Submission + - Trump pardons convicted Binance founder Changpeng Zhao (cnbc.com)
Zhao's plea was part of a $4.3 billion settlement Binance reached with the DOJ in 2023.
Compare that to the amount of time spent on media consumption today. Seriously?!?
I think the main complaint here is that "books" are not being read, ignoring all other forms of media. That's fine, I prefer reading to watching myself. I read hundreds of actual books a year, and have for decades. Almost all are for fun, and the form nowadays is almost always an ebook.
While I do agree with Mark Twain ("A person who does not read has no advantage over one who cannot read"), I would substitute "learn". Whether learning from a well-researched and written book (fiction or non), or from an artfully-crafted entertainment video or documentary, learning should be the result.
Yes, most "content" is garbage. We get what we ask for, after all. If you doubt that, create a new online persona that inquires only about classical literature, and see what kind of suggestions populate your news feeds.
Reading for Fun? Absolutely my preference. But then, I never got hooked on TikTok. Crack either, for that matter, as though there were a difference.
The Trump administration will move to pull the COVID vaccine off the U.S. market “within months,” one of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s closest associates has told the Daily Beast.
Dr. Aseem Malhotra, a British cardiologist who has repeatedly claimed in the face of scientific consensus that the vaccines are more dangerous than the virus, told the Daily Beast that Kennedy’s stance is shared by “influential” members of President Donald Trump’s family. Like Kennedy himself, no Trumps hold any scientific qualifications.
Malhotra is a leading adviser to the controversial lobby group Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) Action, which is seen as an external arm of Kennedy’s agenda as Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary.
He told the Beast that many of those closest to RFK Jr. have told him they “cannot understand” why the vaccine continues to be prescribed, and that a decision to remove the vaccine from the U.S. market pending further research will come “within months,” even if it is likely to cause “fear of chaos” and bring with it major legal ramifications.
Just glad I live in a country where the Covid vaccine is free and encouraged.
New shoes will be single-sourced from "a great American Company.".
In other news, the Trump Family Foundation has announced a major investment in the Hey Dude shoe company.
In the past, each federal court district was entirely self-contained data wise, with nationally managed backup systems. Over the past decade, it has become just another cloud-based service-by-contractor, with the best security and resilience promises can buy.
Given the constant budget cuts and increasing federal fondness for outsourcing and contractor reliance, I'm sure it's just a matter of time before headlines are made. With the entire federal court system now in a single (replicated) basket, the risk of data loss or exposure is greatly magnified. While a previous problem might have affected only the Northern District of North Dakota, for example, it's now all or nothing.
Russia tells ITU that GPS/Galileo/GNSS nav commercial broadcast sats helping Ukraine militarily should expect interference. Same for EutelsatGroup, OneWeb, Starlink constellations, which Russia has said are 'legitimate targets to be destroyed.
There is more at the full article, but that is behind a subscription paywall.
Russia's announcement here is probably in response to Trump's more bellicose statements recently about Putin and Russia.
I suspect Russia will begin by trying to jam these constellations. Let us hope it does not go farther than that.
Yes, including the department of Commerce. Nothing to see here, pay no attention to the helpful manager.
All your base are belong to us.
Both of those are gone now, of course.
I bought a console table with an embedded 8" trackball (from an old radar station) and spent weeks trying to make use of it. Never found a way to, but I enjoyed the attempt. For all the chatter about 'maker culture' and such, I think the earlier comment about technology moving too fast for surplus to be pretty telling.
OTOH, people are clumping 2Gb flash drives into a "Terrabyte external SSD" by wrapping them in a plastic case, so I guess there is life in some surplus, even today.
I consider a new device or technology to have been culturally accepted when it has been used to commit a murder. -- M. Gallaher