Alligators again.
"The data, released on Wednesday by NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), shows that 2018 was the fourth-hottest year since 1880, the earliest year for which reliable global temperature data is available." Waits for the climate change deniers to start shouting, "See, it wasn't another record year, it's a hoax!" in 3… 2… 1… "The three hottest years on record were 2015, 2016 and 2017." We're boned.
"For the first time, China's Longjiang-2 satellite photographed the entirety of the Moon's far side and the Earth in a single shot, Popular Mechanics reports."
"Popular iPhone apps caught recording your screen without permission – here are the offenders." We have met Big Brother and he is us.
"The company’s decision to pull its current tip distribution policy follows reports that Instacart and DoorDash, a similar on-demand delivery app that hires contract workers to make deliveries, was using tips to fulfill workers’ wages instead of paying out the customers’ full tip separately." They say the policy was "misguided." I say heinous fuckery. I also think in some states that might actually be a criminal complaint.
"This week on Hidden Brain, we dive into (Psychiatrist Iain McGilchrist)'s research on how the left and right hemispheres shape our perceptions. Iain argues that differences in the brain — and Western society's preference for what one hemisphere has to offer — have had enormous effects on our lives." As they state in the opener, what most people know about the left/right brain divide is popular crap.
"The US government has decided to cut millions in security and military aid to Cameroon amid growing concerns over the Cameroonian government's human rights record, US officials tell CNN."
"U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials on Wednesday described a multi-pronged strategy for tightening the southern border with Mexico that did not focus mainly on a massive wall President Donald Trump demands, according to lawmakers who attended a classified briefing." They were also "brief" on terrorists coming over the southern border, but offered no numbers or actual details.
"Paul Erickson, the American political operative and boyfriend of admitted Russian agent Maria Butina, has been indicted by a federal grand jury in South Dakota on charges of wire fraud and money laundering." This concert a chain of assisted living home he ran.
"The probe is in response to a request by Sen. Ben Sasse, a Nebraska Republican and member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, who was critical of the case following a series of stories in the Miami Herald. The Herald articles detailed how Acosta, then the U.S. attorney for Southern Florida, and other DOJ attorneys worked hand-in-hand with defense lawyers to cut a lenient plea deal with multimillionaire Jeffrey Epstein in 2008."
"Virginia's Democratic Attorney General Mark Herring said in a statement Wednesday that he wore blackface at a college party in 1980, amid a deepening scandal in Richmond after the discovery last week of a racist photo on Gov. Ralph Northam's medical school yearbook page and his subsequent admission that he wore blackface in 1984." Self-inflicted wounds, but that doesn't mean it's any less of a political power grab. Dear Democrats, I suggest opposition researching of the top Republican legislative members. Also, get appointments ready now. (Grokked from Matt Staggs)
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