Sorry again. Busy Steve is very busy. Some links, mostly NPR.
"Yesterday, I discovered that @amazon… has been selling pirated version of my book -- and encouraging people to purchase them. They've stopped now. (Thank you!)… But the scam on their site is sophisticated. Here's a bit of a detective story -- and cautionary tale for authors." A tweet thread.
"NASA says it hopes to attempt another launch of the unmanned Artemis I moon mission later this month… During a press conference on Thursday, space agency officials said they were eyeing Sept. 23 or Sept. 27 as possible dates."
"La Niña is back for the third year in a row… The meteorological system over the Pacific Ocean that can influence weather patterns worldwide is projected to continue through the end of the year… It's the first time this century that La Niña has returned for three consecutive years, according to the World Meteorological Organization, a U.N. agency."
"Eric Balken is keen to get going while the waters are still quiet, the marina still sleepy. We have a long journey ahead and Eric is a man on a mission. He’s taking his old friend Professor Jack Schmidt deep within Lake Powell to show him that amid the doom and gloom of America’s worst drought in more than a thousand years, there’s beauty and magic, too."
"A new generation of hard hats is promising better protection against on-the-job concussions, also known as mild traumatic brain injuries… These hard hats incorporate technology that not only protects the head from a direct impact, but also from a glancing blow that causes the head to rotate suddenly – a major cause of concussions."
"A growing number of Republican politicians are moving to penalize Wall Street investors who consider environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues when they decide where to put clients' money." Nothing says free market like telling people how to spend their money.
"As mourners gathered outside a northern West Virginia funeral home on Aug. 24, two plainclothes officers with a fugitive warrant swooped in from separate vehicles, called Owens’ name and shot him dead, spattering his 18-year-old son’s shirt with blood as horrified loved ones looked."
"The Miami-Dade County Public School Board voted Wednesday against making October LGBTQ History Month, reversing its decision to support the annual observance last year."
"Undergraduate students whose household income is less than $100,000 will not have to pay anything to attend Princeton University, the school announced Thursday in its new financial aid policy… More than 1,500 students – or 25% of the student body – are expected to benefit from the change."
"For months, the conservative provocateur Dinesh D'Souza teased that the book version of his widely debunked film '2,000 Mules' would provide compelling new evidence that the 2020 election was "stolen." The film has been repeatedly promoted by former President Donald Trump, who even hosted a screening at his Mar-a-Lago resort… Then, just before the book's scheduled release - and after copies had already arrived in stores - D'Souza's publisher, Regnery, abruptly pulled the book from shelves and delayed the e-book release, citing an unspecified 'publishing error.'"
"Former President Trump's social media company has another potentially big problem on its hands: It's struggling to complete a stock market listing that would allow it to raise more than $1 billion it needs to keep running."
"With two months to go until the midterms, tech companies are getting ready: rolling out fact checks, labeling misleading claims and setting up voting guides… The election playbooks being used by Facebook, Twitter, Google-owned YouTube and TikTok are largely in line with those they used in 2020, when they warned that both foreign and domestic actors were seeking to undermine confidence in the results."
"Friday, the Michigan Board of State Canvassers, acting under an order from the Michigan Supreme Court, put a question before voters this November on whether to protect abortion rights in the state constitution."
"Wyoming's likely next secretary of state, a Trump-endorsed Republican who has falsely called the 2020 election fraudulent, is drawing concerns from many of his fellow GOP lawmakers… Now those legislators are aiming to draft a bill to remove the secretary of state's ability to oversee elections."
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