#news #video of Jacob #Coxon testifying for the #New-York city council (⸘‽) about #AI safety and the #Hugging-Face-Incident
on 02026-10-05#news that #NASA has canceled its #Mars sample return mission
on 02026-09-22“#China’s export compliance overhaul” #news that might explain the #JLCPCB banning problems, discussing “Regulations on the #Export-Control of Dual-Use Items”
on 02026-09-03#news about #reproducible-builds and #boostrappable builds: Jake Edge's trip report about Timothy Sample’s presentation #toread
on 02026-09-02South #Korea is going to provide its entire population with unlimited #AI with only 512 NVIDIA B200s? #news
on 02026-09-01#history #news about #garbage in #California: Los Angeles used backyard incinerators
on 02026-08-31#news that the heat wave killed 15,800 people in #Germany, most in a single week. #global-warming
on 02026-08-28Appalling #WSJ #news: “U.S. State Department Pauses Immigrant Visa Applications.” Specifically “Immigrant visa applicants with interviews scheduled at U.S. embassies and consulates have been notified by email that their appointments are being postponed. It wasn’t clear how long the freeze would be in place.” #USA #politics
on 02026-08-26#Video from ultra-right-wing broadcaster Sky #News reporting that #CIA director John Ratcliffe made an unannounced flight to Moscow to talk to Russia (specifically Sergey Naryshkin, head of the SVR), possibly over #Iran. Apparently the CIA is in charge of #USA #politics now? #Interview with Michael Clarke, who also discusses a new offensive by #Ukraine in the war, where they’re apparently able to use conventional armor again.
on 02026-08-26#politics #news #video about how the #New-START treaty, the last #nuclear-weapons #disarmament treaty, signed in 02010 by #Obama and #Medvedev, expired on 02026-02-04. #Interview material with Sophie Bolt and Eliana Johns. #History of disarmament treaties with stock photos; between START in 01991 and 02009, warhead stockpiles declined 82%. The history of the “nuclear taboo”. For some reason there’s a lot of blurred stock footage of Kermit the Frog. George W. Bush pulled out of the ABM treaty with the #GWOT as an excuse, and the next day Russia withdrew from the 01991 START II. #China’s #no-first-use policy and attempt to establish it as an international standard.
on 02026-08-25#WSJ #news #video saying #The-Line (and the rest of Neom) has failed in #Saudi Arabia “over the last nine months or so”. Lots of talking-head filler. “Construction on all the major projects has stopped or is winding down.” But Yasir al-Rumayyan says that nothing has been canceled, just reprioritized, because it’s not “necessary” to deliver The Line by 02030. The golf courses in Sindalah have turned brown. The US$500B initial budget (up to 02080) has ballooned to US$8.8T. So they’re focused on "Oxagon", the port part of Neom.
on 02026-08-25“#Ethiopia’s Virgin Mary festival in Tigray cancelled over drone strike fears.” This is the first time I’ve heard of a festival (Ashenda, in Mekelle) being canceled because of #weaponry #drones. “There are concerns the conflict might reignite with the regional authorities blaming a recent series of deadly drone strikes on federal armed forces.” This #news is from Friday, and the festival was supposed to happen today, so they canceled it with two days’ warning. #politics
on 02026-08-23#News about Samuel #Tunick’s prosecution, a sort of #interview with him. #human-rights #privacy #USA #politics
on 02026-08-21#news #video of Gandalfs protesting outside Peter #Thiel’s house in Palermo in #Argentina, with more context. It was yesterday. They were protesting that Thiel bought 1% of Vista Energy, the Vaca Muerta oil company. #humor
on 02026-08-18#news #video of Gandalfs protesting outside Peter #Thiel’s house in Palermo in #Argentina #humor
on 02026-08-18#News about conditions on the #USA’s #USS-Lincoln in the #Iran war: “Conditions on US aircraft carrier at sea for more than 250 days raise alarms: Thousands of US military members who have lived aboard an aircraft carrier for more than 250 days are reportedly contending with food shortages, broken plumbing and exhaustion, leading lawmakers to demand answers from the Pentagon and pressure the #Trump administration over the Iran war.” The BBC quotes a letter from Connecticut Senator Richard Blumenthal to Secretary of Defense Hegseth: “Shortages of basic supplies, water contamination, plumbing issues, deteriorating mental health, deck safety concerns and disruptions in the mail system, which have caused many care packages in route to the ship to be lost in transit for months.” And California Congressman Mike Levin: “moldy showers, broken toilets, laundry down for weeks, long stretches with no hot water, a meal that came down to half a cup of rice and two tortillas. No soap, deodorant, or toothpaste.”
on 02026-08-18#News #video from today (from #MS-NOW, a “Versant Media LLC” brand, which turns out to be MSNBC renamed) about how #Iran left one of the #USA’s destroyers without power for four days, and the carrier #USS-Lincoln has run out of supplies, because Pete Hegseth hid (?!) the fact that Iran destroyed the US’s main resupply base “in the Gulf” (Persian, I suppose?).
on 02026-08-18#news #video from four years ago about former prime minister Shinzo Abe’s assassination in #Japan
on 02026-08-12#News from 02002 about "necklacing" making a return to #South-Africa. “In scenes reminiscent of the highly controversial necklace attacks by anti-apartheid youths on collaborators with the apartheid regime in the 1980s, the three men had tyres placed around their necks and were then doused with petrol before being set alight.” After a trial in an informal justice system, though.
on 02026-08-11#News: #Kimi K3 #AI also broke containment
on 02026-08-10#News: #Facebook’s #AI under testing broke containment and cracked some other companies’ #security
on 02026-08-10#News from 02023 about #Elmu turning off #Starlink at some earlier time to thwart an attack by #Ukraine: “There was an emergency request from government authorities to activate Starlink all the way to Sevastopol,” Musk wrote on X, the platform previously known as Twitter. “The obvious intent being to sink most of the Russian fleet at anchor. If I had agreed to their request, then SpaceX would be explicitly complicit in a major act of war and conflict escalation.” Reporter Brad Dress writes: “Musk was concerned about Russia responding to the naval attack with a nuclear weapon, Isaacson wrote in the book, according to CNN. Ukrainian officials begged him to turn the service back on, but he declined to do it for the Crimea incident.”
on 02026-08-10#news: Martín #Varsavsky is building a ranch for a few #survivalists near Eugenio Bustos in Mendoza, #Argentina: “if China takes Taiwan or Russia takes the Baltics, the next day we’re there.”
on 02026-08-10#news of #Ukraine using #weaponry #drones against a Russian refinery in Nizhnekamsk, 1200 km from the Ukraine border, killing 12 people and injuring 75.
on 02026-08-10#news story about Noelle Murata’s #security talk the other day, and BSidesLV in general, relating it to the new "ChainDrop" worm
on 02026-08-06#news from 02023 about Russia jamming #Starlink in #Ukraine, with the defense being to dig a 50 cm deep pit to put the antenna in
on 02026-07-25#news from 02023: #MrBeast paid for surgery to restore 1000 blind people’s vision, winning approval from the National Federation for the Blind and Sightsavers, but others called it a “tacky and tasteless act of charity porn”.
on 02026-07-25#humor #news “A school teacher in Louisiana who reportedly has admitted to lacing cupcakes with her husband’s sperm and feeding them to students now faces a sentence of 41 years in prison.”
on 02026-07-20#news #video about how the world didn’t have a huge #oil shock from the #Iran war just now. Proposes a theory that #China’s Xi Jinping averted disaster.
Incorrectly states that 10% of the world oil supply is “more than a tenth of global #energy usage”. Misleading plots with nonzero baselines to exaggerate drawdowns of strategic petroleum reserves. Purportedly China’s oil imports dropped by half (5.5 million barrels per day) between March and June, though given the previous falsehoods I’m not going to trust anything out of this “Max Fisher” bozo until I verify it. Reportedly there’s a Reuters article from March entitled, “China orders immediate ban on March fuel exports, sources say,” about refinery outputs, and a Wall Street Journal article from June, “China is propping up the world economy by importing a lot less oil”. And reportedly China was burning a record amount of coal by April, perhaps shutting down liquid-fueled power plants. Oh, and supposedly China had a 1.4 billion barrel secret strategic oil reserve, larger than the strategic oil reserves of all other countries put together.
Another boner toward the end of the video: “trading in US dollars means those transactions have to be processed by a US-based bank.” No, no it doesn’t.
on 02026-07-18“#Trump’s talk, in his familiar discursive style, also included digs at former President Joe Biden, and Vice President Kamala Harris. He also falsely claimed a mandate to hire transgender executives under the Creating Helpful Incentives to Produce Semiconductors (CHIPS) Act caused its failure.” #news
on 02026-07-18#news about dental tourism, using Los Algodones as an example
on 02026-06-17#news: 14-point #Iran war MoU “Islamabad Memorandum of Understanding between the United States of America and the Islamic Republic of Iran” with #USA signed and released.
> The United States of America and the Islamic Republic of Iran have jointly agreed in good faith on [ __ date] on the following:
> 1. The United States of America and the Islamic Republic of Iran and their allies in the current war are signing this MOU to declare the immediate and permanent termination of military operations on all fronts, including in Lebanon, and undertake from now on not to initiate any war or any military operation against each other, and to refrain from the threat or use of force against each other, and ensuring the territorial integrity and sovereignty of Lebanon. The final deal will confirm the permanent termination of the war on all fronts, including in Lebanon and other provisions of this paragraph.
> 2. The United States of America and the Islamic Republic of Iran undertake to respect each other’s sovereignty and territorial integrity and to refrain from interfering in each other’s internal affairs.
> 3. The United States of America and the Islamic Republic of Iran commit to negotiating and achieving the final deal in maximum 60 days, extendable with mutual consent.
> 4. Immediately upon the signing of this MOU, the United States of America will begin the removal of its naval blockade and any disturbances or impediments against the Islamic Republic of Iran, and will fully end the naval blockade within 30 days. During this period, the traffic of vessels will be in proportion to the numbers of pre-war traffic being restored by the Islamic Republic of Iran. The United States of America further undertakes to remove its forces from the proximity of the Islamic Republic of Iran within 30 days after the final deal.
> 5. Upon the signing of this MOU, the Islamic Republic of Iran will make arrangements using its best efforts for the safe passage of commercial vessels with no charge, for 60 days only, from the Persian Gulf to the Sea of Oman and vice versa. The traffic of commercial vessels will immediately start, and considering the need for removing the technical and military obstacles, and demining by the Islamic Republic of Iran will be instated within 30 days. The Islamic Republic of Iran will conduct dialog with the Sultanate of Oman to define the future administration and maritime services in the Strait of Hormuz in discussion with other Persian Gulf littoral states in line with the applicable international law and the sovereign rights of coastal states of the Strait of Hormuz.
> 6. The United States of America undertakes with regional partners to develop a definitive, mutually agreed plan with at least USD 300 billion for the reconstruction and economic development of the Islamic Republic of Iran. The mechanism for the implementation of this plan will be finalized as part of a final deal within 60 days. All required licenses, waivers and permissions needed for the relevant financial transactions will be granted by the United States of America.
> 7. The United States of America undertakes to terminate all types of sanctions against the Islamic Republic of Iran, including the United Nations Security Council resolutions, IAEA Board of Governors resolutions, and all unilateral US sanctions, primary and secondary, in an agreed upon schedule as part of the final deal. The Islamic Republic of Iran and the United States of America acknowledge the critical importance of the sanctions termination issue above mentioned, and expressed their intentions to immediately address these issues in the negotiations in order to achieve mutual agreement on them.
> 8. The Islamic Republic of Iran reaffirms that it shall not procure or develop nuclear weapons. The United States of America and the Islamic Republic of Iran have agreed to resolve the disposition of stockpiled enriched material pursuant to a mechanism that will be mutually agreed upon in accordance with the schedule mentioned in paragraph seven, with the minimum methodology to be down blended on site under the supervision of the IAEA. The two parties also agreed to discuss the issue of enrichment and other mutually agreed matters related to the Islamic Republic of Iran’s nuclear needs, based on a satisfactory framework being agreed upon in the final deal. The final deal will confirm the provisions of this paragraph. The United States of America and the Islamic Republic of Iran acknowledge the critical importance of the nuclear issues above mentioned. They express their intention to immediately address these issues in the negotiations in order to achieve mutual agreement on them.
> 9. Pending the final deal, the United States of America and the Islamic Republic of Iran agree to maintain the status quo. The Islamic Republic of Iran will maintain the current status quo of its nuclear program, and the United States of America will not impose any new sanctions and will not deploy additional forces in the region.
> 10. The United States of America undertakes that immediately upon the signing of this MOU and until the termination of sanctions, US Department of Treasury will issue waivers for the export of Iranian crude oil, petroleum products and derivatives, and all associated services, including banking transactions, insurances, transportation, etc.
> 11. The United States of America undertakes to make fully available for use the frozen or restricted funds and assets of the Islamic Republic of Iran upon the implementation of this MOU. The United States of America and the Islamic Republic of Iran will mutually agree on the procedures related to the release of these funds during negotiations. Such funds, whether retained in the original account or transferred, shall be made fully usable for payment to any ultimate beneficiary designated by the Central Bank of the Islamic Republic of Iran. The United States of America undertakes to issue all necessary licenses and authorizations accordingly.
> 12. The United States of America and the Islamic Republic of Iran agree that an executive mechanism will be established to monitor the successful implementation of this MOU and the future compliance of the final deal.
> 13. After signing this MOU, and subject to the beginning of the implementation of paragraphs 1, 4, 5, 10 and 11 of this MOU, and the continuing implementation of these measures, the United States of America and the Islamic Republic of Iran will start negotiations regarding the final deal exclusively on the other paragraphs.
> 14. The final deal will be endorsed by a binding UNSC resolution.
To me, the most important points: Lebanon is included, Iran is waiving the transit fees for 60 days, the US is going to pay US$300 billion to Iran and end all sanctions against Iran.
on 02026-06-17#news about #xAI #pollution: techcrunch says Memphis levels of formaldehyde, PM2.5, and nitrogen oxides have increased since last year, but as far as I know gas turbines don’t emit #formaldehyde or particulates
on 02026-06-16#Switzerland rejects the 10-million population cap referendum! 55% voted no, 45% voted yes, with 59% turnout (48% being average turnout.) #news
on 02026-06-14#news (press release) from Wood Mackenzie: “Gas turbine prices soar 195% as market faces supply-demand crisis”, “Prices anticipated to be US$600/kW by end-2027—a 195% increase since 2019”.
on 02026-06-12#news: #photovoltaic #solar-energy “supplied 12.8% of [#USA] electricity in May even as #Trump boosts coal over clean #energy”, while coal was only 12.2% (and probably insignificant outside of electricity). Nice (minimally related stock) photo of #sheep grazing under #solar panels in Saltillo, Texas. “#Seia and Wood Mackenzie said solar and battery storage were practically the only energy resources being built in the first quarter, making up 91% of all new generating capacity [presumably in the US].” Sourced from #Ember but without a proper citation. #energy
on 02026-06-11#news: #drones from #Russia use #NVIDIA Jetson Orin processors for #AI #machine-vision
on 02026-06-11#news: #Niantic (a spinoff from #In-Q-Tel funded #Keyhole, the Google Earth folks) is using 30 billion camera environmental scans from #Pokemon Go to train #AI for new #USA #weaponry #drones using aerial navigation software made by #Vantar (formerly Maxor)
on 02026-06-11#news #BLS #CPI #inflation index is up 4.2% from a year ago: “The Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U) increased 0.5 percent on a seasonally adjusted basis in May, after rising 0.6 percent in April, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Over the last 12 months, the all items index increased 4.2 percent before seasonal adjustment.
“The index for energy rose 3.9 percent in May, after rising 3.8 percent in April and 10.9 percent in March. The energy index accounted for over sixty percent of the monthly all items increase. The index for shelter also increased in May, rising 0.3 percent. The food index increased 0.2 percent over the month as the food at home index rose 0.1 percent and the food away from home index increased 0.3 percent.”
on 02026-06-10#history #news from 02020: Steven Hsu fired from Michigan State University over accusations of sexism and racism.
> “Each time I discussed intelligence differences between races (whether on my blog or in an interview) I said there was NOT strong evidence in favor of it,” he said, in the email. “But I did defend the right of researchers to investigate the question.” (...)
> A separate petition circulated, gathering nearly 1,500 signatures from academics across the world as of Friday evening, from people supporting Hsu and calling claims of sexism and racism “unequivocally false.”
on 02026-06-09#SpaceX won’t get added to the S&P 500 on a proposed fast track which would have also added #OpenAI. #finance #news
on 02026-06-07#Zeynep wrote an NYT piece warning about the #hantavirus outbreak a few weeks ago, which now seems to be under control. #news
on 02026-06-02#news #history: “[Melisa]’s death was in 2007, when she entered a cage to feed an antfish bear [anteater] called “Ramón.” According to the reconstruction, the bear stopped [stood up on] Melisa on two legs, hugged her and pierced her lungs. The young woman spent two days in agony at the Evita Hospital in Berazategui and before she died they had to amputate both legs.”
on 02026-05-28#news background on the methyl methacrylate #Garden-Grove-chemical-leak in California last week.
on 02026-05-26“the outbreak, which the World Health Organization has declared a public health emergency of international concern. (...) Earlier on Sunday, the Congolese Ministry of Communication said on X that there were 904 suspected cases of Ebola, mostly in northeastern Ituri Province – a significant jump from the previously announced more than 700 suspected Ebola cases. (...) There is no available vaccine for the Bundibugyo virus, a rare type of #Ebola, which spread undetected for weeks in Ituri following the first reported death - in late April in the town of Bunia, the provincial capital - while authorities tested for another, more common, Ebola virus and came up negative.” #news
on 02026-05-26#news #video of #Ukraine soldiers shooting at #drones with a CNN reporter, showing in detail a net-covered road and the tactics the soldiers use to survive while under drone attack
on 02026-05-22#Deutsche-Welle #news #video about how the #USA is “terrified” of #EVs from #China #toread
on 02026-05-14apparently #Trump’s Department of Justice has reclassified #marijuana from Schedule I (“hard drugs”) to Schedule II (“like Tylenol with codeine”). This is #news from April 23. #politics #drugs #USA
on 02026-05-09#DNSSEC took #DNS for Germany (.de) offline today. #news
on 02026-05-05#news investigating #Altman’s integrity #toread
on 02026-05-0402017 #news (#history) on the difficulty in recruiting #Shkreli jurors:
Juror No 59: “Your Honor, totally he is guilty and in no way can I let him slide out of anything because – ”
The court: “OK. Is that your attitude toward anyone charged with a crime who has not been proven guilty?”
Juror No 59: “It’s my attitude toward his entire demeanor, what he has done to people.”
The court: “All right. We are going to excuse you, sir.”
Juror No 59: “And he disrespected the Wu-Tang Clan.”
on 02026-05-03#news: the #Iran war has boosted PCB prices 40% in April alone, and copper foil prices 30% this year, because the #Saudi Jubail petrochemical complex produced a critical resin.
on 02026-05-03#news that Shirley Meng, top battery scientist “who also heads a Department of Energy (DOE) research hub, is now heading back to Asia”, is moving from the #USA to #Singapore and “stepping down as director of the $62 million Energy Storage Research Alliance (ESRA) based at Argonne National Laboratory” because of #Trump #politics #energy-storage. But for two years “she will maintain a partial appointment at UChicago and continue to run her lab.”
on 02026-05-01#news about what happened to #Spirit #Airlines. Not just #Iran.
on 02026-05-01#news: #Joby is now #flying electric air taxis since Monday
on 02026-04-29#news that the #UAE are leaving #OPEC due to the war with #Iran, archive of <https://www.ft.com/content/8c354f2d-3e66-47f1-aad4-9b4aa30e386d?syn-25a6b1a6=1>
on 02026-04-28#USA bankruptcy filings increased 11.9% (11.4% for businesses, 11.9% for non-businesses) in the year ended March 31, 02026, over the year before. #news #politics #Trump
on 02026-04-28#vapid #humor #news article about funny causes of death such as entanglement in bedclothes and falls from bed
on 02026-04-27#gambling allegedly won Master Sgt. #Gannon Ken Van Dyke US$400k for leaking the raid on #Venezuela to kidnap Nicolas #Maduro, but he's been arrested and an indictment was unsealed today. “The Commodity Futures Trading Commission [#CFTC] filed a related complaint against Van Dyke on Thursday, seeking restitution, disgorgement and civil monetary penalties.” #Polymarket’s stance has changed from “super cool (...) creates this financial incentive for people to go and divulge the information to the market” in November to “When we identified a user trading on classified government information, we referred the matter to the DOJ & cooperated with their investigation. Insider trading has no place on Polymarket. Today’s arrest is proof the system works.” #prediction-markets #news #USA #politics
on 02026-04-23Sabine #Hossenfelder #news #video about the #Dead-Scientists-Mystery, listing the missing and murdered people, but basically just talking-head filler with stock images.
on 02026-04-22#news from 02013: “long endurance, transoceanic gliders harvesting all energy from the ocean thermocline,” the so-called #Slocum-Gliders, contracted by the Navy of the #USA to Teledyne Benthos. #underwater #drones #energy-harvesting
on 02026-04-22#news #video: in "solar grazing" the beasts keep the grass from growing up over your #solar panels; focused on third-generation shepherd Dan Finnegan in southeastern Massachusetts, whose company is Solar Shepherd, LLC <https://solarshepherd.com/>, grazing that day on a solar farm owned by National Grid. He has 100 “acres” of solar farms under management as pastures. Unlike cows, #sheep fit underneath solar panels on many utility-scale solar farms, and they’re an alternative to “five or eight guys ... running weed whackers under solar panels”. #solar-energy #energy
on 02026-04-22#news from 01998, first transatlantic crossing by #drones, the #Aerosonde specifically.
on 02026-04-22#news from 02014 about agricultural #drones #toread
on 02026-04-22“Large-scale exercise in Estonia - Ukrainian #drones wipe out entire NATO battalions” #Ukraine #weaponry #news
on 02026-04-22#Colbert #news #humor #video #interview with #John-Kerry, mostly about #Iran. #USA #politics
on 02026-04-21#news #humor #video with #Colbert saying #Trump is “indefinitely” extending the #USA’s ceasefire with #Iran, perhaps because they aren’t going to show up for today’s negotiations in Islamabad. Shows a photo of serious edema in Trump’s ankle. #politics
on 02026-04-21#video #news saying the FBI is investigating the #Dead-Scientists-Mystery. #paranoia
on 02026-04-21#news #video: grand jury indicts #SPLC, one of the most important #human-rights NGOs in the #USA, on 10 counts of wire and bank fraud and one count of conspiracy to commit money laundering, because they paid informants to infiltrate white-supremacist groups. But Attorney General Todd Blanche, who is prosecuting them, didn’t claim in his press conference that they were cheating people out of money, but, rather, that they were “paying sources to stoke racial hatred”.
on 02026-04-21#news of two unnamed soldiers of #Israel smashing a Jesus statue in a village in Southern #Lebanon, for which they were sentenced to 30 days in military prison. #aniconism #iconoclasm #religion
on 02026-04-21#news #humor #video of #John-Oliver explaining #prediction-markets, specifically #Kalshi and #Polymarket
on 02026-04-20#news #video: apparently the #Dead-Scientists-Mystery has claimed an 11th person
on 02026-04-20#news that Michio Kaku is concerned about the #Dead-Scientists-Mystery, so maybe it’s not just #paranoia. But this article reads like AI slop.
on 02026-04-18#news: #Korea had been importing 60% of its #oil via the Strait of Hormuz, but due to the #Iran war has been seeking alternatives: “‘[V]isits to four countries have secured the import of 273 million barrels of crude oil by the end of this year,’ Kang Hoon-sik, chief of staff to the president, said (...) sufficient for more than three months of South Korea’s oil needs (...) after he returned from a trip to Kazakhstan, Oman, Saudi Arabia and Qatar.” Which makes no sense for two reasons: the end of the year is eight and a half months off, so this is about 35% of Korea’s oil usage, and Qatar and Oman export their oil via the Strait.
on 02026-04-14“Ukrainian soldiers down $10 million Russian Mi-8 helicopter with a $500 drone” The #Ukraine ‘Baltika’ crew. #drones #weaponry #news
on 02026-04-14#news: the #Aadam-Jacobs-Collection is being digitized by #Internet-Archive volunteers
on 02026-04-14#news from rabid anti-#Trump propaganda channel reports that Chinese tanker Rich Starry has run the #USA blockade past #Iran and escaped, just as the Russian tanker recently reached Cuba. And the USS George W. Bush carrier strike group is off the coast of Namibia as it sails to the Mediterranean around Africa to avoid the Houthis at the Bab el-Mandeb.
on 02026-04-13al Jazeera #news about the #Iran war, but mostly just talking heads. Journalist Yara Elmjoui grieves the horror befalling his beloved Tehran in an #interview #video with Malika Bilal.
on 02026-04-13Russian warblogger commenting on the #Ukraine #slaughterbots #news, suggesting ways to tweak Russian tactics to deal better with #drones.
on 02026-04-13#news from last week: Russia calls the new #weaponry #drones from #Ukraine "Martians" or "Bumblebees": “The enemy has begun using new drones called ‘Martians,’ which, unfortunately, have a cruising speed of up to 300 kilometers/hour [186 miles / hour], no longer fly under operator guidance but are controlled by [#AI],” [Horlivko Russian mayor] Prikhodko said. “They are undetectable by electronic warfare systems, and drone detectors don’t spot them.” And Apti Alauidnov: “It appears they are jointly produced, Ukraine-Germany, Ukraine-France. They are modernized. They fly farther than the old ones.” Plausibly, though, these are not full-fledged #slaughterbots but just using LPD radio links to a teleoperator.
on 02026-04-13#video from Sal Mercogliano on #shipping #news today. He says #Trump’s blockade on #Iran violates #UNCLOS, but UNCLOS isn’t for wartime, and also that it implicates the War Powers Act in #USA.
on 02026-04-13#AI doomer #politics with high certainty leads to violence like Daniel Moreno-Gama’s Molotov cocktail attack the other day at Sam #Altman’s house; describes Moreno-Gama’s online history following PauseAI. He calls himself “Butlerian Jihadist” on social media. #news
on 02026-04-13#news #video by Sal Mercogliano about #shipping today in the wake of #Trump’s announced blockade of #Iran. The daily report of the Joint Maritime Information Center (“part of the Combined Maritime Forces under the Fifth Fleet”) says 4 tankers have gone through the Strait of Hormuz in the last 24 hours, 3 on April 11 (perhaps before the Trump blockade). There’s still 800 to 1000 ships in the Persian Gulf. Mercogliano says that right about now is when the tankers from the first of March would have reached Europe, Australia, and America, so this is when the economy starts to feel the #oil shortages outside of Asia; in Asia, the replacement crude from America will arrive at half the flow rate because it takes the finite number of tankers twice as long. Russia and China block the UN Security Council resolution to open the Strait, as Russia’s export revenues surge. The #Saudi Red Sea port of Yanbu can only load 4.5 million barrels per day, even though the pipeline the Saudis just repaired can transfer 7, but even that is much less than the 20 that normally comes through the Persian Gulf.
on 02026-04-12comprehensive #news overview #video of the whole #Iran war and ceasefire so far, including #Trump blockading the strait. #politics
on 02026-04-12#politics #news, #Orban concedes to Magyar in Hungary: “Even in the smallest township,” he said, “people have seen that this cruel, inhumane power is finished and Hungary will once again become a free country.”
on 02026-04-12#news in #Iraq: the Iraqi presidential runoff was between two candidates from Kurdish parties?
on 02026-04-12#news on restoration of #Saudi east-west oil pipeline following attacks from #Iran
on 02026-04-12Now #Trump instead of #Iran is blockading the Strait of Hormuz. #news
on 02026-04-12#news from 02024: “Albania, Bhutan, Nepal, #Paraguay, Iceland, Ethiopia and the Democratic Republic of Congo produced more than 99.7 per cent of the electricity they consumed using geothermal, hydro, #solar or #wind power.” In 02022 I think. #solar-energy #energy
on 02026-04-12#news: #USA #politics: 5th Circuit throws out the 158-year-old home distilling ban, in favor of the non-profit Hobby Distillers Association, upholding a district court ruling from Fort Worth
on 02026-04-11#news #video: #Iran talks have failed after only one day. It all unraveled while #Trump was at a UFC match. #politics #USA
on 02026-04-11#news #video about #drones #weaponry called "LUCAS", a US$35k-per-unit reverse-engineered #Shahed 136 clone developed in 18 months as part of the #USA’s "drone dominance" program.
on 02026-04-11#video #news about demining the Strait of Hormuz by Sal Mercogliano. “Additional [#USA] forces, including underwater #drones, will join the clearance effort in the coming days.” Map overlays showing how #Iran has shifted the shipping lanes into its own territorial waters, and animation of the last 24 hours of #oil ships using Iran’s new #shipping lanes, using AIS data from MarineTraffic. Two US destroyers have arrived at the Strait, and one turned on its AIS (automated identification system) after passing through to show that it had done so.
on 02026-04-11#news from February: “#Micron Celebrates Opening of #India’s First Semiconductor Assembly and Test Facility” in #Gujarat. But not a fab: “converts advanced DRAM and NAND wafers from Micron’s global #manufacturing network into finished #memory and storage products”.
on 02026-04-10#USA is unretiring a KC-135 refueling tanker airplane from the “boneyard” after #Iran blew some up. #News from last week.
on 02026-04-10#news of protests in #Ireland and Norway against the high fuel prices resulting from the #Iran war, and government actions in the Philippines and France. In #Ireland the protestors are blockading the country’s only oil refinery in Whitegate and fuel depots.
on 02026-04-10#news summarizing #Trump #politics concerns driving #France to #Linux: “Since taking office in January 2025, Trump has upped his attacks on world leaders — straight-out capturing one and aiding in the killing of another. He has also weaponized sanctions against his critics, who include judges on the International Criminal Court, effectively cutting them off from transacting with U.S. companies. Those who have been sanctioned have reported having their bank accounts closed and access to U.S. tech services terminated, as well as being blocked from any other U.S. service.”
on 02026-04-10"cognitive surrender" #AI experiment #news
on 02026-04-08“Powering #Australia with #nuclear-energy would cost roughly twice as much as renewables, CSIRO report shows” #news #solar-energy #energy
on 02026-04-08“Irã volta a fechar Estreito de Ormuz e ameaça romper cessar-fogo se Israel continuar atacando o Líbano”, which I translate as “#Iran again closes the Strait of Hormuz and threatens to break the ceasefire if #Israel continues attacking #Lebanon”. Indeed, Israel launched its largest attack to date on Lebanon. #news
on 02026-04-08#Trump sent guns to protestors in #Iran earlier this year but thinks the Kurds have them. #politics #news #USA “‘We sent them a lot of guns. We sent them through the Kurds, and the president says he thinks the Kurds kept them,’ Yingst said on Fox News, paraphrasing the president.”
on 02026-04-07#Iran’s 10-point proposal for peace with #USA. #politics #news
on 02026-04-07“Benjamin Netanyahu said the country supported #Trump’s decision to suspend attacks against #Iran for two weeks but said the ceasefire does not include #Lebanon, Israeli media reported on Wednesday.” #Israel #politics #news
on 02026-04-07#Pakistan's prime minister Shehbaz Sharif says, “immediate ceasefire everywhere including Lebanon and elsewhere, EFFECTIVE IMMEDIATELY” #Iran #politics #news
on 02026-04-07#Trump #Iran war ceasefire #politics #news
on 02026-04-07#Iran opens Hormuz Strait. #news
on 02026-04-07“Based on conversations with Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and Field Marshal Asim Munir, of Pakistan, and wherein they requested that I hold off the destructive force being sent tonight to Iran, and subject to the Islamic Republic of Iran agreeing to the COMPLETE, IMMEDIATE, and SAFE OPENING of the Strait of Hormuz, I agree to suspend the bombing and attack of Iran for a period of two weeks” and Israel also agreed. #Trump #USA #politics #Iran #news
on 02026-04-07#news about the #Iran war: before the loss of the two, or possibly three, C-130s in the rescue of the downed airman, the US had 55. The F-15E Strike Eagle shot down was one of 215.
on 02026-04-05#news #video #interview with MIT dropout #Ethan-Thornton of #Mach-Industries from 7 months ago. He suggests that priority targets for swarms of #drones would be cellphone towers, high-voltage transformers, and cranes in ports, in order to “stop your industrial machine”, war crimes similar to those Trump is threatening in Iran this week. Shows Stratus (balloon-based), Viper, and Glide. Thornton envisions coming out with new models every 6 months or every year, a sharp contrast to the one-week roundtrip touted in Ukraine. He’s also very focused on decentralizing #manufacturing because he expects it to be a target in war. #weaponry
on 02026-04-04#news #video #interview of #Palmer-Luckey from two weeks ago. Apparently he’s mass-producing robotic "Ghost Shark" submarines in #Australia now, delivering the first submarine a year ahead of schedule. He describes himself as a “caricature” and a “larger-than-life character”, and says that gets him retweets, which is only helpful for recruiting. Only about half of #Anduril’s products are public, he says, choosing to single out Fury, the autonomous fighter jet. The first Arsenal-1 production lines are going live in a few weeks, so, I guess April, rather than the planned June, and will be making Barracuda, Fury, etc. He expects it to be in full-scale production by Q2 02027. Oh, and he says he has prototype autonomous #subterrenes. #weaponry
on 02026-04-04#news #video from 60 Minutes about how #drones from the #Ukraine war have transformed war, and what that means for #Iran. Says Ukraine now produces 4 million drones a year. Profiles Roman Tkechenko’s #Tencor ground drone company, Air Logix, and its investors, former US Marines William McNulty and Lenore Caraffa, with their investment fund specializing in Ukrainian weapons (“UA1”?). The guy Ukraine has in charge of drones says they have about a one-week feedback time from designing a drone to incorporating feedback from its use in the field into the next generation of drone design. #weaponry
on 02026-04-04#news #video on the rescue of the lost #USA fighter pilot from #Iran today
on 02026-04-04all the wonderful images we’ve been seeing in the #news of the damage to US bases will be cut off now: “Satellite imaging firm #Planet-Labs said on Saturday it will indefinitely withhold visuals of #Iran and the region of conflict in the Middle East to comply with a request from the U.S. government.” #USA #censorship
on 02026-04-04#news about how #Israel’s air defense systems seem to be defending less effectively against #Iran, apparently not just because stockpiles are running low but because radars are destroyed, mentioning the #USA’s loss of its E-3 AWACS plane.
on 02026-04-03#news on #Iran blowing up one of the #USA’s AWACS planes, saying, “The Air Force’s E-3 fleet has dwindled down to 16 as the service retires less-capable planes. In fiscal 2024, E-3s had a mission-capable rate of about 56 percent, meaning a little more than half were able to fly and carry out their missions at any given time.”
on 02026-04-03#news: #Israel just blew up two #steel mills in #Iran, a shift to extremely civilian targets
on 02026-04-03#news on the #Iran war: “Iranian strikes conducted over the weekend and on Monday damaged structures that are part of or near communication and radar systems on at least seven U.S. military sites across the Middle East, according to a New York Times analysis of satellite imagery and verified videos.
Visuals show damage on or close to mechanisms used to track incoming ballistic missiles, satellite dishes and radomes, which are weatherproof covers that protect sensitive equipment used by forces to communicate over long distances.”
on 02026-04-03As of January 9: “The total value of #gold held by foreign official institutions is now approaching $4 trillion, exceeding roughly $3.9 trillion in U.S. Treasury holdings for the first time since 1996.” but mostly because gold is now US$4500 per “ounce”. No mention of cryptocurrencies. #finance #news
on 02026-04-03archive of https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2025-bottlenecks-transformers/ #news about how #manufacturing of #transformers is a bottleneck for electrifying... the world? Somehow I doubt that; it seems like the kind of problem China is good at solving. The article mentions the UK, the #USA, Europe, India, Canada, Mexico, Japan, Germany, Russia, and Ukraine, before getting to China, where the vast majority of electrification is happening, and then says, “China, on the other hand, has been growing transformer manufacturing for years that feeds both its growing domestic electricity demand and rising export needs.” Also microgrids don’t need the kind of giant transformers that require a lead time of a year. And Bloomberg’s reporting here is plagued with false statements of fact, claiming that all transformers are at least as big as a household trash can, and that “a quirk of history” made the grid dependent on them, namely that Edison lost the War of the Currents. #politics #energy
on 02026-04-03#news: #Cyprus wants to remove its #UK bases after #Iran attacked one of them! #politics
on 02026-03-19#C-motive's electrostatic PCB #motors use 2kV and an organic dielectric with a relative permittivity “in the low 20s”, and they’re testing a 750-watt follow-on to their working 300-watt prototype (#news as od 02024-08-18)
on 02026-03-18#news: #Dalio predicts #USA losing to #Iran over the Strait of #Hormuz.
on 02026-03-17#Iran #news: “Pakistan tanker crosses #Hormuz after oil payment made in Chinese yuan: Mushahid” (permitted through Iran’s blockade). “Senator Mushahid Hussain Sayed has claimed that Iran allowed Pakistan’s oil tanker “Karachi” to pass through the strategic Strait of Hormuz after the shipment was paid for in Chinese currency.” Carrying Das crude from Abu Dhabi.
on 02026-03-17today's #news about the war on #Iran, reporting that the WSJ is reporting that, “Russia has been expanding its intelligence sharing and military cooperation with Iran, providing satellite imagery and improved drone technology to aid Tehran’s targeting of US forces in the region.” #politics
on 02026-03-17#news: #USA #politics impose sanctions against ICC judges, depriving them of their credit cards and Google and Amazon accounts.
on 02026-03-16#news that #Iran’s attacks with #drones and ballistic missiles are down 95% and 90% respectively from the beginning of the war, but #Israel and maybe #USA are running low on interceptor #weaponry such as THAADs. Also: “The State Department last week announced a sale of 12,000 “BLU-110A/B general purpose, 1,000-pound bomb bodies” to Israel.” #politics
on 02026-03-12Loretta Preska orders #Argentina to surrender its #YPF shares to the #vulture-funds as of last July #politics #news
on 02026-03-06#Binance #Bitcoin #Iran #news #politics
on 02026-02-24#news from last year claiming #Google was intentionally degrading their search quality. #toread
on 02026-02-24#news that #USA ambassador to #France Charles Kushner didn’t show up when Summoned over unspecified remarks about Quentin #Deranque and is now barred from meeting government ministers, but is not persona non grata.
on 02026-02-24#news that #Anthropic is in a dispute with the #USA’s Pentagon, which threatens to invoke the Defense Production Act.
on 02026-02-24#Amazon #price-fixing lawsuit announcement from the #California attorney general doesn’t say “inflate” or “#inflation” anywhere. #news
on 02026-02-24#Amazon blamed for #USA #inflation due to #price-fixing schemes. #news
on 02026-02-24#CNBC #news #video #toread about "vanlords" renting RVs to people experiencing “RV homelessness” (aka #vanlife) in #California with RVs in RV parks such as wehope.org’s Berryessa Supportive Parking, whose program manager Victoria Garibaldi says they have 86 RVs.
“As the Bay Area’s housing shortage intensifies[,] vehicle-based homelessness has more than doubled since 2019, forcing even full-time workers into makeshift homes on wheels. This desperation has fueled a predatory shadow market where “vanlords” rent out aging RVs to those with no other options. While cities crack down on street encampments and ban these illegal rentals, San Jose is testing a different path with the Berryessa Safe Parking site, one of California’s largest sanctioned lots with space for 86 RVs. CNBC’s Kate Rogers visits the site to explore how these communities provide a vital bridge to long-term housing.” Says 37% of “homeless people” in Santa Clara County are now sleeping in vehicles, up from 18% in 02019.
Garibaldi says many of the vanlords charge only US$500 to US$600 per month for their RVs, which sounds amazingly cheap for the #SFBA. San Jose enacted a law against renting RVs on city streets last year; last year they opened a second “safe parking site”, bringing the total (?) to 128 RVs; Berryessa Supportive Parking provides breakfast, dinner, bathrooms, laundry facilities, a community garden, and a dog park. Meanwhile, for-profit RV parks like Candlestick RV Park, managed by Tsin Fung, charge US$2500 per month for a parking space.
In SF, Mayor Lurie limited RV parking on public streets to two hours with new legislation last July, with a so-called “Large Vehicle Refuge Permit” exemption permit available.
on 02026-02-24#news: the "OpenClaw" #AI dude who did #Moltbook got hired by #OpenAI
on 02026-02-1632-minute #news #video #toread by John Oliver (#humor?) about ICE & DHS
on 02026-02-16#news from 02005 about the Hillside Club becoming “the city’s hippest new venue”
on 02026-02-04#privacy #human-rights #crypto #news: “by default, #BitLocker recovery keys are uploaded to Microsoft’s cloud, allowing the tech giant — and by extension law enforcement — to access them and use them to decrypt drives encrypted with BitLocker, as with the case reported by Forbes.”
on 02026-01-25#news: “Following the Biden administration’s move to impose 100% #tariffs on Chinese #EVs, Canada implemented similar surtaxes, effectively freezing companies like #BYD, #Nio, and #Zeekr out of the market. (...) #Canada has agreed to allow an annual quota of 49,000 Chinese electric vehicles into the country at the tariff rate of just 6.1%.” #USA #politics #China
on 02026-01-16#LetsEncrypt #news: “Short-lived and IP address certificates are now generally available from Let’s Encrypt. These certificates are valid for 160 hours, just over six days.” But unstable: “IP address certificates must be short-lived certificates.” #TLS #security
on 02026-01-16archive of <https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/15/us/politics/cyberattack-venezuela-military.html>: #news about the #USA breaking #Venezuela’s computer #security to induce power outages and disable radar. Probably.
on 02026-01-16#prediction-markets #news from this week, including a lot of #Polymarket cheating. “When I started this column in 2021, I dreamed of a time when there would be big legal prediction markets on important topics. That’s come true. There have been some small benefits, but not the epistemic wonderland I hoped for.” #toread
on 02026-01-15#Polymarket #prediction-markets leaked the #USA kidnapping of #Maduro (president of #Venezuela) hours before it happened. #news #history
on 02026-01-15#news that #Egypt is going to build a couple gigawatts of #solar #energy production
on 02026-01-15Oh shit. #Iran #politics #human-rights #news
on 02026-01-15#Adafruit says #Arduino’s new post-acquisition rules for the #SaaS they’re pushing users to are “incompatible with #open-source” because of course they are, that’s the whole point of SaaS, isn’t it? #Qualcomm #news from December
on 02026-01-14“#Hong-Kong pro-democracy campaigner and media tycoon #Jimmy-Lai has been found guilty of colluding with foreign forces under the city’s controversial national security law (#NSL).” #politics #china #news (from December)
on 02026-01-14#NREL #news release from 02017: “Researchers at NREL Find Fewer Failures of PV Panels and Different Degradation Modes in Systems Installed after 2000 (...) Installations between 2000 and 2015 exhibited a median failure rate of 5 panels out of 10,000 annually, while for those panels installed between 1980 and 2000 the rate was twice as high. (...) An article detailing the findings of the research, Photovoltaic Failure and Degradation Modes, appears in the journal Progress in Photovoltaics. The authors are Dirk C. Jordan, Timothy J. Silverman, John H. Wohlgemuth, and Sarah R. Kurtz from NREL and Kaitlyn T. VanSant from the Colorado School of Mines.” #solar #photovoltaic #energy
on 02026-01-13#news from #Dilbert creator Scott Adams in February 02023: “The best advice I would give to white people is to get the hell away from Black people. Just get the f*** away. Wherever you have to go, just get away because there’s no fixing this [26% of black people in Rasmussen Reports’s poll disagreeing with the phrase ‘it’s okay to be white’]. You just have to escape, so that’s what I did. I went to a neighborhood where, you know, I have a very low Black population.” #history #racism
on 02026-01-13#news about how maybe people maybe aren’t full of #microplastics and the dozens of studies saying so were just bad lab technique
on 02026-01-13#USA #immigration #human-rights #news: “Atlanta journalist says he ‘won’t be the only’ one deported by #Trump officials: Emmy award-winner Mario Guevara warns administration ‘has the power’ after he was arrested and sent to El Salvador. (...) three days after Guevara’s interview, the British journalist Sami Hamdi was detained by federal immigration authorities.” #censorship
on 02026-01-13#USA #immigration discrimination #Trump #news
on 02026-01-13#news about #immigration: many O-1 visa applications from “influencers”, esports players, and #OnlyFans models, presumably in many cases because they want to take a trip to the #USA to shoot a video. Canadian Julia Ain, Frenchman Luca Mornet, Russian Israeli chess player Dina Belenkaya, Indian Darshan Magdum, etc.
on 02026-01-13Most staff have left the embassy of #France in #Iran to protect “our personnel and our citizens” due to protest crackdowns that have killed 648 confirmed people and perhaps more than 6000. #politics #news
on 02026-01-12#AI #security #news, “Superhuman” is just the brand name of a product recently acquired by #Grammarly. “When asked to summarize the user’s recent mail, a #prompt-injection in an untrusted email manipulated Superhuman AI to submit content from dozens of other sensitive emails (including financial, legal, and medical information) in the user’s inbox to an attacker’s Google Form.”
on 02026-01-12#USA #ICE #politics #news #video file of #Good killing
on 02026-01-08#USA #ICE #news showing #video of immigration agents killing 37-year-old US citizen Renee Nicole #Good with several shots at point-blank range as she was apparently trying to flee a sort of traffic stop. She seems to have hit the agent with her SUV before he started firing, but the government’s claims of “self-defense” don’t hold up given that the SUV accelerated out of control into a parked car as Good died, doing no harm to the agent. #politics
on 02026-01-08#news about #RFK Jr.’s brain worm from back when he was a presidential candidate. #USA #politics
on 02026-01-06#news from last February about #USAID and how #Elmu was shutting it down with #DOGE
on 02026-01-06#news from June about how #Elmu had, and #pmarca has, a lot of influence on #USA #politics via #Trump, following #cryptocurrency clashes with #Biden
on 02026-01-06#DSHR is like 77 and wrote #NeWS with #Gosling and also wrote the book on it before he became employee #4 at #NVIDIA, then later was chief scientist on #LOCKSS (#archival)
on 02026-01-05#video #news where apparently yesterday the runway at the Aeroparque was damaged by the heat yesterday. Heat waves are expected.
on 02025-12-29The gaslightable #AI vending machine at the Wall Street Journal. #humor #news
on 02025-12-23#news on #AI and #export-controls: “#China may have reverse engineered #EUV lithography tool in covert lab, report claims — employees given fake IDs to avoid secret project being detected, prototypes expected in 2028”: “The Chinese machine reportedly generates EUV light with a wavelength of 13.5nm using the same laser-produced plasma (LPP) method as ASML Twinscan NXE machines.”
on 02025-12-18archive of https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/12/18/tech/china-west-ai-chips/ #China #news on #AI and #export-controls: new #EUV light source built in Shenzhen. “The team includes recently retired, Chinese-born former ASML engineers and scientists — prime recruitment targets because they possess sensitive technical knowledge but face fewer professional constraints after leaving the company, the people said.
Their recruitment was part of an aggressive drive China launched in 2019 for semiconductor experts working abroad, offering signing bonuses that started at 3 million yuan to 5 million yuan ($420,000 to $700,000) and home-purchase subsidies, according to a review of government policy documents.”
on 02025-12-18“A 32-year-old man has been charged with murder in the strangling death of his 63-year-old mother in her Northeast Baltimore home after funeral home employees preparing the woman’s body for burial discovered signs of trauma to her head and neck that had not been apparent to law enforcement, police said Friday.
Erich Justin Kuhn was arrested Thursday and charged with first- and second-degree murder of Cathy Kuhn.
According to a statement of charges, Kuhn “provided a complete confession” of the crime, giving “details on how he attacked his mother in the television room and struck her with his bare hands,” then “strangled her for approximately 7 minutes until she stopped gurgling and finally died.”
The document says Kuhn used a telephone cord in the attack.” #news #true-crime
on 02025-12-17#news from September on #export-controls: #China thinks it can replace #NVIDIA’s chips with its own, so it’s banning NVIDIA imports for #AI.
on 02025-12-16“Startups That Set Out to Fix the Climate Are Now Talking About Jet Fighters: Companies that once touted the green benefits of their work are pivoting to defense and AI” #news from the WSJ, archive of https://www.wsj.com/business/energy-oil/startups-that-set-out-to-fix-the-climate-are-now-talking-about-jet-fighters-f710fdad from March, including Alex Grant’s Magrathea Metals in Oakland (CTO Jacob Brown), Brimstone (a cement maker pivoting to alumina), Air Company (synfuel for aviation), and VEIR (a superconducting wires company pivoting from high-voltage transmission lines to datacenters).
on 02025-12-12archive of https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/03/12/1113130/green-steel-boston-metal/ #news from March about #Boston-Metal and their electrolytic #steel making process. #materials
on 02025-12-12archive of https://www.fastcompany.com/91314089/this-solar-powered-steel-mill-in-the-mojave-desert-is-a-glimpse-of-the-future #news by Patrick Sisson from April about Mojave Micro, the new #solar and #wind powered steel mill in the Mojave Desert, which opens in two years, owned by Pacific Steel, which supplies a quarter of California’s rebar. But it has grid #energy as a backup, which it plans to use 15% of the time.
on 02025-12-12VICE #news about #SAGE #history from 02011. It’s missing the images.
on 02025-12-11#News from October: “Without question, #Trump can claim credit for the ceasefire and hostage exchange deal. #Qatar, #Turkey and #Egypt used their leverage with Hamas to force it to accept.
That made it a joint effort, but Trump’s role was decisive.
Without his push to demand Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s agreement to terms that he had previously rejected, the deal would not have been signed.” #politics #Israel #Gaza #USA
on 02025-12-11#News that #Facebook is shutting down #LGBT and #abortion information accounts, including in countries where they’re legal. #censorship #human-rights
on 02025-12-11January #news about #Facebook employees getting mad because people will be allowed to use Facebook to say LGBTQA+ people are “mentally ill” #censorship #human-rights #LGBT
on 02025-12-11#Micron is closing down Crucial #news
on 02025-12-03Another #news item about the #Polar-Night #sand-battery #energy-storage, which utility Lahti Energia will be using for district heating #energy
on 02025-11-27#news article about Charles M. Schulz, the “Peanuts” author of Charlie Brown
on 02025-11-27#news from 02022 of Google flagging Mark [anonymous]’s Google account for child porn when he sent a photo of his toddler son’s infected penis to the doctor and reported him to the police. The police decided no abuse had happened but he never got his account back. #privacy #human-rights #USA #politics
on 02025-11-27#news about the #PV #energy explosion: “#Pakistan says rooftop #solar output to exceed grid demand in some hubs next year (...) “Negative demand” is likely in the northwestern city of #Lahore, which has some of the country's highest solar penetration, followed by Faisalabad and Sialkot, where industrial areas are driving solar adoption, [Aisha Moriani] said. (...) The south Asian nation is planning to introduce new tariffs for large solar users, as well as changes to fee structures to ensure businesses with panels share equally in the costs of grid upkeep, she said.”
on 02025-11-27“RAM prices have skyrocketed globally in 2025, with industry officials pointing to explosive demand from AI data centers as the primary cause. Mainstream DDR5 memory modules now cost at least twice what they did in mid-2025, and overall #DRAM contract prices were a stunning 171.8% higher in the third quarter of 2025 compared to a year prior.” #electronics #hardware #pricing #news #toread
on 02025-11-26#news from 02014 of a “colossal cannibal great white shark” or something that ate a 3-meter great white shark they stuck a tracker on.
on 02025-11-26#news: dropping #GLP-1 agonists like #Ozempic (though this trial was tirzepatide, aka Zepbound) results in 82% of cases of regaining more than 25% of the lost weight, in 57% of cases of regaining more than 50%, and 24% of cases of regaining more than 75%, with corresponding worsening or not of other metabolically-induced problems. #medicine
on 02025-11-26#video on current #space #news, including a broken window in a Chinese space capsule
on 02025-11-20#narcosubs #news: “#Colombia seizes first unmanned narco-submarine with #Starlink antenna” owned by the Gulf Clan and with no crew, although in India a Starlink-steered vessel was seized in November with US$4.25 billion (!!) of meth
on 02025-11-11Archive of #news “https://www.economist.com/the-americas/2025/06/26/the-gold-bull-market-has-a-dirty-secret”, “The gold bull-market has a dirty secret: Gold is now better business than drugs for many gangs” with US$4.8 billion a year of illegal gold (mostly from illegal mining) exported from #Perú. #gold #crime
on 02025-11-11“At some point, it doesn’t matter if the #AI is actually trying to start a cult, or is just roleplaying a story about an AI cult, if the cult is actually happening.” #Spiralism #news #toread
on 02025-11-11Train derailment #news in #Argentina. I passed by it purely by chance earlier tonight.
on 02025-11-11#news on #Thiel and #charter-cities startup #Praxis and #Pronomos; accuses Dryden Brown of monarchism (#neoreaction?) #toread
on 02025-11-08#humor #news #video of #Colbert announcing #Mamdani’s election and a bunch of other #USA #politics
on 02025-11-06supposedly #DeepSeek v3.1 beats Claude Opus 4 on some coding benchmark or other and is “open-source”. “671B parameters (37B active per token).” Lots of stock footage in the #video. Optimized for "UE8M0 FP8", which I guess is an 8-bit floating-point format supported by domestic (SMIC?) GPUs like the recently-released Xi Yun C600 and a speculated-to-be-near-future Huawei chip. Apparently GPT-4 slightly beats it on coding benchmarks. #AI #news. Video is 2 hours 42 minutes. #toread
on 02025-11-06#news about #ICE #facial-recognition #biometrics called "Mobile Fortify". #USA #immigration #politics
on 02025-10-29KQED #news about #California-Forever #charter-cities, surprisingly sympathetic
on 02025-10-28#OpenAI #Stargate megafactory #news with Sam Altman for 41 minutes
on 02025-10-28More #news about the #Brazil battle with #Comando-Vermelho that killed not 60 but 64 people. In one shot there seem to be 9 columns of black smoke, which, according to the other reports, were from police stations in flames. Classes were suspended in the universities and high schools, the streets of the city are almost empty because people went home early, and the gangs cut off a bunch of streets (with 71 hijacked public-transport buses? and, according to some of the footage, a semi?) to impede the movement of the police. And apparently the police cut off other streets. But this report doesn’t mention any attacks on police stations.
on 02025-10-28#news: after a battle with 100 arrested and 60 killed (including four police) in two favelas in Rio de Janeiro, #drones attacked police stations in #Brazil with grenades, leaving several of them (five?) spewing columns of black smoke at once. “Comando Vermelho” seems to be the name of the gang the government is fighting.
on 02025-10-28#news on #Milei winning big in midterm elections, he claims getting up to 101 seats in Diputados and 20 seats in the Senate. #Argentina #politics
on 02025-10-2702017 #news about #Robert-Mercer and his daughter Rebekah. #politics #history #toread
on 02025-10-21#Politics #news from #February about #debanking #cryptocurrency firms in #USA
on 02025-10-21Chinese People Continue Buying More #Bitcoin, Despite Strict Bans #news #China (from March) “In an interview with Nino Feng, a former exchange executive from China, she relayed that most people she knew were buying Bitcoin from over-the-counter services that operated with major exchanges as a sort of collection of informal merchants that paid an escrow fee to be listed on a major exchange to sell Bitcoin and Tether at a spread.
They would ask for money to be wired to local Chinese bank accounts (usually registered with a relatively unknown rural bank) - and there were many more desks that sold Tether rather than Bitcoin (since the spread on USDT/RMB is lower than BTC/RMB). Nino also indicated that many people take their Tether and trade down on second-tier exchanges with more crypto trading pairs, which was confirmed anecdotally by listening to X rooms filled with Chinese traders livestreaming their activity.”
on 02025-10-21#Scott-Alexander on #USA #politics: how #pmarca bought both political parties (with “Fairshake”) and how #AI companies are doing it too (with “Leading The Future”). #news
on 02025-10-21#news #video about #Trump’s #Argentina bailout from the #WSJ, mentioning how #China bought millions of tonnes of Argentine #soybeans after #Milei dropped export retenciones after the September US$20B bailout (structured as a currency swap), enraging some #USA farmers. Also apparently in October the US Treasury bought pesos for the Exchange Stabilization Fund! Then there was an additional US$20B “private finance facility”.
on 02025-10-17#AI #news from WaPo: “AI firm #DeepSeek writes less secure code for groups China disfavors”
on 02025-10-16more on the #China #Netherlands #politics #news #toread
on 02025-10-14#China #Netherlands #politics #news Daan summarizes: “According to a just published article by the NRC newspaper [0], the owner wanted to use #Nexperia’s funds to finance another business (WingSkySemi) which was in financial trouble. He would have done this by making Nexperia place large orders for wafers it did not need. The article mentions Nexperia only requiring $70-80 million in wafers, while Nexperia would have ordered wafers from WingSkySemi with a value of $200 million.
In order to achieve this, the owner is said to have put strawmen without financial experience in place and fire European directors. When other directors raised the alarm about this, they were fired according to the article. This issue was raised to the Dutch government, which then intervened.”
on 02025-10-14#China #Netherlands #politics #news about #Nexperia, perhaps related following the new rare-earths restrictions that might prevent European cars from being exported to the US
on 02025-10-14more about #Indonesia shrimp #radioactivity #news
on 02025-10-13#radioactivity industrial accident contaminates 22 plants in #Indonesia, probably from metal recycling. #news
on 02025-10-13“[#Borland founder Philippe] Kahn, a 34-year-old mathematics instructor-turned-programmer-turned-entrepreneur, wrote about one-third of the programming code of Turbo Pascal. He says the last of his code to get into a commercial product was the phone dialer in Sidekick.” #news from 01988. #history
on 02025-10-12archive of https://www.ft.com/content/fe474cff-564c-41d2-aaf7-313636a83e5b Kristalina Georgieva at the #IMF warns that we're probably in an #AI bubble. #news #finance
on 02025-10-08“Egypt warned Israel days before Hamas struck, US committee chairman says.” #Israel #politics #history #news
on 02025-09-28#Microsoft blocks #Azure’s use by #Israel’s #IDF to spy on Palestinians: “Tech firm ends military unit’s access to AI and data services after Guardian reveals secret spy project”; Unit 8200 had 8000 terabytes (8 petabytes) of captured phone calls in a Netherlands Azure data center. “Within days of the Guardian publishing the investigation, Unit 8200 appears to have swiftly moved the surveillance data out of the country. (...) Intelligence sources said Unit 8200 planned to transfer the data to the Amazon Web Services cloud platform.” #news #politics
on 02025-09-28“Man Fined for Engineering Without a License Was Right All Along” in 02020: “Mats Järlström, the Oregon electrical engineer who challenged the state’s traffic light timing. What began as a simple quest to help his wife avoid an unfair ticket turned into a multi-year saga after the Oregon Board of Engineers fined him thousands of dollars—simply because he dared discuss the issue when he wasn’t technically a traffic engineer.” #USA #politics #news
on 02025-09-28#EU signs a free-trade agreement with #Indonesia. #politics #news
on 02025-09-25#news that 13 people, including 8 children, killed by unattributed explosive #drones at a birthday party in #Haiti. “The explosions happened Saturday night in Cité Soleil, which is controlled by Viv Ansanm, a powerful gang coalition that the U.S. has designated as a foreign terrorist organization.
One of its leaders, Jimmy Chérizier, best known as Barbecue, vowed to avenge the attacks, with a total of at least 13 people killed, according to residents.
“This is my daughter,” said Claudia Bobrun, 30, as she showed the AP a video of her 8-year-old girl lying in a pool of blood. (...) Meanwhile, Nanouse Mertelia, 37, said she was inside her house on Saturday night and ran out to see what happened after hearing an explosion. Her son had left their home several minutes earlier to get something to eat.
She found him on the ground, his leg and arm blown off.
“Come get me, come get me, please mama,” she said he told her, but he had lost too much blood. “By the time we got to the hospital, he died.”
Haiti’s National Human Rights Defense Network accused police of launching two exploding drones in the Simon Pelé community of Cité Soleil as suspected gang leader Albert Steevenson, known as Djouma, prepared to celebrate his birthday. (...) “It has now been 48 hours since the incident, and the authorities have yet to issue any official communication or assume public responsibility. Who, ultimately, will assume responsibility for this attack: The prime minister? The transitional presidential council? Private security companies? The leadership of Haiti National Police?” he asked. (...) Activists noted that a similar operation involving explosive drones in downtown Port-au-Prince killed at least eleven civilians earlier this month.
The human rights group said several gang members have been killed in drone attacks since March.
A new task force created earlier this year has operated outside the oversight of Haiti’s National Police and employed the use of explosive drones. The task force was made up of certain police units and private contractors.” I don’t know why it couldn’t be a non-Viv-Ansanm gang?
on 02025-09-25WTF, #Sisi pardoned #Alaa Ahmed Seif El-Islam Abd el-Fattah‽ And now he’s free! #news #politics #Egypt
on 02025-09-25#news #video from #CNN saying #Kimmel is returning to the air, under pressure from people including Ted Cruz. #human-rights #censorship #USA #politics
on 02025-09-22#video #humor #news of last night’s Stephen Colbert show about #Kimmel’s firing #censorship #human-rights #USA #politics
on 02025-09-19#video #humor #news of last night’s John Stewart Daily Show about #Kimmel’s firing #censorship #human-rights #politics #USA
on 02025-09-19NYTimes #news article about holotropic #breathwork #psychedelics
on 02025-09-18#news #video of Robert Garcia on MSNBC talking about the #Kimmel #censorship investigation. Also CNN coverage. #human-rights #politics #USA
on 02025-09-18#news “Top Oversight Dem launches probe into ABC’s Kimmel suspension” today. Reprinting a press release: “California Rep. Robert Garcia, the top Democrat on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, announced Thursday he is launching an investigation into ABC’s suspension of “Jimmy #Kimmel Live!” following the host’s remarks regarding the death of conservative activist Charlie Kirk.
His probe will review the Trump administration, ABC and TV station owner Sinclair amid what Garcia says are ongoing efforts to “censor opposition.”
“Every American has a duty to stand up for our First Amendment values. We will not be silent as our freedoms are threatened by corrupt schemes and threats. Anyone who is complicit will need to answer to us,” the lawmaker said in a statement.” This seems sort of like a ko threat in go: by threatening something defensible but even more damaging, #Trump can divert the opposition’s efforts from releasing the Epstein files. #USA #politics #human-rights #censorship
on 02025-09-18#CNN #news #video describing the cancelation of #Kimmel as part of #Trump’s “crackdown on dissent”. #USA #politics #human-rights #censorship
on 02025-09-18#news #video saying Jimmy Kimmel’s nightly comedy show is being pulled off the air indefinitely because of “Charlie #Kirk remarks,” specifically because #Kimmel initially claimed that Tyler Robinson was a MAGA Republican. The FCC chairman Brendan Carr threatened Disney and ABC with retaliation on a “far-right webcast” or “podcast”, which apparently is “X/Benny Johnson”. #human-rights #censorship #USA #politics
on 02025-09-17#news #video of Jesús Enrique Rosas questioning why Tyler Robinson’s purported text messages from Lance Twiggs ask things like “Why did you do it?” and “How long have you been planning this?” rather than “Are you safe?”, “Can you escape?”, and “Do you need to flee to Mexico?”
on 02025-09-17#news #video of Candace Owens claiming she talked to Lance Twiggs’s family who explained that Tyler Robinson was paying rent to Lance’s family who owned the house where they were living. #Kirk #USA #politics
on 02025-09-17#video #news of #Tucker-Carlson calling for civil disobedience if #USA passes hate-speech laws in response to the #Kirk assassination, saying that the thinking Pam Bondi articulated on camera is exactly the reason young people believe “it’s okay to shoot people who say things they disagree with”. #politics #video #USA
on 02025-09-17#news Steve Bannon, Candace Owens, and Hasan Piker think Tyler Robinson’s text messages to Lance Twiggs are fake, because they too neatly wrap up all the loose ends, including an unnecessary confession, unnecessary mentions that his dad is MAGA, etc. #Kirk #USA #politics #video
on 02025-09-17#Mercosur signs a free trade agreement with #Iceland, #Norway, #Liechtenstein, and #Switzerland! #news #politics
on 02025-09-16#news of Lance Twiggs’s name came from an interview with Dan Bongino on the Megyn Kelly show. #Kirk #USA #politics
on 02025-09-16Newsweek #news refers to Tyler Robinson’s lover Lance Twiggs as “she”, and documents her . “Twiggs and Robinson lived together in St. George, Utah. A neighbor told reporters he had seen the two kissing and holding hands shortly before the attack. Family members of Twiggs have described her as politically outspoken, though investigators have not drawn conclusions about her influence on Robinson.” #Kirk #USA #politics
on 02025-09-16Times of India #news reports that Tyler Robinson’s lover Lance Twiggs has changed her (?) streaming name to Luna, and was very unhappy about Trump’s electoral victory. ““Trump winning has motivated me to finally fix my life,” the 4tran post read. “I won’t let the idiot cisfags who want me to be miserable win. I’ll be independent, fit, happy, and trans and they can’t stop me.””. #Kirk #USA #politics
on 02025-09-16#crime #news “A grand jury declined to indict homeowner Mitchell #Duckro for the July 31 deadly shooting that killed 22-year-old James Rayl outside of Duckro’s house in Sidney, Ohio. Duckro’s daughter, Allyson Duckro, previously dated Rayl, but they had ended their relationship more than 18 months prior.” Apparently Mitch Duckro was holding the door shut from the inside against James’s attacks. Having done this, I think it’s a bad idea; being right next to the door means that someone outside it can shoot you through it at point blank range, and if they’re armed with a knife, you’re within knife range of the door when they come in. “Allyson Duckro said she was on the phone with 911 by that point when Rayl broke the glass and the door frame became loose, and she went to hide before hearing gunshots. Police arrived on the scene soon after.”
on 02025-09-16#video of Tyler Robinson’s hearing today; the next hearing, a “waiver hearing,” is September 29th at 10 AM, via WebEx. The judge issues a pretrial protective order in favor of Erika Kirk. Judge Graf reads the charges, including a “victim targeting enhancement” (Utah code, annotated, 76-3-203.14(2)) because it was a political assassination. #USA #politics #Kirk #news
on 02025-09-16#news #video footage of Tyler Robinson charges being read by County Attorney Jeff Gray. Refers to the roommate/lover (who Robinson allegedly asked to delete text messages) as “him”, suggesting Robinson was bi or gay, although Chris Stewart (the troll who created this video) says the roommate was MtF trans. “A biological male who was involved in a romantic relationship with Robinson”, according to the prosecutor. Robinson’s text message: “I am still ok my love, but am stuck in orem for a little while longer yet. Shouldn’t be long until I can come home, but I gotta grab my rifle still. To be honest I had hoped to keep this secret till I died of old age. I am sorry to involve you.” Then he confessed. When asked, “Why?” he said, “I had enough of his hatred. Some hate can’t be negotiated out. If I am able to grab my rifle unseen, I will have left no evidence.” Prosecutor also alleged, “Robinson’s mother explained that over the last year or so, Robinson had become more political, and had started to lean more to the left, becoming more pro-gay and trans rights oriented. She stated that Robinson began to date his roommate. This resulted in several discussions with family members, but especially between Robinson and his father, who have very different political views.” The video is unbearably long and full of talking heads and repeated stock footage and stills. The trolls making the video say they expect federal charges, though so far only state charges have been filed, and that probably Robinson would be better off in a Federal prison. #USA #politics #Kirk
on 02025-09-16#stealth-camping can save your life. #news
on 02025-09-16#news story about #Susan-Walters #crime. “But she’s revealing new details now, going back to how she met her husband. She’s telling this story for the first time, and is working on a memoir about her experience.” This seems like the most complete account. It includes a letter of forgiveness from his aunt.
on 02025-09-16no real #news in the Charlie #Kirk case today at the arraignment, just repetition of the note under the keyboard, the transgender roommate and/or romantic partner, and the planned crackdown on dissenting #politics by #Trump
on 02025-09-16A mugger tried to steal the cellphone of UFC fighter Polyana Viana with a cardboard gun. She beat him badly and held him in a chokehold until the police arrived. #crime #news
on 02025-09-16#news on the #immigration plant raid in Georgia, #USA: “[President] Lee, who was speaking at a news conference to mark the first 100 days of his presidency, said “the situation is extremely bewildering,” while noting it is common practice for Korean firms to send workers to help set up overseas factories.
“If that’s no longer allowed, establishing manufacturing facilities in the US will only become more difficult... making companies question whether it’s worth doing at all,” he added. (...) Last week, US officials detained 475 people - more than 300 of them South Korean nationals - who they said were working illegally at the battery facility, one of the largest foreign investment projects in Georgia.
#LG Energy Solution, which operates the plant with #Hyundai, said that many of its employees who were arrested had various types of visas or were under a visa waiver programme.
A worker at the plant spoke to the BBC about the panic and confusion during the raid. The employee said the vast majority of the workers detained were mechanics installing production lines at the site, and were employed by a contractor.” #politics #Korea
on 02025-09-16James Ferrario, who killed a locksmith and a deputy who came to evict him following foreclosure in 02012, apparently killed himself and then was burned in his house when the police apparently set it on fire. He had posted to 4chan during the standoff. “It was not clear how the fire began, but the Bee reported the sheriff has acknowledged flash-bang devices and tear gas could have been responsible.” #crime #news #history
on 02025-09-16Ozymandias Brennan #news on why there are so many “#rationalist” #cults, including Brent Dill’s Black Lotus Burning Man Camp
on 02025-09-15#UK fires ambassador to #USA Peter Mandelson “over links to #Epstein” #politics #news
on 02025-09-11Charlie #Kirk assassination #news #politics “Authorities stated they possess CCTV footage of the suspect,[45] who is said to have fled the scene from a rooftop 200 yards from Kirk.[46] In a press conference on September 11, officials affirmed they have “good video footage” and were trying to identify the suspect using facial recognition.[45] Law enforcement also announced they recovered a high-powered bolt-action rifle from a wooded area near the shooting,[1] and collected a “footwear impression, a palm print, and forearm imprints for analysis”.[5]”
on 02025-09-11Charlie #Kirk assassination #news discussion #politics
on 02025-09-10#video #history footage archive at UCLA including commercials and #news
on 02025-09-10#history #video #news (PBS MacNeil/Lehrer News Hour) from December 5, 01994 over #NATO expanding to include Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic, and Slovakia. Yeltsin opposed it at the CSCE Summit in Budapest. Jack Matlock (former #USA ambassador to the USSR): “The question is not if but when.” #Kissinger: “The Russians are not unhappy about the timing; they are unhappy about the fact [of NATO expansion].” Kissinger thought the expansion should happen as soon as possible, while Matlock didn’t, but both agreed that the Russians were very unhappy. Kissinger: “If we are reluctant to antagonize the Russians today when they’re weak, it is an illusion to think that somewhere three, four years down the road, we can suddenly move in that direction when they’re stronger.” Later, he says, “I don’t see why [adding Poland] should provoke them especially since we could make military, we have, for example, in Eastern Germany we have military arrangements whereby no non-German troops go beyond the Elbe.” I suspect those arrangements no longer exist. “We could make similar arrangements for Poland that no non-Polish troops will be stationed on Polish territory.” Kissinger paraphrases Yeltsin: “Anything east of that yellow-shaded area [Poland, Slovakia, Hungary] was connected to Russia as blood brothers.” Interviewer: “That’s Belarus and #Ukraine.” Kissinger: “...and strongly implied that no outside influence was permissible there.” More shockingly, Kissinger said, “I don’t think the Russian situation will ever become a clear-cut military threat.” Matlock: “There is one other factor we seem to be forgetting, and we did (though it was not a legally binding assurance) we gave categorical assurances to Gorbachev, back when the Soviet Union existed, that if a united Germany was able to stay in NATO, NATO would not be moved eastward.” So that wasn’t just something Putin invented. Kissinger (who at one point slips and refers to things being subject to “negotiation with the Soviets”) comes off as a terrible liar. Matlock: “It will definitely, as things stand now, leave the impression in Russia that the West is cutting them off and moving the line closer to their border. (...) the impact would be very negative in Moscow, in Russian politics, and would not be a service to those who want democratic institutions.”
on 02025-09-10#Poland #Ukraine #politics #news
on 02025-09-10#video #news claiming #Poland just shot down a bunch of Russian Shahed-style #drones deep inside its airspace, which were shot down by Polish, German, Dutch, and Italian forces (operating out of Estonia), and #NATO has convened a special meeting. Russia questions whether the drones are of Russian origin. #Ukraine #politics
on 02025-09-105' #news #video of autonomous #drones #weaponry contract won by a company in Texas #USA named Mach Industries, founded by 21-year-old MIT dropout Ethan Thornton, and its high-altitude-dropped fixed-wing project Glide and parking-lot-launched Viper, and balloon-launched Stratus, visualizing warfare with tens of millions of balloons #politics
on 02025-09-06#news conference with Zelenskyy and Macron: #Ukraine will have troops from 20 countries, apparently including France, as a security guarantee against Russia — “as soon as there is a ceasefire”. 35 countries in the “Coalition of the Willing”/“Coalition des Volontaires”, 26 with already-formalized contributions. #politics
on 02025-09-04Guillermo Francella’s movie #Homo-Argentum apparently was pretty successful, as such things go. But the Kirchnerists think it’s anti-patriotic (“apátrida”)? And apparently #Milei showed it to Congress? And tweeted about “kukas”? The video mostly consists of dumbfucks talking to cameras, but apparently this qualifies as #news. #Argentina #politics
on 02025-08-31#WSJ #news about #Trump #tariffs and resulting pricing uncertainty in #USA on, for example, hand-hammered copper sinks, due to #politics
on 02025-08-30“Supreme Court sides with #Trump administration on nationwide injunctions in birthright #citizenship case.” Oh shit. #news from July 27. “By a vote of 6-3, the justices repudiated the concept of universal or nationwide injunctions, which prohibit the government from enforcing a law or policy anywhere in the country. The justices did not, however, weigh in on the question at the center of the three lawsuits before the court: whether the birthright citizenship order itself is constitutional.” Sotomayor’s dissent: “That holding renders constitutional guarantees meaningful in name only for any individuals who are not parties to a lawsuit.” #politics #USA
on 02025-08-30#Infobae #news #video on #Argentina buying #drones #weaponry. They’re talking about Eron, Milkor, and Elbit’s Hermes 900. Mostly talking-head filler, supplemented by Elbit’s advertising footage.
on 02025-08-30#news #toread “#Trump reacts to court striking down #tariffs as illegal under federal law” #USA #politics
on 02025-08-29#Trump spox Karoline Leavitt refuses to predict whether #Trump will invade #Venezuela. #USA #politics #news
on 02025-08-29#news broadcast from Russian propaganda outlet #WION on #Maduro declaring his defiance of invasion. Mostly stock footage, talking head filler, and CGI. #Trump says it’s not an invasion, just an anti-drug-trafficking operation. Is #Venezuela the Ukraine of #USA? #politics
on 02025-08-29review of #Great-Leap-Forward book “Tombstone” (“Mubei”) by Yang Jisheng: “denied permission to publish on the mainland, but the book came out in Hong Kong in 2008 and went into eight reprints. (...) although the book is banned in China, Yang has not been arrested or made to disappear.” The translation is, however, “reduced” from a two-volume Chinese original. #news #history
on 02025-08-28“#China proved you can pair authoritarian politics with a market economy.” #news
on 02025-08-28#news on #USA colleges: “At the University at Buffalo, the overall decline of about 15% of international students is happening mostly in graduate programs, especially in the STEM fields. But it’s not just Buffalo. Universities all over the country are experiencing similar drops. (...) The decline is also happening at a time when other countries, like the U.K. and South Korea have stepped up to fill the gap.”
on 02025-08-28#Indonesia is “in chaos” and just blocked access to Twitter and Discord and #VPN providers. One recommendation if you have a server overseas is to use #Wireguard with #wstunnel to avoid the sort of protocol blocking that, for example, Uzbekistan applies. #politics #news #censorship #privacy #human-rights
on 02025-08-28#USA Congress launches an investigation of biased #politics at #Wikipedia #news
on 02025-08-28#PinePhone Pro discontinued. #news
on 02025-08-28#Evergreen-Solar #news from 02008
on 02025-08-27#news about #Trump destroying #NASA #CO2 monitoring satellites, the Orbiting Carbon Observatories. #space #politics #toread #USA
on 02025-08-27#news #video from #Fox saying #Trump is more or less invading #Venezuela. #USA #politics
on 02025-08-27#news #Trump nationalizes 10% of #Intel #USA #politics
on 02025-08-23“#DeepSeek says that the main restriction on their development is lack of compute, and the PRC responds not by helping them get better chips but by advising them to not use the chips that they have, greatly slowing things down at least for a while. (...) It’s also not fair to fully pin this on DeepSeek when they were forced to do a lot of their training this year on #Huawei Ascend chips rather than Nvidia chips.” (The #NVIDIA chips they had been using in the past.) #China #politics #neural-networks #AI #news
on 02025-08-23money laundering through #gambling on the lottery, or buying winning tickets from the original winners, or buying houses from them (??), or advance-fee-scamming elderly people with imaginary lotteries. This article is astoundingly poorly written and thought out. #politics #news
on 02025-08-21#Valve says they’ve shut down money laundering on Counter Strike: Global Offensive. “Valve said it had updated the game so keys could no longer be traded online ... Following the latest update to the game, keys will be bound to a player’s account so they cannot be transferred.” #videogames #news #politics #news
on 02025-08-21#Valve says they’ve shut down money laundering on Counter Strike: Global Offensive. “Valve said it had updated the game so keys could no longer be traded online ... Following the latest update to the game, keys will be bound to a player’s account so they cannot be transferred.” #videogames #news #politics #news
on 02025-08-21#Trump: “Exciting news! The Treasury Department has announced that they are suspending all enforcement of the outrageous and invasive Beneficial Ownership Information (BOI) reporting requirement for U.S. Citizens. This Biden rule has been an absolute disaster for Small Businesses Nationwide. Furthermore, Treasury is now finalizing an Emergency Regulation to formally suspend this rule for American businesses. The economic menace of BOI reporting will soon be no more.” #USA #politics #news
on 02025-08-21“#Trump Celebrates After Killing Anti-Money-Laundering Law”: “the government will no longer require shell companies to disclose their owners and beneficiaries, allowing wealthy corporations and individuals to hide their profits from the public. The rule was part of the Corporate Transparency Act, or CTA, passed in 2021. (...) Republicans have long opposed the CTA, claiming that the requirements are too steep for small businesses and companies to fulfill. The rule on beneficial ownership was supposed to go into effect in January, but a federal court order froze enforcement of the rule.” #news #politics #USA
on 02025-08-21#news from 02025 about #cryptocurrency money laundering, briefly mentioning tumblers and mixing services. Mostly a lot of AI slop. #politics
on 02025-08-21“Friday briefing: Fake ebooks and overpriced eBay listings are fronts for digital money laundering.” Oh, that’s why there’s all those things on there that nobody would ever buy for real. #politics #news (from 02018)
on 02025-08-21#Trump’s money-laundering #history: “In 1993, the Associated Press reported that two of Trump’s Atlantic City casinos were fined by Treasury Department regulators for “willfully failing to report” transactions involving more than $10,000 — a violation of the Bank Secrecy Act (BSA). Five years later, the department fined Trump Taj Mahal Associates, the company managing the eponymous Atlantic City casino, for violating the same law.” #USA #politics #news (from 02017)
on 02025-08-21people using online #gambling sites for money laundering: “the criminal exploitation of legitimate and unlicensed digital wagering operations to launder money.” But without actually gambling! “Fintrac found a common tactic was the purchase of prepaid cards or vouchers using suspected proceeds of crime. They were then used to deposit money into gambling accounts, followed by withdrawals through wire or e-transfer to a Canadian bank account under the guise of winnings.” #Canada #politics #news
on 02025-08-21#UK #news: #facial-recognition vans with #neural-networks to search for, supposedly, sex criminals. #human-rights #privacy
on 02025-08-13#news #humor #video of how 93% of #Trump #deportations are of people with no violent criminal record and 60% are of people without even a traffic ticket. #USA #politics
on 02025-08-12#news #video of #John-Mearsheimer saying NATO expansion provoked the Russian invasion of #Ukraine
on 02025-08-12#video #news about #South-Africa with 33.5% unemployment in the middle of last year. State-run monopoly Eskom cuts off power for load shedding roughly once a day to anywhere.
on 02025-08-12#Windsurf #AI CEO went to Google, the OpenAI deal fell apart. Last month’s #news
on 02025-08-10history of #Harvard’s “holistic” #admissions policy established in 01922 to discriminate against Jews. Paywalled article from 02018. #anti-Semitism #history #racism #politics #toread #news
on 02025-08-09Ruth Starkman’s 02013 exposé on how “A highly qualified student, with a 3.95 unweighted grade point average and 2300 on the SAT, was not among the top-ranked engineering applicants to the University of California, Berkeley.” because of their “holistic review” to discriminate against Asian-Americans. Although he probably did get admitted. #racism #USA #history #news #toread #politics #admissions
on 02025-08-09Paul Krugman predicts #USA #stagflation. #economics #news #toread
on 02025-08-08#USA #economics #news. #Trump fired the director of the #BLS for the sharp downward revisions in job numbers.
on 02025-08-08#news #video on #Trump #tariffs coming back into effect yesterday, in many cases over 30%. #USA GDP grew at annualized 3% during the second quarter. But the labor department revised its job growth numbers for May and June downwards by a large factor, like 6× or something. Mostly filler: talking heads and stock footage. From the #WSJ. #economics
on 02025-08-08#news #toread about #Anduril, #Palantir, etc.
on 02025-08-06“Self-driving cars are headed toward an #AI roadblock” #news from 02018 about autonomous vehicles, archived from https://www.theverge.com/2018/7/3/17530232/self-driving-ai-winter-full-autonomy-waymo-tesla-uber
on 02025-08-04#news on #Jaguar CEO stepping down after people who hate gay people complained about its #ad. “The Jaguar CEO is stepping down months after leading a controversial “woke” rebrand campaign for the auto company.” #culture-war
on 02025-08-03#Jaguar #ad #news saying “a clip of its new advert was met with a barrage of “vile hatred and intolerance” online”, but not what about. #culture-war
on 02025-08-03another note on #Tanzania president Magufuli's botched #covid response in 02020. #news #history
on 02025-07-30more about #Tanzania 02020 #covid botch #news #history
on 02025-07-30#news #history of #covid response in #Tanzania in 02020: ignore it and deny it
on 02025-07-30“CBS #News investigation of Jeffrey #Epstein jail video reveals new discrepancies” saying the #Trump administration is lying because of #politics
on 02025-07-30#news on the #RISC-V Summit in China: high #performance implementations including “UltraRISC UR-DP1000, Zhihe A210, and SpacemIT K3”, which are mostly RVA23-compliant.
on 02025-07-27Shit, Tom #Lehrer died yesterday (Saturday). The #news is credited to “David Herder, a friend”.
on 02025-07-27#Thailand attacked #Cambodia today. #news #video #toread
on 02025-07-24archive of #energy #news article from the New Yorker https://www.newyorker.com/news/annals-of-a-warming-planet/46-billion-years-on-the-sun-is-having-a-moment #toread
on 02025-07-20#news “A television sting claimed to expose a thriving “arms-for-alms” trade in #India yesterday when journalists apparently caught doctors on screen agreeing to amputate the limbs of beggars for as little as 10,000 rupees (£125). (...) There appears to be a thriving trade in Delhi where gangs kidnap beggars and force them to undergo surgery so that their deformities attract sympathy.”
on 02025-07-11#news from March 10, 02020 how #Helen-Chu at the University of Washington discovered that covid had spread to #USA. She was running the Seattle Flu Study, funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, in association with the Washington State Department of Health, whose state epidemiologist Dr. Scott Lindquist requested her to test for #covid, but was blocked by the FDA from telling the people who had it, because “the group was not certified to provide test results to anyone outside of their own investigators.” The FDA's repeated refusal was “because the lab was not certified as a clinical laboratory [just a research laboratory, which has much higher standards] under regulations established by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, a process that could take months.” The CDC was also trying to develop tests, but the tests they shipped were defective. Meanwhile the Seattle Flu Study sequenced the genome of the virus and discovered that a new variant had arisen. All of this was in late February. “On March 2, the Seattle Flu Study’s institutional review board at the University of Washington determined that it would be unethical for the researchers not to test and report the results in a public health emergency, Dr. Starita said. Since then, her laboratory has found and reported numerous additional cases, all of which have been confirmed.” But then, “on Monday night [presumably March 8], state regulators, enforcing Medicare rules, stepped in and again told them to stop until they could finish getting certified as a clinical laboratory, a process that could take many weeks.” #history
on 02025-07-11#news about Doug Dietz decorating MRI machines as rocket ships, etc., so that kids don't panic and have to be sedated. Excerpt from Tom and David Kelley’s book, “Creative Confidence”.
on 02025-07-10#video #news #humor on #Trump’s “one big beautiful bill” which cut US$930 billion from Medicaid, US$488 billion from clean energy, US$285 billion from something called SNAP, raised the debt ceiling by US$5000B, and added US$157B to the military. It’s anticipated to increase the deficit by US$3400B—by 02034, so US$340B per year, because it also had US$4500B (per year?!) in tax cuts.
on 02025-07-09#news: #USA has bombed three sites of #Iran’s nuclear program
on 02025-06-21#news on TI #manufacturing #hardware in the US, planning they’re going to invest US$60 billion in obsolete (?) semiconductors manufacturing
on 02025-06-21#drones #weaponry #news #Burkina-Faso #Iran
on 02025-06-17#Weaponry #news from April. Another repetition of the NYT’s claim that in #Ukraine, “#drones caused 70 percent of battlefield injuries or deaths in 2024, supplanting artillery,” inspiring #Burkina-Faso, etc. “[#Turkey] is Africa’s top supplier, with a total of 32 agreements, 28 of which have occurred since 2021. Türkiye has succeeded by appealing to the desire of countries across Africa to acquire affordable, modern weapons outside the supply chains of major technological powers. Israel, the #UAE, and #Iran have similarly expanded their reach on the continent via the supply of drones.
On the demand side, #Nigeria (18 acquisitions), Algeria (15), Ethiopia (12), and Morocco (11) are Africa’s top drone seekers. (...) Enterprises in nine African countries (Algeria, #Egypt, Ethiopia, Kenya, Morocco, #Nigeria, #South-Africa, Sudan, and #Tunisia) now produce military drones, supplying approximately 12 percent of Africa’s overall drone market. South Africa, the continent’s longest-standing drone producer, has manufactured unmanned military systems since the 1970s. #ENOVA Robotics, a Tunisian company, is exporting 50 of its ground security robots to the United States.”
on 02025-06-17#news from Le Monde on #weaponry #drones: “From the base’s runway take off armed drones from Turkish manufacturer Baykar (at least six Bayraktar TB2 and two #Bayraktar Akinci, the superior model) and surveillance drones from the country’s National Intelligence Agency (ANR). Their mission: to track down and strike the jihadist groups that control large swathes of Burkina Faso's territory. Initiated by former president Roch Marc Christian Kaboré (overthrown by the 2022 putsch), the use of armed drones has been intensified by Captain Traoré. (...) The ruling militaries of #Mali, #Burkina-Faso and Niger, which broke away from France and formed the Alliance of Sahel States (ASS) at the end of 2023, aren’t just banking on drones to bolster their air capabilities: attack and troop transport helicopters, fighter jets, aircraft equipped with ISR (intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance) capabilities... To acquire these aircraft, they are relying primarily on their Turkish partners (for drones), with whom the civilian government they overthrew was already cooperating, and Russians (for planes and helicopters). (...) According to various sources consulted by Le Monde and cross-referenced with the Military Balance register, a directory of military forces worldwide published by the International Institute for Strategic Studies, the Malian army currently has eight Bayraktar TB2s, around 15 helicopters (Mi-35s, Mi-24s, Mi-17s, Mi-8s...), and some 15 L-39 Albatros aircraft. The Burkinabe army has at least six TB2s, two Akinci, a dozen helicopters (Mi-35, Mi-17, Mi-8...) and five light fighters (Super Tucano and Marchetti SF-260). The Nigerien army has six TB2s, some 10 helicopters (Mi-35, Mi-17, Gazelle...) and two Sukhoi Su-25s. (...) Working alongside the Malian army, #Wagner’s mercenaries are playing an active role in this aerial war. Among them are pilots, at the controls of the L-39 Albatros supplied by Moscow to the Malian air force. At the end of September, in the region of Tin Zaouatine, where they attempted a retaliatory attack for the assault they suffered two months earlier before turning back, CSP rebels came across drones with Russian-designed Zala Kub prowler ammunition (kamikaze drones).” Archive of <https://www.lemonde.fr/en/le-monde-africa/article/2024/11/20/turkish-drones-and-russian-planes-aerial-warfare-comes-to-west-africa_6733455_124.html>.
on 02025-06-17In April the president of #Spain was blaming nuclear #energy for the #Iberian-blackout. #news #politics
on 02025-06-17#news: today the official #Iberian-blackout report is to be presented #toread
on 02025-06-17#news on the #Iberian-blackout: “Miscalculation by Spanish power grid operator REE contributed to massive blackout, report finds”
on 02025-06-17#news photo and video of the extrajudicial summary execution of Nguyễn Văn Lém in the #Vietnam war. #history #human-rights
on 02025-06-05#video #news #interview with Patrick McGee on his anti-#China book “Apple in China”
on 02025-05-20#news: “#Coinbase on Thursday reported that cybercriminals bribed overseas support agents to steal customer data to use in social engineering attacks.” #Bitcoin #security
on 02025-05-20#news on the #Deye #solar #energy #backdoors #security catastrophe
on 02025-05-20#news of #solar inverter #backdoors from #China. #politics #security
on 02025-05-20#news #video in Spanish on Mennonites in #Argentina #toread from #Deutsche-Welle
on 02025-05-19#humor #news #video chronicling #Trump’s crackdown on freedom of speech and journalism. #human-rights #politics #USA
on 02025-05-19#news from 7 years ago about the smoking-gun document proving “Happy Birthday” was published in 01922 without a #copyright notice, putting it in the public domain. #history
on 02025-05-16#news #video #toread about the tragic demise of the Hövding airbag bicycle helmet
on 02025-05-15#news #video about #Proud-Boys and #politics in #USA, with Lincoln Heights arming citizens in response to about ten Klansmen putting up a banner over the freeway when #Trump was inaugurated, until the police hauled them off in a van (but didn’t arrest them). Also the Socialist Rifle Association.
on 02025-05-15#news #video #toread from #Deutsche-Welle about #Mennonites in #Argentina (42')
on 02025-05-15#news #video from a week ago about #narcosubs in Galicia, saying three have been found but maybe 30 got through since the first one was found in 02019, saying thermal imaging cameras are among the best tools for detection; mentions “unmanned #drones” in a possible future.
on 02025-05-15#news #video #toread about #China building floating piers, perhaps to invade #Taiwan using roll-on roll-off ferries for heavy equipment transport without needing to capture a port first
on 02025-05-15#news #video from 2 days ago saying #USA drops #tariffs on #China to 30% for 90 days #toread
on 02025-05-15#USA #politics #news: NIOSH is laying off a quarter of its workers (about 873)
on 02025-05-11#UK and #India sign a deal to drop #tariffs. #news
on 02025-05-10#SCMP #news #video on #Xi (#China premier) visiting #Russia to meet with Vladimir #Putin today, for the third time this year. #politics
on 02025-05-08#news #video on #China policy on #tariffs from the #SCMP; apparently the vice premier is going to Switzerland to have talks with #Trump officials in a few days, and there’s a lot of monetary easing on the part of the central bank. #politics
on 02025-05-08#news #video saying world stocks have recovered back to their level of a month ago when #Trump announced his #USA #tariffs
on 02025-05-04#news #video by Sal #Mercogliano, who specializes in maritime shipping, saying that the currently-starting week’s drop in shipping at the Port of LA is only 24% rather than 35% as expected, with smaller year-on-year drops of 13% for each of the following two weeks. Excerpts from the Bloomberg Surveillance #interview with Gene Seroka of the Port of LA. He mentions that #tariffs are affixed based on the date that cargo is loaded in #China unless you move your cargo off the terminal to a “bonded warehouse” (which allows you to pay the tariff at the time that you take it out of the warehouse) or ship it back to China.
on 02025-05-04#news #video about #human-rights in #USA under #Trump including his attacks on #Harvard and the court rulings against #deportations
on 02025-05-04#news #interview #video with Jeffrey Sachs about how #China doesn’t have “overcapacity” but rather insufficient capacity to fight #climate-change
on 02025-05-04#human-rights #news #video on #Trump #deportations; Mohsen Mahdawi has been released on bail. #Interview with Farber.
on 02025-05-03#news #interview #video with #MercadoLibre CEO claiming they have US$21 billion of revenues, 50% growth year-on-year (!!), and almost 100,000 employees. “I think it’s fair to say that the [#USA] was the country with the lowest #tariffs [anywhere], and [that] became unsustainable.”
on 02025-05-03#news #interview #video with Jeffrey Sachs claiming #China isn’t imperialist
on 02025-05-03#news #video by Sal #Mercogliano, who specializes in maritime shipping, saying that he thinks next week’s 35% drop in shipping at the port of LA (first full week of May) is real and indicative of a broader trend of less container ships arriving in #USA, which will hit the East Coast 2–4 weeks later. He recommends the US Bureau of Transportation Statistics website. #tariffs
on 02025-05-02#news #video from #Deutsche-Welle citing the University of Gothenburg “V-Dem Democracy Report 2025” saying 72% of the world lives in autocracies, with only 24 remaining liberal democracies.
on 02025-05-02#news on #AfD: “#Germany’s Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) party has been designated as right-wing extremist by the country’s federal office for the protection of the constitution [Verfassungsschutz]. “The ethnicity- and ancestry-based understanding of the people prevailing within the party is incompatible with the free democratic order,” the domestic intelligence agency said in a statement.” I think that’s a nice capsule summary of what the problem was with the Nazis. It wasn’t their use of ancient Hindu religious symbols or their industrial policy; it’s that they were incompatible with the free democratic order because of the ethnicity- and ancestry-based understanding of the people prevailing within the party. #politics
on 02025-05-02#CNBC #news #video with Brad Setser, Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, saying, “If #China really wanted to play nasty, they could say, ‘We’re going to limit exports of iPhones.’” The video is pure talking-head and stock-footage filler crap. #USA #politics #tariffs
on 02025-05-02#news #humor #video #music of #Trump, Putin, etc. #politics
on 02025-05-01#news #video #interview with Tulsi Gabbard explaining how the use of Signal was authorized
on 02025-04-30#news #video from six months ago saying the Coast Guard of the People’s Republic of #China is using laser weapons against Philippine sailors resupplying the Sierra Madre
on 02025-04-30#news #interview by #NPR with Steve #Bannon predicting multiple constitutional crises in #USA by summer. #history
on 02025-04-30#news #video #finance #USA GDP dropped at annualized 0.3% in 1Q25.
on 02025-04-30#news #video largest container port in Western Hemisphere, Los Angeles, projects shipping volumes down 35% next week because of #Trump #tariffs. #USA #politics
on 02025-04-30“#Pakistan’s government said it had “credible intelligence” that #India intends to carry out military action against it in the “next 24-36 hours on the pretext of baseless and concocted allegations of involvement in the Pahalgam incident.” #politics #news
on 02025-04-30#video #news saying Jamie Dimon, CEO of JPMorgan Chase, says the best-case scenario for #USA is a mild recession from #tariffs. US stock market down 8.4% in #Trump’s first 100 days, Canada up 3.4%, UK up 10.2%, Germany up 18.5%, Mexico up 20.9%.
on 02025-04-30#Trump leak of war plans to Atlantic editor Goldberg: Trump spokesperson Brian Hughes forwarded Jeffrey Goldberg’s phone number to Mike Waltz in an email in October so Waltz could call him to comment on a story Goldberg was going to run about Trump’s “attitude towards sounded service members”, and Waltz saved it as Hughes’s number, which is how he ended up adding him to the Signal group. #news "According to the White House, the number was erroneously saved during a “contact suggestion update” by Waltz’s iPhone, which one person described as the function where an iPhone algorithm adds a previously unknown number to an existing contact that it detects may be related. (...) the White House had authorized the use of Signal, largely because there is no alternative platform to text in real time across different agencies, two people familiar with the matter said. Previous administrations, including the Biden White House, did not develop an alternative platform to Signal, one of the people said. As a temporary solution, the Trump White House told officials to use Signal as they had done during the transition instead of regular text-message chains.”
on 02025-04-30#USA #Trump mouthpiece Jack Keane threatens #Iran with “an Israeli-led US-supported attack” if they “force us” by continuing to pursue nuclear power. #politics #history #news
on 02025-04-30Molly Ball says, “That’s why the participants want the secret history of the 2020 election told, even though it sounds like a paranoid fever dream–a well-funded cabal of powerful people, ranging across industries and ideologies, working together behind the scenes to influence perceptions, change rules and laws, steer media coverage and control the flow of information. They were not rigging the election; they were fortifying it. And they believe the public needs to understand the system’s fragility in order to ensure that democracy in America endures.” #news #history #politics #USA
on 02025-04-30#news #video #interview with AG Pam Bondi on the FBI arresting Milwaukee county judge Hannah #Dugan. #human-rights
on 02025-04-25#news #video on the #Philippines, and the potential of a South #China Sea war. #politics
on 02025-04-25#news #video on the FBI arresting Milwaukee county judge Hannah #Dugan. #human-rights
on 02025-04-25#news #video Karoline Leavitt says #Trump has 18 proposals on paper from countries around the world who “recognize that they have, in fact, been ripping off the United States” on #tariffs #politics
on 02025-04-25#news #video of “massive” attack on Kyiv, #Ukraine, killing 9 people with 4 not found yet
on 02025-04-23#news #video from what looks like a #China propaganda outlet saying the #EU is dropping trade barriers to Chinese products that it had instituted over the last few years in coordination with #USA. #politics
on 02025-04-23#news #video with Kishore Mahbubani saying that #Taiwan is the issue most likely to cause a war between #USA and #China at 18'26" in an #interview with #Al-Jazeera. #politics
on 02025-04-23#news on #Trump backing down somewhat on #China #tariffs #politics
on 02025-04-23#news #humor #video mentioning 60 Minutes executive producer Bill Owens resigned over threats to their journalistic independence. #human-rights #politics
on 02025-04-23#news #video about #India and #Pakistan coming closer to war after #Kashmir attack by the Baloch Liberation Army (or Lashkar-e-Tayyiba?); #Modi suspends the Indus Valley Water Treaty. Shahbaz Sharif has summoned the National Security committee in Pakistan. In Hindi. #politics
on 02025-04-23#news #video about #Trump defense secretary Pete Hegseth texting secret war plans again, this time to his wife, brother, and lawyer, according to a NYTimes article. Hegseth is now going on a witch hunt for leakers and fired three of his top aides. Karoline Leavitt: “This is what happens when the entire Pentagon is working against you and working against the monumental change that you are trying to implement.” #politics
on 02025-04-23#news #video saying #Trump is easing off on the trade war with #China following a meeting with Target and Walmart CEOs #politics
on 02025-04-23#news on #Trump’s “border czar” Tom Homan threatening to arrest Democratic state governors in the #USA #politics
on 02025-04-17#news that #Trump wants to bomb #Iran and is attempting to impose untenable “designed to fail” conditions on an anti-nuclear deal so he can go to war with them
on 02025-04-17#news by #Al-Jazeera summarizing #Trump
on 02025-04-17#news #interview by the #Economist where they debate what reserve currency could displace the dollar: Euro, Nordic countries, Japan, Switzerland, gold, or “maybe, maybe, cryptocurrency” !!!
on 02025-04-17#news #interview with Kilmar #Abrego’s wife Jennifer Vasquez Sura. #deportations #human-rights
on 02025-04-17#news #interview with Larry Summers on #Harvard: “For the President of the United States to be calling for changing the tax status of his adversaries, this is new, and, I believe, authoritarian, and a real question about our democracy.” #human-rights
on 02025-04-17#news saying the #USA Federal Reserve is planning a bailout of the stock and bond market (perhaps via reverse repurchase agreements: treasury securities sold by the Federal Reserve in temporary open market operations, as was done massively in 02022 and 02023, a number that has dropped from US$400 billion two weeks ago to under US$100 billion now), because #Trump’s pause on #tariffs hasn’t stopped the bond market from getting tighter and tighter as hedge funds deleveraged. #politics
on 02025-04-17#news on #Trump #deportations in defiance of Boasberg’s court order. #human-rights
on 02025-04-17#news by #France24 public broadcasting saying the #China viral TikTok videos claiming they’re the OEMs of #Hermes, Louis Vuitton, and probably other luxury brands are not correct and are perhaps an effort by counterfeit manufacturers in China to take advantage of the chaos.
on 02025-04-17#news on #China offering #USA and EU citizens 240-hour visa-free shopping tours to buy luxury brands from OEM factory outlets at factory prices, blitzing TikTok with information about how those brands are really produced in China, in response to #Trump #tariffs. #USA #politics
on 02025-04-17#news on #Trump’s IRS considering revoking #Harvard’s tax-exempt status. Also #Abrego #deportations. #USA #politics #human-rights
on 02025-04-17#news: #El-Salvador blocks #USA senator Chris van Hollen from visiting Kilmar Armando #Abrego García after #Trump #deportations to #CECOT #human-rights
on 02025-04-17#news current state of #Trump deportation of Kilmar Armando #Abrego García, who is not from #Venezuela, to #El-Salvador #CECOT #deportations #human-rights
on 02025-04-17#news #video saying there was a false rumor that #Milei had decreed a US$100 monthly limit on bank withdrawals (a “corralito”) propagated on social networks by Peronists, referencing BCRA communiqué A8226, which this YouTuber interprets as meaning, instead, that you can only buy up to US$100 per month with pesos deposited in cash (as opposed to in your bank account). #Argentina #politics
on 02025-04-12#news #video about #export-controls in #China on #rare-earths, gallium, germanium, etc. #USA #politics
on 02025-04-12#news #video of Steve Bannon saying #Trump will run for a third term and win in 02029; Congressman Andy Ogles from Tennessee has already introduced a Constitutional amendment. Also talking about #Project-2025.
on 02025-04-12#news #video of #Milei’s speech yesterday announcing the end of #currency exchange rate controls (for individuals) #toread #politics #finance
on 02025-04-12#news #video speculating that #China will invade #Taiwan now that they don’t have to worry about losing trade with the #USA, having already lost it to the #Trump #tariffs. Points out that Chinese imports from the US are easily replaceable things like soybeans, unlike fine chemicals and microchips. #politics
on 02025-04-12#news #video #toread from #Deutsche-Welle about the #Trump #China #tariffs exempting smartphones and laptops #politics #USA
on 02025-04-12#news #video: The #Trump administration says it will exclude electronics such as smartphones and laptops from latest #tariffs. That means such devices and their components won’t be subject to the current 145 per cent tariffs levied on #China, or the 10 per cent baseline tariffs elsewhere. #politics #USA
on 02025-04-12#video #news on the end of the #currency exchange rate controls in #Argentina announced at 18:11 today, effective Monday
on 02025-04-11#news #video saying the #China #renminbi #currency is down to 7.4242 to the dollar, the lowest point since 02007. By anti-China propaganda channel #China-Observer. Mostly stock footage.
on 02025-04-10#news #video about the general strike in #Argentina that happened today, with a speech by Hector Daer and a few questions from reporters.
on 02025-04-10#news #video about #China’s new #USA export restrictions (not a full ban) on #rare-earths and other #critical-minerals in response to #Trump #tariffs.
on 02025-04-09#video from yesterday, Victor Gao saying, “We retaliate against what the United States will do even at the cost of a total war between #China and the United States, in terms of tariff war, or trade war, or otherwise.” #tariffs #politics #news
on 02025-04-09#Al-Jazeera #news #video reports that Lula is also considering a “retaliation ... bill to give Brazil’s government [administration] broad powers to respond quickly to unfair trade barriers. It can increase its own #tariffs on imports as well as suspending the payment of intellectual property rights and royalties.” Lula says protectionism has no place in today’s world.
on 02025-04-09#news #video from yesterday about two people from #China fighting in #Ukraine and captured by Ukrainian troops
on 02025-04-09#video #news of (JPMorgan Chase CEO) Jamie Dimon saying it’s perfectly reasonable to say that trade barriers were unfair, not just #tariffs, but that a recession is likely.
on 02025-04-09#video #news Ray Dalio criticizing #Trump but agreeing that the #USA’s trade imbalance is unsustainable and the lack of manufacturing is dangerous. But “3 million people, 1% of the population”, “are brilliant,” “half of them are foreigners,” “they go to the best schools”, and “make unicorns.” He’s also concerned about getting the budget deficit down to 3% of GDP and getting the debt down.
on 02025-04-09#video #news Reva Goujon says, “China is doing some interesting things in its implementing its provisions for the anti-foreign-sanctions law, it’s talking about countermeasures that include suspending IP rights for US companies in #China. That’s explosive.” #USA #politics #human-rights #copyright
on 02025-04-09#video #news on #China and #USA #politics, mostly about #Trump #tariffs, mentioning that the #Hutchison ports sale to BlackRock has been paused by Beijing
on 02025-04-09#news #USA #tariffs #politics “#China’s Finance Ministry also announced new export controls on medium and heavy rare-earth elements, including samarium, gadolinium, terbium, dysprosium, lutetium, scandium, and yttrium.”
on 02025-04-08#news #video quoting Bill Ackman (Pershing Square Capital Management): “we are heading for a self-induced economic nuclear winter” #tariffs #politics #USA
on 02025-04-07#video #news on #Elmu criticizing #Trump #tariffs and also personally attacking Peter Navarro: “He ain’t built shit.”
on 02025-04-07#video of reverse-engineering the #Trump #tariffs formula. #news
on 02025-04-07#video #news with Altimeter Capital CEO Brad Gerstner on #Trump #tariffs: “Most of us are supportive of the president’s pro-business policies (...) but (...) these are not precision tariffs. This is a Navarro nuclear-style attack on American business.” JP Morgan raises recession odds from 40% to 60%.
on 02025-04-07#CNBC #news #video from today on #BYD #EV cars and their new 5-minute (?) 1-megawatt charging, and how BYD’s 02024 sales were US$109B, 29% up from the year before. Ford’s CEO is driving a Xiaomi SU7 EV.
on 02025-04-05#video #news from #Deutsche-Welle on #China imposing reciprocal #tariffs on #USA #politics, mostly just stock footage and talking heads. 34% tariffs on imports from the US, and a ban on seven rare-earth exports to the US and Europe. Jerome Powell, President of the Federal Reserve, predicts that the tariffs will probably cause #inflation in the US, unemployment, and slower growth. #toread
on 02025-04-04#video #toread about JD #Vance #politics #news destroying relationship with Europe
on 02025-04-02#video #toread about tariffs #news
on 02025-04-02#USA #politics #humor #news #video mentioning #Elmu leaving #Trump’s administration
on 02025-04-02#news #video with footage from Rep. Hank Johnson reading a prepared statement in a #USA Congressional House Judiciary Committee hearing about #politics and #Trump’s attacks on #human-rights
on 02025-04-01#news #video from #Deutsche-Welle saying #Milei has lowered poverty significantly down to 38% and indigence to 8% (from 52% and 18% respectively), but about the same as before he assumed power. The Big Mac Index says the peso of #Argentina is the #2 most overvalued currency in the world, we have the most IMF debt of any country in the world, and the riesgo país is rising. #politics
on 02025-04-01#video #news on #PRC surrounding #Taiwan with ships in “surprise military drills”. #politics
on 02025-04-01#video #news on Wilson Martel Lebron, who was deported in the middle of his trial; the Massachusetts judge dismissed the case with prejudice and ruled the prosecutor in contempt of court because he aided in “a case of obstruction of justice, a case of violating the defendant’s right to be present at trial and confront the witnesses against him.” #USA #politics #human-rights #deportations
on 02025-04-01#news #video from #Fox-News saying Maryland father Kilmar Armando #Abrego García was arrested in 02019 “in the company of other ranking gang members and was confirmed to be a ranking gang member of the MS-13 gang by a proven and reliable source,” according to the DHS’s assertions. #USA #politics #human-rights #deportations
on 02025-04-01#news #video by Joe #Rogan condemning #Trump for sending innocent people, like Maryland father Kilmar Armando #Abrego García (whose 5-year-old US-citizen son is autistic) who fled El Salvador in 02011, and gay makeup artist Andre José Hernandez Romero from #Venezuela, to #El-Salvador in #deportations to #CECOT
on 02025-04-01#news #video saying #Trump administration is admitting one Maryland father, granted protected status in 02019, was mistakenly included in the #deportations to #El-Salvador due to an “administrative error”, but can’t be brought back. #USA #politics #human-rights
on 02025-04-01#news #video saying Virginia Giuffre, #Epstein accuser, has four days to live following kidney failure from a car accident
on 02025-03-31#news #video #interview with Taliban Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesperson Abdul Qahar Balkhi, who refers to ISIS as #Daesh. #politics #Afghanistan
on 02025-03-31#news #video from today saying #Ukraine is declining #Trump’s peace deal with Russia. #politics
on 02025-03-31#news #video saying Jason Stanley, Yale professor who wrote How Fascism Works, is leaving #USA. #politics
on 02025-03-31#news #video saying #Elmu resigned from #DOGE (pure talking-head filler) #politics #USA
on 02025-03-31#news #video of talking-head and stock footage about #rare-earths, which #Ukraine doesn’t actually have. Also the global rare-earths market is only US$5 billion a year. #politics
on 02025-03-31#news #video on #Trump saying yesterday he’ll give #Iran “bombing the likes of which they have never seen before” if they don’t agree to a nuclear deal. Also threatened “secondary tariffs” on Russian oil and “military force” to annex Greenland. #USA #politics
on 02025-03-31#video on Li Ka-Shing sale of 43 #Hutchison ports to BlackRock, suggesting #USA wants to cut off #China’s trade routes #news #politics
on 02025-03-28#news on #Trump #deportations to #CECOT in #El-Salvador: the names of the 238 detainees, disclosed on March 20. They’re still being held incommunicado. #human-rights #politics
on 02025-03-28MSNBC relays Mother Jones’s #journalism on the tattoo-based #Trump #deportations #news to #CECOT in #El-Salvador for people from #Venezuela #politics #human-rights
on 02025-03-28#news on #Trump #deportations to #CECOT in #El-Salvador: immigrants from #Venezuela get snatched off the street because they have tattoos, for example, an #autism awareness tattoo. Apparently all of the families whose members have been disappeared report that they are being held incommunicado and that they have tattoos. #politics #human-rights
on 02025-03-28#video #news on Hong Kong tycoon Li Ka-Shing’s Cheung Kong Group selling off #Hutchison Ports’ stock, 43 of 53 major international ports in 23 countries, including the ports at both ends of the #Panama Canal, for US$19 billion, (and there was something about 90% of stock, it’s not clear) to the #USA, suggesting he anticipates war. #politics #China
on 02025-03-26#video on Turkish Fulbright scholar Rumeysa Ozturk being snatched off the street yesterday in Somerville, MA by masked ICE officers for publishing an editorial in the Tufts Daily opposing #Israel’s invasion of Gaza a year ago. #news #politics #USA
on 02025-03-26#video #news: #Trump threatens a 25% “secondary tariff” on any country that buys oil or gas from #Venezuela starting April 2; oil is 80% of its exports and 17% of GDP. #USA #politics
on 02025-03-26#news #video saying #BYD is #manufacturing #EV cars in Thailand and Brazil, and soon in Indonesia and Hungary. #China #politics
on 02025-03-25#BYD #EV #manufacturing delayed in #Mexico by #politics in #China, “fears of the technology leaking into the #USA” #news
on 02025-03-25#USA #politics #news of #Trump deportations under the Alien Enemies Act; apparently the deportees are being held incommunicado, and their names have not been released to their families.
on 02025-03-25#news “#Vaxart lays off 10% of staff after HHS unexpectedly demands halt to #COVID #vaccine trial” #politics #USA
on 02025-03-21“The 22 cases include Chicago resident Julio Noriega, 54, a U.S. citizen who, according to court documents, was arrested, handcuffed and spent most of the night at an ICE processing center in suburban Broadview. He was never questioned about his citizenship and was only released after agents looked at his ID.” #USA #politics #immigration #toread #news
on 02025-03-19This article is infuriating. #USA #politics #immigration #toread #news
on 02025-03-19#news #video saying #Israel is the only country to run its #F-35 #weaponry on domestic software, and (presumably because of #Trump’s freeze on aid to Ukraine) European #politics are concerned about this suddenly. Seems to mostly be a question of electronic countermeasures or countercountermeasures. #Deutsche-Welle
on 02025-03-14#news on #microcontrollers: this Cortex-M0 from TI is a WLCSP-8 and has 1KiB of SRAM. It’s not really in the running for being cheapest at 20¢.
on 02025-03-13#Fox #news #video about #PRC’s statement that it is ready for “any kind of war” with #USA on the basis of #Trump’s #tariffs. Trump announces the creation of a “office of shipbuilding” and promises to invade #Panama to get the canal back. #politics #China
on 02025-03-06#USA #Fox #news #video on #Trump revoking the legal #immigration status of 240k people who fled #Ukraine. #politics
on 02025-03-06#Argentina #news #video from #La-Nacion about the Línea Mitre trains today not reaching Retiro because of #blackouts. Supposedly as of 8:05 AM, Edesur says 6290 households are in the blackout, which seems absurdly low for a blackout that’s interrupting train service, and 2.671 million who aren’t. Edenor has 1137 household in blackouts and 3.309 million who aren’t. Four high-tension lines apparently out of service? Footage of people trapped in a dark subte yesterday fanning themselves with hand fans.
on 02025-03-06#news abridged #video of #Trudeau in #Canada announcing tariffs against #USA #politics
on 02025-03-06#news #video on #Trump backing down on #USA tariffs on #Canada and #Mexico, but only on autos. Almost entirely a tiresome talking head lecture #politics
on 02025-03-06#video #news on #Ukraine doing the “first all-robot assault” on a ground position at Lyptsi, near Hlyboka, by the 13th National Guard brigade. Includes footage from “Army TV - Ukrainian Military Channel”. #toread #weaponry #drones
on 02025-03-04#video on Norway’s Holtback Bunkers Corp. cutting off fuel supplies to the #USA military until #Trump leaves office, following his criticism of Zelenskyy. #Ukraine #news
on 02025-03-02#news: the #Economist discusses the possibilities of European self-defense. “There are approximately 230 Russian and Ukrainian brigades in #Ukraine, though most are under-strength. Many European countries would struggle to produce a single combat-capable brigade each. (...) Europe has impressive air forces, with a lot of modern jets. But those jets do not have a meaningful stockpile of munitions capable of destroying enemy air defences or striking distant targets on land or in the air[.] (...) “This”, pronounced Mr Merz on February 24th, “is really five minutes to midnight for Europe.”” #Trump #politics
on 02025-02-28#news: the #Economist describes #Trump’s #politics as “mafia-like” and predicts disaster
on 02025-02-28#news #video of #Zelenskyy and #Trump yelling at each other in front of the US media in the Oval Office today. #Ukraine #politics
on 02025-02-28#news #video about infiltrating the Doce Tribus cult here in #Argentina #toread
on 02025-02-27#news #video that tomorrow the ATE is having a nationwide strike in #Argentina against #Milei. #politics
on 02025-02-27#CNN #news #video: “We [#USA] are on the path out of #NATO (...) we are aligned with what has always been NATO’s principal threat. (...) I would say 95%+ of NATO’s planning during the Cold War and since then has been concerned about a Russian attack. That is the fundamental motivating factor why the alliance was created and why it still exists today. And we have sided now in this vote with NATO’s principal adversary.” —John Bolton. #politics. The “and since then” and “why it still exists” are deliberate and very significant from my point of view; it’s a fatal counter to any argument that NATO isn’t really an anti-Russian alliance. #Ukraine
on 02025-02-26#news yes, Roger #Waters was planned to brief the UN Security Council. #politics
on 02025-02-20#news yes, Roger #Waters did address the UN Security Council about #Ukraine. But the speech reported on here is not the speech in the YouTube video linked above, but rather a speech given two years earlier. #politics
on 02025-02-20#video #news of Roger #Waters addressing the UN Security Council (!?) about #Ukraine, quoting Smedley Butler. #politics
on 02025-02-20#video #news on #USA #Trump #politics: “NATO is a deterrent organization. It kept the peace for four generations. I think that’s over. (...) Fortunately, both the French and the Brits have a nuclear capability. Otherwise, the nuclear assurance that the US grants to our allies in Europe would be gone also.” Gen. Barry McCaffrey, (Ret.), US Army
on 02025-02-20#USA #politics #news: half-hour #Vance speech in Munich criticizing European leaders, as reported by #Deutsche-Welle
on 02025-02-15#video #news of #UK defense minister Healey listing #weaponry sent to #Ukraine last year: “10000 #drones” is the only thing worth mentioning. Hegseth says #Trump’s approach to the war is that the war must end. “We want, like you, a sovereign and prosperous Ukraine, but we must start by recognizing that returning to Ukraine’s pre-2014 borders is an unrealistic objective. (...) The United States does not believe that NATO membership for Ukraine is a realistic outcome of a negotiated settlement. (...) As part of any security guarantee, there will not be US troops deployed to Ukraine.” Not sure what he thinks about Donetsk and Luhansk. #politics
on 02025-02-12#video of JD #Vance giving a speech at the AI Action Summit yesterday. #USA #politics #news
on 02025-02-12#video of Matt #Taibbi testifying before #USA Congress today about censorship and anti-journalism. #politics #news
on 02025-02-12#Trump "brazenly defies laws" #USA #politics #news https://archive.ph/Ib2yr
on 02025-02-06#Elmu’s “presidency” is “just getting started” #USA #politics #news
on 02025-02-06“BRILLIANT” #HIV vaccine clinical trial in #South-Africa is among the programs halted by #Elmu’s shutdown of #USAID #USA #politics #news
on 02025-02-06#politics #news: federal judge bars #Elmu from access to #USA Treasury disbursements data
on 02025-02-06#news on #USA FBI acting director Driscoll attempting to defend the FBI from #Trump. #politics
on 02025-02-05#Economist #news on #Trump’s tariff policy against the #EU and how they might respond #politics
on 02025-02-04New Yorker #news article about #Trump’s history and new expansionist policy. #history #USA #politics
on 02025-01-29Gizmodo’s #news summary of the #DeepSeek controversy today
on 02025-01-29#Economist #news summary of the #DeepSeek controversy today
on 02025-01-29#USA #politics #news in the WSJ about Tulsi #Gabbard and the #Science-of-Identity Foundation and its ties to the QI Group and its pyramid schemes. #crime
on 02025-01-29#news on “Startup #Castelion” raising US$100M to build hypersonic #weaponry in the #USA, founded and half-staffed by ex-SpaceX employees.
on 02025-01-29#Economist #news article from January 14th on #Milei and #politics in #Argentina. “A closer look at inflation numbers suggests that, despite smaller price rises, most Argentines are not yet better off than they were a year ago. (...) The economic gloom could hobble Mr Milei’s reform efforts. The country still maintains strict currency controls to prop up the wobbly peso. Mr Milei has vowed to ease these restrictions and let the currency float. But first he wants to negotiate a loan with the IMF, a condition of which will probably be a new set of reforms. For now, Mr Milei remains popular: nearly half of Argentines support him, according to a recent survey by AtlasIntel, a pollster, even though just one in five rates the economy as “good”.”
on 02025-01-29Maybe the #Israel #Gaza ceasefire won’t happen after all: “‘Hamas has reneged on parts of the agreement reached with the mediators and Israel in an effort to extort last-minute concessions,’ the Prime Minister’s Office said.” #news #politics
on 02025-01-16#Gaza ceasefire with return of some hostages if #Israel’s security cabinet and government approve it today. #news #politics
on 02025-01-16#La-Nacion #news #video about a MoU being signed for a US$140 billion export deal for #LNG from Vaca Muerta in partnership with Shell which is apparently displacing Petronas as a candidate partner. Probably kind of stupid given what’s happening with solar, but gas certainly has a role to play in peakers before battery capacity is built up. They say it's “gas no tradicional” which I think means they’re cooking shale. They’re saying maybe they’d have an export terminal in place by 02027 or 02030, which seems far too late; the floating LNG terminal that we had when Macri was president might work. Pure talking-head filler. #Argentina #energy #politics
on 02024-12-23#news #video suggesting #Bolivia might have a sovereign default soon due to diminished #energy exports (gas mostly)
on 02024-12-23#news #video from Russian propaganda channel #Firstpost quotes the NYT quoting Vivek Ramaswamy promising “#Milei style cuts, on steroids” in #USA #politics under #Trump, but says “Milei-nomics” has “pushed 5 million people into poverty”
on 02024-12-23#news #video about #Milei feuding more publicly with #Villarruel, but the actual quote is very dog-whistly. Touts a new US$400 million Stellantis investment. #Argentina #politics
on 02024-12-22#news #video from #La-Nacion affirming that poverty and inflation are much lower now
on 02024-12-21#news #video #politics on the #USA withdrawing a bounty on the arrest of the new head of #Syria #toread
on 02024-12-20#news #video of #Milei this afternoon announcing his new #nuclear #energy plan for #Argentina, starting with the construction of an SMR, apparently unaware of the solar-energy revolution that’s taken place over the last year, along with the ridiculous fantasy of manufacturing SMRs for export. What an embarrassment. It’s useful to see what kind of patriotic rhetoric they use to sell this white elephant. The second speaker is Rafael Grossi, who was the Argentine ambassador to Austria before becoming the head (Director General) of the #IAEA. Rossi, hilariously, says nuclear energy “es una herramienta que la Argentina ha usado en los últimos 70 años con marcado éxito”, not daring to mention anything that suggests Huemul. He does eventually dare to mention nuclear weapons at 8'52”. Milei finally starts speaking at 10'16”. His list of technological revolutions: fire, the wheel, the loom, the steam locomotive, electric energy, and the internet; he says today artificial intelligence opens a new frontier in this Manifest Destiny that we share as a species, which will require more energy than conventional energy — but somehow completely forgets to mention solar and wind energy. #politics
on 02024-12-20#video #news #toread #interview with Luis Caputo published by the Ministry of the Economy #politics #Argentina
on 02024-12-18#news on polls on #Milei’s popularity, 52% approval. The #video is almost pure talking-head filler. #La-Nacion #politics #Argentina
on 02024-12-18#news #video from Radio Mitre #interview with Jaime Campo, the president of the Asociación Empresaria #Argentina, on his meeting with Luis Caputo, who says the priority is reducing the tax burden on the economy, while the cepo will last a while longer. The video is pure talking-head filler. #politics
on 02024-12-18#video of right-wing Fox #news using #Milei as an example for #USA #politics
on 02024-12-17#video #news: #Milei betting on #nuclear #energy. Doh! #politics
on 02024-12-17#news #video about how #Milei (or rather his political ally Jorge Macri) is instituting a US-like policy of sending the police to beat up homeless people and stealing their possessions. Currently there are supposedly 4400 homeless people in Buenos Aires (presumably this means the city), 10% more than last year and 2.5× as many as five years ago. #politics #human-rights #Argentina
on 02024-12-17#news #video on Argentine policeman #Nahuel-Gallo being imprisoned in #Venezuela when he tried to visit his wife and child, who live there with her family; in response, Patricia Bullrich (the minister of security of #Argentina) called Diosdado Cabello (the Venezuelan minister of the interior) “el lacayo de una dictadura criminal y cobarde. (...) La argentina no se somete a tiranos.” So it’s an international incident. #politics
on 02024-12-17#news #video with #economics #statistics about #Argentina: +3.9% GDP in the third quarter of 02024, -1.7% the previous one, -2.1% the one before that, and -1.9% from the last quarter of 02023. That still leaves us 2% below the last quarter of 02023. The talking head in the video, however, says it leaves us 0.1% below. It seems like this is a combination of calculation errors (maybe he’s naïvely adding percentages instead of multiplying, or maybe I’m using incorrectly rounded numbers) and not counting the -1.9%. He also says that the quarter-on-quarter growth in construction activity was 6.9% and in industrial production was 13.6%. The year-on-year figures he shows seem to show a dismaying backslide towards a resource-extraction economy: 32.0% growth in agriculture, 7.3% growth in mining, 7% growth in fishing, 2.9% growth in hospitality [...] and a 10.7% drop in manufacturing and a 14.9% drop in construction. Which I guess are the sectors that rebounded most sharply in this last quarter. And apparently last year there was a drought.
on 02024-12-17#news #video with a bunch of talking heads discussing #Milei’s #economics tweet (“Sigan llorando econochantas de mandrilandia”) that the #Argentina’s GDP went up 3.9% from the second quarter to the third quarter, which would be an unheard-of annualized 16.5% growth if it were true, following the earlier fall (which a talking head incorrectly says was 3%). Apparently the central bank has bought US$3.5 billion in dollars from private companies in the last 2½ months, increasing its reserves. And the riesgo país is below 700 basis points (7%) for the first time in a long time.
on 02024-12-17#news #video with a bunch of #economics talking heads arguing about what it means that #Argentina’s inflation is now down to 2.4% per month.
on 02024-12-17#video #news of people coming from #Argentina to visit the graves of fallen soldiers in the #Malvinas
on 02024-12-13#USA #politics #drones sighted leading to calls for a state of emergency #news
on 02024-12-13#USA #politics #drones sighted leading to calls for a state of emergency #news (discussion)
on 02024-12-13#news release from the #USA #FCC blocking 2411 #VoIP providers
on 02024-12-12#Bloomberg #news from October on #Milei getting #finance: “#Argentina’s largest companies are rushing to issue dollar debt as yields tumble, a tentative sign that President Javier Milei’s shock therapy is starting to restore investor confidence in the economy.
Banco de Galicia y Buenos Aires SAU, the country’s biggest private lender, sold $325 million of bonds due 2028 abroad at a 7.875% yield this month, while YPF Luz, the power unit of state-owned driller YPF SA, issued $420 million of eight-year notes yielding 8.2%. State-owned Banco de la Nacion said it’s planning a return to international capital markets for the first time in some 30 years.”
on 02024-12-12#Bloomberg #news on #Milei getting #finance: “Shale oil driller Vista #Energy issued $600 million in New York on Wednesday in its first ever foreign bond sale. Pampa Energia SA, which is also ramping up output in #Argentina’s heralded Vaca Muerta shale patch, has arranged investor meetings as it eyes returning to capital markets for the second time this year. MSU Energy borrowed $177 million to refinance its debt. (...) Argentina’s sovereign debt spread is at 757 basis points, hovering around levels not seen in five years, according to a JPMorgan index. (...) Vista sold its 11-year bond with a 7.6% yield, compared with rates in the 8%-9% range when a wave of issuers came to the market between July and October.”
on 02024-12-12#toread #news “Kraig Biocraft Laboratories (...) uses transgenic silkworms to produce lines of recombinant spider silk. The company plans to produce up to 10 metric tons of spider silk in 2025.”
on 02024-12-12#Aaronson commenting on the #Google Willow 105-qubit #QC #news announcing (or extending) quantum supremacy
on 02024-12-12#Kurzgesagt #news #video about #Ukraine, etc. Is the world getting more peaceful?
on 02024-12-10#news #video mentioning #Syria coup and a #Trump #interview
on 02024-12-09#news #interview #video yesterday with Sergey Lavrov, 81 minutes, about the #Ukraine war, by the notorious right-wing ideologue from the US, which I linked yesterday from the ideologue’s channel; this is the channel of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia.
on 02024-12-06#news #interview #video today with Sergey Lavrov, 80 minutes, about the #Ukraine war, by a notorious right-wing ideologue from the US, discussing #Oreshnik
on 02024-12-05#news #video of the end of martial law in South #Korea after five hours or so
on 02024-12-03In #Peru there is “acid rock drainage” without mining, just from #glaciers retreating due to #climate-change. This NYT #news article focuses on deglaciation on the Chicama Formation above Lake Shallap. The rivers are running red like the Evangelicals say.
on 02024-11-28Press-conference #news #video on #Mexico’s #energy plan for 02024–02030, saying they had to rescue #PEMEX after the failure of the “neoliberal period” as a product of the privatization of 02013, after which it supposedly became the world’s most indebted #oil company; apparently López Obrador rescued it in 02018, but apparently they didn’t renationalize it until #Sheinbaum did so 15 days ago? Currently producing 1833 thousand barrels per day, almost unchanged since 02019 (3400ℓ/s; at 37MJ/ℓ that’d be about 125GW), and 3754 million cubic feet of #gas per day (1.23Mℓ/s; at 37kJ/ℓ that’s 46GW). Interestingly they give lip service to promoting the energy transition, but the press conference is all about increasing fossil-fuel production and use.
on 02024-11-27#Sky #news propaganda #video opposing #solar #photovoltaic #energy. Shows the nameplate of a house-sized Mitsubishi Hitachi hydrogen-cooled steam turbine generator (310RK09-776-1) producing 3-phase 20kV at 50Hz and what looks like 17984 amps, saying it produces 570–580MW, though my calculation gives 360MW from those numbers. Shows a real-time power price of [AU?]$235, presumably per MWh, attributing the high price to a cold snap in Victoria. Says 1200 tonnes of cheap brown coal per hour produces 1140 megawatts electric, which works out to 3.4MJ/kg, which would be about 15% efficiency, which seems improbably low. “[In the past] you were seeing wholesale prices around (...) $20–40/MWh”, says a guy who’s been working in the field for only 30 years; that also seems improbably low. “10 Australian coal-fired power stations closed in the last decade. There are 15 still running, but most are slated to close in the next decade.” 62% of electric generation on #Australia’s main grid is from fossil fuels, the other 38% from renewables. At 7'51”, it profiles Belinda Jones, a pensioner who’s paying AU$1073.31 per month (US$697/month) because she’s paying AU$0.191/kWh for 3410kWh (AU$651, becoming AU$716.63 after GST) and AU$0.216 for 2700kWh (AU$582, AU$640.10 after GST), from which subsidies are deducted. That implies her house is averaging 8400 watts! Possibly in part because she’s using resistive space heaters instead of heat pumps, but more likely it’s not actually a one-month bill — yes, in fact, at 9'13” we see it’s for 92 days, but she’s still averaging 2800 watts around the clock. (The average comes out to 11.4¢/kWh, which is very cheap by retail standards.) Also, we see at 9'22” that the previous bill was only AU$457.45. A different power bill shown at 45'04” shows someone paying $415 with time-of-day billing — also for 92 days. “Energy scarcity emerges everywhere #wind and solar become the dominant form of electrical generation.” Shows the #LNG export gas terminal at Gladston, the Petra Nova #carbon-capture pilot plant in Houston, and a US$21B #nuclear power plant in Georgia, the second to be built in the #USA in the last 30 years. #Microsoft has signed a deal to reopen #Three-Mile-Island. #politics Viper-7 reports paying 27.56-67.44c/kWh: Peak time (4:00pm to 7:59pm): 67.44c per kWh; Shoulder time (7:00am to 3:59pm, 8:00pm to 9:59pm): 29.65c per kWh; else 27.56c per kWh, including GST.
on 02024-11-27#news #video nine months ago from #Deutsche-Welle on #solar #manufacturing in #Europe, for example by #Switzerland company #Meyer-Burger in #Germany, which is opening a new factory in #Colorado-Springs, #USA. Credits national #China policy prioritizing #polysilicon production in the early 02000s. Lots of talking-head filler by Richard Black, director of policy and strategy at #Ember. Says #Brazil is “leading the renewable #energy boom taking place across the continent”, but apparently is trying #import-substitution with tariffs, and #ABSOLAR isn’t convinced local producers are enough. Says #Trump plans to cut Biden’s US subsidies. “Today, solar-powered energy is the cheapest form of electricity for the majority of the countries that use it. (...) Estimates put the cost somewhere between 300 and 900 dollars per kilowatt by 2030.” I guess when they made this video the mainstream solar module price was €0.14/Wp, and now it’s 29% lower at €0.10/Wp (US$106/kWp). Panasonic and LG recently exited the market. #photovoltaic
on 02024-11-27#news from #Bloomberg on semiconductor #manufacturing in #Japan, where #TSMC begins mass production later this year following US$4.86 billion in subsidies to expand their Kumamoto plant announced in February. And Japanese startup #Rapidus plans to ship 2nm chips in 02027 with 590 billion yen (US$3.9B) in subsidies. And Japanese startup #Preferred-Networks supposedly has 7nm #neural-networks accelerator chip MN-Core 2, though presumably fabbed overseas by TSMC; their marketing is focused on energy efficiency and thus “sustainability”, and “is confident in bringing its AI chip design and supercomputer to market in a few years time”; they’re hoping Rapidus can fab their chips. 40%–50% of demand (as seen from Japanese semiconductor company Screen Holdings) comes from #China, especially the auto industry. An annoying amount of stock-footage filler. Much of the #video is about #JASM (a TSMC joint venture with Sony and Denso), which is “planning to begin mass production soon”, and its facility in Kikuyo.
on 02024-11-27#news #video on #Israel prime minister #Netanyahu releasing a video calling leaders of the Army “traitors” for hiding information about Hamas strategy (?)
on 02024-11-26#news #video on a 1-gigawatt #solar #photovoltaic offshore farm in Shandong, #China, consisting of 2934 solar platforms built on steel trusses, connected with 66kV transmission. Predicted production would be 1.78 billion kWh/year, which is 203MW, a 20.3% capacity factor, which I think is roughly double the Chinese average. I wasn’t expecting this for 20 years. #energy
on 02024-11-26#news on the #EU imposing 35.3% punitive import #tariffs on electric vehicle (EV) imports from #China earlier this year on top of the 10% standard import duty (and I suppose VAT). China ended its joint-venture rule in 02022, maybe due to #Tesla, while the EU is maybe enacting it as a way to, in effect, drop the tariffs. This #video (by #EV-Insight) is pure irrelevant stock-footage filler. #politics #EVs
on 02024-11-26#news #video saying last night at least 17 Russian drones hit #Ukraine out of a total of 188, of which 76 were shot down and 95 lost from radar tracking for unknown reasons. Also 4 Iskander-M ballistic missiles were fired, but apparently no more #Oreshnik missiles. Odessa recently had a multi-day power and drinking-water outage, and attack-induced blackouts are common across Ukraine.
on 02024-11-26#news #video on the December 24 elimination of the 7.5% impuesto PAIS tax in #Argentina and the immediate elimination of its withholding (presumably for imports after that date), following its reduction from 17.5% in September. This will also lower the dólar tarjeta exchange rate for credit-card #forex exchange. The bienes personales tax is also being lowered (how much?) and its non-taxable minimum increased (how much?) and the real-estate transaction tax (impuesto a transacción de inmuebles) also eliminated. But the impuesto a exportaciones still survives!
on 02024-11-26right-wing #news #video claiming #UK export controls to Russia over the #Ukraine war have been ineffective because the same exported goods are just flowing in through neighboring countries in the Caucasus and central Asia such as Georgia and “what we would see as the Stans”, while UK luxury car exports to those same countries have “skyrocketed”, “particularly #Azerbaijan”. #Clickbait headline promises information on an announcement of new sanctions, but no such information is available. Fuck you, Sky News.
on 02024-11-26#news #video on #China last month issuing sanctions against 8 US arms companies, including Lockheed Martin, and 10 of their executives, including David Sutton, Lockheed Martin’s Director for Asia. “Internal reviews revealed that even the F-35’s ability to fly was actually built on the covert use of Chinese-made parts.” Covert? According to a report by Lee Hudson at Politico in 02022, yes, an alloy used in magnets in the turbomachine pumps, as notified by the Defense Contract Management Agency. The Warzone had an article saying, “F-35 deliveries halted after Chinese alloy discovered in key component”. Since they replaced this part, there have supposedly been a rash of in-flight failures resulting in seven F-35 crashes. However, the two of these crashes that have been linked were caused by a VTOL failure, not the integrated power package turbomachine, so the suggested connection is baseless. From Chinese propaganda outlet #Wave-Media.
on 02024-11-24#news #video on #China consumer sentiment being low and hitting foreign brands especially hard this year. Lots of Chinese supermarket footage.
on 02024-11-24#news #video on #China seabed #espionage surveillance devices described as “underwater lighthouses”, following a similar discovery in 02019 by 11 Chinese fishermen in Jiangsu, and another discovery of 9 such devices in 02018 by 18 fishermen in Jiangsu, and China’s recovery of an underwater drone in 02015; reporting by Russia propaganda outlet WION. #politics
on 02024-11-24#news #video saying Rand Paul will chair the Homeland Security committee next year and will not support the use of the military in #Trump’s planned deportations. #USA #politics
on 02024-11-24#news #video #interview with new prime minister of #Malaysia about China, Israel, Ukraine, etc. #politics
on 02024-11-24#news of #Ukraine #SCALP missiles “the French equivalent of Britain’s Storm Shadow”: “Ukraine could fire French long-range missiles into Russia “in the logics of self-defense,” French Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot told the BBC.” #toread
on 02024-11-24#news #video by Russian propaganda mouthpieces Danny Haiphong and Scott Ritter on the #Oreshnik strikes on the former Yuzhmash factory in #Ukraine; says there were six releases of six submunitions each. Mentions SCALP, the French missile. Pure talking-head filler
on 02024-11-24right-wing #USA propaganda #news #video saying South Korea is thinking about getting involved in the #Ukraine war #politics
on 02024-11-24#news #video from CNN criticizing Biden’s #USA #politics policy change on #Ukraine
on 02024-11-24#news #video showing "Chachos" in La Rioja, a new kind of #Patacón with a 1:1 exchange rate to pesos
on 02024-11-24#TRT #news says Erdogan calls for “restraint”, seeming “very, very concerned” and saying NATO “needs to prepare”, and “opposes #Ukraine’s use of US long-range missiles”, which #Turkey calls a “mistake”. Also an interview with Sergey #Karaganov, advisor to Putin. He also says that under [circumstances I didn’t understand] the #USA and Western Europe would “get a nuclear response”. Former Turkish diplomat Gulru Gezer says she’s getting “chills on my spine” from the US and Russian rhetoric from the other panelists. Karaganov: “The problem is two-pronged. One is to win the victory in Ukraine over the West, not over Ukraine. [The] West has to be defeated. Second, the third world war could be avoided.” He accidentally called Putin “president Yeltsin” at one point. #video #politics
on 02024-11-22#Deutsche-Welle says the #Oreshnik is both 2.5–3 kilometers per second and ten times the speed of sound, quoting Vladimir Putin! Apparently he isn’t really up on modern science. #Ukraine #news #video
on 02024-11-22#MSNBC #news #video on #Oreshnik developments with Michael Froman, the chairman of the Council for Foreign Relations and former USTR, who says #Ukraine will demand NATO membership as a condition of surrender, which seems like it would be unaccetpable to Russia. #USA #politics
on 02024-11-22Russian propaganda channel WION clarifies that the #Oreshnik was “2.5-3 kilometers per second” which would be mach 7.5-9 at sea level. Dmitry Babich (foreign editor, kp.ru news) blames the war on the West’s “gender ideology, woke ideology” #Ukraine #news #video
on 02024-11-22“NATO to meet [Tuesday] after new Russian missile strike” (#news today, but about the Dnipro #Oreshnik missile strike yesterday) #Ukraine #politics #video
on 02024-11-22“Ucrania pide a EEUU misiles Tomahawk que puedan alcanzar a Moscú” #Ukraine #politics #news #video 2500km range, #nuclear capable
on 02024-11-22“ATTACK ON THE US: Russia reportedly threatens US defense base in Poland” #Ukraine #politics #news #video #Oreshnik
on 02024-11-22“Vladimir Putin warns West as Russia hits #Ukraine with new missile” #news #politics #video of almost purely talking-head filler #Oreshnik
on 02024-11-22#news #video about #Putin saying the ballistic missile that hit #Ukraine wasn’t an #ICBM but a medium-range missile. #politics #history #Oreshnik
on 02024-11-21#news #video about #Ukraine getting hit by an #ICBM #politics #history #Oreshnik
on 02024-11-21#news Russia launches first #ICBM used in war in history, but it launched it at Dnipro, #Ukraine (from Astrakhan) and without #nuclear weapons. #politics #history #Oreshnik
on 02024-11-21“Russia says #Ukraine attacked it using U.S. long-range missiles, signals it’s ready for #nuclear response” #news #politics
on 02024-11-20#Argentina #politics #news #video: #Milei is like a child, according to the head of Rapa Nui, Diego Fenoglio. Only Brazil, South Africa, Colombia, and Mexico have worse income inequality. Deutsche Welle reporting.
on 02024-11-19two-hour #news #video of the House Transportation & Infrastructure Committee interrogating #FEMA administrator Deanne Criswell. #USA #politics
on 02024-11-19#news #video excerpted from a House Oversight Committee Congressional hearing about how #FEMA workers doing hurricane relief were advised to “avoid homes advertising Trump” in a list of safety measures, along with “not one goes anywhere alone”, “practice de-escalation and preventative measures”, and “communicate and follow the rules”. #USA #politics
on 02024-11-19#news #video State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller tonight about #ATACMS missile strikes on Russia: “No, I’m not gonna confirm it. I am not gonna confirm that report. #Ukraine, of course, is free to speak to what they have or have not done, but I’m not gonna confirm at this point any US policy change.” #USA #politics
on 02024-11-19#news #video about #UFOs (euphemized as "UAPs", unidentified anomalous phenomena) interfering with air safety. “The question that we really have to figure out is, is it China or is it not human? (...) Would you say that’s fair? / Dr. Gallaudet: Uh, yes, Congressman, (...)” #USA #politics
on 02024-11-19#News #video from #Al-Jazeera about #Facebook #censorship on #Israel, quoting Human Rights Watch, and also interviewing two ex-Facebook workers fired for their Palestinian advocacy (Saima Akhter and one other), as well as Palestinian photojournalist Motaz Azaiza, who says 40% of his #Instagram posts since October 02023 had been censored. Mostly #interview and stock footage. #human-rights
on 02024-10-20#video #news on a #Hizbullah attack on #Israel today: 50 rockets. Note that this was a month after Israel’s pager attack on Hizbullah.
on 02024-10-16#Forbes #news #politics #video #toread about fears about #USA inflation? “Trump Pressed on Fears about U.S. Currency”!?
on 02024-10-16#video #news about people in Russia getting punished for criticizing the #Ukraine war
on 02024-09-16#video from four days ago: #Ukraine #news #toread from #Azov brigade (still with the damn wolf hook) on an offensive in Luhansk
on 02024-09-16#video #news about a 17.2% fall in supermarket consumption in #Argentina in August, the 9th month of #Milei’s mandate, down 10.6% from the beginning of the year (which I guess means it was up from the beginning of the year in July?), #interview with Marco Lavagna, INDEC director #toread
on 02024-09-16#video #politics #news from #Argentina of #Milei speaking (at Congress?) for 40 minutes last night about the budget he’s proposing and bragging about how great his presidency has been. He claims homicides in Rosario are down 75%. Halfway through his supporters in the galleries start singing football songs.
on 02024-09-16#news #video on an Iranian-made Russian drone that was shot down (?) in NATO member Lithuania on Saturday after launching from Belarus targeted at #Ukraine. #drones #politics
on 02024-09-10#video #news of new turtle tank #weaponry designs in #Ukraine from a month ago
on 02024-06-20#news of Putin visit to #Vietnam; #USA embassy: “no country should give Putin a platform to promote his war of aggression and otherwise allow him to normalize his atrocities.” #politics
on 02024-06-20#video #news of #USA claiming Putin shouldn’t be “allowed to travel freely” to #Vietnam #politics
on 02024-06-20#news “Cocaine in Jalapeño Cans and a Tunnel From Mexico to Arizona: Highlights From the El Chapo Trial” how the Sinaloa cartel operated #business
on 02019-01-21on the causes and effects of the bankruptcy of the Hanjin #shipping line. It’s a big win for Hyundai Merchant Marine. #news #economics
on 02016-09-23Another #news #video montage of the #Tianjin #explosion. You can see blast shrapnel from a wall on its way to obliterate the first cameraperson.
on 02015-08-13#News: the large #explosion in #Tianjin yesterday. A series of chemical tanks in the container terminal caught fire and exploded, killing all of the thousands of people within a one-kilometer radius. 2.9 on Richter.
on 02015-08-13#news cellphone #video of a large #explosion in #Tianjin yesterday
on 02015-08-13