https://www.theguardian.com/science/2024/nov/24/isaac-newton-wealth-connected-with-slavery-author-says

https://www.wral.com/news/local/north-carolina-solar-energy-challenges-2024/

BUILD. A. NUKE.

START NOW.

(Maybe check out the supply chain for solar. How much Uighur blood & tears is too much?)

Message from the Deep South: save your bacon fat. Put it in a jar in the fridge. You’re welcome.

(Does everybody know this already?)

https://gizmodo.com/china-wiretaps-americans-in-worst-hack-in-our-nations-history-2000528424

«Incredibly, Warner says the hackers are still inside the U.S. system and there’s no obvious way to get them out that doesn’t involve physically replacing old equipment, according to Warner.»

My ex used to work for Nortel, back-applying machine-language patches to older versions of the software running on switches, and I remember hearing mention of the LEAF, Law Enforcement Access Field.

The doomsayers were correct. We opened a backdoor in our own systems and hostile actors took advantage. (At least we didn’t pass Clipper.)

Stupidity in action….

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/nov/22/texas-approves-bible-based-curriculum-elementary-schools

As a teacher of 3rd graders (which I’m not, so this is hypothetical), I wonder how I could supplement this from, say, Islam, Buddhism, writings by atheists.

Things like “care for the stranger among you,” and bits about false prophecy, remembering one’s worth, ….

Really, opportunity abounds. If you want me to teach morality, I *will*.

I just bet there’s a curriculum, if only potential.

New Interpreter’s Study Bible notes: «“Guest room” should be read instead of the NRSV’s inn. Luke’s reference is to a peasant house in which family and animals slept on different levels in the same enclosed space—in this case, to a home of family or friends that was so overcrowded that the baby would have been placed in a feeding trough.»

Honestly, so many glorious opportunities for deconstruction and actual history here. Field trip to a farm!

I’m pretty sure Elmo is just a richer version of pharma bro.

https://www.npr.org/2024/11/22/nx-s1-5201699/alabama-nitrogen-gas-execution

«He took a periodic series of more than a dozen gasping breaths for several minutes. He appeared to stop breathing at 6:21 p.m.,»

Apparently not quite the humane execution I was led to believe it would be.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/11/welcome-to-googles-nightmare-us-reveals-plan-to-destroy-search-monopoly/

Eagerly awaiting the DOJ’s upcoming reinvigorated assault on Microsoft’s various monopolies! (Desktop, Office, …)

«16 Find allies in unlikely places. One of my most surprising sources of support during my trial(s) was hard-right Brexiter David Davis. Find threads of connection and work from there.

17 There is such a thing as truth. There are facts and we can know them. From Tamsin Shaw, professor in philosophy at New York University: “‘Can the sceptic resist the tyrant?’ is one of the oldest questions in political philosophy.»

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/nov/17/how-to-survive-the-broligarchy-20-lessons-for-the-post-truth-world-donald-trump

If it’s an old question, then the answer is “yes.”

And the story on # 16 is…

https://bylinetimes.com/2022/02/14/on-trial-freedom-of-the-press/

«Recognising the serious issue this poses, Conservative MP David Davis, in a parliamentary debate last month on ‘lawfare’, claimed that there exist people with “nefarious intentions… exceptionally deep pockets and exceptionally questionable ethics”, who use the justice system to silence journalists.»

https://newrepublic.com/post/188693/15-democrats-give-trump-powers

Huh. Colin Allred. Burnishing his anti-terrorism creds for another run at the senate?

Anyway, Biden will veto, I HOPE.