A new interim report describes the obstruction and secrecy around the mpox proposal as a case study in how the institute “oversees and accounts for the monitoring of potentially dangerous gain-of-function research of concern.” The revelations land amid global concerns about whether coronavirus gain-of-function research — research that might generate pathogens with increased pathogenicity or transmissibility — may have contributed to the worst pandemic in a century.
A documentary on the Mandalay Bay shooting.
NY Times journalist Natasha Frost has now been named as the person who downloaded about 900 pages of content from an Australian Jewish chat thread and shared it w/ an anti-Israel activist who doxxed everyone in the group.
this week’s judgement made it a lot more tangible. 50% of search in the USA happens on channels where Google has a contract to make it the default: 28% on Apple devices, 19.4% on Android (the OEMs and telcos decide the default on Android, not Google) and 2.3% on other browsers (i.e. Mozilla) – and then another 20% happens in user-downloaded Chrome on PCs. (Amusingly, the contract means that Google pays Apple even for searches done in Chrome on Apple devices.)
Surveillance Watch is an interactive map revealing the intricate connections between surveillance companies, their funding sources and affiliations.
I look at the fine print and gasp…170 sheets per roll. These days, a regular Charmin Ultra Soft roll, if you can find one, has 56 sheets. Even the roll they market as “Double” doesn’t have 170 sheets — it has 154. And the 1992 rolls are hardly the largest — the back of the package includes a note from parent company Procter & Gamble explaining these rolls have fewer sheets than a previous version.
Technician recruiting is increasingly hampered by competition from other industries and obsolete educational programs.
Aside from mass immigration, the most striking demographic development of the past decade is the large cohort of American women who have embraced the helping hand of the state in place of the increasingly suspect protections of fathers, brothers, boyfriends and husbands. In doing so, they have become the Democratic Party’s most enthusiastic and decisive constituency. According to a recent Pew survey, these Brides Of The State (BOTS) support Democrats over Republicans by a whopping 72-24%, providing the Party with its entire advantage in both national and most state elections. Married American women, by contrast, support Republicans by 50-45, which more or less matches the pro-Republican margin in every other age and gender demographic. Without the overwhelming support of BOTS for the Democrats, in other words, America would be a solid-majority Republican country in which Trump would win a likely electoral landslide.
In this conversation, Sal, Mark, and Bryan McGrath discuss the ongoing attacks on international shipping in the Red Sea by the Houthis, who are clients of Iran. They also talk about the performance of the US Navy in protecting commercial shipping, the investments made in the Navy, and improvements and challenges in the US Navy.
The study by Srishti Agrawal, Adit Seth and Rahul Goel found that the most notable rise in cycling in India had occurred among rural girls – increasing more than two times from 4.5% in 2007 to 11% in 2017 – reducing the gender gap in the activity.
The city has pledged $9.1 million for the grocery store project over the last four years: $4.6 million to purchase the space in 2021, $3.5 million for tenant and grocery store improvements in 2023 and an additional $1 million in tenant improvements in May 2024. City officials hope to recover as much of the May 2024 $1 million tenant improvement costs as possible through future payments from developers Rule Enterprises and Movin’ Out, according to an April 10 letterto all alders from Rolfs.
My next, and it turns out last, major visit to the Living Computer Museum (outside of a few drive-bys) came in 2018, when I spoke at an event being held there. This gifted me with a chance to see how things had changed in 5 years, and how they had.
Many of the constituent parts of our government, economy and culture are broken. But this is not an accident; it is by design. This article discusses the breakdown in just one key segment that is illustrated by the contrast between the trial of war criminals when we were at war and immediately afterwards, and the current system of systematic and indefinite delay.
The old ideal of California as the apex of the American dream has been shattered. Since the 1970s, middle-class incomes, once ebullient, have stagnated. The state may be home to the most billionaires in the nation, but it also suffers the widest gap between middle and upper-middle income earners. It also faces a deep budget deficit, tepid job growth and the nation’s highest unemployment. The state is home to 30 percent of the nation’s homeless population, with some now living in caves.
Perhaps the most significant line was one that was ad-libbed: “Those protesters out in the street, they’ve got a point.”
Over the past few years, TV makers have seen rising financial success from TV operating systems that can show viewers ads and analyze their responses. Rather than selling as many TVs as possible, brands like LG, Samsung, Roku, and Vizio are increasingly, if not primarily, seeking recurring revenue from already-sold TVs via ad sales and tracking. How did we get here? And what implications does an ad- and data-obsessed industry have for the future of TVs and the people watching them?
August 15, 2022 marked the one-year anniversary of the fall of Kabul. How did the Second Family honor the fallen? They went on vacation in Hawaii. Cost to the taxpayer for @SecretService lodging? Over $756,000.
It’s all about the reach and influence of specific demographics. Plus influencers don’t ask real questions — they just want content without friction. Despite its self-importance, old media is on a declining audience scale and influence curve. No surprise that politicians are finally getting the memo, long after fashion, culture, and tech brands got on the bandwagon.
the disconnect with main street America is just as big. I even heard elites talking about Russian interference in previous elections (as if that weren’t debunked many times) and how the Russians blew up NS2.
Senior White House economic advisor Jared Bernstein pointed to tax lobbyists as the reason the “carried interest loophole” was not included in a group of tax hikes Democrats intend to pass.
When her Republican challenger observed that almost all occupations are safer today than a generation ago, Tammy put up a video claiming Eric Hovde said farmers don’t work hard. It’s a flat-out lie. Now Sen. Baldwin is up with a spot saying Hovde hates single mothers. Eric Hovde must be reviewing anything he may have said about puppy dogs. The Hovde campaign responded Thursday 08-15-24 with a scolding from the candidate’s wife, Sharon
Just four years ago, Epic launched Cosmos, its data and research software with 270 million de-identified patient records; last year, doctors drafted the first AI-generated messages to patients. But as health professionals retire and health systems struggle to hire and retain sufficient staff, Hain sees an opportunity for Epic to answer those sorts of questions while “building a series of guardrails and managing expectations.”
First of, he writes that it was “of course a system where the US made the rules and complied with them when it suited the US“. He gives the example of the WTO which “was very much an American creation but when it suited US domestic politics”, and now that it doesn’t anymore “the US effectively destroyed it by refusing to nominate the ‘arbitrators’ who are essential to its functioning”. He also says that “the rules-based system didn’t stop American involvement in Vietnam, or invasion of either Iraq or Afghanistan”. He encourages “anybody who doubts that the US itself obeys the ‘rules’ very selectively” to read The Arrogance of Power, by Senator William Fulbright (the longest-serving chairman of the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee).
The FP’s @JuliaTheIntern asks members of the press at the DNC what they think about the fact that Kamala has not given an interview.
Deadline understands that the fast-food firm has been working with a number of major production companies, including some of the studios, to create family-friendly shows, particularly in the unscripted space. It is also in talks to license and acquire content.
asking SCOTUS to review how Special Counsel Jack Smith, working hand in glove with former DC Chief Judge Beryl Howell, forced Twitter to produce Trump’s entire Twitter file and also impose a nondisclosure order prohibiting Twitter/X from notifying Trump about the search warrant.
There are investments you can’t make from a structured, nine-to-five, narrowly teleological environment. You have to let your life go fallow sometimes, like a crop rotation giving the land time to bring forth new fertility. This is actually a consequence of a fairly general theorem about how to find treasure in complex search spaces: The best search strategies for complex problems like life generally don’t seek out particular homogeneous objectives, but interesting novelty. The search space is too complicated and unknown for linear objective-chasing to work. Biological evolution, in practice, works through a diversity of niches which it explores in parallel to find unpredictable advances.
The PAF is a critically important national dataset. It’s not personal data – it’s a database that lists literally every physical postal address in the country, and it’s a very useful thing to have access to.
Athletes who swam in the Seine during the Olympic Games in Paris had higher rates of gastroenteritis than those in games past, a U.S. Olympic official told MedPage Today.
Where is the rightful outrage from environmentalists? Thousands of tons of crude oil will now pour into the Red Sea. This is a clear sign of the collapse of American credibility and deterrence. Letting the Iranian proxy Houthis shut off a major maritime seaway is an epic fail. America can and must do better! Leadership matters