"The winners of the 2020 Hugo Awards have been announced at CoNZealand! You can read the full list below. Winners for the 2020 Hugo Awards and the 1945 Retrospective Hugo Awards appear in bold." Apparently some of the hosting was a shit show, but wow, what a group of winners (and nominees). Including Jeannette Ng's 2019 John W. Campbell Award Acceptance Speech as Best Related Work.
"The two astronauts that blasted off in the first private space vehicle to take people to the International Space Station are about to return to Earth — by splashing down in the waters around Florida."
"The U.S. Department of Agriculture has identified 14 different kinds of seeds in the mysterious packages that appear to have been sent unsolicited from China to people around the country… All 50 states have issued warnings about the packages some of which contain flowering plants like morning glory, hibiscus and roses, according to Osama El-Lissy, with the Plant Protection program of USDA's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service. El-Lissy said other packages contain vegetables like cabbage and herbs including mint, sage, rosemary, and lavender." Triffids?
"Health officials in the U.S. are investigating a salmonella outbreak tied to red onions, which has caused nearly 400 cases reported in 34 states this month."
"Six months into the pandemic, the United States continues to suffer the worst outbreak of COVID-19 in the developed world. Considerable blame belongs to a federal response that offloaded responsibility for the crucial task of testing to the states. The irony is that, after assembling the team that came up with an aggressive and ambitious national testing plan, Kushner then appears to have decided, for reasons that remain murky, to scrap its proposal. Today, as governors and mayors scramble to stamp out epidemics plaguing their populations, philanthropists at the Rockefeller Foundation are working to fill the void and organize enough testing to bring the nationwide epidemic under control." The billionaire and smart boys in banking failed us. Because most of them are only those positions through the influence of their families.
"Children younger than 5 have between 10 and 100 times more genetic material from the novel coronavirus in their noses compared to older children and to adults, according to a small study published Thursday in the journal JAMA Pediatrics." Little walking petri dishes.
If only we could figure out what will happen if student go back to classes? "A CDC report released Friday reveals that hundreds of campers at a north Georgia YMCA camp were infected with coronavirus in just days before the camp was shut down… Channel 2 Action News has confirmed that the report documents COVID-19 cases at the YMCA’s Camp High Harbor on Lake Burton in Rabun County."
"South Korea has arrested the leader of a religious sect linked to the country's largest coronavirus outbreak… Lee Man-hee, 88, heads the Shincheonji Church of Jesus. More than 5,000 of its members became infected, making up 36% of all Covid-19 cases in the country." Waits for the conservative right to declare they're under attack.
In case you needed evidence for how the "riots" are mostly caused by police actions, here is this. "After President Trump ordered federal law enforcement officers into Portland, Ore., earlier this month, the protests largely ended the same way for days: with tear gas, rubber bullets and arrests… On Thursday, the first protest held since the federal agencies agreed to pull back their officers was a markedly more peaceful affair."
"A mandatory Pentagon training course newly sent to the entire force and aimed at preventing leaks refers to protesters and journalists as 'adversaries' in a fictional scenario designed to teach Defense Department personnel how to better protect sensitive information." Oopsie.
"A U.S. citizen is among six pro-democracy activists to have arrest warrants issued for them by Hong Kong police for suspected violations under a new national security law, Chinese state media reported late Friday."
On the twitter hack… "Prosecutors have announced charges against three individuals, a 17-year-old from Florida and two men, from Florida and Britain, in connection with a hack that hit some of Twitter's most prominent accounts, in the largest and most well-coordinated security breach in the platform's history."
"Apple Inc AAPL.N removed 29,800 apps from its Chinese app store on Saturday, including more than 26,000 games, according to data from research firm Qimai."
"Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Vindman, who was fired from his post at the White House after he testified in the impeachment inquiry against President Trump, wrote in an op-ed Saturday: 'At no point in my career or life have I felt our nation's values under greater threat and in more peril than at this moment.'"
"President Donald Trump on Friday told reporters he will act as soon as Saturday to ban Chinese-owned video app TikTok from the United States." Yeah. That'll work.
"The top Democrats in Congress resumed talks with two top Trump aides on Saturday to try to reach a deal to pump more money into the U.S. economy to ease the coronavirus’ heavy toll, after an essential lifeline for millions of unemployed Americans expired." The president himself is golfing again.
"Lamenting his plunging popularity this week, a self-pitying President Donald Trump wondered how it all went wrong… 'Nobody likes me,' he said, confounded at how his administration's health experts could be receiving accolades while he is accused of ignoring and denying the raging public health crisis." This isn't new, Sparky.
"Meanwhile, the President has begun laying the groundwork for the doubt and suspicion he could cast on election results if counting mail-in ballots ultimately delays the declaration of a winner."
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