News gathered 2024-03-11
(date: 2024-03-11 10:51:43)
Role of the pea protein aggregation state on their interfacial properties
date: 2024-03-15, from: ETH Zurich, recently added
Grasberger K.F.; Lund F.W.; Simonsen A.C.; Hammershøj M.; Fischer P.; Corredig M.
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Economy-wide impacts of socio-politically driven net-zero energy systems in europe
date: 2024-03-15, from: ETH Zurich, recently added
Mayer, Jakob; Süsser, Diana; Pickering, Bryn; Bachner, Gabriel; Sanvito, Francesco Davide
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March 14: Castaic Union Regular Board Meeting
date: 2024-03-11, from: SCV New (TV Station)
The Castaic Union School District Governing Board will hold its regular meeting Thursday, March 14, at 6 p.m.
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Sting is bringing a different kind of concert tour through the Bay Area
date: 2024-03-11, from: San Jose Mercury News
Here’s how to get tickets to see the STING 3.0 concert tour at the Masonic in San Francisco.
https://www.mercurynews.com/2024/03/11/sting-is-bringing-a-different-kind-of-concert-tour-through-the-bay-area/ Save to Pocket
Hayward teacher arrested for allegedly inviting cop posing as girl to classroom for some ‘naughty fun’
date: 2024-03-11, from: San Jose Mercury News
Joseph Rudolfo Martinez, 37, allegedly snapped the picture of his penis while still inside his classroom at Tennyson High School.
https://www.mercurynews.com/2024/03/11/hayward-teacher-arrested-for-allegedly-inviting-cop-posing-as-girl-to-classroom-for-some-naughty-fun/ Save to Pocket
Bay FC suffers major blow as former Santa Clara goalkeeper Melissa Lowder endures season-ending injury
date: 2024-03-11, from: San Jose Mercury News
The 27-year-old was the club’s starting goalie during their most recent preseason match against Angel City.
https://www.mercurynews.com/2024/03/11/bay-fc-suffers-major-blow-as-former-santa-clara-goalkeeper-melissa-lowder-endures-season-ending-injury/ Save to Pocket
A surge of illegal homemade machine guns has helped fuel gun violence in the US
date: 2024-03-11, from: San Jose Mercury News
Communities around the U.S. have seen shootings carried out with weapons converted to fully automatic in recent years, fueled by a staggering increase in small pieces of metal or plastic made with a 3D printer or ordered online.
https://www.mercurynews.com/2024/03/11/a-surge-of-illegal-homemade-machine-guns-has-helped-fuel-gun-violence-in-the-us/ Save to Pocket
Biden’s budget includes tax breaks for families, hikes for the wealthy
date: 2024-03-11, from: San Jose Mercury News
Unlikely to pass the House and the Senate to become law, the proposal for fiscal 2025 is an election year blueprint about what the future could hold if Biden and enough of his fellow Democrats win in November. The president and his aides previewed parts of his budget going into last week’s State of the Union address, and they provided the fine print on Monday.
https://www.mercurynews.com/2024/03/11/bidens-budget-includes-tax-breaks-for-families-hikes-for-the-wealthy/ Save to Pocket
Daily Deals (3-11-2024)
date: 2024-03-11, from: Liliputing
The HP Pavilion Plus is a 14 inch laptop that debuted in 2022 as an affordable notebook with premium features including a metal body, thin and light design, and optional support for an OLED display or discrete graphics, among other features. HP has expanded the line since then, offering models with Intel or AMD processor […]
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Lily Gladstone’s upset loss to Emma Stone was expected for this reason
date: 2024-03-11, from: San Jose Mercury News
The surprise results of Sunday night’s best actress race has sparked debate about the nature of a leading role, the narrative focus on ‘Killer of the Flower Moon’ and Gladstone’s real accomplishments.
https://www.mercurynews.com/2024/03/11/lily-gladstones-upset-loss-to-emma-stone-was-expected-for-this-reason/ Save to Pocket
Tesla goes after Cybertruck owners selling their electric pickup trucks for profit
date: 2024-03-11, from: Electrek Feed
Tesla is following through with its threat to go after early Cybertruck owners selling their electric pickup trucks.
https://electrek.co/2024/03/11/tesla-goes-after-cybertruck-owners-selling-electric-pickup-trucks/ Save to Pocket
Liverpool unveils plans to build the world’s largest tidal power project
date: 2024-03-11, from: Electrek Feed
The City of Liverpool, England, has unveiled advanced proposals to build the world’s largest tidal power generator on the River Mersey.
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Justice Dept reportedly starts criminal probe into Boeing door bolt incident
date: 2024-03-11, updated: 2024-03-11, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Plus: Pilots on Lion Air’s Batik fall asleep and miss Jakarta
Alaska Airlines is reportedly cooperating on a US Department of Justice (DoJ) criminal investigation into Boeing regarding an incident which saw an aircraft plug blow out of a 737 MAX 9 mid-flight in January.…
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Comics from 1983/08 Today Mag
date: 2024-03-11, from: Computer ads from the Past
Time for some levity. The following comics were all found in the August 1983 issue of Today magazine. Enjoy! What computer ads would you like to see in the future? Please comment below. If you enjoyed it, please share it with your friends and relatives. Thank you.
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Our Pac-12 MBB tournament picks: The favorites stumble, Colorado rises and WSU stands to win from losing
date: 2024-03-11, from: San Jose Mercury News
We envision the Buffaloes beating USC in the championship game while Washington State participates against a unique competitive and financial backdrop.
https://www.mercurynews.com/2024/03/11/our-pac-12-mbb-tournament-picks-the-favorites-stumble-colorado-rises-and-wsu-stands-to-win-from-losing/ Save to Pocket
Nine Productions Filming in Santa Clarita
date: 2024-03-11, from: SCV New (TV Station)
The city of Santa Clarita’s Film Office released the list of nine productions currently filming in the Santa Clarita Valley for the week of Monday, March 11 - Sunday, March
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This Right-Hand Drive Mail Van Is A Rivian Underneath
date: 2024-03-11, from: Inside EVs News
Canada, meet your next electric mail van.
https://insideevs.com/news/711927/rivian-mail-van-morgan-olson-partnership/ Save to Pocket
Would You Pay Almost $20K For This Rugged Overlanding Camping Trailer?
date: 2024-03-11, from: Ride Apart, Electric Motorcycle News
It’s undoubtedly a clever, useful, and aesthetically pleasing motorcycle/ATV hauler, but…
https://www.rideapart.com/news/711769/sylvansport-goat-20k-overlanding-camper/ Save to Pocket
Driver barricades himself inside car in East Bay parking lot for hours before finally being taken into custody
date: 2024-03-11, from: San Jose Mercury News
The man went by ambulance to a hospital for evaluation, police said.
https://www.mercurynews.com/2024/03/11/driver-barricades-himself-inside-car-in-east-bay-parking-lot-for-hours-before-finally-taken-into-custody/ Save to Pocket
President’s NASA FY 2025 Funding Supports US Space, Climate Leadership
date: 2024-03-11, from: NASA breaking news
The Biden-Harris Administration Monday released the President’s Budget for Fiscal Year 2025, which includes funding to invest in America and the American people and will allow NASA to continue advancing our understanding of Earth and space while inspiring the world through discovery. “As history has proven, as the present has shown, and as the future […]
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With New Holocaust Museum, the Netherlands Reckons With Its Past
date: 2024-03-11, from: Smithsonian Magazine
The venue, which opens this week, memorializes the Dutch Jews who suffered at the hands of the Nazis
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/with-new-holocaust-museum-the-netherlands-reckons-with-its-past-180983924/ Save to Pocket
@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2024-03-11, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
Journalism talks about Trump’s trials, but they are trials for the Constitution too. If Trump is guilty (spoiler: he is) then if he isn’t punished we no longer have the rule of law. So don’t miss that we are on trial too. And – when journalism frames the faceoff as Democrat vs Republican, they ignore us, the people of the United States. Whether people know it or not, they will lose if the Republicans win. We know that, it’s provable. And anything that’s true should be built into the stories journalism writes about.
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Vision Pro’s Single-User Nature Hampers Apple’s Healthcare Aspirations
date: 2024-03-11, from: TidBITS blog
Apple is making much of the opportunities for the Vision Pro in healthcare, but it’s hard to see them making a significant impact while the Vision Pro remains a single-user device both digitally and physically.
https://tidbits.com/2024/03/11/vision-pros-single-user-nature-hampers-apples-healthcare-aspirations/ Save to Pocket
I love when my friend Matt Haughey does these nerdy product recommendation…
date: 2024-03-11, updated: 2024-03-11, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
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Sen. Bob Menendez Enters Not Guilty Plea to Latest Criminal Indictment
date: 2024-03-11, from: VOA News USA
NEW YORK — Sen. Bob Menendez and his wife pleaded not guilty on Monday to new obstruction of justice charges in a New York court.
The new charges were in a rewritten indictment returned last week against the Democrat in Manhattan federal court.
“Once again, not guilty your honor,” Menendez responded after Judge Sidney H. Stein asked him to enter a plea at a 20-minute hearing. Menendez had previously pleaded not guilty to charges in October.
Menendez and his wife, Nadine, entered the pleas to the indictment containing new charges of conspiracy to obstruct justice and obstruction of justice. Afterward, they briefly spoke to one another before leaving the courtroom together.
The couple is charged with conspiring with three businessmen to accept bribes of gold bars, cash and a luxury car in return for the senator’s help in projects pursued by the businessmen.
Two of the three businessmen they allegedly conspired with also entered not guilty pleas on Monday. A third, Jose Uribe, pleaded guilty two weeks ago to bribery charges and agreed to testify against the others at a trial set for May 6.
The new allegations — part of what is now an 18-count indictment — are related to gifts prosecutors say the couple received from Uribe.
According to the indictment, Menendez caused his lawyer to falsely tell prosecutors overseeing the investigation that he was unaware that another of his business associates had helped his wife make a $23,000 mortgage payment on her New Jersey home. It said Nadine Menendez caused her lawyer to tell prosecutors last August that the mortgage payment and funds provided by Uribe for a Mercedes-Benz were loans when she knew they were bribes.
Menendez said in a statement last week that prosecutors have “long known that I learned of and helped repay loans — not bribes — that had been provided to my wife.”
After his fall arrest, Menendez, 70, was forced to relinquish his chairmanship of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee but said he would not resign from Congress.
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Climate change means beer made from sewer water, says North Carolina brewery
date: 2024-03-11, updated: 2024-03-11, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Water? Like from the toilet?
Fancy a cold one? Would it change your mind if that frothy, frosty beer was brewed using treated wastewater?…
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Porsche’s new 1,092 hp Taycan Turbo GT steals another Tesla record as its fastest vehicle yet
date: 2024-03-11, from: Electrek Feed
The new Porsche Taycan Turbo GT is an all-electric powerhouse. With over 1,000 hp and a 0 to 60 mph in 2.1 seconds, it is the fastest, most powerful road-legal Porsche of all time.
https://electrek.co/2024/03/11/porsche-taycan-turbo-gt-tesla-record-fastest-vehicle/ Save to Pocket
March 13: Hart District Slated to Address Personnel Changes
date: 2024-03-11, from: SCV New (TV Station)
The regular meeting of the William S. Hart Union High School District’s Governing Board will be held Wednesday, March 13, beginning with closed session at 5:30 p.m., followed immediately by open session at 7 p.m
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ONEXPLAYER 2 Pro handheld gaming PC with Ryzen 7 8840U coming soon
date: 2024-03-11, from: Liliputing
The ONEXPLAYER 2 Pro is a handheld gaming PC with an 8.4 inch, 2560 x 1600 pixel display, an AMD Ryzen 7 processor featuring RDNA 3 graphics and a set of detachable controllers that give the little like a Nintendo Switch. One Netbook first launched the ONEXPLAYER 2 Pro in the summer of 2023, and […]
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March 10, 2024
date: 2024-03-11, from: Heather Cox Richardson blog
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@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-03-11, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)
Weeknotes.
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The world’s wire services call out British palace PR for a royally doctored photo
date: 2024-03-11, from: Nieman Journalism Lab
The British royals — they’re just like you and me! They get nervous before a big speech, they occasionally fall for quacks, and they’re not great at Photoshop. At least that’s the latest in a series of wouldyabelieveit claims that have pushed conspiracy talk squarely into the online mainstream. Let’s recap — though Ellie Hall’s piece…
https://www.niemanlab.org/2024/03/the-worlds-wire-services-call-out-british-palace-pr-for-a-royally-doctored-photo/ Save to Pocket
Improving Performance in Firefox and Across the Web with Speedometer 3
date: 2024-03-11, from: Mozilla Developer Network blog
In collaboration with the other major browser engine developers, Mozilla is thrilled to announce Speedometer 3 today. Like previous versions of Speedometer, this benchmark measures what we think matters most for performance online: responsiveness. But today’s release is more open and more challenging than before, and is the best tool for driving browser performance improvements that we’ve ever seen.
The post Improving Performance in Firefox and Across the Web with Speedometer 3 appeared first on Mozilla Hacks - the Web developer blog.
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Pen Pal Program Offers Unique World View to US, Ukraine Teens
date: 2024-03-11, from: VOA News USA
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The artist Laurie Anderson built a AI chatbot of her late husband…
date: 2024-03-11, updated: 2024-03-11, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
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Pen Pal Program Offers Unique World View to US, Ukraine Teens
date: 2024-03-11, from: VOA News USA
A teenage girl from Ukraine, which is dealing with the horrors of a Russian invasion, becomes pen pals with a teenage girl from the U.S. Their correspondence gives insight into two teenagers’ perception of the conflict.
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Kobo’s first eReaders with E Ink Color displays could be coming soon
date: 2024-03-11, from: Liliputing
E Ink’s color displays have been showing up in eBook readers for a few years, but most of the devices that have used the company’s color display technology have been niche companies without much presence in the US, like Onyx, Bigme, and PocketBook. Now it looks like Kobo may be planning to enter the space. […]
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PlanetScale ends free tier bid, sheds staff in profitability bid
date: 2024-03-11, updated: 2024-03-11, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
CEO defends decision in difficult tech market
Distributed database vender PlanetScale has made work-force lay-offs and ended its free-tier services in an effort to achieve sustainable profitability.…
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US Faces Growing Calls to Abolish the Death Penalty
date: 2024-03-11, from: VOA News USA
Even as some U.S. states explore new methods to implement the death penalty, there are signs that public opinion is turning against execution. VOA’s Veronica Balderas Iglesias looks at the arguments for and against capital punishment as the United States faces growing international calls to abolish the practice.
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March 12: Saugus Union Scheduled to Discuss Staff Changes
date: 2024-03-11, from: SCV New (TV Station)
The regular meeting of the Saugus Union School District Governing Board will take place Tuesday, March 12, with closed session beginning at 5:30 p.m., followed immediately by public session at 6:30 p.m
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The Book Collector’s Legacy: Preserving the Personal Library of Rabbi Simon Noveck
date: 2024-03-11, from: Internet Archive Blog
Growing up in New Jersey, Beth Noveck says she was surrounded by so many books in her home that it felt like a library. Her father, Simon Noveck, was a […]
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‘Sydney Sweeney Leak’ Malware is All Over Twitter
date: 2024-03-11, from: 404 Media Group
The platform is full of links to celebrity “leaks” that likely lead to malware.
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At the Intersection of Eggs and Omelet
date: 2024-03-11, updated: 2024-03-11, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
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Reddit wants to raise $748M with IPO, sets value at $6.4B… and it has yet to turn a profit
date: 2024-03-11, updated: 2024-03-11, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Time to start spamming those reposts: Top users are getting early access to 1.76 million shares
Redditors hoping to get in early on the company’s upcoming IPO had better hope they have a lot of karma in reserve.…
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SVB Crisis: A Year Later
date: 2024-03-11, from: Om Malik blog
Let’s file this one under the #TimeFlies category! It is hard to imagine that it was a year ago that Silicon Valley faced an existential crisis. Its premier financial institution, Silicon Valley Bank, was taken over by the federal regulators. It was one of the most difficult weekends of my working life as it threatened …
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The clock may be ticking for TikTok
date: 2024-03-11, from: Marketplace Morning Report
The House of Representatives is expected to take up a bill this week that could effectively ban TikTok in the U.S. if the Chinese company that owns it, ByteDance, doesn’t sell off the social media platform. That effort has rare bipartisan support. We’ll unpack the latest. Later: what to make of some firmer-than-expected inflation readings and how the marching band at Prairie View A&M is helping students’ career prospects.
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Five of this year’s Pulitzer finalists are AI-powered
date: 2024-03-11, from: Nieman Journalism Lab
Five of the 45 finalists in this year’s Pulitzer Prizes for journalism disclosed using AI in the process of researching, reporting, or telling their submissions, according to Pulitzer Prize administrator Marjorie Miller. It’s the first time the awards, which received around 1,200 submissions this year, required entrants to disclose AI usage. The Pulitzer Board only…
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The Apple Car Was Basically A Volkswagen ID. Buzz With Autonomous Driving
date: 2024-03-11, from: Inside EVs News
Plus, Tesla veterans still dominate the battery industry, and the vehicle subscription model is on the ropes.
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Rivian (RIVN) set to score extra incentives for bringing R2 production to Illinois
date: 2024-03-11, from: Electrek Feed
After announcing that R2 production will kick off in Illinois, Rivian (RIVN) is poised to earn additional incentives with plans to expand its Normal EV plant.
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Real book designer Catherine Casalino designed the real covers for the fake…
date: 2024-03-11, updated: 2024-03-11, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
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Feeling the industry-wide pinch, ONA makes programming cuts
date: 2024-03-11, from: Nieman Journalism Lab
The Online News Association will end some programming, including its long-running Student Newsroom and Innovation Lab, for financial reasons. For 20 years, the newsroom was “a signature component of ONA’s annual conference” that brought together hand-picked student journalists and experienced mentors to create coverage and experiment with digital journalism tools. The newsroom had been sponsored by…
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@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-03-11, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)
How to Turn Off Comments on Your Facebook Posts.
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AI models show racial bias based on written dialect, researchers find
date: 2024-03-11, updated: 2024-03-11, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Those using African American vernacular more likely to be sentenced to death, if LLMs were asked to decide
AI models may consume huge amounts of energy, water, computing resources, and venture capital but they give back so much in the way of misinformation and bias.…
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Digital Services Governance Framework
date: 2024-03-11, from: NASA breaking news
Summary In responding to Milestone 4.2 of the Digital Government Strategy, NASA heeded the Advisory Group’s encouragement to “build upon existing structures and processes as much as possible.” To locate the gaps in existing governance structures, NASA’s Digital Strategy response team identified all necessary decisions concerning digital services, using the three layers pointed out in […]
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EV Drivers Pay More In Taxes And Fees Than ICE Drivers In 36 States: Study
date: 2024-03-11, from: Inside EVs News
Owning an EV may be $368 more expensive per year than driving a gas car. But not in the way you’d expect.
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NASA’s Webb, Hubble Telescopes Affirm Universe’s Expansion Rate, Puzzle Persists
date: 2024-03-11, from: NASA breaking news
NASA’s Hubble and James Webb Space Telescope have tag-teamed to produce definitive measurements of the universe’s expansion rate.
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Tiny Tweaks to Neurons Can Rewire Animal Motion
date: 2024-03-11, from: Quanta Magazine
Altering a protein in the neurons that coordinate a rattlesnake’s movement made a slow slither neuron more like a speedy rattle neuron, showing one way evolution can generate new ways of moving.The post Tiny Tweaks to Neurons Can Rewire Animal Motion first appeared on Quanta Magazine
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@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2024-03-11, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
Next tab test: Do the tabs on news.scripting.com work??
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The 2025 Porsche Taycan Turbo GT With 1,092 HP Is Porsche’s New Performance King
date: 2024-03-11, from: Inside EVs News
It’s also the fastest series production electric car around Laguna Seca and the Nürburgring.
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Plus Post: Lobo MAX-80
date: 2024-03-11, from: Computer ads from the Past
The Computer Tandy Should Have Built (at least according to the ad).
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British Library pushes the cloud button, says legacy IT estate cause of hefty rebuild
date: 2024-03-11, updated: 2024-03-11, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Five months in and the mammoth post-ransomware recovery has barely begun
The British Library says legacy IT is the overwhelming factor delaying efforts to recover from the Rhysida ransomware attack in late 2023.…
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‘Young Indian Method’ Teaches TikTok Spammers How to Hire and Control ‘Third World Country Workers’
date: 2024-03-11, from: 404 Media Group
“Do not be scared to get rid of any indians slacking, wasting time, or offering poor quality within the team. Remember, these guys are easily replaceable. They are exactly like soldiers,” it says.
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Linux Kernel 6.8 released
date: 2024-03-11, from: OS News
Highlights of Linux kernel 6.8 include LAM (Linear Address Masking) virtualization and guest-first memory support for KVM, a basic online filesystem check and repair mechanism for the Bcachefs file system introduced in Linux kernel 6.7, support for the Broadcom BCM2712 processor in Raspberry Pi 5, AMD ACPI-based Wi-Fi band RFI mitigation feature (WBRF), zswap writeback disabling, fscrypt support for CephFS, a new Intel Xe DRM driver, and a multi-size THP (Transparent Huge Pages) sysfs interface. ↫ Marius Nestor at 9to5Linux There’s way more going on in this new release, of course, such as further Rust support, for instance in the Loongson architecture, additional support for tons of newer Intel processors , specific support patches for various laptops, and so, so much more.
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Tesla’s $3,000 Cybertruck Rooftop Tent Reminds Us Of The Pontiac Aztek
date: 2024-03-11, from: Inside EVs News
Tesla started shipping its so-called Basecamp tent and it feels like the 2000s again.
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European Commission infringed data protection law with Microsoft 365
date: 2024-03-11, updated: 2024-03-11, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Commission has until December 9, 2024, to put its house in order
The European Commission has been reprimanded for infringing data protection regulations when using Microsoft 365.…
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What We’d Add to Moto Guzzi’s New 2024 North America Experiences
date: 2024-03-11, from: Ride Apart, Electric Motorcycle News
The 2024 experiences from America tick all the classic blockbuster routes. But we added some to the list and want to know your favorites.
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MOD BIKES unveils new 2024 e-bikes with torque sensors, helmet turn signals, and more
date: 2024-03-11, from: Electrek Feed
MOD BIKES, the Austin, Texas-based maker of a wide range of electric bikes (including an impressive sidecar electric bike that I tested last year), is announcing today its 2024 lineup full of new models and impressive upgrades. In an unveiling at the South By Southwest Expo, the new e-bike models are taking center stage to show off their new features and tech, including upgraded performance, components, safety equipment, and accessories.
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Hundreds of Millions of People on the Left Side of the Bell Curve
date: 2024-03-11, updated: 2024-03-11, from: One Foot Tsunami
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Better, faster, stronger time zone updates on Android
date: 2024-03-11, from: OS News
From the beginning, time zone rules were a component in Mainline, called Time Zone Data or tzdata module. This integration allowed us to react more quickly to government-mandated time zone changes than before. However until 2023 tzdata updates were still bundled with other Mainline changes, sometimes leading to testing complexities and slower deployment. In 2023, we made further investments in Mainline’s infrastructure and decoupled the tzdata module from the other components. With this isolation, we gained the ability to respond rapidly to time zone legislation changes — often releasing updates to Android users outside of the established release cadence. Additionally, this change means time zone updates can reach a far greater number of Android devices, ensuring you as Android users always see the correct time. ↫ Almaz Mingaleev and Masha Khokhlova This is equal parts boring and equal parts amazing. The amount of work developers have to put into making sure timezones work is astonishing, and the fact that a large chunk of it is done by volunteers is even more impressive.
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25 Oscar snubs and unjust losses, including Do The Right Thing losing…
date: 2024-03-11, updated: 2024-03-11, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
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Oh servers!
date: 2024-03-11, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News
The other day I wrote proudly that we had better more reliable server software in 2024 than we did the first time we bootstrapped blogging communities.
And then this happened…
We’ve been having serious problems on feedland.com since Friday when I made a software version mistake. At first it caused the server to crash when you tried to subscribe to a new feed, so you’d get an awful error message, either from the FeedLand website, or the browser, saying the server had gone away. I quickly fixed that problem and another, and restored the server to some basic functionality. But when I did some work on my account over the weekend, I saw that there were new errors. And then noticed that none of my feeds had updated since March 8, they still haven’t.
We’re going to fix it this morning, by reverting the server software to the version as it was before the update, and the server should return to its previous reliability, Murphy-willing. Then we’re going to upgrade the database, and then install the new software, and try again. That won’t happen today and probably not tomorrow.
Most people probably don’t know that feedland.com is a project I’m doing with Automattic. It’s running in their cloud. This system should be able to scale up in ways that a Digital Ocean droplet can’t, where feedland.org and the new feedland.social are running. So when there are many thousands of users, we should be okay. That’s why I did the work to convert FeedLand so everything is stored in the SQL database, and nothing in the file system, among other changes that had to be made last year, like getting off Twitter for identity. That was not much fun, but it had to be done.
Anyway I am very sorry and embarrassed for the unreliable performance on our main server in the last few days. I can’t promise it won’t happen again, but we learned a lot in this experience, and in some cases re-learned.
It’s even worse than it appears and as they say – still diggin!
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@Miguel de Icaza Mastondon feed (date: 2024-03-11, from: Miguel de Icaza Mastondon feed)
The list of swift challenges on this post align very closely with my own challenges.
One day, when I am not obsessed with Godot I should contribute to fix these:
https://forums.swift.org/t/our-journey-with-swift-thus-far-some-notes-and-reflections/70510
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Volkswagen cancels plans to build ID.3 at main plant because ‘every euro counts’
date: 2024-03-11, from: Electrek Feed
Volkswagen has canceled plans to build its all-electric ID.3 at its main factory in Wolfsburg, Germany, due to low demand, adding that “every euro that we do have to spend counts.” It will keep production at its EV-only plant, where it has been shaving off jobs for months.
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Another fatal Tesla crash on Autopilot goes to trial, but with new evidence this time
date: 2024-03-11, from: Electrek Feed
Another fatal crash on Tesla Autopilot is going to trial, and while Tesla has won all of them in the past, this one has new evidence that could help the plaintiffs.
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Texas Doesn’t Like the EPA’s New Methane Rules
date: 2024-03-11, from: Heatmap News
Current conditions: It will be very blustery across the northeast today • Flooding and landslides killed 26 people in Indonesia • Catholics in drought-stricken Barcelona celebrated the coming of rain by carrying a figure of the Holy Christ through the city’s old town.
THE TOP FIVE
- Texas challenges EPA’s new methane rules
Texas is suing the Environmental Protection Agency over its sweeping methane rules that target oil and gas operations. Methane is a potent greenhouse gas that is 80 times more warming than carbon dioxide, and oil and gas sites are a key source of man-made methane emissions. The EPA regulations, announced late last year, ban polluting practices like routine flaring of natural gas from new wells, require wells to be regularly monitored for leaks, and phase out some old and leaky infrastructure. As Heatmap’s Emily Pontecorvo reported, the EPA says the rules will prevent the equivalent of 1.5 billion tons of carbon dioxide from being emitted between 2024 and 2038, almost as much as was emitted by all power plants in the country in 2021. Texas is the largest oil-producing state in the U.S. It challenged the rules late on Friday, accusing the EPA of “overreach.”
- Analysis shows Europe is woefully unprepared for climate change
Europe is the fastest-warming continent on Earth, heating at twice the global rate, but is underprepared for the “catastrophic” risks posed by climate change, according to an assessment from the European Union Environment Agency. The group considered 36 major climate risks, including ecosystem collapse, drought, and extreme heat, and concluded that unless preparations are made, hundreds of thousands of people could die from heat waves, and coastal floods could cost 1 trillion euros per year. The EEA warned that policymakers need to do more to shore up critical infrastructure, agriculture, and healthcare systems to prepare for extreme weather before it’s too late. “Our new analysis shows that Europe faces urgent climate risks that are growing faster than our societal preparedness,” said Leena Ylä-Mononen, the EEA’s executive director.
Climate
hazards pose risks to many essential services and
systems.EEA
- Low-voltage batteries failing in some EVs
Some new electric vehicles are experiencing repeated problems with their 12-volt batteries, reported The Wall Street Journal. These are the low-voltage batteries that have been found under the hoods of most cars for years. They power things like interior lights and electronics, and seem to be dying quickly in some brand new EVs, including models from Cadillac, Hyundai, and Rivian. “The 12-volt battery is in many ways a dated technology for cars on the road today, which are becoming more like computers on wheels and have greater power needs,” Ryan Felton reported for the Journal. “But switching to a higher-voltage system is also difficult because it would essentially mean wholesale changes to the supply chain for these parts.” Tesla’s Cybertruck has already moved to a 48-volt system, and the company’s director called it “the future for low voltage design at Tesla and likely the rest of the industry in due course.”
- Musk Foundation is ‘largely self-serving,’ according to NYT
A New York Times investigation calls into question the integrity of Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s charity, the Musk Foundation, accusing it of failing to give away the minimum amount of money to justify hefty tax breaks, and being “haphazard and largely self-serving.” The Musk Foundation has a history of donating millions less than is required by tax law, and the Times found that about half of its donations between 2021 and 2022 were linked to Musk in some way, including a food charity run by his brother and a school where Musk’s own children attended. “The really striking thing about Musk is the disjuncture between his outsized public persona, and his very, very minimal philanthropic presence,” said Benjamin Soskis, who studies philanthropy at the Urban Institute.
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- Seedlings from famous Sycamore Gap tree begin to sprout
Seedlings from England’s famous Sycamore Gap tree, which was felled by vandals last year, have sprouted. Conservation experts collected seeds and cuttings from the 300-year-old tree before it was removed from its home along Hadrian’s Wall and brought them to the National Trust’s conservation center with hopes of cultivating them and perhaps planting a new tree in the same location. The first seedlings began to sprout at the start of 2024. The conservation center is in a secret location in London. It houses genetic copies of important plants including the apple tree said to have inspired Sir Isaac Newton’s theory of gravity, and a tree where Henry VIII courted Anne Boleyn, according to The Guardian. “while there’s a way to go before we have true saplings, we’ll be keeping everything crossed that these plants continue to grow stronger and can be planted out and enjoyed by many in the future,” said Andrew Jasper, Director of Gardens and Parklands at the National Trust.
National
Trust
THE KICKER
America’s unusually warm winter forced farmers to start collecting maple syrup from trees more than a month early.
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UK and US lack regulation to protect space tourists from cosmic ray dangers
date: 2024-03-11, updated: 2024-03-11, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Damage to DNA, mutations, uncontrolled cell division and malignancy. Is space tourism worth the risk?
International regulations governing space flight lack rules to protect space tourism passengers from the ill-effects of cosmic radiation, according to researchers.…
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@Miguel de Icaza Mastondon feed (date: 2024-03-11, from: Miguel de Icaza Mastondon feed)
Swift is getting more delightful features for concurrency, love it: https://github.com/rjmccall/swift-evolution/blob/isolated-any-functions/proposals/NNNN-isolated-any-functions.md
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@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2024-03-11, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
Last night’s email was a
repeat of Saturday’s. The reason was the switch to
Daylight
Savings Time. This happens every year. The fix is to edit stats.json
in the mail sender app’s folder, and change whenLastUpdate
to the day before, save it, and restart the sender app. It immediately
sends out the correct email. I put this note here so I might find it
next time it happens and I forget how to fix it. 😄
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Vital Yet Vulnerable: Undersea Infrastructure Needs Better Protection
date: 2024-03-11, updated: 2024-03-11, from: RAND blog
The seabed hosts a large number of subsea cables and pipelines that provide communications services and oil, gas, and electricity to our societies. But this critical undersea infrastructure is vulnerable, and much of it has no specific defence mechanisms. What steps can be taken to protect it?
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FREISA the plant-watering robot dog | #MagPiMonday
date: 2024-03-11, from: Raspberry Pi News (.com)
Every dog has its day, and this is FREISA’s time to shine. David Crookes takes a look at an innovative plant-watering system.
The post FREISA the plant-watering robot dog | #MagPiMonday appeared first on Raspberry Pi.
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Tesla-battery maker Panasonic may add 4680 battery capacity to Kansas plant
date: 2024-03-11, from: Electrek Feed
Tesla battery supplier Panasonic Energy is considering pouring new investments potentially up to $4 billion in its De Soto, Kansas, plant to produce 4680 battery cells for the Tesla Cybertruck and Tesla’s next-gen vehicles.
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Will safety issues at Boeing seriously impact air travel?
date: 2024-03-11, from: Marketplace Morning Report
Consumer trust in Boeing is wearing thin since an airplane door ripped off a 737 Max 9 in January, which has been followed by a string of other recent Boeing safety incidents. So how much does faltering trust actually impact the business of air travel? Plus, President Joe Biden will unveil a new budget proposal today, and banks are still grappling with fallout of SVB’s failure one year on.
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Engwe L20 2.0 launched as super affordable folding electric bike
date: 2024-03-11, from: Electrek Feed
Engwe has recently updated its popular 20-inch e-bike, now launching as the Engwe L20 2.0. While it lacks some of the fancier features seen in many of today’s leading e-bikes, it still appears to pack in some solid performance at an incredibly low price.
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How do you lot feel about Pay or say OK to ads model, asks ICO
date: 2024-03-11, updated: 2024-03-11, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
And does it count as consent?
The UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has opened a consultation on “consent or pay” business models. We’re sure readers of The Register will have a fair few things to say.…
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China’s National People’s Congress comes to a close
date: 2024-03-11, from: Marketplace Morning Report
From the BBC World Service: China’s annual policy meeting has drawn to a close at a time when the country has mountains of debt, high youth unemployment and a property sector in crisis. So what is the government’s plan to boost confidence and steady the economy? Also on today’s program: Sweden officially joins NATO and an Australian politician unveils plans for the world’s largest chocolate fountain.
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Using LLMs to Unredact Text
date: 2024-03-11, updated: 2024-03-11, from: Bruce Schneier blog
Initial results in using LLMs to unredact text based on the size of the individual-word redaction rectangles.
This feels like something that a specialized ML system could be trained on.
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Linux for older phones postmarketOS changes its init system
date: 2024-03-11, updated: 2024-03-11, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Good news, everyone! The world’s favorite daemon, systemd, is coming to phones.
The team behind the leading replacement OS for end-of-life smartphones are to adopt systemd – to make working with GNOME and KDE easier.…
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The Federal Reserve Needs to Get Serious About Climate Change
date: 2024-03-11, from: Heatmap News
People really hate inflation. Fortunately, prices are
no longer rising nearly as rapidly as they were in 2021 and 2022.
However, we may be on the cusp of a longer epoch of periodic inflation
caused by climate change, one of the biggest long-term threats to price
stability. The Federal Reserve should act accordingly.
America’s central bank has a dual mandate: It calibrates monetary policy to maximize employment while minimizing inflation. With unemployment reaching record lows, the Fed has been focused on controlling the spike in inflation we saw from 2021-2022. It quickly raised interest rates over the last two years in order to cool the economy and put downward pressure on prices. And voila, after peaking in the summer of 2022, inflation has steadily fallen to manageable levels.
However, the Fed’s rate hikes may not have been the primary driver behind disinflation. Inflation, it’s often said, occurs when there’s too much money chasing too few goods. The Fed’s higher-interest rate policy primarily hit the too much money side of the ledger, decreasing demand by making it more expensive for people and businesses to borrow. But there’s mounting evidence that the bigger macro-economic problem was too few goods. The Roosevelt Institute did a close analysis of inflation’s decline since 2022, and found that prices of goods have fallen even while demand has increased. That suggests that most of the decline in inflation has been from increased supply — that is, inflation was cured by recovering from pandemic-era supply chain bottlenecks. Supply chains that got snarled by COVID-19 production shutdowns and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine slowly sorted themselves out; as more goods came on to the market, prices eventually stabilized.
Indeed, the Federal Reserve’s own data found that supply chain pressure closely tracked inflation. Researchers at the San Francisco Fed found that supply chain issues account for 60 percent of inflation in 2021 and 2022.
In order to prevent future inflation flare-ups, we must guard against other foreseeable supply chain shocks. The pandemic may have been a once-in-a-lifetime (let’s hope) calamity, but it won’t be the last supply pileup. Climate change is also expected to wreak havoc on the global movement of goods. As the planet warms, droughts, floods, and other extreme weather will become more frequent and more severe. That will lead to a rise in the magnitude and frequency of supply-chain disruptions as factories are evacuated or shipping routes become untraversable.
For example, in August 2022, Chinese factories were closed not due to the pandemic, but because of a brutal drought. These closures in turn froze international supply chains for cars, electronics and other goods. Significant waterways for international trade, like the Panama Canal and the Rhine, have seen their water levels periodically dry up so much that shipping vessels cannot pass through, halting the shipment of goods.
We’ll see more of this as warming worsens. As the White House Council of Economic Advisers said, “As [supply-chain] networks become more connected, and climate change worsens, the frequency and size of supply-chain-related disasters rises.” The CEA found that over the last 40 years, the frequency of natural disasters around the world has tripled, and the number of billion-dollar disasters each year has risen from five to 20.
Food prices are among the most visible — and painful — forms of inflation for consumers. And we’ve seen climate-related weather events drive up food prices in the past. As the U.S. Department of Agriculture recalled in its 2022 supply chain report, a severe years-long drought in the southern plains states in the early 2010s dramatically culled the population of beef cows and caused historically high beef prices. And global heat waves in recent years have sent the cost of staple crops soaring.
While some amount of warming is locked in at this point, doing all we can to cut emissions as quickly as possible will help minimize future supply chain disruptions. That requires building massive amounts of new clean energy infrastructure. In 2022, the federal government passed major climate legislation as part of the Inflation Reduction Act to offer hundreds of billions of dollars in subsidies to encourage the development of wind farms, solar arrays, and other clean energy sources, as well as financial incentives for consumers to purchase electric vehicles, heat pumps, and other clean-energy home upgrades.
Unfortunately, the passage of the IRA has coincided with the Fed’s generationally-high interest rate policy. High interest rates have made it much more costly to build renewable energy projects in the U.S. and around the world — especially expensive projects like offshore wind farms, which have seen multiple cancellations and delays due to higher-than-anticipated financing costs. High rates are also a heavier drag on renewable energy projects than fossil fuel projects because the bulk of the costs for a wind or solar farm are in upfront construction.
The Fed expects to begin gradually cutting interest rates over the coming year if inflation continues to cool. That would ease borrowing costs throughout the economy, which will help more clean energy projects get built and make EVs more affordable to more buyers. That’s a win-win: A swift pivot to a clean-energy economy will reduce emissions, which will also mitigate future weather-related supply chain shocks. And that will make it easier for the Fed to fulfill its mandate to manage inflation in the future: Lower interest rates now will help support rapid decarbonization, which in turn will reduce climate-induced inflation down the road.
That’s not to say that the central bank needs to morph into a “Green Fed.”
“The Federal Reserve is not and will not be a ‘climate policymaker,’” Chairman Jerome Powell said in October, when the Fed and other agencies unveiled guidance for how banks should manage climate-related financial risk. “Decisions about policies to address climate change must be made by the elected branches of government.”
The Fed takes a thousand-foot view of the economy, and can’t set rates based on the needs of any one industry, no matter how important. But as climate change reshapes the world around us, all institutions will feel its effects, including the Fed. While environmental goals won’t drive Fed policy, managing long-term inflation will mean paying attention to how the bank’s actions affect the climate. Just as the Fed monitors how interest rate policy affects key sectors like the housing market, it should also pay increasing attention to how it affects the clean-energy sector.
When the Inflation Reduction Act passed, the law’s name drew some scorn as a supposed misnomer for what was fundamentally a climate bill. But over the long haul, combating climate change is a big part of what we need to do to ward off inflation. If we fall short, then missed decarbonization opportunities today will increase the threat of extreme-weather supply-chain bottlenecks tomorrow. And that means more inflation. Even if it’s not a “climate policymaker,” the Fed will come to care about climate change.The only question is whether that happens years from now, when climate inflation arrives in earnest, or now, when we still have a chance to do something about it.
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With AI, Anyone Can Be a Victim of Nonconsensual Porn. Can Laws Keep Up?
date: 2024-03-11, from: The Markup blog
States around the country are scrambling to respond to the dramatic rise in deepfakes, a result of little regulation and easy-to-use apps
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How to Netflix Oracle’s blockbuster audit model
date: 2024-03-11, updated: 2024-03-11, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Terms and conditions apply. Lawyers need not
Opinion It’s a good rule of nostril that if your litigation department is a source of revenue, your business model stinks. The law is there to discourage delinquent behavior when all else fails, not to amplify power for profit. If there’s a better, fairer way to stop naughtiness, you should try that first.…
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@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-03-11, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)
Sam Altman's return to OpenAI's board leaves billionaires in charge of AI's destiny.
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Intern with superuser access ‘promoted’ himself to CEO
date: 2024-03-11, updated: 2024-03-11, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Older and wiser colleagues couldn’t see the funny side
Who, Me? Aaah … Monday! That wonderful week-opening day that brings with it so many possibilities. Including, as Register readers know all too well, the chance to make errors that must then be discreetly buried – the subject of our Who, Me?, our weekly reader-contributed tale of career-threatening bullets you’ve managed to dodge.…
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The Case for Nauseous Optimism
date: 2024-03-11, from: Robert Reich on Substack
Be concerned, but don’t despair
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VMware by Broadcom promises more, cheaper, training, starting around May
date: 2024-03-11, updated: 2024-03-11, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
But for now, smaller customers have been cut off from on-demand training content
Exclusive VMware by Broadcom will soon launch a new training experience that will offer “more training at a fraction of the cost they used to pay.”…
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Today in SCV History (March 11)
date: 2024-03-11, from: SCV New (TV Station)
1890 – Castaic Range War: Landowner William Chormicle brought to L.A. to stand trial for double murder. [story
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March 10, 2024
date: 2024-03-11, from: Heather Cox Richardson blog
As predicted, last week was an important one for the Republican Party. The Republicans’ rebuttal to the State of the Union on Thursday stayed in the news throughout the weekend. On Friday, independent journalist Jonathan Katz figured out that a key story in it was false. Senator Katie Britt (R-AL) described a twelve-year-old child sex trafficked by Mexican cartel members, implying that the young girl was trafficked because of President Joe Biden’s border policies.
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2024-03-07 Why do we even blog?
date: 2024-03-11, from: Alex Schroeder’s Blog
2024-03-07 Why do we even blog?
The urge to blog lives in a strange place. One speaks to an imagined audience. It is not enough to imagine an audience, though. It’s more than writing into a booklet, “Dear Diary, …” – and yet we do it even if there are no comments. Sure, I never had a lot of comments. But I think I’m just as happy getting the occasional email or reply on the fediverse. The thought of somebody reading the words is terrifying. And once I got that first comment, once I started linking the blog from my profiles, putting it out there for others to find, inviting people to read and implicitly, to judge… I started discovered that the blog was something I feared. The blog is a thrill. It makes me nervous. The heart beats. The heart bleeds.
Back when the blog had comments, I used to be anxious about comments. First, there’s a comment. Is it good or bad? Do I read it now? Do I risk a look? But then the imagined audience is still there and now it’s worse. How will I react as I am being watched? Blogging turns into a performance where I feel like I’m demonstrating my moral character. I am not a racist! I am not a white supremacist! I am not a homophobe! Or am I? All the discourse online has made me self-conscious. I really don’t want to be what I fear I might be without knowing it. I keep thinking of the idea that people who aren’t very observant being unable to perceive their own faults. The requirements go up when I learn more.
The effect of all that anxiety, for me, is that I take things seriously. Words are serious. I try to put my word where my heart is. I try to weight them carefully. I weigh my heart. Writing is morally intense. It doesn’t matter how long or how short the page, how trivial or how controversial the topic.
And above all of it hangs the grey sky of unspoken words, of thoughts unexamined and all that maladjustment, all the failures, all the judgements. How often have I found myself falling short of my own measure.
To blog is to wrestle with that. I imagine an audience that is strangely interested in all the things I am interested in. I write for them, for me, for my future self that looks back, the heart full of regret. I struggle for virtue and I put it into words for you and me, the imagined reader and myself. As proof. “I struggled!” I struggle. I keep on struggling to discover what is right and to do what is right.
Blogging is like writing secret confessions. I write about the things that I think I did well because I did them wrong and then I changed my mind. I write about the things I know because I did not know them before. And who cares about those laborious system administration blog posts where I struggle with this or that ephemeral problem. All these issues are lost pages. Nobody cares. People find their answers on Stack Overflow or Reddit or some other centralized platform where middlemen gamify the experience so that we can help each other while on the thread-mill for their pockets. And who cares about those blog posts about growing old or playing games? People read them and move on. Like I do, when I’m reading online. Even if I am moved, I will move on. And there are so many posts to read, the folders on my disk with saved articles and snippets are more like compost heaps, where layer upon layer of good stuff gets dropped, never to see the light of day again.
Perhaps it sparked a thought somewhere, and perhaps that spark starts a fire, somewhere, much later. There is practically no connection and that is fine. The world moves and humanity is moved like a dreamer, one thought knows not the next, and we all partake in that eternal digestion of the sleepless mind. Our books, our journals, our blogs, our posts, they all participate. Perhaps we fall for those waves of outrage and the galaxy brain has a seizure as we all throw our weight around in unison, crushing innocent lives, leaving those we hurt behind, forgetting them as quickly as we forget about the outrage.
Or perhaps blogging is leaving a trail of blazing sparks, each one sparking a fire in the next generation. Spending time reading blogs and posts on social media has certainly changed me.
Perhaps I would have grown older differently without reading blogs and blogging. And this is why I cannot stop blogging. To blog in that half-shadow where perhaps our thoughts are read and perhaps they are not, where every text lights up and shines and drops and sinks onto that great pile where thousands of text are rotting, that is to participate in the galaxy brain that is our world. Some of us can vote and some of us can talk. Some of us can fight and some of us will weep. I try to blog.
I try to blog to prove to myself that it was a struggle, that I tried to think long and hard about things and that I tried to do the right thing. I keep failing and so I must keep blogging.
p1k3 wrote back in 2022:
Writing about writing. Programming about programming. Meetings about meetings. The mind reflecting on its own function. … Writing about writing might not have quite the same potential for nested, generative dysfunction, but it often produces artifacts just as unintelligible. – meta meta
That quote seemed very appropriate for one of the two threads in my posts. The other thread is about the audience and I got a comment on that, too, by the same author:
Not that I have much to add here, but I do relate to this one. The ongoing tension of these feelings contrasted with the sense that (as I’m sure I’ve said many times before) existing in public seems almost entirely unsupportable to me now. And yet: Nothing else has quite the same power as writing for this audience you can never be sure of. The one that might not even exist, but if it does might be all kinds of things.
The pain of existing in public is a great way to put it.
2024-03-08. How to overcome that impostor feeling where you reread that text you wrote and you want to throw it away. Not worth the electrons it was written with! But who’s doing the judging: you, or that imagined audience I was talking about?
I think the point of blogging is for there to be a tiny, non-threatening audience. And really, who is going to read my blog? Internet stranger-friends, mutuals on fedi, those kinds of people. Maybe my parents. (Hi mom!) I can always anonymoblog somewhere else if I’m feeling anxious. Because writing in a paper notebook I don’t feel judged. Surely there’s a similar place, online. The key is to find that happy state where the imagined audience adds a little zest but not the Twitter wolves or Hacker News, or whatever the particular blogging nightmare might be.
For me, this imagined audience is more important than getting it right. Which is why I write my blog posts with the wiki spirit. All these sites are pretty similar, in essence. Blog, wiki, digital garden, Zettelkasten, there’s not enough difference to draw lines. It’s all a question of intent, of culture, of belonging. The blog spirit is to write pages over time, and they disappear into the archive. The digital garden spirit is to write unfinished articles and papers, to be refined or not. The Zettelkasten spirit is to follow the trail of thoughts you thought and add new branches, small notes with new thoughts leading to more thoughts on new notes. And the wiki spirit is to write and edit online, to hit the Save button and then it’s live. There is no editor, there is no draft. Wiki is like brutalism in content management. I can see the page sources and the end result is obvious and full of that old web power. It’s not an app. The software has no idea of process. The wiki spirit is to open that window, write the text and hit save. And then I read it again, and edit it. And tomorrow, I read it again, and edit it. And next week, perhaps, I read it again, and edit it.
I no longer live in the Wiki Now. The pages are intended for future readers but they are not timeless. I add timestamps all over the place. The blog spirit is strong. The pages do disappear into the great compost of thoughts. The archive gobbles them up. I do go back but I don’t rewrite the pages completely. I’m more likely to simply add a timestamp and some thoughts like I did on this page.
I do remove stuff I stumble across that I don’t like at all. I do leave some bad things in there to remind me of bad decisions made, of bad opinions held.
What I want to say, most of all, is that blog posts aren’t gems. They are not precious books. They are not newspaper articles. They are not job applications. And if I don’t like it tomorrow, I edit it. I revise it. Or I write a new page saying how I learned something, or regret something, or I add something. I add stuff to the bottom of pages or I add new pages. What I don’t do is polish the old posts. There will be more great posts in the future. The important part is the writing.
2024-03-09. I’m reading The work of creation in the age of AI by Andrew Perfors and thinking about the part where meaning is discussed.
Meaning without an audience:
If I am writing an essay or diary entry to myself, the goal is … generally to clarify my own thoughts, to identify flaws in my thinking, or to distil the logic and motivations behind my ideas. I might have a more emotional goal - I might want to vent to myself or to express a feeling. I might want to improve my emotional regulation, feel better about life, or change those feelings somehow.
And then with an audience:
… once I decided I might actually want to post it, I changed it in important ways. I included a lot more explanation of things that were clear in my head but I thought would be non-obvious to others (and, in so doing, often I clarified them for myself too!). I fiddled with the structure and the argument flow, took some things out, put others in.
I got an email from @bouncepaw with a link to a reply. Thanks!
This is how it starts:
This article gets better every time I open it because Alex adds something to it.
I wrote about my propensity to “add” to pages up above (I’m doing it again!) and perhaps this would be a good place to talk about the two “views” for this site: blog & wiki.
A blog is organized by the timeline. The Home page lists all the pages in the order of their creation.
A wiki is organized by Recent Changes. The Changes page lists all the pages recently edited (unless I unset a checkbox).
So this site has both natures. And both views have a feed: blog feed & wiki feed.
I think you need quite some wiki-affinity to subscribe to the wiki feed. But it’s there for you.
2024-03-10. Got another reply by email, by fab – who hosts their site on Gopher, Gemini, and the web. Reminds me of the time I had a working Gopher setup. And now I’m remembering the endless bot spiders. Yikes. I still think there should be a way to better control the bots.
2024-03-11. Dozens also wrote a blog about blogging!
You may be wondering where blogs come from and why you would do a blog. If so, keep reading! – doing a blog
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China pushes its payment platforms towards an international presence
date: 2024-03-11, updated: 2024-03-11, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Bejing allows easier access to AliPay and Tencent’s Weixin, and higher spending limits too
China’s main payment systems, Alipay and WeChat Pay, eased access for foreign users on Friday, a day after Beijing issued new guidelines for its payment industry.…
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Is AI an Existential Risk? Q&A with RAND Experts
date: 2024-03-11, updated: 2024-03-11, from: RAND blog
What are the potential risks associated with AI? Might any of these be catastrophic or even existential? And as momentum builds toward boundless applications of this technology, how might humanity reduce AI risk and navigate an uncertain future?
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UC Santa Barbara Baseball Completes Sweep of UConn With 12-1 Victory
date: 2024-03-11, from: Santa Barbara Indenpent News
The Gauchos will host UNLV on Tuesday beginning at 4:35 p.m.
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Microsoft waited 6 months to patch actively exploited admin-to-kernel vulnerability
date: 2024-03-11, updated: 2024-03-11, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
PLUS: NSA shares cloud security tips; Infosec training for Jordanian women; Critical vulnerabilities
Infosec in brief Cybersecurity researchers informed Microsoft that Notorious North Korean hackers Lazarus Group discovered the “holy grail” of rootkit vulnerabilities in Windows last year, but Redmond still took six months to patch the problem.…
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“Trials by Fire” metal casting show highlights students’ sculptures
date: 2024-03-11, from: The Sundail (CSUN student paper)
Students from the California State University, Northridge bronze casting class curated a metal casting show last week to show their artwork to students, friends and family. The event titled “Trials…
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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is back on the company’s board, along with three new members
date: 2024-03-11, updated: 2024-03-11, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
PLUS: Microsoft bars prompts to make Copilot less violent and NSFW
AI in brief OpenAI’s CEO Sam Altman has returned the company’s board and will serve alongside three new members.…
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‘Oppenheimer’ Wins Best Picture at Academy Awards, Emma Stone Takes Best Actress
date: 2024-03-11, from: VOA News USA
Los Angeles — “Oppenheimer,” a solemn three-hour biopic that became an unlikely billion-dollar box-office sensation, was crowned best picture at a 96th Academy Awards that doubled as a coronation for Christopher Nolan.
After passing over arguably Hollywood’s foremost big-screen auteur for years, the Oscars made up for lost time by heaping seven awards on Nolan’s blockbuster biopic, including best actor for Cillian Murphy, best supporting actor for Robert Downey Jr. and best director for Nolan.
In anointing “Oppenheimer,” the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences did something it hasn’t done for more than a decade: hand its top prize to a widely seen, big-budget studio film. In a film industry where a cape, dinosaur or Tom Cruise has often been a requirement for such box office, “Oppenheimer” brought droves of moviegoers to theaters with a complex, fission-filled drama about J. Robert Oppenheimer and the creation of the atomic bomb.
“For better or worse, we’re all living in Robert Oppenheimer’s world,” said Murphy in his acceptance speech. “I’d like to dedicate this to the peacemakers.”
As a film heavy with unease for human capacity for mass destruction, “Oppenheimer” also emerged – even over its partner in cultural phenomenon, “Barbie” – as a fittingly foreboding film for times rife with cataclysm, man-made or not. Sunday’s Oscars at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles unfolded against the backdrop of wars in Gaza and Ukraine, and with a potentially momentous U.S. election on the horizon.
The most closely watched contest of the Academy Awards went to Emma Stone, who won best best actress for her performance as Bella Baxter in “Poor Things.”
In what was seen as the night’s most nail-biting category, Stone won over Lily Gladstone of “Killers of the Flower Moon.” Gladstone would have become the first Native American to win an Academy Award.
Instead, Oscar voters couldn’t resist the full-bodied extremes of Stone’s “Poor Things” performance. The win for Stone, her second best actress Oscar following her 2019 win for “La La Land,” confirmed the 35-year-old as arguably the preeminent big-screen actress of her generation. The list of women to win best actress two or more times is illustrious, including Katherine Hepburn, Frances McDormand, Ingrid Bergman and Bette Davis.
“Oh, boy, this is really overwhelming,” said Stone.
Nolan has had many movies in the Oscar mix before, including “Inception,” “Dunkirk” and “The Dark Knight.” But his win Sunday for direction is the first Academy Award for the 53-year-old filmmaker.
In his acceptance speech, Nolan noted cinema is just over a hundred years old.
“We don’t know where this incredible journey is going from here,” said Nolan. “But to think that I’m a meaningful part of it means the world to me.”
Protest and politics intruded on an election-year Academy Awards on Sunday, where demonstrations for Gaza raged outside the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles, and awards went to “Oppenheimer,” “The Zone of Interest” and “20 Days in Mariupol.”
Sunday’s broadcast, hosted by Jimmy Kimmel, had plenty of razzle dazzle, including a sprawling song-and-dance rendition of the “Barbie” hit “I’m Just Ken” by Ryan Gosling, with an assist on guitar by Slash. A sea of Kens swarmed the stage.
The lead winner, as expected was “Oppenheimer,” the blockbuster biopic. Though not quite the clean sweep that some expected, “Oppenheimer” was overpowering all competition — including its release-date companion, “Barbie” — winning awards for its cinematography, editing, score and Robert Downey Jr.’s supporting performance.
Downey, nominated twice before (for “Chaplin” and “Tropic Thunder”), notched his first Oscar, crowning the illustrious second act of his up-and-down career.
“I’d like to thank my terrible childhood and the academy, in that order,” said Downey, the son of filmmaker Robert Downey Sr.
“Barbie,” last year’s biggest box-office hit with more than $1.4 billion in ticket sales, didn’t win an award until almost three hours into the ceremony. It won best song (sorry, Ken) for Billie Eilish and Finneas’ “What Was I Made For?” It’s their second Oscar, two years after winning for their James Bond theme, “No Time to Die.”
But after an awards season that stayed largely inside a Hollywood bubble, geopolitics played a prominent role. Protests over Israel’s war in Gaza snarled traffic around the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles, slowing stars’ arrival on the red carpet and turning the Oscar spotlight toward the ongoing conflict. Some protesters shouted “Shame!” at those trying to reach the awards.
Jonathan Glazer, the British filmmaker whose chilling Auschwitz drama “The Zone of Interest” won best international film, drew connections between the dehumanization depicted in his film and today.
“Right now, we stand here as men who refute their Jewishness and the Holocaust being hijacked by an occupation which has led to conflict for so many innocent people, whether the victims of October the 7th in Israel, or the the ongoing attack on Gaza, all the victims, this dehumanization, how do we resist?”
The war in Gaza was on the minds of many attendees, as was the war in Ukraine. A year after “Navalny” won the same award, Mstyslav Chernov’s “20 Days in Mariupol,” a harrowing chronicle of the early days of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, won best documentary. The win, a first for The Associated Press and PBS’ “Frontline,” came as the war in Ukraine passed the two-year mark with no signs of abating.
Mstyslav Chernov, the Ukrainian filmmaker and AP journalist whose hometown was bombed the day he learned of his Oscar nomination, spoke forcefully about Russia’s invasion.
“This is the first Oscar in Ukrainian history,” said Chernov. “And I’m honored. Probably I will be the first director on this stage to say I wish I’d never made this film. I wish to be able to exchange this (for) Russia never attacking Ukraine.”
In the early going, Yorgos Lanthimos’ Frankenstein-riff “Poor Things” ran away with three prizes for its sumptuous craft, including awards for production design, makeup and hairstyling and costume design.
Kimmel, hosting the ABC telecast for the fourth time, opened the awards with a monologue that drew a few cold looks (from Downey, Sandra Hüller and Messi, the dog from best-picture nominee “Anatomy of a Fall”). But Kimmel, emphasizing Hollywood as “a union town” following 2023’s actor and writer strikes, drew a standing ovation for bringing out teamsters and behind-the-scenes workers — who are now entering their own labor negotiations.
The night’s first award was one of its most predictable: Da’Vine Joy Randolph for best supporting actress, for her performance in Alexander Payne’s “The Holdovers.” An emotional Randolph was accompanied to the stage by her “Holdovers” co-star Paul Giamatti.
“For so long I’ve always wanted to be different,” said Randolph. “And now I realize I just need to be myself.”
Though Randolph’s win was widely expected, an upset quickly followed. Hayao Miyazaki’s “The Boy and the Heron” won for best animated feature, a surprise over the slightly favored “Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse.” Miyazaki, the 83-year-old Japanese anime master who came out of retirement to make “The Boy and the Heron,” didn’t attend the ceremony. He also didn’t attend the 2003 Oscars when his “Spirited Away” won the same award.
Best original screenplay went to “Anatomy of a Fall,” which, like “Barbie,” was penned by a couple: director Justine Triet and Arthur Harari. “This will help me through my midlife crisis, I think,” said Triet.
In adapted screenplay, where “Barbie” was nominated — and where some suspected Greta Gerwig would win after being overlooked for director — the Oscar went to Cord Jefferson, who wrote and directed his feature film debut “American Fiction.” He pleaded for executives to take risks on young filmmakers like himself.
“Instead of making a $200 million movie, try making 20 $10 million movies,” said Jefferson, previously an award-winning TV writer.
The Oscars belonged largely to theatrical-first films. Though it came into the awards with 19 nominations, Netflix was a bit player. Its lone win came for live action short: Wes Anderson’s “The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar,” based on the story by Roald Dahl.
While “Barbie” bested (and helped lift) “Oppenheimer” at the box office, it took a back seat to Nolan’s film at the Oscars. Gerwig was notably overlooked for best director, sparking an outcry that some, even Hillary Clinton, said mimicked the patriarchy parodied in the film.
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@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2024-03-11, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
Journalism is missing the story of the century. Does the American experiment end here? That’s the horse race worth covering.
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Wes Anderson has finally won an Oscar. Not Best Director though… Best…
date: 2024-03-11, updated: 2024-03-11, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
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Crow Funeral
date: 2024-03-11, from: Margaret Atwood’s substack
An update on the Pelee Island Bird Observatory, where your money is going, Dear Paid Subscribers…
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Election Countdown, 240 Days to Go: The General Election Campaign Has Begun.
date: 2024-03-11, from: James Fallows, Substack
A speech that was even harder-edged than it sounded. Plus, what Joe Biden has learned from Elmore Leonard. (A speech annotation.)
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Monday 11 March, 2024
date: 2024-03-11, from: John Naughton’s online diary
Guess which way the wind blows North Norfolk Quote of the Day “ Critical thinking without hope is cynicism, but hope without critical thinking is naïvete.” Maria Popova Reminds me of Gramsci’s adage — that what we need is “pessimism … Continue reading
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Linux 6.9 will be the first to top ten million Git objects
date: 2024-03-11, updated: 2024-03-11, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
For now, have Linux 6.8, which Linus Torvalds could find no reason to delay
Linus Torvalds has released version 6.8 of the Linux Kernel.…
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Episode 127 - Nim
date: 2024-03-11, from: Advent of Computing
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Film festival seeks to inspire environmental action
date: 2024-03-11, from: The Signal
The Santa Clarita Valley Eco Alliance held its first-ever Eco Film Festival at College of the Canyons on Saturday, aimed to generate awareness, open discussion and solutions for the future on current environmental issues. The festival was a joint project created by the local Eco Alliance chapter in collaboration with a dozen local nonprofit organizations. […]
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SCV Chinese Dance shares culture through movement
date: 2024-03-11, from: The Signal
On SCV Chinese Dance’s official website, the group’s mission statement is “preserving, sharing, enjoying, and teaching traditional and modern Chinese dance.” When talking to group leader and founder Christine Chen, it becomes clear just how important sharing her culture to others is to her. “I don’t care if I get paid or not,” she said. […]
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@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-03-11, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)
Democrats are angry over media coverage of Biden.
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Digital David versus Tech Giant Goliath: Interview with Michiel Leenaars on Radio 1
date: 2024-03-11, updated: 2024-03-11, from: nlnet feed
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Few Female Lawmakers in US Statehouses
date: 2024-03-10, from: VOA News USA
CHARLESTON, W.Va — Democrat Kayla Young and Republican Patricia Rucker frequently clash on abortion rights and just about everything else in West Virginia’s Legislature, but they agree on one thing: Too few of their colleagues are women, and it’s hurting the state.
“There are exceptions to every single rule, but I think in general, men do kind of see this as their field,” said Rucker, part of the GOP’s Senate supermajority that passed one of the nation’s strictest abortion bans while Young — the lone Democratic woman elected to the House — opposed it.
Nearly 130 years since the first three women were elected to state legislative offices in the U.S., women remain massively underrepresented in state legislatures.
In 10 states, women make up less than 25% of their state legislatures, according to Rutgers’ Center for American Women in Politics. West Virginia is at the very bottom of that list, having just 16 women in its 134-member Legislature, or just under 12%. That’s compared with Nevada, where women occupy just over 60% of state legislative seats. Similarly low numbers can be found in the nearby southern states of Mississippi, South Carolina, Tennessee and Louisiana.
“It’s absolutely wild to know that more than 50 percent of the population of West Virginia are women, and sometimes I’m the only woman that’s on a committee, period,” said Young, currently the only woman on the House Artificial Intelligence Committee and was one of just two on the House Judiciary Committee when it greenlighted the state’s near total abortion ban.
The numbers of women filling legislative seats across the U.S. have remained low despite women registering and voting at higher rates than men in every presidential election since 1980 — and across virtually every demographic, including race, education level and socioeconomic status.
For the last three decades, voters have demonstrated a willingness to cast ballots for women. But they didn’t have the opportunity to do so because women weren’t running, said Jennifer Lawless, chair of the politics department at the University of Virginia.
“The gender gap in political ambition is just as large now as it was then,” said Lawless, adding that women are much less likely to get recruited to run for office or think they’re qualified to run in what they perceive as a hostile political environment.
And those running in southern, conservative states — still mostly Democratic women, data show — aren’t winning as those states continue to overwhelmingly elect Republicans.
In 2022, 39 women ran as their party’s nominee for state legislative seats in West Virginia, and 26 were Democrats. Only two of the Democratic candidates won, compared to 11 out of 13 of the Republicans.
Debbie Walsh, director of Rutgers’ Center for American Women in Politics, said there’s more money, infrastructure and support for recruiting and running Democratic female candidates. The Republican Party often shies away from talking about what is labeled or dismissed as “identity politics,’” she said.
“It’s a belief in a kind of meritocracy and, ‘the best candidate will rise. And if it’s a woman, great.’ They don’t say, ‘We don’t want women, but if it’s a man, that’s fine, too,’” she said. “There’s no sort of value in and of itself seen in the diversity.”
Larissa Martinez, founder and president of Women’s Public Leadership Network, one of only a few right-leaning U.S. organizations solely supporting female candidates, said identity politics within the GOP is a big hurdle to her work. Part of her organization’s slogan is, “we are pro-women without being anti-man.”
In 2020, small-town public school teacher Amy Grady pulled off a huge political upset when she defeated then-Senate President Mitch Carmichael in West Virginia’s Republican primary, following back-to-back years of strikes in which school employees packed into the state Capitol.
Carmichael took in more than $127,000 in contributions compared to Grady’s self-funded war chest of just over $2,000. Still, Grady won by fewer than 1,000 votes.
“It’s just you’re told constantly, ‘You can’t, you can’t, you can’t do it,’” said Grady, who has now risen through the ranks to become chair of the Senate Education Committee. “And it’s just like, why give it a shot?”
Tennessee state Sen. Charlane Oliver says she didn’t have many resources when she first raised her hand to run for political office. She had to rely on grassroots activism and organizing to win her 2022 election.
Yet securing the seat was just part of the battle. Oliver, a 41-year-old Black Democratic woman, is frequently tasked with providing the only outside perspective inside for the Republican supermajority Legislature.
“They don’t have any incentive to listen to me, but I view my seat as disruption and give you a perspective that you may not have heard before,” she said.
Many male-dominant statehouses have enacted strict abortion bans in GOP-controlled states since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022. For many female lawmakers, this trend has meant sharing deeply personal stories surrounding abortion and childbirth.
In South Carolina, the abortion debate resulted in an unlikely coalition of women banding together to filibuster a near-total abortion ban. The five female senators — three Republicans, two Democrats and one independent — quickly became known as the “sister senators” as they took turns describing pregnancy complications, the dangers surrounding limited access to contraceptives and the reproductive system.
Their actions were met with praise from national leaders, but at home, the consequences have been swift. The Republican women received censures and promises of primary challenges in this year’s elections.
Women also have championed gun policy, education, health care, and housing proposals.
Recently, some states have allowed candidates to make childcare an allowable expense for campaign finance purposes. Young was the sponsor of her state’s law — one of her priorities during her first session in the Capitol in the minority party.
During Young’s first term in office, she relied on a family member who would care for her two young children while he was at the state Capitol. But she was left without a solution last year when that caregiver passed away unexpectedly days before the session. Her husband, who works in television production, had to stay home and didn’t work for two months, meaning the family lost out on his income.
Young’s bill won the vote of Rucker, the first Hispanic woman elected to the West Virginia Senate. She too has had to juggle the challenges of being a working mom. She left her job as a teacher to homeschool her five children, and the family relied on her husband’s salary as a pediatric nurse to make ends meet.
“I ran for office because I feel like having that voice is actually really important — someone who lives paycheck to paycheck,” said Rucker, a first-generation U.S. citizen who made the difficult decision to pull her kids. “I’m not here because of a title, I’m not here because of a position, I’m here to do my job, and I want to do the best I can.”
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Singtel loses $260 million tax case in Australia
date: 2024-03-10, updated: 2024-03-10, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
PLUS: Chinese tops Steam’s language charts; HPE opens Saudi server factory; Indian government apps have flaws
Asia in brief Australia’s Federal Court last Friday dismissed Singtel’s appeal against a past ruling that it engaged in transfer pricing and therefore owes millions in tax.…
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Women’s basketball brings home the hardware
date: 2024-03-10, from: The Daily Trojan (USC Student Paper)
No. 5 USC earned its first Pac-12 title since 2014 after it defeated No. 2 Stanford on Sunday in the Pac-12 tournament championship.
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Accessibility improvements in GTK 4.14
date: 2024-03-10, from: OS News
GTK 4.14 brings various improvements on the accessibility front, especially for applications showing complex, formatted text; for WebKitGTK; and for notifications. ↫ Emmanuele Bassi Excellent improvements that, if you listen to those that need these improvements, are sorely needed in GTK 4.
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Everything there is to know about Windows 1.x
date: 2024-03-10, from: OS News
Here you can find everything there is to know about the first version of Windows. ↫ David Simunič And they truly mean everything. This is an exceptional amount of information about Windows 1.0.
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House panel unanimously approves bill that could ban TikTok
date: 2024-03-10, from: OS News
A powerful House committee advanced a bill on Thursday that could lead to a nationwide ban against TikTok on all electronic devices, renewing lawmakers’ challenge to one of the world’s most popular social media apps and highlighting unresolved fears that TikTok may pose a Chinese government spying risk. The measure that sailed unanimously through the House Energy and Commerce Committee would prohibit TikTok from US app stores unless the social media platform — used by roughly 170 million Americans — is quickly spun off from its China-linked parent company, ByteDance. ↫ Brian Fung at CNN TikTok obviously needs to be banned. It’s an extension of a genocidal, totalitarian government that has no place on our our phones. Yes, I understand Facebook, Apple, Google, Microsoft also collect vast amounts of data, but at least they are (nominally) beholden to our legal systems, and while there is, of course, a vast power imbalance between us as individuals and them as megacorporations, it’s still nowhere even close as to being an arm of a totalitarian government – they’re just not comparable. China’s state surveillance tools have no place on our devices.
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China’s Shanghai Zhenhua Denies Posing Cybersecurity Risk to US Ports
date: 2024-03-10, from: VOA News USA
Beijing, China — Shanghai Zhenhua Heavy Industries, or ZPMC, said on Sunday its cranes do not pose a cybersecurity threat, after U.S. congressional committees questioned the Chinese state-owned company’s work on cranes bound for the United States.
The House of Representatives’ security panels, scrutinizing ZPMC’s installation of Swiss engineering group ABB’s equipment onto U.S.-bound ship-to-shore cranes, in January invited ABB executives to public hearings to clarify its relationship with ZPMC, which they said raised “significant concerns.”
“ZPMC takes the U.S. concerns seriously and believes that these reports can easily mislead the public without sufficient factual review,” it said in a filing, referring to the probe by the Homeland Security and Strategic Competition committees.
“The cranes provided by ZPMC do not pose a cybersecurity risk to any ports,” it said.
ABB has said it sold its control and electrification equipment to many crane manufacturers, including Chinese companies, which in turn sold cranes directly to U.S. ports.
The U.S. and China, the world’s biggest economies, frequently accuse each other of cyberattacks and industrial espionage. Washington this year said it had disrupted a Chinese cyber-spying operation targeting U.S. infrastructure and was investigating Chinese vehicle imports for national security risks. It previously barred Chinese telecom companies.
ZPMC said the cranes it supplies are used in ports around the world, including the United States, and comply with international standards and applicable laws and regulations.
Listed on the Shanghai stock exchange, ZPMC is one of the largest port machinery manufacturers in the world, owning a fleet of more than 20 transportation vessels, according to its website.
ABB generates 16% of its sales from China, second only to the U.S. market at 24%.
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@Tomosino’s Mastodon feed (date: 2024-03-10, from: Tomosino’s Mastodon feed)
Profile photo update notification. Back to pixel-james
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Some Fans at Frigid Kansas City NFL Playoff Game Underwent Amputations
date: 2024-03-10, from: VOA News USA
Kansas City, Missouri — Some of the people who attended the near-record cold Kansas City Chiefs playoff game in January had to undergo amputations after suffering frostbite, a Missouri hospital said Friday.
Research Medical Center didn’t provide exact numbers but said in a statement that it treated dozens of people who had experienced frostbite during an 11-day cold snap in January. Twelve of those people — including some who were at the Jan. 13 game — had to undergo amputations involving mostly fingers and toes. And the hospital said more surgeries are expected over the next two to four weeks as “injuries evolve.”
The University of Kansas hospital said it also treated frostbite victims after the game but didn’t report any amputations.
The temperature for the Dolphins-Chiefs wild-card playoff game was minus 20 Celsius, and wind gusts made for a windchill of minus 33 C. That shattered the record for the coldest game in Arrowhead Stadium history, which had been minus 17 C, set in a 1983 game against Denver and matched in 2016 against Tennessee.
The wild-card game was played the same day the Buffalo Bills were supposed to host the Pittsburgh Steelers, but that game was pushed back a day because a blizzard dumped more than half a meter of snow in New York and made traveling to the game too dangerous.
The game in Kansas City went on as scheduled because the frigid weather didn’t present similar problems getting to Arrowhead Stadium, even though the National Weather Service warned of “dangerously cold” windchills.
Frostbite can occur on exposed skin within 30 minutes, Dr. Megan Garcia, the medical director of the Grossman Burn Center at Research, said in a statement that answered one of the top questions she is asked. The timing can be even shorter if there is a windchill, she said.
Fans were allowed to bring heated blankets into the stadium and small pieces of cardboard to place under their feet on the cold concrete.
The coldest game in NFL history remains minus 25 C for the 1967 NFL championship, when the Packers beat the Cowboys at Lambeau Field in a game that came to be known as the Ice Bowl. The windchill that day was minus minus 44 C.
The Chiefs didn’t immediately respond to email messages from The Associated Press seeking comment.
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@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2024-03-10, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
I
still haven’t found whatever it is that is causing the tabs not to
respond to clicks sometimes on mobile devices on news.scripting.com and
scripting.com. I’m thinking about all the time that’s going into this
and how much value there is in the tabs. I could also cut through all
the michegas and just redirect from news.scripting.com
into
FeedLand. The same data. There are advantages to doing it
that way. For some people that is what news.scripting.com will turn
into. It’s an on ramp to the world of collaborative feed subscriptions.
The open social web, in feeds. Which is why we call it FeedLand.
You know The Land of Feeds. I like “land” names for products and
companies. I started a company called UserLand a long time ago. I was
skiing in Utah in 1989 when I decided on two names: UserLand and
Frontier. I like product names that begin with F, esp if you come from
the Mac – where the Finder is the app you spend a lot of time in.
So Frontier was a good name simply because it was two syllables and
began with F. I know it’s weird. It’s also why FeedLand feels like a
homey name to me. :-)
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‘Kung Fu Panda 4’ Opens No. 1 at Box Office, ‘Dune: Part Two’ Lingers
date: 2024-03-10, from: VOA News USA
Los Angeles — As Universal Pictures prepared for a big night at the Academy Awards with “Oppenheimer,” the studio also celebrated the No. 1 debut of “Kung Fu Panda 4,” which collected $58.3 million in domestic theaters over the weekend, according to estimates Sunday.
“Kung Fu Panda 4,” the first film in the DreamWorks Animation franchise since the third installment in 2016, got off to a better start than all but the 2008 original. That “Kung Fu Panda,” which began the mystical adventures of Jack Black’s panda warrior Po, launched with $60.2 million.
Working in favor of “Kung Fu Panda 4”: It’s the first big family movie since “Migration” and “Wonka” hit theaters in December. “Kung Fu Panda 4” added $22 million internationally.
The news was just as good for last week’s top film, “Dune: Part Two.” Denis Villeneuve’s sci-fi epic sequel held strongly in its second week, dropping a modest 44%. It grossed $46 million in its second week, bringing its domestic cumulative total to $157 million for Warner Bros. and Legendary Pictures.
Riding strong reviews, great word-of-mouth and plenty of sandworms, “Dune: Part Two” appears well set up for a long theatrical run. Most of Sunday’s Oscar nominees have already moved on to home viewing platforms, but “Dune” could wind up at next year’s Academy Awards.
Opening in third place was the Lionsgate, Blumhouse horror release “Imaginary,” about a sinister teddy bear. It debuted with $10 million.
Following it was “Cabrini,” a portrait of the 19th century Catholic missionary Saint Frances Xavier Cabrini (played by Cristiana Dell’Anna). The film, released by the Christian-based company Angel Studios, the studio behind the 2023 surprise hit “Sound of Freedom,” collected $7.5 million.
A24 also debuted the critically acclaimed neo-noir “Love Lies Bleeding,” starring Kristen Stewart, on five screens in New York and Los Angeles. It grossed $167,463 for a good per-screen average of $33,493.
Estimated ticket sales for Friday through Sunday at U.S. and Canadian theaters, according to Comscore. Final domestic figures will be released Monday.
“Kung Fu Panda 4,” $58.3 million.
“Dune: Part Two,” $46 million.
“Imaginary,” $10 million.
“Cabrini,” $7.6 million.
“Bob Marley: One Love,” $4.1 million.
“Ordinary Angels,” $2 million.
“Madame Web,” $1.1 million.
“Migration,” $1.1 million.
“YOLO,” $840,000
MET Opera: “La Forza del Destino,” $768,000.
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USC women’s basketball vs. Stanford — live updates
date: 2024-03-10, from: The Daily Trojan (USC Student Paper)
Thomas Johnson and Leila MacKenzie report live from MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas.
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Less is more: new Freightliner MT50e offers cheaper battery, slower charging for 2024
date: 2024-03-10, from: Electrek Feed
As other players in the electric commercial space push for ever-bigger batteries and faster charge timers, Freightliner is going the other way. It’s a bold move, and one that could pay off.
https://electrek.co/2024/03/10/less-is-more-new-freightliner-mt50e-offers-cheaper-battery-slower-charging-for-2024/ Save to Pocket
Biden, Trump Use Immigration, Reproductive Rights to Rally Voters
date: 2024-03-10, from: VOA News USA
As U.S. voters prepare for a new round of primaries Tuesday, U.S. President Joe Biden and his Republican political rival Donald Trump traveled to the swing state of Georgia over the weekend to hold parallel campaign events. VOA’s Veronica Balderas Iglesias has a recap of the main arguments made by each candidate, who are closer than ever to becoming their respective parties’ 2024 presidential nominees.
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Two years later, deep learning is still faced with the same fundamental challenges
date: 2024-03-10, from: Gary Marcus blog
Report card on an infamous paper.
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Not-so-super Tuesday for CSUN men’s volleyball
date: 2024-03-10, from: The Sundail (CSUN student paper)
The Premier America Credit Union Arena was teeming with people throughout the evening. The game happening inside featured a miraculous comeback that almost happened. But many of the people inside…
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SENSES Block Parties Return
date: 2024-03-10, from: City of Santa Clarita
SENSES Block Parties Return By City Manager Ken Striplin If you’re looking for local delicious food and drinks, live music and engaging activities that stimulate all your senses, then look no further. SENSES Block Parties makes its highly-anticipated return to Main Street in Old Town Newhall, with a line-up of exciting themes that are sure […]
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US Ship Deployed to Build Aid Pier Near Gaza
date: 2024-03-10, from: VOA News USA
The United States Army deployed a massive ship from Virginia to the eastern Mediterranean. It’s loaded with gear to begin construction of a floating pier to deliver aid to Gaza amid the ongoing Israel-Hamas conflict. VOA’s Arash Arabasadi has more.
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The hidden costs of using an electric bike
date: 2024-03-10, from: Electrek Feed
Whether you love them or hate them, electric bikes are becoming increasingly popular on streets and trails around the US. First embraced across Asia before rolling their way across Europe for the last decade, e-bikes are now surging in popularity in North America.
But while you’ll see plenty of people espousing the supposed advantages of electric bikes, it’s important to keep in mind some of the hidden costs of owning and using these two-wheeled electric vehicles.
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Art Censorship
date: 2024-03-10, from: Santa Barbara Indenpent News
I visited the Santa Barbara Museum of Art yesterday to see the new photographic exhibition and had the surreal experience of walking through empty, white-walled rooms where the show Three American Artists was meant to be hung.
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Convivo x Stolpman Boar Dinner
date: 2024-03-10, from: Santa Barbara Indenpent News
Recalling his days in Italy, Chef Peter McNee is preparing a special wine-paired pork meal on March 21.
The post Convivo x Stolpman Boar Dinner appeared first on The Santa Barbara Independent.
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@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-03-10, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)
The History Crisis Is a National Security Problem.
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Happy St. Patrick’s Day. Celebrate the Santa Clarita Way
date: 2024-03-10, from: The Signal
It’s that time of year again when everyone is Irish. St. Patrick’s Day 2024 will fall on Sunday, March 17 and the Santa Clarita Valley will be awash in all things Irish with Irish bands, shamrocks, corned beef and cabbage and gallons of green beer awaiting those celebrating the “wearing ’o the green.” Pocock Brewing […]
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Know the Health Consequences of Not Enough Sleep
date: 2024-03-10, from: The Signal
By Terry Kanakri Signal Contributing Writer With many families leading busy lives balancing job duties with childcare and other household responsibilities, getting enough sleep on a daily basis might not be an easy task. If you think sacrificing a good night’s sleep is nothing to worry about, however, think again! According to Kaiser Permanente Sleep […]
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Fatigue Can Be a Safety Hazard in the Workplace
date: 2024-03-10, from: The Signal
People are working harder and longer hours than ever before. A 2019 survey from Bankrate found that just 52% of Americans were planning to take a summer vacation that year, and more than a quarter were not planning any summer travel. Though affordability is a driving factor behind staying put, many workers admittedly fear missed […]
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Celebrate California’s Wine
date: 2024-03-10, from: The Signal
California wine is often assumed to be less prestigious than its European counterparts, but Californians have been making wine for more than 250 years. The years of winemaking experience and California’s unique geography have made the state’s many wine regions destination tourist spots and earned it a reputation for quality wine. According to a 2022 […]
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@Miguel de Icaza Mastondon feed (date: 2024-03-10, from: Miguel de Icaza Mastondon feed)
Damn. I missed my morning DuoLingo session and I have lost my evening boost the day I need it the most.
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Bristol users meeting – 14th March
date: 2024-03-10, from: RiscOS Story
The next meeting of for Bristol RISC OS Users will take place on Thursday, 14th March, marking the first meeting of a changed schedule; previously, the group met on the second Wednesday of odd months, and until further notice meetings will take place on the second Thursday. If you are local to Bristol and wish to attend, the place to be on that evening from around 7:30 is: The Open Arms pub (formerly the Colston Arms),St Michaels Hill,BS2 8DX. There’s a limited amount of free parking available outside the pub,…
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@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2024-03-10, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
Here’s the fourth testbed. This one has all the tabs in news.scripting.com. This testing has been really helpful. Please stay with the process.
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Wizard Lore – a new game from AMCOG
date: 2024-03-10, from: RiscOS Story
Attendees of the recent Southwest Show will have had the opportunity to try out and buy the latest title from AMCOG Games, and it is now available to everyone else to purchase from !Store. In the game, you play a wizard who has suffered imprisonment and an amnesia spell at the hands of the evil Igen, your nemesis. However, while the amnesia spell worked in the main, it didn’t take completely, and you are still able to remember how to cast three spells. You are still able to levitate objects,…
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@Miguel de Icaza Mastondon feed (date: 2024-03-10, from: Miguel de Icaza Mastondon feed)
Those that have met me in person in the last two years know that I cannot stop talking about it, and how happy I am with my new super power.
Yes, I posted that myself:
https://hachyderm.io/@silentwarg/112070451850961480
(It is smart-biology.com)
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Inapt Message from Mike Stoker
date: 2024-03-10, from: Santa Barbara Indenpent News
Lately I’ve been inundated once again with junk email. This time it’s coming from a self-proclaimed Central Coast favorite “SANTA BARBARA CURRECT.”
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Here’s The Rivian R3 Driving Around Laguna Beach
date: 2024-03-10, from: Inside EVs News
It appears to be a little smaller than a nearby Tesla Model Y, and it turns plenty of heads everywhere it goes.
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The Tesla Cybertuck Has A Useless Rearview Mirror. Here’s How To Remove It
date: 2024-03-10, from: Inside EVs News
The video monitoring system is far more useful than the rearview mirror.
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@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2024-03-10, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
Good morning. Here’s the next tabs test. Yesterday’s test showed that tabs that switching between images is fine. The tabs never get hung up. Today’s test is the same except one of the tabs is a FeedLand timeline. I want to see if somehow click events are getting lost on their way to the tabs manager.
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Oscars Underway in Hollywood, With ‘Oppenheimer’ the Odds-on Favorite
date: 2024-03-10, from: VOA News USA
Los Angeles — Hollywood’s glitterati gather on Sunday to celebrate the best performances in film at the annual Academy Awards, a ceremony expected to turn into a toast to blockbuster atomic bomb drama “Oppenheimer.”
Talk show host Jimmy Kimmel returns for the fourth time to emcee the film industry’s highest honors from the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles.
“Oppenheimer,” the three-hour drama directed by Christopher Nolan, leads the field with 13 nominations. The movie is the frontrunner to win the prestigious best picture prize, capping its sweep of other major awards this year.
“If the best picture isn’t ‘Oppenheimer,’ it will be one of the biggest upsets, if not the biggest upset, in the history of the Oscars,” said Scott Feinberg, executive editor for awards at The Hollywood Reporter.
After 2023 was marred by actors and writers strikes, the Oscars give Hollywood a chance to celebrate two global hits. “Oppenheimer” and feminist doll adventure “Barbie,” another best picture nominee, brought in a combined $2.4 billion in a summer box office battle dubbed “Barbenheimer.”
Oscar producers said they have planned unannounced cameos and other surprises to entertain audiences at home.
“My biggest hope is that they go through a range of emotions with us, that they feel happiness and joy, that we maybe make them shed a tear,” Executive Producer Raj Kapoor said. “And then they somehow feel connected and inspired to also live their dreams.”
Supporting actor nominee Ryan Gosling will sing the ’80s-style rock anthem “I’m Just Ken” from “Barbie.” Members of the Osage Nation will perform the nominated “Wahzhazhe (A Song for My People)” from “Killers of the Flower Moon.”
Cillian Murphy, the Irish actor who played physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer as he led the race to build the first atomic bomb, is considered the favorite for best actor. Murphy’s main competition, according to awards pundits, is “The Holdovers” star Paul Giamatti.
Best actress may go to Lily Gladstone of “Killers of the Flower Moon,” the real-life story about a murder plot to take over lucrative Osage oil rights in 1920s Oklahoma. If she prevails, Gladstone would be the first Native American actress to win an acting Oscar.
Gladstone’s rivals include previous Oscar winner Emma Stone, nominated this year for playing a woman revived from the dead in the dark and wacky comedy “Poor Things.”
The supporting actor race features “Oppenheimer” star Robert Downey Jr., who played the scientist’s professional nemesis, and Sterling K. Brown from “American Fiction.”
Da’Vine Joy Randolph, praised for her role as a grieving mother in “The Holdovers,” vies for best supporting actress against Danielle Brooks from “The Color Purple” and others.
“Barbie,” last year’s No. 1 film with $1.4 billion in global ticket sales, may be shut out of the top awards. Billie Eilish’s “Barbie” ballad “What Was I Made For?” is likely to win the original song prize, Feinberg said, and could snag the awards for costumes and production design.
For Nolan, the night could bring his first directing Oscar, as well as the award for adapted screenplay. The director of “The Dark Knight” trilogy, “Inception” and other acclaimed films has never had a movie win best picture.
The ceremony may end with “the industry-wide coronation for Christopher Nolan,” Feinberg said. With “Oppenheimer,” “he has he has made his best possible argument yet for why he is worthy of this recognition.”
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The Apple curl security incident 12604
date: 2024-03-10, from: OS News
When this command line option is used with curl on macOS, the version shipped by Apple, it seems to fall back and checks the system CA store in case the provided set of CA certs fail the verification. A secondary check that was not asked for, is not documented and plain frankly comes completely by surprise. Therefore, when a user runs the check with a trimmed and dedicated CA cert file, it will not fail if the system CA store contains a cert that can verify the server! This is a security problem because now suddenly certificate checks pass that should not pass. ↫ Daniel Stenberg Absolutely wild that Apple does not consider this a security issue.
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LEVER WEEKLY: Money Over Country Over Party
date: 2024-03-10, from: The Lever News
From a Three Musketeers-inspired billionaire aiming to “transform” voting to a corporate Dem undercutting antitrust enforcers, here’s all the news from The Lever this week.
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Super Cute Honda Cross Cub CC110 Is Ready For Adventures Big And Small
date: 2024-03-10, from: Ride Apart, Electric Motorcycle News
Who wouldn’t love to hit the streets on this?
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US Military Airlifts Embassy Personnel From Haiti, Bolsters Security
date: 2024-03-10, from: VOA News USA
Washington — The U.S. military said on Sunday it has carried out an operation in Haiti to airlift non-essential embassy personnel from the country and added U.S. forces bolster embassy security, as Caribbean nation reels under a state of emergency.
The operation was the latest sign of Haiti’s troubles as gang violence threatens to bring down the government and has led thousands to flee their homes.
“This airlift of personnel into and out of the embassy is consistent with our standard practice for embassy security augmentation worldwide, and no Haitians were on board the military aircraft,” the U.S. military’s Southern Command said in a statement.
Haiti entered a state of emergency last Sunday after fighting escalated while Prime Minister Ariel Henry was in Nairobi seeking a deal for the long-delayed U.N.-backed mission.
Kenya announced last year it would lead the force but months of domestic legal wrangling have effectively placed the mission on hold.
On Saturday, the U.S. State Department said Secretary of State Antony Blinken spoke with Kenyan President William Ruto about the Haiti crisis and the two men underscored their commitment to a multinational security mission to restore order.
In Southern Command’s statement, it said Washington remained committed to those goals.
“Our embassy remains focused on advancing U.S. government efforts to support the Haitian people, including mobilizing support for the Haitian National Police, expediting the deployment of the United Nations-authorized Multinational Security Support (MSS) mission and accelerating a peaceful transition of power via free and fair elections,” it said.
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@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-03-10, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)
What Biden’s State of the Union ad-libs say about his politics — and preparedness.
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‘This Land Is Your Land’
date: 2024-03-10, from: Dan Rather’s Steady
A Reason To Smile
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@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-03-10, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)
Tesla Fans Upset About New Model 3 Turn Signals.
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Banned for self-promo
date: 2024-03-10, from: Anton Zhiyanov blog
Policies that discourage self-promotion are harmful.
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David Hegg | Good Things for Good Reasons
date: 2024-03-10, from: The Signal
By David Hegg I admit to being one of those who enjoys and prefers classical music. Consequently, I tune in to KUSC, our Classical California Music station, in my car and at home. If you listened to KUSC a couple of weeks ago, you know they were in the middle of their quarterly fundraising campaign. […]
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Lois Eisenberg | Don’t Hide the Galoshes
date: 2024-03-10, from: The Signal
I just had a letter published in The Signal, “El Niño Is a Certainty,” dated Feb. 4, and before the ink was dry there is La Niña on the heels of El Niño. This La Niña is never guaranteed, but if it comes to fruition the weather will be cooler and drier whereas El Niño […]
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Now’s Your Chance To Own A Rare AMB 001 Pro By Aston Martin And Brough Superior
date: 2024-03-10, from: Ride Apart, Electric Motorcycle News
This ultra-rare track-only superbike is set to go under the hammer on April 7, 2024.
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Sunday caption contest: Potholes
date: 2024-03-10, from: Robert Reich on Substack
And last week’s winner
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US Ship With Equipment for Building a Pier Is on Its Way to Gaza
date: 2024-03-10, from: VOA News USA
DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip — A U.S. Army vessel carrying equipment for building a temporary pier in Gaza was on its way to the Mediterranean on Sunday, three days after U.S. President Joe Biden announced plans to ramp up aid deliveries by sea to the besieged enclave where hundreds of thousands of Palestinians have been going hungry.
The opening of the sea corridor, along with airdrops by the U.S., Jordan and others, showed increasing alarm over Gaza’s humanitarian crisis and a new willingness to bypass Israeli control over land shipments.
Israel said it welcomed the sea deliveries and would inspect Gaza-bound cargo before it leaves a staging area in nearby Cyprus. The daily number of aid trucks entering Gaza by land over the past five months has been far below the 500 that entered before the war because of Israeli restrictions and security issues.
Meanwhile, Biden stepped up his public criticism of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Biden said he believes Netanyahu is “hurting Israel more than helping Israel” in how he is approaching its war against Hamas in Gaza, now in its sixth month.
Speaking Saturday to MSNBC’s Jonathan Capehart, the president expressed support for Israel’s right to pursue Hamas after the militants’ October 7 attack on southern Israel but said that Netanyahu “must pay more attention to the innocent lives being lost as a consequence of the actions taken.” He added that “you cannot have 30,000 more Palestinians dead.”
In Gaza, Palestinian casualties continued to rise.
The Civil Defense Department said at least nine Palestinians, including children, were killed in an Israeli airstrike on a house in Gaza City late Saturday.
Footage shared by the civil defense showed first responders pulling out the dead and injured trapped in the collapsed house. One rescuer was seen holding a dead infant, before placing the limp body on a sofa amid the wreckage.
Elsewhere, the bodies of 13 people, including women and children, were taken to the main hospital in the central town of Deir al-Balah on Sunday, according to an Associated Press journalist. Relatives said the 13 were killed by Israeli artillery fire toward a large tent camp for displaced Palestinians in the coastal area east of the southern city of Khan Younis.
Israel rarely comments on specific incidents during the war. It has held that Hamas is responsible for civilian casualties because the militant group operates from within civilian areas.
The Health Ministry in Gaza said Saturday that at least 30,960 Palestinians have been killed since the war began. It doesn’t differentiate between civilians and combatants in its count but says women and children make up two-thirds of the dead. The ministry is part of the Hamas-run government, and its figures from previous wars have largely matched those of the U.N. and independent experts.
Meanwhile, U.S. efforts got under way to set up the temporary pier in Gaza for the sea deliveries. U.S. Central Command said a first U.S. Army vessel, the General Frank S. Besson, left a base in Virginia on Saturday and was on its way to the Eastern Mediterranean with equipment for pier construction.
United States officials said it will likely be weeks before the pier is operational.
The sea corridor is backed by the EU together with the United States, the United Arab Emirates and other countries. The European Commission has said that U.N. agencies and the Red Cross will also play a role.
A ship belonging to Spain’s Open Arms aid group was expected to make a pilot voyage to test the corridor as early as this weekend. The ship has been waiting at Cyprus’s port of Larnaca.
Open Arms founder Oscar Camps has said the ship, which is pulling a barge with 200 tons of rice and flour, would take two to three days to arrive at an undisclosed location.
A member of the charity World Central Kitchen, which is also involved in the test run, said in a post on X that once the barge reaches Gaza, the aid would be off-loaded by a crane, be placed on trucks and driven to northern Gaza, which has been largely cut off from aid shipments.
Senior aid officials have warned that air and sea deliveries can’t make up for a shortage of supply routes on land.
The new push for getting more aid in came on the eve of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, which follows a lunar calendar and could start as early as Sunday evening, depending on the sighting of a crescent moon.
Israel declared war on October 7 after Hamas militants attacked southern Israel, killing about 1,200 people, mostly civilians and taking 250 hostages. Israel’s blistering air and ground offensive has devastated large parts of Gaza, displaced about 80% of the population of 2.3 million and set off a worsening humanitarian crisis.
The U.S. and regional mediators Egypt and Qatar had hoped to have a six-week cease-fire in place by the start of Ramadan, but talks appeared to be stalled, with Hamas holding out for assurances that a temporary truce will lead to an end of hostilities.
Mediators had hoped to alleviate some of the immediate crisis with the temporary cease-fire, which would have seen Hamas release some of the Israeli hostages it’s holding, Israel release some Palestinian prisoners and aid groups be given access for a major influx of assistance into Gaza.
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Shady Characters on Alan Alda’s Clear and Vivid podcast
date: 2024-03-10, from: Shady Characters
I’m still pinching myself, but recently I had the distinct pleasure on appearing on Clear and Vivid podcast, hosted by the great Alan Alda. I knew of Alan’s work as an actor and writer from the likes of MAS*H , of course, but I hadn’t known that in recent years he has moved into the world of science communication, not least with the foundation of the Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science at Stony Brook University, New York.
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Transit Crime Back as a Top Concern in Some US Cities
date: 2024-03-10, from: VOA News USA
NEW YORK — Fear of crime on subways and buses is back as a top concern in some U.S. cities, and so are efforts to persuade the public officials take the issue seriously.
New York’s governor said Wednesday she would task 750 members of the National Guard with helping patrol the nation’s busiest subway system, saying she felt New York City police needed reinforcements after a shooting on a train platform and a conductor getting slashed in the neck.
In Pennsylvania, legislators created a special prosecutor to go after crimes committed in the transit system that serves the southeast of the state. Philadelphia Mayor Cherelle Parker on Thursday promised to beef up police patrols and use “every legal and constitutional tool” after a spate of transit-related shootings left three dead and 12 wounded, many of them schoolchildren.
“Enough is enough,” she said on WURD radio.
It remains to be seen whether such moves will have any effect on reducing crime in these massive public transit systems.
At least in New York, Gov. Kathy Hochul acknowledged that calling in the National Guard was as much about soothing fears and making a political statement as it was about making mass transit safer. The city’s subways, the Democrat said, were quite safe already. And felony crime hasn’t risen significantly. But a show of force might help dispel anxieties more than any statistic, she reasoned.
“If you feel better walking past someone in a uniform to make sure that someone doesn’t bring a knife or a gun on the subway, then that’s exactly why I did it. I want to change the psychology around crime in New York City,” Hochul said Thursday on MSNBC. “It is safe. But I’m going to make sure people feel safe.”
“I’m also going to demonstrate that Democrats fight crime as well,” she added. “So this narrative that Republicans have said that we’re soft on crime, that we defund the police — no.”
Major crimes in the New York City transit system dropped nearly 3% from 2022 to 2023 – with five killings last year, down from 10 the year prior, according to police. Overall, violent crime in the subway system is rare, with train cars and stations being generally as safe as any other public place.
In Pennsylvania, overall crime has declined on the transit system in recent years, though the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority, or SEPTA, reported six killings in 2023, up from a total of seven during the previous three years.
Still, the issue of safety on buses and trains is one that keeps resonating with voters — particularly as some systems recover from the COVID-19 pandemic, when passengers stayed away.
“Recently yeah, it’s been a little unsafe. So I think they should kind of, like, control it before it gets out of hand,” said New York City resident Alan Uloa, 43. “Just people, the way people react to stuff. People just fighting over seats. The other day they slashed the conductor, and that’s not cool.”
In New York, Republicans hammered Democrats on crime during the 2022 midterms, a message that helped the GOP capture suburban congressional seats.
Alex Piquero, a criminology professor at the University of Miami and the former director of the federal Bureau of Justice Statistics, said the heightened law enforcement presence can be a double-edged sword.
“For some people, they’d like to see the added security. They feel safer simply because there’s an officer there,” he said. “And for other people, they’ll say we’re overreacting.”
Vincent Del Castillo, a professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice and a former chief of New York City’s transit police, said the political tough talk glosses over the reality that transit crime accounts for just a tiny percentage of all crime.
“You can have 10 to 12 murders in the system when there are literally hundreds across the city, but because it’s so rare, it gets a lot of attention,” he said.
The four shootings on or linked to public transit facilities in Philadelphia began Sunday, when a man was fatally shot by another passenger shortly after they got off a bus. The next day, a teenager was killed and four people injured in gunfire at a bus stop. On Tuesday, police said, someone who had gotten off a bus fired back inside, killing a man.
And on Wednesday, eight teenagers waiting to take a city bus home after school were shot in an attack that also riddled a bus with bullet holes.
SEPTA police Chief Charles Lawson has promised transit officers will take an aggressive approach, using “every criminal code on the book” in order to crackdown on illegal gun possession on the transit system.
“We’re going to target individuals concealing their identity. We’re going to target fare evasion. We’re going to target open drug use,” he said this week.
The National Guard troops in New York City won’t be that active. They have been tasked with helping police conduct random searches of people’s bags as they enter the subway system, a practice in place for nearly two decades.
Passengers have the right to refuse the search, though if they do they are asked to leave the subway system.
The National Guard troops can’t make arrests, but if they witness a crime, they can detain someone until police arrive, just as any civilian can do.
Even though the Guard troops were deployed Thursday, New York City transit passengers might not have noticed. The troops weren’t widely visible at stations or in trains, though some were seen patrolling major hubs including Grand Central Terminal and Penn Station, where they have been a regular presence since the September 11, 2001, terror attacks.
Riders have long been split over the police bag checks, which are infrequent, but can hold someone up as they race for the train. They have also long been a subject of concerns about racial profiling, though the NYPD says it takes steps to avoid it.
“Sometimes when I’m in a hurry and I have a bag, I don’t like to be stopped,” said Jerome Brooks Jr., 44, an actor and musician. “So then I try to see, do they stop me if they’re going to stop somebody else that doesn’t look like me? But in general, I hope they do what’s right.”
Cheryl Ann Harper, 46, said she welcomed the precaution.
“Yes, it is random and we need it,” she said, noting that similar checks are common at theaters. “I do it all the time. OK? Not a big deal. You know, if you don’t have anything to hide, why you can’t open up your bag?”
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Amid Louisiana’s Crawfish Shortage, Governor Issues Disaster Declaration
date: 2024-03-10, from: VOA News USA
BATON ROUGE, Louisiana — Amid a crawfish shortage in Louisiana, the nation’s top producer of the crustaceans that are a staple in Gulf Coast seafood boils, Governor Jeff Landry issued a disaster declaration for the impacted industry Wednesday.
Last year’s drought, extreme heat, saltwater intrusion on the Mississippi River and a hard winter freeze in the Bayou State have devastated this year’s crawfish harvest and led to significant price hikes for those purchasing “mudbugs.” Landry said the shortage is affecting not only Louisiana’s economy but also “our way of life.”
“All 365,000 crawfish acres in Louisiana have been affected by these conditions,” Landry said in a written statement Wednesday. “That is why I am issuing a disaster declaration. The crawfish industry needs all the support it can get right now.”
Landry’s disaster declaration, which is the legal underpinning that assists in securing federal resources, came shortly after a request from Louisiana’s congressional delegation seeking to unlock federal aid to help farmers back in their home state.
During a typical year, Louisiana generates 175 million to 200 million pounds of crawfish — contributing $500 million to the state’s economy annually, according to the governor’s office.
However, amid severe drought in 2023 and extreme heat, typically one of the wettest states in the country saw some of its driest conditions. As a result, the weather dried out the soil where crawfish burrow to lay eggs.
Louisiana State University’s Agriculture Center estimates the potential losses to the state’s crawfish industry to be nearly $140 million.
“Louisiana’s crawfish industry is more than an economic driver for our state — it is a deep part of our cultural heritage,” said Mike Strain, commissioner of the Louisiana Department of Agriculture and Forestry.
Crawfish, which have been harvested commercially in the state since at least the 1800s, are usually plentiful in Louisiana during the late winter and through the spring.
The tail meat, fresh or frozen, of the tiny lobster-like crustaceans are used in a variety of dishes, including crawfish etouffee, gumbos and po’ boy sandwiches. But the most popular way to serve them is boiled with corn and potatoes and a variety of seasonings. Crawfish boils, which see pounds of the freshly cooked crustaceans poured onto communal tables, are popular during Carnival season and during Lent, when many in heavily Catholic south Louisiana seek alternatives to meat.
But this year, Strain said, some Mardi Gras celebrations continued without chowing down on crawfish, which were scarce and unaffordable for many.
Around this time last year, the cost for a pound of boiled crawfish was $3 to $5. Now, restaurants across the state are selling them for $10 to $12 per pound, as reported by The Advocate in Baton Rouge.
In a letter last week to U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, Strain said: “For the first time in many years, due to sustained drought in 2023 and freezing temperatures in early 2024, crawfish are simply unavailable.”
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Michigan Museum Reveals Complex Heritage of Cambodian Art
date: 2024-03-10, from: VOA News USA
New York — Six years ago, Nachiket Chanchani visited Angkor Wat for the first time. Inspired, the architectural historian began thinking about the relationship between the complexities of modern post-genocide Cambodia and the ancient temple complex.
Chanchani, an associate art history professor at the University of Michigan, kept reflecting on Angkor Wat, juxtaposing the temple complex against art created since the Khmer Rouge killed nearly 2 million Cambodians between 1975 and 1979.
During the pandemic, his thoughts crystallized amid worldwide suffering, anxiety and fear. “I thought that this art, both from the deep past and from more recent times in Cambodia, can teach us lessons of how to kind of stay stable, find some way forward,” he told VOA Khmer Service via Zoom.
The University of Michigan Museum of Art, or UMMA, one of the largest university museums in the United States, is now exhibiting 80 pieces of Cambodian art in a show guest curated by Chanchani in Ann Arbor. Titled “Angkor Complex: Cultural Heritage and Post-Genocide Memory in Cambodia,” it opened February 3 and runs through July 28. Featured artists Vann Nath, Sopheap Pich, Svay Sareth, Amy Lee Sanford and Leang Seckon, who live in Cambodia and the U.S., have pieces in the exhibit.
The Angkor Archaeological Park, a UNESCO World Heritage site, covers more than 400 square kilometers (155 square miles). Once a city of nearly a million people, the site contains some of Cambodia’s most famous structures, including those recognized worldwide after being seen in movies such as “Lara Croft: Tomb Raider and In the Mood for Love.”
Playing with the dictionary meanings of “complex” such as “a whole made up of complicated or interrelated parts,” “a building or group of buildings housing related units” or “a group of repressed desires and memories that exerts a dominating influence upon the personality,” Chanchani saw how the exhibit could “allow us to think about these different layers, these different kinds of ideas of complexness.”
Today, “Cambodians regard Angkor Wat as a sacred center, a national symbol, and a site of memory,” according to the exhibition guide.
“Like Angkor Wat’s bullet-ridden walls, contemporary artworks from Cambodia and its diaspora bear the scars of a genocide and of related upheavals,” said Chanchani, adding that as a non-Cambodian outsider, he was aware of the exhibition’s sensitive nature. “It’s not as if this is something that happened a thousand years ago that you can just say, it happened,” he said. “The survivors are still there.”
Chanchani hoped bringing Cambodian art to the U.S. would console viewers.
But what could the U.S., one of the biggest economic and military powers learn from Cambodia, a small southeast Asian country, other than how to move on from painful memories and what the exhibition catalog describes as the current interwoven global crises of “public health, economic instability, authoritarian regimes, racial injustice and climate change?”
And how does one nation heal from an event like the Khmer Rouge killing nearly a quarter of the population in its quest to create an agrarian utopia for worker-peasants?
For some Cambodians, it can seem as if, 40 years later, the nation can barely move on or show off a new face when it is still being referred to in the context of the past suffering, especially on the international stage.
Reaksmey Yean, a Cambodian art writer, curator and researcher in Phnom Penh, applauded the Michigan show, but added it is a “cliche” because Angkor Wat and the Khmer Rouge have been overused to identify Cambodia.
“An exhibition about Cambodia, its history and culture is rare in the U.S., so I think it is important to have the exhibition to put Cambodia on the map,” Reaksmey Yean told VOA Khmer Service. “However, it is a cliche for me because it’s been more than 20 years when our civil war completely ended and there are so much in our cultures that can be shown.”
Museum Director Christina Olsen said the audience will have a chance to learn about the “distinct cultural and political [significance] of Cambodia” through the historical and contemporary arts by Cambodian and diasporic artists.
“At the same time, the exhibition invites consideration of today’s broader cultural, social and political happenings and fosters dialogue about the lessons that can be taken from the pain and resilience of the Cambodian people,” she added in the press release.
Svay Sareth is a Cambodian artist whose works in sculpture, installation and durational performance “are made using materials and processes intentionally associated with war — metals, uniforms, camouflage and actions requiring great endurance,” according to the Richard Koh Gallery in Singapore. Sareth’s interest in how Cambodia was affected by war and how its people are moving on has informed his art.
“I want the audience in the U.S. [to] see how the post genocide in Cambodia affect the intergeneration,” Sareth said.
Another work, “Full Circle,” by Khmer American artist Amy Lee Sanford, is comprised of 40 broken clay pots, repaired and installed in a circle. She is known for her “Break Pot” performance pieces where she would drop the clay pot from a height, then glue all the pieces back together, an effort to show how situations can change in seconds and even when repaired, can never be the same again.
Sanford said she hopes the Michigan exhibition will show that Cambodians “have a memory of some of the important architectural and religious structures … and that also that there are contemporary artists now doing things related to history and related to looking forward as well.”
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Surge of Illegal Homemade Machine Guns Helps Fuel Gun Violence in US
date: 2024-03-10, from: VOA News USA
WASHINGTON — Eleven-year-old Domonic Davis was not far from his mom’s Cincinnati home when a hail of gunfire sprayed out from a passing car. Nearly two dozen rounds hurtled through the night at a group of children in the blink of an eye.
Four other children and a woman were hurt in the November shooting that killed Domonic, who had just made his school basketball team.
“What happened? How does this happen to an 11-year-old? He was only a few doors down,” said his father, Issac Davis.
The shooting remains under investigation. But federal investigators believe the 22 shots could be fired off with lightning speed because the weapon had been illegally converted to fire like a machine gun.
Communities around the United States have seen shootings carried out with weapons converted to fully automatic in recent years, fueled by a staggering increase in small pieces of metal or plastic made with a 3D printer or ordered online.
Laws against machine guns date back to the bloody violence of Prohibition-era gangsters. But the proliferation of devices known by nicknames such as Glock switches, giggle switches, auto sears and chips has allowed people to transform legal semi-automatic weapons into even more dangerous guns, helping fuel gun violence, police and federal authorities said.
“Police officers are facing down fully automatic weapon fire in amounts that haven’t existed in this country since the days of Al Capone and the Tommy gun,” said Steve Dettelbach, director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, or ATF. “It’s a huge problem.”
The agency reported a 570% increase in the number of conversion devices collected by police departments between 2017 and 2021, the most recent data available.
Guns with conversion devices have been used in several mass shootings, including one that left four dead at a Sweet 16 birthday party in Alabama last year, and another that left six people dead at a bar district in Sacramento, California, in 2022. In Houston, police officer William Jeffrey died in 2021 after being shot with a converted gun while serving a warrant. In cities such as Indianapolis, police have seized them every week.
The devices that can convert legal semi-automatic weapons can be made on a 3D printer in about 35 minutes or ordered online from overseas for less than $30. They’re also quick to install.
Once in place, they modify the gun’s machinery. Instead of firing one round each time the shooter squeezes the trigger, a semi-automatic weapon with a conversion device starts firing as soon as the trigger goes down and doesn’t stop until the shooter lets go or the weapon runs out of ammunition.
“You’re seeing them a lot in stunning numbers, particularly in street violence,” said David Pucino, deputy chief counsel at Giffords Law Center.
In a demonstration by ATF agents, the firing of a semi-automatic outfitted with a conversion device was nearly indistinguishable from an automatic weapon. Conversion devices with differing designs can fit a range of different guns, enabling guns to fire at a rate of 800 or more bullets per minute, according to the ATF.
“It takes two or three seconds to put in some of these devices into a firearm to make that firearm into a machine gun instantly,” Dettelbach said.
Between 2012 and 2016, police departments in the U.S. found 814 conversion devices and sent them to the ATF. That number grew to more than 5,400 between 2017 and 2021, according to the agency’s most recent data.
They took hold in Minneapolis in 2021 and helped fuel record-breaking gun violence that year, said police Chief Brian O’Hara. Along with spraying out bullets at a dizzying speed, switches make a gun much more difficult for the shooter to control, so more people can be hit by accident.
“The thing is shaking as it’s firing, so we wind up getting multiple victims, people hit in extremities during the same shooting incident, because the person cannot control the weapon,” O’Hara said.
The city has seen a decline in their use since the September 2022 arrest of a man charged with selling switches that he had ordered from Russia and Taiwan or made himself, O’Hara said. But “it’s still a very, very real problem,” he said. “This is having a really deep impact on families, on neighborhoods and communities.”
While the devices are considered illegal machine guns under federal law, many states don’t have their own specific laws against them. In Indiana, police were finding them so often — multiple times a week in the state’s capital — that the state changed the law to ensure it included switches.
“We have to update the laws regarding machine guns to deal with the problems of today,” Indianapolis police Chief Chris Bailey said.
Only 15 states have their own laws against the possession, sale or manufacture of automatic-fire weapons, according to Giffords. Indiana was one of many states that have regulations with exceptions. Five states have no state-level machine-gun regulations at all.
But long before prosecution, police must find the conversion devices. Often about the size of a quarter, they can easily go unnoticed by the untrained eye after being installed, said Dettelbach.
He recalled visiting a Texas police department after the ATF hosted a training on conversion devices. Afterwards, the chief searched the weapons in the evidence room and found several with previously undetected conversion devices.
“These items don’t always look as dangerous as they are,” he said. “If you see some of them, they’re pieces of plastic and metal, and sometimes it’s even hard to recognize them when they’re actually on or in the firearm because they blend in.”
They’re also increasingly a fixture online, in social media and rap lyrics, Davis said. “Everyone is talking about switches,” he said. “It’s a scary trend.”
Davis struggles to talk about the loss of his son. Domonic would often come with his dad on Fridays to get a haircut at the barber shop where Issac Davis works. The shooting also fell on a Friday, making the end of the week an especially tough time.
Davis hopes to start a foundation called For Every Eleven to fight gun violence and honor his son’s memory.
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Ransomware Attacks: Death Threats, Endangered Patients and Millions of Dollars in Damages
date: 2024-03-10, from: VOA News USA
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Today in SCV History (March 10)
date: 2024-03-10, from: SCV New (TV Station)
2012 – John Hobbs, Hart Class of 1968, inducted into Country Music Hall of Fame. [story
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Women’s basketball prepares for heavyweight bout with Stanford
date: 2024-03-10, from: The Daily Trojan (USC Student Paper)
The Trojans hope to win their first Pac-12 Tournament since 2014.
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March 9, 2024
date: 2024-03-10, from: Heather Cox Richardson blog
It feels like we could use some calm after the pace of the last week. I know I could. Let’s take the night off, and regroup tomorrow.
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@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-03-10, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)
In my experience AIs are more intelligent than most humans.
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Old tech
date: 2024-03-10, from: Jirka’s blog
The author of the phlog {sup}1{/sup} asked about the oldest piece of technology people actually use. Well, I don’t know what is my old obsolete thing. Well, probably one of my bikes. My current Moulton is from 1963. My Velamos bike includes even older parts for sure but don’t use it often.
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Biden: Netanyahu ‘Hurting Israel’ By Not Preventing Civilian Deaths in Gaza
date: 2024-03-10, from: VOA News USA
Wilmington, delaware — U.S. President Joe Biden said Saturday that he believes Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is “hurting Israel more than helping Israel” in how he is approaching its war against Hamas in Gaza.
Biden expressed support for Israel’s right to pursue Hamas after the October 7 terror attack but said Netanyahu “must pay more attention to the innocent lives being lost as a consequence of the actions taken.”
For months, Biden has warned that Israel risks losing international support over mounting civilian casualties in Gaza, and the latest remarks in an interview with MSNBC’s Jonathan Capehart pointed to the increasingly strained relationship between the two leaders.
Biden said of the death toll in Gaza, “it’s contrary to what Israel stands for. And I think it’s a big mistake.”
Biden said a potential Israeli invasion of the Gaza city of Rafah, where more than 1.3 million Palestinians are sheltering, is “a red line” for him, but said he would not cut off weapons such as the Iron Dome missile interceptors which protect the Israeli civilian populace from rocket attacks in the region.
“It is a red line,” he said, when asked about Rafah, “but I’m never going to leave Israel. The defense of Israel is still critical, so there’s no red line I’m going to cut off all weapons, so they don’t have the Iron Dome to protect them.”
Biden said he was willing to make his case directly to the Israeli Knesset, its parliament, including by making another trip to the country. He traveled to Israel weeks after the October 7 attack. He declined to elaborate on how or whether such a trip might materialize.
The U.S. leader had hoped to secure a temporary cease-fire before Ramadan begins this week, though that appears increasingly unlikely as Hamas has balked at a deal pushed by the U.S. and its allies that would have seen fighting pause for about six weeks, the release of additional hostages held by Hamas and Palestinian prisoners held by Israel, and a surge in humanitarian aid into Gaza. Biden noted CIA Director Bill Burns is in the region currently trying to resurrect the deal.
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The Weekly Frame: Color
date: 2024-03-10, from: The Daily Trojan (USC Student Paper)
Splashes of life and joy.
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El Consejo de Profesores aprueba una resolución para salvaguardar la libertad académica y la autonomía docente
date: 2024-03-10, from: The Occidental News (Occidental College Student Newspaper)
El Consejo de Profesores de Occidental aprobó una resolución para salvaguardar la libertad académica y la autonomía docente el 7 de diciembre de 2023, siguiendo las presiones nacionales y del campus sobre la libertad académica en la educación superior y las experiencias de los profesores de Occidental que firmaron una declaración de preocupación en solidaridad […]
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Como un cometa del mar profundo, la Profesora Shana Goffredi cautiva con su Conferencia del Premio Sterling
date: 2024-03-10, from: The Occidental News (Occidental College Student Newspaper)
Bajo el título “Asociaciones Beneficiosas: Desde el Océano Profundo hasta la Selva Tropical”, la profesora de biología Shana Goffredi ofreció la Conferencia Anual del Premio Sterling el 28 de febrero en el Auditorio Choi. Goffredi recibió el Premio Conmemorativo Graham L. Sterling en 2023, que reconoce a miembros de la facultad con destacados registros de […]
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★ Sponsorship Openings at Daring Fireball and The Talk Show, Early 2024 Edition
date: 2024-03-10, updated: 2024-03-10, from: Daring Fireball
March and April openings for weekly sponsorships and The Talk Show.
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Why Browsers Get Built
date: 2024-03-10, updated: 2024-03-10, from: Infrequently (Alex Russell on browsers, standards …)
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Make better documents.
date: 2024-03-10, updated: 2024-03-10, from: Anil Dash blog
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Full Circle Weekly News 356
date: 2024-03-10, from: Full Circle Magazine
Credits
- Host: @bardictriad, @zaivala
- Bumper: Canonical
- Theme Music: From The Dust - Stardust
- https://soundcloud.com/ftdmusic
- CC BY 4.0
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