Saturday, November 09, 2024

From Jenna Orkin More of the best writing from around the web on why Trump won Germany's cabinet approves draft law on voluntary military service World's most polluted cities The U.S. National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (OSHA) cautions that FSA, an inorganic fluoride compound, has dire health consequences for any worker that comes into contact with it. Breathing its fumes causes severe lung damage or death and an accidental splash on bare skin will lead to burning and excruciating pain. Fortunately, it can be contained in high-density cross-linked polyethylene storage tanks. It is in such tanks that fluorosilicic acid has for the past half century been transported from Florida fertilizer factories to water reservoirs throughout the United States. Once there, it is drip fed into drinking water. What Trump might do on Day One of his presidency New York City, an area not known for wildfires, has been under a drought watch after the driest October on record, which increases risk of fires, Mayor Eric Adams said on social media. Canvassing for Kamala Going door-to-door in Pennsylvania felt intense and hopeful, but after Trump’s victory in the state a few encounters kept floating back. Dispatches A Dark Reminder of What American Society Has Been and Could Be Again In no way did Trump win a mandate as commanding as, say, Ronald Reagan’s victories over Jimmy Carter, in 1980, and Walter Mondale, in 1984, but, according to an early analysis by the Times, more than ninety per cent of the counties in the country appear to have shifted toward him since the last election. NYC under air quality alert, grilling ban as smoke blankets tri-state

Wednesday, November 06, 2024

From Jenna Orkin Trump 2.0: Who would be in the running for top jobs in Trump's second administration? The Americans Prepping for a Second Civil War Voting technology is more secure than it’s ever been. This is the result of a shift in American voting procedures more than two decades in the making: Most people now vote by machines that efficiently scan paper ballots. Or they use touch screens and other forms of direct-recording electronic machines (“DREs”), which also generate backup paper records. Those physical paper trails are an election safeguard—ballots are verifiable, auditable and recountable, as I wrote on Saturday. In October, amateur mathematician Luke Durant discovered a new prime number, and it’s 41 million digits long. Yup, the number has 41,024,230 digits (for comparison, the approximate number of total atoms in the observable universe is only about 80 digits long). A prime number is a number that can be divided only by itself and 1; so 3, 7, 13, 17, and 19 are all primes, whereas 15 is not. How he did it: Prime number hunters use a computing trick devised by 17th-century French mathematician Marin Mersenne, who discovered that multiplying 2 by itself some number of times (2^n) and then subtracting 1, you sometimes get a prime number. Durant assembled a global supercomputer across 17 countries by buying processing time from various cloud GPU providers to crunch through larger and larger iterations of the Mersenne calculation, churning through about 12 times as many numbers as every other computer involved in the Mersenne prime search combined. Ukraine says it attacked North Korean troops for the first time Masking Returns Looking to Move Abroad From the US? Here’s How Specialists that help Americans move to places like Portugal and Spain are busier than ever. Blame election stress. A robot retrieves the first melted fuel from Fukushima nuclear reactor U.S. Trump sues CBS News over 60 Minutes interview with Harris; network says suit is "completely without merit" Betting it all on fluoride: Trump takes a risky final gamble to let RFK Jr. “go wild” on health

Saturday, October 05, 2024

From Jenna Orkin The Ministers expressed deep concern over the security situation related to terrorism in Afghanistan, noting that terrorist groups such as ISIL, Al-Qaida, the Eastern Turkestan Islamic Movement (ETIM), Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), Jaish ul-Adl, Balochistan Liberation Army (BLA) and other similar groups in the region including Majeed Brigade, as well as others, based in Afghanistan, continue to pose a serious threat to regional and global security.  John Kempf | How to speed up the adoption of regenerative farming practices Iranian missiles hit Israeli military sites, visuals show The female soldiers who predicted Oct. 7 say they are still being silenced What’s going on here is that the Supreme Court, by making Donald Trump a “class of one” with its immunity decision – he is the only person in the history of the United States to have been declared immune from prosecution -- even for official acts as president that are criminal in nature – the Supreme Court has effectively made itself the trial court for any cases involving Donald Trump, because the Supreme Court created him as a “class of one” with immunity that only the Supreme Court can rule on, because they created his immunity out of whole cloth. No, Donald Trump Isn’t Wading Through Hurricane Floodwaters, You Absolute Morons Hamas built an underground war machine to ensure its own survival Okla. is buying schools 55,000 Bibles. Specs match the $60 Trump Bible. Escalating contest over South China Sea disrupts international cable system What Is Privacy For?

Monday, September 30, 2024

From Jenna Orkin Trump Allies Bombard the Courts, Setting Stage for Post-Election Fight The U.S. Department of State’s Rewards for Justice (RFJ) program, which is administered by the Diplomatic Security Service, is offering a reward of up to $20 million for information leading to the arrest or conviction of Shahram Poursafi, also known as Shahram Pursafi, Mehdi Rezayi, and Shahin Pourbakhsh. Poursafi is a uniformed member of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) who is believed to be working on behalf of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps-Qods Force (IRGC- QF) to arrange the transnational murder-for-hire of former U.S. National Security Adviser John Bolton. Seven Things You Thought You Knew about Nuclear Energy But it might be time to re-think Chief of naval operations navigation plan FOR AMERICA’S WARFIGHTING NAVY 2024 Israel says it intercepted Yemeni missile Former FAA contractor indicted over claims that he worked as a secret agent for Iran, DOJ says Kate Barr is waging a sure-to-lose campaign for a seat in the N.C. legislature as a protest against gerrymandering, which has made elections uncompetitive in states nationwide. How ignored warnings at Boar’s Head plant led to a deadly listeria outbreak Meet the astronauts preparing to travel farther from Earth than any human before Supplies arrive by plane and mule to North Carolina as Helene death toll tops 100