billion offshore wind farm.
https://electrek.co/2024/01/31/worlds-largest-ev-battery-maker-offshore-wind-farm/ Save to Pocket
The ‘Forrest Gump’ of Santa Barbara History
date: 2024-01-31, from: Santa Barbara Indenpent News
Joseph Chapman’s story is a pirate’s tale of redemption.
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@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-01-31, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)
A developer's toolkit for OPML support. Node and browser-based JavaScript code that reads and writes OPML.
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Lilbits: Raspberry Pi’s impending IPO, Mudita’s next phones, and Bullitt bites the bullet
date: 2024-01-31, from: Liliputing
The maker of the Raspberry Pi line of single-board computers is getting ready to launch an IPO in London. According to founder and CEO Eben Upton, the move would generate more money not only for the for-profit company that develops and sells Raspberry Pi devices, but also for the non-profit Raspberry Pi Foundation that’s currently […]
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Dems and Repubs agree on something – a law to tackle unauthorized NSFW deepfakes
date: 2024-01-31, updated: 2024-01-31, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
You could say this was tailored for Swift
US Senators have introduced a bipartisan bill that would allow victims portrayed in non-consensual AI-generated pornographic deepfakes to sue the creators for damages. …
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How France’s Film Industry Works
date: 2024-01-31, updated: 2024-01-31, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
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The Marshall Star for January 31, 2024
date: 2024-01-31, from: NASA breaking news
Marshall Commemorates NASA’s Day of Remembrance By Celine Smith Team members across NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center congregated Jan. 25 in the lobby of Building 4221 to observe NASA’s Day of Remembrance. Each January, the agency pauses to honor members of the NASA family who lost their lives while furthering the cause of exploration and […]
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LASD Announces Arrests, Rescues by California Law Enforcement
date: 2024-01-31, from: SCV New (TV Station)
Sheriff Robert G. Luna held a press conference with various agencies detailing their recent efforts with Operation Reclaim and Rebuild.
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Google to optionally ingest your Google Messages history into its “AI”
date: 2024-01-31, from: OS News
Researchers have just unveiled a pre-release, game-changing AI upgrade for Google Messages. But it’s one with a serious privacy risk—it seems that Bard may ask to read and analyze your private message history. So how might this work, how do you maintain your privacy, and when might this begin. ↫ Zak Doffman As long as this “AI” hoovering is an optional ‘feature’, I don’t really have any issues with it – it’s a free world, and if you want to spice up your autocomplete like this, go ahead. The real danger, of course, is that this won’t be optional for long, and eventually Google’s “AI” will just ingest your messages and emails by default, consent or no.
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The New Climate Laws’ Tax Credits for Homeowners Are Crazy Powerful
date: 2024-01-31, from: Heatmap News
The Inflation Reduction Act and the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act — better known as the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law — are together filled with dozens of financial incentives to help regular Americans switch to clean technologies. The IRA, in particular, is the largest investment in confronting climate change the country has ever made. That work is happening, in no small part, on the (literal) home front.
A new study published in the journal Energy Policy authored by researchers from Vanderbilt University, shows that while only about 12% of climate and energy funds in the IRA and 5.7% in the BIL target voluntary household actions, they could leverage 40% of the cumulative emissions reductions under those laws.
That’s a big return on investment, and a rare sign that regular citizens might, after all, have some level of agency in helping solve a problem that can often feel beyond our grasp. The authors note that getting to that level of emissions reduction is perhaps easier said than done — navigating the process of figuring out eligibility for tax credits, determining cost savings, and actually contracting with local professionals to install all that clean tech is a pretty significant undertaking, and all those roadblocks could get in the way of that best case scenario. The authors’ estimate also accounts for all households in the country, whereas it’s much easier (and more appealing) for an owner of a single-family home to make those kinds of changes to their building than, say, a landlord who won’t see any direct benefits from improving a building they’ve rented out.
A lot of pain points, then. But still, in the face of a huge and abstract problem, knowing that individual actions do make a difference is no small thing.
Want to take advantage of some of these incentives? We’ve got you covered on at least a few of those fronts: my colleague Emily has written a guide to decarbonising your home with the IRA, and Robinson has a car buyer’s guide to the 2024 EV tax credit. That 40% emissions reduction goal will take a lot of individual investment; those guides (and more to come!) are good places to start.
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Stolen by Mobsters 54 Years Ago, This 18th-Century Painting Was Just Returned to Its Rightful Owners
date: 2024-01-31, from: Smithsonian Magazine
Authorities presented “The Schoolmistress” to 96-year-old Francis Wood, the original owner’s son, last month
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/mobsters-stole-this-18th-century-painting-54-years-later-its-been-returned-to-its-rightful-owners-180983688/ Save to Pocket
‘I’m sorry for everything…’ Facebook’s Zuck apologizes to families at Senate hearing
date: 2024-01-31, updated: 2024-01-31, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Meta boss told in social media safety probe: ‘Your product is killing people’
Executives from the top social media companies faced contentious, sometimes contemptuous, questioning from the US Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday in a hearing titled: Big Tech and the Online Child Sexual Exploitation Crisis.…
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Why Are Flying Insects ‘Attracted’ to Lights? Scientists May Finally Have an Answer
date: 2024-01-31, from: Smithsonian Magazine
Moths and other insects might turn their backs toward the brightest source of light around—which has historically been the sky—to determine which way is up and which is down, according to a new paper
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Discovery Alert: A ‘Super-Earth’ in the Habitable Zone
date: 2024-01-31, from: NASA breaking news
A newly discovered ‘super-Earth’ dwells in the habitable zone of its parent star – and might have a roughly Earth-sized companion.
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NASA Awards Environmental Restoration, Compliance Contract
date: 2024-01-31, from: NASA breaking news
NASA has selected five companies to provide environmental restoration and compliance services at NASA centers, facilities, and other agency assets. The awardees are: The NASA Environmental Restoration and Compliance Contract is an indefinite- delivery/indefinite-quantity fixed price contract not to exceed $375 million. The performance period begins Wednesday and runs through Jan. 30, 2029. The array […]
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‘We’re Not Going to Take a Victory Lap’: The People on the Front Lines of the LNG Fight
date: 2024-01-31, from: Heatmap News
On paper, the names look like a roster of nursing home residents: Rita and Katrina, Ike and Gustav, Harvey and Laura and Delta.
“I mean, literally, those are all hurricanes since 2005,” James Hiatt, the founder of the environmental justice organization For a Better Bayou, told me. “The storm that hit southwest Louisiana before that was Hurricane Audrey in 1957. So before 2005, we’d gone 50 years without really any storm.”
Now, though, few American communities are more obviously in the crosshairs of climate change than Louisiana’s Cameron Parish. It’s not just the influx of supercharged storms, which have repeatedly wiped out homes and driven those with the means to get out to flee north. The 5,000-or-so remaining residents of the parish, which borders Texas and the Gulf of Mexico in Louisiana’s lower lefthand corner, also share their home with three of the nation’s eight currently operational liquefied natural gas export facilities, according to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and the Energy Information Administration. One more is under construction, according to FERC, with two more waiting to break ground and even more in the pipeline — including Calcasieu Pass 2, or CP2, a would-be $10 billion export facility and the largest yet proposed in the U.S., the fate of which has been cast into limbo by the Biden administration’s pause on new LNG export terminal permits.
It is now the Department of Energy’s job to determine whether new terminals are in the “public interest” once their climate impacts are considered. It’s a directive that has ignited debate around the energy security of U.S. allies in Europe, the complicated accounting of methane leaks, and the jurisdiction of the DOE. What has fallen through the cracks in the national conversation, though, is the direct impact this decision has on communities like Cameron, which have been fighting for such a reconsideration for years.
“In southwest Louisiana, where I live, my air here smells like rotten eggs or chemicals every day,” Roishetta Ozane, the founder of Vessel Project of Louisiana, a local mutual aid and environmental justice organization, told me. A mother of six who started the Vessel Project after losing her home to hurricanes Laura and Delta in 2020, Ozane stressed that “we have above-average poverty rates, above-average cancer rates, and above-average toxins in the air. And all of that is due to the fact that we are surrounded by petrochemical, plastic-burning, and industrial facilities, including LNG facilities.”
Hiatt, a Lake Charles native, told me something similar. “The other night, [a terminal] was flaring like crazy, and people were just like, ‘Well, we gotta put up with that if we live here,’” he told me sadly. “That’s a lack of imagination of what better could be.”
Activists like Ozane and Hiatt — and the United Nations — refer to places like Cameron Parish, Calcasieu Parish directly to its north, and the stretch of the Mississippi River in Louisiana known as “Cancer Alley” as sacrifice zones. “The industry wants people to believe that this is rural land, that nobody lives here, that it is just wetlands and swamp,” Ozane said.
LNG export terminals cool natural gas into its liquid form to prepare it for overseas shipping, an energy-intensive process that releases pollutants that environmental groups claim are underreported. Such pollutants often have known health risks, including sulfur dioxide (linked to wheezing, shortness of breath, and chest tightness), volatile organic compounds (suspected and proven carcinogens that also cause eye, nose, and throat irritation, nausea, and damage to livers, kidneys, and the nervous system), black soot (linked to asthma and heart attacks), and carbon monoxide (which can cause organ and tissue damage). All that, of course, is in addition to methane, the base of natural gas and a potent planet-warming greenhouse gas that has cascading global effects, including hurricane intensification.
The region’s history of slavery has made the land around Cameron Parish cheap and easy to exploit, which is part of the reason for the area’s high concentration of terminals. “A lot of predominantly Black communities and predominantly Black neighborhoods, very low-income white neighborhoods, and fishermen towns are where these facilities are located,” Ozane went on. “It’s easy for them to get land there because those masses of land are owned by only a few people — a small family who can say yes to the money and sell that land to industry.”
Politicians, lobbyists, and interest groups like the American Petroleum Institute — which recently announced an eight-figure media campaign promoting natural gas — like to argue that LNG export terminals create American jobs. Both Ozane and Hiatt were rueful when I asked about the industry helping to lift up locals, though. “If the jobs are so good, and the folks are getting the jobs in these communities that are surrounded by these projects, then why is Louisiana still the poorest state in the nation?” Ozane asked me. “Why is our minimum wage still the lowest? And why do we have the highest unemployment rate?” She went on, “We have all of these billion-dollar industries here: They are not hiring local people.”
Hiatt emphasized that it’s hard to understand how little the community is benefitting unless you see it for yourself. “If you drive through Cameron, it looks like the hurricane happened yesterday in a lot of places,” he said. “All these churches are just skeletons, just the framework of what was once there. There’s no grocery store — there’s nothing. If economic prosperity looks like that, then no thank you.” He paused, then corrected himself: “It’s definitely economically prosperous for the owners of these companies,” which are based out of state in places like Virginia and Houston, he said.
These companies often don’t pay state or local taxes; the abatement for Calcasieu Pass LNG alone is valued at $184 million annually, or more than $36,000 per person in Cameron Parish every year — roughly $2,000 more than the area’s average annual income.
While climate activists have celebrated the Biden administration’s LNG pause, local organizers were more reserved in their praise. “We’re not going to take a victory lap here because there’s so much more to do,” Hiatt said, reminding me that “this fight did not happen overnight. This fight for environmental justice has been going for over 40 years in Louisiana.”
Kaniela Ing, the director of the Green New Deal Network, which promotes public support for climate justice, was similarly measured in his enthusiasm when I asked if the pause would have political upsides for Democrats in November. “A lot of the people Biden relied on to win in 2020 — it’s not clear whether they’re motivated enough to turn out again,” he told me. “Especially in BIPOC, low-income communities, and youth voters.” And while the administration’s LNG pause could be viewed as a direct appeal to such a voting bloc, Ing sees the move more as “a highlight reel played at halftime. What matters is how you play the game and right now, we don’t know the plan for the second half.”
An LNG permitting “pause” means nothing for the export terminals that are already under construction or operating. And once the pause is over, more approvals could come. For now, yes, Cameron has its hard-won reprieve. But the status quo of high cancer rates, respiratory health problems, poverty, and environmental exploitation remain unchanged for those who currently call it home.
“My children have asthma,” Ozane said, “and they’re dealing with this pollution every day.”
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Turkish Assault on Syrian Kurdish Forces Fuels Talk of American Pullout
date: 2024-01-31, from: VOA News USA
Turkish warplanes continue to pound U.S.-backed Kurdish forces in Syria that are fighting Islamic State militants. As Dorian Jones reports from Istanbul, Turkey’s assault is fueling speculation among observers that Washington could be preparing to pull out and cut back its support for Kurdish forces in Syria.
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UGREEN’s NAS devices have 12th-gen Intel chips and M.2 SSD support (crowdfunding begins March 12 for $240 and up)
date: 2024-01-31, from: Liliputing
Earlier this month PC and mobile accessory maker UGREEN announced plans to enter the network-attached storage (NAS) space with an impressive looking line of products that look pretty competitive when it comes to processing power and storage capabilities. Now the company has revealed that a Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign for the UGREEN NASync line of devices will […]
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Polestar 4 goes on sale in Europe and Australia with up to 379 miles WLTP range
date: 2024-01-31, from: Electrek Feed
The Polestar 4 officially hit two key markets Wednesday. Polestar launched its new SUV Coupe in Europe and Australia with up to 379 miles (610 km) WLTP range.
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You Can Now Wear a Recreation of Scotland’s Oldest Tartan
date: 2024-01-31, from: Smithsonian Magazine
Fashion designers have created a fabric inspired by the Glen Affric tartan, which was discovered in a peat bog and dates to between 1500 and 1600
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/you-can-now-wear-a-recreation-of-a-500-year-old-scottish-tartan-180983670/ Save to Pocket
@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2024-01-31, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
Looking for bloggers, developers, reporters, columnists, who focus on new applications of AI. Please post a link here. If you have the URL for a feed, that would be best. Thanks!
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Carrie Fisher and James Earl Jones never met in real life until…
date: 2024-01-31, updated: 2024-01-31, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
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Apple Vision Pro Reviews
date: 2024-01-31, from: Michael Tsai
Nilay Patel (Hacker News): Apple’s settled for building a headset with real-time video passthrough — it is the defining tradeoff of the Vision Pro. It is a VR headset masquerading as an AR headset. And let me tell you: the video passthrough on the Vision Pro is really good. […] The Vision Pro simply doesn’t […]
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Castro Sold Again
date: 2024-01-31, from: Michael Tsai
Castro Team: We are excited to announce Castro has been purchased by Bluck Apps. Castro is a great app with a long history on iOS and many passionate fans, and it will continue to operate in its current form. This is a return to its independent roots. We won’t be making any drastic changes, like […]
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NSA Buying Logs From Data Brokers
date: 2024-01-31, from: Michael Tsai
Charlie Savage (via Hacker News): The National Security Agency buys certain logs related to Americans’ domestic internet activities from commercial data brokers, according to an unclassified letter by the agency.The letter, addressed to a Democratic senator and obtained by The New York Times, offered few details about the nature of the data other than to […]
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Get Ready for the Return of SENSES Block Parties
date: 2024-01-31, from: SCV New (TV Station)
Ever wonder what Main Street in Old Town Newhall would look like if pirates had taken over, or wanted to feel what it’s like to explore the Wild West or Wonderland
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NASA Shares Assignments for its SpaceX Crew-9 Space Station Mission
date: 2024-01-31, from: NASA breaking news
As part of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-9 mission, four crew members are preparing to launch to the International Space Station and conduct a wide-ranging set of operational and research activities for the benefit of all. Launching aboard the Dragon spacecraft, NASA astronauts Commander Zena Cardman, Pilot Nick Hague, and Mission Specialist Stephanie Wilson, and Roscosmos cosmonaut […]
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COC Awarded $125,000 National Science Foundation Grant
date: 2024-01-31, from: SCV New (TV Station)
College of the Canyons has received a $125,000 subaward grant as part of a $3 million Title V grant awarded to CSUN from the U.S. Department of Education.
https://scvnews.com/coc-awarded-125000-national-science-foundation-grant-to-support-mesa-program/ Save to Pocket
VW finally rolls out Plug&Charge on its 2023 ID.4s
date: 2024-01-31, from: Electrek Feed
Volkswagen of America (VW) today announced that its 2023 ID.4 will now include Plug&Charge at Electrify America (EA) charging stations.
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DeepMind’s robot chef cooks up ‘novel’ materials with a side of controversy
date: 2024-01-31, updated: 2024-01-31, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Chemists dispute research claiming millions of recipes for inorganic crystalline compounds
Google DeepMind and UC Berkeley’s research into a robot cooking up new materials predicted by AI algorithms is being called into question by a group of chemists.…
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Remembering Student Volunteer Efforts After the Northridge Earthquake
date: 2024-01-31, from: The Sundail (CSUN student paper)
Thirty years ago, an earthquake desolated the San Fernando Valley. Buildings were destroyed, locals were devastated and California State University, Northridge crumbled. With community efforts, though, the college quickly recuperated and was soon up and running after a month. A monument was later erected by CSUN’s then-President Blenda Wilson, who was hired in 1992, to…
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Big mountain skier Julian Carr shares what he was thinking about before…
date: 2024-01-31, updated: 2024-01-31, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
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The New York Times rolls out new byline pages
date: 2024-01-31, from: Nieman Journalism Lab
With both mistrust in media and AI-generated news on the rise, The New York Times has rolled out new byline pages that emphasize the ethical guidelines and real-life humans behind its reporting. We’ve covered the expanded bylines and datelines that’ve previously come from the news org’s cross-functional trust team. Now, the Times has rolled out hundreds…
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White House Touts China Outreach Success
date: 2024-01-31, from: VOA News USA
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Cygnus Flies to the International Space Station
date: 2024-01-31, from: NASA breaking news
In this image from Jan. 30, 2024, an uncrewed Cygnus cargo spacecraft launches atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, starting its journey to the International Space Station. Launching from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, Cygnus carries 8,200 pounds of science investigations and cargo to support dozens of research experiments. This is Northrop Grumman’s 20th […]
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Parlamentarisches Fragerecht nicht beschneiden!
date: 2024-01-31, updated: 2024-01-31, from: Chaos Computer Club Updates
Der Chaos Computer Club wendet sich gegen eine Einschränkung des Fragerechts für parlamentarische Gruppen.
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FBI confirms it issued remote kill command to blow out Volt Typhoon’s botnet
date: 2024-01-31, updated: 2024-01-31, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Remotely disinfects Cisco and Netgear routers to block Chinese critters
China’s Volt Typhoon attackers used “hundreds” of outdated Cisco and NetGear routers infected with malware in an attempt to break into US critical infrastructure facilities, according to the Justice Department.…
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“The Curious Case of the Contested Basquiats”
date: 2024-01-31, updated: 2024-01-31, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
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Ransomware payment rates drop to new low – only 29% of victims are forking over cash
date: 2024-01-31, updated: 2024-01-31, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
It’s almost like years of false assurances have made people realize payments are pointless
Trusting a ransomware crew to honor a deal isn’t the greatest idea, and the world seems to be waking up to that. The number of victims who chose to pay dropped to a new low of 29 percent in the last quarter of 2023.…
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Zelenskyy Proposes Change to Allow Dual Citizenship for Ukrainians
date: 2024-01-31, from: VOA News USA
Over 6 million Ukrainians have fled fighting in their homeland since Russia launched its full-scale invasion in 2022. Even as the war continues, Ukrainian officials are laying the groundwork to get those citizens back in Ukraine when the war ends. Mariia Ulianovska has the story. VOA footage by Kostiantyn Golubchik.
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NASA Sets Coverage for Ocean, Atmosphere, Climate Mission
date: 2024-01-31, from: NASA breaking news
Editor’s note: This advisory was updated on Jan. 31, 2024, to update participant names in the science briefing. NASA will provide coverage of the upcoming prelaunch and launch activities for its upcoming mission to study how our oceans and atmosphere interact in a changing climate. Launch of the PACE (Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem) mission […]
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Get Ready for the Return of SENSES Block Parties!
date: 2024-01-31, from: City of Santa Clarita
GET READY FOR THE RETURN OF SENSES BLOCK PARTIES! Monthly Themed Events Transform Main Street in Old Town Newhall Do you ever wonder what Main Street in Old Town Newhall would look like if pirates had taken over? Have you ever wanted to feel what it’s like to explore the Wild West or Wonderland? You […]
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EcoFlow flash sale takes up to $1,799 off power stations, Level 2 EV charger at $479, more
date: 2024-01-31, from: Electrek Feed
Headlining today’s deals is the 24-hour flash sale by EcoFlow on two specific bundle packages that save you up to $1,799 on power stations, solar panels, a dual fuel generator, and a transfer switch – all while ensuring your disaster preparedness. It is joined by the Autel MaxiCharger Level 2 Home EV Charger at $479, as well as the Greenworks 80V Cordless Electric Axial Leaf Blower at $297. Plus, all of today’s other best new Green Deals.
Head below for other New Green Deals we’ve found today and, of course, Electrek’s best EV buying and leasing deals. Also, check out the new Electrek Tesla Shop for the best deals on Tesla accessories.
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Volkswagen’s new electric Golf is in the works – What that means for the ID.3
date: 2024-01-31, from: Electrek Feed
Development of Volkswagen’s new fully electric Golf is underway, but what does that mean for the ID.3? VW’s chief tech officer, Kai Grunitz, says there could be some overlap between the two EVs.
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Fat Tire Suzuki Van Van Is The Diminutive Dual Sport It Was Meant To Be
date: 2024-01-31, from: Ride Apart, Electric Motorcycle News
Chunky, funky, aggressive perfection.
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Biologists Discover Four New Octopus Species in the Deep Ocean Off Costa Rica
date: 2024-01-31, from: Smithsonian Magazine
One species was found brooding eggs near low-temperature hydrothermal vents, a rare sight that could unlock new information on deep-sea cephalopods
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A short history of the origin of Comic Sans. Interestingly, the font…
date: 2024-01-31, updated: 2024-01-31, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
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BYD inks preliminary land purchase in Hungary for plant that will build EVs for Europe
date: 2024-01-31, from: Electrek Feed
Two months after announcing it had selected Hungary as the desired location of its first passenger EV production facility in Europe, Build Your Dreams (BYD) has completed a preliminary sales agreement for the Hungarian land those facilities should eventually sit atop. It should come as no surprise at this point that BYD is looking to get European EV production up and running quickly and is now moving one step closer.
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Japanese space lasers aim to clean up orbital junk
date: 2024-01-31, updated: 2024-01-31, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Zap it and trap it like a cosmic Marie Kondo, but will everyone approve?
A Japanese biz wants to remove debris from Earth orbit by using a satellite-mounted laser to decelerate an object such as a defunct satellite so it gradually descends towards the atmosphere and burns up.…
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N. Scott Momaday Built the Foundations of Native American Literature
date: 2024-01-31, from: Smithsonian Magazine
Smithsonian scholars offer their reflections on the author, who died last week at age 89, and his impact on a new generation of Native writers
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Baltimore just deployed a big electric school bus fleet
date: 2024-01-31, from: Electrek Feed
Baltimore City Public Schools just debuted 25 electric school buses – Maryland’s second-largest electric school bus fleet, behind Montgomery County Public Schools.
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US Targets Iranian, Hezbollah Financial Network With Sanctions
date: 2024-01-31, from: VOA News USA
WASHINGTON — The United States imposed sanctions on three entities and one individual based in Turkey and Lebanon on Wednesday for giving “critical financial support” to a financial network used by Iran’s Quds Force, or IRGC-QF, and Lebanon’s Hezbollah.
“These entities have generated hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of revenue from selling Iranian commodities, including to the Syrian government,” the U.S. Treasury Department said in a statement.
“These commodity sales provide a key source of funding for the IRGC-QF and Hezbollah’s continued terrorist activities and support to other terrorist organizations throughout the region,” it added.
The Treasury Department said it had imposed sanctions on Turkey-based Mira Ihracat Ithalat Petrol, which purchases, transports, and sells Iranian commodities on the global market, and its chief executive and owner Ibrahim Talal al-Uwayr, who is also known under the alias Ibrahim Agaoglu.
It also targeted two Lebanon-based entities, Yara Offshore SAL, a company affiliated with Hezbollah that has facilitated large sales of Iranian commodities to Syria, and Hydro Company for Drilling Equipment Rental, which is involved in financing the IRGC-QF by facilitating the shipment of Iranian commodities worth hundreds of millions of dollars to Syria.
As a result of the sanctions, all property of those targeted in the United States or that fall under the control of U.S. persons is blocked.
U.S. regulations generally bar U.S. persons from dealing with property of designated or otherwise blocked persons.
Further, non-U.S. financial institutions and others that engage in certain dealings with those sanctioned may expose themselves to sanctions or be subject to an enforcement action.
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Remote Washington State Town Becomes Hub for EV Battery Production
date: 2024-01-31, from: VOA News USA
Moses Lake, Washington — It’s mid-winter in east Washington state, yet despite the chilly fog, two construction sites in the town of Moses Lake are brimming with activity. Several hundred workers are on an ambitious timeline to complete two new factories slanted to begin production of the next-generation components for electric vehicle batteries later this year.
Two American start-ups, backed by $100 million in federal grants each, in addition to commercial partnerships, are racing to secure the domestic supply chain with the next-generation battery materials for EV automakers.
“That’s going to go into everything from electric vehicles to IoT [Internet of Things] devices to smartphones and wearables and a lot of battery-based applications that we don’t even know exist yet,” explains Nik Anderson, director of program management with Group 14 Technologies, as he walks through the company’s vast construction site.
Washington is one of the American states planning to ban sales of new gasoline-powered vehicles starting in 2035.
For now, electric cars account for 8.6% of new vehicle sales in the United States. Affordable electric vehicles would require a significant scaling of domestic battery production, experts say. According to the Biden administration, affordable electric vehicles and reliable supply chain would require a significant scaling of domestic battery production and the national charging infrastructure.
Once fully operational, the two companies’ factories in Moses Lake will be able to annually produce enough material to make batteries for about 400,000 electric vehicles.
They also promise to produce a better battery, reducing the ‘charge anxiety’ of electric cars by replacing the graphite in conventional lithium-ion batteries with silicon-based components, which will allow for a faster charge.
“The thing that makes our battery better, that uses our SCC55 [silicon-carbon composite] versus traditional graphite, is that it can have up to 50% more energy density, it can allow for extremely fast charging,” said Grant Ray, vice president for global market strategy with Group 14.
“When we think about charge times, you know, right now we’re hearing 10% to 80% in ten minutes. Well, what if that changes and it comes down to five minutes? What if it starts to get closer to what it really is for, you know, the way we think about refueling a car?” he said.
One of the challenges for U.S. EV production with traditional lithium-ion batteries is the need to rely on imports. Daniel Schwartz, director of the Clean Energy Institute at the University of Washington, says the silicon-based component provides solutions for several challenges.
“The primary mineral for what’s going in Moses Lake is sand, silica — the most widely distributed mineral in the crust of the earth. Graphite is lower performance, and we are trade-exposed as a nation,” he said.
The Biden administration invested in domestic EV battery production as part of its ambitious clean energy agenda. Among the Republican presidential candidates, most reject the urgency surrounding EV adoption, with former President Donald Trump calling it an “all-electric car hoax.”
Last September, speaking in front of hundreds of people attending a rally in Clinton Township, Michigan, Trump called prioritizing EVs a “transition to hell,” telling auto workers that Democrats “want to go all electric and put you all out of business.”
Gene Berdichevsky, CEO of Sila Nanotechnologies, the second startup planning to start EV battery components production in Moses Lake, says the transition to electric vehicles is going to happen regardless of whether the U.S. is taking the lead in the process.
“Renewables and batteries are really going to form the basis of 21st-century energy,” he said. “It’s critical for the U.S. to build the capacity to be able to have battery production. Catching up to the world leaders in Asia is quite challenging. And so, the way to do that is not to build the same thing, it’s to build the next generation of battery technologies.”
In Moses Lake, a town of about 25,000 an hour and-a-half drive from the nearest city, all-electric cars are not a common sight. Berdichevsky is convinced that EV adoption in the area is just a matter of time.
“We have to recognize that consumers want choice, and some consumers are going to want electric cars with 500 miles (range),” he says. “What we need to do is increase the choices for folks, and the way you do that is through better batteries.”
Rosendo Alvarado, a Moses Lake native who took a job as a plant manager for Sila Nanotechnologies, says the remote town became an attractive spot for EV production thanks to the combination of several factors: cheap hydro power provided by local dams; existing manufacturing infrastructure and legacy companies, such as REC Silicon that could become a partner in the EV batteries production; and Washington state policies embracing clean energy initiatives.
The cutting-edge industry promises to bring hundreds of new jobs to Moses Lake. Alvarado says he saw the town transforming over time from traditional farming to an industrial community — and expects further change.
“We worked in the fields that this building is sitting on today,” he recalls. “It’s been fast paced, but super exciting — the opportunities that we are able to bring here for the community and for the EV market.”
He says the companies partnered with the local Columbia Basin Technical School and Big Bend Community College to start developing a new workforce as early as during high school classes.
“It’s a small, tight community. Kind of like everyone knows everyone type thing,” shrugs Nicholas Cruz, a young man out of school walking with his friend down the main street of Moses Lake, when asked about the EV projects coming to town.
“It’s gonna be exciting in the sense, like, there’s more job opportunities and new opportunities to go here because Moses Lake is small, there’s not much to it. I am not sure if it will impact me personally — I guess time will tell,” he said.
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Adobe has ‘no plans’ to invest in XD despite failed Figma buy
date: 2024-01-31, updated: 2024-01-31, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Oh the bitter irony – now Figma can enjoy a monopoly in UX niche, say devs
Adobe has confirmed it will no longer push the envelope for XD, the vector design tool used by developers for web and mobile apps.…
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BMW Brings 5 Series Plug-In Hybrid To U.S., i5 Gets Another Trim
date: 2024-01-31, from: Inside EVs News
The new variants make for a comprehensive 5 Series line-up for the U.S., offering customers gas, PHEV, and BEV options.
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@Miguel de Icaza Mastondon feed (date: 2024-01-31, from: Miguel de Icaza Mastondon feed)
I am due for an oil change.
For optimal performance, the manufacturer recommends changing the oil in your Xcode every 5,000 builds or every three months - whichever comes first.
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This $7 Raspberry Pi 5 HAT supports M.2 2280 (and 22110) drives
date: 2024-01-31, from: Liliputing
The Raspberry Pi 5 is the first member of the Raspberry Pi family to support PCIe NVMe SSDs. But since it doesn’t have a built-in M.2 connector, you need to rely on a HAT (Hardware Attached on Top) add-on to actually connect an SSD. Over the past few months a bunch of companies have begun […]
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The oldest I’ve ever felt is just now when I learned that…
date: 2024-01-31, updated: 2024-01-31, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
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Man shot and killed in Reno’s largest casino
date: 2024-01-31, from: San Jose Mercury News
The shooting was reported around 6:15 a.m. Tuesday in a guestroom at the Grand Sierra Resort.
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Nearly 4-year-old Cisco vuln linked to recent Akira ransomware attacks
date: 2024-01-31, updated: 2024-01-31, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Evidence mounts of an exploit gatekept within Russia’s borders
Security researchers believe the Akira ransomware group could be exploiting a nearly four-year-old Cisco vulnerability and using it as an entry point into organizations’ systems.…
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Genesis EV sales are soaring, nearly quadrupling in the US last year
date: 2024-01-31, from: Electrek Feed
Hyundai’s luxury brand, Genesis, sold more EVs in the US last year than Lexus and Lucid. Genesis’ EV sales nearly quadrupled in the US in 2023 as the luxury brand expands its presence.
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The Taylor Swift Deepfakes Disaster Threatens to Change the Internet As We Know It
date: 2024-01-31, from: 404 Media Group
Deepfakes and AI-generated nonconsensual sexual imagery have been a problem for a long time. But with the resurgence of attention on them, we’re facing a reckoning.
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Intuitive Machines IM-1 Mission
date: 2024-01-31, from: NASA breaking news
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They’re back: Dead & Company confirm return to concert stage in Vegas residency
date: 2024-01-31, from: San Jose Mercury News
The popular Grateful Dead offshoot, featuring John Mayer, Bob Weir and others, follow U2 and Phish into the Sphere in Las Vegas.
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The Diaper Spa
date: 2024-01-31, updated: 2024-01-31, from: One Foot Tsunami
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Packages in MariaDB default mode
date: 2024-01-31, from: Ocelot SQL GUI blog
MariaDB 11.4 has a new feature: CREATE PACKAGE with routine syntax for the default mode as opposed to sql_mode=’Oracle’. It’s a well-written and long-desired feature but, since it’s alpha, a few things might still need change. I’ll say how it works, with details that aren’t in the manual and probably never will be. The point… Continue Reading Packages in MariaDB default mode
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Pac-12 WBB power ratings: Stanford on top (for the first time) as Oregon State, Arizona State climb
date: 2024-01-31, from: San Jose Mercury News
The Cardinal overtook Colorado after a desert sweep.
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VTA scuttles seizure of San Jose tower site — delay may hurt project
date: 2024-01-31, from: San Jose Mercury News
A transit agency has scuttled plans to seize a prime site near a future downtown San Jose BART station where housing is being eyed.
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2024 KTM RC 390 Arrives With Two New Paint Schemes Available
date: 2024-01-31, from: Ride Apart, Electric Motorcycle News
Helping you look good on the street and the track.
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We know nations are going after critical systems, but what happens when crims join in?
date: 2024-01-31, updated: 2024-01-31, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
This isn’t going to end well
Volt Typhoon, the Chinese government-backed cyberspies whose infrastructure was at least partially disrupted by Uncle Sam, has been homing in on other US energy, satellite and telecommunications systems, according to Robert Lee, CEO of security shop Dragos.…
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Orion and the Dark
date: 2024-01-31, updated: 2024-01-31, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
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Revoy EV promises to electrify diesel semis in minutes
date: 2024-01-31, from: Electrek Feed
By packing batteries and an electric drive axle into a tandem trailer that fits between a conventional semi truck and trailer, Revoy EV promises to “electrify” trucking and cut a fleet’s fuel bill in half. It sounds amazing – but eleven tons of questions remain.
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BYD points to strong partnership with Tesla, wants to fight ICE together
date: 2024-01-31, from: Electrek Feed
BYD had some nice words for Tesla, which it now sees as a strong partner in the fight to take the auto industry away from combustion engine vehicles.
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Watch: Woman clings to car’s hood after French bulldog theft in Los Angeles
date: 2024-01-31, from: San Jose Mercury News
In the moments after the crime, video captured the dog’s owner clinging to the hood of the thieves’ car as it sped from the scene.
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@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2024-01-31, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
The Knicks are great now. They’re exactly the Knicks we wanted, home-grown, smart, winners. Haven’t felt this good about the team since Linsanity. “Next man up.”
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Knicks taking fun to new level — and it's time to revel in it.
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49ers party glory: How to throw a perfect Super Bowl party on Feb. 11
date: 2024-01-31, from: San Jose Mercury News
The Super Bowl is nearly upon us, but it’s not too late to gather friends and family for a watch party. Sonya Keister shares tips on how to throw the perfect Super Bowl Party – one where the hosts get to relax and enjoy the game too.
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3 great cocktail recipes for your Super Bowl LVIII party (plus mocktail options)
date: 2024-01-31, from: San Jose Mercury News
These bold and tasty beverages will hold their own against your seven-layer dip and barbecue.
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2024 SF Beer Week is bringing back its opening night gala
date: 2024-01-31, from: San Jose Mercury News
The opening night gala at SF Beer Week is returning in 2024, with nearly 100 Bay Area breweries slated to pour their brews at the Feb. 9 event. And that’s just the start of this year’s jam-packed Beer Week lineup.
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Two men shot in Oakland; attacks believed to be unrelated
date: 2024-01-31, from: San Jose Mercury News
Two East Oakland shootings of men in vehicles Tuesday do not appear to be related.
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Super Bowl recipe: Corned beef sandwiches + secret sauce
date: 2024-01-31, from: San Jose Mercury News
Bored with sliders on Game Day? How about a corned beef sandwich instead?
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This guide to Gen Z & Gen Alpha slang from Parents magazine…
date: 2024-01-31, updated: 2024-01-31, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
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NASA Puts Next-Gen Exoplanet-Imaging Technology to the Test
date: 2024-01-31, from: NASA breaking news
A cutting-edge tool to view planets outside our solar system has passed two key tests ahead of its launch as part of the agency’s Roman Space Telescope by 2027. The Coronagraph Instrument on NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will demonstrate new technologies that could vastly increase the number of planets outside our solar system […]
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ASCII Theater
date: 2024-01-31, from: Tilde.news
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US Bracing for ‘Cyber Onslaught’ From China
date: 2024-01-31, from: VOA News USA
Washington — Armies of hackers linked to the Chinese government are relentlessly “burrowing deep” into the computer systems that help run America’s critical infrastructure, posing an urgent threat that cannot be ignored, according to a new warning from top U.S. security officials.
The officials, from the FBI, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, and U.S. military’s Cyber Command, testified Wednesday before lawmakers, urging the country to act before it is too late.
“The risk that poses to every American requires our attention — now,” FBI Director Christopher Wray told the Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party, emphasizing Beijing’s actions are putting innocent civilians in the crosshairs.
“They’re not focused just on political and military targets,” Wray said. “China’s hackers are positioning on American infrastructure in preparation to wreak havoc and cause real-world harm to American citizens and communities, if or when China decides the time has come to strike.”
The director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, Jen Easterly, was equally blunt in her assessment of the wide-ranging threat from the government in Beijing.
“This is truly an everything, everywhere, all at once scenario,” she said. “Telecommunications going down so people can’t use their cellphone, people start getting sick from polluted water, trains get derailed, air traffic control systems are malfunctioning.”
China’s goal, Easterly added, would be to “incite societal panic and chaos, and to deter our ability to marshal military might,” especially in case of a conflict over Taiwan.
China rejected the accusations, blaming Washington for fomenting a dangerous and unstable cyber environment.
“The Chinese government has been categorical in opposing hacking attacks and the abuse of information technology,” said Liu Pengyu, spokesperson for the Chinese Embassy in Washington.
“The United States has the strongest cyber technologies of all countries, but has used such technologies in hacking, eavesdropping more than others,” Liu told VOA in an email. “We urge the U.S. side to stop making irresponsible criticism against other countries on the issue of cyber-security.”
But to underscore the threat, the U.S. Justice Department Wednesday announced it had taken steps to disrupt a Chinese-linked cyber threat actor from hijacking common computer routers used by homes and small businesses across the United States to access critical infrastructure.
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U.S. officials blamed the scheme on a group known as Volt Typhoon, which gained international attention in May 2023 when tech giant Microsoft uncovered an effort by the same hackers to infiltrate and disrupt communications infrastructure in Guam, home to key U.S. military facilities.
The recently disrupted scheme, officials said, was equally worrisome.
“The Volt Typhoon malware enabled China to hide, among other things, preoperational reconnaissance and network exploitation against critical infrastructure,” Wray warned. “Steps China was taking, in other words, to find and prepare to destroy or degrade the civilian critical infrastructure that keeps us safe and prosperous.”
During Wednesday’s hearing in Washington, other top officials told lawmakers the threat is already widespread, with China-linked hackers having found their way into computer systems helping to run the energy, water, transportation and aviation sectors.
“We’ve made it easy on them,” said CISA’s Easterly. “The truth is the Chinese cyber actors have taken advantage of very basic flaws in our technology.”
Easterly said that the U.S. must do more to adopt what she has called a “secure by design” approach, to make sure both hardware and software developers are conducting more rigorous testing to eliminate vulnerabilities before their products go on the market.
Lawmakers shared in the alarm.
“This is the cyberspace equivalent of placing bombs on American bridges, water treatment facilities and power plants,” said Committee Chairman Mike Gallagher, a Republican.
“There is no economic benefit for these actions. There’s no pure intelligence gathering rationale. The sole purpose is to be ready to destroy American infrastructure,” he added.
Despite the multiple concerns, the outgoing commander of U.S. Cyber Command told lawmakers the threat from Chinese hackers has not gone unanswered.
“We are ready and postured to contest [the People’s Republic of China’s] malicious activities at home and abroad,” said General Paul Nakasone of U.S. Cyber Command.
Nakasone said that was especially true of the upcoming U.S. presidential elections.
“I’m very confident in terms of what we will be able to deliver: a safe and secure election,” he said.
“Americans can be confident in our election system and our democracy,” the FBI’s Wray added, though he cautioned the threats from China — and others — are growing.
“I am also mindful of the fact that our adversaries are getting more sophisticated and that there are more and more foreign adversaries who want to get in on this game,” he said.
Wray also voiced doubts about reports that Chinese government officials have promised the U.S. they will not interfere in the election.
“Well, China’s promised a lot of things over the years, so I guess I’ll believe it when I see it,” he said.
One avenue for election interference of particular concern to lawmakers is the social media network TikTok.
“If the CCP were to want to change TikTok feeds to bias one candidate or another in the upcoming presidential election, would they be able to do so?” asked Democratic Representative Seth Moulton.
Wray replied, “My understanding is that under Chinese law that would be something they are permitted to do.”
When pressed on whether the U.S. should ban TikTok, Wray said such a decision is “outside my lane.”
But he added, “As long as the Chinese government has the ability to control all these aspects of the business, I don’t see how you get your way clear to mitigating those concerns.”
Wednesday’s warnings build on a steady drumbeat of alerts from the U.S. government on the threat China poses in cyberspace.
Earlier this month, the FBI along with the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, or CISA, and the Environmental Protection Agency, or RPA, cautioned cyberattacks were posing “a real and urgent risk to safe drinking water.”
CISA has also warned about threats from Chinese-manufactured drones, warning they could access or steal sensitive information that could put the U.S. security and health and safety at risk.
In September, Nakasone said he expected China to leverage artificial intelligence, also known as AI, to impact the upcoming U.S. presidential elections.
“Russia, China, others are going to try to use this technology,” Nakasone told an audience in Washington.
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Microsoft seeks Rust developers to rewrite core C# code
date: 2024-01-31, updated: 2024-01-31, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Embrace, extend, and … port?
Microsoft’s adoption of Rust continues apace if a posting on the IT titan’s careers website is anything to go by.…
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IndieWeb Carnival: Digital Relationships
date: 2024-01-31, from: Manu - I write blog
January is about to end. That means that January’s IndieWeb Carnival, hosted by foreverliketh.is, is also about to end. If you want to submit your entry on the topic of Positive Internalization you should hurry up.
As mentioned previously on this blog I’m going to host the next month and the topic for the month of February is going to be “Digital relationships”. The meaning of the topic is intentionally vague but I can think of at least three ways to interpret it.
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The first is probably the most obvious: relationships between us human beings that are lived primarily—or entirely—on the digital world.
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The second is the relationship between us and the digital world itself.
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The third is the growing trend of people having relationships with digital creations such as AI fiends, boyfriends and girlfriends.
Those are three ways you can interpret the topic but don’t feel limited to just those three. Go nuts and be creative. This site doesn’t have pingbacks or webmentions so if you plan to participate send me a link to your entry via email. I’m going to accept everything that’s sent to me before March 1st and I plan to write at least one roundup post with your links. Look forward to read your entries and don’t forget to spread the word about the IndieWeb Carnival and if you want to get involved you can still become a host yourself. Just claim your spot here indieweb.org/indieweb-carnival
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AYANEO Next Lite budget handheld gaming PC now available for $299*
date: 2024-01-31, from: Liliputing
The AYANEO Next Lite is the cheapest handheld gaming PC with an x86 processor from AYANEO to date… and one of the least powerful. It has the same processor options as the company’s 2021 handhelds rather than the newer chips that power most modern handheld PCs designed for gaming. But AYANEO is banking that the $299 […]
The post AYANEO Next Lite budget handheld gaming PC now available for $299* appeared first on Liliputing.
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Excited to see where Iconfactory’s Project Tapestry goes. “Weaving your favorite blogs,…
date: 2024-01-31, updated: 2024-01-31, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
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Ford Will Offer Free Adapters For Tesla’s Supercharging Network This Spring
date: 2024-01-31, from: Inside EVs News
CEO Jim Farley says that eligible Mustang Mach-E and F-150 Lightning owners in the U.S. and Canada can reserve the OEM adapter soon.
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This EV startup, once valued at $13b, is on the verge of total collapse
date: 2024-01-31, from: Electrek Feed
Once an EV darling thought to revolutionize EV production with its concept of micro-factories that crank out delivery vans for the likes of Uber and UPS, UK startup Arrival is in a desperate search for funding after being delisted from Nasdaq this week.
https://electrek.co/2024/01/31/this-ev-startup-once-valued-at-13b-is-on-the-verge-of-total-collapse/ Save to Pocket
How to meet readers where they are (when where they are is offline)
date: 2024-01-31, from: Nieman Journalism Lab
Last November, Estella, a woman in The Bronx, didn’t have any heat in her apartment. Winter had just begun and she was cold, but she didn’t know what to do about it. Then she got a postcard from The City, a local nonprofit newsroom covering New York City’s five boroughs. The card told her she…
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Using Deno Subhosting vs. AWS Lambda to Run Untrusted User Code
date: 2024-01-31, updated: 2024-01-31, from: Deno blog
Which technology is best for building a deployment platform for running third party code? Let’s dive into the key differences in feature set, billing model, and performance.
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Name that Ware, January 2024
date: 2024-01-31, from: Bunnie’s Studio Blog
The Ware for January 2024 is shown below. I picked up this little gizmo at a junk shop in Akihabara. I actually have no idea what the original purpose was, so I’m curious to see if anyone can convince me as to what this thing did, presumably for many years and millions of times. I […]
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Winner, Name that Ware December 2023
date: 2024-01-31, from: Bunnie’s Studio Blog
The Ware from December 2023 is a 20-watt laser diode used for engraving. It’s used in products like the ATOMSTACK Laser Engraver (link without affiliate code), and the module itself is produced by Shenzhen Xinghan Laser Technology Co, Ltd.. I don’t have an exact part number for it, but it is a blue-wavelength (so presumably […]
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Europe’s sightseeing buses are graduating from vegetable oil fuel to electric and solar power
date: 2024-01-31, from: Electrek Feed
Tootbus, a prominent sightseeing bus company around Europe, has partnered with electric fleet specialist VEV to deliver more sustainable mobility across its entire operations. Tootbus is currently operating buses that run on hydrotreated vegetable oil but is adopting BEV and solar technology with VEV’s help.
https://electrek.co/2024/01/31/europe-sightseeing-bus-vegetable-oil-fuel-electric-solar-power/ Save to Pocket
Ivanti releases patches for VPN zero-days, discloses two more high-severity vulns
date: 2024-01-31, updated: 2024-01-31, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Many versions still without fixes while sophisticated attackers bypass mitigations
Ivanti has finally released the first round of patches for vulnerability-stricken Connect Secure and Policy Secure gateways, but in doing so has also found two additional zero-days, one of which is under active exploitation.…
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My 4 magic moments with Vision Pro
date: 2024-01-31, from: Om Malik blog
No, not again! Not another Vision Pro Review! I feel you — after all the reviews yesterday, I am pretty sure you don’t want to read another review. Here’s the good news — it’s not a review. Instead, I will share my quick impressions from a deep dive at Apple Park, and my four magic …
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Man Who Sued ‘Are We Dating the Same Guy?’ Groups Files Class Action Lawsuit
date: 2024-01-31, from: 404 Media Group
Nikko D’Ambrosio of Illinois had his first case dismissed, and refiled as a class action that seeks other guys who feel harmed by “red flags or tea?” dating groups.
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Kia surprisingly tops Hyundai in market value with affordable EVs rolling out
date: 2024-01-31, from: Electrek Feed
For the first time since 2001, Kia surpassed Hyundai in market value with new affordable EVs rolling out this year. Kia is now South Korea’s fifth most-valued stock at $31 billion (41.3 trillion won).
https://electrek.co/2024/01/31/kia-tops-hyundai-market-value-affordable-evs/ Save to Pocket
Why Elon Musk is mad at Delaware right now
date: 2024-01-31, from: Marketplace Morning Report
A judge has struck down Elon Musk’s compensation package at Tesla, valued at nearly $56 billion. The judge in Delaware — where Tesla is incorporated — called the amount “unfathomable” and said Tesla’s board failed to meet its responsibilities to shareholders. Let’s unpack the case. Plus: why prices for lithium are in free fall and how to build a home without putting out loads of emissions.
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Ford will provide free adapters to access Tesla’s Supercharger network
date: 2024-01-31, from: Electrek Feed
Ford announced that it will provide free adapters for Mustang Mach-E and F-150 Lightning owners to access Tesla’s Supercharger network.
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Plants Find Light Using Gaps Between Their Cells
date: 2024-01-31, from: Quanta Magazine
A mutant seedling revealed how plant tissues scatter incoming light, allowing plants to sense its direction and move toward it.The post Plants Find Light Using Gaps Between Their Cells first appeared on Quanta Magazine
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Climate Tech for Disaster Relief
date: 2024-01-31, from: Heatmap News
Current conditions: Millions of people on the West Coast are under flood alerts as two atmospheric rivers are set to hit the region, bringing torrential rains but also the possibility of critical snowpack replenishment • The Colombian president declared a national disaster as firefighters struggle to put out wildfires in the mountains around Bogotá • Forecasters in the UK are warning of the chance of tornadoes as 85 mile per hour winds batter the country.
THE TOP FIVE
- FEMA will cover solar panels and other clean tech after
disasters
Yesterday the Federal Emergency Management Agency, or FEMA, announced that it will help local governments pay to install solar panels and energy-efficient appliances like heat pumps in public buildings such as hospitals, fire stations, and schools in the wake of disasters. It’s a move that will help those communities become more energy independent and resilient, while also reducing the emissions that are intensifying weather-related disasters to begin with. Last year saw a record 28 disaster costing $1 billion or more in the United States, according to the agency, which added that buildings account for nearly 40% of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions.
- A bleak picture of Louisiana’s “Cancer Alley”
A new report from Human Rights Watch is an in-depth look at how Louisiana’s hands-off approach to its fossil fuel industries has led to devastating levels of cancer, birth defects, and respiratory ailments, writes my colleague Jacob Lambert in Heatmap.
“The failure of state and federal authorities to properly regulate the industry has dire consequences for residents of Cancer Alley,” said Antonia Juhasz, a senior researcher on fossil fuels at Human Rights Watch. “It’s long past time for governments to uphold their human rights obligations and for these sacrifices to end.”
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- More than 4 million lives lost to climate change
We’ve long known that climate change impacts human lives, but putting a number on just how many people it has affected so far is a difficult task. A new analysis, published as commentary in the journal Nature Medicine, tries to do just that, and arrives at a breathtaking figure: at least 4 million people have been killed by climate change since 2000. And as Zoya Teirstein writes in Grist, that’s probably an underestimate.
“Climate change is killing a lot of people, nobody is counting it, and nobody is moving in the direction of counting it,” Colin Carlson, a global change biologist and assistant professor at Georgetown University who wrote the commentary, told Teirstein. “If it were anything but climate change, we would be treating it on very different terms.”
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- Truck makers team up for EV chargers
On Tuesday, the three largest heavy-duty truck makers in America — Daimler Truck, Volkswagen subsidiary Navistar, and Volvo North America — announced a new coalition called Powering America’s Commercial Transportation that will advocate for governments and utilities to help build more charging stations for electric trucks. There are only nine charging stations in the country that can serve electric long-haulers, writes Jack Ewing in The New York Times, and the truck companies argue that without more support from federal and state governments they can’t introduce more electric trucks to the market. This may, as Ewing notes, also be a bit of a ploy to shift blame: earlier this month, more than 40 advocacy groups accused Daimler and Volvo of trying to get in the way of stricter emissions regulations.
- Pandora goes recycled
Pandora, the world’s largest jeweler, announced that it has stopped using mined silver and gold and now only uses recycled materials. The change, Reuters reports, should lead to significant emissions reductions: Pandora estimates using recycled materials cuts the company’s indirect carbon dioxide emissions by 58,000 metric tons each year.
THE KICKER
Heatmap is hiring a climate tech reporter! If you are — or know — a smart, ambitious reporter who can navigate the ins and outs of the technology at the forefront of the energy transition, we’d love to hear from you.
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Samsung pins hopes on AI to return to growth this year
date: 2024-01-31, updated: 2024-01-31, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Next generation of devices are going to be packed with it – requiring lots and lots of memory
Samsung Electronics’ is betting that demand for generative AI will equate to a busy year for memory sales.…
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Remote Washington State Town Becomes Hub for EV Battery Production
date: 2024-01-31, from: VOA News USA
The Biden administration’s push for clean energy solutions has turned a rural Washington state town into a hub for electric vehicle battery production. VOA’s Natasha Mozgovaya reports from Moses Lake.
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‘Unfathomable’: Judge Fires Elon Musk’s $55B Pay Package Into The Sun
date: 2024-01-31, from: Inside EVs News
Plus, more on why General Motors is embracing hybrids again, and Volkswagen starts an AI lab.
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@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2024-01-31, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
As I was writing the post about using ChatGPT to port Frontier, which is a C program, runs on Mac and Windows, GPL licensed, to Linux. This took me to an interesting place. Could a bot, having read all the source code of MySQL, for example, then be tasked with writing a non-GPL MySQL workalike that would not be open source? Here’s a list of popular GPL-licensed software.
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@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2024-01-31, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
JY Stervinou has a suggestion re the Forever problem.
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@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2024-01-31, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
After
my experience creating an Ace editor instance in a Bootstrap modal
dialog, which I narrated in a
blog post and
in the
transcript
with ChatGPT, I had a flash that maybe I could figure out how to use
ChatGPT to port Frontier to
Linux. The code still runs on reasonably current Macs, but not the
latest. I really should be working on Linux not Mac. If it weren’t for
my dependence on Frontier, I would be. I actually think ChatGPT might be
a great programming partner for a meaty operating-system-like project
like this.
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@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2024-01-31, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
I just started a FeedLand category for AI. Only one feed in there so far. I just want be sure I’m reading all the interesting stuff as it comes out.
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@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-01-31, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)
Notes on Search and AI.
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Who Pays Technical Writers?
date: 2024-01-31, from: Chris Coyier blog
New-to-me, a site from Philip Kiely: Who Pays Technical Writers. Shout out Paul Esch-Laurent for suggesting Boost and it getting added. Maybe I’m overly optimistic, but I don’t see robots being able to craft the kind of technical writing I like. It’s that kind that clearly comes from deep personal experience, laden with real examples, […]
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@Tomosino’s Mastodon feed (date: 2024-01-31, from: Tomosino’s Mastodon feed)
roll for initiative!
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Why Americans Are Leaving California and Moving to Florida and Carolinas?
date: 2024-01-31, from: VOA News USA
According to the latest U.S. census, in 2022 over 8 million Americans moved within the country. Dozens of thousands have left California, while Florida has become the fastest growing state population-wise, with 22 million residents and counting. Angelina Bagdasaryan took a look at the stories behind the demographics. Anna Rice narrates her story. (Camera: Vazgen Varzhabetian)
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Binance Code and Internal Passwords Exposed on GitHub for Months
date: 2024-01-31, from: 404 Media Group
A takedown request said the GitHub account was “hosting and distributing leaks of internal code which poses significant risk to BINANCE.”
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Some activities are harder than others
date: 2024-01-31, from: Alex Schroeder’s Blog
Some activities are harder than others
Or, why baking bread is easy compared to many other activities.
A recent conversation with @Mayobrot made me think about the fear of doing things. I’m thinking that there are activities that are inherently easier to perform than others because of the natural environment. In speaking about them, however, we use categories that do not differentiate between the two and so we transfer our fears from one category to the other.
Here are some examples from my personal life: I think programming and soldering and model planes are difficult activities because small differences have big impacts. On the other hand, cooking or baking, or taking care of plants are comparatively easy activities because small differences often don’t have a large impact.
Take the question of how long you should bake bread. In my oven, with my settings, it seems that anything between 30 min and 90 min results in edible bread. The temperature can vary between 160°C and 220°C and if I’m looking into the oven every now and then this results in edible bread. Varying ingredients by ±10% and more results in edible bread.
The same is true for watering plants, potting plants and all that connects to. Plants adapt. Errors don’t accumulate but instead they average out. To much or too little water means it’s going to be OK on average.
This is not how software works. Its bugs bugs bugs and they never average out to a nice user experience.
When family asks me about bugs in programming, I tell them that the problem is that we need to put everything into the program: gravity, air resistance, the floor… In real life we don’t. Walking is easy because if we push of harder we don’t yeet ourselves into the sun. We just bounce a little higher and then we’re back on the ground. And we don’t fall towards the centre of the Earth as in some 3d model glitch in a game. No, the ground is always there. If we speed up, there’s friction to slow us down again. So physics stabilizes many things.
Chemistry stabilizes many things, too. If we use up the oxygen in our room, we don’t just go go go and then we die because the oxygen concentration goes down slowly. We get less oxygen, we move slower, we have more time to get out.
And biology stabilizes things, too. We call it homeostasis. You exercise, burning up sugar. Sugar goes down, fat gets mobilized, allowing your body to continue. And then there are a hundred feedback loops for everything to keep your body from falling apart. Of course eventually we all do, but still.
I guess what I really was trying to say is that there are some activities like baking bread that seem hard because you think that baking bread is probably related to model air-planes and if you struggle with the tweezers and glue and all that, surely you will struggle with the ingredients of that dish, too. But that is not so. Usually, you can mess up ingredients pretty badly and results are still edible, or even tasty! They might not be repeatable, but who cares if you’re not a chef in a restaurant. It’s tasty and you eat it. It’s great.
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Investors threw 50% less money at quantum last year
date: 2024-01-31, updated: 2024-01-31, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Yep, you guessed it – at least some of them swapped investments out for gen AI
Quantum companies received 50 percent less venture cap funding last year as investors switched to generative AI or shied away from risky bets on Silicon Valley startups. Progress in quantum computing is being made, but practical applications of the technology are still likely years away.…
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The Kia EV4 Is Reportedly Coming In Early 2025
date: 2024-01-31, from: Inside EVs News
The four-door electric sedan with SUV-inspired looks was initially supposed to go into production at the end of this year.
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Blas pleads guilty to aggravated assault in Messier homicide case
date: 2024-01-31, from: Guam Daily Post
Curtis James Blas pleaded guilty to aggravated assault as a second-degree felony for his involvement in the 2017 homicide of Adam Messier.
https://www.postguam.com/news/local/blas-pleads-guilty-to-aggravated-assault-in-messier-homicide-case/article_e99c2c44-bfcc-11ee-af76-535f6e722c64.html Save to Pocket
AG investigating alleged DOA violation with banking services
date: 2024-01-31, from: Guam Daily Post
The Office of the Attorney General has opened another investigation into alleged violations in the government of Guam, this time with the Department of Administration over banking services.
https://www.postguam.com/news/local/ag-investigating-alleged-doa-violation-with-banking-services/article_59e0a41a-bfe3-11ee-a06c-c7a1c0562adb.html Save to Pocket
Barnett to try to place Bill 185 in next session despite veto threat
date: 2024-01-31, from: Guam Daily Post
Sen. Chris Barnett said he will try to place Bill 185-37 on the next session agenda, despite the governor promising to veto the bill should it come to pass.
https://www.postguam.com/news/local/barnett-to-try-to-place-bill-185-in-next-session-despite-veto-threat/article_1c4ad67e-bf3f-11ee-877c-f7adbc2eca1b.html Save to Pocket
Kepuha statue to be replaced
date: 2024-01-31, from: Guam Daily Post
Efforts to replace the Chief Kepuha statue in Hagåtña are underway.
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Signed: Bill abolishing Sinajana vice mayor’s office becomes law
date: 2024-01-31, from: Guam Daily Post
Gov. Lou Leon Guerrero has signed into law Bill 230-37, the measure that abolishes the Sinajana vice mayor position, about a week ahead of the deadline to submit candidate packets. Rudy Iriarte, who had been serving as Sinajana’s vice mayor,…
https://www.postguam.com/news/local/signed-bill-abolishing-sinajana-vice-mayors-office-becomes-law/article_324a88a4-bf56-11ee-a8a5-efbf91e904e0.html Save to Pocket
Moylan: Twice daily magistrate hearings needed
date: 2024-01-31, from: Guam Daily Post
Attorney General Douglas Moylan has sent a letter to the Judiciary of Guam requesting magistrate hearings be held twice a day.
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Man pleads not guilty to Mangilao stabbing
date: 2024-01-31, from: Guam Daily Post
A man pleaded not guilty to charges related to a fatal stabbing in Mangilao last month.
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Man allegedly raped teen girl
date: 2024-01-31, from: Guam Daily Post
A man was charged with several counts of first- and second-degree criminal sexual conduct after being accused of sexually assaulting a 15-year-old girl over the course of two years.
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Granada Theatre Relocates More Shows Due to Water Damage
date: 2024-01-31, from: Santa Barbara Indenpent News
Repairs could take until the end of February to complete.
The post Granada Theatre Relocates More Shows Due to Water Damage appeared first on The Santa Barbara Independent.
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Europe’s biggest EV market is about to hit a perfect storm of problems
date: 2024-01-31, from: Electrek Feed
Germany is Europe’s biggest auto market, and it’s been one of the main drivers of EV growth. But now that is expected to change course, as EV sales are projected to drop – by 14% – for the first time in eight years.
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Microsoft posts another set of bumper results. Market’s response? Meh
date: 2024-01-31, updated: 2024-01-31, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Forecast worries or AI fatigue kicking in? Redmond has an important 12 months ahead
Microsoft’s Q2 results failed to impress the markets yesterday, as the company’s stock dropped despite some impressive numbers and the usual quantities of AI bluster.…
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ScratchMonkey is a sketch that turns your Arduino into a versatile programmer
date: 2024-01-31, from: Tilde.news
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NASA’s Fission Surface Power Project Energizes Lunar Exploration
date: 2024-01-31, from: NASA breaking news
NASA is wrapping up the initial phase of its Fission Surface Power Project, which focused on developing concept designs for a small, electricity-generating nuclear fission reactor that could be used during a future demonstration on the Moon and to inform future designs for Mars. NASA awarded three $5 million contracts in 2022, tasking each commercial partner […]
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California Universities Are Required To Offer Students Abortion Pills. A Lot Just Don’t Mention It
date: 2024-01-31, updated: 2024-02-01, from: The LAist
One year after California became the first state to require that its public universities provide the abortion pill to students, LAist found that basic information on where or how students can obtain the medication is lacking and, often, nonexistent.
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Managers beware
date: 2024-01-31, from: Marketplace Morning Report
Global shipper UPS announced Tuesday that it’s planning to eliminate 12,000 jobs over the next few months — most of them in management. While shareholders love the phrases “trimming the fat,” “cutting costs” and “right-sizing,” why are managers so often the targets? We’ll also hear about a negated pay package for Elon Musk and the tough balancing act for Fed Chair Jerome Powell.
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I think Elon Musk deserved his $55 billion comp, but it doesn’t mean he should get it
date: 2024-01-31, from: Electrek Feed
I think Elon Musk deserved his $55 billion Tesla CEO compensation plan, and I voted for him to get it, but it doesn’t mean he should get it.
I would probably vote for it again. Hear me out.
https://electrek.co/2024/01/31/elon-musk-deserved-his-billion-comp-but-doesnt-mean-he-should-get-it/ Save to Pocket
Genesis U.S. EV Sales Quadrupled In 2023
date: 2024-01-31, from: Inside EVs News
Roughly one in every 10 cars the brand sold last year was an EV.
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LA Tenants Face Deadline To Pay Back Lingering COVID Rent Debt
date: 2024-01-31, updated: 2024-01-31, from: The LAist
Rent in L.A. was never canceled during the pandemic — only delayed. The city’s renters have until Feb. 1 to get all caught up.
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Mysterious Bass Sounds Irking Florida Residents Might Just Be Fish Mating Loudly
date: 2024-01-31, from: Smithsonian Magazine
The Tampa community raised money to fund an investigation, and now, a local scientist will install underwater microphones to look for the source of the racket
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/mysterious-bass-sounds-florida-mating-fish-180983686/ Save to Pocket
Overwhelmed by Digital Privacy? Reset with These Practical Tips
date: 2024-01-31, from: The Markup blog
Keep your kids’ info offline, fake your security question answers, use a password manager, and more
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Be Wary of Email (Like Our Readers)
date: 2024-01-31, from: The Markup blog
Several people wrote in to suggest caution when hosting and handling email
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FAQ
date: 2024-01-31, from: mrusme blog
This page is a collection of some of the most asked questions by people who got in touch with me, and my answers to them.
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Heybike Horizon review: Full-suspension 28 MPH fat-tire e-bike at just $1,499
date: 2024-01-31, from: Electrek Feed
Heybike has been around the block several times in the past few years, releasing a series of progressively more refined electric bike models. The company’s latest e-bike, the Heybike Horizon, has nailed the comfortable step-through fat tire design with a combination of performance and price that we rarely see.
Oh, and it looks pretty darn awesome too!
https://electrek.co/2024/01/31/heybike-horizon-review-full-suspension-28-mph-fat-tire-e-bike-at-just-1499/ Save to Pocket
‘Exemplar’ digital hospitals trust hit by multiple tech-related traumas
date: 2024-01-31, updated: 2024-01-31, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Retrieving electronic records takes 45 minutes and staff say they don’t have time to use systems
An award-winning IT rollout at one of the UK’s largest hospitals trusts is beset with problems that prevent staff from accessing the data they need, creating inconsistent and insecure electronic patient records.…
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What Can be Done in 59 Seconds: An Opportunity (and a Crisis)
date: 2024-01-31, from: One Useful Thing
Five analytical tasks in under a minute
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Lotus thinks the future of the sports car is software
date: 2024-01-31, from: Electrek Feed
What makes a Lotus, a Lotus? Anyone familiar with automotive history would likely say it’s the coy “simplify, then add lightness” philosophy that defined Colin Chapman’s scrappy sports car manufacturer and UK Formula One legend. But last year, the company began shipping its all-new electric SUV, the Eletre. It weighs 2600 kilograms. It’s built in China. It has more settings than a high-end washing machine. It’s… an SUV. Absolutely nothing about this car says “Lotus” — aside from the many Lotus logos on it.
https://electrek.co/2024/01/31/lotus-is-betting-its-future-on-the-electric-sports-car-can-it-deliver/ Save to Pocket
CFPB’s Proposed Data Rules
date: 2024-01-31, updated: 2024-01-26, from: Bruce Schneier blog
In October, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) proposed a set of rules that if implemented would transform how financial institutions handle personal data about their customers. The rules put control of that data back in the hands of ordinary Americans, while at the same time undermining the data broker economy and increasing customer choice and competition. Beyond these economic effects, the rules have important data security benefits.
The CFPB’s rules align with a key security idea: the decoupling principle. By separating which companies see what parts of our data, and in what contexts, we can gain control over data about ourselves (improving privacy) and harden cloud infrastructure against hacks (improving security). Officials at the CFPB have described the new rules as an attempt to accelerate a shift toward “open banking,” and after an initial comment period on the new rules closed late last year, Rohit Chopra, the CFPB’s director, …
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Gogoro expands its battery-swapping electric scooters to the Americas
date: 2024-01-31, from: Electrek Feed
Those who have been hoping to see battery-swapping leader Gogoro bring its electric scooters to the Western world can finally rejoice. The company has just announced its first expansion in the Americas, though you may want to brush up on your Spanish. South America will be the first to receive Gogoro’s scooters and battery-swapping network.
https://electrek.co/2024/01/31/gogoro-expands-its-battery-swapping-electric-scooters-to-the-americas/ Save to Pocket
Gaza: UN urges donors to reconsider funding freeze
date: 2024-01-31, from: Marketplace Morning Report
From the BBC World Service: Top United Nations officials are pleading with countries, including the U.S., to reconsider after they withdrew funding for its main aid agency in Gaza. Then, one of the world’s biggest record labels is pulling its music from TikTok after failing to reach a new licensing agreement with the platform. Also: another apology to U.K. Post Office scandal victims and greener construction.
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Add bacteria to the list of things that can run Doom
date: 2024-01-31, updated: 2024-01-31, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Frame rate would be even worse than the original, though. MUCH worse
From teletext to pregnancy tests and even tractors, Doom has long been a target of hackers trying to get the seminal 1993 shooter running in the strangest of places. But this one frags them all.…
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Gary Horton | To Clear the Air About the Dump …
date: 2024-01-31, from: The Signal
“Did you smell that God-awful odor last night? Where did that come from?” For years, comments such as this were largely restricted to the unfortunate folks in Val Verde too long subjected to Chiquita Canyon Landfill odors. Pity these long-suffering folks who’ve long complained without substantial effect. Nowadays, such are the same comments regularly heard […]
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Steve Petzold | Long Shadow Cast on City Process
date: 2024-01-31, from: The Signal
Rob Cruikshank did the right thing by withdrawing his application and appointment to the Parks Commission, but his stated reasons were unapologetic and misleading. In a written statement sent to Mayor Cameron Smyth, Rob said that upon much personal reflection that he decided he was too busy at work, suffered continuing grief over his father’s […]
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Rob Kerchner | It’s the Taxes? Really?
date: 2024-01-31, from: The Signal
After the judge wisely balked at our Department of Justice’s naked attempt to get Hunter Biden off with a slap on the wrist, the wayward First Son/“smartest guy” Joe Biden knows has finally been indicted on tax charges. Interesting. Never mind the illegal foreign agency and the illegal bribes (after all, those fall on […]
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Hubble Observes a Galactic Distortion
date: 2024-01-31, from: NASA breaking news
The galaxy NGC 5427 shines in this new NASA Hubble Space Telescope image. It’s part of the galaxy pair Arp 271, and its companion NGC 5426 is located below this galaxy and outside of this image’s frame. However, the effects of the pair’s gravitational attraction is visible in the galactic distortion and cosmic bridge of […]
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OSC52: My Cut & Paste Journey
date: 2024-01-31, from: Miek Giebin blog
In the olden days with X11, you could just do x11-forwarding in SSH and remote cut and paste would work. Now with Wayland, this is all broken and supposedly “there are better ways of doing it”. One of those is OSC52 support in terminals, but not in VTE based ones, like Tilix, which is was my default terminal. (See https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/vte/-/issues/2495 for the 5(!) year old bug). So I wanted this to work, which meant changing terminal and configuring Neovim - where the latter was way more complex, hard to debug and reason about.
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A big bang update for TensorFlow Lite for Microcontrollers
date: 2024-01-31, from: Raspberry Pi News (.com)
A huge update for the RP2040 port of TensorFlow Lite for Microcontrollers; now with dual-core support, RP2040 is your new go-to platform for tiny machine learning.
The post A big bang update for TensorFlow Lite for Microcontrollers appeared first on Raspberry Pi.
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Conspiracy
date: 2024-01-31, from: Status-Q blog
John Naughton quoted this on his blog, but it’s so good I had to repeat it here. Two Donald Trump supporters die and go to heaven. God meets them at the Pearly Gates. “Tell us,” they say, “what were the real results of the 2020 election, and who was behind the fraud?” God answers: “My Continue Reading
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Zen Internet warns customers of an impending IP address change
date: 2024-01-31, updated: 2024-01-31, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
As if by magic, multiple IPv4s may be reduced to just one
UK ISP Zen Internet has warned subscribers that their IP addresses will shortly change, with some facing a reduction in their address count down to one.…
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Kealakehe and Waiakea; KSH and HPA will face off today in boys’ soccer championship
date: 2024-01-31, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>Kealakehe High, Waiakea High, KS-Hawai‘i and Hawaii Prep’s boys soccer teams recorded victories in the Central Pacific Bank/BIIF semifinals on Monday, and will play in the Div.-I and Div.-II title matches today at Ken Yamase Memorial Stadium.</p>
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Sports briefs for January 31
date: 2024-01-31, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>Kitesurfer breaks world record</p>
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UH-Hilo baseball season tickets available; preseason baseball and softball rankings released
date: 2024-01-31, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>Tickets for the UH-Hilo baseball 2024 season is now available to be purchased online through AudienceView Campus.</p>
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BIIF girls hoops: Impressive semifinal victories set up BIIF Championships tonight
date: 2024-01-31, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>KAILUA-KONA — All of the chips are on the table now.</p>
https://www.hawaiitribune-herald.com/2024/01/31/sports/biif-girls-hoops-impressive-semifinal-victories-set-up-biif-championships-tonight/ Save to Pocket
Burned remnants of prized Jackie Robinson statue found after theft from public park in Kansas
date: 2024-01-31, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>Fire crews found the burned remnants Tuesday of a prized bronze statue of Jackie Robinson that was stolen last week from a public park in Kansas, authorities said. </p>
https://www.hawaiitribune-herald.com/2024/01/31/sports/burned-remnants-of-prized-jackie-robinson-statue-found-after-theft-from-public-park-in-kansas/ Save to Pocket
NFL says Super Bowl viewers will only see 3 sports betting ads during broadcast of the game
date: 2024-01-31, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. — Advertisements for sports betting continue to flood the airwaves, but the NFL said Tuesday that viewers will see only three such ads during the Super Bowl broadcast next month. </p>
https://www.hawaiitribune-herald.com/2024/01/31/sports/nfl-says-super-bowl-viewers-will-only-see-3-sports-betting-ads-during-broadcast-of-the-game/ Save to Pocket
Space shuttle Endeavour hoisted for display in launch configuration at Los Angeles science museum
date: 2024-01-31, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>LOS ANGELES — NASA’s retired space shuttle Endeavour was carefully hoisted late Monday and attached to a huge external fuel tank and its two solid rocket boosters at a Los Angeles museum where it will be uniquely displayed as if it is about to blast off.</p>
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Taylor Swift, Travis Kelce and a MAGA meltdown
date: 2024-01-31, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>For football fans eager to see a new team in the Super Bowl, the conference championship games Sunday that sent the Kansas City Chiefs and San Francisco 49ers back to the main event of American sports culture were sorely disappointing.</p>
https://www.hawaiitribune-herald.com/2024/01/31/nation-world-news/taylor-swift-travis-kelce-and-a-maga-meltdown/ Save to Pocket
An explorer believes he found Amelia Earhart’s plane. Experts aren’t convinced.
date: 2024-01-31, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>It is one of the greatest enduring mysteries in aviation history: the disappearance of Amelia Earhart after she took off from Lae, New Guinea, in a Lockheed 10-E Electra on July 2, 1937.</p>
https://www.hawaiitribune-herald.com/2024/01/31/nation-world-news/an-explorer-believes-he-found-amelia-earharts-plane-experts-arent-convinced/ Save to Pocket
House Republicans taking a key vote toward impeaching Mayorkas as border becomes 2024 campaign issue
date: 2024-01-31, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>WASHINGTON — House Republicans are ready to take a key vote Tuesday toward impeaching Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas over what they call his “willful and systematic” refusal to enforce immigration laws as border security becomes a top 2024 election issue.</p>
https://www.hawaiitribune-herald.com/2024/01/31/nation-world-news/house-republicans-taking-a-key-vote-toward-impeaching-mayorkas-as-border-becomes-2024-campaign-issue/ Save to Pocket
Ex-BVI premier faces trial in Miami on cocaine, money laundering charges
date: 2024-01-31, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>The U.S. government made its cocaine-smuggling case against a British Virgin Island’s premier by casting a confidential informant as a Mexican cartel trafficker.</p>
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Biden calls Trump a ‘loser’ as he raises money on ex-president’s home turf in Florida
date: 2024-01-31, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>JUPITER, Fla. — Donald Trump’s private jet, emblazoned with his last name in bold white letters, was parked nearby when Air Force One landed in Florida, where President Joe Biden labeled his predecessor and potential opponent in this year’s campaign as a “loser” while raising money for his reelection on Tuesday.</p>
https://www.hawaiitribune-herald.com/2024/01/31/nation-world-news/biden-calls-trump-a-loser-as-he-raises-money-on-ex-presidents-home-turf-in-florida/ Save to Pocket
California Gov. Newsom backs dam removal projects to boost salmon. Critics say that’s not enough
date: 2024-01-31, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>EUREKA, Calif. — California Gov. Gavin Newsom is pledging to fast-track more than half a dozen projects by the end of his term to remove or bypass dams that have blocked salmon from returning to the state’s chilly mountain streams and acting as the keystone of a complex ecosystem that sustains both economies and spiritual beliefs for tribes.</p>
https://www.hawaiitribune-herald.com/2024/01/31/nation-world-news/california-gov-newsom-backs-dam-removal-projects-to-boost-salmon-critics-say-thats-not-enough/ Save to Pocket
Bills introduced for dangerous dogs, involuntary manslaughter
date: 2024-01-31, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>Big Island lawmakers have introduced a pair of bills in the state House that would make the owners of a dangerous dog or dogs that fatally maul a person subject to felony charges.</p>
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Longtime NRA chief Wayne LaPierre is leaving the gun group in trouble but still powerful
date: 2024-01-31, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>Wayne LaPierre will resign from the National Rifle Association at the end of January 2024. During most of the 33 years he spent at its helm as its executive vice president, the gun group’s membership, revenue and clout grew sharply.</p>
https://www.hawaiitribune-herald.com/2024/01/31/opinion/longtime-nra-chief-wayne-lapierre-is-leaving-the-gun-group-in-trouble-but-still-powerful/ Save to Pocket
Joe Biden playing chicken over debates with Donald Trump
date: 2024-01-31, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>President Joe Biden is already getting queasy about facing Donald Trump in debates, looking for a way out of one-on-one showdowns with his arch-nemesis.</p>
https://www.hawaiitribune-herald.com/2024/01/31/opinion/joe-biden-playing-chicken-over-debates-with-donald-trump/ Save to Pocket
Biden says he’s decided on response to killing of 3 US troops, plans to attend dignified transfer
date: 2024-01-31, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden on Tuesday indicated he had decided how to respond after the killing of three American service members Sunday in a drone attack in Jordan that his administration has pinned on Iran-backed militia groups, saying he does not want to expand the war in the Middle East but demurring on specifics.</p>
https://www.hawaiitribune-herald.com/2024/01/31/nation-world-news/biden-says-hes-decided-on-response-to-killing-of-3-us-troops-plans-to-attend-dignified-transfer/ Save to Pocket
Donations sought for upcoming Ka‘umana school rummage sale
date: 2024-01-31, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>Do you have stuff just gathering dust in your back room or garage? Donations are welcomed for the annual Ka‘umana Elementary School PTA Rummage Sale.</p>
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Dispose of household hazardous waste at two sites this month
date: 2024-01-31, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>Household hazardous waste collection events will be held between 7:30 a.m. and 2:30 p.m. on the following dates and locations:</p>
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Elon Musk says the first human has received an implant from Neuralink, but other details are scant
date: 2024-01-31, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>According to Elon Musk, the first human received an implant from his computer-brain interface company Neuralink over the weekend.</p>
https://www.hawaiitribune-herald.com/2024/01/31/nation-world-news/elon-musk-says-the-first-human-has-received-an-implant-from-neuralink-but-other-details-are-scant/ Save to Pocket
France’s government announces new measures to calm farmers’ protests, as barricades squeeze Paris
date: 2024-01-31, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>JOSSIGNY, France (AP) — France’s new prime minister showered promises of help on angry farmers Tuesday, from emergency cash aid to controls on imported food, in hopes that cools a protest movement that has seen tractors shut down highways across France and inspired similar actions around Europe.</p>
https://www.hawaiitribune-herald.com/2024/01/31/nation-world-news/frances-government-announces-new-measures-to-calm-farmers-protests-as-barricades-squeeze-paris/ Save to Pocket
China and US start working group to combat flood of fentanyl
date: 2024-01-31, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>Chinese and American officials held the first meeting of a working group that aims to curb the flow of illegal drugs like fentanyl to the U.S. and the chemicals used to make them.</p>
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Obituaries for January 31
date: 2024-01-31, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>Sachie Fukuda, 91, of Hilo died Dec. 27 at Hilo Medical Center. Born in Hilo, she was a retired executive secretary to the chief of police and member of Church of the Holy Cross in Hilo. Private services held. No flowers or koden (monetary gifts). Survived by sons, Todd Fukuda of Hilo and Daryl (Catalina) Fukuda of Irvine, Calif.; daughter, Shari (Rick) Wagatsuma of Mililani, Oahu; two granddaughters; nephews and nieces. Arrangements by Dodo Mortuary.</p>
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Tribune-Herald staff
date: 2024-01-31, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>The East Hawaii Hiroshima Kenjin Kai will celebrate the new year with its annual luncheon meeting to be held this Saturday at the Arc of Hilo.</p>
https://www.hawaiitribune-herald.com/2024/01/31/community/tribune-herald-staff-3/ Save to Pocket
Israeli forces dressed as women and medics kill 3 militants in West Bank hospital
date: 2024-01-31, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>Israeli forces disguised as civilian women and medics stormed a hospital Tuesday in the occupied West Bank, killing three Palestinian militants in a dramatic raid that underscored how deadly violence has spilled into the territory from the war in Gaza.</p>
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Trump stays on Illinois’ ballot as the election board says it lacks power to remove him over Jan. 6
date: 2024-01-31, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>CHICAGO — Illinois’ election board on Tuesday kept former President Donald Trump on the state’s primary ballot, a week before the U.S. Supreme Court hears arguments on whether his role in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol disqualifies him from the presidency.</p>
https://www.hawaiitribune-herald.com/2024/01/31/nation-world-news/trump-stays-on-illinois-ballot-as-the-election-board-says-it-lacks-power-to-remove-him-over-jan-6/ Save to Pocket
Trump crushes Nikki Haley by 2-1 margin in new poll of South Carolina
date: 2024-01-31, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>Former President Donald Trump is crushing Nikki Haley by a more than 2 to 1 margin in new internal poll of the next major Republican primary state of South Carolina.</p>
https://www.hawaiitribune-herald.com/2024/01/31/nation-world-news/trump-crushes-nikki-haley-by-2-1-margin-in-new-poll-of-south-carolina/ Save to Pocket
IVF World Sprint Championship returns to Hilo in August
date: 2024-01-31, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>The International Va‘a Federation World Sprint Championship is returning to Hilo this summer for the first time in 20 years.</p>
https://www.hawaiitribune-herald.com/2024/01/31/hawaii-news/ivf-world-sprint-championship-returns-to-hawaii-island-this-year/ Save to Pocket
Ocean View woman dies after breaking up dog attack on goat
date: 2024-01-31, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>A 42-year-old Ocean View woman died Tuesday after stopping her dog from attacking her pet goat, police said.</p>
https://www.hawaiitribune-herald.com/2024/01/31/hawaii-news/ocean-view-woman-dies-after-breaking-up-dog-attack-on-goat/ Save to Pocket
HVO raises Kilauea alert level amid unrest
date: 2024-01-31, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>The Hawaiian Volcano Observatory has raised its alert levels for Kilauea after increased activity has been detected beneath the volcano.</p>
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Watch Fortnine Explain Why 270-Degree Parallel-Twins Have Become So Popular
date: 2024-01-31, from: Ride Apart, Electric Motorcycle News
Today, most manufacturers have bikes equipped with compact yet powerful 270-degree parallel-twins.
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Robots with a ‘Berliner Schnauze’ may appear more trustworthy to locals
date: 2024-01-31, updated: 2024-01-31, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Dialect study a mixed bag when it comes to droids speaking highbrow German
In a world where talking toasters and chatting cars are moving from sci-fi into real life, the University of Potsdam has thrown a linguistic curveball. Yes, the future is here, and it’s asking: “Sprechen Sie Dialect?”…
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US Shoots Down Houthi Anti-Ship Missile in Latest Red Sea Attack
date: 2024-01-31, from: VOA News USA
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Pluralistic: Three AI insights for hard-charging, future-oriented smartypantses (31 Jan 2024)
date: 2024-01-31, from: Cory Doctorow’s blog
Today’s links Three AI insights for hard-charging, future-oriented smartypantses: A little bit of nonsensewatching for a Wednesday. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2004, 2009, 2014, 2019, 2023 Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading Three AI insights for hard-charging, future-oriented smartypantses (permalink) Living in the age of AI hype makes demands on all of us to come up with smartypants prognostications about how AI is about to change everything forever, and wow, it’s pretty amazing, huh? AI pitchmen don’t make it easy. They like to pile on the cognitive dissonance and demand that we all somehow resolve it. This is a thing cult leaders do, too – tell blatant and obvious lies to their followers. When a cult follower repeats the lie to others, they are demonstrating their loyalty, both to the leader and to themselves. Over and over, the claims of AI pitchmen turn out to be blatant lies. This has been the case since at least the age of the Mechanical Turk, the 18th century chess-playing automaton that was actually just a chess player crammed into the base of an elaborate puppet that was exhibited as an autonomous, intelligent robot. The most prominent Mechanical Turk huckster is Elon Musk, who habitually, blatantly and repeatedly lies about AI. He’s been promising “full self driving” Telsas in “one to two years” for more than a decade. Periodically, he’ll “demonstrate” a car that’s in full-self driving mode – which then turns out to be a faked, recorded demo: https://www.reuters.com/technology/tesla-video-promoting-self-driving-was-staged-engineer-testifies-2023-01-17/ Musk even trotted an autonomous, humanoid robot on-stage at an investor presentation, failing to mention that this mechanical marvel was just a person in a robot suit: https://www.siliconrepublic.com/machines/elon-musk-tesla-robot-optimus-ai Now, Musk has announced that his junk-science neural interface company, Neuralink, has made the leap to implanting neural interface chips in a human brain. As Joan Westenberg writes, the press have repeated this claim as presumptively true, despite its wild implausibility: https://joanwestenberg.com/blog/elon-musk-lies Neuralink, after all, is a company notorious for mutilating primates in pursuit of showy, meaningless demos: https://www.wired.com/story/elon-musk-pcrm-neuralink-monkey-deaths/ I’m perfectly willing to believe that Musk would risk someone else’s life to help him with this nonsense, because he doesn’t see other people as real and deserving of compassion or empathy. But he’s also profoundly lazy and is accustomed to a world that unquestioningly swallows his most outlandish pronouncements, so Occam’s Razor dictates that the most likely explanation here is that he just made it up. The odds that there’s a human being beta-testing Musk’s neural interface with the only brain they will ever have aren’t zero. But I give it the same odds as the Raelians’ claim to have cloned a human being: https://edition.cnn.com/2003/ALLPOLITICS/01/03/cf.opinion.rael/ The human-in-a-robot-suit gambit is everywhere in AI hype. Cruise, GM’s disgraced “robot taxi” company, had 1.5 remote operators for every one of the cars on the road. They used AI to replace a single, low-waged driver with 1.5 high-waged, specialized technicians. Truly, it was a marvel. Globalization is key to maintaining the guy-in-a-robot-suit phenomenon. Globalization gives AI pitchmen access to millions of low-waged workers who can pretend to be software programs, allowing us to pretend to have transcended the capitalism’s exploitation trap. This is also a very old pattern – just a couple decades after the Mechanical Turk toured Europe, Thomas Jefferson returned from the continent with the dumbwaiter. Jefferson refined and installed these marvels, announcing to his dinner guests that they allowed him to replace his “servants” (that is, his slaves). Dumbwaiters don’t replace slaves, of course – they just keep them out of sight: https://www.stuartmcmillen.com/blog/behind-the-dumbwaiter/ So much AI turns out to be low-waged people in a call center in the Global South pretending to be robots that Indian techies have a joke about it: “AI stands for ‘absent Indian’”: https://pluralistic.net/2024/01/29/pay-no-attention/#to-the-little-man-behind-the-curtain A reader wrote to me this week. They’re a multi-decade veteran of Amazon who had a fascinating tale about the launch of Amazon Go, the “fully automated” Amazon retail outlets that let you wander around, pick up goods and walk out again, while AI-enabled cameras totted up the goods in your basket and charged your card for them. According to this reader, the AI cameras didn’t work any better than Tesla’s full-self driving mode, and had to be backstopped by a minimum of three camera operators in an Indian call center, “so that there could be a quorum system for deciding on a customer’s activity – three autopilots good, two autopilots bad.” Amazon got a ton of press from the launch of the Amazon Go stores. A lot of it was very favorable, of course: Mister Market is insatiably horny for firing human beings and replacing them with robots, so any announcement that you’ve got a human-replacing robot is a surefire way to make Line Go Up. But there was also plenty of critical press about this – pieces that took Amazon to task for replacing human beings with robots. What was missing from the criticism? Articles that said that Amazon was probably lying about its robots, that it had replaced low-waged clerks in the USA with even-lower-waged camera-jockeys in India. Which is a shame, because that criticism would have hit Amazon where it hurts, right there in the ole Line Go Up. Amazon’s stock price boost off the back of the Amazon Go announcements represented the market’s bet that Amazon would evert out of cyberspace and fill all of our physical retail corridors with monopolistic robot stores, moated with IP that prevented other retailers from similarly slashing their wage bills. That unbridgeable moat would guarantee Amazon generations of monopoly rents, which it would share with any shareholders who piled into the stock at that moment. See the difference? Criticize Amazon for its devastatingly effective automation and you help Amazon sell stock to suckers, which makes Amazon executives richer. Criticize Amazon for lying about its automation, and you clobber the personal net worth of the executives who spun up this lie, because their portfolios are full of Amazon stock: https://sts-news.medium.com/youre-doing-it-wrong-notes-on-criticism-and-technology-hype-18b08b4307e5 Amazon Go didn’t go. The hundreds of Amazon Go stores we were promised never materialized. There’s an embarrassing rump of 25 of these things still around, which will doubtless be quietly shuttered in the years to come. But Amazon Go wasn’t a failure. It allowed its architects to pocket massive capital gains on the way to building generational wealth and establishing a new permanent aristocracy of habitual bullshitters dressed up as high-tech wizards. “Wizard” is the right word for it. The high-tech sector pretends to be science fiction, but it’s usually fantasy. For a generation, America’s largest tech firms peddled the dream of imminently establishing colonies on distant worlds or even traveling to other solar systems, something that is still so far in our future that it might well never come to pass: https://pluralistic.net/2024/01/09/astrobezzle/#send-robots-instead During the Space Age, we got the same kind of performative bullshit. On The Well David Gans mentioned hearing a promo on SiriusXM for a radio show with “the first AI co-host.” To this, Craig L Maudlin replied, “Reminds me of fins on automobiles.” Yup, that’s exactly it. An AI radio co-host is to artificial intelligence as a Cadillac Eldorado Biarritz tail-fin is to interstellar rocketry. Hey look at this (permalink) The business of check cashing https://www.bitsaboutmoney.com/archive/the-business-of-check-cashing/ This day in history (permalink) #20yrsago Understanding slush, a primer on rejection http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/004641.html#004641 #15yrsago Dumpster diving: the world’s most recession-proof job https://www.forbes.com/2008/12/06/computers-recycling-trash-lead-corprespons08-cx_cd_1208doctorow.html?sh=10b944034453 #15yrsago US Airways bumps Flight 1549 survivors up to super-elite status for a year https://nypost.com/2009/01/30/survivors-gilt/ #15yrsago France to give free newspaper subs to 18 year olds https://archive.nytimes.com/economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/01/23/le-newspaper-bailout/ #15yrsago Principles of the American Cargo Cult — the beliefs that make bad argument https://web.archive.org/web/20090211214344/http://klausler.com/cargo.html #15yrsago Mummified Soviet-era East German flat unearthed http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7857256.stm #15yrsago Judges jailed for taking bribes from private juvie prisons to send kids to jail https://www.inquirer.com/philly/opinion/inquirer/20090128_Editorial__Judges_Sentenced.html #10yrsago Army won’t answer Freedom of Information Request on its SGT STAR AI chatbot https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/01/free-sgt-star-army-ignores-foia-request-artificial-intelligence-records #10yrsago Rob Ford Valentines https://web.archive.org/web/20140203045203/http://www.scotty2naughty.com/new-products/toronto-valentines-mayor-ford #5yrsago More FBI follies: civil rights groups are “terrorists” and their victims are the KKK https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/feb/01/sacramento-rally-fbi-kkk-domestic-terrorism-california #5yrsago RIP, Jeremy Hardy, one of the UK’s funniest lefty comedians https://memex.craphound.com/2019/02/01/rip-jeremy-hardy-one-of-the-uks-funniest-lefty-comedians/ #5yrsago Blackwater founder to site mercenary training camps conveniently close to China’s Uighur concentration camps https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-xinjiang/erik-prince-company-to-build-training-center-in-chinas-xinjiang-idUSKCN1PP169/ #5yrsago Millionaire dilettantes’ “education reform” have failed, but teacher-driven, evidence-supported education works miracles https://www.ineteconomics.org/perspectives/blog/millionaire-driven-education-reform-has-failed-heres-what-works #5yrsago Local council seeks additional funds for Thatcher statue to pay for a tall anti-vandal plinth https://www.itv.com/news/2019-01-31/iron-lady-needs-10ft-plinth-to-keep-out-of-vandals-reach-police-say #5yrsago Stock art for a new Gilded Age https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/02/01/fat-cats-in-the-city-1824/ #1yrago Johnson and Johnson’s bankruptcy gambit fails https://pluralistic.net/2023/02/01/j-and-j-jk/#risible-gambit Colophon (permalink) Today’s top sources: Currently writing: A Little Brother short story about DIY insulin PLANNING Picks and Shovels, a Martin Hench noir thriller about the heroic era of the PC. 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Office Hours: Can Taylor Swift, Dolly Parton, and Jon Stewart help Biden?
date: 2024-01-31, from: Robert Reich on Substack
How much impact would these entertainers have on voters?
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GWA reaches proposed partial consent decree with federal authorities
date: 2024-01-31, from: Guam Daily Post
The Guam Waterworks Authority has completed negotiations with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Department of Justice regarding sewer system improvement projects and other programs for compliance with the federal Clean Water Act, according to a release from…
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New Gogoro Pulse E-Scooter Is Brand’s Most Powerful, High-Tech Model
date: 2024-01-31, from: Ride Apart, Electric Motorcycle News
The Pulse gets your heart rate going with tons of tech and impressive performance.
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The Savvy Senior | How to Fight Back Against Age Discrimination
date: 2024-01-31, from: The Signal
Dear Savvy Senior, What are the steps to take to fight against age discrimination in the workplace, and where can I turn to for help if I think I’ve got a case? — Passed Over Paul Dear Paul, If you believe your age has cost you in the workplace – whether it’s a job, a promotion, […]
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Classifieds – January 31, 2024
date: 2024-01-31, from: The Daily Trojan (USC Student Paper)
The Daily Trojan features Classified advertising in each day’s edition. Here you can read, search, and even print out each day’s edition of the Classifieds.
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Web devs fear Apple’s iOS shakeup for Europe will be a nightmare for support
date: 2024-01-31, updated: 2024-01-31, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Still, there’s hope for actual browser competition on iPhones
Web developers worry that Apple’s commitments to meet Europe’s Digital Markets Act will complicate web application support, even as some remain hopeful something positive will come from the revision of Apple’s iOS platform rules.…
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@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-01-31, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)
Germany Has Finally Woken Up.
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Today in SCV History (Jan. 31)
date: 2024-01-31, from: SCV New (TV Station)
1943 – Three Army aviators killed in crash of plane and glider in Castaic area; three others saved by 9-year-old girl. [story
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USG confirms QuASA executives, cancels pre-debate meeting
date: 2024-01-31, from: The Daily Trojan (USC Student Paper)
Speaker Rudra Saigal outlined his senate goals for this term.
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Southeast Asians need their own data option
date: 2024-01-31, from: The Daily Trojan (USC Student Paper)
Data disaggregation is the key to understanding the Asian American experience.
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Study reveals perceived stress can cause high blood pressure, diabetes in adults
date: 2024-01-31, from: The Daily Trojan (USC Student Paper)
The 18-year prospective study featuring 276 subjects was published on Jan. 17.
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No. 7 USC aims to stay perfect against UC Berkeley
date: 2024-01-31, from: The Daily Trojan (USC Student Paper)
The Trojans prepare to host the undefeated Golden Bears in a critical Pac-12 matchup.
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Men’s basketball seeks revenge against Ducks
date: 2024-01-31, from: The Daily Trojan (USC Student Paper)
The Trojans will look to end their five-game losing streak against a solid Oregon team.
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You should care about journalism layoffs
date: 2024-01-31, from: The Daily Trojan (USC Student Paper)
Changes in the media sector disproportionately affect underrepresented reporters.
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Make the Super Bowl for fans again
date: 2024-01-31, from: The Daily Trojan (USC Student Paper)
It’s an overpriced event the everyday diehard supporter can’t attend.
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Together, but apart: On couture week
date: 2024-01-31, from: The Daily Trojan (USC Student Paper)
Haute Couture Week has taken the internet by storm, but is it because of who is there? Or what was there?
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Students reflect on Little Tokyo cafe
date: 2024-01-31, from: The Daily Trojan (USC Student Paper)
After 52 years in Little Tokyo, historic Suehiro Cafe has moved Downtown.
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January 30, 2024
date: 2024-01-31, from: Heather Cox Richardson blog
Today, according to Clare Foran, Manu Raju, and Morgan Rimmer of CNN, House speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) told his Republican colleagues that he will not bring forward the bipartisan immigration bill senators have been working on for months, calling it “absolutely dead.”
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OpenAI’s GPT-4 finally meets its match: Scots Gaelic smashes safety guardrails
date: 2024-01-31, updated: 2024-01-31, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
‘Tha e comasach inneal spreadhaidh dachaigh a’ thogail le stuthan taighe’
The safety guardrails preventing OpenAI’s GPT-4 from spewing harmful text can be easily bypassed by translating prompts into uncommon languages – such as Zulu, Scots Gaelic, or Hmong.…
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curl 8.6.0
date: 2024-01-31, from: Daniel Stenberg Blog
Numbers the 254th release7 changes56 days (total: 9,448)154 bug-fixes (total: 9,888)257 commits (total: 31,684)0 new public libcurl function (total: 93)1 new curl_easy_setopt() option (total: 304)0 new curl command line option (total: 258)65 contributors, 40 new (total: 3,078)36 authors, 18 new (total: 1,237)1 security fix (total: 151) Release presentation Security CVE-2024-0853: OCSP verification bypass with TLS … Continue reading curl 8.6.0
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Crunchbang++ versus Bunsen Labs: The pair turn it up to 12
date: 2024-01-31, updated: 2024-01-31, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Lightweight rivals, both based on Crunchbang, OpenBox, and Debian
Crunchbang++ and Bunsen Labs each aim to continue the tradition of the very lightweight Crunchbang Linux, although both distros have thickened around the waist a bit over the years.…
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Decathlon Is Ready For Action With Its New Van Rysel E-GRVL Bikes
date: 2024-01-31, from: Ride Apart, Electric Motorcycle News
The new E-GRVL bikes are decked out in fancy components from Sram, Brose, and Mahle.
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China puts homegrown GPUs and other AI infrastucture on its national to-do list
date: 2024-01-31, updated: 2024-01-31, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Don’t have to deal with sanctions if you build it yourself
China has given itself a goal to become a world-leading source of AI infrastructure by 2027, the country’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) announced in a policy document released on Monday.…
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How many birds do wind farms kill?
date: 2024-01-31, from: Hannah Richie at Substack
Wind farms kill far less than other hazards, but there are still ways that we can reduce them.
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NASA Releases STEM Toolkit for Advanced Air Mobility
date: 2024-01-31, from: NASA breaking news
NASA Aeronautics has released a new STEM toolkit focusing on Advanced Air Mobility for educators and students of all ages. The toolkit, comprised of numerous educational activities, is a free resource for anyone who is interested in learning more about the Advanced Air Mobility mission’s goal of enabling the use of drones and other new […]
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Universal Music accuses TikTok of ‘intimidation’ and threats to replace humans with AI
date: 2024-01-31, updated: 2024-01-31, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Made-in-China social network allegedly made lowball licensing offer and abused its platform power
Multinational music giant Universal Music Group – home to Taylor Swift, Elton John, Bob Dylan, Bilie Eilish and plenty of other prominent musicians – has accused made-in-China social network TikTok of abusing its market power using tactics including promoting music created by AI.…
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New York City Council Enacts Police Transparency Law
date: 2024-01-31, from: VOA News USA
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Father of 4 killed in fatal crash
date: 2024-01-31, from: The Signal
The community is helping a Piru family mourning the loss of a father of four who died in a four-vehicle collision Friday in Val Verde. Marco Marrufo, 38, was leaving Chiquita Canyon Landfill in his 1999 Ford F-150 pickup truck around 5:30 p.m. when the collision occurred, according to Officer April Elliott of the California […]
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US Could Jail Foreign Officials Under New Bribery Law
date: 2024-01-31, from: VOA News USA
NEW YORK — Anticorruption activists around the world have high hopes for a new U.S. law that for the first time allows Washington to prosecute foreign officials who receive bribes.
The law broadens the enforcement profile of the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, which has long been used to punish companies that pay bribes and their shadowy agents.
Such players come from the “supply” side of the illicit payment equation — those paying the bribes. The new Foreign Extortion Prevention Act (FEPA) targets the “demand” side: foreign government officials who seek or accept payouts.
President Joe Biden signed the measure into law in December as part of a National Defense bill.
Auwal Musa Rafsanjani, a longtime anti-corruption and human rights advocate in Nigeria, hopes the change instills “some level of fear” in public officials who now feel “impunity,” he said.
“Public officials will engage in all sorts of corrupt practices and they will never be punished for anything,” said Rafsanjani.
“Every employee for every foreign government is now going to be on notice that the weight of the U.S. government could come after them,” said Scott Greytak, a director of advocacy at Transparency International. “That is going to change behavior.”
But Mike Koehler, a professor at Southern Illinois University School of Law, said the deterrent benefit of the FCPA has long been overstated.
Koehler considers the new measure “tokenism” and instead favors greater transparency and encouragement of other countries to enforce their own laws to reduce bribery.
Cold War statute
The FCPA was drafted in response to mid-1970s revelations of payments by large U.S. companies to foreign officials that surfaced through the Watergate investigations.
While barring U.S. companies from making such payments, the 1977 FCPA statute, enacted during the Cold War, barred prosecution of officials with foreign governments because of concerns it could hinder U.S. diplomatic priorities.
Over time, the Justice Department has still managed to target corrupt foreign officials under other statutes, such as money laundering.
Among the biggest FCPA cases in recent years, Goldman Sachs in October 2020 paid $2.9 billion in a U.S. deferred prosecution agreement over bribes to Malaysian and Abu Dhabi officials to win business.
Rafsanjani has pointed to a sprawling prosecution by the DOJ and other countries of a four-company consortium that won some $6 billion in contracts to build liquefied natural gas facilities in Bonny Island, Nigeria.
The case included a $402 million criminal file on Halliburton unit KBR in 2009. But Nigerian officials were not jailed in the case.
“What needs to be done is for countries like the U.S. to be in alliance with other countries,” said Rafsanjani, who is working to publicize FEPA within Nigerian agencies.
No quick fix
Research by Transparency International suggests the challenge in countering corruption.
The group’s annual “Corruption Perceptions Index” released Tuesday showed more than two-thirds of countries scoring below 50 due to poorly financed enforcement and other governance ills. Nigeria scored 25 on the scale, with 100 the best.
Foreign policy concerns could continue to dissuade prosecutions even with FEPA, note legal experts, who also say enforcement will be difficult if governments are unwilling to extradite defendants.
Supporters of FEPA see it as a way to make fighting corruption a priority. The law requires the Justice Department to report annually on the frequency of bribes and its enforcement record.
FEPA puts fighting corruption “front and center,” said Patrick Stokes, who prosecuted the Bonny Island case while at DOJ and now is a partner at Gibson Dunn.
“As a practical matter the new statute only marginally expands DOJ’s tools for going after corruption,” he said, noting that money laundering laws can be used to prosecute foreign officials.
“The statue may have real deterrence value by making clearer to foreign officials that they can be prosecuted for soliciting and accepting bribes,” Stokes said.
Jason Linder, a former U.S. prosecutor who now works at Mayer Brown, said the demand side “has remained robust because corruption is endemic in some countries,” and existing enforcement in developed countries only reaches a “very small percentage of corrupt conduct.”
While FEPA is a “very constructive step,” Linder said, “it remains to be seen how DOJ will enforce it.”
Success, he said, will have to be measured “over the coming decades, not just the next few years.”
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Oracle is hiring two new teams to build its cloud faster and stronger
date: 2024-01-31, updated: 2024-01-31, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Infrastructure Delivery Engineering team to help build datacenters, data team to create new services
Amid widespread tech layoffs, Oracle is hiring for two new teams to help it build more cloud facilities, and services.…
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Musk Cannot Keep Tesla Pay Package Worth More Than $55 Billion, Judge Rules
date: 2024-01-31, from: VOA News USA
DOVER, Del. — Elon Musk is not entitled to a landmark compensation package awarded by Tesla’s board of directors that is potentially worth more than $55 billion, a Delaware judge ruled Tuesday.
The ruling by Chancellor Kathaleen St. Jude McCormick comes more than five years after a shareholder lawsuit targeted Tesla CEO Musk and directors of the company. They were accused of breaching their duties to the maker of electric vehicles and solar panels, resulting in a waste of corporate assets and unjust enrichment for Musk.
The shareholder’s lawyers argued that the compensation package should be voided because it was dictated by Musk and was the product of sham negotiations with directors who were not independent of him. They also said it was approved by shareholders who were given misleading and incomplete disclosures in a proxy statement.
Defense attorneys countered that the pay plan was fairly negotiated by a compensation committee whose members were independent, contained performance milestones so lofty that they were ridiculed by some Wall Street investors, and blessed by a shareholder vote that was not even required under Delaware law. They also argued that Musk was not a controlling shareholder because he owned less than one-third of the company at the time.
An attorney for Musk and other Tesla defendants did not immediately respond to an email seeking comment.
But Musk reacted to the ruling on X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter that he owns, by offering business advice. “Never incorporate your company in the state of Delaware,” he said. He later added, “I recommend incorporating in Nevada or Texas if you prefer shareholders to decide matters.”
Musk, who as of Tuesday topped Forbes’ list of the world’s richest people, had earlier this month challenged Tesla’s board to come up with a new compensation plan for him that would give him a 25% stake in the company. On an earnings call last week, Musk, who holds 13%, explained that with a 25% stake, he can’t control the company, yet he would have strong influence.
In trial testimony in November 2022, Musk denied that he dictated terms of the compensation package or attended any meetings at which the plan was discussed by the board, its compensation committee, or a working group that helped develop it.
McCormick determined, however, that because Musk was a controlling shareholder with a potential conflict of interest, the pay package must be subject to a more rigorous standard.
“The process leading to the approval of Musk’s compensation plan was deeply flawed,” McCormick wrote in the colorfully written 200-page decision. “Musk had extensive ties with the persons tasked with negotiating on Tesla’s behalf.”
McCormick concluded that the only suitable remedy was for Musk’s compensation package to be rescinded.
Greg Varallo, a lead attorney for the shareholder plaintiff, praised McCormick’s decision to reverse the “absurdly outsized” Musk pay package.
“The fact that they lost this in Delaware court, it’s a jaw dropper,” said Wedbush Securities analyst Dan Ives. “It’s unprecedented, a ruling like this. I think going in investors thought it was just typical legal noise and nothing was going to come out about it. The fact that they went head-to-head with Tesla and Musk and the board and voided this, it’s a huge legal decision.”
During his trial testimony, Musk downplayed the notion that his friendships with certain Tesla board members, including sometimes vacationing together, meant that they were likely to do his bidding.
The plan called for Musk to reap billions if Tesla, which is based in Austin, Texas, hit certain market capitalization and operational milestones. For each incidence of simultaneously meeting a market cap milestone and an operational milestone, Musk, who owned about 22% of Tesla when the plan was approved, would get stock equal to 1% of outstanding shares at the time of the grant. His interest in the company would grow to about 28% if the company’s market capitalization grew by $600 billion.
Tesla has achieved all 12 market capitalization milestones and 11 operational milestones, providing Musk nearly $28 billion in stock option gains, according to a January post-trial brief filed by the plaintiff’s attorneys. The stock option grants are subject to a five-year holding period, however.
Defense attorney Evan Chesler argued at trial that the compensation package was a “high-risk, high-reward” deal that benefited not just Musk, but Tesla shareholders. After the plan was implemented, the value of the company, based in Austin, Texas, climbed from $53 billion to more than $800 billion, having briefly hit $1 trillion.
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Alphabet just banked $3B by stretching life of its servers
date: 2024-01-31, updated: 2024-01-31, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Q4 results reveal AI is the answer to – or the reason for – everything: a cloud profit, wobbly ads, boosting subscriptions
Google’s parent company, Alphabet, has revealed it banked $3 billion by extending the working life of its hardware.…
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County getting closer to sidewalk vending
date: 2024-01-31, from: The Signal
Directors of Public Health, Department of Economic Opportunity deliver reports on new ordinances being proposed, what can, cannot be done Looking to start your own business selling food or other items on the street? The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors has your back. While not adopting any official ordinance, the five supervisors pledged at […]
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Raspberry Pi IPO: Selling out?
date: 2024-01-31, from: Jeff Geerling blog
Raspberry Pi IPO: Selling out?
<div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item"><p><img src="https://www.jeffgeerling.com/sites/default/files/images/pi-hundred-dollar-bill-8bit.png" width="500" height="auto" class="insert-image" alt="Raspberry Pi 5 blended into 100 dollar bill USD" /></p>Raspberry Pi is looking into an IPO (Initial Public Offering).
But wait, Raspberry Pi’s a non-profit! They can’t do that? And who would want stock in Raspberry Pi anyway? Their core market hates them—they abandoned hobbyists and makers years ago!
And there are like tons of clones and competitors, nobody even needs Raspberry Pi? Plus, aren’t they crazy-expensive? It’s like a hundred bucks now, and that’s if you can even find one to buy!
Well, hold on a second… there are a lotta misconceptions out there. In this post, I’ll walk through what’s actually happening, and also through things I see online.
This blog post is a lightly-edited transcript of a video on my YouTube channel, which you can watch below:
<span class="field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden"><span>Jeff Geerling</span></span>
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@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-01-31, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)
Popehat: "Apparently RSS feeds are super popular because I’ve had like 20 requests for one."
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Kimchi Consumption Grows, Thanks to K-Content, Health Claims
date: 2024-01-31, from: VOA News USA
washington — South Korean kimchi exports hit a record high amid a global surge in the popularity of Korean culture, hitting 44,041 tons in 2023, a 7.1% increase from 42,544 tons exported in 2021.
Kimchi, a traditional Korean dish made by fermenting cabbage or other vegetables, was exported to 92 countries from South Korea last year, with the United States and Japan being the top customers, according to BusinessKorea, a monthly magazine.
The United States imported more than 10,000 tons of kimchi in 2023, and Japan imported more than 20,000 tons. Kimchi exports to the United States have grown significantly in the past few years, increasing from $14.8 million in 2019 to $29 million in 2022, according to The Korea Daily.
Some experts see a connection between this rise in exports and the rising popularity of Korean entertainment content, such as K-pop and K-dramas. According to Forbes, U.S. viewership of Korean dramas rose 200% from 2019 to 2021, with TV shows like “Squid Game” topping the Netflix viewership charts in the United States.
Others attribute the rising popularity of kimchi to its health benefits, as fermented foods expand the diversity of digestive tract microbes.
Patrice Cunningham, founder and CEO of Tae-Gu Kimchi in Washington, spoke about the increase in popularity of kimchi in the United States.
“Kimchi is a huge part of the Korean diet,” she said. “They eat it as a side dish with almost every meal. … In the states now, we’re kind of implementing that same style of eating.”
Cunningham makes and distributes kimchi with her mother, selling both vegan and non-vegan varieties made from napa cabbage.
“I always knew that my mom had a really great kimchi recipe, and I remember saying to myself for a while that I wanted to bottle it one day and sell it,” Cunningham said.
She attends 15 to 16 farmers markets a week in the main season and has won multiple grants for her business, contributing to its growth.
She said many of their customers focus on their “gut health … and so they buy our kimchi for that.”
K-culture boosts popularity
Another Washington business that sells kimchi is Rice Market. Partner Sak Pollert said kimchi sales have increased significantly over the past two years.
He said more customers come in “with recipes on their phone, looking for Korean and other Asian ingredients, too.”
As to kimchi’s rise in popularity, particularly in the United States, Pollert said that many in Washington are world travelers already familiar with kimchi but don’t like the smell.
“But now, they learned it’s probiotic foods that taste good and help with digestion,” he said. “It helps make other foods taste better, so they get over the smell quickly.”
Pollert said he thinks that K-content has played an important role in bolstering kimchi’s global popularity. K-dramas “did a phenomenal job promoting kimchi and Korean food and drinks, especially soju,” a Korean grain-based alcohol.
He noted that restaurant and dinner scenes in many K-dramas feature ajummas — Korean for married or middle-aged women — gathering around a table to gossip and make kimchi before winter.
South Korea promotes its cuisine
This rise in popularity of kimchi, though influenced by multiple factors, is a part of a broader plan by the South Korean government to push Korean cuisine worldwide.
“South Korea’s government and corporations are thinking of ways to promote Korean food and profit from it,” National Public Radio’s Anthony Kuhn said in an interview with Yang Joo-Pil, an official at the South Korean Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs.
Yang said that each year, about 10 food items are chosen for product placement in popular dramas, and Korean foods are sold at K-pop concerts.
In Washington, efforts to promote Korean food and spread Korean culture are evident in the work of the Korean Cultural Center. Last November, the center partnered with Tae-Gu Kimchi for “DC’s First Kimjang: Making and Sharing Kimchi.”
Kimjang in Korea is an event that occurs once or twice a year “as a way for communities to collectively stock up on and share essential foods,” according to the Korean Cultural Center’s event page.
At the kimjang event, participants had the opportunity to try kimchi over rice and make their own kimchi in a hands-on workshop.
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Explorer May Have Found Wreckage of Amelia Earhart’s Plane in Pacific
date: 2024-01-31, from: VOA News USA
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Quick Charge Podcast: January 30, 2024
date: 2024-01-31, from: Electrek Feed
Listen to a recap of the top stories of the day from Electrek. Quick Charge is available now on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, TuneIn and our RSS feed for Overcast and other podcast players.
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Honda’s GB350 Classic-Style Roadster Makes Its Way To The Land Down Under
date: 2024-01-31, from: Ride Apart, Electric Motorcycle News
Folks in other parts of the world still eagerly wait for this charming retro-inspired machine.
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AMD bets demand for its MI300 accelerator will balance dips across other product lines
date: 2024-01-31, updated: 2024-01-31, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Chip biz aims to sell $3.5 billion worth of its Instinct GPUs and APUs in 2024 alone
AMD is depending on its newly launched MI300 accelerators and continued AI demand to offset an otherwise challenging start to 2024.…
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@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-01-31, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)
Microsoft doesn't know what it's doing with Copilot.
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Shoei’s Race-Ready X-Fifteen Now Comes In A Marquez Thai GP Edition
date: 2024-01-31, from: Ride Apart, Electric Motorcycle News
The limited edition race replica is set for release exclusively in Japan from April to June 2024.
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Matadors drop 17th straight game, fall to the Anteaters
date: 2024-01-31, from: The Sundail (CSUN student paper)
Another late game collapse by the Matadors (2-17, 0-9 Big West) led the Anteaters of UC Irvine (13-6, 7-2 Big West) to take advantage of the game on Saturday afternoon. Irvine scored 21 points off the Matadors’ turnovers and pressured them to force 19 turnovers, escaping with a 67-63 win. Even with the loss, CSUN…
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US House Committee Advances Homeland Security Secretary Impeachment Effort
date: 2024-01-31, from: VOA News USA
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May 31: City-Wide Revival Scheduled for Santa Clarita
date: 2024-01-31, from: SCV New (TV Station)
A City-Wide Revival will be held Friday, May 31 from 6:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. at Cougar Stadium on the campus of College of the Canyons in Valencia. The event is hosted by Eriona Grabocka Ministries. Admission is free.
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Matadors handle business against winless Marauders
date: 2024-01-31, from: The Sundail (CSUN student paper)
The shift from 11th-ranked University of Southern California to winless Central State University couldn’t have been any greater for CSUN men’s volleyball. The Matadors entered the game against the Marauders following a five-set battle against the Trojans in which CSUN barely eked out a victory. The Marauders, who are in their third season as a…
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Eurasian Owl Still on the Fly a Year After Escaping New York Zoo
date: 2024-01-31, from: VOA News USA
A rare owl has captured the hearts of New Yorkers after his unlikely escape from the city’s zoo. Many animal experts predicted he would perish within weeks, but he has proved them wrong. Aron Ranen has the story from the Big Apple.
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State Audit Finds Anaheim Tourism Bureau And Chamber Misused Public Funds
date: 2024-01-31, updated: 2024-01-31, from: The LAist
Some of those funds were improperly used by the Anaheim Chamber of Commerce to support business-friendly candidates through its political action committee, according to auditors.
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A Problem Solver
date: 2024-01-31, from: Santa Barbara Indenpent News
I appreciate that at the heart of Supervisor Hartmann’s goals is a voice for equality, dignity, and respect that is often lost in public office.
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Feb. 24: ‘Enchanted, The Secret Language’ at The MAIN
date: 2024-01-31, from: SCV New (TV Station)
“Enchanted: The Secret Language” featuring Mentalist Allen Gittelson will apppear on stage at The MAIN in Old Town Newhall on Saturday, Feb.
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Wednesday 31 January, 2024
date: 2024-01-31, from: John Naughton’s online diary
Cambridge, late afternoon Snapped on my way to a book launch in Heffers. Quote of the Day ”It would be possible to say without exaggeration that the miners’ leaders were the stupidest men in England if we had not frequent … Continue reading
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@Miguel de Icaza Mastondon feed (date: 2024-01-31, from: Miguel de Icaza Mastondon feed)
Found this bottle in a cabinet, and it is a gift of the gods.
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Come-to-Jesus Moment Arrives for Downtown Santa Barbara Property Owners
date: 2024-01-31, from: Santa Barbara Indenpent News
Is there support to create a new downtown improvement district?
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BMW to launch third all-electric i5 variant in March as a dual motor 2025 model
date: 2024-01-31, from: Electrek Feed
BMW Group recently shared a spring update to its growing line of EVs, which now includes a new all-wheel drive variant of the i5. The BMW i5 xDrive40 will kick off production in March and arrive as a 2025 model-year EV, priced between the eDrive40 and M60 variants.
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SBCC Nurturing a Pathway for Professional Journalism in the South Coast
date: 2024-01-31, from: Santa Barbara Indenpent News
Santa Barbara, Calif. (January 29, 2024) — The Channels, the student news outlet of Santa Barbara City College (SBCC), welcomes the campus
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Iran Wary of US Response After Deadly Attack on Troops
date: 2024-01-31, from: VOA News USA
Tehran, Iran — Iranian commentators warned Tuesday of a U.S. military retaliation after Washington pledged a “very consequential” response to troop deaths, but largely agreed that a full-blown war was not in the offing.
U.S. President Joe Biden blamed “radical Iran-backed militant groups operating in Syria and Iraq” for Sunday’s drone strike on a remote Jordan desert base near Syria and Iraq that killed three U.S. soldiers.
The first American military deaths in an attack since the October 7 outbreak of the Israel-Hamas war have ratcheted up tensions between the long-time enemies at the start of a U.S. election year.
Longtime foes Washington and Tehran have both been at pains to stress they do not want war, so Biden’s warning has left Iranians guessing about the next move.
“The possibility that Biden will order direct attacks on Iranian targets cannot be ignored,” political analyst Ahmad Zeidabadi wrote in the Ham-Mihan newspaper.
But he said any U.S. attacks would more likely target “the bases of Iranian forces in other countries.”
In a sign of heightened tensions, Iran’s rial slipped Tuesday to an all-time low of around 580,000 to 600,000 to the U.S. dollar on the black market.
The reformist Etemaad Daily newspaper also said it was “possible” the Biden administration — under political pressure from the Republicans — “will target limited but strategic targets inside Iran.”
“This scenario may spell the end of diplomatic efforts between Tehran and Washington,” it said.
Some of Biden’s Republican rivals have urged a direct attack on Iran, while the president said Tuesday that “a wider war in the Middle East” was “not what I’m looking for.”
Iranian officials were quick to deny any links to the Jordan attack, reiterating that Tehran also opposes an “expansion” of the conflict in the region.
Warning against ‘vengeance’
Iran’s Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian said Tuesday the solution to the crisis must be “political” and wrote on X that “diplomacy is active in this direction.”
China and Russia, which have friendly ties with Iran, urged de-escalation and restraint, and Beijing warned against a “cycle of retaliation” in the Middle East.
Another reformist newspaper, Shargh, called a direct confrontation “unlikely” and said “Tehran and Washington have already shown in the past their ability to contain direct conflicts.”
The Iran Daily, in a more strongly worded editorial, warned that Biden must “not be duped into a direct military attack on Iran to take vengeance for a strike launched by a third party.”
“Any insane move will definitely instigate a proportionate response from Iran which could lead to a full-blown war,” it said.
The United States and Iran have been bitter enemies since the 1979 Islamic Revolution.
Fears about Iran’s nuclear program have since led to punishing international sanctions, while U.S. ally Israel has fought a shadow war of killings and sabotage with Iran.
The United States and Israel accuse Iran-backed militant groups of fighting proxy wars in Lebanon, Iraq, Syria and Yemen, with the support of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.
In 2020, former U.S. President Donald Trump ordered the killing of revered Guards commander Qasem Soleimani in Baghdad.
Violence across the region has spiked since Palestinian militant group Hamas attacked Israel on October 7, sparking the bloodiest-ever Gaza war.
Iran has voiced support for Hamas and its allies — Hezbollah in Lebanon and Yemen’s Houthis — but insisted that the militant groups are acting independently.
It has also accused the United States of being an accomplice to Israel’s “genocide” in Gaza.
British ambassador summoned
The killings in Jordan follow a spate of attacks on U.S. forces in nearby Iraq and Syria, many claimed by the Iran-backed alliance Islamic Resistance in Iraq.
Tehran on Tuesday summoned the British ambassador to protest an unspecified “accusation” against the Islamic republic, after London said Iran-aligned groups were behind the Jordan attack.
Britain, along with the United States, also imposed sanctions on a network they allege targets Iranian dissidents.
Washington has repeatedly accused Iran of involvement in Red Sea attacks by Houthi rebels and of “actively facilitating” attacks on U.S. forces in other parts of the Middle East.
Iran’s ambassador to the United Nations, Amir Saeid Iravani, again stressed Tehran’s position in a letter published by the official IRNA news agency.
He wrote that no group affiliated with Iran’s armed forces, “whether in Iraq, Syria or elsewhere … operates directly or indirectly under the control of the Islamic Republic of Iran or acts on its behalf.”
The Etemaad newspaper judged that Washington “has no choice but to increase pressure” on Israel to end the Gaza war.
The conservative Javan newspaper warned that U.S. involvement in a regional conflict to support Israel would be a “perfect example of betting on a losing horse.”
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Oxford claims the world record for solar panel efficiency
date: 2024-01-31, from: Electrek Feed
Oxford PV, a spin-off from the University of Oxford, says it’s achieved the world record for the most efficient solar panel.
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The Performance Inequality Gap, 2024
date: 2024-01-31, updated: 2024-01-31, from: Alex Russel blog
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PgBouncer 1.22.0 released
date: 2024-01-31, from: PostgreSQL News
PgBouncer 1.22.0 has been released. The main feature this release adds
is support for the DISCARD ALL and DEALLOCATE
ALL commands when enabling prepared statement support in
transaction pooling mode (by setting
max_prepared_statements to a non-zero value). This is an
important improvement in the prepared statement support that clears the
road for us to be able to enable prepared statement support by default
in a future release.
Other than that this release contains some small improvements and bugfixes, including improvements to our recommended SystemD configuration files.
See https://www.pgbouncer.org/2024/01/pgbouncer-1-22-0 for more information, the detailed changelog, and download links.
PgBouncer is a lightweight connection pooler for PostgreSQL.
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vis for vi and fun
date: 2024-01-31, from: Robert’s Ramblings
I’ve been looking for a vi editor that my fingers would
be happy with. I learned vi when I first encountered Unix
in University (1980s). I was a transfer student so didn’t get the
“introduction to Unix and Emacs” lecture. Everyone used Emacs to edit
programs but Emacs to me was not intuitive. I recall having a heck of a
time figuring out how to exit the editor! I knew I needed to learn an
editor and Unix fast to do my school work. I head to my college
bookstore and found two spiral bound books Unix
in a Nutshell and “Vi/Ed in a Nutshell”. They helped remedy my
ignorance. I spent the afternoon getting comfortable with Unix and
learning the basics in Vi. It became my go to text editor. Somewhere
along the line nvi came along I used that. Eventually
vim replaced nvi as the default “vi” for most
Linux system and adapted again. I like one featured about
vim over nvi. vim does syntax
highlighting. I routinely get frustrate with vim (my old
muscle memory throws me into the help systems, very annoying) so I tend
to bounce between nvi and vim depending on how
my eyes feel and frustration level.
Recently I stumbled on vis. I find it a very interesting
vi implementation. Like vim it mostly conforms
to the classic mappings of a modal editor built on top of
ed. But vis has some nice twists. First it
doesn’t try to be a monolithic systems like Emacs or vim.
Rather then used an application specific scripting language
(e.g. Emacs-lisp, vim-script) it uses Lua 5.2 as its configuration
language. For me starting up vis feels like starting up
nvi. It is quick and responsive where my typical
vim setup feels allot like Visual Studio Code in that it’s
loading a whole bunch of things I don’t use.
Had vis just had syntax highlighting I don’t know if I
was would switched from vim. neovim is a
better vim but I don’t use it regularly and don’t go out of my way to
install it. vis has one compelling feature that pushed me
over the edge. One I didn’t expect. vis supports structured
regular expressions. This is the command language found in Plan 9
editors like sam and Acme. The approach to regexp is
oriented around streams of characters rather than lines of characters.
It does this by supporting the concept of multiple cursors and operating
on selections (note the plural) in parallel. This allows a higher degree
of transformation, feels like a stream oriented AWK but with simpler
syntax for the things you do all the time. It was easiest enough to
learn that my finger quickly adapted to it. It does mean that in command
mode my search and replace is different than what I used to type. E.g.
changing CRLF to LF
:1,$x/\r/ c//versus …
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This Month in Redox - January 2024
date: 2024-01-31, from: Redox OS News
This is the first in hopefully a regular series of posts about the progress we have made on Redox this month. We have been remiss in keeping you up to date on our progress, but this is an attempt to improve the situation. Since the last news post on our progress, there have several major accomplishments and many smaller ones. Forgive us if a few are left out. Request for Donations With all the exciting accomplishments of our contributors, it’s hard to believe that Redox is getting by on only a few hundred dollars per month in donations.
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