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What People Behind Bars Really Think About the ‘Cop vs. Felon’ Election
(www.themarshallproject.org)
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Climate Change Made Hurricane Milton Stronger, With Heavier Rain, Scientists Conclude
(insideclimatenews.org)
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Israeli Airstrikes Target Medical Facility, Kill Five Health Ministry Workers
(unicornriot.ninja)
People who get angry at Just Stop Oil tactics are just showing their ignorance of civil rights and protest history.
Alex de Vries predicted that current AI technology could be on track to annually consume as much electricity as the entire country of Ireland (29.3 terawatt-hours per year). For comparison, the Cambridge Bitcoin Electricity Consumption Index suggests Bitcoin uses 141-160 terawatt-hours (TWhs) of electricity annually. That’s ~0.7% of the world's consumed electricity in 2022. The process of minting cryptocurrency is a very public activity, so the numbers are difficult to fudge. The cost of bringing extremely expensive nuclear reactors back online and driving demand for environmentally destructive Uranium mining and processing suggests de Vries' guess was conservative.
I'm reminded of Jevon's Paradox as applied to energy generation. I hope the AI bubble pops before much more investment goes into nuclear energy.
CNN is part of the Warner Bros. Discovery advertising portfolio.
MBFC classifies pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel, and anti-genocide bias in reporting as left-biased, but also classifies CNN as Left-Center biased. CNN staff say network’s pro-Israel slant amounts to ‘journalistic malpractice’.
Voice of America (VOA) is a state media network funded by the United States of America, whose purpose is to project soft power through journalism.
In 2005, the Washington Post reported that suspected Al-qaeda operatives were flown into Thailand to be detained and tortured. VOA's remote relay radio station in Udon Thani province has been widely suspected to be the torture site.
Manufacturing Consent has this to say about PBS:
Globalization, along with deregulation and national budgetary pressures, has also helped reduce the importance of noncommercial media in country after country. This has been especially important in Europe and Asia, where public broadcasting systems were dominant (in contrast with the United States and Latin America). The financial pressures on public broadcasters has forced them to shrink or emulate the commercial systems in fund~raising and programming, and some have been fully commercialized by policy change or privatization. The global balance of power has shifted decisively toward commercial systems.
James Ledbetter points out that in the United States, under incessant right-wing political pressure and financial stringency, "the 90s have seen a tidal wave of commercialism overtake public broadcasting," with public broadcasters" rushing as fast as they can to merge their services with those offered by commercial networks." And in the process of what Ledbetter calls the "mailing" of public broadcasting, its already modest differences from the commercial networks have almost disappeared. Most important, in their programming "they share either the avoidance or the defanging of contemporary political controversy, the kind that would bring trouble from powerful patrons."
- Horrific scenes .. an Israeli drone targeted 5 unarmed Palestinian civilians in Al Sikka area in Khan Younis city in the beginning of February 2024. (NSFL)
- Israel-Hamas war updates: Israeli strike hits Gaza medical convoy
- Israeli warplanes hit UNRWA schools in Gaza with white phosphorus
- The Protest Dispersed. Then an Israeli Sniper Shot a 9-year-old Palestinian Boy in the Head
- Israel attacked a UN-run school housing refugees in Gaza despite warnings that civilians were there, the UN has said.
- Initial IDF probe: Hostages were shirtless, waving white flag when soldiers opened fire
- Israel deliberately killed Al Jazeera reporter Shireen Abu Aqla, Palestinian report says - BBC News
- Chef Jose Andres says Israel targeted his aid workers 'systematically, car by car'
The Democrat's still haven't updated their party platform on climate change since before Joe Biden was elected. It sits, frozen in time, with nuggets like "We will take immediate action to reverse the Trump Administration’s dangerous and destructive rollbacks of critical climate and environmental protections." and "We will rejoin the Paris Climate Agreement" like those things are a step forward rather than a return to the catastrophic status quo.
Hopefully Camila Thorndike can change that.
Do you unironically believe Martin Luther King Jr. wanted Barry Goldwater to win when he increased his civil rights protest organizing in defiance of Lyndon B Johnson during the lead up to the 1964 presidential election?
[Image Description: Anakin Skywalker on Lava Planet, block-face text "If you're not with me, then you're my enemy"]
HuffPost was founded by four people, including Arianna Huffington, CEO of Thrive Global, and Andrew Breitbart, who also built the alt-right outlet Breitbart News. Breitbart was also instrumental in founding The Drudge Report, an early popular news site that promoted news and opinion favorable to the Republican Party, and was The Huffington Post's direct inspiration, with the focus instead on the Democratic party and 'progressive' values.