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"Fiat Lux" We Know What Turned on the Lights at the Dawn of Time
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Moment two planes near-miss over New York airport
A police dash camera video captured the moment two planes came within 725f (221m) of each other above Syracuse Hancock International Airport. The incident occurred on Monday 8 June and the Federal Aviation Administration is investigating.
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Texas company introduces ammo vending machines in US grocery stores
Horseshit
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Gen Z yearns for the pre-digital dating era – but don't ask them out in person
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Night owls have better brain function than morning people, study suggests
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Kids Who Get Smartphones Earlier Become Adults with Worse Mental Health
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A UFO car drove cross-country. Officers thought it was out of this world
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On Worker Equity - by Robin Hanson - Overcoming Bias
Imagine that during the last two years of high school, and the first year of college, subsidized-but-thin speculative markets in each students’ college-graduation income levels were easily available for anonymous trades by all those students’ associates, such as family, teachers, other students, etc. Those markets would surely aggregate a lot of info about each student, yet offer only very weak incentives for sabotage. And they’d be a lot of fun. Finance firms could then use the prices in these markets to estimate individual student income levels, greatly reducing adverse selection. Yes, each student (and their family) would be tempted to manipulate such markets, to make them look more promising, but that manipulation would on average make these prices more accurate, and subsidize these markets, so they’d require fewer other subsidies.
- We had yearbook polls. "most likely to be an ( astronaut | president | serial killer)" i doubt the predictive or any other value of the opinions of people who knew someone in high school.
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What was neoliberalism? The mythical era of deregulation and growth-at-all-costs
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Demography adds urgency. Fertility is highest in countries where malnutrition is most widespread. Unless nutrition improves, the next generation will face greater cognitive challenges than the present one. That would be a dire outcome, especially because it is so easy to avoid. The World Bank estimates that it would cost a mere $12bn a year to fight malnutrition “at scale”. That is slightly more than a third of what America wastes on farm subsidies. Several tactics would work. The simplest is to fortify basic foods, such as flour, with micronutrients, such as iron, zinc and folic acid. This is cheap and can make a big difference. Adding iodine to salt has made cretinism (a severe form of mental retardation) a thing of the past in places where it was once common, from China to Switzerland. Nearly three-quarters of countries mandate that at least some mass-produced foods are fortified, but rice is usually not—making the Philippines’ recent ban on “golden rice”, genetically modified to have extra vitamin A, especially wrong-headed. Another method is to give small sums of money to poor families with infants or pregnant mothers. Handing out cash is better than handing out food itself. It is more flexible—it can be spent on medicine as well as food. It costs less to distribute, since it can be sent digitally. And it is easier to monitor. Truckloads of grain for the poor are often stolen or adulterated.
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Stoke-on-Trent couple fined £1,200 after clearing up rubbish
A couple who cleared up rubbish on their street and left it in a box for bin collectors have been fined £1,200. Veronika Mike and Zoltan Pinter, from Stoke-on-Trent, said their road had been blighted with “disgusting” litter for years. But after Mr Pinter cleaned up some of the rubbish and left it out in a cardboard box, the pair each received £600 fines. The city council said all fly-tippers would be punished with fixed penalty notices and considered the matter resolved. After their experience, the couple said they would never clean their street again.
Obit
Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering
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Interesting contrast with he warnings about Russian propaganda efforts. Director of National Intelligence on Recent Iranian Influence Efforts
Iran is becoming increasingly aggressive in their foreign influence efforts, seeking to stoke discord and undermine confidence in our democratic institutions, as we have seen them do in the past, including in prior election cycles. They continue to adapt their cyber and influence activities, using social media platforms and issuing threats. It is likely they will continue to rely on their intelligence services in these efforts, as well as Iran-based online influencers, to promote their narratives.
In recent weeks, Iranian government actors have sought to opportunistically take advantage of ongoing protests regarding the war in Gaza, using a playbook we’ve seen other actors use over the years. We have observed actors tied to Iran’s government posing as activists online, seeking to encourage protests, and even providing financial support to protesters.
I want to be clear that I know Americans who participate in protests are, in good faith, expressing their views on the conflict in Gaza – this intelligence does not indicate otherwise. Moreover, the freedom to express diverse views, when done peacefully, is essential to our democracy, but it is also important to warn of foreign actors who seek to exploit our debate for their own purposes.
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Report: Global Companies Colluded To Censor Conservatives
When Elon Musk took over Twitter and turned it into X, GARM, at the behest of Rakowitz, organized a boycott among its members to prevent advertisers from spending their money there. Rakowitz denied his role in the coordinated campaign against Musk’s free speech efforts in a transcribed interview with Republican investigators, but documents obtained by the committee indicate he “took credit for Twitter’s revenue decline.”
GARM applied similar tactics against “The Joe Rogan Experience” in 2022 after Steer Team member Joe Barone of GroupM determined that advertisers and platforms like Spotify should be concerned about the alleged “misinformation” about Covid-19 shots touted by the top podcaster. The committee noted that “GroupM knew there was no brand safety concern because it did not buy advertisements on Mr. Rogan’s podcast, but it still sought to silence Mr. Rogan’s views anyway” by bringing their concerns to GARM.
Coca-Cola also approached GARM about Spotify and Rogan’s show. Rakowitz “indicated he could not collectively tell every GARM member what to do” because it “gets us into hot water by way of anticompetitive and collusive behaviors,” so “instead, he advised GARM members individually what to do, effectively aligning all GARM members.”
Musk
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Tesla prioritizes Musk's and VIP drivers' data to train self-driving software
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Elon Musk does not owe ex-Twitter staffers $500 million in severance, court rules | TechCrunch
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How Elon Musk and SpaceX Plan to Colonize Mars - The New York Times
Mr. Musk, 53, has directed SpaceX employees to drill into the design and details of a Martian city, according to five people with knowledge of the efforts and documents viewed by The New York Times. One team is drawing up plans for small dome habitats, including the materials that could be used to build them. Another is working on spacesuits to combat Mars’s hostile environment, while a medical team is researching whether humans can have children there. Mr. Musk has volunteered his sperm to help seed a colony, two people familiar with his comments said. The initiatives, which are in their infancy, are a shift toward more concrete planning for life on Mars as Mr. Musk’s timeline has hastened. While he said in 2016 that it would take 40 to 100 years to have a self-sustaining civilization on the planet, Mr. Musk told SpaceX employees in April that he now expects one million people to be living there in about 20 years.
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Musk to file suit against "perpetrators and collaborators in the advertising boycott racket"
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Space junk is exponentially increasing – and Elon Musk is a big reason why
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Tesla reportedly delays highly anticipated robotaxi event, stock tanks
Religion / Tribal / Culture War and Re-Segregation
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How Watermelon Cupcakes Kicked Off an Internal Storm at Meta | WIRED
But when a club for Muslim workers revealed plans to spend $200 in company funds to serve nine dozen cupcakes in watermelon colors at the event, Meta management called the offering disruptive and demanded the group go another route—such as “traditional Muslim sweets,” a staffer overseeing internal community relations wrote in a chat to an organizer. “Watermelon references or imagery should not be included as part of materials or giveaways (e.g. cupcakes).” The dispute over workplace treats, which two employees described to WIRED and a third posted about publicly on Instagram, is emblematic of the deep ruptures carved across the tech industry by the ongoing war in Gaza between Israel and Hamas.
Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts
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Today’s Students Are Dangerously Ignorant of Our Nation’s History
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Serious errors plague DNA tool that's a workhorse of biology
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My experience is with high school students, and this is generally where most of the abuse shows up in the news. Apart from what I’ve read about in the media and classes I’ve taken, I’ve worked at several schools, public, charter, and private, and witnessed such incidents at every stop. I’ve seen people fired and get arrested, but most of the time, incidents between teachers and students are handled quietly and quickly; one day Mr. Friendly is teaching biology, the next his name is off the classroom door, and few connect it to Becky’s sudden transfer to the school down the road. There are various reasons for this, but they generally come down to the administration having some idea what is going on but no way to prove it, and cut off future problems (and expensive liabilities) before it reaches the stage of mandated reporting. They move once they know enough not to want to know more. Egregious cases involving actual physical assault are generally the only ones where the police are always called.
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Many Americans Think K-12 Stem Ed Lags Behind Peer Nations. They're Half-Right
Info Rental / ShowBiz / Advertising
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Apple reaches deal with EU to open up mobile payments system to rivals
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FTC finds 'dark patterns' used by a majority of subscription apps and websites
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Spotify is no longer just a streaming app, it's a social network
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Big Telecom Prepares for the Final Killing Blow Against Net Neutrality
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DVDs are dying right as streaming has made them appealing again
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Brandon Sanderson thinks you could apply Elden Ring storytelling to novels
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The modern tech economy is based far too on making creators work for free
We can take steps towards save the music world, for starters, by cancelling all of those monthly streaming subscriptions, by buying a new hard drive (or the phone with extra storage space) and by starting to build our individual music libraries locally again... Maybe if we do it for long enough, the Mom & Pop shops, music stores, and other culture spots we all say that we miss might one day make a return.
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CBS News president Ingrid Ciprian-Matthews to exit after controversies at helm of network
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Viral TikTok Home Inspector Goes to War With Humiliated Builders
TechSuck / Geek Bait
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Iconography of the X Window System: The Boot Stipple
According to my detective work, in September 2008, a commit lands (0bb317a78b96fddcdac319c9706b3a12f931ea44)in the X.Org server that adds a flag to the X Server called
-retrothat backs a global variable calledparty_like_its_1989. This commit removes the default stipple and the customary X_cursor behaviors from boot,
AI Will (Save | Destroy) The World
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Manufacturers slow Gen AI rollout on rising accuracy concerns, says study
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AI boom risk: Can the power grid handle the technology's meteoric rise?
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On Open-Weights Foundation Models | Federal Trade Commission
But open-weights models also pose additional risks to consumers over centralized closed models. The lowered costs and barriers to retraining and redistributing models extends not only to well-meaning companies but also to malicious actors scaling up spam, scams, and other harmful uses. Malicious uses vary by particular model and modality (text, image, audio, video, etc.), and the marginal added risk of open-weights models (over existing technologies or over AI models generally) is under active research
But certain open-weights models have already enabled concrete harms, particularly in the area of nonconsensual intimate imagery and child sexual abuse material. While model developers may add technical guardrails to their systems – training the model to avoid generating content unwanted by the developer such as inaccurate, illegal, or abusive content – these precautions are not currently robust against persistent bad actors, and they can be defeated by prompting or fine-tuning such that the model “un-learns” the guardrails. How to train more robust protections into open-weights models remains an area of ongoing research.
- Outlawing encryption worked so well, let's try outlawing static data sets. DeCSS fit on a tshirt; it'll probably take a bit more code to derive any given set of naughty weights or other verboten data from Pi.
Space / Boomy Zoomers / UFO
Economicon / Business / Finance
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CPI for all items falls 0.1% in June; up 3% over the last 12 months
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Private Equity's Creative Wizardry Is Obscuring Dangers to the Financial System - Bloomberg
Even though buyout firms say they see green shoots in the M&A market, they’re deep into a third year of higher rates and scant opportunity to sell assets at decent prices, and they’ve been forced into a host of wheezes to keep things going: “Payment in kind” (PIK) lets PE-owned companies defer crippling interest payments in exchange for taking on even more costly debt; “net asset value” loans allow cash-strapped buyout firms to borrow against their holdings. This endless kicking the can down the road — in the hope that rate-cutting central bankers will at some point ride to the rescue — is making the pensions, insurers and others who back PE firms uneasy. When buyout groups do look to sell, PIKs, NAV loans and other kinds of excess baggage are creating obstacles. At the same time regulators are becoming ever more fearful about what’s being hidden from view, and the threat of contagion from any private-markets meltdown to the banking system and real-economy jobs. Investors simply want firms to return to their founding mission: Improving the companies they own.
Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making
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IRS collected $1B in back taxes from millionaires in less than a year
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US ban on at-home distilling is unconstitutional, Texas judge rules
A federal judge in Texas has ruled that a 156-year-old ban on at-home distilling is unconstitutional, siding with a group that advocates for legalizing the ability of people to produce spirits like whiskey and bourbon for their personal consumption. U.S. District Judge Mark Pittman, an appointee of Republican former President Donald Trump in Fort Worth, on Wednesday agreed with the Hobby Distillers Association's lawyers that the longstanding ban exceeded Congress's taxing power and ran afoul of the U.S. Constitution's Commerce Clause. He issued a permanent injunction barring the ban from being enforced against the Hobby Distillers Association's members but stayed his decision for 14 days so the government could seek a stay at the appellate court level.
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Texas Lt. Gov. Accuses Biden of Politicizing Hurricane Beryl Response
“I've been trying to track down the governor to see — I don't have any authority to do that without a specific request from the governor,” Biden told The Houston Chronicle of distributing emergency relief supplies.
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Exclusive: House Oversight subpoenas top Biden aides over his mental fitness
The GOP-led House Oversight Committee subpoenaed three senior White House aides Wednesday, demanding they sit for depositions regarding President Biden's health, according to letters obtained by Axios. The subpoenas signal Republicans' desire to investigate whether some of Biden's closest aides essentially have hidden the 81-year-old president's true condition, in a probe that could drag through the Nov. 5 election.
Oversight chair James Comer (R-Ky.) subpoenaed First Lady Jill Biden's top aide Anthony Bernal, deputy chief of staff Annie Tomasini, and senior adviser Ashley Williams, according to the letters. Comer writes that the committee is "concerned" that each official is "one of several White House staffers who have taken it upon themselves to run the country while the President cannot." In his letter to Bernal — whose influence extends well beyond the first lady's office — Comer wrote: The "Committee seeks to understand the extent of Mr. Bernal's influence over the President and his knowledge of whether the President is personally discharging the duties of his office."
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What Do You Do with a Failed Coup? | City Journal
Before the debate (BD), virtually every Democrat and most in the media assured us that Biden was totally up to the job. In case you’ve already forgotten the long-ago BD era that ended a few weeks ago, Matt Orfalea has compiled a brilliant video compilation of these folks claiming that Biden was “sharp as a tack,” or variations on this phrase. But just moments into the AD (after the debate) era, the dam broke and almost every media outlet and figure, even Biden superfan Joe Scarborough, turned on him. The same gang who have been warning us about the threat to democracy posed by Donald Trump, all suddenly determined that the 14 million votes Biden got (87 percent of those cast) in the primary process (admittedly rigged in his favor) didn’t matter. He needed to step down because they said so.
Of course, being the president of a democratic country, Biden doesn’t have all the tools these authoritarian leaders have at their disposal. He can’t singlehandedly rig elections, shut down independent media, imprison enemies, and terrorize the populace like a proper dictator. And yet, repression wasn’t the key factor that enabled these dictators to survive coup attempts and cling to power. Each was able to retain the loyalty of people who mattered—rank and file soldiers, party leaders, tribal elders, and so on. Biden has sagely done much the same during his five decades in politics. The media has deserted him, but key Democrats and Democratic constituencies (unions, the Congressional Black Caucus) have not.
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Act of Desperation? Biden’s Team Checks Delegates for Loyalty - POLITICO
President Biden’s aides are telephoning individual delegates to next month’s Democratic convention to gauge their loyalty to the president, according to three delegates who received a call this week. After a round of introductory questions confirming each delegate was still planning on going to Chicago and asking if they had served as delegate before, the Biden aide making the calls got to the point, the Democratic activists recalled to me in separate interviews.
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Some Biden Advisers Are Discussing How to Convince Him to Step Aside - The New York Times
A small group of Mr. Biden’s advisers in the administration and the campaign — at least two of whom have told allies that they do not believe he should keep trying to run for a second term — have said they would have to convince the president of several things. They said they have to make the case to the president, who remains convinced of the strength of his campaign, that he cannot win against former President Donald J. Trump. They have to persuade him to believe that another candidate, like Vice President Kamala Harris, could beat Mr. Trump. And they have to assure Mr. Biden that, should he step aside, the process to choose another candidate would be orderly and not devolve into chaos in the Democratic Party. Those discussions were recounted by three people familiar with them who, like others in this article, spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss a sensitive situation. There is no indication that any of the discussions have reached Mr. Biden himself, one of the informed people said.
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The Embattled Biden Campaign Tests Kamala Harris’s Strength vs. Trump - The New York Times
Under siege from fellow Democrats, President Biden’s campaign is quietly testing the strength of Vice President Kamala Harris against former President Donald J. Trump in a head-to-head survey of voters, as Mr. Biden fights for his political future with a high-stakes news conference on Thursday. The survey, which is being conducted this week and was commissioned by the Biden campaign’s analytics team, is believed to be the first time since the debate that Mr. Biden’s aides have sought to measure how the vice president would fare at the top of the ticket. It was described by three people who are informed about it and insisted on anonymity because of the sensitive nature of the information. They did not specify why the survey was being conducted or what the campaign planned to do with the results. It could be read as the team gathering information to present a case to the president that his path forward is slim, or to argue that Mr. Biden is still the strongest standard-bearer for his party.
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Biden campaign fundraising takes a major hit: 'It's already disastrous'
President Joe Biden’s campaign has already suffered a major slowdown in donations and officials are bracing for a seismic fundraising hit, with the fallout from a debate nearly two weeks ago taking a sizable toll on operations, according to four sources close to the re-election effort. “It’s already disastrous,” one of the sources close to Biden’s re-election said of fundraising. "The money has absolutely shut off," another source close to the re-election said.
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Biden's high-stakes press conference: Mad media vs. unscripted president
A red-hot press corps — which feels ignored, used and deceived — will get its first true unfiltered crack at grilling President Biden, the most media-sheltered president of modern times. "The dogs are loose," a Biden adviser told us. Biden, bitter over media coverage of his age and acuity, gets his shot at redemption — a chance to show the press and public he can think fast, handle the heat, and spar and speak improvisationally without glitching.
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Milwaukee radio station says it agreed to edit interview with Biden
Civic Media, a Wisconsin-based progressive talk-radio network, said Thursday it had agreed to make two edits to an interview with President Joe Biden at the request of his campaign before the broadcast aired, a decision the station said fell short of "journalistic interview standards." "On Monday, July 8th, it was reported to Civic Media management that immediately after the phone interview was recorded, the Biden campaign called and asked for two edits to the recording before it aired. Civic Media management immediately undertook an investigation and determined that the production team at the time viewed the edits as non-substantive and broadcast and published the interview with two short segments removed," the station said in a statement released on Thursday.
The two edits, according to the station, were: + At time 5:20, the removal of “...and in addition to that, I have more Blacks in my administration than any other president, all other presidents combined, and in major positions, cabinet positions.” + At time 14:15, in reference to Donald Trump’s call for the death penalty for the Central Park Five, the removal of “I don’t know if they even call for their hanging or not, but he–but they said [...] convicted of murder.”
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Biden poised for "deluge" of fresh calls from Capitol Hill to drop out
House Democrats are poised to issue a flood of new statements urging Joe Biden to exit the 2024 race regardless of what happens at the president's NATO press conference, more than half a dozen lawmakers tell Axios. While some House Democrats view the press conference as a key hurdle for Biden to clear, "many have" already decided to urge Biden to withdraw, one lawmaker said.
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Biden Aides Believe Obama Is Plotting Joe’s Ouster After Clooney Op-Ed
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Biden Introduces Zelenskiy as 'President Putin' at NATO Summit
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House Democrat suggests Biden should resign, says presidency 'must come to an end' | Fox News
Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez, D-Wash., previously said she believed Biden would lose to Trump, but now she is the 15th congressional Democrat to call on the president to end his re-election bid. "I’ve spent the past two weeks listening to my constituents express their concerns about the President’s age and health," she said in a statement to local outlet KGW
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“There is a marked difference in the president from the spring to the summer,” a senior Democrat told CNN. “He’s just not the same.” Back in Washington, there have been clear signs throughout his term of Biden being increasingly stage-managed, with lists of talking points, names of questioners and drawings of where he should walk presented to him by aides. Ahead of closed-door Cabinet meetings that Biden attends, it is customary for Cabinet officials to submit questions and key talking points that they plan to present in front of Biden ahead of time to White House aides, two sources with direct knowledge told CNN. “The entire display is kind of an act,” one of those sources told CNN. “They would come and say, ‘Hey, the president is going to call on you about 25 minutes in, and ask this question. What are the bullet points you’ll respond with?’”
The second source, who echoed that same description, said when Biden attends Cabinet meetings, they are “not free-wheeling, and pretty well-orchestrated.” And the meetings themselves are infrequent, with one Cabinet secretary telling CNN they are uncertain of Biden’s condition because they so rarely see him. In fact, the last full Cabinet meeting took place on October 2, 2023. Sources also said Cabinet meetings during the Obama years, which Biden attended as vice president, were not pre-scripted this way.
Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security
External Security / Militaria / Diplomania
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Skilled immigration is a national security priority
Even Donald Trump, for whom suspicion of immigration is a signature issue, recently declared on a podcast that he would give a green card to any foreigner who completed a college degree in the U.S. Trump’s campaign quickly walked back the remarks, but the idea was a good one, and it shows that Trump instinctively recognizes the importance of recruiting skilled global talent. The U.S. media has seen many calls for more skilled immigration – including plenty on this blog. But the national security implications of the issue often go unstated. And there also needs to be more discussion of concrete ways to get more skilled immigrants to the U.S.
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How China and Russia could hobble the internet (Archive)
Across Europe, Russian spies and their proxies have attacked Ukraine-linked targets, hacking into water utilities, setting fire to warehouses and plotting to strike American military bases in Germany. The fear is that underwater communications could be crippled in a crisis or in wartime, or tapped for secrets in peacetime. And as America and China joust for influence throughout Asia, undersea cables have become a crucial part of their competition.
Even with better undersea surveillance and more redundancy in routes, the threat is unlikely to abate. Deep-sea cable cutting once required large naval investments. Increasingly capable naval drones are changing that. “The ability to operate at extreme depths may not be the sole preserve of major powers anymore,” says Sidharth Kaushal of RUSI, another think-tank. The challenge for smaller powers, he says, will often be identifying the precise route of cables. That can take years of peacetime surveillance. It is no wonder, then, that many Western governments would rather keep such details tightly under wraps.
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FCC: Just 12% of US providers have completed rip and replace of ZTE, Huawei
World
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France prison van attack: Inmate Mohamed Amra on the run after guards killed in ambush
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The battle to stop Australia's $450B crime industry targeting wildlife
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Claims emerged in the Brazilian press over the weekend that Álvaro Malaquias Santa Rosa – a notorious gang boss known as Peixão (Big Fish) – had determined that three places of worship should shut down in and around the agglomeration of favelas that he controls in northern Rio. Since Peixão – whose nickname comes from the ichthys “Jesus” fish – took power in 2016 of five favelas that have become known as the Complexo de Israel, an allusion to the evangelical belief that the return of Jews to the Holy Land is a step towards the second coming of Christ and Armageddon.
Israel
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Netanyahu mulled Europe stopover but will fly directly to US amid ICC fears
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Microsoft killed my online life after I called Gaza
Palestinians calling home to Gaza on Skype have had their digital lives destroyed, after Microsoft closed their email accounts without warning. BBC News has spoken to 20 Palestinians living abroad who say Microsoft, which owns the voice and video chat app, kicked them out of their accounts. The total number affected is thought to be much higher. In some cases, these email accounts are more than 15 years old and the users have no way to retrieve emails, contacts or memories. Microsoft says they violated its terms of service - but will not say how - and the decision is final.
Russia Bad / Ukraine War
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War in Ukraine: US and Germany Foiled Rehinmetall CEO Assisination Plot - Bloomberg
US and German security services foiled a Russian plot to assassinate the chief executive officer of Rheinmetall AG, a German arms manufacturer that has been producing ammunition and military vehicles for Ukraine, according to a person familiar with the situation. US intelligence officials who uncovered the plot informed German security services, which thwarted it, said the person, who asked not to be identified discussing sensitive information. As a consequence, Rheinmetall CEO Armin Papperger was given special protection.
American intelligence agencies uncovered a Russian plot to kill the chief executive of a German weapons manufacturer, according to multiple Western officials, as Moscow steps up a campaign to undermine support for Ukraine’s war effort. The United States warned Germany about the plot, and German officials increased protection for Armin Papperger, who leads Rheinmetall, which makes artillery shells and tanks that Ukraine has used in its war against Russia. This year, Russian military intelligence has carried out a series of arsons aimed at disrupting the supply of weapons and other materiel to Ukraine, prompting the expulsion of undercover spies and warnings from NATO. The assassination plot is a significant escalation, officials said, representing a more concerted covert effort to deter Western companies from producing supplies for Ukraine.
China
Health / Medicine
Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda
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Microsoft and Occidental sign carbon credit deal to help offset AI energy surge
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Ecuador river is granted the right to not be polluted in historic court case
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As extreme heat bakes the West, emergency helicopters struggle to fly
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Lithium ion batteries a growing source of PFAS pollution, study finds
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Thick sea ice flowing from Arctic Ocean shortening shipping season in Northwest
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What American cities could do to save us from this unbearable heat
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'Frog saunas' could save species from deadly fungal disease, study finds