#video #formina #toread on 11 weird #USA #English accents
on 02026-09-19autistici.org (the Autistici/Inventati collective) have lost their domain because of #USA sanctions imposing #censorship to silence their speech about #politics, either because they support the PKK or because they are pro-Palestinian activists
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 02026-08-26Riana wrote this article about the district court ruling in US v. #Anderegg “reiterating the constitutional right to private possession of obscene material (...) It is gratifying to see a court agree with my analysis and reiterate the continuing importance of Stanley.” #USA #politics #law
on 02026-08-25Apparently this #cellphone #MVNO company in #USA is very well regarded indeed.
on 02026-08-25#News about Samuel #Tunick’s prosecution, a sort of #interview with him. #human-rights #privacy #USA #politics
on 02026-08-21Matthew Green on how #security is changing dramatically because of #AI, which might mean the #USA stops being able to spy on everybody: “Over the next two years, major pieces of software are likely to run out of remotely-exploitable bugs.” This seems dubious to me.
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 02026-08-18in #USA #history this was the moment in 01961 when drug companies had to provide evidence of efficacy to sell their drugs
on 02026-08-11Chevron deference was overturned in the #law of the #USA by Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimundo in 02024. #history
on 02026-08-05Stub article about #Project-Independence. #energy #history #USA
on 02026-08-05#Nixon’s speech announcing #Project-Independence for #energy in the #USA, on November 7, 01973, a couple months after the Yom Kippur War. #history
on 02026-08-05#history of #USA #energy programs from 01971 to 01980, with a focus on #Nixon and his #Project-Independence.
on 02026-08-05“The Migration Policy Institute (MPI) provides data on Limited English Proficient (LEP) persons by state and county.” #New-Mexico #USA #ESL
on 02026-08-04#racism in the #USA has gotten a lot better over #history, with interracial marriage approval ratings going from 4% in 01958 to 43% 43 years ago to 77% 19 years ago to 94% 5 years ago, according to Gallup polls
on 02026-07-28whistleblower John Kiriakou #interview #video about the #CIA and the #politics of the #USA
on 02026-07-27#PEPFAR lives despite the DOGE cuts. #USA #politics #toread
on 02026-07-25“Tracking retaliatory use of arrests, prosecutions, and investigations by the #Trump administration” #politics #USA
on 02026-07-25#Effective-altruism recommendations for #politics, mostly focused on the #USA and in particular #Trump
on 02026-07-25#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 02026-06-17John Quiggin is pretty down on #Elmu and by extension on the #USA.
on 02026-06-17#USA #manufacturing #statistics on #batteries: skyrocketing to 240 (240 whats?) since 02020, when it had dipped to 65. It turns out that this is 240% of the index year of 02017, seasonally adjusted.
on 02026-06-15#video about #kava/#kratom mixes sold in gas stations in the #USA. Fuck, people are not intellectually or emotionally prepared for this. The YouTuber in question (Evan Edinger) claims to have been addicted to kratom for five years. #drugs
on 02026-06-15#Ember on #USA #photovoltaic #solar-energy #energy compared to coal, gas, etc. #Solar finally nosed up over coal in May: 45.5TWh vs. 44.1TWh, which I guess is 61.2GW vs. 59.3GW. But nuclear is still at 63.5TWh/month and gas is at 132TWh/month. Wind is also 41TWh.
on 02026-06-11#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#USA Pentagon’s #drone-dominance program “has published its Gauntlet I leaderboard, naming 11 companies set to receive orders for a combined 30,000 one-way attack drones worth up to $150 million” #drones #weaponry
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 02026-06-11God damn it, docs.nrel.gov no longer exists. But in 02018 utility-scale #solar system costs were US$2.27/W for 500kW to 5MW systems. Cites PVinsights for global module prices dropping from US$0.31/W to US$0.22/W in 02018. Great plot of "PV value chain spot pricing" from 02007 to 02018, and says “global solar investments” were US$132B in 02018, two-thirds in large-scale PV, 26% in small-scale solar. #Trump #USA #energy #politics #censorship #PDF #energy #solar-energy
on 02026-05-30#USA #mining claims website, “the Mineral & Land Records System (MLRS)”, to find out what lands are open to staking a mining claim and what are not.
on 02026-05-23The #USA law that allows #mining of public minerals by staking a claim. “All citizens of the United States of America 18 years or older have the right under the 1872 mining law to locate a lode (hard rock) or placer (gravel) mining claim on federal lands open to mineral entry. (...) Locatable minerals include but are not limited to platinum, gold, silver, copper, lead, zinc, uranium and tungsten. (...) The mining law of 1866 had given discoverers rights to stake mining claims to extract gold, silver, cinnabar (the principal ore of mercury) and copper. When Congress passed the General Mining Act of 1872, the wording was changed to “or other valuable deposits,” giving greater scope to the law. (...) Land dedicated for specific uses such as the White House lawn, national parks, or wilderness areas, is not subject to mineral entry. Land west of the Great Plains managed by the US Forest Service or the Bureau of Land Management, unless designated as wilderness area, is generally open to mining claims. Federal land on or east of the Great Plains was generally acquired by the federal government through purchase, and so is not considered public domain, and is not subject to mining claims. (...) Since 1920, the list of locatable minerals does not include petroleum, coal, phosphate, sodium, and potassium. Rights to explore for and extract these are leased through competitive bidding.” But I think this does not give you ownership of the land! It gives you the right to mine it.
on 02026-05-23#video about staking a mineral claim to mine gold and silver on public land (BLM land?) under the “General #Mining Act of 1872” by Brent Underwood, that dude who bought a ghost town. He says you cannot build a cabin on it, put up a fence, or stop people from hiking on it. And he says you haven’t been able to patent claims since the 01990s in the #USA, although the law still seems to support it. He paid US$98.09 to file the claim with the Inyo county recorder. Then he spent several 7 months smelting and cupellating his gold and silver, fluxed with borax and soda ash. His doré bar was 71% lead, 4% iron, 1.67% copper, 0.1% zinc, 16% silver, and no detectable amount of gold. So he got like three or four ounces of silver.
on 02026-05-23the Trinidad, Texas water quality post that got its author thrown in jail. #human-rights #censorship #USA #Facebook
on 02026-05-23Trinidad, Texas water quality. #human-rights #censorship #USA #Facebook
on 02026-05-23#video on difficulties of #manufacturing in “America” (but he’s so provincial he means the #USA). Specifically a knit sweater, made by “our knitting partners”, who blamed the yarn spinners, who furiously blamed the knitters, but were wrong. So he bought yarn from overseas and asked NCSU’s Wilson College of Textiles for help, but still doesn’t know enough to explain in the video what was wrong with the yarn. This was pretty boring but would be interesting if he knew something about #fiber-arts.
on 02026-05-19#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#history of #flying: general aviation manufacturing in #USA peaked in about 01978 at 18000 planes per year, but thereafter collapsed due to product liability, starting to recover after the #GARA of 01994
on 02026-05-05#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 02026-05-01Tello is a #USA #MVNO that apparently is reasonably well regarded
on 02026-04-30#USA #MVNO list for #tourism #cellphones.
on 02026-04-30#USA #history of biowarfare also includes spraying supposedly harmless bacteria all over San Francisco. #weaponry
on 02026-04-29#USA #history of biowarfare includes airdropping tens of millions of fleas as #weaponry
on 02026-04-29list of Fix-It Clinic and similar events in the #USA. #tourism
on 02026-04-28#USA #Supreme-Court rejected cert petition in Thaler v. Perlmutter in March last year. “Dr. Stephen Thaler’s attempts to obtain intellectual property protection for artificial intelligence were once again shot down by the courts, when the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia affirmed that the Copyright Act of 1976 does not protect works created entirely by AI”
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#AI and #copyright #law in the #politics of the #USA, #PDF of part 2, copyrightability: “This second Part of the Copyright Office’s Report on Copyright and Artificial Intelligence (“AI”) addresses the copyrightability of outputs generated by AI systems. It analyzes the type and level of human contribution sufficient to bring these outputs within the scope of copyright protection in the United States.”
on 02026-04-27#AI and #copyright #law in the #politics of the #USA
on 02026-04-27#video from a North Korean defector about how she learned the meaning of freedom by visiting the #USA
on 02026-04-26bidder collusion on auctions is a federal #antitrust #crime in #USA (GSA auctions in this case)
on 02026-04-24“Press Release: U.S. Soldier Charged With Using Classified Information To Profit From Prediction Market Bets” #DOJ #Gannon #USA #prediction-markets #politics
on 02026-04-23#CFTC civil and criminal complaint about #Gannon #gambling on #Polymarket on #Maduro. #PDF. #USA #prediction-markets #politics
on 02026-04-23#CFTC civil and criminal complaint about #Gannon #gambling on #Polymarket on #Maduro. #USA #prediction-markets #politics
on 02026-04-23#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 02026-04-23#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 02026-04-22converting 3.2% of #corn alcohol fuel production land in the #USA to #solar farms would supply the same #energy as all of corn alcohol fuel production in the USA. #solar-energy
on 02026-04-22#video by Sal Mercogliano from today about #shipping. Three container ships were seized or fired on by #Iran’s #IRGC as they attempted to pass the Strait of Hormuz, so I guess the IRGC still has some ships left, but one of them made it through. And the #USA is also attacking #oil tankers and container ships in the Strait. But Lloyd’s List says at least 26 “Iranian shadow fleet vessels” have evaded the US blockade.
on 02026-04-22#Ford CEO says #EVs from #China would be "devastating" to #USA car #manufacturing.
on 02026-04-22“A harmonized dataset of ground-mounted #solar-energy in the [#USA] with enhanced metadata” #solar #datasets
on 02026-04-22#SEIA #solar map of #USA #solar-energy state by state, including manufacturing facilities, etc. #energy
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#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#paranoia #video claiming that over the last couple of years someone is assassinating #USA nuclear scientists and “nuclear” “scientists”, as Mossad did with the Iranians. Frank Maiwald at JPL, Carl Grillmair at Caltech (shot), Monica Jacinto Reza at JPL (missing last summer), Anthony Chavez, Nuno Loureiro at MIT (shot), Melissa Casias at LANL (a secretary, missing), Frank McCasland (a general, missing), Michael David Hicks at JPL (died for unknown reasons), Steven Garcia at LANL, and Jason Thomas. Not sure if this is the Chinese Robber Fallacy or not. Then ultra-right-wing streamer Asmongold goes off on a rant about extraterrestrials and UFOs. #Dead-Scientists-Mystery
on 02026-04-15#video on #oil #shipping today by Sal Mercogliano. The #USA normally exports 4 million barrels a day, the Strait of Hormuz normally exports 20 million, and now only 4.5 million are making it across #Saudi, and another 4.5 million are being released from the SPR. The many tankers headed to the US now (60 VLCCs of 2 million barrels each) may not be able to fill up. The USS George W. Bush carrier strike group is going from the US (not the Mediterranean) to the Indian Ocean, not vice versa. And maybe that’s not because of the Houthis.
on 02026-04-15#USA #politics #censorship #human-rights: “Amandla Thomas-Johnson was a Ph.D. candidate studying in the U.S. on a student visa when he briefly attended a pro-Palestinian protest. In April 2025, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (#ICE) sent #Google an administrative subpoena requesting his data. The next month, Google gave Thomas-Johnson’s information to ICE without giving him the chance to challenge the subpoena, breaking a nearly decade-long promise to notify users before handing their data to law enforcement.”
on 02026-04-15#politics #USA #California #human-rights
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 02026-04-13#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#USA blockades #Iran starting tomorrow. #politics
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 02026-04-11After two #USA destroyers passed the Strait of Hormuz, “Any attempt by military vessels to pass through the Strait of Hormuz will be dealt with severely, the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) said Sunday.” #Iran says the US is lying and hasn’t passed any warships through. This is the IRGC’s official newspaper.
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 02026-04-11Supreme Court decision #PDF on Bruen in 02022, eliminating may-issue licensing in the #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#solar resource map and some #capacity-factor data for the #USA. #solar-energy #energy
on 02026-04-11#photovoltaic #capacity-factor dataviz using Tableau. #energy #USA #solar-energy
on 02026-04-11#USA is unretiring a KC-135 refueling tanker airplane from the “boneyard” after #Iran blew some up. #News from last week.
on 02026-04-10more about the #LG #Hyundai #batteries raid in #USA
on 02026-04-08#LG and #Hyundai had 300 workers arrested and deported to #Korea from their nascent Georgia (#USA) plant for #batteries
on 02026-04-08interesting comment about commodity markets #finance, saying that the spot #oil price is wildly unmoored from futures prices. Misuses “front-running”, though, and incorrectly thinks the SEC regulates #USA commodities markets, so perhaps a beginner.
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“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#USA government surplus auctions meta-search site.
on 02026-04-06#news #video on the rescue of the lost #USA fighter pilot from #Iran today
on 02026-04-04the #USA war crimes statute law Hegseth violated the other day
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#USA is partly evacuating multiple military bases in the Middle East following attacks from #Iran, totaling a few thousand evacuees. “The Navy does not yet have an answer for what will happen to cars and furniture left behind in the rush to leave. The Navy is also not telling evacuees when or if they will be returning to their bases in the Middle East.” #politics
on 02026-04-04“Lenore Burnley, the mother of Chad Joseph (26), and Sallycar Korasingh, the sister of Rishi Samaroo (41), are the plaintiffs in the case.
Their court papers allege violations of the Death on the High Seas Act, a 1920 law that makes the U.S. government liable if its agents engage in negligence that results in wrongful death more than 3 miles off American shores. A second claim alleges violations of the Alien Tort Statute, which allows foreign citizens to sue over human rights violations such as deaths that occurred outside an armed conflict, with no judicial process.” Two fishermen doing farm work in #Venezuela with no ties to the drug trade. #human-rights #USA
on 02026-04-03#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 02026-04-03AWACS production started in 01977 and ended with the 68th unit in 01992. The planned replacement was the E-7, which has been sold to other countries (starting in 02009) but not the USAF, but instead plans to depend on a future space-based system. #Iran blew up one of the #USA’s 16 active-service AWACS planes this week.
on 02026-04-031000+ comments about #Iran shooting down a few #USA planes.
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 02026-04-03discussion of #ICE and #censorship in #USA #politics through restrictions on #drones: “[D]rone operators can’t know whether they are within 3000 horizontal feet of unmarked DHS vehicles. Yet the TFR allows the government to capture or even shoot down a drone if it flies within the TFR radius, and to impose criminal and civil penalties on the operator. (...) We don’t believe it’s a coincidence that the TFR was put in place in January 2026, at the height of the Minneapolis anti-ICE protests, shortly after the killing of Renée Good and shortly before the shooting of Alex Pretti. After both of those tragedies, civilian recordings played a vital role in contradicting the government’s false account of the events.”
on 02026-04-03#ACOUP on how #USA #Trump #politics relate to fascism exactly
on 02026-03-20#news: #Dalio predicts #USA losing to #Iran over the Strait of #Hormuz.
on 02026-03-17Google doc on #OpenAI powering #USA autonomous #weaponry
on 02026-03-17discussion of the new #OpenAI contract to power the autonomous #weaponry and mass surveillance of the #USA Department of War, following #Anthropic’s rejection of the DoW’s demands, and how OpenAI’s FAQ on the subject is misleading
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 02026-03-12#Trump #censorship of academics. #USA #politics #human-rights
on 02026-03-11timeline of the #USA/#Iran war. #politics
on 02026-03-03#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 blamed for #USA #inflation due to #price-fixing schemes. #news
on 02026-02-24discussion of the "Cape" #privacy focused #MVNO for #cellphones in #USA.
on 02026-02-24#ICE using #Mobile-Fortify to do #facial-recognition against #USA #politics protestors and revoking their #Global-Entry status. #human-rights
on 02026-02-1636-minute #video #toread on test-driving cheap #EVs from #China that are banned in #USA #politics
on 02026-02-16Albert Nock’s essay about how the prophet Isaiah was unappreciated except by a “remnant” of Judea, apparently in his last few years before becoming anti-Semitic, but apparently already deeply sexist and elitist, condemning the #USA as so worthless as to demonstrate the worthlessness of the masses who ruled it. It’s hard not to think Moldbug was consciously emulating Nock’s prose style. #politics #philosophy
on 02026-01-16#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 02026-01-16median pay: $131,450 per year, $63.20 per hour. 15% increase in positions expected 02024–02034. 1.896 million positions in the #USA.
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 02026-01-16another complaint about #US-Mobile bait-and-switching their service’s usage for #cellphones in RVs in #USA #tourism.
on 02026-01-15a complaint about getting banned from #US-Mobile #cellphones #USA #tourism
on 02026-01-15Cricket Wireless is a prepaid brand of AT&T Wireless, while US Mobile is “a newer prepaid service that resells all three of the nationwide networks”, that is, a mobile virtual network operator (MVNO). #USA #cellphones #tourism
on 02026-01-15a prepaid #USA #cellphones comparison site; the three listed as “cost per month: 0” are Helium, Roamless, and TextNow. Cricket is apparently US$25/month. But there are a lot of carriers that are under US$10/monthly. #tourism
on 02026-01-15there’s a subreddit for prepaid #USA #cellphones. A lot of people complaining about getting banned from US Mobile, but it’s not clear if that’s because US Mobile is uniquely terrible or uniquely popular.
on 02026-01-15Phones for #tourism in #USA: Cricket Wireless, Verizon Prepaid, etc.
on 02026-01-15#NVIDIA got #AI #export-controls to #China lifted in #USA by lobbying #Trump #politics
on 02026-01-15apparently #USA #copyright requires #Anthropic to shred books if they want to scan them to train #neural-networks!
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#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 02026-01-13#Stealth-Camping #vanlife #video by #Amber-Baldwin listing 9 “secret” camping spots that only the 121000 people who have seen this video know about:
Hotel parking lots that don’t require a tag on the car (which you can see by checking to see if other cars have tags on them). Apparently hotels in southern California are not yet using automatic license plate recognition, but cheaper hotels don’t bother requiring you to register your vehicle. She says it’s safe but noisy.
Rest areas. (Could this possibly be any more obvious? I’m tempted to stop watching the video at this point.) Washington and Texas are apparently the best states for rest areas in the #USA.
Residential areas, but not super fancy ones where they’ll knock on your RV door, and not right in front of somebody’s house. Sigh. She recommends an app called Overlander to see which ones permit camping.
Marinas.
Boat launches.
Home Despot.
Trailheads.
Highway pullouts.
“Beachs”.
archive of <https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2026/01/04/an-american-oil-empire-is-a-deeply-flawed-idea> on the flaws in #Trump’s plans to take #Venezuela’s #oil for the #USA. #politics
on 02026-01-11#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“351 days into Donald #Trump’s term, the president’s net approval rating is -17%, up 0.8 points since last week. 39% approve, 56% disapprove, 4% not sure.” #USA #politics
on 02026-01-06Ozy’s recommendations for #Effective-Altruists in #USA to donate to #politics to stop #Trump
on 02026-01-06#vapid gossip about #Olivia-Nuzzi and her affairs with #RFK Jr. and some politician named Mark Sanford, and her ex-fiancé Ryan Lizza’s tell-all post. #USA #politics
on 02026-01-06#news about #RFK Jr.’s brain worm from back when he was a presidential candidate. #USA #politics
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#video on how the #USA sabotaged Viet Cong #weaponry in the #Vietnam war (Project Eldest Son), which was eventually leaked to the press. #history
on 02025-12-17“Australians are among some visitors to the US who may soon have to provide their social media history from the prior five years to enter the country, according to a new #Trump administration proposal.
The proposal, posted on the Federal Register by US Customs and Border Protection, suggests travellers coming from countries that are part of a visa waiver program would need to give additional personal information as part of an electronic application.
The requirement would be for travellers using the Electronic System for Travel Authorization, or #ESTA, as part of a visa waiver program for citizens from 42 countries, including Australia, the UK, New Zealand, Japan, Israel and Qatar, as well as many other European countries. (...) The new proposal – open for public comment until February 9 – would make that information [social media history mandatory and (...) “high value data elements,” including the person’s phone numbers and email addresses over the prior five years, plus close family members’ names and birth dates, along with their birthplaces, residences and phone numbers over the prior five years] mandatory, though it’s unclear how it would impact those wishing to come to the US.” #USA #immigration #politics
on 02025-12-11“The tanker, which transported oil from #Venezuela and Iran, has been sanctioned by the U.S. for years “due to its involvement in an illicit oil shipping network supporting foreign terrorist organizations,” Bondi wrote on X.” #USA #politics
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 02025-12-11Donors to #Trump’s White House Ballroom include “Ripple and Coinbase. (...) Nvidia, [the trading firm] Susquehanna International Group and ExtremityCare [which makes costly human cell and tissue medical products] (...) Google, Palantir, Amazon and Microsoft, as well as cell phone carrier T-Mobile (...) Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, twin brothers who own crypto exchange Gemini (...) Lockheed Martin (...) Booz Allen Hamilton”. #USA #politics #corruption
on 02025-12-11hilarious can’t-believe-it’s-not-satire article on #Trump #politics switching the #USA State Department back from Calibri to Times New Roman
on 02025-12-11sans-serif #fonts by the #USA government licensed under the SIL Open Font License: “A strong, neutral, principles-driven, open source typeface for text or display”
on 02025-12-11discussion of #Trump #politics switching the #USA State Department back from Calibri to Times New Roman, with an amused comment by Lucas de Groot, whose studio designed Calibri #fonts
on 02025-12-11#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#USA #politics of #Facebook providing communication for online #slavery markets. #human-rights
on 02025-11-27some early #USA #railroads used "strap rail": wooden rails with a strap of steel on top to provide hardness. “By 1840, it’s estimated that 2/3rds of the 3,000 miles of railway in the US was strap rail track. (...) In 1847, New York banned the use of strap rail for public railroads, and gave existing railways three years to convert to iron rails. After 1850, new commercial installation of strap rail was rare, and by 1860 most existing mileage had been replaced with solid iron rails.”
on 02025-11-15#USA about to invade #Venezuela with its aircraft carrier. #politics
on 02025-11-11A big part of the battle against #fat in the #USA was led by a multi-millionaire from Omaha "Phil Sokolof" who decided to crusade against fat and especially saturated fat and cholesterol. He died in 02004 before we knew he was wrong about fat and cholesterol. #nutrition #history
on 02025-11-11discussion of #Standard-Thermal #energy-storage where pfdietz corrected my misconception that a 600° sensible thermal store can only deliver useful amounts of power at much lower temperatures than 600°, and also most #USA electrical #energy generation is not using supercritical steam
on 02025-11-11Leonard Glenn Francis spent half a million dollars in bribes on #USA military officers in order to divert hundreds of millions of dollars to his companies. #politics #history
on 02025-11-11Steve Blank argues that #USA’s “defense” procurement system was out of control and after being completely revamped will now “operate at the speed of Silicon Valley, delivering more, better, and faster” when buying #weaponry etc., by scrapping the Federal Acquisition Regulations, which Blank argues descend from McNamara's “Planning, Programming, and Budgeting System (PPBS).” “Companies selling to the DoW previously had to comply with the impenetrable DFAR and FAR – the Defense and Federal Acquisition Regulations” It’ll be interesting to see if this opens the door to more corruption. #politics #toread
on 02025-11-11#humor #news #video of #Colbert announcing #Mamdani’s election and a bunch of other #USA #politics
on 02025-11-06#history of #FDA #politics in #USA and #human-experimentation by the #DOE for #nuclear #weaponry
on 02025-11-05#medicine #USA #politics #Medicare lawsuit for Eylea
on 02025-11-05on #Quakers and #history and #pacifism and #liberalism and #USA #politics
on 02025-11-04criticism of Hegseth’s speech to #USA generals. #politics
on 02025-11-04notes on #USA culture from the point of view of a cable-TV technician
on 02025-11-0435' #video of talking-head filler intercut with stock footage on the difficulties with the #Samsung 2nm fab being built in Taylor, #Texas, #USA. One interesting piece of stock footage shows huge #TSMC parking lots shaded with solar panels.
on 02025-11-03#video from #Mother-Jones of the leaked group chat text on #China #soybeans: “Finally - just a heads up. I’m getting more intel, but this is highly unfortunate.
We bailed out Argentina yesterday (Bessent) and in return, the Argentine’s [sic] removed their export tariffs on grains [sic], reducing their price, and sold a bunch of soybeans to China, at a time when we would normally be selling to China. Soy prices dropping further because of it. This gives China more leverage on us.” #Trump #USA #politics
on 02025-10-29#news about #ICE #facial-recognition #biometrics called "Mobile Fortify". #USA #immigration #politics
on 02025-10-29#Politics #news from #February about #debanking #cryptocurrency firms in #USA
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#Facebook created an #AI #PAC "META California" for #USA #politics
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 02025-10-175.35 GW #Esmeralda-7 #solar #photovoltaic #energy project in Nevada, #USA, canceled due to #Trump #politics
on 02025-10-14#Moldbug is fleeing the #USA? No quotes substantiate this.
on 02025-10-08Electrical injuries kill 1000 people a year in #USA. #statistics #safety #paper
on 02025-10-05“I built [a plug-in microinverter #solar #energy household power station] in Utah which is the only part of the [#USA] where it’s currently legal, so I can give you the numbers.
Grand total was $1077, I set them in direct sun on my patio and have generated 6-8kWh per day. At Utah energy prices (0.12 where I live), they will pay off in about 4 years. Somewhere like California with 4x the energy prices as here, it would probably pay for itself in <1 year.” #pricing #photovoltaic
on 02025-10-05Journalist Jemima Kelly from the Financial Times somehow ended up at a party in Surrey at Norman McKenzie-Richmond’s house with #Moldbug. #politics #USA #UK #toread
on 02025-10-02"#Trump’s recent order calls for the National Guard to have a standing force ready for “quelling civil disturbances and ensuring the public safety.”” “ADDITIONAL MEASURES TO ADDRESS THE CRIME EMERGENCY IN THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA” is the name of the EO. “ensure the availability of a standing National Guard quick reaction force that shall be resourced, trained, and available for rapid nationwide deployment.” But only 600 soldiers? “Just this week, a federal judge ruled that Trump’s federalization and deployment of the California National Guard to Los Angeles over the objections of Governor Newsom was a violation of the Posse Comitatus Act, which bars the president from using the military for domestic policing unless he first invokes the Insurrection Act. (...) But if the courts do intervene, don’t expect Trump to give up on the idea. The most likely scenario is a similar project, but staffed with #ICE, Border Patrol, FBI, or DHS officers instead.” #USA #politics #human-rights
on 02025-10-02#Palantir and #Anduril are collaborating to build the communications platform "NGC2" for the #USA military, but it currently has serious flaws in early testing
on 02025-10-02Pew Charitable Trust: “How States and Cities Decimated Americans’ Lowest-Cost #Housing Option: The intertwined history of single-room occupancy and #homelessness in the U.S.” #USA #politics #history #economics #roommates #SROs #toread
on 02025-10-02“Perhaps the simplest method of creating low-cost shared housing is to allow unrelated individuals to share a house in the same way that relatives are allowed to share a house. (...) Iowa, Oregon, and Colorado all passed bipartisan legislation to strike down local codes that prohibit house-sharing (in 2017, 2021, and 2024, respectively).” #USA #politics #economics #housing #roommates #SROs
on 02025-10-02InfoBAE claims #Citrone convinced #Bessent to convince #Trump to bail out #Argentina at the #IMF. I’m skeptical. #USA #politics
on 02025-09-30#USA #politics #ICE beating up US citizens and legal immigrants, apparently because they’re brown. #human-rights #racism
on 02025-09-29#video of #AOC speaking to criticize Charlie #Kirk in the House. #politics #USA
on 02025-09-29#video #toread about how insurance prohibits diving boards at most swimming pools in #USA now #collapse
on 02025-09-29#video of Kyla Scanlon explaining the global supply chain of bicycle #manufacturing, comparing Litespeed (American Bicycle Group) in Tennessee (in the #USA) to a Sri Lankan factory for Ozone. #economics
on 02025-09-29"Infliximab" was approved in the #USA in 01998. #history #drugs #medicine
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#video of Jimmy #Kimmel’s opening monologue tonight, his first night back on the air. #USA #politics #censorship #human-rights
on 02025-09-23#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#Obama #interview #video disagreeing with some of Charlie #Kirk’s ideas, like the idea that his wife or Justice Jackson doesn’t have adequate brain processing power, or the idea that Martin Luther King was awful, or the idea that the Civil Rights Act was a mistake, etc. Hour-plus. #USA #politics #toread
on 02025-09-19#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 02025-09-19Disturbing as hell: “The Trump administration is preparing to designate transgender people as “violent extremists” in the wake of Charlie Kirk’s murder, two national security officials tell me.” #Kirk #USA #politics #human-rights
on 02025-09-19Holy shit, #Trump has gone too far right for the Drudge Report, which leads with a photo of Jimmy #Kimmel and the headlines “ABC MARTYR / NETWORK UNDER GOVT CONTROL / ‘VIEW’ CENSORED / TRUMP ORDERS REMAINING LATE NIGHT HOSTS REMOVED / THREATENS LICENSES”. #censorship #human-rights #politics #USA
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 02025-09-18Axios article on Nick #Fuentes #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 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 02025-09-174-minute #video of Charlie #Kirk “taking down an anti-gay extremist” although he still sounds pretty extreme himself. #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#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 02025-09-1710 days ago #4tran wasn’t private and had 22935 users, 22 concurrently. #Kirk #USA #politics
on 02025-09-16The Reddit community Ngo said Twiggs participated a lot in is set to private now. #Kirk #USA #politics
on 02025-09-16a Reddit comment by Lance Twiggs complaining that /r/JordanPeterson is not an actual #Jordan-Peterson subreddit but just discussed “shitty clickbait articles”, saying, “Oh no I’ve read Jordan Peterson books, listened to lots of his YouTube lectures also, I just enjoy trolling post kinda subreddits” #Kirk #USA #politics
on 02025-09-16a Reddit comment by Lance Twiggs on /r/JordanPeterson, in response to the question “How can an average person like myself avoid perilous pitfalls, such as ideological entanglements, when even individuals with higher moral and intellectual caliber have fallen into them?”, answering, “Honestly I think everyone is going to land in these pitfalls, it’s part of being human. Doing your best to recognize and remedy that is all you can do. Keep your strongest truths close to heart and don’t be easily swayed in any direction without a strong and well put together reason. Even then you’ll sometimes realize the environment, friends, or communities you choose to spend time with aren’t helping you grow or progress, or may otherwise be pushing towards an echo chamber. Being able to take a step away and reprioritize is the best you can do. If you aren’t ever in a situation you didn’t want to be in, chances are you never go out and meet people in general. Remember that just discussing a topic doesn’t mean falling into an ideological pitfall. Keep your statements and opinions in line with each other, and make your own opinions based on factual evidence you have seen or read. I think the largest pitfall anyone could fall into would be to simply take to heart the opinions they see on social media. If you don’t choose a side, a side will many times choose you. Keep yourself grounded mentally and emotionally, and don’t worry yourself about being infallible.” #Kirk #USA #politics
on 02025-09-16a Reddit comment by Lance Twiggs on /r/shrooms saying, “i’d go to conversion therapy if that [taking shrooms to bring out sexual feelings you didn’t feel as much before] was the shtick lol, better than the electroshock my area endorses.” #Kirk #USA #politics
on 02025-09-16a Reddit comment by Lance Twiggs on /r/Anarcho_Capitalism criticizing, I think, Drag Queen Story Hour, saying “i like how you worded this.” in response to “When they are showing a man, balls out, in demon make up, reading to kids, they are not representing that community well. I’m not talking about the confused 13 year old kid who just wants to feel normal. They go find the worst of society to hold up just to “own the right”,” the context being a post entitled “The left deliberately makes transpeople look bad” #Kirk #USA #politics
on 02025-09-16Right-wing extremist Andy Ngo (“Ngo’s coverage of antifa and Muslims has been controversial, and the accuracy and credibility of his reporting have been disputed by journalists. He has been accused of sharing misleading or selective material,[8][9][10] and has been described as a provocateur.[11][12]”) tracked down Twiggs’s alleged Instagram account sir._.lancelotte, Reddit account lancelott3, TikTok lanclotl/lancelotte, and Steam fluxalotl. #Kirk #USA #politics
on 02025-09-16a Reddit comment by Lance Twiggs on /r/exchristian: “yeah, always my recommendation to people nowadays. if you have to deal with wacky evangelism, simply leave because you won’t be able to help them and they will continue to hurt you,” after describing as an “experience with spiritual abuse” “was told i was possessed by a demon and then within 30 mins kicked outta the house because i started laughing and wouldn’t go to the bishop for a blessing. later found out they just didn’t like me and were looking for a way to get me out of the house, wasn’t even 18 at the time.” #Kirk #USA #politics
on 02025-09-16Lance Twiggs’s Reddit account. He’s apparently a fan of a band called Tally Hall and of videogames, but has no posts more recently than 5 months ago. Lots of sarcastic humor, much of it criticizing landlords. Also mentions (apparently seriously) having suffered from bulimia. #Kirk #USA #politics
on 02025-09-16#video from a month ago showing Charlie #Kirk hating and fearing Muslims, and showing footage where he explicitly rejected the idea of separation of church and state. #USA #politics #history
on 02025-09-16#Trump was saying there were “very fine people” protesting against tearing down the statue in #Charlottesville, as well as on the other side, but explicitly excluded the “neo-Nazis and white nationalists” from his “fine people” characterization, saying that they should be “condemned totally”. #USA #politics #history
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 02025-09-16Ken Klippenstein got leaked text messages from Tyler Robinson to his friends on Discord, naming his lover Lance. The Discord seems to have been almost entirely apolitical. #Kirk #USA #politics
on 02025-09-16KnowYourMeme #video on the Charlie #Kirk assassination: 2-minute. #USA #politics #history
on 02025-09-16this is the 02016 origin of the Pepe Slav Squat image that Tyler Robinson was probably referencing in his 02018 Halloween costume, upvoted to 11200 points. #Kirk #USA #politics #history
on 02025-09-16“Why Do Slavs Squat? is a satirical catchphrase associated with imageboards and forums discussing Eastern European people and cultures. The catchphrase is usually accompanied by pictures of squatting Slavic people in tracksuits, most time engaging in stereotypical eastern European behavior like consumption of vodka and cigarettes and participation in street gambling. The pose was closely related to the Gopnik stereotype about Russian and Slavic men.” This is the 02012 meme Tyler Robinson was referencing in his 02018 Halloween costume. #Kirk #USA #politics #history
on 02025-09-16Nick #Fuentes’s “Groyper” movement started in 02019, two years after the Halloween photo of Tyler Robinson Slav-squatting in a tracksuit. So evidently he wasn’t a Groyper at the time because Groypers didn’t exist. #Kirk #USA #politics
on 02025-09-16#video #interview excerpt with #CIA whistleblower John Kiriakou (the guy who was sentenced to 30 months in prison for revealing that the #USA was torturing people, then supported #Snowden) about the #Mossad, describing how they called every single nuclear scientist in #Iran on the phone on the same day to threaten them with death — and then calling their wives. And then killed them. He says that spying on #Israel was absolutely verboten when he was at the CIA.
on 02025-09-16more translated Weibo posts, talking about the #Kirk assassination from the perspective of someone in #China: “You can say that Robinson removed a vermin for the world, and removed a threat to China. (...) So, this Kirk event has destined that once #Trump is out of office, the Democrats will be back in power. And this homosexual, Robinson, with hands covered in blood might encourage others from the same camp to learn from him.” #politics #USA
on 02025-09-16Vice’s earlier article about #Fuentes’s “groypers” in 02022. ‘“I got redpilled,” said [Jaden] McNeil, using a term that describes a person’s radicalization into radical right-wing #politics. In June 2020, McNeil shared a racist tweet about George Floyd’s death, which led to calls from the student body for his expulsion. Fuentes reached out and offered him a ticket out of campus politics. “He said, “Why don’t you come out to Chicago? I bought a building, you can live in the basement, stream there, not pay rent, it’s its own unit, and I’ll pay you on top of that’,” McNeil recalled. “Leave my family, leave the girlfriend, leave all the things I had going on back in Kansas or whatever and drive out to Chicago.”
On the podcast, McNeil said his years as a loyal footsoldier to Fuentes has left him with a “Hatewatch” profile on the Southern Poverty Law Center’s website, no money, no friends, and no prospects.’ #USA #politics
on 02025-09-16Tweet from 02022 about #Fuentes and his “cozy.tv”: “Nick Fuentes has launched a new streaming video platform called Cozy.TV. What makes it special? ‘It’s free speech. No censorship. We are anti-gay, anti-woman, anti-Black, antisemitic.’” #video #USA #politics
on 02025-09-16Vice profile from 02023 of #Fuentes’s “groypers” on Instagram such as Kai Schwemmer (“Kai Clips”) and #Ye24. Apparently Fuentes went on Infowars with Ye for an “hours-long interview”. #USA #politics
on 02025-09-16#SPLC dossier on Nick #Fuentes #USA #politics
on 02025-09-16Tweet from 02022 with Nick #Fuentes saying he’s a “proud incel” who “hasn’t chosen” to have sex yet. #USA #politics
on 02025-09-16#video on new #Kirk assassin Robinson evidence: DNA matches, engraved shell casings in his house, text message evidence #USA #politics
on 02025-09-16Utah code 76-3-203.14, “Victim targeting penalty enhancement,” adding penalties to criminal offenses committed against people selected because of political expression, sexual orientation, sex, matriculation, status as an emergency responder, etc., which is one of the things Robinson is being accused of (which seems almost certain to be correct). #Kirk #USA #politics
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 02025-09-16South #Korea to probe possible #human-rights abuses in #USA raid. “ICE officials said the South Koreans had overstayed their visas or were not permitted to work in the US.
A South Korean worker who witnessed the raid told the BBC of panic and confusion as federal agents descended on the site, with some people being led away in chains.” #immigration #politics
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 02025-09-16Another source for Charlie #Kirk endorsing stoning gay people. #USA #politics #history #crime
on 02025-09-15The source in which Charlie #Kirk appears to have said killing gay people was “God’s perfect law”, a “Thoughtcrime” panel discussion with four people. Kirk in #video clip: “The second part is Leviticus 19. So you love God. So you must love his law. How do you love somebody? You love them by telling them the truth, not by confirming or affirming their sin. And it says, by the way, Miss Rachel, you might want to crack open that Bible of yours, in a lesser-referenced part of the same part of Scripture, is in Leviticus 18, is that thou shall lay with another man, shall be stoned to death. Just saying. So, Miss Rachel, you quote Leviticus 19, love your neighbor as yourself, the chapter before affirms God’s perfect law when it comes to sexual matters.” #USA #politics #history
on 02025-09-15URL of Charlie #Kirk article from before his assassination, which said, “In 2024, Kirk cited Leviticus 20:13 (“If a man lies with a male as with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination; they shall surely be put to death; their blood is upon them”) as “God’s perfect law when it comes to sexual matters”.[106]” . #USA #politics #history
on 02025-09-15#video on how poor pedestrian infrastructure can be in #USA, for example in New Jersey
on 02025-09-15#Kirk assassination suspect: “The bolt-action rifle Robinson used and left in a wooded area near the campus had various phrases engraved on the bullet casings, Cox said, including “Oh bella ciao, bella ciao, bella ciao, ciao ciao,” which appeared to reference an Italian anti-fascist song.” #USA #politics
on 02025-09-12Charlie #Kirk assassination suspect Tyler Robinson may have been #antifa: “Meanwhile, other casings could be interpreted as sympathetic to Antifa, or the anti-fascist movement, a loose collection of far-left activists who have been active in the US over the last decade and often demonstrate against Trump policies and far-right groups.
One unfired casing had the words “Hey fascist! Catch!” and an up, right and three down arrows.
The three down arrows alone could be a common symbol used for anti-fascism. As a whole, the sequence of arrows could reference a cheat code in a video game - although this remains unclear, and authorities have not yet released images of the casings.
A second casing was inscribed with lyrics to the song “Bella Ciao” that honours World War Two-era partisans of the Italian resistance who fought Nazi Germany.” #USA #politics #history #oh-shit
on 02025-09-12Charlie #Kirk assassination suspect Tyler Robinson (22 years old) confessed, according to hearsay, and was wearing the same clothes as the shooter. “Según el gobernador Cox, encontraron un rifle de cerrojo envuelto en una toalla oscura y con una mira telescópica. También encontraron inscripciones en los casquillos de las balas que decían, por ejemplo, “¡Oye, fascista! ¡Atrápalo!”, “Oh, bella ciao, bella ciao” y “Si lees esto eres gay jajaja”.” #USA #politics #history
on 02025-09-12#UK fires ambassador to #USA Peter Mandelson “over links to #Epstein” #politics #news
on 02025-09-11#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#USA #politics of #energy: Angus King says many RTO interconnection queues are 5 years long, and so are the waiting lists for gas turbines!
on 02025-09-09#Trump #tariffs may need to be refunded, about a trillion dollars for #USA #politics
on 02025-09-09#maps of electrical #energy #pricing by #USA state
on 02025-09-07electrical #energy #pricing by #USA state and sector from the EIA
on 02025-09-075' #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#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#PDF of Supreme Court #citizenship nationwide injunction #USA #politics decision, in “#Trump, President of the United States, et al. v. CASA, Inc., et al”. #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#news #toread “#Trump reacts to court striking down #tariffs as illegal under federal law” #USA #politics
on 02025-08-29#video on #USA developing lightweight precision grenade launcher #weaponry “squad support rifle system” (by “Barrett” and/or “FN Herstal”?) and “precision grenadier system”, with programmable but unguided grenades, similar to what #China has already fielded against “insurgents and pirates”, the QLU11, in service since 02011
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 02025-08-29#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#USA Congress launches an investigation of biased #politics at #Wikipedia #news
on 02025-08-28someone says he got indicted under the #CFAA (therefore in the #USA) on claims that he created #Bitcoin and #BitTorrent! “They also loved the fact I could look “street check” other claimed hackers and fraudsters. If they couldn't answer a few basic questions from me they likely were never in any kind of “game” more complex than physically stealing peoples cards. Combine that with the infinite amount of #Android rooting related work that needs done to keep the behind-the-bars mobile network functioning LMAO and I was doing fine.” “what did you actually do to warrant this type of response?” “Illegally accessed computers without authorization.” #security
on 02025-08-27the Boston-Washington superconducting maglev #trains project is dead: “The Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) has cancelled the Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for the Baltimore-Washington Superconducting Magnetic Levitation (SCMAGLEV) Project on the Permitting Dashboard.” #Trump #USA #politics
on 02025-08-27#news about #Trump destroying #NASA #CO2 monitoring satellites, the Orbiting Carbon Observatories. #space #politics #toread #USA
on 02025-08-27#USA net electrical #energy generation by power source, working out to 9,295,921 thousand megawatt hours in 02024
on 02025-08-27#news #video from #Fox saying #Trump is more or less invading #Venezuela. #USA #politics
on 02025-08-27“#AI experts [#Rui-Ma] return from #China stunned: The U.S. grid is so weak, the race may already be over. (...) In the U.S., surging AI demand is colliding with a fragile power grid, the kind of extreme bottleneck that Goldman Sachs warns could severely choke the industry’s growth.
In China, Ma continued, it’s considered a “solved problem.”” because “China has an oversupply of electricty [sic]”. “In China, renewables are framed as a cornerstone of the economy because they make sense economically and strategically, not because they carry moral weight. Coal use isn’t cast as a sign of villainy, as it would be among some circles in the U.S. It’s simply seen as outdated.” #energy #USA
on 02025-08-27#news #Trump nationalizes 10% of #Intel #USA #politics
on 02025-08-23#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#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 02025-08-21#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#humor #USA #politics #history with Buttigieg in South Bend and Djibouti
on 02025-08-11Ruth 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 02025-08-09#FEC reports on #USA #politics machine #Mothership Strategies show that 98% of its revenues go to its own people and only 2% to actual political campaigns. #corruption
on 02025-08-08Paul 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#Trump wants 100% import #tariffs on semiconductors to #USA, except for companies planning to build fabs there, and demands that #Intel’s CEO resign
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 02025-08-08death penalty methods permitted in #USA states
on 02025-08-06Ron Wyden in January 02025 with a Republican memo about their radical policies of tax cuts for the rich, etc. #USA #politics
on 02025-08-05“Sir Keir Starmer’s government is seeking a way out of a clash with the #Trump administration over the #UK’s demand that #Apple provide it with access to secure customer data, two senior British officials have told the Financial Times.
The officials both said the Home Office, which ordered the tech giant in January to grant access to its most secure cloud storage system, would probably have to retreat in the face of pressure from senior leaders in Washington, including Vice President JD #Vance. (...) US Director of National Intelligence Tulsi #Gabbard has also suggested the order would be an “egregious violation” of Americans’ privacy that risked breaching the two countries’ data agreement.” #privacy #human-rights #USA #politics
on 02025-07-21#USA IRS standard mileage deduction rate is 70¢ per mile (43¢ per km) for self-employed and business driving; there’s a table here of previous year costs, which have gradualy edged upwards from 51¢/mile in 02011, the oldest year in the table
on 02025-07-20#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#video of Asmongold calling for censorship and preemptive detention in response to killings of ICE agents. “You just find the people that are expressing violent rhetoric and then you put them in jail.” #USA #politics
on 02025-07-09#Robotaxi #transportation regulations in #China are stricter than in the #USA
on 02025-06-23#news: #USA has bombed three sites of #Iran’s nuclear program
on 02025-06-21apparently #Kanye West has a hit single saluting #Hitler, entitled “Heil Hitler”. #USA #politics archive of <https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-lede/kanye-gave-twitter-an-exclusive-hit-single>.
on 02025-06-21Four #Thiel company executives are now #USA Army Reserve Lieutenant Colonels. #history #politics
on 02025-06-20Bureaucracy isn’t measured in bureaucrats; less bureaucrats might slow down bureaucracy rather than speeding it up. #USA #politics
on 02025-06-17#USA law empowers federal judges to deputize whoever they want to enforce the law and demand help from the posse comitatus. #politics
on 02025-06-17#video by #Destin on #manufacturing in the #USA, quoting Tim Cook on how the reason companies go to #China is for the skills. So he bought two used CNC machines and learned enough about injection molding to make working dies on them. His chainmail from India turned out to actually be from China. #toread
on 02025-06-08#Elmu opposes #Trump’s so-called “Big, Beautiful Bill”, which hasn’t passed the #USA Senate yet. #politics
on 02025-06-05#humor #news #video chronicling #Trump’s crackdown on freedom of speech and journalism. #human-rights #politics #USA
on 02025-05-19#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 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 02025-05-11they're prosecuting Natalie Rupnow’s father for letting her have a gun. #USA #crime
on 02025-05-10“Ras Baraka, the mayor of Newark, New Jersey, was arrested Friday as he protested at a controversial private detention facility that is expected to play a key role in President Donald #Trump’s plans for mass #deportation of immigrants. (...) Baraka has criticized GEO Group for refusing to allow city inspectors inside and has made his standoff with the company a focal point in his campaign for governor.” #politics #USA #human-rights
on 02025-05-09#Trump threatens #Mattel with 100% #tariffs if they move production out of the #USA #politics
on 02025-05-09#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 about #human-rights in #USA under #Trump including his attacks on #Harvard and the court rulings against #deportations
on 02025-05-04“Spooked by Trade Wars, Trump Officials Hoard Supplies: ‘It Would Be Stupid Not To!’: Some Trump administration officials are stockpiling toilet paper and food before #Trump’s #tariffs cause prices to skyrocket” #USA #politics #survivalists
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 #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#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 #interview by #NPR with Steve #Bannon predicting multiple constitutional crises in #USA by summer. #history
on 02025-04-30#Vietnam considering cracking down on #transshipment of products of #China to evade #Trump #tariffs in #USA #politics
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#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#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 02025-04-30"He Was My Brother" was written in 01963 and then rededicated to Andrew Goodman, who was lynched for being a Freedom Rider in 01964. #history #politics #human-rights #USA #human-rights
on 02025-04-30Scott Alexander is opposed to #Trump but says the populist Right needs to take responsibility for the #tariffs disaster. #politics #USA
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 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 02025-04-23Lesley Carhart (#hacks4pancakes, they/them) made this #video about emigrating from the #USA.
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 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 #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 #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 #video about #export-controls in #China on #rare-earths, gallium, germanium, etc. #USA #politics
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#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 #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#statistics on #USA drug overdose deaths, which reached an age-adjusted peak of 32.3 per 100k population per year in 02022, then declines slightly in 02023.
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#USA #human-rights #Trump #politics
on 02025-04-02#video about #USA #tariffs #politics
on 02025-04-02#video about #USA #tariffs #politics with Larry Summers
on 02025-04-02#USA #politics #humor #news #video mentioning #Elmu leaving #Trump’s administration
on 02025-04-02#politics on immigration: #H1B visas in the crosshairs, and tech companies afraid that their workers won’t be able to return to the #USA if they travel to visit their families. Archive of https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/03/31/immigration-h1b-fear-siliconvalley/
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#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 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 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 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 semiconductor manufacturing in #China and #USA. Footage of #Trump saying the CHIPS act was a “terrible, terrible thing” and “We should get rid of the chip act”. #ASML’s biggest market is now Mainland China rather than #Taiwan, selling US$10.9 billion per year there, and they’re opening a reuse-and-repair center in Beijing. The US had pulled ahead in Q4, but that was because of the #CHIPS-Act. #Ant-Group is using chips made by Alibaba and Huawei instead of NVIDIA to train their MoE #AI models.
on 02025-03-28#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#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 #USA arresting German tourists and permanent residents on entry to the country and detaining them, sometimes for weeks: 34-year-old Fabian Schmidt (incommunicado for 4 days), etc. #politics
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#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#video by #Asmongold on #Elmu and his radical shift to hard right-wing #politics and the Tesla boycotts. #USA
on 02025-03-06#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#video on whether drug #cartels in #Mexico will use #drones or similar #weaponry against #USA Marines etc. (as they have been against rivals) who are apparently patrolling the border now; #Asmongold does a live “react to” stream to a pro-#Trump #politics YouTuber; he predicts an invasion of Mexico. Illegal #immigration is being blamed for US gangs in New York in homeless shelters.
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 of #Trump defense secretary Hegseth describing US taxpayers as working to support US soldiers, saying he wants to make the #USA military the world’s biggest and “most badass” and “restore the warrior ethos”.
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#video #toread on #USA CIA flying Predator #drones over #Mexico to provide information on drug cartels to the Mexican authorities. #politics
on 02025-03-01#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#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 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 02025-02-05New Yorker #news article about #Trump’s history and new expansionist policy. #history #USA #politics
on 02025-01-29#Economist on Tulsi #Gabbard’s life history including the #Science-of-Identity Foundation. #USA #politics
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#video of #pmarca saying it’s “morning again” in #USA #politics due to #Trump, 74 minutes. I didn’t realize Al Gore sponsored the legislation that created NSFNET; I thought his advocacy started with the com-priv era.
He mentions the end of Chevron deference, which he argues means that executive agencies should abandon their quasi-legislative functions. He also questions the idea of “independent agencies” in the executive branch, like the FTC and NRC. The interviewer, the Hoover Institution’s Peter Robinson, argues that the CFPB's director not being fireable by the president is “unconstitutional on the face of it”, prefiguring the Slaughter verdict (I’m writing these notes in 02026).
Cites #Yarvin approvingly at 25'54" saying that we’re 80 years into FDR’s personal monarchy.
Also mentions #Elmu has been “living at” Mar-a-Lago.
Also mentions the #history of Nixon’s “Project Independence”, which I hadn’t heard of, to build 1000 #nuclear #energy power stations in the US, which turns out to be at best a very incomplete description of Project Independence.
Describes #Anduril’s original business plan as “We have to invest in this company, and his business plan is to hunt Mexicans at the southern border in 2016. And we’re just like, oh, God, we just basically have a heart attack.” So Andreessen Horowitz didn’t invest, and Trump didn’t want Anduril to do it, so they switched to military systems, which became accepted in Silicon Valley with the tragedy in #Ukraine.
Robinson claims that the US’s “only sustainable advantage over the Chinese is going to be technological innovation”, since they’re more numerous and richer, which doesn't make sense to me — how are they richer if they’re dumber, as he’s implying? Pmarca doesn’t disagree, citing the Pentagon’s new COO, Steve Feinberg, as someone who can make this happen.
At 56'40" he says the Ukrainian sea drones are built out of commercial jetskis.
At 60'40" pmarca makes the very reasonable points that productivity growth in the US has been low since about 01970, and that low growth creates zero-sum economics, which creates zero-sum politics, “where the only way for anybody to get anything is to take it away from somebody else.”
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#Apostilles for state documents in the #USA are generally obtained from the clerks of the states rather than from the US Department of State. In Ohio, it’s the Secretary of State or Assistant Secretary of State.
on 02025-01-22#USA State Department requirements for #apostilles. It says that for state (non-federal) documents, “If you’re using the document in a country that is part of the Hague Convention Treaty, get it certified by the state that issued the document. You do not need an apostille certificate.”
on 02025-01-22The #USA embassy in #Argentina is prohibited from providing #apostilles for US documents.
on 02025-01-22#USA #politics #Trump purporting to revoke birthright citizenship for children of legal temporary residents; ACLU and others are challenging the EO
on 02025-01-21About Linus #Pauling’s stance on genetic screening for sickle-cell anemia and accusations of #racism #USA #history
on 02025-01-19Letter to Linus #Pauling defending genetic screening for sickle-cell anemia and repudiating accusations of #racism #USA #history
on 02025-01-19Linus #Pauling protesting against anti-Japanese #racism in #USA #history
on 02025-01-19#Clotilda #USA #slavery #history well written
on 02025-01-16#human-rights #USA #politics #Nevada court decision against giving (Stephen Lara’s) asset-forfeiture loot to the DEA
on 02025-01-15In 02022 24% of #USA electrical #energy generation capacity was combined-cycle gas turbines (#CCGT).
on 02025-01-11Ibrahim Diallo (ibudiallo/firefoxd, the man who was fired by a machine) on #USA #racism. “Everywhere I go, I am the lone black programmer.”
on 02025-01-10#history of Jeff #Bezos and Donald #Trump’s relationship from Business Insider. #USA #politics
on 02025-01-09#USA #immigration has a “conditional” permanent residency for recent spouses.
on 02025-01-08#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 02024-12-23Michael Moore confidently predicts #Trump will lose the #USA election in 02024, as of October 4.
on 02024-12-21#news #video #politics on the #USA withdrawing a bounty on the arrest of the new head of #Syria #toread
on 02024-12-20another #video of a #Milei speech, 80 minutes at some kind of dinner, I guess in Tucumán at a meeting of “Federalismo y Libertad”. He says, among other things, that the poverty rate has fallen from 54.8% in the first quarter 02024 to 38.9%, while indigence fell from 20.2% to 8.6%. Says the economy is expanding at a 10% annual rate, which sounds like he thought 16.5% was too high to be credible but still wants to use quarter-to-quarter GDP growth rates (he does say “17% anual” when talking about the 3Q figures). “El consumo viene creciendo a un ritmo del 20% anual; decían que no iba a haber inversiones” (I’m guilty on this point) “y las inversiones vienen volando al 50% anual.” Claims his administration is the best administration in the history of #Argentina, ew. Says that when he assumed power the “salario básico” was 300 dollars [per month] and now it’s 1100 dollars [per month], which I think is roughly correct, and unemployment is down to 6.9%. Also talks about covering 100% of the “canasta básica”, a potential free trade treaty with the #USA, etc. Described the Ministry of Women and the INADI as “organisms dedicated to persecution of those who don’t take Communion from the Left.” Refers to the Kirchnerists as “the cockroaches”, “las cucarachas”. “Las bases del capitalismo de libre empresa están en la cultura judío.” Opposes Israel to the “collectivist agenda”, apparently unaware of the kibbutzim. #politics
on 02024-12-20#video of right-wing Fox #news using #Milei as an example for #USA #politics
on 02024-12-17#HVDC #energy #transmission for 1361km in California, #USA
on 02024-12-13#USA regulator FCC permitting ultra-low power (whatever that is) on a 1GHz wide band in #6GHz #radio #communications
on 02024-12-13discussion of #USA regulator FCC permitting ultra-low power (whatever that is) on a 1GHz wide band in #6GHz #radio #communications
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#PDF list of 2411 #VoIP providers the #FCC in the #USA is going to block for spamming
on 02024-12-12#video #humor of George #Carlin on the penultimate Ed Sullivan show in 01971 on Muhammad Ali and environmentalism. #politics #history #USA
on 02024-12-04#video #interview with #Jonestown survivor #Odell Rhodes. A comment says he died in Sacramento, CA, in 02014, at age 72. #USA #Guyana #history #politics #crime #cults
on 02024-12-04#video #toread #interview by global-warming denier Candace Owens with former #CIA agent and purported whistleblower Kevin Shipp. #USA #history #politics
on 02024-12-04If we include voluntary “returns” and Title 42 expulsions, #Biden deported 4.7 million people, most innocent (“In fiscal year 2023, just 32 percent of removal deportations were for illegal immigrants with a criminal record; in 2024 so far, just 1 in 5 removals were convicted criminals.”) #USA #immigration #politics
on 02024-11-28on #Vance, #Moldbug, and #Thiel. #USA #politics
on 02024-11-28#USA #climate-change CO₂ emissions peaked in 02007, whether you measure territorial emissions or consumption; maybe the US real economy never really recovered from the 02008 financial crisis
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#video of a panel discussion (or maybe series of prepared monologues) among #USA military experts on #China, starting with the Century of Humiliation, showing the Map of National Humiliation (or Shame) from 01938, likening Xi’s Belt and Road Initiative to the Ming Treasure Fleet of Zheng He. “The capability gap [between the Chinese and US military] is rapidly shrinking, both in the air domain and in the space domain. Given a little bit more time, it’s plausible that the PLAAF will outstrip the USAF in terms of numbers.” Also: “#SpaceX has dramatically reduced the cost of launch,” mentioning the “commercial augmentation space reserve,” similar to the Civilian Reserve Air Fleet (CRAF). There are 6500 Starlink satellites out of 7000 total US satellites. “The first law of war is to preserve yourself and destroy your enemy.” —Mao. Predictions that the South China Sea will be a bigger flashpoint than #Taiwan because Taiwan isn’t a US treaty ally. Chinese anti-ship missiles have been combat-tested by the Houthis against international shipping in the Red Sea; they work. Panelists believe that displacing the US dollar with a new international reserve currency (based on a basket) is the biggest threat from BRICS, and could insulate the PRC from the US’s ability to “impose sanctions as an instrument of national power”. A recommendation to watch Chinese movies Wolf Warrior I and Wolf Warrior II, after which Xi’s “wolf warrior diplomacy” are named, to understand how the Chinese see a potential conflict with the US. Discusses the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (#SCO), a “wannabe equivalent to NATO”. “10 years ago there were like 6–7000 PLA soldiers [in UN peacekeeping missions] around the world, especially in Africa. (...) It has gone down.”
on 02024-11-27#USA (especially #Trump) persuaded #Australia, #New-Zealand, #Japan, #France, #Germany, and the #UK to ban or partly ban #Huawei after adding them to the #export-controls list in 02019; the UK in particular mandated removal of Huawei equipment from #5G networks by 02027. #HarmonyOS #politics #China
on 02024-11-27#USA appeals court overturns #OFAC sanctions against #cryptocurrency anonymizer "Tornado Cash" #human-rights #anonymity
on 02024-11-26#video of a talking head claiming electrical #energy #pricing in #China is about 15¢/kWh, even though 20 years ago China was considered energy-poor. Also China consumes 26% of world energy (which would be about 5 TW), 55% of world coal (to India’s 12% and #USA’s 5%), and 15% of world oil (to the US’s 20%), according to the Energy Institute. Apparently the Chinese call their ultra-high-voltage #HVDC transmission lines a “Shinkansen for power”. The video author seems to be confusing HVDC with AC transmission. Claims #Brazil’s Belo Monte phase II HVDC transmission line is operated by the State Grid Corporation of China!
on 02024-11-26#video of right-wing video game streamer #Asmongold commenting on (and kind of endorsing) #Trump’s mass #deportation plan #USA #politics
on 02024-11-26#China Press Statement from #USA department of State: “The United States is seriously concerned by the People’s Liberation Army joint military drills in the Taiwan Strait and around #Taiwan. The PRC response with military provocations to a routine annual speech is unwarranted and risks escalation.
We call on the PRC to act with restraint and to avoid any further actions that may undermine peace and stability across the Taiwan Strait and in the broader region, which is essential to regional peace and prosperity and a matter of international concern. We continue to monitor PRC activities and coordinate with allies and partners regarding our shared concerns.
The United States remains committed to its longstanding one China policy, guided by the Taiwan Relations Act, the three Joint Communiqués, and the Six Assurances.”
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 02024-11-24right-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#video of #Bernie-Sanders #interview with #Lex-Fridman #USA #politics #history
on 02024-11-22#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#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 02024-11-22“In February [02015], four #supercomputing institutions in #China were placed on a U.S. government list that effectively bans them from receiving certain U.S. exports.” #Tianhe-2 #export-controls #history #USA #politics
on 02024-11-22"Tianhe-2" (天河-2) was the top supercomputer on the TOP500 list in 02013 to 02015, its expansion handicapped by #USA #export-controls in 02015 under Obama. #China #politics #history #supercomputing
on 02024-11-22#China #USA #Wandering-Balloon #politics reporting: “The balloon, which spent five days traveling in a diagonal southeast route from Idaho to the Carolinas, had moved off the coast by midday Saturday and was shot down within moments of its arrival over the Atlantic Ocean. (...) Pentagon officials advised then against shooting down the balloon, whose belly structure was roughly the size of three buses. (...) Pentagon officials said the spy balloon, which was remotely maneuverable to some degree by the Chinese but still dependent on the jet stream for travel, began its controlled drift into American territory on Jan. 28, when it entered Alaskan airspace near the Aleutian Islands. (...) the most recent balloon, equipped with solar panels to power propulsion and cameras and surveillance technology, exited American territory on Monday and spent the day over Canada’s Northwest Territories. But it was back over the United States on Tuesday after entering through northern Idaho.”
on 02024-11-22BBC reporting at the time on the #China #USA #Wandering-Balloon #politics, apparently the most comprehensive coverage
on 02024-11-22more on the #China #Wandering-Balloon: “Regarding the unintended entry of a Chinese unmanned airship into US airspace due to force majeure, the Chinese side has verified it and communicated it to the US side. It is a civilian airship used for research, mainly meteorological, purposes. Affected by the Westerlies and with limited self-steering capability, the airship deviated far from its planned course.” #USA #UFOs #politics #history
on 02024-11-22“Foreign Ministry Spokesperson’s Remarks on the Unintended Entry of a Chinese Unmanned Airship into US Airspace Due to Force Majeure” prior to the #Wandering-Balloon #politics #USA #UFOs #history
on 02024-11-22“Vice Foreign Minister Xie Feng said he lodged a formal complaint with the U.S. Embassy on Sunday over the “U.S. attack on a Chinese civilian unmanned airship by military force.”” in February 02023. The #USA government said it was a spy balloon at 18000m altitude, while #China said it was a civilian meteorological research balloon (a sort of weather balloon) blown off-course. #politics #Wandering-Balloon #UFOs
on 02024-11-22An article from 02014 about the #deep-state concept by Mike Lofgren, criticizing the military-industrial-intelligence complex. He explains the term: “The term “Deep State” was coined in Turkey and is said to be a system composed of high-level elements within the intelligence services, military, security, judiciary and organized crime. In British author John le Carré’s latest novel, A Delicate Truth, a character describes the Deep State as “… the ever-expanding circle of non-governmental insiders from banking, industry and commerce who were cleared for highly classified information denied to large swathes of Whitehall and Westminster.” I use the term to mean a hybrid association of elements of government and parts of top-level finance and industry that is effectively able to govern the United States without reference to the consent of the governed as expressed through the formal political process.” #politics #USA
on 02024-11-22incoming border czar Tom Homan plans “shock and awe” assault on immigrants on day 1 of #Trump regime, using the military but, thanks to the Posse Comitatus act, not for arrests. #USA #politics #human-rights
on 02024-11-20When #Trump tried to invoke the Insurrection Act to suppress the George Floyd protests. #USA #politics #history
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#nuclear #history: #Tsar-Bomba was conceived as real #weaponry. Also discusses #USA Gnomon and Sundial weapons
on 02024-11-16#video by #survivalists on the #USA election #politics just a talking head, nothing of interest
on 02024-11-05#video by #survivalists on the #USA election #politics Just some dumbfuck talking to a camera; didn’t watch.
on 02024-11-05#video by #survivalists on the #USA election #politics. Just talking heads. Recommending stocking up on water, getting a generator, stocking up on propane, stocking up on groceries, etc. Seems like mostly generic prepping advice.
on 02024-11-05#video by #survivalists on the #USA election #politics and potential civil unrest if there is debate over who really won the election. Just talking-head filler of some dumbfuck talking to a camera.
on 02024-11-05#video by #survivalists on #USA FEMA recommendations for items to keep on hand: drinking water (4ℓ/person/day), food, emergency radio (and batteries), first aid kit, dust mask (!), flashlight (and batteries), a whistle, plastic sheeting and duct tape, moist towelettes, garbage bags for pooping, and plastic ties, wrench and pliers to turn off utilities, a can opener, a local map (on paper). This is from March 02020, so it represents a pre-COVID or early-COVID perspective. The talking head filler dude also recommends small-denomination cash (for power outages when stores are still open), a portable water filtration system, rubber gloves, and a propane camping stove.
on 02024-11-05#video #toread by #survivalists on the #USA election #politics
on 02024-11-05#video by #survivalists on the #USA election #politics. Recommending, before the election: get cash out of the bank, make sure your gas tanks are full, develop a family communications plan, stock up on groceries, do urban errands early, stock up on ammunition, try shutting off your main breaker for a few days to test how you’d handle a power outage, get to know your neighbors, charge up all your devices. Just video of some jackass named #MagicPrepper talking to a camera on a shooting range.
on 02024-11-05#statistics on the inflation-adjusted interest rate on #USA treasury bonds at different maturities and different dates. #economics #data #finance
on 02024-11-03#statistics on the one-year inflation-adjusted interest rate #USA #finance #economics #data
on 02024-11-03#history of #development in Gilded Age #USA and current #China. #economics
on 02024-11-02The #Linux kernel mailing list thread removing Russian maintainers due to #USA #politics and the #Ukraine invasion. Will Russia and China fork Linux? #LKML
on 02024-10-25#Huawei got some #TSMC chips through a middleman despite #USA export controls. #China #politics #history
on 02024-10-24#USA #humor #video about accent diversity
on 02024-10-18#Forbes #news #politics #video #toread about fears about #USA inflation? “Trump Pressed on Fears about U.S. Currency”!?
on 02024-10-16people in #USA are getting their Teslas towed so the police can confiscate the built-in camera footage. “Tesla drivers, by contrast, get served individually because they control their own camera footage.” #privacy #security #human-rights
on 02024-09-27#pricing of natural gas #energy in #USA: US$3.61 per thousand cubic feet (28.3 m³)
on 02024-09-21#video by economist Yi Wen at the Shanghai Jiao Tong University on how #China needed the #USA export control trade war to develop its domestic chip industry, because the alternative would have been to erect trade barriers in blatant violation of #WTO policies and get kicked out of the WTO. Mostly talking head footage with stock footage. #history #politics
on 02024-09-18#video from four weeks ago on #China’s #graphite exports to #USA, which are necessary for #EVs and supposedly not available elsewhere; in December China imposed an export ban. #politics
on 02024-09-11#video from a year ago on the economy of #China, including the C919 narrow-body jet made by #Comac (established 02008), BYD’s #EVs and the Shanghai government’s support for #Tesla, the NVIDIA A100 and the petaflops Biren BR100 (fabbed in 7nm like, supposedly, the A100) and how the export controls block TSMC from making it (I guess this video is from July 02023, before the #HiSilicon Mate60 processor demonstrated SMIC’s 7nm capabilities), Nike vs. Anta (which has apparently bought Fila and Wilson), CATL vs. mostly other Chinese EV battery companies, supercomputers (mentioning the 02015 export controls), bullet trains (there's a World Bank map at 45'25" showing how Urumqi is connected), “metaverse” (pointing to pre-publication approval requirements on games), and space tourism with CAS Space. Says that in 02022 China had 173 supers on the #TOP500 list vs. 128 in the #USA, making their recent withdrawal rather momentous, and that #cryptocurrency transactions were banned there in 02022.
on 02024-09-10#video of Scott Ritter #interview predicting imminent surrender of #Ukraine, that Europe is “disintegrating before our eyes” because of an immigration crisis (?), the EU and NATO will collapse, etc. Seems like pro-Putin propaganda? Uncritically uses the propaganda words “Banderist” (Banderovets) and “de-Nazification”. And something about how countries like Germany wanted to “derisk” by removing their supply chains from #China, but Volkswagen was losing money everywhere else. And apparently the #USA is now in an arms race with China? #politics
on 02024-09-10#video with Yanis #Varoufakis about #USA #politics, #China, #WeChat, and how the US in #history didn’t go bankrupt when it had a trade deficit because of Bretton Woods (?). His book is "Techno Feudalism". Cites the US and EU confiscating US$450 billion in overseas Russian holdings due to the #Ukraine war as a pivotal moment that forced people everywhere to look for alternatives.
on 02024-09-10#video #toread about #China and #EVs in #USA #politics
on 02024-09-10#video on #China/#USA politics trying to keep out electric vehicles with 100% tariffs while US car companies spend their government EV research grants on stock buybacks. High-end electric cars, electric dumptrucks, and even electric mopeds support battery-change recharging (battery-swap charging); it’s commercially deployed. They’re very impressed with how advanced all the Chinese cars are, and also positively impressed with how accommodating the auto parts manufacturers they met with were, especially by contrast to US and Canadian companies.
on 02024-09-10#video from November on #Huawei’s new #HiSilicon Mate60 #cellphones and #China/#USA #politics. “If those US [export] controls had been successful, then a smartphone as powerful as this should not be possible without importing key components” because they used 7nm photolithography.
on 02024-09-10#USA #China #politics: “The most important chokepoints in the context of this discussion are AI chip designs, electronic design automation software, semiconductor #manufacturing equipment, and equipment components. The Biden administration’s latest actions simultaneously exploit U.S. dominance across all four of these chokepoints. In doing so, these actions demonstrate an unprecedented degree of U.S. government intervention to not only preserve chokepoint control but also begin a new U.S. policy of actively strangling large segments of the Chinese technology industry—strangling with an intent to kill. (...) By invoking the foreign direct product rule, the United States is prohibiting any semiconductor manufacturing company worldwide from providing services to any Chinese chip design company that is seeking to make high-end chips for AI or supercomputing. (...) To state it bluntly, these recent actions are designed to put the roughly 28 Chinese chip design and supercomputing firms on the parties of concern lists out of business. (...) the Biden administration is going beyond the traditional U.S. policy of seeking to keep the United States’ two semiconductor technology nodes ahead of China and is now trying to actively degrade China’s technological maturity below its current level. (...) It is as though the United States is saying to China “AI technology is the future. We and our allies are going there. You can’t come.””
on 02024-09-07Christopher Mark and his research on mine safety and structural analysis, along with the #history of #mining regulation in the #USA
on 02024-09-04#video #toread about someone who fled the #USA for #Argentina #politics
on 02024-09-02#video on new Trump anti-Harris ad. #USA #politics #toread #todelete
on 02024-08-28#Facebook #USA #censorship #politics of Hunter Biden’s laptop and #covid
on 02024-08-27#fraud #crime #USA Elkhart, Kansas CEO Shan Hanes looted his bank because he was a pig being butchered?
on 02024-08-21Brian Potter’s account of #manufacturing #history in #USA, and in particular the Heavy Press Program
on 02024-08-21Qcells, First Solar, Meyer Burger and REC Silicon (the American Alliance for #Solar Manufacturing Trade Committee) have filed allegations that increased solar imports from Vietnam and Thailand are “injuring the US solar industry” asking for retroactive tariffs. #USA #politics
on 02024-08-21SNCF wanted to build a high-speed rail system in #California but gave up and built it in #Morocco instead because of #USA #politics.
on 02024-08-06#SEIA touts #photovoltaic installations increasing in #USA in 02023: “For the first time in history, #solar accounts for over 50% of new electricity capacity added to the grid.” But it was still only 32.4 gigawatts! And of course its capacity factor is lower than the other 47%. Abigail Ross Hopper touts “helping America’s solar module manufacturing base grow 89% in 2023,” which would be great if were in the ballpark of China’s pricing. And also that manufacturing capacity only grew “from 8.5 GW to 16.1 GW”, presumably per year. #energy
on 02024-07-28Hmm, anti-democracy Mencius #Moldbug (Curtis Yarvin) has a Substack, “Gray Mirror”. #USA #politics
on 02024-07-28#Scanalyst gives the far-right point of view on the #Trump assassination attempt. Gross. #USA #politics
on 02024-07-28#Trump receives US$4 million in donations in #Bitcoin, Ether, XRP, and USDC; also mentions the conference. “In recent months, Trump has positioned himself as the pro-crypto candidate for president, a reversal from his previous stance during his time in the White House.” #politics #USA
on 02024-07-28Top ten most controversial #Wikileaks publications: Guantánamo Files (2011), Iraq War Logs (2010), Collateral Murder Video (2010), 3. Afghan War Diary (2010), 4. Vault 7 (2017) (CIA computer #security stuff), 5. Diplomatic Cables** (2010), 6. Syria Files (2012), 7. Global Intelligence Files** (2012) (Stratfor), 8. TPP, TTIP & TISA (2013), 9. NSA World Leaders Target (2016), 10. Hillary Clinton Emails leak (2016). #history #politics #USA
on 02024-07-28#USA NSA helped to track down certain #Bitcoin users, in an 02013 project called Oakstar, to interdict funding for terrorism (02018 news item). Also #Trump forbade US citizens to buy #Venezuela’s #Petro #CBDC. #history #politics
on 02024-07-28#USA declassifies the number of #nuclear warheads in its #weaponry arsenal: 3748 as of 02023. Plot of warhead count over time.
on 02024-07-27#video about #Argentina setting up a new military base in Ushuaia together with #USA, possibly inspired by #Antarctica oil #energy; #Milei went to Antarctica as soon as he assumed the presidency to repudiate #Chile’s conflicting territorial claims, in the “territory of peace and science” in the treaty signed by all three countries. The Russian discovery might be twice Saudi Arabia’s oil. Reporting by Mega Investiga or Mega Noticias of Chile. #politics
on 02024-07-24discussion on #USA #politics with respect to model #rockets. NFPA 1127 4.17.1: “No person shall ignite and launch a high power rocket horizontally, at a target, or so that the rocket’s flight path during the ascent phase is intended to go into clouds, directly over the heads of spectators, or beyond the boundaries of the launch site, or so that the rocket’s recovery is likely to occur in spectator areas or outside the boundaries of the launch site.”
on 02024-07-11#ebook from 01915 with hundreds of line-drawing illustrations of different #USA butterfly and moth species as well as a few other insects. An easy read, waxes lyrical about the nature of existence and describes how to make a cyanide bottle in between lots of sexist and racist stuff. There’s a 14-megabyte PDF.
on 02024-07-01#Kaspersky, just banned from the #USA, supposedly discovered something about WannaCry, which used #NSA’s EternalBlue, leaked by TheShadowBrokers, just a month after the leak. Several minutes of details about EternalBlue, followed by a Brilliant ad. Never explained anything about Kaspersky, worthless #clickbait. #security #video
on 02024-06-28Jon Stewart show about #USA presidential debate; he makes it look like Biden came off as suffering from disabling levels of senile dementia. #politics
on 02024-06-28argument by Caitlin Johnstone that what #Assange was accused of was #rape, but that the allegation was not credible. #politics #history #UK #Sweden #USA #WikiLeaks
on 02024-06-26Jemima Khan from 02013 on how #Assange alienated his allies #politics #history #UK #Sweden #USA #WikiLeaks
on 02024-06-26rebutting #Assange #rape allegations from Nils Melzer, UN Special Rapporteur on Torture #politics #history #UK #Sweden #USA #WikiLeaks
on 02024-06-26#video #toread where #USA drone operator describes his experience #flying #weaponry, specifically the Puma drone
on 02024-06-25#video on a zip gun, improvised #weaponry used in the 01950s made out of plumbing fittings. Supposedly legal in the #USA.
on 02024-06-25there are REIT ETFs in #USA #finance
on 02024-06-23apparently #EU people can buy #USA ETFs via options on IB despite the PRIIPs regulations #finance
on 02024-06-23former inmate explains that anytime he was locked up he was only allowed a stubby little golf pencil to write with except when he stole a couple of ballpoint pens from a dentist. Another user reports being allowed very short pencils and up to two ballpoint pen inserts, but having to use a roll of paper with rubber bands to make the rest of the pen. A former prison guard says federal law (presumably in #USA) requires a minimum of a pencil. Another posts a picture of a transparent “flex pen” and says typewriters were available. #crime
on 02024-06-23#video report on Intel’s attempt to get back into EUV and the #USA’s attempts to get back into electronics manufacturing
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#Mifepristone remains available all over the #USA thanks to a unanimous Supreme Court decision rejecting some people suing the FDA, I think for lack of standing. #politics #abortion
on 02024-06-16“Crystalline Silicon #Photovoltaic Cells, Whether or Not Assembled Into Modules, From the People’s Republic of #China: Final Results and Partial Rescission of Countervailing Duty Administrative Review; 2020” #USA #solar #politics #tariffs #subsidies
on 02024-06-16#USA #politics on #illegal-immigrants: spouses of US citizens will have three years to apply for permanent residency
on 02024-06-16#history of #USA #solar #photovoltaic #energy trade barriers
on 02024-06-16#solar #photovoltaic panel #pricing in the #USA is closer to 20¢/W than 10¢/W. Also batteries: “Last summer, battery cell prices in China ranged from $120/kWh to $130/kWh but are expected to drop to $40/kWh or less this summer.” #energy
on 02024-06-16actual new #USA tariffs on EVs and #solar #photovoltaic panels from #China #toread
on 02024-06-16potential new #USA #tariffs on #EVs and #solar #photovoltaic panels from #China #toread #energy #politics
on 02024-06-16“Maxeon expands Mexico factory making tariff-free solar panels for US market” #solar #photovoltaic #energy #USA #politics news
on 02024-06-16“Washington fears that Chinese cars may be able to come over the southern border with zero tariffs under the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement” #USA #China #politics #USMCA
on 02024-06-16best summary of the #Russia submarine visit to #Cuba, near #USA
on 02024-06-15#USA spies also think #Russia's nuclear submarine Kazan visiting Havana isn’t carrying nuclear weapons #politics #Cuba
on 02024-06-15#Russia’s nuclear submarine Kazan visiting Havana isn’t carrying nuclear weapons #politics #USA #Cuba
on 02024-06-15#video says electric cars are under 8% of the #USA car market (IIRC 55% of the larger Chinese market)
on 02024-06-12#video of eight US-made armored vehicles destroyed by propeller-powered US$35000 Russian Lancet kamikaze drones near Bakhmut in #Ukraine. This resulted in the #USA imposing sanctions on the Russian company that made them.
on 02024-06-12#video about the French Foreign Legion entering #Ukraine two weeks ago as “instructors”. Also says that as of 02024-05-27 the countries that allowed their weapons to be used (by Ukraine) on Russian soil were Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Great Britain, Sweden, Finland, Netherlands, Poland, and Czechia; the #USA joined the lis a week ago. Lots of time-wasting talking-head and stock footage. Video is 28 minutes long, therefore #toread
on 02024-06-12#video about Russian “turtle tanks” in #Ukraine, tanks with sheet-metal sheds on top, which apparently help a lot against FPV drones but can’t turn their turrets much. Sometimes hanging chains obstruct quadcopter entrance through openings. Relevant that #USA and #EU stopped sending much aid in October.
on 02024-06-12more #SEIA #USA #photovoltaic #energy data. Mentions that 6% of all US electrical generation is now #solar (though it’s unclear if this is nameplate capacity or generated energy). CSP remains marginal.
on 02024-06-08More from #SEIA’s #USA #photovoltaic #energy report (this is the executive summary): Florida installed 2.7 gigawatts in Q1 02024, Texas installed 2.6. New installations in the “commercial #solar segment” (“distributed solar projects with commercial, industrial, agricultural, school, government, or nonprofit offtakers, including remotely net-metered projects”) declined 34% from Q4 02023 to 434 megawatts. “Community solar” (“part of formal programs where multiple residential and non-residential customers can subscribe to the power produced by a local solar project and receive credits on their utility bills”) also declined, 32%, to 279 megawatts. Interestingly, SEIA here cites import tariffs as a major problem: “In this report, we’ve accounted for the updates to the Section 201 tariffs, notably the removal of the bifacial module exemption. And while the Section 301 tariffs were doubled (from 25% to 50%) for Chinese solar cells and modules, the tariff increase will not have a significant direct impact on the US solar industry, given the low volume (less than 0.1%) of Chinese imports. This report does not yet incorporate the impacts of potential new antidumping and countervailing duties (AD/CVD) on imports of crystalline silicon cells and modules from four Southeast Asia countries.” I somehow thought SEIA were among the people backing the tariffs; I guess I got that wrong! Apparently part of the spike here is that the AD/CVD had a temporary two-year waiver which just expired, and the cells imported under the waiver had to be utilized within 180 days. Most alarmingly: “While [the expectation of installing 40 gigawatts a year over the next five years] is certainly proof of the solar industry’s strong standing in the energy transition, it also represents a slowdown of industry growth. The growth patterns vary amongst segments, but average annual growth between now and 2029 is 3%.” They also have a set of cost breakdowns for “turnkey installed price”, coming in at 98¢ per watt for “utility-scale fixed-tilt”, slightly higher than last year and almost half due to about 40¢ for the PV module itself. Residential is at 325¢, with about 20¢ for the PV module.
on 02024-06-08#SEIA talks more about #USA #photovoltaic #energy: 11.8 gigawatts (“GWdc”) installed in Q1 02024, 9.8 of which was utility-scale #solar. Residential solar installations shrank 25% from a year ago to only 1.3 gigawatts, due to California.
on 02024-06-08#solar #energy update from the #USA in this #SEIA press release from two days ago about the “U.S. Solar Market Insight Q2 2024 report”: manufacturing capacity increases to 27 gigawatts in Q1 02024 (per year), 11.8 gigawatts pear year more than Q4 02023; 10 new gigawatts of utility-scale #photovoltaic deployed in Q1 (largely in Florida and Texas, but also including 686 megawatts in New Mexico and 546 megawatts in Ohio); and total US solar capacity (installed nameplate generation capacity, I think) is expected to double over the next five years, reaching 438 gigawatts by 02029. According to the slide at the top, solar represents 55% of new US electricity-generation capacity added in 02023 (“over 40 GW”) and 75% of new capacity in Q1 02024; the remainder is 9% of storage and 16% of wind. In 02023 storage was 14%, wind was 12%, natural gas was 17% (fairly steady since 02020), and “other” was 2%. Coal has been at zero since 02015.
on 02024-06-08General knowledge norms: #paper about what trivia college students know, or don’t (astounding degrees of ignorance on a survey of general knowledge questions; less than half of #USA college students knew the capital of Iraq, which was currently full of US troops) #education
on 02024-05-23another super low budget #vanlife #video, this time from the #USA: a PVC pipe frame and a silver Harbor Freight tarp over a Chevy pickup bed, with some rubber mats in the bed, which also contains a couple of ice chests, a portable generator, an air compressor, some gas cans, a toolbox, some nylon strap tiedowns, and a plastic tote. But they didn’t actually succeed in sleeping in the bed because their bedding got soaked in the tent before they even got it set up, so they went to a hotel. After they got back home they did tie the tarp down with some ropes and it looks pretty okay.
on 02024-05-01#vanlife #video channel "AmericAndo" of a couple from #Argentina entering the #USA in their van (SXZ 125) after four years of driving, at the McAllen, Texas (and Reynosa, Sonora, and Pharr, Texas) border crossing on the Anzaldúas bridge. The border folks searched their car with a drug dog and looked up their YouTube channel, but they said it was “one of the easiest borders” they’d crossed, and they can stay 6 months. They camped overnight in the Wal-Mart parking lot, got stopped at a police checkpoint, marveled at the lack of pedestrians, visited some friends in San Antonio, threw an opossum in the garbage, and added a new removable wood desktop to the middle of the van.
on 02024-05-01#vanlife #video on #stealth-camping spots in the #USA: hotel parking lots (that don’t require a tag on the cars), rest areas (which often include water tank facilities), residential areas (if you’re not in an RV; arrive late and leave early, don’t park in front of somebody’s house, and check recs on the app Overlander), marinas, non-marina boat launches, Home Depot, trailheads, freeway pullouts (especially on the Pacific Coast Highway), and “beachs” (but be sure to check the tides).
on 02024-04-29As of July 02023, #TSMC has to delay its #Arizona fab because of insufficient #USA talent
on 02024-02-21Mad Scientist [Laboratory] is a #USA Army initiative and a community of action that continually explores the future through collaborative partnerships and continuous dialogue with academia, industry and government. Through this initiative, the Army shapes future multi-domain (i.e., Land, Air, Sea, Cyber, and Space) operations in its role as a thought leader in the future of warfare. The program consists of an All Partners Access Network (APAN) community of action, a monthly on-line speaker series, conferences with world class experts at the Nation’s premier academic institutions, and now, this blog — envisioning the Operational Environment!
on 02024-01-25#Radio frequency allocations chart in the #USA
on 02024-01-23the Atlantic article about Alexander Barvinok’s resignation from the American Mathematical Society over #USA #politics and “diversity, equity, and inclusion” initiatives
on 02024-01-13David Gross’s essay on how tax avoidance in #USA #politics can promote #effective-altruism has been downvoted to -15 by the Yudkowskyans.
on 02023-12-04#neural-networks executive order press release #USA #politics
on 02023-10-30#USA #politics: Republican Senator Marco Rubio, Democratic Senator Mark Warner, Representative Mike Gallagher, (chairman of the House select committee on China) and Representative Michael McCaul, chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee line up in favor of export controls against #RISC-V
on 02023-10-08“#Apple’s Decision to Kill Its CSAM Photo-Scanning Tool Sparks Fresh Controversy: Scanning every user’s privately stored iCloud data would create new threat vectors for data thieves to find and exploit. It would also inject the potential for a slippery slope of unintended consequences. Scanning for one type of content, for instance, opens the door for bulk surveillance and could create a desire to search other encrypted messaging systems across content types. (...) We decided to not proceed with the proposal for a hybrid client-server approach to CSAM detection for iCloud Photos from a few years ago. We concluded it was not practically possible to implement without ultimately imperiling the security and privacy of our users.” #USA #politics #censorship #privacy #security
on 02023-09-02In the #USA in 02020, San Diego Gas & Electric fired one of their workers because someone photographed him cracking his knuckles out the window of his truck and said it was a white supremacism sign. #politics
on 02023-08-27female #suicide rates dropped 20% isn #USA when unilateral #divorce became legal, according to an NBER working paper from 02003.
on 02023-03-10apparently #jenkem in the #USA was a #TOTSE #trolling #hoax
on 02023-03-10#Silicon-Valley-Bank was not required to follow the Basel III Liquidity Coverage Ratio (LCR) or Net Stable Funding Ratio (NSFR) requirements because it had less than US$250 billion in average total consolidated assets, according to their latest 10-K (or maybe 10-Q), and #USA implemented Basel III only for the largest banks. #banking #collapse
on 02023-03-10the #collapse of #Silicon-Valley-Bank is the second biggest #banking failure in history #USA
on 02023-03-10#USA #politics: apparently now software development in the US is always characterized as research and development and must be amortized over 5 years?
on 02023-03-09#USA #politics: “Connecticut parents arrested for letting kids walk to Dunkin' Donuts”
on 02023-03-09#RAND's summary of the #Extending-Russia report and the controversy over it. #Russia #USA #politics
on 02023-03-09The controversial #RAND research report "Extending Russia" from 02019 to the #USA Army, in which proposes ways to weaken #Russia in international #politics.
on 02023-03-09#USA #politics #California #housing #zoning apocalypse, profiling HN user Sasha Zbrozek. #Housing-Accountability-Act
on 02023-03-09"Pico balloons" exempt from FAA airspace restrictions are maybe the #UFOs the #USA Air Force has been shooting down
on 02023-02-16Hersh claims the #USA destroyed the #Nord-Stream pipeline. #politics
on 02023-02-08#Huawei to be fully cut off from #USA chipmakers by #China #sanctions #politics
on 02023-02-01#USA #politics #California #housing #zoning apocalypse: the "Housing Accountability Act" (HAA), passed in 01990, enables the Housing and Community Development (HCD) (??) to suspend cities' zoning laws if they don't meet the Regional Housing Needs Allocation (RHNA), which for the most part they don't, so tomorrow (Feb. 2) many cities get their laws thus suspended, called the "builder’s remedy". This has just happened in Santa Monica: “Santa Monica met 50% of their dramatically increased 2023 - 2031 housing requirements, including a 50% increase in the amount of low income housing approved over the previous 8 years — without a cent of public subsidy — in just one week. This also consists of several high-rise buildings taller than anything allowed in Santa Monica’s zoning code or city housing.” In the #SFBA only SF, Emeryville, Redwood City, Alameda City, and maybe Oakland will retain their zoning laws.
on 02023-02-01The Osage orange, horseapple, bois d’arc, bodark, bowwood, mock orange, or monkey brains tree is common in #Texas, #USA. #botany
on 02023-01-15worth linking to whenever someone proposes to legislate an impossible outcome: “With more American military casualties in 2007 than any year since the war began, a bipartisan group of House representatives introduced a bill Monday that calls for nearly 4,000 U.S. soldiers who have been killed in Iraq to be brought back to life.” #USA #politics #humor #satire
on 02023-01-04one of #Techdirt's longish series disagreeing with #Twitter, in this case about #Hunter Biden's laptop. #USA #politics
on 02022-12-30discussion of “alternate reality games” in #USA #politics
on 02022-10-12lots more #obesity in #USA since 02018
on 02022-09-30#Mudge got fired from #Twitter and testified before #USA Congress about its #security malpractice; New Yorker article
on 02022-09-16Aaronsw’s review of William Domhoff’s study of power in #USA #politics
on 02022-08-23William Domhoff’s study of power in #USA #politics taking New Haven, CT as a case study
on 02022-08-23Measure G: “Vote for #Bolinas to be a socially acknowledged nature-loving town because to like to drink the water out of the lakes to like to eat the blueberries to like the bears is not hatred to hotels and motor boats. Dakar. Temporary and way to save life, skunks and foxes (airplanes to go over the ocean) and to make it beautiful.” It passed. #USA #politics
on 02022-05-26#artificial-scarcity of #housing in #USA
on 02022-05-21Derek Thompson on #artificial-scarcity of doctors in #USA
on 02022-05-21Noah Smith on "New Industrialism" and #artificial-scarcity in #USA due to #politics
on 02022-05-21#collapse scenarios for #USA from 02010; amusing in retrospect
on 02022-02-09#USA #petroleum imports and exports up to 02020. #energy
on 02022-02-09notes on the #USA #DoD CIO open-source software memo
on 02022-02-09why semiconductor #manufacturing doesn’t happen in #USA
on 02022-02-09#Orlov’s account of #USA being routed from #Afghanistan and Pashtunwali. #politics
on 02021-12-23#AaronSw “broke the law because he believed that scholarly knowledge was a common good. This nonacademic gave his life for an academic cause” #history #USA #politics
on 02021-12-17“This thesis examines the role played by America and its native inhabitants in John Locke’s Two Treatises of Government.” #USA #history #politics #democracy #liberalism 419 pp. #PDF
on 02021-12-14influence of the Iroquois on Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson. #USA #history #politics #democracy
on 02021-12-14#USA #politics #Trump’s "Truth Social", a GPL-violating Mastodon instance, defaced by pranksters
on 02021-11-11a breakdown of #USA #healthcare costs
on 02021-11-10#fraudulent #USA #healthcare #pricing #censorship
on 02021-11-10https://noahpinion.substack.com/p/much-of-what-youve-heard-about-carter Noah Smith explains what really happened in the late 01970s and 01980s in #USA and #USSR #history: the Volcker recessions, deregulation, defense spending, and the collapse of the USSR petrostate when oil crashed
on 02021-11-03Noha Aboueldahab writes in Foreign Policy that Biden should take measures including prosecuting the #Guantánamo Bay #torture perpetrators and paying reparations to the victims. #USA #politics
on 02021-11-02notes on #Russia and #USA #politics and #war doctrines, and “A2/AD”.
on 02021-06-04review of Joanne Freeman’s #USA #history #book "The Field of Blood", chronicling 80 acts of physical violence in Congress
on 02021-01-24Tableau data explorer of #USA #solar PPA #pricing (mostly #photovoltaic) historical data since 2006
on 02021-01-21#Solar #energy #pricing in the #USA southwest is killing coal plants; the coal-fired San Juan Generating Plant in New Mexico costs US$44.90/MWh (cost of production), triple “the just-approved solar PPA” at US$15/MWh for 100 MW; the Palo Verde trading hub price averaged US$26.58/MWh in 02019.
on 02021-01-21Electrical #energy #pricing in the #USA in 02019 for new PPAs averaged US$27.40 per megawatt hour, down 4.7% from 02018, including non-renewables. #Solar, nearly all #photovoltaic, dropped slightly, wind rose slightly. #Google was the biggest buyer globally.
on 02021-01-21#Pelosi #USA #copyright #censorship
on 02021-01-20reputedly a Proud Boy at the Portland protest today: taser shield with gloves (coarse black knit --- anti-cut kevlar?), pepper spray, what looks like a bullet-resistant vest, waterproof bodycam, crash helmet, earplugs, swim goggles, water bottle, clip-on knife sticking out of pocket to make sure it's not a "concealed weapon", water bottle in back nylon holster, what looks like a leather hip holster for an additional weapon, and a blue-line face mask. #USA #politics
on 02020-09-27#politics Ezra Klein talks about why the #USA can’t build.
on 02020-05-24#video of #Portland #USA police allied with white-supremacist groups Patriot Prayer and Proud Boys
on 02019-02-19utility-scale #photovoltaic power plants in #USA. #energy
on 02019-02-092014 #solar #photovoltaic #energy capacity factors in the #USA are estimated at 13%–19%, averaging 16%, including rooftop installations, but the EIA estimated 28% for utility-scale installations in 2016, which may be a few percent too high, with 25.2% perhaps being more accurate; but it varies greatly by state, from 28.1% in California, 27.0% in Arizona, 26.7% in Nevada, and 25.8% in New Mexico, down to 15.5% in Maine and 16.1% in Pennsylvania.
on 02019-02-09#PDF #paper on the gendered experience of the Socratic method in #USA law school #education; basically the author supports it
on 02018-09-242.5 GW of #photovoltaic #energy production installed in the #USA in 1Q 2018, 55% of all new electrical generating capacity, but up only 13% from a year earlier. 2010 849 MW, 2011 1900 MW, 2012 3400 MW, 2013 4800 MW, 2014 6200 MW, 2015 7500 MW, 2016 15.1 GW, 2017 10.6 GW, 10.6 GW forecast for 2018, from SEIA and GTM Research.
on 02018-06-12ump-has-been-a-racist-all-his-life-and-he-isnt-going-to-change-after-charlottesville/ #Trump #USA #racism #politics
on 02017-11-25Apparently this is a new #neoreactionary blog; here it’s talking about #Damore mostly (which it refers to as "Googlegate"), and of course has all the usual evil people cackling over how awesome Damore is. #USA #politics
on 02017-11-25Binyamin Netanyahu’s son Yair Netanyahu: “I’m a Jew, I’m an Israeli, the neo nazis scums [sic] in Virginia hate me and my country. But they belong to the past. Their breed is dying out. However the thugs of Antifa and [Black Lives Matter] who hate my country (and America too in my view) just as much are getting stronger and stronger and becoming super dominant in American universities and public life.” #USA #Israel #politics
on 02017-11-25The US conservative press sympathizes with the neo-Nazis but ridicules them as “knuckleheads” #USA #politics
on 02017-11-25fake #AltRight conference canceled. #USA #politics
on 02017-10-01#USA #politics claims that the Wikileaks documents published from the DNC were in fact leaked, claims raised in The Nation
on 02017-09-13#USA Department of Homeland Security has designated some #antifa groups as terrorists. #politics
on 02017-09-10The #Suniva #photovoltaic tariff hearing. #USA #energy #politics
on 02017-09-10On Joey Gibson and #antifa #politics in #USA
on 02017-09-10Mother Jones’s 2010 article on Oath Keepers. #USA #politics
on 02017-08-27#USA Army “Space Force” “on track to train well over a thousand soldiers next year”; they’re thinking of creating a “Space Force”
on 02017-08-27#Neo-Nazis and genetic testing. #USA #politics
on 02017-08-22Debate on #feminism and #Damore on Scott Aaronson’s blog. #USA #politics #Google
on 02017-08-22“What #Antifa and #Juggalos have in common in this strange new world” #USA #politics #human-rights
on 02017-08-22#Juggalos march for #human-rights. #USA #politics
on 02017-08-22profiteering veterinarian chains like Banfield provide worse care for more money in #USA
on 02017-08-22#USA #politics #Juggalos #neo-Nazis. Warning, super heavy page, using like a quarter gig of RAM.
on 02017-08-22#Israel Communications Minister Ayoub Kara says “Trump is the best [#USA] leader Israel has ever had,” says it’s comparatively less important to condemn #neo-Nazis. He’s not Jewish. #politics
on 02017-08-22#Putin in #Russia favors #Bitcoin and especially #Ethereum, perhaps thanks to the #USA Magnitsky Act imposing sanctions on Russian citizens. #politics
on 02017-08-06#USA #politics has turned against universities
on 02017-08-06#USA #photovoltaic #energy #predictions: Morgan Stanley says, ‘“by 2020, renewables will be the cheapest form of new-power generation across the globe,” with the exception of a few countries in Southeast Asia.’ Also, ‘the price of #solar panels has fallen 50% between 2016 and 2017.’
on 02017-08-06Rooftop #solar feed-in tariff is under pressure in #USA. #energy #politics
on 02017-08-06Freddie de Boer argues that leftist #censorship of mainstream #politics on #USA university campuses is real
on 02017-08-06Massachusetts, #USA, installed 1.6 gigawatts of #solar #photovoltaic power in 2012–2017, its goal for 2020, and so it’s going to try installing another 1.6 gigawatts by 2022, citing a 5-year 64% decline in installation costs. #energy
on 02017-07-23“#Nevada Gov. Brian Sandoval endorsed emergency regulations allowing the state’s Tax Department to grant more #marijuana distribution licenses” #USA #politics
on 02017-07-11overview of the #USA criminal justice system
on 02017-07-11#USA B-1B flight buzzes North #Korea, accompanied by jets from #Japan and South Korea, in response to recent ICBM launch. #politics
on 02017-07-11Dyke March in Chicago ejected Laurel Grauer, Eleanor Shoshany Anderson, and a third woman for flying Star-of-David flags. Editorial: “[T]hough intersectionality cloaks itself in the garb of humanism, it takes a Manichaean view of life in which there can only be oppressors and oppressed. To be a Jewish dyke, let alone one who deigns to support Israel, is a categorical impossibility, oppressor and oppressed in the same person.” Anderson: “I was thrown out of Dyke March for being Jewish.” #USA #politics
on 02017-07-01#USA Republicans officially ask Oath Keepers and Three Percenters “far-right militia groups” to protect their #politics events in one of the deepest blue counties
on 02017-07-01#solar #photovoltaic #energy is “now” (2017-06-09 I guess) 1.6% of #USA electricity, and should reach 2% by the end of 2017, despite #Trump, according to SEIA. Also mentions #Suniva. Naïve extrapolation of such a 25%-semestral exponential growth rate would project that solar would reach 25% of total US electric supply 5.7 years later, around August 2022.
on 02017-06-17post on the #backfire effect and #USA #politics, among other things. A lot of it is about the “#Trump supporters are illogical because they disagree with us” meme.
on 02017-06-14#Trump can fire special counsel Robert Mueller. #USA #politics
on 02017-06-14utility-scale #photovoltaic #solar #energy prices in #USA are below US$1 per peak watt now, including the whole plant cost. It was 39% of new US electricity generating capacity additions in 2016 (compared to 29% natural gas, 26% wind, and 6% coal) and 30% of new capacity additions in Q1 2017, but presumably that’s before you derate it for its lower capacity factor.
on 02017-06-14Dennis #Rodman is visiting North #Korea, but not as an official emissary of #Trump. #USA #politics
on 02017-06-14more on #history of #civil-defense against nuclear #weaponry by #USA suburbanization and superhighways
on 02017-06-07Suburban development in #history was pushed by the #USA federal government for #civil-defense against nuclear #weaponry.
on 02017-06-07Toner cartridge refills are legal under #USA #law according to a new US Supreme Court opinion in Impression v. Lexmark; patent rights exhaust at first sale, reversing a Federal Circuit decision. This decision also legalizes importing patented “grey market” cartridges, as long as they were sold by the patentee, which will likely have a major impact on pharmaceutical markets. The decision was nearly unanimous, except that Ginsburg dissented in part and Gorsuch abstained.
on 02017-05-30annotated #video segments from the #USA attack on Kurdish protestors by #Turkey during #Erdoǧan’s visit. #human-rights #politics
on 02017-05-26#USA FAA can’t require registration of #drones. #politics
on 02017-05-19#Trump investigation over Comey firing has surprise resignation: House Oversight Committee chairman resigns, not from the committee, but from Congress. #USA #politics
on 02017-05-19#Trump in the #USA is like Hugo #Chávez Frias in #Venezuela. #politics #history
on 02017-05-19#Trump is not in favor with the CFR, who consider Bannon to be the “puppet master”. #USA #politics
on 02017-05-19#Trump #USA #politics #history
on 02017-05-19#FBI, #USA #politics, and #Trump
on 02017-05-19Did #Trump win because of Cambridge Analytica and microtargeting? #politics #USA #history
on 02017-05-19freedom of speech, Nazis, #human-rights, and #USA #politics. “The humanity that will be deciding whom to punch and whom to prosecute is the same humanity that produced the Nazis in the first place, and has a well-established record of making really terrible decisions.”
on 02017-05-19Desiree Fairooz convicted of laughing at Jeff Sessions; could face a year in prison. #USA #politics #human-rights
on 02017-05-0361-year-old Desiree Fairooz (@desireefairooz), Code Pink activist, arrested and prosecuted for laughing at Jeff Sessions’s confirmation. #USA #politics #human-rights
on 02017-05-02#USA #privacy #human-rights case of #Francis-Rawls continues; he remains jailed for contempt of court for saying he doesn’t remember the #crypto keys to his disks
on 02017-04-30on the #USA Section 1001 crime of lying in a matter under the jurisdiction of the federal government
on 02017-04-26more on #Trump attack on #Syria. #USA #politics #WWIII
on 02017-04-07#USA launched 59 Tomahawk missiles at #Trump’s order and destroyed the military airfield in Ash Sha’irat, #Syria, in response to a chemical-weapons attack in Idlib on Tuesday, even though OPCW certified Syria’s armed forces free of chemical weapons; “President [Vladimir] Putin regards the US attacks on Syria as an aggression against a sovereign state in violation of the norms of international law, and under a trumped-up pretext at that.” #WWIII #poltiics
on 02017-04-07#PDF: employment falls in Santa Clara County, California, #USA #politics #economics
on 02017-04-02Sam Altman and Alan Kay are in favor of #net-neutrality. #USA #politics
on 02017-03-30probably #Westinghouse’s bankruptcy means #USA #nuclear #energy plants currently under construction won’t be finished
on 02017-03-30256 unreported “airstrikes” from #USA armed #drones and attack helicopters in #Afghanistan. #politics #violence
on 02017-03-15Nafeez Ahmed, writing for Motherboard, does an #interview with Johan Galtung (“‘founding father’ of peace and conflict studies”), who predicts #USA will decline under #Trump
on 02017-03-11Spies and their intrigues against #Trump. #deep-state #USA #politics
on 02017-03-11#USA life expectancy declined in 2015. #public-health
on 02017-03-11#Trump #USA #politics: ‘Judiciary has taken far too much power’ #immigration
on 02017-03-11Sensationalized #Trump #USA #politics #history article about #Cambridge-Analytica #fake-news microtargeting: “The Rise of the Weaponized AI Propaganda Machine.” Not true yet, but will be in a few years.
on 02017-03-11how the #USA government has expanded over the last six decades — mostly through contractors
on 02017-03-11Biddle’s #Palantir article on #Thiel and #USA spying. #privacy #human-rights
on 02017-03-11#civil-liberties pertaining to crossing #USA borders and refusing to unlock devices
on 02017-02-24Argentine Juan Garcia Mosqueda, “founder of the New York design gallery Chamber” and “a legal US resident for the last 10 years”, has been prohibited entry to #USA. #politics #human-rights #immigration
on 02017-03-07how #USA #economics collapsed
on 02017-03-02#politics #USA #epistemology #journalism
on 02017-02-23discussion thread about #human-rights at border crossings as US-born NASA scientist Sidd Bikkannavar was compelled to unlock his NASA phone by #USA CBP. #politics
on 02017-02-23“the power of a massive populist movement that has now upended the two most stable democracies in the world” #USA #England #politics #Trump #Brexit
on 02017-01-30Analysis of #USA #Trump #politics
on 02017-01-30#Trump #Muslim-ban #politics #human-rights #USA
on 02017-01-30White #Arizona photographyer Heather Whitten photographed her husband bathing their sick child in his lap to lower his fever; Facebook ruled that the photo complies with its policies now Arizona’s child protective services office is investigating her for negligent child abuse for taking the photo. #USA
on 02017-01-30US CBP agents obey #Trump and defy #USA courts to enforce the #Muslim-ban. #politics #human-rights #bigotry
on 02017-01-30federal judge sends #USA marshals to prevent #Trump from enforcing the #Muslim-ban. #politics #human-rights #bigotry
on 02017-01-30Eliot Cohen’s wishful thinking about #USA #politics and #Trump.
on 02017-01-30“#Trump’s temporary immigration ban set a mental anchor in your brain that is frankly shocking. It will make his eventual permanent immigration plan (”extreme vetting”) look tame by comparison.” Also mentions ISIS bomb drones. #USA #politics #human-rights #bigotry #Muslim-ban
on 02017-01-30#Trump #USA #politics #bigotry #Muslim-ban
on 02017-01-30Friday night in Seattle a guy with an anti-Nazi tattoo got shot by someone who thought he was a Nazi. #USA #politics
on 02017-01-23Melania Trump’s speech in July included a Rickroll. #USA #politics
on 02017-01-23More #USA federal government workforce statistics, disagreeing with the OPM’s numbers. #politics #data
on 02017-01-23Total #USA federal government workforce statistics. #history #politics #data
on 02017-01-23Mentions Rachel Dolezal. #feminism #USA #politics
on 02017-01-23#Trump proclaims his inauguration day the “National Day of Patriotic Devotion” in #USA #politics
on 02017-01-23#Obama commutes #Manning’s sentence; release in May. #USA #politics
on 02017-01-17#Trump will remove the Army general heading the D.C. National Guard in his first minute in office. #USA #politics
on 02017-01-16In the 2016 #USA election, #Trump might have won the popular vote too if people had thought their votes mattered.
on 02017-01-03#USA’s IRS is demanding #Coinbase turn over records of all of its #Bitcoin users in 2013–2015 so it can investigate them for tax evasion.
on 02016-11-21Glenn Greenwald comments on #USA #politics right after the #Trump election (and how it relates to Brexit)
on 02016-11-21Martin #Shkreli “leaks” exclusive Wu-Tang Clan album ‘Once Upon A Time In Shaolin’ which he bought for US$2M, to bribe #USA for #Trump winning. #politics
on 02016-11-21Al Jazeera editorial by #USA law professor Khaled A. Beydoun against #Trump. #politics
on 02016-11-21#Facebook #advertising targeting controversially helps #racism to manipulate #USA #politics and discriminate in housing ads.
on 02016-11-21#USA sent a bunch of troops to Northern Europe in late 2016 to defend against #Russia. #WWIII #politics
on 02016-11-21The previously secret #911 report pages fingering Bush friend #Saudi prince Bandar bin Sultan were released in 2016. #USA #history #politics
on 02016-11-21how #USA might protect its judiciary from #Trump
on 02016-11-13Court blocks Obama’s attempt to provide a safe harbor for some undocumented #USA immigrants in 2014.
on 02016-11-13#Trump announces some transition team appointments, and Ken Blackwell cites the old Mussolini apologetic to defend Trump’s pick: “‘Bannon is going to be keeper of the image of Trump as a fighter against the status quo, and Reince is going to utilize his personal connections with the speaker and others, to make the trains run on time,’ said Ken Blackwell, a former Ohio state official and a member of the Trump transition team.” Also Bannon, who headed his campaign, is the publisher of Breitbart. #USA #politics
on 02016-11-13#Thiel formally on #Trump “Presidential Transition Team Executive Committee”. #USA #politics
on 02016-11-11#Thiel to be “informally” #Trump advisor on technology. #USA #politics
on 02016-11-11How to survive in #Trump’s autocracy, based on experience with Putin. #USA #politics
on 02016-11-11The Portland (Oregon) police attacking freedom of association yesterday: “Those not wanting to be associated w/anarchists should leave the area immediately. Peaceful protesters encouraged to go to Pioneer Square.” #USA #politics #human-rights
on 02016-11-11Gingrich wants #Trump to set up a new McCarthy-style committee. Literally, by name, in quotes. #USA #politics #human-rights
on 02016-11-11ongoing #Trump #racism incident list. #USA #politics
on 02016-11-11Donald Trump’s first post-election tweet attacks freedom of the press and freedom of assembly: “Just had a very open and successful presidential election. Now professional protesters, incited by the media, are protesting. Very unfair!” #USA #politics #human-rights
on 02016-11-11#Russia’s slightly illiterate announcement about their efforts to observe #USA elections
on 02016-10-23Mitchell Orenstein explains the #USA elite consensus on #Russia and #Wikileaks.
on 02016-10-23#Ecuador cut off #Assange’s internet access in its embassy at the #USA’s request.
on 02016-10-19Duterte in the #Philippines, in #China: “I announce my separation from the United States, ... both in military, not maybe social, but economics also. America has lost. ... I will not go to America anymore. We will just be insulted there,... so time to say goodbye my friend.” #USA still occupies Mindanao though. #politics
on 02016-10-19#Russia wants to send election monitors to make sure #USA elections are fair; the proposal is harshly rejected. #politics
on 02016-10-19More on today’s attack on Mosul. Rebels from #Syria backed by #Turkey retook Dabiq this morning. Says the total anti-#Daesh forces are only about 30000. Also says the peshmerga number about 4000. #USA has 5000 troops in #Iraq overall, not just in this attack. #war
on 02016-10-17On freedom of speech, #censorship, #Wikileaks, and #USA #law. #human-rights
on 02016-10-17The Committee to Protect Journalists says #Trump is a threat to freedom of speech. #censorship #human-rights #politics #USA
on 02016-10-14#Turkey’s Erdogan is angry #USA is still considering whether to extradite Gülen; #Iraq labels Turkish forces “occupiers”
on 02016-10-14Vachani of Power Ventures is cleared of #spam charges from #Facebook by a #USA appeals court
on 02016-10-14I’ve never heard of CIA spy Evan McMullin before, but apparently he could be the next president of the #USA, but only if he doesn’t win too many votes and turn more states against #Trump. #politics
on 02016-10-14#USA Department of Homeland Security announced that #Russia broke computer #security to feed #politics emails to #WikiLeaks
on 02016-10-11#USA fires Tomahawks on #Yemen to destroy radar installations after Houthi rebels fired two cruise missiles at the destroyer USS Nitze from near al Hudiyah
on 02016-10-11“Four women who competed in the 1997 Miss Teen #USA beauty pageant said Donald #Trump walked into the dressing room while contestants — some as young as 15 — were changing.” One was Mariah Billado. Others (Jessica Granata, Allison Bowman, Crystal Hughes) say he couldn’t have been there (or they would have seen him, I guess.) #politics
on 02016-10-11#Daesh attacks with #drones in #Iraq near Erbil/Irbil; one drone, four casualties; #USA equips troops with Battelle DroneDefender jammer rifles
on 02016-10-11#Trump thinks Hillary Clinton used “chemical” to expunge her email. #USA #politics
on 02016-10-11Thousands of people were involuntarily sterilized in North Carolina, #USA, until the #eugenics program ended in 1976; now those whose surgeries were approved by the State Eugenics Board are entitled to US$20K compensation, but most weren’t so approved. #history
on 02016-10-11#audio of #weev advocating #white-supremacist warfare with #drones on 2015-09-25 #weaponry #human-rights #USA #politics
on 02016-10-11Voter ID laws blocking eligible voters from voting in #USA
on 02016-10-102016 #USA presidential election forecast (today: #Trump has 17.8% chance with the polls-only forecast, 21.1% with the polls-plus forecast)
on 02016-10-10#USA Army Chief of Staff General Mark Milley thinks that in future wars, soldiers won’t be able to stay put for more than a few hours without dying due to #drones, similar #weaponry, and jamming. No bases, no front lines, no secure supply lines, and ground forces will have to “penetrate denied areas to facilitate air and naval forces” and sink ships and whatnot.
on 02016-10-07lieutenant general H.R. McMaster suggests #drones, similar #weaponry, and computer #security holes will eliminate #USA air supremacy in near-future wars, so they need more manpower. “Since 1950, in particular, no American soldier has died to enemy air attack.”
on 02016-10-07#Israel’s Trophy Active Protection System (APS) #weaponry shoot down anti-tank guided missiles (ATGMs) automatically; #USA wants to buy them. The original such system was the Soviet Drozd in the 1980s.
on 02016-10-07#USA #Israel over settlements doesn’t stem foreign aid. #politics
on 02016-10-07#Trump #racism #politics will question the legitimacy of the #USA presidential election if he loses)
on 02016-10-07#Facebook #censorship of the #USA Dakota Access protest livestreams. #human-rights
on 02016-10-06Kamala Harris announces arrest of Carl Ferrer, Backpage CEO, for #prostitution in #USA
on 02016-10-06Obama writes about #USA in the Economist, largely about hate groups like the #AltRight and about #economics and #politics #toread
on 02016-10-0640% of people under 30 in the #USA engage in #polyamory!
on 02016-10-06Berkeley takes down #MOOC material because #USA DoJ worries that posting videos discriminates against deaf people
on 02016-10-06#USA #police #corruption in #Chicago
on 02016-10-06Judge Mayer in a concurring CAFC opinion declares that Alice outlawed most software #patents and also points out that patenting software can be an infringement on the First Amendment because software runs the internet. #USA #law
on 02016-10-06#USA #AltRight groups like Identity Europa, the National Policy Institute, American Renaissance, the Council of Conservative Citizens, and Youth for Western Civilization, trying to create “safe spaces” for #fascism #politics
on 02016-10-06The #USA creepy #clowns thing is maybe a hoax? Not clear, despite the reassuring title
on 02016-10-06according to #USA federal prosecutors, retweets are endorsement of #terrorism. #free-speech #human-rights
on 02016-08-12#Iran (and #Russia) offer military support to #Turkey against #USA, substantially increasing risk of #WWIII spreading [in Turkish]
on 02016-08-08on #class in #USA #sociology and #academia: what it’s like to be from a lower-class white family and be an academic anyway
on 02016-08-084500 to 21000 juveniles in #prostitution in the #USA. #politics
on 02016-07-24former operators of #drones think the program is a bad idea. #weaponry #politics #USA
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