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Lots of reading for the long Thanksgiving Holiday ~ enjoy !!!

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CLOSED Car blows up  on the bridge. The four international bridges between Canada and Western New York have been closed after a vehicle explosion at the Rainbow Bridge border crossing that connects Niagara Falls, Ontario to Niagara Falls, New York.

EPA offers $2B to clean up pollution, develop clean energy in poor and minority communities
The Biden administration is making $2 billion available to community groups, states and tribes to clean up pollution and develop clean energy in disadvantaged communities in what officials called the largest-ever investment in environmental justice.

BBC #History
The New Orleans landmark that almost became Napoleon’s retirement home. It doesn’t appear in textbooks and isn’t included in the much-anticipated movie Napoleon – but the French politician had bold plans to start a new life in the US. https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20231122-the-new-orleans-landmark-that-almost-became-napoleons-retirement-home

Nov 22 – 60 years ago Assassination of John F. Kennedy
1963 murder of the 35th president of the United States

The Beatles, also referred to colloquially as the White Album, is the ninth studio album and only double album by the English rock band the Beatles, released on 22 November 1968.

The best classic movies on Netflix right now

The industry: caviar. The revolution: harvesting those tiny black pearls of culinary glory without harming the sturgeon gestating them.
A long-destructive industry is now experiencing a sustainable revolution thanks to a determined German scientist. The eggs of a female sturgeon, caviar is a treasured commodity, but even though this ancient fish survived the extinction event that killed the dinosaurs, all 27 species are Endangered or Critically Endangered in the wild according to the IUCN. All commercial caviar production today is from aquaculture. In the early 2000s, there was a caviar crisis, leading to a depletion of wild stocks, and an increase in illegally sourced caviar. According to one caviar supplier, by 2004 consumers and chefs had lost confidence in the industry, as they couldn’t be sure it wasn’t taken from a wild fish, or processed in a garage somewhere using Borax as a preservative.

Free Will and the Sapolsky Paradox By John Horgan
Not free will again! Yeesh! Is there really more to say about it? Yes, there is, and I suspect there always will be, just as there will always be more to say about other what quantum mechanics means and whether God exists.
I’m writing about free will now because I just read Determined: A Life of Science Without Free Will, in which neurobiologist Robert Sapolsky argues that free will does not exist. I also just talked to Sapolsky via zoom in front of a live online audience (I’ll post a link soon).
And I’ve decided that Sapolsky embodies a paradox: when you decide free will does not exist because you have weighed arguments for and against it, you prove free will exists… Continue reading at https://johnhorgan.org/cross-check/free-will-and-the-sapolsky-paradox

Newly opened World Internet Science and Technology Museum in Wuzhen, China at the World Internet Conference Site. VIDEO
It features the history of global Internet development, showing the works of many pioneers mostly inducted to the Internet Hall of Fame, from the 1960s to the 2020s. Dave is of course there, but many others are almost all there. You may find some more figures must be there. It also displays future technologies such as Quantum communications, Blockchain, and AI, of course.

The Politics of SEX
remember “what’s personal is political”

Guidance expected to allow transgender children to socially transition in English schools

Tennessee town decriminalizes public homosexuality

Mike Johnson said his friends would use trans-inclusive laws to spy on girls

White Nationalism

Wow! Parent SILENCES Republican HATE GROUP during School Board Hearing

#christofascists #DelusionalFucks

“The phrase ‘Christian nationalist’ has one purpose,. And that is simply to bully Christians — to intimidate, silence them so they will not be involved governmentally.” He claimed that this was done in the service of satanic forces, “so The Enemy can have his way and destroy the country.”
– Jim Garlow, the MAGA pastor with whom House Speaker Mike Johnson recently prayed to spare a “depraved” America from the “judgment that we clearly deserve.”

“Put his a** in jail”: Former RNC chairman has a solution for Trump’s “enormously dangerous” attacks “I am shocked that we’ve allowed this to get this far,” said former RNC chief Michael Steele

Ex-RNC Chair Calls for Donald Trump to Be Thrown in Jail

‘Moms for Liberty’ Organizer Is a Convicted Sex Offender
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/moms-for-liberty-organizer-convicted-sex-offender-1234887013/

The ‘faith-based’ leader for Philly’s Moms for Liberty chapter is a registered sex offender
Phillip Fisher Jr., a pastor and Republican ward leader who coordinates faith-based outreach for Philadelphia’s Moms For Liberty chapter, pleaded guilty in 2012 to a charge of aggravated sexual abuse.

What Gifts Must Supreme Court Justices Disclose?

“A review of Musk’s social media usage since 2020 shows a political shift that began during the Covid-19 lockdowns, then seemed to intensify dramatically in recent months as he spent more time interacting with accounts associated with White nationalism.”
Wait… let me get this straight. A man who grew up benefitting from white nationalism ends up a white nationalist?
NOT SHOCKED AT ALL

Twitter gives special counsel Jack Smith 32 of Trump’s private messages
Prosecutors have not given any detail about the nature of the messages handed over by Elon Musk’s platform

Donald Trump dreams of an American Fourth Reich — and he’s not kidding
Trump’s rhetoric gets closer to outright Hitler quotations almost every day. It’s a deliberate strategy.

TRUMP IS IN THE BUSINESS
OF SELLING CHAOS!

Judge rules that Trump “incited an insurrection”

Donald Trump is now talking about “final battles.” we should all be fucking terrified Here’s why

Sporky and the Space Nazi get screwed by the Wingnut Grievance Bubble with a guest appearance by the Ghost Bus Goofus

Iowa Republican Official’s Wife Convicted Of Ballot-Stuffing

Mike Johnson Says Americans ‘Misunderstand’ Separation Of Church And State “When the founders set this system up, they wanted a vibrant expression of faith in the public square,” the newly minted House speaker said.

Sinema is literally not a Democrat 

Republicans are now running ads to support Kyrsten Sinema’s campaign.
They’re trying to convince people that she’s “a liberal Democrat” even though she is literally not a Democrat.

#Security

Flipper Zero Hacking tool https://flipperzero.one/
Multi-tool Device for Geeks
Flipper Zero is a portable multi-tool for pentesters and geeks in a toy-like body. It loves hacking digital stuff, such as radio protocols, access control systems, hardware, and more. It’s fully open-source and customizable, so you can extend it in whatever way you like.

With all eyes on OpenAI, Meta drags its Responsible AI team to the recycle bin. Ethics staff shifted to generative ML and infrastructure units

Nevada’s Fake Elector Fight Brings an End to the Republican Voter Fraud Myth
For years, the GOP has used imaginary threats to election integrity to impede people from lawfully voting. Goodbye to all that.

Swedish postal workers strike against Tesla

Detailed data on employees of U.S. national security lab leak online

The hacking group SiegedSed released personal data on thousands of employees at the Idaho National Laboratory, the nuclear research lab.

Recognizing fake news now a required subject in California schools

UnitedHealthcare accused of using AI that denies critical medical care coverage
(Allegedly) putting profit before patients? What a shock.

Anti-censorship tools are quietly disappearing into thin air in China
https://techcrunch.com/2023/11/21/china-censorship-circumvention-tools-clash-disappear/

‘No-Kill Caviar’ Method Produces Superior Product
While Boosting Endangered Sturgeon Population

New Medicines May Lie Under the Sea–This Device Sniffs Them Out
Marine organisms are constantly releasing invisible molecules under the ocean’s surface, and much like a million anonymous plants in the Amazon, scientists believe that some of these compounds could be the medicines of the future. A study team at the Mediterranean Institute of Marine and Continental Biodiversity and Ecology has developed a proof-of-concept device that sniffs, in a way, seawater, trapping dissolved compounds for analysis. They have shown that it could “easily” concentrate molecules that are present in underwater caves and that it holds promise for drug discovery in fragile ecosystems, such as coral reefs.

Bison Herd New to Park Uncover Ancient Petroglyphs With Their Hooves Fulfilling Indigenous Prophecy
In a remarkable and inspiring occurrence, the reintroduction of plains bison to ancestral First Nations lands in Canada saw the beasts unearth important petroglyphs, and in doing so fulfill a prophecy held by the elders of the Dakota Tribe. It states that when the bison, extinct in the area for over 100 years finally return to them, the tribe’s fortunes would change for the better. In 2019, a $40 million project on the Wanuskewin Heritage Park, part of the national parks system of Canada and which protects sacred land to several tribes, organized the reintroduction of bison by taking six female calves from Grasslands National Park in southern Saskatchewan, and a male bull and four females with ancestry to Yellowstone.

One Stage of Sleep Seems to Be Critical For Reducing The Risk of Dementia
Deep sleep strengthens our muscles, bones, and immune system, and prepares our brains to absorb more information. Earlier this year, research discovered that individuals with Alzheimer’s-related changes in their brain did better on memory tests when they got more slow-wave sleep.

World’s richest 1% emit as much carbon as bottom two-thirds: report

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